The poisonous wolf is recessed, and the 150,000-strong army has already been ambushed, so it can be said that the net has been laid and waiting for the western army to be caught. The 150,000 Han troops were ready to go, and their task in this battle was very simple, that is, to fight until the surrender of the Western Army.

Before setting out on the expedition, Yue Fei handed Zhang Xian into his account, and he explained: "If Liu Guangshi leads troops to break through from your position, let them go, and the others will not allow it." ”

"Marshal, what if Liu Guangshi breaks through from General Dong Xian's side?"

"That means that Liu Guangshi is destined to be a prisoner of the Han army."

In fact, Yue Fei didn't know why he wanted to let Liu Guangshi go, and he didn't know why Liu Guangshi had to break through from Zhang Xian's side, but these are not important, the key is that Song Zhong said that it was the meaning of the Son of Heaven.

The western army in the camp of the western army began to withdraw quietly when the sky was slightly bright, and it was not easy for more than 100,000 troops to retreat, Wang Yuan's idea was to leave 100,000 people as cannon fodder, and then Liu Guangshi led 30,000 troops to suppress the formation, and the remaining 130,000 troops quietly retreated.

Liu Guangshi, the escaped general of later generations, has been very depressed recently, his father was killed by Yang Zaixing on the first day of the siege battle, and now the good old nest has been ended by the Han army, in this case, the Han army is overwhelmed, and it is destined to not give him a way to live, in this case he is not satisfied with the retreat plan arranged by Wang Yuan. On the surface, it seems that 100,000 people are cannon fodder, but in fact, the Han army is mainly cavalry, how can two legs run over four legs?

Since it is to escape, it is necessary to flee in the direction where the capital is located, and there is obviously no good end in the northwest, and the Han army will definitely not allow the western army to stay in the northwest. Liu Guangshi immediately made a decision, that is, to really use 100,000 people as cannon fodder, and then lead 30,000 troops to withdraw.

Yang Zaixing led 10,000 cavalry like a torrent of steel to rush to the Western Army camp, because most of the Western Army was withdrawn, where did the rest of the people see such a posture, although they participated in the siege, but it was only when they attacked as cannon fodder, in fact, they had not seen the cavalry rushing violently, especially the cavalry while sprinting, while shooting arrows, seeing the dense arrows shooting, one by one frightened legs cramps, where do you remember your mission.

The people who couldn't dodge acted as cannon fodder, and when they saw the people in front of them being shot into hedgehogs, the people behind were even more afraid, but although they were scared like chaff, there was no large-scale defection, after all, there were still a small number of Western troops who acted as war supervisors, and they would be killed if they fled without permission.

Yang Zaixing, who was at the forefront of the charge, quickly discovered the problem, he rushed forward as fast as he could, and shouted as he rushed back: "Put down your weapons and surrender immediately, otherwise you will be killed." ”

There was no courage to escape, but the surrendered people gradually increased, densely packed with kneeling people, at this time, those Western troops who supervised the war saw that the general trend had gone, so they no longer played the role of supervising the war, and began to scatter and flee.

Even the western army fled, and now the people began to flee in all directions as if they had exploded, and the entire western army camp was in chaos.

The Han army that rushed into the camp of the Western Army did not have time to collect prisoners of war, after all, they were all a group of people, and it was meaningless to surrender, in this case, Yang Zaixing still led the Han army to chase and kill the Western Army in front. Originally, Wang Yuan, the commander of the Western Army, thought that 100,000 people and 30,000 Western troops could block the Han army for at least one day, but who knew that it was only blocked for a little more than an hour, which meant that the army did not throw off the pursuers.

The speed of the cavalry far outpaces the infantry, and unless it is to throw off a distance of more than a day, it is meaningless, and it will not be long before they will be overtaken.

After the break, Qu Duan acted as an unlucky ghost this time, but he didn't have anything to complain about, now there are powerful cavalry chasing behind, someone has to break the back, and whether he can get rid of the Han army is a problem, if he can't get rid of it, everyone will be finished, and in this case, it won't be so sad after the break.

In fact, Qu Duan did not approve of Wang Yuan's stupid escape, but felt that he should use the escape as a guise to arrange, and finally lure the Han army out of the city from Yunzhou, and then surround the Han army and complete the hunt. After all, the total strength of the Western Army far exceeds that of the Han Army, and this kind of annihilation war, encirclement and annihilation war, the Western Army has been fighting for more than a hundred years, which is definitely the strength of the Western Army.

