Yang Yanzheng froze for a moment and said to Liu Fuwu: "Huzhou is lost, and Chongde is difficult to protect." Bayi Chinese.com ( >]).〉8?1〉Now we can't save the overall situation when we rush to Chongde. You immediately led the men and horses back to Lin'an with Wei Jiao, and told Han Shumi that Huzhou and Chongde were lost, and asked them to deal with it as soon as possible and leave Lin'an as soon as possible, and not make mistakes. Then immediately retreat to Longxing Mansion, where Cao Dutong and Gao Dutong are preparing to resist the Jin army going south, and you will stay there to help them defend Longxing Mansion together. ”

Liu Fuwu nodded and said, "The last general will respect the order." Then he said, "Is it difficult for your lord not to return to Lin'an with us?" ”

Yang Yan shook his head and said, "No, I still have to rush to Chongde." ”

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Although the autumn rain was not heavy, it continued to rain for seven or eight days in a row, and it hardly stopped.

Zhao Yueru was dressed in silver-white armor, surrounded by generals, standing on the city wall of Chongde County, watching the battlefield below. The autumn wind was wrapped in raindrops, and it kept blowing on Zhao Yueru's face and body. The silver armor slid down to form small streams of water, and then dripped to the ground, forming pools of different sizes.

Today is the third day of Zhao Yueru's Chongde.

Since Wanyan Changzhi stepped on the shore near Baoshan County in Pingjiang Prefecture, he took the lead in capturing Jiading and Jiangwan counties, and then immediately divided his troops into two routes, led by Guo Shrimp Toad An elite cavalry army, through Kunshan, took Pingjiang Mansion, and personally led another elite cavalry army, through Huating, to take Jiaxing Mansion. Moran Sqita led a large infantry army to follow.

Because this is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the prefectures and counties are unprepared, and the defenders are few, so the Jin army everywhere it goes, attack the city and seize the village, almost did not encounter decent resistance, although in the heavy rain, the road is difficult, but the Jin army only took three days, to conquer Kunshan, Changzhou, Wuxian, Pingjiang Mansion, Huating, Jiaxing Mansion, Pingwang Town, Haiyan and other places. In the end, Wanyan Changzhi, Guo Shrimp Toad, and Mo Ran Shi Qita met in Jiaxing Mansion. At this time, the entire east of Taihu Lake, up to the seaside, was occupied by the Jin army.

Due to the rapid movement of the Jin army, most of the defenders of the Song Dynasty were captured and a small number were killed in battle. Very few were able to escape in time. And many of the captured Song troops also surrendered. And at this time, the number of the Jin army was not enough to control so many places. Wanyan Changzhi immediately decided that the occupied place would be handed over to the Song Dynasty's troops to guard, and only the 5,000 infantry troops led by Mo Ran Shiqita would be stationed in Pingjiang Mansion to protect the flank of the Jin army. He and Guo Shrimp Toad led the army of the Jin army and sent troops from Jiaxing Mansion to attack Chongde.

And at this moment, Zhao Yueru also led the Song army to Chongde to garrison and blocked the way of the Jin army.

The Jin army used more than 800 large and small ships in this naval raid, of which 200 were dedicated to the use of soldiers, horses, straw, baggage, and other items. A total of more than 25,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 horses were carried. Together with some of the infantry troops drawn from the navy, the total number of the Jin army exceeded 30,000. However, although there are more than 10,000 war horses, there are actually only more than 8,000 cavalry, including 2,000 Tiefutu, 3,000 ordinary cavalry, and the other 3,000 are Tatars recruited from the desert by Wanyan Changzhi, named the Broken Arrow Army. And the extra 2,000 or so horses were used for the rotation of the iron float.

The Song army led by Zhao Yueru was the front army of the palace, the front army, the Youyi army, and the Shenyong army, with a total of more than 26,000 people. But there were less than three thousand cavalry among them.

And the two sides met first in the soap forest and started a big battle. Wanyan Changzhi made a frontal assault with 2,000 iron floats, 3,000 ordinary cavalry troops were divided into two wings, and the 3,000 arrow-breaking troops were divided into four teams, taking turns to encircle the flanks and rear of the Song army and attack.

After more than a year of training, these 3,000 arrow-breaking troops have learned tactical cooperation and collective cooperation in addition to retaining the courage and skill of fighting in the desert. In addition, they have been training for a long time, and this time they are fighting with Yan Changzhi again, and their morale is booming, and they all want to establish their military exploits on the battlefield, so they are all full of spirit, and they are all competing for the first.

It was the first time that the Song army encountered this kind of cavalry tactics, and they never directly engaged the Song army, but only kept a certain distance, only shooting with bows and arrows, and constantly galloping back and forth on the flanks of the Song army, running like flying. And everyone can use extremely fast methods to continue arrows, even if they are riding on a galloping horse, but whether it is a straight shot, a side shot, a back shot, or a down-to-head shot, it doesn't have any effect on them at all, and the whole person is almost like growing on horseback, wielding the Tatar horseman's riding and archery skills to the fullest. In order to maintain the formation, the Song army did not dare to pursue easily, so they could only rely on the cover of the shield and be beaten passively.

Coupled with the fact that the front was rushed by Tiefutu, the Song army was suddenly defeated and could only retreat. Fortunately, this is also the elite men and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, who are usually well-trained, although they are defeated but not chaotic, even in the retreat, they are also in order. Shields are erected on both sides to shield arrows, and they also return fire with bows and crossbows. In addition, after Zhao Yueru personally broke off, he led the Song army to block the impact of Tiefutu, with a white horse and a long stick, rushing left and right to kill, even if it was a strong cavalry like Tiefutu, he couldn't resist Zhao Yueru's powerful stick, and was killed by Zhao Yueru. The Song army retreated, losing more than 3,000 horses, and finally retreated to Chongde.

Chongde is a small county town, although it has city walls, but the place is not large. It is impossible to stop the Jin army from staying in the city alone, so it must be stationed outside the city. Fortunately, although the battle of Soolin was defeated, it also bought some time for the Song army, and built some simple fortifications outside the city to resist the Jin army.

After Zhao Yueru led the Song army to retreat to Chongde, he immediately relied on Chongde County, and set up three large villages on the left and right, each with 10,000 horses and horses stationed, and each village was connected to each other to support each other in wartime. And he sits in Chongde City, and fully responds to the people of each village.

As soon as Wan Yan arrived at the foot of Chongde City, he immediately began to attack.

Because this time they were lightly armed and raided, and did not bring any siege weapons, so the Jin army did not attack Chongde County, but focused on the six villages outside the city, as long as these six villages were broken, Wanyan Changzhi planned to leave a small number of men and horses here to confront Chongde's Song army, and led the other horses himself, bypassing Chongde, and running directly to Lin'an.

However, this time it was the Song army's best defensive battle, and even such a simple defense line was not easy to break. The defense line built by the Song army was divided into two rows, low in the front and high in the back, with archers and divine arm archers in the back row, shooting vigorously with bows and crossbows first.