The fierce battlefield was full of the smell of blood, so that the elephant, which originally belonged to the gentle herbivores, also aroused the primitive wildness, while letting out an angry roar, while shaking its huge body to strike, and also stepped out of its thick limbs to trample, flicked its long nose to strike, in short, with everything at its disposal to attack the Jin army.

The Song soldiers on the back of the elephant were also unrelenting, while controlling the elephant, not to let their mounts get too excited, and get out of the protection of the infantry on both sides. While waving the Changge in his hand, he continued to kill the golden soldiers with a condescending advantage.

The Song army, which followed closely on both sides of the elephant, also waved the weapons in their hands, cooperated with the elephant, and attacked the Jin soldiers, who protected the flanks of the elephants from the attacks of the Jin army, and killed the Jin soldiers who were constantly knocked down and injured by the elephants.

Although the Jin army is very tenacious and does its best, the innate strength gap between humans and elephants cannot be bridged by will and courage alone, and the war elephants and soldiers of the Song army are also not lacking in will and courage, not to mention that they are also equipped with the best armor and weapons, as well as strict tactical organization and tactical coordination protection. Therefore, after nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, the Jin army gradually became a little unable to resist, and was almost knocked down and trampled by the elephant army in rows, and the entire formation was forced to retreat again and again.

Wanyan Changzhi watched the battle in the formation, although Jin Jun Yijing was at a disadvantage, but he was not dissatisfied with the current battle situation, after all, he was able to hold on to this step despite the lack of preparation at the beginning, and Yijing was a very good result.

At this time, Pu Cha Dingzhu came to Wanyan Changzhi's side and said, "Your Majesty, now the brothers on the battlefield can't hold on anymore, I think it's better to send some people up for reinforcements." ”

Fusan Zhongyi also came over and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, I see that Tiefutu will be killed from the left and right wings, right?" ”

After Yan Changzhi pondered for a while, he waved his hand and said, "No need, pass the order down and collect the troops." ”

"Collect troops?" Pu Cha Dingzhu and Fusan Zhongyi couldn't help but be stunned, they were also puzzled by Wanyan Changzhi's decision, although it is said that the Jin army is now at a disadvantage on the battlefield, but it has not yet been defeated, and after all, only 15,000 infantry were dispatched, and there are still 50,000 or 60,000 troops that have not moved, and there is no shortage of Tiefutu, Broken Arrow Army, Heavy Armored Infantry Army and other powerful armies with strong combat effectiveness, once they are all put into battle, the number of battle losses may not be determined, in this case, how can they suddenly withdraw their troops?

Pu Cha couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, do you want to wait a little longer, please let Weichen lead 5,000 people to help the war immediately, as long as there are 5,000 more people, Weichen will definitely be able to turn the current situation of the war." Even if it's three thousand. ”

Wanyan Changzhi glanced at him, smiled and said: "Stop, I know your desire to fight very well, don't worry, there will be opportunities to fight in the future, and I will give you a chance when the time comes." Let's collect the troops first! As he spoke, he raised his voice and said, "Pass on my order and collect the troops." ”

Seeing that the emperor was so insistent that even Pu Cha couldn't persuade him to stay, and the others naturally didn't dare to say anything more, the herald immediately passed on the order. After a while, the horn sounded on the entire battlefield, and the Jin soldiers, who were still holding on to the battlefield, heard the sound of the horn, and they also fought and retreated, slowly retreating.

In fact, Wan Yan Changzhi believes that the goal of today's battle has been achieved. First of all, it can be basically determined that the Song army led by Yang Yan currently has no artillery. The second is that the Jin army was able to compete with the elephant army with the scriptures, which shows that his analysis of having an elephant army before the southern expedition is correct. Moreover, although the Jin army was at a disadvantage in this battle, it did not lose, and it would not hit the morale of the Jin army.

In this case, there is no need to continue to fight fiercely with the Song army, even if he invests in more men and horses, the Song army will also increase the number of men and horses, and the outcome is not necessarily favorable to the Jin army. And if you want to completely defeat Yang Yan's army, it is not something that can be achieved with one or two victories. Therefore, it is better to collect the troops and go back first, and widely publicize these two points in the camp, so that after the fighting spirit of all the soldiers is restored, then fight a decisive battle with the Song army, and at the same time prepare strong crossbow firearms, once the Song army uses the elephant army again, it is enough to deal with it.

However, these are all the thoughts in Wan Yan Changzhi's heart, and he did not explain it to the generals, because Wan Yan Changzhi has always used this way of leading the army, and his own plan will never be explained to others in advance, and he only needs to obey his own orders. And when the victory is achieved, the generals will not have any objections to this, and at the same time, they will have an unfathomable heart for Wanyan Changzhi. I was more obedient to his orders.

In the Song army's array, seeing the Jin army withdrawing, Qi Dazhu suggested to Yang Yan that while the Jin army was withdrawing, he mobilized the whole army to follow the elephant army and defeat the Jin army in one fell swoop.

