The Jin cavalry had just charged out when the blue flag was raised on time, but Wang Sheng, the frontline commander who had already received Han Shizhong's instructions, still felt it was too late.

In fact, Wang Sheng's eyes were already bloodshot from that initial Jin charge. Seeing the blue flag raised behind him, he hurriedly ordered his two deputies, Yue Chao and Dong Min, to each lead a thousand men to split off to the flanks according to plan, while he led the remaining thousand-odd men eastward in a disarray.

This was a typical tactic of luring the enemy in deep, followed by an encirclement from both sides.

However, things always seem perfect in theory, but are extremely difficult to execute in practice. Although Wang Sheng gave the order and acted upon it, the Imperial Guards coming from the front of the camp for support, as well as the various units of Han Shizhong's main force, had already lost control due to the massive casualties brought by the Jin charge. Therefore, upon hearing Wang Sheng's signal for retreat from a slightly farther distance, Yue Chao and Dong Min both withdrew, only to be surprised to find that their respective flags had been trampled to the same side by the Jin cavalry!

The supposed flanking maneuver instantly became a joke.

Of course, at this point, such a plan was irrelevant. Because as the three flags retreated together and the Jin armored knights charged out, Wang Sheng's leading troops were in utter chaos. They completely lost control, with countless soldiers discarding their armor and helmets, getting swept along, breaking into small groups, and being chased, hacked, and hunted by the Jin soldiers behind them.

Obviously, as experience gained from countless battles with the Jin people had shown, the so-called pre-arranged feigned defeat strategy almost always turned into a real rout.

The reason it was said to be "almost" was because Wang Sheng's main force, located at the rearmost position, which was the easternmost side, had not suffered too many casualties after all. Furthermore, Wang Sheng himself had always been respected, so this small fraction of over a thousand troops did not completely lose control. They were still able to maintain formation, keep their armor and weapons, and run eastward with Wang Sheng... although their state of panicky flight was undeniable.

Returning to the present, Puluhun, having rested and prepared, used cavalry against infantry. After the initial courageous charge of fifteen hundred iron cavalry, nearly three thousand Song soldiers on the east side of the camp were almost completely overwhelmed. But unlike Jin Wuzhu, who was watching from the main camp and burst into狂喜 laughter, he himself did not slacken in the slightest. On the contrary, after this charge proved effective, this chief Meng'an under Wanyan Wuzhu slightly looked around, assessed the situation, and without any hesitation, ordered the entire army to regroup and pursue Wang Sheng's unit, the only one that could still maintain some semblance of order.

This was a responsible move from an excellent cavalry commander, and it was the obvious choice... A thousand-odd infantrymen, fleeing in disarray with almost the same number of cavalry behind them, yet still barely maintaining their formation. At the same time, the cavalry had already broken through the camp's blockade and entered the open field, where they should have been sweeping the surrounding area to keep the large enemy force intact.

From any perspective, and even based on the instinct of human nature, Puluhun had no reason to let this Song army fleeing with their backs to him go.

Therefore, with Puluhun's slight hand gesture, the black raven flag waved vigorously in the center of the battlefield, causing the Jurchen cavalry, emboldened by their success, to shout and roar, abandoning the hacking and killing of the routed Song soldiers on the flanks of the front line and regrouping under the flag in full formation once again.

Immediately afterward, the flag slowly accelerated for the second time, continuing to rumble eastward!

On the river embankment, Yang Yizhong dared not slacken in the slightest, but neither dared he deviate from Han Shizhong's arrangements. He mounted his horse, personally holding the flag and craning his neck, staring intently at the situation in front of him. Only after the Jin cavalry restarted and their entire tail completely left the confines of the camp did he finally stop hesitating and personally wave the second yellow flag.

Seeing the yellow flag waved, Wang Sheng, whose helmet had already been knocked off, looked back from afar with a bitter smile on his face. The main force of the Jin cavalry was biting closely behind him. His thousand-odd good soldiers were mostly infantry. In the midst of the escape, they would probably immediately suffer a rear attack, resulting in heavy casualties. How could they possibly perform any effective tactical maneuvers as planned? It would be good enough to escape with their lives.

