In other words, according to the current situation, the Song army on the eastern front should have tried their best to block the Jin army on three sides, waiting for more and more long-axe heavy infantry to gather, eat up this Jin army, and then reorganize and sweep across the entire eastern front.
But now that Niu Gao had seen such a brave general, how could he waste the opportunity?
He was startled for a moment, then immediately wielded his iron mace, ordering his men to follow Yang Zaixing's troops and quickly advance towards the commander's flag:
"Follow him! Follow the fellow with the big iron spear!"
On the commanding heights of the battlefield, Zhao Jiu certainly didn't know that Yang Zaixing and Niu Gao had joined together and were about to show their might. Even if he knew, it wouldn't matter, because he had already seen the charge of Ba Lisu and the fall. From a distance, the charge just now was not that thrilling at all, it was just like a fish hitting a net... The net didn't break, but the fish had lost its strength.
Therefore, the official just kept his normal expression.
The surrounding generals, officers, close ministers, and consultants wanted to shout for victory, but seeing Emperor Zhao in such a posture, no one dared to get excited... Of course, many people had already felt relieved, and the atmosphere under the dragon banner had eased a little.
Only a moment later, the official withdrew his gaze from the east and turned to the south, and the atmosphere became tense again.
The reason was very simple. Following Emperor Zhao's gaze, on a considerable part of the southern slope, the Song army was in a tough battle, and a general at the Jiedushi level was deeply involved in it.
The reason for this situation was the previous charge.
At that time, the Jin army's armored cavalry attacked from three sides, and the imperial cavalry on the southeast side of the high ground rushed down head-on. In addition, the Jin army's main force itself had a certain interval between its troops, so after the charge, the Jin army's cavalry was obviously divided into two large groups.
One group was in the middle and western part of the south side of the high ground. Judging from their flags, they were Wanyan Huonu and Wanyan Poshu, as well as a considerable number of Hezhameng'an. Their target was obviously this commanding height, and it was Zhao Guanjia who was watching the battle and the dragon banner behind him. They were the ones who caused the Song army to fight hard on the southern front. The other group was on the east side of the high ground. It was Balisu and Elubu who were trapped in the Song army. Balisu's target was obvious at this time. He obviously wanted to penetrate the last elite long-axe heavy infantry of the Song army and control this "last throw" to buy time for Wanyan Huonu and Wanyan Poshu.
So, the question now is whether the iron dragon of the Song army on the east front will first sweep the battlefield on the east front, and then turn to the south to suppress the whole situation, or whether the Jin army's "last throw" can reach this commanding height before the Song army can provide effective support, and complete some kind of magical reversal.
Even if there were no Jiaqiang Fulin sweeping over from the east, Wanyan Huonu and Wanyan Poshu would not be able to get up!
Wu Jie glanced at the southern battle line, sneered in his heart, then took a step forward and whispered to Zhao Jiu:
"Sir, the situation on the eastern front is settled, we just need to wait for a while, do you need some support on the southern front?"
Zhao Jiu turned around and looked at the other party without saying anything, but the meaning was very clear... For things like this, an order could be given. Would he reject the support for Qu Da?
Wu Jie understood and immediately looked at Han Shizhong. Han Shizhong, who was standing solemnly with his hand on his waist, was stunned for a moment and finally understood why Wu Jie asked the emperor first. But at this time, he was too lazy to care about these trivial matters. He just turned around and pointed at Wang Shixiong who was standing solemnly at the side and rear. When the latter noticed, he pointed to his own Beiwei army who was waiting for orders on the high slope, and finally, pointed to the area of cavalry fighting in the southeast.
Wang Shixiong did not dare to delay. He bowed slightly and immediately turned around and led a few bronze-faced knights to Cheng Min to pass on the order, preparing to use this Beiwei army, which had just rested, to support Qu Duan.
In the drizzle, Qu Da, who had a short respite, did not know that the eastern front had already achieved great success, nor did he know that Wu Da and Han Shizhong had just sent him strong reinforcements in advance because of Zhao Guanjia's glance. In fact, he shook his head, shook off the rain, and then looked around, but he only saw the rain blurring, the troops on both sides were mixed together, like tides, rising and falling on the slope, and he could not see the general situation at all.
He himself and the soldiers beside him were only a small part of this tide.
As mentioned before, the charge of the Imperial Cavalry undoubtedly achieved a huge success from a strategic point of view. They divided the Jin cavalry into two, making it difficult to gather them together. It was precisely because of this that the Jin army's trump card was caught in the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts, resulting in being unable to do anything on either side... From this perspective, Qu Duan and the Imperial Cavalry made great contributions.
But for this, the Imperial Camp Cavalry had to pay a huge price in casualties and still fell into a difficult situation of you in me, I in you... Then, Bali quickly headed north, and the Imperial Camp Cavalry in the melee was divided into two, one part followed Zhang Xian, Liu Qi, and Li Shifu's five-colored sun flags and the other part turned west and bit those Hezhameng'ans.
Qu Duan himself was among them.
"The governor."
Although he was wearing a visor, the surrounding imperial cavalry soldiers knew where Qu Duan was because of the flag and the new iron elephant he rode. And the personal officer Xiahou Yuan, who was leading dozens of cavalrymen coming from behind, would definitely not make a mistake.
Qu Duan did not respond, but looked around, and sure enough, soon two or three more teams of cavalry gathered together like Xiahou Yuan, and the troops behind them briefly gathered to four or five hundred people.
"Is it only possible to gather these people?" Qu Duan couldn't help but let out a long sigh. "Where is the Red Heart Team just now? Did they go with Zhang Zhongfu?"
"There shouldn't be any, but they were cut off in the middle by the Iron Pagoda (Hezhameng'an)." Xiahou Yuan pointed at a group of 300 or 400 armored Jin soldiers not far away and blurted out. "On the other side!"
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