Chapter 231: Falling Short
Zhao Ta used a letter from Yelu Yu to recruit Yelu Ma Wu, he easily captured Shiling Pass, at this moment Li Gang led his troops into Taiyuan, and sent a decree to let Prince Yan immediately enter Beijing to take up his post, but Zhao Ta did not stop, and drove his troops to Xinzhou City. He led the loyal and brave army dragon generals, lion generals and guards brigades first, crossed the Shiling Pass and traveled 50 miles overnight, in the early morning Xinzhou was in sight, the scouts came to report, the main force of the Jin army was arrayed in the north of the city, in order to block the Song army.
At that time, in Xinzhou City, in addition to Yinshuke, Wanyan Lou Room, Wanyan Seri and Tuhesu, there were about 30,000 people who were not satisfied with the four members, all of whom were cavalry. The Jin army took the Tiefutu of Wanyan Saili as the front army, the Wanyan Lou Room and the Yinshu Ke Department as the left and right wings to cover the Seri flanks, and the other used the Chinese army reinforcement Wanyan Yan's mother department as the reserve to start a head-to-head confrontation under Xinzhou City!
The Liao army stood in a position with its back to the city, flanks and rear, and was on the defensive, plus the innate advantage of the Jin army's large array for frontal attacks. At this time, the loyal army only had about 13,000 people in six brigades on the battlefield, and the situation was not favorable to Zhao Ta, but they were sharply armed, and the Jin army had not won a single battle in a frontal engagement, so Zhao Ta decisively made a blow to power.
The dragon general took the lead in launching a formation to attack, the lion general dragoon divided the two wings, and the Jin army also sent Seri's Tiefutu to counterattack. Because the Loyal Warriors marched all the way and left the heavy troops far behind, they were only able to provide fire support with fifteen light cavalry guns of smaller caliber and twelve motorcycles, which could be said to be a hard-fought cavalry hedge.
The Jin army originally wanted to inflict heavy losses on the loyal and brave troops with superior forces, but it backfired, and Seri's Tiefutu was once again placed under the long cavalry of the dragon general, penetrating the front army of the Jin army. Straight into the Chinese army. After finishing Yan Lou Room and Yinshu, he immediately stepped forward and launched a strong attack from both wings, wanting to encircle the dragon general. The Loyal Warrior Lion General immediately caught up with him and began a scuffle, and the two sides were mixed together.
When the two armies are at a stalemate. Wanyan Yanmu led the reserve team out of the city to reinforce in order to ensure the safety of the dragon general. Zhao Ta immediately led the Guards Brigade to meet the attack, and in the process of counterattacking, he not only defeated the Jin Army reserves, ensured the safety of the front, but also beheaded the Jin Army general Wanyan Yanmu in one fell swoop. The lord of the Jin army will be killed, the whole army is depressed, the defeat has been revealed, at this time Yeli and Zhengchuan led 20,000 cavalry to arrive, Zong Han did not dare to fight again, and withdrew from Xinzhou City. Retreat north.
Zhao Ta ordered the lion general and Yeli to turn into pursuit, and ordered Zhengchuan to lead 5,000 light cavalry to seize the Xinkou village in front, cut off the retreat of the Jin army, and follow up immediately after the dragon general replenished weapons and ammunition. In the early morning of the next day, Zhou Dajun arrived with 20,000 foot soldiers to take over the defense of Xinzhou City, Zhao Ta led the troops to pursue again, and sent someone to contact Xu Hong to quickly transport grain and grass.
The Jin army retreated quickly, fleeing as soon as the battle was engaged. Not entangled with the Song army at all, the lion general was eliminated from it several times in contact with it, and at this time, the Zhengchuan department, which was carrying out the outflanking mission, became a head-on interception. Although the Jin army retreated on its own initiative, the form it faced was still very dangerous. There were the pursuers of the Song army in the back, and there were people in front of them to intercept them, and there was a situation of being caught in the front and back.
