In the morning, the drizzle became a little more rapid. Amidst the greenery, the ear-splitting shouts of death in a clear direction reminded everyone that the battle was in full swing on the west side of the stone bridge highland and in the upper reaches of the Taiping River.
The left army of the Imperial Camp of the Song Army consisted of 20,000 troops, plus 15,000 Dangxiang Qingqi from the Royal Camp Cavalry led by Li Shifu, 10,000 Khitan-Xi Qingqi led by Yelu Yujian, and 15,000 Ximengu Qingqi, in total.
Sixty thousand troops.
When the Jin army first noticed that the Song army was extending its forces upstream, they deployed four thousand households tit for tat.
In the Song army, Han Shizhong's imperial cavalry left army is undoubtedly the elite and the main force. Although Li Shifu's cavalry in the imperial cavalry are all light cavalry, they are after all imperial soldiers, well-equipped and well-trained, and can be regarded as
An extremely reliable auxiliary force. However, the Mongolian Qingqi, Khitan, and Xi Qingqi are somewhat dwarfed in terms of equipment and military discipline... Of course, no one expects them to really kill and break through. Their mission is more to contain them.
In order to harass the Jin army, they must rely on the maneuverability of light cavalry to disrupt the entire battlefield, so that the second main battle group of the Song army can cross the river to fight.
By the same token, the Jin Army's combat power here is also uneven. Their cavalry can never have the same combat power as their infantry, and Wanhu and Wanhu can never be equated.
The zigzag battle line runs roughly north-south, extending a straight line distance of eight or nine miles from the river bank to the back of the highland. The actual fighting front is likely to have exceeded twelve or three miles. However, in theory, for both sides,
For a battle involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the length of this battle line is still a bit short, and too short.
Overall, the strength of both sides is still too thick.
However, this is also the reason why Han Shizhong's Dagu appeared on the battle line. The Song Dynasty needed this sharpest knife to cut through everything.
"What are you going to do?" Amidst the loud shouts of killing, one of the 40,000 households on the Western Front, Pusan Beilu, from the 10,000 households near the river, suddenly grabbed his son and questioned him face to face.
"I'm going to kill Han Shizhong under that big banner!" The tall and burly Pusanwu pulled down his mask and faced him with all his might, his face flushed red. "The unforgettable achievement is today!"
"Did Han Shizhong say that he can beheaded by beheading?" Pusan Beilu was extremely speechless. "Don't risk your life so easily!"
"Father!" Wu Zhe responded angrily. "Taizu asked our Pusan tribe to station at the border of Goryeo to prevent you from conquering the Liao and Song Dynasties. Later, the third prince (the third prince mistakenly believed that Li Duo was from the Pusan family) asked you to
When you went to Longde Mansion to be the governor, you voluntarily gave it up to Ben Jian and just became an ordinary household. As a result, not only did those people not appreciate it, they only said that you were incompetent behind your back..."
"Wuzhe." Pusan Beilu felt helpless. "It was a good intention of Taizu to let our Pusan tribe guard the Yalu River. There is nothing else to do, so what does it matter whether we do it or not? I have been stationed in the rear all year round, and I really don't have a military strategy.
Empirical... As for what others say or don’t say behind their backs, what’s the point of worrying about verbal matters? The priority in everything is to protect the whole family.”
"Just to protect the whole clan, shouldn't we fight today?" The young servant Sanwu was still angry. "The fourth prince's last words are also reasonable, right? If the skin is gone, how can the hair be attached? If the Kingdom of Jin is
If we lose today, the country will be in dire straits. Will the servants be able to survive by then? We should fight to the death to serve the country."
"No one tells you to serve the country, but today's battle does not require you to serve the country like this. You must know that we are defending this time. The Song Army has no foothold on this side of the river, so as long as we hold on to the front and not collapse,
When it gets dark, the marshal leads tens of thousands of his troops out to sweep them away, and by then they will be considered victorious." Pu San Bei Lu said sincerely.
Just as Pusanwu was about to reply, suddenly, a burst of shouting came from the upstream direction in the west, directly interrupting the conversation between the father and son.
The two of them turned to look, and saw Han Shizhong's unparalleled banner moving towards their home. In front of the banner, hundreds of Jin Army cavalry on one wing could no longer be said to be defeated, but more like a rout.
Well, because some of the escaping cavalrymen panicked and ran into the infantry line, which made people nervous for a while.
"Wuzhe, I allow you to go to the front line as a commander." Pusanbeilu turned around, suppressing the uneasiness in his heart and making a last-ditch effort. "You take your own Meng'an, and I will give you ten more Mooke. Together we can
Take them there, but as long as you keep an eye on the front line, you are not allowed to expose yourself, and you are not allowed to attack without authorization like before... You just attacked to the river, and it was delayed to march with Tu Hesu. Ben Jian is already very dissatisfied... Can you give me
Make a promise?"
"I know!" Wu Zhe was filled with hatred, but he quickly put on his mask, turned around and rode away.
Seeing this, Pu San Bei Lu felt a little powerless in his heart.
You must know that compared to his long-term garrison near the Yalu River, his son led a group of soldiers to join the front line army seven years ago when he was only 16 years old, and has been participating in battles under the care of his nephew Niuliduo.
For a time, he accompanied Lu Bu in the Battle of Yaoshan. Ali crossed the river and participated in the battle to attack Luoyang, forcing Wang Boyan, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, to death. His military exploits were recorded in the commander's mansion early.
This gap in experience and age destined father and son to have completely different views on war, and also destined their actual influence in the military to be slightly misaligned.
Otherwise, why would Pu San Bei Lu be so worried? And how could Pu San Wu command the troops on the front line?
Without further ado, Pusanwu Zhe abandoned his infantry and led ten Mooke forward together with the six Mooke from his fierce army. At the same time, he divided the ten Mooke into two groups and advanced alternately to resist Song Dynasty again.
