"The troops behind the enemy's palace, even if they are surrounded, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, fight to the end, they are definitely their most elite troops, such an army cannot be too many, and it can even be said that the elite of the enemy army in Dingzhou City has been completely wiped out! The remaining elite of the enemy army will not exceed this number, so we will win this battle! ”

Wanyan Zongwang puffed up and said.

Because of the addition of skin effects, Wanyan Zongwang couldn't tell from his clothes whether Dong Huang's army was elite or not, but the troops that could fight to the death to the point with a casualty rate of more than eighty percent must be absolutely elite, right?

Comparing the combat effectiveness of the Liao State, the leather room army of the Liao State does not have this kind of fighting will, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Liao State were beaten into dogs by 10,000 or 20,000 people of Dajin! And this army faced 20,000 or 30,000 Jin Guotian soldiers and fought back and forth, and would rather die than retreat.

In Wanyan Zongwang's opinion, this army is more tenacious and elite than the most elite troops of the Liao State, and it is no problem to calculate the combat power of this army as the strongest elite of the enemy army, right?

According to the elite ratio of the average army, this elite will not exceed one-tenth of the entire army, no problem, right?

And my Daikin army outperformed the elite of this army by more than six thousand, so this battle crushes the game, no problem, right?

"Xi Gunai and I attacked the enemy's reinforcements and took advantage of the situation to seize the two cities on the south bank of the Yalu River; If the enemy dares to go out of the city, destroy them and capture the city! ”

Wanyan Zongwang arranged.

Wanyan Xi Gu Nai and Wanyan Po Lu Huo have no opinion.

They have been invincible since they started fighting with Wanyan Agu, and they have been raised with arrogance, and they never think that such an arrangement will fail.

Dayu? Isn't it also a country founded by cowardly southern barbarians?

What is there to be afraid of.

When Wu Ban commanded 40,000 Goryeo troops dressed in Yu skins to cross the river at a uniform pace, Wanyan Zongwang concluded that this must be a reinforcement from Dayu.

Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Xigu Nai's troops launched a surprise attack on the river-crossing troops as planned.

The small 20,000 Goryeo troops who crossed the river were immediately frightened when they saw the tens of thousands of cavalry rushing towards them, but when they thought that Dayu's father was there behind them, they regained a little bit of courage, and they trembled and raised their spears.

The cavalry rushed into the spear formation, which was naturally extremely disadvantaged in theory, but Wanyan Zongwang, who led the troops in front, had never seen any battles, so he first ordered the army to shoot a wave of arrows, wanting to take advantage of this wave of commotion to find out the weak point of the Yu army, and then rushed into the formation with all his might.

However, to Wanyan Zongwang's surprise, these Yu soldiers did not give him a chance to shoot a second arrow.

The courage given to the Goryeo soldiers by Dayu's father was exhausted after the first wave of arrows, and the vast majority of the Goryeo soldiers obviously did not have the courage to hold their spears and move like a mountain in the face of galloping horses and enemies that might kill them, and they were almost crushed at the touch of a button.

Immediately, the situation on the north bank of the Yalu River was out of control, and the scene was even more ugly than when Tong Guan fought against the water.

In the city of Dingzhou, Xu Huang saw the defeat of the reinforcements, and immediately led the troops out of the city.

Because of the defeat and retreat of Xu Huang's subordinate army, the morale of Xu Huang's subordinate was not particularly high, and Wanyan Po Lu Huo was not willing to use more than 2,000 Jurchen descendants as soon as he came up. The rookies on both sides pecked each other, and the battle was very anxious for a while.

This made Wanyan Po Lu Huo even more convinced that Xu Huang's department had no elite, and it also made him believe that Xu Huang was really in a hurry, and he was afraid that the reinforcements would be defeated.

Wanyan Po Lu Huo hurriedly sent a signal to Wanyan Zongwang, telling Wanyan Zongwang that he could attack boldly with confidence.

After getting the signal of Wanyan Po Lu Huo, Wanyan Zongwang, who had already discovered that the proportion of people who spoke Goryeo in these Dayu reinforcements was high and was suspicious, was also relieved.

[Maybe it's because Yu Guo has few soldiers and has to use a lot of Goryeo waste! ] 】

Wanyan Zongwang thought.

"Sons, the enemy army has no troops to send, so we can only send some Goryeo waste to fill the numbers, follow me across the riverbank, completely defeat the reinforcements of the Yu State, and take Baozhou!"

