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Zhao Kuangyin found that the prestige of Mongolian cavalry was by no means a coincidence.

In previous battles, as long as the most elite imperial guards were dispatched, almost all the enemy cavalry would be defeated at the touch of a button.

In the famous Battle of Gaoping, facing the tens of thousands of Khitan coalition forces in the Northern Han Dynasty, Chai Rong led [-] imperial guards to join the battle. With Zhao Kuangyin as the vanguard, holding a long knife and heavy axe, he advanced like a wave and defeated the Khitan cavalry in one fell swoop. .

But in the face of the Mongolian cavalry attack, Zhao Kuangyin was surprised to find that the imperial guards could not fight back at all and could only stand still.

The two sides shouted and fought fiercely, and fought for two hours, each of them injured more than a thousand people, but still could not tell the winner.

It can't go on like this!
Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he saw that the imperial guards were subtly suppressed by the Mongolian cavalry.

When Jidu led the Mongolian iron cavalry to launch the fourth charge, Zhao Kuangyin shouted sharply,

"Dang Jin! Mi Xin!"

The two strong men who were nearly two meters tall responded loudly,

"The end is here!"

"You two have always boasted that you are an enemy of thousands of people. Why can't I see your bravery? If Xiang Yu was here, if Yang Zaixing was here, the Mongolian cavalry would have been defeated long ago. How can you only rely on infantry to hold on?"

Dang Jin and Mi Xin are two strong men with muscular heads.

Especially Dangjin, when he followed Zhao Kuangyin to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, he held a [-]-jin heavy iron rod and defeated Yang Ye with the golden sword in twenty strokes. The rope escaped back to Taiyuan City.

It can be said that the first fierce general in the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Mi Xin's bravery is on a par with Dang Jin.

Facing Zhao Kuangyin's aggressive method, the two reckless men screamed in anger.

"How can Your Majesty despise us so much? How can we be inferior to Xiang Yu and Yang Zaixing?"

The two reckless men who were blasted by the air, each armed with a weapon, led dozens of cavalry to counterattack the Mongolian cavalry.

Anger turned the two reckless men into berserkers.

They wielded the big iron rods in their hands like lunatics, beating everyone to death, beating horses and horses to the ground, and even opened a breakthrough among tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry.

Although he suffered more than a dozen injuries soon, he still had no intention of retreating.

Zhao Kuangyin seized this opportunity.

He led the [-] cavalry guards to attack the Mongolian army again.

Zhao Kuangyin went into battle in person, and the imperial guards discovered that the emperor's sword was still young.

Lao Zhao's lethality is no less than that of Dang Jin Mi Xin.

Coupled with the fact that there are guards around him, he doesn't need to worry about his own safety at all, he only needs to wield his weapon blindly and kill the enemies in front of him.

In this counterattack, the [-] imperial guards pierced through [-] Mongolian cavalry.

Then Zhao Kuangyin led the army to attack again without stopping, and killed in from behind the Mongolian iron cavalry.

This small-scale cavalry finally caused a little disturbance in the Mongolian cavalry.

Their offense isn't quite as neat either.

Murong Yanzhao and Shi Shouxin, who were in charge of commanding the Imperial Guard Army and the She-Han Allied Forces, saw an opportunity and immediately beat the drums.

Fifteen thousand infantrymen of the imperial guards, stepping on the beat of drums, armed with long knives and heavy axes, launched a counterattack against the Mongolian iron cavalry.

"How dare Song Dog be so arrogant?"

Seeing that the imperial guards dared to give up their solid formation and take the initiative to attack the cavalry, they laughed back angrily.

"Does Zhao Kuangyin really think that my Mongolian iron cavalry is a coward like the Khitan army?

My sons and daughters, fight to the death and never retreat. "

Although the counterattack of the imperial guards caused a brief disturbance in the Mongolian cavalry.

But after a while, the Mongolian cavalry regrouped again, 1 people blocked Zhao Kuangyin from the front, and the other thousands of cavalry were divided into two groups, attacking the weaker side of the imperial guards from the left and right wings.

