The subordinate officials who were familiar with the situation of the Liao country came to report that there was the banner of the Liao Emperor's Praetorian Palace in front of the Liao army, which made Zhao Jiong very excited, and decided that the Khitan army in front of him was the final reinforcement that Youzhou was waiting for. So he continued to transfer the elite soldiers of the Chinese army and even the fierce generals in the rear of the palace to the front formation, wanting to break the Khitan army in front of him in one fell swoop, and cut off the thoughts of the defenders of Youzhou, but he did not expect that in the mountains and dense forests behind the Song army's large array, thousands of Liao cavalry were leading their horses to watch the decisive battle between the Song army and the Khitan main force. Yelu Huge's face was as pale as iron, seeing that Zhao Jiong had repeatedly transferred the Chinese army, but the battle between the two armies of Song and Liao was always deadlocked, until it was completely dark, Yelu Xiuge finally ordered: "Raise the fire!" The cavalry army of the underground palace had already been prepared to move when they heard the sound, more than 5,000 horsemen were holding two torches, running back and forth in the dense forest, shouting and killing, and the mountains and fields were full of constantly shaking fires.

In the eyes of the soldiers in the rear of the Song Army's palace, the Liao soldiers attacking from the rear were extremely powerful, as if there were tens of thousands of horses, and the hearts of the soldiers in the rear of the palace, who were originally difficult to delay the fierce battle in the front formation, sank at the same time, and they all said that their side was the first to bear the brunt, "It's over!"

The flickering and waving firelight of the Liao cavalry spread far away in the night, not only the rear of the palace, but even the vanguard formation where Wu Yingying was located could be seen clearly, and the experienced veteran Shi Shouxin immediately ordered: "The Liao people are deceitful, the whole army is on guard, be careful of ambushing the soldiers!" At this moment, even Liu Yanrang showed a very wary look on his face, and picked up the iron shovel on the saddle in his hand. Shi Shouxin had already sent thousands of cavalry of the Xiaowu Army in the vanguard array to fight, and at this moment, there were only more than 2,000 guards left to surround this group of battle-hardened generals of the Great Song Dynasty.

As if in harmony with Shi Shouxin's words, the ambush of the Liao people did not come out from the rear, but a Khitan cavalry of more than 10,000 horsemen appeared on the flank, playing the banner of Yelu, the king of the Southern Courtyard, breaking through the barrier of the Song army on the periphery, and unstoppably killing the position of the Chinese army where Zhao Jiong was located.

The king of the southern court, Yelu Xian, is a rare hero among the Khitans, recommended by Xiao Siwen, the privy envoy of the northern court, and the emperor Yeluxian, he was deeply respected, and ordered to control the armies in the southwest, and was an important figure in the family of supporting the queen Xiao Xuan, he originally confronted the Song army with victory, and as long as the Song army did not come to attack, he also strictly forbade his subordinates to provoke the Song army. The Song army gradually despised him, and only monitored him with partial divisions. And the one who led 30,000 forbidden troops to the north of Tunyouzhou to monitor Gubeikou and Deshengkou was Ma Renyu, the defense envoy of Mizhou.

Zhao Jiong strictly ordered all departments to guard the barracks and not let the Liao soldiers enter Youzhou, and Ma Renyu also strictly obeyed the holy decree and strictly guarded the fortress that blocked the Liao army from entering Youzhou. The military report on the other side of the Gaoliang River came, and Luo Rui, the captain of the Zhenwu Military Academy, offered a plan: "The imperial camp and the Liao army have been fighting all day without winning or losing, and it is a desperate plan at this moment. Ma Renyu was also a member of the Zhou Song Dynasty, and his face sank when he heard this, and he said: "The official family clearly ordered our department to intercept the Liao army on the periphery from entering Youzhou, so how can I abandon the camp and act without authorization." "Reprimanded Rory.

Yelu only sent part of the Southern Courtyard army to bluff in front of the Song army barracks, and he himself led 10,000 iron cavalry to the battlefield of the decisive battle between Yelu Sha and the Song Emperor. At this time, Zhao Jiong had already sent all the cavalry in the vanguard formation, the vanguard formation, and the left and right abduction horse formations to fight, and the more than 30,000 crane control troops and Hujie troops in the large array of the Chinese army were also entangled with the cavalry of the Liao army under Yelu Sha.

