The Yuejia army's actions in the Central Plains were only part of the entire military deployment of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In addition to Hu Shijiang and Wu Phosphorus who were entangled with Wanyan Sali in the northwest, the remaining several field armies of the Southern Song Dynasty court were all dispatched to launch a counterattack against the Jin soldiers.

In charge of the line from the Huaidong coast to Shandong, Han Shizhong, the envoy of Huaidong Xuanfu, and his opponent was the marshal of the Second Route Army who completed Yan Wushu - Nie Lixiao Jin.

Han Shizhong's army and Nie Lijian's Jin soldiers fought a decisive battle twenty miles south of the Huaiyang army.

The final result was that Han Shizhong won a complete victory, not only drove the Jin soldiers into Yishui, drowned countless people, but also captured more than 200 warships and recovered Haizhou (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu).

A few days later, Han Shizhong led the army to fight in Tancheng, Qianqiu Lake and other places near the Huaiyang Army, and finally stationed troops under Huaiyang City.

In charge of the Huaixi and Huaibei regions were the troops of Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong.

Although Yang Yizhong was not directly subordinate to Zhang Jun, the war zones overlapped, and according to the official system of the Song Dynasty, Yang Yizhong's official rank was lower than that of Zhang Jun, and he must also accept Zhang Jun's jurisdiction and dispatch.

A few days after Yue's army was dispatched, Zhang Jun's Huaixi Corps had also arrived at Hexi.

Zhang Jun ordered the commander Zhao Mi to set out from the West Road, pass through Sucun, and take Haozhou; And Wang De traveled from the starry night of Shouchun to attack Suzhou; Huaibei Xuanfu made Yang Yizhong also advance to Taikang.

Open the map and take a closer look, it is easy to find that Haozhou and Suzhou are located at the eastern end of Chenzhou, in a parallel line. Or even a little further north.

In other words, Zhang Jun and the others actually advanced a little north than the Yue family's army.

Surprised, wasn't it? This Zhang Dashuai, who is known for his love of money, running away and avoiding war, was so radical this time that he rushed to the front of the Yue family's army?

Just think carefully about what happened before and after, and the truth will appear to you right away.

This area includes a city - Shunchang Province.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Central Plains War, Liu Qi once led his more than 20,000 Bazi army to defeat the 130,000 main army of Wanyan Wushu here.

The defeat of Shunchang, coupled with the fierce Yuejia army, Wanyan Wushu was forced to have no choice but to withdraw all the Jin soldiers to Kaifeng Mansion. as well as several important towns around Kaifeng Province.

Other words. In the area that Zhang Jun is responsible for, there are hardly any enemies.

Zhang Jun commanded the army to advance, just like going to the suburbs for a vacation, and it was not at all about occupying and recovering Bo and Suzhou. It's just a matter of taking over.

General Zhang, who had the oldest qualifications and the most seniority in the Southern Song Dynasty, picked up cheap to this extent. I guess it's satisfying and moisturizing. Even if it's no longer aggressive. Spend a little more time on the battlefield, too.

It's just the average person's idea.

But Zhang Jun's choice in reality was to suddenly lead the army back without any warning. In one breath, he returned to his Luzhou station.

This day was the fourth day of July in the tenth year of Shaoxing, and poor Yue Fei was still confidently writing a war report to the imperial court, saying that the prefectures and counties north of the Yellow River had been recovered, and asked all the armies of Zhulu to cooperate with him to continue to advance to the north

Zhang Jun's retreat at this time seemed very abrupt and unreasonable.

First, he was not attacked by the Jin soldiers; Second, he himself did not ask the imperial court for instructions, and there was not even any official document to explain the reason for Zhang Jun's withdrawal.

It can be said that this withdrawal is entirely a private act of his Zhang Jun.

What the hell is going on?

However, when recalling the message that Li Ruoxu brought to Yue Fei, Zhang Jun's withdrawal was much easier to understand.

"Soldiers should not be moved lightly, and it is advisable to be a teacher."

Zhang Jun is different from Yue Fei, fighting a war is to take risks, and if you can not fight, of course you will not fight; What's more, it is unlikely that the official who gave him the edict is willing to bear the crime of exaggeration like Li Ruoxu.

According to this reasoning, Zhang Jun's withdrawal is barely acceptable, after all, it is the emperor's order to do it, and not everyone has the courage and determination to be a hero.

But Zhang Jun's question is, why did he choose to withdraw his troops at this critical moment?

Wouldn't it be better to be early, or later?

If the army is withdrawn earlier, the offensive of the Yuejia army has not yet been fully launched, and it can still get out of the battlefield at any time; And at this moment, the troops are all spread out, can they go if they say they can go?

If the army is withdrawn a little later, Yue Fei's offensive will be transformed into a battle record, and Wanyan Wushu will retreat and flee because of the defeat on the battlefield, or even be captured.

At that time, the battle situation was clear, and Yue Fei would advance and retreat freely.

But Zhang Jun chose to withdraw his troops at this time, leaving Yue Fei in a dilemma.

Who said that Zhang Jun has no military talent?

He just stuck Yue Fei's neck - isn't the Yue family army strong, if you want to enter, you have to resist all the Jin soldiers alone; If you want to return, you have to leave some of the capital anyway

Yue Fei was unaware of Zhang Jun's retreat. Little did he know that when everyone was marching together, all of a sudden his companions would invariably take a step back and leave him at the forefront.

