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The more than 20,000 soldiers and horses who decided to divide their troops to the south were stationed in Nanyuan, Beijing, surrounded by the Empress Dowager Liang, Shangshu's left servant and subordinate Chen Xinbo, Lu Wang Yuan Jianhai and others, and some of the southward moving princes and ministers and harem concubines, and broke through to the south.

On the afternoon of the 16th, the soldiers and horses marched southwest from the camp of Taihu and stayed in Zhangjiaji, which was more than 10 miles away from Yunya Mountain and nearly 40 miles away from the Nantai Gate of Yanjing City.

It is said that the safest thing is to stay in Chengshouji honestly and mix in with the refugees, but Wu Qi sneaked up to Yunya Mountain at dawn to watch the battle. Chen Dingbang limped up and followed, just in time to see the Donghu cavalry group that seemed to be a black flood in the dim morning light swept across the southern foot of Yunya Mountain, like a flood, and like a ruthless sand, swept away towards Zhangjiaji.

The captives came at night, and counting the time they set out from the camp in Jizhou, they continued to march for at least ten hours on the road, with only a small amount of rest.

The Donghu people had no intention of resting for a while before attacking, but directly launched a pursuit array in the open area in front of Yunya Mountain, and launched a ruthless and resolute attack on the southern deserters and horses stranded in the Zhangjiaji area with the help of the brighter and brighter morning light.

"Looking at the scale of the cavalry deployed in front of the mountain, I am afraid that there are no less than 20,000 elite cavalry," Chen Dingbang clenched his fists, staring at the battlefield in front of the mountain like a wolf, and said, "There should be a fine cavalry to monitor Chen Zhihu in Sanhe-In this way, the Jingying Army and the Xuanfu Army that broke through to the east to Jinhai have not been paid attention to for the time being, and they may not be intercepted until they are close to the outer siege of Jinhai." Donglu is planning to use the main force of cavalry to defeat this side first, and then quickly turn around and fight to the east - Donglu wants to cover the circle this time! ”

"I'm afraid that's it!" Wu Qi said.

Although a total of 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry of the Donghu people entered the Yannan and eastern Hebei regions to fight in the later period, in order to control the entire Yanji battlefield and grasp the initiative, the Donghu people gradually reattached to the Han army to fight the main force, and their cavalry was also scattered in many places, and the main cavalry force gathered in the Xianghe-Jizhou camp to rest in the later period was more than 30,000 people. Excluding the cavalry used to monitor Chen Zhihu's troops, the main cavalry force that the Donghu people can call in eastern Hebei is all in front of them.

Chen Dingbang and Geng Quanshan were originally the generals that Lu Jingyan relied on, and they have been following Li Zhuo's side for a long time since Chongguan ten years later, how can their eyesight be poor?

Not to mention anything else, as long as Chen Dingbang can be safely escorted to Huaidong this time, it will be a big gain.

Compared with the speed of the Donghu cavalry, the aggression like fire, and the ambition to devour everything, the 20,000 Beijing battalion troops stranded in Zhangjiaji were really lackluster.

The forces led by Ye Ji Duodi to control the deep area of Yannan were themselves limited, and their main defensive objects were Liang Chengchong's troops assembled in the plains and Taochun troops assembled in Qinghe, and the interception forces that could be drawn were relatively limited.

The Jingying army that fled south should know that the main threat on its way to the south is not in the front, but in the back, and should pay attention to guarding against the main force of the Donghu cavalry that is pursuing from the rear. The temporary garrison should also take advantage of the turbulent nature of the river in summer, and choose a deeper and wider river to cross to the south bank for a short stay as much as possible, so as to avoid the direct attack of the Eastern cavalry.

The troops who fled south to Beijing after nightfall and stopped in Zhangjiaji made a fatal mistake on the first night of breaking through to the south. Although a pontoon bridge was erected overnight, in addition to more than 2,000 forward soldiers and horses, nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses were stranded on the north bank of the Zhangjiaji section of the Weihe River.

From Yunya Mountain, more than ten miles, except for two small river ditches, there is almost no natural terrain to obstruct it. Probably after the outpost of the Donghu cavalry passed Yunya Mountain, the Jingying army hurriedly deployed a defense in the rear, and unloaded the mules and horses from the baggage carts in a mess and piled them up behind the formation to prevent the Donghu cavalry from charging directly into the formation.

The vanguard of the Donghu cavalry avoided the chaotic chariot formation, divided into two teams to go around the flank to find a gap to enter, and ruthlessly shot the generals of the Beijing camp with bows and arrows, so as to cause even greater chaos.

The Donghu cavalry is also mainly light cavalry, mostly wearing leather armor, but the cavalry corps with a scale of more than 20,000 people must also have armor cavalry, and there are quite a few of them.

The defensive formation hastily formed by the southern fleeing Beijing camp army was in chaos under the shooting of the bow and arrow of the captive cavalry, and a thousand-person armored cavalry temporarily organized by the Donghu people was like a heavy hammer, launching an attack, and immediately knocked down the array of the Beijing camp army and knocked off a corner.

