With the participation of the Sixth Brigade and artillery, the defensive line gradually stabilized, but they could not wait for them to breathe, and another round of attacks by the Jin army began. This attack was different from the previous ones, they no longer had a focused attack, but attacked on all fronts, and the front of Shaliang was full of Jurchen cavalry charging on horseback. The artillerymen began to open fire on the blockade, and the machine guns on the positions also roared.

"Damn, what are the Jurchens crazy about?" Jiang Wei was a little confused, it is said that as a senior commander, after losing the initiative in the battle and suffering heavy casualties, what he should do is to look for an opportunity to retreat, instead of launching an attack like this moth to a flame, and expend precious troops in a meaningless battle.

"Reporting to the commander, several thousand troops of the Jin Army detoured back to the left flank, and the three brigades on standby were in a fierce battle; The Jin army in the city of Zhaozhou also tried to get out of the city, and the Fifth Brigade was trying to block it with all its might. Just as Jiang Wei was pondering Yan Yanying's crazy intentions, a communication soldier came to report quickly, interrupting his thoughts.

"Order the two brigades to stand up resolutely, and we must not let them detour back to our backs." Jiang Wei listened to the high post and looked west with a telescope, and at this moment, the Jin army, which had come from the riverbank, had already rushed through the artillery fire blocking line of the third brigade, and the two armies were already standing in one place with short arms; The Zhaozhou army in the city also poured out from the west gate, but the drawbridge and the city gate that were originally used for defense became their helpless bridge, making it difficult for them to cross under the resistance of the Fifth Brigade, but they still did not give up and still tried to break through the resistance and join the Jin army that came to them.

"Commander, the strength of the Jin Army on this road far exceeds the third brigade, and the fifth brigade is pinned down by the Zhaozhou army and cannot be reinforced, but we already have no reserves. Ammunition will also run out. A Yu Hou reported.

"Transfer the baggage team that remained in the camp, and we must not retreat at this time. Otherwise, without the protection of the sand beams, we will not be able to block the attack of the Jin army. It is impossible to retreat peacefully, hold on for another hour, and reinforcements will arrive. Jiang Wei thought for a while and said, the Jin army is attacking in an all-round way, and it is tight everywhere, and his own personal guards have been sent, and there are no more available soldiers. And when the battle reaches this point, whoever retreats first will be covered up by the other party, and the casualties will be even greater.

"Commander. You see that the Jin army is erecting a pontoon bridge, do they want to use this as a cover for the retreating army? At this time, the sky was also bright, the fog on the river dissipated, and a pontoon bridge appeared on the river in the morning sun, which was presumably made by the Jin army under the cover of night.

"Maybe it's possible, but they can also use it to increase their troops." Jiang Wei sighed and said, with the current situation, it is more likely that the Jin army will increase its troops, but he is even more puzzled in his heart, could it be that Wanyan Yanying does not know that his army is thirty miles away. Will it be there soon, or will there be something wrong with it?

The fierce battle interrupted Jiang Wei's thoughts again, and the Jin army seemed to understand from the increasingly sparse sound of guns that their ammunition was about to run out, and the attack became more and more fierce. Continuously. The position of the Song army was also broken through several times, and Jiang Wei could only send cavalry to launch a counterattack to suppress the enemy and recapture the position. But the shortage of ammunition forced the units to hold their positions through hand-to-hand combat. As a result, the casualties of the various units began to increase, and the fighting became more and more difficult......

The two armies fought for a long time around the battle for Shaliang. Wanyan Yanying's crazy actions also caused more than 20,000 casualties to herself. This fierce attack ended under the sudden and extremely heavy artillery fire of the Song army, but he soon found that the Song army on the sand beam began to retreat under the cover of artillery fire. Don't miss the opportunity. Wanyan Yanying couldn't adjust his troops again, and personally led an army to attack. But when he climbed to the commanding heights he had won at a heavy price and was ready to pursue and kill the retreating Song army, he had to stop.

Wanyan Yanying found that the reinforcements of the Song army had arrived, and they divided into two teams to line up from the east and west, protecting the retreating Song army and blocking the path of their pursuit. And the Song troops deployed on both flanks also alternately covered and retreated into the formation, and there was no time to take advantage of it. He couldn't help but sigh that Zhao Er's army was well governed, and the retreating Song army could still maintain a strict formation under such circumstances, and its ability to win a hundred battles was not blown out.

"Dutong, why don't we chase down the enemy?" Shi Jianu asked suspiciously, didn't they pay such heavy casualties just to wait for the opportunity now.

"The Song army's reinforcements have arrived, and we have no gap to take advantage of under its response, but we will only increase the casualties." Wanyan Yanying sighed and said, he immediately recognized from the gun flag of the Song army flying high and covering the sky and the sun, this is the most offensive hussar of the Song army, and he can't take advantage of it with his tired division.

"This ...... Alas! Seeing this, Shi Jianu's face changed, and he could only sigh in vain. The Song army's hussars, even their most elite Tiefutu, were willing to bow to the upper hand, and in years of fighting, none of the Jin troops could withstand their charge, and now they had to worry about whether they would launch a counterattack.

"Commander, should we withdraw our troops?" Pu Cha shuddered at the sight of the Song army's leading general, he had fought against this Song army, and the indomitable momentum when they attacked, and the terror brought by the long cavalry spear still often woke him up in his dreams, and he knew that if they attacked now, they would probably be driven into the river.

