Chapter 310: Blocked

"The Khitan cavalry is elite, our army is difficult to support alone, retreat!" was killing happily, Lin Zhong suddenly heard Dong Zunzhi's loud order behind him, looked back puzzled, and saw Dong Zunzhi looking at the Khitan cavalry that pounced on him one after another, his face was gloomy. "Retreat!" "Closer!" "Turn! Turn!" The flag officer and the lieutenant quickly passed on Dong Zunzhi's order, and all the horsemen desperately turned their horses' heads, the horses neighed, and the iron hooves stepped on the not hard sandy ground with deep marks, and the original momentum of the Xiaowu army cavalry suddenly stopped the impact, and the troops were all in a hurry at the turn, and no one wanted to break away from the brigade, and became the ghost of the Khitan people in vain.

The palace cavalry army around like a pack of wolves kept pounced and bitten the cheap, far bent the bow and arrows, took advantage of the slow speed of the Song cavalry to release arrows again and again, and the close ones were even more intensified to stick up, as long as there was a slight slowdown of the Song cavalry, and there was a line of separation from the cavalry brigade, there was a strong sprint of the Khitan cavalry to rush over, and a regiment of Song cavalry was enveloped in the past, and the two sides fought together, and the large group of Xiao cavalry ignored it, and the cavalry of the Xiao Wu Army who were left in the Khitan formation were trapped in the formation.

"Why do you want to retreat!" Originally, the Xiaowu army was killed and wounded by the Khitans, and they rushed deeply into the Khitan army formation, but when they retreated, they lost hundreds of robes in vain, and they were gentle and respectful in the forest, and while crouching down and riding their horses to avoid the Khitan cavalry that was chasing behind, they asked loudly towards Dong Zunyu. Dong Zunzhi's face was cold, and he was about to be furious, thinking of Lin Zhongnai's henchmen, he said in a deep voice: "The Khitan people are powerful, if they blindly love to fight, I am afraid that these five thousand horsemen will be folded in the formation!" He saw Lin Zhong approaching to listen, so he lowered his voice and reprimanded: "This is Shi Shouxin's plan to kill people with a knife! Seeing that you are a fierce general, but you don't have a long heart, but you only know how to rush and kill, it's really confused!" Lin Zhongfang suddenly realized, but there seemed to be a fire in his chest.

Dong Zunzhi was ordered to test the Khitan hypocrisy, the Liao army in front was very elite, and the Khitan soldiers who fought in the past were different, and the Xiaowu army also lost nearly a thousand cavalry. Dong Zunzhi respectfully reported to Shi Shouxin, and Shi Shouxin did not look at him, and ordered his subordinates to inform the imperial camp officials of the enemy situation of the Khitans in the front battle. "Last night, the Khitan people raised fire and demonstrated, and the momentum was arrogant, it seems that the reinforcements in Beijing are great!" Shi Shouxin had a gloomy face, looking at the smoke and dust from the railing horses in the distance, as if he wanted to see through the thousands of troops and horses inside.

The tentative attack of the Xiaowu army officially opened the prelude to the battle between the two armies, and the Liao army's lanzi horses began to surpass the Song army's vanguard formation, unscrupulously galloping and shouting around the Song army's left and right abduction horse formations, and even around the palace rear formation. The palace cavalry was in a group of seven or eight hundred horsemen, constantly attacking the defense line of the vanguard array like a tide.

On all sides were the smoke and dust disturbed by the cavalry of the Liao army, and the Anxi army under the command of Wu Yingying was close together, putting down the iron mask, as long as the Liao cavalry dared to approach, the tooth army would concentrate on the target with bows and crossbows under the command of the ten commanders. Shi Shouxin saw that there was no movement in the imperial camp behind, so he ordered the cavalry in the vanguard formation to dismount and form a strong formation with the foot soldiers, and killed and injured the Liao army with bows and crossbows. The Liao army rushed into battle unlike the Song army, often leaving as soon as it was touched, but the release of arrows was extremely accurate when it was approaching, and many Song soldiers were killed by arrows in their faces. The forbidden army behind him was in the vanguard formation, and the large array of the Chinese army also sent thousands of crossbows to support the front army, and as long as the Liao cavalry got a little closer, they would be shot like hedgehogs.

