Wu Zhan, the commander of the Red Turban Army in charge of operations in Suzhou, finally followed the advice of his close general, Zhang Qian, and decided to suspend the attack on Qinhuai City, and even on the night of December 12, Wu Zan directly issued an order for a one-night truce to the generals of the Red Turban Army outside Qinhuai City.

Wu Zan immediately sent a large number of scouts to the area north of Qinhuai City, searching for the whereabouts of the imperial court reinforcements, preparing to solve the reinforcements sent by the imperial court first, and then to capture Qinhuai City.

However, Wu Zan did not completely give up the attack on Qinhuai City, and early in the morning of December 12, the Red Turban Army besieging Qinhuai City sent a large number of troops to continue to attack the four walls of Qinhuai City, but the fierceness of the siege was much lower than that of the previous days.

Sun Ziheng, the general of the chariot cavalry in Qinhuai City, and Sun Dezhen, the pastor of Suzhou Prefecture, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the Red Turban Army besieging Qinhuai City suddenly weakened the siege of the city.

On the afternoon of December 13, Liu Ji took the First Cavalry Brigade of the Guards Regiment of the Broken Army and the First Cavalry Brigade of the Grassland Legion, a total of 80,000 cavalry, to appear more than ten miles north of Qinhuai City.

At present, among the 200,000 broken army that went south to quell the rebellion, there are already five top Wenchen produced by the system, this time Liu Ji left Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Fan Zengshi and Li Ru in the infantry of the 120,000 broken army, and let them assist the commanders of the three infantry brigades to lead the troops south, only Zhang Liang was taken to Qinhuai City by Liu Ji first, and the other seven puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength and twenty-eight puppet bodyguards with top military general strength were also taken by Liu Ji and came to Qinhuai City together.

In fact, if it weren't for the departure from Yuexi City, it would be necessary to cross two rivers, Liu Ji would have arrived in Qinhuai City yesterday with 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Army, after all, the 80,000 cavalry were equipped with three war horses, and they could be transferred to war horses on the way, and it was not a problem to travel hundreds of miles a day.

Thanks to Wu Zan sent a large number of scouts to besiege the Red Turban Army of Qinhuai City, on the night of December 12, they found the temporary camp of 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Army, so after dawn on the 13th, many units of the Red Turban Army began to assemble to the north of Qinhuai City, as for Qinhuai City, the Red Turban Army completely gave up the siege today.

In a tent in the camp of the Red Turban Army in the south outside Qinhuai City, Wu Zan said in a deep voice to his trusted general Zhang Qian: "According to the information sent by the scouts, this cavalry should be the vanguard of the 700,000 reinforcements of the imperial court, and it is the elite cavalry under the command of the captured general Liu Ji, the number may reach 200,000, could it be that the information we got is inaccurate?" ”

The cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Guards Regiment of the Broken Army and the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Steppe Army were mistakenly thought to have at least 200,000 cavalry by the scouts of the Red Turban Army, because each of them was equipped with three war horses, so that they seemed to be more numerous.

Zhang Qian shook his head directly and said: "Dashuai, the information we got from Canglong City all came from Guanghan Palace, there shouldn't be too much mistake, the intelligence of Guanghan Palace said that Liu Ji only led 260,000 troops in response to the text of the Great Jin Dynasty this time, of which there were only 80,000 cavalry, so even if the cavalry unit that arrived in Qinhuai City was all the cavalry led by Liu Ji, it was only 80,000 cavalry, and it was absolutely impossible to be 200,000. ”

Wu Zan asked with some uncertainty: "Will there be cavalry from other roads?" ”

Zhang Qian then said: "Dashuai, although the Great Jin Dynasty came up with the so-called 36-way counter-insurgency army this time, but in addition to Liu Ji's broken army, the other 35-way counter-rebel army may not even have 30,000 cavalry, and more than half of the 35-way counter-rebel army went to Hangzhou, the reason why the scouts think it will be 200,000 cavalry is probably because the cavalry of the broken army under Liu Ji is equipped with more than one war horse, you must know that the cavalry of the grassland Hu people, everyone is generally equipped with two war horses or even three war horses, And Liu Ji subdued the Dangxiang clan and the Lou Fu clan on the grassland, and there will definitely be no shortage of war horses in his hands, and the cavalry of the broken army under his command should be equipped with two or three war horses. ”

Wu Zan touched his chin, pondered for a moment and said: "If it is only 80,000 cavalry, then you can consider eating them, the 700,000 imperial army that reinforces Qinhuai City this time is mainly based on Liu Ji's broken army, and among the 260,000 troops led by Liu Ji, these 80,000 cavalry should be the most elite, once the cavalry of the 80,000 broken army is eaten, the rest of the more than 600,000 imperial court reinforcements will be easier to deal with." ”

Zhang Qian hesitated for a moment and said: "Our Red Turban Army has never fought with such a large number of cavalry, and the terrain north of Qinhuai City is relatively flat, so my subordinates are worried about ......."