"After the city is broken, the knife will not be sealed, and the women's goods will be used!"

Wanyan Zongwang used the most effective means to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army in the era of cold weapons: burning, killing and looting.

In the era of cold weapons, the easiest way to create elite soldiers was to fight a few victories and slaughter a few cities.

Victory boosts the confidence of the army, while the slaughter of the city stimulates their bestiality and desire to continue fighting.

Only beastly nature, not afraid of death, this is an elite soldier!

As for the true sense of benevolence and righteousness, it cannot be said that there are none, but there are really not many.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

After hearing the reward promised by Yan Zongwang, Jin Bing suddenly went crazy, constantly impacting the bridge, and even wanted to drive the horse down the river in a hurry.

Seeing this scene, Wu Ban sneered in his heart, but he made a panicked look, and he couldn't even care about the banner falling and being trampled by the defeated soldiers, panicking like a lost dog.

Wanyan Zongwang knocked down Wu Banshuaiqi, and immediately laughed, and said left and right: "The Yu army is just a little stronger than the Liao army, and most of the generals are still the same virtue as the Liao army. ”

Wanyan Zongwang would never believe that anyone would be willing to use so many well-equipped troops as cannon fodder, not to mention that he felt that this force was no longer similar to the Liao army, and it was even possible to be stronger than the Liao army, which was in line with the level of the general regular army in this era.

In a sense, this can be regarded as an elite soldier. No one would really be so extravagant as to consume these elite soldiers, would they?

However, how could Wanyan Zongwang think that in order to achieve his goal, Xu Huang could even throw away the fine willow camp that he trained with his own hands as cannon fodder?

The madness of the Jin army and the escape of Wu Ban intensified the collapse of the servant army, but he only hated his father and mother for missing two legs, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, some were squeezed into the river by their companions, and some did not know where they ran.

The Jin army pursued the situation, chased for an hour, and chased Wu Ban and the defeated soldiers to the city of Baozhou, and wanted to chase Wu Ban into the city of Wanyan Zongwang, but found that Wu Ban hid in the infantry formation of about 10,000 people.

"Dare to line up?"

Wanyan Zongwang felt that something was wrong, but the defeat of the Yu army was too miserable before, forty or fifty thousand people said that it was gone, and when he saw the troops with the same armor but only more than 10,000 people, he still decided to rush again.

Maybe one wave will end the fight?

This time, Wanyan Po Luhuo led the troops to charge the formation.

However, to Wanyan Po Luhuo's horror, the cavalry under his command had not yet reached the range of fire, and the enemy's gun array could only shoot two waves of arrows.

a wave of divine arm bows, specializing in shooting people; A wave of heavy crossbowmen, specializing in shooting horses.

What Wanyan Po Lu Huo didn't know was that the Beiwei army under Yue Fei in another time and space liked to use this tactic, some people shot people and some horses, and then used long knives, heavy armor, and military formations to defend and kill, thus severely damaging the invincible cavalry of the Jin army.

After Yan Po Lu Huo, he left more than 1,000 soldiers, including at least 500 Jurchen elites.

However, this also aroused the courage of Wanyan Po Lu Huo, and the golden soldiers under his command also seemed to have received some bonus, and everyone rushed towards the Dayu army formation with angry eyes and fierce eyes and fearless death, and launched the first wave of arrow rain, which was even mixed with armor-piercing heavy arrows.

Under normal circumstances, whether it is the Goryeo army or the previous Liao army, when attacked by the rain of arrows, there will be commotion and even chaos, however, this army of no more than 10,000 people, although there are unlucky comrades around them who are injured or even killed, the others do not frown, and the melee troops holding Mo knives are not moving like a mountain and coldly waiting for the arrival of the cavalry, while the crossbowmen behind them calmly shoot the second wave of arrow rain.

Of course, Wanyan Po Lu Huo didn't know that the heavy cavalry under Dong Huang was basically all the elite of Liangzhou who swore allegiance to Dong Huang, while the heavy infantry were all fourth-order elite soldiers who had been exchanged.

Dong Huang, who has a full set of Han barracks and Nanban barracks, under Jia Xu's operation, exchanged almost 50,000 heavy infantry legions composed of the most powerful infantry of the Han Dynasty, such as the fourth-order royal forest spearmen, the royal forest sword and shield soldiers, the banner imperial guard tiger ben, the imperial guard infantry, and the imperial guard halberd soldiers.

