No one expected that the battle would first start in the south, Fan Yanzhi led 20,000 troops to approach the front of Chuanbanshan, but was ambushed and defeated by Zhang Xi; forced to send 5,000 gold cavalry to relieve the siege, but Liu Zhengyan's 30,000 troops arrived, and Liu Zhengyan's 6,000 cavalry were all imitated by Yang Zhi's cavalry training, and were also equipped with crossbows, javelins and thunderbolts from the Runzhou workshop, blocking the offensive of the Jin cavalry in one fell swoop.

It is difficult to compare the strength and morale of the two sides, Zhang Yu personally led 3,000 elite soldiers to fight, the Jin army and the signing army were defeated, and the battle line was advanced by the Song army for 100 miles in one day, directly approaching the city of Luoyang; Yang Zhi launched an attack at this time, with Dong Xian's internal response, 5,000 cavalry were found in front of Gao Qiong's tent, Gao Qiong had no time to resist, and hurriedly grabbed the war horse and fled. The dragons were leaderless, coupled with the internal and external attacks of the Dingbei Army, the 20,000 signed troops and 1,000 Jin Army cavalry on the front line of Xin'anyi collapsed overnight.

Only then did he find that something was wrong, because his army was all outside the walled city, and now the two wings were broken, and the main force in the middle was useless at all; but the cavalry of the Dingbei Army was already between Dazhai and Luoyang City, and he could only order Henan to pacify Meng Bangxiong to send troops to meet him and fight Yang Zhi to the death.

Yang Zhi ordered Zhang Xi's army to attack Luoyang from the south, Liu Zhengyan and himself flanked the combined forces of Jin and Qi, and when the two armies were fighting, Yang Zhi ordered Yang Zhongwu and Wang Gang to lead heavy cavalry to break through the formation, and in one fell swoop defeated the cavalry of less than 10,000 people; At this time, Yang Zhicai dispatched a hot air balloon and threw fat water at the 24 villages of the Jin army, which were still holding on, and fired rockets into the villages to burn the villages; because the hot air balloons could be seen clearly from high altitudes, all the tents in the camp, the horse sheds, and the grain and grass in the camp were burned, and there was chaos in the Jin camp.

At this moment, even Zhehe Sumire has lost his fighting spirit, he knows very well that the opposite side does not need to attack at all, as long as it burns once in an hour, his army will completely lose its fighting spirit, and he will not be able to wait for the moment when reinforcements come; Zhehe Sumire ordered all to break through by night, but he did not expect that the Dingbei Army continued to shoot rockets, even if it persisted until night, the Jin army camp and the surrounding area were still as bright as day.

The continuous fighting sound on the side of Luoyang City showed that the Song army was attacking the city overnight, and the thunderbolts dropped on the hot air balloon became the last straw that crushed the Jin army.

Zhen He, who was still commanding the breakout, suddenly remembered Yang Zhi's behavior of releasing the signing army again and again, and suddenly woke up to the fact that this was Yang Zhi's sinister intentions, and the signing army understood that surrender would not die, once it was in trouble, it would not fight to the end at all, and all that could be done was to surrender as soon as possible. He understood that the general situation had gone, so he asked his general Yang Desheng to wear his own armor to lead the rest of the cavalry to break through, and he changed the clothes of the signing army and fled in the infantry army.

Yang Desheng was captured by Wang Gangsheng, and more than 6,000 people in three of the 24 villages surrendered directly, while the rest were killed and burned to death, and 30,000 were captured; after Zhang Xi received reinforcements from Liu Zhengyan, he attacked Luoyang at dawn, Meng Bangxiong was captured, and Fan Yan fled in embarrassment. The 100,000 allied forces of Qi and Jin collapsed. The rout army that fled to the northeast of Luoyang was ambushed by Tian Qi, a general under Wang Shan, at Baima Mountain, who captured more than 2,000 people and captured more than 600 war horses.

The battle in Luoyang ended in less than two days and two nights, so that Wanyan Danghai and Wanyantai, who were on the way to help, were really dumbfounded, and Wanyan Zongwang could not say well as soon as he received the news of Fan Yanzhi's defeat, so that the two of them led 20,000 cavalry to reinforce Luoyang; they did not expect to arrive in Zhengzhou, and they learned that Luoyang was in an emergency, and then encountered the ambush of the Song army and the interference of cavalry on the road, and advanced a hundred miles overnight, but it was still a step late, and only received nearly 10,000 deserters such as Zhihe Xiaojin and Fan Yanzhi.

Folding Sumire, who was riding on a war horse, said with a ashamed face: "Thank you, if it weren't for the two generals coming, I'm afraid it would be difficult for us to escape." ”

Wanyan Danghai knew that this was true, the other party could send cavalry and archers to ambush on this road, for this tens of thousands of defeated troops who had no fighting spirit, it was to harvest lives; Wanyan Danghai asked about the situation, looked at Zhe Hexiao Jin and said: "I will return to Zhengzhou first, and wait for the marshal's order." ”

Wanyan Danghai still has this bit of self-knowledge, but he doesn't want to use his 20,000 people to shake Yang Zhi's 100,000 army and complete the prestige of the opposite side;

The report of Luoyang's victory shocked Hangzhou, and more than 80,000 enemies were annihilated in the first battle, and Luoyang was recovered; they all guessed that there would be a miracle, but no one expected that under the command of Yang Zhi, the whole battle would be so smooth. Among the military exploits reported by Yang Zhi, Zhai Xing's old subordinate Zhang Xi was the first to make the merit, followed by Yang Zhi's general Xu Wen and Huaixi famous general Liu Zhengyan; this caused a lot of ripples in the DPRK, and Yang Zhi used many people other than the Dingbei Army in the same way as Yang Zhi in Gyeonggi Road in those years, and Yang Zhi was still able to tap their potential.

Song Huizong was still relatively relaxed about such a scene, and said with a smile: "Zhang Xi, Xu Wen, and Liu Zhengyan, these three people were originally under King Kang, but under the command of King Kang, they did not make such a great contribution; ”

"Who said no, if Zhai Xing asked Zhang Xi to guard Luoyang, it must be a different situation. Li Hui was also full of emotion, this time Yang Zhi attacked, it was really a coalition army, Yang Zhi's own descendants were only 50,000 people, and the rest of Wang Shan, Liu Zhengyan, Zhang Xi, and Hu Songnian were all temporarily transferred to Yang Zhi, but that's it, Yang Zhi annihilated 80,000 Jin troops in two days and two nights and recovered Luoyang;

Qian Gai said: "Shengshang, we should urge Yang Zhi to quickly send troops to relieve the siege of Bianliang; otherwise, after a long time, the fighting spirit that has been gathered with great difficulty will be reduced; besides, in the current situation, local governance is also a problem, and the imperial court should let the original officials return to various places." ”

Qian Gai's mind was very simple, let Yang Zhi finish the battle as soon as possible and return to Chang'an, Henan would still be handed over to King Kang; Song Huizong smiled slightly, this matter is not so simple, there are not enough benefits, even if Yang Zhi agrees, he and Zhao Kai will not agree. For the sake of the whole strategy, Song Huizong did not want to put Luoyang and Shangzhou in the hands of King Kang Zhao Gou, originally Zhai Xing controlled Luoyang and had no chance, and now Song Huizong believed that Yang Zhi would listen to Hangzhou. Song Huizong asked Li Hui: "What does the Privy Council mean?"