The Battle of the Ninety-Six Hutuo River (3)

It turned out that as early as Wanyan Chang's order, stationed in Zhending Mansion, and Wanyan Yungong across the river, he thought of three passages that could be quickly passed through with sandbags and mud belts in the river, which was a way to quickly cross the Hutuo River.

Therefore, the night before yesterday, Wan Yan Changzhi arranged for Pu Atong to fill the gravel and sand with sacks, and to build three hidden passages in the Hutuo River, each of which was about fifty paces apart, six feet wide, and only more than two feet deep from the river, enough for people and horses to gallop at full speed. And if you don't try it yourself, you can't see it at all, and you have made a secret mark on the bank of the river so that your men and horses can cross the river from the right place. It was precisely because of this arrangement that Wanyan Changzhi dared to boldly propose that Wanyan Yungong lead the army to retreat, and he took the initiative to cross the river to fight him.

This time, among the 27,000 men and horses brought by Wanyan Changzhi, there were 8,000 cavalry. Among them, there are also 2,000 iron prisoners and 2,000 arrow-breaking troops. Except for the cavalry sent across the river last night to pretend to be in ambush. The rest of the 7,000 cavalry were all in the array. At the moment, Yan Changzhi is divided into three ways. He led 1,000 iron floats, and 2,000 arrow-breaking troops as the middle lane. Shi Dingyue and Pu Atong each led 500 iron prisoners and 1,500 cavalry as the left and right wings, and only waited for the enemy troops on the west bank to retreat, and the men and horses posing as ambush soldiers raised dust, and immediately crossed the river from three secret passages and killed them on the west bank of the Hutuo River.

On the west bank of the Hutuo River, the men and horses who were waiting for the last retreat also lost their square inches for a while, and they did not know whether to turn around to meet the enemy or continue to retreat. At this time, Wanyan Yungong, Shuqi Gaohu, Wanyan Baisa and others also discovered that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly ordered someone to give an order to stop retreating and immediately turn back to face the battle. But now it was too late, and in the midst of the splashing of the river, Wan Yan Changzhi took the lead in crossing the Hutuo River and killed ashore. The sound of hooves was deafening, muffling out all the sound of drums and trumpets in the West Bank.

And most of the retreating people didn't know what was going on behind their backs, and continued to retreat. At this moment, in the midst of Yan Yungong's crowd formation, someone suddenly opened his legs and began to run backwards rapidly.

The other soldiers didn't understand what was going on, and some were still shouting: "Slow down, slow down, what's the hurry?" But someone in the army shouted: "We are defeated, we are defeated, run, run, if you don't run, you will die." ”

Because of the large number of people and horses of Wanyan Yungong and the very wide distribution, and in the words that Wanyan Changzhi said just now, except for the part about false letters and anti-plots, which were forced out with internal qi, the other words were all in normal voice, so except for a few soldiers close to the riverbank, the vast majority of people could not hear the conversation between them clearly, and many people could not even see it, so after receiving the order to retreat, they were at a loss from top to bottom, and the doubts in their hearts increased.

Now there were suddenly people in the array running fast, shouting "We have lost", and everyone panicked. The morale of these soldiers was not high, and they were very dissatisfied with Wanyan Yungong, so they also joined the ranks of fleeing, and as a result, more and more people fled, and the whole formation was also in chaos.

Wanyan Yungong, Shuqi Gaohu, Bai Yanjing and others were beckoning the soldiers around them to turn back to face the battle, and suddenly found that the enemy army had not yet reached the front, and their own men and horses were in chaos, and some of them kept shouting "Defeated, defeated." "Run, run." and other words, they couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly stopped. But now that the defeat of the army has been achieved, there is still a place where the drink can be stopped, not to mention that there is only a few men and horses around them, and no one obeys their orders at all.

This is the third trick arranged by Wan Yan Changzhi, just the night before yesterday, after Wan Yan Chang's night attacked the Lu camp and defeated the Husha Tiger of the Fu Shi Lie, he immediately selected two hundred shrewd soldiers, let them pretend to be the defeated army of the Lu camp, and mixed into the army of Wan Yan Yungong.

At this time, Wan Yan Chang swung his spear with a prancing horse and killed him. Although there were still a few men and horses turned their heads and fired bows and arrows at him, the sparse feathered arrows could not slow down his progress at all, and in the blink of an eye, he was in the middle of the formation, and the spears in his hands swung out thousands of spear shadows, stabbing the enemy soldiers who stood in front of him one by one, and he was majestic.

At the same time, the three cavalry under Wanyan Changzhi also kicked up the west bank from the river and killed the enemy like a wolf. In the blink of an eye, the men and horses who blocked the attack were scattered, their limbs were shattered, and they could not form an army. At this time, Wanyan Yungong was already even more chaotic with the chaotic men and horses, some turned around to fight, and some continued to retreat, between each other, you hit me, I stopped you, there were hundreds of thousands of troops, but they couldn't exert their due power. And Wanyan Changzhi's 20,000 infantry troops also began to cross the river, preparing to kill the other side and continue to expand the results.

