After Li Gang in Jingzhao received Xu Wei's urgent report, he was very worried about the safety of all the servants and had no time to transfer troops from other prefectures, so he immediately ordered Xu Sheng, the governor of Tongzhou, to raise troops to help. He knew that the brothers of the Xu family were all remnants of the fierce and good at fighting, so he specially asked Xu Sheng to tell Xu Sheng that no matter whether he could recover his homeland or not, people were the most important.

Xu Sheng just left. Considering that the situation in Hedong was very complicated, the people had fled, and the supply of officers and troops was not smooth, he planned to transfer the troops to help in the war. However, due to the strong opposition of the Langyan Supervision Department, the trip could not be made.

In the first month of the third year of Jingkang, Li Zhi gathered 40,000 horses. Although most of them are indiscriminate, one of them is called "Guangjie", which is the unit personally commanded by Li Zhi when he was in charge of Weisheng's army, and its combat power is good, with a number of about 6,000. The Jin State originally planned to send a commander of 10,000 men to lead a few thousand people to fight together. But when he learned that it was Xu Wei who led the army, he immediately adjusted his strategy, and let the "Dragon and Tiger King" complete Yan Tuhe led more than 2,000 iron cavalry and 5,000 infantry troops.

After several tentative attacks in succession, Li Zhi saw that Xu Wei refused to be fooled, and always sent the same army into battle, and the tactics were single. Always let the cavalry charge first, and the infantry follow. Then he said to Tuhe, it seems that this Zijin Tiger does have some ability, he hides his strength and his will, let's confront him for a while, we have military rations in Zhaode Mansion, and there is no obstacle to supply. But Xu Jiu came from Shaanxi, and there must not be many grain and grass supplies. When the food is exhausted, it will naturally retreat. Even if he brings grain from Shaanxi, we have elite cavalry in our hands, and we can cut off his supply lines at any time.

I have to admit it. Although Li Zhi is a traitor, Ben Zhuo is not false. His idea can be said to have just pinched Xu Wei's seven inches, but he forgot the same, Pingyang still has Ma Kuo, once Li Jin joins forces and Hu Jie. The rebels may go straight to Zhaode Mansion.

Tuhe was hit on the head by the Xu family brothers, and retreated north with hatred, but now he is actually in charge of the military power in Hedong, and he encountered Xu Wei again. Plus Sticky Han gave him a death order. He disagreed with Li Zhi's suggestion and insisted on a decisive battle with Hujie immediately. He believed that Hujie came alone, and if he did not take the opportunity to annihilate him, the situation would be difficult to control when the other troops of the Song army arrived. Although Li Zhi was appointed by the Emperor of the Jin State to pacify the Hedong pacification envoy and marshal of the soldiers and horses, how could he dare to disobey the will of the Jin people? So he marched to Zezhou.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the Li Jin coalition army was only forty miles away from Zezhou. Xu Wei encouraged the whole army, saying that before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we will eat the Li Jin coalition army, and we can make up for the Spring Festival when we return to Dingrong. Zhang Xian urgently returned to the city to meet Xu Wei before the battle, and he believed that the enemy army was strong. If it is not in direct conflict, Hujie will not be able to bargain much, it is better to stick to the help. Xu Wei replied that this place is mountainous, which is not conducive to the large-scale cavalry corps of the Jin army, and the number of Jurchen cavalry must not be much. Zhang Xian still advised, and Xu Wei told him his original intention. Hezhongfu, Jiezhou, Yizhou, and Jiezhou, the three prefectures of the prefecture, must not give up, today we take a step back, this territory is people's. If you want to get it back in the future, it will not be a small fight of more than 10,000 people in our Hujie army, but hundreds of thousands of troops!

After Zhang Xian heard this, he didn't say a word, and immediately went out of the city to prepare for war. And sternly admonished the trilogy, if you don't win, you will die!

At noon on the fifth day of the first lunar month. The two armies of Yang Yan and Zhang Xian came out of the village, and Xu Wei then led the main force out of the city and formed a formation at the foot of Xiaoxi Mountain outside the city with 12,000 troops. Suddenly, there were hundreds of golden horsemen, wanting to take advantage of the tiger's momentum to attack. However, after observing that the Hujie cavalry covered the two wings and surrounded the front of the formation with various chariots, they retreated.

"Hurry, hurry! Can't you eat without eating? How come the gunslinger of the fourth command is not like this? Damn, wait for your mother-in-law to form a formation. The Jurchens have already rushed over! "Yang Yan is the commander of the front army, and he is commanding the pikemen to arrange the formation according to the "stacking formation method" created by Wu Jie. Specifically, "with a spear in front, you can't sit up; the second strongest bow, the second strongest crossbow, kneeling to the knees; The sub-god arm bow. If the thief fights within 100 steps, the divine arm will go first; Seventy paces, strong bow and; The second battle is like this. The mortal array, limited to the rejection of horses, is connected by iron hooks. If the injury is replaced. In the event of a new generation, the drum is the festival. Riding, the two wings are covered in front, and the formation is formed and the ride retreats, which is called "stacking arrays"

The soldiers clutched their weapons and ran as fast as they could, each taking his place. The pikemen were at the front of the line, as if they were crouching on the ground. Pull the tail of the gun to the ground, with the tip of the gun pointing forward, and the Hujie army usually has a small formation of one hundred and fifty spearmen. Thirty people are lined up horizontally and five people vertically, densely arranged together. Because it is in a squatting position, even if the comrades in front of them are charged down by the cavalry, they will not hit the tip of the spear behind them. In this way, if the enemy cavalry rushes into battle, every step forward, there is a row of sharp iron spears waiting for him. Today, Xu Wei deployed twenty arrays of spearmen at the forefront, and when he saw it from a distance, he saw a forest of spears, and a forest of steel was terrifying.

