Less than two days after the capture of Yingchang City, Zhang Xian, the former commander of the army, ushered in four more colleagues in the Yuejia army: they were: Niu Gao under the command of the Left Army, Xu Qing under the command of the Beiwei Army, Dong Xian under the command of the Tabai Army, and Yao Zheng under the command of the Youyi Army. According to Yue Fei's military order, they were all under the unified command of Zhang Xian.

The 100,000 Yuejia army was divided into a total of 22 troops, but the number of these 22 troops was not equal, but was distributed according to the nature of the troops, as well as the martial arts and seniority of the leading army, among which Zhang Xian's former army, Wang Gui's middle army and Niu Gao's left army were the largest in number.

Now Zhang Xian has five troops in his hands, close to half of the total strength of the Yuejia army. Yue Fei's intention is very clear, that is, to sweep away the three defensive towns on the periphery of Kaifeng Mansion, Yingchang Mansion, Huaining Mansion and Yingtian Mansion with the momentum of thunder, and then make every effort to recover Tokyo Bianliang City, the old capital of the previous dynasty.

So, according to Yue Fei's instructions, Zhang Xian, together with Niu Gao and Xu Qing, continued to go to conquer Huaining Mansion in Chenzhou, while Dong Xian's Tabai Army and Yao Zheng's Youyi Army remained in Yingchang City.

In the era of cold weapons, the transportation and storage of grain and grass was a very important issue. The city of Yingchang Mansion is thick and easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it has naturally become the best choice for the frontline base of the Yuejia army

As a colleague and good brother for many years, Zhang Xian's deployment of troops was obviously humble, and arranged Niu Gao, the commander of the left army, as the main attack on Huaining Mansion in Chenzhou.

It's just that Niu Gao's next action made Zhang Xian smile a little bitterly - before leaving, he actually ordered to wrap all the flags with the general's logo in the army.

That is, except for the banner embroidered with the word "Song". Others such as the word "Yue" embroidered with Yue's army. The word "cow" of his Niu Gao. And so on, all of them were taken down by Niu Gao.

As a result of this arrangement, outsiders can only know that this is an army of the Song Dynasty based on the banners in the ranks, and there is no way to know who it belongs to.

Looking at Zhang Xian's questioning eyes, Niu Gao smiled innocently and replied, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." Brother, spare the old cow this time. ”

"Phew, that's a mystery."

Zhang Xian scolded fiercely, and kicked Niu Gao's buttocks to show his dissatisfaction.

In Yuejiajun, Niu Gao's ghost ideas and tricks are very famous.

The most famous example, according to the record of volume 159 of the "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliance":

Before the three-year Battle of Xiangyang in Shaoxing, Zhang Xian's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were trapped in Suizhou for more than ten days and could not move forward; And Niu Gao also used the sentence "Heavenly secrets must not be revealed", and also set up a military order with Yue Fei, and only brought Yue Yun and thousands of people from his headquarters. In one day, he conquered Suizhou and relieved the siege of Zhang Xian

Same as Han Chang. General Zhai, who guarded Huaining Mansion in Chenzhou, was also a Liao Han Chinese, who had been begging for a living in the Jurchen army for a long time, and was no different from the Jin people in terms of thinking and living habits.

Regarding Han Chang's rapid rout in Yingchang Mansion, General Zhai was more suspicious of Han Chang himself, in addition to being suspicious.

Actually losing to the Han people in the plain encounter seems like a bad joke no matter how you look at it.

The Jin soldiers have always been an army on horseback, not a force hiding behind the city walls, and will definitely not lose to the Song army who cannot ride horses on the plains.

This belief, or common sense, has been integrated into the blood of every Jin Soldier soldier.

Based on this idea, General Zhai decided to arrange the battlefield to defend the city outside the city:

Fifteen miles from the city was General Zhai's first line of defense, where there were 5,000 elite cavalry.

If they encounter a large force of the Song army, these 5,000 elite cavalry will take advantage of their mobility advantage to constantly harass and attack the Song army, leaving the Song army in tension and fear.

And seven miles away from the city, is General Zhai's main array. There were more than 20,000 main Jin soldiers there, waiting for the arrival of the exhausted Song army.

First use the elite cavalry to harass and entangle, and then use the main army to wait for work and eliminate the Song army in one fell swoop.

The above is General Zhai's overall battle plan.

No matter in terms of the scope of the battle and the means of attack, General Zhai's battle plan was larger and more diversified than Han Changzhen's battle plan for guarding Yingchang Mansion.

But Han Chang's heart always felt uneasy.

It's just that as soon as Han Chang saw the triumphant look on General Zhai's face, he had to swallow the opposing opinions into his stomach.

Alas, the general of the defeated army, how can he talk about bravery?

On the twentieth day of the sixth month of the leap month, the Jin soldiers of the first line of defense saw a large group of Song soldiers advancing slowly from a distance, but this army was very strange, except for the Song Banner, there was no other marking flag.

The golden soldiers laughed.

The army's appearance is untidy and morale is low, these are all signs of low combat effectiveness. In their eyes, this Song army is a big fat sheep sent to the door.

Without even giving an order from the commander, Jin Bingmen whistled, shook his broadsword and spear, rode his horse and hoofed his hooves, and rushed towards the direction of the Song army.

