Li Yongqi was wrong. As the general military aircraft that Gao Qiu relied most, he gave Gao Qiu a bad idea that would inevitably cause disastrous consequences in times of crisis.

It’s not that it’s wrong to break through the west, but that it’s not that it should break through and retreat at all!

Because retreating under the heavy pressure of the enemy is a military operation that requires more morale and moral support than waiting for assistance. If there were no previous trickery peace talks, the more than 10,000 elite troops under Gao Qiu, especially the more than 6,000 Lingzhou soldiers, could still unite and protect Gao Qiu and leave slowly.

Even if Yelu Yanxi had more than 100,000 troops, they might not be able to defeat them. After all, there were not many roads from Qihe to Cangshan. As long as he went to Cangshan, Gao Qiu's troops, mainly infantry, would be invincible.

Moreover, Yelu Yanxi's own retreat will be completely cut off by Wu Haogu, so how dare he stay in the Central Plains for a long time?

He mustered up the courage to fight Gao Qiu, rather than being angry, it was self-rescue under extreme fear. He also thought that he had fallen into the trap carefully set by Gao Qiu, and if he didn't fight hard, he might die in the Central Plains.

Now I finally won a bet, so I naturally stopped when I see it and ran away quickly.

If Gao Qiu's troops who broke through the siege can still maintain high struggles and strict formations, then Yelu Yanxi will not be able to take advantage of the situation after a few fights, and she will have to "win and return to the court."

But the problem is that Gao Qiu's Lingzhou athletes were already disappointed with their future. Gao Qiu, who knew that the "traitor failed" and defeated the war, would soon fall. The Lingzhou army lost the big tree of Gao Qiu, and would soon become the target of the imperial court's rectification. Because the Lingzhou army was always a semi-warlord unit with strong independence and a separatist force in Lingzhou.

With the ever-present fear of military soldiers in the Song Dynasty, how could it continue to tolerate the existence of the Lingzhou army?

Later French emperor Napoleon once said: Three parts of spirit are equal to one part of matter. From the perspective of matter, since yesterday afternoon, the infantry and auxiliary soldiers of the Lingzhou Army who fought hard were already very tired. If they had enough spiritual support, they might be able to continue driving to Cangshan.

However, the low morale made the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers even more tired. Only the 2,000 Lingzhou Armored Cavalry who were riding horses still maintained quite strong physical strength.

Therefore, in the breakout battle on the morning of October 29, more than 10,000 Song troops set up a fish scale formation, with two thousand Lingzhou armored cavalry as the vanguard, and less than four thousand Lingzhou infantry guarded the sides of the wings, and began to rush westward.

At the beginning, the Lingzhou Armored Cavalry exerted great power. Their attacks attacked the Liao army's light cavalry who was trying to stop them and fled in panic, opening up a retreat channel for the infantry that followed.

However, when the Liao lord's Sun and Moon Dance led the boundless cavalry to appear behind the infantry of the Lingzhou soldiers and began to pursue the spirit of the Lingzhou soldiers. The spirit of the Lingzhou soldiers finally collapsed!

First, the two infantry battalions that collapsed and whose morale was extremely low were exhausted, the infantry no longer had the ability to maintain the square formation. After the Liao army's armored cavalry launched several rounds of attacks, they fell apart. The soldiers who were fleeing in chaos caused great panic to the auxiliary soldiers in front and fell into chaos.

Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi, who knew that the situation was hopeless, did not devote their precious armored cavalry to save Wu Song's infantry. Most of the officers of the infantry were from imperial warriors and belonged to the "Heroic Sect". Yang Keshi was not in the same sect as Li Yongqi!

And how precious are these 2,000 armored riders? How could they be sacrificed casually?

With them in hand, even if Gao Qiu falls, Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi will not worry about not being able to find a new backstage!

Both of them knew that this model new army in Kaifeng had always been worried about the absence of cavalry. With the addition of 2,000 Lingzhou armored cavalry, Kaifeng new army was intact and could go out of the city to fight in the field.

For this, Zhang Shuye and Wang Bing have to protect the future of Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi.

This selfishness and this little calculation became the last straw that overwhelmed the Lingzhou army at a critical moment.

Once the armored cavalry left, Wu Song's heavy infantry completely collapsed and could not be reorganized at all! Wu Song had to ride a horse with a confidant - these officers who were born in the imperial warriors, who had been in the northwest for so many years, naturally had good horses, and their horse skills were not very bad.

However, they would not escape in the direction of Kaifeng Prefecture, nor would they run behind the buttocks of armored cavalry, but instead fled northward and went to the Xiangzhou regiment to train the army. There were not many decent infantry officers in the Xiangzhou regiment to train the army. They were not afraid of not having any officials when they went there.

Brother Wu can also fight if he is a small abacus!

The collapse of the infantry severely hit the morale of armored cavalry and cavalry auxiliary soldiers. They could no longer maintain a strict formation, and no one was willing to turn around to repel the pursuit of Liao army.

In order to escape quickly, many armored cavalry even took off their armor and horse equipment!

In the chaotic times, knights like them will have food to eat wherever they go. There is no need to be buried with Gao Qiu, who is bound to fall...

In this way, the organized retreat turned into a full-scale escape!

