The battle lasted until dark in the morning, and Wang Xin's troops were already exhausted.

The most important thing is that all the military rations brought with them have been eaten, and now the soldiers are fighting hungry.

The strength could not play to the usual sixty percent, and after a one-day breakthrough, the army suffered heavy losses.

There were 20,000 in the morning, but now only 15,000 remain.

Those who followed Wang Xin out of the city were the elite of the Northern Army.

Every time someone died, Wang Xin was distressed. Now there are 5,000 people killed in the battle, but on the other hand, the Liao people they killed are only more than 1,000 and less than 2,000.

Such a result made Wang Xin unwilling, even if he died.

After dark, Wang Xin still wanted to use the cover of night to disperse and break through. But the Liao army seemed to have been prepared, originally surrounded by only 30,000 people, and at night, the remaining 10,000 Liao troops also appeared on the periphery, reinforcing the defensive line. ap.

The Liao people seemed to know that Wang Xin had no food in his hands, and at this moment they were only besieging and not attacking, so they let Wang Xin and them toss.

Every time Wang Xin gave the order to break out, he had to face the archers of the Liao army. Finally broke through, and when they rushed in front of the Liao army, they had to retreat again because of the lack of troops and the excessive physical exertion of physical strength, so they could not kill or injure many enemies at all.

With each attack, a lot of troops will be lost. In the end, the Liao army could not be injured much, and this way of fighting made Wang bleed in confidence.

These are all good sons and daughters in the north, many of them are elites in a hundred battles, and many of them can even be called by name.

In normal times, these sons, killing two or three Liao soldiers on the battlefield by one person is just an idle matter. But now, one by one, they died on the way to charge, and they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, so they died on the battlefield.

When soldiers go to the battlefield, the ones who can really get ahead are often those who are not afraid of death.

Because you are not afraid of death, it is possible to keep killing enemies in order to want to live. On the contrary, people who are afraid of death do not dare to fight, but just blindly want to escape, want to hide, and in the end you will be killed without even a chance to use the knife.

It's one thing not to be afraid of death, but it's another thing to die under such a.

Like this, he didn't even give himself a chance to fight, and died under the bow and arrow, and died under the exhaustion of his strength, which was a result that every brave warrior did not want.

But now, they don't have a choice.

In the middle of the night, Wang Xin's army, which had charged four times, not only did not find a direction to break through, but on the contrary, more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle, and at this moment, everyone's fighting spirit seemed to be exhausted.

After breaking through several times, the military tent materials didn't know where they were lost, so they found a mound at random, and Wang Xin sat down.

On his left and right, there are two deputies, General Xia Yuan and General Fang Jiugui.

The three of them sat back to back, looking up at the starry sky, silent for a long time.

Some people say that when a person dies, he will become a star in the sky, and he will become one of them and continue to shine on the earth.

The three of them don't know if there will be many more stars in the sky tomorrow night, and whether there will be them among them.

"General, are we abandoned?"

I don't know how long it took, Fang Jiugui suddenly said such a sentence that seemed to have no beginning or end.

Are they abandoned?

Ever since the three clans invaded the realm, they had been fighting almost alone.

This is not to say that reinforcements did not come, such as the Su family army led by Su Shi, or the Western army led by Di Qing.

It's just that these reinforcements didn't end up merging with them.

After that, there were no reinforcements from the imperial court.

Fang Jiugui's sentence, whether we have been abandoned, refers to whether the imperial court will not send reinforcements anymore.

"No, the imperial court still needs us to guard the northern border, and it won't abandon us. As long as we hold on, reinforcements will come." Wang Xin knew what Fang Jiugui meant, although he didn't think that in a short period of time, the imperial court would send new reinforcements to arrive

, but at this time, he still had to speak to comfort his generals.

Not for anything else, just because he is Wang Xin, he is the commander of the Hebei Route Army personally appointed by the official family and the imperial court.

He was the highest military general in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Will it?" Fang Jiugui laughed.

This laugh, I don't know if I am laughing at those court gentlemen who are blind.

Still laughing at his own wishful thinking.

In later generations, some people juxtaposed the habits of the Tang Dynasty and the Song ancestors, and put the old Zhao family in the powerful column.

But is that really the case?

It was not the Zhao family that ended the rebellion of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but Chai Jin. Zhao Kuangyin just picked up a bargain.

In fact, at that time, when the Great Song Dynasty was first built, there was still military strength, and there were also some commanders and generals.

But with the release of military power with a glass of wine, the military status of the Great Song Dynasty has always been weak, and it has never really raised its head.

Not to mention anything else, the sixteen states of Yanyun have never been recovered, which is enough to show the weakness of the Song Dynasty's army.

Soldiers, living in the Song Dynasty, was originally a kind of sadness.

