Chapter 397: The Battle of Fuping (8) - A Divine Turn
Reinforcements from the Song army came.
In this battle, in addition to the 50,000 troops defending the camp, the Song army had 200,000 soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers (mostly minfu), of which 200,000 infantry, there were 170,000 infantry and more than 30,000 cavalry. There were as many as 70,000 on each wing.
The surplus belonged to different factions and lacked effective cooperation, resulting in slow reinforcements. However, as Liu Xi, Liu Qi and other brothers withstood the attack of the Jin army, the Song army's reinforcements were slow to support, but reinforcements also came.
The sudden change made everyone stunned, and for a while, the Song army on Jingyuan Road broke out in cheers, and the morale of the Song army was like a rainbow.
However, the Jin army was a little chaotic, and the battle situation at this time was like a scale, and no one could suppress anyone, but the arrival of the Song army's reinforcements was like the last straw that crushed the camel, and the Jin army was defeated.
In ancient times, warfare was very simple, and most of them were confrontations between ground troops, and the contact area was limited, which also led to the limited number of troops participating in the battle. Where, like in later generations, three-dimensional operations, ground, sky, and underground, three battles.
The limited area of contact led to wars in ancient times, with 200,000 troops fighting. There are often only a few thousand, or even more than 30,000 confrontations, and the victory or defeat of this part of the main force determines the victory or defeat of the conference!
And the rest of the army is more of a soy sauce player, in the role of preparing for the expedition, there are many of them, who have not yet rushed to the battlefield, and with the collapse of the front line, they will follow and run.
In this battle, the small number of the Jin army did not mean that the Jin army was at a disadvantage, but only that the Jin army's long-lasting combat capability was poor.
The shortage of reserve troops made it necessary for the Jin army to fight a quick battle. Defeat the Song army that rushed to the front, triggering the rout of the Song army, which led to the collapse of the Song army. The front army overwhelmed the rear army, causing the Song army to attack each other, and the formation was chaotic, thus winning.
It's a pity that with the entanglement, the Jin army did not quickly defeat the Jin army, but fell into the quagmire.
The Song army had sufficient troops and could continuously use refueling tactics. constant troop build-up; However, the Jin army was small in number, and there was no reserve support at the moment, and it was quickly at a disadvantage.
Zong Bi was shocked in the formation. Knowing that something was wrong, he was about to turn his horse and leave, but suddenly stopped retreating.
can't retreat, he's a general; If he retreats. The soldiers of the Jin army will also retreat. At that point, the golden army will collapse. Once the Left Army collapses, the entire Jin Army will also collapse, and then 100,000 Jin troops will be buried here.
First of all, the defeat of Luoshui, and then the defeat of Liaodong, and now if you lose another 100,000 troops, Guanzhong will not be guaranteed, Henan will not be protected, and Shandong will not be protected. Even the clouds are not guaranteed.
The 100,000 army was wiped out, and the whole Jin country would be broken at that time. Doom to come.
After losing the army, the Jin country was nothing.
Will those ethnic groups in the Northeast still obey the rule of the Jin State?
Once you lose this war, you will lose the fortunes of the country, and the Jin country will completely go downhill, or even perish.
Yesterday's Xiongnu and Turks are the tomorrow of the Jin Kingdom!
You can't retreat, even if you die here, you can't retreat.
At this moment, Zong Bi showed the strength of being a golden vulture.
The reason why Jin Wushu is the number one enemy in the Southern Song Dynasty is not because he uses soldiers like a god, but because he is firm and has an unyielding heart in a hundred battles, and he may be defeated, but he cannot be defeated.
Many of his enemies who outperformed him were finally ground to death by him!
"Soldiers, follow me to kill!"
Zong Bi roared angrily and continued to rush forward to kill.
The situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for the Jin army, this Jin army is encircled, and the casualties are getting bigger and bigger, but Zong Bi is fighting to the death and not retreating. It may not wait for victory, but it can bring a ray of life to the retreat of other Jin troops.
At this moment, Zong Bi's tenacity saved the entire Jin Army.
Now the Jin army and the Song army are strangled with each other, regardless of each other, even if the Song army comes to reinforce, it is impossible to let the horses rush to kill, because while rushing to kill the Jin army, it is easy to accidentally injure their own people.
In this case, the reinforcements of the Song army only brought pressure, so that the balance of victory tilted in favor of the Song army, and if you want to win the most victorious victory, you need to continue the fierce battle.
In the fierce battle, the Jin army began to slowly gather their ranks and move closer to Zong Bi.
In the bloody battle, the disadvantages of the Jin army became more and more obvious, the elite cavalry led by the Jin general Chi Zhan Hui fell into the mud and was difficult to gallop, and was killed a lot, and the brave general Han Chang was injured by a stray arrow, but he still fought hard, and the other Jin troops were also seriously damaged, and Zong Bi was even more severely injured.
Liu Xi, Liu Qi and others were full of excitement in their hearts, as long as they continued to encircle and suppress, this Jin army would definitely die.
Suddenly, there was a sound on the right flank of the Song army.