"Wait, they don't seem to have any intention of engaging in battle!" After Yan Yanying condescendingly watched the retreating Song army merge into the formation, he began to slowly retreat north.

After the Song army withdrew from a mile, Wanyan Yanying led the army to cross the sand gang and re-line the formation in pursuit, but he did not dare to move forward. The Song army also had no intention of fighting with it again, and retreated to the camp outside Zhaozhou, and there was no intention of provoking the regrouping of the camp. Later, another Song army arrived and set up camp on its side, arranged the foothills around the camp, and dug trenches as if to hold on. After Yan Yanying, he ordered to build a fortress according to the city of Zhaozhou, and sent a large number of scouts to investigate the location of the Song army brigade.

In the early morning of the next day, Wanyan Yanying received a report that the Song army's brigade had been found within a radius of 50 miles, and there were signs that it had divided its troops into two routes, and the brigade had retreated to the Xiyuan Road, and the other road was the men and horses who had come to aid its forward army. Nearby, only his baggage fleet still stayed in the river, which seemed to be to help the Song army outside the city of Zhaozhou. He breathed a sigh of relief this time, and his bet seemed to be on the right track. The main force of the Song army must have received the news of the attack on Changchun City, and returned to the army to go to the rescue, but it could not watch the forward being surrounded and ignored, so it had to divide troops to rescue. This first bankrupted the Song army's plan to enter Huining Mansion, and secondly, it gave itself the opportunity to annihilate the Song army under the city of Zhaozhou.

But Wanyan Yanying knew that the Song army had always been cunning and used the strategy of attacking the east and the west, especially the Song army that was still stranded under the city made him uneasy. Therefore, he did not act on his own, but sent reconnaissance cavalry to the west to expand the search area, and sent troops to arrange river defenses to prevent the Song army's baggage fleet from continuing along the river, so as to cut off the supply of the stranded Song army. At the same time, he ordered all armies to strictly defend the camp and build a barrier to prevent the Song army from raiding the city of Zhaozhou.

And Wanyan Yanying also found that the Song army had no intention of evacuating, and they were also strengthening the camp and posing a position to stay here. At the same time, the Jin army repelled a Song army that wanted to occupy a ferry crossing on the Tongtong River. From this, he judged that the Song army still did not give up the attempt to continue the attack on Zhaozhou Nandu, and at this time it was only temporarily put aside because of insufficient troops, waiting for the return of the army that came to aid Changchun City to launch another attack. The capture of the ferry was intended to receive supplies from the baggage fleet here, which also showed that the Song army that had rushed to help lacked food and grass.

Everything shows that he has a treasure team this time, and Song Jun is walking according to his own arrangement. But Wanyan Yanying also knew that the trapped beast was still fighting, and the Song army stopped the surprise attack of his tens of thousands of troops with only one general, causing him huge casualties. If it weren't for the fact that the defensive front was too long, the troops were too scattered, and at the same time, there was no strong danger and fortified city to rely on, he would not have had a chance to 'repel' them, and his combat effectiveness was so strong that Wan Yan Yanying could not help but think about it.

Therefore, although it was determined that the Song army under the city of Zhaozhou was a lone army and lacked food and grass, Wanyan Yanying still did not dare to despise it, and wanted to wait a few more days to launch a general attack when it was in chaos due to lack of food. For this reason, he strictly ordered the blockade of all ferry crossings to prevent the Song army's baggage fleet from docking. and sent a number of rangers to harass the Song army's camp, making it impossible for it to find pasture for grazing, nor to supplement military rations by hunting......

While constantly tightening the noose around the neck of the Song army, Wanyan Yanying reported to the imperial court, saying that he had annihilated the advance of the Song army on the West Road in the Battle of Zhaozhou, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and had now trapped the rest of the troops and tens of thousands of reinforcements under the city, and could launch an attack to annihilate the enemy after the reinforcements crossed the river. It can completely smash the Song army's attempt to attack on both sides, and also save the Beijing division from the danger of being attacked on both sides, and can calmly deal with the enemy who invades from the south and the north.

When the good news was reported back to Beijing, the government and the opposition were suddenly boiling, and the morale of the people was greatly boosted. Since the second southward march, the Jin army has won fewer victories and more defeats in all wars against the Song Dynasty, and it can be called a great victory if it can behead more than 100 in one battle. Moreover, since the Southern Expedition in April, the Jin army has not tasted a single victory, losing 100,000 soldiers, losing more than half of its country, and even Tokyo has fallen into the hands of the enemy. And the battle of Zhaozhou not only defended the city, but also beheaded more than 10,000 people, which is simply a great victory, but naturally filtered out its own losses!

So the new generation of war gods of the Dajin Kingdom was born, and the emperor Wan Yan Yan issued a decree to canonize Wan Yan Yanying as the king of Han, giving him 500 miles of gold, 20 war horses, 100 household slaves, and his son was hereditary. And in the frenzied atmosphere, only the sick Taishi Wushu remained awake and understood the subtext of Yan Yanying, which was to ask the imperial court to continue to increase troops in Zhaozhou, otherwise it would not be possible to complete the task of annihilating this lone army, and the victory ahead would also turn into a cloud of smoke.

Although Wushu also understood that the next 'victory' was likely to be a disastrous victory, he had no choice but to fully support Yan Yanying to complete the gamble...... (To be continued......)