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Xiao Heda was repelled for two consecutive attacks. He also understood that he was on the risk. He was attacked here and the front army would soon get news. If he dragged it down, he could not leave. Now he could only settle for the second best, destroying the Song army's supplies, and quickly withdraw.-<  >-./-<  >-././

"Set the rockets and destroy their food and grass!" Xiao Heda waved his hand, and a team of knights lit a torch, ignited the fat-sticked arrow feathers at the chariot array.

"Damn it, it's true. Fortunately, I met an expert!" As the logistics manager, Zhao Zhi knew the life gate of the Zhongyong Army, that is, he was afraid of fire, and gunpowder was just touching the fire. Fortunately, their brothers thought of the front that everything was shipped was all grain and feed, and there was no gunpowder. Of course, they were planning to sacrifice this batch of things. Now that they had a good solution, they saved the food.

"General, the reinforcements of the Song army have arrived. General Jule is unable to resist and is retreating to our side!" Just as Xiao Heda was waiting for the fire to ignite, the scout came to report.

"What, the Song army reinforcements have arrived?!" Xiao Heda was stunned. In order to wait for this opportunity, he led his troops to ambush here last night. He gave up the opportunity to attack at night only because the baggage team was not far from the central army. It was not until the central army set out in the early morning that the two armies set apart for thirty miles before they started, leaving enough time for themselves to evacuate calmly. In order to ensure that he left half of his troops to attack and intercept the reinforcements, but in less than an hour, the Song army reinforcements arrived. Could it be that they were flying here?

‘Dong, Dong’ Two red flowers bloomed in the air, “These boys finally came out!” Zhao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, but his affairs were not over yet. “Change the formation. Line up one by one, block the main road, and cut off the Xia army’s road!" He ordered.

Under the advice of the old man, the civilians were divided into several teams, each performing their duties. The efficiency was more than twice as high. The rockets that had just been shot were quickly extinguished with the cooperation of the civilians. The civilians on standby immediately assisted the soldiers to move the carts away and lined up in a row. How could the Xia army on the opposite side not understand what they were doing? Unfortunately, it was not so easy for them to get close to the cart array. The Hedong Army fired arrows like flying rain, and the Zhongyong Army fired guns, blocking them fifty steps away.

"It's over. I'll still fall into a trap!" Xiao Heda saw the Song army's change of formation, and his heart suddenly became cold. This was obviously preparing to block the front and intercept the back, and made himself into dumplings.

Xiao Heda was much more kind than Chage. He did not slip away first, but gave up the attack and led his troops back to meet the aid troops defeated by the Zhongyong Army. He personally cut off the back. This kid was worthy of the word "a fierce general" above his head. He led a team of light cavalry to rush straight into the battlefield of melee. He claimed that he was unparalleled in cavalry and shooting. His horse's kung fu was naturally better than the Zhongyong Army. He was not a little bit stronger than the Zhongyong Army. He killed more than ten Zhongyong Army soldiers in a row. He opened the gap and brought the surrounded Xia army out.

Zhao Lian, who was responsible for encircling and annihilation of Xiao Heda, saw that his side did not take advantage of the melee. He immediately ordered a change of tactics: not to fight the Xia army in close combat, but regrouped and fired from a long distance with muskets to consume the Xia army's vitality, and then took advantage of the chaos to launch a group charge in teams, using collective strength to make up for the shortcomings of individual combat capabilities, and eventually annihilate the Xia army.

"Don't be in love with the battle, break through each other and go back to Xiazhou to gather!" Xiao Heda looked at the personal guards next to him and gradually gathered to him, blocking the locust-like bullets for him and shouted.

Xiao Heda gave an seemingly unreasonable order, but it was the most appropriate at this time. No one had the courage to attack the firearms of the Loyal and Brave Army. Staying here can only be beaten passively. Now there are obviously ambush everywhere, and you will be driven back from wherever you break through. Instead, it is better to break through in scattered places, making the Song army unable to touch the direction. There are many roads in Gantangyu, which is more suitable for this way of breaking through the broken up. Where a large group of people cannot get through, you can escape alone. The Song army will never stop for one or two people to chase after them. Although the losses are inevitable, some people will still escape...

"Roar up with me, kill the Song army and buy time for your brothers!" Someone who escaped was going to break the rear. Seeing that the Song army re-arranged, Xiao Heda divided a small group of troops from it and started rushing into the formation, preparing to break into his chaotic army and split, he pulled out his long sword and shouted to his personal guards.

"I wish to advance and retreat with the general!" Three or four hundred people gathered around Xiao Heda roared in unison, and then rushed towards the Song army first. The Ai army rushed forward with the belief of death and broke into the Song army. Although they were brave and fought for one life for one life, the situation was hopeless. No matter how hard they fought or how the Xia army sacrificed their lives, they could no longer change the direction of the war.

Xiao Heda was deeply trapped in the chaos. He kept sprinting and fighting. The original color of the battle robe was no longer visible. The horse riding was shot several times, and the sword in his hand was full of gaps, but he continued to chop and kill, "Kill!" A general of the Loyal and Brave Army on the opposite side cut several Xia soldiers, suddenly came to his horse, shouted loudly, and the sabre in his hand was slashed towards him. Xiao Heda had no time to dodge, and he tried to hold the sabre that was slashing over.