Of course, Wang Sheng, who had nine black dragons tattooed on his body, was after all a trusted general of Han Shizhong's main force. He had been in the army for over a decade, following Han Shizhong across the north and south, and possessed decisiveness and courage. Furthermore, he knew the arrangements early on and knew better than anyone else where the line of victory lay. Therefore, despite his helplessness, Wang Heilong gritted his teeth, suppressed his thoughts, and continued to guide the entire army forward slowly on horseback, heading towards the predetermined location.

During this process, the Jin cavalry had already caught up, and screams grew louder. Wang Sheng leaned forward on his horse, tears streaming down his face, almost forming a string along the horse's mane, but he didn't dare to turn his head. He held on until he reached the predetermined location, then he fiercely reined in his horse and turned, leading the flag and his remaining troops to the north!

The Jin cavalry's momentum did not diminish. The last organized Song infantry unit that had besieged the eastern camp was also severely damaged. The Wang-named general under the great Wang flag, who was the main commander of the eastern siege, also completely lost his composure and strayed from the battlefield. It could be said that with the Jin army's successful charge again, they had completely eliminated the enemy who had launched the eastern surprise attack and siege that morning!

After this second successful charge, even Puluhun, who was usually cold and aloof, trembled with excitement and couldn't help but let out a long roar on his horse, feeling that the憋闷 frustration of the past two months had been swept away.

However, in the next moment, as the Jin cavalry continued eastward due to the momentum of their horses, preparing to outflank Wang Sheng from the more eastern side, the Jin army suddenly discovered that with Wang Sheng's northward movement, an archer battalion that had been prepared long ago was revealed on the eastern edge of the battlefield!

The Jin army, focused solely on the pursuit, was caught off guard and simply exposed its flank to these archers!

That's right, this army was the Cuipian Army under Han Shizhong, nominally two thousand men, but in reality, it was slightly less than the quota of one thousand two hundred. They were almost all equipped with powerful bows and crossbows. Their commander was named Xie Yuan, who was from Han Shizhong's hometown and was also one of Han Shizhong's most veteran generals. His position under Han Shizhong was like Wang Gui's position under Yue Fei. Therefore, the elite nature, combat readiness, rewards, and equipment of this army were self-evident.

Xie Yuan, seeing that Wang Sheng had sacrificed countless soldiers' lives to complete the task of luring the enemy, didn't hesitate at all. He personally raised the Kediji Bow in his hand and ordered his bodyguards to wave his flag, directly ordering the release of arrows.

In an instant, the Cuipian Army, arranged in a line with staggered formations, launched their attack together. Waist crossbows, double-flying crossbows, divine arms bows, and the Kediji Bow developed by Han Shizhong himself based on the divine arms bow, and even a bed crossbow, all fired flatly almost simultaneously, unleashing thousands of arrows in an instant!

Saying "thousands of arrows fired together" might not sound as impressive as "ten thousand arrows fired together," but the killing power of firing at the unprotected flanks of cavalry at close range was astonishing.

Not to mention that at this time, the Jin army had not yet fully assimilated the armor technology of the Song artisans. Although everyone wore armor, the horses rarely did. If an armored cavalryman fell after his horse was shot by an arrow during a high-speed charge, how could the rider be so lucky? Therefore, as these thousand-odd arrows, which were actually aimed at the horses, were fired, the Jin cavalry exposed to the Cuipian Army's formation immediately fell to the ground in pools of blood, men and horses alike!

It could only be said that the amount of blood and the struggle of the wounded horses were much more stimulating than the Jin knights' own struggles.

In this situation, the horses in the front neighed, the wounded wailed, and the Jin cavalry in the rear couldn't stop their momentum, and some people were still roaring and charging forward, causing a certain amount of trampling.

In this way, the Cuipian Army, hidden here, launched a full-force attack, and with just one volley, they caused at least two or three hundred Jin cavalry casualties in a single encounter!

However, amid the chaos, the Jin army, due to the sudden attack and heavy casualties, Puluhun, despite his anger, still remained calm. He was the first to rein in his horse, and after quickly assessing the battlefield situation, he personally seized the black raven flag, lowered the shiny spearhead of the flag slightly towards the east, and then personally held the flag eastward, guiding the cavalry... seemingly intending to wipe out this audacious Song army!

