"retreat?"

Yelu Yuji asked uncertainly: "She is Ma Langjun, are you talking about retreating?"

Wanyan Shin also gave Yelu Yu a look, "The yellow-headed strong army is defeated, what can I do if I don't retreat? Could you let your Khitan fight for another time?"

Yelu Yuji dared not follow Shi Yema. Although this battle was commanded by Shi Yema, the official position of Shi Yema was not high, so Yelu Yuji was the nominal general.

Although he, the chief general, had no command power, he returned to Wanyan Zonghan after losing his battle. When he was about to cut off his head, he should take it!

Otherwise, Wanyan Zonghan could still take his own son out and kill him?

"So it's Ma Langjun..." Yelu Yuji frowned and said, "You can't retreat! If we want to retreat, the Song army will advance all the way to the vicinity of Pingding Military City! The deputy marshal has not yet captured Pingding Military City. If the Song people's soldiers arrive, the deputy marshal will be attacked from both sides and Pingding Military City will be invincible.

Moreover, we had not captured Shouyang County before. We were afraid that we would have to retreat to Taiyuan City. Maybe even the siege of Taiyuan would be lifted!

If the Taiyuan encirclement is resolved..."

Wanyan Shih waved his hand indifferently, "If the Taiyuan encirclement is resolved, what's the big deal? Now the important thing is to send troops to Hebei... we have to open up the liaison with the Eastern Army. If possible, we will annex some Hebei prefectures and counties, and then we will erode the land of the Song Dynasty bit by bit. The Song Dynasty is so big and so strong, we can't swallow it in one bit!"

After suffering the loss of Yue Fei at the Pingding Army City, Zhao Kai was repaired by Niangzi Pass, of course, he did not dare to destroy Song easily.

Moreover, compared with the survival of the Eastern Route Army, Taiyuan City is nothing at all. If you can't defeat it, you won't fight... For the Great Jin Kingdom, taking Taiyuan is nothing more than an extra prefecture. If you can't take Taiyuan, it's actually no different to change it to Zhending Prefecture or Dingzhou in Hebei.

If the Eastern Route Army was really eaten by the 800,000 imperial guards of the Song people, then the Great Jin Kingdom might not even be able to maintain Yanshan Prefecture, so why would it be surrounded by Taiyuan Prefecture?

Yelu Yukka certainly knew that Shioyema was right, but he was defeated in the Battle of Niangziguan no matter what!

Moreover, if the defeat of Niangzi Pass extends to pacify the army city to relieve the siege, Taiyuan to relieve the siege, or even the Jin army evacuated Hedong... the blame will be a big deal!

Whoever takes the blame for this may have to move!

Looking at Yelu Yujiu's look like he was about to die of dying, Wanyan Shuai was a little strange - what's the big deal about victory or defeat?

I, the Jurchen royal family, aren't in a hurry. Why are you, Khitans? Are you worried that the prestige of the Great Jin Kingdom will be damaged by a defeat? I really didn't expect that you, a Khitan, are quite loyal!

In fact, Wanyan Shima didn't plan to admit defeat so simply. He saw Yelu Yuji a little "the emperor is not anxious, the eunuch is anxious", so he whispered to him: "Don't be anxious, a certain family has a backhand... This camp is no longer guarded. Instead of just increasing casualties, it is better to take a step back and be arrogant to the enemy. When the moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, choose three thousand deaths. Kill him and fight back, and you may be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

Yelu Yujiu felt relieved after hearing this.

Wanyan Shiya Ma said to him in an encouraging tone: "Maintain, let's lead troops to rob Zhao Muji's camp tonight... You can send 500 Khitan warriors, and a family can send 2,500 Jurchen warriors!"

Yelu Yuji's heart that had just been relieved was lifted up again. He has been losing his troops and losing his generals for a while!

Hundreds of people were damaged in Pingding Military City, and one thousand people were missing from Niangzi Pass. Even the confidant general Han Funu was gone. This time, he would have to follow Shi Yema to launch a night attack. Isn’t he going to waste his life?

......

As dusk approached, Wanyan Sheema and Yelu Yuji, who had been tortured by the "rain of bullets" for more than an hour, finally gave up the camp that made them sad, and led more than 8,000 defeated soldiers to retreat along the Mianman River.

