Chapter 393 Flaw

Zhao Guanjia's behavior might be superfluous, but considering that he might not know that Hu Yin would come here in person and make such a statement, it is difficult to say anything. However, in this way, it is inevitable that he does not trust the decision of the civil servant decision-making group of Hu Shangshu and several ministers in Tokyo.

At least compared to Yue Fei, he is not trustworthy enough.

Hu Mingzhong couldn't help but be angry for a while.

However, now is not the time to discuss this matter. Just as Wuzhu knew to put away his sarcastic remarks and use them to motivate his troops, on the Song army side, Hu Yin immediately allowed Yue Fei and others to guide the officers in the tent to check the official's will for the purpose of motivation.

No matter what, now that the river channel is blocked, the opportunity for the Jin army has emerged and war is bound to break out.

This battle will not be much less intense than the one that took place just last month, but the scale of the battle will be several times, or even ten times, larger. And considering that the Song army has complete fortifications and the Jin army has sufficient manpower, there will probably be a tug-of-war and a war of attrition.

No one can take it lightly.

"The biggest mistake of the Song army was not made by Yue Pengju, but by the self-righteous Zhao Song official!" After Wuzhu became angry, Balisu formally took over the military discussion at the table, and his words were very convincing.

"Our army has the overall situation in hand for this Northern Expedition!" After the officers in the tent finished checking the "orders", Yue Fei sat upright on the commander's seat and looked around with awe.

"The biggest mistake that official made was to divide his 300,000-strong imperial army into two. Moreover, after the division, he had to attack from both sides at the same time!" Balisu explained proudly.

"The reason I say this is not only because we have worked hard for ten years and gradually become stronger, with 300,000 imperial troops and 500,000 civilians, but more importantly, the Jurchens are getting worse day by day." Yue Fei slowed down his tone. "In the past ten years, the strength of the Jin army has changed dramatically. This is our real reliance in fighting the enemy here."

"If Emperor Zhao uses his Imperial Camp Right Army and Navy to guard the Yellow River, and then blocks the Imperial Camp Front Army directly to Longde Prefecture (Shangdang Basin), and then joins Wu Jie's Imperial Camp Rear Army and Yelu Yudu's Khitan mixed Hu out of Yanmen, filling the mountains and fields of Hedong with turbulent waters without leaving any gaps, I really dare not unite the army to fight a decisive battle with him in that kind of terrain!" Balisu stood up suddenly. "But since he has divided his troops, and forced Yue Fei to attack Daming Prefecture, and forced the Imperial Camp Front Army to capture Yuancheng, then he has exposed his opportunity for war in vain..."

"In this battle, although our forces are slightly weaker, we have sufficient fortifications and defense lines." Yue Fei continued to analyze calmly. "It is easy to show courage behind the high walls. We can completely rely on the fortifications to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy. The enemy army may seem powerful, but it is actually bloated. If the first general attack fails, the second will also fail. The third time, they will be completely frustrated and start to be in a dilemma..."

"Let him attack from any direction, we will only attack from this direction!" Balisu finally drew his sword, revealing the sharp edge. "This is the general trend! In this battle, we have united thirteen thousand households, and the King of Wei is personally supervising the army. We must swallow Yue Fei's sixty thousand men!"

"Here is the imperial decree. You have all read it. Its meaning is self-evident. Minister Hu is sitting here... There is no retreat in this battle!" Yue Fei finally stood up and gave a serious order. "But if you can strictly abide by military discipline and obey orders, there is no reason for failure in this battle!"

In this way, the commanders of both sides finished their encouragement and assigned combat tasks. Around the afternoon, the troops were properly dispatched and the battle broke out quickly and massively.

But it is definitely not intense.

Because the first to attack were not the main force of the Jin army, but the Qian army.

Under the urging of the heavily armed Jin army, no less than 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, wearing non-slip straw sandals, many of them only wearing worn-out winter clothes brought from home, a few wearing tattered leather armor and straw raincoats that seemed a little strange at the time, carrying simple spears, soft bows, and broadswords, on a battle line nearly 17 or 18 miles wide, climbed over what was probably the most spectacular sheep and horse wall of this era - the Yellow River embankment, and then stepped on the widest moat of this era - the frozen Yellow River channel, and launched a massive charge towards the huge Song army position that had been operating for almost a month.

When there are more than 10,000 people, there is no limit. When there are 70,000 or 80,000 people, it is basically a force that no one can ignore. Only the Song army, which has no less than 130,000 or 140,000 people, can respond without fear and in a safe manner.

Moreover, these signed soldiers were simply the young and strong people from the surrounding states and counties. Over the past ten years, they had successively escaped the massive massacres and trafficking of the Jurchens and endured the incredible tyranny in the following years, but they ultimately could not escape today's war.

On a slightly chilly midwinter afternoon, under the direct sunlight without any warmth, the Hebei soldiers were like a sticky black wave, rolling from the west to the east of the Yellow River. The Song army on the opposite side did not hesitate, and the eight-ox crossbows on the river bank, the artillery carts behind the river bank, and the divine arm bows on the earthen hills fired almost simultaneously, sending countless arrows and stone bullets from the river bank and behind the river bank.

Under the intensive long-range attack, the black wave quickly became slow and slippery. After finally reaching the river bank on the other side, the black wave quickly lost its momentum to continue rolling, and then rolled back again as if it was naturally affected by gravity. At the edge of the river bank, the main force of the Song army was waiting behind the fence. These soldiers had no courage to fight hand-to-hand. As for the few who rushed to the front, even if they expressed their intention to surrender and begged the Song army to allow them to pass through for refuge, they only received long spears and short knives as a response.

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