Soon after the Khitan Wanqi entered the battlefield, Ma Xiaodao realized that the situation was not right.

Their Jizhou army is close to 5,000 people, and in the pre-set ambush site, they ambushed the Khitan 3,000 cavalry who came to pursue, occupying a favorable location, and the Jizhou army has long been prepared, maybe it is not a matter of intention, but it definitely has a huge advantage in the battle situation. 5,000 people besieged 3,000 people, although the victory or defeat on the battlefield is not measured by the number of people, but in the current situation, it is also easy to defeat the Khitan 3,000 horsemen.

After the Khitan Wanqi as Yelugemeng's reinforcements entered the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn, and the Jizhou army immediately faced unprecedented pressure, and the He Huan army that surrounded Yelugemeng behind was defeated not long after the battle, and the Khitan Wancai had already taken advantage of the situation to enter the battle.

There may be Khitan reinforcements after 3,000 horsemen, this is not something that Ma Xiaodao did not expect, in fact, this is something he and Ma Huaiyuan had predicted. In order to deal with the possible reinforcements of the Khitan, Ma Huaiyuan also left a back hand in the layout of the battle array, and at this time, the enemy reinforcements in front of him arrived, and the Jizhou army immediately turned into a defensive posture.

"Spears, heavy shields, defense!" With the change of drums and flags in the valley, Ma Xiaodao and the senior generals of the Jizhou army shouted while gathering their own troops.

Under the command of Ma Xiaodao and the generals, rows of pikemen and heavy shieldmen poured out from all sides of the military formation, gathered in one place, and set up a defensive formation at the rear of the battle avenue. The spears are like forests, the heavy shields are like walls, and the copper walls and iron walls were erected not long after, and with the continuous integration of the soldiers, this formation is still thickening.

It is also thanks to the fact that the Jizhou army had already thrown the Gelugmeng troops in the pocket array into chaos, so they could dispatch enough manpower from the battlefield to arrange this defensive array. The Yelu Gemeng department on the road is now in the process of being divided, surrounded and annihilated, although the Jizhou army has transferred some manpower, they have no chance of turning the tables. When reinforcements appeared, these surrounded Khitan soldiers intended to resist, but when they no longer had a complete formation and were completely suppressed by the Jizhou army, they could not gather their strength at all.

In the face of the sudden Khitan reinforcements, the Jizhou army's defensive array, which had the effect of dividing the battlefield, was immediately impacted by huge pressure, and the Khitan army was too numerous.

Due to the terrain advantage, the Khitan cavalry could not be used, let alone surrounded in a roundabout way, but even so, the officers and soldiers of the Jizhou army in the front row were still forced to retreat step by step after killing and injuring some Khitan cavalry.

In the defensive formation of the Jizhou army, countless sharp arrows flew out and landed in the Khitan army formation that was charging into the formation, bringing casualties to the Khitan army. Immediately, the Khitan army also fell into the Jizhou army formation with a more dense rain of arrows, so that the army formation immediately appeared blank.

The number of heavy shields is limited, and it is impossible to have a shield on everyone's head, in fact, except for the soldiers in the front row of the army, the sergeants in the back row have almost no heavy shield cover. In the face of the much denser arrow rain of the Khitan army, the Jizhou army was difficult to withstand. And in such a battle, there is no danger to be collected, and it is impossible to carry heavy vehicles in front, as the battle continues, the casualties of the Jizhou army are getting bigger and bigger.

Although the Khitan army suffered more casualties overall, they were a little too numerous.

Ma Xiaodao ran from the battlefield to Ma Huaiyuan's location again, and said to him anxiously: "General, there are too many Khitan reinforcements, we can't stop it!" ”

Ma Huaiyuan's face was not very good-looking, and his eyes were like ice fields, but he was still calm, and in the face of Ma Xiaodao's warning, he just replied lightly: "I saw it." ”

"What should we do?" As the chief general of the overall situation, and standing on a high place, Ma Xiaodao naturally knew that Ma Huaiyuan could see the battlefield clearly, but the question was how to deal with the Jizhou army at the moment.

Ma Huaiyuan was silent, but there was a hint of gloom between his eyebrows.

Ma Xiaodao finally couldn't help but ask, "General, where are the reinforcements of the army marshal?" When will it come? ”

Ma Huaiyuan glanced at Ma Xiaodao, Ma Xiaodao was anxious, in fact, how could Ma Huaiyuan not be more anxious than him? But the actual situation, he really can't say.

Another general ran up, his troops are encircling and annihilating the Yelu Gemeng in the formation, but the Khitan reinforcements are behind them, and they don't know when they will kill their comrades who block them and rush into the formation, in this case, the soldiers are a little flustered, and the pace of the attack is much slower, and the besieged Khitan army, although it can not form a joint force, but after seeing hope, the combat power has increased a few points out of thin air, so the battle of the Jizhou army is becoming more and more difficult. As a general, he knew what it meant to go on like this, and he didn't get any military orders from Ma Huaiyuan to deal with the change, so he finally couldn't help but come forward to ask.

Ma Huaiyuan was silent for a while, and finally came out of his words, which made Ma Xiaodao and the general a little stunned for a while, and he said, "Withdraw the army." ”

"Withdrawal?" The general was stunned, he didn't expect such a result.

