No matter how hard it was to accept, this Jin army general in his golden age had to realize the cruel reality before him in a short period of time - the Jin army had been defeated, and the victorious Song army did not leave any opportunity for them to take advantage of.
Moreover, after the scouts returned and learned that a considerable number of Jin troops were fleeing on the west bank of the Qishui River, Pucha Hubalu realized that there was no reason for him to stay here and confront the enemy in vain… It was not far from dark, and staying here would be futile for the Jin troops who had no foothold. At the same time, his backers, his father-in-law, and his commander-in-chief might still be on the run.
As a result, Hubalu came quickly and retreated quickly. He stayed for only a quarter of an hour and then took the initiative to lead his troops north along the Qishui River.
This decision naturally brought about wild cheers from the Song army.
"Official, please be careful of this person."
On the general platform where Wanyan Talai originally stood, under the newly erected dragon banner, Yue Fei narrowed his eyes and looked at the 10,000 cavalrymen who decisively turned back on the other side of the river. He watched the smoke and dust go north, but turned back and bowed, his tone serious. "This general is so decisive, he can't be compared with Wanyan Talai and Da? before..."
Emperor Zhao knew that the other party was reminding him not to become complacent because of this great victory and not to think of fighting again in the short term. After the lesson of arrogance after the battle on Huai River, Zhao Jiu himself had some life experience here. What's more, it was Yue Fei who reminded him personally.
He nodded immediately but couldn't do it.
However, Zhao Guanjia, who had more experience in personnel affairs, nodded and did not forget to "ask" the other two generals for their opinions: "What do Han Qing and Wang Qing think?"
Han Shizhong was in high spirits at the time, so naturally he followed whatever the government said.
Wang Yan frowned slightly, but did not refute: "I think Pucha Hubalu is indeed decisive, and we should be careful."
Zhao Jiu nodded, as if thinking about something, and said no more.
Not to mention that Pucha Hubalu's decisiveness made Emperor Zhao sober up a little from his boiling blood. On the other side, Wanyan Talan fled north in a panic. The troops behind him first crossed the pontoon bridge, but because the passage was crowded and the Song army was chasing them closely, most of them were scattered. Later, they were pursued by the Song army on a large scale along the main road, and they were already in a mess.
After running for seven or eight miles, he finally saw a shallow ford, but he ran over there first. Then he had to go back because of the appearance of the Red Heart Cavalry on the road. Then he decided to try to cross the river from here, in order to take the few dozen remaining cavalry across the river to the other side to find his son-in-law.
However, when several Jin army knights carefully tested the shallows with thin ice, Wanyan Talan and others quickly took off their armor and were about to cross the river on horseback, suddenly, a group of poorly equipped people emerged from the yellow-green reed marsh next to them. The leader could not suppress his joy and shouted to them, "Talan, you bastard, you took off your clothes to flatter me?!"
Not to mention that this person's words were vulgar, just say that when Talai and others looked up, their hearts immediately turned cold. It turned out that this person was Li Kui, whom they had not seen for a long time before the war!
It has to be said that Li Kui was indeed a meticulous person. Not only did he anticipate that he might be in danger and sneak into the civilian camp early, but he also escaped from the Zhuoqi River floating bridge early after the battle broke out in an attempt to save his life in the chaos.
Not only that, after crossing the river, he did not flee to avoid the battle, but watched the battle from the side of the Zhuoqi River for a while. After discovering that the Song army was in full force, he simply stopped a group of more than a hundred civilians who had stolen the weapons of the Jin army and fled, and reported his official background... The Jin people were searching for this person today, and everyone in the civilian camp knew about this person, so how could they not believe him? However, under Li Kui's half-deception and half-coercion, he took the initiative to lead this official army commander to this shallow beach, in order to "make meritorious service while guilty".
It can only be said that Li Kui was really meticulous... He knew that it would be impossible to intercept the enemy if the dozens of civilians he had stayed at the pontoon bridge, and he had nothing to do with the pursuit on the main road, so he found this shallow beach early, but after seeing Talai and others arriving, he forced himself to be patient, and waited until the moment when these people took off their armor and prepared to cross the river, and then he led them to jump out.
Talai and his companions were already frightened, and now they were almost naked. When they saw Li Kui's divine soldiers and generals, they were fine, but Talai himself was frightened to the point of waiting to die almost instantly.
It was Hong Ya, who had also taken off his armor, who tried his best to command the remaining dozen or so exhausted Jin soldiers who had also taken off their armor to go forward and fight in the cold shallow water, and then he and some scholars surrounded Talai and quickly rode their horses across the river.
However, with such a huge gap in morale between the two sides, and without the advantage of armor, and in the water with ice, the Jin army, though brave, was temporarily suppressed by the civilians who had stolen weapons and were waiting for the opportunity. Not to mention that Li Kui himself was a hero from Jingdong, and in his hometown of Yishui, he was the second most important figure after Li Zhang, the Flying Eagle. Otherwise, how could he have established himself in Mizhou and sat on the throne, and how could he have been accepted by Zhang Rong of Liangshanpo when he arrived in Dongping Prefecture?
Therefore, Commander Li was seen with his bare chest, revealing his snow-white tendons and fancy tattoos, holding a knife in one hand and a large wooden shield in the other, but he was naked fighting against the equally naked Jin army.
When the two sides engaged in battle, before Talan could take a few steps into the river, Li Kui chopped down three or four people almost instantly, then broke through the obstruction and went straight for the unrestrained Talan.
After a few slashes, two of the surrendered literati who were escorting Talai were killed, and they simply fled in all directions. Talai was ready to accept his fate at this point.
But at this moment, the old man Tian Bujue shot an arrow with great force across the river, which actually hit Li Kui's shoulder. Li Kui hastily dropped his sword and held his shield, and then looked around, only to find that a large group of Jin troops had gathered on the opposite side without him knowing when, and he was instantly helpless.
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