Chapter 138: Engagement

The sound of the horn of the incubation light, when the camp gate was opened, the morning star in the sky receded, and the eastern Tianli Wan released a trace of red light, Yang Zaixing turned over and got on the horse, and his subordinates fought for the whole army, which had already been assembled, the weather was warmer, and it was not too cold in the early morning, and everyone's heavy armor was placed on the carriage and chariot, and he was wearing a bright red jacket, and the sun shone on the boundless soldiers, reflecting into a bright red ocean.

He perked up and waved his hand: "Pull out, the front team will go." ”

Yang Zaixing was at the end of the team under his command, when the horse came out of the camp gate, he turned around and looked, only to see a bright red behind him, the knife became a forest, the tip of the knife was dazzling, he was extremely excited in his heart, his legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, the horse's hooves forward, a few steps to the front of the team, and then slowly marched towards the official road at the pace of trotting.

As Yang Zaixing expected, just after Fu Xuan informed him, the two cavalry of Beiwei and You Yi also set off and rushed to the vicinity of Luoyang to join Yue Fei and the Tabai army.

Although Yue Fei doesn't know the astrology, he can't borrow the east wind, but after many years of military career, judging the weather is also a skill that generals must master, and whether the weather is sunny or not, it will not be too far to ask an old farmer. He had long known that the weather would definitely clear in the next two days, and he rode to the vicinity of Henan County, not far southeast of Yingchang, where the favored Tabai army had already roamed, and Li Cheng's army was also slowly assembled in the direction of Henan Mansion, and it was the right time to defeat Li Cheng's army in one fell swoop.

At that time, the Central Plains was divided into several roads by the Song Dynasty, the southern Jingnan Road, the government was in Xiangyang, which was the majority of Hubei Province in later generations, but there was also a small area in Henan Province, which was under the jurisdiction of Jingnan Road; Jingdong East Road is all of Shandong in later generations. As well as a small area in northern Jiangsu, as well as a part of Henan Province, Gyeonggi Road, is only Kaifeng Prefecture and the county under its jurisdiction, and the jurisdiction of most of Henan Prefecture is Jingbei Road.

It includes most of Henan Province, which is divided into five prefectures: Henan, Yingchang, Junning, Shunchang, Zheng, Hua, Meng, Cai and Ru, of which most of Yingchang. Zheng and Cai Erzhou have been captured by Yue Fei's troops, and the Song army in the direction of Huangguan will attack Huazhou, going straight to Henan from the west road, because the Liangguan garrison still needs to guard the main force of the Jin soldiers who are about to go south, so the attack is slow and is not in a hurry to advance.

In this way, in Yingchang's Yue Fei Division, to the west can directly threaten Kaifeng, and to the east can take Henan Mansion. Seize strategic points such as Keluoyang and Weir Division. It was connected with the Song army in the direction of Huangguan, and then there was no opponent on the land of the Central Plains, so he could calmly besiege Kaifeng. Echoing with Han Shizhong and other ministries.

The entire battle plan was based on quickly defeating the main force of the pseudo-Qi, and then fighting a decisive battle with the attracted Jin soldiers. So after being delayed by the heavy rain for a few days, Yue Fei was so anxious that he didn't care about waiting for the sky to clear, and on the 15th, he braved the wind and rain, and only took more than 100 personal cavalry guards to the front line in Luoyang.

When he arrived not far from Luoyang, he learned that Gao Zhong had already fought a few battles with Li Cheng's sentinel rangers with the White Army. The array beheaded hundreds of people made it easy for the cavalry of Li Cheng's department to dare not leave the camp to come out to reconnoitre, which was equivalent to cutting off the enemy's eyes and ears, so that Li Cheng's department could not fully know the movements of the Song army. Li Chengxin was impetuous, and sent the main cavalry to find a decisive battle with Tabai several times, but Gao Zhong was not afraid, although the opponent's tens of thousands of cavalry could also be called the elite of the 200,000 army, but he was confident that he would be defeated with 10,000 Tabai, but he was just worried about startling the snake. Li Cheng was afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Song army, so he couldn't shrink out, so once the enemy's main force was dispatched, it was a quick retreat, he knocked out the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, and did not fight with the opponent's cavalry main force, and after a few days of hard work, Li Cheng, the main general of the enemy army on the opposite side, was greatly irritable, and repeatedly ordered the cavalry to scold the Song army, and Gao Zhong just ignored it.

When Yue Fei arrived, he first praised Gao Zhong for a few words, and then he quickly returned, urgently summoned back Jue and Youyi, came, and decided to harass and attack with elite cavalry first, and when the infantry arrived on the battlefield, they would break the enemy for a while.

He arrived at the military camp in the evening, and sent someone to summon the army to come, and did not rest, the rain near Luoyang has not stopped, he hurried to come, although he was dressed in oil clothes, he was also drenched, although the weather was getting late, but still braved the drizzle, rushed to Li Cheng's camp not far outside Luoyang City, to observe the enemy's military situation.

Gao Chong knew Yue Fei's temper, and he didn't stop him, but just asked people to get a new oil coat and put it on for Yue Fei, and then he also took his own soldiers, hundreds of horsemen out of the camp gate, and rushed to the enemy camp more than ten miles away.

Although the road was muddy, Yue Fei and Gao Chong were all light horses, but in less than half an hour, they had already seen where the enemy camp was.

