Chapter 675: Annihilation of the Jin Army
The Song army, which occupied Jiaxiang, fled north in less than half an hour after contact with them, and there were many suspicions at this time.
Although Jiaxiang City is not high, judging from the strength of the Song army, it is not much of a problem to hold for a few hours, they retreated in a hurry and did not lose many troops.
The Song army that appeared in the north and east now was much later than the west and south, and it was very likely that it was the Song army that withdrew north from Jiaxiang.
Judging from the results, their retreat from Jiaxiang to the north is likely to lure the Jin army westward into Juye, and then follow the Jin army, forming a siege with the Juye Song army.
If this is the case, then the current situation of the Jin army is very dangerous.
First of all, the Jiaxiang Song army deceived and showed weakness first, so that the Jin army relaxed its vigilance and boldly marched westward, and then the Song army in Juye City showed weakness and only sent a small number of troops to support the city hard, so as to show that the troops were weak and once again made the Jin army under the city lose their vigilance.
After the Jin army relaxed its vigilance and was unvigilant, a large number of Song troops in ambush in the city first went out of the city at night to attack the Jin camp, and then the west and south sides were encircled, and the short soldiers were connected, and then the Song army appeared in the east and north one after another, and finally formed a situation of encirclement of the Jin army.
If all this is true, the encirclement of the Jin Army is an elaborate conspiracy!
Thinking of this, Su Shi Zhining suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Order! The whole army broke through to the south! Fu Shi Zhining quickly sorted out this battle from front to back, and immediately understood the intentions of the Song army, and immediately ordered a breakthrough.
"My lord, why did you break through to the south? The forces in the north are weak, and we should break through to the north. When the order was issued, some people in the army raised objections.
"I'll explain to you later, carry out the military order!" Su Shi Zhining's order cannot be questioned.
The order was issued, and the whole army quickly assembled to the south.
In a hurry, thousands of cavalry lined up in the crowded camp in a short time, and with an order, they rushed straight to the Song army in the south.
In the dark night, in the firelight, the Song army in the south saw that the Jin army wanted to break through, and immediately fired a salvo of crossbow arrows, covering the distance between the two armies.
Before thousands of cavalry could speed up and gallop, hundreds of horsemen were killed.
When the cavalry ran dozens of feet away, they were greeted by an overwhelming array of arrows, and in an instant, another piece of golden soldiers were hit by arrows, fell off their horses, and died under the iron hooves of the cavalry who arrived later.
In a short period of time, the crossbowmen of the Song army opened their bows and arrows several times, supplemented by extremely powerful **, and most of the thousands of cavalry were lost within nearly 20 zhang.
The remaining hundreds of Jin cavalry were brave and fearless, and continued to rush forward, but in front of the tens of thousands of people, even if they shot a few arrows, they could not change the fate of the random arrows.
In the end, only the last cavalry rushed to within three feet of the Song army's crossbow soldiers, and before he could open his bow and shoot the arrow feathers, he was pierced by a hundred random arrows and died on horseback.
"My lord, there are arrow arrays and crossbow formations in the south, and the fierce battles have been fierce for a long time, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties and cannot break through!"
Hearing that the soldiers hurriedly came to report the military situation, Su Shi Zhining was shocked.
Originally, he wanted to break through from the south, cooperate with the defenders of Guide Mansion, cut off the retreat of this Song army to the south, and completely trapped them in Juye and Jiaxiang, is his idea going to be frustrated?
The south can not break through, it is even more impossible to break through to the west into the city, break through to the north, there is a county seat fifty miles away from the north, but there are almost no defenders, I am afraid that it has fallen into the hands of the Song army, even if it can break through successfully, it will not be cheap, if it is to ** siege, then it can only go back to Jiaxiang, or directly cross Onozawa and return to Jeju City.
"Order! The whole army is surrounded by **! Return to Jiaxiang! ”
Su Shi Zhining's order was quickly transmitted to the ears of the generals.
A few quarters of an hour later, the Jin army to the west, south, and north slowly retreated to the east.
At the same time, the pressure of the Song army in the east increased suddenly, and in the face of wave after wave of Jin army impact, the Song army soldiers were powerless.
At this moment, the Song army, which was resisting head-on, received an order: "Open the passage and let the enemy retreat!" ”
With a piercing trumpet, the Song army, which was resisting from the front in the east, quickly retreated to the north and south, and the encirclement encircled on all sides opened a gap five or six zhang wide.
The Jin army, who was in charge of charging and opening the way, was overjoyed and hurriedly fled east along the gap in the encirclement.
As soon as the Jin army saw the gap, they could no longer resist, and flocked to the gap and broke through.
In a short period of time, two or three thousand people escaped from the encirclement, and there was still a steady stream of Jin soldiers converging towards the gap in the encirclement.
"The general has an order, immediately plug the gap!" The herald sent an order to the Song general near the gap in the encirclement.
After receiving the order, only to hear an attack horn sound, the Song army on the north and south sides of the gap quickly advanced towards the gap.
The Jin army wanted to break through the encirclement and expand the gap, and the Song army wanted to plug the gap and form a complete encirclement.
All of a sudden, a more fierce fight was staged again,
The Jin army, which was bent on fleeing for its life, lost its will to fight, and then the Song army advanced again to the gap, leaving the gap for the Jin soldiers to flee for their lives getting smaller and smaller.
