Chapter Seventy-One: Fast as Lightning, Galloping Like the Wind
At this time, Wu Lan and others received the news, and they had already hurriedly seen it, and when they saw that Liu Weifu was here, they were shot by Zhao Huan Kankan, and everyone laughed after hearing it, Liu Weifu was solemn and self-controlled, and after everyone laughed for a while, he restrained his smile and said solemnly to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty is determined to conquer in person, and it is really a heroic decision." It was already the depths of winter, and the enemy's war horses had been exhausted for a long time, so there was absolutely no intention of luring the enemy to ambush the pursuers of our royal division. In front of Yuzhou City, it is just the remnants of Han Chang and Wang Bolong's defeated generals, one of the two was defeated in Yichuan, and fled to Hebei Road without asking for his life, and was blamed by the gold lord, and had no choice but to serve in Tongguan, and the other was defeated under Chang'an City, the main force in his hands was less than 2,000 people, and he was embarrassed. That's the case, it is also a meritorious service, ordering him to defend Yuzhou to the death, and if he fails, he will definitely be engaged in military law. ”
Zhao Huan smiled and said to everyone: "Look, the Han father and son have served barbarians for two generations, first Liao and then Jin are loyal, and many of their henchmen are children of the Han family, working hard for Liaojin, and countless children have died in the field, and the Jin people or the Liao people, after all, they have been excluded because they are of a different race." When Han Chang was in the Fuping War, I once saw his bravery, opened a three-stone bow, and the arrows were not in vain, and his eyes were shot at one eye, not Xia Hou......"
"Ahem......" Zhao Huan coughed a few times and covered his words. In fact, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written in the Ming Dynasty, and the story of Xia Houdun and Cao Cao cutting his beard and changing his robe and escaping was the prototype of Han Chang and Wanyan Zongbi.
Seeing that everyone didn't care, Zhao Huan finally said with confidence: "Well, since Yuzhou and the others are abandoned by these Jin people, they just expect to use the Han army's miscellaneous soldiers to drag us down, since this is the case, let's take Yuzhou first, and then capture Luoyang." ”
"Yes, the minister is willing to serve the death force!"
The emperor was dressed in armor. Standing between the soldiers to arrange the war, such a scene, from the beginning of the Song Dynasty onwards, has long been seen in front of the soldiers of the three armies, and Zhao Huan is not only in the army, but also has repeatedly broken the enemy, and he is also skilled in riding and archery, and the shame of Jingkang's two years has long been washed away by him. The situation of Jin Qiang and Song being beaten everywhere has also been greatly improved, because in the eyes of the generals and ordinary Song troops, Zhao Huan has long had a heroic and invincible image, and everyone is not surprised by his personal conquest, and they are also very obedient to his dispatch, which is why.
At the moment, the plan has been decided, Liu Weifu's more than 1,000 cavalry still went to the vicinity of Yuzhou to investigate, Zhao Huan led the soldiers and horses to rest for a while, and then immediately caught up.
Not long after Liu Weifu left, Zhao Huan saw that the sky was faint. Horsepower is also restored. This time, he ordered Wu Lan to go first, and after a moment of more than 10,000 cavalry, Zhao Huanfang got on the horse again. Under the escort of Niu Gao and 300 Mongolian cavalry, they began to march in the direction of Yuzhou.
At this time, it is already the boundary of the western part of Beijing, has gone out of the valley into the plain, under the morning light, there is a black plain everywhere, the village houses are faintly visible, as the sun gradually rises, but see the smoke gradually rising, many people get up to burn the fire to cook, the aroma of rice wafts along the cold wind in winter. The cavalrymen on horseback were hungry and greedy.
When they arrived not far from Yuzhou City, many people had already gotten up early to go out to run errands, and when they saw the Song cavalry galloping on the roadside, they were first dumbfounded, and then thundered with joy.
Zhao Huan wore a helmet tightly, dressed in the armor of an ordinary cavalry, mixed in the cavalry array, and no one knew that he was the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. If not, I'm afraid that the response will be even more enthusiastic.
Seeing that many people rushed to tell each other, many people who were not far from the main road hurriedly lit fire to cook rice, or boiled hot water, thinking about giving it to these Song cavalry, but the cavalry marched too fast, and when they arrived at the roadside with hot rice and hot water, they could only see wisps of smoke and dust floating in the sky, and there was no trace of the cavalry.
"The king set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Naiweng."
Zhao Huan rode forward, the road was flat, the horse's body was vertical and vertical, galloping very comfortably, but his heart was very heavy, and he was shocked by the situation just now.
Since the Song Dynasty Taizong cut down Youyan, the Han people there will eat and drink to serve the king's teacher, Taizong failed hundreds of thousands of people to return to the mainland with the Song army, and those who can't go back cry loudly, and the pain is extreme.
At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, this situation repeatedly appeared in various places, no matter where it was, as long as the Song army arrived, the local people would try their best to help, but unfortunately they were repeatedly disappointed.
Only by seeing with one's own eyes this kind of longing for the joy of the king can we understand the pain of the Song people who cannot recover their homeland in Lu You's poems.
