"The governor is not here." Qu Duan interrupted and reminded the other party condescendingly. "The governor has given me the command of the central army and the dispatch of the entire cavalry."
"Then it's the Commander-in-Chief!" The messenger with a Guanxi accent kept urging. "Commander-in-Chief Qu, my commander said that if the Commander-in-Chief doesn't come to rescue within a quarter of an hour, he has only one thing to entrust to you..."
"What is it?"
"Please ask the commander-in-chief to avenge him!" After saying this, the messenger ignored Qu Duan and rode back.
Qu Duan was stunned for a moment, and finally understood the information contained in Zhang Jing's words. He couldn't help but sneer, then turned around and looked around: "Old Zhang is anxious."
However, the surrounding armored cavalry, including Yue Fei's personal guards, were all silent after hearing this. They just looked at Qu Da without saying a word. Qu Da also came to his senses again and then sneered.
The sun shone down from the Helan Mountains and then rippled on the Yellow River. It was a magnificent scene, but the war continued. Bows and crossbows were still fired outside, and the Xixia people were still ruthless and refused to retreat. Every moment, blood was soaking the land and young crops on the line of battle hundreds of steps away. At the same time, Yue Fei and Hu Hongxiu continued to lead the big banner and continued to move forward slowly. Then suddenly, the horns of their own family sounded behind them.
"Did the Jiedushi expect this, so he deliberately transferred the command of the cavalry?" Hu Hongxiu looked back and couldn't help but reveal his doubts.
"Yes." Yue Fei did not defend himself, or rather, he was too lazy to defend himself. "But it was not that complete... I had expected the Xixia people to go to Zhang Jing's place, and the two thousand armored cavalry of the central army were originally prepared to ambush them in the formation, but I realized it when they were right in front of me. On the battlefield, no matter how good the idea is, it is just an idea, and people's hearts still have to follow, otherwise the gain will outweigh the loss... In addition, it makes sense for the commander-in-chief not to go into battle himself, so I simply let Qu Dutong do it, and he just wanted to get some credit."
Hu Hongxiu nodded immediately: "Qu Dutong should have the same idea as the governor. I just saw him order the 2,000 armored cavalry to turn around, but then they dismounted and did not move. It seems that he also has an ambush in the battle formation, waiting for the rear army to naturally retreat to the front, and then launch a surprise attack."
Yue Fei nodded in approval.
"But they still took the initiative in the end." Hu Hongxiu sighed. "In fact, the strategy of Jiedu and Qu Dutong was the best. If Zhang Tongzhi could be more patient..."
"Why would Zhang Jing abandon his own soldiers for the sake of the overall situation?" Unexpectedly, Yue Fei chose to shake his head this time. "It's not like the time in Jingdong. The bravest of the two sides wins when they meet on a narrow road. Both sides have no choice, so we asked General Tian to make a sacrifice. This time, the overall situation is on my side. How can I sacrifice one unit for the sake of being safe? Therefore, when the Xixia people retreated just now, I realized that Zhang Jing, a commander of the imperial camp with such qualifications, is arrogant in his bones. If I force him to do it, he might fight for his life... At that time, it would be in vain to ruin the morale and people's hearts of the whole army."
"Having said that, how did the Jiedushi expect Qu Dutong to go to the rescue?" Hu Hongxiu thought for a moment and continued to ask.
"Because the emperor often lectured him about his inability to rally his allies and subordinates during marches and battles, he still said he was dismissive of such things, but he still took it to heart... Compared to his personal military achievements, he was actually more afraid of being disliked by the emperor."
"It's hard to be a local commander." Hu Hongxiu was slightly startled when he heard this, but he avoided the topic of the government, which he was not good at. "You have to consider your relatives and friends, your merits and demerits, your superiors and subordinates, and you have to ensure that the overall situation is not lost."
"What kind of difficulty is this?" Yue Fei sneered upon hearing this. "It's not like the Jingkang Incident, when so many people risked their lives just to survive. We don't need to worry about it, but who wants to go back to that time? The so-called difficulty of our army now is only the difficulty of not being blamed for the great victory."
Hu Hongxiu also laughed for a moment, but after he finished laughing, he sighed again: "The Xixia people don't need to care about it at this time."
"So that's why." Yue Fei turned his head and looked towards the west, towards the Helan Mountains. The Xixia people there were still going crazy. "The Xixia people thought they could survive by doing this, but we know better than them that they lost their chance early on... Because we have experienced more desperate situations than they have, we knew from the beginning that they were using the wrong strength... Without armor or weapons, and gathering in a hurry, how can we win even if we are crazy and ruthless? We are just deceiving ourselves."
"There are many similarities in the world, not only before and after, but also not far apart, and between the north, south, east and west. It is absolutely impossible to change... Didn't we deceive ourselves so many times in the past? What was the result?" Hu Hongxiu also turned his head and sighed. "Only our country is bigger, and we can still survive step by step. What about the Xixia people?"
Yue Fei nodded in vain.
As Yue and Hu were talking more and more, two or three miles away, in the direction of the early summer breeze, as Qu Duan hesitated and decided to come to the rescue, the two thousand armored cavalry of the central army finally launched a surprise attack, greatly alleviating the predicament of Zhang Jing's troops. At the same time, the various emergency formations of the Song army also followed Qu Da's previous order and used this surprise attack as a signal to let go. For a while, the armored cavalry and light cavalry, which had been extremely frustrated, attacked together, swarming out from the gaps expected by the infantry formation, and launched a full-scale counterattack against the Xixia people.
Faced with the charge of the Song cavalry, the Xixia people, who were already blood-thirsty, chose to meet them head-on.
The war suddenly entered the decisive stage.
To be honest, human life is fragile, so anything can happen on the battlefield. There were commander-level officers in the imperial camp who were hit by stray arrows, and some archers wearing leather armor were shot like hedgehogs but were still alive and kicking. Similarly, there were Tangut nobles who had passed down the family for generations but suddenly made their families extinct, and there were also crazy Tangut boys who rushed to the front of the Song army and threw spears and successfully escaped.
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