In war, the commanders of the two sides have always fought wits and plans, and the soldiers under their command fought bravely and ruthlessly. Whoever controls the army under his command can use his fingers and who can see the opponent's weaknesses will then tilt the balance of victory toward whom.

The Song people have always been difficult to win. The fundamental reason is not that the Song people vigorously developed it, and it is used to target the large number of heavy infantry troops specifically for the Jin cavalry. The key reason is that the court's inaction and the internal strife between generals made it difficult for the Song people's army to truly unite on the battlefield.

After the first tentative confrontation between the two armies, there were some frictions and conflicts every day for three days, testing each other's nerves and the determination of the army.

Wanyan Shoudao has always been cautious in using troops. His years of military career have made Wanyan Shoudao's calmness even drive the enemy's generals crazy, making the opponent unable to calm down, and then he was in a rage and was in a direct confrontation.

But this time he obviously met his opponent. Whether it was his active harassment or his passive counterattack, the Song people responded easily this time. Even in the cold weather, the Song army's clothes were relatively thin, but even so, in the three days, in the conflicts that occurred from time to time, Wanyan Shoudao did not take any advantage. The 30,000 troops under Ye Qing's command showed calmness and calmness, which made Wanyan Shoudao feel more and more pressure. If he wanted to win, he had to take a risk.

There was no sound of war drums that shook the sky and resounded through the sky, but in the vast wilderness, there was a whimpering sound of horns, which made the two armies finally begin their first real confrontation after four days of confrontation.

The Song people's heavy army was like a mudslide, slowly advancing forward in the wilderness. The cavalry on both sides looked like clear water, looking down from Phoenix Mountain, from time to time, changing formations on both sides of the heavy army. The scouts ran back and forth, one war horse after another foaming in their mouths, struggling to stand up again.

The army of scouts who changed horses but not people have now become the busiest and most dangerous group of people on the battlefield. Similarly, because of their neighing, the rapid sound of horse hooves, their nervous expressions and sharp momentum, the wilderness that had not yet fought has become increasingly solemn and nervous.

The air in the whole world seemed to have been solidified, and under the sound of a sob horn, it seemed that a message would explode.

The Jin people's iron cavalry slowly emerged from the horizon, like the tide of the Qiantang River, quickly appeared in the sight of the Song people's army.

The melodious sound of horns became more and more rapid. In the cold wind, the Song and Jin flags were rushing. The word "Leaf" on the flag was like a trapped beast that was about to break free. Following the Song army below, it made a huge roar, as if it was about to swallow this world.

The cart of the watchtower slowly rose under the winch, and the flag behind him rose higher and higher. Ye Qing and the commander's figures were like standing in the tide, like a lighthouse, still standing in the surging waves.

The big flag with the word "ye" written on it, as well as the flags between the heavy infantry and cavalry, and the flags of the central army behind them, waiting for the orders of the imperial commander-in-chief.

The sound of the horse hooves of the golden man shook the ground under his feet, as if even the Phoenix Mountain beside him were trembling. The stones on the cliff seemed to be shaken with the power of the Jin man's iron cavalry to shake the world and the murderous aura in the sky, and they were about to fall down.

As the distance between the two armies became closer and closer, as the huge flags in the hands of the commanders waved downwards, the whole world instantly became a battlefield for human ruthless killing. Although the heavy infantry of the Song people still moved forward with slow and steady steps, the uneasy neighing of the war horses on both sides and the shouts of killing in the army instantly made people lose their sense of direction, and they also lost their minds in their minds.

As expected by the heavy infantry army, as expected by the Jin general Qi Shilie and Muyan, expected by the Jin general, just as their bows and arrows began to fall towards the Song army ahead like dark clouds, the Song people's bed crossbow also roared towards them.

Although the two armies have not fought so largely for many years, it does not mean that both armies have forgotten the methods of attacking each other.

