Chapter 524: Irretrievable

Wanyan Yanying may have been hit by water, he was defeated twice by the Song army when he was a fledgling, and both battles were related to water, so he ordered the scouts to find out the movements of the Song army with a careful and unmistakable mentality, and then crossed the river. However, the deputy marshal Tang Kuobi did not think so, he thought that this place was not far from the capital, if the Song army dared to set up a formation by the river to engage in battle, the Beijing division would send reinforcements to arrive soon, then the Song army would face the dilemma of being flanked from both sides, so he scoffed at Wanyan Yanying's caution.

Now everyone in the army understands that the commander can't be the head of the deputy commander, and now the deputy marshal has such an attitude, and the people below are also willing to be lazy, and the scouts sent out to circle around on the other side of the river and quickly report back without finding any signs of the Song army's stay. In order to prove that he was bold, Tang Kuobi first led the Protector Army to cross the river as a precursor. It is by no means a trivial matter for more than 100,000 people to cross the river, and by the time the whole army crosses the river, it will already be dark.

According to Yan Yanying's meaning, after crossing the river, continue to move forward and leave the place of right and wrong, after all, it is also a very dangerous thing to fight against the water. But Tang Kuobi spoke again, the Song army had missed the best opportunity by not launching an attack when they crossed the river, let alone engaging after the whole army crossed the river safely. The generals marched rapidly for several days, and had just crossed the river, and were very tired and unwilling to do more, but now the words of the lieutenant marshal were in line with everyone's wishes, so they agreed to camp by the river and rest for the night.

Although Wanyan Yanying was the boss, it was difficult to disobey the will of the people, and he couldn't persuade Tang Kuo to argue, so he could only agree to camp along the river, but he still kept an eye on it and did not order the pontoon bridge to be demolished, so as not to cut off his own way back. And the facts once again proved that Yan Yanying was too careful, and the Song army did not launch a night attack one night, and the reconnaissance cavalry sent afterwards also searched the surrounding twenty miles and did not find the Song army.

Wanyan Yanying was inevitably sneered at by Tang Kuo again. Although he didn't know why Song Jun gave up this great opportunity, it was not a bad thing. can only blush and praise the deputy marshal for his clever calculation and prediction. After eating, the army pulled out the camp and set out on the road again. But when it was noon, suddenly the front army came to report that the Song army was in the front line and blocked their way. Both of them were taken aback, where did Song Jun come from......

Zhao Li led the army to Zhendong County with the intention of mobilizing the enemy army and waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy, not to capture the city, but to use more than 30,000 cavalry to attack the fortified city with thick walls and strong fortifications, unless he suddenly had a convulsion and became an idiot. So he quickly left after eating the first piece of the Jin Army. Go straight to Huining City and mobilize the Jin army again. And Zhao Li believed that Wan Yan Yanying would have to catch up even if he knew that it was a plan, because he couldn't afford to gamble, let alone lose.

Compared with Yan Yanying and Tang Kuo's anxious journey, Zhao Li seemed to be full of ambition, better than a leisurely stroll, because it was not only because the army of Huining Mansion had been attracted to the east of the town by himself. And through Guò's hide-and-seek during this time, he has learned that the lack of horses in the Jin army has reached a very strict point, and the current remnants of the Jin army are mostly cavalry. However, it can only be done with one person and one horse, only the Protector Army maintains the treatment of one person and two horsemen in the past, and the rest are infantry troops.

As a result, the ability of the Jin army to maneuver was limited. And if there is no cavalry cover on the march, the infantry is easily attacked, so according to the 'barrel principle'. The long can only accommodate the short one, so that the marching speed of the entire army can be based on foot. It also made the Song army unimpeded along the way. Ben Huining Mansion, which drove straight along the main road, came in order to allow the Jin army behind to keep up. They also had to slow down.

Zhao Li tossed a big circle, his purpose was still to annihilate the mobile force of the Jin army in Huining Mansion, and lay the foundation for the next general attack, now the Jin army has become a tired division, and the time is ripe for a decisive battle, he put the battlefield on the south bank of the black water. However, in order not to make Wanyan Yanying, who had become a frightened bird, see the flaw and retreat when he discovered the Song army's attempt to fight a decisive battle, Zhao Li did not choose to attack when the Jin army crossed the river, but moved the battlefield back twenty miles, successfully deceiving the Jin army's scouts.

In order to ensure the victory of the battle, Zhao Li had ordered the infantry army stationed in Yichun to move in the direction of Huining City to establish a blocking line and prepare for reinforcements, while the dragon general joined the main force to join the battle sequence, and the desert army escorted the baggage back to the northeast to maneuver to the northeast to intercept the fleeing enemy army. By last night, the armies had quietly entered the combat area, opening a wide net and waiting for the arrival of the Jin army, so far the Song army and the western route army had all participated in the battle, with a strength of 100,000 troops, although inferior to the Jin army, but the overall strength far exceeded that of the Jin army......

With a strong enemy blocking the road in front and a big river blocking the road behind, hundreds of thousands of Jin troops suddenly fell into a panic, and now for them, there is nothing more important than taking the road to escape. So the tragic breakout operation began, but it was better to say that this was a breakout operation, rather than a life-threatening escape!

