But even this kind of battle was deadly and cruel... The two sides narrowly avoided each other, and the Jin army still won and the Song army was defeated. The former lost twelve or thirteen people from their horses, and the latter lost seventeen or eighteen people... The Song army then retreated to the east of the puddle to avoid it.
This time, without checking the soldiers, Qu Duan also noticed who was missing... Xiahou Yuan did not catch up.
Like Zhao Bufan before, this old brother who had followed him for more than ten years disappeared without a word.
At this moment, the organized Iron Pagoda also turned around and chose to go west... Obviously, they also noticed the military order from their superiors, but because Qu Duan's flag was too attractive, the cavalry general could not help but make one last attempt, and then failed and immediately went west.
But it was this tentative attack that suddenly took away Qu Duan's most trusted confidant and schoolmate.
"The governor."
Another guard nearby asked on behalf of Xiahou Yuan. "What should we do now?"
"Catch up... catch up!" Just like when he first heard the news from Zhao Bufan, Qu Duan was confused at first, but soon came to his senses, and then was filled with some kind of anger. "Go as far as you can! We can't let the Golden Dog do anything he wants! Just catch up!"
After saying this, Qu Duan rode out on his horse again, just like before. The knights around him were awed and followed him quickly.
The next moment, thousands of bronze-armored cavalrymen from the left army of the imperial camp, who had taken a short rest, poured down under the leadership of Cheng Min. Together with the imperial camp cavalry and some Khitan light cavalry that came from nowhere, they completely submerged Wanyan Poshu and his Iron Pagodas.
This submergence certainly does not mean annihilation. What follows is still the kind of brutal small-scale charges and fierce hand-to-hand combat, and people will still continue to disappear in the mud, but this time it is the turn of Wanyan Poshu and his Iron Pagoda to be slightly at a disadvantage.
Wuzhu stood on a watchtower in the Huonu Village, watching the battle ahead with a dry mouth.
Of course, he didn't know at this time that Balisu and the five-colored sun-holding flag had been tied up and unable to move. He didn't even know that the Song army's armored long-axe soldiers were advancing like a wall. He just heard that the Song army had a final elite reserve of more than 20,000 people.
However, even so, even if he only looked at the attacks of Wanyan Huo Nu and Wanyan Po Shu in front of him, he could not get excited.
Most of Po Shu's troops were entangled by the Song cavalry at the very beginning, and with only a few thousand cavalry led by Huo Nu and one or two more He Zhameng'ans, they could not even destroy the original Song army line, let alone force their way to the front and charge at the dragon flag.
Wuzhu knew exactly where the problem lay... Not to mention the tenacity of the Song army with the dragon banner behind them, nor the fierce attack and division of the Song cavalry... Those were the enemy's business, they could not change it, but here in the Jin army, there was no coordination between Wanyan Bendu and Wanyan Huonu.
Huo Nu and Po Shu led fresh troops to join the battlefield. Except for some troops being entangled by Song cavalry, all the troops were looking for weak points in the Song army's front to try to break through. They had no intention of assisting Wanyan Bendu in advancing the front as a whole... At the same time, Wanyan Bendu just focused on maintaining the front line, and had no intention of sending out cavalry to help Huo Nu find a breakthrough.
Theoretically, you cannot blame anyone. In fact, Wuzhu didn't want to blame anyone at this time... As early as the moment Wanyan Poshu led his troops to break out, and the moment Wanyan Huonu wished him a hundred and twenty years old, he had realized that it was nothing but a pipe dream to maintain the integrity and unity of the plan under the strong pressure of the Song army.
And Wuzhu has already made a decision.
"King Wei."
The 64-year-old Jiagu Wulibu held his helmet in one hand and shouted from the bottom of the watchtower, panting. "What do you want to call me for?"
"Wulibu." Wushu hurried downstairs and held the other's hand. "I know that your troops have been fighting since this morning and have been very tired, but Zhending's troops have not arrived yet. Now, apart from you, we really have no other cavalry available... When you go back, don't listen to Ben Du's command anymore, lead your troops to fully assist Huo Nu, and attack wherever he goes, okay?"
Wu Li Bu nodded on the spot: "Why not? I was originally a soldier under the command of General Loushi. For decades, I have always been used to cooperating with General Huo Nu."
Wuzhu also nodded... This matter itself was an important reason for him to make this choice.
"Then I'll go back." Seeing that the other party had nothing to say, Wu Li Bu did not delay any longer.
Wuzhu nodded repeatedly: "Old General, go now!"
However, Wuli Bu put on his helmet again and turned to leave, but suddenly turned back: "King of Wei... there is one more thing that I should not say, but the war has reached this level, and I just heard that the situation with the Eastern Marshal is not good... Please keep it in mind, King of Wei, and make preparations early."
This statement was unclear, but Wuzhu was immediately startled, and then nodded hastily.
It turned out that although Jiagu Wulibu was only a 'reinforcement commander' based on his seniority, he was one of only four people in the entire camp who knew that Yue Fei, Zhang Rong, and Tian Shizhong were likely to appear in the lower reaches of the Hutuo River... The other three were Hong Ya, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the chief of the Privy Council who arrived with the reinforcements, Balisu, and finally Wuzhu himself.
And speaking of this now, it is obviously referring to this matter.
"Call Hong Chengzhi over!" Wuzhu had a splitting headache, but he quickly ordered the Tai Shi Nu to bring the only person in the camp who could discuss this matter to him.
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