Yang Yan shook his head and said with a smile: "No need, Dazhu, we are guarding in De'an Mansion, just to drag down the Jin army, not to defeat Wanyan Changzhi." Since he wants to collect troops, then let's collect troops as well. ”

Qi Dazhu didn't dare to say more, and the horn and gong in the Song army's formation sounded together, and the two sides stopped fighting. Thus ended Song Kim's first engagement in De'an.

Although both sides of the battle sent a lot of men, the Jin army was 70,000 and the Song army was 50,000, but the actual battle force was not much, the Jin army only used 15,000 infantry, and the Song army was even less, with a total of only 400 elephants and 6,000 auxiliary soldiers. As a result of the battle, the Jin army suffered 2,725 dead and 872 wounded. The Song army lost 1,076 killed and 381 wounded, and 26 war elephants were killed and 37 wounded. Most of the injured elephants were wounded on their legs.

Judging from the results of casualties, the casualties of the Song army were only about forty percent of the Jin army, but from the results of the battlefield, the Song army did not win, which is also quite unpleasant, and it was even more depressing because it was the elephant army, because in the past battlefield, as long as the Song army dispatched the elephant army, it would defeat the enemy army with a devastating momentum, which was not won after the elephant army entered the war for the first time.

However, Yang Yan didn't find it difficult to accept this, he never recognized the elephant army as invincible, and in the past, it was only when the elephant army was released at the most appropriate and most advantageous time for the elephant army to play, so it could all be victorious, but this does not mean that the elephant army can have a brave and invincible performance at any time, that is unrealistic. It's not bad to get such a result.

Moreover, Yang Yan led the army to be stationed in De'an Mansion, and it was not really to completely defeat Wanyan Changzhi, as long as Wanyan Changzhi was firmly attracted here, not to continue to attack Xiangyang, to defeat the Jin army, but there was another way, not in De'an Mansion.

Therefore, Yang Yan ordered the military doctor and veterinarian to treat the wounded soldier elephant, and the rest of the soldiers went back to the barracks to rest in preparation for tomorrow's battle.

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The next day, the Jin army really came to challenge in front of Defu City again.

Because after yesterday's battle, all the Jin soldiers knew that the Song army did not use artillery, so it is estimated that there was no artillery in De'an Mansion. This also made those golden soldiers from Xiangyang feel very relieved, as long as there is no artillery, then they are not afraid of anything. Moreover, the Jin army also resisted the attack of the elephant army for the first time, and many soldiers were boasting, how they stabbed the elephant, how they knocked down an elephant, so the morale of the Jin army also improved a lot.

This time, the Jin army was not as cautious as yesterday, and at the beginning, it directly entered a distance of about four hundred steps from the city wall, and opened a formation. Fifty bed crossbows and a large number of throwing firearms were prepared to deal with the elephants.

The Song army also dispatched 50,000 horses to meet the Jin army, and also dispatched 400 elephants. However, this time the Song army did not take the initiative to attack, but always held the position strictly, not moving like a mountain.

Wanyan Changzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly, Yang Yan was too difficult to deal with, as if yesterday he suddenly used the elephant army to take the initiative to attack, and today he immediately put on a defensive formation, and it was impossible to judge what his next plan was?

But this is not a way to consume it, it means that today it is the turn of the Jin army to take the initiative to attack, but the Song army to defend.

Wanyan Changzhi originally thought that the Song army would attack the elephant army again, and the Jin army would first shoot them a few rounds with bed crossbows, and then throw firearms into the elephant army to scare the elephants, and wait for the elephant army's formation to be chaotic, and then dispatch the spear infantry to come forward and do hand-to-hand combat with the elephant army. But now it seems that this idea will not be realized. However, the Song army did not send out war elephants, and Wanyan Changzhi did not dare to dispatch Tiefutu easily, because once the two sides fell into short-handed contact, bed crossbows and firearms would be useless.

Therefore, Wanyan Changzhi thought about it for a while, and ordered 10,000 infantry to attack the middle of the Song army, and the left and right flanks each sent another 3,000 cavalry to attack the two wings of the Song army, so that the three lines of attack and see how the Song army responded. If the Song army sent out the elephant army, then the central army headquarters immediately retreated, and the bed crossbows and firearms in the rear formation attacked the elephant army, and the cavalry attacked the two wings of the elephant army. If the Song army does not move the elephant army, then it will directly impact the Song army's position and strive to defeat the Song army in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the Jin army dispatched the attacking troops, Yang Yan also immediately ordered, and the five thousand heavy armored infantry in front of the formation immediately walked forward more than ten zhang, forming a sword formation of more than 300 steps horizontally and more than ten rows in depth, and the archers were also standing behind the knife formation, bending their bows and arrows, pointing obliquely to the sky, ready to give the Jin army a head-on attack.

On both sides, the Song army also killed 3,000 cavalry troops in each formation to meet the cavalry of the Jin army. The second battle between Song and Jin in De'an Province will start again.

But at this moment, Wan Yan Changzhi had a feeling in his heart that something seemed to be wrong with the current thing, but there was something wrong there, and he couldn't say it. I had to look at Song Jun on the other side suspiciously, hoping to find the reason for my uneasiness.