The rain did slow down, but it was enough to obscure people's figures, wet the flags, and make bows and crossbows ineffective, making it basically difficult to deploy the battle formation, so the battle was ultimately conducted in an unusual form.
And on the official road on the south side of Wushan Mountain, a man with a strong build, riding a big horse, holding two swords, and wearing full armor, was looking at the gray Song army camp and battlefield in front of Beixin Bridge in front of him, but he just stood on his horse in the rain, solemnly silent.
This person is Li Cheng.
It is said that when the Song court discussed the Pseudo-Qi before, they all believed that after Liu Yu, Liu Lin, Li Cheng, and Kong Yanzhou were the three most important to watch out for, which was of course correct. But in fact, in terms of winning the hearts of the army and prestige, Kong and Liu were inferior to Li Cheng in more than one aspect. In other words, from this perspective, Li Cheng was not on the same level as the other two.
Although they had to cross the river and attack in the rain, it did not mean that Li Cheng's troops had no place to stay for the night... Beixinqiao was an important transportation route of the Jishui River, and about three or four miles away there was a small settlement formed due to trade and transportation. However, due to the previous visits of the Jin army and now the Battle of Pingyin, the people here had long since dispersed... In any case, this was a natural place to take shelter from the rain.
However, Li Cheng arrived in the middle of the night. Although he occupied the settlement and drove out the vanguard troops, and asked his elite central army to occupy the settlement for rest, he himself went out of the town and slept in the rain with the vanguard soldiers. When the battle started at daybreak, although he knew that ordinary soldiers could not see his shape in the rain, he still stood up and stood in the rain.
He truly has the demeanor of a great general.
Of course, there were people who could see this behavior. Hong Ya, the prime minister of the pseudo-Qi state who was ordered to come and supervise the army, had just finished his rest in the small village and came to look for Li Cheng on horseback with an umbrella. When he saw this scene from behind Li Cheng, he first folded the umbrella, hung it on the horse, and then stood in the rain for a while before riding forward and standing side by side with Li Cheng.
Besides, Li Cheng, the master of the double swords, is one of the best in the world, and how good is his eyesight? He had already caught a glimpse of the shape of this "prime minister" just now, but he just pretended not to know...
After all, this Hong Ya is more than just the prime minister of the Great Qi. There are rumors that he was originally the confidant of Talai, the right deputy marshal of the Jin Dynasty, and saved Talai's life. It was even this man who cleaned up the mess and maintained the situation when Talai was defeated and fled to Changsha.
And when Talai retreated to Hebei, this man was ordered to go to Daming Prefecture to negotiate with the Prime Minister and Grand Marshal Nianhan of the Jin Dynasty on the establishment of the Great Qi. Unexpectedly, he caught the eye of Grand Marshal Nianhan. So when the Great Qi was established this time, Hong Ya was actually the Prime Minister of the Great Qi who took over from Daming Prefecture... In other words, he was not only a Prime Minister of the Great Qi, nor was he the military supervisor of Li Cheng's Qingzhou soldiers this time. He was more like a military supervisor sent by the Great Jin Dynasty to the Great Qi!
Even the Emperor Liu Yu of the Great Qi Dynasty had to show seven points of courtesy to this person, so logically, Li Cheng should also show three points of courtesy.
However, Li Cheng, the lord of Qingzhou, Mizhou and Weizhou, the so-called Grand Commander of Qi State, was not an ordinary warrior. He knew from the beginning that a warlord like himself with no foundation must have political support in order to survive for a long time, and then find a good opportunity to gradually expand... Therefore, he was very courteous to this Prime Minister Hong.
"Thank you for your hard work, Grand Commander." Hong Ya rode his horse to Li Cheng's side and looked at him calmly. "How is the battle going in the front?"
"Mr. Hong has worked hard!" Li Cheng was also calm. "The battle ahead is not going well."
Hong Ya was slightly startled, but he looked at the chaotic camp in front of him with a little hesitation: "How do you know? Can the Grand Commander see the battle situation clearly? Or is there something I don't understand?"
"It's not some mysterious truth." Li Cheng continued in a stern voice. "It's just that I discipline my army very strictly. I issued an order to Du Yan in the morning. As long as we break into the enemy camp a hundred steps and occupy the fence and the camp gate, we will blow the horn as quickly as possible. Then my central army, which has rested all night, will take advantage of the situation and rush forward. Du Yan will not dare to disobey... But so far, the sound of the horn has not been heard."
"I see, it seems like they are still fighting for the victory." Hong Ya sighed and twirled his beard. "After the battle at Changshe, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and they were no longer afraid of the Jin army. Moreover, we met them unexpectedly in the rain yesterday, and our plan to pretend to be the Jin army did not work..."
"The best scenario is that they will see each other off at the fence," Li Cheng ignored the other party's nonsense and made a further analysis. "The worst scenario is that this group of Song soldiers is very elite and directly blocks Du Yan's Mizhou soldiers at the edge of the camp, killing them in an orderly manner... In that case, the Mizhou soldiers will soon be unable to bear the casualties, and Du Yan will have to come to apologize before the army is defeated!"
"I see."
Hong Ya couldn't help but look at Li Cheng a little more, but he didn't lose his composure because of his words... After all, who hasn't experienced defeat? The key point is that Li Cheng said this so calmly, which made people doubt his thoughts and respect him even more.
No matter what, he always has the demeanor of a great general!
However, just as Hong Ya was lost in thought, the slap in the face happened - in the drizzle, countless Qi troops, that is, Du Yan's Mizhou soldiers, suddenly rolled back like a tide, and the movement was so great that even in the rain one could get a glimpse of their momentum.
Li Cheng was obviously stunned, then his face became gloomy, but he waved slightly to his side.
Following the signal from the Qi State Grand Commander, hundreds of cavalrymen who had been waiting on both sides of the official road suddenly emerged from the rain. Of course, Hong Xianggong had already seen the personal guards of Grand Commander Li, but only then did he notice that these cavalrymen were not only fully armored, but also held a long-handled single-edged broadsword in their hands, and the blade was more than two feet long... and at this time, the blade was exposed, even in the rain, it was still bright, which was amazing!
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