"Boom"

An extremely harsh and ugly laugh came from the ranks of the Song army, and then a sound like a broken gong exploded in mid-air:

"Sons, the golden dogs can't run away this time, a dog's head five copper coins, cut my damn one harder, cut more and take more, there is no loss for money!"

Hearing this voice, the golden soldiers were stunned, as if something was wrong, who is the hunter now, who is the fat sheep that has been slaughtered?

With this serious question, the golden soldiers looked up and looked ahead.

But I saw that a general headed by the Song army was born with a face like black paint, a leopard's head and eyes, a pig's nose, a bloody mouth, a strange and ugly appearance, and a long body. He wears an iron helmet on his head, a pair of iron chain armor on his body, and a soap robe underneath, tightly bound with a scarlet tape. Riding a black horse, carrying two four-fluted iron maces. looks fierce and vicious, and if you are really timid, you will be scared half to death.

Needless to introduce, this is the left army of the Yue family's army to control Niu Gao.

Some of the Jin soldiers knew Niu Gao, and they turned their horses and ran back, and the Jin soldiers next to them were inexplicable. I was about to scold them for being cowards. The answers of those people were unanimous:

"You haven't seen Niu Gao. Who knows what he is capable of. ”

Before the words fell, most of the golden soldiers scattered in all directions, running away lifelessly.

The problem was that Niu Gao's troops were well prepared and ready to go, and they simply did not allow the Jin soldiers to flee the battlefield.

As a result, the two sides fought for no more than an hour, and the Jin soldiers were almost wiped out by the Yue family's army. Only a few hundred Jin army captives remained, kneeling directly and begging for mercy.

Niu Gao did not agree. shouted: "How many fathers and villagers have Jin Bing killed me, how can they give them another chance, they will all be killed, and they will never be forgiven." ”

Finally let out a sigh, Niu Gao came over with a smile and said to Zhang Xian, fortunately, I put away the flag, otherwise those guys saw the flag and ran away from afar, so I couldn't help it!

It was only at this time that Zhang Xian understood the reason for Niu Gao's banner.

This guy was actually worried that the Jin soldiers would run away. He deliberately collected the military flag, so that Jin Bing did not know what to do.

It's no wonder that Niu Gao made such a move.

In fact, in this operation of the Yue family's army. Niu Gao is the real pioneer. His mission was to attack Jingxi Road first, and then advance to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Jingxi Road is Niu Gao's territory, and he is well aware of the customs, topography, mountains and rivers in this area; And Jin Bing, who was stationed on Jingxi Road, was also quite familiar with him.

Niu Gao's left army marched all the way, and everywhere he went, the Jin soldiers fled in despair, and they actually made Niu Gao's pair of four-lined iron shovels not stained with any blood.

As a result, the Battle of Yingchangfu commanded by Zhang Xian became the first battle between Song and Jin.

Why is this the case?

Once upon a time, when the Song army heard that the Jin soldiers had been killed, they fled one after another; Unexpectedly, after only more than ten years, the situation actually came to a big reversal, and those who fled became Jin Bing.

The reason for this is that "this golden soldier is not another golden soldier".

The vast majority of the Jin soldiers stationed in the Central Plains of Henan now, including the hundreds of thousands of main forces under Wanyan Wushu, are the remnants left by Liu Yu of the pseudo-Qi, or it can be said that all of them are Han Chinese.

Some of these puppet soldiers of the Han nationality were left-behind officers and soldiers in the former Northern Song Dynasty, some were rogues who wandered all over the country, and some were strong men pulled by Liu Yu and Jin Guoqiang, and so on.

For the safety of their own lives and their families, and for the sake of life, they put on the battle clothes of the Jin people, and reluctantly served the Jin people, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

They had fled from the Jurchens before, and when they faced the well-trained and powerful Yue family army, they would naturally choose to flee from the wind.

For them, joining the army is like going to work and earn a living.

What to defend the country and what to serve the country, these statements are like a pile of roadside shit for them, and they have no meaning at all

The 5,000 cavalry was completely annihilated by the Yuejia army in a short period of time, and General Zhai actually received half of the news. Therefore, when the three troops of Zhang Xian, Niu Gao and Xu Qing felt it, General Zhai's 20,000-strong army was still resting in place.

But none of that matters anymore.

When Han Chang couldn't resist Zhang Xian's face-to-face impact, how could he, General Zhai, face the joint attack of Zhang Xian, Niu Gao and Xu Qing at the same time.

The kung fu of a stick of incense supported the kung fu of a mere stick of incense, and the Jin soldiers were defeated by the repeated attacks of the Yue family's army, and they scattered and fled, and their commander General Zhai only said one sentence:

"I have only heard of the Yuejia army before that it is brave and good at fighting, and I half-believe it, and in today's battle, I know that the power of the Yuejia army is more than ten times better than Liu Ji."

The speed of Yue's army's movements was so fast and fierce that the Jin soldiers were not allowed to retreat to Huaining Mansion in Chenzhou; In desperation, Han Chang and General Zhai had no choice but to gather the rest of the troops and flee in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, where they merged with Wanyan Wushu.

In this way, Zhang Xian and Niu Gao successfully completed the important task of recovering Huaining Mansion, and Huaining Mansion, one of the three major towns of Kaifeng Mansion, officially fell into the hands of Yue's army.

After being stationed for a few days, Yue Fei sent Liu Yongshou and Shi Gui, who were guarding Huaining Mansion, to Huaining Mansion...... (To be continued......)

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