Dai Yan and Hua Rong, the two people who commanded the army and decided the fate of Taoqiu and Suiyang, were looking forward to the decisive battle, but they were cautious about the decisive battle!

After all, this is a gamble that will determine the future fate of Song Kingdom! For Dai Yan, his confidence is more than Hua Rong. Because the current Taoqiu army has the protection of water transportation, has an advantage in logistics and transport, plus a series of victories, it has a natural advantage on the battlefield!

However, he did not underestimate the Suiyang army because of his advantage. After becoming the commander of Taoqiu's army of more than 100,000 people, he really engraved Sun Tzu's Art of War in his mind!

Sun Tzu's Art of War begins with a description in the name: Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored! It can be said that prudent warfare, and even reverence for war, is the first strategic thinking advocated by Sun Tzu's Art of War, so how dare he not attach importance to it?

After consulting with his subordinate staff officers and generals, in addition to handing over all the cavalry of Taoqiu to Le Yi's command, and letting Wu Yi personally command Taoqiu's sailors, he personally made arrangements for the rest of the infantry troops.

Approaching the 80,000 Taoqiu army, it is constantly approaching the Suiyang army, but it is absolutely not allowed to take the initiative to provoke! Everywhere they go, they must set up a strong camp to defend, next to the Suiyang army, so that they can't help but take the initiative to attack themselves! This is also known as defending instead of attacking!

Because of the cavalry troops, plus the march on the Song mainland, the exploration team and scientific expedition team sent by Taoqiu before had already explored the terrain in the Song Kingdom. This section from Xiangyi to Suiyang is mostly plain, and Dai Yan has no worries that the Suiyang army will ambush him in a dangerous place.

Even if Suiyang really found some suitable locations for ambush, since Taoqiu had a map in advance and cavalry to reconnoitre, it was impossible for Suiyang's army to really cause any harm to Taoqiu's army. With such a cautious attitude to the war, and with many staff officers to help him figure out the overlooked details of the entire battlefield, in Dai Yan's view, the possible defeat caused by being ambushed is already negligible!

At this time, in the Suiyang military camp near Xiangyi. Hua Rong sat in the first place and summoned many Suiyang generals, and the one who sat in the first place was the gentleman of Song Guoguo!

The decisive battle between Suiyang and Taoqiu, not only Hua Rong is going all out, but even Zixi is also very important! Zixi knew very well that if the Suiyang army failed, then he would inevitably slip from Song Jun's position! Although his dear disciple is under the banner of Qingjun, which is very paralyzing, in Zixi's eyes, this cannot hide Taoqiu's anti-thief nature!

Although he has become a puppet now, he is still a monarch. If Ziyan defeats Hua Rong, then he can't even be a puppet! In his opinion, the most beneficial thing for him now is to maintain the current situation of the Song State as divided. There is Ziyan threatening outside, Hua Rong and Le Cheng will definitely not dare to really do anything to him!

In the big camp, the generals who originally belonged to the royal family couldn't help but feel refreshed when they saw Song Jun personally come out to boost their morale! To tell the truth, when Hua Rong released remarks before, saying that Song Jun was in poor health, and the military and political power of the Song State was handed over to Xiangguo and Si Kou, the generals of the Huang clan muttered a little in their hearts. They also considered whether Song Jun was really coerced, and for the sake of the interests of the imperial family, they simply defected to Ziyan. Now that I saw Zixi come out in person, he didn't look threatened, and personally accused Zi Yan of being a rebel, which made the generals of the royal family no longer confused, and began to dispel the original unrealistic ideas and become high-spirited!

With Song Junzixi boosting morale, the fighting spirit of the Suiyang army became high. And the deployment of the Suiyang army was also quickly achieved.

Under Hua Rong's command, the Suiyang Army did not engage the Taoqiu Army at the beginning. They just pretended to be a class teacher returning to the dynasty, and kept marching towards the Suiyang army. As for the follow-up of Taoqiu's army, in addition to sending elite troops to deal with those difficult cavalry, Taoqiu's infantry and naval army, they did not care.

The Suiyang army pretended not to care, and the Taoqiu army also pretended not to know the other party's desire for a decisive battle to follow, and the main forces of the armies on both sides were on this short journey, playing a small game of you go and I go, and I will stop if you stop.

When the Suiyang army arrived at Xiayi, a main city on the edge of Suishui, their army stopped and stopped advancing. And the Taoqiu army, which had been following the actions of the Suiyang army, also immediately stopped advancing.

The two sides began to continue to confront each other again, and this time, even ordinary soldiers could feel the momentum of the storm and knew that the decisive battle was coming!

The Suiyang army stationed under the city of Xiayi stayed for three days, as if waiting for something. And Tao Qiu's rangers launched the largest reconnaissance near Xiayi, intending to understand the intentions of the Suiyang army!

Soon, Suiyang's intentions were completely clear: Le's gave up the entire Danshui defense line, and all its remaining troops in Danshui, a total of 60,000 horses, were transferred to Xiayi to join the army on Suiyang's side!