Seeing that Zhao Jiong's imperial camp was in front, the crossbow array that the Khitan soldiers were deeply afraid of was facing the north and constantly tilting the rain of arrows, and there were only a few thin rows of sword and shield hands on the flanks facing the outside of the formation, Yelu was overjoyed, pulled out the iron knife at his waist, and shouted: "The Song Emperor threw himself into the net, raised the prestige of the Great Liao State, and killed one of them today!" For a few days, the army of the Southern Courtyard did not suffer a loss from fighting with the forbidden army, and was strictly ordered by Yelu to be held in the camp, and at this moment the morale was greatly boosted, and they discarded the torches, while galloping on their horses, while bending their bows and arrows, tens of thousands of cavalry were like a storm, from east to west, and went straight to the brightly lit Huangluo umbrella cover of Zhao Jiong's imperial camp.

After Yelu Huge's department raised fire and bluffed, Cui Han, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, was busy dispatching twenty commanders from the front to strengthen the rear of the palace, who knew that the Liao cavalry was actually on the left, suddenly on the right, and killed from the east flank, at this time the front crossbowmen were mobilized, and they already looked thin, Cui Han had to transfer twenty more commanded crossbowmen from the back to strengthen the flank to guard, and the forbidden soldiers were tired of running, and after the column, just sent out two or three arrows, the Liao cavalry forwards shouted and collided with the sword and shield spearmen on guard in the east.

"His grandmother's," Liu Yanrang watched with some annoyance as the Liao soldiers flanked the imperial camp, "When did the Khitan dog learn to cheat." Shi Shouxin looked coldly at the subordinates who were quite eager to try the ground holes, and said in a deep voice: "The will of the official family, our department should strictly guard the formation, and prevent the Liao army in front of him from rushing straight to the imperial camp, and those who dare to act rashly will be killed!" There was a hint of chill in his words. Wu Yingying looked thoughtfully at Shi Shouxin, whose face was sinking like water, and then looked at the north of the large array, the main battlefield of the Liao and Song Dynasty soldiers and horses, you come and go, and I circle and invite the main battlefield, tens of thousands of elite infantry and cavalry of the Song army cooperate, and the Khitans were beaten back and forth, and it is impossible to have any spare strength to attack the imperial camp at this moment.

In the southeast of Youzhou, Cao Han had stopped attacking the city, standing on the high platform of the camp and looking at the fireworks in the candle sky of the Gaoliang River in the west, and the shouts of killing became more and more intense. "General Cao, do you want to help His Majesty's imperial camp?" Cao Han hesitated for a long time, looked up at the tall city wall of Youzhou, and then looked at the dark mountains in the northwest, shook his head and said: "The official family strictly ordered all departments to guard the camp tightly, and not to let the Liao soldiers enter to aid Youzhou. He paused, and then said in a deep voice: "Order the whole army to put on armor and reorganize the army, and once there is an official decree, go to the aid immediately." ”

At this moment, under the umbrella of Huang Luo in the imperial camp, Zhao Jiong was quite timid to look at the desperate struggle between the infantry of the eastern crane army and the Liao army in the southern courtyard, since the Northern Expedition, watching the battle so closely, it was the first time for him, I have to say, the scene of flesh and blood flying is quite shocking, the Liao people rarely disregard life and death to rush straight to the Song army's formation, five or six hundred horsemen as a group, but the momentum seems to have thousands of horses, shouting to kill, the sound of horses' hooves, the sonorous sound of armor is a hundred times more moving than the time of the review, every time it hits, it is the sound of killing that shocks the sky, and before it is killed, it is a round of arrow rain, many of the crane control soldiers who are still in the formation have not seen the enemy and screamed and fell to the groundAfter only a few moments, it was like a storm crashing on the shore, the antlers erected by the crane army on the east side had already been flattened, and the Khitan cavalry drove the horses straight into the sword and gun forest of the Song army, and the battle was fought to this point, the two warring sides did not have the heart to save themselves, and they all seized every opportunity to let the other party bleed more, and asked for the greatest compensation for their lives. Gradually, seeing that the defense line on the east side was getting thinner and thinner, Zhao Jiong's face began to turn a little pale, and his lips were a little blue, and he regretted for the first time the decision to drive the expedition in person.