The generals of the Jin State, who gathered not far from the west gate of Chang'an, were composed of five Jurchen households and one Han household. Six thousand households, with more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, all composed of cavalry, after quietly crossing the turbulent Yellow River with a sheepskin raft, quickly took Longkou, and within three days, swept the entire Hezhong Mansion of the Song Dynasty, four counties and one mansion, fell into the bag, five or six thousand defenders, none of them could escape, all were killed.

All the local officials were also captured.

Because of the fear of leaking the news, Chang'an was on guard, and was worried that the emperor of the Song Dynasty would flee early, and the Jin soldiers who continued to fight did not rest, after defeating the Hezhong Mansion, but a few hours later, the whole army began to gallop along the official road, and all the Song people encountered along the way were all shot and killed.

After four days of marching from the river, the Jin soldiers encountered a small force of cavalry that had come from Chang'an City to sentry. Although the Jin soldiers desperately pursued, the two generals and the cavalry under their command from the city were all the elite of the forbidden army in Chang'an City.

In this way, the news will definitely leak, and the previous efforts will be in vain. And the most critical point is to do it, if the enemy uses elite cavalry to escort the emperor and escapes, and then he can't catch up, then even if he takes Chang'an and annihilates 200,000 elite Western troops, it will not be considered a successful completion of this battle plan.

For the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River, Guanzhong in Sichuan, and Jinghu Lake, where there are many mountains and steep or dense water networks, the upper echelons of the Jin State really do not have the confidence to conquer them by complete force.

As long as the emperor of the Song Dynasty is captured again, Zhao Gou is dead, and there is no near branch clan in the Song Dynasty to support him, and the hearts of the army and the people will be chaotic.

Such calculations. Still in the early spring, in the Bo Jilie meeting convened by Wanyan Wu Qimai, Wanyan Zongbi denied the proposal of Wanyan Zongjun and others to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty, and tried his best to fight the main battle, and proposed to defeat Guanzhong and eliminate the Song Dynasty's armed forces in the Guanshan Liulu area, so that the Song people could only compete with the Jin State in Jiangzhun and Jinghu, and the room for strategic maneuver was further reduced. A large number of elite forbidden troops were wiped out, and if Zhao Huan could be captured again in a quick raid, the Song Dynasty would be at his fingertips.

The whole strategy is carried out with a perfect layout and exquisite calculations.

Still in the early spring of March, the entire land of Liaodong with white mountains and black waters boiled, down to sixteen, up to sixty, countless Jurchen archers who were ignorant and never knew what the battle was, were recruited from the tribe and changed into battle robes. Pick up your bow and arrows and the knives and guns issued by the government. Riding a war horse, first gathered to Shangjing, and then to Youyan. Thousands of miles of land, countless fishing and hunting masters have transformed into elite warriors.

In the face of the looting achievements of the predecessors, in front of the scenery of the Wanyan Jurchen today, these tribal hunters, who were originally simple and kind, or closed and backward, immediately geared up, fantasizing about killing the rich territory of the Central Plains and robbing gold and silver, silk, porcelain, iron tools, and women. In their eyes, the Central Plains Flower World, Jiangnan is like a paradise, as long as everyone rushes to kill for a while, you can grab a special robbery, and when the time comes, you will be full of harvest and return to your hometown proudly, just like going to the forest to hunt and hunt a tiger. When you go home, you have as much scenery as you want.

Such an intensity of mobilization did not reach such intensity even when the Jurchens attacked the Song Dynasty for the second time.

In the middle of summer, the pure Jurchen warriors mobilized and deployed in Yanyun, Hedong, and Hebei have exceeded 100,000, and such a scale has not been reached in the battle of life and death between Jin and Liao.

In addition to the Jurchen warriors, there are more than a dozen Khitan, Bohai, and Han people, with a total of 200,000 troops, from Hedong and Hebei, forming a huge pincer-shaped encirclement, among them, with almost all the Khitan and Bohai and Han armies, plus most of the Jurchen warriors, formed a strong main force outside Tongguan, giving the Song army in Guanshan the greatest pressure, forcing the other side to gather the main force in Tongguan.

At the same time, the Hedong side, composed of elite cavalry of various ethnic groups, forcibly crossed the Yellow River and raided Chang'an by using a large number of rafts prepared for a long time.

This strategy, after careful consideration, is absolutely flawless and flawless.

The huge frontal pressure forced the Song army to be able to deal with it with the main force, and even the main force was gathered, and in the face of the Jin soldiers who had been prepared, it could not be guaranteed.

And the main force gathers in Tongguan, then the pass must be empty.

There is only one shortcoming in this approach, that is, Zhao Huan may escape in advance.

This is also the biggest concern of the upper echelons of the Jin country. The escape skills of the emperor of the Song Dynasty had already been learned when Yan Zonghan chased Zhao Gou last year.

Zhao Gou fled from Yangzhou, to Jiankang, to Lin'an, and then fled to the sea. The Jin soldiers were not tolerant of the southern climate, water and soil, as long as they retreated, Zhao Gou made a comeback as the emperor, and he lost all his land and reverted to the confrontation posture of the Jin soldiers.

