The Junzi Pavilion is famous in the history of the Song Dynasty.

But it's not a good reputation.

Hejian Mansion, one of the three towns in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Three Towns of the Northern Song Dynasty were the deep military defenses that the Song Dynasty was forced to build in the Hebei area after they failed to take back Yanyun after the failure of Yongxi's Northern Expedition.

There is a place in the northwest of Hejian Prefecture called Junzi Pavilion, where the Battle of Junzi Pavilion once took place.

The result of the Battle of Junziguan was that tens of thousands of Song troops were wiped out, and Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi's last dignity in the Liao Kingdom was trampled to pieces.

The Battle of Junziguan was a retaliatory attack by the Liao Kingdom against the Song Dynasty after the two failed Northern Expeditions of the Song Dynasty.

It was a landmark event, a watershed in the military affairs of the Song Dynasty, and the beginning of the shift in national defense strategy from offense to defense.

The foundation for the founding of the Song Dynasty was quite solid. Che Shen's two Northern Expeditions destroyed a large number of elites, but there were still tens of thousands of elites in the Forbidden Army, and there were many cavalry.

In the Battle of Junziguan, all these elites were lost, and almost all the elites of the Forbidden Army that Zhao Kuangyin had worked so hard to manage were lost.

The war between Song and Liao did not really stop until the Chanyuan Alliance.

But it is true that tens of thousands of Han men were buried in Junzi Hall.

It is said that in the 21st century, someone dug up many bones near the Junzi Pavilion, and they were the remains of the Song soldiers who died in battle.

This is enough to illustrate the importance of Hejian Mansion's strategy.

There are important towns like Taiyuan in the land east of Hedong, and mountainous areas like the Taihang Mountains will naturally deter nomads.

On the other hand, the flat plains like Hejian Prefecture were the places where the northern barbarians focused their attacks.

Zhang Xian soon understood why Yao Zheng went to the Junzi Pavilion.

Junzi Pavilion is located on the bank of Hutuo River.

The direction of the Hutuo River in this section is from southwest to northeast, which is equivalent to blocking the westward progress of the cavalry.

Did Yao Zheng want to cut off the Jin army's retreat to the west and compress the Jin army to fight in the Junziguan area?

At noon on the 13th, Wanyan Po Lu Huo's scouts detected Yao Zheng's whereabouts and reported to him.

Wanyan Po Lu Huo immediately moved towards the Junzi Pavilion without saying a word.

The afternoon sun was extremely hot, and farmers in the crop fields along the Hutuo River were still harvesting crops.

Yao Zheng is also from Hebei, but he is from Xiangzhou, Hebei.

Seeing the farmland along the Hutuo River, he couldn't help but sigh: "Many fields in Hejian Prefecture are deserted. What a pity!"

Another soldier named Lu Lin also lamented: "Because in the first year of Jingkang, some people were either kidnapped by the Jin people, died, or moved south. There were not many left, which is already very good."

"Oh, how do you know?"

"Xiaguan is from Hejian!" Lu Lin said with a helpless smile, "When the Jin army went south, Xiaguan was only fifteen years old. Before the Jin people went south, the three towns were fertile and wild for thousands of miles, and the crops were continuous. After experiencing the disaster,

Things have changed a long time ago. The local farmers have been very miserable these years, and the taxes in the Jin Kingdom are much heavier than those in the Song Dynasty."

Yao Zheng did not chat too much with Lu Lin. When he learned that the Jin army had not followed up, Yao Zheng left scouts behind and asked everyone to go to the river to bathe and relieve their fatigue, and let the horses drink water.

Half an hour later, when the scouts came to report, the soldiers had all rested and were gathering quickly.

A soldier named Zhang Cheng was dressing quickly when he suddenly noticed a young man looking at him curiously in front of the field.

"Boy, go home quickly, there's going to be a war here soon!" Zhang Cheng shouted to the young man, then picked up the iron bone flower placed next to him and began to put on his armor.

The young man didn't seem to be afraid and walked over, even more curious: "Who are you going to hit?"

"Fight the gold thief!"

"Are they the ones who come to our village every day to collect food?"

Zhang Cheng thought for a moment and said: "That's right! Just beat them!"

"After beating them, will anyone come to the village to collect food?"

Zhang Cheng thought for a moment and said: "There will still be some, but they will be very few. You will plant your own fields in the future."

"Who said that?" The young man became obviously excited.

"The emperor said it today."

"Who is the emperor?"

"The Son of Heaven is the Emperor!"

After Zhang Cheng put on his armor, he got on his horse and said, "Go back quickly!"

After saying that, he turned around and went to assemble his troops.

The horn sound in front has already sounded, indicating that the golden man is not far away.

Sure enough, according to intelligence, Wanyan Po Lu Huo's people are only a few miles away from here.

Soon, the cavalry regiments in the fields could be seen with the naked eye.

"Report! The Song Army is right in front!"

Wanyanpo Lu Huo said: "I saw it! These Song dogs can't escape!"

"Du Tong, this seems to be the Gentleman's Pavilion." An aide reminded Wanyan Po Lu Huo.

"What kind of gentleman's hall is not a gentleman's hall?"

"When the Song and Liao Dynasties fought here, the tens of thousands of Song troops were wiped out and died here." The staff member looked around and saw a high raised place covered with green grass.

The years have erased the traces of the war, and the gold and iron horses of the year have all turned into

He pointed there and said: "I heard that tens of thousands of Song troops were buried there!"

Wanyan Po Lu Huo was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Okay! This is another omen from heaven, so that the entire Song army will be wiped out here. After killing them, cut off their heads and pile them there to let them

Look at your own people!"

"Huh? Du Tong, you see, something is not right with the Song Army!"

"What's wrong?"

"The number of cavalry in the Song Army was only about a thousand."

Wanyan Po Lu Huo looked at it and doubts arose in her heart.

"Could it be that this Song army deliberately led us here?" the staff member said, "are there other Song armies coming from behind to attack us?"

"Hahaha!" Wanyanpo Lu Huo laughed and said, "Am I laughing at the commander-in-chief of the Song Army for being too naive and using more than a thousand cavalry to seduce me? I will annihilate them all in less than half an hour, then turn back and kill all the Song troops.

The main force of the army!"

The horns of the Song army ahead echoed in the open fields.

Waves of wind and waves blew across the Hutuo River, mixed with water vapor and the fragrance of green grass, causing the red tassels on the heads of the soldiers to fly.

Farmers not far away were running towards the village with hoes on their shoulders.

Yao Zheng raised his weapon and said loudly: "My sons, what does Commander-in-Chief Yue say to us on weekdays?"

"Front-on golden thief! Front-on fight! Front-on combat! Defeat the enemy head-on!"

"That's right! Those who dare to fight the enemy head-on are the real soldiers!"

Yao Zheng shouted again: "Long live our emperor!"

The crowd shouted: "Long live our emperor!"

The cavalrymen of the first and second battalions of the Second Army of the Shenwu Army formed rows of cavalry walls.

Wearing iron bone flowers on their waists and holding spears in their hands, they began to advance forward.

At first it was walking at a normal slow pace, but once it got closer to the golden man, the horse's speed gradually began to speed up.

As the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, the speed of the horses on both sides becomes faster and faster.

Finally, the war horse’s hooves are flying!

This was the first time that the Song Army cavalry faced the Jin Army cavalry!
Chapter completed!