At the critical juncture, Li Ningming calmed down, he quickly estimated the situation, the sudden counterattack of the Song army seemed to be limited to harassment, on the whole, only the eight hundred cavalry led by himself suffered from the attack, caught off guard, there were three or four hundred cavalry were caught by more than a dozen tripping horse ropes, and the second echelon cavalry of the main charge had already rushed to the front of the enemy unimpeded.

Li Ningming looked around, and did not find any signs of a large number of Song army soldiers reinforcing the encirclement, although it seems that the Song army deliberately designed to induce himself into the valley, but in fact, the strength of the Song army is still as many men and horses as reported by the detailed work, and it has not increased; Dozens of Song soldiers on the top of the cliff lit a beacon fire to rescue, and at the same time pushed down the boulder rolling wood to block the valley mouth, in fact, the effect was not obvious, after a toss, the valley mouth still left a huge opening, the original passage that could accommodate twenty horsemen in and out was only a little narrower, at least there was a passage that could accommodate ten people in parallel was not blocked.

Li Ningming's spirit was greatly lifted, at this time, he must not be frightened to run back, as long as he ran, the Song army will definitely chase and kill, and the cliff mouth has narrowed, and it will not form a blockage in the case of normal retreat, but if it is a rout, it will become a bottleneck, maybe this is the real purpose of the Song army.

"Ridiculous schemes, in the face of strength, any scheme is ridiculous." Li Ningming ordered loudly: "The front team charges unchanged, and the rear team clears the enemy beside you!" ”

The cavalry immediately dispersed in a scattered manner, and began to chase and kill dozens of Song soldiers who were ambushed in the ground and pulled the horse rope in the valley, these Song soldiers were death squads, and they were ambushed in the dug sand pit just to pull a tripping horse rope, and then they could only escape with their ability, under the pursuit of hundreds of horse troops, dozens of soldiers could not escape, so they had to fight up, but unfortunately this resistance could not change their fate, and they became ghosts under the scimitar of Western Xia one by one, and the corpses were also trampled by the horses' hooves.

Although the strategy of the tripping horse rope lost the lives of dozens of soldiers, but the return in exchange was huge, nearly 300 cavalry of the Xia army lost their combat effectiveness, and at the same time, under the obstruction of the tripping horse rope, the team charging in front of it was greatly disconnected from the team that charged later; The 1,000 cavalry led by Yeli Xianzong and Wuzang Ming had already charged to the eastern end of the Eagle Beak Valley, and in order to prevent the Song army from retreating into the mountain road outside the entrance at the eastern end, the speed of the Xia cavalry had been raised to the extreme.

Di Qing stood on the roof of a carriage, took everything in front of him, and saw that the enemy had bitten the tail of the convoy, and said loudly: "Master Su, your clever plan is about to play." ”

Su Jin smiled: "Very good, it's the first time I've used such a strategy, I hope you don't laugh at it." ”

Di Qing laughed, turned his head and ordered loudly: "Ignite!" ”

The third arrow went straight into the sky, and the retreating Song soldiers suddenly jumped out of the cart, turned the cart around and quickly lined up in a row, and then one of them shouted an order, everyone picked up the clay pot on the car and smashed it in the car, and then forty or fifty carts burst out of flames, and the flames turned into a skyrocketing fire together, obviously the bottom end of the cart was paved with flammable fire-igniting things, and the fire oil was soaked, and it was out of control all of a sudden.

The mules and horses were frightened by the fire on the cart behind them, and the Song soldiers poked the buttocks of the cattle a few times with knives, and the mules and horses dragged the blazing cart to meet the charging Xia cavalry.

The first to bear the brunt was not the soldiers of the Xia Army, but the more than a dozen grain trucks of the Song Army that were being chased and killed by the Xia Army behind them, and the seventy or eighty soldiers on the grain carts suddenly became fire men before the Xia Army.

Su Jin sighed with tears in the corners of his eyes, his plan was still not thorough enough, he didn't expect the enemy to pursue so quickly, so that he was caught up with the tail, and the seventy or eighty soldiers who were killed were buried in the fire; The original plan was to wait for everyone to reach the fortifications at the eastern end of the valley, and when the enemy charged, they released the train to attack, but they did not expect such a situation; Roughly calculated, the side has lost more than 150 soldiers, and the other side does not know how many casualties there are at present.

But the next scene made Su Jin feel a little relieved, the burning cart collided head-on with the oncoming cavalry, the Xia soldiers were charging in a hurry, and they couldn't avoid it at all, watching the cavalry rush into the sea of fire, and suddenly there was a wail in the sky, and the horses and soldiers who burned into fireballs kept falling to the front, turning into hot wheels rolling on the ground, and the screams from the soul were terrifying, and in an instant, the cavalry charge was blocked, and the more than 200 Xia army death squads who were guilty of meritorious service were almost wiped out.

The 1,000 cavalry led by Wu Zangming was also affected, and the first few rows of more than 100 cavalry did not have time to stop their horses, and then followed by the death squad and crashed headlong into the hellfire, and suddenly the skin was charred and rotten, and the burning beep sounded, and the smell of burnt paste filled the valley.

He was almost hoarse when he didn't hide his voice, and shouted loudly: "Spear! Pike. ”

The soldiers were astonished, and hurriedly threw down their scimitars, and hurriedly lifted the spears on their saddles and poked them forward, only to bring the remaining seven or eight trains that were rolling in four feet away from the horse's head, and the cattle pulling the carts, which were already at the end of their crossbows, finally fell to the ground with a bang and completed their task.

The fire burned in the valley, and the scorching stench was mixed with the smell of the carcasses of the cattle being cooked, and the black smoke of the scorched human hair and clothes, and the entire eastern end of the eagle's beak cliff was like a hell on earth.

