After Li Xia divided the Mongolian army, he originally wanted to work together with Li Zengbo to annihilate half and then the other half.

But now that Ah Shu has broken through the defense line, he must immediately lead his army to pursue him.

Therefore, Li Zengbo had to be responsible for independently annihilating the Mongolian army that was divided in the west.

At this time, these Mongolian cavalry were fleeing south.

They probably wanted to use their riding skills to detour through the loess plateaus, thinking that in this way they could escape the encirclement of the Song army.

But when Li Zengbo arranged the siege, he actually deliberately left the valley to the south to allow the Mongolian army to escape.

This is not a new tactic. In order to reduce the enemy's will to resist, the Mongolian cavalry would thoughtfully leave a gap in the encirclement every time they encircled the enemy, allowing the enemy to escape. They would then pursue the enemy with light cavalry, slashing and killing them all the way.

Li Zengbo is similar, but there is one difference - he gives a dead end.

Therefore, the south side of Gao'an City seemed wide, but Ashu never thought of breaking out from this side.

Groups of divided Mengqi walked around a plateau called "Luojian Plateau". They thought they had escaped, but they heard the sound of water.

Not far further south, a river appears in front of you.

The name of the river is "Heihe", which is a tributary of the Jinghe River.

On the other side of the river, a Song army was adjusting the direction of their crossbows.

The fleeing Mongolian cavalry reined in their reins one after another.

That's too late.

"Whoosh!"

The huge crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow have penetrated into their bodies...

At the same time, the sound of horns also sounded north of Heihe River.

Following Li Zengbo's order, the Song army marched forward in unison.

At this moment, many Mongolian soldiers were no longer fierce, but looked panicked and somewhat pitiful.

People know how to plead when facing death.

But the generals of the Song Army, especially Lu Xiaoyou, who had just guarded Gongchang Mansion not long ago, became even more furious after seeing such pleading eyes.

What came to his mind were the corpses he saw roasted into oil in clay pots while guarding Gongchang City... The anger that had been suppressed for two months was finally released.

"Kill the prisoners!"

The Song army roared in unison and attacked the Mongolian army.

…

When fighting on the shallow water plateau, one result is often similar to the past, as recorded in the old Tang books -

"It is impossible to defeat someone who dies by throwing himself into a gorge."

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Compared with the leaderless Mongolian army by the Blackwater River, the situation of the Mongolian army by the Jinghe River was much better with A Shu as their commander.

A Shu ordered the cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, and set up a defensive array in a short period of time.

The Mongolian army rarely fights on foot, but they will do so when encountering strong enemies.

For example, Muhuali had two infantry battles, and they were still during the main battle.

The first time was the battle of Shenshui County. He ordered half of his troops to dismount and fire arrows, and cooperated with the cavalry to behead more than 12,800 Jinzhou warlords;

The second time was the battle of Huanglinggang. At that time, 20,000 Jin troops lined up on the river bank to show a fight to the death. Mu Hua Li ordered his horse to dismount and fired arrows, defeating the Jin army and drowning all the troops.

The opponents A Shu encounters today are much stronger than the Jin army in the last years of the Jin Kingdom.

When this idea emerged, he suddenly realized a problem... Great Mongolia always seemed to face weak countries, and it seemed that it rarely encountered any that were prosperous.

Shaking his head, Ah Shu drove this damn thought out of his mind.

In short, he had to fight Li Xia on foot.

There is no room for movement in this kind of terrain, so infantry fighting has more advantages.

The Mongolian soldiers chopped down the injured horses and piled them in front of the formation.

The soldiers stood behind the horse corpses, bows and arrows drawn.

The distance between the two sides gradually came closer... Finally, a volley of arrows was fired, which was more powerful and had a longer range than when shooting from a horse.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

"Dong dong dong dong..."

When the arrows rained down, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty raised their shields to block the attack and slowly advanced. At the same time, they also fired back with arrows and thunder cannons.

…

On a loess plateau behind the Song army, Li Xia was watching the battle and commanding.

It wasn't because he was tired that he didn't charge, but after A Shu broke through, the battle situation changed and he needed to readjust.

First, Liu Jinsuo and Yang Ben were ordered to attack the front of A Shu, also dismounting and fighting on foot.

Li Xia had less than three thousand cavalry left, divided into two teams.

He first ordered Li Zeyi to go around to the left wing and wait for the horn.

The generals received orders and began to advance.

Li Xia picked up the telescope and looked upstream of the Jing River.

It took a long time until he saw several small boats rowing out diagonally from the opposite bank and flags waving before he ordered the horn to be blown.

"Woooooooo..."

Following the sound of the trumpet, Li Zeyi attacked the left flank of the Mongolian army.

But the small boat on the Jing River had already rushed down and rushed towards the flying boat that the Mongolian army had finally pulled up on the river.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty stood on the bow of the ship and slashed with their swords mercilessly, easily cutting off the flying pigeons.

The Mongolian army howled.

Their way to escape was cut off... They thought there was no ambush on the other side of the river, but the ambush was upstream.

Not all battles involving formations along the river are called last-ditch battles.

For example, in the Battle of Huanglinggang, the Jin soldiers lined up on the river bank to show a fight to the death, but were defeated by Mu Huali and drowned countless people.

Throwing yourself to death requires a very strong will to "put yourself to death and survive", otherwise it will be death...

It was time to test the will of the Mongolian army.

…

Li Xia kicked the horse's belly, drove the horse down the loess plateau, and galloped to another group of cavalry.

This cavalry group was led by Hu Legen. When he saw Li Xia approaching, he followed them tacitly.

"Kill the enemy with King Jun!"

"Those who violate the will of Changshengtian are not worthy of being prairie people..."

Hu Legen kept shouting as he ran.

The horses trotted, gradually accelerated, and rushed towards the right flank of the Mongolian army...

Li Xia slightly bent over to protect his face and let the arrows hit his armor.

He suddenly remembered that the last time he fought with A Shu was after killing Wu Liang Hetai, and A Shu led his troops to pursue him.

That time, many people from the Qingfu Army died.

Many people have died today. Back then, there were only hundreds of people fighting, but now there are tens of thousands, and even more people have died.

Back then, Li Xia was chased by A Shu and had to swim across the Changning River to survive.

Today, he did not plan to let Ah Shu swim across the Jing River, lest there would be another fight and more people would die, even more innocent people...

Thinking of this, Li Xia had already rushed to the right flank of the Mongolian army.

He began to charge into battle himself without any distractions.

In order to achieve faster victory with smaller casualties.

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The sunset is like blood.

This is Li Xia's second time today.

After defeating the Mongolian army for the first time, Ah Shu fled in panic. But this time, Ah Shu had no way out.

As far as the Mongolian army is concerned, when the enemy's commander-in-chief repeatedly falls into battle, only Ah Shu can personally attack him in order to boost morale, otherwise the Mongolian army will be defeated soon.

No, the defeat of the Mongolian army seems to have become a fact.

Ah Shu no longer thinks about these things and puts aside victory, defeat, life and death.
To be continued...