The emphasis on literature and military suppression makes people who really have the ability not choose the road from Rong. A few outstanding military figures, such as Di Qing, were frightened to death of depression in history.

Yue Fei was even more victimized by the female cadre, and the twelve gold medals were recalled and killed in the Wind Wave Pavilion.

In the Song Dynasty, Wenchen could not see the strength of the military generals and the rise of the military generals.

But whenever such a person appears, they will do everything possible to get rid of him, and even kill him at the expense of the killer.

Tang is talking about relying on strong force to worship all nations.

Ming, the king died and the Son of Heaven guarded the country.

Song, not to mention the smallest territory, if the battle is finally won, it will still lose money to the enemy.

A military general born in the Song era is not sad or anything.

Fang Jiugui didn't know what he thought of, so he asked about reinforcements.

Wang Xin comforted himself, but the other general, Xia Yuan, didn't say anything, maybe he didn't think that there would be reinforcements to rescue him. But he has been suppressed by Wenchen for a long time, and he will no longer resist, and will only obey the orders of the imperial court.

Even if they know it's the wrong decision, they will obey it.

Speaking of which, Xia Yuancai can better represent the thoughts of most of the generals of the Great Song Dynasty. They are accustomed to obeying orders, accustomed to foolishness.

always thinks that those old men in the court are the smartest, and they will definitely not watch the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty.

But they didn't know at all that those old men only had themselves in their eyes, only their own interests, and others, including the Great Song Guoyun, would never put them in their eyes.

It seems that in the reign of Renzong, some historians say that there were many famous ministers in this era, that is, many famous ministers.

But in fact, it's just that Renzong didn't have any decent opponents in the past.

Once there is really a powerful hero, hehe, I'm afraid that the Song Dynasty is just the Song Dynasty, and there will not even be the Southern Song Dynasty.

The three generals were back to back, and although they were next to each other, they had their own hearts and minds.

Time passed little by little, and Wang Xin seemed to have given up his plan to continue to break through, thinking about waiting until after dawn to look for opportunities. Or finally besieged by the Liao soldiers and died.

Just when they had basically given up on the idea of breaking out, suddenly there was a commotion in their ears.

"There's movement."

Fang Jiugui was the first to stand up and look to the east.

Wang Xin and Xia Yuan also got up and looked east together, and then Wang Xin's eyes gradually became angry.

"It's reinforcements, it's someone who came to save us."

This time, Wang Xin said with great certainty.

Before, he said that reinforcements would come, but that was just a word of comfort, and in fact even he wouldn't believe it.

But this time, he believed. Because he saw the mix in the distance

The chaotic Liao military camp.

"Gather your army and go east, quick!"

Although they don't know who is coming, if reinforcements are coming, then they must seize this opportunity.

For them, who have run out of food, this may be their last and only chance.

Liao army battalion.

The besieged Wang Xinsuo's department seemed to have given up on breaking through, which made the Liao army breathe a sigh of relief.

Finally, they could rest for a few hours, and when it was dawn, they would tentatively attack Wang Xin's department.

If it was usual, they might still be able to surround and not fight like this, but now, Su Shi appeared, which made Xiao Xiaoyou become unconfident, and he decided to solve Wang Xin's department first, so that they would have more spare strength.

At that time, he could unite with the Western Xia army and fight with Su Shi wholeheartedly.

For the war after dawn, the Liao army had just rested not long ago, and suddenly a scout outside their camp came with news that a cavalry with more than 10,000 people suddenly killed their camp.

The eastern guard of the Liao army is Han Anbai, a person with the surname Han in the seven major surnames of the Liao army.

Han Anbai, who had also just fallen asleep, was woken up by his own soldiers and learned that there was news of an unknown enemy coming.

After getting up, putting on his armor, and picking up the hammer in his hand, Han Anbai got out of the tent and began to assemble the army.

"Kill!"

On the periphery of the camp, Ji Zhu took the lead with eight hundred black horsemen, in the shape of arrows, and came like a bamboo.

This time, Ji Zhu didn't leave his hand, his body lay on his horse, turned his speed to the maximum, held eight consecutive rounds in his hand, and shot towards the Liao soldiers in his sight from time to time.

In this battle, it is a speed.

Otherwise, the Liao army reacted, once the army pressed up, and the strength was not superior, it became a joke to want to quickly rescue Wang Xin's department, and it was not good to make a mistake, he was dragged here by the Liao soldiers, and if he couldn't save people, he would become dangerous.

took the lead, and Jizhu, who became a pioneer, took the lead. On either side of them, the second and temporary third brigades were the two wings of the Black Horsemen.

After Ji Zhu, it was the 7,000 men and horses of Di Qing's division of the Western Army.

Di Qing has always been very confident in his horse skills.