After the effect of the cavalry raid gradually faded, the unfavorable side of the mountain gradually appeared.

You must be very careful when galloping on the hillside, otherwise it will easily break the horse's hooves. The speed of the war horses running on the hillside should be reduced by at least half, or even one-third of the level of running on the flat ground. This greatly reduces the deterrence of the Khitan cavalry. As long as the infantry of the Song army fights in line, the cavalry will almost not disperse them at all. More and more cavalrymen in the palace can only try their best to control the horses and run in a mess between the Song army's musket formations. At this time, fire is needed.

The cannon bombarded the Song army's strong formation, and at this critical moment, the several iron barrel cannons carried by the Song army greatly disturbed the launch of the Liao army's gunners. There were only simple fortifications on the top of the mountain, and many Khitan gunners fell under the shotgun. The plains were conducive to cavalry and the mountains were conducive to infantry, but the best position for setting up the iron barrel cannon was still in the mountains. Yelu Tiege looked complicated, and Xiao Mahuai stared at him angrily, and Xi Jun was retreating step by step, and Wanyan Zongbing smiled flatteringly beside him.

"The Khitans are good at cavalry, the Song people are good at guarding. When the two armies fight, the iron barrel cannons are becoming more and more important, and the infantry is becoming more and more important. The Xi people and the Jurchens are not as reliable as the Khitans. However, it is so difficult to choose from the tribe members and train a few gunners, let alone the huge number of infantry and military camps," Yelu Tiege thought distressedly, "But compared with the Song people, our tribe members are so few." His eyes were slightly stern, throwing these inappropriate ideas out of his mind, raising the horse whip, and ordering in a deep voice: "Retreat five miles and give this place to the Song people."

"What?" Xiao Mahuai shouted angrily, and Wanyan Zongbi's face was also full of surprise.

Yelu Tiege found this battlefield, gathered a large army, set up an ambush and waited for the Song army to come. Until now, both of them thought that Yelu Tiege was going to fight the Song army that followed him to death. Unexpectedly, after the Jurchens and the Xi people suffered heavy casualties, he actually ordered the retreat easily.

"Retreat five miles," Yelu Tiege repeated with a calm face, and then said to Xiao Xining, "If you destroy the cannon, you will retreat first."

Xiao Xining hurriedly agreed loudly. Because he was skilled in mechanisms, he rose to prominence in a short period of time. He was deeply trusted by Yelu Tiege and was proud of his clan members. He was trained by him carefully. Xiao Xining was afraid of losing it, so he ran down to inform them to retreat. After the gunner retreated, Yelu Tiege turned his horse's head and ran down the hill with the Khitan cavalry generals at the guard. At this time, the Xi army and the Jurchen camp, who were responsible for the breaking of the rear, rushed to the other side of the hill as if defeated. From the generals to the soldiers, they all rushed to the other side of the hill. They could only give birth to four legs themselves, and the mountains were filled with escaped Liao infantrymen.3∴35686688

"It's a mess! It's a mess!" Xiao Mahuai took off his skin and said angrily, "Is it a fight to fight? Our Xi military camp must withdraw first!"

He ordered his generals to gather the defeated soldiers, and the heavy losses were severe. Xiao Mahuai was extremely angry and worried that he would continue to fight like this. Every time the Khitan cavalry would leave the infantry and retreat first. The Song army could not catch up with the four legs, and it was more than enough to deal with the backward Xi army and Jurchen camp. He immediately came to Yelu Tiege to argue and planned to lead the troops to retreat first. Wanyan Zongbi stood beside Xiao Mahuai. Although he did not dare to say a word of praise, he also had a very suspicious look in his eyes. If he only wanted to delay the speed of the Song army's advance, he only needed the Khitan cavalry, and gathered the infantry and gunner camp like this, and then retreated from the war, which was really puzzling. "If you really want to consume all the Jurchens," Wanyan Zongbi lowered his head and thought fiercely, "Just surrender to the Southern Dynasty."

"Rareless!" Yelu Tiege shouted with a sharp look at the generals.

Someone lowered his head, but Xiao Mahuai and other generals looked at him without fear. Emperor Yelu Dashi's prestige was at its peak, but the power of other high-ranking officials and powerful people was greatly weakened. After the reopening of the Eight Tribes of the Khitan, although the power of the Northern Court Privy Council was high, it was also implicitly restrained. Xiao Mahuai was a prominent figure in the rear tribe and consciously occupied the truth, and was not afraid to have sex with Yelu Tiege in front of the Eight Tribes and His Holiness. Under his inspiration, some other Khitan generals also turned their suspicious eyes to Yelu Tiege.

"Your Majesty's will!"

Brother Yelu Tie sighed, Xiao Mahuai and others looked at each other like lightning strikes, and saw Brother Yelu Tie take out a sheepskin emperor roll from his arms and spread it, turning it over, let Xiao Mahuai and others see the seal of the Sun and Moon Imperial Seal clearly, and then recite it in a low voice. As he listened, Xiao Mahuai and others' faces were all shocked and suspicious, and then he tried it leaps.

"General Zhao's ten thousand victories——" "The Song Dynasty's ten thousand victories——" "The ten thousand victories!" After the Song army occupied the hills, they began to cheer loudly.

