The Jin army was powerful, and the seed division was less than the two route armies, and the back road was very likely to be outflanked by the Jin army, so they had to follow Yang Zhi's suggestion and lead the army to withdraw from Fenshui, wanting to get the support of the Liangshan water army with their backs to Fenshui. When the central part of the division was forced to retreat to Killing Bear Ridge, it was again besieged by the heavy Jin army, and the Jin army occupied a favorable position, and the Song army was difficult to pass, so it had to be supported hard.

Yang Zhi led the cavalry to protect the division to break through, but the division was unwilling to leave thousands of wounded generals, so Yang Zhi had to order someone to break through the siege.

On the fourth day, the Song army only had more than 8,000 people left including Yang Zhi's cavalry, and most of them were wounded, if it were not for the courage of Yang Zhi's cavalry, I am afraid that the Song army would be wiped out at this time, and there would not be 8,000 people left. In the early morning of this day, Yang Zhi led the cavalry to patrol the sentry, and the Liangshan cavalry under his command were all hussars, fighting for many days, everyone was tired, but they were the only ones who still had combat strength.

After patrolling, he did not find the Jin army, but encountered 8,000 cavalry led by Hao Siwen, Xuanzan, Kong Ming, and Kong Liang. Yang Zhi was overjoyed, after the two armies met, asked about the origin of the situation, Hao Siwen said: "After the division of troops that day, the Jin army fought day by day, our army fought the Jin army in five days and nine times, with more than 1,000 casualties, just because the Jin army was strong, it was rare to win a complete victory, yesterday it was difficult to enter the fifteen miles outside the Xiongling Ridge, and got the news of the general's messenger asking for help, so he was ready to recuperate for a night, and this morning he raided the Jin camp, but he didn't want to send troops this morning, the main force of the Jin army has withdrawn overnight, and it was up to the air to teach our army. ”

Yang Zhi sighed and said: "The Jin army is powerful, and it comes and goes like the wind, but Zong Han's use of troops is unpredictable, the only way to do this is to escort the little Xianggong to the Fenshui camp to meet with the head of the Lin sect." After the discussion was made at the moment, Yang Zhi led the army and horses to rendezvous with the middle part of the seed division, most of the thousands of people in the middle part of the seed division were injured, and they had no combat power, and they lacked food and grass, so they had to pack up the remnants of the army and go to the Fenshui camp with Yang Zhi and others.

On the other side, after Yan Zonghan fought fiercely with the middle of the seed division for many days, he had already noticed that there were not many soldiers and horses left in the middle of the seed division, and after getting the other two reinforcements of the Song army that night, Zong Han decided to give up the strategy of encircling and destroying the seed division, just because there were still Hao Siwen's cavalry outside the encirclement of the Jin army was constantly attacking, and it was Zong Han who decisively gave up the encirclement strategy and led the main force of the Jin army to retreat that night. Zong Han is a famous general of the Jin State, in addition to being quick and accurate in dispatching troops this time, he was able to give up decisively when the battle situation reached a chicken rib situation, which shows his great talent.

After the retreat, the Jin army defeated Yu Wei in the middle of the division, and the main force calmly returned to the division under the leadership of Zong Han, and defeated the Yao Gu Department in Pantuo east of Qi County, and defeated the Zhang Hao Department in Jiaocheng.

After Yan Zonghan defeated the Song army's three-way reinforcements, he gathered the main army and horses, and got the reinforcements and horses in the clouds, including 30,000 elite military horses of the Jurchen of the Jin State, 70,000 horses and horses of the Khitan army of the Liao State, the military horses of the Bohai tribe, and the Han army of the Liao State.

However, it was said that the seed division was rescued by Yang Zhi and other generals, and the 8,000 remnants of the Song army and 9,000 Liangshan cavalry retreated to the Fenshui camp together. Yinshu can see that the Song army is strong, and they dare not go out of the camp to block, and after Lin Chong's department reaches the Fenshui camp in the past few days, they begin to attack the Jin army camp.

After Lin Chong's troops arrived at the Fenshui camp day and night, it was the soldiers and horses who took the waterway that arrived first. This army and horses were commanded by Chen Xizhen, and after meeting Liu Tang, Li Kui, and Zhang Shun in the big camp, Chen Xizhen ignored seasickness, and saw the deployment of the Jin army that day, and ordered the newly arrived more than 10,000 military horses to prepare to attack the Jin army.

Therefore, after the Liangshan Song army who came by water ignored the hard work, after arriving on the shore from the boat, they reorganized their weapons and beat war drums to prepare for battle. At noon on the same day, after the troops and horses hastily used some dry food, they left the camp and attacked the Jin army camp.

Yinshu can lay a total of five camps outside Taiyuan City, that is, four in the east, west, north and south, and a large camp on the bank of Fenshui, a total of five camps. Now that the Fenshui camp has been captured by the Song army, Yinshuke only has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, so he has to retreat to the remaining four camps. There are not many soldiers and horses in Yinshu, so they have to concentrate more soldiers and horses on the west, north and south sides, and only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses are left in the east camp.

The Jin army is very powerful in this lock city, after the four large camps are laid down, they will place more than ten small company battalions outside the big camp, the ditches outside the small joint camp, the barriers are several heavy, the bamboo sticks are inserted all over the trenches, and the Fen water is poured into the ditch, the barriers are mostly inserted obliquely with sharp wood, there is a giant wood for the wall, and then the Jin army crossbowmen, spearmen guard, once the army and horses come to attack, they must go down the trench, and the Jin army behind the barrier can calmly kill the enemy. There are also many trebuchets and ballistas in the joint camp, and there are horse troops stationed everywhere, once the Song army breaks into the camp, the horse army in the camp will rush out. It can really be described as dense layers, and the defense from far and near is extremely tight.

