Ninety thousand soldiers of the Song Army were riding fast on a foot-wide path. This was an old official road that was well-paved. Although it had not been used for nearly twenty years, there was still no grass growing on the ground.
Although it is marked as a path on the sand table, it is actually no longer a path.
Chen Qing took a diagonal route to intercept the 20,000 Jurchen cavalry, while the Jurchen cavalry took a straight line. The distance between the two was about fifty miles, but the only advantage of the Song army was that it set off three hours earlier than the opponent.
It's hard to say whether the fifty-mile gap can be recovered at this moment. It depends on the battle of will and speed between the two sides.
At dusk the next day, still ten miles away from the official road, scouts came to report that 20,000 enemy cavalry were found on the official road ahead.
In fact, there was no need for scouts to report. Chen Qing had already seen the black dragon-like Jurchen cavalry in the distance from a high place.
"Blow the trumpet, impact!"
Chen Qing gave an order, and the low horn sounded quickly, "Woo--Woo--"
At this time, the Song army was exhausted, but the Jurchen cavalry was also exhausted. Both sides were exhausted to the extreme.
At this time, the Jurchen cavalry also discovered the main force of the Song army, which was a hundred thousand strong. Wanyan Helisha also knew that his 20,000 people were no match for the opponent. They had to get ahead of the opponent and get rid of the opponent's attack.
pursuit.
"Speed up! Fast!"
"Woo--" Jin Bing also blew the running horn in a hurry.
The two sides were getting closer and closer, and Wanyan Helisha was getting a little desperate. The other party was about a mile faster than them, and he was able to intercept them in the middle.
But he had no choice but to escape as long as he could.
"Drive! Drive!" Wanyan shouted to Lisa and ran with all his strength, and his soldiers were also running with all their might.
At this time, the overwhelming Song army came to kill them. They had left the abandoned official road and spread out one mile wide on both sides of the official road. The strength of a hundred thousand troops was really too huge.
The Song Army's cavalry rushed onto the opponent's official road. The Jurchen cavalry on the official road left the official road in despair and fled eastward.
Part of the Jurchen cavalry fled to the north, and some of the Jurchen cavalry fled to the east. They were completely scattered. Some fled, and some fought to the death with the Song army.
A hundred thousand troops were rushing toward them, and Chen Qing shouted loudly: "Liu Qiong, lead your troops north to pursue the enemy. If you don't accept surrender, you will be killed without mercy!"
"Follow the order!"
Liu Qiong shouted, "Flying Leopard Army is heading north!"
The flying leopard banner followed Liu Qiong to the north, and his 30,000 troops turned around to follow. The battle flags of the large armies mainly depended on the battle flags of their respective legions. Chen Qing's was the red dragon army's battle flag with a black background, and Yang Zaixing's was the flying tiger army.
As for the battle flag, Tang Qian’s was the battle flag of the Flying Eagle Army, and Niu Gao’s logistics army was the battle flag of the Flying Bear Army.
This is the battle flag of the regiment, and there are flags of each battalion below. The upper half is the regiment logo, and the lower half is various colors. It is actually not easy to distinguish clearly, but just remember one thing. If you are confused,
If a commander orders you to fight with him, you must obey him regardless of whether he is your superior or not.
This battle was extremely bloody and chaotic. The three armies of the Song Army pursued each other for more than 20 miles to the north and east. They did not stop their pursuit until it was completely dark.
Wanyan Helisa and more than 4,000 people escaped from the Song army's pursuit. He did not know how many people from the eastward army could escape.
Wanyan Helisa was defeated by Chen Qing several times. He was already afraid of being killed. He was as frightened as a bereaved dog and fled towards Datong City in the north. However, they were still more than fifty miles away from Datong City, at least in the middle of the night.
It will take about a minute to arrive at Datong City.
At this moment, a muffled sound of "boom" was faintly heard from the direction of Datong City. It was very distant but very clear. Wanyan drank and Lisa was stunned. This was clearly an explosion, coming from the direction of Datong Mansion. Could it be that
yes.
He suddenly realized that while the Song army was intercepting him, it must have also sent an army to seize Datong Mansion and cut off his retreat.
He immediately said to a centurion: "Immediately lead a group of brothers to Datong City to check the situation and see if it has been captured by the Song Army!"
The centurion led 20 cavalrymen and rushed north at high speed. Wanyanhe dispersed and ordered the soldiers to slow down so that the horses could breathe and wait for news from the north.
