Chapter 167: The Final Battle

In the three days after the end of the fire, the soldiers of the Khitan army were constantly scolding outside at the gate of the Song army's barracks. Because the Song camp has been hanging the anti-battle card and refusing to fight, the words of the Khitan people scolding the battle have become more and more difficult to hear.

On the third day, the Khitan general was not just insulting the soldiers of the Song army with foul language, but began to use props.

He picked a woman's dress on the tip of the spear, and the words in his mouth began to change from greeting the female compatriots of Zhao Weiji's family to comparing him to the female compatriots who were being greeted.

Although Song Jun himself knew that the current pretending to be cowardly was to better fight the Khitans in the future, it was not a very pleasant thing to bear the insults of the Khitans every day.

So more and more soldiers began to ask Zhao Weiji for battle.

"Lord Wang, the Khitans are here to scold again." A general entered Zhao Weiji's big tent, which was a bit of a request for war.

Hearing that the Khitans were scolding again, Zhao Weiji didn't raise his head, and still laid out something on the sand table: "Here you go again?" Is there anything new today? ”

Looking at Zhao Weiji's heartless appearance, his generals were all anxious for him: "Today, the other party picked up a woman's clothes, and then compared you to a woman with foul language." ”

Zhao Weiji still didn't look up: "Oh, that's it, alas, barbarians are barbarians, and scolding people is so uninformative." ”

For Zhao Weiji to be able to calm down when he was insulted like this, the generals under his hands are really admired.

It's just that they don't know that the reason why Zhao Weiji was so calm and even ran to the camp gate yesterday to listen to the other party's scolding for half an hour. It's not because he has a big belly, but because she had an identity called a netizen before she crossed over. The scolding words on the Internet of the Celestial Empire are much more damaging than those of these Khitans. Some "talents" can also write poems and scold people.

Compared to those. Such insults are not even.

However, at this time, Zhao Weiji also felt that it was almost time to fight, and even if the soldiers knew that they were acting, it would damage their morale.

In addition, Li Jiguang's troops, who were supposed to wait, should almost arrive, and if they go out to fight at this time, they will basically be able to achieve the expected goal.

So Zhao Weiji asked the general who had just come in to report to go out to respond to the Khitan who was scolding the formation, and asked them to prepare for a decisive battle in a day.

As soon as he heard that the Song army couldn't help it, the Khitan general's heart blossomed, and he led his troops back to the camp. Look at each other's happy figures. In fact, the hearts of the soldiers of the Song army also blossomed.

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When the general who scolded the formation went back and told Yelu Mo the time of the decisive battle requested by the Song army, Yelu Mo was also very happy.

This joy was not only because the Song army had finally accepted the decisive battle, but also because his reinforcements would arrive tonight, and this infusion of vital force made Yelumo more confident that he could win the battle.

After receiving the reply from the Song army, he immediately asked all the soldiers to get ready, and the opportunity to defeat the Song army in the next battle finally came.

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The Song army didn't know that the Khitans, like them, also had a behind-the-back force that would arrive soon, and Zhao Weiji was still deploying the formation that would be used in the decisive battle the next day according to the previous plan.

In order to hide his strength and then give the Khitans a surprise blow, Zhao Weiji suppressed the time for the artillery troops to enter the battlefield to the end.

He set a bottom line on the sand table, and according to his design, only when the Khitan vanguard entered this bottom line. artillery before the offensive can begin.

Because according to the calculation of time, when the vanguard of the Khitan enters this bottom line. There was no way for them to retreat to the base camp in time.

If Li Jiguang can rush to the battlefield at the planned time, it will be safest and most effective to attack the Khitan's base camp at this time.

In addition, the musket troops were not arranged into the vanguard, and Zhao Weiji transferred all the 800 war horses that the Song army now had to the musket troops.

He used these 800 horses and musket troops to form a musketeer cavalry. He was going to use this musketeer to play the role of a surprise force on the flanks of the battlefield.

Using the mobility of war horses and the powerful firepower of rifles to directly cut off the Khitan troops won more favorable conditions for Li Jiguang's final success.

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The next day, the two sides, both fully prepared, met again on the battlefield, only this time the Song army looked significantly less demoralized than the previous one.

And the Khitan people are in high spirits and imposing.

When the two sides were in formation, Jerümo received a report from the scouts that the Song army was indeed a third less in number, which convinced Jerümo that his plan for a night attack had indeed worked. Although none of the 100 warriors survived in the end.

The Song army still hid behind the fortifications as always, and in order to make a full set of plays, Zhao Weiji did not make any changes in the layout.

