"Marshal, go quickly, the front is broken!"

Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Xiyin had just left the city, and before they could organize the retreat of the troops outside the city, the golden soldiers on the city wall suddenly collapsed en masse.

The two sides fought on the wall several meters wide, and the death of the commander in the rear actually had little impact. Because the Jin soldiers in the front row are very likely to not know who was killed in the back, they will only subconsciously line up to fight.

At this time, sniping front-line grassroots officers is more effective than sniping generals.

The collapse of Jin Bing this time stemmed from Liu Jizhong's killing of a small officer. In the case of the death of the grassroots commander, the Jin soldiers were advanced by the heavy infantry of the Ming army, and the formation was unstable and retreated.

The former enemy general who succeeded Yelu Ma Wu was also a Liao general, called Yelu Duo.

He learned the lessons of the previous two, never dared to show his head again, crouched and hid against the female wall, perceived the battlefield through the oral description of his own soldiers, and let the herald wave the flag to command.

When the fighting Jin soldiers were defeated, Jerodor did not react, and the reserves in the back row also collapsed.

It was impossible to effectively escape after the rout, because the horse road and the city wall further east also stood a large number of defending reserves. The scattered Jin soldiers were extremely panicked, headless and brainless to crash into the friendly army, despair seemed to be contagious, and a team of Jin soldiers turned around and fled.

Of these Jin soldiers defending the city, very few came from the Jurchen tribe, and the main body was the Khitan tribe, as well as many Bohai tribes and Xi tribes.

They were able to snipe with flank muskets and advance with frontal heavy infantry, and they have been very strong and brave until now.

Even if they are all replaced by Jurchen soldiers, I am afraid there is not much difference.

Seeing several teams of Jin soldiers fleeing, Wanyan Zongwang panicked and mounted his horse, rode along the east city wall to the north city wall, and then ran from the horse path of the north city wall to the north city gate.

"Open the gates!"

With the roar of Wanyan Zongwang, the city gate and the outer city gate of the urn city in the north opened one after another.

Wanyan Zongwang rushed out with his own soldiers, and then stepped on the pontoon bridge in the northwest of the manuscript city to cross the river.

After crossing the river, he did not flee again, but erected a big banner by the river, blew a trumpet and gathered troops.

Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Yanmu, Wanyan Tart Lazy and others originally planned to retreat in an orderly manner outside the city. The Jin soldiers defending the city collapsed in advance, so they didn't have time to arrange more, so they let all the Hebei Han troops go up first, and then turned around and left with the Jin State Foot Cavalry.

Those Hebei Han soldiers were not stupid, they had already discovered that something was wrong, and they stepped forward because of the deterrence of the Jin soldiers.

When they saw that the Ming army disarmed the chariot formation and rushed out, the Jin Guobu cavalry was evacuating again, and nearly 20,000 Hebei Han troops immediately broke and fled. Many generals of the Han army, even with their direct troops, threw away their weapons and knelt on the spot.

But there were still too many scattered Hebei Han troops, even if their generals had surrendered, the soldiers still subconsciously scattered and fled.

Countless routs blocked the battlefield and seriously interfered with the pursuit of the Ming army.

"Your Highness, the last general requests to hunt down the enemy army!" Wang Yan said on one knee.

Zhu Ming was still observing with a telescope: "Although the Jin infantry withdrew very chaotically, the Jin cavalry was calm. These cavalry retreated alternately, and once our army lost its formation during the chase, the Jin cavalry would definitely fight back with all their might. Ordered all the troops not to pursue the foot soldiers, and to send cavalry to collect and surrender the Han army. ”

Li Yanxian personally led 5,000 cavalry to rush out to intercept, divide, and surrender the scattered Hebei Han soldiers.

The infantry of the Ming army, which had already been chased out, also received military orders to withdraw to the camp one after another.

Wanyan Yan's mother led the people and horses of the headquarters to retreat to the river, and after waiting for a while, he was a little impatient, and he rode to Wanyan Tart: "Prince Zhu is calm with his troops, and our army's 20,000 Han soldiers are defeated. What to do? ”

"What else can I do?" Wan Yan tart lazily said, "Let's ride across the river in batches, and then tear down all the pontoon bridges!" ”

The Jin troops who attacked the Ming army camp, in addition to those who had been killed in battle, there were also those Han soldiers who were scattered, and the rest of the infantry and cavalry all withdrew from the battlefield in a calm and orderly manner.

Li Yanxian led 5,000 cavalry, surrendered and captured tens of thousands of Hebei Han troops, and then began to divide his troops to approach and observe the main force of the Jin soldiers.

Wanyan Tart Lazy immediately sent thousands of gold horsemen to kill, but Li Yanxian was reluctant to engage in the battle, and retreated while shooting arrows. The Jin cavalry did not pursue either, and again withdrew to the vicinity of the river bank.

When about half of the main force of the Jin soldiers crossed the river, Li Yanxian said to the heralds: "Report to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

The heralds rode for a while, then waved their flags.

