"Taiwei, no, I just asked for peace, and the people in the army are unstable, so don't attack rashly!"

"Taiwei, the morale of the army has been dispersed, so don't be in danger!"

"Taiwei, morale has been drained, it's too dangerous..."

Gao Qiu's decision was unanimously opposed by three of his confidant generals, Li Yongqi, Wu Song and Yang Keshi.

The reason they objected was not because there were few people.

Gao Qiu brought only more than 7,000 elite soldiers from Lingzhou, including 2,000 knights, and 5,000 elite soldiers from the Northwest Road. Now there are two or three hundred light cavalry members affiliated with the Northwest General to search and not return. In addition, Gao Qiu also has 1,000 Hebei utility knights provided by Ji Yi, and it is also worth fighting.

In other words, Taiwei Gao could only pull out 7,800 soldiers at most. It was not too many. Yelu Yanxi's main soldiers would have to have 45,000. Even if they were divided into part of the Song army camp east of the Qi River, they should be able to divide into 20,000 people to enter the west of the Qi River.

However, the current weather is not good for the Liao army, which is good at riding and shooting. It is not good for riding and shooting archery with rain and snow. However, the spears of Lingzhou infantry are easy to exert their power!

Therefore, the Lingzhou army with a small number of people is not necessarily unable to win.

The problem is that the morale of the Lingzhou army has dropped sharply due to the previous peace talks, and now it has encountered peace talks and has been cheated. It is conceivable what kind of morale is low!

Li Yongqi, Wu Song and Yang Keshi, who have led troops in the army for many years, all know that low morale is not only a matter of mentality, but also a matter of management and a matter of unity.

With a high morale, everyone is positive and dedicated to everything, and unite from top to bottom. Naturally, everything is good and combat effectiveness can be fully developed.

On the contrary, when morale is low, it is easy for everyone to live a mess. There will be problems in training, equipment, daily life, and all aspects. For example, if the officers do not care about training, the soldiers are perfunctory. When it is time to rest, they do not have a good rest, but drink and play with women. The maintenance of weapons and equipment is even more perfunctory.

However, the above are not the worst. The worst thing is that the previous compensation sum also caused the struggle between various groups in Gao Qiu's army and the disappointment of the entire group with the future.

Where there are people, there will be battles and factions!

There are also factions in Gao Qiu's Lingzhou army. There are mainly three factions, one is the Military Academy Sect led by Li Yongqi; one is the Imperial Army Sect led by Yang Keshi; and the other is the Warrior Sect led by Wu Song (Fangnu Sect).

When the three factions were in Lingzhou, they had a lot of struggles. Because Gao Qiu was unwilling to become bigger, the Lingzhou army had few interests, and the internal struggle became more intense. Before, because of great achievements, the three factions were still united. However, Gao Qiu's "selling the country and seeking honor" suddenly changed the Lingzhou army from being a merit to being a meritorious, and even had it!

Therefore, the three factions have been fighting openly and secretly for a while to get rid of the blame. Moreover, the officers in the army who have followed Gao Qiu for many years have complained about the weakness of Taiwei Gao.

Selling the country and seeking honor is the "highest intention", but Gao Qiu can be lip service! Why should you bear the charge of selling the country and seeking honor? Wu Haogu can be blamed, Ji Yi can be blamed, but Gao Qiu can't be blamed?

The Song Dynasty made many mistakes, and the government was good! Therefore, the charge of treason for treason was only Gao Qiu! After Gao Qiu took the blame, he could not escape the situation when he turned back to Haizhou.

If you, Taiwei Gao, what should you do if the people below you? Will you let the Ministry of War and the Privy Council handle it? Then can you have a good life?

Now it's better. I've given it five million. Heping didn't get it. Instead, he had to send troops to make up for his merits. But has the function been made up?

Gao Qiu has to stay in Haizhou for the crime of "failure to treason the country and the compensation to harm the country".

What else do the people below have to expect? I’m afraid that even the situation in Lingzhou will not be able to be saved...

So the hearts of people suddenly dissipated!

Such troops go to the battlefield, and they can't keep up with training, physical strength, and equipment, and their hearts are dispersed and their morale is depressed. How can there be no problem?

"Send troops! Order all troops and horses to set off! All units of the Lingzhou Army must attack! If anyone disobeys and delays, he will be killed and will not forgive him!"

Gao Qiu roared and ordered.

How could he not know the plot of Li Yongqi, Wu Song, Yang Keshi and others? But like Wu Haogu, he was a good minister who was loyal to the emperor and patriotic. How could he watch Zhao Ji, who was kind to him, encounter danger? Because the marriage was not successful, Gao Qiu was already guilty and wanted to let Yelu Yanxi dig the Yellow River Dam, so he simply found a rope to hang himself.

"Come here!" Gao Qiu sent out the three generals to order the troops, and then shouted again, "Take up my coach's armor, I will come to the battle formation in person!"

"Brother!"

Gao Lian, who was in Gao Qiu's tent, was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly advised: "You are the general general of Hebei, you can't take risks!"

Gao Qiu glanced at him, "What should I do if I don't take risks? The people below have already become afraid of war. If they are allowed to do so, will they take the initiative to find war?"

"But the morale of the army is unstable, if..."

