Wanyan Bendu did not have the courage to ignite this decisive battle, so he called Wanyan Wushu.
However, Wuzhu's arrival did not break this fragile balance, because at the same time when the flag of the ruling prince of the Great Jin appeared on the side and rear of the Jin army, Han Shizhong's large banner also appeared in the upper reaches of the Taiping River. His troops had hung up the iconic bronze mask more than ten miles away, as if they had made preparations for war early... Therefore, Wanyan Wuzhu immediately turned around and started a second large-scale confrontation with Han Shizhong on the river.
Not only that, as the two main battle groups were formed, Wuzhu also withdrew Elubu's troops from the high ground and gathered them at the junction of the two major forces on the side of the high ground.
On the other side, the light cavalry of the Song army also made immediate adjustments. The most reliable Li Shifu's troops were arranged at the junction between the two large banners, while Yelu Yudu and Hurzakhusi Khan and his son were deployed to the farther sides respectively.
Messengers were constantly traveling back and forth between the two banners, and more messengers were constantly gathering and dispersing from under the two banners to pass down the military orders of the two governors.
As the sun set, a large number of Jin army infantry arrived and lined up at the original position of Erlubu's troops. After Erlubu led his cavalry away, he disappeared behind the high ground... Over there, Marshal Wanyan Balisu had already been sitting and waiting with more than 10,000 pure iron cavalry, each man with three horses. The flags of Wanyan Huonu, Wanyan Posu, Wulinda Taiyu and others were all there. Erlubu's retreat meant that the number of the trump card in Balisu's hand reached 20,000.
However, the Jin army still did not order a general attack on Huyan Tong.
This time, the reason was not that no one dared to make the decision, but that after communicating with Wuzhu, Balisu and Wuzhu noticed the position of the sun together... It was getting darker and darker... Compared with Huyan Tong's small force, they had to ensure that the troops did not get out of control because of darkness.
No one wants to fight a night battle in a muddle.
However, no one could control the situation. Just when Balisu and Wuzhu came up with a plan that the main force could retreat slightly, but must use the local superior force to launch a surprise attack before dark to wipe out Huyan Tong's troops and gain victory... things suddenly got out of control.
What triggered all this was another Song army reinforcement from the northwest.
The weather was growing increasingly gloomy. When Emperor Zhao's dragon banner and a reinforcement force no less numerous than the main forces under the two large banners appeared in the northwest, there was neither a good view of them fluttering in the wind nor the spectacular sight of armor shining with golden scales facing the sun... That was a special experience when Li Yanxian's troops arrived.
However, as the dragon banner appeared in the field of vision of both sides, the situation went out of control - each tribe instinctively prepared themselves for war, but the Mongolian cavalry, who had the worst discipline, went too far, and one of them launched a surprise attack directly from a poorly defended shallow ford towards the other side.
Immediately, a scene that made everyone nervous but was expected appeared. The two armies, which had been caught in a tense confrontation due to their hasty gathering, went out of control. The two sides attacked each other from the shallows and bridges on the front line, and then the battle group expanded rapidly, stirring up a battle line that was more than ten miles long.
Military orders and tactics were all ineffective.
Zhao Jiu himself probably didn't expect that his arrival would have such an effect.
Even Wu Da, who arrived with the dragon banner, was lost for a moment.
That’s not all. As Emperor Zhao’s dragon flag stood behind Li Shifu’s troops, muffled thunder suddenly sounded… Like a conditioned reflex, everyone thought that a large group of cavalry was attacking, and the Jin army had already sent people to sneak across from upstream or downstream.
However, Zhao Guanjia, who had just boarded an elevated vehicle, looked around and did not see any obvious smoke or dust on the plains on both sides.
In fact, after hearing the thunder, Balisu, who had been lurking behind the high ground, was stunned. He thought that a large group of cavalry were ambushed somewhere... Maybe Qu Duan's cavalry were coming from the side and rear?
Soon, both families realized that this time there was real thunder - before dusk, the clouds were mottled and gradually became thicker, followed by rumbling spring thunder, the sky was dark, and rain fell heavily.
No one wants to fight a bad battle, but the sudden thunderstorm turned this battle into a bad one!
Thunder, lightning, rain and dusk easily wiped out the last possibility of conveying military orders and controlling troops, and at the same time awakened the various units that had already been fighting each other from the frenzy of war from top to bottom.
Before hearing the thunder, Han Shizhong was about to order the entire army to cross the river and engage in a full-scale battle with Wuzhu in front of them, and Huyan Tong was also preparing to attack the high ground directly.
But as soon as the rain fell, accompanied by the sound of thunder and rain, it was impossible to tell whose army's horn sounded, and the fighting troops on both sides began to retreat consciously.
The only difference was that during the retreat, the routes of both sides and the enemy and our own situation became completely blurred, and encounters were everywhere.
And one obvious thing is that since the Song army was the first to initiate the battle and had troops cross the river, it was destined to suffer greater losses in this battle.
Spring thunder rumbled, the fields were vast, Zhao Jiu stood in the car, letting the rain wash his face, and fell into a state of confusion.
He had no choice. Anyone who encountered this situation would be confused. In this situation, there seemed to be nothing he could do except being confused. Once the rain fell, he had to rely on the flash of lightning to see the battle situation clearly.
The battlefield is too big and there are too many troops!
"Officials."
Wu Jie supported Emperor Zhao from one side. "Come down quickly... It's easy to attract lightning at high places. Put up golden needles to avoid lightning. It was the Emperor who said that in the palace bulletin."
Zhao Jiu came to his senses and got out of the car in a hurry, but he was speechless when he saw that everyone around him, including himself, was wearing metal armor.
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