Whether it was the Jin people opposite or the Song army here, they almost all gathered the shields in their hands at the same time. The crutch horses on both sides, along with the light cavalry of the Song people, began to twist uneasyly, waiting for the long-distance attack to end and immediately disrupt the enemy's formation.

But obviously, the Jin people only thought of the huge killing weapons used by the Song people to restrain cavalry, and did not expect that the Western Region cannons used by the Song people to attack cities could also be used in battles in the wilderness.

The huge Ye-like flag on the car in the tower waved hard again, as if it opened the door of fighting in hell for the army in the wilderness. The sound of shouting, hissing, bows and crossbows, and arrows gathered in the sky.

The Western Region cannons placed at the end almost made a more sharp sound when the flags were swung down, and even made goosebumps whistling sounds, flying quickly from the sky towards the Jin army.

"Boom..." A sound like thunder sounded among the Jin army. The shouts of killing that were already full of fighting spirit were instantly mixed with shrill screams and panic neighing of war horses.

"The two wings impacted." Ye Qing held the Yanling Knife in his hand, and at this moment the palm of his palm was covered with wet sweat, and ordered in a low voice.

Above the heads, there were still endless Western-Europe cannons roaring towards the Jin people. The cavalry on both wings also rushed towards the opposite Jin people cavalry when the first wave of offensive gradually declined, so that the Jin people's cavalry could not use their speed to attack the heavy infantry of the Song people.

Just as the battle ahead was in full swing, Jia She led Ye Qing's personal army in the Song army camp more than ten miles away suddenly turned back, which scared Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun, who were about to leave, and the opportunity to take this opportunity to escape from the camp had to be lost.

"Where are you planning to go, sir?" Jia She looked at Li Zhixiao, Hong Zun, and more than a dozen or twenty guards behind her, jumped off the horse's back and asked with a sneer.

"Is it not a small personal soldier who is qualified to interfere in my affairs? Get out of here immediately." Li Zhixiao had a gloomy face, tried his best to make himself look more majestic, and said coldly.

Hong Zun, who was standing aside, looked at Li Zhixiao with some silence, and then looked at Jia She who was still sneering. He could feel that Ye Qing's personal soldiers suddenly appeared in the empty camp at this time. It was definitely not that Ye Qing had forgotten something, but that they must have come for the two of them.

During these days, they had already felt Ye Qing ignored them and his attitude towards them, so they wanted to take advantage of the war to escape from the camp immediately. Even if they fled to the nearest Jeju city, it would be better than being under house arrest by Ye Qing in the camp.

Now they are completely isolated from the connection with the court. Even the memorials every day must be read by Ye Qing before they can be given to the court. In comparison, Ye Qing's memorials to the court also have their signatures, but the memorials with earnest and loyalty are completely incompatible with what Ye Qing did.

"Of course we have to go to the front line battlefield. Otherwise, how could we write the memorial to the court every day to Lord Ye?" Hong Zun expected that Ye Qing would suddenly change his mind during these days, and would not be as ruthless and ruthless as he was in the Imperial City Department back then.

"Oh? Is that right? That's right. Lord Ye was also thinking. He asked the generals to invite the two adults to the battlefield to see how brave and tenacious our army was fighting against the Jin people without fear of death. So please, sir." Jia She's eyes were filled with a cold light, which was a little colder than the cold weather.

Standing on the spot, Hong Zun, who had already started trembling involuntarily, shivered with his lips in the cold wind, but for a long time he could not find a suitable reason to refuse.

"I will go whenever I want, and you don't have to force it. Besides..." Li Zhixiao pretended to be tough and sneered: "Even if Ye Qing is here, I will have to decide whether I want to go to the battlefield. You can go back and report to Ye Qing that we will naturally report to the court on how Lord Ye fights against the Jin people and how to promote the power of the Song Dynasty."

"But since the general has been ordered by the Lord, he should put the two adults..." Jia She spread his hands and said helplessly.

