Chapter 1038: The Battle of Qinghe (Part II)

At this moment, as if the moment of sudden change in the wind and clouds, the main force of the Jin soldiers behind was launched, the sound of the horn resounded in the sky, the sound of horses' hooves rolled over the field like thunder, 30,000 cavalry galloped out, Wanyan Yanmu waved the sword, pointed to the front and shouted hoarsely: "Kill it!" ”

The Song army's muskets were also fired at the moment when the 2,000 Goryeo cavalry pounced, and the shooting command flag was waved, and 5,000 muskets were fired at the same time, and 5,000 lead bullets were rapidly shot out of the barrels, with a force that opened gold and cracked stones, and fired strongly at the 2,000 cavalry.

Although the Goryeo cavalry was very well armoured, they wore tough leather armor that was difficult to cut through with ordinary swords, held spears and shields, and even wore head armor on the heads of their horses.

They were only a hundred steps away from the Song army's position, a hundred steps, for a war horse with strong sprint power, it only took more than ten seconds to rush through, but this short hundred steps became the source of the nightmare for the Jin soldiers.

The two thousand cavalry looked so thin and fragile in front of five thousand buckshots, and one of the buckshots pierced through the shield and went straight into the chest of the golden soldiers.

Another buckshot shot into the chest of a war horse, and the 2,000 cavalrymen suddenly turned their horses on their backs, and the horses neighed and fell, convulsed and died, and the soldiers who were wriggling in pain under them pressed down on the blood holes in their bodies to make a final struggle on the line of death.

The powerful buckshot not only inflicted heavy damage on the Goryeo cavalry, but also dealt the final blow to the Bohai cavalry, which was in a mess behind the Goryeo cavalry, and in an instant, five rows of muskets were fired in succession, and more than 800 people fell to the ground screaming.

"Oh my God!"

When Wan Yan Xian also described the power of the Song army's musket to him, he felt that Wan Yan Xian was also shirking responsibility.

But at this moment, he saw with his own eyes this terrifying scene, more than half of the 2,000 most elite Goryeo cavalry were killed and wounded in a powerful burst of arrows from the enemy, and in just a hundred steps, none of them could rush through, and the last hundreds of people were also killed in the overwhelming rain of arrows of the Song army.

The turbulent Jin cavalry had rushed to two hundred paces away, and the rain of arrows from the crossbowmen of the Song army was also overwhelming, and people were constantly falling off their horses in the gallop.

But they still couldn't stop the rapid onslaught of nearly 30,000 Jin cavalry, they brandished their swords, raised their spears, galloped on their horses, and shouted to kill the heavens and the earth.

It's already sixty steps, and the Song army's feet are still unmoving,

At this time, the crossbow army and the musketeers fired together, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the black and oppressive arrow rain covered the sky, shooting into the enemy cavalry, and five thousand lead bullets were like hail, and the casualties of the golden soldiers increased sharply.

But after all, the Jin soldiers were a powerful elite cavalry, they suffered more than 8,000 casualties, but they were still not afraid of arrows and lead bullets, and fought bravely, the cordon for the Song crossbowmen to retreat was generally twenty paces, but the enemy cavalry was too fast, and at forty paces, the crossbowmen were ordered to retreat.

As the last round of crossbow arrows was fired, the crossbowmen and musketeers quickly retreated, and at this time, the Song army's 5,000 heavy armored infantry army, which was the sharpest against the cavalry, went into battle, and the 5,000 heavy armored infantry lined up in three rows, and the one-zhang long sword was swung out, and the cold light was shining.

As soon as the heavy infantry came out of the battle, they ushered in a mountain of golden cavalry charging over, the first was the overwhelming arrow whistling, but the sharp arrows could not shoot into the heavy armor of the heavy infantry, they were closely lined up into a human wall, the soldiers half squatted, with the hilt of the knife to the ground, with a collective strength to resist the first wave of the impact of the golden cavalry.

"Boom!" A huge wave, like a stormy wave, the murderous aura was scattered, and there was a scream, and hundreds of golden soldiers were pierced through the body by the sword of the horse, and died tragically on the spot.

The Song army also had dozens of heavily armored soldiers who were knocked over by the powerful cavalry, but the heavy armored soldiers in the back row immediately made up for it.

The main general Guan Sheng roared, and the snowy sword slashed down vertically, splitting the head of a golden soldier commander in half, and Bai Huahua's brain rolled to the ground, and the smell of fish and blood came to his nose.

Five thousand heavy armored infantry swords flew over, the sharp blades of the soldiers and war horses were cut to the heads, and the blood flowed like a river, and the golden soldiers behind threw countless short spears at the heavy infantry, dense as a burst of rain, the sharp short spears played an effect, and hundreds of heavy armored infantry were shot through the body and fell.

Cao Meng saw that the enemy's short spear could shoot through heavy armor, so he immediately ordered, "Cavalry go forward!" ”

20,000 cavalry killed from the left and right, and fought fiercely with the Jin cavalry.

Yue Fei and Han Shizhong's army also arrived, launching a sharp attack on the Jin soldiers from the east.

At this moment, the 80,000 Song troops cheered, and their morale rose sharply.

As soon as Yan Yan's mother turned around, he was suddenly shocked, only to see that two miles behind him, the black Song army was killed, there were as many as eighty or ninety thousand troops, and in the middle was a yellow dragon banner inlaid with gold edges, which was the golden dragon banner that would only appear in the Song army's imperial expedition.

Wanyan Yan's mother suddenly realized that it must be Li Yanqing who personally led the army to kill, and he immediately regretted that he should go north with Wanyan Zongfu, miss the opportunity to retreat, and he will die on the battlefield.

