When the Jin soldiers arrived, they saw that the banner was the golden general Pu Amaranth, and the Jin army stayed outside the city for a stick of incense, and still waved the army into the city; since the beginning of the war, the Jin soldiers have suffered very little losses, they are full of arrogance, and they have the courage to know that there are tigers in the mountains and favor the tigers in the mountains, and it is not wrong for the three thousand troops to take the lead, and even if there are losses, they will not be heartbroken.

The Jin soldiers entered the city smoothly, and they did not encounter resistance, and in a blink of an eye, almost half of them had entered, and the people rushed forward like a tide. Suddenly, a trumpet sounded, arrows rained down at the head of the city and at the crossing, and the power of the divine arm bow often killed two or three horsemen with one arrow in a narrow range, and the golden soldiers who rushed into the city could not dodge under the collision of the military horses behind, and there were countless casualties in an instant.

However, Pu Amaranth was really strong with his soldiers, and still forced the troops in front of him to rush inside, until the city threw thunderbolts outside the city, which blew people on their backs, and the golden soldiers completely collapsed, and Pu Amaranth led the cavalry to retreat in chaos. Kong Yanwei and Qin Guangbi took advantage of the situation to kill and entangled the Jin soldiers, and Han Tao's two thousand horsemen also went out of the north gate, less than twenty miles, Yang Zhi estimated that Han Tao would not take half an hour.

Yang Zhi could see clearly from the top of the city that the Jurchen cavalry was indeed strong, even though in this situation they were still fighting separately. It's just that the javelins in Kong Yanwei's army took the lead, and as soon as they came on the field, they lost three or four hundred Jin soldiers, and Qin Guangbi's 1,000 cavalry was the chain armor horse in Ulzhou, Qin Guangbi was a strong general in the army, commanding a thousand chain armor horses to outflank Pu Amaranth's banner, and when Pu Amaranth found out, he couldn't get out with the five hundred horsemen around him.

When Han Tao led two thousand horsemen from the north gate to the battlefield, there were only a dozen horsemen left around Pu Amaranth, surrounded by six teams of chain armor horses; there were originally three or four hundred horsemen who wanted to save Amaranth, and immediately fled when they saw that the situation was not good. Counting the number of people, only more than 200 Jin soldiers escaped, more than 4,000 were killed by the Song army, 500 were captured, and more than 2,000 horses were captured.

Most of the captives were the original subordinates of Guo Yaoshi and Zhang Jue, and the Jurchen cavalry did not take prisoners; Yang Zhi interrogated the captives and learned that Wan Yangao was not in a hurry to attack Youzhou, because he had recruited troops in Pingzhou and other places, and in less than ten days, the Jin soldiers had expanded to more than 40,000 people, and now they were known as 100,000 troops.

Yang Zhi had to admit that Wanyan Gao and Wanyan Zongfu's uncle and nephew were both clever, sharpening knives and cutting wood, so that the absolute strength would be broken one by one by the Song army of the northern aid, and Guo Yaoshi of Youzhou was likely to surrender without a fight in the end, for the Jin State, this was the lowest cost business; Yang Zhi immediately ordered to buy a cart from the people, ready-made ones, or build them overnight, Yang Zhi had to consider the problem of retreating from the army, the cart could carry grain and grass, and it could also transport soldiers.

Yang Zhi's messenger was sent to Yizhou after capturing Zhuozhou, and it is estimated that Wang Ping's army will arrive in a day or two, but what surprised Yang Zhi was that Zhang arrived at it, Zhang took Tao Jin, Wang Yi and two partial generals and more than a dozen cavalry, they originally withdrew to Jizhou, Jizhou found an opportunity to escape after the gold drop, Zhang was reluctant to go south and wanted to go to Yunzhong, a group of people were getting to Yizhou, I heard that Yang Zhi conquered Zhuozhou, so he came to defect.

The two sat down in the living room of the state government, Zhang Suo kept sighing, not only sad for Wang Huan's death, but also anxious about the current situation of Yanyun's war, Zhang Suo saw the action of setting up a car on the street, and asked Yang Zhi unwillingly: "Lord Yang, is there really nothing to do?"

