Chapter 322: The Battle of Yingchang

Jin Wushu organized a cavalry of more than 1,000 people to attack Wulidian in the north of Yuncheng County. Yue Fei led the army and horses out of the city, and ordered Wang Gang, the general of the Beiwei army, to take more than 50 cavalry to reconnoitre, Wang Gang hacked to death the leading Jin general, and on his corpse and horsehair, he picked up two red lacquer plaques, which were written with the words "A Li Duo Sumire".

Zhang Xian led the main forces of the Beiwei Army, the Youyi Army, and the Qianjun Army into Linying County, where the remnants of the Jin Wushu Army were located, and once again sought a decisive battle. When the general Yang Zaixing and Wang Lan, Gao Lin, Luo Yan, Yao Yu, Li De and other 300 cavalry outposts arrived at the Xiaoshang River in the south of Linying County, they suddenly met the main force of Jin Wuxuan.

There were many middle and high-ranking officers in the cavalry of the Jin State who fought against Yang Zaixing's 300 cavalry, and the last ones who were killed included more than 100 people, including the commander of ten thousand horses, the commander of a thousand, the commander of centurions, and the commander of fifty. Other Jin soldiers shot arrows like flying locusts, Yang Zaixing was hit by every arrow, he broke the arrow shaft casually, the iron arrow remained in the flesh and continued to kill, and finally the war horse fell into the quagmire, Yang Zaixing was finally shot to death, and all three hundred soldiers were killed, and the Jin army paid a greater price, killing thousands of people.

After the First Battle of Xiaoshanghe, Jin Wuxuan did not dare to fight with Zhang Xian's main force of the Yuejia army because he was afraid of the amazing combat power of the Beiwei army, leaving 8,000 Jin soldiers to defend Linying County, and he led the remnants of the main force to attack Yingchang Mansion. After dawn, Zhang Xianjun captured Linying County, and 8,000 Jin soldiers fled in the direction of Yingchang Mansion. Zhang Xianjun found Yang Zaixing's body, and after cremation, more than two liters of iron arrowheads were burned.

All the remaining main forces of Jin Wushu attacked the city of Yingchangfu, among which there were six commanders, known as more than 30,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry, stretching for more than ten miles, with gongs and drums in the sky.

There are a total of five armies of the Yuejia army in Yingchang Mansion, except for the Tabai Army, which is the whole army, Su Jian, the commander of the Chinese army, is in Xijing Henan Mansion, Li Dao, the commander of the Xuanfeng Army, is in the field, and the main forces of the Beiwei Army and the Youyi Army are in Yuncheng County and Linying County, all of which are only a part or even a small part, and the commander Yue Fei is not here. Wang Gui, the commander of the Yuejia army in Yingchang Prefecture, Yao Zheng, Yue Yun and others led 800 Beiwei troops and a part of the Chinese army and the Youyi army out of the city for a decisive battle, and ordered Dong Xian to lead the Tabai army, and Hu Qing, the deputy commander, led the Xuanfeng army to defend the city.

Twenty-two-year-old Yue Yun led an army of 800 Beiwei to fight hard for dozens of rounds with the main force of the Jin army, the left and right crutches and horses, and entered and exited the enemy formation more than ten times before and after, and Yue Yun suffered more than 100 wounds. Most of the Yue family troops who went out of the city for a decisive battle killed people as blood men and horses as blood horses, Wang Gui was even a little discouraged and cowardly, wanting to escape, but was persuaded by Yue Yun to come back. At noon, Dong Xian and Hu Qing, who were defending the city, personally led about 5,000 people from the Tabai Army and the Xuanfeng Army out of the city to reinforce them, and the whole army of Jin Wushu was defeated and fled.

In the Battle of Yingchang, many of the middle and high-ranking officers of the Jin cavalry fought against Yue Yun's 800 Beiwei army, including Xia Jinwu, the son-in-law of Jin Wuxuan, who was killed in battle; the deputy commander of the army, Mu Khan Jinjin, was seriously wounded and died after being carried to Kaifeng Mansion; and the commander of the Jin army was killed by five people. Yue's army captured alive 78 enemy generals, including Wang Songshou and Zhang Laisun, the commander of the Han people, Li Bu, and Tian Qiang, and more than 500 Jin soldiers, but it is estimated that more than 5,000 people were killed, more than 2,000 were captured, and more than 3,000 horses were captured.

In ancient times, the battle was not a soldier-to-soldier, a general-to-general, as in a novel, but a melee of soldiers. Generally speaking, because the high-ranking generals are in command in the rear, it is rare to be killed on the spot in battle. Normally, the proportion of generals killed in battle is far lower than the proportion of soldiers killed. However, in this battle of Yingchang, a strange phenomenon appeared: the death rate of the generals was as high as one-sixth, and the soldiers? There were only about 500 people, which was one-sixtieth of the more than 30,000 horsemen of the horse army.

