In the cheers of the Song army, Zhao Yueru jumped across the Xiaoshang River and killed on the opposite bank. The coiling dragon stick immediately unfolded, and in front of and behind her, a fierce stick wind swept away like a storm like a golden army. Everywhere they went, they only screamed and fell to their horses.

The passage of the wooden bridge was also quickly opened, and the cavalry of the Song army galloped one after another, passed over the wooden bridge, and killed the north bank of the Xiaoshang River. Joined the warband.

At this time, the Song army opened the passage of two wooden bridges in a row, and although the Jin soldiers tried their best to intercept them, they could not stop the breakthrough of the Song army. In a short time, hundreds of Song troops crossed the wooden bridge and killed them on the other side of the Xiaoshang River, where they fought with the Jin army. And quickly occupy the position at the bridgehead, so that the follow-up men and horses can continue to catch up.

And Zhao Yueru immediately hit the horse like flying, led a team of cavalry, launched a fierce attack on the bridgehead of another wooden bridge, the stick momentum unfolded, the yellow mangs soared, the light tide surged, like the dragon in the sea churning waves, stirring up the huge waves of cold waves, the waves were silver and white shattered into countless light points and star beads, the power was amazing, denser than the rainstorm, more rapid than the wind fell suddenly, and sometimes the sea swirled, and the angry waves were entangled. Where the long stick fell, almost nothing was indestructible, and the Jin soldiers and Ben could not enter the range of eight feet in front of Zhao Yueru, even if it was just a weapon, it would be invaded by the strength of the long stick and fall from the horse.

In the blink of an eye, the Jin soldiers guarding the bridgehead were scattered, the Song soldiers immediately urged the horses to kill across the bridge, after the two sides converged, they immediately launched a fierce attack on the Jin army, the vanguard of the Song army were armored cavalry, so compared with the Jin army, both combat effectiveness and assembly were not inferior, after killing the wooden bridge, and constantly expanding the position on the north bank. And Zhao Yueru led a group of Song troops and ran towards the exit of the next wooden bridge.

In this way, although Yang Yan was still fighting to the death with Monk Wanyan Chen, Zhao Yueru personally led the troops to attack, and with an unstoppable impact, the passages of the six wooden bridges were opened one by one. And more and more Song soldiers also killed the Xiaoshang River and fought fiercely with the Jin army. The balance of power between the two sides is also changing rapidly.

In fact, now the Jin army still has more than 20,000 troops, and there is no shortage of elite men and horses such as Tiefutu and Poya Army in the army, but after a fierce battle in the middle of the night, they have not captured the enemy's position, and the Jin army is not only fatigued, but also demoralized, in this case, it is impossible to resist the sharp impact of the Song army.

Monk Wanyan Chen, who has experienced a hundred battles and is proficient in the art of war, does not understand this truth, but this battle is really related to the success or failure of the defense of Nanjing, so although he knows that he should not fight anymore, he has to grit his teeth and hold on.

"Dang!"

After another hard fight with Yang Yan, the two war horses staggered past, and at this time, Monk Wanyan Chen paid attention to the situation of the battle.

At this time, the attack of the Song army was almost unstoppable, not only the cavalry, but also the entire horse army Si Xiao cavalry had all killed the north bank of the Xiaoshang River, and the follow-up troops also rushed to the river one after another, killing the river in a steady stream. Although the Jin army tried its best to resist, it was still unable to contain the Song army and was killed and retreated.

Monk Wanyan Chen had several thoughts in his heart in an instant, he was still a person who was familiar with the art of war, and knew that if he continued to fight, the Song army would only kill more and more people who crossed the river, and the Jin army would not only have no chance of winning, but would only suffer greater losses. At this time, reason finally seized the mind of Monk Wanyan Chen, and he had to order the withdrawal of the army.

As the Jin army gradually withdrew from the battlefield, the fierce battle finally came to an end. Due to the timely arrival of reinforcements, the Song army finally retained the position of Xiaoshanghe, thus laying a solid foundation for the next step of capturing Kaifeng Mansion.

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After the battle, Yang Yan ordered to clean up the battlefield while urging the Song army to cross the river. Only one infantry Si Xiongwu army was left on the south bank of the Xiaoshang River to protect the rear of the Song army, and the rest of the troops quickly crossed the river, stationed on the north bank of the Xiaoshang River, immediately arranged defenses, and built some simple fortifications to prevent the Jin army from attacking again. At the same time, spies and patrol teams were sent out to investigate the movements of the Jin army.

However, what Yang Yan didn't expect was that in the afternoon of the same day, the Jin army came back again.

It turned out that after Monk Wanyan Chen led the army to retreat, he only walked more than ten miles before he encountered the 25,000 infantry troops that he had caught up with later. After the two combined forces, the Jin army had a total of 43,400 men and horses, and they were no longer under the Song army, which rekindled the hope of capturing the Xiaoshang River in the heart of the monk Wanyan Chen.

Although the main force of the Song army arrived at this time, after all, it had just occupied Xiaoshang River, and its foothold was unstable, and it would not have thought that the Jin army would immediately launch a counterattack, so the Jin army was not completely without a chance of victory. Moreover, this battle was too close to construction, and victory could thwart the Song army's attempt to comprehensively besiege Nanjing, so that the defense of Nanjing could last until after Yan Changzhi put down the rebellion. If defeated, the Jin army's outer defense line in Nanjing will be broken through by the Song army, and the overall situation will collapse, and the Jin army will fall into a great back.

