War is the highest form of expression of contradictions and the most violent means. Due to the limitations of the times, the outcome of medieval wars often depends on the gain or loss of a key city, the life or death of a key figure... However, no matter when, a decisive battle

The battle will always be the most straightforward, direct, and most speechless means of victory.

However, unlike most battles that require planning, deployment, and testing, this main battle that took place in the hilly area between Zishui and Longshui was actually a bit caught off guard for both sides.

Yue Fei judged Li Cheng's main attack direction from Zhang Jun's arrangement, but he never expected that Li Cheng would actually bring almost the entire existing military strength of Puppet Qi. Otherwise, he would have tried his best to bring as many troops as possible.

With all the horses on board, how could Hu Cheng be allowed to sit in the back?

The same is true for Li Cheng. The development of the current situation forced him to use all his strength, but for a warlord, who is willing to destroy his entire family fortune for no reason?

Neither side is sure of victory, and everything is completely arranged. Both sides can only fight to the death.

Li Cheng's two wings of cavalry sandwiched the infantry brigade and rushed forward in unison; Yue Fei adapted to local conditions and set up cavalry instead, with the most elite heavy infantry as the prominence, forming a diagonal formation to respond to the enemy... This was already what both sides could do in just ten years.

This is the best that can be achieved within a distance of several miles.

"Jiedu!"

The battle lasted only half a quarter of an hour. When the fierce battle ahead was raging, a horseman, covered in blood, suddenly galloped from a distance. Because the command flag on his back was broken, he had to dismount in front of the commander's flag and present his waist badge, and then he was trained by Yue Fei himself.

Jindai relayed the military information. "There is a definite military report from the front. Zhang Zian, the fifth general of the Wei Army on the back of the right army of the imperial camp, was injured by a stray arrow and died just now!"

Yue Fei halted his horse and stood on a hill in the hilly area beside the road, looking at the smoke and dust in the distance. His expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even turn his head. He directly shouted coldly: "In such a fierce battle, the commander-in-chief will die in retribution!"

As Yue Fei's schoolmate, Bi Jin naturally knew the coach's temper, but he bowed his head beside Yue Fei... As for the fact that Zhang Zian was Zhang Jun's nephew, he was not prepared to report it from the beginning.

However, on the battlefield, Yue Fei could ignore the death of Zhang Jun's nephew, but he could not ignore the battle situation in the middle part of the Tian division that was advancing forward. Even on the contrary, the battle situation of that unit was the basis for determining victory or defeat.

"Did you see it?" Li Cheng also raised a flag and stood on a small slope next to the avenue, then looked eastward to observe the battle situation, and suddenly said, "The victory of this battle depends on the long line of the Song Army protruding from the south.

The heavy infantry will be defeated first, or our central army will be in chaos first..."

On the side, Guo Dadao hesitated to speak. He wanted to ask his lord, was he talking to himself or to himself? But when the words came to his mouth, he changed his mind:

"What the Lord said is true, this is the truth!"

After a pause, Guo Daofu said seriously: "The infantry in the middle should be facing the Beiwei army under Daeyeyan, which is the cavalry led by Zhang Xian; and the cavalry in the south is blocking the Jurchen cavalry.

The long-axe soldiers should be the Beiwei army led by Zhang Laocai's son-in-law."

"That's right." Li Cheng nodded repeatedly. "They are all famous teachers and generals."

"Then should we support the south side and help the Jin people defeat Tian Shizhong, or should we support the center and stabilize the Chinese army?" Guo Dadao continued to ask.

On the noisy battlefield, Li Cheng fell into a kind of silence for a while... It was not just the kind of silence in personal language, nor was it just his own unilateral silence, but that this Hebei army member was messing around.

The hero suddenly felt a kind of silence after the abruptness on the battlefield was smoothed away.

If there is noise everywhere, then there will be no noise; if there is the smell of blood everywhere, then there will be no smell of blood; if there are fighting and death everywhere, then fighting and death will seem insignificant.

The key is this question raised by Guo Dadao. This simple question is what determines the outcome... Yue Fei made the final diagonal formation arrangement. It is true that Yue Fei is more calm, but what happens next?

Then there is the feeling of both sides throwing the dice together... The current battlefield, the middle road, is slightly rugged on both sides. It is only about ten miles in front and back, and there is a neither wide nor narrow river blocking each other's retreat. It is so crowded.

And in a narrow battlefield, once the troops in hand are smashed out, it will be difficult to mobilize, so what else can be done?