Breaking through is actually a very difficult technical job, even more than the two armies against each other, and it requires careful arrangement. Before the breakout, the manager had to carry out a strict division of labor, such as who was responsible for opening the breach, who was responsible for covering behind the palace, where to assemble after the breakout, and many other matters.

The problem is that the Jin army at this time is no longer the time to set off, from Hu Kaishan, to Sujia Haidian, Zhendong County, no matter how difficult the road is, how cunning the opponent is, they did not take advantage of a little, but were constantly attacked by the disadvantaged Song army, and their mental endurance has reached the verge of collapse, but they can still maintain a certain degree of discipline, Wanyan Yanying and Tang Kuobi can basically control the troops, and they have not been dragged down.

But since the rescue of Zhendong County, especially after crossing the river, they spent a sleepless night in fear, and all the soldiers have been under tremendous pressure both mentally and physically. Now that they suddenly learned that the Song army had completed the encirclement of their own side, it became the last straw that crushed their already fragile nerves.

In a desperate situation, all beings are equal! At this time, whether it is the commander or the soldiers, everyone has equal rights and desires to survive. When the commander gave the order to break through to Huining City, almost all the soldiers of the Jin State could no longer control the long-suppressed desire to escape in their bodies, and everyone no longer paid attention to the so-called military discipline and orders, nor did they pay attention to the two so-called commanders, and rushed along the road to the capital to survive, using their last bit of strength to rush forward, hoping to break a way out.

......Almost the entire Jin army has turned into a group of stragglers without formation and discipline, whether it is the commander, the general or the small soldiers, everyone is panicking to stage a tragic escape, and Zhao Li will never let go of the opportunity again, he ordered all the artillery to be fired.

The two artillery brigades and the artillery battalions directly under the Song army concentrated on the front were equipped in echelons and opened fire together, and they hardly needed to aim, because there were too many enemies, and every shell that fell would cause casualties to the enemy, and they only needed to reload and ignite at the fastest speed in order to give the enemy the maximum damage. In the unsheltered wilderness, the Jin army had nowhere to hide, and all the men and horses were exposed to the artillery fire in the sky, and they were reduced to powder in round after round of explosions. Where is this breaking through, it is clearly a lamb sent to the door to wait for slaughter.

In an instant, the road leading to Huining was full of corpses, rivers of blood, and the pungent smell of burnt human flesh was mixed with the smoke of gunpowder. The panicked Jin troops turned to the flanks to break through in order to avoid the artillery fire in the sky. And when they thought they had escaped from the purgatory of blood and fire, they found that what was waiting for them in front of them was the elite cavalry of the prancing horse and the overwhelming rain of bullets, and almost all the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom completely collapsed physically and mentally at the same time at that moment, and naturally they had no combat effectiveness at all!

The Song army attacked from the front and rear of the three fronts, and the rear of the Jin army was also outflanked in place. They launched a deadly attack on the 150,000-strong Jin army, which was almost incapacitated, and the Jin army was completely dispersed, fleeing in pain and panic, unable to organize a decent resistance. After a day of fierce fighting, almost all of the 150,000 soldiers of the Jin Kingdom were buried in the wilderness, and less than one-tenth survived......

Following Wuhushan, Yanjing, Taizhou, Jinzhou, and Zhaozhou, the Jin State once again suffered the tragedy of war in Wuzhi Heishui, and once again there was a record of more than 100,000 troops being wiped out by the Song army at one time. However, according to the law of war, there is no army that will win all battles, but as long as there is a seed, there is hope for recovery, which is often said that 'a thousand troops are easy to get, and one will be hard to find'.

There are many such fierce generals in the army of Wanyan Yanying and Tang Kuobi, as long as they can successfully break through and escape, Jin Guo will still have a chance to make a comeback. But the fact is that in the face of death, all beings are equally equal. Compared with the tragic deaths of tens of thousands of Jin soldiers, the suffering of those elites in the Jin country can only be described as miserable.

Coach Wan Yan Yanying has been struggling to support the crisis since he was ordered to fight, although there have been several setbacks, but he is still persistent, even if he has been suppressed and ridiculed by the deputy marshal Tang Kuobi many times after joining forces, he still works hard to perform his duties, hoping to turn the tide and save the Dajin Kingdom. After realizing that he was ambushed, he may regret that he did not insist on marching overnight after crossing the river, but now he knows that it is difficult to retreat with his whole body, but he does not give up, and only hopes that he can bring these hundreds of thousands of soldiers back to Huining safely, even if he can bring back half of them, it will be a success.

In fact, as soon as the battle began, Wan Yan Yanying found that he was powerless, the deputy marshal Tang Kuobi and the most elite Protector Army commander Pu Changhai took the lead in running away, and his own general Wan Yan Ahu led the troops to charge and tried to open the breakthrough and died of fierce artillery fire, all the soldiers were already in a chaotic state of escape, and the so-called commander was ignored!

There is no way, the defeat is irretrievable, and Wanyan Yanying has no way to retreat, so he can only lead his own soldiers to find a way to break through...... (To be continued......)