Chapter Table of Contents Chapter 58 Not easy

In the face of the fierce charging Yuanzhou army, although the Jin army was surprised but not panicked, after the first team was disrupted, another team immediately met up, and at the same time sent two wings of cavalry to outflank it, but they were too close and lost the opportunity. ,!

"Charge!" Solved the Jurchen cavalry of the Jin army to open the way, and collided with the Jin army's heavy cavalry head-on, Zhao Xin rode steadily on the horse, rushed to the front, her ears were full of whirring wind, she raised her long knife and slashed forward.

At this point, all the trumpeters blow their horns and the riders drive their horses to maximum speed. The acceleration charge allows the cavalry to maintain a relatively intact formation before engaging the enemy, which can cause the maximum momentum of the opposing line for a moment. Even if the charge is in full formation of enemy infantry or opposing cavalry, speed is even more important when the opponent is heavily cavalry.

"Drink!" Zhao Xin sat down on the 'meteor' as if he also felt the arrival of the decisive moment, he was very excited, and ran forward as if he was not telling his master, before she could see the appearance of the golden general on the opposite side, the two were already about to collide head-on, but the 'meteor' changed its direction slightly at the moment of collision and staggered with the enemy horse. The enemy general was still full of strength to prepare for the hedge, but he pounced, and his horse was also startled by the sudden turn of the kind, and came to a sharp brake, and the two were added, and the enemy general could not sit still on the horse's back, and 'whoosh' ran out of the horse's head, and before he could get up, he had been broken by the bones and tendons that had been trampled on by the hooves, and his stomach was rotten and his intestines were pierced.

"Roar, roar..."Zhao Xin lay on the horse's back and patted the horse's neck gently, "If there is really a master, there will be a horse" How can this horse be as bad as the prince, and never forget to steal and play tricks when he works. Don't wait for her to think about it. The cavalry of the two armies had collided together, Zhao Nobun's long knife flew, swept through the enemy group, leaving a miserable howl behind him, those golden soldiers were either missing arms and legs, or blood was coming from their necks, it turned out that she was not much stronger than the horse, and the knife was cut to the armpits, thighs, elbows, and necks of the Jin soldiers, which were soft and difficult to be protected by armor.

The assault of the Yuanzhou army was full of power, and under the leadership of the leader, they broke through the two fronts of the Jin army one after another, and their domineering attack methods also made the Jin army at a loss. They did not swarm up like the cavalry of this era used to rush forward, but paid more attention to the interval between the front and rear and the left and right sides and the cooperation of each army, and they even deliberately stretched the horizontal interval a little wider, so that the enemy army had a gap to hide, so as not to block the road of the front army, leaving the enemy to the cavalry behind to clean up, it is simply a cavalry version of the cone formation, but the width is larger, the depth is narrower!

The two thousand elite cavalry led by Zhao Xin formed clusters of weapons. First, the first attack wave is used as a long-range weapon such as bows and arrows to destroy the enemy's formation, and then a cluster with long weapons and heavy armor is used as the second attack wave to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry. Then one cluster after another will strike at the enemy until the enemy army collapses and flees

Under the leadership of Zhao Xin, the Yuanzhou army directly ran over the two fronts composed of the heavy cavalry and the rangers of the Jin army, and crushed the enemy's Chinese army with an indomitable spirit, completely disrupted their formation, and came out of the formation, and then went back to the army in a circle to fight again, killing two in and two out. Then all the Wonju troops pressed on all fronts, took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and routed the enemy forces on both flanks. At this moment, the general trend of the Jin army has gone, scattering for their lives, and the Yuanzhou army chased and killed all the way to drive the Jin army out of the border of Yuanzhou.

In this battle, the Yuanzhou army beheaded 3,000, captured a large number of weapons, grain and grass, rescued tens of thousands of Han and Liao people who had been plundered, expanded the area controlled by Yuanzhou for another 300 miles, and the remnants of the Jin army retreated to Zhongjing Road. Don't dare to break the border easily! Zhao Xin looked back and saw that there were less than 500 cavalry and 40 officers left of the 2,000 elite cavalry he personally led, and they won the most decisive victory in the defense of Yuanzhou with their own deaths, but although this battle was brilliant, it was insignificant compared to the hard fighting in the past two months

On that day, I learned from Sheng Rentang that the news that the Jin army was about to invade the border. Zhao Xin began to actively prepare for war, on the one hand, she 'coerced and enticed' Hao Yan to buy the necessary grain, grass and weapons for Yuanzhou, and on the other hand, she recruited village soldiers from various departments to reorganize the army for war. At the same time, Zhao Xin contacted most of the surrounding state cities to invite them to jointly send troops to defend against the enemy, but the situation was not as simple as imagined.

First of all, he is worried about materials, Zhao Xin, as the 'old man' of the palace, the first confidant of the prince, knows that the prince has always forbidden the sale of weapons with foreign people, and if he wants to get weapons and equipment from the palace, especially the strictly controlled materials like gunpowder, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky, even if it is used internally, it needs to be approved by the prince himself before it can be allocated.

