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Let’s not talk about Li Su’s relief for now, and just talk about the moment before.

At that time, the Jin army marched out from three sides with neat formation and great momentum. They were all heavy cavalry, including six armored cavalry commonly known as Iron Pagoda, the so-called Heza Meng'an. They had been recuperating for most of the day, so their morale was naturally high. They were ready to swallow up 100,000 people on the high ground and reverse the overall situation.

At the same time, the Song army was in a dominant position and had the advantage in military strength. More importantly, it had already achieved a great victory by suppressing the overall situation. How could it be easily shaken?

At this critical juncture, what caught people off guard was that on the south-east side of the high ground, the main cavalry forces of both sides were almost caught off guard and exposed to each other face to face... The heavy cavalry and light cavalry of the Song-Jin Imperial Camp Cavalry were all here, and the western part of the Jin army's Balisu tribe and the eastern part led by Wanyan Poshu were also here.

Immediately, under the influence of terrain, time and troop position, large groups of heavy cavalry from both the Song and Jin sides suddenly engaged in a large-scale head-on clash that was rare in the world.

This is really rare in the world... When the Jin army attacked the Khitans more than a decade ago, they still had to deploy hard-armored infantry in the middle and stacked cavalry on the left and right to charge in short distances. What about the Song and Jin? What about such a large scale?

But it appeared, and it was fast, fierce, and bloody, with heavy casualties and countless casualties in an instant.

Some were knocked off their horses by spears, some were knocked off their saddles by cavalry hammers, a very small number of them lost control and fell off their horses due to head-on collisions, and the majority of them lost control and fell off their horses under the intense pressure of the battlefield because of the mud, corpses, horses, and obstacles... But no matter what the reason, as long as they lost control of their horses in this charge, they would basically lose their combat effectiveness if they did not die.

A large-scale cavalry reduction suddenly occurred.

Of course, to be honest, the winner of this charge was undoubtedly the Jin army... otherwise there wouldn't have been the scene where Bali quickly swept away the troops in front of him and climbed the hill to see the Song army's "throw" scene.

But back to the present, when the Jin Marshal Balisu saw the huge threat appear in his field of vision and made up his mind to give it a try, he immediately discovered a serious problem - he had clearly won the previous head-on cavalry duel, but he was unable to effectively gather his troops.

"What do you mean?"

Balisu's tone was calm and serious.

"Although the Song cavalry is weak, they are scattered but not broken. They are just biting us from the rear." A Meng'an who was obviously coming from the rear replied anxiously. "And there are also Tanguts. There are Tangut light cavalry everywhere. There are also some Mongols and Khitans. They are all helping the Song heavy cavalry to bite us."

Another Meng'an couldn't help but explain in a low voice: "Marshal... the charge just now was too fierce. Although we took advantage, our troops to the west and Wanyan Poshu's troops to the east were directly mixed with the Song cavalry, and they couldn't be separated at all."

Balisu suddenly realized what was happening, but instead of getting angry he laughed.

To be fair, if the large-scale charge just now took place in an open battlefield and only cavalry participated on both sides, then the outcome of the battle would probably have been decided at this time, that is, the Jin army would win and the Song army would lose, and then the Song army would collapse and the Jin army would launch a large-scale pursuit, resulting in a typical great victory.

Balisu had experienced too many great victories like this in his life.

But at this time...

Balisu knew what was going on without even looking closely - the entire battlefield was centered on the high ground, and was actually a huge area with the Taiping River and the Jin army camp as its approximate outer edges. This area was of course large, even too large, but as the battlefield for the decisive battle between the two great countries of Song and Jin, it still seemed very crowded, especially since they had successively invested hundreds of thousands of troops.

So on such a battlefield, with both armies fighting each other to the death, in the core of the battlefield, with a camp in front, a river in the back, a dragon banner on the high ground, and five-colored sun flags on the slopes...with friendly and enemy forces everywhere around, after triggering such a charge, what would it matter even if there was a slight difference in outcome?

Even if you want to chase, even if you want to escape, where can you chase, where can you escape?

A true pursuit may only begin when one of the parties' entire army collapses completely... The charge just now, although shocking, was not enough to determine the outcome.

"It doesn't matter. We'll catch up as many as we can." After laughing, Balisu looked back to the north. There, the iron dragon had clearly begun to enter the battlefield, which forced Balisu to change his strategy. "Then go find Erlubu and ask him to try to join me. If he can't, then he should keep pace with me... Tell him that although this part of the Song army is strong, it has an obvious weakness, that is, the formation is too weak, with only four rows. As long as he can maintain a thick formation, he can easily break through the Song army's long snake formation, forcing the other side to stop advancing and then form a formation to protect themselves. If both of us can meet behind the Song army formation, we still have a chance to win this battle."

“Yes!”

"Also, tell Yelu Mawu and Wanyan Wulun that I know they are having a hard time, but now is not the time to worry about things. Tell them to mobilize as many cavalry as possible to catch up. Whether they follow Erlubu or me, they must go all out... When Erlubu and I collide with the Song army, as long as we break through, no matter which side they are on, they must immediately send out all the cavalry and let Yelu Mawu lead them to follow, leaving only the infantry to Wulun to maintain the front line."

“Yes.”

After some instructions, the officers received the order and dispersed. Balisu no longer paid attention to the fact that some of the cavalry behind him were bitten by the imperial cavalry, and directly waved the flag to the north, heading towards the iron dragon of the Song army.

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