There is no doubt that Zhao Jiu was right. The Jin army was indeed at the end of its strength! No matter how powerful an army is, it will pay a price in the face of weather and terrain!
In the central army, people were almost celebrating.
But Wu Jie and Zhao Jiu, although they had temporarily calmed down, did not say a word and just looked away. The only difference was that Wu Jie was trying to search for the relevant troops near Dongpoyuan and sent out scouts to the back of the plateau, while Zhao Jiu was looking far to the south, at the foot of the mountain behind Wuzhu.
Sure enough, the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. Just when the Song army was surprised and delighted by the situation on the right wing, smoke and dust rose again at the foot of the mountain where Wuzhu had appeared before.
Apparently, thousands more troops were arriving there.
"Deputy Commander, Marshal!" Wang Yuan's face tightened when he saw this, but he suggested to Zhao Jiu and Wu Jie at the same time. "Although Wanyan Wushu's reinforcements are at the end of their strength and lack combat power, they have tens of thousands of people. If they continue to provide intermittent support, the right wing may collapse suddenly at any time... Whether it is to support the right wing or send the central army to win the battle, it is only now!"
Wu Jie shook his head slowly, and Zhao Jiu also concentrated and remained silent.
Wang Yuan had no choice but to give up and watch the battle unfold.
Moreover, once it became apparent that Jin Wushu's army was exhausted and weak in combat effectiveness, Wu Jie had already begun to consider the matter, but he never took action. There was only one reason for this, which was that he did not know where Lou Shi's headquarters would launch the attack from.
The opponent was a cavalry and had the right to make active choices, but Wu Jie did not and could only respond passively.
Of course, we shouldn't wait too long, because the scouts have reported that Lou Shi has left Jinsu Mountain and is heading towards us.
As for Zhao Jiu, he did not respond to this matter for another reason.
As the sun set further to the west, some clouds tended to thicken, making the sunlight gradually dim. In this case, the yellow soil in the surrounding areas in front of the camp, where the vegetation was deliberately cut down by the Song army, became the main basis for judging the size of the army and its movement trend. The flags that occasionally appeared in the dust and their positions before departure became the main basis for judging the army's camp.
There was a bloody battle going on on the Dongpo Plateau in front of them. The left wing of the Song army was the right wing of the Jin army. In short, there was also a bloody battle in the mud in the north... By the same token, the right wing of the Song army, the left wing of the Jin army, and Wanyan Wushu and Han Chang at the foot of the mountain in the south also had to fight a bloody battle with Liu Xi, Li Yanqi and others on the opposite Xihe Road.
The bone-deep fatigue caused this army, which was supposed to sweep the battlefield, to fall into a war of attrition that was difficult for them to accept. But Wuzhu and Han Chang knew without the reminder of Mou Yan who was accompanying the army, that in such a large-scale battlefield, everyone had to abandon any local gains and losses and hold on at all costs to create conditions for the real winner.
Of course, even though they understood the situation, Wuzhu and Han Chang were still heartbroken... They thought they would be the winner, but unexpectedly, a three-day raid made them lose the chance to be the winner.
There’s no way, the road is too difficult to walk on and the weather is too hot!
Of the 20,000-strong army, six or seven thousand had fallen behind in the previous two days' forced march, and today behind Yaoshan, the army was disconnected again - another great general, Chizhan Hexi, Chizhanhui's cousin, led ten thousand households after Chizhanhui's death, and he led five or six thousand people and disappeared without a trace, and no one knows where he is now!
In fact, the purpose of sending out the Saker Falcon to find the way was not to determine the battlefield's position, but to try to find the whereabouts of the other unit. However, they really didn't find it, but because they had to lead the six or seven thousand troops who had barely arrived to fight first when they arrived at one side of the battlefield. As for Wushu's stopping there to "reorganize the troops", it was first because he was tired, and second because he really wanted to wait for Chizhan to attack.
"General Han, General Chizhan should be coming from behind. I think he should have brought three to four thousand people!" Seeing Han Chang, who was charging in front, being called, Wanyan Wushu, whose face was already covered with dust, was overjoyed. He immediately reined in his horse and called out to Han Chang in the chaos. "You take your troops back to meet them, I will hold on for a while!"
"What does the Fourth Prince have to say?" Han Chang wiped his face, but the sweat could not be hidden behind the yellow dust.
"You go back and rest, let Chizhan join the attack, then I'll go back and you come... We are cavalry, don't fight so chaotically, we should charge if we can, and we can also send people and horses to rest!" Wuzhu gave the order on the spot.
Han Chang thought it made sense, and without hesitation, he ordered the knights behind him to raise their flags again, and then led about 3,000 people to withdraw from the battle line and head south to meet Chizhan's joint attack.
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However, as Han Chang continued to raise the flag and head south, the smoke and dust on the opposite side continued to move slowly along the foot of the mountain. When the two sides were about to collide, General Han felt more and more that something was wrong!
After climbing over another small slope, when the two sides were about five or six hundred steps apart, Han Chang simply took a stand. He finally realized that something was wrong - the marching trajectory of this army was a little far from the foot of the mountain. It did not seem like they were coming from the Yaoshan Passage, but rather like they were coming all the way from the south.
Not only that, the formation was maintained too tightly, as if they were not very tired, and the number of cavalry seemed too small.
Therefore, General Han immediately ordered his own troops to stop for a while, hoping that the many Jin army knights who had fallen behind between the two troops would serve as scouts for him.
However, General Han's doubts soon ceased, because when the enemy was still four or five hundred steps away from him, a group of forty or fifty fully armored cavalrymen took the initiative to rush out, speaking with a Liaodong accent from afar, calling on the lagging Jin troops between the two armies to gather under the big flag with the word "Han" in the front.
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