Wanyan Yanying's expectations were not much different from the actual situation, Shi Jianu encountered the Song army as soon as he passed through Zhaozhou City, but they encountered not the Song army's squad of rangers, but the Song army, which was also stealthy. In the dark night, Shi Jianu couldn't see the other party's banner clearly, and he didn't expect the Song army to appear here, and thought it was the Zhaozhou army that cooperated with them to attack the Song camp at night.

Originally, he wanted to calculate others, but he didn't expect to be calculated by others, and even Shi Jianu's first reaction to the Jin army was to ambush him, and he didn't care about thinking about it and hurriedly ordered the battle. But because they had just crossed the river with floating horses, the physical strength of the war horses was very high, and they were sent to the battlefield before they had time to rest. Therefore, in order to restore the strength of the horses and hide their whereabouts, the soldiers led the horses on foot, and hurriedly mounted their horses to meet the battle.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was close, and it was also with Yan Yanying's request to suppress the enemy's firearms with close combat, but the soldiers of the Jin army went up on horseback, but they did not have time to raise the speed of the war horse, and the cavalry of the Song army had already pounced. Cavalry combat is people borrowing horsepower to increase the impact force, the Song army suddenly knocked them on their backs, and a gust of wind smashed into it, swinging a knife and slashing the Jurchens who had not yet reacted.

A scuffle broke out, and the Jin soldiers had already weakened a little when they encountered an 'ambush', and when they found out that the Song army was far outnumbered by them, they were already terrified. In the chaos, I don't know who ran first, anyway, if one of them runs, there will be two runs. The team of sneak attacks began to break up, and in the darkness, Shi Jianu was also dragged back by the soldiers. Before the play opened, the protagonists left the stage in a hurry......

"Catch up. Be sure to capture the sand beams and set up a defensive line! Jiang Wei saw that the sneak attack Jin army began to retreat, but he did not give up the pursuit because of the darkness of the night, and his target was also the sand beam found by the river when he explored the city during the day.

"Commander, the Zhaozhou army wants to get out of the city!" Now that the fight has started, there is no need to pretend to be deep, the Song army lit torches to chase and kill the rout of the Shijianu department, and the Jin army in the city immediately found out and wanted to open the city to respond.

"Order the 5th and 6th brigades to block with all their might, that is, they can't let the Jin army in the city come out. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Brigades followed us to capture Shaliang to block the enemy's brigade, and the baggage brigade stayed in the camp and reported to the commander for reinforcements. Jiang Wei looked at the chaotic battlefield and the Jin army that was constantly arriving, and decided that his prediction was not wrong, the main battlefield was on the riverbank, not Zhaozhou City, and he ordered again.

Maybe God no longer favors the Jurchens who are about to run out of energy, and he didn't help Yan Yanying again as if he helped Ah Guta. Instead, he possessed Jiang Wei, allowing him to see through Yan Yanying's plan for a night attack in advance. And Jiang Wei did not hesitate after figuring it out, he immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter and ordered the whole army to fight. The Fifth Brigade was ordered to move forward to monitor the Zhaozhou Army. He personally led the 1st and 2nd Brigades to search and advance in the direction of the riverbank, and the remaining three brigades served as reserves, reinforcing the units at any time after further ascertaining the enemy's intentions.

When the two armies meet. The Song army, which had already been prepared, defeated the Jin army in an instant, and Jiang Wei checked and found that the number of the Jin army was not as large as expected. But these people's armor is not dry, and the horses are still covered with water. It became clear that the enemy was in trouble when crossing the river. These enemy forces were only the vanguard of the troops, and the army was still crossing the river and assembling. If you retreat back to the camp at this time, you are likely to be followed and pursued by the enemy troops who are arriving one after another, and once the melee starts, your firearms will not be able to exert their power, then the side with the superior force will eventually gain the upper hand. The main force of the army is still camped thirty miles away, and it will take half a day to come and go quickly, but it is not clear how many troops the enemy will eventually invest.

Based on the above judgment, Jiang Wei believed that it was the best policy to block the attacking enemy brigade on the river bank, which was much more advantageous than passive defense. And the sand beam by the river is the only commanding height here, and it is also the best position to block the enemy. Therefore, he coincided with Wanyan Yanying's judgment, and whoever occupied and controlled Shaliang would take the initiative in this battle and be invincible first......

The sand beams lie on the north bank of the Tongtong River, which may have been accumulated by years of wind and sand, or may be due to the remnants left after the flood of an unknown year. The sand beam is undulating, the highest point is five zhang, the low part is also two zhang, stretching for several miles, the top is flat, forming a platform with a width of more than 100 steps, and only wild grass and low shrubs grow on it. The platform forms a flood slope on both sides, and the south side is a shoal, which is suitable for soldiers and horses to swim ashore, and it was here that Aguta led the troops to cross the river through the ice and snow, and Wanyan Yanying followed the footprints of his predecessors to go ashore here again to attack the Jurchens' biggest enemy.