While he was on the offensive, he ordered six soldiers from his headquarters to rectify the military discipline on the spot and collect the defeated troops. The situation was actually easily controlled by him.
This is something that can't be helped.
After the war started across the entire upper reaches, Han Shizhong personally urged the Beiwei Army to attack this area as a loophole. It can be said that this is the area where the Song Army's offensive is the most intense. It can also be said that it is the area where the Song Army has the upper hand.
On the battlefield.
Being dominant is a dominant force, but it does not mean that the Song army can crush the enemy and advance like a tide.
There is damage, but for the heavy cavalry and heavy steps of both sides, as long as the formation does not collapse and the morale does not collapse, large-scale destruction is almost a joke, especially since the spring rain has been falling so far, although it has not seriously affected the exchange of war horses and livestock.
But it has already made one of the main armor-breaking and killing methods of the two armies... that is, heavy arrows and hard crossbows useless.
As Liu Yan said, if you take out the bow to defeat the enemy and pass three arrows, the range and accuracy will no longer be a weapon. And the eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother. The same is true for the close-range hard bows and heavy arrows that the Jin army has always relied on.
There was also an advance. Han Shizhong used Beiwei's army as the forward, and asked Jieyuan to use another elite force from his headquarters as the flanks to resist the sudden attack, and then brought Li Shifu as the backup. It can be said that elites must be elites, and troops must be powerful.
Morale has morale, and there is no reason why you can't overwhelm the opponent.
However, the formations of both armies were too thick, so the battles often went like this. The Wei army fought cavalry against cavalry, and defeated a Jin army's advance in turn using the tactics of kidnapping horses. Taking advantage of the situation, they advanced for more than a hundred steps, and a new
A group of Jin Army cavalry came back from the gap in the posture of a kidnapping horse, and the originally defeated troops were able to take a breather in the rear, and then exerted the unique resilience of the Jurchen cavalry. After just a little reorganization, they rejoined the preparatory battle line.
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This kind of scene is typical anxiety.
At this point, the Jin Army wants to maintain the anxious state, and the Song Army wants to break the anxious state.
This is a test for both parties.
The rain was obviously coming in waves, which made both sides anxious and anxious. The rain calmed down again, and in the chaos, the thick front line that had just been forced back more than a hundred steps by Han Shizhong's big banner was scattered.
The visitor suddenly noticed that dozens of elite Jurchen Iron Buddha cavalry were coming from the direction of the distant highlands.
Just by looking at the iconic waistcoat, Pusanhei knew that this was Wanyan Benjian's personal guard, and then he had no choice but to grit his teeth and face him. He thought it was because of his own repeated retreats, which aroused Benjian's dissatisfaction, so he continued
I'm going to be punished.
"What does Dutong (Wanyan Benjian) have to say?"
His heart was agitated, and his words became restless.
"Not all." It was unexpected and reasonable. The person who answered the other party was a familiar voice. The other party pulled down his mask, and it turned out to be Pucha Asa, Pusanwuzhe's friend. This person was indeed a perfect person.
Yan Ben saw that one of his trusted guards was now just Pu Liyan. "It's the King of Wei."
"What did King Wei say?" Wu Zhe, who had been slightly relaxed because of the arrival of his friend, felt frightened again.
"The King of Wei knew that Han Shizhong had come from your father and son, and was worried that you would not be able to resist him, so he sent people to Dutong (Wanyan Benjian) to inquire about the situation of the battle. But wasn't it raining heavily for a while? It was hard to see clearly.
So the governor asked me to come down and take a look." Puchaasa said in a relaxed tone.
What does it mean to be worried and unable to resist when you know that you are coming from our father and son?
Wu Zhe was immediately furious, but he couldn't do it to a brave man like Asa.
On the other side, Asa asked a few questions and observed with his own eyes for a while, and found that the Jin army was indeed losing ground. They could only rely on the toughness of the kidnappers to cover the retreat of the front line layer by layer, but he finally frowned:
"If this is the case, maybe Han Shizhong will be able to push you all the way to the high ground before noon?"
"Not bad." Wu Zhe responded helplessly.
"Is this how I'm going to tell King Wei?" Pucha Asa asked tentatively.
"What else can be done?" Wu Zhe blurted out.
Asa didn't care, so he could only push up his upper armor and turn back.
But at this moment, there was another roar in the front. Asa turned around in surprise and saw that the Jin army's front in front was in disorder and was attacked again by the Song army's cavalry under the urging of the unparalleled banner. He was also shocked for a moment, but Wu Zhe had already
Having adapted, he quickly issued military orders one after another and continued to maintain the front line.
When the military order was issued, Wu Zhe withdrew his gaze from the large banner hundreds of steps in front. He was originally planning to send someone to ask his father to mobilize a group of fresh reinforcements from the rear to replace some of the front troops whose morale was gradually depressing, but when
When he turned his head and glanced at Asa who was standing there watching curiously, his heart couldn't help but move slightly.
"Asa." Wu Zhe took the initiative to speak.
"What's the matter?"
"To tell you the truth, I originally wanted to go and take Han Shizhong's head in person, but I have a heavy responsibility, and I have agreed to my father's words to command the front line and not to attack without permission..."
"You want me to go?" Although Asa is a brave man, he is not a fool.
"Aren't you the number one warrior in the Marching Department of Longde Mansion? Aren't you able to kill a bull with one punch? On the march before, weren't you in front of the Fourth Prince lifting a baggage cart that was stuck in the mud with one hand? Now you are a
Good opportunity. Although Han Shizhong is a great general, he is so old and has been fighting for a whole morning. How can he be your opponent? I will give you five plotters as backup support. If it succeeds, it will be a great achievement...
"
"Don't you want this meritorious service?" Asa suddenly interrupted.
"I am the young master of the Pusan Department and Taizu's nephew. Do I need a way to be promoted? When the time comes, I will naturally have glory and wealth... I am thinking about the country and the war situation... If I can kill Han Shizhong here, Song Dynasty
The army's offensive will be abandoned halfway!" Wu Zhe tried his best to confront me. "On the contrary, it's you, Asa. Don't tell me that you didn't deliberately lift the cart in front of the King of Wei that day without any intention of climbing up... How can I compete with you for credit?
