Tang Yuankai fled to the east of the bridge with about 1,500 Shuizhai soldiers, and saw that the Tang army was capturing prisoners everywhere in the west of the bridge.

Of the 3,000 Song soldiers, only a few hundred were killed on the spot, and more than 2,000 fled in all directions. It's just that there are cavalry in the headquarters of the Tang Army, and they cover up all the way, blocking the road to the camp in Beigushan from the west. To the north is the Yangtze River, leaving only the south to escape. But to the south is the hinterland of Runzhou, and the stragglers fled to the countryside, fearing that they would also be captured by the villagers.

Therefore, a group of Song soldiers fled for a while, and realized that there was no way to escape, so they could only lose their armor, swords, and guns, and be captured.

Tang Yuankai saw the situation in Qiaoxi from afar, a mouthful of blood gushed up, and he bit his lip before swallowing it alive.

Now that the road is cut off, there are chasing soldiers behind him, but more than 1,500 Song soldiers have fled from Shuizhai in a hurry, and there are not many weapons, and there are Tang troops following and attacking along the way, and they are also exhausted, and they are just panicking at this time.

Tang Yuankai looked around, smiled miserably at the guards beside him, and said, "The scenery here is very good, but it is an excellent place to bury bones. ”

The guards hid their faces and wept. When the military discipline in the world is strict, the Lord will die and the guards will escape, and their families will also suffer. Tang Yuankai had the heart of death, and all the guards had to follow to die, Tang Yuankai only rushed into battle with dozens of guards, and was killed by the Tang army in a short time.

After the main general died, the rest of the Song army had no fighting spirit, and several battalion commanders hesitated for a while, and when the Tang army chased after them, someone threw down their armor. One person takes the lead, and the group works. The Song army of Shuizhai was completely annihilated.

When the Tang army in Qiaoxi counterattacked, the 4,000 soldiers and horses of the Song army's Beigushan battalion also met the main force of the 1st Division on the way to the east gate of Runzhou.

Cui Feihu led the main force of the first division, and the main plan was to storm the camp in Beigushan, and then ambush the possible direction of the east gate to aid the Song soldiers. Unexpectedly, the Song army quickly retracted and abandoned the Beigushan camp. Cui Feihu immediately made a backup plan, changed to a partial division to defeat the soldiers and horses of the Beigushan battalion, and then attacked the Song army camp at the east gate of Runzhou with the main force.

Wang Lezheng took 4,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 1,000 people, only with the necessary baggage, and went west to the east gate of Runzhou. Before he reached the canal, he saw that the Tang army had already attacked the canal wharf, and hundreds of Song soldiers on the wharf had already fled in all directions.

Without the protection of the Peach Blossom Water Camp, the canal may become a moat for the foot camp, which is also an important reason why Ma Zhong decisively ordered the abandonment of the Beigushan camp. Wang Lezheng also did not expect the Tang army to move so quickly, and rushed to the canal ferry port and controlled the ferry boats. Of course, there are scattered boats up and down the canal that can be requisitioned by the river, but Wang Lezheng definitely doesn't have time to do these things.

Seeing that the Tang army brigade came from the south, only a partial division blocked the front of the Song soldiers, and several simple pontoon bridges were erected at the wharf, and the soldiers quickly crossed the river.

Wang Lezheng was standing on his horse, his face was sinking like water, he didn't know at this time that Ma Zhong had completely abandoned the Beigushan camp, and ordered the 5,000 Song soldiers at the east gate to abandon the base and live at the north gate of Runzhou, so that the 20,000 Song soldiers converged in one place.

Ma Zhong abandoned the pawn to protect the car, but he was not helpless.

Early in the morning, the Song soldiers entered the city from the north gate of Runzhou, and quickly rushed to the Yamen of Runzhou along the street.

In order to let the Song soldiers enter the city, Li Congyi relocated the households near the north gate of Runzhou in these days. The defense was divided by various streets, and the reinforcements led by Lu Jiang were responsible for frontal interception, so as not to prevent the Song soldiers from breaking through the center of the city such as the Yamen of the Assassin History, and the left wing of the Runzhou Army was used to defend the east city and the right wing to defend the west city, and at least three layers of defense lines were set up everywhere to control the battle line at the north gate and its depth.

