Chapter 363: Yingchang's Great Victory (3)
Yue Yun woke up the dreamer with a word.
Wang Gui was old on the battlefield and immediately understood what Yue Yun meant and the current situation.
At this time, the confrontation between the Yue family army and the Jin soldiers had reached the most critical moment, and what the two sides were fighting for desperately was not a city or a place, but morale.
For a long time, the Jin soldiers had a great psychological advantage over the Song army, which stemmed from the incomparable impact power and unrivaled war advantage of the Jin soldiers in the early days of the war between the Song and Jin countries.
However, in recent years, especially in Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, the situation of the two armies has been significantly reversed. The Yuejia army changed the conservative strategy of the Song army in the past, and every time it took the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers on the wild plains, it was able to achieve a big victory.
As a result, Jin Bing began to have a sense of fear for the Song army, especially the Yue family army.
Jin Bing is also a human being, and when they are afraid, they will have no intention of fighting and flee from the wind.
Then again, when Zhang Jun and Wang De's army retreated, and when Yue's army suddenly became a lone army and fought alone in Henan, Yue Fei and his brothers had no way to retreat, unless they were willing to give up the victory in hand.
As long as the Yuejia army still wants to continue the Northern Expedition and wants to keep the current results, they can only maintain the state of charging forward, and they cannot stop for a moment until the Jin soldiers retreat.
In this case, just like a pawn crossing the river, how can you retreat?
For Wang Gui and Yue Yun, even if they wiped out all the soldiers of the Yue family army in Yingchang City and consumed the Jin army in front of them, it was worth it.
Tzu is not in charge of the army. Now I can only be ruthless.
All for the sake of Kaifeng City. For the continuation of the Northern Expedition offensive
The war continues.
With the issuance of Wang Gui's desperate battle order. The morale of the Yue family army was briefly boosted.
If you die, you will die, killing one is enough, killing two earns one. These are the basic ideas of the soldiers of the Yue Family's Army.
Yue Yun and his 800 cavalry army re-entered the hinterland of the Jin soldiers.
After two hours of desperate fighting, whether it was Jin Bing or the warriors of the Yue Family's army, their physical fitness had reached a limit. What moves, techniques, etc. are beginning to lose their effect, and now the competition is whether the will is strong, whether the physical reserves are enough, whether the experience on the battlefield is sufficient, and so on.
Yue Yun's large iron cone spear flew up and down, and the golden soldiers and golden generals' axes and maces exchanged blows with them. When there is a chaotic sound, you can't hold it, and you fly out; Those who were slower to hide were hit by the iron cone gun and fell to the ground in response, and streams of bright red blood mist erupted, becoming a fountain of welcome in the procession.
Even so, whether it is Yue Yun or the Beiwei Army, they can split through many obstacles and kill in and out. However, the actual number of casualties is still limited, after all, the establishment base is too small. Once the opponent reintegrates and arranges the formation, the situation will be almost the same as the last time.
Compared with Yue Yun, who was like a god-killer, the pressure on Wang Gui's shoulders was even greater.
Friends who like to play football know that it is okay for a striker to fail many times, and a defender can lose the whole game if he makes a mistake once.
Therefore, Wang Gui not only had to command the battle, but also kept his mind on the situation and paid attention to all kinds of changes on the battlefield, so as to make the most accurate decision
The sun in the sky was moving slowly, and it had reached the very center of the sky.
Wang Gui glanced at the stainless steel short sword that was stuck directly into the ground, and the shadow of the sword body like a small tail disappeared completely; That is, it is already noon at this moment.
From the hour to the noon, there are three hours and six hours, what kind of persistence is this.
Whether it is Jin Bing or Yue Jiajun, what is presented at this time is more of a state of fatigue; The strength and rhythm between attack and defense are obviously much weaker and slower than before.
Suddenly, there was an unusual commotion in the formation of the golden soldiers, and the originally orderly ranks of the golden soldiers began to be chaotic, and several cavalry suddenly turned their horses and thrust backwards.
It turned out that at this time, Yue Yun blew the head of a general of the Jin Kingdom with an iron cone gun, and this general was the son-in-law of Wanyan Wushu - Xia Jinwu
The tragic situation of Xia Jinwu's death completely angered Jin Bing's commander Wanyan Wushu.
This is no longer an illusory rivalry between the two countries, but a painful family feud.
Wanyan Wushu's idea at that time should be - no matter how high your Yue Yun's martial arts are and how good your physical strength is, I will use my human life to pile you up, and I can also pile you to death.
He just doesn't believe that on a battlefield like a meat churner, the side with more people will lose to the side with fewer people!
In a state of rage, Wanyan Wushu issued an order, telling several brave cavalry brigades to rush to Yue Yun together, and be sure to strangle Yue Yun and the eight hundred cavalry soldiers on the spot.
The arrangement before the completion of the Yan Wushu was that no matter how Yue Yun and them rushed left and right, they would follow them, and they must maintain their formation; And this latest order of Wanyan Wushu suddenly made the golden soldiers chaotic, and the front and rear teams began to lose touch
Opportunities are rare and fleeting.
Without the slightest hesitation, Wang Gui raised the Zhangba spear in his hand high, and firmly and forcefully drew three large circles in the air one after another.
This is the unique gun flag order of the Yue family's army, which means that all the troops are dispatched and charge at the enemy.
Immediately afterwards, the drums on the head of Yingchang City sounded, and three thousand cavalry came out in succession, shouting and rushing towards the Jin soldiers.