"
Asa was silent for a moment, then looked back in the direction of the high ground.
Wu Zhe understood and immediately said: "Even if the matter fails and everyone is blamed afterwards, we, father and son, will protect you in front of the King of Wei! If it doesn't work, come to me, you will still be able to march vigorously... Where are you going?
Not going?"
Asa took a deep breath, looked at the large scroll just a few hundred steps away, and suddenly laughed: "I am a little Pu Liyan. If I break it, I will break it. If it is done, it will be an unparalleled achievement...
How not to go?!"
Wu Zhe was overjoyed for a moment.
"Wait a moment, let's wait here for a while. When Han Shizhong exerts his force next time and the distance is closer, I will attack again!" Asa was rough and tumble, and quickly decided on the military strategy. "After all, Han Shizhong was the leader at that time.
Even though you are an old general, you must be careful... whenever you want to behead someone, you must take them by surprise and attack them unprepared."
Wu Zhe was even more speechless.
The opportunity came as soon as it came, but within half a quarter of an hour, the front line once again staged a plot that had been staged five or six times before:
The battle lines of the two sides were barely at a stalemate. Han Shizhong's big banner suddenly stepped forward and urged his elite Beiwei troops to advance from the left and right wings. The Jin army's left and right cavalry horses could not match their strength. In an instant, their formation lost control in a small area and they retreated in embarrassment.
This caused the Chinese infantry front to retreat hastily.
At this time, Wu Zhe, as the frontline commander, should have been as usual, replacing the troops on both sides, supervising the battle in the middle, and then taking advantage of the situation to lead the defeated troops back to prepare for the next round of replacements.
However, this time, after Wu Zhe discovered that the large banner was located on the right side of the front and near the river, he changed it slightly... The left wing remained the same, and the ones replaced by the right wing were five of his own assassins who had never participated in the war.
, and in the middle of these five muke, Wanyan Benjian's bodyguards, the fifty cavalry of Tiefutu, were hidden, led by Pucha Asa.
The cavalry on the two wings alternated. The left wing immediately tried to unite with other cavalry to stabilize the line and protect the infantry. However, the more than 500 cavalry on the right wing took advantage of the situation and accelerated after overcoming the broken troops, heading straight under the unparalleled banner.
The Song army had just won a small battle and was trying to advance further when they suddenly encountered a counterattack by a new force. As expected, they were a little panicked, so that the cavalry in turn inserted themselves into the formation and approached them more than a hundred steps in front of the banner.
distance.
However, that was it. As the surrounding Song troops noticed that they were turning back and squeezing from all sides, the offensive of the 500-horse Jin army was quickly brought under control. The Song army could only think that it was the Jin army who made the move to stabilize the front and control the situation.
They launched a tactical counterattack, and then relaxed again... But at this moment, the cavalry formation suddenly split open. The iron pagoda with fifty cavalrymen and horse armor had already accelerated, jumped out of the formation, and then moved forward with indomitable force.
He rushed directly under the big banner which was only a hundred steps away.
The cavalry of the Song Army were caught off guard and were scattered by this elite iron pagoda, which then really rushed under the banner.
At this time, the rain stopped for a while and the field of vision recovered a lot. When the Song Army's front line saw this scene, the entire front line was immediately panicked.
Without further ado, let’s just say that Pucha Asa rushed to the big banner. He was very excited, but he quickly suppressed his emotions and went to find Han Shizhong... However, around the big banner, there were all bronze-faced armored Song cavalry, and there were no big cloaks.
How can one easily distinguish between a cloak and a jade belt?
However, he quickly noticed an unusual rider... First of all, this man had a majestic figure, similar to the figure of the legendary Han Shizhong; secondly, this man had great martial arts skills and extraordinary strength, and he could use a big stick when he met him.
The iron gun directly knocked an iron pagoda off his horse; in the end, this person was originally at the nearest place under the big banner. When he saw the Jin army's surprise attack, he didn't move at all. Instead, he showed signs of commanding in a small area.
Asa no longer hesitated, leaped forward on horseback, and brandished the heavy sword in his hand to fight.
Seeing this, the three knights of the Song Army on Beiwei abandoned their opponents and came to stab them with their spears. However, he raised his hand and directly pulled the three spears under his ribs. However, the three knights of the Song Army were actually killed by him alone.
Although he had the strength to restrain himself, he was also shocked, but Asa just cut off the three spears with a backhand slash, ignored them, and instead went straight towards the knight whom he had already recognized.
The general of the Jin army showed such power that the majestic Song cavalry under the banner was not surprised. Instead, he calmly raised his iron spear and faced him. Both sides raised their hands and paired their weapons. Pucha Asa was completely convinced that the opponent must be Han Shizhong.
, Otherwise, how did he get such magical power and martial arts? So he became more energetic and vowed to kill the opponent in a formation to achieve unparalleled achievements.
A full seventy or eighty steps away from the big banner, behind the copper mask, Han Shizhong, whose attire was no different from the rest of the Beiwei army, looked away from the Jurchen general and Wang Shixiong fighting each other, and turned to look to his side.
The troops from Beiwei were all unified into Min:
"Where did this cavalry come from?"
"That side of Linhe." Cheng Min blurted out.
"I'm not asking this." Han Shizhong said in a calm tone. "I'm asking you, where did he and his covering troops start from?"
Cheng Min was startled for a moment, then thought about it for a moment, then immediately raised his knife and pointed it in a direction behind Jin Jun: "That place seems to be next to the Meng'an military flag!"
"I just said that Wanhu's flag is still far behind, but why is it always possible to advance and retreat in the front?" Han Shizhong looked over there and couldn't help but laugh. "I think there must be a frontline commander of the Jin army who can convince the crowd...
This is a fighter plane!"