After all, in his opinion, although the Song army's arrangement was excellent, the problem was that the Wang-named general's feigned retreat turned into a real defeat in the middle of luring the enemy... Without the support and encirclement of the infantry, he had futilely sent this elite archer army to their deaths!

At the same time, according to plan, the Cuipian Army could have left, but Xie Yuan Xie Shanchang (Xie Yuan's courtesy name), who had just witnessed the Jin cavalry wantonly slaughtering the main force of Han Shizhong's army, had no intention of leaving.

This most trusted confidant of Han Shizhong, after personally shooting an arrow with the Kediji Bow, seeing that the Jin army did not waver and instead immediately adjusted their course towards his position, did not waver in the slightest.

On the contrary, at this moment, Xie Yuan glanced at the red flag waving on the high ground of the river embankment in the distance, but surprisingly lowered his head, ignoring the approaching Jin army, calmly stepped on the ground, and loaded a second crossbow bolt onto the Kediji Bow (both the Kediji Bow and the divine arms bow were crossbows). Then, he raised it again and nodded to his bodyguard who was holding the flag.

At this time, many Jin knights had already charged to within a few dozen steps of the Cuipian Army's position according to orders, and were preparing to shoot arrows. Seeing this situation, some gritted their teeth and bravely moved forward, shooting arrows and successfully stepping onto the Song army's position. Others were almost terrified and wanted to turn around and flee without even using their bows and arrows!

In any case, as the army flag bearing the words "Cuipian" waved and fell forward, the Song army's second volley was finally successfully fired... Although the effect was far less than the first volley, it still brought significant battlefield casualties to the Jin army, which originally numbered only fifteen hundred cavalry, and finally stopped the Jin cavalry's momentum for the second time!

Speaking of which, after the initial strong charge out of the camp, the Jin cavalry had been bombarded by two volleys of arrows and crossbows. They were not gods, and by this point, their combat strength had been reduced to barely a thousand. If it were Song cavalry, they would have already collapsed... Only the Jin army was good at hard fighting and valued strict military discipline. Even under the command of Puluhun, who had changed horses because his warhorse had been shot, they continued to advance... The officers commanded decisively, beheading those who retreated without permission. The ordinary knights stepped on the blood mixed with the corpses of their comrades and their mounts, trying to force their way forward and crush this elite archer force that they hated to the core into mud.

On the crossbow position, knowing that there would be no third round of cavalry archer, some soldiers of the Cuipian Army began to waver, but Xie Yuan, the commander of the Cuipian Army under the only two army flags on the battlefield, still remained calm. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he abandoned his bow and arrows, drew his sword, and jumped out of the position, leading his guards to fight in close combat. The Cuipian Army flag naturally followed immediately... Seeing this, the soldiers around him were greatly encouraged and followed suit!

Not only that, but further to the north, Wang Sheng's army flag was also turning back for some reason.

With just one general, without saying a word, he simply drew his sword and charged forward, actually causing an archer army to stand its ground in front of the cavalry!

Puluhun saw this general, and remembered the scene he had witnessed in the river that day, and laughed angrily. He personally took the reins of his horse, holding the flag like a lance, preparing to personally take this person's life!

Without mentioning how the two generals cheered up their troops, don't forget that as early as when the Jin army took the first wave of arrows, Yang Yizhong, seeing the Jin army's momentum stopped, couldn't wait to shake the red flag in his hand!

The reason Xie Yuan was so calm and brave was that he knew very well that once the red flag was waved, his brother Han Shizhong would arrive immediately. And since Han Shizhong was about to arrive, with the enemy limited to a mere thousand men, according to his general Xie's twenty years of military experience, there was no battle in the world that could not be resolved!

Sure enough, Puluhun had just arrived at the front line and had not yet engaged the Song general when he instinctively sensed the tremors in the ground and his expression changed drastically. Wang Sheng had desperately turned the head of the Jin army northward; then the Cuipian Army twice launched volleys, causing huge casualties to the Jin army; the Song generals' outstanding courage; and the illusion that only the Jin army had organized cavalry on the battlefield... all made this veteran general overlook some slight movements that should have been noticed earlier.

