King Jingyang of the Dutou bowed and said: "To report to the Dutong, brothers from humble positions found them in a gully in the north. We made a noise, but they never came out to break out. When we entered the ravine, we found that they were all kneeling on the ground.
Surrender, the weapons and armor are piled nearby."
Chen Qing asked with a smile: "Are they surrendering because of the momentum you created, or were they originally going to surrender?"
Wang Jingyang felt a little ashamed and said: "To be honest, I feel that they wanted to surrender in the first place, and it has nothing to do with us creating momentum. They are already at the end of their rope."
Chen Qing nodded. He also thought so. Based on his understanding of Jin Bing, no matter how many troops there were, they would fight to the end and would never surrender without a fight. It seemed that there must be something wrong within Jin Bing.
"Have you interrogated them?" Chen Qing asked again.
Tang Qian said quickly: "My humble position has arranged for my subordinates to be interrogated in groups. It is going smoothly so far and there is basically no resistance."
"When can you give me a confession?"
"I will definitely produce the confession within an hour at the latest!"
"As soon as possible!"
Tang Qian left himself a little leeway. In fact, half an hour later, he handed the compiled confession to Chen Qing.
All the information Chen Qing wanted to know could be found in the oral confession. He read it several times and immediately summoned the main generals to his tent.
"Everyone must have heard about the capture of the Jin soldiers. Let's take a look at these confessions. The morale of the Jin soldiers is low, their fighting spirit is low, their war weariness is generally very serious, and there are even deserters. The three hundred people are only a small part. Last night
Hundreds of people escaped, and more than a thousand people escaped this morning. Although they are all Xi soldiers, you can tell the autumn with a leaf. The situation of the Jin soldiers is very pessimistic. I think the time is ripe for a decisive battle. I want to hear from everyone.
Any ideas?"
Gao Ding raised his hand and said, "Could Xi Ren's desertion be deliberately arranged by Wanyan Yin Keshu to lure us into a decisive battle with him?"
Chen Qing smiled and shook his head, "It may be possible for other armies, but not for the Jurchens. The Jurchens regard desertion as a great shame. If they find that their morale is slightly low, they will find a county town for the soldiers to rob and vent, thereby reviving the soldiers."
Morale will never wait until there are deserters, and it is also because Danzhou is deserted, with only Yichuan County, which is still an empty city, and Wanyan Yinke has nothing to do, so deserters will appear, and deserters will definitely not be fake."
Liu Cui also raised his hand and said: "I read that the confession said that they still have two or three days of food. Why don't we wait until they run out of food before attacking?"
Chen Qing said calmly: "Their food will not be exhausted, and there are tens of thousands of war horses. There is a saying that things will turn against each other. If they are really forced to kill the war horses for food, they will have a murderous intention to share the same hatred with the enemy. Simply
To put it bluntly, it means risking your life to survive. The best situation is that the food supply is not cut off, but the belief is desperate, which is the current situation."
Liu Qiong slammed his fist on the table, "Du Tong, let's fight! We have been waiting for this day for a long time."
"Du Tong, let's fight decisively!" Everyone expressed their stance one after another.
Chen Qing glanced at the crowd with his sharp eyes and said slowly: "We need a battle to defeat the Jin soldiers on the battlefield, so that the confidence of the soldiers will be completely erected."
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At dawn, Chen Qing's army appeared ten miles away from the Jinbing camp. He left 5,000 troops to guard the camp and led 36,000 troops to challenge the enemy's main force. They were immediately discovered by the Jinbing ranger cavalry.
Gunpowder arrows kept flying into the sky...
Wanyan Huonv urgently ordered the entire army to assemble. The fifty thousand golden soldiers were in chaos. Most of the soldiers did not want to fight, but they had to fight. They had to find their own troops in the chaos. When the Song army was still five miles away, the Jurchen army was reluctantly fighting.
After the assembly was completed, Wanyan Huonv led a battalion of 40,000 to fight the Song army...
Gu Yan
Not all of the Jurchen Army must fight. One army must be stationed in the battle, not participating in the battle, to protect the logistics and the head coach Wan Yan Yin Keshu.
But the Jurchen army is not like the Song army, which is forty miles apart. They are only a few miles away from the Song army. They cannot leave only a few thousand troops. That will easily be attacked by the enemy, leading to a rout. In the end, 10,000 Jurchen troops will be left behind.
Garrisoned troops.
