Chapter Seventy-Four: The Brave Win When They Meet on a Narrow Road

Thinking of this, the corners of Wanyan Zongbi's mouth showed a smile, the coach in Luoyang, it is in the overall situation and experience, Wanyan Zongfu who is a few points stronger than Zongbi, after Fuping suffered a loss, Zongfu dreamed of winning back a city, Zhao Huan personally led the cavalry to come, for Zongfu, it was a rare God-given opportunity.

When Taizu Agu conquered Liao, the two brothers Zongbi and Zongfu were not very old, and they were not as good as Zong Han and Zong Wang, and when they conquered the Song Dynasty, these two brothers were also the marshals of the left and right deputy capitals, and they went straight to Tokyo in the south and north, and they were even more famous within the Jurchen clan. It's just that the Jurchens at that time had difficult living conditions, and then suddenly became rich and noble, too greedy for pleasure, only a few years after the Liao attack on the Song Dynasty, several older princes of the clan have stepped down, Zong Han is only old, Zong Wang has died in Tianhui for five years, behind them, Zong Bi, Zong Fu, Wan Yan Chang, Zong Pan and other clan children have grown rapidly, among which Zong Bi and Zong Fu are the best.

In order to make the front-line generals command Ruyi, the upper echelons of the Jin State planned to take Zong Fu and Zong Bi brothers as deputy marshals, Zong Fu was the main one, Zong Bi Zuo Fu, and Yan Chang led the Khitan and Han army towns. After Tongguan retreated, Zong Fu sent Han Chang and Wang Bolong to postpone, Zong Bi was unhappy in his heart, but his henchman Han General was not angry, and he had nothing to say at the moment, so he had to agree.

And the Song army suddenly attacked, Han Chang Wang Bolong fell to the enemy, Zong Bi was distressed, but also knew that Zong Fu would definitely feel guilty, and at the same time, he would also contribute to the war, not like in the past two years, there was always a kind of wealth and nobility, and he refused to come to the battle as he did back then.

Thinking of this, Zong Bi smiled at the corner of his mouth and muttered to himself: "Fifth brother, the emperors of the Song Dynasty have personally gone into battle, how much advantage this battle can take, but it only depends on you." ”

He set out in the starry night, and this time he conquered the Song Dynasty, gathering more than 100,000 pure Jurchen soldiers, and nearly 20,000 were lost in the river. There are also more than 10,000 people besieged in Taiyuan City, led by the veteran general Wanyan Yinshuke, who resisted the besieging Song army. The remaining thousands of remnants, under the leadership of Wanyan Sa Libu and others, fled to Tongguan and returned to Zong Bi. The Luoyang garrison was about 50,000 people, and there were only less than 10,000 Jurchen soldiers, except for the soldiers and horses who retreated to the Hebei Road, the rest of the 40,000 or 50,000 Jurchen soldiers. All under the command of Zong Bi.

In less than an hour, more than 20,000 elite ironclad cavalry under his command were assembled, accompanied by the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, like a black torrent, along the official road that had been repaired well in the Song Dynasty for more than 100 years, galloping towards Luoyang.

Because of the urgency of the war, Zong Bi did not dare to delay on the road, even if it was time to eat. It was only ordered that all the soldiers should eat immediately. Unless the horsepower is weakened, it slows down a little. Feed the horse concentrate to replenish the horsepower, and when the horsepower is restored, continue to drive.

In the evening, it was already less than 100 miles away from Luoyang, and Alu Buxian, who had attacked first, sent someone to send a letter back to inform Zong Bi of the situation in Luoyang. Since Han Chang and Wang Bolong were killed, Wanyan Zongfu was shocked and angry, and immediately led the cavalry in the city to attack, and met the soldiers and horses of Guo Hao, the general of the Song army, who came to the sentry, and was surrounded by Zongfu's troops. Guo Hao saw that the opportunity was wrong, and found a dirt village on the spot, and more than 2,000 horsemen dug ditches and fences after entering the village, half riding and half stepping, fighting hard and waiting for help. And Zong Fu originally wanted to destroy this small group of cavalry first, but then he had an idea, so he simply attacked the conscriptive strategy, and then drained the water around Guo Hao's troops, just waiting for the main force of the Song army to come to the rescue.

Arubu met the messenger of Sosuke halfway. Knowing this latest trend, he didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly continued to hurry, and sent a messenger to hurry along the official road to find Zongbi, but met halfway.

Zong Bi was even more anxious when he heard the letter, and ordered again and again that the whole army did not need to spare the horsepower and hurried to Luoyang.

When it was dawn, by the glimmer of the morning light, the blue-gray city wall of Luoyang City was faintly visible, and many generals and thousands of households around Zong Bi shouted and cheered together, and everyone worked together, and made the tired war horses strengthen and rushed towards the vicinity of the city wall.

"That's not right."

Zong Bi was known as the first warrior of the Jin Kingdom more than ten years ago, in addition to his bravery, the sense of smell on the battlefield is also extremely sensitive, far away from the city wall, he only felt that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly stopped the queue, and a long dragon-like iron flow suddenly stopped under his hand.

His cronies hurriedly gathered around, and when they saw Zong Bi's anxious face, everyone chuckled in their hearts.

Zong Bi shook his head and said: "There is no one in the city to guard, and there are no patrol soldiers and horses nearby, if the deputy marshal is in the city, An Neng will be like this." ”

Wanyan Sa Libu is an old man of Zongbi, although the defeat in the river is not a small crime, but he still has to be trusted, and immediately stepped forward and said: "What the king said is right, in my opinion, it must be the deputy marshal who led the troops to meet the battle, and the defense in the city is empty. ”

"Keep on your way."

