The next day, Wanyan Zongbi officially became the deputy marshal of Zhengnan, replacing Wanyan Zongwang as the chief general of the Middle Route Army, and Wanyan Zongbi immediately led an army of 100,000 to kill Huazhou on the other side of the Yellow River.

Han Ru is Du Chong's son-in-law, just after taking office, he encountered the Jin soldiers going south, Han Ru was so frightened that he was at a loss, and urgently ordered his own soldiers to rush to Bianliang to ask Du Chong for help, but just as the soldiers left, Han Ru gave up Huazhou and retreated south with 8,000 troops.

Du Chong was shocked when he received the distress letter, and urgently ordered the defense to make Yue Fei lead the army to Huazhou to rescue, Yue Fei had no choice but to lead 20,000 troops to Huazhou, his army just arrived in Fengqiu County, and met Han Ru's rout and fled south.

Yue Fei grabbed a general who had fled and asked carefully, and the general said hatefully: "Han Ru retreated south with his concubine and a few carts of property, he walked too slowly, and was caught up by five thousand Jurchen iron cavalry last night, and the brothers couldn't resist it, and were defeated by the Jin cavalry. ”

"What about General Han?"

"I don't know, I should have died in the chaos."

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook, and the rout soldiers shouted: "The golden soldiers and iron cavalry are coming!" ”

Yue Fei also saw the battle flag of the Jin soldiers in the distance, he knew that if he retreated at this time, the Song army would inevitably be chased and defeated by the Jin soldiers, he shouted: "Fight in a big array of iron buckets!" ”

Yue Fei has been training soldiers for the past two months, in order to deal with the cavalry, Yue Fei has studied several formations, the iron bucket array is one of them, the iron bucket array is a circle array, the army forms a circular array, there are four to five layers inside and outside, of which the outermost layer is the crossbowmen, the first long-distance shooting of the enemy, when the enemy cavalry is close, the crossbowmen retreat into the inner layer, by the second and third layers of pikemen to meet the cavalry, the fourth layer is the spearman, with a short spear to kill the enemy cavalry on the periphery.

The biggest advantage of this kind of iron bucket array is that the soldiers will not be exposed to the enemy on their backs, and will always face the enemy in front of each other, but the weakness is also obvious, on the one hand, the action is relatively slow, far from keeping up with the high-speed mobile cavalry, and the other weakness is that the soldiers are too dense, if the Jin soldiers carry firearms such as earth-shaking thunder, it will cause a large number of casualties among the soldiers of the Song army.

Therefore, Yue Fei also has targeted troops, this kind of iron bucket formation is only suitable for cavalry combat, once the main force of the enemy's infantry is killed, the large array will be changed to a wild goose marching formation.

20,000 soldiers quickly formed two large formations of iron barrels and lined up on both sides of the official road, waiting for the arrival of the enemy cavalry.

The vanguard army of 5,000 cavalry gradually approached, this Jurchen cavalry was pulled out by the commander of the ten thousand commanders, last night they defeated the 8,000 Song army, after killing the main general Han Ru, the cavalry rested for two hours, and then went south again, all the way to chase the defeated and fleeing Song army, but did not expect to encounter another Song army.

He pulled away from the war horse and looked curiously at the Song army in front of him, it was the first time he had seen the army in a circle, which was really interesting.

"Which general went to battle?" Pull away and quickly turn around and ask the five commanders.

A commander bowed on his horse and said, "I'm willing to give it a try!" ”

"Good! Defeated the Song army, and recorded a great achievement. ”

The commander of the thousand men shouted and ordered: "Fourth battalion, follow me and kill it!" ”

He brandished his mace and galloped on horseback, followed by a thousand cavalry, who galloped towards the Song army three miles away like a sharp spear.

The Song army was already waiting, when the enemy cavalry killed, the formation of the two large arrays immediately changed, like an egg peeling off its shell, the three thousand crossbowmen on the periphery ran forward, densely arranged in a half-moon shape to face the enemy, and the three thousand crossbowmen were half-crouching, holding the crossbow with the divine arm and aiming at the killing cavalry.

In just a moment, the cavalry rushed within one hundred and fifty steps, and Yue Fei shouted, "Shoot!" ”

The sound of the bang sounded rapidly, and the first row of a thousand soldiers fired, and the powerful and dense crossbow arrows shot at the cavalry group in the distance, and the golden soldiers raised their cowhide shields one after another, and rushed on their horses, this kind of shield was very strong, and about one hundred and fifty paces could resist the crossbow arrows of the god arm crossbow.

But if you enter within 100 steps, the shield can't be stopped, which is also the reason why the Song Army's Divine Arm Crossbow has become the most troublesome weapon for the Liaoxia Jin soldiers in history, and the soldier's shield and armor can't stop the strong shot of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

Dense arrows snapped on the shield, but there were still many horses with arrows and fell to the ground, and the cavalry also fell to the ground, and many cavalry were trampled by the horses' hooves behind and trampled to death on the spot.

After the first row was shot, immediately kicked the strings and loaded the arrows, at this time the soldiers of the second row and the third row fired successively, thousands of dense crossbow arrows shot into the cavalry group, at this time the golden soldiers had rushed into a hundred steps, the shield could not block the strong crossbow arrows, they were pierced by the crossbow arrows, the cavalry screamed and fell off the horse, the first round of archery cavalry only suffered forty or fifty casualties, but the second round began, the number of casualties increased sharply, the three rows of arrows fired, the cavalry has suffered more than three hundred and fifty casualties.