Yang Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "There is still something to be done in the clouds, Youzhou is absolutely unacceptable, Li Gang handed over the force to Guo Yaoshi, that is, he abolished his martial arts, the Battle of Pingzhou and the Battle of Sanhe are precedents, do you think I can rely on thousands of horsemen to relieve the siege of Youzhou? I don't want to be copied by others, I will have to respond to the state if I fight here at most, otherwise Zong Ze will be unable to support it alone, and Liu Guangshi and Wang Yuan are people who cannot be relied on." ”

Zhang understood that Tong Guan's two northern expeditions had left too deep an impression on Yang Zhi, and that the army would often collapse unexpectedly, and now Yang Zhi just didn't believe in these people; Wang Huan fought hard in Luanzhou for more than ten days, and there were no reinforcements in either Youzhou or Hejian, so Zhang couldn't say anything to persuade him, and said regretfully: "Do we want to give up Zhuozhou, so that Li Gang will be isolated and helpless, and it will be difficult for you to explain when you return to the court." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "Do I still have a chance to go back? I don't know what the outcome of this battle will be, and how many years it will take." Didn't you see that Lu Defu was brought to Zhuozhou by me? The magistrates of the Great Song Dynasty have the rule of defending the land, and it doesn't matter if the others abandon the city and abandon the land, if Zong Ze and I get to that point, we will die. ”

Zhang Suo has nothing to say, Yang Zhi sees the problem to the point, not to mention that these are no longer a secret, otherwise the Northern Expedition is successful, which turn is the turn of Guo Yaoshi to show off his might, even if the seed master Dao and Yang Zhi are not good, they should be Xin Xingzong, Yang Weizhong, and the middle of the seed master. However, Zhang Suo didn't dare to think about it, he was not afraid that these people were the subordinates of King Yun and Tong Guan, and they were transferred away, and if Yang Zhi and Zong Ze escaped back to Bianliang, they would definitely not end well.

The Jin army learned that Zhuozhou was defeated, and the Song army that came to reinforce was a series of Jiama and Thunderbolts, and immediately guessed that it was Yang Zhi's Yingzhou army to come to help, and Wanyan Gao immediately ordered Wanyan Zongfu to command 20,000 troops to kill Benzhuozhou, and sent fast horses to inform Wanyan Zonghan to send troops to Datong Mansion, and the Canglang battalion was divided into two ways, and now is a good time to annihilate separately. Wan Yan Gao instructed Wan Yan Zongfu: "Yang Zhi is known for his cunning with his troops, and if he goes to Youzhou not to seek a quick victory, it will be a great achievement to hold Yang Zhi back; ”

Wanyan Zongfu nodded and said, "I don't know if it's Yang Zhi yet, I'll depend on the form." ”

The general will not be affected by the foreign monarch's life, Wan Yan Gao knows that his nephew is also an arrogant person, and changes on the front line will happen with him, and the Dajin generals are proud of defeating Yang Zhi, Zong Ze and others, and some things are reluctant, so they can only follow the will of Yan Zongfu.

Yang Zhi knew that Datong Mansion would definitely do it, Zong Ze's men and horses could not stay for a long time, and let Zong Ying and others lead 3,000 cavalry and more than 40 carts of supplies to return to Ulzhou first, for Yang Zhi and Zong Ze, holding Yunzhong is the top priority, and the battle of Zhuozhou is just to give the Jin people a little color, and naturally they can't lose big because of small things. At the gate of the city, Yang Zhi was draped all over his body, leading Zhang San and others to see him off, Yang Zhi said to Zong Ying: "General Zong Wanwang told Master Zong that the withdrawal of Datong is imminent. ”

Zong Ying bowed down and said, "The last general understands, it's just that the adults are going to stay in Zhuozhou, or?"

Yang Zhi patted Zong Ying on the shoulder and said, "We will see you in the clouds soon, I will stay for a few more days, while transferring the supplies to Yizhou Wangping to see if there is a chance to rescue Li Gang and the others." ”