"What's there?" Gao Qiu waved his hand, "You go to the warehouse to get 100,000 taels of silver, and each person will give you a few taels first, and your morale will naturally rise!"

Gao Qiu also sacrificed his money, and he could get 100,000 taels of silver at one move! Fortunately, he met the most expensive Hebei Road Transfer Engineer in history, otherwise he would not even have the capital to sacrifice his money.

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"The Song Dynasty is victorious! The Song Dynasty is victorious..."

On the afternoon of October 28, the third year of Daguan in the Song Dynasty, the sound of cheering finally rang out in the camp on the west bank of the Qi River. The shouts of more than 10,000 people (including auxiliary soldiers) shook the world, overwhelmed the sound of wind and snow, and also covered the fighting on the battlefield on the west bank of the Qi River.

The Liao army, who had been fighting for most of the day and was a little exhausted, was startled by the shock. They have now seized most of the camp on the east bank of the Qi River. However, the camp built by Zongze is also strong enough, not just a circle of walls! But the first ring, second ring, third ring, fourth ring, and fifth ring, with walls around it!

Yelu Yanxi's soldiers braved the rain and snow, and destroyed the power of the nine oxen and three tigers before they reached the "Three Rings", and there was still "one ring", but the "second ring" was not taken down!

Now, can you not be afraid when you hear the Song army screaming on the other side of the river? So you quickly stopped attacking and temporarily retreated to the "Three Ring Road" defense, which gave Han Xiaozhou and Zong Ze a chance to breathe.

Gao Qiu was wearing a strong wart armor at this time and rode on a tall Persian horse. He looked at the 6,500 soldiers and nearly 5,000 auxiliary soldiers who had completed the entire team, and was filled with emotion. He originally wanted to say something to boost morale, but when he spoke, he didn't know what to say.

Because he also knew that after this battle, no matter whether he won or lost, his Hebei Xuanfu envoy would be almost over, and the title of Taiwei could not be guaranteed. If he could have a remote magistrate, it was the government who was working hard to protect it.

Although he must have a chance to make a comeback, the Lingzhou army brothers who have followed him for many years cannot be protected.

The Lingzhou army was semi-independent in the past, and Gao Qiu had great power in the army, which was completely different from the general soldiers who were infuriated. Because almost all the Lingzhou soldiers were granted land soldiers, the demand for military expenditure was not very large. There were also many soldiers who were Han people on the former land of Xixia who did not have any idea of ​​valuing culture over military affairs, so it was difficult for the Northwest Transportation Command to interfere in military affairs.

But with Gao Qiu's resignation, the good days of the Lingzhou army's semi-independence were over.

It is inevitable to be cleansed by the court...

"Set out!" After holding it in for a long time, he could not say any inspiring words. Gao Qiu had to raise his hand and issue an order to attack.

At this time, the sky seemed to be as if Gao Qiu's mood had dropped sharply, and the sleet had turned into snowflakes.

For Lingzhou soldiers who have lived in the bitter and cold places in the northwest for a long time, wind and snow weather is nothing. They also have leather robes, leather hats and leather boots to keep warm, and are used to marching and training in the snow. So they still sang "How to say no clothes" and walked out of the Qihe camp with great pride and courage.

At least from the surface, their morale is quite good!

However, the heavy snow still caused some trouble for them, but the visibility was too poor. There was about a layer of dark clouds in the sky, so the sky was dark, and the only thing that caught my eyes was dim and snowflakes, which could not be seen far.

In order to avoid sudden encounters with the enemy in a storm, Li Yongqi, who was actually commanding the battle, ordered more than 200 light cavalry members of the Northwest Infantry Army to open a search website two or three hundred steps before the brigade.

Just as the more than 10,000 troops of the Song army were traveling south under the cover of wind and snow, the army of more than 30,000 people (the main soldiers and half of the auxiliary soldiers) commanded by Xiao Temo had completed the operation to cross the Qi River. It was reorganized south of the Qi River, and then divided it into two columns (the imperial tent private army and the palace branch army, and the tribal army team) and advanced to the north in parallel. Like the arrangement of the Song army, Xiao Temo also mobilized more than a thousand horses to block the two armies.

Nearly 50,000 troops from both sides of the enemy and us were approaching slowly in the wind and snow!

The sky became darker and darker, but the wind and snow showed no sign of stopping. The wind and snow all over the sky covered all the noise. It was not until the light cavalry on both sides almost collided with each other face to find out the existence of the other!

"Enemy attack, Liao dog! Enemy attack, Liao dog..."

As several light cavalrymen who were rushing towards the marching team where Gao Qiu was, shouted all the way, and everyone stopped and turned around and looked in the direction where the central army was.

“Woo woo woo woo…”

The melodious sound of the horn came soon. This was the central army using the horn to issue an order to launch the battle formation. The leaders of each battalion and team who heard the horn also issued orders to wear armor and prepare for the war.

After a while, the central army's cavalry rushed over, shouting loudly while running: "Four-side formation! Four-side formation! Four-side formation!"

The so-called "four-side formation" is actually a large hollow square formation. Eight battalions form four connected horizontal formations, wrapping the central army, auxiliary soldiers, cavalry and a battalion reserve. It is a very practical military formation in the new military system founded by Wu Haogu, Murong Wangyou and others. It is most suitable for use when infantry encounters large cavalry.

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