Chapter 793: Zongfu is defeated
The Song army cheered and returned to the city, the Jurchen was invincible, this sentence spread inside and outside the Great Wall, today is the first time that the face is facing without losing to the ten thousand cavalry soldiers; Yang Zhi asked the people and the infantry army to rob thousands of dead horses and return to the city to reward the three armies, Wanyan Zongfu did the same. Yang Zhi and Wang Ping stood on the city tower and looked at Jin Bing's bonfire, Wang Ping nodded and said: "Yang Zhi, you guessed right, Jin Bing seems to be in the village, but in fact, most of them are in the house, it depends on whether Zhang San and Han Shizhong are clever or not." ”
Yang Zhi smiled, Zhang Sanxing was almost there, but Han Shizhong was a general with the same name as Yue Fei, how could he not be clever; Yang Zhi only ordered Han Tao, Kong Yanwei, and Wang Xiang to lead their headquarters to prepare to kill from the east gate one after another, and Wang Ping led 5,000 men and horses to respond. However, Yang Zhi instructed Han Tao and Kong Yanwei, who were playing the forwards, that once they rushed halfway, Kong Yanwei would advance, and Han Tao's 1,000 armor horses would stay on the road to prevent the Jin soldiers from ambushing.
In the middle of the night, the sky was full of stars, the moonlight shone on the dim wilderness, Zhang San and Han Shizhong quietly touched the camp of the Jin army from the east with two thousand people, the hooves of the war horses were all wrapped, and the large group of men and horses marched, only the slight sound of Bu Bu touching the ground. Under the moonlight, you can see the fence of the Jin army's stockade, the noise of people and horses is endless, and there are hundreds of fires in the village, extending from the original fields to the houses in the villages outside the city.
The scout returned, the Jin soldiers arranged 6,000 ambush soldiers, out of the village to ambush on the way to the north gate and the east gate, Zhang San and Han Shizhong were secretly happy in their hearts, so they passed the order in the dark, and divided the way to prepare the rocket in different areas, Han Shizhong led three hundred cavalry to break through the camp, each with a torch, and then slowly the Jin army village approached. Seeing that only the lights in front of him were starting to fall, Han Shizhong led his men to rush into a village from a staggered gap, lit a straw bale in the limelight, and first lit the grass hut or the eaves of other people's wooden boards.
In an instant, 2,000 horsemen shot rockets, and in the blink of an eye, 50 or 60 fireheads lit up, scattered and burned along the wind, a firework rose, and the 2,000 horsemen had already split up and slaughtered into the village of the golden soldiers; as soon as the golden drums sounded on the top of the city, the east gate and the north gate opened at the same time. Shu Lie Su and Huo Li Gai were originally going to go back to the village to rescue, but when they saw the city gate wide open, they simply did not move, and wanted to kill the Song army, outside the east gate, Shu Lie quickly saw three thousand horsemen rushing to Dazhai, and immediately killed them halfway, but he didn't expect the Song army to separate a chain of armored horses to stop him, and the speed of the other two thousand horses did not decrease at all.
The Jin soldiers woke up in their sleep, only to see the fire in the camp everywhere, and the sound of fighting everywhere, and they did not know how many Song soldiers there were, and they hurriedly got on their horses and fled; seeing that the fire in the west was small, they just ran out of the camp, and they saw Kong Yanwei coming to kill head-on, and they didn't have time to line up, but they fought on their own, and they were disrupted by the Song army's flying standards, and they thought that the Song army was ambushed everywhere, and the team was suddenly collapsed. Wanyan Zongfu wanted to mobilize the army under the protection of hundreds of personal soldiers, but more than half of the army was a recruited army, and his tenacity was far inferior to that of the Jurchen warriors.
Soon after Shu Liesu and Han Tao were entangled, Wang Ping and Wang Xiang were killed one after another, and Shu Liesu was defeated by the front and rear attacks, and there were less than 1,000 people around him to kill the encirclement, so they could only retreat to the south; Han Tao pursued and killed Shu Liesu all the way, and Wang Ping and Wang Qi went to attack the Jin army Dazhai. Huoli Gai waited for a long time and did not see the Song army brigade at the north gate come out, knowing the plan, he hurriedly led three thousand horsemen back to the village to rescue, just killed Kong Yanwei, but saw tens of thousands of Song soldiers killed, Huo Li Gai could only find Wanyan Zongfu and rescued Wanyan Zongfu.