Now, instead of encircling and annihilating the Western army out of the city, but choosing to flee, this is what Qu Duan thinks is very stupid, you must know that the Han army is powerful cavalry, and it is not possible for the Western army to stop it at all, and in the state of escaping, the morale of the soldiers is low, how can you stop the Han army?

Qu Duan had a war-weary mood, and he had a sad feeling, after all, the three famous generals of the Western Army, Liu Fa, and Liu Yanqing were killed one after another, can the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty still be able to hold in this situation? If you can't keep it, do you really want to burn all the jade?

Qu Duan's nephew Cookie seemed to see this, and he quietly said to Qu Duan: "Uncle, I heard that the Han army did not imprison our family members, and it seems that they want to recruit our Western Army. We might as well surrender, after all, we are all Han Chinese, and we are of different races, and we are not the same allegiance to whom, anyway, we are a special existence in the northwest, and the imperial court can't control us, and we still need to guard the northwest. ”

"It's that simple! Western Xia, Tubo has become a sub-country of the Han Dynasty, in other words, the northwest does not need to guard the gate, it is no longer a border, but a part of the country, the emperor of the Han Dynasty is wise and martial, how can he allow the gate to exist? Qu Duan didn't think about surrendering to the Han Kingdom, but he didn't want to lose everything he had before, and now he could only carry it hard, he waved his hand and said to his nephew Cookie: "Prepare for war, there are many things that still need to be fought for on the battlefield." ”

"Okay." Cookie was disappointed in his uncle, but now he had to bite the bullet and prepare for the war.

If the powerful Western Army is organized to defend its positions, it will still be very lethal to the cavalry. Rows of crossbowmen defended outside, using dense crossbow arrows to shoot the onrushing cavalry, which was the most common tactic used by the Western army to block the cavalry.

When he saw the dense flying arrows coming all over the world, Yang Zaixing stopped rushing and killing, and now victory is in sight, there is no need to increase unnecessary casualties, and minimizing casualties is the biggest victory. You must know that it is not easy to train and train cavalry, because the Han people rarely come into contact with horses, they are not good at riding horses at all, and if they want to train them to become talents, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness without dying for more than five years, which is the biggest weakness of the Han army, and the formation cycle of cavalry is too long.

The cavalry trained in five years is the treasure of the Han Kingdom, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has always attached great importance to it, giving the greatest support to the cavalry, and the manpower and material resources are prioritized.

Now the Han army is known as 650,000 troops, including 350,000 cavalry, but in fact, these 350,000 really form combat effectiveness, and the one that can compete with the Jin army is only about 100,000, and the remaining 250,000 are basically the infantry on their horses, and they still need time to polish and need to be trained on the battlefield.

The Han cavalry is basically a strategic establishment of five missing one, that is, every year there will be 70,000 cavalry to carry out intensive training to improve the tactical cultivation of cavalry, especially the ability of cavalry archery. Cavalry plus cavalry and archery plus tactics are the magic weapon of cavalry invincibility, and the Han army still has a long way to go.

Jin Bing is different, this is a nation on horseback, since he was a child, he has been hunting on horseback, and even sleeping with war horses at night, that kind of powerful riding and archery ability, riding skills do not need training at all, only need to train tactics to form a strong combat effectiveness. This is also the reason why the northern nomads have crushed the Han people for thousands of years, if it were not for the birth of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty would have perished long ago, and as for the powerful Western Army, it would have been exterminated long ago.

The emperor of the Han Dynasty is waiting, waiting for the war horses of the Western Regions, waiting for the growth of the cavalry, waiting for the heavy armor of the heavy armored cavalry, waiting for the 'Mo knife' belonging to the Han Dynasty, you must know that when the Tang Dynasty was in full swing, the Mo knife was simply a nightmare for the cavalry. All of this requires money and time, which is why the Great Han did not take the initiative to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Jin.

It was slightly insufficient against the Jin Army, but against the Western Army, it still had a crushing advantage. Yang Zaixing, who was charging forward, did not rush up to fight with the Western Army, but waited, waiting for the arrival of the two armies of the left and right wings, Zhang Xian and Dong Xian.

Seeing that the Han cavalry was coming, but did not start the battle immediately, this made Cookie feel a little uneasy, he didn't know what tricks the Han army was playing, but he knew that the other party would definitely not have any good intentions.

