The reason why it is necessary to conduct a comparative analysis of the forces of Yue Fei and the troops under the command of Wanyan Wushu before the war starts is because in the course of the subsequent war, there will be a large number of unbelievable results.

In many battles, the Yuejia army won under the condition of extremely large disparity in numbers.

If we lack the necessary understanding of the fundamentals of the strength of both sides, it is easy to doubt the records of the ancients, and even make all kinds of wrong judgments.

The composition of Wanyan Wushu's troops was: 20,000 elites of the headquarters - that is, the legendary Kidnapping Horse and Tiefutu, but in the Battle of Shunchang, Liu Qi cut down 5,000, and only 15,000 remained.

Wanyan Wushu still has 110,000 remnants of the Great Qi, who died in the Battle of Shunchang and scattered a part, but because of the addition of Li Cheng's troops later, the strength of this part did not decrease but increased, about 130,000.

Among the 130,000 horses, Li Cheng and Kong Yanzhou were both defeated by Yue Fei's subordinates, not only were driven from Jiangnan to Jiangbei by Yue Fei, but also were ravaged by Yue's army many times in Jiangbei. In the hearts of the two of them, Yue Fei had long been an invincible demon god-like existence.

Therefore, when the troops of the two of them encounter the Yue family's army, how much combat effectiveness can they exert is a question mark.

Li Qiong's situation is relatively better, after all, she has not directly fought with Yue Fei. But the problem is that Li Qiong is Yue Fei's hometown, and his familiarity with Yue Fei is the highest. And it was precisely because of his familiarity with Yue Fei that he had no idea about Yue Jiajun at all.

It can be said that against the Shangyue family's army, the real combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers may be the more than 15,000 elite cavalry of Wanyan Wushu himself

Let's take a look at the composition of the Yue family's army:

The team of the Yue family army is the team of pro-soldiers that Yue Fei brought out from Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture. The number was only two or three thousand at first; After the Battle of Majiadu. Merger with Liu Jingbu. The number reached five thousand; After arriving in Yixing County, because of the strong financial support of Qian Chen, the magistrate of the county, the Yuejia army gathered the separated officers and soldiers, and the number jumped to as many as 20,000, which attracted the attention of the imperial court.

After fighting Taizhou, breaking Li Cheng, demoting Zhang Yong, destroying the four kou, etc., the team of the Yue family army continued to grow in the battle and had become a giant.

However, what really made Yue's army the largest group army in the Southern Song Dynasty was two other things: the conquest of the Dongting Lake bandits and Yue Fei's first three expeditions to the Central Plains.

In the process of conquering the bandits in Dongting Lake. Yue Fei used his resourcefulness and benevolence to not only complete the figure given to him by the imperial court, but also won the recognition of the locals.

Yue Fei's harvest in Dongting Lake was very huge, but from the fact that he later gave Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong and Wu Jue a boatload of gifts each, we can know one or two of them.

Compared with the harvest of Dongting Lake, the growth of Yue's army in the first three northern expeditions to the Central Plains was even faster.

The first is the strength of troops.

Because of the need to support Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, militarily, the imperial court brought the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River under the jurisdiction of Yue's army. In other words, the generals in these areas all listened to Yue Fei's dispatch and dispatch. Some of the elites directly joined the Yue family's army.

There are also the officers and soldiers and volunteers who have been persisting in the war of resistance on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Including Li Heng's troops, who launched the first Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty, they basically joined the Yuejia Army, which was the most radical anti-Jin army.

This is followed by financial resources and war materials.

Although Yue Fei's first three northern expeditions all ended without illness because of the imperial court. However, the process of the Yuejia army's conquest was the process of looting the strategic materials of the Jin and Qi coalition forces.

The most famous example is that during Yue Fei's Third Northern Expedition, Yue's army successively took several of Liu Yu's horse supervisors, obtained tens of thousands of horses, and then soon established the only cavalry unit in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Of course, we can't ignore another traditional advantage of the Yue Jiajun - rigorous training.

I think that back then, Xiao Yueyun was about to be pulled down by Yue Fei and beheaded because he couldn't complete a set action in training.

If the son of the commander is like this, what about the other soldiers?

It can be concluded that the Yue family army is an army that has grown up from the flames of war, his combat effectiveness is trustworthy, and their hatred for Jin Bing is also undoubted

In the middle of June of the tenth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei's whole army entered Henan.

At this time, the Battle of Shunchang had just ended, and the Jin army had fully retreated, and Yue Fei took the opportunity to quickly advance his troops and quickly launched a battle in the vast territory of Henan.

After Yan Wushu was defeated and retreated from Shunchang Mansion, he arranged for Han Chang to guard Xuzhou Yingchang Mansion, General Zhai to guard Huaining Mansion in Chenzhou, and Wanyan Alu to guard Nanjing Yingtian Mansion in the three routes.

These three cities are not only horns of each other, but also form a posture of arching defense against Kaifeng Mansion. If you directly attack the Fengfu, you will definitely be besieged by the armies from these three places.