Yue Fei saw that the enemy cavalry was coming too fast and could no longer shoot a second time, so he immediately shouted: "The crossbowmen retreat, and the pikemen are ready to fight!" ”

The war drums sounded in the big array, and the crossbowmen quickly retreated, and they all retreated into the center of the iron bucket array, and at this time, the four thousand pikemen of the two large arrays lined up with their guns, and they were so dense that they could not penetrate the wind and rain.

The outermost layer is actually a spear, which is hard, while a spear is tougher and more flexible, so it is the ideal weapon to use a spear to meet the hard charge of the cavalry.

The yellow dust was rolling, and the remaining 650 cavalry chose the large array in the west, shouting and killing the Song army.

The commander of the thousand commanders led by him had already seen that the Song army's spear dense array had revealed a killing opportunity, and he was still twenty steps away from the big array, he suddenly made a gesture backwards, and hundreds of golden soldiers were like being split in half by a knife head-on, quickly forking to both sides, and they did not rush into the Song army head-on, but circled on both sides, looking for a breakthrough.

At this time, Yue Fei shouted, "Short spear throw!" ”

Nearly a thousand soldiers of the Song army near the outer circle suddenly threw their short spears at the Jurchen cavalry more than 20 steps away, this kind of short spear is only five feet long, weighing no more than three or four catties, the tall and powerful soldiers can throw thirty or forty steps, and the lethality is extremely high at close range, except for the heavy infantry, no armor and shield can resist, it is a sharp weapon against the cavalry.

Thousands of short spears formed a dense spear rain, stabbing towards the galloping Jurchen cavalry, this spear rain came fiercely, the Jurchen cavalry could not dodge, they were stabbed by the spears, a burst of people turned on their horses, the soldiers screamed and fell off the horse, and the casualties of the Jin soldiers exceeded 100 in an instant.

In fact, using crossbow shooting is just as effective, or even better, but Yue Fei has never used it in actual combat since he rehearsed spear shooting, and he wants to see the effect of spear shooting with his own eyes.

At this time, the main general in the distance saw that the Song army's formation was powerful, and the cavalry would suffer a big loss, so he immediately shouted: "Quickly order them to retreat!" ”

'When! While! While! The bell rang, and the remaining hundreds of horsemen turned their horses and withdrew back to the main formation.

The leader of the thousand commanders stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "I am incompetent and incompetent, and I have failed to break through the enemy formation,!" ”

He waved his hand and said, "This kind of large formation is left to the infantry behind to deal with, and we will continue to chase and kill the defeated soldiers!" ”

He shouted an order, and more than 4,000 Jurchen cavalry bypassed Yue Fei's barrel formation and continued to kill towards Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Yue Fei secretly shouted that it was not good, and immediately ordered: "Lie down in a small phalanx and return to the city!" ”

He led 20,000 troops out of the city to rescue the Huazhou army, the number of troops in the city was only more than 5,000 people, if Du Chong was not properly deployed, it was likely to be attacked by the Jin soldiers, and he must immediately retreat back to the city.

But Yue Fei couldn't make the soldiers run back to the city in formation, so he couldn't resist the strong impact of the Jurchen cavalry, he had to keep fighting at any time, in this case, a small phalanx was the best choice.

The 20,000 infantry of the Song army quickly changed their formation and turned into a phalanx, and the soldiers rushed in a row of ten people in the direction of Bianliang......

Not long after Yue Fei was ordered to rush to the rescue in Huazhou, Du Chong received a pigeon letter from Puyang, Huazhou, which was sent by his son-in-law Han Ru before retreating, in which he told Du Chong that the Jin soldiers had changed the main general, and Wanyan Zongbi led an army of 100,000 to Kaifeng Mansion to kill, this time Kaifeng Mansion was in danger, and he could not keep it, he suggested that Du Chong give up Bianliang and lead the army to retreat to the south to preserve the vitality.

This pigeon letter suddenly made Du Chong panic, although Wan Yan Xian also gave him a promise that as long as he was there, he would not attack Bianliang City, but how could Du Chong really believe in this so-called promise, he knew very well in his heart that the other party just wanted to transfer Zong Ze away, and the ultimate goal was to seize Tokyo Bianliang, and now that the 100,000 troops of the Jin State were pressing the border, he couldn't believe Wan Yan Xian's promise.

Du Chong sent people to chase Yue Fei back on the one hand, and gathered troops on the other side, if Yue Fei's army could not catch up, he could only choose to evacuate.

As the retreating soldiers continued to pour towards Bianliang City, Du Chong's pressure became more and more intense, at this time, he got the news that a cavalry of nearly 5,000 appeared twenty miles north of the city, Du Chong was dumbfounded, he didn't know what happened, why Yue Fei's army didn't rush back, or it had been wiped out by the Jin soldiers, or the people he sent didn't find Yue Fei at all.

But these are no longer important, the news of the arrival of Jin Bing is like the last straw that breaks the camel's back, and Du Chong finally collapsed.

He didn't dare to resist, so he took 5,000 soldiers to open the south gate, and fled to the south, at the same time when he led the army to leave Tokyo Bianliang, he had already thought about how to explain to the imperial court, and the reason he gave up Tokyo Bianliang was that Yue Fei led the army to attack without authorization, resulting in the emptiness of the troops in Bianliang City, unable to resist the attack of the Jin soldiers.

As for the fact that he forced Yue Fei to go to Huazhou to pick up his son-in-law, which caused Yue Fei to be unable to rush back to Bianliang in time, this is no longer important, in the unspoken rules of officialdom, the subordinates are used to carry the black pot, and it just so happens that Du Chong is a person who is proficient in the unspoken rules of officialdom.

When he led the cavalry to Tokyo Bianliang, the city gate was wide open, and there were no defenders in Bianliang City.