Qifang Town to Zaoyang County is about dozens of miles, the army arrived at the next morning five miles west of Zaoyang County, and then stopped, and the Jin army camp here is far away, and began to set up a position.

After the victory of Qifang Town, the morale of the Song army was high, and the army was seeking to fight, compared with it, the Jin army was much worse, the news of the defeat of Qifang Town they already knew the whole army, they still had an advantage in the number of soldiers and horses, and always held the initiative on the battlefield, although they did not besiege Zaoyang during this time, and the troops to attack Xiangyang were also repelled by Meng Zongzheng and others, but they have not encountered such a big loss.

When the news reached the Jin army camp, the camp was in an uproar, morale immediately plummeted, after Yan Sai did not listen, almost ran back to the guy to be pushed out on the spot to cut down, if it wasn't for the guy's father and their family had a relationship, he would never spare this guy, but in the end he pushed him out, the spine staff forty to set an example, the main general who led the troops to fight was beaten half to death and sent back to Bianjing for further disposal.

And Wanyan Sai didn't know that this time it was the Song army, they used a baggage team as bait to attract their own troops, and then concentrated their superior forces and killed more than 4,000 of their elite soldiers in one fell swoop, which reversed the disadvantage of the insufficient number of the Song army in Zaoyang, and the strength of the two sides was basically equal.

And after his Jin army after a series of battles, and in Zaoyang City for a long time, morale was a little low, this time the defeat of Qifang Town, but also made the morale of the army plummet, and he also knew that Meng Zongzheng, an old opponent, would definitely take advantage of this opportunity, and then come to fight with him, this battle can be said to be after Zaoyang, he has no capital to continue to go south to attack Xiangyang for the time being!

Thinking of this, Wan Yan Sai began to have the idea of temporarily retiring to Xinyang to recuperate, but before he could give the order to retreat, news came that the Song army had arrived outside their camp, and the speed was so fast that he had to give up the idea of withdrawing immediately.

As a commander, he is also a rare general in the Jin army, he knows that as long as he orders the withdrawal of troops at this time, the Song army will immediately take the opportunity to chase and kill them, once the rear army can not withstand the pursuit of the Song army, then it is likely to cause a big rout, and when he wants to retreat, it may not be so easy to return to Xinyang with the troops!

So he immediately beat the drum and ordered the account to be raised, convened the generals in the army to discuss the matter, and soon ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to lead the troops out of the camp, even if he wanted to withdraw his troops back to Xinyang to rest, he had to fight a victory before he could leave, otherwise, he would not dare to withdraw his troops like this.

Seeing that after the Jin soldiers went out of the camp to meet the battle, the archers on both sides released arrows one after another, shot the position, and the two armies gathered outside the two arrows to set up their positions, and the arrival of the Song army also boosted the morale of the Zaoyang defenders, and a cheer sounded on the city.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the large array of the two armies curiously, although he was also a person who fought a few tough battles, but for the situation that the two armies were frontally arranging and arranging for a confrontation, he really didn't know much, in the past, he was always in the camp, and he was not qualified to come out to watch or participate in the battle with the township soldiers, this time he was the first time he really came to the front of the battle, and became a member of the army who could participate in the battle.

"The waist pole is straight! Although we are village soldiers, we can't lose the people of the village soldiers, and it is our glory to be able to fight with the army! Give the master a spirit! Huang Yan stood in front of their baggage battalion and shouted loudly to the villagers.

The officers of each army have formed a team, arranged a neat large array, with Meng Zongzheng's army in the center, Chen Xiang's army on the left, and Hu Zaixing's army on the right, the three armies have set up a zigzag-shaped large array, leaving a channel between each other, which can be integrated at any time, and can fight with each other alone, and can also form support each other, which is one of the standard battle formations used by the Song army.

Gao Huaiyuan knew that during the Northern Song Dynasty Shenzong, an official formation map was announced, listing various ways of arranging troops for the reference of the generals in the army, so when the generals of the Song Army went into battle in the future, they often arranged the troops in the array diagram, although this played a certain role, but after a long time, it stifled the creativity of the Song army generals, so that when the Song army fought, it often relied on the formation map, and the combat mode was very rigid, and after the enemy became familiar with the Song army's array, he lost the initiative of the war.

The enemy army can often grasp the weakness of the Song army, find the weakness of the Song army from the formation, and then concentrate the forces to attack, and the Song army is an infantry-based army, once the rigid formation wants to change, it is very troublesome, this Gao Huaiyuan has learned from the Sanshan Sanren, when discussing this aspect with generals like Meng Hui, Gao Huaiyuan's opinion is also deeply approved by Meng Hui.

For the general should judge the situation, play the initiative at any time, and not rigidly follow the script, this is not only Gao Huaiyuan's view, Meng Hui also thinks so, and Meng Zongzheng was born as a scholar before, and he is an official who abandoned his pen and fought from Rong, although he is also a well-known general in the Southern Song Dynasty, but his experience in arranging troops is still inevitably weaker, so he discharged this zigzag battle formation this time, although it is in the middle of the range, but there is nothing new.