What's more, the soldiers of the Western Army are getting more and more nervous, their homes have been occupied by the Han army, at this time the so-called loyalty to the country has no practical significance, it is impossible to go to the Song Kingdom, at this time, the death in battle is to die in vain, maybe really don't throw the corpse in the wilderness.

The Western Army has lost the courage it used to have, and its combat power is quietly declining, but it is just a cookie, and the end of the curve is not visible.

After about half an hour of command, the big Han iron cavalry on the left and right flanks were killed.

Yang Zaixing, Dong Xian, and Zhang Xian discussed, and decided to temporarily give up chasing the main force of the Western Army, and take the lead to eat the 30,000 Western Army in front of him. They adopted the most typical tactic of cavalry encirclement and infantry: encirclement and shooting.

Shooting around is actually a tactic for cavalry to use their own advantages to torture and kill infantry, of course, the premise is that the number of troops is equal or the number of cavalry is greater than that of infantry, otherwise it is difficult to work. The cavalry divided into three to five parts to surround the infantry, and then took advantage of the cavalry's strong mobility to shoot and kill, this tactic is to press the infantry.

The infantry in the center of the siege can only be beaten passively due to the problem of formation, once there is a loophole in the formation, then a brutal massacre will begin, in fact, this tactic is used by all cavalry, not the invention of Yang Zaixing and the others.

30,000 cavalry trapped the 30,000 Western Army in the center, around the shooting tactics kicked off, the war horses neighed, the horses' hooves stepped on the ground and splashed dust, the Western Army seemed to have fallen into the Devil's Valley, the soldiers' psychological defense line was overcome little by little, they knew that once the strength was equal, once they were besieged, they would either surrender or be completely annihilated, and there was absolutely no possibility of escaping and surviving.

Ants still steal life, let alone people?

Surrender without killing, surrender without killing, after an hour, all of them are strangled, and none of them are left.

The Han cavalry was shooting the Western Army while shouting slogans, leaving only one hour for the Western Army, and then all of them were strangled, which greatly shocked the hearts of the Western Army soldiers, for these people, there was only one hour of life left, and only the last hour of time left in this world. Over time, the psychological defenses of the soldiers of the Western Army gradually collapsed.

The first to collapse the psychological defense line was not the soldiers of the Western Army, but the adjutant general Cookie, his only son was born in the newly married Wufang, and he hadn't even seen what his son looked like, how could he want to die in this situation?

The shooting of the Han army was very far away, obviously not to really hunt the Western army, but just to give the other party a shock in his heart. In fact, if you get a little closer, you will enter the shooting range of the infantry, and in this case, you will lose both sides, and you will lose the meaning of shooting around.

With the passage of time, the number of deaths of the soldiers of the Western Army gradually increased, and the ideological pressure of the soldiers became greater and greater, and in less than half an hour, the first to collapse the cookie, the west side of this guy was the first to surrender, Yang Zaixing saw that the Western Army surrendered, so he led the cavalry to rush in from this gap.

Once there is a gap in the defense line and the cavalry rushes into the formation, then the infantry defense line will completely collapse, and the Han cavalry led by Yang Zaixing rushed into the formation of the Western Army like a group of fierce tigers and carried out bloody and cruel killing.

When it was on the periphery, the Han army had not yet opened a killing spree, but now it had entered the Western Army's formation, and at this time it was a cruel and bloody hand-to-hand combat, either you died or I died, and the kindness to the enemy was the greatest cruelty to yourself.

At this time, the Han cavalry frantically slaughtered the western army, and at the same time shouted surrender and not kill.

Can't bear it, the soldiers of the Western Army collapsed one after another, more and more after squatting down and surrendering, this trend could not be stopped at all, there was still a quarter of an hour left, the remaining more than 20,000 soldiers all surrendered, and in desperation, Qu Duan could only announce surrender.

Of the 30,000 western troops under Quduan, 3,000 were killed, and the rest all surrendered.

The task of Yue Fei leading the rear army was to accept the surrender, in order to prevent accidents, Qu Duan and other generals were all arrested, and the rest of the soldiers were tied up with ropes in groups of fifty. There were 20,000 troops watching from the side, and they were not afraid of the Western Army resisting, so the Western Army that was tied up stayed in place and was not immediately sent to Yunzhou.

Yue Fei personally communicated with Qu Duan, told the other party about the policy of the Han Dynasty, and also emphasized that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty valued the generals of the Western Army very much, and hoped that the generals of the Western Army would be able to fight bravely against the Jin Army in the future.