About a quarter of an hour later, the gap between the Jin army in the east and the escape of the encirclement was blocked, and the Jin army was re-barred in the encirclement, fighting hard with the Song army, just to fight for another chance to escape from the encirclement.
When Su Shi Zhining heard in the camp of the Chinese army, the gap in the encirclement of the Song army, which had not been broken away for a short time, was re-plugged by the Song army, and immediately ordered: "Order! Open the gap at any cost! ”
The Jin army sent the order and soon reached the front line, where the Jin army again organized a fierce attack in an attempt to open the gap and break out of the Song encirclement.
A few quarters of an hour later, the Song army could not resist, a trumpet sounded, and had to retreat again, letting go of a gap five or six zhang wide.
The Jin army then swarmed out and fled eastward.
When the news reached the camp of the Jin Army, the soldiers and guards immediately persuaded Fu Shi Zhining to leave first.
Fu Shi Zhining excused himself several times, but finally he was stubborn, and under the support of his own guards, he arrived at the gap in the east from the passage opened by the Jin army, and then wrapped up in the Jin soldiers who fled in a hurry, breaking through the gap in the encirclement.
Not long after he escaped from the encirclement, he only heard an order, and the Song troops on the north and south sides of the gap pressed towards the gap again, and after fighting desperately, they quickly repelled the Jin soldiers who had no intention of fighting.
The gap was closed again, and the encirclement was formed again.
"The general has an order, the whole army will attack and destroy the enemy!"
As soon as the military order came out, the soldiers of the Song army quickly contracted the encirclement and killed the Jin army.
If it was daytime, you could see the Song army encircled on all sides, southeast, northwest and north, pressing step by step, and the encirclement was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, compressing the thousands of gold troops in a small area.
In the darkness, after a fierce fight, after half an hour, there were only more than 1,000 enemy troops left in the encirclement.
Inevitably there were unnecessary casualties and accidental injuries, and the Song army retreated 30 zhang again, stopped the attack, and waited for dawn to completely wipe out the Jin army in the encirclement in one fell swoop.
Just when the Song army retreated, the first batch of Jin troops who escaped from the encirclement, after escaping twenty miles in one breath, were exhausted, they were ambushed by a Song army, and suffered a catastrophe, and in half an hour, the whole army was wiped out, and none of them escaped.
Soon after, at the same location, the second group of Jin troops led by Su Shi Zhining who broke out of the encirclement were also ambushed by the Song army.
The two sides fought fiercely until the east turned white, and Fu Shi Zhining was wounded, and only led 100 people to break through.
For him, it was an unprecedented fiasco.
In the morning, the Song army under Juye City launched a final encirclement attack on the inner Jin army in the encirclement.
The Jin army had no hope of breaking through, had already lost its fighting spirit, and resisted desperately for about two quarters of an hour, and after killing hundreds of people, the remaining Jin soldiers stabbed to death the commander of the war and surrendered to the Song army.
The sun rose, the troops were bound, and the fierce battle under the giant field city came to an end.
At noon, the battlefield sweep ended.
In Juye City, the generals of the Song army gathered to celebrate the victory of this battle.
"In this battle, 14,363 enemies were killed and 652 people were captured, only the main general of the Jin army and hundreds of Jin soldiers escaped, almost annihilating the Jin army. Such a huge result in this battle is inseparable from the desperate struggle of the soldiers! This victory is yours! Yang Congyi announced the results in public.
The generals knew that the results of the battle were huge, and when they heard from Yang Congyi's mouth that nearly 15,000 enemies had been killed in the first battle, they were still inexplicably excited.
You must know that the Jin army they are facing is definitely not the disheartened Jin army that occupied Suzhou, Bozhou and other places before, but an absolutely powerful Jin army, which can almost completely annihilate such a Jin army, before this battle, they couldn't imagine it at all.
"This battle can be won, because the adults deploy and command properly, if there is no repeated deployment of the adults, I am afraid that this battle will not be so easy to win." There was a commanding officer who smiled at Yang Congyi with respect.
"What Li Tongzhi said is not right, if there is no personal deployment and command, whether this battle can be won or not depends on whether it is two words, how tenacious and desperate this Jin army is, you and I have been in personal contact. If you want me to say, this battle can be won, and the first thing is to recommend the work of adults! Immediately, the commander echoed and fought for Yang Congyi.
"Okay, it should be your merit is your merit, and I won't miss any of you." After speaking, the expression on Yang Congyi's face suddenly became colorful.
Then he said: "Judging from the results of this battle, although we won and killed many enemies, our losses were not small, and the casualties in the first battle were nearly 5,000!" Why is there such a large number of casualties in a well-planned encirclement trap? Each of you should reflect and think about what the problem is, which casualties could have been avoided and which were inevitable. We must be brave and brave in battle, but we must not give up our lives in vain. We went north this time, the total strength of the army is only 50,000, and for a long time, we will not have reinforcements, every soldier is important to us, and we cannot afford to lose much. ”
"I hope that from this battle onwards, no one will let the soldiers die in vain in order to steal the merits. If I find out that in order to compete for meritorious service, let the soldiers give their lives needlessly, I will be severely punished. Our ambition is to restore the Central Plains, and you must remember that as long as you keep moving forward and conquering the city, you will be guaranteed to have endless feats! ”