The several counterattacks organized by the southern fleeing Beijing battalion army were weak and useless, and they were easily disintegrated. Before the corner of the day, the main formation of more than 20,000 people was penetrated by the Donghu people.

Due to the limited time, although the pontoon bridge was erected, the time for the Donghu people to catch up and attack directly was very short. The chariots of the princes and ministers and the harem concubines who fled south did not have enough time to pass through the pontoon bridge and withdraw to the south bank, more to protect the middle of the headquarters. When the formation directly penetrated the Donghu cavalry, and gave the chariot that protected it in the middle, it was like a hornet's nest stabbed by a bamboo pole, which was terrifying, which directly led to the complete collapse of the entire formation, and there was no chance to resist at all.

The performance of the battalion army fleeing south to Beijing did not collapse at the beginning of the hasty engagement, and its performance was quite surprising. This formation was thoroughly beaten by the Donghu people, and the main general Shuai Qi was cut off, and the chariot that protected the south in the middle caused complete chaos, and the ending could not be rewritten.

Just as Chen Dingbang expected before the war, the Donghu people also had to gather troops to pursue them eastward, and this side was mainly to defeat.

After the defeat of the Beijing camp army fleeing south, the main force of the Donghu cavalry began to withdraw from the battlefield and shrink to the southern foot of Yunya Mountain, leaving only more than 3,000 cavalry to continue to control the battlefield, cut, chase and destroy the defeated soldiers and the princes and ministers who fled south, and only more than 3,000 people fled south to the Beijing camp army and some of the princes and ministers fled to the south bank and cut off the pontoon bridge in time.

Countless routs chased and killed, panicked, and forced into the turbulent river. Wearing armor, it sinks when it enters the water; Countless people are entangled, and even if the water is good, they will be dragged to the bottom of the river by other drowning people. Looking at the shadows struggling in the river, Chen Dingbang seemed to hear their desperate howls.

There are also a few small groups of routs who insist on defense; More routs seemed to wake up to the hopelessness of escaping south, turning to the northwest and fleeing or breaking through in the direction of Yanjing. More of the generals threw away their armor and chose to bow their knees to the Donghu people, as if they had just been cut down in the woods, and the rows knelt on the ground like wooden stakes.

The disparity in combat power is too great, and there is no suspense in the ending, the Donghu cavalry rushed left and right on the battlefield, and the Jingying army supported by the imperial court invested countless money and grain, but it was miserable to be slaughtered or surrender without resistance, Wu Qi, Chen Dingbang and others felt uncomfortable. Although there are three or four thousand people who escaped, starting from Zhangjiaji and crossing Yannan, there is a footwalk of nearly 500 miles, and in this area, Donghu has more than 40,000 steps to ride, and finally a few people can successfully escape south, it is really hard to say.

Seeing that the Donghu people had sent people to control Yunya Mountain, Wu Qi, Chen Dingbang and others did not dare to continue to stay on the mountain, and retreated from the path to Chengshouji at the northern foot and hid in the dark room of the tea shop. At present, he can only stay in Chengshouji to borrow the displaced people as a cover, wait for the opportunity to leave Yanji, and he has no intention of going to Sanhe to contact Chen Zhihu.

"The news of Li Bing's death by giving wine and medicine to Emperor Chongguan is better to hide from Chen Zhihu for the time being," Wu Qi found Chen Dingbang and said, "Even if there is still a gap to drill into Sanhe, but in the situation that the road to the south is almost completely blocked, it is difficult to predict what Chen Zhihu's reaction will be after knowing the truth-we can't go to Sanhe to take this risk." ”

Although Chen Dingbang did not directly serve as a general under Chen Zhihu, he was from the same line of the Eastern Fujian Army and knew Chen Zhihu very well.

The situation has developed to this point, and Chen Zhihu is very likely to detain them and throw them directly at the Donghu people.

At this time, the army was in chaos, and it was impossible to send someone to find Lu Xiong, the dog calf, and if Lu Xiong wanted to see Chen Zhihu, he would have to wait until the battle on the front line of Sanhe had a result. Wu Qi could predict that when the Sanhe War ended, it might not matter so much whether he let Chen Zhihu know the truth about Li Zhuo's death.

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Under the attack of Yeji Luorong, more than 20,000 people fled south to the Beijing camp, except for a few who escaped in time, the support collapsed in less than half a day, and the casualties and rout were in the valley for a time.

The Taihu battalion, which had only more than 1,000 defenders left, surrendered on the night of the 17th. In addition to Chen Zhihu's retreat into Yanjing City, the passage to the south was tightly blocked.

Ye Ji Luorong led the main cavalry force of his department to rest at the southern foot of Yunya Mountain, and a small group of cavalry entered the northern foot of Yunya Mountain and occupied Chengshouji. In the face of the strong force of the Donghu people, the local gentry and displaced people chose to surrender on their knees. Immediately afterwards, on the 18th, when nearly 1,000 Xinfu Han troops entered the Chengshou assembly camp, the Donghu people began to control the outlying areas of Yanjing City.

