At the third update, Li Yanqing returned to his warship with his personal guards. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the fleet to evacuate to the north of Taihu Lake.

"Husband, why don't we go south and enter Hangzhou Bay directly, and then take the sea road north to the Yangtze River estuary." Hu Qing'er suggested on the side.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "We have crossed the river and conducted an experiment just now. The river channel is too narrow and our hull is too big. The other party can easily intercept us. If the other party attacks with fire, all ships will be burned by the fire and you cannot take this risk."

This time, Li Yanqing brought a total of 60 thousand-stone warships into Beijing, with a total of 3,000 heavy armored infantry and a large amount of food and supplies. Li Yanqing had already considered the disposal when the crisis occurred. His fleet either entered Hangzhou Bay or retreated, and entered Taihu Lake from Huzhou, which was fifty miles more than entering Hangzhou Bay.

Although Hangzhou Bay is more than 30 miles away, from a security perspective, retreating into Taihu Lake is much better than forcibly breaking through the encirclement of heavy troops and entering Hangzhou Bay, and it is not much better.

The fleet pulled up the sails and began to move north quickly. At the same time, Zhao Ji ordered Yang Chu to lead 10,000 elite troops to chase Li Yanqing northward.

Zhao Ji also ordered the garrisons of Ningguo Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion to lead 5,000 troops to support each, but in fact, 20,000 troops came to encircle Li Yanqing.

At the fifth hour, the fleet left the Grand Canal and entered the Wucheng River. At this time, the fleet had already entered the Huzhou boundary.

Li Yanqing stood on the side of the boat and stared in the distance. In the hazy morning light, a black line could be seen vaguely chasing along the official road, about five or six miles away from them.

Li Yanqing made a quick decision and ordered: "The fleet is docked, and the heavy armored infantry are ready to fight!"

The fleet quickly landed, and the heavy armored infantry had already changed their armor. They rushed to the ashore under the leadership of the chief general Guan Sheng and quickly formed a formation. Soon, the three thousand heavy armored infantry had already formed three rows of formations and blocked the pursuit.

The army that was chasing was the 10,000 elite Huainan Army led by Yang Chu. This army was recruited in the fall of the previous year. Zhao Gou issued an order to recruit a total of 100,000 troops in Huainan and Jiangnan. As the new imperial guards guarding the capital, they were stationed in Lin'an Prefecture and surrounding prefectures respectively. Yang Chu led this 10,000 people, which were one of the elite troops, with strong armor, excellent weapons, and excellent treatment. They were usually stationed in the Huantang River area.

Raising troops for a thousand days, using troops for a while, and raising troops for two years, is the first time they are engaged in battle today, but the army they face is the heavy armored infantry in the Jingzhao Army.

The heavy armored infantry is known as the first army in the northwest. Not only because they are wearing heavy armor and have strong combat power, but all the soldiers are experienced and experienced many battles. They were later selected to join the heavy armored infantry. Their murderous aura and fighting will are far beyond the reach of pursuers.

Ten thousand pursuers had arrived. Yang Chu looked at the dozens of large ships on the river, which were less than a mile away from him. He was extremely anxious and also felt an uncontrollable excitement. The Supreme Emperor issued an order that no matter who offered Li Yanqing's head, he would be awarded a prince and rewarded one million taels of silver. Yang Chu seemed to see his life's wealth and honor.

Although Yang Chu was also from the Northwest Army, he had never encountered the Iron Harrier Cavalry of the Western Xia and did not have a deep understanding of heavy armor. When he saw that the other side had only three thousand people and his team was three times that of the other side, he immediately shouted excitedly: "The army is lined up and ready to shoot arrows!"

Ten thousand infantry quickly formed the formation, three thousand crossbowmen in front, seven thousand swords and shield soldiers and spearmen in back. When the two armies were a hundred steps apart, Yang Chu shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow!"

A sound of clappers sounded, and the overwhelming rain of arrows shot towards the heavy armored infantry formation that was coming towards them. The dense rain of arrows jingled into the heavy armored infantry soldiers. The arrows could not penetrate the armor, and none of the heavy armored infantry fell down.

Yang Chu immediately realized something was wrong. The opponent's heavy armor could not penetrate the arrow. His scalp was a little numb. He might have encountered a strong enemy today.

But retreat was obviously impossible. Seeing the spearmen and swords and shields behind him eager to try, his morale was high, he shouted, "Boundists retreat, infantry kill them!"

The red flag was waving, three thousand crossbowmen retreated quickly, and seven thousand infantry rushed towards the enemy with shouts.

Li Yanqing also ordered: "Beat the drum!"

"Dong!"

The sound of war drums was beaten slowly and powerfully, "Dong!Dong!" Accompanied by the heavy drum sound, the three thousand heavily armored infantry approached the Huainan army step by step. Every step was so shocking, and every step was so imposing.

Yang Chu shouted, "Kill!"

"Kill!"

Seven thousand Huainan soldiers shouted and rushed towards the heavy armored infantry opposite. The two infantry collided in an instant, like two storm waves colliding in a storm.

The horse-slaying sword slashed into a bloody road, the spear broke through the iron wall, and the extremely strong and heavy-armored iron wall advanced layer by layer. The horse-slaying sword swayed, and the sharp blade slashed the defense of the Huainan Army, with heads flying everywhere and limbs everywhere.

The spears were cut off under the sharp blade, but Huainan had too many soldiers, and the strong impact also overturned nearly a hundred heavily armored soldiers.

But one group of soldiers fell, and another group of soldiers immediately added up. The two armies were wrapped together, and they were hard to separate. At this time, three thousand crossbowmen also turned into sword and shield troops to join the battle. They rushed towards the heavy armored infantry from behind, and the heavy armored infantry in the back row also turned to fight.

Looking from the big ship, on the long front, three thousand heavy armored infantry fought with ten thousand Huainan County, and the two armies fought extremely bloody.

Although the number of the Huainan army far exceeded that of the heavy armored infantry, the heavy armored infantry relied on their unparalleled equipment and combat swords to defeat the enemy.

The injured Huainan soldiers knelt down on the ground and begged hard, but were still chopped into pieces by the heavily armored infantry lined up, blood flowing into rivers, and corpses were piled up. The entire river bank became a slaughterhouse on earth.

Li Yanqing sighed softly, it was all the great Song army, so he shouldn't have killed each other like this. He turned around and said to Hu Qing'er: "End this battle!"

Hu Qing'er understood and immediately turned around and ordered: "Come on a hundred warriors, get off the boat with me!"

I saw a team of cavalry rushing down from the big ship, with about a hundred people, led by a female general, wearing a sash helmet, silver dragon armor, carrying a willow-leaf sword, and twelve short flying swords on the back, full of murderous aura. It was Hu Qing'er, who was known as a female flying general in the Jingzhao Army.

Instead of breaking into the enemy formation, they surrounded the outer edge and rushed to the Huainan Army's commander flag. Yang Chu was under the commander flag, with five hundred personal soldiers around him. At this time, only a woman's voice came, "Tortoise, how dare you come and fight?"
Chapter completed!