At the end of the sentence, Han Shizhong suddenly raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Linhe, but it was exactly where the advance route of the Jin army that raided the Great Wall was, because he wanted to send beheading troops directly under the Great Wall, and the beheaded tribesmen were directly attacked by the Song army.
Pressing down, it is difficult to retreat, but the gap on this side is not blocked in time.
Cheng Min was originally a student of Han Shizhong's school, and he later mastered the Beiwei Army. At this time, he understood immediately, but he couldn't help but look in the direction of Dajun.
"Don't worry about that. In the middle of a war, where can you distract yourself from these trivial matters? What's more, Wang Shixiong is actually three points better than the golden general. He is just less experienced in battle. If he delays it, he will be able to finish off the golden general sooner or later.
." Han Shizhong didn't even look behind him. He just looked at the military formation in front, or further behind the military formation. "Blow the horn and mobilize the entire Beiwei Army to move forward. Then you lead the five hundred cavalry.
Follow the gap created by the advance of the Jin army and insert it directly under the Meng'an flag. I will lead another five hundred cavalry to your rear. We must defeat the enemy in front of you in one fell swoop! Push the front line through!"
"Here!"
The bugle sounded suddenly, pulling the anxious Wu Zhe back from his speculations about the battle under the banner in the distance. He looked around blankly, and saw the Wei army behind the imperial camp's left army suddenly attacking him in a large force.
Come on.
At first, he thought that the Song Army took this countermeasure to rescue Han Shizhong and the big banner. But soon, as a Song Army cavalry quickly attacked in retrograde along the path of the raid and beheading troops he had sent earlier, this
A young Jurchen noble who joined the army at the age of sixteen finally awakened his battlefield instincts. He already understood his mistake. It was his rash attack that disrupted the dynamic balance of the previous battle line and revealed a fatal flaw in the battle line.
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For a moment, Pusanwu had the idea of retreating for a while, but as soon as he turned around, he saw his father's flag swaying in the faint rain a few hundred steps behind him, and then he felt ashamed.
However, he simply did not look back, but hurriedly mobilized his troops to try to stop the Song army's fierce offensive.
Then, after hastily sending out an unprepared cavalry, the cavalry was immediately washed away like driftwood facing the flood.
Not only that, but what completely horrified Wu Zhe was that the Song cavalry that rushed over from the gap on the river on his right wing penetrated the front line and achieved an unprecedented depth of breakthrough. Instead of taking advantage of the situation, it did not attack the infantry line in the middle in order to expand the results.
, instead he rushed straight towards his slightly empty self.
Not only does the other party want to borrow Asa's methods from before, but he also wants to use his own methods to repay the other person, and in turn try to behead himself?
His previous action of sending Asa not only disrupted the rhythm of the battlefield, but also exposed himself?
He went to behead Han Shizhong, but the Song army came for him instead?!
Under the shock, Wu Zhe, who had previously shouted that he wanted to kill Han Shizhong personally in front of his father, was completely panicked. He turned his horse's head and tried to escape... But as soon as he hit the horse and walked dozens of steps, he suddenly woke up three times.
... On the battlefield, everyone wears armor and a mask as a precaution. Unless the silver medal around his waist is exposed, how will the opponent know whether he is a Pu Liyan or a Meng'an?
But when he escaped, everyone around him followed, but he was completely exposed!
Out of some instinct, Wu Zhe made another wrong choice. He actually tried to stop on the horse again, but since his identity was exposed and the surroundings were empty, what was the use of stopping at this time except to waste the opportunity? So, the other
The person just stops for a moment, then reacts again, and then tries to escape again... This is what is called panicking. Let alone the battlefield, which young person has not had a similar experience?
But on the battlefield, this experience only needs to be experienced once, and there is often no need to have it a second time.
Cheng Min led his army to rush forward. Wu Zhe simply ordered to throw down the flag, and ran away on horseback. The general fought his way through several horsemen to block him. After taking a moment to catch his breath, he prepared to escape back to the rear. But at this time, another wave of Song troops came.
The army followed from the river channel on the right, led by a tall bronze-faced Zhajia Song cavalry who leaped from the side. Under the guidance of the Song cavalry who arrived first, he went straight to capture the black man.
However, as he approached, the Song general reined in his horse and turned around, trying to confront the black man.
Seeing this, Wu Zhe did not dare to delay, so he quickly clamped the horse's belly and flashed his spear at the same time, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity when the opponent's horse had just turned and lost speed, to escape and fight.
However, the opponent did not raise the gun. Instead, he raised his hand and showed a large iron bow.
At this time, it was too late to think too much. The two sides exchanged horses, and the speed was not very fast. General Song raised his hand slightly, and used his back to block it slightly, to separate Wu Zhe's spear. Wu Zhe was unable to hit the target, but he was overjoyed. He just wanted to escape at this time.
, how can you still care about these?
But just as the joy appeared under the mask, the next moment, he felt that his neck protector seemed to be grabbed by something, and a huge force pulled him backwards.
With this huge force, his feet immediately lost their attachment, and his whole body fell off the horse.
Not only that, since he fell off his horse, Wu Zhe was not thrown to the ground. Instead, he continued to be pulled from his neck protector by the huge force and dragged along the messy muddy water on the ground.
In the chaos, Pusanwu was so frightened that his mind was completely blank. He had no idea and was unable to think about what had happened.
Of course, in the eyes of others, the matter couldn't be simpler. The Song general was extremely powerful and as agile as a ghost. When the two horses met, he first used his back to swing away the black sword, and then followed the trend with his sword.
He used the bow string to hook the black man's neck, and he could even turn his backhand and fasten the bow string tightly around the opponent's neck.
Only Wu Zhe's neck protector was neat and tight and he was not strangled to death on the spot.
Of course, even so, Wu Zhe was doomed to be hopeless. The Song general dragged him all the way to the riverside where the Song army gathered. After releasing the big bow in his hand, Wu Zhe was so weak that he could not even turn over.