Therefore, Zhao Xin did not have much hope of being able to get weapons from Sheng Rentang's hands, but now that the government has no more, almost all the channels for obtaining weapons have been blocked, so he can only collect them by himself, even if he even uses those rusty knives and guns to make up the numbers. But the result made Zhao Xin overjoyed, Sheng Rentang rushed the supplies into the city before the Jin army attacked, including not only 3,000 pairs of iron armor, but also 400 boxes of gunpowder, bows, arrows, knives and guns enough to equip 5,000 people.

And these weapons are by no means the rags eliminated by the Song army, Zhao Xin can see at a glance that the armor is the standard equipment of the Western Xia Iron Harrier, and the swords are mostly used by the Xia army, all of which are the trophies captured by the prince during his western expedition, and have been sealed in the warehouse of the loyal army. Those gunpowder made Zhao Xin even more pleasantly surprised, happy that he had one more weapon to defend against the enemy, and was shocked that he suspected that the prince might have discovered his whereabouts, because these things can only be skillfully used by those who are loyal to the army, if the prince knows where he is. If this is the case, I am afraid that it will be even more terrible than the arrival of the Jin army, Zhao Xin can imagine his shame and anger after he released the prince's pigeons, and the prince did it in a fit of anger.

Zhao Xin summoned Gao Cheng, the steward of Shengrentang to escort the supplies, with apprehension, and after some interrogation, he realized that the prince had already returned to the northwest, but he was busy every day, and now he was in the river! These little things are all handed over to Xiye to handle, so these goods are sent to Yuanzhou, and the prince may not know the way. Zhao Xin breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, but she was very disappointed in her heart, she really wanted the prince, even if the prince raised troops to crusade against him, it would be good to meet him on the battlefield

The matter of collecting township soldiers is quite smooth, but there are only more than 30,000 households in Yuanzhou, and there are only 10,000 soldiers recruited by the method of drawing one from three, plus the original 5,000 soldiers, the total strength of the Yuanzhou army has reached 15,000 people, in fact, this has reached the limit of Yuanzhou's supply, and no matter how many soldiers can not be raised. And the matter of contacting other tribes is not smooth at all, these people are afraid of the Jurchen like a tiger, and they have no intention of resisting at all, thinking that when the Jin army comes, they will run away like the emperor, and even more some plan to surrender to the Jurchens and keep their wealth! Zhao Xin's desire to form an alliance to resist the Jin army was frustrated, and he could only resist the Jin army alone with the strength of one state.

In the face of this sinister situation, Zhao Xin also fell into anxiety, but he thought that the situation that the prince faced back then was even more difficult than himself, and even now he is facing a situation of internal and external difficulties, but he never gave up lightly, and relied on his own struggle to rush through one danger after another! Thinking of this, Zhao Xin cheered up, and she believed that she could also fight her own piece of the world like the prince!

Compared with Zhao Yong's Capture Army, Zhao Xin's battle was overshadowed at the beginning, and the Jin army dispatched 30,000 people, followed by a considerable number of Hu Cong troops recruited from the occupied areas, far exceeding the Yuanzhou army in terms of numbers, and more serious is that the Yuanzhou army lacks standardized training, has low combat effectiveness, and is afraid of the Jin army, and can only defeat the Jin army in tactics higher than them.

In the face of the surging Jin army, Zhao Xinjian Qingye quickly withdrew the people of all ethnic groups to the city, and burned the Baili Ranch clean, she knew that the biggest weakness of the Jin army was still in the logistics supply, the Jin army could only rely on the war to feed the war, and plunder along the way to replenish, now the grain and grass are controlled in their own hands, and the Jin army can only rely on the rear to transport supplies, which gives them the opportunity.

When Cha Ge went east to conquer Hedong, the prince also used this trick because of the disparity in the strength of the two armies, Zhao Xin drew a scoop according to the gourd, and used it to deal with the Jurchens, she concentrated the main force on the training, and at the same time used the advantage of her own familiarity with the terrain to send the villagers to attack and harass the Jin army.

Sneak attacks, assassinations, camps and prisoners, digging traps, beating sticks, ambushes, and kidnapping tickets, whatever methods work, they can be used. The Jin army was also extremely depressed, and the big battles on the way to Yuanju City almost never happened, and the small battles almost never stopped. The Yuanzhou army was like a ghost, touching a sentry in the north, destroying a military station in the south, a stronghold in the west, and ambushing a transport convoy in the east, so that the Jin army could not live in peace day and night, and the small troops did not dare to dispatch at all, and the frequent attacks on the transport team also made them lack food and clothing, and they could only march and fight hungry every day.

On the other hand, the Yuanzhou army did not suffer much loss in troops, but its equipment was greatly improved. Through continuous attacks, they slowly grasped the initiative in the battle, and fell into a situation of exhaustion to deal with, and it was the correct tactics that saved the Wonju army from being chased by the enemy like a lost dog, with nowhere to stay, and finally ended up with a defeated general. When the Jin army arrived at the city of Yuanzhou with great difficulty, there was no longer the original strong soldiers, and the loss of combat and non-combat injuries and diseases had reached one-third, but when he faced the Yuanzhou City, he also wanted to cry without tears, the original Yuanzhou City, which was not tall and strong, was now covered with thick ice armor, and the stone throwers in the city threw at them not stones, but iron balls that could explode...

After many days of hard fighting, the Jin army lost troops and still could not conquer Yuanzhou, and on the way to withdraw the army, it encountered the main force of the Yuanzhou army, which had already been ambushed here, and the battle at the beginning appeared!

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