"Rareless! What are you? You dare to disobey my orders. If I ask you to get out, you will disappear immediately. Otherwise, after I tell Lord Ye, don't think you are his personal soldier, and you can treat my Song army as if nothing is left!" Li Zhixiao's expression cold and scolded Jia Shedao angrily.

Jia She was unmoved. At this moment, his mind was also tied to the battlefield more than ten miles away. He did not want to ignore Ye Qing's safety because of these two people. Therefore, he no longer talked nonsense and wanted to signal his personal soldiers to take Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun to the battlefield.

With a blink of an eye, the guard behind Li Zhixiao's hand shot an arrow instantly and stably inserted it into the feet of several personal soldiers: "I tell you, I dare to be so rude to me again, and I will execute you immediately!"

"Then I offend Lord Li." Jia She also turned cold and waved her hand. In just a blink of an eye, Li Zhixiao and the personal guards behind Hong Zun fell down together.

"You... are arrogant! Jia She, you dare to murder your colleagues. Do you know that this is a serious crime to be executed in the battlefield camp!" Hong Zun pointed at Jia She and questioned in horror, then looked at Jia She's still cold smile, and suddenly threw down the bag in his hand and ran aside.

But before he could run five steps, a waist knife was placed on his neck. Before Hong Zun could speak, Li Zhixiao saw a stream of blood spurting out from Hong Zun's neck. Hong Zun, who turned around, was hurriedly covering his neck with one hand. At this moment, he was frightened and looked at Jia She in disbelief, and then slowly fell down.

"You... Jia She, you..." Li Zhixiao looked at Hong Zun's miserable appearance, his legs became weak, and he instantly sat on the ground. Then, in the thick crotch, a steaming unknown liquid slowly seeped into the ground.

"If you two of you hadn't interfered with it, how could my 30,000 children of the Song Dynasty only wore thin clothes and cold armor to fight against the Jin people? It was simply a crime, and I deserved it to die!" Jia She licked the blood on the blade with her tongue, and slowly walked towards Li Zhixiao, who was so scared that she had incontinence.

In the empty camp, shortly after Jia She left with more than 20 corpses, a group of unidentified cavalry ran over quickly from the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

Taohua Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain are just the same mountain range. It is just because they have peaks. Then the local people use the sunken areas as the boundary, and they are called Taohua Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain respectively.

Just as Wanyan Shoudao personally led the eight thousand cavalry to the foot of Taohua Mountain and approached the Song army camp at the foot of Taohua Mountain, just three or five miles behind him, Mo Xiaobao led two thousand cavalry to chase after him quickly.

As Mo Xiaobao's two thousand cavalry followed the path that the Wanyan guarding cavalry had just passed and rushed to the foot of Taohua Mountain, Zhong Can flew from the other three thousand cavalry in the opposite direction and towards Zou County.

When Mo Xiaobao was already addicted to seeing the Song army camp at the foot of Taohua Mountain, a thick smoke slowly rose from above the Song army camp. As the thick smoke rose, balls of fire rose up from the ground and burned wildly above the Song army camp.

Wanyan Shoudao, who was standing at the front door of the Song army camp, still had a serious expression, but there was still an unconcealed excitement and pride between his eyebrows: "After all, I am young, I actually want to come out and win the army with strong temperament and strong striving in one fell swoop, but what if you can chew it? It is obviously impossible to wipe out the entire body. Your cavalry is your weakness after all, and it is simply a dream to pursue it all over the mountains."

Wanyan Shoudao looked at the Song army camp burning in an instant after his order, which was a little more amazing than the fireworks on the New Year. In his opinion, as long as Ye Qing's camp was burned, no matter how much food and grass there was left in the camp, in short, even if Ye Qing was undefeated to Qi Shilie and Zhizhong and Mouyan, even if he avoided his own here, the only thing he could do was to lead his defeated general to Tengzhou.

"General, all the camps are empty, and even the grass in the stable is just a thin layer. But judging from the size of the stables of the Song people, the cavalry is probably beyond our imagination. It is not only three to five thousand people, but there are probably... there are tens of thousands of cavalry." A general reported to Wanyan Shoudao.

