Chapter 488: The First Battle of the Northern Expedition

Yelu Yun immediately gathered the Jurchen army!

But the night was too dark, and many of the Jurchen soldiers were now asleep! After half an hour, the 8,000 Jurchen troops of Bei'an Prefecture came to the city wall one after another.

"It's so late, what are you doing calling us all out?" A Jurchen soldier leaned against the wall, yawning incessantly, and asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Some people say that the Han people came out of Juyong Pass, and now they are not far from Bei'anzhou, so the general called us out." A Jurchen soldier next to him said.

"Han people came out of Juyong Pass? Haven't they been making shrunken turtles all the time? How do you have the guts to come out? The Jurchen soldier who had spoken earlier laughed.

"You can't say that, the Han people are not all cowards! At the beginning, the army of the Han people also entered the grassland, and the four princes were defeated in their hands! The Jurchen soldier next to him said.

"I also know about that battle, and I don't understand why the fourth prince lost?"

"I think we're still underestimating the Han people! The Han people may not be as weak as we think! If they were so weak, it would be impossible to defeat the Fourth Prince, and it would be impossible to annihilate all of our 200,000 troops in the Central Plains! Perhaps, the Han people are much stronger than we think! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about! Don't you know that 'the Jurchen is invincible'? We Jurchens, as long as there are more than 10,000 people, even if there are 1 million Han people, they are not our opponents! ”

The two soldiers were talking here, and the walls were full of chatter!

Yelu Yun had also walked up the city wall at this moment, and he still had the smell of wine in his mouth, in fact, not only that, many Jurchen generals were full of wine, and many of the female generals had a dissatisfied look on their faces.

"General, why did you call us out so late?" A thousand-commander had a crooked body, drunk and hazy, and said.

"There is a good chance that Song Jun has already appeared! So let's be careful! Yelu Yun said.

"General, this is impossible, the Song people are timid and incompetent, and they dare not appear!" Thousand-mile said.

"We all understand this truth, but if we are not afraid of 10,000, we are afraid of what if." Yelu Yun said.

"It's too cautious to generalize soldiers! Admire, admire! The commander laughed.

Yelu Yun also smiled and nodded, and at this time, his eyes suddenly flashed!

A little light faintly appeared in the distance, and Yeluyun thought that he had seen it wrong, but soon, he realized that he was not wrong!

There were more and more lights in the distance, and at first glance it looked like stars in the sky, and it wasn't long before Yeluyun could see that this was a "fire dragon", a fire dragon formed by a series of torches!

The number of this fire dragon is more than ten miles, and Yelu Yun can't see the end at all!

Standing on the city wall, Yelu Yun suddenly felt sweating all over his body and his body trembled!

When he was in the state government before, he looked down on the Han people and the Song army, but when he saw this fire dragon, he realized that he was extremely scared in his heart! In the past seven years, the Song army has repeatedly defeated the Jin soldiers, and the strength of the Song army has spread throughout the north! The arrogance in the hearts of countless Jurchens is nothing more than a self-deceptive mentality! Just like in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the foreigners repeatedly defeated the Qing army, but the Qing Dynasty monarchs and ministers still regarded themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and they were still arrogant, but when the foreigners called, the people in the court fled one after another! At this moment, the Jurchens are also in this state of mind!

The city wall became silent, and all the Jurchens looked into the distance in horror!

"At least 100,000 troops! We only have 8,000 people, and we are no match for the Song army! Let's go, get out of here! The Song army, just like last time, took the initiative to kill on the grassland! The four princes led countless elite soldiers were not their opponents, and we are not opponents anymore! Evacuate Pakhan now! Yeluyun shouted loudly.

"Run! Run! ”

"How can there be so many Han Chinese? Bei'an Prefecture will be broken, flee immediately! ”

The walls were full of shouting voices!

Yelu Yun had hurried to the bottom of the city wall, and a personal soldier brought the war horse, and Yelu Yun rode the war horse towards the north gate! To the south are mountains, to the east are mountains, and to the west are the Song army, and now they have to flee to the north!

Countless Jurchen soldiers have also run down, some of them have fled directly towards the north city gate, but more people are still looking for war horses! Although the Song Army's torch dragon seemed to be not far away, in fact they should still be ten miles away, and they had plenty of time to ride their horses!

A quarter of an hour later, half of the Jurchen soldiers were already rushing towards the city gate! After another quarter of an hour, there were less than a thousand Jurchen soldiers left in the city!

Yelu Yun was in a hurry at first, but after a while he stopped, and it was not until the army behind him arrived that he fled north with the army!

His wife and children are still in Bei'anzhou, but now he can't take care of his wife and children at all, he only cares about his own safety!

There were about 6,000 soldiers beside him, and he had just walked ten miles to the north, when there was a shout of killing around him, and countless Song troops rushed out from the surroundings!

It turned out that the main force of the Song army led by Li Xianzhong was indeed coming from due west, but he had already laid an ambush in the north, and there were more than 30,000 crossbowmen waiting for the arrival of the Jurchens here!

Bows and arrows rained down, and there was a scream from the Jurchen army!

The Jurchens didn't dare to fight at all, they just thought about escaping!

Yelu Yun was terrified to the extreme at this moment, and it took another half an hour for him to escape from this ambush, and there were less than three thousand Jurchen soldiers left beside him!

Yelu Yun and the three thousand Jurchen soldiers continued to go north, and soon they came to the homesick ridge, after arriving here, Yelu Yun was cautious, lest there was an ambush here, he sent someone to investigate in advance!

