"What's going on? Why are you back?"
Baomi Sheng was marching south with his army. Suddenly, several Liao cavalry ran back. The posture of abandoning their helmets and armor showed that they had lost the battle.
Baomi Sheng did not believe that Tianshan Yong would be defeated. Although Tianshan Yong's martial arts skills were average, he had an exquisite hand crossbow with a little oil. With this hand crossbow, Tianshan Yong killed many powerful enemies in sneak attacks.
What's more, this time Tianshan Yong led 3,000 Khitan cavalry and 7,000 servants. This kind of force was enough to deal with more than 50,000 Song troops and 100,000 Song troops. How could Zhou Xuan be defeated?
"Commander, the enemy has already ambushed us. We are outmatched. The deputy commander ordered us to withdraw first. We got separated from the army..."
Several cavalrymen looked at Baomi Sheng with horrified faces. Escaping from battle was a very serious crime and they did not dare to bear it.
"Trash, he was ambushed by a mere bandit from the south!"
Baomisheng was furious. First, he was attacked for fodder, and now the vanguard was ambushed and defeated. The Liao Kingdom had never suffered such a defeat in its history in the south for hundreds of years.
"My sons, follow me and kill!"
Baomi Sheng roared and rushed south with his army.
Along the way, Baomi Sheng encountered more and more defeated armies, which made him furious. If the battle continued like this, Daliao's face would be lost on him, and he would be a laughing stock in Daliao from now on.
"Tianshan Yong, what's going on!"
Finally, Baomi Sheng met Tianshan Yong's large group of cavalry and roared directly.
"The enemy has an ambush! Move quickly, there are enemies on the side, and they want to surround us!"
Tian Shanyong yelled anxiously. Originally, only Sun An's army was chasing him. Just when he stabilized his position and prepared to fight and retreat, another group of men and horses suddenly appeared from the side. Their combat power was not inferior to that of Sun An. That team of people.
"What are you afraid of! Gather your formation and kill!"
Baomi Sheng doesn't care about that. Now that the army is gathered together, a counterattack must be launched.
The horn sounded, and the panicked troops finally calmed down when they saw the main force arriving, and listened to the horn and rallied.
"I just thought of gathering now, it's too late!"
Sun An held a pair of black swords and led his army in formation in the south.
At the same time, Zongze, Zhang Shuye and others also arrived to the west of the Liao army with Yuan Lang and others.
"Two armies! Are you afraid of such a small number of people?"
Baomi Sheng looked at the two armies approaching and sneered disdainfully, "These are only more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, but there are more than 20,000 Liao troops beside him."
Suddenly, the sound of trumpets came from the north and east.
Baomi Sheng's face condensed, and when he looked back, he saw a large army appearing in the east and north. Each army had two thousand troops, and more than half of them were cavalry.
"Surrounded! We are actually surrounded!"
Baomi Sheng looked at the armies arrayed on all sides in disbelief. At this time, they were in a low-lying area. The enemies on all sides were at high altitudes, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable to them.
In the battles between the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom always took the lead. The Northern Song Dynasty had few horses and insufficient cavalry, and was slow in movement. It liked to form military formations, build strongholds, and fight stupidly.
The Liao cavalry was fast, coming and going like the wind, and could quickly cut through the battlefield. The Liao army always surrounded the Song army, and the Liao army was rarely surrounded.
There was a commotion among the Liao army, which had never been surrounded before. The soldiers were filled with fear. They looked at the enemies on all sides and just wanted to escape.
"Commander, the team to the south is difficult to fight. Those two are both masters of crossbows. The one next to them is good at flying rocks. They also have a whole team of well-trained archers, equipped with Song Ting's Divine Arm Bow!"
Tianshan Yong pointed to Sun An's army in the south and said, in his opinion, the army in the south is the most troublesome. Archers and divine arm bows have always been the Song Dynasty's weapon against the Liao Kingdom, and the light cavalry of the Liao Kingdom are most afraid of strong weapons. Hard bow and crossbow.
Baomi Sheng looked towards the military formation to the south, and there were indeed thousands of archers in front.
"Surrounded on all sides, it looks like a military formation! If we attack one point, the other three parties will cover us up and break up our formation!"
Baomi Sheng looked at the generals around him and said, now they can only stand in formation and wait for the enemy to attack first. As long as they rush down, they can use their numerical advantage to disrupt the opponent's formation and turn defeat into victory.
"What are you waiting for? Let's kill him!"
Ma Jin couldn't hold it any longer. The enemy was right in front of him and was already surrounded. If they continued to kill now, they would definitely kill the enemy to pieces.
"Now is not the time for a forceful attack. After all, the enemy is outnumbered and there are too many variables in the charge. Now we have a sure chance of victory. A steady attack is the best strategy."
Zongze said.
Although Ma Jin and others were rough men, they still admired Zong Ze. During this period, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye taught them how to lead troops in Cangzhou, and they learned a lot.
"The enemy came with light cavalry and didn't bring any baggage. It won't take long for the enemy's formation to become chaotic!"
Zhang Shuye said, the enemy has no food, grass, supplies, or equipment, so why should they hold on in a low-lying area?
There was silence on the battlefield, and the expected brutal fighting did not break out. The Liangshan army just lined up and waited quietly.
This made the Liao army below even more uneasy. They were all sweating profusely and kept looking around, for fear of a sudden enemy attack.
"Commander, this can't go on like this!"
A deputy general looked at the nervous expressions of the soldiers and looked at Baomi Sheng and said, the enemy has made it clear that they will consume them.
"The soldier's nervousness consumes a lot of energy."
One of the lieutenants said that the current situation was very unfavorable to them. The soldiers were highly nervous and their mental strength was also consumed. In the long run, the soldiers would be unable to fight anymore.
"Damn it, there is no shelter or barrier around here. We don't even have the materials to cut down trees and build a camp."
Tianshan Yong looked at the surrounding barren fields and frowned and said, now they only have military formations to stop the enemy. It would be different if they could build camps.
"It's useless to have a camp. We only brought one day's rations. Without food, what's the use of a camp."
Baomi Sheng shook his head and said, they didn't bring much baggage with them in a hurry this time, most of them stayed in Shuanggang Village and Sannv Village. The soldiers only brought a day's food. They thought that the battle would go smoothly and they would plunder a whole day. I already had everything, but I didn’t expect to be surrounded by people.
"We must break out. This Liangshan bandit has been prepared for a long time. If we continue to waste our time like this, we won't even have the strength to break out."
Baomi Sheng said with a serious look on his face and made up his mind.
"Sir, where are we going to break out?"
All the generals looked at Baomi Sheng. They didn't like being surrounded like this, and they had long thought of breaking out.
"Go north, let's go back to the Yellow River!"
Baomi Sheng points to the north. Their luggage is all by the Yellow River, and there are two strong camps. They can rest and recuperate before fighting the enemy.
After deciding the direction, Baomi Sheng and Tianshan Yong led the army to kill Lin Chong's camp in the north.
"Resist slightly, retreat!"
Lu Zhishen saw that the Liao army was attacking in large numbers, and he directly ordered that these two thousand people could not stop the 20,000-strong army, but they could slow down the Liao army.
(End of chapter)