If you can't, how can you stand still? You can only lie down in the puddle and let others slaughter you.
The Song Army did not hesitate, and several people swarmed forward. There was no need to hold down their hands and feet. One person just lifted the mask, and the other person stabbed the sword from the face, and easily killed the heir to the Pusan Department.
Poor Pusanwu, not only was he not as good as the Prime Minister Zuo in another time and space, he led the marshal of the capital, commanded 100,000 troops to attack the Song Dynasty when he was out, and when he came in, his relatives and family were turned upside down, and he took charge of the military and political affairs of a country, just because of a small battlefield.
The little flaw died in a puddle by the Taiping River.
He was twenty-two years old.
He didn't even know until his death that it was Han Shizhong himself who pulled him off his horse.
However, it has to be said that although Pu San Wu Zhe is not in charge of the Jin Kingdom in another time and space at this time and holds the weight of a country, but even at this time, even if he is just a young relative general, his death still has an impact.
A huge chain effect... It was already on the verge of collapse. At this time, it was attacked and broken through by the Song Army. However, it lost the frontline command of the ten thousand households of the frontline army, and then quickly fell into a collapse-like collapse.
Han Shizhong did not hesitate to mobilize the entire army. With Beiwei's army in the front and Li Shifu's party Xiangqi in the rear, they swarmed forward and drove the defeated army forward.
Bloodstains, mud, and emerald green smeared by rain quickly spread downstream.
On this local battlefield, the overall situation of the Jin army collapsed. Pucha Asa, who had been fighting with "Han Shizhong", finally became confused and tried to escape. However, Wang Shixiong took advantage of the situation to find a flaw and knocked him off his horse. He was swarmed by the Song army and ended easily.
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Similar to Pu San Wu Zhe, Pucha Asa, the so-called 'Jurchen God General' in another time and space, had no time to burst out his own light. Just like Pu San Wu Zhe, he lay down in the mud worthless.
Among them... the person who killed them had no interest in knowing their story. Wang Shixiong, who was responsible for guarding the big banner, didn't even bother to cut off the person's head, and quickly urged the big banner to press forward.
On the high ground, Wanyan Benjian, who witnessed the battle from a distance, certainly didn't know that his confidant Pu Liyan had just died, nor did he know that the Third Prince's cousin had also followed the Third Prince. However, in one fell swoop, Song Jun
He defeated the front army that was scattered behind Lu Wanhu, and then continued to press forward with an unstoppable force, so that he could clearly see the situation as they gradually reached the high ground.
Ben Jian, who felt a little astringent in his mouth, immediately sent a messenger behind him.
The messenger was riding downhill, and when crossing the hollow behind the empty highland, he and his horse fell, and he was in a state of embarrassment. Fortunately, there was not much mud here, and the green ground did not make him covered in mud.
In the camp farther back, knights quickly rushed out and rescued him. After giving a command, they brought him into the camp. Then, under the gaze of the soldiers who were densely packed in the camp and sitting under the wooden sheds, they quickly took him to another place.
Under the towering watchtower in front of the battle.
"Has half of Pusanbei Lu's army collapsed?"
Wu Shu, who was sitting on the balcony, repeated it in a low voice, and then looked below him at the absent-minded Marshal Balisu who was sitting under the five-colored sun. "What did the Marshal say?"
"Isn't it expected?" Ba Lisu came back to his senses and responded calmly. "Can we still expect that among the four thousand households on the Western Front, who can kill Han Shizhong and directly end this battle? Just now He Shilie Taiyu
Didn't he come to report that after his troops killed the Mongolian King Hu'er Zhahusi, the Mongolians attacked like crazy and violently, almost impulsive to his position? Even the light cavalry of the Mongolians did not dare to block it.
Who lives there, let alone Han Shizhong?"
Wu Shu finally smiled bitterly after hearing this: "Yes, in this situation, even if Han Shizhong really dies on the battlefield, it will not stop the Song army from advancing."
Ba Lisu said nothing, but continued to look up at the five-color flag holding the sun... The rain stopped for a while, but water was still slowly seeping from the flag.
Wu Shu was already condescending on the observation deck and replied to the messenger: "Go back and tell Ben Jian that his mission is to exert pressure as much as possible to cause casualties when the Song army crosses the river from the front; when the Western Front collapses, they must gather the troops and form a large formation to cover the river.
Protect the camp and defend the high ground; when it is impossible, die in front of the army and be loyal to the country and Taizu, instead of panicking when you see half a million households collapsed and asking if you want to attack in advance...
Let's put it this way, if he can't calm down, let him come back to guard the camp, and I will take his place!"
The embarrassed messenger said nothing, kowtowed a few times on the ground, and then turned back in a hurry.
"Hong Ya!" In the camp a few miles away from Wu Shu, Yu Yunwen, who was pacing around with his hands behind his hands, finally became impatient. "There is no one outside now. Let me just say it. I know your identity. I will give you to Governor Yang."
I've seen your name on the documents I've read..."
"So what?" Hong Ya, who was sitting on the couch with his hands folded, responded coldly. "Don't say that I didn't leave any writing back then. Even if I did, so what? You think you are telling a story? With a seven or eight
A few words from a few years ago can convict me of the crime of leading the Minister of War under the orders of the Privy Council of the Kingdom of Jin? Could it be that the sound of the candle shadow and ax can be used to convict Taizong? You want us people to give you some key points. What you want is
The general situation is not a handle...Qin Huizhi doesn't even care about his own son, do you actually want to take advantage of me so easily today?"
How could Yu Yunwen not understand this truth? It was just because he experienced Bei Yan's death that he felt anxious, so he couldn't help but asked in a moment of anger: "What do you want?"
"It's not that I want anything, but that in this situation, I just realized that there are some things that you can't give me." Hong Ya sighed on the couch. "Even a captured commander regarded this battle as inevitable for the Song army.
If we win, then everyone in the Song Army will naturally take the victory as a matter of course. Whatever I say or do, won’t it all be discarded like a broom after the war?”
