In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...
"That's right." Jie Yuan was the first to agree. "As for the opportunity to fight, the Qingqi River stretches for 20 miles, and the Jin army has laid countless pontoon bridges on it. As long as the reinforcements have a backup plan, there will definitely be an opportunity to fight. Our soldiers in the city have been trapped for months and have no extra strength. We must wait until the necessary time to attack in order to be effective... Besides, I always feel that if we don't take action now, it will make Talan hesitate!"
Looking at the large group of Jin troops running out of the city, Wang Shan had a solemn expression on his face, but he nodded repeatedly... To be honest, he was also puzzled as to why he did not see the troops from the Tokyo Garrison. It was okay for others, but Zhang Yong, Sang Zhong and others were loyal people. Since there was a large number of reinforcements arriving this time, they would definitely come.
As they were talking, the Jin army's horses rumbled up and had already rushed straight to the riverside. Even though Yue Fei's troops were well-disciplined, they were all horrified. They could only try to tighten their formation as much as possible at the shouts of their officers. Zhang Xian, who led the Tabai Army, tried his best to lead his few hundred cavalrymen to distance themselves from Yue Fei's flag... This was not an escape, but a search for space to charge. They wanted to rush back as soon as the Jin army broke through the formation to protect their brother and superior.
In fact, just now, as soon as the Jin army gathered, Yue Fei, who understood the Jin army's intention, realized the seriousness of the matter... At this time, Wang Yan's troops almost ran here, and they had no strength to gather for battle, and then cross the river from other places such as the north of Qingqi River to provide effective support; and in Yue Fei's view, the best way to deal with Han Shizhong's troops in the city is to keep them in suspense, to ensure that Wanyan Talan would be distracted and divide his troops to deal with it; at the same time, the reinforcements led by Zhao Guanjia himself had not arrived, and his own troops left on the east bank of the river could not provide full support because of the blocked pontoon bridge passage... The Jin army's attack was indeed the best opportunity to seize the battle, and if they were really knocked down, then they would really be defeated!
But on the battlefield, such worry was meaningless, because only a moment later, the flag of the big? suddenly accelerated, and then the three Meng'an Jin cavalrymen were almost like tigers descending from the mountains. Supported by military discipline, morale, fighting instinct and blood rush, they rushed to the river bank fiercely with their own families, and then with the mentality of "pottery colliding and breaking together", they collided fiercely with the infantry formation of the Song army in front of them.
The Song army had tried their best. During the charge, the archers fought desperately with the Jurchen archers on the opposite side. Arrows rained down from both sides. The wailing was completely drowned out by the shouts and the sounds of arrows flying. At the moment the two sides came into contact, the spearmen stood still like a fence, watching the dazzling Jin army's armored cavalry rushing towards them.
However, this kind of charge cannot be resisted by courage alone.
In an instant, after the frontline troops of both sides dissolved into each other in a posture of mutual destruction, countless Jin cavalrymen relied on inertia and almost forcibly smashed themselves and their horses into the Song army formation... and then, in a state that was almost so noisy that it was silent, they completely tore apart the Song army formation in front of them!
Looking from a distance, it looks as spectacular as a stream of iron breaking through a dam.
With this blow, the entire battlefield seemed to fall into a brief silence, and without a doubt, everyone came to the conclusion that the Jin army had won, and the Song army was defeated... The Jin army suffered countless casualties, and the entire battle formation of the Song army was completely broken. With the complete breakdown of the Song army's formation, the sound instantly returned to the battlefield, and the next moment, everyone watched the three Jin soldiers, led by Meng An Da?, wantonly ravaging and killing the Song army, which instantly exploded the formation!
The floating bridge behind the regiment began to be crowded and trampled, and countless defeated Song soldiers on the west bank, still wearing armor, simply fled into the early spring river, then easily broke through the thin ice and fell into it.
This confrontation was so clear and so shocking that Wang Yan on the other side of the river could no longer bear it, and immediately ordered his Eight Character Army, which had taken a short rest, to rush across the river from upstream!
Han Shizhong and Wanyan Talai, who were looking down from above and saw the situation most clearly, reacted completely differently after a moment of slight bewilderment - Han Shizhong stood up and burst into laughter; Wanyan Talai's face turned blue, and at the same time, the knuckles of his fingers, which were clenching the whip in his hand, turned slightly white.
"I'm going to kill this Bohai bastard!" After two full breaths, Talan threw the whip to the ground, obviously furious. "I'm going to skin him alive!"
The people around looked at each other, no one dared to speak... How could they kill their only front-line commander under such circumstances, and how?
What's more, they were big? They didn't violate military discipline at all... This Wan Hu did lead his troops to dig into the Song army formation! However, he didn't dig into the largest formation with a big flag with the word "Yue" flying, which had three or four thousand men, but went to dig into the formation next to it with a flag with the word "Xu" and only had more than a thousand men.
That's right. When the entire battlefield was most tense, Wan Hu Da? of the Jin army took advantage of what might be the best opportunity for the Jin army and took great pains to organize the strongest assault. He led the reinforcements given to him by Talai and his own headquarters Meng'an, and fiercely broke into the army of Xu Qing, the commander under Yue Fei.
The results of the battle were fruitful. Xu Qing himself died for his country at the first opportunity. Hundreds of Song soldiers died on the spot, causing hundreds of Song soldiers to be defeated and the situation on nearly a quarter of the battlefield to collapse.
With such results, it is no wonder that Han Shizhong, who was sitting high and looking far, laughed out loud at the collapse of his friendly army. It is no wonder that Wang Yan ordered the entire army to cross the river at all costs and quickly expand the battlefield while the Jin army's cavalry was difficult to gather. It is no wonder that Yue Fei and his generals Zhang Xian, Fu Xuan, Tang Huai, Li Zhang, Li Bao and others fell into a strange state of speechlessness - they felt sad and angry for the sudden death of Xu Qing and other comrades, but they were also keenly aware that they had actually survived this most critical breath!
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