Chapter 718: Next Stop, Youzhou
Yang Feng's killing was really just as he thought, like biting a sugar crisp stick from the beginning, biting the Jin army from back to front.
The latter have no ability to resist.
If there is a big battlefield, they can use the siege to entangle Yang Feng, but here, except for a Xingyi post to the south, except for a Xingyi post that can barely make no more than a thousand horsemen array, there is no other place where they can be arrayed. In such an environment, there are usually only dozens of people who can gather to defend against Yang Feng, and they will be killed in the blink of an eye at the furious speed of the national teacher, and then they will be behind them, and they can still gather dozens of people at most, and then they will be killed in the blink of an eye......
Actually, this is the ideal state.
Because Yang Feng only killed the Jurchens, and the Khitan and Han armies defected without dying, those Khitan and Han armies did not hesitate to defect.
So to be precise, as he advanced, the entire Jin army continued to fall into collapse and cannibalism, all he had to do was to keep moving forward, while killing all the Jurchens he could meet, while shouting his differential treatment policy, and then the Jin army in front of him killed each other, and the Jurchen soldiers abandoned their war horses like collapses and rushed to the mountains and forests on both sides in horror. Because Yue Fei and his three hundred subordinates were still blocked in Tianjing Pass at this time, it was impossible for them to wait for Yang Feng to come back again, and in the end, the Jin army that fled into the mountains and forests completely disappeared into the mountains and forests, while the Khitan and Han armies with Jurchen blood on their hands broke the jar and simply followed the national teacher.
Although their family is in the north, they can't take care of so much at this time.
Besides, it's not a big deal.
After this battle, it's a big deal to fight back with the Song army, the main force of the Jin army is wiped out here, and the Jin army in the sixteen states of Youyun is almost empty, so the next Song army will definitely go on a northern expedition, most of their hometowns are the generation of the sixteen states of Youyun, not to mention the Jin army left behind, not to mention the Song army, just these people can form a regiment and go back.
These guys aren't stupid.
Hug the thighs of the national teacher, with this immortal as their boss, they have nothing to worry about at all.
In this way, Yang Feng continued to move forward, kept killing, kept recruiting, continued to kill, and then continued to collect, stepping on the dead bodies piled up on the mountain road until he walked to Xingyiyi, where Muhan organized a most elite cavalry for the final resistance, but it didn't even use Yang Feng's hands, and the Khitan and Han armies who defected drowned this cavalry.
In the end, Sticky Han chose to commit suicide in despair.
And immediately afterwards, all the Jin troops on the entire southern Yangjizaka Road collapsed on their own.
By the time Yang Feng reached Hengwang Pass, the collapse had spread like the plague to the Jin army outside the mountain, including Li Yanxian, who crossed the Qin River on the flank, and Liang Xing, the loyal and righteous army of Taihang Mountain, who came with Li Yanxian......
It's the refugees.
This is Liang Xing, Zhao Yun and other rebels of the Taihang Mountain Loyalty Society, to put it bluntly, they are refugees in the area of Zezhou who can't stand the poisoning of the Jin army, and then abandon their homes and hide in the mountains, the main area of activity is the mountains south of Zezhou, especially the Wangwu Mountain area, which can be said to be the most suitable. Originally, they were controlled by the Zhai Xing brothers in history, but they insisted on it in the Taihang Mountains, which was actually the most important group of loyalty in the north of the Southern Song Dynasty, and they insisted on it for a long time, and they even almost waited for Yue Fei of the Northern Expedition, and they were also ready to meet it, but Yue Fei was recalled in Zhuxian Town and let them wait for an empty time, and Liang Xing finally took a group of people to escape to the south by boat along the Yellow River.
But at this time, after receiving the news that hundreds of thousands of officers and troops were fighting a decisive battle with the Jin army next to them, Liang Xing immediately led this rebel army out of the mountain, and happened to meet Li Yanxian, who was outflanked by him.
Then they joined forces.
And after adding them, the total strength of the Song army that surrounded the Wanshan Jin army was actually close to 200,000, not counting the total number of no less than 200,000 Hebei Qingzhuang who came from the rear, and even the armies that besieged the Jin army on the south bank were basically close to the end of the battle because of the defection of the Khitan and Han armies, so they also began to cross the river in Huaizhou to join the siege, and it was only a matter of time before their whole army was put into the siege, if the whole army on the south bank was added, it would be ten times the siege. Especially with the continuous compression of the battlefield, this encirclement can be said to be getting thicker and thicker, if there is a 50,000 gold army of Sticky Han to withdraw and join the battle, there is still hope for Sticky Han, but with the suicide of Sticky Han and the collapse of the department, there is no hope for Sticky Han.
Especially when his subordinates Khitan and Han armies also began to defect, it was impossible for him to even fight the trapped beasts.
He was left with only one choice.
On the same night, the Jin army in the encirclement of Wanshan killed their war horses, and then used horse meat as food, totaling about 20,000, and the Jurchen elite was reduced to zero, heading north into the vast mountains.