Wanyan Changzhi's three-way cavalry also broke into the enemy's formation, galloping on horseback, constantly chasing and killing the defeated army. However, at this time, Wan Yan Yungong's army had no power to resist at all, and could only run desperately on the battlefield, hoping to avoid the pursuit of the enemy. He was a person in the back, desperately squeezing into the crowd in front, and as a result, he pushed each other, stabbed and trampled, and suffered countless casualties.

Wanyan Yungong and others were entrapped in the defeated army at this time, and under the protection of a team of guards, they also retreated with the defeated army. Wanyan Yungong was still a little unwilling, pointing fingers at the horse, regardless of the dissuasion left and right, and insisted on fighting for his life, but he was blocked by the defeated people and horses, and he was powerless to change the current situation.

At this time, I only heard someone laugh and said: "Wanyan Yungong, you have lost the situation, and now you have what else to do?" ”

Wan Yan Yun Gong heard the sound and looked, and saw that Yan Changzhi urged the horse to swing the spear, led a team of Tiefutu, and was rushing to his side from the side and back, only to see Wan Yan Chang's hand making the spear, extremely brave, only to kill the enemy soldiers on their backs, in front of his horse, there was no way to defeat the general. However, among the two teams of people, there are still thousands of people and horses, although Wan Yan Changzhi is brave, but for a while, he can't kill him.

Wanyan Yungong was ashamed and angry, and suddenly had an open mood in his heart, and said sharply: "Wanyan Changzhi, I have a hard time with you." "Regardless of the obstacles of the crowd, he is going to kill Wanyan Changzhi's side.

Bai Yanjing pulled Wan Yan Yungong's reins and said: "Your Majesty, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, please Your Majesty return to Taiyuan Mansion, and then release the text to recruit my Dajin people from all walks of life, and then fight to the death with Wan Yan Changzhi." ”

Wanyan Yungong still had to resist, at this time, a stray arrow came, just inserting into his left shoulder blade, Wanyan Yungong has always been pampered, and it can withstand it, and suddenly he snorted in pain and fell down immediately. The pride and courage that I wanted to fight with Yan Changzhi just now also disappeared immediately.

Bai Yanjing didn't care about inspecting Yan Yungong's injuries, but just dragged his war horse and ran westward, while Shuqi Gaohu, Wanyan Baisa and others were busy supporting him and fled in the direction of Taiyuan Mansion.

After Wan Yan Changzhi killed the people and horses that were blocking, Wan Yan Yungong and his party ran away. Shi Dingyue urged the horse to come to Wan Yan Changzhi's side, and said, "My lord, let me take a thousand cavalry to chase Wan Yan Yungong, I will definitely capture him alive in front of my lord." ”

Wanyan Changzhi looked at the backs of Wanyan Yungong and the others who were gradually moving away, and said with a smile: "Shi Dingyue, don't chase it, at this point, Wanyan Yungong can still escape there, what if he lives a few more days?"

Shi Dingyue frowned and said, "My lord, if you don't remove the roots, you will leave troubles, so you can't be careless." ”

Wanyan Changzhi laughed and said, "Shi Dingyue, you can rest assured!" Now your task is to recruit 5,000 cavalry, set off immediately, and be sure to seize Taiyuan Mansion before Wanyan Yungong. As for Wanyan Yungong's side, I have my own way, but I just let him live a few more days, he can't escape from my palm. ”

Shi Dingyue was full of confidence when he saw what Yan Changzhi said, and estimated that he must have another good plan, so he didn't ask much, and immediately recruited 5,000 cavalry and rushed to Taiyuan Mansion.

At this time, on the battlefield, the remaining 20,000 infantry troops under Wanyan Changzhi also waded across the river, came to the west bank, joined the battle, and cooperated with other cavalry troops to pursue the defeated army everywhere. Although until now, they have not waited for the rumored ambush army to be killed, but at this time, no one under Wanyan Changzhi's subordinates will care about this, they only care about chasing and killing the fleeing defeated army on the battlefield, and everyone is high-spirited and fully demonstrates their bravery.

Seeing this, Wan Yan also knew that the overall situation on the battlefield was decided, so he immediately ordered all men and horses to try their best to reduce the killing poke and persuade the defeated army to surrender. Because the opponent is also Dajin's army, killing one less person will leave more strength for himself to be the emperor in the future.

Now Pu Atong and other generals respect Wan Yan Changzhi like a god, and carry out his orders absolutely unconditionally, so after receiving the order, they also relaxed the pursuit of the defeated army, and then soon a voice of persuasion to surrender sounded on the battlefield.

At this time, the defeated army had no intention of fighting again, and had no determination to be loyal to Wanyan Yungong, so when they saw that the opponent was persuaded to surrender, they laid down their weapons and surrendered to Wanyan Changzhi.

However, sporadic fighting continued until the early afternoon. After this battle, Yan Changzhi only used less than 30,000 troops to defeat Yan Yungong's 130,000 army and beheaded nearly 30,000 people, because in the second half of the battle, Wan Yan Changzhi's men and horses stopped killing and poking, and turned to persuade surrender, so in this battle, there were more than 60,000 people who were captured and surrendered. And Wan Yan Changzhi's own loss is less than 2,000 people.

And Wanyan Changzhi's victory also completely announced the defeat of Wanyan Yungong, after the end of this battle, the situation of Daikin is also completely clear, everyone knows that Wanyan Changzhi will become the new emperor of Dajin.