"The man who escaped was Li Cheng! The one who defeated Li Cheng was the imperial commander, Yang Yizhong, who led the Imperial City Division!"

Under the sunshine after the summer rain, as Zhai Biao, who was lying on the ground, shouted again as he had done before, the offensive of the Pseudo-Qi troops came to an end at noon that day.

Of course, the actual situation had nothing to do with Zhai Biao's roar, because those long-sword armored soldiers were Li Cheng's confidants. As the saying goes, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are connected. They did not need to be responsible for the outcome of the battle, but only needed to do their best for Li Cheng. Therefore, when they saw Li Cheng running away, the group of people almost lost their desire to fight in an instant, and then withdrew from the Song army camp like a tide.

Judging from the shape of these people when they retreated, they obviously did not lose their combat effectiveness... This is no different from their Grand Commander.

Seeing this, Yang Yizhong, who had managed to force his opponent back with one move, remained calm but felt gloomy in his heart. For him, it was not right to fail to kill Li Cheng and end the battle... The two swords on the ground had undoubtedly revealed the identity of the man before.

Of course, Yang Yizhong, who was in the middle of the situation and always had to think of the worst, could not have imagined that his life-threatening blow not only forced Li Cheng to retreat, seized a pair of knives, and ended the opponent's round of pushing, but also put an incredible end to the entire battle that broke out suddenly this summer.

But we certainly can't blame Yang Yizhong for not seeing this, or even for mocking Li Cheng for being pretentious... because they are all part of the game.

In fact, thinking back to the Jingkang Rebellion in the past, Li Cheng led several brothers to travel all over the country, from Hebei to Huaishang, and then to Shandong. There were fights in the rivers and lakes, and gun battles between soldiers and bandits. When did they ever care about their lives?

When the eastern front of the Song and Jin countries gradually stabilized in the Jingdong area, he began to lead the troops to formally establish his foundation. He would not eat if the soldiers did not have food, would not sleep if the soldiers did not have sleep, and would never avoid rain, snow, wind or frost. Although the military orders were strict, he did his best to take care of the soldiers in private. Moreover, he quickly expanded to three states in Jingdong, which was ruled by military bandits... He looked like a big shot no matter how you looked at him.

However, such a person seems to be born at the wrong time.

After all, although the world seems to be in chaos in recent years, generally speaking, those messy things have never shaken the foundation of the existence of the two great countries of Song and Jin:

The Song Dynasty was indeed on the verge of destruction, but it managed to catch its breath and still firmly controlled core areas such as the southeast, Jingxiang, Bashu, and Lianghuai. No matter how difficult it was, it managed to preserve more than half of the world's population and territory... The so-called existence is everything, and everything is for existence. The size is there, and everything can be done.

At the same time, although the Great Jin Kingdom was also facing various chaotic contradictions and setbacks at home and abroad, which caused many knowledgeable people to have doubts, but so far, no one could question their absolute military advantage... The great victory of Yanling-Changshe at the beginning of this year was so shocking that it itself illustrated the military strength of the Jin people from another perspective. They were so strong that they were shocked to lose a mere fifteen Meng'an and return with an unsuccessful invasion. Isn't this enough to explain the problem?

Think about the troops lost by the Song army and the defeats they suffered since the Jingkang period, it is simply shameless to compare.

So back to the present, under this situation, it is no wonder that a figure as arrogant as Li Cheng had to accept the Jin army's amnesty and become the Grand Commander of the Qi Dynasty... in order to gain a little political foundation to stand on.

Yet even this modicum of political foundation is murky and shaky.

Everyone knows what the Great Qi State is all about. They themselves know it, but they still had to jump in, and then they staged this ridiculous fighting performance today.

In fact, this was also an important reason why Emperor Zhao of Tokyo had treated the Pseudo-Qi regime so lightly before... Although he was calm when he heard about the military situation in Dengfeng at that time and had unlimited confidence in Yue Fei, with Emperor Zhao's experience and political growth in the past two years, he was also able to realize the fragility and ridiculousness of the Pseudo-Qi regime itself.

The sky cleared up and the day was silent. The defeated Li Cheng did not launch another attack, but set up camp with the nearby settlement as the core. As for that Prime Minister Hong, he did not urge him anymore... The two of them really did as they said before, and just "wasted time" here.

Not only that, something even more ridiculous happened that night.

A small group of soldiers sneaked into Wushan from the west and came to the battlefield. However, although Li Cheng's scouts had discovered the traces of this unit in the daytime, and knew through the captured people that the other side was a local reinforcement from Yanggu County in the west, and knew that the other side had only a few hundred people, and even knew that the leader was a county magistrate named Xiao En, they still chose to turn a blind eye and watched this unit "sneak" successfully and enter the camp of the imperial guards, effectively strengthening the defense.

On the second day, there was no fighting on the north bank of the Ji River.

On the third day, there was still no fighting between the two sides, but the leaders of both armies were frightened... because Beixinqiao only received 1,000 reinforcements from Zhang Rong, but there was no trace of Yue Fei's troops.

And sure enough, that afternoon, the Prime Minister of the Great Qi State, Hong Ya, was suddenly invited by Li Cheng to a house somewhere in the village, saying that he wanted to discuss important military matters in person.

"Mr. Hong."

Somewhat unexpectedly, Li Cheng, who had been restless in his room all morning and noon, immediately changed his calm demeanor as soon as he saw the newcomer. Although he got straight to the point, his words did not seem hurried or flustered. "Zhang Rong's reinforcements have arrived, but there is no sign of Yue Fei's troops. I wonder if Mr. Hong has any information?"

Hong Ya was slightly startled when he was asked a question right after he entered the house, and then he felt a little flustered... He claimed that he had led a hundred cavalrymen to see the flag, and turned the tide, and organized an orderly retreat for Wanyan Talan... But if others didn't know, how could he not know what was going on?

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