Shi Shouxin, Liu Yanrang and other generals are all veteran generals who are accustomed to seeing vicious battles, although there are constantly forbidden troops around them screaming and falling, they do not see much mercy, and only constantly arrange for the commanders with less loss to rotate to the front. Usually, this kind of battle of more than 100,000 troops rarely wins or loses in one day, and the Liao army wants to break through the large array of 100,000 forbidden troops with only cavalry, which is a fantasy.

Seeing that the arrogance of the Liao army was different from the past, Zhao Jiong's heart was covered with a layer of clouds, and he said in a deep voice: "The Liao people are coming with reinforcements, and they want to forcibly enter Youzhou, who can break it for me!"

"Damn, we're tired of the Khitan cavalry, and the dragon has come straight up to pick up the fruit. Seeing that the imperial squad came out from behind, Murong Gang, the captain of the Xiaowu Military Academy, scolded.

When the cavalry of the Khitan Palace saw that there were cavalry in the imperial camp of the Song Emperor rushing out to fight, they immediately gave up the vanguard formation, first retreated to rectify the men and horses, and then made an impact and fought with the cavalry of the imperial front class. The morale of the army in the north and south of the academy was not uplifted, and at this moment, seeing that the palace division army was killing bravely, the strength of the Khitan army and the Xi army of the various departments also came up, Yelusha took the opportunity to wave his division forward, and the Khitan army on the left and right flanks poured out, and more than 30,000 Khitan iron cavalry wrapped more than 10,000 elite cavalry of the Song army, tumbling and fighting non-stop. Zhao Jiong saw the fighter plane, personally commanded the Chinese army's imperial camp and the vanguard formation, advanced forward with a large array of infantry troops, close to the battlefield where the cavalry was fighting, and the rear array of 10,000 crossbows fired together, the arrows in the sky were like rain, the underground arrows were like obscene hairs, and the Khitan cavalry galloping around the dense crossbow arrows were shot to the ground in pieces, and at the same time, the two wings of the kidnappers and horses came out to suppress the flanks of the Khitan cavalry, so that they did not have the opportunity to escape from the left and right, and could only dodge the continuous arrow rain of the Song army's crossbow array in a hurry.

"My lord, the crossbow arrows of the Southern Dynasty army are powerful, and let us retreat a little! Leave some seeds for the soldiers and horses of the Northern Courtyard!" Xiao Qigu, the commander of the Northern Courtyard, was hit by an arrow in his shoulder, and he didn't have time to take the arrow out, but he still shouted a fierce battle, and saw that the Northern Courtyard Army under his command suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the Song army's crossbow arrows, but he had the intention of retreating. The Khitan army has not yet broken away from the foundation of the nomadic tribes, and the Northern Courtyard Army has been repeatedly defeated by the forbidden army, and the warriors have suffered many casualties, which is an unbearable loss for the tribes of the Northern Courtyard lineage. Yelu Sha, as the prime minister of the Southern Courtyard, had the least soldiers and horses in the Southern Courtyard under his command at this time, and when he saw that all the generals of the Northern Courtyard looked at him with complicated faces, he had to nod and said: "I led the palace to divide the cavalry army to block the Song army for you and others." You and the others will retreat for the time being, and you must be killed back immediately, otherwise, I can't control you, and Lord Yelu Huge's knife can control you!" He took the new king of the North Courtyard, Yelu Huge, to suppress these generals of the North Courtyard, and all the generals only obeyed the order, and each went back to retreat the troops and horses, and out of the range of the Song people's crossbow arrows, the soldiers and horses were reorganized, and the second line of defense was arranged. And Yelusha led the palace division army and the southern courtyard cavalry to resist the Song cavalry on three sides, and continued to retreat under the pressure of the Song army's crossbow array, until it merged with the Khitan Northern Courtyard army that retreated first. The Khitan generals also knew that this battle involved national fortunes, and they were as high as Yelu Xiuge, the king of the Northern Courtyard, and they also went to danger to attack the back of the Song army, and they all tried their best to spur and urge their subordinates to fight to the death, until they couldn't hold on, and then they retreated under the cover of the palace division army to rectify the soldiers and horses. In this way, the Khitan army retreated without crushing under the attack of the Great Song Forbidden Army, and fought hard until dark.