"All the troops are out of battle!"

Zhu Ming finally ordered.

More than 20,000 Ming troops left the camp one after another, only maintaining the basic formation and trotting forward.

By the time the Ming army approached the pontoon bridges, more than two-thirds of the Jin soldiers had crossed the river.

Half-crossed!

Wanyan Xiyin and other Jin generals let the remaining cavalry and Jurchen infantry quickly cross the pontoon bridge, and divided the Bohai, Xiren, Khitan, and Liaodong Han infantry to guard the bridge.

When the Ming army began to attack, more than 6,000 infantry of various ethnic groups remained on the east bank.

"Bang bang bang!"

Nearly 2,000 musketeers, jumping off their horses, fired freely.

The Ming cavalry and infantry crossbowmen also shot arrows at those golden soldiers.

The more than 6,000 Jin infantry were frightened and had no courage to fight at all, so they turned around and rushed onto the pontoon bridge to escape.

The sound of "poof" was endless, and the Jin infantry pushed each other to flee for their lives, falling into the water like dumplings.

"Destroy the bridge!"

After Yan Xiyin gave an order, the Jin soldiers, who had already crossed the river, ran to destroy the more than ten pontoon bridges.

Liu Yanzong, Gao Jingshan, Xiao Qing and other generals of various ethnic groups all looked gloomy and full of resentment when they saw the tragic situation of their clansmen. The Jurchen soldiers all withdrew, but the Liaodong Han soldiers, Bohai soldiers, and Khitan soldiers suffered heavy losses.

Of the more than 6,000 infantry of all ethnic groups in the Jin Kingdom, most of them fell into the river, except for those who were captured and beheaded.

The temperature is already so low that it is almost snowing, and those infantry are wearing armor, where is there any chance of survival?

Inside the city.

Kong Yanzhou was the first to flee, and some of the soldiers under his command even reached out to grab the goods in the basket when they fled—those treasures were used by Wanyan Zongwang to reward the soldiers who defended the city.

But they didn't have to flee far before they were intercepted by the Jurchen Governor's team, and more than 30 routs were killed on the spot.

Kong Yanzhou trembled and led his troops back, but before he arrived at the battlefield, he encountered the collapse of the defending troops, so he was so frightened that he turned around and fled again.

The heavily armored guards of the Ming army could not chase, so they took off their helmets and rested against the city wall.

A large number of elite Ming soldiers entered the city from the horse road to open the gates of the urn city. Finding that it had been opened, the golden soldiers guarding the urn city all ran away, and they hurriedly opened the main gate to welcome more friendly troops under the city to enter.

Thousands of Ming troops ran in pursuit, passing through the north and west gates, and killing the pontoon bridge over there.

Kong Yanzhou wanted to go up to the pontoon bridge with the rout, but he saw a Xi general rushing over, and he raised his knife and cut it. The general scolded angrily: "What kind of dog are you? Hurry back and fight the enemy! ”

"Yes...... It's ......"

Kong Yanzhou cried with a sad face, watching the Jin soldiers occupy the pontoon bridge and cross the river, but he and his subordinates could only stand by in place.

"Kill!"

The shouts of the Ming army were approaching, and the Jin infantry accelerated to escape, and from time to time someone was squeezed and fell into the river.

A team of Ming troops was still more than ten steps away, Kong Yanzhou knelt down with a puff, kowtowed and shouted: "Long live the Ming Dynasty, long live the official family, long live the prince!" ”

"Long live Daming!"

"Long live the official family!"

"Long live the Prince!"

The soldiers under Kong Yanzhou's command also shouted in a mess.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The captain of the Ming army who led the troops to chase after him raised his gun and poked at these guys, so frightened that Kong Yanzhou hurriedly climbed to avoid it.

These guys shrank in the corner of the wall tremblingly, not daring to join any side, watching the Ming army kill the Jin soldiers who had not yet crossed the river.

"Destroy the bridge!"

Wanyan Zongwang, who was standing on horseback on the other side of the river, soon gave the same order. The more than 1,000 Jin infantry who had not yet crossed the river were either buried in the belly of the fish or beheaded by the Ming army.

The Jin people suffered heavy losses in this battle, more than 20,000 Hebei Han troops were wiped out, soldiers of all ethnic groups were killed and captured, and more than 10,000 were captured, and four lilies were also buried.

The only thing that is acceptable is that the Jurchen soldiers suffered few casualties.

All the grain and grass in the manuscript city were captured by the Ming army.

The baggage in the camp on the west bank of the sleeping water, the Jin soldiers did not dare to take it away, and tried to burn it all away if they couldn't take it.

Zhu Ming asked the craftsmen to build a pontoon bridge, immediately led the troops across the river, and found that the Jin Bing camp was in flames, and hurriedly sent troops to rescue the grain and grass inside.

Li Yanxian led the cavalry to continue the pursuit, but there were too many Jin cavalry to effectively retain the enemy, and the main force of the Jin soldiers successfully crossed the Hutuo River east of Zhending.