"You just say what you want?"
"I just want to be rich and stable."
"If you can say something useful, why can't I talk to you?"
"What can I do? Just as I don't care about my promise today, how can you care about today's promise when you gain power in the future?" Hong Ya sneered even more. "It's even impossible to say that just because I negotiated with you today, I ended up losing my life...
…”
"How can you lose your life again?" Yu Yunwen became increasingly angry.
"I'm not talking about anything else. If someone like you wants to be a husband-in-law, if you become a husband-in-law in the future, won't you worry that I, a former fake official, will go around publicizing the fact that I saved your life? I can't just go to Salmon Island.
Why don't you just kill me on the way?"
"Absurd." Yu Yunwen was completely speechless. "I finally understand. You are used to judging others by yourself. You make such assumptions just because you are shameless..."
"Who is not a person who saves others by himself?" Hong Ya replied quietly.
Yu Yunwen raised his head and sneered, but for some reason, he suddenly calmed down, then turned to look at the other person: "I understand."
"What does Yu Tanhua know?" Hong Ya couldn't help but become vigilant.
"I have just woken up. In the final analysis, for people like you, it is best to live in peace and wealth in the Kingdom of Jin, but in terms of the overall situation, you cannot be a responsible person. You can only follow the trend and dare not
Going against the general trend? And your evasiveness today cannot be because you are worried that Song Dynasty will not be able to fulfill its promise in the future, because even if you can't promise, do you dare to refuse? I'm afraid it's just the words I just asked
The stakes are so high, I'm afraid that if I say this, I will directly lose the best three-point survival result and the foundation of the swing, so I am hesitating here... Is it right or not?" Yu Yunwen forced himself to speak slowly, and kept asking questions.
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Hong Ya was silent for a moment.
Yu Yunwen also stopped talking for a while and just stared at the other party.
After a moment, Hong Ya sighed slightly and spoke first, but then asked an irrelevant question: "Yu Tanhua, you came from Taiyuan with the official family, do you dare to ask the ten thousand households who stayed behind in Xihe, what happened to Salihe?"
Did he surrender or die for his country? There is almost a fight here."
Yu Yunwen responded calmly: "Hong Chengzhi, you came from Yanjing with the reinforcements. Do you dare to ask Hong Ya, the magistrate of Xinzheng County who was appointed to the Nanyang Palace Examination at that time, whether he surrendered or died for his country? Where is his hometown in Jinan? There is also a debate.
endlessly."
Hong Ya stared at the other party blankly for a long time before shaking his head in reply: "Why is Yu Tanhua so aggressive?"
The rain was getting heavy again. On the banks of the Taiping River, the elite left army of the imperial camp struggled forward under the guidance of their commander's banner, but the Jin army on the opposite side was actually attacking them face to face!
Let's say that the moment Pu Sanbei Lu learned that his eldest son had died in battle, he immediately thought of Wanyan Talan.
Everyone knows that Wanyan was lazily in Changshe and witnessed the collapse of his entire household. Then he saw with his own eyes that his son-in-law, who had divorced him, was chased and killed by the Song army by the river. From then on, he dare not say that he was in ruins, but he was definitely a man of great temperament.
Before the change, he was known as the King of Dragons and Tigers among the people of Song Dynasty. He was a military representative of the old leader Wu Qimai's family. He had always been active in the military and was one of the main promoters of the southern invasion.
But after Changshe, he was not willing to talk about military matters at all.
Everyone laughed at Ta Lai behind his back. Pu San Bei Lu was outside the customs at that time, on the banks of the Yalu River, and seemed to have vaguely laughed at each other.
However, when he learned that his eldest son, Wu Zhe, had died on the front line only a few hundred steps away from him, this general, a relative of the Jin Dynasty who had always been known for his sincerity and stability, understood his former laziness almost instantly...
...It turns out that the life and death of a close person can really change everything about a person immediately.
Of course, Pusan Beilu soon corrected this idea... His reason was very simple. Talan was just a son-in-law who died, and he was the son of a son. Talan did not deserve to be compared with him.
Next, the Jin foreign official fell into a strange state. He quickly issued an order. On the one hand, he wanted the whole army to meet him and vowed to kill Han Shizhong to avenge his father and son. On the other hand, he openly stated that anyone who retreated from his own banner would be killed.
No forgiveness.
Their headquarters fiercely separated six hundred cavalry, lined up in a row, and under the personal leadership of Pu Sanbei Lu, supervised the battle and killed the defeated troops one after another. The Jin army was unable to advance or retreat for a while, but it actually summoned up the courage to turn around and fight with the Song army.
Confrontation.
The scene was very intense, and Han Shizhong's troops were also hampered in their advance.
However, Han Shizhong is ecstatic!
Li Shifu who followed closely behind was also ecstatic!
All the major generals of the Song Army on the other side of the river were in ecstasy when they saw this scene!
Without him, when Pusanbeilu ordered his headquarters to attack head-on, it was equivalent to giving up the front that he had been trying to maintain before. The originally continuous and interconnected fronts opened two thin lines on both sides of Pusanbu.
The opening...the opening was small, but it was enough. Li Shifu's tens of thousands of light cavalry finally swarmed up and rushed through the gap between the Pusan army formation and the river and high ground.
Then, they arrived in front of the high ground, reached the west side of the Ali tribe, and continued to flow along the back of the Ali tribe.
From the perspective of Li Shifu's troops alone, this is almost a self-destructive move. But from the perspective of the needs of the entire battle, this is exactly what Wu Jie, Li Yanxian, or all the Song troops in front of the stone bridge have been waiting for.
opportunity.
Let Qingqi follow the left army of the imperial camp across the river, that's what they're going to do!
At this time, even noon was far away, but because of the impulsiveness of a son and the collapse of a father, he succeeded directly.
Without any hesitation, Wu Jie moved forward directly to the big banner, and at the same time ordered the whole line to beat drums and march.
