The night began to fall, countless soldiers with torches shouted and shouted, continued to chase and fight in the night, the Jin soldiers were defeated, they had turned from rout to rout, the weapons of the first battle were discarded on the way, everyone ran away, no one dared to fight back the Song army, or organize the troops to delay the Song army's pursuit footsteps. This battle from morning to night, has knocked out the spirit of all the soldiers participating in the battle, and the winner's side, because of the great victory, can barely lift the spirit, swing the knife to chase and slash, the loser's side, the whole body has been drained of strength, only one thought, is to escape.

Chase, escape, chase, slash.

After a hard battle, and a great victory, the Song army worked hard and never gave the Jin soldiers the opportunity to adjust their life and reorganize their teams. Not only did the Beiwei army chase and kill all the enemy troops, but the two armies of Shengjie and Destroying Feng also took off their heavy armor one after another, regardless of physical exhaustion, and the soldiers also held their swords behind, killing the remnants of the cavalry, and collecting prisoners of war and strictly guarding them.

At the same time, Yue Fei also ordered one after another, ordering the two armies of Tabai and Youpo, who were far away near Shangzhou, to quickly retreat and encircle Kaifeng together with the army.

The battle of the Jin soldiers was a fiasco, even if Zong Bi collected the remnants, he was absolutely not capable of fighting with the Song army in the field, after this battle, either he gathered the remnants and retreated to Kaifeng, or he quickly fled to the north and joined up with most of the Jin soldiers north of the Yellow River in order to fight again.

However, in the first battle of Yingchang, the Jin soldiers gathered all the forces of Tiefutu and Kidnapping Horses with 60,000 households of the three kings, and finally only ended in a fiasco, even if they could escape back to the north of the Yellow River and use the remaining Jin soldiers' combat strength in Hebei, they were definitely not the opponents of Yue Fei's department. What's more, there are still hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in formation, just waiting for Zong Bi to break into Henan, and then cut off his back road and completely wipe out the living force of the Jin soldiers.

This chase lasted until late at night, and the officers and men of the three armies were exhausted and could no longer support it. Just stopped. When dawn broke in the east the next day, Yue Fei ordered the three armies to rest in place for the time being, without having to return to the camp, and at the same time ordered the logistics officers to urgently deploy supplies, food, meat, and medicine. and the replacement of battle-damaged armor and weapons. Then transport the wounded soldiers back.

The more urgent task is to chase and fight fiercely and not give the enemy a chance to breathe, and the second is to check the results of the battle, and after obtaining the exact information, summarize and report to Chang'an, so as to carry out the next step of the battle plan.

Yue Fei was also extremely tired, and after a day of fighting, he braved the arrows and stones several times and was in the battle array. Slay the enemy with your own hands. As a commander-in-chief, he also needs to coordinate and command the overall situation, which is extremely draining. In the middle of the night, he was surrounded by his own soldiers. Find a place on the battlefield and take a hasty rest, after dawn. He ordered the whole army to pick up the dead and wounded, and the generals and their subordinates rested on the spot while presenting him with a battle report so that he could summarize and report.

Li Ruoxu joined the army as his chief strategist, and seeing that the commander was so tired, he had to step forward and listen to the battle reports from the various departments. Yue Fei was only half-inclined on a dirt slope—lying down and listening, while recovering his mental strength. While thinking about the next step.

Yesterday's battle, the troops invested by the Jin soldiers. When there were about 45,000 people, three kings and 60,000 households, the powerful army formed by the pure northern iron cavalry was defeated in the face of the Song army, which was less than 30,000 people. According to preliminary battlefield statistics, there are about 6,000 to 8,000 corpses left on the battlefield that stretches for dozens of miles.

There were also more than 2,000 captured Jurchen soldiers, who had returned to the city of Yingchang Mansion at this time and were strictly guarded. In addition, there are countless weapons, not a lot of materials such as grain and grass, the Jin soldiers came suddenly, and the materials were not much, and the Song soldiers naturally did not get much.

What made the whole army smile even more was naturally the more than 4,000 war horses captured on the battlefield. These war horses are used by the elite cavalry of the golden soldiers, and the war horses obtained in Chang'an are not the same, the Song army has horses is not easy, and the excellent war horses are even more rare, with this harvest, naturally the Song army soldiers are ecstatic.

In addition, what made Yue Fei himself even more pleased was the number of enemy generals and middle-level officers killed in this battle, which was unique since the Song and Jin wars.

Among the ten thousand commanders, there was first Saba in the encounter with the Beiwei army, beheaded by Yang Zaixing, and then there was the abduction of the horse under the command, Zong Bi's son-in-law Xia Jinwu took the lead, rushed to the front, was a small colonel officer of the Shengjie army, an axe to stop the waist and split, the whole person was broken into two, becoming the second Jin country Wanhu officer who died on the battlefield, Wanhu sticky sweat was wounded by an arrow, struggled to escape more than ten miles, fell to the ground, and died of serious injuries. The rest of the commanders were killed by five people, three were captured, and officers of all ranks, a total of seventy-eight people were captured.

These officers have been in the army for many years, even if it is a small centurion, they may have been with Yan Agu when they started the army, and they are the mainstays of the Jurchen soldiers, it can be said that the 1,800 casualties of ordinary soldiers in Neyi are not comparable to the losses of such an officer being captured or killed in battle.

What made the Jin country even more heartbroken was that the entire army of Tiefutu was wiped out, and the kidnappers and horses were almost completely lost, coupled with the loss of thousands of personal guards and horses, the Jin soldiers almost completely lost their field combat ability and mobile strength in the Central Plains of Henan.

