Tong Guan still had a look of hesitation on his face, and Wang Yan said: "If the lord raises the handsome banner and orders the generals to collect the soldiers, he can still retreat to the river and fight with the Liao." He paused, stepped forward, pointed to the tens of thousands of soldiers on the dock, and said, "Can you bear to abandon the river as if you were abandoning your contempt, and abandoning the army like abandoning grass and mustard?" ”

Tong Guan was stabbed by his words, his eyes shrank, and he looked up at Wang Yan, only to see that this person did not have the gentle and elegant attitude of the usual time, but was indescribably aggressive, Tong Guan was sure in his heart that if he really took this boat and left, the words of "abandoning the river as abandoning the contempt, abandoning the army as abandoning the grass mustard" just now will definitely appear on the upper performance of the Jinguan Mansion. He looked into the distance with some humility, the cavalry of the Liao State gathered more and more, just now there were only hundreds, and now there are vaguely two or three thousand.

"The chaotic army is unbearable," Tong Guan said slowly, "The Liao cavalry blocked the way to Hejian City. ”

As soon as his words fell, Han Shizhong bowed down and said: "As long as the commander gives an order, the last general is willing to break the Liao soldiers!" "He also led the army to fight several fierce battles with the Liao cavalry this night, and felt that the Liao army had no more than a few thousand troops per round, and it was not as powerful as he imagined. If Tong Guan really escaped from the sea, he would be punished by the imperial court, and he would not be any better. Therefore, Han Shizhong took the initiative to ask for help, despite Tong Guan's hesitation.

Wang Yan glanced at Han Shizhong, and then looked around at the generals Xin Xingzong, Bi Sheng, and Feng Mei beside Tong Guan, and the generals glanced at each other a few times, and leaned over together and said: "The last general is willing to protect the marshal and defeat the Liao army!" "Dashuai!" Wang Yan said in a deep voice, "The situation is changing rapidly, and the handsome flag should be raised as soon as possible, and in order to calm the army's heart, the generals will be ordered to rectify the chaotic troops and return to the division immediately between the rivers." After speaking, without waiting for Tong Guan's consent, he turned around and shouted to the flag officer who had deployed the yamen: "What are you still doing in a daze, raise the handsome flag!" The flag officer hesitated a little, looked at Tong Guan, Tong Guan pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, he has also experienced many major events, and he can be regarded as a free man.

Zhao Xingde and the soldiers pushed and shoved, and suddenly heard a few exclamations erupt in front, and then, the chaotic soldiers stopped pushing and shoving one after another, "It's the general flag of the adults who are deployed!" "The marshal didn't leave, he was raising the flag and gathering the generals, and he wanted to fight to the death with the Liao people!" At this time, a sea boat moored on the shore successively walked down several generals with helmets and armor, riding horses brought by their own soldiers, and Han Shizhong, the commander of the Zhenbei Second Army, who was known to many soldiers, held a long knife in his hand, and gathered more than 2,000 horsemen of the Zhenbei Second Army, who were still able to fight, separated from the chaotic army and slowly walked in the direction where the Khitan cavalry gathered.

"Do you have the guts!" Han Shizhong rode forward as he shouted, "Follow me to kill the Khitans!" "If you still bring seeds, come with me!" Many cavalrymen of the Zhenbei Army shouted loudly together, and the momentum was quite strong.

The soldiers who crowded the Hebei camp on the dock looked at them with awe and admiration, it was this cavalry that turned back several times and rushed to kill, forcing the Khitan forward back. These cavalry, along with the war horses, were already exhausted, and some of them still had half of the Khitan's arrows stuck in the gaps in their armor, and they were still following behind the main general, ready to fight the Khitans again. Some of the soldiers responded: "I am willing to fight with General Han!" Someone pulled the second army in the north of the town and asked: "Defeat the Khitan soldiers, can you go to General Han's account?" ”

"Of course!" When Han Shizhong heard this, he turned around, stared at the soldier and said, "What's your name?" ”

The soldier was a little nervous, and stammered: "General Qiyu, Gao Ze, Xuanwei Army." ”

Han Shizhong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "If there is a kind of war, I will accept it." He glanced at Tong Guan's handsome banner, bowed his head and said to Gao Ze: "Come to me after entering Hejian City." ”

Gao Ze was overjoyed and said: "Thank you for the success!" When he ran, he threw away all the heavy armor and other heavy ones, and he still had a pair of bows and arrows in his hand, so he followed behind Han Shizhong's Zhenbei Army horse team, there were still many soldiers like him, and when Han Shizhong's Zhenbei Second Army came out of the battle, there were more than 3,000 cavalry, and there were nearly 4,000 infantry troops behind.