But at this moment, finally realizing something was wrong, Puluhun was shocked to discover that on the south side of the battlefield, a cavalry force that had apparently been hidden behind the river embankment had already crossed the embankment and reached the plain, and had already completed its acceleration!

And unlike his previous ignorance of Wang Sheng and Xie Yuan, Puluhun knew the origin of this cavalry force of about seven or eight hundred men with two flags at the front: a large Han flag and a 背嵬 Beiwel Army flag:

Among them, 背嵬 Beiwel was the name given by the Western Xia people to the personal guards. It is not clear whether the name came from the fact that the Western Xia personal guard cavalry often had to carry shields with them to protect the main general, or whether they had to carry wine pots on their backs at any time for rewards. However, the Song army had fought countless battles with the Western Xia army, and had gradually been culturally influenced. It was common to name the personal army cavalry in this way. Puluhun had fought countless battles with the Song army and naturally understood the meaning of 背嵬 Beiwel!

As for the Han flag, needless to say, it must be Han Shizhong, one of the two actual commanders of the Song army, who had arrived in person!

With Han Shizhong being a famous general in the world, and the 背嵬 Beiwel Army always being the essence of an army, Puluhun, no matter how brave or self-righteous, would not underestimate the enemy. Not to mention that the Song cavalry had already picked up speed, and the Jin cavalry had been successfully outwitted, being trapped in front of the Cuipian Army's position, unable to turn around for a while.

However, at this moment, Puluhun made a decisive decision. He looked back and saw a general behind him, and shouted desperately: "Ali Bu!"

"Your subordinate is here!" Ali Bu knew the urgency of the situation and immediately responded.

"Lead your own Mouke, as well as the two Moukes of Xiao Jiuli that I assigned to you, and go south to hold them back!" Puluhun shouted hoarsely.

Ali Bu instinctively looked south. He knew Han Shizhong's fame and knew that Han Shizhong's eight hundred riders had already completed their acceleration. Now his Meng'an was asking him to take three Moukes to meet the enemy, which was basically asking him to act as a meat shield. However, on the battlefield, there was no room for hesitation. Out of the will of an excellent soldier, he only glanced instinctively and immediately ordered the three Moukes under his command to bravely meet the enemy to the south!

"Everyone else, ignore the Cuipian Army, turn a corner with me to the north, kill that Wang Sheng, and then circle back to flank this reckless Han Wu!" Seeing Ali Bu take the order, Puluhun felt relieved and, ignoring the rumble of hooves, with the Song cavalry about to charge in front of him, he desperately clamped his black raven flag-lance, trying to dispatch the remaining troops to turn back!

However, this chief Meng'an under Wanyan Wuzhu finally managed to rein in the remaining cavalry who had received successive military orders, about five or six hundred men, and was preparing to circle back when he suddenly heard a deafening, but extremely familiar, noisy sound from behind!

The sound of cavalry trampling, the sound of shouting and killing, the sound of warhorses neighing, the harsh sound of clashing weapons, the sound of heavy objects falling... Without looking, he knew that Han Shizhong's final fatal blow had arrived successfully, and Ali Bu and the three Moukes were probably beyond saving.

But Puluhun couldn't help but look back, and with this look, he was overjoyed again. It turned out that although Ali Bu's three Moukes had suffered countless casualties, they had actually managed to hold back the charge of Han Shizhong's eight hundred 背嵬 Beiwel soldiers! The Song army's Han flag and the 背嵬 Beiwel Army flag were completely isolated by Ali Bu's life at a mere hundred paces away!

"Our Jurchen heroes!" Puluhun shouted repeatedly with a surge of enthusiasm, but continued to order the remaining cavalry to turn back with him from the north.

However, before he could continue to be happy, in the next moment, Puluhun saw a Song general with a very large frame and extremely strong physique charge out of Ali Bu's human flesh array, as easily as a tiger leaping into a flock of sheep. This person was fully armored and wore a cowhide mask, almost dressed like Puluhun himself. In theory, Puluhun couldn't recognize who this person was!

But for some reason, that Song general looked from afar, raised his spear and pointed, and Puluhun realized with the lightning-like gaze of the other party that this person must be Han Shizhong!