After the Song army landed in Liangshan, Chen Xizhen's army first attacked the Jin army camp in the west, after Chen Xizhen laid down the military array, the rocket battalion and the artillery battalion began to exert their power first, and a burning rocket and artillery soon destroyed the wooden wall behind the first trench in the west camp of the Jin army, and then the rockets and artillery began to extend and shoot into the Jin army camp, destroying the trebuchet, ballista and other heavy weapons in the Jin army camp.

It was only because the range of the Jin army's trebuchets and ballistae was not enough for the rockets and artillery of the Song army, so Yinshu had to watch the trebuchets and ballistae in the first line of defense being destroyed alive. After seeing this scene, Yinshu had no choice but to order the stone throwers and ballistas behind the rest of the camp to retreat immediately, in order to get out of the range of the Song army's firearms and save these heavy weapons.

I have to say that the war is indeed the best propellant, and after fighting with the Song army, the Jin army also began to learn how to guard against the firearms of the Song army. When the Song army began to fire artillery, the Jin army behind the front row of barracks retreated to avoid artillery fire, reducing casualties, and even began to appear that Jin soldiers hid in the barracks to avoid artillery fire, and the effect was actually good.

The first day of the attack of the Song army in Liangshan still caught the Jin army by surprise, and soon the Song army broke through the two defense lines of the western camp in a row, and even connected five joint camps of the Jin army, gradually approaching the core of the western camp. But soon it was dark, and after dark, the Song army died down, and the rockets and artillery also stopped.

Yinshu Ke decided to launch a counterattack at night, although night battles were very dangerous in the era of cold weapons, but the Jin army was basically in a passive situation during the day, and could only try to fight at night, perhaps this could offset the advantage of the Song army's firearms.

Sure enough, the night battle launched by the Jin army achieved some success, and for a time regained the second line of defense lost during the day, but was quickly pressed back by the Song army who rushed to reinforce it. Although the night battle of the Jin army did not achieve victory, in the night battle, the Jin army found that it could also fight with the Song army, so Yinshu summed up another one, the Song army's firearms were difficult to use at night, and they could try to fight at night.

Therefore, in the next few days, during the day, the Song army stormed the Jin camp, and the Jin army tried every means to resist, or dug trenches to avoid artillery, or retreated to hide, and only after the Song army's artillery fire stopped, the Jin army came out to fight against the Song army. After dark, the Jin army organized a night attack on the Song army to counter the Song army's offensive. In short, the two armies were fighting day and night, and the soldiers on both sides were exhausted.

This situation was not broken until the arrival of the overland army led by Lin Chong. Lin Chong's troops came a few days late by land, marched along the bank of Fenshui, and after recovering several villages and towns, they arrived at the Fenshui camp. After arriving, the strength of the Song army increased greatly, and they could divide their troops to raid the camp of the Jin army, and the disadvantage of the Yinshu army was revealed.

By the time the seed division, Yang Zhi and others came to the Fenshui camp, the Song army had already broken through the core camp of the western camp of the Jin army, and was preparing to clear the last two camps under the city.

When he heard that the defeated army in the middle of the division was coming, Lin Chong was taken aback, and Huang Wenbing hurriedly said in the tent: "The army of the small seed is defeated, and the main force of the Jin army will come soon. ”

Lin Chong bowed his head and said: "Okay, gather the soldiers and horses immediately, no matter what, we must fight under the west gate of Taiyuan today, and the little Xianggong will send Hua Rong to pick it up." After the discussion, Lin Chong mobilized troops and horses to storm the last two camps of the Jin army in the west, and sent soldiers and horses to meet the middle of the division.

He was wounded by several arrows when he broke through the siege, and he was carried into the Fenshui camp by the sergeants. Open the west gate of Taiyuan! "Wan Sheng! The Jin army outside the West Gate has been defeated! ”

I saw that the soldiers in the left and right camps were all cheering, and the planter got up on the stretcher with difficulty and asked Hua Rong, "Why are you cheering?" Hua Rongxi said: "Xianggong, our army has defeated the Ximen Jin Army, and within five days, it broke through the three moat barriers in the west of the Golden Dog, and eleven large and small camps, and now the west gate of Taiyuan has been opened, and the siege of Taiyuan City has been half resolved." ”

The seed master breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The land route has been opened, and with your Liangshan military horses here, Taiyuan has finally been saved." After saying that, he fainted, and Hua Rong urgently ordered the doctor in the army to treat him. When the middle division of the division arrived in the camp, the doctors in the army treated the wounds, and the men sent hot meals, and the elite of the Song army, which had been without food for many days, finally escaped the catastrophe of the annihilation of the entire army in history.

After Lin Chong opened the west gate of Taiyuan City, he immediately ordered all troops to strengthen the defense line on the north and south sides of the Jin army's west camp, and mobilized the people to strengthen and build the defense line on the north and south sides of the Fenshui camp leading to the west camp to protect the supply channel from the Fenshui camp to the west camp and then to the west gate of Taiyuan City. At the same time, the grain, grass and equipment on the ship were continuously sent into Taiyuan City, and Liu Tang and Li Kui were ordered to lead 3,000 troops and horses into the city to help Wang Yu and Zhang Xiaochun defend the city.

Two days later, when Yan Zonghan came to Taiyuan City, he saw that the Fenshui camp was under the west gate of Taiyuan, all the way to the Song army joint camp, the banners were dense, the people were innumerable, and the grain and grass equipment were endless to enter Taiyuan City, Zong Han was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "Taiyuan City is only afraid that it will be difficult to capture!" ”