In fact, Zhao Li's situation was also quite bad, he originally wanted to mobilize the Jin army stationed around Huining City to gradually wipe it out, but he didn't expect to transfer Wanyan Yanying, a rival. When Hu Kaishan had a head-on clash with the nearly 200,000 troops of the Jin State, he was very soberly aware that in a head-on battle or harassment behind his back, without the support of heavy firepower, his 40,000 horses could not quickly defeat the Jin army, and the only way to defeat the Jin army was to use a single means.

After quietly evacuating from Songfeng Mountain, Zhao Li led his troops to the southeast for more than 60 miles and retreated to Sujia Haidian, which is at the junction of hills and plains. During the day, people hunt and bury pots to make food, and at night, people do not get off their horses and walk quietly back and forth in the forest, making it mysterious.

Of course, Zhao Li pretended to be a ghost in the forest, and a mysterious action must be discovered by the people of the Jin Kingdom, otherwise he would make trouble with someone, and the mystery would not become mysterious. After the Jin army's scouts circled around, they finally came here and discovered the strange behavior of the Song army in the dense forest. After receiving the report, Wanyan Yanying and Tang Kuobi realized that the Song army was not far away, and hurriedly led the army to come, but they couldn't figure out the Song army's intentions for a while, and became cautious, and no one dared to rashly attack the Song army in the forest.

The two armies were in a stalemate for two days, until the Jin rangers caught several Song soldiers who were trying to escape during the night, and they were soon sent to the tent. These Song soldiers were very pitiful in rags, and they were recruited without waiting for torture, and finally solved the mystery in the hearts of the soldiers of the Jin State. It turned out that the strange army led by Zhao Li had run out of ammunition and almost collapsed, and even the leather armor on his body was cooked and eaten. The reason why he is playing tricks here is to wait for the Southern Route Army to respond to the north. And it is precisely because these people can't bear the torture of hunger that they are forced to flee and try to find a way to survive.

The situation is clear. The generals of the Jin State, including Tang Kuobi, expressed great welcome to the Song army's initiative to surrender frankly, and not only did not abuse it. On the contrary, the hospitality of good wine and good food. Because in the past ten years, there have been countless battles with the Song Dynasty, and the Jin army has always surrendered to the Song army, and it is rare for the Song army soldiers to surrender.

Just when Yan Yanying and Tang Kuobi were ready to launch an attack to annihilate this Song army that was too hungry to hold swords and guns, lest they get reinforcements and cause trouble for themselves, everyone was surprised to find that the Song army that had been full of wine and food and expressed their allegiance to the Dajin Kingdom was gone, and they were missing with the 'big army' in the forest. Now everyone understands that they have been fooled and teased by the cunning Song Jun again.

The two coaches decided that Lin Zhong was just a suspicious plan set up by the Song army. With their high IQ, they can certainly guess that the most unfavorable result may occur: maybe the Song army has already embarked on the road to Huining, maybe they will go to destroy the imperial tomb, but no matter which result happens, both of them understand that being tricked is secondary, and the key is to find out where the Song army, who has evaporated from the world again, and figure out their latest movements next, otherwise everyone will not be able to eat and walk around.

The Jin army sent out a large number of scouts to look for the traces of the Song army, and finally found the Song army. Instead of going to Huining, they turned to Zhendong County. Wanyan Yanying immediately understood his intentions, the high moat of Huining City knew that it would be difficult to capture with their little strength, and they were now short of food and grass and could not obtain it by plundering. It was only possible to attack the relatively weak Zhendong County to obtain supplies. At the same time, the occupation of Zhendong County can also further isolate the connection between Shangjing and the northern two roads, and isolate Huining City. Therefore, preventing the Song army from occupying the east of the town now and making it unable to obtain supplies becomes a key step in whether or not the Song army can be eliminated on this road.

Zhendong County is on the shore of the Tiger Water. It is the birthplace of the Jurchens of the Wanyan Tribe, and as early as before the founding of the People's Republic of China, they often fought with the people of the Five Kingdoms in the East. Therefore, the fort was built here for defense, and the name of the town was to deter the five eastern countries. and other meanings of the Jurchen tribe. After the founding of the Jin Dynasty, there were frequent incidents of rebellion against the Jin Dynasty between the Jili charming people in the lower reaches of the river and the Wu Gairen. Since the beginning of Jin Taizong, it has been conquered and suppressed, because of the change of Jili fan and Wu in the east of Jin Shangjing, so when the county was first established, it was still named Zhendong after the old customs.

Because Zhendong County was an important place to defend against the invasion of the enemy in the east, the city was high and deep, and a large number of supplies were reserved, and if the Song army captured it first, it could get sufficient supplies. The two said they would move, and after learning of the movement of the Song army, they immediately picked up the army and followed away. But at this time, their situation was not very optimistic, they fought hundreds of miles after seven or eight days of hard work, both mentally and physically, and when they embarked on the journey again, there was inevitably a disconnect between the two armies. Halfway through, the infantry army that fell behind was ambushed by the Song army, and it was the erratic and cunning Zhao Li who was the one who did the trick. As a result, not only did they lose most of their baggage, but they also killed and wounded thousands.