Ma Zhong occupied the north gate tower, and at the beginning the Song soldiers advanced very quickly, rushing straight to the Runzhou Thorn Mansion in the center of the city, but here they encountered a strong resistance from the Tang army, and then the Song soldiers who flanked the two flanks also encountered various barricades.

At this time, even a fool knew that Song Jun had fallen into a trap.

However, Ma Zhong was still confident at this time, and he broke the Tang army in the city and smashed this trap. At that moment, he assembled a group and went to the east city to attack, but he wanted to connect the east gate from the city and directly converge the Song soldiers in the camp outside the east gate.

Three thousand Song soldiers attacked from west to east along the three main streets in the east-west direction. The Song soldiers opened the way with ironclad warriors, and shot with crossbow arrows, but the left flank could not resist, and they lost two lines of defense in an hour. Li Congyi couldn't sit still anymore at the command headquarters, and brought the guard battalion to find Liu Jingming, the commander of the left wing.

The two armies fought on the streets, and the advantage of the large number of Tang troops could not be used. Liu Jingming complained bitterly, saying that the Song army's iron armor and crossbow arrows were powerful. Li Congyi had a straight face, seeing that the left compartment was just a mechanical defense, and he understood why Tang Jun was always not the opponent of Song Jun.

"Draw the ironclad warriors from all the departments, and use the ironclad against the ironclad!"

"Order the archers to go up to the roofs and shoot along the streets!"

"Draw out 2,000 people, organize two teams of 1,000 people, and detour from the streets on both sides to attack the Song army on the outside two roads!"

Li Congyi ordered repeatedly. Soon, the ironclad team formed by the left wing of the Tang Army also counterattacked. In this era, no matter how wide the roads in the city are, they are only more than two or three zhang, and both sides are ironclad, so they just fight the street. Ordinary knives and guns are useless, and they can only hit each other with heavy weapons such as axes, maces, hammers, etc., and the slightest negligence can lead to broken tendons and fractures. Although the Tang Army's cooperation is average, it is a new force. The Song army's infantry armor had already rushed several times, and although there was a rotation and rest in the middle, it was also weak after attacking for more than an hour.

At this time, the archers of the Don army climbed up to the roof one after another and fired bows and arrows down from the roof. The crossbowmen of the Song army were suppressed for a while. The commander of the Song army saw that the situation was not right, so he had to withdraw his infantry back.

The fierce offensive of the Song army was contained, and the Tang army woke up from the initial state of panic. As soon as the inner panic was gone, this tactical action became natural. Under the command of Li Congyi, the Left Wing Army went to move the bed crossbow again, and carried the bed crossbow forward to counterattack. Another Tang army bypassed from other streets and flanked the Song army, and the Song army had to split its attack to drive out the Tang army on the flank. The scope of the war continued to expand.

After all, the Song army had few men, and the larger the scope of the war, the more obvious the disadvantage in terms of troops. When the Tang army attacked from both sides of the Song army's breach, the Song generals had to ask Ma Zhong for help. Ma Zhong invested another 2,000 troops in Dongcheng, which was able to stabilize the position of the outstanding troops in Dongcheng.

At this time, the left chamber commanded He Shengrong's offensive and defensive efforts around the Runzhou Rushi Mansion and was also in a state of tension. After all, Lu Jiang is a rare senior general in the Southern Tang Army with offensive and defensive thinking. Lu Jiang's army stubbornly defended the Runzhou Assassin's Mansion in the center of the city, and the military capital deployed yamen and other mansions, and from the surrounding streets, he concentrated superior forces to counterattack the Song army in the open area in the center.

The 15,000 Song soldiers were almost all engaged in the battle, and Ma Zhong did not have the luxury of opening the east gate camp from the city at this time, so he had to order the Song soldiers of the east gate camp of Runzhou to abandon the base and come to the north gate of Runzhou with the whole army, and at the same time ordered the Song soldiers in the city to change the attack to defense, and withdraw from some easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The Song army shrank the front, and Lu Jiang was the first to feel it, so he immediately ordered all the departments to attack in order, using the streets as the passage to advance the troops, and constantly cutting the Song army. Every time a small group of Song troops cut in, they attacked from both ends of the street with superior forces.

