After Wanyan Yungong decided to go on a personal expedition and rescue Xixia, Wanyan Changzhi was surprised and happy in his heart, of course he knew that Wanyan Yungong was by no means Yang Yan's opponent, and the more than 300,000 troops were afraid that they would all be buried in Western Xia, which was a huge loss for Dajin. But in this way, the guards of Zhongdu will inevitably be empty, and this is simply a God-given opportunity for Wanyan Changzhi, and it must not be missed.

However, the Song army suddenly sent troops to attack the Central Plains, but it was somewhat unexpected by Wanyan Changzhi. In fact, with his intelligence, he may not be able to see this, but now that he is not in the Nanjing Left-behind Division, he does not know all the news from all sides, which affects his judgment of the situation, and on the other hand, now Wanyan Changzhi has put a lot of energy on how to start a rebellion, and he has no time to take care of other things.

But Wan Yan Changzhi was also an extraordinary person in the end, and he immediately understood the intention of the Song Dynasty, not only to destroy the Western Xia, but also to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army to aid the Western Xia to strike hard at the Jin State, which also strengthened his determination to immediately rise up and seize the throne. Because in the view of Wanyan Changzhi, Wanyan Yungong will undoubtedly be defeated in Western Xia, and at this time Xixia is not enough to worry, so once the Jin army is defeated, the Southern Song Dynasty will take the opportunity to attack Jin in order to gain the strategic initiative, if Wanyan Yungong dies in Western Xia, Dajin will inevitably be leaderless, and there will be chaos in the country, even if Wanyan Yungong does not die, his talent is not enough to deal with the chaos in the future, it is better to let himself lead Dajin and clean up the mess.

Therefore, Wanyan Changzhi immediately recruited Zhang Hu, Guo Xiajiao, Shi Mo Yanshan, Pu Atong, Pu Cha Dingzhu, Shi Dingyue and others, together with his wife Wanyan Ruixian, to discuss the plan of gathering and discussing the uprising.

Zhang Hu first said: "Now Hu Shahu sent troops to meet the Song army, Nanjing is empty, it is a good time for us to do something, and I sent Wulintai, Wuyan Tuochi, Huleshu, Shulu four people to sneak into the city of Nanjing to arrange, just wait for the adults to arrive, the inside and outside can capture Nanjing in one fell swoop, and then take Nanjing as a stronghold, take advantage of the faint king's expedition outside, and advance in the capital, so that the great things of the adults can be accomplished." It's just that Hu Shahu is by no means Bi Zai's opponent, once the Song army wins, it will inevitably come to capture Nanjing, and I am afraid it will drag us down. ”

Wan Yan Changzhi smiled slightly, and said: "This gentleman doesn't have to worry about this, I thought that I had already arranged a plan to break the Song army." It's just that Hu Shahu's 40,000 horses are an important force for us to defend Nanjing, and if we lose too much in the battle with the Song army. It's very scary to be straight. We should try to recover it. ”

Guo Shrimp Toad said: "My lord, Hu Shahu's side has been properly arranged, let the brothers try to preserve their strength as much as possible, and don't fight hard with Song Jun." Moreover, according to the arrangement of the adults, he was instructed to retreat once he was defeated, and not to flee back to Nanjing with Hu Shahu, but to gather in Xiangcheng immediately and make plans again. ”

Wanyan Changzhi nodded and said, "Very good, Guo Shrimp Toad, you will leave for Xiangcheng, and when Hu Shahu is defeated, immediately gather his defeated army and then attack Yancheng." ”

Guo Shrimp Toad immediately said, "Yes." ”

Wanyan Changzhi said again: "Yanshan, the two of you will immediately lead five thousand men and horses tomorrow to attack Tangzhou with a bluff." After Bi Zaiyu defeated Hu Shahu, he would inevitably relax his vigilance, seeing that we could immediately organize a counterattack and that there were men and horses to attack Tangzhou, he would not be able to figure out our movements, so he would definitely use a prudent method to retreat to Tangzhou first, and then make plans after finding out the movements of our army. But by then, we should have taken full control of Nanjing, and we could calmly arrange arrangements to resist the Song army. ”

Shi Mo Yanshan said: "Respect the order." Then he said: "My lord, although Bi has retreated again, but the Song army and Chen Min are attacking Chenzhou all the way, how should we deal with it?" ”

Wan Yan Changzhi smiled and said: "You can rest assured that Chen Min's journey has already been arranged." As long as we are forced to retreat, we are done. However, after Bi Zaiyu retreated, you must not easily engage him, and the shrimp toad should defend Yancheng and Yanshan, and immediately retreat to Dengzhou. ”

Although everyone didn't know what arrangements Wan Yan Changzhi had, they all knew that he was like a god, and they were all relieved to see him say so confidently.