There are still 15,000 Khitan and Han troops surrendered to the Song army, when the national division took his newly collected nearly 20,000 younger brothers, more than 40,000 war horses, and walked through the bowl city, the two sides invested a total of more than 400,000 troops in the Song and Jin decisive battle ended in the complete victory of the Song army, the battlefield beheaded 35,000, including nearly 6,000 beheaded by the national division himself, counting Yue Fei and others, they beheaded a total of 8,000, and in addition, a large part of them were killed by defectors, but this was counted on the head of the Song army. Coupled with the surrender on the south bank of the Yellow River, a total of more than 60,000 prisoners or accepted surrender, including 20,000 of the national division himself who accepted the surrender, but there are still 40,000 Jin troops who fled into the mountains in pieces, as for their results, it is difficult to say, although it is summer at this time, there is not enough food to feed more than 40,000 people in the mountains.
Even hunting isn't enough!
Although the mother and others all brought horse meat, I am afraid that the meat in such a season will not be preserved for a few days.
But they abandoned their horses and walked.
And they are over the mountains and mountains, they still have to open the way between the trees, they also have to face countless cliffs in the wilderness, although the straight line distance from Wanshan to Zezhou is only more than 100 miles, but this is more than 100 miles of lofty mountains and thorns and trees, normal people have sufficient supplies, don't want to get out of it without ten days and a half months, not to mention that these people can't eat, and they have to guard against poisonous snakes and beasts, this is summer and you have to be careful not to be swept away by the torrent after the rain, they don't know the road, in short......
"It's a long way to go!"
The national teacher looked at the two dead bodies of the Jin army who had accidentally fallen to their deaths under the cliff with satisfaction.
It was clear that he was in a great mood.
Sticky Han committed suicide, Yinshu could be beheaded by him, Yang Zaixing beheaded Han Chang, Xie Yuan shot the living girl, Li Yanxian killed Lou Room, plus the previous explosion killed the Zhu Li, the iconic famous generals of the Jin Army in this period are almost half, but they actually ran away from the Golden Vultures, which still makes him a little regretful, and Yan Mu, Da Luan and Chi Zhan Hui are also famous generals, of course, they can't say that they have escaped at present, after all, whether they go west to Pingyang or return to Taiyuan in the north, they have to pass Zezhou first.
"Are you Liang Xing?"
Yang Feng looked at Uncle Liang in front of him.
The young version of Uncle Liang can still be seen to be a little handsome.
"The last general has seen the national teacher!"
Liang Xing saluted respectfully and said.
"Your subordinates temporarily take the loyal and righteous army as the number, you are the commander of the all, and the others will wait for the old man to go back, and immediately take your subordinates as guides, General Wang, since you are a member of the party, then your department will add Zhang Zhongfen, Liu Qi and the two troops will go out of Tianjing Pass to recapture Huaizhou, and each of your four troops will bring 2,000 cavalry from the surrendered army, and these surrendered troops should be appeased, and not treated harshly because of the previous battles, including those Khitans. The four of you are dominated by Liu Qi, recapture Huaizhou and immediately go north to seize Longde Mansion, and then don't rush to counterattack Taiyuan, in various places, even ordinary people must also receive the city, not a grain of grain or livestock outside the city. ”
Yang Feng said.
Liu Qi, Zhang Zhongfen, Wang Yan, and Liang Xing immediately laughed.
This is to play the dead gold army!
Even if they could get out of the mountains, they would have to die at least a third of them inside, and the rest were exhausted, hungry, and horseless infantry, and they had to continue to starve when they came out of the wilderness and the summer crops that had not yet borne fruit.
And when they besieged the city, they held it.
These Jin armies don't have time to stay, they won't really attack, that is, a wave of offsets, and there will be no siege equipment, so as long as they can guarantee that they don't abandon the city and flee, there is no city that can't be defended.
When they went, they were followed by cavalry.
Those Khitan soldiers would be willing to shoot the Jurchen soldiers to avenge the loss of the country, 8,000 cavalry is enough.
If they continue to play like this, they will have to be wiped out if they can't get to Longde Mansion, that is, Shangdang, and this will have to be when the Jin army walks out of the mountains, and the biggest possibility is that they can't get out of the mountains.
There is indeed prey in the mountains, and the Jurchens are indeed a hunting people, but hunting requires a range of activities, and their 40,000 people poured into the mountains and forests, so they had to drive all the wild beasts within a radius of a few hundred miles in front of them to meet their consumption, or they could disperse and scatter directly to the surrounding radius of a few hundred miles to search, but then they would not be able to gather again.
An army of 40,000 people wants to cross more than a hundred miles of mountains without supplies?
"Four thousand people can't do it!"
Liang Xing said with great feeling.
Well, he has a say in this kind of thing.
As for the other armies......
Yang Feng looked at the remaining generals in front of him.
There are still three armies of the Imperial Camp Division, five armies of Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong, Zong Ze's department is actually five armies, the Imperial Camp Division has 50,000 casualties, Zhang Han and other troops have 60,000, their casualties are the largest, it is close to one-third, the infantry to the cavalry must be infantry casualties far more than the cavalry, the same is true of Zong Ze's department, in fact, there are about 35,000 left, so it is 145,000, but 60,000 troops have been added, so the total strength of the remaining troops is more than 200,000 points, so the next task of these people is ......
"Counterattack, go straight to Youzhou!"
Then he said.