Chapter 989 The Iron Buddha Reappears
You can use strategy to win once, or you can win twice.
Or, destiny takes care of you, and you can win five or six times with strategies.
However, the seventh time was not so good.
If you only have a strategy and no strong army, you will lose everything, including your life, when you fail for the seventh time.
A truly strong person, in addition to scheming, will often face the world head-on.
Only such people, when they encounter difficulties again and again, dare to say: Don't be afraid! Go ahead!
Yue Fei's Shenwu Army is obviously like this.
On July 8, Li Cheng's cavalry arrived first and attacked the Song army first by means of harassment.
Those were elite kidnap horses, using bows and arrows and fast running attacks to compete with the Shenwu Army in this area.
The two sides attacked each other, and there was no victory or defeat in a short period of time.
That night, the soldiers in the Song Army camp had a good meal and a good rest.
At dawn the next day, Li Cheng's main force arrived.
Li Cheng also had 30,000 troops, and the combat effectiveness of his 30,000 troops was even greater than that of Wanyan Balisu.
It was this army that destroyed Fuzhou City and caused the Liaodong Divine Guards to suffer a lot.
At this time, this army was at its peak and rapidly advanced towards the Shenwu Army.
Li Cheng was in the position of commander, and he seemed to be the thinnest one in the entire team, but just such a person commanding the team gave Han Shizhong a headache.
Li Cheng looked indifferent at this time and looked forward.
His staff Wang He said happily: "Li Dujian, the Song army did not leave this way. They have been staying here. It seems that after they defeated Wanyan Balisu, they still want to defeat us?"
"I admire their fighting prowess," Li Cheng said. "Ten thousand people defeated an enemy three times their size, but their general was overconfident and wanted to continue fighting me head-on."
"The so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated." Wang He said, "In the past few years of our war in Dajin, many generals were arrogant and underestimated the enemy. In the past two years, the Song Army in Liaodong was defeated by us many times, and it was mostly related to this."
"Get ready, I'm going to surround and kill this Song army!" Li Cheng suddenly said seriously.
"yes!"
"Report!"
At this time, the scouts arrived.
"explain!"
"Suddenly a group of Song troops were discovered in the west. They were soldiers and horses of Zhang Qing and Hu Yantong!"
Wang He was slightly startled and said, "Song reinforcements are coming?"
"How many people came?"
"We can't tell how many have come yet?" the scout said. "We only discovered it at dawn."
"Director Li, do you want to fight now?" Wang He asked.
Li Cheng's mind changed quickly, and he immediately said: "Deploy 10,000 troops to entangle the Song army's reinforcements, delay time, use the main elite to quickly eat up the Song army in front of you, and then turn back to fight Zhang Qing's men and horses!"
"yes!"
Zhang Qing and Hu Yantong are Li Cheng's old rivals.
Li Cheng has defeated them many times, so he is naturally not afraid of them.
The Jin army began to quickly deploy its troops.
Li Cheng said: "Use three thousand cavalry to attack the Song army first. The Song army must reveal its fatal flaw before noon!"
"Li Dujian, the Song Army's cavalry is not easy to deal with either!"
Li Cheng said with a sharp tone: "That's not what I want to hear. Next time, please tell me directly that the Song Army's military formation collapsed!"
"yes!"
The cavalry that harassed the Song army yesterday went out into battle again after a night's rest. They quickly rushed towards the battlefield in front from both wings.
At this time, the infantry formations of the Shenwu Army were already lined up on the ground, as solid as iron as usual.
Yang Zaixing only brought a total of 3,000 cavalry, of which 2,000 were medium-sized armored cavalry and 1,000 were armored cavalry.
During the quick battle with Wanyan, the cavalry did not suffer much losses. There were probably nearly 200 injured. The infantry suffered more than 200 deaths and more than 1,000 wounded.
The number of cavalry and infantry was not greatly affected.
However, in terms of troop deployment, he really cannot compare with Li Cheng.
At this time, Li Cheng dispatched only 3,000 Guaizi horses, with 1,500 on each side.
The Song army still had 1,800 medium-sized cavalry, so they could only intercept them with 900 each.
Naturally, this cannot all be intercepted.
Soon the Jin army broke through the entanglement between the two wings of the Song army and rushed towards the Song army's infantry formation.
These kidnapper horses were obviously more ferocious than Wanyan Bazhu's combat force. After they entered the charging distance, they launched a swift and fierce charge first.
Instead of charging directly, they quickly launched a surprise attack on the Song army with bows and arrows after reaching a distance of twenty meters.
The Song army was naturally unwilling to be outdone and fought back with crossbows.
Arrows from both sides came and went.
The Guaizima then cooperated with the charge and arrow rain to continuously attack the Song army.
The main infantry force of the Jin Army has not yet taken action.
Time passed quickly, and Zhao Chen's troops approached the battlefield in the morning.
"Have you investigated how many Jin troops have arrived?"
"It is currently impossible to find out the specific strength of the Jin army, and it is impossible to judge whether there is an ambush around it?"
The scout answered Zhao Chen like this.
"How is the situation on the main battlefield?"
"The two sides are still in confrontation, and the Jin people have not yet launched a full-scale attack."
Zhao Chen walked back and forth and asked, "Zhang Dutong, what's your plan?"
"There is no strategy, just fight!" Zhang Qing said, "What else is needed? The Jin people just want to support us and kill the Jin army blocking the way!"
"Where is General Huyan?"
"Me too!"
Zhao Chen asked again: "How to fight?"
"Fighting me head-on, I've already thought of this evil spirit!" Zhang Qing cursed.
"Then General Hu Yan will attack from the front, and Zhang Dutong will move back from the flanks to the rear of the main force of the Jin army!"
"yes!"
The Divine Guards immediately divided their forces, with Hu Yantong taking charge of the front and Zhang Qing playing the flanks.
Huyantong fought back and forth with the Jin army from the front. Zhang Qing rushed in from the flank several times, but was intercepted by the Jin army and attacked again.
Until noon, the battlefield on both sides was still in the confrontation stage.
At this time, Li Cheng's face was very cold, and he said: "It's already noon, why haven't you broken through the Song army's formation yet?"
"Li Dujian, the Song army is extremely difficult to fight on this road, more difficult than the ones we encountered before!"
Li Cheng said: "Pass this order, whoever is the first to break through the Song army's formation, I will reward him with a thousand taels of gold!"
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
As soon as the bounty order was issued, the Jin army's kidnapping horse immediately became full of blood and rushed towards the Song army's formation crazily.
After another half an hour, the scout came back to report: "Report! Superintendent Li, Mrs. Song Jun..."
"How's the battle going?"
"Our army... our army has not yet broken through!"
"I don't believe that the Song army on this road is made of iron!" Li Cheng roared in a low voice, "Go to the hard army!"
"Li Dujian, it is not appropriate to use hard troops at this time. The enemy's main army formation has not been broken yet." Wang He said.
"Fart! If we don't eradicate this Song army, reinforcements will come and it will be a big trouble! Pass my order! Get the hard troops!"
The hard army that Li Cheng talked about is different from Wan Yan's hard army.
Chapter completed!