Chapter 964: Capture the Army
With the report of the scouts behind, Wan Yan finally calmed down, and the thunderbolt artillery team behind was attacked by the Dingbei army, and the opponent's master directly detonated the Jin army's gunpowder transport vehicle with a thunderbolt, causing the Jin army's gunpowder to explode, and the entire thunderbolt artillery team of more than 1,000 people was almost all killed or injured in the explosion; Yang Zhi was an expert in using firearms, so he naturally knew the timing of the attack, and the blow was effective.
To Wanyan Tart's laziness was that the Dingbei Army was desperate to kill behind him, and the scouts found the Dingbei Army's ambush in almost every direction, and the transport team was attacked by cavalry; in fact, Yang Jin's men were only more than 2,000 cavalry, but with the addition of the infantry army, it caused a momentum full of dust and smoke, and in the moment when Wanyan Tart was lazy and hesitated, the 70,000 infantry army of the Jin Army in front of him collapsed.
Fortunately, after a hundred battles, Arubu, Wulin Jingtai, Tuoba Yewu and others saw that it was not good, and immediately commanded the cavalry that could fight to intercept their own defeated army, and killed more than 2,000 infantry troops in a blink of an eye before they could stabilize the team; Wanyan was lazy to find that the attacking Dingbei army did not rush over in spite of the same thing, but only pursued and killed 200 steps, so they took the initiative to retreat, and let the cavalry rushing by from both wings all the way to the air pounce.
But for Wanyan Tart, he lost the first fight, and the other party put on such a big posture, in fact, it was the thunderbolt artillery troops behind that were attacked, and the other party succeeded. Now Wanyan Tart was too lazy to make a choice, to attack or to retreat temporarily, Tuoba Yeutse immediately stepped forward and said, "It's better to retreat." ”
The Jin army now has no cavalry losses, the infantry has killed about 10,000 people, the problem is not big, it is not too late to rest for a few days and then attack Bianliang; Wanyan tart lazily rested on the horse, saw the panic in the eyes of the infantry army, and after a moment of silence, he ordered: "Retreat twenty miles back and camp, Aru Bu led 5,000 cavalry to chase and kill that damned Yang Jin, Tuoba Yewu led 10,000 cavalry and 3,000 crossbowmen to break off, so that the army still retreated in three ways." ”
The Jin army scattered and retreated, just when the banner of the lazy Yan tart began to retreat, the cavalry of the Dingbei Army went out again, the war drums sounded loudly, tens of thousands of people chanted "the Jin army is defeated", the light cavalry of the Dingbei Army was killed in two ways, Wang Gang's heavy cavalry, Li Qiong's four forbidden troops also followed; fortunately, the distance of a few hundred steps was not far, this time the infantry army acting as the vanguard was Yang Zhongwu and Xu Wen, each with a thousand heavy armor infantry fighting in front.
To the surprise of Tuoba Yewu, the opponent's retreat just now was not to worry about not being able to defeat the Jin cavalry, but to adjust the lineup; the crutch horses on both wings of the Jin army were killed and wounded under the long axe wielding of the cavalry of the Dingbei Army, and the heavy armored cavalry of the Dingbei Army was put into the battlefield, and the 10,000 cavalry collapsed in a blink of an eye, and the other party only spent less than 500 cavalry to make 5,000 crutch horses lose their combat strength, and then under the siege of the Dingbei Army infantry army, they were killed one by one.
Tuoba Yewu only had 5,000 horsemen and 3,000 crossbowmen left in his hands, and the archers of the Jin soldiers only had time to shoot two arrows at most, so that the cavalry of the Dingbei Army rushed into the formation; Tuoba Yewu waved his spear and personally commanded the remaining 5,000 horsemen to meet him, hoping that by his own persistence, he could make Wanyan Tart lazy and lead the army back.