However, all the way from here, he didn't even meet Song Jun, and he was a little relieved!

After that, the Jurchen army came to the area of Toucholing, and it was not until the sky was about to dawn that the Jurchen army of 3,000 came to the north of Toucholing!

From here, it is a flat area to the north, and there is a vast grassland not far away, and after arriving here, Yelu Yun breathed a sigh of relief!

"It seems that the Song army has just arrived, and it is too late to pursue us! Moreover, the Song army was all infantry, and there was no cavalry! Don't worry! After I return to Zhongjing, I will tell Yan Chang and the fourth prince that our Jurchen army is going south with all its might, and the Han people have only one way to die! Yelu Yun said secretly.

The sky was already slightly bright, and the three thousand Jurchen soldiers were exhausted at the moment, and some even took a nap on their horses!

The ground became flatter and flatter, and Yelu Yun's heart became more and more relaxed, and only then did he think of his wife and children, and he felt a little worried in his heart.

However, at this moment, the earth-shattering shouts in the distance rang out!

The endless cavalry of the Song army on the opposite side came towards here like a torrent!

Ahead, countless Song cavalry had already raised their bows and arrows in their hands, and with an order, all the bows and arrows shot towards the Jurchens in front!

There was another scream in the Jurchen army!

They had no defense, and no one organized a counterattack! Only a few Jurchens picked up their bows and arrows and shot them at the opposite side! However, the number of Song troops on the opposite side was too much, and all the Song troops on the opposite side were mainly mounted archery, and the bows and arrows on the opposite side covered the sky and the sun, and almost half of the Jurchens fell in an instant!

Before the huge number of Song troops on the opposite side rushed in, there were less than a thousand Jurchens left!

At this moment, the two sides finally officially exchanged hands!

Yeluyun has also been hit by an arrow, but it is not in the critical position! Seeing Song Jun rushing towards him, he breathed a sigh of relief!

"Han people are really Han people! If they keep shooting arrows on the other side, we're dead! But now they rushed on their own initiative! The Han people can't win against our Jurchens in a fight, and we still have a chance to escape! Yelu Yun said secretly.

However, in just a moment, he felt that his worldview was collapsing! The combat power of the Song army is beyond imagination, the comparison between the Song army and the Jurchen army is like the Jurchens and Khitans in the Wanyan Aguta era, the soldiers on both sides are not of the same level at all, and the soldiers of the Song army are much stronger than the Jurchen soldiers! The soldiers of the Song army have been training day and night for many years, especially the cavalry of the Song army is the elite of the elite, only the best soldiers can enter the cavalry, most of the cavalry are composed of veterans who have been fighting for more than six years, 365 days a year, training every day, never stopping! From Guanshan to the Central Plains and Yanyun, every soldier has experienced a hundred battles, and the weaker ones have been eliminated by the war and died on the battlefield, and every remaining soldier is the elite of the elite, and the quality of such individual soldiers has far exceeded the Jurchen soldiers who spend all day drinking!

Yelu Yun gritted his teeth and rushed forward!

A Song soldier rushed forward, he slashed forward, the knife in the hand of the Song soldier was cut off, and he was about to continue to cut towards the Song soldier, but after several Song soldiers around saw the scene here, they actually attacked him together! Yeluyun is tired of fighting!

It seemed that noticing Yeluyun's strong martial arts, a Song army general around him roared, and these Song soldiers immediately retreated, Yeluyun just breathed a sigh of relief, and more Song soldiers rushed in front!

The cavalry of the Song army was all composed of light cavalry, they were equipped with four weapons, a bow for long-range shooting, a bow for close shooting, a spear for charging, and a war knife for close combat. There were also Song soldiers on the left and right who joined forces, raised their spears and charged towards Yelu Yun!

Yeluyun cut off a few spears, but more spears were already stuck in his body, and he screamed and finally closed his eyes.

"Xianzhong asked me to hold here, saying that the worst case is that all the Jurchen 8,000 defenders will come over, and now it seems that there are only 3,000 people!" Li Yanxian stood among the corpses of the Jurchens and muttered.

After a while, a few Song soldiers from the opposite mountain came on horseback, and they reported the battle situation in Bei'an Prefecture to Li Yanxian, and Li Yanxian confirmed his idea!

"With an army of 170,000 to destroy 8,000 Jurchens, if you can't wipe them all out, it will be a shame! Fortunately, no Jurchen can escape! A smile appeared on Li Yanxian's face.

"General Li, the marshal said that the next battle is Zezhou! There are 10,000 defenders in Zezhou, but there are only one or two thousand Jurchens, and the rest are new annexed troops or slave armies composed of Khitans and Han Chinese! The marshal said that Zezhou is only 200 miles away from Bei'anzhou, so the whole army must make a lightning attack, and the enemy must not be allowed to have any chance to react, and the enemy troops in Zezhou must not be allowed to escape! The whole army is divided into three routes, General Li, you can lead 50,000 cavalry to bypass Niushan, march from the north of Niushan to Zezhou, and attack Shenshan County north of Zezhou! The marshal led 70,000 soldiers and horses across Niushan and Linzezhou, and General Fu Xuan led 50,000 soldiers and horses to pass south of Niushan and attack Pucheng County! After that, the three armies surrounded Zezhou! The soldier who came to report said.

He took out Li Xianzhong's military order.

General Li Yanxian took the order, and a quarter of an hour later, 50,000 cavalry roared towards the east.

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