Wanyan Yinkeshu did not expect that Chen Qing would take the initiative to challenge, but the time Chen Qing chose was just right. When morale was at its lowest, the morale of the army was at its lowest, and the soldiers were most tired of fighting, he had already guessed that Chen Qing must have captured Xi Ren's prisoners of war.
, otherwise it would be impossible to understand the situation of one's own army so well.
Watching the golden soldiers running away, Wanyan Yinkeshu was very worried. He was really worried whether Wanyan Huonv would be able to calmly command the battle when facing Chen Qing?
If there was no problem with his legs, he would have personally commanded the battle, but he was half-paralyzed, God's will!
The large formation set up by the Jin soldiers also had one main formation and two wings. Wanyan Huonv led 20,000 Jurchen troops as the main formation, Ten Thousand Captain Pucha Asa led 10,000 Jurchen troops as the right formation, and Marshal Hu Shida led 10,000 Khitan troops.
Hexi people's army formed the left formation.
The flags of the two armies were fluttering, hunting and flying in the morning glow. Both sides were equipped with similar equipment. Both were wearing iron armor. Chen Qing's 30,000 troops were the most elite among the 200,000 troops. They were all tall, strong, well-trained, and rich in combat experience.
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They wore bronze helmets on their heads, gold lacquered iron armor, holding horses and short spears, round shields on their backs, and sabers on their waists and hips. They were all majestic and murderous, and their morale was very high. They had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
The equipment of the Jin soldiers is also good. They wear the standard yellow velvet armor of the Jin Kingdom, hold spears and swords in their hands, and have bows and arrows on their backs. The generals generally use maces.
Although the Jin soldiers and cavalry swept across the world, it was only when the morale of the Jurchens was high that they were burning, killing and looting wantonly, and the wildness of the Jurchens was fully demonstrated. On the other hand, it was the Song Dynasty's army that was extremely decayed, and only ten thousand Jurchen cavalry swept across millions of people.
The feat of the army.
But once the morale of the Jin soldiers was low and their morale was dispirited, the Jurchen army's momentum like tigers descending from the mountain was no longer visible. In front of the two armies, their momentum was actually overwhelmed by the Song army.
The war between Song and Jin Dynasties has been going on for more than ten years. The tenacity and tenacity of the Han people have gradually been reflected in the continuous struggle. Only then have elite armies such as Yue Jiajun, Han Jiajun, and Wu Jiajun emerged, and they have also grown from a weak army to a stronger one step by step.
Chen Jiajun, today they fought a decisive battle with tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry, but they did not have any fear, but were full of passion and expectation.
Although the strategy can be despised, the tactics must be taken seriously. For today's battle, Chen Qing worked hard and considered several plans. Finally, he decided to adopt Tian Ji's horse racing strategy, with the lower horse against the enemy's upper horse, and the upper horse against the enemy's horse.
Middle horse, use the middle horse to face the enemy and dismount.
It's easy to say, but in reality it's just talk on paper. Tian Ji's horse racing is not that simple. You can use it if you want, and the enemy will obey your arrangements? Why should the enemy mount a horse to counter your dismount? So this kind of thinking is wishful thinking.
The reason why Tian Ji was able to win must be that he spent money to bribe King Qi Wei's confidants and knew the order of the opponent's horse racing arrangements in advance.
The reason why Chen Qing chose this strategy was because he knew that the opponent's general was his old enemy Wanyan Huonv. In order to avenge her father's murder, Wanyan Huonv would definitely concentrate her superior forces against him. If he mounted the horse, then Chen Qing's main
Once you are in the formation, you can choose to be dismounted.
Therefore, his main formation only had 6,000 elite troops, consisting of 5,000 direct Tiger Guards and 1,000 scout troops.
The mounted horse is the left wing of Gaoding, consisting of 20,000 cavalry, to face the 10,000 Jurchen army led by Pucha Asa. This is the mounted horse versus the middle horse.
The middle horse is the 10,000 cavalry led by Liu Cui, facing the enemy's weakest 10,000 Donghu army, which is the opponent's dismounted force.
Liu Cui's 10,000 troops were all equipped with divine arm crossbows and 500 bed crossbows. Chen Qing concluded that Wanyan Huonv would definitely let the Khitans and Xi people take charge of the first round of attack.
A sudden strong wind blew up the dust on the Loess Plateau, and the military flags loomed in the dust. A great war between the Song and Jin Dynasties was about to begin.