However, this does not affect this battle with the Jin army, after all, under this kind of terrain, the current zigzag battle array is indeed a very practical array, and the strength of the Jin army is not much stronger than them, especially after the Jin army arrived in this era, the cavalry is no longer very powerful, and it has gradually become an infantry-based army, so the zigzag battle formation is not inappropriate to deal with the Jin soldiers.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at it, and secretly pondered these inconsequential things in his heart, how to fight the next battle, he, the commander of the small township soldiers, did not speak, and it was already a big face for him to be able to let him come over and see, so he silently stood beside Meng Heng and looked at the Jin army opposite.

I saw that the shape of the Jin army on the opposite side was quite neat, listing a thick phalanx, with five hundred cavalry on each wing, such a formation is also in the middle of the gauge distance, which can be attacked and defended, so that people can't find too many flaws, indicating that the main general of the other party is not a mediocre talent, at least a person who knows the army, Gao Huaiyuan heard that the commander of the Jin army responsible for attacking here this time is Wanyan Sai No, but he has never heard of this person in his previous life, in his impression, the famous generals of Jin are those who founded the country like Wanyan Zongwang, Zonghan, Zong Bi and the like, for the famous generals of the Jin Kingdom in the future, he only knows a servant An Zhen, and as for this Wanyan Sai, he doesn't know who it is.

But from Meng Heng, he learned that this person is a famous general of the Jin State, a general who fought all the way out from an ordinary big head soldier, and has now been promoted to the Privy Council of the Jin State.

Although the number of Jin troops out of the camp is not as large as that of the Song army, but compared with the two armies, the Jin soldiers are not necessarily worse than the Song army, which shows that this Wanyan Race is not still a person with some ability, the ability to control the army is more prominent, their arrays are layered on top of each other, very regular, pikemen, shield players, and archers are in their positions and are not chaotic.

With the sound of drums in the Jin army, a Jin general rushed out of the Jin army's middle army formation, holding a long-handled mace in his hand, which is the signature weapon of the Jin army.

This Jin general is tall and big, wearing a copper helmet, a brocade chicken feather on it, and wearing an iron armor, he rushed to the front of the two armies with great might, raised the wolf tooth stick in his hand, pointed at the Song army and shouted: "The southerners who don't know whether they are alive or dead, they still dare to come here to challenge our Dajin army, and those who have the courage will come out and fight with the general, if they don't have the guts, they will go back to Jiangnan for the uncle, hahahaha......"

This guy spoke very arrogantly, which immediately attracted a burst of laughter from the Jin soldiers behind him, and the Song army was immediately choked by him, and some people couldn't help but start scolding.

Gao Huaiyuan watched this performance with interest, originally he thought that such a thing as a heads-up would only appear in the TV series, but he didn't expect that he really encountered this situation today, as a modern person in his previous life, he used to scoff at this kind of thing, he thought that the two armies were at war, and it was a matter of strategy and coordination of the whole army, not how powerful the individual was, even if it was a fierce general, how many enemies could be killed in the chaos? After all, the power of one person is limited!

But now he also knows that this is a kind of temptation before the two armies fight, and it is also a way to boost morale, once the morale of his own side is not high, he can send a fierce general to fight first, if the other side does not dare to fight or send people out to fight the defeat, it can naturally greatly boost morale.

This time, it was obviously this idea that Wanyan didn't fight, knowing that they were newly defeated in Qifang Town, and the morale of the army was affected, so they sent a member of the Jin General to come out to fight, wanting to use the victory of this fight to boost the morale of the Jin army, which is also an effective way.

Unconsciously, Gao Huaiyuan has some eager ideas, he has practiced martial arts so far, and his self-proclaimed kung fu is already good, with a shake of his arms, at least hundreds of catties of strength, the first few times he fought with the Jin Army, it was a melee, and he couldn't really test his kung fu, and after he learned to ride a horse, he has not tried to fight with people on horses, and he doesn't know how his riding skills are now!

But he quickly suppressed this thought, he was just a township soldier commander in the Song army, and there were more people in a higher position than him, where was his turn to be this bird! So he was patient and continued to look downward.

"Commander Gao, listen to my orders for a while, once my father gives the order, you will lead the troops to act with me, don't act without permission! This is a battle between the two armies, and there is no way to go wrong! You must do what you are told! Otherwise, once the military formation is disturbed, military law is ruthless! Foolish brother can't keep you! Meng Heng knew that this was the first time Gao Huaiyuan had participated in such a battle, and he was afraid that he would act without authorization and not understand the orders in the army, so he explained to him in a low voice.

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and said, "Brother Meng, don't worry, I will definitely take your head and never act without permission!" ”

Meng Hui nodded and stopped talking, and continued to stare at where the Jin general in front of the two armies was shouting, and his face gradually showed anger.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan heard a drum sound from the Chinese army on the side of the Song army, and then a member of the Song general rode his horse out of the big formation, and rushed towards the golden general, when the two were dozens of steps apart, the Song general grabbed the reins of the horse, raised the big iron gun in his hand, and scolded: "The golden dog Hugh is going to be rampant!" Your grandfather, I'll meet you! ”

Gao Huaiyuan took a look, this Song general he had seen once in Meng Zongzheng's big tent, it seemed that he was also a commander or something, it was a subordinate general's establishment, what it was called, he couldn't remember, but looking at his body, he was also very burly, he should also be a fierce general, and he should have a fight against this golden general.