Wan Yan Changzhi said: "Mr. Zhang, Dingyue and Atong led a thousand men and horses with me to Nanjing overnight, leaving Dingzhu to guard Dengzhou, so tomorrow, you will act separately, and you don't have to come to resign to me." ”

Shi Mo Yanshan said: "My lord, you only brought a thousand people to Nanjing, I'm afraid the strength is too thin, so let's bring more people?" ”

Pu Cha Dingzhu also said: "Yes, Yanshan took away 5,000 men and horses, and Dengzhou still has 5,000 men and horses, and only 1,000 people are too little, at least 3,000 people should be brought to Nanjing." ”

Wan Yan Changzhi shook his head and said, "You still have to fight against Bi Zaiyu's army here, if I take more people and horses, the guards here will inevitably be weak." Moreover, they had already existed in Nanjing, and the four of them, Wulintai and Wuyantuochi, infiltrated it, relying on the cooperation of the inside and the outside, and they were not taken by surprise, not to storm Nanjing. If you want to rely on hard fighting, the high walls of Nanjing City are thick enough to resist tens of thousands of troops, even if you bring the remaining 5,000 men and horses from Dengzhou, it will be useless, so it is better to leave some more people here, and it is enough for me to bring only 1,000 people. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all convinced, and then they agreed in unison, and each went down to prepare.

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At this time, the spies of the Song army had already reported the news of the attack led by Hu Shahu to Bi Zaiyu. Obviously, this is the opportunity for Bi Zaiyu to wait for a decisive battle with the main force of Jin, so he personally led 30,000 horses with Liu Fuwu to the north to meet the Jin army. At the same time, he ordered Chen Min to lead the army to attack Chenzhou from another line, on the one hand, to protect his flank, and on the other hand, to take advantage of the time when he attracted the main force of the Jin army, so that Chen Min could capture Chenzhou, and then he could directly attack Kaifeng Mansion.

Bi Zaiyu and Liu Fuwu led their army northward and met the Jin army led by Hu Shahu near Yancheng. This is also the place where Yue Fei's Northern Expedition in the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140) ended the battle of Yan Zongbi, and the Yuejia army defeated the Jin army and broke the Tiefutu.

Therefore, before the decisive battle with the Jin army, Bi Zaiyu gathered the whole army and said loudly: "Brothers, thirty-five years ago, Yue Shaobao defeated the Jin army here. At that time, I had not yet been born. Now that Yue Shaobao and his father are ancient, but their ambitions have not been rewarded, then the responsibility of expelling the Jin Yu and recovering the lost land will be completed by our generation. ”

All the soldiers couldn't help but hear the blood boiling, and they raised their arms in unison and shouted: "Expelle the golden captives and recover the lost land." Expel the Jin captives and regain the lost land. Expel the Jin captives and regain the lost land. "Morale has reached its peak.

Bi Zaiyu nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Okay, let's set off to meet the Jin army." ”

The two armies of Song and Jin met in the town of Huokou, twenty miles southeast of Yancheng, after the two sides lined up with each other. Bi Zaiyu held a big axe in his hand, took the lead, and led the 3,000 cavalry of the Ma Army Si Weiyuan Army to storm the Jin army.

This is not a matter of being reckless and acting only by personal force. And because after Hu Shahu took office in Nanjing, the reporters of the Great Song Dynasty had already reported Hu Shahu's behavior in the past few months back to Jiankang, and at the same time, they also reported back to Bi Zaiyu here.

After understanding these circumstances, Bi Zaiyu can basically conclude that Hu Shahu is a mediocre and incompetent person, so in the face of such an opponent, Bi Zaiyu's method is to use the most fierce attack to give the opponent a blow to the head at the beginning, completely intimidate the opponent, and succeed in the first battle. What's more, at this time, the morale of the entire Song army was high, and it was just right to use this morale to defeat the Jin army in one go.

Sure enough, as soon as the two sides clashed, the Song army, under the leadership of Bi Zaiyu, unstoppably entered the formation of the Jin army.

Although the Ma Jun Si Wei Yuan Army only had 3,000 cavalry, it was the only cavalry army in the Great Song Dynasty that was fully armored and cavalry corps, and the commander was Tian Kai, the commander of the original Ma Jun Si Xuan Feng Army. The Jujia cavalry army was originally good at frontal impact, and at this time, the morale of the whole army of the Song army was high, everyone was full of fighting spirit, and there was such a fierce general who took the lead in the charge, so everyone was brave, one by one, and desperately rushed to the Jin army, only to kill the Jin soldiers, and the corpses were everywhere.