Because of this, when arranging the troops of the Hedong Breakthrough, all the siege equipment and other auxiliary facilities were abandoned, in order to block Zhao Huan in Chang'an City, if the other party slipped too fast, the pure cavalry chased after him, and it was very likely that Zhao Huan could not stand on his feet at all, and even be chased on the way.

Whether Zhao Huan would be as brave as Fuping in the First World War was not included in the consideration of the Jin people.

During the Fuping War, the main force of the Song army arrived, and Zhao Huan had just fled back from the north, which was a move to recruit into the army with his own relatives. There are even many Jurchen nobles who think that with Zhao Huan's past performance, it is difficult to say that he was willing to fight in Fuping, but it is very likely that he has just arrived in the Song Dynasty, and the war is about to break out.

Now that Zhao Gou is dead, Zhao Huan is dominant, he is bound to save his life, and his own safety is the first priority, how can he fight to the death with the enemy.

It was with this in mind that the Jurchen generals, who had just arrived at the city of Chang'an, saw that the garrison at the head of the city was not strict, and after discussion, they decided to start attacking.

Most of the emperor fled, so he attacked first, and if he attacked immediately, he would not delay time.

At the same time, they deployed troops to search the places outside Chang'an City, and asked for news to see what the movements in the city were in the past two days.

At this moment, the sound of long live the city head was loud, and everyone looked up, only to see the yellow umbrella and yellow hooves on the city head, and the figure was crowded, and with the movement of these emperors' special honor guards, the sound of the city head became louder and louder, and everyone approached a little closer to see, only to see the Song army in the red military uniform at the head of the city, there were some people who looked like Song Dynasty ministers, among which there was a yellow robe, the most conspicuous.

These Jurchen Wanhu in front of him, the most senior and the highest official position, are naturally Wanyan Sa Libu who has been guarding Taiyuan, Hedong, but when he invaded the Song Dynasty for the first time, he attacked Taiyuan with Wanyan Lou's room, and then went all the way west, and did not go to the city of Tokyo, and when Zhao Huan was captured, he did not see his people.

Mi watched it for a long time, but she didn't know the essentials, so she had to ask others: "Is it the dog emperor of the Song Dynasty?" ”

Beside him, in order, were Wanyan Living Girl, Wanyan Yinshuke, Saba, Dragon and Tiger King, and Han Chang of the Han Army. He couldn't see clearly, and the rest of them couldn't be sure.

Han Chang lost one eye in the first battle of Fuping, and looked at it with one eye for a long time, although he felt that his body shape was similar to Zhao Huan, but he couldn't be sure.

He was anxious in his heart, and he shouted angrily, "Damn it, wait for me to come closer." ”

After that, he didn't wait for others to answer, he grabbed the horse's belly fiercely, and galloped towards the city gate.

Seeing him like this, Wanyan Huonu also stepped forward, but was stopped by Wanyan Sali and shouted to him: "Are you looking for death, there are so many archers in the city!" ”

Wanyan was very unconvinced, and replied: "A Han man is still so brave, our Jurchens can't let him compare?" ”

The meaning of his words was actually because he was scared and crying on the day of his resignation, and he refused to let the Han generals lose their prestige in front of the battle.

As soon as the words came out, Wan Yan Sa Libu first turned pale and was stunned for a moment, then let go of his hand and said with a smile: "Is this the case that your father marched to war?" Think about it for yourself, he was a hero in his life, is it such a brave horseman, or is it with unparalleled wisdom? ”

After speaking, he didn't care about him, and looked at Han Chang who was running all the way to the city.

Wanyan Huonu was dazed, and looked at Saba and the Dragon and Tiger King, but saw that these two people were squeezing their eyebrows at her, obviously there was something else.

He rode his horse a little closer, but heard Sama whisper to him: "These days, this Han Chang is arrogant and domineering, relying on the life of Marshal Du during the Fuping War, he often doesn't take us seriously. This person is so reckless, he has nothing to come back, we still have to blame him for being rash, there is any accident, but he also found it himself, no wonder us. ”

After Saba finished speaking, he smiled, and he couldn't care about the stunned Wanyan living girl, and also followed everyone's gaze, looking at Han Chang, who ignored the arrows shot from the city and rushed all the way forward.

At the beginning of his attack, the head of the city had not yet noticed, and when the Song army at the head of the city saw it, they were stunned for a while, and no one reacted.

It wasn't until Han Chang ran less than two hundred paces away, drove away, and tried to spy towards the city, that everyone realized that this madman actually ran under the city in front of countless soldiers and dense crossbow arrows.

The guard at the head of the city gave an order, first a few hundred people, and then thousands of people shot arrows together, towards Han Chang, who was swimming on horseback, and shot them together.

According to the theoretical distance between the Song Army's divine arm bow and the standard bow and arrow, the former is more than 300 paces, and the latter is also 170 paces, and Han Chang is within the shooting range of the archers at the head of the city no matter what.

It's just that theory is theory, more than a hundred steps apart, shooting individual units that keep swimming, although the arrows are like locusts, few of them really shoot within the distance of Han Chang's body.

While Han Chang was observing, he used the iron spear in his hand to dial the rain of arrows close to him, and he didn't take these arrows to heart.

When he saw clearly that the head of the city was indeed the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan, he was very proud, and when he turned around, he saw that several Jurchen households did not follow, and he was even more arrogant.