Therefore, although there was no absolute chance of victory, Monk Wanyan Chen still decided to lead the army to fight back and fight hard. He first made some repairs to the army, leaving all the wounded behind, so that the strength of the army also had 40,000 people, of which about 16,000 cavalry. Then the team was reorganized, and after the whole army had rested for more than an hour, it immediately set out and rushed to the Xiaoshang River.

Zhang Wei, who first discovered that the Jin army had returned, led a team of 200 patrols. They found a cavalry squad of more than fifty people of the Jin Army four or five miles north of the Xiaoshang River.

Zhang Wei thought that this was just a sentry of the Jin army, so he immediately led the army and rushed forward. Because of the strength of the two sides, this Jin army team naturally could not resist the Song army, and as soon as the two sides made a little contact, the Jin army pulled out their horses and was defeated. And the Song army chased after it for less than 300 steps, only to see the dust in front of them, and they actually killed countless Jin troops, and a rain of arrows shot at the Song army. Song Jun was caught off guard and was shot dead to more than ten people at once.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but be surprised, this Jin army was also tens of thousands of people, and the cavalry army was complete. Could it be that the Jin army sent reinforcements again? Therefore, he immediately ordered to retreat immediately. But in the process of retreating, the Song army was shot by the Jin army and killed more than 30 people before fleeing back to the Song army's position.

In fact, at this time, the flying eagle in the suburbs of Wei had already discovered the movements of the Jin army, but although the flying eagle could find the Jin army, it could not tell the number of enemy troops in the Song army, and Yang Yan also thought that this was at most a vanguard reconnaissance force of the Jin army, and the number was estimated to be about one or two thousand. So I didn't pay much attention to it. After all, according to common sense, it is impossible for the main force of the Jin Army to come back as soon as it is defeated, at least it will be a day or two.

After getting the accurate news that Zhang Wei reported back, Yang Yan was also surprised, and hurriedly ordered to gather men and horses, re-line the team, and prepare to meet the Jin army.

But it takes time to gather people and horses and re-line the line, but although the Song army is a well-trained elite soldier, they are now busy with their own work, some are camping in the village, some are carrying baggage, some are cleaning up the battlefield, and the infantry army is still on the south bank of the Xiaoshang River, and it is not half an hour and cannot be fully assembled. The Song army left behind the police circles, and only the Ma Army, Si Xiaocai, and the two armies of Kerong only had more than 16,000 people, which was not enough to withstand the attack of the Jin army.

And at this moment, Yijing could see the dust in the distance, and the Jin army was about to be killed.

Yang Yan immediately ordered Zhao Yueru to lead the two armies of the horse army, Si Xiaocai and Kerong, to attack first, and take the lead in meeting the Jin army, while he continued to gather men and horses and prepare to attack again.

After Zhao Yueru received the order, he immediately ordered to take the elephant army of the Kerong army as the middle road, and the cavalry army of himself and Wei Jiao who each led half of the Xiao cavalry army as the left and right flanks to meet the Jin army.

As the Jin army gradually approached, the Song army also quickly completed the arrangement, facing the Jin army, and attacked fiercely.

This time, the Song army dispatched 600 heavily armored war elephants, with 50 war elephants as a column, lined up horizontally. A huge phalanx with a width of 70 zhang and a depth of 25 zhang was formed. This group of behemoths showed a hideous and terrifying appearance, shaking their huge bodies, like small mountains of flesh in motion, rushing towards the Jin army with overwhelming momentum. And Zhao Yueru and Wei Jiao each led a team of cavalry, which were lined up on both sides of the battle elephant phalanx, firmly protecting the side of the elephant array

As soon as Monk Wanyan Chen saw that the Song army was using the elephant army to attack the Jin army, he immediately ordered to stop the men and horses, and then carried all the fifty bed crossbows he brought to the front of the formation, lined up, and faced the war elephants that rushed up, moved the winch, pulled the bed crossbow, and loaded the crossbow guns.

With the order of Monk Wanyan Chen, the Jin army released the winch one after another, the crossbow strings vibrate, and the crossbow guns were shot out with strong force, with a terrifying roar of breaking through the air, and flew towards the elephant array that the Song army was advancing two hundred paces away.

Now the bed crossbow made by the Jin army is not inferior to the Song army, each bed crossbow can fire five crossbow guns at a time, and the distance of more than 200 steps is also the distance range with the strongest penetration of the bed crossbow. Despite its thick skin and heavy armor, an elephant would not be able to stop the terrifying force if it was stabbed in the face with a crossbow spear.

After the first round of bed crossbows was fired, in the elephant array of the Song army, the bodies of about thirty war elephants were shot through the heavy armor by the crossbow guns, and many of them were shot several times in a row. Most of the war elephants let out a wail and then fell to the ground, leaving their massive bodies on the battlefield forever. There were also many war elephants with crossbow guns, still stepping forward, but after walking a dozen steps, they still could not hold on, and fell to the ground.

The first round of crossbow firing from the Jin army caused the Song army to lose at least twenty war elephants. There was an immediate burst of cheers from the Jin army.

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