He Shengrong lost several battalions one after another, so he had to turn back and attack Lu Jiang's troops, and Lu Jiang promptly ordered all his troops to retreat while fighting, retreat in an orderly manner, and avoid the enemy's edge. For more than an hour, He Shengrong was extremely uncomfortable, there were elite soldiers and strong generals, but he always couldn't hit the happy place. At this time, the Song soldiers and the Tang soldiers were staggered in the city, and the losses of the Tang army were much greater than those of the Song army in general, but Ma Zhong and He Shengrong saw that their side could no longer maintain the offensive, so they knew that the situation was worse.

At this time, at the canal wharf, the deputy capital of the Runzhou Army deployed Wang Lezheng to command the Song soldiers, launching desperate charges again and again.

The Tang army's 3,000 men unhurriedly drove Wang Lezheng's headquarters to the edge of the canal with a right hook.

Wang Le is thinking hard, but he has never had a good way to break the formation.

The Tang army lined up in a neat formation, and the advance seemed to be slow and fast. The spears used by the pikemen of the Tang army are full of one zhang, and half of the spears are made of stainless steel, with blades on both sides, which are really armor-piercing weapons, and the front is really unstoppable. The Tang army also had sword and shield soldiers to protect the flanks, and the offensive and defensive were based on wheelbarrows or two-wheeled vehicles, and in a team of ten people, one person pushed a cart, and the other nine formed three groups of three, two groups with pikemen as the core, two sword and shield men as the cover, and the other group with crossbowmen as the core. With such a combination of sword and shield soldiers, a small team can control a larger battlefield, so that the Tang army has both a dense formation like pikemen and a loose formation like a sword and shield soldier.

The river network outside Runzhou City was vertical and horizontal, and the Tang army was occasionally disjointed during the pursuit, so Wang Lezheng sent troops to attack on the side. But when there were fewer people on the flanks, they were blocked by the sword and shield soldiers; There were more people flanking, and the line of pikemen of the Tang army turned around, and they became pikemen facing each other directly.

And the Song army was only defeated again and again in front of the spear array.

Seeing that it was far away from the canal wharf, there was no Tang army on the other side. Wang Lezheng was just heartbroken, so he ordered Song Bing to fight back again. The Song soldiers came out of the camp in Beigushan, and many baggage also had mules and carts, and at this time they also ordered the soldiers to learn from the Tang army, and changed the carriage into a two-wheeled car, which was pushed by two soldiers to rush the Tang army's spear formation.

At this time, Wang Lezheng threw aside the flag of the Chinese army, summoned some battalion commanders to his side in the name of military discussion, and then led hundreds of guards to the canal, and then rushed across the canal with all horses such as war horses, military horses, mules and horses!

The Tang army had an attempt to drive the Song army into the canal, but they didn't expect Wang Lezheng to engage in such a strategy to survive in death. Wang Lezheng was halfway across the river, and the Tang army here once again smashed the counterattack of the Song army. The Song army, which stayed near the flag of the Chinese army, watched in amazement as the main general crossed the river with hundreds of people, and could not react for a while, and when the defeated troops retreated in front, the entire army exploded. Some just fled in a panic, some abandoned their weapons and sat on the ground, while others ran to the canal, regardless of the cold weather, and just jumped into the river to swim over.

Wang Lezheng and others have horses to help, although they are embarrassed in the water, and there is no danger of their lives, but those soldiers who want to cross the canal with their bare hands will also die when they go into the water in this weather. Thinking about the elites of the reconnaissance camp of the Ningguo Army, they have to drink spirits to keep out the cold before and after going into the water, these Song soldiers, some of them have cramps after entering the water, and they can only shout for help, but who will save them. Such a terrible scene also made the follow-up Song soldiers dare not think about jumping into the river to escape.

The Song soldiers had no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground, so they could only surrender one after another. And Wang Lezheng landed on the shore, and did not go to the East Gate military base, but just went around in a circle, and then went to the north gate of Runzhou.