Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 76: Falling Eagle

"I'm not going to save Liu Xi, Zhao Zhe, and those useless people!" Qu Duan glanced at the sun that was mostly blocked by Yao Mountain, sighed, and took off the bow and arrows hanging on his horse. "But the emperor has spared my life, so I have to go... You must remember this, even if I die, you have to tell others, because I really don't want to be known as someone who risked his life to rescue those two useless people."

Zhang Zhongfu was still stunned, but Qu Da waved his hand slightly and led the few remaining troops he brought with him to the south towards the back of Lou Shi.

Zhang Zhongfu was silent for a moment, but finally followed with his rifle in hand.

However, when the Qu-shaped flag was raised, due to the chaos on the battlefield, most of the subordinates were unable to gather in time, and only a few hundred cavalrymen went directly to the side and rear of Loushi.

However, as the saying goes, the name of the man's shadow tree, after all, he was actually the number one general in Guanxi after Jing Kang. When he was dispatched at this time, even Lou Shi looked back in surprise, and then became furious. Then he suppressed his anger and continued to urge his army to follow Hezhameng'an of Jiagu Wulibu to expand the gap between the two armies!

Even hundreds of riders might not be able to get close to Lou Shi. It would be tantamount to committing suicide. It would be better for him to focus on the front now.

However, the first result achieved by Loushi was not to completely tear apart the two armies, but to rescue Wanyan Wushu who was almost at the end of his rope! Of course, this rescue was not quite accurate. Loushi only opened up the connection with the Wushu regiment that was originally surrounded, and the fourth prince was unwilling to leave his headquarters at all.

"Why are you doing this, Fourth Prince?" Han Chang had a bandage tied around his eyes, but he couldn't help covering his eyes to relieve the pain. "The siege has been lifted. As the Fourth Prince, why don't you go to Lou Shi's side and provide backup for him and command the troops for him when necessary? Why waste time among these exhausted soldiers?"

"I brought my subordinates here, and they ended up like this. How can I abandon them and leave?" Although Wanyan Wushu was not blind, his eyes were red, obviously caused by staying up late and being tired.

Han Chang wanted to persuade him again, but unexpectedly Wushu suddenly asked back:

"How did you get that army?"

Even though Han Chang was blind in one eye, how could he not know what Wuzhu meant? He immediately sneered on his horse, "How could they do it? This army is so elite and well-equipped, but they are only good at small-scale chaotic battles and cannot organize a large battle to fight Loushi. Their leader Liu Yan is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Zhao Song emperor's imperial guard. It is easy to guess that the Zhao Song emperor must have gathered the elite troops from all the divisions together... This is a reckless move by someone who does not know how to fight. It was just a coincidence that we were exhausted and could not organize a large battle, so we suffered a great loss!"

"Of course I know this." Wuzhu shook his head, looking at the dragon banner on the foothills weakly. "I don't know how the Zhao Song emperor could get so many military leaders to contribute their elite troops? When he was in Huaishang, he had to kill Liu Guangshi to stabilize the troops; when he was in Nanyang, he had to sneak across the Baihe River and go to Yanling to seize the military power before he could fight to the death; today, he can sit there firmly and dispatch elite troops from all directions to serve him..."

"It must have been dispatched by the central army of the imperial camp..." Han Chang looked at the banners of Lou Shi advancing and said calmly. "Those are his direct troops!"

Wushu nodded and said no more. He stared at Loushi's flag like Han Chang. They could see clearly that Wanyan Loushi, who had succeeded many times, succeeded again just now. The Jin army commander personally led the battle and completely defeated the cavalry that Xihe Road had organized with great effort, but he squeezed out a huge gap.

It can be imagined that next, once Lou Shi takes advantage of the situation and presses in, the armies from Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road will be completely divided!

In that case, the army of Xihe Road would be squeezed at the foot of the mountain, and perhaps they could fight back, but the Qinfeng Road, which had been gutted, would most likely collapse toward the northeast and the main camp... At this time, although the soldiers on the plateau were still fighting, and although just behind Wuzhu, the strange "trump card" led by Liu Yan was still struggling to bypass Wuzhu's troops and try to directly attack Lou Shi's side, although Liu Qi had the upper hand at the northernmost end of the battlefield, he could not prevent the Song army's central route from collapsing, and the central gate was wide open!

In fact, not to mention Wanyan Wushu and Han Chang, even Qu Duan was so anxious that he rushed to the front himself, trying to press forward as much as possible, but his troops were too small and they could not effectively push into the main formation of the Jin army.

But soon, the next moment, as Lou Shi pushed Jiagu Wulibu in front of him and completely separated the two armies as imagined, something happened that neither the Jin army commanders nor Qu Duan had imagined - Wu Jie's commander-in-chief flag moved forward, and an army of thousands of heavily armored and long axes that appeared from nowhere launched a counterattack towards the Jin army's Iron Pagoda that appeared in front of them!

The Heza Meng'an troops under Jiagu Wulibu had fought with all their might. Apart from being exhausted at this point in the battle, they had lost the room for maneuver because they had rushed to the front. They thought that there were disordered, defeated and weak soldiers in front of them, but unexpectedly they encountered their natural enemy, and this natural enemy actually managed to break into the formation, forcing the Iron Pagodas to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them!

Three thousand heavy-armored soldiers with long axes who had rested for a whole day came forward, hacking at the cavalry from above and the horses' legs from below. However, Heza Meng'an, who was less than a thousand and badly wounded, was caught off guard and was actually completely at a disadvantage!

Not only that, at the same time, in the northeast direction of the battlefield, just before the Qinfeng Road army was about to collapse completely, a group of heavy armored cavalry with no less than 3,000 people, belonging to the Song Army, suddenly broke out from the outside of Qinfeng Road, preventing the Qinfeng Road army from completely collapsing, and also completely captured another group of Hezhameng'an.

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