When the Mongol Army stopped charging headlong into the mountain pass and instead retreated far away, Mo Qiong could no longer maintain such a high level of efficiency.
Zhang Hongfan's central army shifted positions again, and its morale suffered blow after blow.
However, he had finally learned his lesson and thought of using the Song emperor to threaten the Three Divine Generals.
He ordered the heavy cavalry to stop entangling Master Gou and head straight for where Zhang Shijie and Jiang Cheng were.
This left Master Gou, Mo Qiong, and the others helpless. The Mongol heavy cavalry charged forward with overwhelming force and smashed through the rebel square formation.
Once the two armies truly clashed at close quarters and the battle line stretched for over a thousand meters, the individual valor of Mo Qiong and Master Gou seemed especially insignificant.
Fortunately, Zhang Shijie was a renowned general of his generation. He commanded with perfect composure, and Che Yun speared several Mongol generals from within the formation. Only then were they barely able to withstand the Mongol Army's charge.
In the end, the situation became this: one army's commander was chased around the battlefield, dodging from place to place, while the other army's commander was surrounded on all sides, like a lone boat on the open sea.
Two hours later, Master Gou finally captured Zhang Hongfan alive.
Li Heng had already separated from Zhang Hongfan to hide elsewhere. When he saw Zhang Hongfan's commander's banner fall, he recalled the terror of being captured alive before and immediately ordered the troops to withdraw. He led his men away on his own, abandoning Zhang Hongfan, the commander-in-chief, entirely.
What remained was a battlefield of unprecedented carnage. Afterward, Zhang Shijie gathered the remnants of his troops and managed to assemble only a little over