This ratio, in any case, is unreasonable. On the contrary, Yue Ke's record is more than 5,000 people, and this one-sixth ratio is consistent with the proportion of the dead generals of the Jin State, which is obviously reasonable.

In the Kingdom of Jin, if the Lord is killed in battle, his men have no choice but to kill the enemy desperately. Otherwise, they will go back after losing the battle, and the only fate that awaits them is to be beheaded.

Since there is a 10,000-household chief and five thousand-household chiefs who died in battle, according to military law, their subordinates are facing the doom of beheading, so these tens of thousands of people naturally have only one way to fight to the death. And to defeat this group of soldiers and horses who were almost dead, they would definitely not retreat without inflicting heavy casualties on them. In this case, if only more than 500 people died, would they be able to make these 10,000 people retreat?

Yue Fei believed that the battle of Yingchang was a great victory for the Song soldiers, which led to a great defeat for the Jin soldiers, and if it was only a small victory of 500 enemies, how could Yue Fei use this battle of Yingchang as a basis for opposing the peace? It must be known that the surrender faction was in power at that time, and Yue Fei would attack the slightest flaw, and if Yingchang was only a small victory, Yue Fei would not dare to mention it in the recital, so it seems that the battle of Yingchang should have killed 5,000 enemies.

A vicious battle has just ended, and there is no time to count the results in detail, and then report and supplement, it is not surprising that there are supplementary casualties in the battle of Yuncheng and Yingchang. The Song Dynasty often did not use all the official names and real names of the generals of the Jin army, but only used simple customary addresses. Liduo is only called the third prince, and Jin Wushu is only called the fourth prince. The Dragon and Tiger King is famous, but he has no real name and surname, and it is roughly inferred that it is the speed of sudden combination. Others, such as General Zhai and the King of Zhenguo, can't find who it is?

Ganhu Wang Songshou and Zhang Laisun respectively had the first names of Bohai and Han'er and Jurchen and Han'er, respectively, and their troops were mixed by two ethnic groups. The snow guard horse may mean dark horse, the Jurchens were a backward people at that time, and they even called their own names very vulgarly, so naturally they would not give the horses very elegant names.

Yue's army attacked on all fronts and surrounded Kaifeng Mansion. Zhang Xian, together with Xu Qing, Li Shan, Fu Xuan, Kou Cheng and other commanders, led the main force from Linying County to the northeast, and defeated thousands of golden cavalry soldiers encountered on the road, covered with corpses, and captured more than 100 war horses. At the same time, Wang Gui sent troops from Yingchang Mansion, and Niu Gao also led the left army to march.

After the fall of the Puppet Qi, the Yuejia army of Yue Fei, the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Jurchen army of Jin Wuxuan, the main force of the Jin State, put aside this cushion in the middle for the first time and engaged in a real battle. In the Battle of Yuncheng, Jin Wuxi's Jurchen Tiefutu Army was annihilated, the Jurchen Horse Army was heavily damaged, and the remnants of Jin Wuxuan's Horse Army in the Battle of Xiaoshang River and the Battle of Yingchang lost many high-ranking Jurchen officers above the centurion level.

In the past, although Wu Jue's Battle of Shangyuan and Liu Qi's Battle of Shunchang were victorious, there was no report of killing the commander of the Jin army, or the commander of the Jin army who captured the commander of the Jin army, and there was no record of the defeat at the touch of a touch in the battle of Zhuxian Town, and the Jurchen troops on which the Jin Wushu relied to maintain the rule of the Jin State were missing, and the strength of the Jin soldiers was unknown at this time.

At that time, Hong Hao, who was detained in Yanjing because of his envoy to Jin, said in a letter to his family: "The defeat of Shunchang and the killing of Marshal Yue, Jin Guo was very shocked and frightened. ”

Yue Fei was also happy with the frequent good news, and optimistically told his subordinates that he wanted to break the drinking ring: "This time I killed the gold people, until the Huanglong Mansion, I should drink with the gentlemen." ”

At this time, Jin Wushu had been forced to abandon Kaifeng and retreat to Bianjing, and the right prison army was dispersed and drunk out of the river and retreated to Shaanxi. Song Yuefei and Han Shizhong divided the key points of Henan Prefecture and County, sent troops to Hedong, and stationed in the realm of Lan, Shi, and Baode to contain them.

Jin Wushu occupied Kaifeng for the first time, and Yue Fei was still in Ezhou. Jin Wuxuan's opponent at this time was the eight-character army led by Liu Qi, who had just arrived in Shunchang, and was sent to Kaifeng to defend the town. The whole army of the Yue family army attacked and captured the key points of Henan Prefecture and County, which was a matter of June. After the great battles of June, leap June and July, after Yue Fei was forced to teach in July with twelve gold medals, Jin Wushu knew that Yue Fei had withdrawn from Kaifeng after fleeing north and reoccupied Kaifeng Mansion.