As the commander of the three armies, Gao Qiu was surrounded by only a few personal guards.

...

When night fell again, Gao Qiu, who had escaped all the way with his horse's neck in a dizzy manner, finally woke up.

An urgent voice was heard in my ears, "Taiwei, let's stop it for a while! Our horses cannot escape from Liaogou. They are all riding several times, and they are changing to ride! You and Gao Jiyi quickly abandon the horse and go up the mountain. After going to Cangshan, you can hide for a while. Wait until Liaogou retreats before heading to Hedong!"

Gao Qiu turned his head and saw his personal soldiers commanding with a decisive look on their faces. He turned around and took a few guards who had been grateful to him in the past, and carried the horses like crazy.

A few dozen steps behind him, the Liao people's large group of troops had rolled up snow dust and rushed towards him like flying. They were not armored cavalry, but ordinary light cavalry, but everyone was holding a carriage. If Gao Qiu had even 100 Lingzhou cavalry in his hands, he could easily defeat them.

But there is no if on the battlefield!

Gao Qiu looked around and found that there were only a few cavalry left behind in the personal guards. He ran from the Qihe battlefield to here. There was no idea how far it was. In front of him was a low hill. Because the forests in Hebei could not be cut down randomly, the mountains were densely covered and not suitable for cavalry movement. But it was not something that only a few people could defend. As long as the Liao brigade surrounded the hills and searched carefully, it would be a dead end?

Gao Qiu was shocked. This was his own death? It was really irreversible. Subconsciously, Gao Qiu shook his tears and tears came out from somewhere.

He was not crying for himself, but for the Song Dynasty and the official Zhao Ji.

The thousands of Lingzhou soldiers who destroyed this place are elite soldiers like national pillars! They are elite soldiers fought in the Battle of Pingxia and the Battle of Anxi. If used well, they can drive away the captives and restore Yanyun.

But I, the No. 1 coach of the Song Dynasty, was a Western-Capital. I didn’t have much real skills, and I sold my country for honor. I had not succeeded yet. I was defeated by the Liao people and even suffered a great confusion in the morale of the army, which led to the defeat today...

After the Lingzhou soldiers were destroyed, which elite troops in the Song Dynasty could resist the Khitans' iron hooves?

Are Tong Guan’s Shuofang soldiers? Although they are large in number, they are not as elite as Lingzhou soldiers, especially without a powerful knight order.

Is Zhang Yuan's Hexi Army? It doesn't seem to be very reliable... The Hexi Army was adapted from the Great Education Army, with a small number of people, and is closely related to Wu Haogu's Doctoral Order. If it were transferred eastward, it would probably greatly enhance Wu Haogu's influence in the court.

In addition, the Hexi Army still adheres to the ideal of the Great Education Regiment, and is busy opening academies on the territory of the two major prophets of the Hexi Corridor and Anxi and Beiting to spread the principles of heaven. In short, it is strange and it is probably a hidden danger to enter Beijing.

As for Wu Haogu’s “Cangzhou Soldiers”, it seems even more unreliable!

Moreover, whether it is the Cangzhou soldiers, the Hexi soldiers or the Shuofang soldiers, it is far away for Kaifeng Prefecture!

The distant water is difficult to quench the near thirst! The weather is now getting colder, and the Yellow River is about to freeze in a blink of an eye. The Liao army defeated the Lingzhou soldiers and Xiangzhou regiment training again, and no one can stop the Khitan cavalry from moving south.

If Kaifeng Prefecture is about to be lost, even if the Song Dynasty is immortal, it will be damaged. It will be ruined in a prosperous era and will be ruined by itself in this way.

Gao Qiu, a thief who will ruin the country! A thief who will ruin the country!

Thinking of his crime, Gao Qiu couldn't help crying loudly. The two guards around him had already turned over and got off the horse and pulled him down. Another Gao Lian followed them, and the four of them rolled up the mountain. Gao Qiu was lucky now, his body was fat, and the two guards were panting with exhaustion, but they still used all their strength to take him away.

The sound of knights dismounting from the hillside had already heard the sound of knights dismounting, and it was obvious that the Khitan cavalry had dismounted and walked up the mountain.

Gao Qiu staggered forward with the support of his personal guards, and suddenly shook his arms and broke free from the hands of the two personal guards.

"Don't run away, don't run away!" Gao Qiu shouted in tears.

"Taiwei..."

"Brother!"

Gao Qiu looked at his confidants, looked at his brothers, and cried out loudly, "A dream, a dream, a certain family was originally a disciple from Kaifeng. They knew the art of bird warfare. It was just a coincidence that they achieved something. As a result, they did not plan closely, suffered a major disaster, and they were harmed by the country and themselves. How could they live?"

"Brother..." Gao Lian looked at his brother and cried like tears. He thought his elder brother was like a god, but he didn't expect that the soldiers would be so fierce!

Gao Qiu waved his hand and said, "Second brother, you can run better than me, run away quickly... Don't go to Kaifeng Prefecture, go to Jiehe Shangshi, and meet Wu Haogu! Tell him not to let down the official's favor! If he has to let the emperor down, he will not forgive him if he becomes a ghost!"

"Brother..."

Gao Qiu pushed his younger brother away, then pulled out the sword with a clang, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and wiped it on his neck!
Chapter completed!