The Battle of Xianren Pass ended in a complete victory for the Song army.

This battle had a far-reaching impact on both the Jin and Song dynasties.

For the Song Dynasty, the Battle of Xianren Pass consolidated the Song Dynasty's defense line in the Shaanxi and Sichuan areas, ensured the large granary of Sichuan and the high-quality military source area in the northwest, and let the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty have no worries.

For Jin Guo, the failure of this battle not only wasted the business results of Jin Guo in Shaanxi in the past few years, but also made years of hard work go to waste. More importantly, the elite cavalry of the Jin State suffered heavy losses and was difficult to replenish for a while.

It can be said that the Battle of Xianrenguan was a turning point in the strength of the Song and Jin dynasties.

After this battle, the mode of Jin attacking and Song defending began to disappear, and the Jin and Song dynasties gradually entered a new stage: the stage of stalemate; During this stage, Jin and Song began to attack and defend each other, and they were basically in a relatively balanced stage.

For this battle, the following sentence is used as a conclusion in volume 113 of the "Continuation of Capital Governance Tongjian":

It is also a move, the Jin people are determined to enter Shu, since the end of Yan Gao has been down, all of them have been exhausted, neither willing, then returned to Fengxiang, awarded a Shitian, for a long time, since not to return to Shu

When the news of the Jin soldiers being defeated and fleeing at Xianren Pass came, the most frightened was the puppet emperor Liu Yu of the puppet Qi Dynasty.

The former prefect of Jinan, the former governor of the Song Dynasty, knew that the defeat of the Jin soldiers in the northwest would inevitably reduce their support for him; And at present, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Dynasty is singing all the way, once there is any mistake. The situation of the puppet Qi will be precarious, and it may be wiped out by the Song Dynasty at any time.

Therefore, Liu Yu concentrated all the troops that could be mobilized, transferred them to Li Cheng, and ordered Li Cheng to defeat the Yuejia army and drive the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Dynasty back to the south of the Yangtze River.

In order to defeat the Yuejia army, Liu Yuke made a bloody investment, and paid a lot of money to invite a huge amount of "thieves" and "signing troops" from Shaanxi, Hexi, Hedong and other places, and gathered in Xinye City, southeast of Dengzhou, and joined forces with Li Cheng's troops. An army of 300,000 men was formed. Challenge the Yue family's army.

The "thief" is easy to understand, it is the soldiers of other foreign races, including the Jurchens, Khitans, Dangxiang people, Bohai people, and so on.

So what kind of army is the "signing army"?

"Golden History? It is recorded in the "Chronicles of the Soldiers": "Therefore, Liu Qi said that the military system of Jin is the most disadvantageous. Every time there is a conquest and a border provocation. He ordered the signing of the army. Make the commotion near and far, and the men of the people's families, if they are all strong. Or take it all. ”

And Wang Zao's statement in "On the Notes of Overseas Chinese Yuzhou County" is: "The people of Bijin entered the Kou, drove the people of the two rivers more, lined up in formation, and signed the army." ”

In other words, the signing army was actually an army formed by the Han people in the occupied area who were forcibly recruited by the Jin State; Since it is the product of forced conscription, the combat effectiveness of the signing army can be imagined

Since he was beaten by Yue Fei more than three years ago and retreated to the north of the Yangtze River, Li Chengcheng has developed a deep fear of Yue Fei.

This fear is not ordinary fear, but a kind of fear and submission from the depths of the heart, just like the innate fear of a mouse for a cat.

Therefore, Li Cheng was reluctant to make head-on contact with Yue's army when he could dodge Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, and to avoid it if he could.

However, for Liu Yu's holy decree and the huge amount of reinforcements, Li Cheng had no excuse to shirk, so he could only send a challenge to Yue Fei with a war letter.

For Li Cheng's battle, the imperial court was worried and hurried, after all, the number of people on both sides was too far apart.

At this time, Emperor Gaozong sent a holy decree to Yue Fei:

"Yue Fei: I have arrived in Xiangyang, and Li Cheng retreated. Although I am comforted, but I am deeply afraid that it will be difficult to deal with the strength and weakness of the Jin State and the Pseudo-Qi Ten Forces, Qing can be thick gold coins and secretly send intermittent detectives, which is indeed heard; It is also where the plan of the country lies. Therefore, it is a metaphor for deep understanding. ”

The little emperor talked a lot about it, just because he was worried that Yue Fei would be angry and forcibly fight Li Cheng, and asked Yue Fei to act carefully and inquire about the situation clearly.

Regarding the worries of the imperial court, Yue Fei immediately replied with a note: "...... The ministers and Liu Yu all have a desirable reason: the gold thief has been greedy and rebellious for many years, and now he loves only the children of the gold silk, and his ambition has fallen; Liu Yu is a tyrant and a thief, although he marries the people with frugality, and the people will never forget Song De, and the strategy of attacking should not be delayed. The years of Gou were prolonged, so that the city walls were repaired; It will be doubly laborious to add troops and gather food, and then take it. ”

Yue Fei's tone is calm, and there is only one key point: The golden thief and Liu Yu are both desirable

One of the largest battles of the Puppet Qi and the Southern Song Dynasty was fought on the banks of the Xiangjiang River.

Pseudo-Qi claims to have an army of 300,000, and aside from those bubble numbers such as scaring the other party and eating empty salaries, there are at least about 150,000 troops.

This number, no matter what era it is placed in, is a number that should not be taken lightly.