So he immediately cheered up and looked at them, only to see that the Jin general and the Song general scolded each other, and then each slapped his horse and waved the weapon in his hand to rush towards each other.

This kind of contest is not at all like what the commentary says, what is difficult to solve, the big battle of 300 rounds, that is nonsense, it is impossible for the two armies to go head-to-head in front of the formation, who wins and who loses can be said to be like a lightning flint, and it will be decided in an instant, Gao Huaiyuan is a clear-eyed person, and he is also an absolute expert in this kind of battle.

From the two people fighting, he saw that this Song General is not the opponent of the Jin General, the movements of the two people are not slow, but the Jin General's mace stick has taken advantage of the weight, after the two people staggered, and then turn around and rush together again, only to hear the sound, the gun in the hand of the Song General was smashed by the Jin Jiang on the spot loose, the Jin will be the big stick open, a sweep, the Song General is also clever, oops, quickly lie on the horse, the helmet was swept down by the sharp teeth on the mace of the Jin General, His hair immediately fell loose, so frightened that he immediately threw away his gun, and fell on horseback and defeated the Song army, and the Jin general could not catch up with him, so he fled back to his own position.

But this time it was obvious that the Jin side had won, so there was an immediate cheer on the Jin army's side, and the shouting and cheering on the Song army's side immediately died down and stopped.

Obviously, this time alone, for Song Jun, morale has been affected to a certain extent, Gao Huaiyuan frowned, he has been in the limelight a lot during this time, and he is not willing to be in the limelight today, so he endured it for a while and did not make a sound, but he saw Meng Heng's hand holding the long knife, and clenched it slightly.

That Jin will continue to show off his might in front of the battle, constantly insulting the Song people with foul language, and the generals on the side of the angry Song army are each a spark, so immediately another person asked for his life to fight, and after getting the nod of Meng Zongzheng, he immediately slapped his horse and danced his gun and rushed out.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the movements of this Song general, and secretly shook his head in his heart, he could be sure that this Song general was still not the opponent of the Jin general, because this person was not as fast as the Jin general in terms of riding skills or dancing spear movements, and his strength was not as good as that Jin general, so he sighed secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but worry about this Song general, after all, this person is also considered to have courage, and it is a pity to die like this.

After Gao Huaiyuan saw that Song General was out of the horse, he secretly took off a two-stone hard bow from his horse, held it in his hand, and took out an arrow from the quiver and put it on the bowstring, looking at the front of the battle, thinking that if possible, he might as well use the bow and arrow to save the Song general's life.

Sure enough, after the Song General and the Jin General scolded each other again, they immediately started to move, the Jin General not only had superb riding skills, but also had great strength, and the speed of the shot was much faster than that Song General, the two of them were just a face, and Song Jiang was swept down under the horse by the Jin General's stick, and even the helmet and head were smashed by the Jin General's mace on the spot, and the red and white ones suddenly flowed to the ground, and the ownerless war horse immediately broke off the reins and galloped out.

Gao Huaiyuan sighed secretly, the difference in strength between the two was too much, although he had this idea, but in the end he still didn't have time to save that Song general, and he lost his life in vain, and he was a little ashamed in his heart, but he also knew that he had been in the limelight too much, and if he continued to be in the limelight now, he would really not be able to go back! So he repeatedly suppressed his impulses to prevent himself from being this up-and-coming bird again.

But at this time, Meng Hui couldn't stand it, after all, the current Meng Hui was just in his early twenties, although his military talent had already emerged, but after all, he was still a young man with strong blood, the Song army lost two battles in a row, and suddenly some morale was low, but the Jin army still did not take the opportunity to attack, he immediately saw that the Jin army's Wanyan Race did not want to use this Jin general to win for a while, completely suppress the morale of the Song army, and then wave the army to attack, and take the opportunity to defeat the Song army.

If you can't defeat this golden general at this time, then it is a very dangerous thing for the Song army, and the morale that was finally boosted in the battle of Qifang Town yesterday is likely to be worn out by the Jin people, so I couldn't help it anymore, and immediately shook the reins, and wanted to go out to fight and meet the golden general.

Gao Huaiyuan was beside Meng Heng, and he had been paying attention to Meng Hui's movements, he could see that Meng Heng was already a little eager to try, and saw that he wanted to shake the reins to fight, so he grabbed Meng Hui's reins.

Although he knew that Meng Heng became the most famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty in later generations, it stands to reason that he should be fine, but he was still worried that with the appearance of his flower butterfly, it might affect the development of the historical process, and he also knew Meng Hui's martial arts level from his contact with Meng Heng some time ago.

So he immediately stopped Meng Hui and said to him: "Brother Meng, don't be angry, why don't you do it yourself?" ……”