This person must be the culprit who caused the current situation!

This person must be one of the two main commanders of the Song army in front of him!

This person is the courage and胆识 guts of the new Zhao Song emperor!

This person is the number one brave general and famous general currently showing in China!

Kill this person, and this battle will be over! He himself will be famous throughout the world!

With a surge of blood, Puluhun did not retreat but advanced, instead clamping the flag-like spear with his arm, shouted loudly, and bravely headed south, facing the Song general head-on!

Not only that, but seeing the main general's counter-charge, more than a dozen guards instantly realized the main general's intention and also jumped on their horses and followed.

Han Shizhong leaped out of Ali Bu's flesh and blood formation, and seeing the enemy general responding to the challenge, leading more than ten riders, he did not say a word, only leading three or five riders with undiminished momentum.

In the blink of an eye, the two generals met first. Han Shizhong first gritted his teeth and desperately parried, using his spear to barely deflect the opponent's thick flag-spear, and then unexpectedly let go of the spear, abandoning it, and using his right arm slightly open, with his shoulder against the opponent's flag-spear and colliding! The armor plate above his arm rubbed against the flagpole, and sparks even flashed, showing the speed of the two generals. And because of the moment arm problem, the Jin general was also unable to exert force because he was being pushed by Han Shizhong!

When the two horses passed each other, Puluhun had just felt the force on the flag-spear loosen, and was preparing to turn around and sweep, but he did not expect that Han Shizhong on the other side did not move his right arm, directly following the flag-spear to embrace Puluhun's entire waist, and then let out a loud roar, and pulled with the momentum... actually pulling the Jin general from his warhorse as if pulling an onion!

Puluhun was in the air, his whole body powerless, and felt horrified, and astonished that there was such a brave person in the world... But before he could think much, he felt as if he was riding a cloud, and was thrown out by the opponent again, and then fell alive in front of his own guard's iron guns and hooves... His whole body ached to the point of darkness in front of his eyes, and he could no longer stand up.

The surrounding Jin soldiers and Jin generals were dumbfounded, and with Puluhun and his flag disappearing from the battlefield, the Jin cavalry, who had already been exhausted, wounded, and ambushed, could no longer support themselves. Therefore, as Han Shizhong ignored the person on the ground behind him and turned to meet his own 背嵬 Beiwel cavalry, on the battlefield, the Jin cavalry, who had lost their last bit of strength, finally took advantage of the situation to collapse, discarding their helmets and armor, and fleeing north in a panic, just as the Song army had demonstrated countless times before!

At the same time, on this battlefield on the east side of the Jin army's camp, all were Han Shizhong's troops. Seeing their own commander's flag appearing at the most critical moment as usual, and the Jin cavalry's main general's flag disappearing head-on, how could they not know that Han Shizhong's plan had succeeded and that this battle was already a great victory?

Han Shizhong, having broken the enemy, did not stop his horses, but personally led the army westward, on the one hand gathering the troops, and on the other hand actually intending to personally kill into the empty Jin camp... As a result, the Song army's routed soldiers, who had originally been all over the mountains and plains, rejoiced and gathered towards Han's flag, and headed west. Even the laborers who were climbing the sails on the distant Huai River to watch the battle, and Yang Yizhong and others on the river embankment, seeing this force that reversed the tide, all rejoiced out of control.

In the end, as Han Shizhong flaunted his power and personally led his troops to sweep and plunder, the cheers around him were like thunder, shaking the rivers and mountains!

At the same time, on the westernmost side of the battlefield, separated by an unknown number of miles, the Zhao Emperor, looking at the stalemate melee close at hand in front of the city, had no idea that this battle had already succeeded and was about to win a great victory.

On the contrary, when he heard the thunderous sound from the east, he was somewhat flustered and couldn't help but open his mouth... After all, the玉堂学士 Jade Hall Academician and the御史中丞 Censor-in-chief below, naturally did not include the Emperor himself.

"Minister Lin, what do you think is going on with this sound?" The Zhao Emperor was afraid of shaking people's hearts, so he could only ask the nearest person to him in a low voice.

The asked-about scholar Lin opened his mouth to speak, but he, who had been blank-minded all morning, had no idea what to say, so he could only remain silent.