As Ma Huaiyuan's closest person, Ma Xiaodao knew more than this general, and he shouted in disbelief: "Withdraw the army? Why the withdrawal? What about the reinforcements of the military marshal? Aren't they just behind them? Isn't it just that we ambushed the 3,000 Khitan vanguard pursuers and bit this bait just to lure out more Khitan troops so that they can all be annihilated here? Now that the commander's reinforcements have not arrived, why should we withdraw our troops? ”

Ma Xiaodao already knew enough, but it was obviously impossible for him to know more than Ma Huaiyuan, and there were some things that Ma Huaiyuan would not tell Ma Xiaodao out of some considerations. What couldn't be explained before, now at this time, it can't be explained, in the face of Ma Xiaodao's questioning, Ma Huaiyuan just repeated the military order coldly and undoubtedly, "Withdraw the army, this is a military order, and I don't want to repeat it a second time." ”

"Cousin!" The horse knife roared.

The drums stopped, the golden gong sounded, and the waving order flag clearly conveyed this order to the Jizhou army that was fighting.

Ma Xiaodao was unwilling, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and his clenched fists trembled.

Ma Huaiyuan pulled out a long knife and put it on Ma Xiaodao's shoulder, his face distorted, "If you still want more people in the Jizhou Army to survive after this battle, go and lead your troops, so that you can survive!" ”

"Cousin!" Ma Xiaodao almost cried.

Ma Huaiyuan took a deep breath, looked at the chaotic battlefield in front of him, and his tone softened, but the heavy weight in it increased by a lot, he stared at Ma Xiaodao, and said: "You are my closest person, you enjoy the best treatment on weekdays, have the greatest prestige, and naturally have to fight in the most dangerous place in wartime." How much the Jizhou army can retreat depends on how long you can withstand the Khitan reinforcements. ”

Ma Xiaodao's heart was full of flavors, he couldn't figure out how he could bite the hook to lure the enemy into battle, how could it become like this after the Khitan reinforcements appeared. But no matter how many doubts he has in his heart, he can only carry out Ma Huaiyuan's military orders at this time, because the situation waits for no one.

Turning around angrily, Ma Xiaodao used all his strength to rush into the battlefield again.

What Ma Xiaodao didn't know was that when he saw that there were as many as 10,000 Khitan reinforcements, Ma Huaiyuan sent a team of scouts to inform a certain army that was waiting for the situation here. And it was his military report that put the Jizhou army in the current situation of no reinforcements.

That army could have come to reinforce the Jizhou army, and as Ma Xiaodao said, to repel or even defeat the 10,000 cavalry behind Yelu Gemeng. It was Ma Huaiyuan, the chief general of the Jizhou Army, who personally ruined this hope.

Seeing Ma Xiaodao's back resolutely rush into the battlefield, Ma Huaiyuan's eyes suddenly became sad and sad, he knew that the reason why Ma Xiaodao resolutely rushed to the battlefield in this situation was because of his military order, but also because of him. But as the chief general of Ma Xiaodao, as the chief general of this Jizhou army, Ma Huaiyuan knows very clearly what it means for Ma Xiaodao to return to the battlefield.

"Victory always comes at a price. This is especially true of the battle on the battlefield. Ma Huaiyuan closed his eyes and muttered, the Jizhou army in front of him has begun to retreat, but in the face of the Khitan cavalry with strong mobility and absolute superiority in numbers, how much can the Jizhou army successfully withdraw, Ma Huaiyuan, who knows everything well, does not dare to have hope in his heart, only despair. Knife, if you can survive this battle, in the future, I will make you a cow and a horse. If you can't survive, every year in the future, I will pay tribute and make amends for you and the martyrs who died in this battle. ”

The retreat of the Jizhou army made Yelu Yuyin's eyes show a bloodthirsty essence, he grinned, showed a hideous smile, pulled out his saber and led forward, "Eat this Tang army and take Jizhou!" ”

Defeat will not be the goal, but the goal is to attack the city and seize the land.

The capture of territory and Jizhou meant that the Khitan army had taken a big step forward.

Thirty miles away from Ma Huaiyuan's battle with the Khitan army, an army that maintained a marching formation and rested in place received a message from Ma Huaiyuan's messenger.

In front of this army, several young men stood in the wind, some in armor and others in robes.

After listening to the messenger's report, Mo Li chuckled and said, "The Khitan army has bitten the hook. ”

"Now that the fish has bitten the hook, it's time to close the net." Li Congjing turned over his horse and gave an order to the Hundred Battles Army, "The whole army will move forward at full speed." ”

This elite army, which might have gone to meet the Jizhou army, did not move towards the direction where the Jizhou army was located at this time, but faced the north and started a rapid march.

Not long ago, Ma Huaiyuan attacked and killed the Khitan rangers in the north of Jizhou, which marked that the curtain of a big drama was really opened.

It was at that time that the Hundred Battles Army came out of Youzhou.

The dispatch of the Hundred Battles Army meant that Li Congjing began to set foot on the battlefield.

In this confrontation with Yelu Wantin, Yelu Gemeng is the bait, and why is the Jizhou army not?