Zong Bi knew that the matter was urgent, although the war horses were thin and weak, and many war horses had begun to stumble during the long journey, and even some cavalry fell off their horses, but as long as they rushed to the battlefield, he believed that in the field battle on the flat land, the same number of people or even the number of enemies exceeded his own side, and the winner was none other than himself.

As expected by Tong Zongbi, not long after Zongfu surrounded Guo Hao, the Song army already knew the enemy's movements, although the main force of the infantry formation had not arrived, Zhao Huan decisively ordered, the whole division quickly assembled, decisively attacked, and seized the vacuum period when the enemy's main force could not be gathered, first defeated Zongfu, and then waited for Zongbi with the main force of the whole division.

The main force of the Song and Jin countries was launched in the wilderness plain of Luoyang County, Henan Prefecture, on the north road of Beijing, more than 30,000 miles west of Luoyang County, Zongfu, against the cavalry of the Song army, first with the Khitan cavalry to attack the Song army's position, and was killed and retreated by Wu Luan, and then Zongfu personally commanded the Jurchen cavalry, slammed wildly, and went straight into the main formation of the Song army, killing under the banner of Zhao Huan. As soon as they saw the enemy like this, the main force of the Song army moved in full force, and more than 20,000 people moved forward together and fought with the enemy cavalry.

The yellow dust in the sky is flying, the smoke and dust cover the entire battle array, the fiery red Song army and the black and gray Jin Guo Iron Cavalry quickly collided together, the sword light shines, the flag dances wildly, the golden cavalry that rushes to the forefront first pulls the bow and shoots arrows, the arrow rain arrives, the unobstructed Song Army soldiers begin to fall off their horses and fall to the ground, after a muffled hum, the horse steps into mud.

This kind of immediate archery kung fu has extremely high requirements for riding and archery, and only a few generals and elite cavalry in the Song army can return the color, but the rain of arrows is too sparse to cause effective damage to the other party.

After the first round of long-range attacks, the two sides quickly collided together, like two torrents of different colors, the black and red cavalry teams quickly collided together, swords and spears were staggered, blood splashed, muffled and miserable howls were endless, horses roared, and the drums behind the two sides rumbled, but they were covered by the shouts and screams from the human voice.

Under the blue sky, the two armies exchanged knives and guns, fighting desperately, Zhao Huan was originally protected by hundreds of squad guards, and when the battle was at its most intense, even the enemy around him kept coming, and when he was most nervous, even he had to draw his knife and prepare, ready to fight with the enemy at any time.

Time passed, but the struggle between the two sides became more and more intense, from morning to noon did not taste a little rest, the original dry Central Plains land, gradually blistered in the soft mud, countless soldiers and war horses fell to the ground, stumps and broken bodies everywhere, and the survivors still kept impacting, driving their war horses, slashing the weapons in their hands, and the same exhausted enemy engaged in life and death struggle.

In the evening, the recuperated Song army finally gradually gained the upper hand, and the battlefield was full of Song troops with sufficient horsepower and physical strength, surrounded by a small group of tired Jurchen soldiers, often several people surrounded one person, and the iron spear pierced at the same time, it was a brave warrior from the white mountain and black water, screaming and falling to the ground and dying.

Wanyan Zongfu is not known for his own bravery, and in the local command of the battlefield, he is far inferior to Zong Wang and Zong Bi and others, seeing that the battlefield form is becoming more and more unfavorable, he has no way, and again and again with his own soldiers to attack Zhao Huan's own formation, but in the end, it is like hitting the copper wall, the head of the collision is bleeding, and he retreats in defeat.

The remnant sun is like blood, the cold wind is cold, but the people who have fought for a day are full of heat, and the Song army, which has gained the advantage, began to form a tighter formation, fighting more with less, making the pressure on the Jin army on the battlefield more and more intense, and finally it was difficult to support, and began to collapse like an avalanche.

First, the Khitan cavalry fled, and then in the Jin Soldier Array, there were actually cowards who pulled out their horses and retreated, and Wanyan Zong shouted angrily, and even drew his sword to personally kill a few deserters, but he was never able to limit the rout that had already begun.

At last, even he himself was forced to flee the battlefield, and behind him were the Jurchen soldiers, who had abandoned their banners, their war drums, and even their life-threatening bows and arrows, and their weapons, in order to flee lightly and ahead of their comrades.

Since the army was raised in Huining, 2,000 people defeated 20,000, 20,000 defeated 1 million, 60,000 people rampaged through Hebei, captured the Song Guojing Division, the Jurchen cavalry did not taste a defeat, and even failed to capture Taiyuan that year, Fuping was defeated, the Jurchens all felt that the other party occupied the geographical advantage, and with the advantage of more people, which made them fail and flee.

And on this day, in the east of Luoyang County, Emperor Zhao Huan of the Song Dynasty personally led the cavalry, with 20,000 against 20,000, fought hard for a day, from the early morning to the twilight, and finally defeated the invincible male division from the north, so that the other party fled in the desert and collapsed.

As soon as he thought of this, after Yan Zongfu's heart was cut like a knife, and after getting rid of the pursuing Song cavalry, this Jurchen man, who had been shooting arrows across horses when he was a child, and had grown up eating raw prey and drinking blood, finally couldn't help but look up to the sky and cry, and the hot tears couldn't stop falling, although it was on the battlefield, he couldn't stop crying.

Compared to this pain, the few knife wounds on his body were insignificant.

At night, Zongfu packed up the remnants of the army and returned to the left of the battlefield, thinking of ambushing the Song army that was pursuing while the victory was in pursuit to save face, but the Song army quickly withdrew after cleaning the battlefield.