Zhi Keqiu led the Zhejia army out of Fuzhou, made a detour to the south, prepared to go to the area of Rope Pond, and cooperated with the two brothers Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin to intercept the road of the Jin army returning north. Vertex Says X 23 U OM

When the Zhejia army reached Yuncheng, they heard a very bad news that the Jin general Wanyan Lou defeated the two brothers Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin and opened the passage to return to the north.

Hearing this news, he was shocked and hurried to intercept the Jin army.

But the Zhejia army hurried to the edge of the Yellow River and learned that the Jin army had crossed the river three days earlier.

The Jin Army's actions this time were quite secretive.

Until Yan Zonghan gave the order to cross the river, Liu and other Chinese soldiers thought that the Jin army was gathering troops to prepare for a night attack.

In this section of the Yellow River, the ice usually thaws around the beginning of spring, and now it happens to be the beginning of spring.

In fact, when the Jin army and the Chinese army fled and chased to the edge of the Yellow River, the Yellow River was already civilized.

In the eyes of Liu, Han Shizhong, Zhang Xian and other Chinese army officers, the Jin army was already catching turtles in the urn, and there was no possibility of escaping.

Moreover, the Chinese army mixed in the Jin army found out that the Jin army was ready to fight to the death, and secretly attacked the left Chinese army at night, that is, Han Shizhong's department, and then fled to Shaanxi, and then returned to Hedong from Shaanzhou.

In this regard, Liu, Han Shizhong, Zhang Xian and others set up a net to defeat the Jin army in one fell swoop.

The Jin people placed hay, coarse cloth and loess on the ice of the Yellow River to make a living road, and then all crossed the saddest Yellow River.

By the time Liu, Han Shizhong, Zhang Xian and other Chinese soldiers reacted, the Jin army had already crossed the river.

In order to make amends, Liu and others gathered all the cavalry of the Chinese army, and then chased after them to cover up the Jin army.

But this time, the Jin army fled extremely simply.

All the golden people got on their horses, and all the things that the horses couldn't bring were abandoned.

As for those who couldn't ride horses, they were all abandoned.

Therefore, He Li, Feng, Cao Fu, Lu Yundi, Zhang Zheng, Tan Shi, Wang Zao, Kang Zhiquan, Yuan Dangke, Shen Hui, Huang Xiaqing, Zheng Su, Guo Zhongxun, Sima Pu and other ministers, as well as the officials of the Taixue Sixth Bureau, the secretary of the provincial government and other Song ministers who were taken captive by the Jin people, as well as a large number of Zhao and Song clansmen, were all rescued by the Chinese army.

But

What is puzzling is that the people of the Zhao family, the concubines of the emperor and the concubine of Zongji (in fact, they are the husbands of all the women who have entered the harem), in short, all the people who have a stake in Li Yan, the Chinese army has not saved any of them.

Later, the Jin people returned to Shangjing and told the world that they had brought back less than a hundred Song people.

This incident became an important topic for those who smeared Li Yan in later generations and slandered Li Yan, who used conspiracy theories to believe that Li Yan sent people to take advantage of the chaos to kill all those who had an interest in him.

In this regard, those who admired Li Yan and defended Li Yan wholeheartedly were speechless, because they really had no better explanation, and secretly blamed Li Yan for being too unhidden.

It's a bit far.

The Zhongqi chased until it was less than a hundred miles away from Huguan before catching up with the Jin army.

Seeing that Zhongqi was chasing, Wan Yan Zonghan personally led 10,000 Jurchen palaces.

After several temptations, the two sides started a bloody battle on a plain.

Because the infantry and the Thunder Carts did not keep up in time, it was a pure cavalry battle.

The Jin army, to be precise, the Jurchen cavalry, was exactly 10,000.

And the Chinese army, all the troops together, thirty-five thousand people, sixty or seventy thousand horses.

It can be said that both in terms of numbers and horses, the Chinese army has an absolute advantage.

however

After the fight began, the Chinese army realized that this battle was not as easy as they had imagined.

As soon as the battle began, Wanyan Zonghan took the lead, and he took his two sons to fight at the front of all the Jurchens.

It may be precisely because of this, or it may be that the resentment that was bitten by the Chinese army for a month or two broke out, or it may be that the desperate Jurchens inspired their will to die, and it is more likely that they remembered the past glory of their Jurchens.

But

The Chinese army is also full of elite cavalry, the first battalion, Tiefutu, the kidnappers left and right army, and the volunteer battalion, all of which are dispatched and led by the fierce general Zhang Xian.

The two sides fought from morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon.

It wasn't until late in the evening that Wanyan Zonghan was picked off the war horse by Yang Zaixing's shot, and the battle was over, leaving less than a thousand Jurchens to finally put down their weapons and surrender on their knees under the siege of 20,000 cavalry.

Although he won the final victory in this battle and killed Wanyan Zonghan, the main general of the Jin army, none of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese army had the joy of victory on their faces.

Not to mention, although the Jurchens were defeated, their strategy has now reached the point where they have successfully dragged the Zhongqi for a whole day.

Let's just say that the battle itself.

The battle was fought too fiercely.

Except for the less than 1,000 Jurchens who surrendered, almost all the rest of the Jurchens were killed in battle.

The casualties on the Chinese side were as high as more than 15,000.

In terms of the number of dead and wounded alone, the Chinese army actually lost this battle.

And, don't forget, the Chinese army is doing its best.

Therefore, the Chinese soldiers did not think that this was a big victory.

The courage of the Jurchens won the respect of Zhang Xian, Lu Junyi, Yang Zaixing and other Chinese military officers, so that they did not slaughter all the more than 1,000 Jurchens, but only cut off the heads of the Jurchens who had been killed and made them into Jingguan.

Due to the huge sacrifices made by Yan Zonghan and their 10,000 Jurchens, more than 10,000 Jin people successfully withdrew into Huguan, and then went north non-stop.

Zhang Xian and the others were all cavalry and did not have the ability to attack the city, so they were stopped outside Huguan.

Three days later, Liu and Han Shizhong led a large army to Huguan one after another.

Five days later, Zhe Keqiu led the Zhejia army to Huguan to join the large army.

Liu sent an army and asked them to deliver Yan Zonghan's body, escort the Jin prisoners, escort the rescued hostages, and transport the Jin people they captured from the Song State to grab the blackmail and return to Tokyo to face the saint.

By the way, the most precious treasures that the Jin people snatched from the Song Kingdom, as well as the most precious treasures that the Jin people dug up the Song Tomb in Gongyi, were all gone.

Legend has it that Wanyan Zonghan sent his cronies to transport all these treasures to a secret cave on Song Mountain and hide them, preparing to take them away again when he had the opportunity to come later.

Of course, this is just a legend, and whether this is the case or not will have to be proved by time.

After returning to Beijing to offer prisoners, Liu and Han Shizhong's troops divided into two routes, all the way to continue to attack Huguan, all the way to Pingyang Mansion, preparing to go north from Pingyang Mansion, while Zhang Xian took his headquarters to Shaanzhou, preparing to seize Tongguan, lock the Song Western Army in Shaanxi, and not teach the Song Western Army to come out and make trouble.

That's right.

The posture of Liu, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Xian is preparing to recover Hedong in one fell swoop!

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