Pucha led the troops to climb the sand beam and couldn't help but gasp, only to see countless torches swaying in the north, rushing towards them, and the gunfire was much more dense than just now. In this case, you don't need to ask, you can know that the side that went to the sneak attack was defeated by the Song army and retreated in defeat. He hurriedly ordered his troops and horses to line up on the sand beam to prepare for the Song army to approach and launch a counterattack against the Song army, and ordered a group of soldiers to go forward to guide the rout to flee to the two flanks, so as not to break the defensive line he had arranged, and at the same time report the enemy situation to the unified army, so that it can make contingency preparations.

The measures taken by Pucha can be described as appropriate, effective, and thoughtful, but he ignores one problem, and that is the mood of the defeated soldiers. After these people were 'ambushed', they were chased and killed by the Song army for a while, and there was only one idea left in their minds to escape, and the safest place was, of course, the landing point on the shore, where tens of thousands of troops responded. Therefore, they did not hear the shouts of the receivers sent by Pucha at all, so they rushed them aside and rushed towards the sand hill, and they only knew that they were safe after crossing the sand beam.

The routs swarmed up, Pu Cha was embarrassed, he couldn't block it, he couldn't block it, but before he could think about how to deal with it, the defense line he had arranged had been broken away. There was also a little place on the top of Shaliang, and after such a toss, even Pucha's people were coerced a lot, and the Song army rushed up with a clear purpose, and the weak defense line of the Jin army was broken through in an instant. Fortunately, there were many people on it, and it was very difficult for the Song army to step forward, and after a period of chaos, most of the people were able to retreat to the open space on the shore safely, but the sand beams were all controlled by the Song army.

"The 1st and 2nd Brigades should not pursue, and immediately deploy fortifications on both sides to build fortifications on the spot; The 3rd and 4th Brigades controlled the two flanks and prevented the enemy from outflanking in a roundabout way. Jiang Wei followed the first wave of pursuing troops and rode up to the sand gang, and the banks and shoals were full of wriggling men and horses, and he hurriedly ordered to stop the pursuit, so that if he rushed, he would only fall into the enemy's group, and the enemy troops who had no way to retreat would inevitably fight desperately, and their men would soon be devoured.

After receiving the order, they immediately dismounted to control the commanding heights, and used everything they could to build simple fortifications, and the corpses of the enemy's soldiers and horses, and their own backpacks became materials that could be used, and soon a blocking line composed of individual bunkers appeared on the sand beam. However, due to the terrain limitations, the depth of the position is too shallow, making this line of defense appear extremely thin, in the absence of heavy weapon support, the cavalry outside the range of the attack only takes a dozen breaths of effort, the use of dense formation charge is likely to several consecutive attacks will break the defense line......

After Yan Yanying listened to the encounter with Song Jun reported by Shi Jiannu, she secretly sighed that God would not help her. But now it is impossible to give up the attack and return to the south bank, there are six or seven hundred steps between Shagang and the Mingtong River, tens of thousands of people are gathered in this narrow strip, and it is difficult to maneuver, if the Song army pursues, it will cause even greater confusion, and the losses will be heavier if they trample on each other. Although it is taboo to fight against the water, it is not without a turnaround when you have the advantage of your own troops.

Therefore, Wanyan Yanying immediately ordered all the armies ashore to launch a counterattack to recapture Shaliang while the enemy had just launched and had not yet gained a stable foothold, and he personally led an army to break through once the Song army's defense line wavered, and fought the enemy in close combat. At the same time, he also hoped that when the Zhaozhou army found that the situation had changed, it would send troops to attack from the flank and rear, disrupt the Song army's position, and add a few chances of victory to his counterattack.

The Jin army's counterattack was swift and violent, and several groups of cavalry attacked Shaliang from several positions, and the sound of horses' hooves, shouts of killing, the sound of surging water and guns instantly broke the silence of this land for more than 30 years. The Jin army rode like a horse, the body was close to the horse's back, like a locust bullet poured towards them, although people continued to be shot and fell off the horse, but they had no time to care about just constantly knocking the horse's belly, so that the speed was a little faster, everyone knew that they were safe only by rushing into the array of the Song army.

At this time, fierce gunfire continued to be heard from the side of Zhaozhou City, and the Jin army in the city had realized that the sneak attack had failed, and the main force was suppressed by the Song army on the river beach. Only by inserting a knife in the back of the Song army could they implement the plan of gathering and annihilating the enemy's forward, which was not only to help the unified army finish Yan Yanying, but also to save themselves. Once the whole plan fails and the army retreats to Jiangnan, the Song army will clean them up first and pull out the nail in their eyes.

But when the Zhaozhou army came out of the north gate, it was immediately blocked, and the Song army had already deployed troops outside the moat, and as soon as they went out, they immediately opened fire together to block the city gate, and whoever wanted to go out would be killed first. The Zhaozhou guards who threw dozens of corpses and retreated into the city were really smart, and wanted to go around other city gates to get out of the city, but the result was the same result. In a hurry, the Zhaozhou army actually came up with a way to go down the city with ropes, they threw ropes from the city and let the soldiers climb down, but they didn't know that they became a live target hanging on the city wall under the light of the torches at the head of the city, and the action out of the city was easily crushed by the Song army again...... (To be continued......)