"Breakout!"

Wanyan Yan's mother hissed and shouted, but there was no point in breaking through, the 160,000 Song army surrounded more than 20,000 golden soldiers from three directions, and the west is the Yongji Canal, it is the summer water season, the Yongji Canal is turbulent, the water surface is more than 40 zhang wide, and most of the golden soldiers will not know water.

The battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and the 35,000 gold soldiers were finally wiped out as the 2,000 Jin cavalry who finally tried to break through the siege died under the Song army's dense forest-like spear array.

Li Yanqing had already issued an order to kill in advance, and the 35,000 troops consisting of 10,000 Bohai cavalry, 10,000 Goryeo cavalry, and 15,000 Jurchen cavalry were all killed, leaving not a single prisoner of war.

However, the Song army also suffered heavy casualties in this battle, paying a heavy price of 6,000 soldiers, and the heavy infantry alone lost more than 700 people, and countless were wounded.

It was a major battle in which Li Yanqing launched the Northern Expedition and suffered the heaviest casualties of the Song army.

But it's all worth it.

The end of this battle meant that the Song army had fully recovered the lost territory, and the Jin soldiers did not have a single soldier in the Song Dynasty.

.......

The day is gradually bright, the battlefield is full of mutilated corpses, the earth is stained red with blood, the broken flags tell the tragedy of the great war in the morning breeze, a group of Song soldiers are cleaning up the battlefield, they carry away the bodies of the dead Song soldiers on stretchers, the corpses of the Jin soldiers are stripped off their armor and thrown into the cart, and the dead war horses are also disposed of.

The weather was hot, and they had to dispose of all the bodies on the same day to avoid an outbreak.

Zongcheng County is particularly lively, nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers are in urgent need of treatment, Hu Qing'er led 3,000 female soldiers are urgently treating the wounded soldiers, in the era of cold weapons, only a few soldiers were killed on the spot, most of the soldiers were seriously injured and died, the mortality rate of the wounded soldiers was as high as seventy percent, many died of excessive bleeding and wound inflammation.

Therefore, the establishment of female soldiers gradually became the consensus of the Song army, including Yue Fei and Han Shizhong's army, which also recruited 500 female soldiers each, and they followed Hu Qing'er to treat the wounded urgently.

At the city gates, tens of thousands of young women who had been taken captive also lined up, each of whom was compensated with five taels of silver and two buckets of rice, and then returned home by boat, while many of the women whose families were ruined and homeless could stay for the time being, or go to the south to settle down, or find a husband in the army to start a family.

Li Yanqing inspected the county seat under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, and Yue Fei walked forward with a young general and said with a smile: "Yanqing, let you see my son." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, turned over and dismounted and stepped forward, only to see that the young general was only a teenager, but he had big shoulders and a round waist, thick black eyebrows, and a pair of tiger eyes.

The young general knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The last general, Yue Yun, see Du Shuai!" ”

"You should call me uncle!"

Li Yanqing pulled him up with a smile and looked him up and down, "Grown so big?" ”

Yue Fei said with a smile: "I'm thirteen years old, and I participated in the war for the first time today, and I killed more than a dozen fans." ”

"Not bad! Not bad! What weapons are used? ”

Yue Yun scratched his head, "I like to use a hammer, but my father wants me to use a gun." ”

Li Yanqing smiled, "Then learn it all, hammers are your hobby, but your father's marksmanship is famous all over the world, it's a pity not to learn it, use guns in long-range battles, and hammers in close combat, understand?" ”

"The Admiral understands!"

Li Yanqing really liked this little nephew, he took off the sword at his waist and handed it to him, "This sword has followed me for many years and is given to you!" ”

Yue Fei knew that this sword was the White Dragon Sword of his master Zhou Dong, and he hurriedly said: "Yanqing, this sword is too precious, I can't help it!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "Isn't it better for us to pass on the sword left by the master to the third generation?" ”

Yue Fei thought that his son's hammer technique was also left by the master, and his own marksmanship was also taught by the master, so he nodded and said to his son: "Don't thank Uncle Xie yet!" ”

Yue Yun took the sword and knelt down again to salute, "Uncle Xie gives the sword to the little nephew!" ”

Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and asked Yue Fei, "When are you going to leave?" ”

Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi also had to lead their troops to participate in the battle against Yanshan Mansion, and Li Yanqing had to lead the army back to Lin'an.

Yue Fei put his arm around his son's shoulders and said with a smile: "Preparing to leave in the afternoon, Han Dutong is already impatient." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "According to my previous deployment, I will first capture the city, cut off the rescue road of the Jin soldiers, and then encircle and suppress the Jin soldiers of Yanshan Mansion, but there are only 30,000 Han troops in Yanshan Mansion, so it should not be a big problem, and the head of Guo Yaoshi will send me to Lin'an." ”

"Humble duty understood."

Yue Fei saluted, and then took his son to say goodbye and return to the barracks.

Li Yanqing took his own soldiers to inspect the wounded barracks, and at this moment, Hu Qing'er's personal female guard rushed to him and whispered: "Du Shuai, go see General Hu!" She wept bitterly in the tent. ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, "What happened?" ”

"It's like.... It seems to be ....."

"Seems like what?" Li Yanqing said dissatisfied.

"I don't dare to talk nonsense."

"You say!"

Only then did the female guard whisper: "Just now General Hu was walking on the street, and a woman who had been taken captive suddenly ran up and grabbed her and cried, calling her daughter, General Hu was very emotional. ”

Li Yanqing patted his forehead, he knew, it must be Qing'er's mother who remarried.