In this isolated and dangerous situation, it was impossible for the Song army to take huge military risks and show leniency to them.

In fact, even the Jin army did not expect these poorly equipped soldiers to rush into or enter the Song army's positions. They originally wanted to use these soldiers to waste the Song army's arrows and bullets, and then tire and shake the Song army.

Therefore, seeing the black waves rolling back, the commander of the Jin army did not have any extra thoughts at all. He just ordered the supervision team to move forward immediately and force the other side to roll back again.

Of course, we have to roll back.

Just like this, for most of the afternoon, nearly 100,000 signed soldiers were like some dish in a hot wok being tossed around by a spatula, over and over again, and their strength, agility, courage, thinking, life, and hope were all gradually lost in these tumblings.

But such a complex and precious thing has a surprisingly simple color tone - blood seeped into the ice and spread in the cracks, turning it bright red, while a thin layer of melted mud and water formed on the upper part of the ice due to the constant movement of these soldiers, but was quickly frozen. The superposition of the two colors formed a strange and unified red and black color.

It's just like the yellowish oil residue left after the fish and meat are fried in oil.

It gets dark quickly in winter. After about four or five large-scale attacks, the sun was very low. The Song army could not bear it anymore, so they began to consciously reduce the intensity of the attack. The signed soldiers, realizing something, began to stay in the river with all their strength in a chaotic yet unified posture... Sure enough, as long as they did not attack the Song army's positions, the Song army would no longer attack them. After realizing the solidity of the Song army's positions and the strict discipline of this Song army, the Jin army quickly lost the desire to continue to spend energy on killing people and supervising the battle.

In the evening, the Jin army finally called off its troops.

This battle was a prelude and a beginning. Its purpose was to consume the morale and projection reserves of the Song army and to test the discipline and execution ability of the Song army... In addition, it should have had the tactical purpose of testing the strength and finding the weaknesses of the Song army's front line. However, due to the strict defense of the Song army and the huge and bloated army, it did not succeed.

But this doesn't matter. Starting from the next morning, the Jin army will replace a new batch of signed troops, mixed with some armored Han soldiers and even a small number of dismounted Jin cavalry to ensure the completion of this tactical goal.

By then, these signed troops will not be able to catch a breath in the river like they do today, and they will be threatened until the last moment.

However, Yue Fei was definitely not a person who would passively defend himself and not dare to fight back - that night, in the cold wind, a fire suddenly broke out in the slightly exhausted and silent Hexi Jin army camp, alarming the entire army.

Balisu and Wuzhu were horrified. They stood up hastily and gave orders. On the one hand, they asked each unit to divide up the camp and hold on. On the other hand, they sent their trusted troops eastward overnight to patrol along the river to prevent the Song army from taking the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

After a night of commotion, in the early morning, after collecting information, Balisu and Wushu finally understood the reason.

It turned out that during yesterday's exploratory attack, the Song army saw an opportunity and actually sent a small group of elite troops disguised as Qian troops. In the later stage of the battle, they took advantage of the chaos to hide in the river, and then followed the chaotic Qian troops into the Jin army camp... Because the Qian troops suffered heavy casualties and their morale was low, no one noticed.

Finally, of course, there is the classic act of arson at night.

Of course, the Jin army's response was still very quick and they handled the situation properly, so the fire did not spread and there was no large-scale chaos in the camp. Perhaps because of this, the Song army's support troops withdrew directly after covering the retreat of many of their own small raiding troops shortly after coming into contact with the Jin army.

But even so, this night's turmoil was still a standard and even brilliant counter-attack and harassment operation - not only did the Jin army stay awake all night, but a large number of the Qian army, who had witnessed the cruelty of the battlefield, even fled in the chaos.

Thanks to this, the scale of the battle on the second day was reduced by more than half.

But then again, despite the surprise attack yesterday, they still adhered to the original tactics and strategy on the second day, and the armored Han army also showed up as promised, which also shows that the determination of the Jin army's top brass is unshakable.

On the third day, the Jin army's heavy armor began to participate in the battle on a small scale, and the intensity of the battle further increased. The river embankment position that the Song army relied on was breached for the first time, two eight-ox crossbows were burned, and hundreds of civilians were slaughtered. Then the gap was blocked by the Song army's second-line troops.

On the afternoon of that day, more than a thousand Jin heavy cavalry suddenly appeared on the east side of the Song army's position, north of Daming City and Gucheng Town, which was the old position of the main force of the Song army. They patrolled the east side of the Song army's position for two hours, and after listening to the noise from the western battlefield for two hours through the huge Song army camp, they suddenly withdrew in the evening.

It goes without saying that these are most likely Wang Bolun's troops. The fact that Wang Bolun's troops suddenly abandoned Xiajin City in the north and appeared here can only mean one thing, that is, after two and a half days of continuous probing, pressure and consumption of projectiles, the first general attack of the Jin army is about to arrive as scheduled.

On the morning of the fourth day, shortly after daybreak, the Song army scouts had not yet turned back from all directions, and the last hot air balloon of the Song army rose without hesitation and verified the news - the commander of the so-called balloon battalion, Bei Yan, personally climbed onto the basket, and then used ropes, hooks, and counterweights to pass down one paper after another with text and simple drawings from a height of more than ten feet.

The intelligence couldn't be clearer:

After having their meal, the main force of the Jin army gathered and joined together along the river;

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