The Yanling army had a total of more than 80,000 soldiers. Even the troops of Ma Gao who went to the north as a cover and Yue Fei who went to the south were equal in number. The remaining troops were at least 40,000... In other words, the Song army coming here had actually reached more than 60,000! If we count the silent tiger in Xiashe City behind us, this afternoon, the 15 men of the Jin army here might be attacked by 70,000 troops, which is nearly five times the number of the Song army.
At this time, Talai became completely serious. He ordered the messenger to rush to Changge to chase his son-in-law, and ordered Da? to give up the attack and just defend within the river circle... Of course, this order is better than nothing, because after the scouts catch up, Pucha Hubalu will definitely have noticed the movement of Yanling and will definitely turn back to rescue; as for giving up the attack, isn't that nonsense? Are 20,000 and 60,000 the same thing?
However, since the decision to attack was canceled, it was completely too late for the Jin army to make any additional preparations at this moment.
After all, a long-distance continuous trekking march carried out to maintain combat effectiveness is completely different from a sudden march that drops everything... In conventional long-distance marches, everything is based on the army's baggage carts. Therefore, until the Napoleonic era, his cavalry units still marched at a speed of forty to fifty miles a day. Therefore, Xiahou Yuan's three days, five hundred, sixty days, and one thousand were amazing, and Sima Yi's rapid attack on Meng Da with a speed of sixty to seventy miles a day was called a military myth; however, when the baggage is put aside and pure combat mode is entered, it is a completely different matter. In this case, the cavalry can run seventy to eighty miles in an hour, and the infantry can turn back and forth twice in one day and night to cross the Yangtze River and cross a hundred miles (Zang Ba did something similar).
Back to the present, according to the distance calculation, Yue Fei was twenty-five or six miles away from here when he suddenly turned back, and Zhao Jiu was about thirty-six or thirty-seven miles away from here when he set out from the camp under the city of Yanling... So for the Song army that had abandoned everything, it would only take about half an hour to more than an hour to engage in battle.
After deducting the cost of the Jin army's scouts running back and the time Wanyan Talan takes to find and kill people, how many minutes are left?
This is exactly the case.
Just after Wanyan Talan learned that the main force of the Song army had left Yanling, Yue Fei had already led his troops to the lower reaches of the Qingqi River, about ten miles away from Changsha City, and only about five or six miles away from the front line of the Jin army. Then he was not in a hurry, but actually ordered the troops to make a final rest. After waiting for another quarter of an hour, he ordered some of the most elite troops to start wearing the few pieces of armor that Emperor Zhao had ordered to be concentrated, and then he ordered the final advance.
Another quarter of an hour later, or a quarter of an hour later, Yue Fei's troops officially began fighting with the Jin army's position on the east bank of the Qingqi River!
The core positions of the Jin army were all located on the continent between the Qingqi River and the Zhuoqi River, that is, under the city of Changsha. At this time, because ten Meng'an had left, and Talan made a temporary decision to give up the plan of crossing the river and fighting on the east bank, the positions on the east bank of the Qingqi River were extremely empty, with basically only some scattered surrendered Han troops and a Meng'an Jin army. So, after the Meng'an took the initiative to withdraw, this position fell into the hands of the Song army almost instantly.
This matter was expected and of course insignificant, but at this time, another inevitable choice was placed before Talan.
"Tear down the floating bridge on the Qingqi River in the east?" Talan, who rarely wore armor and rode out of the tent, looked at the densely packed Song army on the other side of the river and hesitated for a moment about the suggestion of the general beside him.
"That's right." The young elder suggested carefully. "The key to this battle is to delay time and wait for Pucha Wanhu to come back for reinforcements. We have built floating bridges almost everywhere on the river for the transportation of food and fodder and the movement of cavalry. If we dismantle the floating bridges now, won't we be able to delay the Song army as much as possible?"
"That makes sense! But it's not good!" Talan thought for a moment and shook his head. "If the pontoon bridge is dismantled, it will be difficult for Hubalu to attack from both sides after turning back. If we fail to defeat the main force of the Song army before dark, we will be forced into a night battle... It's not that we can't fight a night battle, but what if Han Shizhong takes the opportunity to escape?"
This seems to make sense. I have nothing to say... Actually, there is nothing that can be done about it. If we rush into a war hastily, everything will be right and everything will be wrong. No one will know which decision is right or wrong until after the war.
"That's it. Don't worry about the floating bridges. Use them to lure the Song army over. When half of the Song army has crossed, that is, about 10,000 people have come, you will immediately lead the eight Meng'an to attack them head-on. As long as they are defeated in one blow, they can be defeated before the follow-up army of the Song army arrives." Talai finally looked at the Yue flag advancing at a very fast speed on the other side, and finally gave a decisive strategy. "I will lead the remaining seven Meng'an to defend Han Shizhong!"
Upon hearing this, the young leader of the Bohai royal family not only had no objection, but felt reassured. He said nothing more, and immediately rode away to accept the order to fight.
Talan looked at the sun that was already setting above his head, and regained his composure... At this moment, in the mind of the right deputy marshal of the Jin army, there was such an equation:
In a battle involving more than 10,000 people, Meng An alone was enough to defeat 3,000 soldiers of the Song army!
Therefore, eight Meng'an are enough to defeat 20,000 Song troops. Therefore, twenty-five Meng'an together are enough to defeat all Song troops on the battlefield... Therefore, the only thing to avoid in this battle is to let these fifteen Meng'an be besieged by 70,000 to 80,000 Song troops.
That's all.
While Talai, who had not put on armor and fought in a battle for a long time, was cheering himself up, Zhao Jiu, the Emperor Zhao, had already reached the boundary ditch between Kaifeng and Yingchang, which was only 20 miles away from the right deputy marshal of the Jin army.
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