Seeing that Li Chongjiu's cavalry attacked their flanks, Song Jingang immediately adjusted his formation and ordered Tabai, one of the three hundred-year-old Lang's army, to step forward and stabilize his position.

The so-called "Taibai" is the selection of the front line. There have always been examples of the Sui army calling the "Taibai Army". The selection of the front line in the Song Jinganger Lang army must be able to wear strong armor and can open arms and crossbows. In addition to the arms and crossbows, there are also "Taibai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" and "Shanghai" are all excellent equipment taken from the arsenal after capturing the Yixian County Town, and they are all available only by the regular Sui army. Especially for the waist and crossbows, soldiers need to sit on the ground with their arms, feet and waist power, and the range can reach more than 300 steps.

When the cavalry saw a powerful crossbow appear, it was enough for them to take a look. They would never test arrows and pluck their horses to retreat.

"The enemy finally retreated, the general." The generals were all glad.

Song Jingang smiled. At this time, a general of the rear army came forward and said, "Report to the general that on the left wing of our army, there were as many as thousands of cavalry."

When Song Jingang heard this, he changed his color slightly. At this time, another person came and said, "There are cavalrymen behind our army, and cut off the way back to Yi County!"

"What?" Song Jingang was shocked. The retreat was cut off. For the army of this era, the morale of the army was very severe.

"Master General, the main force of the enemy was found on the right wing, with more than 3,000 cavalrymen!"

Song Jingang waved his sleeves and got on the imperial carriage. He went to the right wing of the army and saw smoke and dust rolling in the distance. The enemy cavalry appeared in groups in the east and west, like a lantern. I don’t know what the reason was. Song Jingang and the generals were thinking, but the Song army soldiers were not very panicked. They all tied their shields firmly to the ground, holding bows and crossbows and putting them on guard.

"The general, the enemy cavalry appeared in front and behind our army, on the left and right wings. Doesn't it mean that our army has been surrounded by enemy cavalry on all sides?"

"Just, there are ten military tactics that surround us. Li Chongjiu can reach up to ten thousand cavalry. How could he surround our army from all sides?"

"But Li Chongjiu's troops are all cavalry. If we move in any direction, they can immediately mobilize their troops in advance, use their mobility to make up for the shortcomings in their troops, take the lead in blocking, and can use our army's weak flanks and rear attacks at any time when we advance."

There are also people in the Song army who know about soldiers. Although the Song army has 10,000 soldiers, except for the three thousand armored Erlang Army and three thousand regular soldiers, the other five thousand are auxiliary soldiers. It is impossible for them to be guarded from all directions. Hearing this, Song Jingang's body shook, he suddenly realized, clenched the sword in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, is Li Chongjiu the tactic of your thoughts on dealing with me, Song Jingang?"

On the hillside not far from Song Jingang's 10,000 troops, Li Chongji, Gao Chu, and Yuchi Gong were all standing on the hillside to watch the formation. Looking from the hillside, Song Jingang's 10,000 invaders were arranged in square formations and tightly arranged, just like stacked quilts, only a small piece. But on the other hand, Li Chongjiu's cavalry was scattered out from all directions, surrounding the Song Jingang's army, and it seemed that there were 100,000 people.

Li Chongjiu said: "The cavalry is called a clutch soldier. The so-called hundreds of cavalry surrounds it, which can wrap thousands of people, and thousands of cavalry can spread apart, and can fill a hundred miles. There are tens of thousands of cavalry here."

In history, the Jurchens did not often claim to be themselves. The Jurchens are not as full as ten thousand, and they are invincible. However, the current Jurchens, called Marcelona, ​​are still hunting with primitive horn bows and arrows in the bitter and cold land of Heilongjiang. Not to mention Meng'an Mouke, they are still in the primitive clan stage, which is even more backward than the Xi and Khitan alliance clan stages. There is no need to mention iron smelting, so how can they talk about training a strong army? But Li Chongjiu's ten thousand cavalry is different. The cavalry made of the army of the army is not inferior to Meng'an Mouke at all, and they have also been replaced with iron equipment.

"A hundred cavalry surrounds it, can be surrounded by thousands of cavalry scattered, can be filled with a hundred miles," Gao Chu read it twice, and said with great enlightenment, "It's right, Khan, Song Jingang's ten thousand invaders were actually surrounded by us."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Song Jingang is not an incompetent person. I can't surround him with all my ten thousand cavalry."

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Gao Chu showed a look of surprise and asked, "Prince, since you don't surround him, why are you setting up this formation to surround him?"

Li Chongjiu said, "That's me waiting for Song Jingang to send troops."

At this time, a little snow floated from the sky again. Li Chongjiu tightened the cloak behind him and walked down the hill. The soldiers on the side presented a few skins, horse milk wine. Li Chongjiu said to Yuchi Gong, Gao Chuyan: "Come on, drink this wine. The weather is very cold. The people on the grassland rely on this to warm up their bodies, but they can't drink too much."

After hearing this, Yuchi Gong and Gao Chu took the skin and drank it hard.