Wu Zan waved his hand and interrupted Zhang Qian's words, "Although we have lost more than 100,000 soldiers under Qinhuai City these days, the speed of our expansion is even faster than the speed of loss, and now our Red Turban Army is outside Qinhuai City, there are 850,000 people, even if we use human lives, I will eat the 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Army." ”

Zhang Qian then opened his mouth, and wanted to persuade Wu Zan that it was best not to fight with the cavalry of the Broken Army in the north of Qinhuai City, Qinhuai City was in the four directions, and only the terrain in the north was relatively flat, and choosing the north of Qinhuai City to engage in the battle was equivalent to attacking the enemy's strength with his own shortcomings.

However, in the end, Zhang Qian's words of persuasion were not spoken, Zhang Qian himself had not personally experienced large-scale cavalry battles, and he couldn't imagine how powerful the 80,000 cavalry would be, and the Red Turban Army still occupied an absolute advantage in strength, maybe it could really rely on the use of human lives to defeat the cavalry of the 80,000 Broken Army!

However, Wu Zan and Zhang Qian soon knew that the method of piling up human lives did not seem to have much effect on the elite cavalry of the Broken Army, and their previous good illusions were easily shattered by the cavalry of the 80,000 Broken Army.

Under Wu Zhan's order, on the afternoon of 13 December, the Red Turban Army gathered an army of almost 400,000 troops north of Qinhuai City, and took advantage of the fact that the 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Capture Army was not firmly established, and brazenly launched an active attack on the 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Capture Army.

If the Red Turban Army chose to defend stronger, but the Red Turban Army chose to take the initiative to attack, and as a result, in the face of the group charge of 80,000 cavalry, the 400,000 Red Turban Army was almost defeated in a battle, and almost 80,000 people were killed in the battle, and nearly 150,000 people became prisoners of the Broken Army.

Only 170,000 defeated soldiers fled back to the camps of the Red Turban Army in the east and west of Qinhuai City, and the terrain to the east and west of Qinhuai City was not suitable for cavalry combat, so Liu Ji did not order the rout of the fleeing Red Turban Army to chase to the end, but in this way he still captured nearly 150,000 prisoners of war.

And 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Army after this battle, the last count of casualties, but everyone was surprised, including Liu Ji, they all felt a little incredible, in the first battle between the Broken Army and the Red Turban Army, the cavalry of the Broken Army only suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and less than 1,500 were killed, which can be regarded as an unprecedented victory, and it is also the biggest victory of the Great Jin Dynasty against the Red Turban Army!

On the evening of December 13, in a tent in the Red Turban Army camp in the south outside Qinhuai City, Wu Zan asked Zhang Qian with a frown: "What should we do now?" The cavalry of those broken captives is like the devil, and their combat effectiveness is too strong! If it hadn't been for the two of us to escape quickly, we would have become two corpses, alas—"

Zhang Qian said with a wry smile: "The cavalry is called the master of the battlefield is really good, we still know too little about the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Broken Army, they are comparable to the strongest Hu cavalry of the grassland, although we dispatched five times the troops, but the cavalry in our hands is only 7,000 cavalry, in the face of the torrent of iron cavalry of the Broken Army, we are not unjust in defeat, but the loss is too great, the killed, captured and missing soldiers account for more than half of the 400,000 army, and the 7,000 cavalry that was finally put together, Almost all of the army was wiped out, and less than 500 men remained. ”

After a pause, Zhang Qian continued: "The subordinates suggested that the situation here in Qinhuai City should be reported to His Royal Highness the King of Yue immediately, as for whether to fight or withdraw, it must be decided by His Royal Highness the King of Yue, after this fiasco, relying solely on the Red Turban Army around Qinhuai City, it is already difficult to defeat the reinforcements sent by the imperial court, and even Linhu County, Huqiu County, Xujiang County, Zhenhu County, Dongzhu County, as well as most of Hengjing County and most of Mudu County, are in danger of being recaptured by the imperial court reinforcements." ”

