Chapter 13: Miserable

For three consecutive days, the battle became more and more tragic day by day.

Especially on the third day, the battle was particularly fierce.

As soon as the sky was dark, the cavalry under Wanyan Lou's room suddenly pressed on the whole line and stormed the left flank of the Xihe Army, which controlled Liu Xi by the five armies. The Xihe army suffered heavy casualties and collapsed in an instant, and the military camp fell into chaos.

The Xihe army has more than 40,000 troops, a huge structure, and strong combat power. However, due to the paralysis of the left flank, a huge number of routs poured into the right flank, and the western army was suddenly defeated.

The Jurchen iron cavalry was crisscrossed, and the knights were high-spirited, proudly riding in the midst of the ten thousand armies, calmly harvesting the lives of the panicked and defeated Song soldiers.

"Straight shit, all the artillery fires, the grenadiers are on it, and they kill this group of dogs"

Qu Duan was furious and gave the order to attack.

"Xianggong, what should I do if my two armies are mixed together and hurt my brother?"

The subordinate's stammering question made Qu Duan angry, and he "snapped" and whipped the officer in the face, and said loudly and angrily: "Hurry up and do it, if you are disobeying military orders, military law will be engaged."

More than 200 small cannons fired together, and the projectiles covered a two-mile-wide area in front of the formation, and countless Jin soldiers and Song soldiers fell, forming a gap of more than ten meters between the pursuers and deserters.

In the middle of the interval, there were all Song Jin soldiers who fell in a pool of blood, dead or wounded, screaming and moaning.

Another burst of artillery sounded, and countless Song and Jin cavalry and foot soldiers fell to the ground, and the distance between the chasing and deserters increased a little.

Countless Song infantry soldiers threw out smoking earth-shattering thunder, fell between thousands of troops and horses, and raised pillars of smoke, killing and wounding countless soldiers, Song and Jin all had them.

Thousands of Jurchen knights reined in their horses one after another, and no one thought that the Song army would ignore the enemy and me, and all of them would die together.

"Qu madman, you wantonly slaughtered the lives of my subordinates like this, I'm not done with you"

Qu Duan ignored Liu Xi, who was thunderous, and said coldly: "Liu Xi, it's not me who is the killer, I'm afraid not only your Xihe army is finished, but my Jingyuan army is also defeated Don't talk nonsense, I'm going to pursue Fanzi now, you won't go or not"

Liu Xi's face turned red, and the thousands of cavalry of the Western Army around him had not been damaged in the slightest. Before he could reply, Qu Duan had already mounted his horse and shouted, "Brothers, kill the captives"

Qu Duan led his subordinate cavalry to form a sharp and arrow formation, and in an instant, he had already broken through the line of the routed army and killed the Wanyan Zongbi on the opposite side.

On both sides, feathered arrows roared, obscuring the sky and the sun, and the knights screamed and fell from their horses. The Jingyuan army was strictly disciplined, brave in battle, and the commander took the lead, everyone was fierce, and they rode towards the Jin people's array.

"This is the team of "Qu Maniacs"

Wanyan Zongbi was shocked, since he joined the army, he had never seen the Song army dare to charge the Jurchen cavalry array.

"The fourth prince, it is the last general to rush and kill for a while, and keep the fourth prince out"

Ten thousand households head Chi Zhanhui shouted loudly. He had already noticed that the flanks of the Dao Jin soldiers were also surrounded by Song soldiers.

It turned out that Wu Jie, the Yongxing Army, saw that Yan Zongbi's lone army was going deeper, and he also pressed over from the flank, wanting to eat Yan Zongbi's department with Qu Duan.

Wanyan Zongbi was furious, this Song soldier was really bold and reckless, and he didn't take the Jurchen cavalry in his eyes. He commanded the crowd and was about to give the order to step forward.

Suddenly, a spear roared and knocked Chi Hui off his horse. The spear pierced through the armor, and Chi Zhanhui's eyes widened and he was lifeless.

Wanyan Zongbi was terrified, seeing that the explosions continued to sound and the feather arrows were galloping, the Song army had obviously recovered and slowly gained the upper hand.

The Jurchen cavalry around Wanyan Zongbi was blown up and shot under the horse one by one, and the number of people became smaller and smaller. The morale of the Song people soared, and they sacrificed their lives to chase and kill, wanting to catch the "big fish" of Wanyan Zongbi into the net.