Next, Song Jun did not act according to the ideas predicted by Yan Yanying and Tang Kuo, he actually did not go to Zhendong County at all, but killed a horse gun and hid in Songfeng Mountain to recuperate. After robbing them of their baggage, the Song army did not stop, and they sent more than a dozen cavalry detachments with battalions as units to harass the marching brigade of the Jin army day and night, from time to time.

Due to the lack of cavalry in the Jin army, it was impossible to fortify everywhere, and Tang Kuobi disdained to send out an elite protector army to waste time and energy on these Song army cavalry, and could not guess the next move of the Song army, retreating to Zhendong seemed to be the best choice for the two. But his disdain and ignorance did not mean that the Song army would stop, and the Song army still continued to give them full special care on the way.

On the one hand, the Song army continued to loot the Jin army's baggage troops to replenish itself; On the other hand, it disturbed the morale of the Jin army, making it almost impossible for the nearly 200,000 troops to maintain the marching formation, dragging and stretching for dozens of miles, like a flock of sheep to the east of the town. After three days of arduous and defeat-like marching, Wanyan Yanying and Tang Kuobi finally took the lead in ending the nightmare and entering Zhendong City.

However, the Jin army scattered behind was not so lucky, the Song army, which had been following after dark, launched a surprise attack, and they surrounded the Jin infantry army from the north and south in a strict formation. The infantry army was unable to resist the impact of the cavalry without forming a formation, and in the blink of an eye, the marching brigade was scattered by the Song army, and the Jin soldiers who had lost their organization scattered and fled, avoiding the encirclement and interception of the Song army and the ruthless pursuit.

It was already late at night when Wanyan Yanying, who had already entered the city, led the cavalry of his headquarters to come to the rescue, and the Song army had already evacuated the battlefield, leaving them with dead corpses and wounded soldiers all over the ground, and nearly 100,000 troops ran there like a disintegrated herd. In this case, he sent troops to look for him, and Wanyan Yanying was worried that the Song army, which did not know where to hide, would attack the scattered cavalry again, or take advantage of the emptiness of the city's troops to seize the city, so he could only gather up the nearby rout and retreat to the east of the town.

Later, Yan Yanying ordered people to light a bonfire outside the city, and ordered people to ring the big bell in the city to prevent the fleeing soldiers from getting lost, so that they could find their way home by the light of the fire and the bell. I didn't sleep all night, and the next morning, the separated soldiers returned to the team one after another, and after the inspection, it was not bad, and half of them came back, and the rest did not die because they took the opportunity to desert. However, Wanyan Yanying was still a little relieved, the two armies combined still had nearly 150,000 people, and they still had the ability to defeat the Song army.

Tang Kuo's face was not very good-looking, he was really a little frustrated that his new god of war had just been blown out and suffered such a big setback, but he would never tell the truth, he just changed the damage of the two armies. The army of nearly 200,000 Jin Guo was so embarrassed by a lone army of less than 40,000 in the Southern Dynasty, and Wanyan Yanying, as the commander, was of course to blame, so he only turned a blind eye to what the deputy marshal Tang Kuo did, and did not say a word.

And Wanyan Yanying still felt very lucky, he took the first step to occupy the city, and now that the Song army had arrived, he could arrange the deployment, defend the southern city by himself, and Tang Kuo defend the northern city, and wait for Zhao Li's arrival intently. But the strange thing is that the Song army did not rush to attack the city after it arrived, but left quietly again two days later in the darkness of the night. The disappearance of the Song army again made Wanyan Yanying and Tang Kuobi, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, nervous again, and then the Song army, who had a false shot in the report of the reconnaissance horse, went south.

This news made the two even more nervous, because they had already determined the whereabouts of the Song army beyond any doubt: to leave the east of the town and go straight to the city of Huining. And now most of the army belonging to Huining Mansion is here, and there are only some guards in the city and tens of thousands of soldiers who have just been recruited, and those people are even more unbearable than them, and it is more difficult to resist the attack of the Song army. But if Bianjing Mansion is breached, it will really be completely finished, and everyone will become sinners for the ages of the Jin Kingdom's destruction.

Without any hesitation and discussion, everyone's thoughts were highly unified, and the army quickly set off from the east of the town before it could catch its breath, and went into battle lightly, chasing the Song army at full speed and rushing to Huining City to rescue the car. In addition to eating and sleeping, the army of more than 100,000 people traveled day and night, and did not even go down to the village at night, and slept in clothes from top to bottom, giving full play to the fine traditions of the past.

After three consecutive days of rapid marching, the Jin army walked more than 100 miles and reached the north bank of Wuzhi Heishui, which was less than 70 miles away from Huining City. At the same time, they also got the news that the Song army had just crossed the river after dawn, indicating that the two armies were less than half a day's distance apart...... (To be continued......)