Under the rumbling drums, Li Yanxian's banner also moved forward. In front of the two commanders, Dong Xian and Niu Gao were in the lead. The Shaanluo tribe of the imperial camp and the rear army of the imperial camp totaled 40,000 soldiers.
The huge heavy infantry formation was activated at the same time... The armor and the rain-wet outer cover formed a rich color with a certain brilliance in the spring rain that tightened again, and under the reflection of the emerald green on the ground.
Black or not, red or red, bright or not, dark or dark.
But there is no doubt that when the entire military formation rolls in one direction, it still looks like a torrent, a torrent that can swallow everything, but has an unknown color.
With the Song Army's massive movement, the various Jin Army units on the highlands and on the east side of the highlands seemed to have been awakened by the rain. They immediately reorganized their military formations, and countless sentries and cavalry were constantly going back and forth between the various units, preparing to fight.
It was obvious that Wanyan Benjian on the high ground was trying to form a whole, unprecedentedly huge array of kidnapping horses.
By the stone bridge, Wang De's tribe, who had been fighting for a long time, was overjoyed. Wang De's two sons, Wang Qi and Wang Shun, were relieved for a moment. Even Poxi's army finally breathed a sigh of relief... In just half a morning, their camels More than half of the cannon has been destroyed by continuous firing. There is a reason why the torsion ballista made of animal tendons has gradually been eliminated by the times.
However, just when the whole army was relieved, Wang De, who was already exhausted, looked back at the spectacular Song army formation advancing towards his side on the other side of the Taiping River at the edge of the small slope that was beyond the reach of the camel cannon. Looking at General Ali's banner hundreds of steps away, he suddenly smiled at his two sons:
"Are you two tired?"
No one knows his son better than his father, and no one knows his father better than his son.
Brothers Wang Qi and Wang Shun immediately looked solemn, and then the eldest son Wang Qi calmly said to him: "Father, do you feel that if the reinforcements cross the river, Ali will have to retreat, and you are a little unwilling?"
"Not bad." Wang De raised his sore arm, pointed at General Ali's flag, and said seriously. "Although you and I have the upper hand in this battle, our troops are already exhausted. It is difficult to achieve great success. In such a situation, if there is no general victory, how can we rectify the name of our Wang family? Now Ali has not retreated, but his subordinates have already intended to retreat, and no one is willing to fight hard... This is an opportunity."
The eldest son Wang Qi hesitated.
The second son, Wang Shun, did not hesitate and responded with his hand: "Father, I'm here to clear the way for you."
Wang Qi immediately nodded: "Father, I'm here to divorce you."
Wang De nodded, and then he took his two sons, dozens of personal guards who were almost all injured, and his general flag, and walked towards the place where the Chinese army was protected by camel cannons. ...It was as if he saw his own reinforcements advancing in force and was preparing to return here to rest and quietly wait for the reinforcements.
However, Wang De himself immediately looked around and pointed out the trusted knights of his headquarters within sight along the way, asking the other party to follow quietly.
Before they reached the front of the stone bridge, they had already successfully gathered two to three hundred riders.
"The flag stays here." Wang Qi, who was thoughtful, took the initiative to instruct the flag bearer.
Not far away, Ali looked at this scene coldly through the slope of the highland, but he only watched it for a moment. He was also exhausted due to his old age and long-term command of battles, so he turned to look at the west side of his position, where there were already imperial troops. Party members of the battalion's cavalry army, Qingqi, rushed forward and directly engaged their exhausted soldiers, and kept surging behind them.
In fact, these party members' light cavalry were like running water, flowing directly into the gaps in the Jin Army's array. And the Jin Army's mobile power, that is, the iron cavalry, lost the hard bow as its main anti-personnel weapon in the rain. , at the same time, the mobility loss is much higher than that of these light cavalry, which puts both sides into a ridiculous situation where neither side can do anything to the other party... These light cavalry cannot kill the Jin Army's heavy armored cavalry, and the Jin Army's heavy armored cavalry cannot. There is no way to catch up with these light cavalry.
But Ali knew that as long as the Song army on the other side crossed the river in heavy groups, or the Jin army on the high ground behind him tried to suppress it, these light cavalry would definitely do their best to delay and hinder the movement of the headquarters... This is the strategic role of this huge light cavalry, to divide the battle formation.
Impede support, contain the advance, assist in outflanking, and possible large-scale post-war cleanup and head hunting.
Ali knew very well that the situation facing his men was very dangerous. He had to make a choice quickly, either wait here for the Benjian troops on the high ground to be organized, and then rush down from a high position, or give up this small slope and rush down as soon as possible.
Evacuate and return to the high ground to participate in Benjian's formation operations.
As a battle-hardened founding general of the Jin Army, Xiemao Ali did not take too long to make a decision. Now that he is forced to stay here, it is very likely that his subordinates will be annihilated.
ending.
Ali, who is fifty-seven years old, really doesn't care about his own life or death, but he has to fulfill the duties of a soldier, work hard to carry out the military orders of his superiors, and work hard to protect his subordinates.
Therefore, it is better to retreat to the high ground.
Of course, a big consequence of this is that the Pusanbei Lu tribe, which Han Shizhong has pushed to the riverside area in front of the high ground, is likely to be completely annihilated under the encirclement of the Song army.
Therefore, although he had already known that Pusanbeilu's eldest son died in battle and Pusanbeilu's crazy words, Ali still took the initiative to call his personal guards and sent a message to Pusanbeilu, asking the other party to follow him and retreat to the high ground...
When the Song Army's light cavalry army crossed the upstream defense line and the heavy-buoying group advanced across the entire front without any hesitation, maintaining the front line near the river had no strategic value.
After giving these words, Ali was about to order the troops to prepare for an orderly retreat. Before he could say anything, he heard a commotion ahead. He looked up and saw the already chaotic and restless headquarters troops ahead.
Riding, it was like encountering a wheat field with hares running in it in autumn, shaking the waves of wheat and dodging to both sides in a daze.