Wanyan Zongwang also brought the remnants of the army to converge, and hurried to the city of Zhendingfu, but saw the "Ming" flag fluttering at the head of the city.

But last night, Guan Sheng, Yue Fei, Li Qiong, and Li Shifu rushed to Zhending with 2,000 soldiers on horseback.

Moreover, armor is not worn.

They crossed the river from Zhaozhou to the west bank of the river, ran all the way to the foot of Fenglong Mountain further northwest, bypassing Luancheng to avoid the Jin soldiers and quickly headed north.

At dawn, arrive at the southern suburbs of Zhendingfu City.

Carrying the icy water, he swam across the Hutuo River on horseback, and then set fire to a large number of houses outside the city.

Due to the rampant Jin people and the brutality of the puppet court, even the Zhending Mansion withered in the people's livelihood, one-third of the Fuguo houses were empty, and many people fled to Zhaozhou under the Ming Dynasty.

After the fire, the Ming army shouted in unison: "The Jin soldiers have been defeated, and the second prince (Wanyan Zongwang) is dead!" ”

The people who lived in the vicinity of Guo woke up from their dreams, and when they heard the shouts, they went out to check, and when they saw that there were fires burning everywhere, they were so frightened that they fled around the city to the north.

The small number of Jurchen soldiers who stayed behind hurriedly took up arms to defend the city, and ordered the Hebei Han army to also go to the city to defend.

Liu Yu and his son heard the sound, and soon received a military order, asking them to quickly lead the troops to fight.

"Father, how is this good?" Liu Lin asked.

Liu Yu was also terrified, and muttered: "If the Jin soldiers are not defeated, we will definitely be punished if we escape." If the Jin soldiers are defeated, staying and defending the city is a dead end. Anyway, get the little emperor first! ”

The general who commanded the forbidden army in the imperial city has been replaced by Liu Yu's nephew Liu Yi.

While sending troops to guard the city wall, the father and son rode to the palace on horseback, and asked Liu Yi to lead the troops to "protect" the queen mother and the emperor.

Halfway through, there was a sudden fire in the city, and there were more than one fire.

Liu Lin exclaimed: "There are enemy troops in the city!" ”

Liu Yu said angrily: "What is the internal response?" must be an important minister of the court who is not satisfied with me, and sends henchmen and slaves to set fire everywhere. ”

At this moment, a group of routs rushed.

When the leader saw Liu Yu, he immediately cried and shouted: "Xianggong, Wang Shan's fight is reversed, and Yang Jin and Li Gui also rebel!" ”

Wang Shan, Yang Jin, and Li Gui were all leaders of Hebei thieves, and they voted for Zongze in history. This time and space was recruited by the puppet puppet dynasty, and because of their bad reputation, they were considered credible by Wanyan Zongwang, and they were left to be stationed in Zhending Mansion.

When Liu Yu heard that the three generals were all opposed, he was immediately trembling with fright: "Hurry up and take the Queen Mother and Your Majesty out of the city!" ”

They rushed towards the palace, and their nephew Liu Yi was ready, taking the crying queen mother and the little emperor in a daze, and led the troops out of the northwest gate to Lingshou County, which was more than 30 miles away.

Wang Shan opened the southeast gate and welcomed Yue Fei and others into the city.

The city gate was lost, the fire broke out inside and outside the city, and the Han soldiers in the city either defected or fled, and the Jin soldiers who stayed behind were suspicious and fled back to the city to find Shi Liai.

Shi Liai has a set of civil affairs, but he doesn't understand how to fight.

Seeing that there was chaos in the city, and learned that Liu Yu had run away with the queen mother and the emperor, he led these golden soldiers to chase Liu Yu.

"What to do? What to do......"

Zhang Bangchang walked around the study, anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

He wanted to stay and join the Ming Dynasty, but he was afraid of being liquidated by his former political enemies. There are many ministers there who have old grudges with themselves, and they will definitely be killed if they go to Tokyo, and I heard that the Zhang family has been exiled by the family, and I don't know if this news is true or not.

It's not good to continue to follow Jin Ren to escape, that Liu Yu is too shameless!

Zhang Bangchang seemed to have difficulty choosing, and he was entangled in the study, not going to welcome the Ming army into the city, nor taking advantage of the chaos to slip away.

Since Liu Yu attacked Huang Qianshan, most of the important ministers in the puppet court are Liu Yu's henchmen. These guys all packed up and fled with Liu Yu.

Among the remaining central ministers, Zhang Bangchang has the highest official position, followed by Dong Ti, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhang Bangchang did not come forward, but Dong Ti took the opportunity to stand up.

Dong Ti sent people to contact officials everywhere, called a group of officials to his house, and said: "There are two fires in the city, which I sent people to set them, and I have already returned to the Ming court." Officials below the sixth grade immediately led people to put out fires in the city. Officials above the sixth grade, follow me to meet the heavenly soldiers! ”

(End of chapter)