The entire Suiyang Army has gathered a total of 180,000 troops, which can be called a terrifying army in this era!

Taoqiu, together with its affiliated forces, if it concentrates its strength like Suiyang, it can actually mobilize more than 100,000 troops. However, in the face of such a terrifying number of troops, Dai Yan was not afraid, but after discussing with his subordinates, he decided to fight the Suiyang army head-on!

Dai Yan knew very well that the gathering of Suiyang's army this time was already all their strength. If he can defeat his opponent in this battle, then the plan he planned to unify the Song Kingdom before will be achieved!

And it is not a reckless move for him to dare to use a weak army to face an army that is more than twice his own! Today, Taoqiu's army far surpasses its opponent in terms of equipment and logistics, that is, it is stronger than its opponent in terms of individual combat effectiveness!

Secondly, the Tauhill army had extremely mobile cavalry and sailors. Even if the Taoqiu army loses the head-on decisive battle, and the other party does not have a real annihilation war master, he can completely withdraw most of Taoqiu's forces from the battlefield under the cover of cavalry and sailors!

With such a back road, the decisive battle with the Suiyang Army is actually not a stud. Because he has an army like cavalry that can quickly cut off the opponent's back route, even if the Suiyang army chooses the city of Xiayi to defend, Tao Qiu will not be afraid at all!

If you win, you can win the entire Song Kingdom, and if you lose, you will retreat to Taoqiu, and Suiyang will be bounded by Danshui and share half of the Song Kingdom. Why don't you do this kind of gambling?

In Dai Yan's view, the Suiyang Army's choice of Xiangyi City to fight the Taoqiu Army was actually a complete manifestation of lack of confidence! With their numerical advantage over the Taoqiu army, they still need to rely on the city to dare to fight a decisive battle, isn't this fear?

As soon as the third day arrived, as soon as the sky dawned, an atmosphere of solemnity began to permeate the entire vicinity of Xiayi City. In the past, in the fields around the city, animals such as hares and elk could be seen running around from time to time, and occasionally a hare with a low IQ hit a wooden stake and was picked up by farmers. However, today, even these animals seem to be able to feel the murderous aura permeating the entire heaven and earth, and they dare not come out to move at all!

Under the city of Xiayi, it has become a perfect battlefield!

Under the command of the commanders of both sides, the armies of both sides began to be deployed, and rows and rows of troops began to be arranged, thus forming a neat formation!

For the previous wars of the Taoqiu army, Hua Rong and even Le CD knew very clearly. After they learned that Taoqiu's cavalry, a new type of troops, could wipe out Pengcheng's chariot troops with their high-speed mobility, they completely gave up and continued to let the chariots fight against Taoqiu's army on this plain. Instead, it was a pure infantry formation to fight a decisive battle!

The deployment of the Taoqiu army is also very similar to that of the Suiyang army. In addition to letting Le Yi parade the cavalry around, Dai Yan also arranged all the infantry into a large formation to confront the Suiyang army!

The infantry formation, if you don't know the specific deployment of the two sides, just from the outside, is actually about the same. All of them were in the front with shields and axes, pikemen in the center, and crossbowmen in the last formation.

At this time, the Suiyang army had an army of 180,000 and the desire to defeat the opponent was stronger than that of the Taoqiu army, so they took the lead in attacking!

The heroic soldiers in the front row, holding a shield in their left hand and a bronze sword in their right hand, began to rush towards the Taoqiu army in a desperate way!

Seeing this kind of formation of the opponent, Dai Yan couldn't help but smile coldly! Isn't Hua Rong's method a reference to his previous practice? What they want to do is actually nothing more than simulate the trapping camp of the Taoqiu army!

Since Dai Yan first went to the battlefield and fought with the Yang Lingjun of the Chu State, his army had actually taken the rudiments of trapping the camp! At that time, he was only the feudal monarch of Fengyi, and the equipment of his subordinates was not advanced, and the trapping camp was completely based on the bravery of the rangers and even the disciples of the Mo family who followed him, and adopted a fighting style for his life!

Now that he has a sufficient material foundation, the trapped camp he has trained is far stronger than before. The Suiyang army dared to break the Taoqiu army's large array by trapping the camp, isn't this a cauldron?

However, this time, in order to reduce losses, he was not willing to make the trap camp with more advanced equipment and stronger combat power directly tough with Suiyang's trap camp! When he trained an army like the Trap Camp that specializes in breaking formations, he had already thought about how to crack such an army!

Seeing that the first batch of Suiyang trapping camps that were about to attack were getting closer and closer, the smile on Dai Yan's face became brighter and brighter, and his eyes began to get colder and colder!

When the Suiyang Fall camp was less than 500 meters away from the Taoqiu Army's main array, these troops began to charge! And Dai Yan, who was in the big array, immediately gave an order, and under the command of Qi Yu, in the Taoqiu big array, the soldiers who were in the front several rows immediately turned back and began to walk to the rear.

And what had been blocked by the soldiers in the front row of the Taoqiu Army with their bodies began to be exposed in front of the armies of both sides!