And on the night of the 17th, a cavalry of the Donghu people came from Hejian City to converge.

Although Ye Ji Luorong was worried that there would be a gap in the direction of the river and let more people escape, he needed to concentrate more cavalry to advance eastward and go to the outer siege of Tianjin to annihilate the soldiers and horses who escorted Emperor Chongguan to break through to the east - in Ye Ji Luorong's view, this is also the main force of the Southern Dynasty's breakthrough This time, including the Xuanfu army and the Jingying Beiyuan guards who are loyal to the inner court, have sufficient supplies, and have excellent armor, there are more than 40,000 armor soldiers and some cavalry troops, which can barely be called elite.

Although the Khan King Yezir gathered more than 10,000 elite cavalry and more than 90,000 newly attached Han troops in Jinhai, the combat strength of the new attached Han army was uneven. Once the Xuanfu army and the Beijing camp guards arrived at the siege outside Tianjin in advance, and the Tianjin navy fought back from the city, it was difficult to guarantee that the basket would not be released by relying only on simple trenches and breastwork.

As long as they rush to the siege of Tianjin in time, join the Khan, and annihilate the main force of the Xuanfu army and the Beijing camp of more than 40,000 soldiers, the situation in Yanji can almost be determined, and a few princes and ministers flee to Jiangning, which is nothing at all.

In the three or five months after the autumn and winter of the ninth year of Chongguan, Yeji Luorong led less than 30,000 cavalry, and completely contained 1670,000 soldiers and horses, including the Jingying Army and the trilateral reinforcements, within the scope of the Gyeonggi counties.

On the night of the 17th, he set out from the southern foot of Yunya Mountain, and after nearly a day and a night of forced marching, Ye Ji Luorong led 20,000 elite horsemen to rush to the siege of Jinwai before nightfall on the 18th. The Xuanfu army and the guards of the Beijing camp also entered Jinhai only two hours earlier than Yeji Luorong, but they sent troops to Yezier to intercept them on the north bank of the Chaohe River, and they could not cross the Chaohe River, which was less than 20 zhang wide, let alone approach Jinhai City.

On the 19th, on the one hand, the Xuanfu army and the Beijing camp guards were allowed to build a pontoon bridge on the Chaohe River to the south bank to conduct a battle, and on the other hand, they set up a trestle bridge in the upper reaches of the Chaohe River, intending to drive the cavalry to the north bank to attack the flank of the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty.

The Battle of the Tide River was much easier than expected.

The soldiers and horses who fled east were divided into two departments: the Beijing camp and the Xuanfu, and only by crossing the Chaohe River to open the gap in the siege of Tianjin and fleeing into the city could they be regarded as escaping from the robbery. When the guards of the Beijing camp built a bridge to rush to the crossing, and had a fierce battle with the intercepted Xinfu Han army, gradually expanding the control area on the south bank, and intending to transfer more soldiers and horses to the south bank to participate, a Xuanfu army that was unwilling to move south with the emperor directly broke away from the main formation from the left rear flank and fled from the battlefield in the northwest direction.

Although the Xuanfu army that withdrew only had four or five hundred people, the sudden change made the Xuanfu army flank and rear exposed a fatal weakness, and even greatly reduced the morale of the whole army, becoming a key wedge in the rout of the Chaohe war.

Yezier's eldest son, Ye Ji Baishan, the king of Doluo County, led 2,000 elite cavalry to cross the Chao River from the upper reaches at this time, and when Yeji Luorong led the main cavalry to cross the river, he resolutely led 2,000 cavalry to pounce on it, and fiercely bit the left rear wing of the Xuanfu army.

At that time, there were nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Xuanfu army and the Beijing camp on the north bank, but in less than a stick of incense, the two thousand elite cavalry led by Ye Ji Baishan were stirred up......

The thousands of Beijing camp guards who crossed the Chaohe River first were also in chaos, and the Xinfu Han army that intercepted them seized the opportunity and defeated them in one fell swoop, and countless people were forced into the Chaohe River to drown, and the corpses almost blocked the Chaohe River, which was not spacious.

Although the Xuanfu Army was one of the last elites in the imperial court's control, in the end, the army was disheartened and did not have much will to persist in fighting. The order to break out came too suddenly, and ordinary generals were not mentally prepared, and almost all subconsciously resisted the relocation of the capital to the south. Even if there were no incidents of deserted soldiers forming formations and leaving their own formations, it would not be possible to rely on such an army to open the gap in the siege of the Donghu people outside Tianjin.

Huang Jinnian, Lin Xuwen, Gao Zongting and others stood at the head of the north wall of Jinhai City, watching the eastward deserters completely defeat the Donghu people - this was also a very heavy blow to the morale of the Jinhai defenders, but the eastward deserters could not cross the Chaohe River and establish a stable position on the south bank, and there was no way to go out of the city to respond.