Zong Ying was relieved at this time, Yang Zhi was almost a banner in the Song army in the clouds, Yue Fei had no problem fighting, but his influence and skills were still a little worse; if Yang Zhi was not there, I am afraid that his father Zong Ze would not dare to call the shots in many things. Cai Qing found Wang Anzhong in prison, chained, and his clothes were all torn; this was originally a beautiful talk, but in the file of the state government, he saw Wang Anzhong's confession and signed and detained documents, and Yang Zhi could only hand over Wang Anzhong to Zong Ying and take him back to Ulzhou.

Wang Ping's army arrived at noon, Wang Ping knew the significance of the battle of Zhuozhou, abandoned Yizhou, and went north with 17,000 soldiers from his headquarters, and after the round with Yang Zhi, plus the more than 3,000 defenders of Zhuozhou, the number exceeded 20,000; Yang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, and now he sent the news of the time move of the flea so as to decide whether to fight or leave.

The flea on the drum Shi Qian came back in the evening, Youzhou has been surrounded by the Jin Corps, but the Jin soldiers did not attack the city, Shi Qian asked the hidden pile outside the city, confirmed the previous news, the Jin soldiers have not yet arrived, Guo Yaoshi will not allow personnel to enter and exit. In addition, Wanyan Zongfu commanded 20,000 Jin soldiers who had already begun to move south, because there were 10,000 infantry troops, so the movement was not as fast as usual; Yang Zhi knew that Han Shizhong was in charge of scouting, and asked Shi Qian to go down and rest first after asking a few words about the situation in Youzhou.

Wang Ping, Lu Defu, and Zhang Suo all smiled bitterly, which means that there is no possibility of rescuing Li Gang and others at all, unless Yang Zhi can defeat 100,000 Jin soldiers, it is obvious that Yang Zhi's unhurried attitude shows that Yang Zhi does not have this mind; Yang Zhi muttered: "I plan to defeat Yan Zongfu and leave these 20,000 Jin soldiers in Zhuozhou, to see if the Jin soldiers will go south, if there is no response, my mission to the east will be over." ”

Wang Ping nodded and said: "You can't take the initiative to attack in the north, for us, whether there is a city or not, the difference is too big." Our army is good at defending, even if Yan Gao's 100,000 troops rush over, as long as the grain and grass are sufficient, it will be no problem to hold it for a year and a half with our current strength, but if we are not careful, we may be able to distinguish the winner in two or three days. ”

The two commanders have the same opinion, Lu Defu and Zhang Suo naturally have no objections, Han Shizhong sent someone to report, the Jin soldiers and horses are divided into two roads, east and north, and march to Zhuozhou, the east road is all the infantry, the north road is all the cavalry, the time of the two is very good, the distance is no more than thirty miles, and the enemy on the east road is only twenty miles away from Zhuozhou. Yang Zhi and Wang Ping looked at each other and smiled, the infantry army was faster than the cavalry, it was naturally Wanyan Zongfu's strategy, wanting to attract the Song army to attack the infantry army, and then the cavalry outflanked it.

Yang Zhi immediately ordered Zhang San to lead two thousand horsemen out of the city, rendezvous with Han Shizhong, retreat to the south away from the Jin soldiers, and then find an opportunity to come back and ambush behind the Jin army.

Yang Zhi also ordered Wang Ping's general Wang Qi to lead an army of 3,000 infantry and be responsible for the 400 divine arm bows in the army as the front army to go out of the city to meet the battle, and Yang Zhi himself led two 6,000 cavalry as the main force to fight. Zhang Suo led a thousand archers to observe the Jin soldiers at the head of the city and prepare bows and arrows and rockets, while Wang Ping was responsible for defending the city and dispatching supplies in the city. Wang Ping nodded, Yang Zhi is surprised by the use of soldiers, in fact, he still pays attention to stability, since Wanyan Zongfu is a good hand at using soldiers, Yang Zhi is obviously too lazy to hide and seek, and simply speaks with strength.

In less than an hour, the Jin soldiers were killed under the city, the horns of Hu Ji roared wildly, and the galloping of more than 10,000 war horses made the earth tremble, rolling up the dust and smoke in the sky. It's just that Yang Zhi and Wang Ping's subordinates are all elites of a hundred battles, quietly arraying the city, without the slightest panic. The tall city walls and the solemn army made the Jin soldiers dare not step forward, and several teams of scouts and horses rushed over died under the bows and arrows of the Song army.

Wanyan Zongfu was taken aback, Yang Zhi actually lined up to prepare for a field battle, and the Jin soldiers traveled nearly two hundred miles to come, which was considered a tired division, and now even if the number was doubled, Wanyan Zongfu was also a little worried; Wanyan Zongfu asked Shu Lie to quickly lead the infantry army to set up camp as soon as possible, and quickly allocated the 5,000 war horses he brought to the infantry army that had lured the enemy, and he and Huo Lichang commanded 10,000 cavalry to rush directly to the Song army.

Although the Jin soldiers were defeated in the hands of Yang Zhi, they were not a frontal defeat in the fight, so Wanyan Zongfu was confident in his charge, and Guo Yaoshi, including the 45,000 elite soldiers of 20,000 cavalry, could not resist him; Wanyan Zongfu and Huoli Gai each led 5,000 warriors to control the strings, but the 5,000 cavalry of Huoli Gai followed in the direction of the back slightly deviated, and only after Yan Zongfu and Yang Zhi were entangled and attracted the attention of the other party, they directly killed from the flank.

It's just that Wanyan Zongfu hit the stone this time, and the 3,000 infantry army led by Wang Yi all crawled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, in addition to 400 divine arm bows, there are 800 elite archers, and the archery technology is by no means under the Jurchens; 。

After Yan Zongfu shouted angrily, the horn sounded, and the 5,000 horsemen who had been reformed quickly appeared from the left flank and rushed to the Song army's position in a big circle; Zhang Suo and the others were on the city tower to understand why Yang Zhi was in front of the infantry army, the archers of the cavalry were on both sides, and the army was behind. The mobility of the cavalry of the Song army is not as good as that of the opponent, if it is shown first, and the weak point is attacked by the Jin soldiers, there will be no chance of turning the tables.

Han Tao's two thousand serial armored horses immediately killed out from the loose formation flag, and met the five thousand cavalry who were alive, the Jurchen warriors were indeed fierce, and they still fought hard in the face of the serial armored horses, using maces and long knives to fight back desperately, this is also the first time that Han Tao followed Yang Zhi to fight, the first time that the serial armored horses did not have an obvious advantage, under the continuous casualties on both sides, the losses of the Jin soldiers were only a little more than that of the Song army, and the loss rate was three to two.

But that's it, Huoli Gai felt panicked in his chest, and when he lost a thousand people, he gave an order to retreat before Han Tao; Wanyan Zongfu also ordered a retreat at the same time, losing nearly 3,000 people in the first battle, even if he knew the strength of the opponent, it was pointless to fight again, he really wanted to consume 10,000 horsemen, Wanyan Zongfu had no place to cry, after all, he had captured Shangjing and Zhongjing of Liao for more than a year, and the Jin soldiers did not lose 10,000 cavalry.