Wan Yan tart was lazy and had already ordered his subordinates to return to fight at the first time, but the formation of the Jin army was chaotic, some of the troops turned around to meet the battle, and the army continued to retreat, and the swarming infantry blocked the movement of the cavalry, and it was chaotic. Alu's 5,000 cavalry had already engaged Yang Jin's horse infantry army, Wang Yan's eight-character army was killed from the other side at this time, and the 3,000 cavalry were unstoppable, and the casualties behind the infantry army shouted while attacking: "Don't help the Jin people fight, go home and see." ”
Most of Wang Yan's subordinates were from Hebei, and almost half of the infantry in the Jin army were Han people who had surrendered to Hebei and forcibly conscripted them, and the Jin army had no fighting spirit under the sound of the country; especially after Wanyan gave the order that his own infantry army would fight whether he was alive or dead, the 60,000 infantry army collapsed at once, and the cavalry that wanted to turn back and fight back was scattered. After a long time, he finally sorted out the formation, but he heard an exclamation from Wulin Jingtai beside him, Tuoba Yewu's head had been raised high by the Dingbei Army, and more than 10,000 cavalry of the Dingbei Army were maintaining the formation and rushing over steadily.
Wu Lin Jingtai knew that the defeat of the army had been decided, and the Jin army did not have an advantage in the number of cavalry at all, and there were less than 10,000 people gathered around him, and he could not form a favorable formation. The army ambushed by the other party here has tens of thousands of infantry troops, and the two thousand Tiefutu are not sure of victory.
Wanyan Zongfu actually began to storm Bianliang as soon as he got the news, even if he learned that Liu Qi's 20,000 troops were attacking Huazhou, Wanyan Zongfu still only sent Wang Ce to lead 10,000 infantry troops to intercept it, and he led 40,000 horse infantry troops to continue to attack Bianliang from the north. It's just that the strength of the Dingbei Army surprised Wanyan Zongfu, and Zhang Heng's sailors and Han Qing's first division were almost eighty percent killed before they withdrew from the battlefield, which greatly slowed down the speed of Wanyan Zongfu's reinforcement of Kaifeng.
Later, the two armies of Yan Zhongli and Zhao Shixing launched a counterattack with 6,000 men, although the Jin army killed Yan Zhongli, but Zhao Shixing killed Shi Wenxiong, the vanguard of the Jin army, in front of the battle; Xue Guang killed Li Jingliang and Guo Junmin, two generals who had escaped from the battle, and took Zhao Shixing back to hold on. Chong Bin personally led 5,000 horse infantry troops, with Zhang Lian and Wang Xuan as the vanguard, galloped to the aid of Lianzhu, and intercepted the 5,000 cavalry attacked by Yan Zongfu on a detour. The two sides fought fiercely until dusk, Wanyan Zongfu suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and still failed to make a breakthrough on the two fronts, but there was news that Wanyan was defeated and Wang Ce was captured, and Wanyan Zongfu could only retreat.
In the first battle in the western suburbs of Kaifeng, he killed 10,000 cavalry and more than 14,000 infantry troops of the Jin army, captured 15,000 infantry troops of the Jin army, and killed Tuoba Yewu and Otun Zalu, the commanders of the Jin army; On the line of Lianzhu, the Dingbei army suffered 16,000 casualties, and even Zhang Quan, who was later reinforced, was killed in battle, killing 7,000 enemies; however, Liu Qi defeated the Jin army at Huazhou, killing more than 6,000 enemies, almost smoothing out the losses of both sides.
At present, Wanyan Tart is lazy in Yingtianfu with less than 40,000 people, and Wanyan Zongfu has only more than 30,000 in Huazhou, and the Jin army's offensive has been greatly reduced, and after that, the two sides have fought fiercely on the two fronts of Gongzhou and Bianhe, and they have won and lost each other; Ming Chisong led 3,000 sailors down from the upper reaches of the Yellow River and cut off the transportation on the Yellow River in the Huazhou section in one fell swoop. Five days later, a shocking news came from Hebei, Wan Yan Gao suddenly fell ill in the army and could not be a director, Wan Yan Zongfu decided to take this opportunity to withdraw to the Daimyo's Mansion, so as not to wait for the grain and grass to be cut off.