Chapter 5: The Battle of Linying 1
After hearing the news of the loss of Yuncheng and the defeat of the monk Yan Chen, he was stunned, he was still counting on the monk Wanyan Chen to be able to stop the Song army for a period of time, so that he could have time to send additional troops to prevent the Song army from crossing the Rushui, but he didn't think that the monk Yan Chen was defeated so quickly, the speed of the Song army was so fast, and the heavy rain did not slow down the pace of the Song army, and as a result, the monk Wanyan Chen was defeated and annihilated by the Song army in one fell swoop. Judging from www.biquge.info the situation of the defeated army running back, Wanyan Heda, as a general, quickly figured out the purpose of Wanyan Chen's doing, and he acted like this, obviously there was nothing wrong with him, if he had to say that Yan Chen was wrong, it could only be said that he was half a step slower, otherwise, the Song army would never have been able to defeat Wanyan Chen so easily.
So this can only be said to be fate, Jin Guo's fortune has been cut off now, and even the sky can't help them! He was also amazed at the will of the Song army, who braved such a heavy rain and traveled hundreds of miles in the heavy rain, and intercepted the monk Wanyan Chen before he crossed Rushui to the north, which made the Jin army stationed in the Xuzhou area even more frightened. . .
As soon as the Rushui defense line was lost, Xuzhou was no longer in danger to defend, and in a hurry, Wanyan Heda immediately ordered the Jin army stationed in Junzhou to immediately march eastward, and at the same time personally led 20,000 troops to guard Xuzhou to Linying County, and also flew to Bianliang to report the emergency.
When Wanyan Heda led the army to Linying County, the Song army's forward had already appeared in the south of Linying County, Wanyan Heda did not dare to slack off, leaving a small number of soldiers to be stationed in Linying County, and he led 17,000 gold troops, stopped in the south of Linying County, and opened the battle line.
The Song army also continued to pull out from the south, and the defeated soldiers of the Jin army continued to flee to the vicinity of Linying County, and were incorporated into the army by Wanyan Heda, and finally put together 20,000 soldiers and horses, which was already the last capital he had on hand!
The Song army also set up a front in front of the Jin army, and the follow-up Song army continued to pull from the direction of Xiaoshang Bridge and join the array of the Song army. Under the protection of the cavalry, a large number of baggage supplies also arrived behind the Song army, and the baggage team and the soldiers of the baggage battalion stopped their carriages one after another, and began to quickly set up a large camp for the Song army to stop.
Looking at the black pressure of the Song army in front of them, the Jin army all showed a look of fear, what they were afraid of was not the number of the Song army, ten years ago, even if the number of the Song army was more, they dared to fight to the death with the Song army, but now these Song troops who arrived on the battlefield exuded a strong murderous atmosphere, and the clean military appearance made the Jin army feel a strong pressure, although the Song army had a strength of more than 40,000 people, but the battlefield was not chaotic at all, and the Song army was arranged in an orderly manner on the front of the battlefield, Gradually, a huge pocket-shaped array was formed, sinking from the middle, protruding from both sides, and controlling the Jin Army and even the entire Linying County County from afar within their field of vision...
What's even more terrifying is that the Song army launched more than 100 artillery pieces on the two flanks in front of the formation, and the muzzles of the black hole holes were aimed at the Jin army's large array.
Now, after more than two months of fighting, it is no secret that the artillery of the Song army is no longer a secret, and the whole Jin army knows that the Song army has a firearm that they do not understand, and it is very powerful.
Some time ago in the area of Sanfeng Mountain in Junzhou, they even captured a few such artillery, but unfortunately Monk Wanyan Chen made a mistake, only caring about the pleasure of killing people, but did not catch a few Song gunners, so that the artillery arrived, but no one could use it, so it could only be thrown into Junzhou City, which became an ornament...
And the Song army, which is within the range of vision at the moment, has put out nearly 100 such artillery, how can it not make the Jin army frightened!
Gao Huaiyuan, Meng Heng, and Li Xiaotian were all in charge of the Chinese army, and under the wave of the banner, the Song army arrived at the starting position all the way, and gradually arranged a large array. Gao Huaiyuan and Meng Heng and other generals used binoculars to look in the direction of the Jin army, and finally Gao Huaiyuan put down the binoculars first and said to Meng Hui and Li Xiaotian: "This is the last elite army available in the Jin Kingdom!" This elite army is the Jin army they are stationed in the Tongguan area, as long as they are defeated, it is equivalent to completely breaking the backbone of the Jin people, let's get ready to start! There shouldn't be any suspense in this battle!
Let the artillerymen show their strength first! Brother Meng's Ezhou army then began to attack! ”
"Thank you, handsome! Meng Hui will never live up to the expectations of the handsome! Meng Hui was very happy with Gao Huaiyuan's arrangement, such a large-scale field battle was something he had been looking forward to for a long time, and now it could finally fall on the shoulders of his Ezhou army...
"Handsome! What about our Jiankang Army? Li Xiaotian was originally under the jurisdiction of Meng Heng, and he didn't dare to compete with Meng Heng, but he was not willing to be lonely, and asked Gao Huaiyuan.
"After the Chinese army broke through, the two wings of your Jiankang army's cavalry were spread out, and the Jin soldiers were encircled, so that they could not escape, and they went around to the north of Linying County as soon as possible, cutting off the Jin army's retreat to Xuzhou, the defeat of the Jin army is decided, but it is best not to let them run too much! It's up to you to build a healthy army! Gao Huaiyuan smiled for a while, and then instructed Li Xiaotian...
