Tuhesu then turned around and concentrated his attention to mobilizing his troops to meet Huyan Tong's attack... And this time, the battle situation further verified Tuhesu's guess. The troops of both sides were becoming increasingly exhausted, but because they had already gone crazy with killing, their morale was very high, which resulted in faster and faster casualties and more brutal battles.

But Huyan Tong remained tenacious and refused to let go. It was obvious that he was still brooding over the previous incident.

On the other side, taking advantage of this opportunity, Tuhesu's trusted guards successfully arrived at the position commanded by Haner Meng'an on the south side... Because of Huyan Tong's main attack direction, the fighting here has been maintained at a low intensity and the troops are much more organized.

"Is that what Wan Hu said?"

Meng'an, the man who always liked to flatter, was stunned when he heard this, and then frowned.

"good."

The personal guard seemed a little impatient. He responded with a sound and then rode away in a hurry, ignoring the other party completely.

As soon as the man left, the low-ranking officers around gathered together, waiting for Meng'an's decision.

The man thought for a moment and laughed bitterly: "At this time, leaving first or staying behind is just leaving it to fate. It is better to stay and hold on and see the situation."

Everyone looked at each other, but looking at the situation all around them, they had no choice but to pretend nothing had happened and continued to fight with the Khitan light cavalry in front of them.

Just like that, the personal guard returned to Tuhesu's side again and informed his own commander of the result of the message delivery. However, until Huyan Tong was defeated again, the Southern Wing troops did not move... They neither took the opportunity to retreat and escape, nor did they sense the situation and take the initiative to come to the rescue.

"I underestimated this noisy guy." Tu Hesu's leg, which had been shot through, had long since stopped itching and was gradually becoming numb and painful. Seeing this, he was helpless for a moment and simply shook his head and smiled bitterly. "I overestimated him, too."

"Wan Hu?"

The Jurchen confidants around him obviously didn't quite understand.

"He must have thought that I was there to cover his retreat, but in fact I wanted to use his larger force to attract the attention of the Song army, and then take advantage of the situation to lead his cavalry to escape." Tu Hesu responded calmly. "So don't move."

"This man is really judging a general by his own meanness!" a close confidant said indignantly. "Hu Yantong clearly only has Wan Hu in his eyes. He had a good chance of escaping this time, but he actually doubted himself and gave up on his own way."

"Don't laugh at him like that, because I do have some of that in mind." Tuhesu laughed. "After all, if we keep fighting like this, maybe his army can hold on, but we will be bitten to death by Huyan Tong first... So we are hoping that he will move first to see if there is any chance... Of course, if he escapes, we will still be bitten by Huyan Tong, and we won't have any complaints... Haven't you seen that in today's battle, whether it's the Jurchens or the Han people, they are all equal in the eyes of God."

The Jurchen warriors around had different expressions, but most of them were gloomy.

At this moment, a few hundred steps ahead, the horn was blown again by Huyan Tong's troops, which was obviously a sign of gathering and reorganizing, causing tension on this side to rise again.

"This really won't work... really won't work." Tuhesu muttered to himself, and looked around again. This time, he no longer looked at the overall battle situation around him, but roughly counted his own troops within his field of vision.

Tuhesu's army had 9,000 infantry and cavalry at the beginning, but because Pushan's march back to Lu went wrong, he had to stretch the battle line too long and too thin, so that Han Shizhong broke through one-fourth of it. Since then, his army has been in an awkward situation of fighting on two fronts, especially on the northern wing, which was constantly being cut off, and then Hu Yantong successfully bit off the middle in a previous assault, and then split into two, one in the south, with about 3,000 to 4,000 cavalry and infantry to maintain the position, and the other was around Tuhesu's own flag, with more than 1,000 cavalry and infantry.

The rest of the troops were certainly not annihilated. If that were the case, the army would have collapsed long ago. Instead, they were just like the Crooked Horse that Han Shizhong faced at the beginning. They were defeated, retreated, and dispersed. Then they disappeared in or moved away from the battlefield, which might have covered an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers, and it was difficult to gather them again.

It's time to make a decision.

"We can't count on the southern wing. Right now, we still have four or five hundred cavalry and a thousand infantry." Tuhesu suddenly spoke again, his tone much more serious. "Let's move on our own!"

The officers and guards around were all in awe.

"The cavalry will follow me and the infantry will take advantage of the situation to move towards the south wing." Tu Hesu ordered calmly. "Once the infantry has successfully joined forces, we will also withdraw to the south wing and continue to hold out in order to preserve as much strength as possible."

After saying this, the commander rode forward without waiting for the people around him to figure it out. The guards around him did not have time to think about it and followed him. A few officers thought about it for a moment and had no objection. Therefore, hundreds of cavalrymen quickly gathered behind him and slowly marched towards Huyan Tong's flag.

The remaining infantrymen hesitated for a moment, then began to take advantage of the situation to leave their positions and slowly move south.

It can only be said that Tuhesu's strategy this time seemed to be correct. When he took drastic measures and personally led the remaining cavalry to meet them, Huyan Tong on the opposite side was not angry but happy. He immediately changed the military order and ordered the remaining troops, which were less than 2,000 people, to form a formation to prepare for the counterattack. He did not care about the hasty transfer of the thousand infantrymen.

However, as the cavalry gradually accelerated, Tuhesu suddenly turned around under the attention of the troops of both sides, and directly bypassed Huyan Tong's troops, leading these hundreds of cavalrymen to gallop along the river towards the west outside the battlefield.

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