As a general, the only thing you can do at this time is to decide when and where to throw out the last bit of elite power you can command!

"My lord! My lord?!"

Seeing Li Cheng's silence, Guo Dadao couldn't help but speak out a reminder.

"Wait a minute." After coming back to his senses, Li Cheng couldn't help but take a few deep breaths before answering. "Wait a minute... these hundreds of long-sword cavalry and three thousand heavy steps are our last trump card. We must do it this time."

To strike later, we can't let Yue Fei confront him at the opportunity... You must know that the big and small eyes are going to smash the Wei army out as soon as they come up, so there must be the last one!"

Guo Dadao nodded repeatedly, as if convinced.

"Jiedu."

Seeing another wave of wounded being carried down, Tang Huai, who had been reining in his horse and standing beside Yue Fei, made some calculations in his mind and suddenly spoke.

"What's the matter?" Yue Fei was still just staring at the flags on the front line in trance.

"Based on the fact that the fighting has also begun at Deputy Commander Wang (Wang Gui), the fighting on the entire front has only lasted a little more than a quarter of an hour, and the number of seriously injured people carried out is no less than 300. I am afraid that the number of casualties on the front line is also the same..."

Tang Huai spoke in a deep voice. "Jiedu, since the battle with the Jin people, the armors of both sides have become stronger and stronger. It is rare for so many people to die in a short period of time."

"With this kind of terrain and the number of battle routes, how rare are these casualties?"

"Actually, I always feel a little worthless..." Tang Huai paused and said frankly. "Not to mention the imperial right army led by Tian Shizhong is carrying the Wei army, even our 20,000 soldiers are also in Xuzhou

They were carefully selected during the rest period. There were not many casualties during the previous southern expedition for more than half a year. In the future, I planned to keep them for the northern expedition across the river to fight against the Jin people, but I didn't want to have to fight with the puppet bandits at this time.

It's a waste of time in the wilderness... I know this is a decisive battle in the wilderness, and I know people will inevitably die, but they die too quickly!"

This time, Yue Fei didn't make a sound for a long time. He didn't know whether he didn't want to talk or because he felt a certain kind of "silence" unique to the battlefield like Li Cheng opposite him.

"Send troops! Press forward!"

But unlike Li Cheng, after just a moment of silence, Yue Fei gave the order directly. "Press up to the middle!"

Tang Huai didn't say a word, but turned around to look at Bi Jin behind him. Just as Bi Jin was about to deliver the military order, he found that the flag bearer behind him had already removed the flag, and all the sergeants around him had also activated... He turned around in shock, only to find that his coach Yue Fei

After giving the order, he actually stepped forward in person, and the last four thousand Chinese troops staying around the commander's flag naturally started to move forward.

As soon as the commander-in-chief flag with the word "Yue" moved, the entire battlefield was shaken.

On the Central Avenue, the infantry formation of Li Cheng's division, which had been killed by Zhang Xian's large forces, immediately began to waver, and the middle section of Tian's division, which was advancing alone, suddenly relaxed and was able to get a chance to breathe and be responded to by the infantry behind him.

Keep up.

Seeing Yue Fei sending troops so early, Li Cheng on the opposite side was obviously startled, and then fell into a bit of confusion under the attention of many generals, including Guo Dadao... It was hard for him to understand, and he felt sorry for his family background.

, don’t your big and small eyes feel distressed?

Why is the decisive battle so early? Isn't the battle not fierce enough?

But soon, Li Cheng realized that whether it was due to a moment of soft-heartedness or a mistake, or because he felt that a quick victory would result in fewer casualties, since the opponent had moved, he could no longer waste his elite strength behind the scenes.

, we must not give in!

"Send troops!" Li Cheng pulled out his sword and looked behind him. "Come up with me! Kill this big eye in front of him!"

Guo Dadao was the first to respond. He directly removed the brocade sheath on his long-handled broadsword. With a shout, he led the long-sword cavalry to clear the way. Li Cheng led the commander's flag forward, and then the three thousand heavy steps followed the call of dozens of generals.

Following Li Cheng, he marched forward to meet him... just like the two armies had collided head-on without caring about it before. It had only been two quarters of an hour before the battle started. The commanders of both sides unfurled their flags and headed towards the front line head on.

This brought the intensity of the battlefield to a new level.