One of the generals at the head is none other than Dong Xian, the commander of the White Army.
Thanks to Mr. Qiancai's blessing, Dong Xian's reputation in later generations is far inferior to Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing and others, but this does not mean that Dong Xian's ability on the battlefield is weaker than that of them.
Seven years ago, Dong Xian once guarded the nameless bridge alone, and he simply stopped Li Cheng's 100,000 army of Great Qi; Only twenty days ago, in the second Battle of Yingchang, Dong Xian had easily defeated the sneak attack personally planned by Wanyan Wushu.
And at this moment, Dong Xian and the three thousand cavalry Yue family led by him stepped on the white army, and they turned into the last straw that crushed him to complete the Yan Wushu.
Wanyan Wushu also has his reserve team, but. Under Yue Yun's repeated impacts. Keep refueling and injecting troops. Increase the number of soldiers and horses lost.
This approach, although it withstood the many rushes of Yue Yun and his 800 cavalry army, the price paid was to exhaust his reserves.
It was also a rush into battle, compared to Yue Yun's bloody battle, Dong Xian and his brothers were much more relaxed.
Wherever the three thousand cavalry marched on the White Army, they were either killed or wounded, and there was no enemy at all.
Exhausted for a long time. This can no longer be considered a war; To be precise, they are here to bully people, or to harvest human lives.
Dong Xian and his brothers galloped, one shot at a time, not only beating the Jin soldiers to the ground, but also having free time to say a few strange words and whistle.
This situation made the eight hundred horseback soldiers scold their mothers in their hearts.
The Jin soldiers, who had been exhausted by Yue Yun and Wang Gui, could no longer support themselves, and their morale collapsed.
The result can be imagined, the Jin soldiers fled to the north like a tide.
For the rout of the Jin soldiers. Yue Jiajun only symbolically pursued for a while, and was unable to react otherwise.
Yingchang City is too important. There is no room for mistakes.
Of course, the use of soldiers has always been Wang Gui's advantage, but also his disadvantage
The greater the pay, the greater the gain.
In this fierce battle of more than three hours, when the battlefield was cleaned, only then did I know how rich the harvest was.
Killed Xia Jinwu and Mu Han Sumire, two heads of 10,000 households, killed 5,000 households, captured alive 78 generals such as Songshou, Dutidian, Zhang Laisun, and Alibu, killed and wounded more than half of the enemy's troops, captured war horses, golden drums, flags, weapons, armor and all kinds of grain and grass baggage, and so on
Not only did the Jin army suffer heavy casualties, but even the kidnapping horses they had always been proud of were also lost in this battle. "It can be seen how serious the damage of the Jin army is.
And that's just the surface gains, but the gains are even greater.
First of all, the Yuejia army completely destroyed the morale of the Jin soldiers, and the invincible image of the Yuejia army was rooted in the memory of the Jin soldiers for a long time.
After this battle, a saying began to circulate in the camp of the Jin soldiers:
"It's easy to shake the mountain. Shake the Yue family's military disaster! ”
Second, although the Lianghe region had been occupied by the Jin soldiers for more than ten years, the resistance organized by the Han people never stopped. After the news of the Yuejia army's big break of the Jin soldiers came out, the sea was shaken, and the anti-Jin rebels in Hedong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Jingdong and other places surged for a while, with a total of more than 400,000 people, all of whom attacked the Jin army everywhere under the banner of the Yuejia army, attacking the city and trapping the land, so that the Jin country fell into a great predicament.
Regarding this situation, the record in the fifth volume of the "Chronicle of King Xingshi of E" is: "The captives are guarded, and the order is familiar, and no one dares to do anything, since the south of Yan, the order will not be repeated." ”
A good sentence "the order will not be repeated".
The failure of the decree meant that the rule of the Jin State south of Yanshan had been fundamentally shaken.
Third, the Jin soldiers failed in successive battles, and the loss of a large number of troops was inevitable, and the problem that Wanyan Wushu is facing now is that it is no longer possible to recruit new people into the army.
In the past, the Jin soldiers used heavy money and food as bait to recruit various ethnic groups, including the Han nationality, to join the ranks of the Jin soldiers, which was called "signing the army".
Sign and agree to enlist in the army, and you will be able to get a sum of money and go home immediately. This kind of practice, a place like Henan, which is in chaos, does have a certain attraction.
This practice of Jin Bing reappeared in the southeast coastal areas at the end of the Qing Dynasty a few hundred years later, but at that time it was not called "signing the army", but changed its name, called "selling piglets".
At that time, most of the people who sold piglets were Cantonese and Fujianese, among which the Taishan people in Guangdong Province were the most famous.
A large number of Taishanites were sold to the United States in the form of "selling piglets", and later these Taishanese people lived in San Francisco, and gave San Francisco a very Chinese name - San Francisco.
These Taishan people are old, and they return to China with their hard-earned money, and they are respectfully called "Jinshan Abo".
After the Battle of Yingchang, Wanyan Wushu suddenly found that he could no longer recruit people of all ethnic groups with more money and food as before.
There is such a record in the fifth volume of the "Chronicle of King Xingshi of E": "The Wushu was defeated, so the army was re-signed to resist the ancestors, and there was no one in the counties of Hebei."
Wanyan Zongbi sent people to Hebei to sign the army, but he didn't sign a single one, so he had to sigh: "Since the army started in the north, there have been no frequent setbacks today!" ”。 (To be continued......)
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