Chapter 838: Ruthless Character
Yang Zhi asked for 500 cavalry from Ulzhou, in order to be familiar with the geographical environment of this area, and handed over the 500 men into two and handed them over to Han Shizhong and Yimuro Baida, and then the army was divided into three places to ambush; after an hour, when it was getting late, and before it was completely dark, he saw wolf smoke rising from the direction of the Qingyi military city, which was particularly conspicuous in the dim and empty sky; in less than half an hour, the scouts found that a large number of Jin cavalry had emerged from the three-way intersection in the east and were coming westward.
After a while, the sound of the earth trembling came, and the Jin army did not light the torches, but came along the post road under the guidance of the gradually clear moonlight and starlight. It's just that Youzhou has been in the hands of the Liao State for more than 200 years, whether it is the Khitan, the Xi people, the Jurchens, or the Han people, they are all able to ride and shoot well, and from the formation and speed of the march, it is impossible to tell whether it is the Jurchen cavalry or the cavalry of any other race; but in the eyes of Yang Zhihe's soldiers, the cavalry of any tribe is the same.
Seeing the Jin army enter the ambush circle, Yang Zhi gave an order, the gong sounded, and the arrows poured down to the Jin army's team like rain, and then the three roads fixed the northern army and rushed towards the Jin army. The Jin army was in a panic, and stood up in a hurry, but they didn't expect Han Shizhong and Yi Room Bai to answer that they were only aimed at the rear army, and more than 1,000 people in the rear army of the Jin army were first ambushed by bows and crossbows, and they struggled to support under the attack of Han Shizhong's two armies, and they did their best to hold back the Dingbei army, hoping that the army in front could come to support after killing the enemy.
The 3,000 chain armor horses commanded by Han Tao rushed to the Jin army, the Jin army could not resist, and was disrupted in a moment, and the front army turned back to rescue, and immediately the two were in a scuffle; for a while, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the three thousand chain armor horses launched a fierce attack on the Jin army under the command of Yang Zhi and Han Tao. Yang Zhi brandished the Dragon Bird Sword, there was no enemy in front of the horse, and he took two hundred guards to tear a hole in the Jin Army's ranks.
Zhang Linghui, who led the army, was shocked, and the deputy general Zhang Zhongsi was also terrified, they set this trap, originally wanted to ambush the Dingbei army that was fighting Biancao, but now they saw that they did not trap others, but sent themselves into the trap. But the matter has come to this, when they meet the legendary serial armor horse, both of them know that their lives are dead, and they can only fight for their lives, killing one is enough to kill two and earn one.
Under the firelight, Yang Zhi saw Zhang Linghui's banner, with his personal guards like a giant knife slashed over, more than a thousand chain armor horses echoed on both sides of Yang Zhi, less than an hour, the front blocked two thousand control strings were slaughtered, Zhang Linghui had already seen Yang Zhi's banner, but as the main general, he did not dare to retreat with him, the Jin army punished them extremely strictly, and those who escaped from the battle were killed.
Seeing Yang Zhi face to kill, Zhang Linghui lifted his spear, reluctantly rode a horse to fight, the two horses did not intersect, and Yang Zhi's knife cut off the head of the horse; Zhang Linghui's body flickered, and he was about to jump off the saddle and leave the horse, Yang Zhi's horse had rushed to the front, Yang Zhi's dragon sparrow knife with true qi crossed an arc in the air, and Zhang Linghui was cut in two with a gun. Wang Gang stepped forward, cut down Zhang Linghui's banner with a knife, and shouted: "Those who surrender will not die." ”
Wang Gang's voice was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, seeing that Zhang Linghui's banner was not there, the Jin army's fighting spirit suddenly disappeared, and the deputy general Zhang Zhongsi returned to his horse to escape, but was killed by an arrow shot by Lu Fang, the little Wenhou who had been eyed for a long time; as soon as the two general flags fell, the last trace of courage of the Jin army was gone, and they fled in all directions, and those who had no time to escape dismounted and surrendered. More than 3,000 gold soldiers were killed, more than 1,000 prisoners and more than 2,000 war horses were captured by the Dingbei army, and the heads of Zhang Linghui and Zhang Zhongsi were stuck on the tip of the spear, which was unbearable.
Yang Zhi immediately ordered, the whole army went north, galloped for thirty miles, and besieged Yan Xiyin; Yan Xiyin's cavalry was only 3,000 people, although there were still 4,000 infantry troops, and Zong Ying was just inseparable, seeing the Dingbei army of the brigade coming, he suddenly fell into extreme despair, and as far as Yan Xiyin could see, the other party was densely packed with cavalry, far exceeding his expectations, Wanyan Xiyin knew that he had to retreat, otherwise only the whole army was annihilating them.
Wanyan Xiyin fled the battlefield with 2,000 horsemen, and the remaining 5,000 people were slaughtered by the Dingbei army;
"It's a ruthless character. Yang Zhi couldn't help but praise Yan Xiyin, this time the Dingbei Army quietly covered up, although it killed nearly 10,000 gold troops, but it did not have much impact on the battle situation in Youzhou, lacking the materials of the Qingyi Military City, even if you want to continue to fight, the supply can not keep up, you can only retreat to Ulzhou.
Zhang had an unexpected news on the side of Taihang Mountain, because the battle between Zhongshan and Hejian for reinforcements had ended, Yang Weizhong, under the persuasion of Li Lu, the pacification envoy of Hebei East Road, took the opportunity of Wanyan Zongfu's army to move, took the initiative to give up Zhuozhou, led the army to detour to Baozhou, and Li Lu flanked the Jin army before and after, and retreated to Xingzhou after a small victory. In this way, not only did Wang Ping of Yizhou become a lone army, but Xingzhou was occupied by Li Lu, which made it impossible for the Dingbei army to intervene, and it was blocked at both ends for a while.
In addition, Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong issued an edict to move the Zhending Marshal's Mansion to Xiangzhou, and sent Wang Boyan of the Zhilong Tuge as the pacification envoy of the Zhending Mansion and Liu Guangshi as the chief of soldiers and horses. Zhang Suo was worried that after such a long time, the Dingbei Army would lose the best opportunity to attack.
Yang Zhi sent a letter to Zhang Suo, telling Zhang Suo that the battle between Song and Jin would be a long process, and the battlefield would be extended from Hebei to Henan, Shandong, Lianghuai and other places, and there was no need to summon them; Li Lu and Yang Weizhong would definitely move to the Daimyo Mansion in the next step, after all, the Jin people handed over the Daimyo's Mansion to Bianliang, and the Daimyo's Mansion was the capital of Hebei East Road, and Bianliang was the nominal barrier to the north of the Yellow River.
As for Wang Ping's side, Yang Zhi couldn't do anything, so he could only let Zhang Suo be ready to respond, when Wang Ping decided to give up Yizhou and retreat to Taihang Mountain, when to send troops to respond. Yang Zhi was not sure whether Ma Kuo would pull up hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei as recorded in the history books, and roll up a hurricane, so he could only vaguely remind Zhang to pay attention to the news of Ma Kuo.
When Yang Zhi returned to Jincheng, news had come from Taihang Mountain, tens of thousands of people fled into Taihang Mountain from Xiangzhou and other places, Zhang Suo, Yang Jin, and Ma Qin all received one or two thousand people, Yang Zhi let each place expand five thousand dare soldiers, Zhang Suo's men and horses stayed in Feihu Pass, Ma Qin retreated to Jincheng with five thousand recruits, and Yang Jin and Gongsun Sheng seized Jingjing Pass.