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...
In fact, this was a very successful tactic. When the dragon banner pressed down following Wu Jie's retreat, most of the rational people on the battlefield had already realized that the Jin army could not win the battle at the foot of Yao Mountain, and the Song army could not lose again.
Han Chang is such a rational person.
Wanyan Wushu beside him had completely lost his rationality. The fourth prince of the Jin Dynasty felt dizzy, but he kept staring at the dragon banner. An indescribable sense of shame and frustration, mixed with panic and doubt, made his mind chaotic.
For a moment, the Fourth Prince had only one thought - the mountain was moving!
He felt like he was being crushed by a mountain!
They were really coming. As the dragon flag flew out of the camp, Liu Qi, who was completely clueless about the battle situation here, abandoned his prey in the mud and desperately came out of the swamp with all the soldiers he could. When Wang Yan's troops on the plateau saw this scene, they also went straight down, but when they saw that Han Shizhong's 3,000 cavalrymen with bronze masks crossed the plateau first, they chose to turn around and rush towards Balisu. The troops on Xihe Road relied on the foot of the mountain and tried to resist again under the messy organization of Liu Xi. The defeated Song army on the periphery of the entire battlefield were gathering here, and even Li Shifu gave up looking for his father's body and came here with the remaining thousand or so Dangxiang light cavalry around him.
Soon, the defeated troops of Qinfeng Road and Xihe Road also noticed the dragon flag rushing down from the mountain. Although the two armies were still disorganized as a whole, facing the dragon flag, they gave up the idea of turning around and attacking the camp... It was very strange, but very realistic. These tens of thousands of troops fell into a strange state of chaos on the spot, not daring to go to the front and back, and being blocked on the left and right sides.
In any case, the Jin army's biggest killer, which was to drive the defeated soldiers to attack the camp, failed on the spot.
However, Lou Shi, who was very aware that his strategy had failed, looked at the approaching dragon flag in silence, but suddenly chuckled... He knew that he only had two choices now. One was to turn north directly and meet up with Wanyan Poshu and Pucha Huzhan, then go around the plateau to meet up with Balisu and evacuate together, and then die in the coming autumn rain... So, he would not choose this, because if he wanted to choose this, he would not have fought this battle in the first place.
Then there is only another way, to meet the enemy again, but no matter whether he succeeds or not, he will be killed under the dragon banner by the Song army pressing in from all directions.
This is a dead end!
However, a dead end is not a defeat. He may lose the battle militarily, but from the perspective of the Great Jin Kingdom and his Loushi, he may not be unable to win!
Hearing the sound of bowstrings behind him, he knew that it was because the battlefield was in chaos, and Qu Duan and Liu Yan were able to get closer. Lou Shi suddenly turned around and charged at the nearest group of Song soldiers with his gun! His subordinates were stunned for a moment, and quickly followed their own commander.
Both the Song and Jin sides were fighting like crazy on the battlefield not far from the camp gate, but Lou Shi was invincible like an arrow shot from a bow. He wielded a spear and led a cavalryman who ran rampant among the chaotic army. When he saw the Song army trying to gather together, he led the dwindling troops behind him to attack directly.
As he rampaged around wantonly, he seemed to have returned to Huanglongfu for a battle, having a great time and dying with no regrets.
Wu Jie certainly knew what he was doing and tried to stop him, but the chaotic battlefield not only made Wanyan Loushi lose the ability to drive away the defeated troops, but also made the Song army lose the ability to gather together to stop the enemy.
A quarter of an hour later, the dragon flag left the camp. In front of the dragon flag was Yang Yizhong, who was the first to break out. Under the dragon flag was Emperor Zhao, who was fully armed. Even Wang Yuan and Lin Jingmo were also wearing armor and following. After receiving the message from Wu Jie to evacuate, this emperor made up his mind and went straight here... This is understandable, and at this point, it is undoubtedly a successful decision.
But the problem is that Wanyan Loushi did not withdraw, but is still here.
And Lou Shi was waiting for this opportunity. He saw from afar a knight in the center under the dragon flag, accompanied by veteran generals and civil officials. He immediately gave up suppressing the Song army, turned around and led all his remaining strength to rush towards the dragon flag!
The Song troops behind him counterattacked together. Liu Yan's troops, Qu Duan, Wu Jie, Tian Shizhong, including Zhang Xian on the periphery, and some of the remnants of Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road who had awakened, all marched under the dragon flag, but it was obvious that Wanyan Loushi was one step faster.
When Yang Yi Zhong first came out of the camp, he was caught off guard by the attack and allowed some Jurchen cavalry to rush to the dragon flag within a hundred steps. Then he commanded the densely packed imperial squad to fight hard to catch up.
Zhao Jiu knew what was going on from the beginning—he was attacked by a decapitation! This was something he had anticipated before he came down.
In this regard, he, who had been on the battlefield several times, was not too panicked. After arriving at the battlefield in front of the camp gate and raising the dragon flag, Yang Yi Zhong organized resistance at the front, and Wang Yuan also calmly commanded part of the imperial squad until they gathered together under the dragon flag, forming an almost impenetrable defense circle.
But soon, the Jin cavalry told Wang Dutong that no defense was absolute, especially against cavalry - the Jin cavalry began to use the momentum of their horses to smash their entire bodies and the bodies of their horses into the still dazed and trance-like imperial squad!
A gap was instantly created in the defense circle, and Wanyan Loushi and his Five-Colored Sun Flag, which was already full of arrow holes, soon appeared in Zhao Jiu's field of vision.
Zhao Jiu didn't know how the enemy had managed to get here in front of such a densely packed army. This was no longer important. The problem was that the enemy was still unstoppable. No matter who stepped forward to stop them, it seemed that they were no match for him and his personal army. This famous Jin general, who had defeated countless Song troops before, was relying on the warhorse under his crotch to maintain short-range thrusts... What was even more terrifying was that behind him there was a Jin cavalry unit whose number had reached, or had been reduced to, only a few hundred.
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