At this time, Chen Qing no longer pursued the Jurchen army, and the whole army rested on the spot. All the soldiers and horses were exhausted. The soldiers were so tired that they did not even have the strength to clean the battlefield. However, according to rough statistics, the Song army's
The casualties were about 5,000, mainly due to the last desperate battle of the 8,000 Jurchen troops. The Song army suffered huge casualties, but all 8,000 Jurchen troops should have been killed.
After resting for two hours, at the fourth watch, 10,000 infantrymen began to clean the battlefield and count the corpses. Chen Qing handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to Liu Qiong. He and Yang Zaixing led an army of 70,000 to continue heading north.
In the first half of the night, the night sky was still clear and the moon was bright, but in the second half of the night it became dense with clouds and the night became darker.
"It's snowing!" Suddenly a soldier exclaimed.
Chen Qing reined in his horse and looked up at the night sky. A light snowflake fell from the sky, landed on his face, and then melted.
Immediately afterwards, fine snowflakes fell from the sky.
The first light snow in Shaoxing in eight years has arrived, ten days earlier than the first snowfall last year. I wonder what this means?
Wanyanhe was still twenty miles away from Datong City when he received the news that the city had been lost. The intense loss and regret made him stay for half an hour. It was already dawn, and the weather became extremely cold.
Snowflakes fell overwhelmingly, making the sky gray.
Wanyan drank from Lisa and let out a long sigh and ordered: "The entire army withdraws to the east!"
He gathered many remnant soldiers along the way. Currently, there are more than 7,000 people in total. Nearly 70% of the 20,000 army has been lost. However, there is nothing Wanyan can do about it. Someone saw the Song Army coach Chen Qing during the battle, and he knew
There is no doubt that this battle will be defeated, and there are still more than 7,000 people, which is already a blessing among misfortunes.
The key now is to bring more than 7,000 people back to Yanjing. The light snow will have no impact on the army's retreat. Wanyanhelisha didn't pay attention to the early appearance of the light snow. He was afraid of the blizzard, but experience told them that once it appeared,
If it snows lightly, a blizzard won't be too far away.
The more than 7,000 troops retreated eastward at a faster pace. They were not too worried about food and grass. They set up a food and grass storage point in Jianlin City, fifty miles east of Datong City. The food, grass and mutton stored in it were enough to support their return to Yanshan Mansion.
The army retreated all the way, and soon retreated to Jianlin City, but unexpectedly found that the city was in a mess. There were no people in the small city, and there were only two hundred garrison troops. But at this time, the city gate was wide open, and the ground was full of fodder and food.
Wanyan was shocked when he heard about it and ordered urgently: "Go and see, where are the defenders?"
Dozens of Jurchen cavalry rushed into the city, and not long after, a middle-aged man was pulled out. It was Zhao Wu, the administrator of the military city, who was a Han from the Liao Dynasty. Wanyan drank Lisa and was extremely angry, and whipped him over the head and face with a whip.
, "Asshole, how did it become like this?"
Zhao Wu said with a mournful face: "Report to the Governor, they are ruthless in robbing food, and I can't stop them despite my humble position. I was almost killed by them."
"Who? Who dares to steal food!"
"The governor is General Yelu Cibao and his men."
"It turns out it's them!"
Only then did Wanyan drink Lisa to wake up and asked urgently: "How many more of them are there?"
"There are more than four thousand people, and Magistrate Xiao is also here."
There were actually more than 4,000 people, which was a lot of people. Wanyan Jiulisha suddenly became angry again. The Khitan soldiers did not suffer any losses, which meant that this bastard Yelv Cibao did not resist at all. When the Song army came, they ran away and robbed them.
If you lose your own food, you must severely punish this bastard when you return to Yanshan Mansion.
"How much food and grass is left in the city?"
"There's about half left, but all the mutton and wine have been taken away."
"When did they leave?" Wanyan asked Lisa again.
"We just left not long ago, just over an hour!"
After Wan Yanhe dispersed, he immediately ordered Commander He Shi Lie'an to say: "Immediately lead five hundred cavalry to chase Yelv Cibao, and order his army to wait where they are and join us to retreat!"
"Obey!"
He Shi Lie'an shouted a few times, then led hundreds of cavalry in pursuit eastward.
Wanyan drank from Lisa and then ordered the soldiers, "Go into the city to get food!"