After Yue Fei checked the opponent's losses, he did not hesitate, gathered the remnants of the three armies, rested for half a day, continued to chase and fight, and in the territory of Linying, he defeated the thousands of gold soldiers who had just been re-knotted again, killed hundreds, captured hundreds of enemies, and captured more than 100 horses. After that, the armies of Tabai and Youyi came to converge from Shangzhou, and Wang Gui led the troops to return to the territory of Bo Kaifeng, echoing with Yue Fei from afar.

After successive victories, it is natural to play the center of the imperial court, and the next military measures will naturally be intensively deployed by the cardinal. Yue Fei won an unexpected result in this battle, originally with the idea of the center and Zhao Huan, the Jin soldiers naturally wanted to rescue Kaifeng and fight a decisive battle with Yue Fei's main force. Unexpectedly, the situation developed to this point, the Jin soldiers raided with elite cavalry, and lost most of the main force in the first battle, although they escaped a lot, it was impossible to fight again in the short term. And the two elite troops that Zong Bi relied on to gain a foothold in the Jin State, Tie Futu and Kidnapping Horse, were all wiped out, and in such a situation, the original deployment and command naturally had to change course and adapt to the evolution of the overall situation.

The main forces of the Yue army gathered and gathered near Kaifeng, and in the entire Central Plains, except for a few lonely cities near Kaifeng, there was no place for the Jurchens to stand. As soon as the Song army in Tongguan knew that Yue Fei and the Jin soldiers were fighting a decisive battle, they had already made rapid efforts, broke through the barrier between the two armies, and joined Yue Fei's division victoriously, nearly 200,000 troops were stationed in the Central Plains of Tun, Yue Fei's department captured Kaifeng, and the Song army in Tongguan had already begun to plan to cross the river, build a number of pontoon bridges, and prepare the army to cross the river more than once, and meet the Song army in the direction of Taiyuan, which broke into Hebei to fight.

At the same time, Han Shizhong and other troops also seized the entire territory of Shandong, facing the Jin people across the river, and they could also carry out the next step with the development of the war situation.

It can be said that the whole battle is already being carried out towards the plan of the entire Senate, and the first phase of the battle entrusted to Yue Fei has not only been successfully completed, but also achieved unexpected results. The rest is whether the war of the forbidden army in Hebei in the direction of Taiyuan can achieve miraculous results, completely disrupt the enemy, make it impossible to inherit the end of the line, and even cause chaos in the whole country.

Because the war is in full swing, Zhao Huan can no longer live in Chang'an, the government affairs in the south, logistics support, with Li Gang, an old minister in charge, he can be completely assured, and Chang'an has Zhao Kai and others, which is enough to be trusted. Since Yue Fei entered the Central Plains, after the frequent good news, Zhao Huan ordered the establishment of a platform in Taiyuan, and sent Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding and others over, and so the war was anxious, and when the number of changes was instantaneous, although many privy secrets were all in Taiyuan, in the end it was too important, and many things could only be consulted after Zhao Huan, and then implemented, official documents went back and forth, wasting time, such a national war, although Zhao Huan felt that he did not have to go to the expedition in person, but also felt that with the current communication conditions, relying on carrier pigeons or war horses to transmit information, he could not be completely assured, at the end of April, Just when Yue Fei was about to fight a decisive battle with Zong Bi, he led the entire privy team, including all the hundreds of senators, plus the garrison of the three armies in Chang'an, as well as most of the guards in front of the palace, tens of thousands of horses and horses flocked around him, in the name of pro-conquest of Tongguan to deal with the front, the mighty out of Chang'an, when he arrived at Dehezhongfu, crossed the river from Longmen, entered the territory of Hedong, and quickly hurried, and in a few days, he had already arrived in Taiyuan City.

Although Taiyuan has been repeatedly fired, it has also been reborn from the ashes. Over the past year or so, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have worked hard to repair it, although this city cannot be compared with the heyday of Jinyang today, and before it was destroyed, it is not the same. Dozens of miles of city walls are built along the Weishui surrounding, the enemy tower city is standing tall, countless beds and crossbows are strong, coldly facing the endless desert plains, plus the forbidden army armor soldiers in the forest, this important town in the east of the river has been incomparable with Jingkang in the second year, and the tragedy of tens of thousands of gold soldiers besieging and breaking the city can never happen again.

Knowing that the emperor was coming, many envoys and generals in the city went to the city gate to greet each other, everyone bowed on both sides of the city gate, Zhao Huan was in the car, saw everyone coming to greet him, he put down the car window, and greeted everyone with a smile. And the military generals near the city gate, together with hundreds of thousands of forbidden soldiers and ordinary people, saw clearly, thinking that the emperor was prosperous in the world, wise and martial, and he would definitely be able to defeat the Jin soldiers and restore the rivers and mountains, everyone was excited, and shouted hello one after another, and the voice of long live resounded in the sky.

In the city, because most of the whole city is rebuilt, Taiyuan is the capital of Hedong Road, and the transfer in the city makes the official office very majestic, so it is temporarily used as a palace. After the front team of the palace searched and cleared the field and confirmed that it was safe, Zhao Huan did not have time to rest, so he immediately ordered to meet the generals above the command level in the city, as well as all the cardinal envoys.

After Zhang Jun and the others came in turn, Zhao Huan didn't have time to say much after they greeted them, so he asked Yu Yunwen: "What is the situation over there in Taihang?" ”