Seeing that the Song army was still in that formation, Yelu Mo smiled contemptuously: "You don't have any artillery, and you dare to do that, isn't this looking for death?" ”

With that, he gave the order to charge the whole army.

After receiving his order, the Khitan iron cavalry began to rush towards the Song army's position like a tide, and at the same time, the bows and arrows in the hands of the cavalry began to be fired continuously.

After seeing that the Khitan army began to attack, Zhao Weiji did not order a counterattack, he asked the herald to wave the flag, and all the Song soldiers began to leave the trenches and retreat to the rear of the position.

When the Khitans saw that the Song army had withdrawn without a fight, their morale immediately burned to a peak, and all the cavalry began to wave their whips continuously, hoping to increase the speed of the horse under their crotch to faster.

But the scene had a very different effect in the eyes of the managers of both sides. In Zhao Weiji's eyes, this was an act of death, and he was very happy to see the Khitan cavalry continue to increase his speed, and the corners of his mouth also raised.

And when Jerumo saw all this, his brows were furrowed, and such an indomitable move was not a good thing in such a situation. Song Jun knew that there was no way to retreat and still retreated without a fight, if there was nothing greasy in this, he Yelu Mo immediately followed Zhao Weiji's surname.

Sure enough, as Yelumo expected, the Khitan army ran into trouble, and the sandbag walls and trenches that originally looked funny became a moat that the Khitan cavalry could not cross.

Zhao Weiji has conducted a detailed study of the trenches, the distance behind the sandbag wall, and the distance from the horse to visit. Now the placement between the three makes it impossible for the horses under the crotch of the Khitan cavalry to jump over.

If they want to jump over the sandbag wall first, they will either fall into the trench and break their horse's legs, or they will be rejected and stabbed to death. The vanguard of the Khitan army did not expect this result at all, and drove the war horse with all their strength to leap over the sandbag wall, which was not very high.

Then all of them dropped their horses and were trampled to death in the trenches by the cavalry who had no time to stop later.

Seeing this, the troops in the rear began to slow down their horses, hoping to stop them before they reached the trenches. It's just that because the horse speed was increased too fast before, if you want to reduce the speed at this time, you must face a strong inertia.

As a result, another large number of Khitan cavalry lost their lives due to the trampling of their horses caused by the rear ramming the soldiers in front due to the slowdown.

Yelu Mo's face turned green with anger when he saw all this in the rear, he really didn't expect that such a funny thing as Zhao Weiji would actually cause so much damage to his cavalry, and it was still in the case of his Song army constantly retreating.

However, fortunately, the Khitans were all outstanding riders, and after experiencing the initial chaos, they gradually stabilized the formation, but this stability lost the impact of the cavalry.

The Khitan cavalry who needed to dismount and move the rejected horses away became live targets, and the Song soldiers stopped after retreating to a certain extent, turned around and began to greet these Khitan cavalry who were blocked with bows and crossbows.

When the horses were finally removed, the losses of the Khitan cavalry had exceeded Yelumo's pre-war expectations. However, this loss alone did not discourage the Khitans.

Seeing that the obstacles in front of them had finally been cleared, the Khitans began to attack again, only this time when they raised their horsewhips again, the nightmarish sound of artillery reappeared.

In fact, this defense line composed of rejecting horses is the bottom line that Zhao Weiji arranged before, of course he knows that these rejecting horses alone will not be able to stop the Khitans, but the time for this rejecting horse defense line to delay is enough for artillery to enter the battlefield and be arranged.

When the Khitans broke through the anti-horse defense line, the artillery began to work again.

"What's going on with the sound of this TM's cannon, didn't you TM say that all the artillery has been destroyed?" Hearing the sound of the cannon again, Yelumo almost went crazy.

"It's not...... This is...... We also listened to the shouts of the Song soldiers who were fighting, and we didn't really see the artillery. The scout on the side didn't know how to explain it at this time, he didn't expect that everything was a play directed by Zhao Weiji.

At this time, Yelumo reacted, everything the scout saw may be Song Jun's counter-strategy, but all this is useless.

Worse things are still happening, just when the Khitan cavalry was suffering from the baptism of artillery fire, suddenly from the flank of the team to kill the Song cavalry.

Although the number is small, this Song cavalry can easily tear a hole in the Khitan cavalry team, and it looks like it is about to cut off the entire Khitan army.

At this time, Yelumo had no way to control the situation on the battlefield, and he couldn't even collect his troops, so he could only watch the artillery fire of the Song army and the strange cavalry force slaughtering his own children on the battlefield.

However, at this time, Yelumo did not despair, he still had a trump card in his hand, and he believed that as long as this trump card was played, he would definitely be able to turn the tide of the war. (To be continued......)