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Chapter 721 Ambush from All Sides
"What's going on, why are you back!"

Baomi Sheng was marching south with his army when suddenly a few cavalry from the Liao Kingdom came running back. The posture of throwing away their helmets and armor showed that they had lost the battle.

Bao Misheng didn't believe that Tian Shanyong would be defeated. Although Tian Shanyong's martial arts skills were mediocre, he had an exquisite hand crossbow -- a little oil. With this hand crossbow, Tian Shanyong killed many powerful enemies in a sneak attack.

What's more, this time Tianshan Yong brought three thousand Khitan cavalry and seven thousand servants. This kind of force is enough to deal with the Song army of more than [-], and Zhou Xuan of the Song army of [-]. How could it be possible to lose?
"Chief soldier, the enemy has already ambushed. We are defeated. The deputy commander ordered to withdraw first. We separated from the army..."

Several cavalrymen looked at Baomisheng with horror on their faces. Running away from battle is a serious crime, and they dare not take it.

"Waste, was ambushed by mere southern bandits!"

Baomi Sheng was furious. First, he was attacked for fodder, and now the vanguard was ambushed and defeated. The Liao Kingdom had never experienced such a disastrous defeat in the southward movement for a hundred years.

"Children, kill with me!"

Baomisheng let out a loud roar, and rushed south with his army.

Along the way, Baomisheng encountered more and more defeated troops, which made him furious. If the battle continued like this, Daliao's face would be lost to him, and he would be a laughing stock in Daliao from now on.

"Tian Shanyong, what's going on!"

Finally, Baomi Sheng met Tian Shanyong's brigade of cavalry and roared directly.

"The enemy has an ambush! Go, there are enemies on the side, and they want to surround us!"

Tian Shanyong shouted anxiously, originally only Sun An's army was chasing him, but just as he stabilized his position and prepared to fight and retreat, another group of troops suddenly came out from the side, and their combat power was not inferior to Sun An's That team of people.

"What are you afraid of! Gather me a formation and kill!"

Baomi Sheng didn't care about that, now that the army was assembled in one place, he had to launch a counterattack.

The sound of the horn sounded, and seeing the arrival of the main force, the panicked soldiers finally calmed down and assembled to listen to the sound of the horn.

"I only thought of assembly now, it's too late!"

Sun An held a pair of black swords and led the army to form an army in the south.

At the same time, Zong Ze, Zhang Shuye brought Yuan Lang and others to the west of the Liao army.

"Two armies! Are you afraid of such a small number of people?"

Seeing the two armies coming, Baomi Sheng sneered disdainfully, this is only more than 5000 soldiers and horses, and there are more than 2 Liao troops around him.

Suddenly, trumpets sounded from the north and east.

Baomi Sheng's face froze, and when he looked back, he saw that there were also two armies in the east and the north, each with two thousand troops, and more than half of them were cavalry.

"Surrounded! We are surrounded!"

Baomi Sheng looked at the army in disbelief, but at this time they were in a low-lying area, the enemies on all sides were at high places, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable to them.

In the war between the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom had always taken the lead. The Northern Song Dynasty had few horses, did not have enough cavalry, and moved slowly.

However, the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom was fast, coming and going like the wind, and could quickly intersect and cut the battlefield. The Liao army had always surrounded the Song army to fight, and very few Liao troops were surrounded.

The Liao army, which had never been surrounded before, was in turmoil, and the fear in the soldiers' hearts rose sharply. Looking at the enemies around them, they only wanted to escape.

"Chief soldier, the team in the south is difficult to fight. Those two are masters of bows and crossbows. The one next to him is good at using flying stones. They also have a whole team of well-trained archers equipped with Song Ting's magic arm bow!"

Tian Shanyong pointed to Sun An's army in the south and said, in his opinion, the army in the south is the most troublesome. Archers and god-arm bows have always been Song's sharp weapons against Liao, and the light cavalry in Liao fear most. Bow hard crossbow.

Baomi Sheng looked at the army formation to the south, and there were indeed thousands of archers ahead.

"The surrounding area seems to be an army formation! If we attack one point, the other three parties will come down and break up our formation!"

Bao Misheng looked at the generals around him and said, they can only stand in formation and wait for the enemy to attack first. As long as they charge down, they can use their superior numbers to disrupt the opponent's formation and turn defeat into victory.

"What are you waiting for? Let's kill!"

Ma Jin couldn't bear it any longer, the enemy was right in front of him, and he was already surrounded, if they continued to kill now, they would definitely kill the enemy completely.

"Now is not the time for a strong attack. After all, the enemy has a large number of people, and there are too many variables in the charge. Now that we have the chance to win, it is the best strategy to fight steadily."

Zong Ze said.

Although Ma Jin and the others are rough men, they still admire Zong Ze very much. During this time, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye taught them how to lead the army in Cangzhou, and they learned a lot.

"The enemy light cavalry came here without any luggage. It won't take long for the enemy's formation to be disordered!"

Zhang Shuye opened his mouth and said, the enemy has no provisions, supplies, equipment and anything, so why should they stick to the low-lying places?
There was no sound on the battlefield, and the expected brutal fighting did not break out. Liang Shan's army just lined up and waited quietly.

This made the Liao army below even more uneasy, sweating profusely, looking around constantly, for fear of the enemy's sudden attack.

"Chief soldier, you can't go on like this!"

A lieutenant general looked at the tense faces of the soldiers and said to Baomi Sheng that the enemy clearly wanted to consume them.

"Under tension, the soldiers exhausted a lot of energy."

One of the lieutenants said that the current situation is very unfavorable to them. The soldiers are highly stressed, and their mental strength is also exhausted. After a long time, the soldiers will not be able to fight anymore.

"Damn it, there is no shelter or barriers around here, and there is no material to cut down trees to build a camp."

Tian Shanyong looked at the barren fields around and frowned and said, they only have an army to stop the enemy now, it would be different if they could build camps.

"It's useless to have a camp. We only brought one day's rations. Without food, what's the use of a camp."

Baomisheng shook his head and said, they didn't bring much luggage this time in a hurry, and most of them stayed in Shuanggang Village and Sannv Village. The soldiers only brought one day's food. Once there, I had everything, but I didn't expect to be surrounded by people.

"We must break out. The Liangshan bandit has long been prepared. If this continues, we won't even have the strength to break through."

Baomi Sheng made up his mind and said solemnly.

"Master Chief Soldier, where do we break out from!"

All the generals looked at Baomi Sheng. They didn't like being surrounded like this, and they had long thought of breaking through.

"Go north, let's go back to the Yellow River!"

Baomi Sheng pointed to the north, their luggage was by the Yellow River, and they had two strong camps, so they could completely rest and fight the enemy again.

After finding a good direction, Baomisheng and Tianshan Yong led the army to kill Lin Chong's camp in the north.

"Slight resistance, retreat!"

Lu Zhishen saw that the Liao army was attacking on a large scale, and directly ordered that 2000 of them could not stop an army of more than 2, but they could slow down the speed of the Liao army.

(End of this chapter)