Seeing that Yan Zongbi was too busy to take care of himself, he was about to be captured, and suddenly, a team of Jurchen knights crashed out of thousands of troops, riding spears like a forest, rampage, and the surrounding Song soldiers were arrested

The thorns tumbled to the ground, and the knights quickly surrounded Wan Yan Zongbi.

"General Han, what's wrong with your eyes?"

Han Chang was covered in blood, his left eye was bandaged with a white cloth, and blood around him kept oozing out of the white cloth.

Han Chang didn't finish answering Yan Zongbi's words, and said loudly: "Fourth prince, without further ado, let's hurry up and kill it, lest the Song army catch up."

Wanyan Zongbi sighed in his heart. Han Chang and the others hugged Wan Yan Zongbi, beat their horses and galloped away from the formation.

The Song army fought a fierce battle, investing nearly 100,000 troops, and fighting with the 40,000 Jin soldiers. It was not until the afternoon that both sides were exhausted, so Mingjin withdrew his troops and held their respective camps for another battle.

During the retreat, a group of three or four hundred Jin soldiers were surrounded by the Song army, and under a fierce battle, the exhausted Song Jin soldiers were slaughtered, and the Song army was triumphant, jubilant, and retreated.

Since the battle between Fuzhou and the Loyal and Righteous Army, the vitality of the most elite Lou Mur army of the Jurchens has been greatly damaged, and the impact of the Jurchen cavalry has been greatly inferior to before. And this time, the Song army was finally able to annihilate hundreds of Jurchen cavalry, which was really not easy.

Time has changed, and the battle of Yaozhou this time did not collapse at the touch of a button like the battle of Fuping in history, but stubbornly formed a stalemate battle.

In the Song army, Quduan's Jingyuan army and Wu Jie's Yongxing army were strictly disciplined and well-trained. It has also become the focus of the Jin Bing's attack.

Every day is a collision of iron and blood. When the cavalry of the Jin soldiers came up, the Song soldiers used earth-shattering thunder and artillery to deal with them, sometimes even suicide bombers. And when the Han'er foot soldiers came up, they were greeted by a dense jungle of spears. Even the most ferocious Jin soldiers, in the face of the strict battle formation of the Song army, were terrified and at a loss.

After five or six days of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Jin soldiers lost more than 10,000 foot soldiers, and even the Jurchen iron cavalry suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

The Song soldiers lost 20,000 foot soldiers, but the losses of the cavalry were huge, and they had already lost six or seven thousand horsemen.

Zhang Jun, who is sitting in Yaozhou, is full of confidence at the moment. Although there are 100,000 gold soldiers, they have already folded tens of thousands. He has nearly 200,000 elite Western troops under his command. Song Jun can afford to lose, can he be a Jurchen?

But war can not be counted by numbers?

"The Yellow River enters Wei, passes through Yanshen Town, Shayuanjian, passes through Chishui Town to Suyi Town in the north, and then goes to Yaozhou, with a total of 300 miles of waterway."

Wang Song's gaze moved away from the map on the table, and then looked at Wang Yan in front of him, as if he was inquiring.

"Xianggong, with 200 "Flying Tiger warships" and 100 sampans, carrying 7,000 soldiers, set off at dusk, and arrive before sunrise. ”

Zhai Er looked at the map and said with an oath.

Huang Feihu and Li Bao went to sea, distributed in Liuqiu, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Lianshui Army, and most of the naval divisions stationed in Yangzhou, but returned to Hebei to prepare for the war.

"And bring horses, gun carriages, and two hundred heavy guns."

A cold light flashed in Wang Song's eyes, and he said sharply: "You can carry four to five thousand soldiers, and two hundred artillery pieces must make the blood of the Jin people flow like a river."

"Second Brother Zhai, let you command the water division, you have to seize this opportunity"

Wang Song looked at Zhai Er, meaningful.

"After the Battle of Shaanxi, I plan to transfer you to Hebei to serve as the commander of the Ma Army of the Hebei Loyal and Righteous Army. You've got to fight this battle. ”

"Xianggong is relieved that Zhai Er will never live up to the trust of Xianggong"

Zhai Er knew it. Wang Song asked Yue to be in charge of the grain and grass, and he commanded the sailor, making it clear that he wanted to give himself the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. If he even spilled soup to do something, he would really be ashamed of Wang Song's hard work.

Shaanxi, Yongxing Military Road, Tongzhou, Siqian Town.