With a loud bang, the two swords intersected. Mars splattered everywhere, and the long sword in Xiao Heda's hand was immediately broken into two pieces. The horse under his seat screamed and knelt on the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and was unable to see it. The sword force of the person who came down did not diminish. Xiao Heda's horse stumbled at the front of his feet and could not avoid it. He could only bend down and dodge it, and took a knife with his back.

"Hmm?!" Gao Chong snorted in surprise. He was born with divine power. At this time, the man used the horse's stance and thought that his sword could not cut the enemy general in half, and could also break his bones and tendons, and he died. However, the sword clearly slashed on the back of the enemy general, and the man was just smashed to the horse, and he had not seen any blood, which surprised him.

Xiao Heda had the capital to resist the sword. He had three layers of armor on his body, and the one close to his body was rhinoceros soft armor. The second layer was made of fine scale iron armor made by a good general of Xixia. The outer layer was also covered with ring armor. Ordinary weapons could not cause damage to him. The blade broke through two layers of iron armor in a row, which failed to make him see blood. However, Gao Chong's sword was enough for him to suffer. The smash made his eyes blurry, his back hurt, his chest was stuffy, his throat was salty, and his bones were broken. But he probably would have to suffer from back pain in the future. Xiao Heda struggled to get up, but his eyes turned black, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he fell heavily to the ground again.

Gao Chong wanted to chop again, but the horse rushed forward and opened the distance and couldn't reach the knife. When the enemy general's personal soldiers saw that the master was caught, they immediately rushed forward and entangled him. It was impossible for Gao Chong to return to the horse and kill people. His personal soldiers also rushed to the enemy to seize the Xia army. When Gao Chong broke out of the circle and looked for the enemy general, the person had been rescued.

Gao Chong wanted to chase him again, but was stopped by his personal soldiers and did not let him step forward. He could only watch the credit he received was gone. Who made the rules of the Zhongyong Army like this? The prince sometimes secretly went on the battle himself, but strictly prohibited his generals from fighting, so the commander and above in the Zhongyong Army had a rare opportunity to take action. Today, Gao Chong saw that the enemy general was extremely brave and actually killed several Zhongyong Army soldiers, no one could defeat him, among which there were grassroots officers such as team commanders. He couldn't help but fail, and unfortunately let him run away. If Gao Chong knew that this person was the commander of the Xia army, he would probably have to chase him even if he was beaten by a military stick. Xiao Heda saved his life due to the strange regulations of the Zhongyong Army, but he also remembered the fierce Song General who could chop people down with one knife and even break heavy armor...

The battlefield was cleaned up and dead bodies were buried. There were many ghosts who could not return home in Wuding River. After dealing with everything, Zhao Zhi left the rear team, and caught up with the Central Army that night, handed the order to the prince, and reported in detail the battle situation today.

The counter-ambush war was eventually beheaded 2,000 and captured more than a thousand enemies. The enemy's chief general Xiao Heda was seriously injured and escaped. Tactical terms, this was not a successful annihilation battle. The escape of nearly the Banyan Xia army was more like a defeat war. The reason for its failure was that Zhao Zhi had insufficient experience in commanding the front line, and he failed to delay the Xia army. Instead, he aroused their alertness. The other was that the chief general of the Xia army, Xiao Heda, responded quickly. As soon as the Song army launched a siege, he concluded that he had fallen into a trap and ordered the entire army to break through. He fought to the death, which made the encirclement of the loyal and brave army still not close, creating conditions for the Xia army to break through.

But this battle was successful in strategy. Not only did it complete the tactical goals and relieve its worries, but it also accidentally seriously injured the Xiazhou governor Xiao Heda. This would inevitably lead to the failure of the command of the Xia army, the morale was low, and it was difficult to form organized resistance, which was conducive to the Song army's next action. Zhao Qi did not blame Zhao Zhi too much, but just asked everyone to summarize the lessons, adjust the counter-ambush tactics of the baggage battalion, and improve their emergency plan.

"Your Majesty, this war was not good, but there were also good things. I discovered that this person is very insightful in dealing with economic issues!" After discussing the matter, everyone had a meal at the Youth as usual. Zhao Zhifu was not affected by today's affairs and said while eating.

"Oh, where is this person? What official did he have ever been?" Zhao Qiong was always eager to seek talents, but there were not many people who could catch his eye on him. When he heard that he had discovered talents, he immediately urged him to ask.

"This man is a commoner, a civil servant recruited from Fenyang. He temporarily served as secretary in the civil servant team!" As soon as Zhao Zhi finished speaking, a laughter rang out from the table. Zhao Zhi was so funny that he found a civil servant as a treasure and wanted to introduce it to the prince, "Don't laugh, heroes are not afraid of their origins. Haven't you all grown vegetables and raised flowers? Listen to me to finish my words!" Zhao Zhi shook his hands repeatedly, calming the brothers. He told the story in detail what happened today.

"Well, after listening to your narrative, this man has real skills. I will meet him!" Zhao Qi nodded and said. Seeing that the prince agreed, Zhao Zhi immediately took out the tent and brought the person in.

"Caomins meet Prince Yan!" The man immediately worshiped Zhao Qi.

"Yeah, isn't this Lord Wei?" Zhao Qi was stunned when he saw the person coming. He was still an acquaintance. He said in surprise... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (shuhaige.) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)-<  >-

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