The soldiers on both sides were a little dazed, how could they not have thought that such a small battle, from the beginning of the battle, it was already as tragic as this, even Di Qing, who had been in battle for a long time, was a little dazed, what he experienced was face-to-face swords, if he said that a knife would cut the enemy on the opposite side to the ground with flowers and green intestines, he didn't realize anything, but like this, he annihilated hundreds of people in one fell swoop with foreign objects, and they were all burned into black charcoal in front of him, this scene really shocked him.

Su Jin originally had another plan, which was a trick learned by a certain dictatorial leader in later generations, that is, when the enemy army came to cover up, the dictatorial leader opened dozens of kilometers of trenches, filled the trenches with oil, and then lit fires to block the enemy's advance; That trick is very effective, but it's a pity that there is too little fire oil at hand, there are dozens of barrels of fire oil in total, and it is really unrealistic to dig a trench and fill it, and on such a sandy ground, even thousands of barrels of fire oil will all penetrate into the soil, so Su Jincai can only endure the pain of sacrificing livestock and carts, and stage a train formation.

Li Ningming led the team to catch up, everything in front of him made his pupils contract, and his heart was terrified; Song Jun really came prepared, all kinds of signs show that the other party's coach is a resourceful person, from the beginning of the discarding of grain, grass, funds, silver and treasures to feign defeat into the valley, to the current various countermeasures, are a series of carefully planned schemes, he has been led by the nose by this person from the beginning, as if he knew that he urgently needed this victory, calculated that he would be desperate to chase into the valley.

In today's situation, you can't advance, and if you retreat, you will lose more than 500 cavalry and get nothing, how to explain after you go back? More importantly, after this defeat, the victory of his younger brother Li Ning Lin in Qin Fenglu will be more prominent, and he will be an image of a loser in the eyes of his father, and the title of prince will not be on his body for too long; Li Ningling, who has coveted the crown prince for a long time, will definitely take this opportunity to take the crown prince's position.

"Your Highness, let's retreat, it seems that the Song army has been prepared for a long time, we have only lost five hundred horsemen, and the retreat at this time is not a big defeat." Wu Zangming's face was full of sweat, and there were already fire bubbles in a few places, and he galloped to Li Ningming's side.

Li Ningming sneered and scolded: "Retreat? Joke, the Song army's trick is nothing more, my loss is only five hundred, less than two percent, but the Song army has suffered two or three hundred casualties, the other party has a total of only more than 1,000 people, and the casualties have reached thirty percent. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince...... "Didn't hide a mouthful of old blood and almost spurted out, how could it be so calculated, the other party exchanged about 200 casualties for 500 of his elite cavalry, and it was already a big victory to fight more with less, but this confused His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually said that the outcome was undecided.

"Your Highness, what should we do if enemy reinforcements come in front of you?" Yeli Xianzong couldn't stand Li Ningming anymore, and his tone was not very kind.

"Because of this, you need to fight quickly, you don't wait for the whole team to attack, but you are cowardly, this is delaying the fighter, don't say more, order someone to clear the road ahead, the whole team continues to attack, violators will be punished with military orders."

Wu Zangming and Yeli Xianzong glanced at each other, their hearts were cold, it seemed that the two brothers who had experienced a hundred battles were going to be lost to His Royal Highness the Prince, who was stubborn like a stupid donkey on paper; There is no other way to do it now, only to follow the order to attack desperately, in order to have a glimmer of life, as for the act of disobedience, that must not be done, otherwise even if you can return to the camp, you will be punished by the whole clan, it is better to fight in this bloody battle, even if you die in battle, at least you can end up in the name of fearlessness in a death battle.

"The whole team! All armed with bows and arrows, ready to charge. "Didn't hide the rare order to equip the bow and arrow, the cavalry of the Xia army has always been a scimitar to break into the world, the three major pieces of the cavalry in the bow and arrow spear two weapons are actually ornaments, if it is not for the cavalry of the Song and Liao armies equipped with such weapons, the Xia army simply disdains to use, at this moment in desperation, the name of these soldiers bows and arrows is not high, but to be able to cover the blow with a rain of arrows, and strive to suppress the enemy so as not to be a moth on the road.

The burning carts and corpses on the road were cleaned up, the smoke dissipated and the situation on the opposite side fell into the eyes, on the roof of a big car, there were two figures, one high and one low, after some blocking just now, all the Song troops had retreated to the east end of the cliff mouth, where dozens of carts lined up, but the pile was not food and materials, nor the empty oil just now, but all sand.

The Song army really came prepared, these dozens of carts in front of them, it was a solid sand fortification, it was obviously not easy to dig fortifications in the valley, and with these carts piled up with sand, this problem was solved.

The men and horses on both sides confronted each other quietly, no one spoke, and even the soldiers of the Song army who threw stones and rolling logs down the cliff also died down, and the sun scorched the sand in the open area about two hundred paces away.

There was a brief silence that made a vulture hovering over the top of the cliff mistakenly believe that there was no danger, and she could not resist the smell of human flesh and animal flesh cooking, and swooped down from the sky, and landed in the open area between the two armies and began to peck; Suddenly, it seemed to have a premonition of something, and flapped its wings and flew high, while a heart-rending cry sounded in the valley: "Kill ......"

Li Ningming's sharp voice was like the last cry of a dying person, making people's flesh numb and his whole body trembling, only to see him rush out with his sword held high, Yeli Xianzong and Wuzang Ming roared in unison, swinging the knife forward; The remaining cavalry of more than 2,400 cavalry no longer divided into echelons and formations, but only swept towards the Song army on the opposite side like a huge wave.