Yang Zhi brought Liang Xing to the map, drew a circle in Henan and said: "The Jin people go south, and they will definitely not want to occupy Bianliang at once, because the population of the Central Plains is too large, and if the people of the Jurchen and other tribes are scattered all at once, they will definitely quickly disappear in the vast sea of people and be assimilated by the Han people, which is unacceptable for the Jurchen people who have just risen, and they are even worried about the Khitan people, not to mention the Han people." Because of the problem of control, the Jin people can only be limited to Hebei at present, and the smart point is to let Jianghuai Henan always fall into war, so that they can eat away little by little in the future.

If this is the case, it is better to support an obedient regime and let us consume our own strength; this problem also exists for us in the Great Song Dynasty, we must base ourselves on the local area, and we cannot expect Jiangnan to continuously send supplies from energy sources, Jiangnan cannot support the war for a long time, and the further north we go, the longer the transportation routes will be extended. If we want to restore Yanyun, we have to fight with the Jin people repeatedly in Guanzhong, Henan, and Hebei, no matter whether we win or lose, no matter whether the city is won or lost, we must fight until the Jin people withdraw from Hebei. ”

Wang Xie, Yang Yi and others were enthusiastic when they heard this, Liang Xing looked back at the three of them, and the four of them knelt down for Yang Zhi and said, "Liang Xing, Zhao Yun, Li Jin, and Qiao Zhijian pay a visit to the general." ”

Yang Zhi put the four of them together and said, "Welcome to join the Dingbei Army, are you willing to recover Hebei, or do you just want to defend your hometown?"

Most of the rebels who came to defect wanted to stay in Hedong, or follow the Dingbei Army into the pass to seek a half-official position, there are not many people who are really interested in recovering Hebei, so far only Wang Xie and a few other people are willing to follow the Dingbei Army wholeheartedly to go to various places, Liang Xing stood up and said without hesitation: "Regain Hebei." ”

Wang Yu and Xu Huiyan were silent on the side for a long time, today they really saw Yang Zhi's vision and bearing, and they took great pains to make a subordinate. The two glanced at each other, walked into the big tent together, and Wang Yu arched his hand and said: "Chief Yang, I heard the report from the scout, Wan Yan Gao personally led 40,000 Ma Bu troops to gather on the other side, and it should be ready to cross the Yellow River." ”

Now that the Yellow River has not thawed, and Ma Bujun can come with him, Yang Zhi asked, "Can you determine where Yan Gao crossed the river from?"

"Xizhai ferry. Yang Zhi nodded and said: "Please General Min to guard against the sneak attack of the Jin army on the Huayin side, and transport the fat water transported from Yanzhou and the catapult built in the past few days to the other side of Xizhai for ambush, we are powerless to stop it, but at least we must give Wan Yan Gao a big gift." ”

Yang Zhiming's department only arranged for the fat water to be burned on the ice surface and the catapult to prepare the boulders, and secretly asked Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui, and Ming Chisong, the leader of the Yellow River Gang, to lead his men to dig thousands of small holes in the ice; now it is no longer snowing, but the weather is still a little cold, although the ice on the Yellow River has not melted, but it will not continue to freeze, and there is no problem for pedestrians who have drilled into the ice to walk, and the cavalry of the brigade will not know if they cross the river.

Wanyan Gao's 40,000-strong army swept in, more than 10,000 cavalry just passed through the ice, when the fat water burned on the ice, the catapult threw hundreds of boulders onto the ice, the Jin army, which had already rushed ashore, immediately found that something was wrong; there was a phenomenon of ice breaking and collapsing on the river surface, and the original thunderous hooves became the death knell that sounded by itself, and the Jin army quickly divided into two groups, one group continued to charge to the north bank, and the other group returned in a hurry.

Wanyan was dragged back to the south bank by her subordinates, only to see more than 2,000 horsemen fall into the Yellow River, and more than 1,000 horsemen were slaughtered by the Dingbei army with divine arm bows and cavalry on the north bank. Wanyan Huonu's heart is like a knife, these are all soldiers who followed him south from Youzhou, and some of them were even warriors of the Wanyan tribe, and they were cheated by the other party in this way.

Wan Yan Gao still killed from another Yellow River ice to Hebei, while waiting for Wan Yan Huonu to make a detour to meet, while being frightened by the battle situation, four thousand cavalry lost in a link across the river, Yang Zhi was really cunning with troops. Wanyan Gao ordered Wanyan Saili and Wanyan Zhuan to be the vanguard, and Brother Jin and Ah Gu commanded 20,000 infantry troops, and Alu Bu and Wanyan Mouli followed him to command 10,000 Jurchen iron cavalry.

Yang Zhi ordered Yang Zhongwu and Wang Gang to lead two thousand horsemen to meet the battle, the two sides encountered in the southwest of Jiezhou City, Wan Yan was hacked to death by Wang Gang in the melee, Wan Yan Saili could not resist, and returned in defeat; Wan Yan Gao learned that he gasped, Yang Zhi was going to seize power in front of the army, and after the battle of the Transition River and the fight between the vanguard armies of the two sides, the morale of the Dingbei Army was raised to an extremely terrible point, and the morale of his side began to fall, especially the 20,000 infantry army, most of which were the surrender of the Song army, which could collapse at any time.

Yang Zhi watched Xu Huiyan's army, decided to go out of the city to face the battle, and ordered Xu Huiyan to be in charge of the front of the stacked array of 4,000 crossbowmen, the front row is 700 divine arm crossbows, for long-range attacks; the second row is 800 strong crossbows, for medium-range attacks; the third row is 2,000 strong bows, for medium and short-range attacks, Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui's 1,000 infantry troops are mixed in the crossbowmen.

At the front of the battle formation was the rejection of the horse, which relieved the impact of the enemy's army, and behind the rejection of the horse were 3,000 pikemen, who rushed through the rejection of the horse to kill; Zhang San and Yang Yizhong each led 8,000 cavalry as the two wings, and Yang Zhongwu, Wang Gang, and Wang Yu together combined 6,000 cavalry as the central army; the rest of the troops remained in the city and were commanded by Zong Ze. It's not that Yang Zhi doesn't believe Wang Yu, but because Xu Huiyan's army fought from the Jinning army to Pingyang and Jiezhou, and has several bloody battles with the Jin army, as long as Xu Huiyan is there, there will be no collapse.

As soon as Wanyan Gao's army appeared, the cavalry rushed into formation, the heavy cavalry was in the middle, and the two connected kidnapping horses were on both sides, and the lineup was scattered, which really felt a bit overwhelming; the cavalry skillfully advanced, giving people the feeling that there were not 18,000 horsemen, but at least more than 30,000 horsemen. The 20,000 infantry army is also divided into three teams, following the cavalry to advance, the only pity of Wanyan Gao is the divine arm bow, the Song army regardless of which unit uses the divine arm bow is an elite soldier, even if the main general surrenders, the officers and soldiers below are mostly destroyed the divine arm bow, so the hundreds of thousands of Song troops were swept away, and less than 400 divine arm bows were captured, all of which were left in Weinan.

Xu Huiyan saw it in the telescope, and he breathed a sigh of relief, the 6,000 cavalry on the Jurchen Middle Road were all heavy cavalry, but they were all wearing the infantry armor of the Song army, which should have been dropped by the Western Army and taken from the Jin Army on the spot; Xu Huiyan ordered the crossbowmen to shoot war horses mainly at the heavy cavalry of the Jin army.