The atmosphere on the battlefield was very oppressive, as if it were a powder keg, and a spark could cause a violent explosion at any time.
Under the pressure of the Song army, the Jin army couldn't help but begin to shake up a little, Wanyan Heda saw that the Song army was more and more, and could attack at any time, as a general, he knew the way to control the army, once the Song army launched an attack first, the Jin army under his command was not high morale, once a place was broken through by the Song army, then the whole army may collapse in a chain. So he didn't wait for the Song army to start moving, so he ordered the war drums to be beaten, and ordered the left cavalry to immediately dispatch, first attack the right wing of the Song army, suppress the right wing of the Song army as much as possible, and then the whole army attacked to the right, intending to try to break up the Song army's wing first, and seize the initiative on the battlefield.
If he wins, he can say anything, he still has a chance to drive the Song army back to the south, if he loses, I am afraid that he may not even have the chance to run back to Xuzhou, the small county town of Linying, is simply not enough for him to have so many soldiers and horses stationed, plus the shortage of grain here, so many people are simply not enough to support them for a long time.
So before coming here, Wanyan Heda had the idea of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, planning to fight to the death with the Song army who came as soon as possible, without considering the problem of the back road.
Seeing that the Jin army had begun to make some moves, and the cavalry of the Jin army on the left flank had been activated, Li Xiaotian smiled and said, "Big handsome! It seems that the Jin Army is going to fight against the water! They want to strike first, and they want to take advantage of our army's unstable foothold to give us a look! Hum! He also underestimated us! In this way, it is the Jiankang Army that is cheap and lowly first! Hey! ”
I don't know when, Li Xiaotian's guy actually contracted Huang Yan's problem, and he would show an indecent demeanor from time to time, but Gao Huaiyuan liked the generals under his command to be like this, they were not nervous about the battle, and the enemy army was annihilated between talking and laughing, which was a rare performance...
As the Chinese army order flag waved, the Song army on the right flank immediately began to change formation, and the crossbowmen strode forward, struggling to open their strong crossbows, pointing in the direction of the Jin army's impact.
As the red flag waved, dozens of Shenwei cannons immediately spat out bursts of flames, and the earth-shaking roar immediately spread throughout the front of the two armies.
Dozens of solid iron bullets roared like lightning and landed in the array of the Jin Army's cavalry, raising clouds of dust and a piece of blood at the same time...
Such a solid bullet is not very effective for cavalry attacks, and the hit rate is very limited, but the psychological deterrence brought by it is quite powerful.
Most of the Jin soldiers who had just been transferred from Tongguan had never seen such a thing, and after a roar, their shock formation began to be confused, and their war horses also began to be frightened, and they did not obey the call of the pilot, and the startled horses began to crash in the ranks, and the cavalry formation of the Jin army was disturbed at once.
But this Jin cavalry is also worthy of being the last elite force of the Jin country, they have fought with the Mongolian army in the Tongguan area over the years, although the record is not good, but they are all people who have seen the big scene, many people even have luck, thinking that even if they can't beat the Mongolian cavalry, but against the Song army, it shouldn't be a problem!
So they quickly stabilized the formation again, and continued to ride their horses towards the Song army, their intention was obvious, that is, to rely on their huge impact force, to break up the right flank of the Song army at any cost, first disrupt the right flank of the Song army, force the Song army to shrink, and then provide the rear army with a chance to break the enemy...
Although the idea is very good, the tactics are also well chosen, and the courage of the cavalry of the Jin Army is quite commendable, but the ideal and reality are very different, because the Jin Army does not know much about the power of artillery, and cannot understand the changes brought to the battlefield by this new type of weapon.
The Song artillerymen nervously carried out the reloading, and soon carried out a second round of salvos, once again allowing the Jin cavalry to experience the power of artillery, and immediately they began to reload again, but this time they loaded into the barrel is no longer an ordinary solid bullet, but is tied into a piece of grapeball, each grapeball is composed of dozens of jujube-like iron pellets.
The Jin army withstood two volleys of Song artillery, and rushed to within 300 steps in front of the Song army, and many Jin troops had already lowered their bodies and clenched the weapons in their hands, just waiting to meet the baptism of the Song army's bow and crossbow.
And the Song army did not disappoint them, and the crossbowmen that had been prepared immediately began to fire under the order of the officer, and a black dot immediately buzzed...... It flew out with a sound, and soon fell into the array of the Jin cavalry, and the Jin army in the front immediately began to roll on their backs and rolled into a ball on the battlefield.
But such a salvo still could not stop the impact of the Jin cavalry, and the Jin cavalry led their horses to jump over the bodies of these colleagues who were shot and fell from their horses, or simply stepped on their bodies and rushed over, still rushing towards the array of the Song army with unabated momentum.
According to their standard tactics, the Song army began to replace the crossbowmen with archers, and began a three-stage attack, and rows of archers took turns to fire arrows at the Jin cavalry, such a rain of arrows could almost be said to be endless, forming a screen of bows and arrows in front of the Song army's array, and the Jin cavalry who crashed into this layer of arrow curtain began to suffer a large number of casualties.
In the face of this endless bow and arrow coverage, it was almost desperate, but the Jin cavalry seemed to have made up their minds to the death, and continued to rush towards the Song army line one after another.
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