I have to praise the good vision of the Yan Wushu.

Xuzhou Yingchang is located in the upper reaches of the Yinghe River, which is one of the most convenient waterways between the Central Plains and the Jianghuai River. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao set Yingchang as the capital, which was to take a fancy to its convenient transportation and geographical situation in the middle of the world; When the Song Dynasty set the capital of Bianliang, it became a barrier in the southwest because of its special geographical location, and became a place where soldiers must fight.

Located in the southern part of Kaifeng Province, Chenzhou Huaining Mansion was once the capital of the Chinese ancestor Taihao Fuxi clan.

For the importance of its geographical location, there is such a saying in history: "Control the suburbs of Cai and Ying, the road of Bianbian and Song, Huai and Si have things, and the east of the river refers to it, and this is the place where it operates." ”

Yingtianfu is located in the lower reaches of the ancient Bianshui River, and is an important waterway fortress connecting the Henan region with the Huai River basin. It is a strategic place that "shakes Huai and Si and sweeps Bian, Luo".

For this defensive layout of Wanyan Wushu, Yue Fei's attack was very targeted: first defeat the three important towns on the periphery of Kaifeng Mansion, and then capture Bianliang City and recover the old capital.

The first battle took place in Yingchang Mansion, which is now Xuchang, Henan.

The initiator of the campaign was Zhang Xian, the second person in the Yuejia Army and the former commander of the army; And his opponent is Jin Bing's third person - one-eyed dragon Han Chang.

Zhang Xian led his front army to Yingchang. More than forty miles away from the city, he encountered Jin Bing. And Jin Bing had already lined up early.

It's obvious. This is an attitude of Han Chang.

Although Han Chang has Han blood in his body, in his bones, he has long regarded himself as a pure and pure Jurchen.

Since it is a Jurchen, it is natural to fight a decisive battle in the wild.

It's a belief that has nothing to do with winning or losing.

As part of a people who grew up on horseback, they believe in freedom and freedom, and their favorite thing is to fight fairly on the vast flat grasslands.

You have a big axe, and I have a big mace. No one is allowed to hide, and those who hide are bad seeds.

The most despised are those weak Southern Song Dynasty people, who always hide behind the city wall and cast cold arrows, and have no manly spirit at all.

This is the virtue of the Jurchens.

However, Han Chang forgot that these soldiers under his command, except for his own hundreds of personal soldiers, were all remnants left over from the previous Great Qi, although they all wore the uniforms of the golden soldiers

It took three days to arrive in Yingchang Mansion, according to the previous training requirements of the Yue Family's army. This kind of advancement speed is relatively slow, but Zhang Xian is not in a hurry at all.

This time it's a siege. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, of course, a considerable amount of siege equipment should be deployed. Moreover, the march should be slower, and the physical strength of both the warriors and the horses should be preserved, so as to ensure the final victory.

Because of this, half a day ago, when Zhang Xian learned from the spies that the Jin soldiers were not defending the city, but were going to fight a decisive battle outside the city, Zhang Xian suddenly felt a little funny.

I knew that the Jurchens were so sincere, and there was no need to carry those bulky siege equipment

Seeing the Yue family army only a stone's throw away from him, Han Chang's heart was like the sea thousands of miles away, setting off a thousand huge waves.

Han Chang saw the most unlikely thing in the world:

The team in front of it under the banner of the Song Army was actually a cavalry corps with a whole formation.

The Song army actually had a cavalry legion, Han Chang was going crazy!

Jin Bing has fought with the Song army for many years, and it is rare to see Song soldiers who can ride horses. In addition to occasionally encountering some cavalry detachments on the northwest battlefield, in addition to the generals of the Song army at all levels, and so on.

In any case, anyway, Han Chang had never seen or even heard of such a large-scale cavalry corps in the Song Army.

What made Han Chang feel the most incredible was that the cavalry of the Song Army in front of him was holding a long spear, with a short-handled guy pinned to his waist.

Just by that momentum, you know how difficult this force is.

Originally, he had prepared a large number of cruel words to scare Song Jun, but now Han Chang had forgotten it. In the midst of infinite embarrassment, Han Chang had no choice but to jump forward and say something very unnutritious:

"Whoever comes, report your name quickly, I Han Chang will not kill the unknown under the axe."

Yue Jiajun was in a headwind position, a gust of wind blew, and Han Chang's speech was clear and discerning.

Zhang Xian was about to drink to order the boy who was leading the horse in front of him to let go, so that he could go out to talk, but the boy suddenly turned around and said, "My lord, these golden soldiers in front of him are strange. ”

Zhang Xian was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of weirdness?" ”

"Adults also know that my nose is very bad and I sneeze when I smell a bad smell. Those Jurchens like to eat garlic, so every time I fight with the Jin soldiers, I will sneeze violently, and I can't stop sneezing; But today my nose is not moving, do you say weird or not? ”

After listening to this, Zhang Xian sniffed with his nose, thought about it carefully, and then laughed and said, "Your nose has made a great contribution today." ”。 (To be continued......)

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