One Piece of Song Dynasty

Zhai Jin, the general of the right army under Liu Fa, ran over and said, "Liu Jinglue, this can't go on like this. There will be a danger of the whole army being annihilated. Hurry up and lead the soldiers to break out of the encirclement. .shung"

Liu Fa said with a cold face, "No, we can break through now. If the formation breaks up, we will suffer greater losses. The rear army will become the front army. We slowly retreat and get closer to the approaching army from the rear. We cannot break out before dark, even if it is necessary." Even when breaking through, we must maintain our formation until after dark. As long as we can rendezvous with the troops at the rear, we can remain undefeated. We must maintain our formation and retreat, and we must not let the enemy break up our formation."

Zhai Jin cupped his fists and said, "The general has received the order. The general will organize the soldiers to retreat slowly."

The Song army began to maintain its formation and retreat slowly. Although the Xia army wanted to quickly eat Liu Fa's people, as long as the Song army's formation did not break up, it would take a long time for the Xia army to eat Liu Fa. What's more, Cha Ge only has more than troops in his hands. The longer the time goes, the worse it will be for Cha Ge.

Brother Cha was observing the situation on the battlefield. When he was informed, the soldiers came over and clasped their fists and said, "Prince, the Song army has begun to retreat slowly, and the formation is not disordered."

Brother Cha sighed, "As expected of the famous general Liu Fa, he can still keep the army in formation and retreat at this time. I have fought against this man many times, but I have never taken advantage of him. Today is the best time to kill this man." The opportunity, this person will be killed by the Japanese king to eliminate future troubles. The longer it takes, the more disadvantageous it will be for us. It is getting dark, and the follow-up troops of the Song Army are also on the way. Now it is a critical moment. Order Li Heda, Let him lead the remaining troops to attack the Song Army's formation. The Song Army's formation must be dispersed before dark. As long as the Song Army's formation is dispersed, the Song Army will be defeated and we will win. We must also warn him that he must kill If Liu Fa is killed, I want him to bring Liu Fa’s head to see him.”

The messenger clasped his fists and said, "I have the order, Your Majesty."

Li Heda's original name was Xiao Heda. He was a Khitan warrior who was married to Princess Yelu Nanxian of the Liao Dynasty when she married Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun. When Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, established the Liao Kingdom, he greatly admired the heroes who assisted Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, during the founding of the Han Dynasty. Xiao He". Therefore, Yelu Abaoji gave the surname "Xiao" to several powerful and close ministers. In the Liao Kingdom, except for the tribesmen who were given the surname "Xiao" by Yelu Aji, no one else was allowed to take the surname "Xiao". Since then, most of the descendants of the Yelu family of the Liao royal family chose wives from the "Xiao" family. For this reason, the Liao people later simply called the Xiao clan people of the Liao Kingdom as "hou clan".

From the fact that Li Heda originally took "Xiao" as his surname, it is not difficult to see the social status of his family in the Liao Kingdom.

In addition, he was indeed both wise and brave, so Xia Chongzong and Li Qianshun deliberately attracted him and gave him the national surname of Xixia "Li". After that, Xiao Heda became "Li Heda".

However, Cha Ge fell in love with Li Heda this time not only because of his talent, but also because the outcome of the Battle of Tong'an City would have a certain impact on the four kingdoms of Song, Xia, Liao, and Jin.

If the Song army can defeat the Xixia army in this battle and inflict heavy losses on the Xixia army, then the Song army can go all out to march north to join the Jin and conquer the Liao to regain Yanyun without any worries. On the contrary, if the Song army fails and suffers heavy losses, then the Liao army will The pressure on the Song army will be greatly reduced, and more forces can be mobilized to deal with Dai Jin. Therefore, for Li Heda, this battle is not only helping Xixia, but also helping his homeland. If he can make a contribution in this battle, then his status will be greatly improved whether in Xixia or Liao in the future. , his future is equivalent to having the double guarantee of Xia and Liao at the same time, so this battle can be regarded as helping himself.

So Li Heda led the Khitan warriors he personally selected and the last troops in Cha Ge's hands to bravely attack the Song army's formation. Originally, the Song army gradually retreated and stabilized the formation under the command of Liu Fa. However, Li Heda's attack was like crushing the Song army. The last straw for the army fell on the Song Army's formation. The Song Army's formation could no longer withstand the pressure and eventually collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Liu Fa looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's almost dark, but we are still defeated in the end."

At this time, the messenger came and said, "General, the formation of the rear army has been dispersed, and the formations of the left and right armies have also been affected and have a tendency to collapse."

Liu Fa nodded and said, "This general has seen it. It seems that he can't hold on to join the following army. I'm ordering the whole army to break out of the encirclement in the coming night. Only the few who can escape will be able to escape."

The ordering soldier cupped his fists and said, "Yes, General."

Immediately, Liu Fa also broke through with his soldiers. At this time, Zhao Yun led everyone behind the iron kite to observe the situation on the battlefield.

A dead soldier came over and cupped his fists and said, "Commander, just now the Western Army's rear army changed its position to the front army and slowly retreated. Now the Western Army's rear army has collapsed under the impact of a new wave of Xia troops, and has impacted the Western Army's On the left and right, the Western Army is doomed."

Zhao Yun said in a slightly anxious tone, "I have already seen this. Let everyone be prepared. The Western Army is about to break out. It is getting dark. Watch out for General Liu Fa's traces. Don't lose him. Go find a Song Dynasty soldier." Carry on the corpses of the soldiers.”

The dead man nodded and said, "Yes, leader."

After a while, another dead soldier came over and clasped his fists and said, "Commander, the Western Army has begun to break out. We have already seen General Liu Fa. He is coming here with his soldiers."

Zhao Yun thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let's blend in with the Xia army and follow them. If necessary, kill a few Western soldiers to cover up our true intentions."

After a while, Zhao Yun saw Liu Fa's figure from a distance. After Liu Fa rode over with his soldiers, Zhao Yun followed the Xixia pursuers behind him and caught up. Since it was already dark, Zhao Yun and others took the opportunity to kill several Xixia soldiers around them, reducing the number of pursuers. However, Liu Fa's soldiers were shot dead by Xixia soldiers from time to time.

During this chase and escape, the pursuers and the pursued were killed from time to time, but the actions of Zhao Yun and others in Xixia were not discovered because of the darkness.

Soon, a dead soldier quietly came to Zhao Yun and said, "Commander, my subordinates have checked in front. This road leads to Zhugu Gorge. This is the road we took when we came. Although it is night, we still You can see some familiar terrain.”

Zhao Yun nodded in a low voice and said, "Okay, I understand. We also have manpower ambushed in the Zhugu Gorge. Now everything is foolproof. We will continue to chase and tell our own people to cut down Xixia's pursuit when it gets dark." We will try to reduce the number of soldiers until we are the only ones left." Zhao Yun thought to himself, "How do you know that General Liu Fa will definitely go to the Zhugu Gorge? Could it be that you have come to check the terrain here in advance? It seems that you have never been here before." Northwest, forget it, just be able to complete the mission. Of course Li Xin would not tell Zhao Yun that this was written in the history books.

The dead man replied in a low voice, "Yes, I will obey."