This is also the reason why although there are only 5,000 such heavy infantry under Zhou Tai's command, he still dares to face the heavy cavalry of the Jin people head-on. And Wu Ban, who hid in the Zhou Tai army formation with a breath, entered the cavalry phalanx on both flanks with Wu Yi and Wu Lan, waiting for new fighters.

The second wave of arrow rain took away more than 1,000 people from Wanyan Po Lu Huo, but at this time, Wan Yan Po Lu Huo was already ready to send arrows.

The whole army of Wanyan Po Lu Huo accelerated and rushed head-on to the Dayu army before the third wave of arrow rain arrived.

According to the experience of Wanyan Po Lu Huo, even the most elite leather room army of the Great Liao Empire will definitely collapse at the touch of a touch in the face of the impact of the Dajin cavalry, not to mention that the previous Dayu army has already collapsed at the touch of a button.

However, in the face of the cavalry in front of them, the Dayu army just indifferently raised their swords and slashed.

The two strong armies collided together, some of them were shattered, and some were killed by the Jin army.

But at this moment, no one retreated.

Wanyan Po Lu was shocked, and Wanyan Zongwang, who was sweeping the formation, was even more shocked.

What kind of strong army is this?

Wanyan Zongwang realized that the big thing was not good.

However, his first reaction was not to retreat, nor was he angry that Wanyan Po Lu Huo dared to charge head-on, but personally led the elite cavalry to detour the flank and prepare to charge on the flank.

Seeing this, Zhou Tai was immediately overjoyed.

Since the last World Huaishui Battle won Shouchun, Zhou Tai has not fought happily, he, the governor of the navy, is about to become the captain of the transport, this time it is not easy to let Fa Zheng share his merits in the way of dedicating women, from Fa Zheng got a land war opportunity, he must grasp it.

Zhou Tai directly rushed to Wanyan Zongwang with his cavalry.

"The commander of the Yu army actually rushed here? The whole army, kill the enemy commander with me at all costs! ”

Wanyan Zongwang, who was worried about the situation on the battlefield, was overjoyed.

Dingzhou City.

Feeling that the time had come, Wanyan Xi Gu Nai released the only two thousand Jurchen elites under his command and decided to defeat Xu Huang's army in one fell swoop.

The Chinese army of Xu Huang's army really collapsed at the touch of a button, and fled to both sides, and only the 3,000 foot soldiers who were blocked by the Chinese cavalry were left in front of him.

[Mantis arm as a car!] 】

Wanyan Xi Gu Nai smiled disdainfully, and did not order his subordinates to slow down, continue to chisel forward, and then ......

The blood in the sky stunned Yan Xi Gu Nai.

It was the first time he saw an army that had been killed without blinking, and before he died, he had to slash down an army that had perished with the enemy.

His two thousand Jurchen elites died four or five hundred in an instant, and Xu Huang's infantry was also killed by three or four hundred.

What was even more terrifying for Wanyan Xi Gunai was that his cavalry had lost its impact, while Xu Huang's troops quickly entangled his cavalry.

"Damn it, back off!"

Wanyan Xi Gu Nai shouted.

Heavy cavalry without impact will have too many flaws in the face of heavy infantry, especially on horses.

Wanyan Xi Gu must distance himself.

It's just that Xu Huang, who has been aggrieved for so long, has been waiting for this opportunity, how could he let him get his wish?

The order flag waved, Han Juzi and Lu Weihuang immediately led the Tiger Ben heavy cavalry who had been mixed in the cavalry to attack in formation, and directly went to the back of Wanyan Xi Gunai's department, which turned his horse's head and returned to the army to prepare to re-array, chasing and shooting.

Mounted archery has never been separated, Dong Huang's tiger heavy cavalry was all cultivated by Dong Huang as an officer seed, even if he is really not good at archery, he will be equipped with crossbow arrows to enhance long-range ability.

At this moment, Wanyan Xi Gu was even more aggrieved.

The adjutant general of Wanyan Xi Gunai hurriedly beckoned the rest of the troops to go to respond, but the servant army composed of these chaotic national soldiers was already very tired when they fought with the servant army under Xu Huang's command before, and now seeing that the Jurchen father was beaten to only a few hundred horsemen, where did he dare to attack head-on, and he was even unable to move forward for a while.