Immediately after the gunners. The archers with the yellow birch bow and the black lacquer bow were already like, they were all half-kneeling on the ground. Insert a handful of arrows into the soil in front of him, Fang Jian Shu is fine and concave and said that he is not the same body clam", saying that reading is good to go to the outside world and use it at any time. Behind them. It's thousands of crossbowmen. The blue crossbowmen are accustomed to a few crossbows, this kind of crossbow can be shot in a hand-held or sitting position, the crossbow arm is four feet long, and the crossbow bow is more than two feet long, which can be regarded as a behemoth with a single soldier. The reason why it is called "stepping on the crossbow" is because this kind of big crossbow only relies on arm strength, unless it is an iron man with amazing power like Yue Fei, it is absolutely difficult to pull it apart. So, a rope was tied under the crossbow arm. To open the bow, step on the rope with your left foot and firmly buckle the bowstring onto the crossbow with both arms.

Although the crossbow is terrifying, compared to the ones in the back, it is almost like a toy. That's right, the last in the entire big array is the great killing weapon that the Song army has relied on for more than a hundred years, the Divine Arm Bow! Even though Xu Wei was very popular with the emperor. Even though his army had more than 20,000 people, the number of divine arm bows that were rationed to Hu Jie was less than a hundred. First, because the Divine Arm Bow can be regarded as the Song Army's "strategic weapon", the country's sharp weapon cannot be easily displayed, if it is equipped too much, the greater the chance of being lost on the battlefield. In case it is captured by the enemy, it will not be good to study and imitate it, and then take it back to shoot the Song army. The second is because the Divine Arm Bow is large in size, inconvenient to carry, and too many are inconvenient to transport. Thirdly, a divine arm bow requires the cooperation of three soldiers, and if the proportion of crossbowmen is too large, then it will take up too many troops. There is another reason, the reason is Xu Wei, he always believes that weapons and ordnance are these things. Simplicity is the most important thing. A soldier can kill with a normal bow, and three soldiers with a black bow must have killed more enemies than a god with a narrow bow. Because the Divine Arm Bow is more difficult to operate, "there are no more than three arrows in front of the enemy"

The whole great array gradually took shape. The soldiers were nervously making final preparations, inspecting their instruments and encouraging each other.

For once the formation is formed, there will be three drums, and all the soldiers are to be quiet, and those who make noise will be punished by military law.

"Brother, don't panic, the Jurchens are like us, carrying a head on two shoulders" The veteran used this sentence as usual to encourage the raw melons and eggs.

However, two years ago, he was still staring at a pair of confused and frightened eyes, looking up at the recruits of the seniors in the army who had been tempered by the war, and they were no longer what they used to be. The bowstring made a crisp sound: "I really hope that the golden dogs will pounce now, I like to see them fall with men and horses after being hit by arrows." I prefer to clean up after the war, and when I meet those who can still breathe, I cut their throats with a knife that has been curled. That's how pigs are killed in the countryside. ”

The veteran was stunned for a moment, probably he didn't realize that in just one or two years, these dirt buns from the small county of the Daimyo Mansion had become killers. shook the yellow birch bow in his hand, and sneered: "Your kid is still a little tender, wait for my brother to shoot a gold with a gold ring to show you." ”

The noise and restlessness before the war. Silence fell to the sound of three war drums. Many soldiers took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. I silently thought in my heart, three times the money, three times the money, and the other side was full of three times the money,

Thousands of steps away, the gradually converging Li Jin coalition army didn't seem to take the Hujie army too seriously. Escorted by superior cavalry, they lined up unhurriedly, and the officers even looked at the Song army formation opposite from time to time. At this time. A group of neatly dressed and well-armored soldiers surrounded several generals and broke away from the formation, rushing out of the opposite direction, peeking from a distance.

"It's quite methodical." The man who said this, about fifty people, was not very tall, and although he rode on horseback, he was half a head shorter than the soldiers who guarded him around him. Square face, draggy eyebrows, deep-set eyes, and pursed lips. A thick beard under the chin, almost like a broom. Dressed in iron armor, he only had a square scarf wrapped around his head, and he carried a knife in his hand. This hand looks like an iron rake. This person is Li Zhi, a native of Yan'an, who served in the Western Army, fought with the party for more than ten years, and made many military exploits. Later, he went out of the town to the east of the river. Ren Weisheng knows the army.

As soon as he landed on the ground, a young man next to him said: "The child heard that Xu Jiu used to be in the Daimyo's Mansion, and he relied on gathering some scoundrels to form a village soldier to suppress thieves, and slowly followed. Such people are not worthy to be enemies of their fathers. This person is the same age as Xu Wei, tall, quite fat, strong, and generally fat people are easy to give people the impression of being naïve, but this fat man is full of violence, that is, he is not angry, and his eyes are round. At this time, he stared at Xu Weijun's array, with a look of disdain. It is Li Zhi's second son, Li Meng, who is said to be an expert Ge Xionghu, a brave champion of the three armies, known as Xiao Zhang.

Li Zhi heard his son say this. smiled: "I hope the Purple Gold Tiger is a waste of fame." ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw three horsemen rushing out of the Song army's formation, and the wind swept over. It was only after a stone's throw that the reins were stopped, and the horse at the front, the blackened war horse, even raised its front hooves, and the demonstrators stood up. More than a hundred steps apart, although he couldn't see the description clearly, Li Zhi took a horse whip and pointed out: "Among these three horses, one of them must be Xu Jiu, can the person who rides a black horse be like?" ”