When Wu Zan heard this, he hesitated for a moment and then nodded and said, "Then let's do it!" Fortunately, the terrain in the other three directions of Qinhuai City is not suitable for the battle of a large force of cavalry, otherwise there is no need to ask His Royal Highness King Yue for instructions, we are already on the way to escape! I also want to suggest to His Royal Highness the King of Yue that no matter what the price is, our Red Turban Army must have such a powerful cavalry force, otherwise our Red Turban Army will have no chance to get involved in the twelve states with flat terrain north of Canglong City. ”

Zhang Qian secretly smiled bitterly, he knew that the defeat was so miserable, he said that he would stop the 400,000 Red Turban Army from launching an active attack on the 80,000 cavalry of the Broken Army north of Qinhuai City, the most correct strategy should be to directly give up the north of Qinhuai City, the Red Turban Army relied on the terrain of the other three directions of Qinhuai City, and started a tug-of-war with the reinforcements of the imperial court and the defenders in Qinhuai City, but unfortunately there is no regret in this world.

The defenders on the north wall of Qinhuai City, almost with a stunned expression, watched the performance of the imperial court to aid the cavalry, hundreds of thousands of red turban thieves under the iron hooves of a large number of imperial cavalry, in addition to the beginning of the heroic initiative to charge, and then there is no longer the slightest ability to resist, countless red turban thieves only know to flee to the east and west of Qinhuai City, do not dare to turn back to resist the steel torrent of the imperial cavalry, a big battle of hundreds of thousands of people, just one hour to divide the victory and defeat, just like a myth.

Before the battle outside the city was over, the ecstatic cavalry general Sun Ziheng issued an order for the defenders in the city to clear out the largest gate on the north wall of Qinhuai City, and prepare to welcome the imperial reinforcements into the city.

After the Red Turban Army surrounded Qinhuai City on all sides, Sun Ziheng, the general of the Che Cavalry, immediately ordered the defenders in the city to block all the gates of the four walls of Qinhuai City with sand and stones, so as to prevent the Red Turban Army from breaking through the city gates.

Without the city gate to enter the city, the Red Turban Army could only storm the city wall at a heavy price, which was very beneficial to the defenders of Qinhuai City.

After the sand and gravel blocking the city gate were removed, Sun Ziheng, the general of the chariot cavalry, and Sun Dezhen, the pastor of Suzhou Prefecture, immediately sent people out of the city and invited the imperial court reinforcements outside the city to enter Qinhuai City.

Liu Ji himself did not expect that the first battle between the Broken Army and the Red Turban Army would be so smooth, and such amazing results were achieved, Liu Ji had already learned that the cavalry of the Broken Army had suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which less than 1,500 were killed in the battle, but Liu Ji absorbed more than 80,000 soul points from this battle, which shows how miserable the loss of the Red Turban Army was in this battle!

In addition, nearly 150,000 prisoners were captured in this battle, these prisoners of war are all from the Jin Kingdom, Liu Ji believes that as long as these prisoners of war are transported back to their own territory, then these nearly 150,000 will soon become the combat power of the broken army, of course, for some of the diehard elements in the prisoners of war, Liu Ji still needs to screen them and eliminate them.

Immediately, Liu Ji issued an order to let the officers and soldiers of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Guards Regiment of the Broken Army and the First Cavalry Brigade of the Grassland Army set up camp a few miles north of Qinhuai City, and asked the soldiers of the Broken Army to immediately build a prisoner of war camp with a very large area to hold nearly 150,000 prisoners of war of the Red Turban Army.

Liu Ji is very confident that the prisoners of war captured by the Red Turban Army will definitely not be just these 150,000, Liu Ji is ready to build a prisoner of war camp that can accommodate 300,000 prisoners of war of the Red Turban Army.

As for the invitation to enter the city brought by Sun Ziheng, the general of the chariot cavalry in Qinhuai City, and Sun Dezhen, the pastor of Suzhou Prefecture, Liu Ji refused to politely on the grounds that the cavalry troops were not suitable to enter the city.

On the evening of December 13, in the state pastor mansion in Qinhuai City, Suzhou Governor Sun Dezhen said excitedly to Sun Ziheng, the general of the chariot cavalry: "Fourth brother, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry troops under Liu Ji is really too strong, our Sun family must be friendly with Liu Ji, and we must not become enemies with Liu Ji!" ”

Sun Ziheng, the general of the chariot cavalry, nodded and said: "Liu Ji can defeat the second strongest country in the Western Regions, and he can subdue the two great clans of the grassland, relying on the strong combat effectiveness of his army!" Old Five, you are right, our Sun family must become friends with Liu Ji, this time Liu Ji led troops to rescue Qinhuai City, which just gave our Sun family an opportunity to become friends with Liu Ji! ”