"So much?" Wanyan Shoudao was startled. His cheeks, which were a little hot because of the raging fire not far away, looked a little bit dull at this moment.

But before he could figure out anything, he saw another general leading his men to drag a dozen or twenty bodies towards him.

"General, before us, someone should have attacked the Song people's camp and killed... I'm afraid it was these twenty-three left-behind Song people." The general signaled his men to line up the twenty-three corpses in a row.

"Twenty-three people stayed in the camp?" Wanyan Shoudao was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned over and dismounted, walked up to check those things, because his subordinates were dragging over on horseback, and at this moment, his corpse was blurred due to friction with the ground. He pulled out an arrow from the corpse and looked at the sharp arrow: "This is a crossbow arrow from the Song people. Could it be that it is an internal strife?"

"But there are other discoveries?" Wanyan Shoudao threw down the arrow in his hand, and a feeling of anxiety suddenly surged into his heart. For some reason, perhaps it was the intuition of fighting on the battlefield for many years that made him realize that he seemed to be in danger.

"No more, nothing. We carefully checked every tent. We only started burning after we found nothing." The general said with certainty again.

"There is no trace of weapons or other objects found, so where is the central army tent?" Wanyan Shoudao was even more shocked. He had been on the battlefield, stationed in camps in the wild, and had relied on camps to fight. Now the empty camp of the Song army is completely incompatible with a large camp. The normal environment after the army's conquest is.

"It looks more like...it's more like they gave up on this camp." Another general said, swallowing.

Listening to the general's words, Wanyan Shoudao's tiger eyes glared, and frightened the general so much that he took several steps back before saying in a deep voice: "Impossible. If Ye Qing gave up the camp, where would he go? How could he guarantee that he would definitely win Qi Shilie Zhizhong and Mouyan! This is absolutely impossible!"

Wanyan Shoudao kept repeating the impossible, but deep down he seemed to have a voice reminding him that what he was talking about was the truth. The truth was that Ye Qing took the initiative to give up the camp that had been stationed for more than a month, and wanted to lead the Song army to death and live!

Wanyan Shoudao looked at the camp where the fire was burning in a daze, and then his eyes seemed to have traveled through the raging fire, looking at Nanyang Lake dozens of miles behind him, and murmured: "Fight on the back! Ye Qing has been ready for the back-to-back battle, and he really has no plans... order everyone to withdraw to Jeju City immediately."

Wanyan Shoudao seemed to have thought of something, and his whole body was shocked in an instant, and suddenly said with a roar, then immediately took the lead in getting on the horse. With the sound of the horn of withdrawal, the vast camp sea of ​​fire like the vast ocean of Nanyang Lake, instantly, the Jin people's cavalry rushed towards the main gate of the camp, and then ran towards Jeju City like the fierce wind in the wilderness.

"Ha, Wanyan, where are you going?" Mo Xiaobao shouted Ye Qing to teach him, regardless of whether the smoke and dust rolling, the Jin cavalry rushing towards Jeju could hear it, and kept shouting behind him, then ate the dust in his mouth.

After Wanyan Shoudao realized that this was an empty camp, he knew that he was afraid that he had been fooled by Ye Qing, the little fox. Instinctively, he should have run towards Zou County first, but he was very afraid that Ye Qing would lay an ambush on the way back, so at this time, Wanyan Shoudao immediately ordered to run towards Jeju.

Because the general's panic must have affected the power of the entire army. Wanyan Shoudao's anxious and panic behavior obviously spread quickly among the 8,000 cavalry. When the two generals were riding on horseback and were still explaining to the other generals why the general suddenly wanted to run towards Jeju in a hurry, he encountered a step ahead of them and was separated by Mo Xiaobao and a thousand cavalry who were heading for Jeju.

(ps: Thank you Mo Xiaobao's leader for the reward! Well, Wanyan Shoudao gave it to you.)
Chapter completed!