Lu Mingyu took off his iron helmet and came to Zhao Xingde with shame. He bowed and said, "The last general is not in good command, and he almost ruined the front army. Please punish the general." "Let's make a mistake next time." Seeing that he was deeply regretful, Zhao Xingde wiped his sweat and said softly, "A general is wise, trustworthy, benevolent, brave, and strict, all of them are indispensable." This is a cliché in the army, but when he said the word "courage", he exaggerated his tone. Others couldn't hear it. As Zhao Xingde's confidant general, Lu Mingyu understood it naturally, and felt even more ashamed. He nodded and said, "The general said that the last general must know shame before he can be brave, and he will wash away this humiliation." Just now, the Khitan cavalry rushing and artillery bombardment that the left army encountered was almost defeated, leaving a shadow in his heart.

Zhao Xingde nodded and said, "Ambushes, sneak attacks, harassment can only scare stupid, cowardly, and confused people. These ghost tricks are originally just to deal with barbarians. But who are you? You are my Chinese soldiers. What are Chinese people? Observing the principles of yin and yang in the world and having the righteousness of sacrifice in the inner world, how can you treat them equally with barbarians? The enemy's playing with these tricks against barbarians is useless to us! We move forward with a dignified formation and straight road, and we will surely wash away the national humiliation and recover the rivers and mountains!" He raised his sword in his hand and shouted loudly: "The Song Dynasty has won thousands of victories!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"The Song Dynasty has won thousands of victories!"

The soldiers on both sides heard the blood rush and raised their guns and responded loudly. Seeing that their morale was restored, Zhao Xingde asked Lu Mingyu to go back to rectify his subordinates and urged the various camps to recover the injured. He raised the thousand-mile mirror and looked at the large group of Khitan cavalry who were still circling for several miles away. He frowned and ordered the scouts of the Bai camp to increase the scope of investigating the movements of the enemy.

The battle just ended, and the dead camp, who had a deep hatred with the Hu people, looked around for Liao soldiers who could not retreat in time due to injuries despite their fatigue. There were far more injured people on the battlefield than those who died in the battle. The victors who occupied the battlefield determined the life and death of these injured soldiers. Many injured soldiers left behind by the Liao army quickly became dead. The heads and generals of each battalion also let it go, carefully collecting the injured comrades in the camp and finding the soldiers to treat the wounded. The artillery battalion was busy putting iron barrel cannons onto the cannon carriages and pulling horses on them. According to the plan of the march, they would settle in a Yibing mountain village in front tonight. Therefore, the gunners did not push the cannons up the hill, but stopped under the hill, waiting for the military order to set off again with the rear army led by Deng Yuanjue.

About an hour later, the battalions were repairing and just about to set off, suddenly three cavalrymen were fighting horses to reward them, and a large number of Khitan cavalry appeared in the east. The Liao army seemed to have circled a circle, avoiding the reconnaissance of the Song army scouts, and then cut into the battlefield, separating Zhao Xingde's troops from the army commanded by Cao Di. After a while, the various teams of hitan cavalry reported that Khitan cavalry appeared in all directions. If we count the former Yelu Tiege's troops, there were at least tens of thousands of Liao troops around Zhao Xingde's troops. The Liao army stopped horses and wandered around, relying on the number of people, they captured and killed, and surrounded the scouts of the Song army. Yang Zaixing's troops were forced to shrink back, and the scope of the reconnaissance was getting smaller and smaller.

"It seems that Liao Gou has a big appetite this time." Yang Zaixing said with a gloomy face, "General Zhao, what are we going to do?"

"The Liao army is going on a big move. Should we go back to join forces with Cao Di? Or will we guard the hill and wait for Cao Di to come?" Deng Yuan felt the dissatisfied eyes of the other generals and said worriedly, "The Liao army is powerful. If the cavalry attacks at any cost, our march will definitely be much slower than usual. The dry food carried by the army has been seven days, but there is not much water left. This is the northern land, and water may not be dug everywhere." He shook his head and sighed, "Fortunately, we have captured this hill, otherwise the road ahead will be blocked and there will be soldiers chasing us behind, which is probably even worse."

"Master, what should I do?" "Do you want to defend the hill?"

"If the enemy is really ready to cut off our army, then there will probably be more Liao soldiers between us and Cao Di than in front of us." Zhao Xingde thought for a moment and whispered: "For the sake of the present, we should continue to move forward. When we arrive at Huanglong Village, there is no need to worry about the water source. The large Liao army cannot stay between us and Cao Di forever. Otherwise, this is an opportunity to attack the Liao army." He called the flag plaque officer and ordered, "Send the order and beat the drum!" He raised his head, looked at the generals, and said slowly, "Next, it depends on how Cao Di decides."

Forty miles away from Zhao Xingde's troops in the west and eighty miles away from Cao Di's troops in the east, the Khitan camp tent scattered like clouds in the sky. A tall camel cart was stationed in the middle of the wide camp. A huge sun and moon flag was erected on it. Under this flag, a group of Khitan generals were surrounded by him. Yelu Dashi was raising his legs and loosening his feet, and smiled to his left and right, "I am used to riding a horse, but I feel uncomfortable when I marched on this Xi cart, but there are so many memorials to review."

"Xi Che should have walked slowly," King Yelu Kuang of Jin smiled, "Your Majesty insisted that it follow the cavalry of the palace tent, the road was rugged, and even the iron attack could not stand it." Yelu Dashi heard his flattery and shook his head slightly. Yelu Kuang said again, "Cao Di just wanted to follow Zhao Xingde to make some advantage, but he would never have expected that Your Majesty would raid lightly and forcefully eat Zhao Xingde's troops. I think with his cowardly appearance of passing Wusheng Pass timidly, he might not dare to come up to fight against Your Majesty."
Chapter completed!