When the sun was a little hot, the short city wall of Yuzhou City had been revealed in front of Zhao Huan's eyes, he turned his head to look at the sky, it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and then galloped closer, only to see a chaotic commotion under the city of Yuzhou, thousands of soldiers were under the blue-gray city wall, and the general at the head galloped left and right in front of the battle, inspiring morale, but the Han army in this city was originally a few, mixed with a lot of Khitan defeated soldiers, morale was originally very low, and the fiery red Song cavalry was like an angry wave crashing on the shore, The water around the small city of Yuzhou is impassable, and it will be attacked at any time, because the city is too small, and it cannot be defended according to the city, so the defender cavalry went out of the city, and defended under the city gate under the cover of the archers at the head of the city, which was originally the correct strategy, but the number of defenders was too small, and the morale was too low, although many generals shouted loudly and shouted something, desperately motivating their subordinates, but they could see that most of these Han troops were hanging their heads, and the whole team was still scattered back and forth, many of them were gray, their armor was not neat, and some people yawned, His eyes fell on the roads around the city, and when the war was unfavorable, he did not flee back to the city, but fled in the wilderness, saving himself from being dumpled by the Song army.
After Zhao Huan arrived, Liu Weifu hurriedly caught up and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty, not long after the minister arrived in the city, the city first sent a small force of cavalry to drive it away, but was defeated by the ministers. Please retreat slightly, and when you take Yuzhou, your Majesty will enter the city again. ”
"Not necessarily!" Zhao Huan flatly refused, and saw that the Jin soldiers in the city lined up were playing the banner of the word "Han", so he ordered Wu Lan and the others who rushed over: "Han Chang really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, Wu Lan, you take the assault of the department and rush him across." ”
"Yes, the minister will go immediately."
More than 10,000 cavalry were divided into five phalanxes, each phalanx was about 2,000 people, after the order of General Wu was handed down, more than 2,000 cavalry at the forefront first held spears and spears, and some people used strange weapons such as maces from the north, ready to assault at any time.
"Listen to my generals, the front army assaults."
Wu Lan gave an order, and the crimson general flag waved decisively in the air, and the cavalry team that was originally as condensed as an abyss suddenly rushed forward like a flood bursting its embankment. Spears and spears flashed in the air, and the dull sound of horses' hooves seemed to crush the earth, and more than 2,000 cavalrymen rushed forward desperately towards the enemy formation.
"Kill!"
The golden soldiers on the opposite side also set up a position, the infantry raised their spears, the archers at the head of the city opened their bows and arrows, ready to support the city, a small number of cavalry swept the formation on both sides of the infantry formation, because the opponent's cavalry was too much, this small group of cavalry did not dare to fight, so they had to retreat in the position behind the infantry formation, and then stepped forward to fight when the front was not supported.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"
Guarding the head of the city is the Han army Wang Bolong, who was originally guarding the east of the river, seeing the Song cavalry rushing like the angry waves of the Yellow River, his face has long changed, he is full of experience in warfare, and knows that the five or six thousand Han soldiers under the city cannot block the enemy at all, and even the first wave of two thousand cavalry is difficult to block, and the Song general on the opposite side is obviously still ordering, and the Song cavalry of the second echelon is slowly afterburning, and begins to prepare to support the front team, which makes him even more frightened.
The city of Yuzhou is small, and the low city wall is impossible to block the enemy, so Han Changzai saw the main force of the Song army's cavalry arrive, so he took the initiative to go out of the city to supervise the battle, and only let Wang Bolong supervise the battle at the head of the city.
The range of the bow and arrow of the Jin soldier is far inferior to the composite bow of the Song army, although the Song cavalry rushed fast, in fact, most of them have not yet entered the range, but Wang Bolong panicked, and ordered the arrows to be released, the archers at the head of the city were also panicked, although they knew that the range was not enough, but they had already pulled the bow and arrows to the full moon, the main general would give an order, the flustered archers hurriedly let go of the fingers holding the tail of the arrow, crackled for a while, and the locust-like feathered arrows flew to the galloping Song army cavalry array with a swishing sound.
Due to the lack of range, only a small number of feather arrows were shot into the formation, and a small number of arrows that rushed to the forefront of the cavalry landed in the middle of the arrow, and after a few muffled sounds, they were soon trampled into flesh by the war horses that followed behind, and where the blood was splashed, the cavalry had rushed to the front of the spear array of the golden soldiers under the city.
"Smack......
Countless spears and spears were broken by the powerful impact, and some of the cavalrymen who collided head-on were pierced through the chest by spears and spears, or they were simply shot into the air, and then fell into the array of spears, hanging from the tips of the spearheads.
Such a spear array is naturally extremely cavalry impact, but to deal with the cavalry impact of more than 1,000 people, the scale of the spear array must be at least ten layers, between the sudden, the golden soldiers are short of manpower, and the second is loose and chaotic, after the spear array of the first few layers is broken by the cavalry, the infantry behind is facing the cavalry who is riding on the master horse and wielding a big sword with a hideous face, and has long been frightened of soft hands and feet, although the commander is desperately supervising the battle, but still can not stop the infantry from retreating.
At this time, the cavalry of the second and third waves of shock arrived, not following behind, but making a slight detour, rushing from both sides, entangled the enemy cavalry that had originally intended to support the infantry, and in this way, the entire line of the golden soldiers collapsed, but it was only a matter of a finger.