The battle on the battlefield is ultimately a struggle between human quality and weapons and equipment. The Song Dynasty's personal guards were well equipped and had high combat qualities. Even when facing the fierce Liao people, they could still maintain their formation and form an army to deal with the Liao people.

Who is the strongest battle between infantrymen? Of course, the Song Dynasty, which was once dominated by infantry battles and had rich experience, consciously formed a battle formation that was both offensive and defensive, and rushed towards the Khitans under Zhao Zhen's crazy attack.

Zhao Zhen's Emperor's Sword has killed many Liao people. The bright blood red slowly turned into dark red under the sunlight. The originally majestic and gorgeous armor is covered with various knife marks, making it look vicissitudes and ruins.

The guards around him had already caught up and opened up a protective wall for him. Zhao Zhen's role had reached the point where the high-ranking emperor held a sharp sword and killed the enemy. This made the Liao people timid when facing him. In addition, the incompetent armor on his body completely defeated the fighting spirit of the Liao people.

Zhao Zhen adjusted his breathing. The madness in the moment had consumed a lot of his strength. The struggle on the battlefield was a long process. Looking up, Yelu Zongzhen was less than five steps away from him. He was being protected by Tie Linjun and fought with his personal guards.

At some point, the power balance on this small battlefield had quietly changed. The large number of Liao people had no advantage in terms of numbers. The Song Dynasty's personal guards stabilized their positions through continuous cooperation and attacks. Zhao Zhen felt that his opportunity had come.

Leading his personal soldiers Zhao Zhen was about to enter the entangled battle, Xia Shu shouted anxiously: "The official family, even if the personal guards come forward, they can deal with the Liao emperor. Why should the official family take risks?"

Zhao Zhen looked back and smiled: "Because I want to respect my opponent!"

In Xia Shu's opinion, this sentence is completely unnecessary and even ridiculous.

The truth of success and defeat in the world is the most important thing. Why should the emperor take risks in person? As long as he protects his life, the Song Dynasty will have won the final victory. Could it be that the so-called respect will put himself in a dangerous situation?

This is another reason for Xia Shu's literati thinking. Zhao Zhen not only wanted to respect respectful opponents on the battlefield, but also wanted to defeat Yelu Zongzhen with his own hands. Only in this way can he achieve the effect he expected. The king of a country took down the enemy king with his own hands. This is a great encouragement to the Song Dynasty and a great blow to the Liao Dynasty?!

When Zhao Zhen entered the battle, his personal guards tried hard to suppress the Tielin Army to the periphery of Yelu Zongzhen and leave the large open space on the battlefield to the emperors of the two empires. This is respect and awe of imperial power. They, soldiers and infantry, dare not kill the king of a country at will, no matter what, only their own emperor can do so.

Zhao Zhen was not in a hurry. He watched Yelu Zongzhen holding a sword in both hands remain alert. At this time, there was not much opportunity to take the initiative, and the longer the delay, the more people died, which invisibly put more pressure on Yelu Zongzhen.

The number of Liao people was getting smaller and smaller, and Yelu Zongzhen could judge it through the screams of more and more Khitan warriors. When the screams completely disappeared from the battlefield, Yelu Zongzhen knew that he had lost. The guards of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty had surrounded him, and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty Zhao Zhen stood opposite him, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. Yelu Zongzhen always felt that Zhao Zhen's smile had an imperial temperament, as if the world's general trend was in his size, but now he hated this kind of smile, and even wanted to punch him!

"Why are the emperor laughing?"

"When did I laugh?"

Zhao Zhen looked at Yelu Zongzhen with a serious expression and said, "What are you happy about me to laugh? Is it because I defeated you? It's not worth it!"

Yelu Zongzhen looked ugly, but he didn't expect that the Emperor of Song Dynasty would still humiliate himself in the end!

"A king succeeds and loses the enemy. Even if I, Yelu Zongzhen, will not become your target of humiliation for you, Zhao Zhen! Do you dare to have a duel between warriors with me?"

Zhao Zhen sighed slightly: "Dule? If you and me did this early, there wouldn't be so many warriors who would lose their lives in vain. Do you think I won? In fact, there is no winner in the battlefield war! My Song Dynasty can completely crush your Liao Dynasty, it just takes time. I don't want to wait to provoke a war. Your Liao Dynasty will definitely be defeated before my Song Dynasty!"

Yelu Zongzhen shouted in anger: "Why?! Are you a Han Chinese born to want people to be first-hand?!"

Zhao Zhen shook his head: "It's not that the Han people are superior, but that the strength of the Song Dynasty crushed you, the Liao Dynasty, is only a matter of time. From agriculture and people's livelihood to commercial investigation, to the surplus of the treasury, soldiers and armor blades, which of you are the opponent of my Song Dynasty? Do you know why I only took the two states of Dangxiang people back then?"

"Because you, Da Song, always have a narrow-minded vision, and you will be complacent if you get a little benefit!"

Zhao Zhen did not refute Yelu Zongzhen's words but nodded affirmatively: "Yes, you are right. I used to be like this in the Song Dynasty. I also wanted to eat Xixia at that time, but in the end I found that it was basically impossible to eat Xixia. Once the soldiers of the Song Dynasty occupied the two states of the Dangxiang people, they were self-confidence and no longer advanced. They had not opened up an inch of territory for so many years. This made me see the essence of the Han people, and were accustomed to defending the immediate interests, and it was difficult to take action against invasion. This is why I did not take Datong Prefecture to fight you in the decisive battle with you but took Fengshengzhou north."

Yelu Zongzhen's pupils shrank suddenly. Unexpectedly, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty had made such a plan. He did not take down the entire Yan Yun, but actually made the Song Dynasty advance north! In this way, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty's northern expedition was not only to recover Yan Yun, but also to destroy the Liao Dynasty!

"Why! Since the alliance between the Song and Liao countries, they have been brothers of each other since the Tanyuan alliance. The two countries have set up discussions to communicate with each other. The people of our Liao people learn Han culture. You, the people of the Song people, buy our Great Liao specialty, and the people of the two countries live and work in peace. Wouldn't it be great if there is no war?"

Naivety, this is the last evaluation of Zhao Zhen to Yelu Zongzhen. Maybe all this can become a reality when Yelu Zongzhen is alive, and may last longer, but Zhao Zhen does not believe that there are those two countries that can live in harmony.

This is an era of continuous progress and friction between civilizations. Survival of the fittest has become inevitable. The premise of peaceful coexistence is that the strength between the two countries is equal. Moreover, Zhao Zhen will not leave the Liao Dynasty to catch up with the Song Dynasty. Even if he retreats, the Liao Dynasty will catch up with the national strength of the Song Dynasty. This balance will sooner or later be broken, and the war will happen again by time. It is better to end it when he can control it.

"What you said is too natural. The Song Dynasty is constantly improving, but the Liao Dynasty is still maintaining its original appearance. Since Xiao Nojin's chaos in power, the Liao Dynasty has lost the prosperity of the Emperor of the Holy Sect. You should be able to see that the Liao Dynasty is now on a downward path. This is not a situation that your own power can change. Once the Liao Dynasty encounters a major disaster, you will definitely throw away the Han etiquette you have learned, tear off the peace mask on your face, and lift up the sword and horse to rob our Central Plains dynasty!"
Chapter completed!