Chapter 241 Chaotic Battle

"Sir, please sit down for a moment."

Wu Jie stopped Zhao Jiu, but he stood up panting heavily, his hands shaking. "Let's take another look at the situation, another look..."

Zhao Jiu, who was sitting sideways next to him, nodded in agreement, but did not dare to stand up to look at the situation, because if he really stood up, his hands would tremble.

Besides, it was not that Wu Jie, Zhao Jiu and the Song army had not thought about Longmen Ferry before, they could not ignore any direction around the battlefield. But the problem was that Longmen Ferry was too far away, more than 200 miles away. Even if they attacked 100 miles every day, they would not arrive until the third day, not to mention the complex terrain there.

Therefore, after thinking about it, everyone felt that at that distance, the Jin army could have support, but it must be the kind that is obvious. It would take five or six days to carry enough supplies, cross from Longmen to Danzhou, to Fangzhou, and then go south along the river to gather at the Jin army camp, and finally deploy horses and carriages to join the battle.

But now Wanyan Wushu has really come... and he appeared in the north of Liangshan the day before yesterday and here today. This speed makes Han Shizhong's timely reminder seem better than nothing.

And it is said that the amount ranges from as little as ten thousand to as much as tens of thousands!

"It is often recorded in history books that some armies are strong and powerful, but once they encounter a surprise attack, no matter how many enemies come, they will be defeated at the first sign of trouble. This is probably what it is like, right?"

Although Zhao Jiu was frightened by the sudden appearance of Wanyan Wushu and dared not even stand, he still managed to keep his composure. After the suggestion of raising the flag was postponed, he took the initiative to talk and joke among the people present. "Wushu was still north of Liangshan the day before yesterday, but today he went around Yaoshan and came here. As the saying goes, a spent crossbow cannot penetrate a thin silk cloth. In my opinion, although Wushu has a large number of soldiers and horses, as long as the whole army responds safely, it may not be impossible to defeat him!"

When everyone heard this, of course they quickly echoed Emperor Zhao's words... One said that it was already past mid-afternoon and Wuzhu had just arrived, which showed that they had been traveling all day and must be tired; another said that the terrain was complicated and the Jin army was coming quickly, so many of them must have fallen behind, and it was unknown how many of the tens of thousands of troops were left; others said that there were still the Qinfeng Road Army and the Central Army and two Beiwei Armies in the camp that had not moved, so even if Wuzhu came suddenly, the outcome would not be decided by one blow; even Wu Jie secretly regretted his loss of composure and actually let the Emperor do what he should have done.

However, as everyone was talking, from Zhao Jiu to Wu Jie and then to everyone else, their eyes never moved, they were fixed on the Jin cavalry brigade that emerged from behind Yaoshan Mountain in the southwest, and from time to time they looked at Liu Xi's army from Xihe Road that had already formed their battle formation!

After all, everyone knew that if Wanyan Wushu really brought 20,000 cavalrymen with the same combat power as the 10,000 cavalrymen led by Balisu and Yelu Mawu on the plateau, the Song army would be defeated without waiting for any reinforcements. The quality of Wanyan Wushu's reinforcements depended on whether Liu Xi could test them out.

Back to the present, the Song army's center on the foothills was panicked because they knew the number of reinforcements might be extremely large. Liu Xi, who had set up his battle formation on the southern side of the right wing of the camp, was also panicked. At this time, he no longer regretted but felt upset that he had pulled out his precious archer to help his brother get the head!

Because at this time, the five hundred divine arm archers who could not be withdrawn at all might be the key to the victory or defeat of the entire army! In fact, after Liu Xi arranged the battle array according to the way the Western Army defended against the cavalry, he looked at the only one hundred or so divine arm archers left in the core crossbow formation and had no idea how to resist the Jin cavalry that kept emerging from the foot of Yao Mountain.

"What should we do?" After setting up the formation and gathering the officers around him, Liu Xi looked back at the central army on the foothills, turned his head and looked around and asked. "Although Guanzhong is big, the emperor is right behind us..."

After he finished speaking, all the officers around him were speechless.

Liu Xi was furious: "I have always taken care of you, but when the time comes, no one can help me?"

The officers looked at each other in bewilderment. One of them boldly asked an unexpected question: "General, is the emperor really here on behalf of Yuwen Xianggong as the rumors say?"

Since someone had taken the lead, the other officers followed up with questions:

"There have been rumors in the military. Is it true?"

"Isn't the emperor in Chang'an?"

"The governor is afraid that we won't exert our strength, so he is deceiving us. How could the government do this?"

Liu Xi was so anxious that he almost cried: "At this point, how can I still coax you? Apart from anything else, if it weren't for the government, how could I let Wu Da sit on the Marshal's throne so easily?!"

The officers around looked at each other, and then looked at Li Yanqi, the commander of the army, and they still seemed to not believe it... Because some things, let alone being covered up, even if there are precedents and they are clearly displayed, there are probably still people who don't believe it.

The troops of Xihe Road are not the central army of the imperial camp.

Li Yanqi looked back at the foot of the mountain where the Jin army was still pouring out, and said directly with gritted teeth: "General, the emperor is in the center of the army. They don't know, so how can we not know? At this moment, there is only one thing to convince them, and that is that the two of us are not afraid of death and pretend to be fearless... And now, as you said, the emperor is in the camp behind us, what can we do? We can only die here!"

"What do you want to do?" Liu Xi obviously heard something.

"Let's counterattack while the living woman is still unstable!" Li Yanqi reined in his horse and replied. He thought the person coming was a living woman. "There are only a hundred or so Divine Arm Bows left. With so many Jin cavalry in front of them, they are not enough to support the position. And I see that those Jin cavalry are obviously a little tired. Some of them even fell off their horses when they were in formation... Fortunately, we have a lot of cavalry in Xihe Road..."

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