His troops spread out further and further to the north, farther and farther away from him; There were very few troops around him, and even the most elite personal soldiers were arranged for Zhang Xian.

It can be said that this was when he was at his weakest, but the location of his base camp was unexpectedly discovered by Jin Bing.

Yue Fei placed his command headquarters in Yuncheng County, at the southeastern tip of Yingchang Prefecture.

According to normal analysis, there are two troops of Zhang Xian and Wang Gui in the north of Yue Fei's headquarters, Zhang Jun and Wang De's army on the flanks, and Han Shizhong's sailors to the east.

However, when Zhang Jun and Wang De suddenly withdrew their troops, Yue Fei's headquarters was immediately exposed.

Even so, with the conditions of transportation and communication at that time, the probability of danger was not very high, and the Central Plains was vast, and it was not easy to find other people's headquarters.

But the problem is that only two days after Zhang Jun retired from the army, the elite cavalry of the headquarters of Wanyan Wushu had already appeared near Yuncheng.

I have to say that this timing was too coincidental and accurate. As if prescient, Wanyan Wushu not only accurately detected the specific location of Yue Fei's headquarters, but also predicted Zhang Jun's withdrawal in advance.

Judging from the transportation and communication conditions at that time, this was simply an impossible task, but it was done by completing the Yan Wushu.

From this, we think that in the first year of Jingkang, when Jin Bing besieged Bianliang City for the first time, he relied on a magic stick named Guo Jing to not only know the details of the Qinzong court and various large and small decisions, but also let Guo Jing open the city gate himself. Welcome the Golden Soldiers into the city. Let the world be stunned.

And this time, the Wanyan Wushu once again had an unpredictable prophet and suddenly appeared in front of Yue Fei.

Obviously, someone leaked the entire military plan of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin soldiers. As long as this is the case. After completing the Yan Wushu, he was able to appear in Yuncheng at this time.

Otherwise. With the ability to complete the Yan Wushu, how can he seize this kind of opportunity that should not have appeared.

If so, who is the secret?

There are three suspects: one is Zhang Jun, who suddenly ordered the withdrawal of troops. One is Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other is Qin Hui, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The reason why the above three became suspects is because only they know the specific time of the withdrawal of troops, and as for which one is the most suspicious, it has become another unsolved case in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty

After Yan Wushu came, he took his own most elite headquarters pro-corps, 15,000 kidnappers and horses, and went straight to Yuncheng.

Wanyan Wushu completed the assembly of troops as quickly as possible, and then bypassed Yue Fei's vanguard from the path, impartial, and came straight out.

This tactic is very similar to one of the latest modern styles of play - decapitation.

Yue Fei is the soul of the entire Yue family's army, as long as he is killed, the situation will be reversed immediately.

Purely from a military point of view, I still have to praise the arrangement of Wanyan Wushu this time.

The calculations are precise and perfectly executed; Fifteen thousand cavalry hurried day and night, and was only discovered when it was still twenty miles away from Yuncheng.

Can he be asked to do better?

Now the remaining question is, the soldiers are pressing, and the time is in a hurry, how can Yue Fei deal with it?

The first option, of course, is to retreat.

Stay in the green mountains, how can you worry about no firewood!

But retreating will bring a problem, not to mention whether they can escape under the pursuit of the Jin army's cavalry, as long as Yue Fei retreats, the blow to the morale of the whole army will be disastrous.

Yue Fei was fierce and invincible for many years, and his name alone was able to bring the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River to the battlefield; And is it conceivable that he himself chose to evade the challenge of the Jin Army?

This is the same as what happened to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin in recent history, as Israel's strongest general in war, Rabin never wore body armor, even in the face of assassination, he had to hold his chest high.

The second option is to go head-to-head.

But the enemy is strong and I am weak, and the enemy is outnumbered, how should I fight?

To this question, Yue Fei quickly answered - he chose to fight.

Yue Fei sent a small number of soldiers from the Beiwei Army, together with the cavalry of the Youyi Army who remained at the headquarters, to meet the Jin army twenty miles north of Yuncheng.

The battle broke out from Shen Shi in the afternoon, and the Yuejia army, which was absolutely inferior in numbers, faced not only the Jurchens who were full of 10,000 or more than 10,000, but also a special branch of the Jin army, the kidnapping horse.

According to the record in the "Chronicle of King Xingshi of E": "Wushu has a strong army, all of which are heavily sold, running through Weisuo (leather rope), where three people are linked, the number of abductors and horses, blocking the wall and marching, the officers and soldiers can not be, so they have won many victories."

A good sentence "go through the wall".

The reason why the kidnapping horse is so powerful is that every three heavily armed cavalry are connected together with thick ropes, advancing and retreating in unison, thus forming a moving steel wall.

When thousands of these steel walls come together, they form a torrent of steel; To what extent does the power and impact of these torrents of steel pose a threat to the enemy?

The knights of the kidnapping horses hardly had to use their swords and guns, but the heavy armor of the horses could easily knock down the infantry, trample on them, crush them, and then fly away.

This class of troops is the foundation of their Jurchen state...... (To be continued......)

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