Zhang San, Wang Yi, Kong Yanwei and others pursued and fought for 30 miles before collecting their troops, forcing them to keep breaking their tails to survive, until dawn was sure that there were no pursuers, and there were only more than 1,500 people in the live life; when Shu Lie arrived at noon with more than 700 horsemen, plus the routed troops who fled back one after another, there were only more than 3,000 people. Wanyan Zongfu knew that he was powerless to return to the sky, as far as the current battle situation was concerned, he was completely defeated, and was killed by the Song army with 7,000 Jurchen cavalry, and nearly 10,000 surrendered troops either died in battle or surrendered to the Song army, so he could only retreat to Youzhou with the rest of the people.
Yang Zhi discussed with Wang Ping when he had a few spoils of war on the spot, there were as many as 70,000 gold soldiers in Youzhou, and he could not advance, so it was better to respond to the state by himself, and first find a way to defeat Yan Zonghan; Wang Ping also knew that he had no chance of winning alone, so he decided that Yang Zhi would take his headquarters and 2,000 prisoners to respond to the state, and Wang Ping would be in charge of the war in Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and appointed Zhang Suo to act as the governor of Zhuozhou, leaving 5,000 people to He Su to defend the city of Zhuozhou, and Wang Ping led an army of 20,000 to wait for the opportunity.
Zhang Suo could only sigh in his heart, Yang Zhi and Wang Ping knew very well that after the news of Zhuozhou's victory spread, the reinforcements from Hejian, Zhending and other places would go north, and the imperial court would even send a commander to command the battle, and that person would never be Wang Ping and Yang Zhi, so the two of them would accept it when they saw it, go back to defend their own territory, and let themselves contain the Jin soldiers.
Sure enough, in less than two days, the flag officer sent by Xin Xingzong arrived, bringing Xin Xingzong's order, asking Yang Zhi and Wang Ping to go north to relieve the siege of Youzhou; ”
Cao Cheng, the flag officer, was dumbfounded, he had spent money on this errand, he thought that he could do it beautifully and let Xin Xingzong see his ability, but now he punched the cotton; Cao Cheng asked angrily: "How long have they been gone, and they dare to leave the front line without authorization, it is really audacious." ”
Zhang Suo looked at Cao Cheng coldly and said: "Lord Yang and Lord Wang are both Zhizhou, can people like you question them? Where were you when they came to conquer Zhuozhou? I'm afraid it's only a two-day journey from Gaoping to Youzhou, why hasn't Lord Xin's army arrived yet?" ”
Cao Cheng was dumbfounded, and could only go back to Xin Xingzong to return to his life, Xin Xingzong was also shocked, it turned out that he thought that Yang Zhi and other three states would send troops to Zhuozhou, and they would fight whatever they said, and they would do everything to control it, and just get a ready-made credit; Yang Keshi suggested: "In this case, we Zhending and Hejian Prefecture will mobilize the army, and let Wang Ping and Zhang Suo send troops from the flank. ”
Yang Weizhong shook his head and said: "The Jin soldiers and cavalry are the mainstay, in that place with a radius of less than two hundred miles, you can reach any position in half a day, there is no flank, the most important thing is that the original Guo Yaoshi's subordinates, it is said that they have defected to the Jin people in various places, those Hu people can fight on horseback, and it is said that the Jin soldiers have expanded by thirty or forty thousand horses." Yang Zhi probably saw this and withdrew his troops. Fortunately, the fulcrum in Zhuozhou is still there, and Wang Ping returned to Yizhou, just to have a depth with Zhuozhou and be able to provide supplies, General Xin, other states can no longer do, otherwise stabilize Zhuozhou first. ”。
Xin Xingzong frowned and said: "It is difficult to transfer all the military horses at one time, Chief Yang, it is better for you to lead the Gaoping army to Zhuozhou." ”
The 15,000 people of the Gaoping army were laid off by Li Gang after Yanyun recovered, but later added some when pacifying the Hebei thief army, Yang Weizhong agreed: "General Xin, Yanyun is likely to fall all, and Gaoping will once again become a front-line pass, after I leave, you must arrange the defenders." ”