And the Jin army was originally not highly motivated, and seeing that this Song army was somehow, everyone seemed to be as if they had obtained divine power, and they were unstoppable. The companions who stopped in front of them almost did not survive, and they still dared to step forward to meet them, so when they saw that the Song army was killed, they all unconsciously retreated and gave way. So the Song army stubbornly fought a bloody way out of the Jin army's formation.

The Sushi Liehu Shahu, who was supervising the battle in the back, only looked frightened, watching this Song army rushing and killing in the Jin army array, which could not be described as brave, just like a group of fierce tigers rushing into the flock. And the Song general who is the leader of the black horse and black armor is a tiger among the tigers, a big axe opens the bow left and right, and every time the axe goes down, it will inevitably bring the death of the golden soldiers, and no golden soldier can block his blow.

Su Shi Lie Hu Shahu has seen such a big battle before, at this time he only felt that his limbs were trembling, his heart was beating wildly, in fact, he was still dozens of steps apart, but it seemed that this Song army would be killed in front of him immediately, and the Song general's big axe would cut off his head at any time. I couldn't help but say to the left and right: "Here...... It's so unsafe here, let's step back, shall we? ”

When Yang Woyan, the general beside him, heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly said: "Stay behind adults, you are the commander of the first army, once you retreat, it will inevitably shake the heart of the army, and our army will definitely be defeated." Therefore, at this time, adults must not take half a step back, and must stick here. As long as there are adults here, although the Song army is fierce, our army can also resist. ”

Hu Shahu said unhappily: "Yang Woyan, as a left-behind envoy in Nanjing, Ben Shuai is advancing or retreating, and he has his own decisions, what kind of person are you, and you dare to take charge of Ben Shuai." Ben Shuai is determined, he must retreat, you don't have to say much. As soon as Hu Shahu pulled out the horse's head, he was about to turn around.

Yang Woyan couldn't help but be anxious, grabbed the reins of Hu Shahu's horse, and persuaded hard: "Left-behind adults, you must not retreat at this time!" ”

Hu Shahu was anxious and angry, and hurriedly struggled, but Yang Woyan grabbed the reins of the horse, just didn't let go, and was entangled between the two, only to hear someone in the Jin army formation suddenly shout: "The Jin army is defeated, the Jin army is defeated, everyone run!" Run! ”

Then I saw that the golden soldiers threw their guns and swords one after another, turned around and ran. At first, only a few people were defeated, but the overall fighting spirit of the Jin army was not high, and when they saw that some of their comrades were defeated, they were all defeated and retreated together, and there were constantly people in the formation shouting "The Jin army is defeated, everyone flee quickly" It made people even more uneasy, and they had no intention of fighting again. Even if a few soldiers still wanted to fight with the Song army, they were also wrapped in the crowd and ran down involuntarily.

As soon as Hu Shahu saw that the Jin army was defeated and retreated, he couldn't help but be anxious, for fear that he would be caught up by the Song army, he raised his horse whip and whipped Yang Woyan fiercely on the back of his hand, and scolded in his mouth: "What are you Yang Woyan, you dare to take care of Ben Shuai, don't let me go quickly." ”

Yang Woyan only felt a pain in the back of his hand, and involuntarily let go. Hu Shahu didn't care about him, and whipped the horse's buttocks fiercely, and the war horse ate musk, spread its limbs, and galloped away in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion. As soon as the guards around Hu Shahu saw that the coach had run away, they all urged their horses to chase after Hu Shahu and ran together.

Yang Woyan smiled bitterly, and when he looked back, he couldn't help but be taken aback, only to see that the Jin army was defeated on all fronts, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the entire formation collapsed. Of course, he didn't know the inside story, and thought that Hu Shahu's run really shook the morale of the whole army. And at this time, if he doesn't escape, he is afraid that he will be surrounded by the Song army. Therefore, he had to rush the war horse, chased the back of Hu Shahu and others, and ran down. I was still thinking in my heart that if it was Wan Yan Changzhi who commanded this battle, such a situation would never occur.

The Jin army's formation suddenly collapsed, which surprised Bi Zaiyu, who was afraid that the Jin army had other tricks, so he temporarily stopped the Song army from chasing. However, by carefully observing the chaotic situation of the defeat and escape of the Jin army, Bi Zaiyu could conclude that this was a real defeat, not a lure to the enemy, so he ordered a pursuit. But after such a slowdown, it left a gap for the Jin army, and opened a distance from the Song army, and it was not so easy to catch up with the Jin army in the brigade. It was only possible to catch up with some scattered defeated armies.

However, Hu Shahu was frightened by the Song army, and did not dare to stop for a moment, and rushed towards Nanjing non-stop, driving the soldiers and generals around him to run with him. Therefore, although Bi Zaiyu did not catch up with the Jin army, he took advantage of the situation to capture Yuncheng and prepared to continue to march north to capture Xuzhou, and his troops were directed at Kaifeng Mansion.