A group of Jurchen rangers wearing iron armor and white sheepskin, and round helmets, were roasting and eating around a fire in front of a ruined temple next to the official road, talking and laughing.

Also, these days, except for the scourge of some people, they did not encounter the slightest resistance of the Song people, and naturally they did not find the rest of the Song army reinforcements.

Not far from the side of these rangers, five or six Song women with disheveled hair were tied and sat on the ground, all of them bowing their heads and saying nothing, with wooden expressions.

Suddenly, a Jurchen knight "shh

After a while, the Jurchen knights stood up one after another and galloped towards their respective war horses, and even the Song women on the ground had no time to take care of them.

The Song women all raised their heads in surprise and looked around.

Smoke and dust billowed and horses' hooves sounded, and in all directions, there were dozens of war horses, and the knights on the horses were all dressed as bandits, they brandished swords and spears, and quickly surrounded the Jurchen rangers. It seems that they are planning to surround these golden soldiers.

Xu San sat on a war horse, standing on a high slope, holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, carefully observing the battle situation in front of him.

The knight brigade of the Loyal Army set out, and at least one team was also two or three hundred horsemen. They set out at night, all the way from Xinsi Town and Siqian Town, all the way to the west, stretching for hundreds of miles, just to wipe out the Jurchen rangers along the road. Even if you can't kill them all, you can't leave any clues, so that people can find out that the loyal army is coming to attack.

Seeing that the opposing cavalry was bandits, the Jurchen rangers did not flee in a hurry, they did not panic, but held bows and spears, roared loudly, and rushed towards the knights.

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead"

Xu San snorted coldly. These Jurchen rangers were too arrogant, and after twenty or so rides, they dared to rush a group of fifty knights of the loyal army, and they were not afraid of the one hundred and fifty horse army of the loyal army.

However, it was precisely by relying on the disguise of the sergeants, and also by pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, that without revealing the identity of the loyal and righteous army, they took advantage of the darkness to intercept and kill hundreds of golden rangers along the way.

Seeing the galloping golden rangers, Shao Ping shouted loudly while beating his horse: "Crossbow arrows"

All the knights of the Loyal Army clenched their bows and crossbows, stepped on the bowstrings with their feet, and then raised their crossbows and aimed them at the Jurchen rangers who came in front of them.

"Shoot"

Seeing that he had already advanced a hundred steps, Shao Ping shouted, and the knights' crossbow arrows shot out one after another.

The two armies have not yet met, and the Jurchen rangers have fallen more than a dozen people. When they reached the range of fifty paces, both sides were flying arrows, and the loyal and righteous troops began to suffer casualties.

The Jurchen knights did not shoot at fifty paces, but their feathered arrows were shaped like chisels, and the momentum sank, and several knights of the loyal army were shot and fell off their horses, either dead or seriously injured, and the wounded all screamed in a muffled voice.

Shao Ping shot over a Jurchen ranger, and in a blink of an eye, he had already rushed with the other party, and the two sides quickly fought each other in short quarters and sacrificed their lives.

The two sides rushed to kill, and the Jurchen rangers found that the situation was not good, the bandits on the other side were all well-trained, with fine steel armor under the coat, and they were not afraid of death and injury, obviously the elite of the Song army.

The other side encircled and suppressed several parties with superior forces, and they attacked viciously and spared no life. The remnants of the Jurchen rangers were terrified and fled into the wilderness.

It's just that the other party has been prepared for a long time, and under the siege and interception, few Jurchen rangers can escape.

The battle has reached this stage, and Xu San is not afraid of leaking secrets. Maybe early tomorrow morning, the loyal and righteous army will be able to press the border, and who cares whether the Jin people take the initiative to attack or line up to meet each other at that time.

What should come will always come, and the big war is about to break out, and it depends on who can withstand it.

Seeing that the situation had been brought under control and that the Jurchen rangers had been killed, Xu San waved his hand, and the knights rescued the Song women, and then they gathered in a team and went west.

And behind these loyal and righteous knights, a large area of loyal and righteous soldiers rode in a large array, waving flags, and rumbling gun carriages, and were rushing forward.

Among the thousands of troops rolling forward, Yue Fei sat on the war horse, his face was solemn, he straightened his waist, and walked slowly on the horse.

With such a division of thousands of tigers and wolves, it is enough to dominate the world, and what can stop it

I hope that the western army will fight for breath and not be defeated with one blow, so that the loyal and righteous army will be defeated.

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