Strangely, when Yue Fei led his 30,000 Yue family army to confront the army of Pseudo-Qi, Yue Fei smiled, pointed to Li Cheng on the opposite side and said:

"This thief has repeatedly failed in my hands, and I mean that he has a lot of things, and he must be poor in practice, and now he is as dark as ever. The advantage of the foot soldier is in the danger, and the advantage of the cavalry is in the plain; Cheng Nai's left column of cavalry is on the river bank, and the right column is on the flat ground, although there are 100,000 people, how can they do it!"

Yue Fei's sentence is said in modern language, roughly as follows:

"I beat this thing up too much, and I thought he was going to get smarter, but who knew he didn't improve at all"

Why did Yue Fei have such a statement.

It turned out that in the position of the pseudo-Qi, the cavalry was lined up by the river, while the infantry was lined up in the open field.

Cavalry, because of its fast movement, needed a flat and open place to exert its maximum strength; It is basic common sense that the infantry, on the other hand, has an advantage in dangerous places because of its slow movement. That's why Yue Fei said: "The infantry is good for danger and obstacles, and the cavalry is good for the flat." ”

Unexpectedly, Li Cheng actually reversed the formation.

There is a cliché in the Celestial Empire: If you are cheap, you don't take advantage of it, and the turtle is a bastard.

For the big gift from Li Cheng. Yue Fei was unceremonious, raised his whip and pointed at Wang Gui and said, "You will use a spear to pawn, and Cheng Zhi will attack the cavalry on the right." ”

Then, Yue Fei raised his whip and pointed at Niu Gao and said, "Er is a cavalryman, and Cheng Zhi will attack the foot soldier on the left." ”

After a few beats of drums, the two armies came into contact.

The cavalry of the Pseudo-Qi walked extremely slowly on the beach. The sand of various sizes seeped into the horseshoe, and the four hooves of the horses were so painful that they refused to run no matter how much the cavalry drove them.

Therefore, the cavalry of the pseudo-Qi was instead suppressed by the pikemen infantry of the Yuejia army and gradually retreated. and even retreated into the Xiangjiang River.

The other side. The cavalry led by Niu Gao ran happily on the open hard ground, sprinting back and forth among the pseudo-Qi infantry thickets; The momentum is exactly the same as that of a modern farmer harvesting in the field with a tractor, cutting stubble after stubble. Be on one's best behavior. Neat.

Merely. The cavalry of the Yue family army harvested not food, but the lives of pseudo-Qi soldiers.

The combat effectiveness of the puppet Qi army was originally very questionable, where could it withstand such an attack of intensity. The result, of course, was a complete defeat and a thousand miles away.

The Yuejia army chased to the north, and the enemy was more than 20 miles away.

The 300,000 troops that the pseudo-Qi had managed to gather with great difficulty, more than half of them were killed and wounded, and withdrew from the territory of Xiangyang

Li Cheng was defeated again, worse than any previous time, and lost more than half of his 300,000 troops.

After escaping far away, he slammed his head hard, why, why, why did such a simple question get it wrong?!

Is he an idiot, of course not.

It is recorded in the history books that Li Cheng loves soldiers like sons, "soldiers do not eat before they eat, and those who are sick regard them personally." Don't hold rain gear, even if you get wet. And he is well versed in the art of war, and has led more than 100,000 troops all year round to dominate the world.

So why is this happening?

There are only two reasons, either Li Cheng had a Japanese encephalitis attack and suddenly lost his mind; Either he was beaten out of the psychological shadow by Yue Fei, he was chased and killed from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, and he was endlessly abused and beaten under the same person, and after a long time, anyone who changed would collapse

After the defeat of the Battle of Xiangjiang, the military strength of the puppet Qi in the Huaihe region was basically disabled, and Liu Yu, who was in Kaifeng Mansion, was already without soldiers.

In desperation, Liu Yu had no choice but to ask Jin Guo for help one after another.

For Jin Guo, the situation at this time is a little bad.

First of all, after the defeat of the Yan Wushu in the Immortal Pass, the main force of the Jin soldiers suffered great losses, and the replenishment of the soldiers had not yet been completed, and the vitality had not recovered.

Secondly, it is now summer, the weather is hot, and the chiefs of the Jurchen tribes are all taking refuge in the north, and it is very difficult to mobilize troops.

Of course, the Jurchens would not let Liu Yu, the puppet emperor, go, so they sent a general named Liu Hejin to lead 30,000 Jin cavalry to rescue Liu Hejin

Liu Hejin has a lot of knowledge in these four words.

Liu Hejin may be the first commander of the Jin State who is not surnamed Wanyan, so it is possible that this Jin soldier is not the main cavalry of the Jin State, one of them.

Xiao Jin is the official title or honorific title of the Jin State, similar to the Taiwei in the Song Army, and is the top military attache of the Jin State. Therefore, the Jin soldiers led by Liu Hejian, even if they are not elite, are definitely not a miscellaneous army, and the force should be ranked first among the Jin soldiers

Why did the Jin Kingdom send only tens of thousands of troops this time?

It should be related to the failure of the Yan Wushu in the northwest. The loss of the Jin soldiers in front of the Immortal Pass was too great, and it was reasonable that there were not enough soldiers for a while.

On the other hand, the Jin soldiers did defeat the Song army in Xianrenguan, Monk Yuan, Huang Tiandang, and other places. However, these battles took place either in the mountains or on the water, and in cavalry battles in the plains, the Jin soldiers were not yet defeated.

Therefore, Jin Guo believed that for the 30,000 Yuejia army, the Jin army would be enough to fight the enemy with the same size or even more cavalry, and there was no need for more soldiers and horses

Liu Hejin and his cavalry soon came to Dengzhou, and joined Li Cheng, setting up more than 30 camps in the northwest of Dengzhou.

If Yue Fei wants to continue to march into the army, he will have to face a tough battle that he has never encountered before...... (To be continued......)

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