"The Song army is defeated!"
"Zhao Zhe is dead!"
"Zhang Jun has been captured!"
Immediately, on the right flank of the Song army's formation, there was an astonishing shout.
Originally, Liu Xi, Liu Qi and others didn't believe it, but they found that the camp on the right flank was rapidly collapsing, the Song army fled for their lives and trampled on each other, while the Jin cavalry was chasing and killing one after another, and those who didn't believe it also became suspicious.
Originally, Zong Bi was in a desperate situation and could be defeated and killed at any time. It was only with the collapse of the right wing of the Song army that the tide of battle quickly reversed.
The scales of victory tipped again, this time in favor of the Jin army.
God turns!
Liu Qi believed that as long as he was given another half an hour, this Jin army would be wiped out.
It only took half an hour to completely annihilate this Jin army and achieve victory.
It was only at the critical moment that the Song army on the right flank dropped the chain and collapsed. The collapsed Song army panicked, and even more impacted the Song army's formation, impacting the Song army's formation to pieces, so that the Jin army's cavalry could calmly attack, and the battle situation deteriorated rapidly.
It's like a domino effect, as one falls, the rest fall quickly, so fast, so fast, that they can't stop it at all.
In this violent collapse of the beloved, personal efforts, personal fights, there is no point in it.
With the collapse of the Song army on the right flank, the Chinese army collapsed, the left wing army collapsed, the entire Song army collapsed, and then ran away like a rabbit and was frantically slashed by the Jin army.
At this time, Liu Qi was also running away, and he was in a panic!
In the panicked run, Liu Qi was extremely aggrieved, victory was within reach, as long as he worked harder, he would win. However, with the collapse of the right-wing army, the victory and defeat were reversed, and life and death were reversed, and the last one could only run away in panic.
For what?
I'm not reconciled!
When he ran hundreds of miles away, he temporarily settled down in a small county town, and there were remnants of defeat all around, and one was panicked, as if he was worried that the Jin army would be killed in an instant.
In a small county town, Liu Qi met an acquaintance, who was Wu Jie.
"Why is this happening? What will the Right Wing Army collapse for! Liu Qi's eyes were blood-red, looking at Wu Jie, his expression was angry, and he had the urge to kill. Wu Jie's subordinates belonged to the right-wing army, and the defeat of this battle made the right-wing army's crime unforgivable.
"It's all Zhao Zhe's bastard, who took the lead in running away, causing the collapse of the right-wing army!" Wu Jie also gritted his teeth.
In this battle, the Northwest Army was defeated, and there was not one out of ten.
As he spoke, Wu Jie began to tell the story of the collapse of the Right Wing Army.
In the Left Route Army, fierce fighting, and fierce battles, the Right Wing Army and Wanyan Lou Room clashed together.
After finishing Yan Lou's room, he took the lead, supervised the division to fight, and the generals Pucha Huzhan and Jiagu Wuli made up for the battle and fought hard to revive the army. Due to the fact that the Song army of Zhulu did not come to each other's aid, Zhao Zhe was alone and was invincible, leaving without permission, and the troops rushed to escape.
At dusk, the Jin army attacked violently, and the Song army was defeated and retreated to Fangzhou, and all the baggage they brought was abandoned.
The battle of Fuping was lost like this.
"Damn, in this battle, all the elite of the Northwest have been lost!" It seemed that he was angry to the extreme, and Liu Qi said with a sad expression, "Next, the Jin army will inevitably storm some passes in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and if it is defeated again, Sichuan will fall." The state is in danger! ”
By now, the situation has collapsed to the extreme.
You can only prepare for the worst!
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In the city of Fangzhou, most of the defeated Song troops gathered here.
At this time, Zhang Jun looked haggard, his heart was empty, and his hands were trembling.
"Come, Liu Xi defeated the army and degraded Lingnan; Zhao Zhe led his troops to flee and beheaded him; His subordinates Zhang Zhong and Qiao Ze were all beheaded............ "Zhang Jun gritted his teeth and said, because of these generals, the situation has collapsed, how can they be used.
The degraded officials, the beheaded, after the original defeat, the people were panicked, and at the moment the people were even more frightened, I don't know whose head this marshal will cut off.
Immediately, Murong Tao, the general of Huanqing Road, defected to Western Xia, Zhang Zhongyan and Li Yanqi, generals of Jingyuan Road, defected to the Jin army, and other Song generals all found their way.
In this battle, Shaanxi was shocked.
After this battle, the Jin army used a large amount of captured grain and grass military resources, under the guidance of the Southern Song Dynasty generals, to take advantage of the victory to attack the interior of Shaanxi. By March of the following year, most of the Shaanxi 5th Road was captured, and the Song army only held the prefectures of Jie, Cheng, Min, Tao, and Feng, as well as the key passes of Shukou such as Shangyuan in Fengxiang Mansion and Fangshanyuan in Longzhou, and fortified them with danger to confront the Jin army. (To be continued......)
PS: The Battle of Pupyeong is over.
Next, Pig's Foot will go further, expanding the armament war.