However, just as the official sat down again, new news suddenly came.
"Qu Da surrounded Wanyan Poshu... Wanyan Poshu wanted me to meet him in front of the battlefield?" Zhao Jiu frowned. "The deputy general of Loushi?"
"Yes." Liu Yan answered without hesitation. "He is also Wanyan Zhimu's illegitimate son. Wanyan Zhimu is Aguda's half brother, so he is considered Aguda's nephew."
"It's okay to meet someone of your status." Zhao Jiu sat in the rain. "But I'm not interested today... Tell Qu Da to kill him quickly, and then go to the front of the camp and trample on the enemy."
Liu Yan bowed his head and walked away.
About half a quarter of an hour later, the military order reached Qu Duan. Qu Duan nodded in understanding without saying anything. He just looked at a Jin soldier in front of the formation who had no weapons or horses. The latter understood and turned back to the Jin army formation.
There were still hundreds of Iron Pagodas around Wanyan Poshu. When they heard the reply, they all came to see their commander. Poshu looked around, especially after seeing the chaos in the trench in front of the camp behind him, he was also confused.
"The officials of Song State look down on us, but we cannot belittle ourselves. There is no surrendered Hezhameng'an in the Great Jin State." Po Shu took off his helmet and collar and declared loudly. "But now, I can't let you fight and die... Run away! Forget about the reserve war horses in the camp. Untie your vests first, and throw away your armor after crossing the camp. Our horses are good. We can find a shallow ford and cross the Hutuo River by hugging our necks. Let's escape as many as we can. When we escape back to Yanjing, we will go to find the king. If the king wants to return to the frontier to start a career in the future, you will be needed to protect him."
As he said this, he untied the braid at the back of his head again, shook off the blood plasma and dirty water attached to it, then pulled out the knife and cut the carotid artery in his neck with all his might. With just one cut, blood gushed out like a fountain, washing away all the stains on his neck.
The surrounding Iron Pagodas also rushed forward, surrounded Poshu's horse, and carefully supported Wanyan Poshu's body, which was gradually losing strength, to prevent him from falling.
At the same time, the outer Song cavalry could not wait to start attacking and killing. Although a gap was deliberately left behind Tiefutu, he still fought to the death despite the danger of being surrounded by the iron curtain and highland formation on the east side of the Song army.
It was not until the blood on Uncle Po's neck gradually subsided and his pupils dilated that the people around him, who were supporting him, carefully laid him flat on the horse. Only then did they return to their own groups, unbutton their vests, take turns to cover their rear, and try to escape.
As expected, no one surrendered.
A quarter of an hour after the total collapse, Wanyan Poshu, Aguda's nephew who was not a Wanhu but commanded four Hezhamengans, committed suicide in front of the battle.
At this point, the Jin army's front line had lost the last bit of its originally meaningless resistance.
The Song cavalry, who had long been ordered to pursue and kill, led the way and rushed forward, successfully chasing the chaotic Jin army camp. Here, countless exhausted Jin soldiers, both infantry and cavalry, had already lost control in panic, and trampling and killing each other had already occurred. However, with the arrival of the Song cavalry, the previous chaos was nothing compared to the chaos before.
Countless Jin soldiers, although wearing heavy armor and carrying heavy hammers on their waists, were chased and slaughtered wantonly by the Song cavalry who had not caused any casualties all day.
Erlubu saw with his own eyes that groups of Jin cavalry, in complete disarray, were often pursued by a small group of Mongolian light cavalry and had no choice but to rush into the trenches in front of the camp that were full of mud and corpses, or they recklessly charged across the suspension bridge leading back to the camp, causing other Jin soldiers on the suspension bridge to fall into the ditch one after another.
The trench in front of the camp, filled with mud, blood, armor, weapons, bodies and wailing, had already become a hell on earth.
“No need to look at it!”
Yelu Mawu, who was usually very quiet, stepped forward and grabbed Erlubu. "Let's go! If you don't leave now, the trench will be filled with corpses!"
Erlubu turned around and said, puzzled: "Why is it like this? Even if the defeat is certain, even if it is a huge defeat, how can it be like this?"
"It should be like this." Yelu Ma Wu sneered and shook his head, loosening his hand, then turned around and took a reserve warhorse from the guards that had never been to the battlefield, and climbed on it. "I have seen the Khitans like this before, and I have also seen the Song people like this before... Now it's the turn of the Jurchens, why can't they be like this? Could it be that the Jurchens are really supernatural beings, and are not the same species as us Khitans, the Song people, and the Mongols?"
E'lubu was speechless.
"The camp is doomed to fail. There is no point in staying here!" Yelu Ma Wu suddenly became serious and scolded on the spot. "There are horses here. If you want to survive, go to the floating bridge in the north and go to Zhending Prefecture... If you want to try to save your subordinates, go to Shiyi to prepare, and then go back to gather the troops in front of the Qinshui and Hutuo Rivers... Anyway, don't stay here and do nothing."
Elubu shook his head slowly, then stepped forward, took the warhorse and climbed on.
In this way, the two of them led hundreds of cavalry out of the rear camp gate. As soon as they went out and walked a few steps to the south, they heard several exclamations in the noise behind them. When they turned around, they found that Elubu, a veteran general of the Eastern Army who was famous for his bravery, was heading north towards Zhending without saying a word.
More than half of them followed suit.
Ma Wu turned his horse around and hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head, turned around and rode south with the rest of his men.
Let's not talk about Ma Wu, let's just talk about the other side. Elubu was galloping northward, and after passing the camp, he saw a large group of horses and soldiers in the distance. He followed them and found that they were Hong Ya and the civil servants and military officers of the rear camp, as well as some of the remaining troops. What was even more surprising was that the veteran Jiagu Wulibu was also among them.
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