Zhao Xingde stood and looked from a distance among the people, and his heart was full of envy and admiration, "The husband should be like this!" This sentence comes to mind. But not only did he lose his armor a long time ago, but he didn't even know where to throw his bow and arrows and spears, and he didn't squeeze through it after a little hesitation in his heart. I saw Han Shizhong restraining the troops to come to the front of the formation, and he didn't rush too much, but stopped between the Khitan cavalry and the Song army. Eventually, the archers were formed into one team, the pikemen, and the sword and shield bearers were formed into another team, and the cavalry were lined up on both sides of the infantry formation, and then slowly approached the Khitans again.

At the same time, the rest of the generals also rode through the chaotic army, and their own soldiers divided the chaotic soldiers crowded on the dock into three parts according to the area, first singled out the battalion commanders, all first-class officers, and then stuffed the stragglers under these officers to form their own armies, of course, these generals also took the opportunity to promote many cronies.

Zhao Xingde reported the identity of the staff of the deployment, and finally got out of the chaotic crowd and guided him to wait under the big boat where Tong Guan was. Although he is still not out of danger, and he hasn't even gotten on the boat yet, there are no arrows flying around, the Khitan cavalry is chasing, the soldiers are pushing, Zhao Xingde is unkempt, his clothes are also soaked with sweat, and a cool river breeze with a fishy smell makes people feel refreshed and happy.

"My lord, let the last general charge the battle!" Guo Baoyi turned his head sideways to Yelu Dashi Bingdao, he commanded more than 500 cavalry Tielin army, men and horses are caged in iron armor from head to toe, even the strong arrows sent by the Song army's foot archers, it is difficult to penetrate, if the whole army strikes strongly, maybe it can break through the center and disrupt the Song people's formation.

Yelu Dashi couldn't see joy or anger on his face, although the 10,000 Tielin army completely defeated the Hebei battalion of the Song army, after a fierce battle overnight, the casualties were probably in the tens of thousands. It's a pity that the follow-up Liao Brigade marched too slowly because of the drag of the iron barrel artillery. Leaving the Han army in the firearms battalion alone behind cannot be reassuring. If there are 20,000 iron horsemen in his hands at this moment, Mo said that the hedgehogs are gathered at the dock with tens of thousands of Song troops, even if they desperately flee to the Daimyo's mansion, they will not survive much.

Directly ahead, Han Shizhong's Song army formation was slowly approaching, and the infantry archers began to throw a rain of arrows round after round under the officer's order, and the range of the Song State infantry bow far exceeded that of the Khitan cavalry bow, if the Liao cavalry was unwilling to charge into battle, it would only retreat. If you want to charge into battle, you must engage the sword, shield, and pikemen who are waiting for you, and you must also withstand the flanking attacks of the cavalry placed by Han Shizhong on both flanks, and if you want to detour the central infantry formation of the Song people, you must also face the interception of the cavalry on both wings.

"Retreat!" Yelu Dashi raised his hand to stop Guo Baoyi, and thousands of Liao cavalry slowly retreated more than a hundred steps, but still kept a distance from the Song army. Han Shizhong frowned when he saw this, his infantry formation was not close enough, and he could only rely on the tens of thousands of Song troops who were still rectifying, so that he could be sure to withstand the Liao people's charge, if he left too far, he was likely to be defeated by the Liao's iron cavalry in one fell swoop.

He did not give the order, and thousands of soldiers stood still. It wasn't until the tens of thousands of troops behind were reorganized and the army slowly approached that the Liao cavalry retreated a few hundred steps.

The two armies were stalemate for a moment, the Song army began to move, and suddenly the Liao army roared in unison, and the horses went around in a circle, bypassing Han Shizhong's front formation, and rushed towards the flank of the loose infantry army behind him, Han Shizhong hurriedly mobilized cavalry to intercept, and the Song army in the large array also hurriedly stopped in formation, and the Liao cavalry released a round of arrows from a distance, and then rode away. Because Han Shizhong wanted to protect the main force of the wing headquarters, he couldn't keep chasing after him, so he drove away these harassments.

When Han Shizhong led the cavalry to drive away, he immediately fled his horse, and the Liao cavalry general has been delaying not to engage the Song army, and has been hindering the speed of the Song army's march.

It wasn't until the Song army entered Hejian City that more than half an hour passed before the cavalry support of the Liao State arrived. Tong Guan, Wang Yan and the others saw the dust raised by the overwhelming cavalry on the city tower, and they all secretly called luck in their hearts.