At this time, the weather was getting late, it was originally cloudy, but in the evening, it was yellow and miserable bright, Yue Fei didn't speak, his hands covered his forehead, and through the fine and dense rain curtain, he looked at the boundless enemy camp in the distance.

More than 200,000 troops, but also counting the forced supply of logistics to the people, although the Ministry of Burning Mocheng is fighting in their own hinterland, the number is too large, and a large number of 100,000 people need to supply bear babies to eat horses, Li Cheng obviously did not treat the people as people, according to the habits of the time, the camp of the people is set up outside the army, the dense and tattered camp tents will surround the entire military camp tightly, countless people with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the miserable people who are tossed are running back and forth in the drizzle, transporting the items needed in the military camp.

Yue Fei looked at the ground for a moment, already frowning.

Gao Chong stood beside him, through the dim rain curtain, he saw that there seemed to be movement in the camp, he knew that the enemy had been tossed by himself these days, and he avoided fighting, the enemy camp was arrogant, and when he saw the Song army, he chased and beat fiercely, and he was not afraid at all. He was afraid that the enemy would rush out, and he didn't care, but if Yue Fei had to make a mistake, it would be a great deal. Therefore, he watched Yue Fei for a while, and then persuaded: "Dashuai, the left and right are like this, you don't need to look at it anymore, right?" ”

Yue Fei ignored him, but still looked closely, and after a while, a small group of cavalry had already rushed out from the opposite camp.

Gao Pet was in a hurry, and just about to persuade again, Yue Fei waved his hand and smiled: "You have been with me for so many years, when there were more than 100 of us, we dared to kill the generals of the Jin Kingdom in a formation of thousands of people, how could I have been afraid of anything, do you say that my martial arts are not as good as you." ”

Gao Zhong is also the most brave general in his army, saying that Yue Zhong once made up the story of his pick a pulley, although the story is nonsense, but it also highlights that this person's martial arts are far beyond ordinary people, and he is also a first-class good hand in the Yue family's army, which is like a cloud.

It's just that although he is brave, he is still inferior to Yue Fei, remembering that when Yue Fei raised troops that day, he often attacked more with less and rushed ahead, and he didn't feel that he was also smiling.

just smiled, but still persuaded: "Dashuai is responsible for his responsibilities at this time, and he can't take risks." Rush to kill the ground, just hand it over to the last general. ”

Yue Fei didn't pay attention to him, just stood still, and after a while, the shouting enemy soldiers rushed closer and closer, Yue Fei saw that the other party only had a few hundred people and dared to do this, and frowned unconsciously and said: "It's right for you to avoid fighting and not startling the snake, but if you don't give them some strength, the other party will arouse the morale of the other party."

The big war is coming, so there's no need to be polite. ”

After that, he took off the bow and arrow on the side of the horse's belly, opened the bow, took a slight aim, and the sharp arrow flew out with a whizz, only to hear a plop, and the nearest pseudo-Qi cavalry on the opposite side had already landed with a bang.

The cavalry on the opposite side was shocked, but the arrogance of the past few days prompted them to continue to move forward, Yue Fei snorted coldly and continued to shoot arrows, and every time the arrow passed, a person landed.

He is a famous strong archer, who can open a five-stone hard bow, and in the Song army at that time, Ren is Gao Chong, Zhang Xian, Yang Zaixing, these generals who are famous for their martial arts, and they cannot be compared with him in archery. In the entire army, only Han Shizhong can be compared to him.

The cavalry on the opposite side was still far away, and he had already shot down a dozen people, and the rest of the cavalry were terrified, and leaned on their horses and bowed their heads to urge the horses to hurry forward, hoping to approach this terrible archer earlier.

Gao Zhong knew Yue Fei's intentions, and in the past few days, he was afraid of startling the grass and snakes and dragging the enemy here, so he avoided it and did not fight. And the main force is coming, there will be a big battle in a day or two, at this time the battle will defeat the enemy's sharpness, and when the main force will fight in two days, you can save a lot of effort. Because he saw that the enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, but the number was only a few hundred horses, he and Yue Fei's personal soldiers were all elite in the army, and there were more than 400 cavalry, which was more than enough to deal with these cavalry.

In an instant, the two cavalry collided together.

Cavalry battles are like steel collisions, and the victory and defeat are only between one and the other, so in daily training, in addition to equestrianism, uphill, and spearmanship, the most practiced is a shot between the faces. The shot should be steady and accurate, the battlefield is not as good as the school field, high-speed hedging, mental tension, between the first and the other, either he dies or I die, so whether the cavalry is good or not, the test is the collision of the first one.

Obviously, Yue Fei and Gao Pet's personal guards are the elite of the elite, and the quality of the cavalry on the opposite side is only afraid that even the ordinary Tabai and Youyi are far inferior, as soon as they meet, more than 100 people have fallen under the horse, and the rest of the cavalry are frightened, although they were lucky to leave their lives for a while, and they wanted to turn the horse and escape back, but they were greeted by countless spears and iron spears, as well as sabers, iron whips, and even iron hammers and maces, and they were smashed into meat sauce in a few strokes.

There was obviously a big accident in the enemy camp, and originally he just wanted to send out cavalry to drive away this small group of Song troops who came to harass him, as usual, there would be no surprises. Who knew that in the blink of an eye, all the five or six hundred cavalry had been killed, and none of them had escaped. Only a few hundred horses have lost their owners, and they roam the battlefield filled with the smell of fresh blood.