Among the separated waves of wheat, the hare quickly showed its figure. It was hundreds of Song Army cavalry. They did not raise flags or scream, but just kept their heads down and attacked them hard.
Ali was so rich in combat experience that he could tell what was going on just by looking at him. Even though he was frightened and angry, he still had the same temper. He held the cavalry hammer and refused to retreat but instead advanced. The surrounding guards also woke up and tried their best to move forward to protect him.
However, the Song Army's raid really seized the opportunity of Ali's generals to retreat, so that after the raid started, there was very little resistance and progress was extremely fast. At this time, Ali and his bodyguards reacted, but it was already too late.
In just a moment, a brave Song general came to the front, screamed loudly, and led the Song cavalry behind him to shout to kill.
The leader, Ali's principal, was not afraid at all and faced him face to face, but was shot off his horse.
However, this Song general succeeded with one blow, but did not try to attack Ali, who was only more than ten steps away. Instead, he directly waved his iron spear, fought off the knights on Ali's side, and tried to chop Ali's right side.
He raised his flag from behind and attracted several knights to stop him.
Ali knew what this man was doing, but it was too late to remind him. Instead, he tightened his grip on the cavalry warhammer.
Sure enough, a moment later, a tall knight who was far taller than the other Song soldiers came up from behind the previous Song general. The long ax in his hand was wet with rain, and he had already swung it high, just like a Yaksha descending to earth.
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With just one glance, Ali knew that this must be the arrival of Wang De Wang Yaksha in person. After all, this man had killed himself in front of him with courage, and he also knew that he had no luck at this time.
But in the flash of lightning, Ali's face behind the mask was ferocious, but he was still undaunted. Instead of blocking the giant ax falling from above his head, he used all his strength to smash the cavalry hammer onto the opponent's shoulder.
After a moment, the winner was decided.
Ali's war hammer flew over Wang De's shoulder, but only hit the shoulder socket of Wang De's eldest son Wang Qi. However, Ali himself was slashed from the upper left shoulder to the right abdomen by Wang De, and his internal organs flowed out... If the long ax had been swung a little later, Ali's war hammer flew over Wang De's shoulder.
, maybe it will be split in half directly.
But these details don't matter.
Ali is dead.
Unlike Pucha Asa and Pu Sanwu who died in the battle before, they died in their youth without waiting for fate to favor them. Xie Mao Ali joined the army with his father at the age of seventeen and followed Wanyan Aguda to participate.
It started with the Jurchen tribe's annexation war, and to this day, any forty years of military career and a lifetime of military experience are enough to overwhelm the vast majority of people on this battlefield.
Annexing the Jurchen tribe, conquering Goguryeo, pacifying the Bohai Sea, destroying the Liao Dynasty, and conquering the Song Dynasty... He participated in almost every battle in the founding and rise of the Jurchen Kingdom, and also swept through the towns in Liaodong during the destruction of the Liao Dynasty, and attacked and killed Yelu Yujian's expeditionary army.
, all ranked first in merit, and were the first batch of direct descendants with foreign surnames from the Jurchen Wanyan tribe to march to Anhui.
In the battle against the Song Dynasty, he had already become the backbone of the Eastern Route Army, which meant that he was recognized as the founding hero of the Jurchen Kingdom.
Even Zhao Jiu couldn't forget this name!
In the first year of Jianyan, Xie Mao Ali followed Wu Shu in Huaishang, almost forcing the small court of Zhao and Song Dynasties to despair; in the second year of Jianyan, this man was a partial division of the East Route Army, defeated Nanjing, and forced Zhang Suo and Xin Daozong to be killed;
In the third year of Yan, in response to Yaoshan, he crossed Mengjin and defeated Luoyang, forcing the chief minister Wang Boyan to be killed.
It can be said that his achievements, his reputation, and his experiences were undoubtedly completed on this day when he was fifty-seven years old.
Even though this thief died, he had no regrets.
Even before he died, he hit Wang Qi with a hammer.
Of course, the more Ali has no regrets, the more it means that the Song Army successfully achieved the first undoubted and huge result in this battle.
For Wang De, this was considered a miraculous feat. As the saying goes, 'If you cross a river and kill a general, your energy will not be taken away. Who can rise up as a hero in ancient and modern times?'
Before noon, as the first phase of the war was successfully completed as expected, the main force of the Song army crossed the river in large numbers. The deputy commander of the imperial camp and the military commander Wang De seized the opportunity to kill thousands of Jin's East Route Army and Jizhou Prefecture Yin.
, Korean public Ximao Ali.
Turning back to the eyes, Ali could not die anymore, but unexpectedly, or perhaps it seemed familiar, the first reaction of his troops was not to flee in all directions, but instead to go crazy and work hard from all directions to besiege the Song army.
Wang De struck out with his axe, and realized that he was indeed old, and his eldest son was injured and had trouble riding the horse. He was not willing to live here for free, so he took care of his eldest son Wang Qi personally after his second son Wang Shun was replaced.
Withdraw troops.
Only when he could not walk more than seventy or eighty steps, Wang De suddenly heard an exclamation from behind him. He turned around and saw his second son, Wang Shun, slipping off his horse. He just staggered and fell off the horse without any ripples.
into the frenzied Jin army.
Wang De's mind went blank on the horse, and the ecstasy of killing Ali disappeared in this moment. He wanted to turn around and pick up the ax for revenge, but instinctively looked at the injured eldest son on the other side of him, and then he could only look at
Under the urging and guidance of his personal guards, he returned to the formation in a daze.
Only a moment after returning to the small slope in front of the stone bridge, Wang De didn't even come back to his senses. The Song army Niu Gao and Dong Xian on both sides had successfully crossed the river and established a foothold, and then impatiently tried to surround Ali and Pusanbei Lu.
Ten thousand households.
The two Jin Army formations finally collapsed.
Ps: Thank you to the sword-fighting guy from Tianya in Dreams for being the 206 cute guy in this book, and thank you to the Wolong trio for their rewards!