When the Jin army retreated to Daizhou through the Xinchuan River. It was too late to outflank the Zhengchuan Department in Xinkou Village. The desperate Jin army could only muster up the spirit to fight again, although the Zhengchuan Department blocked it across the river. However, it was gradually repulsed by the numerically superior Jin army and forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
Although Zhengchuan failed to complete the task of outflanking and blocking the enemy's Xinkou Village. However, while making the Jin army pay a considerable price, it delayed the retreat of the Jin army and bought time for the arrival of the pursuing troops. Just as the Jin army finally captured the ferry, the lion generals who followed all the way caught up with the Jin army's rearguard troops. After the lion general bit the Jin army for a while, the Yeli tribe also caught up.
With the withdrawal of the Maskawa Department and the successive investment of the Lion Shogun and the Noribu, the situation has changed. The Jin army, who had just driven away the Zhengchuan Division, was driven into the river by the lion general and the Yeli tribe in a blink of an eye. At this time, the lion generals also quietly turned to the auxiliary attack, they were too tired, after a series of battles, and then after the pursuit of the fight alone with the Jin army was already too much for them to support, so the main attack task was given to the Yeli Department.
After the Yeli Department was transferred to the mountain battle, it has been a reserve team and did not participate in the war, and they were originally a strong army that can fight well, and the morale is high at the moment, and finally waited for the opportunity, they drove the Jin army across the river, and after going ashore, it was another fierce battle, and they pursued to the territory of Daizhou. In the battle, Ye Li took the lead, his war horse was changed many times because of the arrow, and finally chased the main force of the Jin army and entered the Chinese army, until the Daizhou Jin army rushed to support, it was already dark, Ye Li withdrew from the battle and withdrew to the south of Xinchuan Shui.
Three days and three nights of chasing battle, Song Jin first fought Xinzhou City, the second battle of Xinchuanshui, and finally ended with the Hezhong Army repelling the Jin Army, beheading 15,000, and the Jin Army was defeated by ten generals below Yan Yanmu, such a fruitful result is enough to shock the whole country, and the Jin Army suffered such a big loss for the first time in the battle against Song.
Just when everyone was waiting for the arrival of the prince to prepare to enter Daizhou and completely expel the Jin army from Hedong, they waited for the order to withdraw the army and the forbidden army to take over...
After Zhao Ta captured Xinzhou, he was ready to mobilize grain and grass as a base to fight with the Jin army again to recover Daizhou. When the court learned that he would not return if he disobeyed the order, he marched north, and ordered him to return to Beijing to take up his post with an urgent edict of 800 li, disbanded Yiyong, and was defended by the forbidden army. Zhao Ta still ignored it, fought again in Xinchuanshui, pursued the Jin army, and Zhang Sizheng, who had already received the edict, was ordered to go out of Taiyuan, preparing to cross the Shiling Pass and forcibly receive it, but was blocked by the Wolf Brigade under the pass.
He could seek knowledge of the combat effectiveness of the loyal and brave army of Ludao, and did not dare to advance strongly, so he sent people to report to the Beijing division urgently. When he learned that the two sides were about to use force, Li Gang hurried to stop it, but Liu Ju showed it with a holy decree, and Li Gang had no choice but to ask to ride through the pass in the name of the Hedong Xuanfu envoy to persuade the prince to withdraw his troops.
When Li Gang arrived in Xinzhou, Zhao Ta was ready to go out of Xinzhou to attack Daizhou. Li Gang advised the prince to slow down, let the forbidden army pass the customs first, and then he explained the situation to the emperor and asked for instructions, and the two armies sent troops to replace the state at the same time. Zhao Tan agreed, let the forbidden army pass the pass, and prepared to attack Daizhou with a combined army, and expel the Jin army from Hedong.
But three days later, under the decree of the central government, he rejected Li Gang's suggestion, and appointed Zhao Ta as the Privy Council's co-intellectual, so that he would immediately go to Beijing to take up his post, and the matter of attacking the state was handed over to the forbidden army to carry out.
At this time, more than 200,000 forbidden troops all passed through the pass to Xinzhou, trapping the army in the river under the city, and Li Gang played again, and was rejected several times, there was no way, Zhao Ta sighed: "The scholar misled the country, until I fell short!" "Order to withdraw! (To be continued......)