The main section of Jingxing Road is actually a slender and winding river valley. There are three relatively wide places where heavy troops can be stationed, which become important places and passes. These three places are from west to east, namely the Pingding Juncheng area, the Niangziguan area and the Jingxingkou Basin.

Outside these three open areas, they are extremely narrow river valleys. They are dangerous, but the terrain is too narrow, making it difficult to garrison troops (the garrison troops are easily garrisoned into scattered camps), and there are no passes to guard (because there is a river at the bottom of the Mianmanshui River Valley, and sometimes there will be heavy floods, so the passes can only be built on the hillside, which is too expensive). Therefore, once the Jin soldiers withdraw from the valley below Niangzi Pass, it will be difficult to deploy defenses in the valleys between Niangzi Pass and Pingding Army - in those places, the soldiers cannot be placed, and there are few soldiers and there are no passes to rely on, so it is difficult to guard.

Therefore, when the Jin soldiers retreated, they would most likely retreat directly to the area of ​​Pingding Military City.

"The Jin thief retreated! I won again, won again...haha!" Zhao Kai, who was standing on the high ground, saw the Jin soldiers pushing their camp like a tide, while igniting the tent, food, and vehicles that were too late to take away. He knew at a glance that he was going to run away after losing the battle.

"King, the Jin thieves burned the camp, vehicles, and food and grass and retreated. This shows that they cannot and do not want to set up defenses in the valley leading to Pingding Military City. We can fight to Pingding Military City in one go!" Chen Ji, Sima, took his beard and began to analyze the latest enemy and us situation for Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai nodded, turned his eyes to Han Shizhong, and asked with a smile: "Liangchen, what do you think? Do you want to take advantage of the victory?"

Han Shizhong shook his head and said, "Master, the golden thief is too much, and the horsepower is more than us... After all, we marched 500 miles in a hurry.

And it's getting late now. If you insist on pursuing, you'll be afraid that night battles will be fought. Night battles will benefit elite soldiers and veterans. Our team is still a little messy, and it will be unfavorable to fight at night. It's better to divide the troops first and occupy the camp that the Jin thieves gave up, and then send troops from this tomorrow morning, slowly travel west along the Mianman River, and approach Pingding Military City."

Han Shizhong had such rich experience. Of course, he saw that although the Jin soldiers were defeated, they still had their vitality. If they pursued them blindly, they might get bitten hard. It would be better to have a good rest for a night, nourish their energy and then slowly advance. It gave the Jin thieves who besieged the Pingding Army the feeling of being in a big way, and they might retreat by themselves.

Zhao Kai looked at the Jin soldiers who had already left the camp and retreated along the Mianman River. As expected, he maintained a good order, with a strict team and a clear stand.

Han Shizhong added on the side: "King, the main general of this Jin thief is still good at fighting. Although he was defeated for a while, he did not mess up and did not exhaust his energy. He just knew that it was difficult to win, so he took the initiative to evacuate... This Jin thief is very ma, which is conducive to maneuvering. He encountered obstacles in a certain place and was likely to evacuate and attack in another place.

In the future, we will definitely encounter such situations often, so we should not be proud of our small victory, and we should not take it lightly."

As soon as Han Shizhong said this, Liu Wei, Liu Ziyu and Chen Ji, who were standing on the same platform to watch the battle with Zhao Kai, were a little surprised.

The king was in high spirits, why did Han Shizhong pour cold water on him?

Han Shizhong had thick eyebrows and slightly frowned. It was not that he had forgotten the iron law of officialdom of "not disobeying Shangguan", but that military affairs were the most difficult to fool... Now it was a fierce battle!

The Jurchens on the opposite side have a lot of capital, and it’s nothing to lose ten battles. But Zhao Kai only has more than ten thousand elite soldiers, and if he loses all, he will have nothing!

Of course, Zhao Kai is very good at accepting advice now - no matter how he cannot ignore Han Shizhong and Yue Fei!

So he nodded and said solemnly: "Liangchen reminded me right. Now is not the time to take it lightly... Let's do this, I will spend the night with the soldiers in the camp where the golden thieves gave up tonight!

After dawn, Gu personally led them to advance with great utmost importance, so that he should be foolproof."

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Chapter completed!