This time, casualties on both sides rose sharply.

After fighting for another hour, the number of dead on both sides has exceeded 3000, and they are all exhausted.

However, the She-Han coalition forces are numerous and powerful, so if the stalemate continues for such a long time, Zhao Kuangyin must win.

Xia Wanhu Arslen came before Sodu and shouted loudly,

"Marshal, it's time for us to temporarily suspend our troops and fight again in the future. Although Zhao Kuangyin's imperial guards are powerful, they have very few cavalry. They cannot stop us from retreating."

Looking at the evenly matched battlefield, Jidu gritted his teeth, and finally shouted loudly,
"retreat."

The Mongolian iron cavalry heard the sound of gold, and urged their horses to retreat one after another, disengaging from the imperial guards.

More than a thousand strong archers stepped behind them and blocked Zhao Kuangyin's pursuit with a rain of arrows.

Zhao Kuangyin was not in a hurry either.

In this battle, he harvested more than 1000 intact Mongolian war horses.

So he armed more than 1000 cavalry.

He personally led more than 2000 cavalry and followed the Mongolian cavalry all the time.Neither let the Mongolian cavalry out of sight, nor get too close.

The guard infantry of the brigade followed slowly in a strict formation.

Instigator sent people to fight back three times, but Zhao Kuangyin couldn't do anything about it.

If there are too few cavalry to fight back against Zhao Kuangyin, they will be defeated.

If there are too many, Zhao Kuangyin will join the imperial infantry.

As a veteran of all battles, Tiaodu also guessed from Zhao Kuangyin's strange behavior that Zhao Kuangyin must have ambushes in other places.

In order to evacuate to a safe area as quickly as possible, Jidu sent thousands of Menghe and two thousand fine riders to the rear to hold Zhao Kuangyin back.

Then he led [-] cavalry and accelerated their retreat to Huizhou, preparing to join Li Heng, the deputy capital of Ping and Song Dynasties and party member Li Heng.

However, as soon as ten thousand Mongolian cavalry troops arrived at Shahu Ridge, Cao Bin and Pan Mei led five thousand cavalry troops and more than ten thousand She-Han coalition troops rushed down from the mountain and blocked them immediately. The retreat of the Mongolian cavalry.

It was only then that Tiaodu realized that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to swallow his [-] cavalry troops in one gulp.

In order to break out of the siege as soon as possible, Tiaodu brandished his sword and went into battle in person, commanding the Mongolian cavalry to charge forward wave after wave.

However, Cao Bin and Pan Mei are both generals. Although there are only [-] cavalry troops, they are recharging their energy. On the other hand, the Mongolian cavalry troops are all exhausted.

In order to minimize the losses of the imperial guards, Cao Bin and Pan Mei first killed and wounded the Mongols with their horses and crossbows.

The two sides fought for two hours, and the Mongols who were eager to break out of the siege killed more than [-] people.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin wiped out all the meng he in the back of the palace, and led a large army to surround him from the rear.

Next, Zhao Kuangyin unexpectedly did not launch an attack immediately.

Instead, they set up camps one after the other, and trapped Sodu with strong camps and strongholds.

Trapped beasts still fighting.

At this time, the Mongols still had more than [-] riders. If they resisted stubbornly, they could still cause great losses to the Song Army.

Anyway, none of the instigators could escape, so don't worry that they will call in reinforcements.

It would take at least three to five days for Li Heng from Huizhou to come to the rescue.

And in this water-deficient Shahuling, the Mongols would die of thirst within three days.

So Zhao Kuangyin was not in a hurry.

He would attack when the Mongols were at their weakest.

Of course, Tiaodu understood Zhao Kuangyin's plan.

Because it is located in the south, there is no worry about water shortage. Most of the Mongolian army only carried a day's drinking water in their skins.

At this time, it was already dark. If they could not break out of the encirclement that day, if the water was cut off tomorrow, the entire army would definitely be wiped out.

Time is on Song Jun's side, not on his own.