Chapter 701: Fleeing overnight in such a hurry, could it be that they want to flee back to Southern Song now?

Northern Song.

The Southern Song army attacking Northern Song also received the news that Southern Song's Song Gao Zong Zhao Gou had recalled them.

After receiving the news from Zhao Gou, the general of the Southern Song army in Northern Song was slightly stunned. They did not understand why Song Gao Zong suddenly called them to retreat at this time.

After all, for so many years, their Southern Song army had always been very passive and stifled when fighting against the Jin army.

Now that they were fighting against Northern Song, they finally had a high-spirited time. If it weren't for the Great Tang army coming to support Northern Song, they would definitely have been able to keep advancing triumphantly.

After struggling for a while, the Southern Song general decided to take the army back to Southern Song.

"Go back!!!"

"Anyway, we can't beat the Great Tang army, staying here is just a waste of time."

Now the Southern Song general was very helpless. Although he was unwilling to admit it, it was true that their Southern Song army was not on the same order of magnitude as Great Tang.

Now they had fought against the Great Tang army several times, large and small. Their army was far more numerous than Great Tang's, but no matter how they did it.

They had no way to take any advantage of the Great Tang army, and even the Great Tang army, under the leadership of their generals, often won with fewer troops, making their Southern Song army suffer defeats!

Following the decision of the Southern Song army remaining in Northern Song to return to Southern Song, the Southern Song army began to pack up their military equipment overnight and prepared to sneak away from here.

It's just that because the base number of the Southern Song army was too large, although it was a secret operation, the commotion they made was not very small.

The Great Tang army naturally also discovered their unusual movements.

After Li Jing learned the news from the scouts, he did not react for a while.

"Left???? They actually left??"

"Fleeing overnight in such a hurry, could it be that they want to flee back to Southern Song now????"

"Or did Southern Song itself have some problem?!!"

Thinking of this, a trace of pleasant surprise flashed in Li Jing's eyes.

His previous battles with the Southern Song army were indeed very different from Southern Song in terms of troops and horses.

Even if he could defeat the Southern Song army, they were all small-scale victories. He wanted to complete a grand victory, but he had never found an opportunity.

Now that Li Jing saw the Southern Song troops actually packing up their things and fleeing toward the direction of Southern Song, he knew that the opportunity he wanted had come!

Without any delay, Li Jing issued an order to those below.

"Everyone get up and stand by!"

"The time to beat the dog in the water has come!"

"This time, we might be able to annihilate these people from Southern Song!"

Upon hearing Li Jing's words, a thick fighting spirit also appeared in the eyes of the soldiers in the Great Tang army!

Subsequently, not long after, the Great Tang army headed toward the Southern Song camp.

Chasing and fleeing, not long after, the Southern Song army was completely beaten into a rout by the Great Tang army!

In just one night, Li Jing led the Great Tang army to kill forty percent of the soldiers who had come to the land of Northern Song from Southern Song at this time!

After this great battle, Southern Song would no longer have the ability to extend their tentacles to other places without ten years of recuperation!

Inside Fang La's base camp.

Since Fang La and Zhan Zhao listened to the words of the night watchman, they had been following what the night watchman said and had not had any unusual movements.

Even when the Great Tang army launched an attack on them, Fang La and Zhan Zhao gave death orders to the people under their hands.

Even if the Great Tang army humiliated them, they absolutely could not take the initiative to attack!

Now, Fang La and Zhan Zhao's only method to confront the Great Tang army was one word—drag!

The only thing they could believe now was the words of the night watchman. Fang La and Zhan Zhao were looking forward to Great Tang having problems every day.

Regarding who could restrain the Great Tang army, Fang La and Zhan Zhao were both a bit confused. During this period, they had long understood the terrifying aspects of the Great Tang army.

In the cognition of Zhan Zhao and Fang La, they had never encountered such a terrifying army as Great Tang, and they did not know which force could restrain this Great Tang army that was like an invincible division!

And Xue Rengui, who was facing Zhan Zhao and Fang La at this time, had a headache about the "drag strategy" they were using.

Facing the Fang La and Liang Shan army that was like a turtle shell, Xue Rengui had no way to deal with them.

Now what he could think of was to surround the Fang La and Liang Shan army tightly and slowly grind this army to death.

Thinking that other generals like Changsun and Li Jing could experience hearty battles, a trace of envy appeared in Xue Rengui's eyes.

"Originally I thought that by coming here this time, I could have a hearty battle."

"But I didn't expect to encounter such a situation."

Xue Rengui's eyes were full of helplessness.

On the other side, the Great Jin, Western Xia, and Great Liao, who were originally attacking Northern Song from multiple sides, were also very strenuous when facing the Great Tang army.

Now the Great Tang army had completely eaten up the Southern Song army that had come to Northern Song, and this Great Tang army had been advancing toward the direction of the Western Xia base camp after finishing the land of Northern Song occupied by Western Xia.

And the Great Jin and Great Liao army in Southern Song were also beaten into routs by the Great Tang army supporting Southern Song, especially with experts like Yuan Tiangang who would occasionally come to the battlefield to release immortal-like means.

Now the Great Jin and Great Liao army that had come to Southern Song had also been beaten away by the Great Tang forces by seventy or eighty percent.

Only a portion of the army remained, bitterly holding on to the important cities they had occupied in Northern Song before. ===== CHAPTER 702 =====