In an instant, almost everyone was swarming forward. The usual military pay, favor, honor, and loyalty, as well as the pressure, leadership, and supervision of the commander behind him, mixed with fear and anger, all came together. Everyone could

You can clearly explain why you are moving forward, but you can only move forward... and then wait until one of the parties loses the breath of moving forward first.

Yue Fei arrived at the front line first. While thousands of his troops joined forces with Zhang Xian's cavalry, he took advantage of the dislocation space created in front of the middle part of Tian Division and dealt a huge blow to the oncoming infantry of Li Cheng... It was almost visible to the naked eye, although both sides

They were all rising up, but as Yue Fei's flag arrived at the front line, with the infantry as the base, the cavalry divided into multiple groups and thrust forward, pushing the front westward step by step.

For a time, one thing disappears and the other grows.

At this time, Li Chengbu was still hard at work on the march.

One more thing to say here, the reason why there is such a time difference in arriving at the front line is not only because Yue Fei activated the commander's flag first, but the key lies in the deployment of troops... There are 23,000 troops in front of the Imperial Camp, advancing diagonally.

There are eight thousand infantry on each side. Among them, Wang Gui leads Zhang Yong, Li Kui, Sang Zhong, Liu Zhong, Li Hong and others. A total of eight thousand troops will be in the north. The other group will be five thousand led by Ma Gao, Yi Zhangqing and his wife.

The leading generals marched behind the middle section of Tian Division, with Zhang Xian in the middle leading 4,000 cavalry, and finally Yue Fei and Tang Huai leading 4,000 Chinese troops from behind.

In other words, after Yue Fei pressed forward, there were only four thousand cavalry on the road in front of him, so he could pass unimpeded.

At the same time, Li Cheng's troops had nearly 40,000 men, with 5,000 cavalry on each side, followed by some infantry, and then some supervising troops were separated to mix in the gaps. Even so, the infantry formation in the middle was still dense and deep.

A total of 20,000 people lined up, but the front was strong and the back was weak. The armored elites were in the front, and the leather armored soldiers were in the rear... At this time, Li Cheng led his troops forward, and it was entirely dependent on Guo's sword to clear the way in front, and he could barely advance.

The advancing speeds of both sides are not on the same line at all.

By the time Li Chengbu arrived at what was considered the frontline position after hard work, the frontline infantry formation was already crumbling... The so-called breath, there was only one breath left.

All I can say is that luckily I caught up.

"We must counterattack!" After the military formation, Li Cheng directed some of the heavy infantry to form a stable formation, while pointing at Guo Zhongwei and shouting loudly. "Guo Dadao! All the remaining long-sword cavalry are with you. Go and charge. It's best to

Rush over and chop off the handsome flag of the big and small eyes! Remember, only chop the handsome flags, never compete with the big and small eyes, you must be no match for him!"

Guo Zhongwei didn't say a word, didn't raise his flag, didn't shout, he just held his sword upside down and moved forward. However, the two hundred cavalrymen behind him took off their sword sheaths, and for a while, their swords were like a forest of arrows, moving forward in the middle.

Not only that, Li Cheng's infantry in front saw the iconic long-sword cavalry arraying forward with their swords raised, but they also separated to both sides like waves of wheat after encountering a living creature in the distant fields.

Under the hasty advance of the army and the squeeze of additional troops, except for a group of more than 200 Beiwei Army cavalry who were directly on Guo Dadao's march route, the rest could not easily step forward to stop them. The leader of this Beiwei Army cavalry was none other than someone else.

He was Li Zhang, the Flying Eagle who came from Hu Cheng's command and had followed Yue Fei for a long time.

Li Zhang was originally a hero in Yizhou and had always been known as a brave man in the army. How could he shrink back in the slightest? When he saw this, he was not angry but overjoyed and went straight to face him.

Two cavalrymen collided, with broadswords and spears flying everywhere. Li Zhang was so eager to kill that he even led seven or eight of his fellow cavalrymen to kill several cavalrymen with long swords and fell directly into the opponent's formation. At the moment, his momentum was not as famous as that of Li Cheng.

The sword cavalry is slightly weaker.

But at this time, Guo Zhongwei saw Li Zhang and still didn't say a word. He just continued to lower his head and drag his sword forward in the military formation. However, under the cover of other long-sword cavalry, he silently accelerated suddenly, and suddenly

He pounced straight to the opponent's side, and then swung with all his might.

With just one swing, Li Zhang was cut in half from the left side of the neck to the right side of the armpit, and he was beheaded under the horse.
To be continued...