Seeing this, Wanyan Xi Gu Nai could only escape from the side of the battlefield, leaving the frontal battlefield to Xu Huang and the Jurchen servants.

However, even so, it was impossible for Wanyan Xi Gu Nai to escape, and five miles away from the frontal battlefield, he was caught up by Dong Huang's army and shot into a hornet's nest.

On the frontal battlefield, the Jin army, which had lost its main general, was quickly defeated by Xu Huang, and at least one-third chose to surrender.

Then, Xu Huang took the remaining more than 2,000 infantry as the main part, and the crossbowmen as the cover, stepped across the bloodstained bridge and set up a formation in the south of the bridge.

Xu Huang believes that if the formation is set up on the north side of the bridge, and it is necessary to storm the military formation after seeing the need to pass through the narrow bridge, the defeated troops of the Jin army may not cross the river from here, but if the formation is deployed on the south side of the bridge, then the other party thinks that the defeat of the Dayu army of even 3,000 people can cross the river, but it is more likely to attack the military formation composed of horses, antlers, thistles, spears, broadswords, etc., after all, this military formation seems to be only more than 2,000 infantry and about 1,000 crossbowmen.

Xu Huang may be deficient in commanding the battle of the Great Army alone, but in this specific tactical aspect, he is a well-deserved master, and in history, he can defeat Guan Yu who is capable of shocking the morale of Huaxia head-on, and his ability can be imagined.

His biggest flaw is that he doesn't take soldiers for a while.

However, in any case, in terms of tactics, he has already taken the Jin army in check.

Xu Huang was waiting for work here, and on the other side, Wanyan Zongwang also lost according to Xu Huang's calculations.

This is an elite battle without any fancy, and in terms of tactics, Wanyan Zongwang took a small advantage first, because he led people to surround Zhou Tai as soon as he came up.

He felt that as long as he killed Zhou Tai, he would be able to lock in the victory.

However, Zhou Tai, who was under siege, became more and more courageous, Wanyan Zongwang saw Zhou Tai being stabbed at least seven or eight times, but the whole person was like nothing, the more he fought, the more courageous he became, and he killed more than 20 elites of the Jin Army by himself, and even Wanyan Zongwang himself was stabbed by Zhou Tai in exchange for injuries.

Such a fierce general who is not afraid of death, Wanyan Zongwang is really the first time to see it.

To be honest, he was scared.

Seeing that the main general was trapped, Dong Huang's army also broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, Niu Jin, Pan Zhang and other fierce generals came to help, and Zhou Tai's generals and guards were even more fearless of death, and several people worked together to fight a counter-encirclement.

Wanyan Zongwang saw that the situation was not good and decided to retreat.

It's just that when he withdrew, the situation suddenly got out of control, and all the Jin troops immediately retreated, and Wanyan Po Luhuo abandoned the army.

As a result, the Jin army ushered in the first major defeat since the founding of the army.

Wanyan Zongwang ran fast, Zhou Tai didn't catch up, but Wanyan Po Lu Huo was unscrewed off by Zhou Tai.

Wanyan Zongwang fled all the way to the bridge, and when he saw Xu Huang's department, his heart was half cold.

He knew that Wanyan Xi Gu Nai was also defeated.

However, this is also expected, since he saw the power of Dong Huangjun's Mo Sword Formation and Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry, he knew that Dong Huang's army was a strong army that had always been not weaker than the core strength of the Jin Army.

This army will definitely be defeated if it is treated with the attitude of the Liao, of course, as long as it is taken seriously, then it is still unknown who will die.

"Go upstream and cross the river!"

Wanyan Zongwang, who endured the pain, made a decision that Xu Huang hated.

Xu Huang felt that he had made such a concession, and the enemy army would definitely rush into battle, but Wanyan Zongwang, who had seen the power of the Mo Sword Formation, realized that this was a trap, and was willing to go to the upper valley and dense forest to find a place to cross the river, rather than rush here.

As a first-line general in this era, Wanyan Zongwang's real level is not necessarily worse than Xu Huang, and in the use of cavalry, it is even stronger than Xu Huang.

Wanyan Zongwang understands the trade-offs very well.

He knew very well that the most important thing now was not even to bring out the remaining thousands of remnants, but to bring out the intelligence of the Dayu Army, even if there was only one person left, as long as the information was brought to Wanyan Aguta, it would be a victory.

So next, no matter how Dong Huangjun pursued, he insisted on letting a dozen or so people forcibly cross the river every three or five miles to pass on information.

