After Han Shizhong finished laughing, he saw Wang Yan's troops begin to cross the river from upstream in large numbers, but he still did not attack, but continued to sit down and wait for the opportunity. At this time, on the main road east of Changsha City, the direction that had gradually become quiet due to the arrival of Wang Yan's troops was filled with smoke and dust again.
Han Liangchen sat on the top of the city wall and watched leisurely for a moment. After roughly calculating the number of this last batch of reinforcements, he couldn't help but exchange glances with his brother Jie Yuan. Obviously, guesses are just guesses, but when the reinforcements of no less than 60,000 arrived, they were still a little bit unbelievable, because it was hard for them to imagine how the government troops organized such a large-scale and decisive rescue operation?
Moreover, ever since that perfect charge by Da?, Talai on the platform below the city wall had completely fallen into rage and chaos.
Wang Yan's crossing of the river made this emotion even more out of control - because Yue Fei's flag was still flying downstream, and the troops on the east bank of the river were still supporting along the pontoon bridge with all their strength, and most of them still could not completely eliminate this army! This situation, coupled with the new battlefield opened up by Wang Yan's troops, meant that Talan had to face a dilemma that he had always wanted to avoid before. How many troops should be sent to stop Wang Yan, and how many troops should be left to guard against Han Shizhong behind him?
To be honest, despite his emotional breakdown, Talai was still sensitively aware of one thing, that is, he was really going to be in a tough battle today!
As for whether Pucha Hubalu can return to provide assistance in time, it is not a question of whether he can solve the current problem of the Song army, but a question of whether he can preserve his own army!
It would be great if we could force the opponent to retreat by then!
However, to Talan's surprise, after he sent three more Meng'an to the riverside to coordinate with the main force in an attempt to stop the Song army, Han Shizhong in the city remained silent.
And precisely because of this silence, the battlefield has been confined to the banks of the Qingqi River. The Song army on the east bank began to use the ready-made floating bridges on the river to open up a large area of the battle line and expand the scope of the battlefield in order to demonstrate their numerical advantage, while the Jin cavalry began to move back and forth constantly, using their own resilience and cavalry mobility to barely hold on... Of course, under such circumstances, it would be a pipe dream for the Jin army to want to organize the previous large-scale charge.
The two sides seemed to be entering into some kind of torturous tug-of-war, which made Talai relax a little bit, because according to past experience, in this kind of battle that tests endurance and resilience, the final result is often that the Jin army will win.
But just a quarter of an hour later, seeing the reinforcements coming from the east coast again with smoke and dust rolling in, Talai was completely plunged into heartbeat and panic.
For some unknown reason, with the arrival of the last 20,000 reinforcements that had been expected, the Song army, numbering as many as 60,000 to 70,000 on the entire battlefield, began to gradually enter a state of inexplicable excitement... The two most obvious phenomena were that the Song army's speed of crossing the river to provide support and their desire to join the war greatly increased; at the same time, the Song army that was defeated by the Jin cavalry often gave up fleeing, and instead tried to reorganize and gather at the call of some officers.
"It must be the Song army commander Hu Yin himself!" A Han surrendered official explained. "In the past, most Song generals were cowardly, but Hu Mingzhong is so brave... But Marshal, don't worry. The Song army commander has no command ability and is new here. This kind of morale will soon be lost."
Talan believed this statement because they really looked similar.
But a quarter of an hour later, I don't know how many drums it was, but the inexplicable morale of the Song army was still not lost. Not only that, as a strange yellow flag with three tails came from afar, came to the riverside, and then almost without stopping, it got on the pontoon bridge and directly poured into Yue Fei's most solid formation with an elite force. The entire battlefield fell into a complete manic state.
Countless Song troops almost ignored their formation and swarmed across the river from various pontoon bridges. The speed at which the defeated soldiers from Hedong gathered was even more astonishing. The Jin cavalry, which was constantly moving back and forth, could no longer suppress the Song army's offensive across the river. In a short period of time, they lost their suppressive posture along the river.
But what was even more terrifying was that just after the big flag with a tail was erected in Hexi, the Changsha City, which had been too quiet, suddenly fell into a boiling chaos, and all the city gates were opened in an almost terrified manner. In the previous two or three months, Talai had become the most feared person by the right deputy marshal of the Jin army. After being silent for more than half an hour, he suddenly appeared inexplicably.
"Tear down the floating bridge!" Just as Talai was in a state of panic, Zhao Jiu had already arrived at Yue Fei's camp. After getting off his horse, the Zhao Song official, who was obviously flushed and nervous, took several deep breaths to barely lower his heart rate. But after his heartbeat recovered, he immediately turned around and gave a strange order to Li Qiong who followed him. "Tear down the floating bridge behind us, and then tell everyone to tear down the floating bridge after crossing the river! Tell them that today I have locked myself, them, and more than 10,000 Jin soldiers together... Only one family can get out alive!"
Li Qiong was stunned for a moment, then turned around and left in Yue Fei's silence... because the two people from Xiangzhou realized at the first moment that Emperor Zhao's crossing the river and demolishing the bridge was not a matter of pure courage, but a brilliant and somewhat cunning operation, because in this way, Pucha Hubalu's 10,000 fresh troops were isolated in Hedong.
In this way, even Emperor Zhao himself would be much safer.
PS: Thanks to my book friend He Changed the Human Empire and my book friend Tom Ding... These are the 61st and 62nd cuteness in this book... I would like to thank both of you for your support, I am very grateful.
To be honest, although my tooth still hurts today and I can only have the tooth extracted tomorrow, I was unexpectedly happy because I reconnected with many old classmates.
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