At this time, the sound of gongs and drums in the distance sounded again, and the Song general flag was raised and moved forward. Song Jingang's army advanced again with the general flag. The Song army formed a tight formation, and although it was not revealed, it was greatly sacrificed in speed and moved forward a little. Li Chongjiu's cavalry had long heard of it. Seeing this situation, they did not face the Song army infantry formation with strong crossbow equipment. They always kept a distance from the enemy army, so that they did not dare to advance easily.

Both Yuchi Gong and Gao Chu saw that as long as Li Chongjiu's cavalry kept swimming in front, the Song army's infantry kept moving slowly because they were careful of the enemy's rushing forward. This was safe and worry-free. However, at this speed, even if they walked for ten days, they would not be able to reach Fan Yang and could not be able to escape the siege under the city.

Li Chongjiu stood on the mountain with great certainty and watched the enemy.

Two hours passed, and the sun had already set on the west mountain. Song Jingang's army was slowly advancing, but the rear flanks were constantly attacked by Li Chongjiu's army. Although they were strictly guarding and there were few casualties, in two hours, the entire army had just advanced forward for one mile.

Taiyuan gradually sinks to the west, and Song Jingang looks back. The camp he repaired last night is still in his eyes. Today, his 10,000 troops have only moved less than five miles away.

Song Jingang waved his chariot immediately and said, "The cavalry attacked forward and broke through the encirclement."

As Song Jingang finished speaking, he had already prepared a thousand armored cavalry of the Song army, and all of them were ready. These cavalry were all sharp soldiers in Erlang's army, covered in iron armor, helmets, and even immediately put on leather gear. They held crossbows and rode on horses with horizontal swords. After the cavalry generals called the order, the infantry in front scattered and the Song cavalry rushed out of the gap.

Seeing the Song cavalry bravely approaching, the cavalry in front of Li Chongjiu retreated one after another, but this retreat was not an ordinary retreat, but the cavalry retreated while pulling arrows on the horse and shooting behind. This is exactly what Li Chongjiu has been practicing in the past month to imitate the Mongols' mad cavalry shooting technique.

The Song army cavalry were all covered with armor, and the use of bows and crossbows was definitely not as convenient as the Li Chongjiu cavalry, but they still gritted their teeth and shot at the butt of the horse. Although the Li Chongjiu cavalry was diffuse, they often shot an arrow after shooting an arrow, the Song army's cavalry somehow came forward and caught an arrow.

Even if the Song cavalry was covered with armor, they could not withstand such retreat and shooting. Some simply rushed forward with their heads, hoping to win in close combat with the strength of their armor. However, Li Chongjiu's cavalry would not give you anyway, and they would not be able to catch up and retreat while fighting. It was because you didn't come to pursue, and the cavalry would project from a long distance. If you come to chase, I would fight and escape while fighting. Now the Song cavalry were all looking at fire with their eyes. Several bravely rushed to the front several times with their horse speed, but were shot overturned. Most people were in a situation where they were unable to fight and could only pursue, but they were shot one by one by one by the enemy.

Song Jingang was stroking forward for about half a mile with the impact of the cavalry, but at this time he found that the cavalry he sent was pursuing was being attacked by Li Chongjiu's cavalry, which was like being led by the nose, was circling in circles.

Song Jingang was suddenly shocked. He thought that even if he was defeated by his cavalry, he would not be defeated. However, he was shocked to find that his cavalry had fallen into the trap of the enemy. Song Jin immediately ordered Ming Jin to retreat, but at this time, several cavalry of Cangtou Army surrounded and intercepted the retreat route of his cavalry. At the same time, Li Chongjiu's cavalry in all directions launched a harassment raid on the infantry of Song Jingang Army.

This comprehensive attack caught Song Jingang off guard. He could only order the infantry to defend himself and could not step forward to support the cavalry, and watched his subordinates be surrounded.

When the Song cavalry broke through the encirclement and returned to his formation, they lost 300 cavalry, which was an unbearable loss for his few cavalry. Song Jingang watched, the enemy dragged his cavalry with his horse and collected everything from the corpse, first with iron armor, then with bows and horizontal swords. The appearance of the groundhog was like a groundhog and wishing to peel off the corpse. Finally, he picked up the iron arrowheads all over the ground with an unfulfilled desire.

"Camp!" Song Jingang was filled with anger and decided to set up a camp first.

But even if the camp was established, the grassland cavalry did not give Song Jingang a chance to camp well. When he was digging a trench, did the cavalry come up to harass him. He saw the Song army's tent and used rockets to shoot from afar. Although the fire was immediately extinguished, the tent also inadvertently had several small holes.

The enemy was even more unable to sleep at night, and the sound of horse hooves and horns rumbling outside the tent never stopped for a moment. You should know that the soldiers of the Song army were all suffering from night blindness. There was no light pollution in this era, so it was really dark at the moonless night. Everyone was almost blind at night, but the grassland cavalry usually ate meat, so the chance of getting night blindness was very low. At night, the soldiers of the Song army guarded the night watch, leaning on a few oil lamps, each of them looked like night owls, staring at the surroundings, but their sight was no more than ten meters away.

At night, various camps and harassment were all night long, not to mention that the heavy snow fell again and the Song army, who simply set up a tent, almost spent the night in the bitter cold.
Chapter completed!