Although Wanyan Zongwang died because of his serious injuries and failed to make it to the crossing, and his troops were either lost, starved to death, drowned, killed, or surrendered, the information about Dong Huang's army was passed on.

After receiving the information from Wanyan Zongwang, the whole Jin Kingdom was shocked.

This is the first defeat since the Jin Kingdom, and it has also buried six or seven thousand true Jurchens!

"Yu Guo is so strong that his soldiers are so strong?"

The monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom were speechless.

This is also terrible, you must know that after fighting with the Liao State for so many years, hundreds of thousands of people have fought battles, and there are not so many Jurchen soldiers who have died in the Jin Kingdom!

Although it is said that a large part of these Jurchen warriors are Jurchens who have not joined for a long time, their combat effectiveness is also unquestionable.

"Yu State is invincible for the time being, you can repair it first and find out, wait for the 200,000 troops to be ready, and then it is not too late to take revenge on them, the top priority now is to quickly occupy Liao Tokyo, use the resources of Liao Tokyo, and prepare for war!"

Wan Yan said calmly, as if there was no one among the dead who had his own son.

"Your Majesty, the second prince's enmity ......"

Immediately, General Jin Guo expressed his dissatisfaction.

"I've said it, I'll wait until the 200,000 army is ready!"

Wanyan said coldly.

His own bloodline, he is distressed, but Wanyan Aguda is first a king, and then a father.

Of course, Wanyan Aguda hated Dong Huangjun so much that his teeth itched, but he also knew very well that if he fought with the Dayu army now, the Jin Kingdom would undoubtedly be defeated, the reason was very simple, the size of the Jin Kingdom was too small, the nation was too complicated, even if it was the same Jurchens, those newly added were not because of his charm or any lofty ideals, but purely because he had enough of a hard life, and wanted to come with him He went from victory to victory, grabbing money, food, and women all the way, and enjoying the world of flowers!

Wanyan Aguda must satisfy their desires, so that they can be mobilized like a finger, otherwise, they will be counterattacked.

"Pass my order, prepare for a big battle, and after ten days, the troops will be sent to Tokyo!"

Wanyan Agu said arbitrarily.

This time, there were no three grass-created ten thousand households at once, and Wanyan Aguda had to make up for it from Liao.

Seeing that Wanyan Aguta had made a decision, the generals quickly took the order and left, but Wanyan Aguda called back Wanyan Gushen.

Wanyan Gushen, also known as Wanyan Xiyin, is a Jurchen sage, who founded the Jurchen script in history, and the official is the prime minister.

"Ceres, do you know what I called you for?"

Wan Yan asked.

"But to negotiate peace with Yu Ren, do you need me to send an envoy?"

Wan Yan Xiyi guessed.

"Yes!"

Wanyan nodded and said, "No one thought that the elite soldiers of the Yu people would be so strong, and we really shouldn't fight on two fronts, so we must negotiate peace." Everyone else is a rough person, they can't do this, they have to go, I have a pair of Haidongqing, and I will bring ginseng, mink, Dongzhu, etc., as a gift to the envoy, to promote the collegiate discussion, and by the way, to explore the end of Yu Guo. ”

"Ceres, I understand."

Wanyan Xiyi nodded.

"By the way, I heard that Yu Guo was separated from the Song State and had a big war with the Song State? So Song and Yu should be mortal enemies, right? Song State can block such an elite attack of Yu State, the army should be very strong, right? ”

"You say, how about we secretly form an alliance with the Song State and deal with the Yu State together?"

Wanyan Agu had a whim: "I have seen the general road map of the Song Kingdom, the Jingdong East Road where Dayu rose is closer to Bianjing of the Song Kingdom, and Dayu did not attack the capital of the Song Kingdom, but took a detour of thousands of miles to fight Beijing of the Liao Kingdom, which is unreasonable to look at." The only reasonable explanation is that the Great Song Dynasty has strong troops, and even the army of Dayu is not sure of victory! ”

The more Yan Agu talked, the more he felt that his idea was right.

When he said this, Wanyan Gushen also felt very reasonable: "Then I will find a way to send someone to the Song State, it is best to promote an alliance between the two countries to deal with the Yu State together, only if the Song State drags the Yu State, we can have enough time to destroy the Liao State." ”

"Your Majesty, though......"

Wanyan Gu God wanted to speak and stopped.

(End of chapter)