Deep down in his heart, Ali had actually always been disdainful of Jin Wushu's arrogance, because this Jurchen general who rose from a mere Alixi to a commander of ten thousand men was a rare cautious man in the Jin army... In his view, ups and downs on the battlefield, small victories and small defeats were actually the most normal things. If you win, just keep fighting and completely seize the victory; if you lose, start over and regain the victory; if you are startled, you can whip yourself for a reply letter. He was so unrestrained because of the ups and downs of this level of war. His demeanor was not as good as the new official of Zhao Song under the dragon flag on the mountains on the opposite bank!
With such an attitude, is he worthy of being compared with the deceased Second Prince Olibu?
Of course, this is the typical wall effect and the benefit of being too far away to see clearly... As a novice on the battlefield, Zhao Guanjia was so nervous that he started to laugh at everyone and ruined the image he had built up in half a year. He never thought that sitting high and far away would have this benefit? !
"Seventh brother, the Jin people are trying to seize the ship!"
"I saw it!"
Zhang Yongzhen, who was in the middle of the river and ready to attack, was the commander of the large ship that had previously crashed into the pontoon bridge. However, when he looked at the mess on the north side of the Huai River from the boat, he fell into a moment of hesitation.
In addition, the north of the floating bridge in the river was already raining arrows. The Jin army ignored the range, weapons and lives, called the Han army in the army and drove them into the cold shallow water, forcing them to draw their bows and crossbows in the shallow water and shoot at the small boats that were used as support, in order to cover Meng'an Puluhun and the elite Jurchens to go up to the bridge and fight to seize the boats. The bows and arrows were fine, but the crossbows had to go back to the shore to reload after one shot, which was really a collapse, but at this time no one dared to ask Jin Wushu for any hard-earned money.
When the army led by Puluhun threw out the prepared grappling hooks, all the Song army's naval divisions suddenly realized what was going on.
But even though they were awakened, almost everyone was at a loss for a moment... Faced with the Jurchens' aggressive hand-to-hand combat, the first reaction of all the ships was to quickly escape from the battle. However, there were so many large and small ships at the moment, and they were entangled in front of them by a floating bridge that seemed weak but was actually twisted and flexible. How could they turn around in a moment?
Moreover, the more anxious the Song army was, the more difficult it was for them to move.
Relatively speaking, the Jurchen soldiers led by Puluhun were not really that adventurous. They did not need to fight along the swaying pontoon bridge. In fact, after they captured several large and small ships, they quickly abandoned the pontoon bridge route and used hooks to connect the ships, using the dense ships themselves as the attack route... At the same time, after these ships were captured by the Jin army, they would be occupied by the Han army in the subsequent Jin army and become the garrison points for archers!
During the whole process, the Song army's navy was like a group of fish and shrimps that had hit a fishing net. Although the Jin army was on the water, its invasion speed was like wildfire... Zhao Jiu was high above and could not see the specific details, but he could see that the Song army jumped into the water and abandoned their ships to escape, while the boats that had been running around trying to escape were like grasshoppers that had been slapped to death, and then stabilized in the hands of the Jin army.
After just two quarters of an hour, the three entangled large ships were all captured. A few small boats on the periphery were able to break away, while the remaining small boats continued to run around like headless flies in the encirclement-like position between the three large ships and west of the pontoon bridge, and it seemed that they could not escape the disaster.
At the same time, the Song army's navy, which still had two-thirds of its strength, including the four large ships on the southern half of the Huai River, several small boats, and reserve troops waiting upstream, had no intention of going forward to rescue. Instead, as the flags on the shore and on the ships kept shaking, they chose to turn around and retreat, apparently intending to re-deploy their troops upstream for subsequent response.
Seeing this, the Jin army beat drums loudly, and Jin Wushu laughed even more triumphantly, while the mountains on the south bank of the Huai River were in chaos again... I don't know how many civil officials surrounded Yang Yizhong and Wang Yuan and asked them why they were not as good as the Jin army in water battles? Wasn't it said that the Jin people were Liaodong Tartars and were not good at water battles?
Some people even insisted that the two give a definite answer, saying that since the pontoon bridge was destroyed, would it be difficult for the Jin army to cross the river today?
Even Zhao Jiu became dejected in his chair in an instant.
Of course, Emperor Zhao, who was always knowledgeable, was definitely not as ignorant as the civil officials around him... In fact, he knew very well what was going on.
In a word, the Jin army had been winning battles for more than ten years, and their morale, equipment and military power were at their peak, so they dared to fight and die; while the Song army had been defeated and routed for several years, and its morale had dropped to an outrageous level... Even the only organized Western Army veterans in the Huainan camp, after following Liu Guangshi across most of China, only dared to use boats against pontoon bridges, and did not dare to fight in the face of possible hand-to-hand combat!
Faced with the Jin army's adventurous attack, their first reaction was not to organize a battle, but to escape, even though they clearly had the absolute power to fight back. Moreover, they fled on their own without any organization or structure... which was equivalent to a rout, which caused the boats to lose control and hinder each other, and none of them escaped.
What is this?
This is literally the case of fleeing at the first sign of trouble! Rampant without a fight!
This was the difficulty that Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun had before, this was the reason why Liu Guangshi kept running away, this was the reason why the original owner of the body occupied by Zhao Jiu wanted to go to the southeast wholeheartedly, and this was also the fundamental reason why everyone advised Zhao Jiu not to waste time here - after Jingkang, the Song army really collapsed completely militarily, and the Jin army was really at its peak.
However, there is a contradiction. If you want to reverse this situation, someone has to stand up and fight back first, right? Zhao Jiu has been preparing for the Huaihe River for so long. Although there have been twists and turns, he has generally done his best. So if the Huaihe River is gone, will the Yangtze River be there? If the Yangtze River is gone, will Jiangxi and Zhejiang be there?
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