I am Da Song

Chapter 187 The Northern Expedition's First Wave Advantage

The Jin army's ambush was led out, and Guan Yan and others were besieged layer by layer. Wang De personally put on heavy armor and led the army to enter from the outside, unstoppable.

The pincer attack of the main force of the Song army caused the Jin army to ambush and almost collapsed the morale of the army.

There was a raging fire in front of them, and they completely lost contact with the camp, and Song Jun was rushing out inside.

Behind them were waves of Song army attacks, which made them dizzy.

Especially in the middle of the night, many people can't even tell the direction, and only feel the sound of shouting and killing everywhere.

The two sides fought in a melee overnight. Although the Song army suffered heavy casualties and was almost wiped out, it succeeded in breaking out of the encirclement under the support of the main force.The wounded soldiers were wearing heavy wounds, but they grinned, thinking that they were the reincarnation of Yang Wudi.

The Jin army, who had been exhausted all night, finally breathed a sigh of relief after the battle, and sat dejectedly on the battlefield filled with smoke.

Thinking of dragging their exhaustion up the mountain to attack the mountain later, everyone complained incessantly.If you don't go to Huahua World to plunder, how can you compete with a barren mountain here!

It is different from the fierce confrontation between the two sides on the Hedong battlefield, and the robbing of important military sites.

The Hebei battlefield is vast and majestic.

Here, gold and iron horses, strategic battles, and large armies' offensive and defensive advances and retreats are more like a battle between two powerful countries.

But there is one most notable feature on this battlefield, and that is the translocation of offense and defense.

The Golden Army is strategically on the offensive, but tactically on the defensive.

The Song army is in a defensive posture strategically, but is attacking violently tactically.

It is a tactical attack, grabbing key nodes, and interrupting the golden man's strategic offensive rhythm.

At the beginning of the fighting between the two sides, Zong Ze led an army of [-] troops all the way north to enter the Jing'an Army, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shenzhou.

This is like a wedge for the lone army to go deep into the hinterland of the Jin army, and go straight into the throat of the Jin army.As long as Song and Jin can take back Shenzhou, Hebei will be divided into two battlefields.

Jin Jun took care of the West, but he couldn't take care of the East.

Therefore, the two princes of the Jinren East Route Army immediately sent heavy troops into the Jing'an Army, intending to defeat Zongze's main force.

The immaturity of the two princes was fully exposed in this battle.

They are like a reckless man who doesn't know how to fight, no matter what the situation ahead.

In short, Daikin's military strength is strong, and it is overwhelming.If the opposite Song army is corrupt and dark, it will be a brilliant victory.If the Song army on the opposite side is fully prepared, it will be an unforgettable super fiasco.Life and death are bearish, everything depends on fate.Who is worse than Song and Jin armies!

Therefore, Jin Wushu always brought 10,000+ troops into the positions set up by the Song army.

On the north bank of the Hulu River, the Song and Jin armies faced each other head-on.

The Jin army was [-], and the Song army was [-].

It is also a typical golden soldier with many forces, and the more fight the less.

But the Song army, who was waiting in full force, lined up with their backs to the river, putting out rows of horses and antlers.

Among the horses and antlers, neatly arranged Song army phalanxes are arranged in an orderly manner, and the flying flags above the army array cover the sky and block out the sun.

Obviously, Zong Ze expected that these two immature princes would choose to do their best in one battle.He had already brought a large amount of supplies and logistics, and he was here in a majestic formation, waiting for the Jin army to hit him head-on.

Seeing this phalanx, the basic generals of the Jin Army almost went crazy in despair.

However, Jin Wushu, who has not experienced the beatings of the generals of the Song Army, has a paranoid superstition towards the Jurchen heavy cavalry.

After all, the heavy cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin have been invincible since their formation.Since the use of troops, in case of an invincible situation, the heavy cavalry will be gathered, surrounded by double iron pockets, and advance against the wall.

In his opinion, the more difficult an army formation is, the more heavy cavalry should be used to break through it and create a gap for the whole army.

This theory is simply magical.

The more people believe in this theory, the more they feel that this theory is well-founded, logical, and closed-loop smoothly.

Otherwise, the imperial court spent so much money, what is the purpose of raising such elite heavy cavalry?Does it look good?

So no matter how the generals persuaded him, Jin Wushu was paranoid and ignored them, thinking that they were cowardly and afraid of fighting.

A true Jurchen warrior should wear double-layer heavy armor, ride a tall horse, and crush the enemy's position head-on!One hit decides the outcome of the battlefield!
However, although Jin Wushu was superstitious about the power of the heavy cavalry, he was not so crazy that the heavy cavalry directly attacked the horses and antlers.

When the two armies were at war, he first sent infantry to clean up the antlers and reject horses, and at the same time sent kidnapped horses to shoot on the left and right wings, intending to disrupt the formation of the Song army.

The Song army fought hard, and the formation was not chaotic. The kidnappers on the two wings suffered heavy casualties when they were shot by the Song army's arrows.It perfectly reproduces the scene where the Xiongnu Shanyu besieged the Han general Li Ling.

But the Huns also knew that the cavalry did not have an advantage in shooting, and they should stretch the front to drag down the infantry.

But Jin Wushu was too hasty, his young heart could not accept that the war would not be resolved for several days.In his impression, when Da Jin fought against the main force of the enemy army, he should have done his best in one battle, and defeated the opponent in one day.

Once you can't win, don't you want to frustrate your entire army?

So after the infantry also failed to attack, he sacrificed his most trusted magic weapon, heavy cavalry!Fu Xiao rode on a heavy armor, with a long spear hook, and went straight to the Song Army's formation.

Needless to say, the Hebei soldiers have been training for nearly half a year, and they have set up the most rigorous formation, waiting for the cavalry to hit them.More than half of the three thousand Nuzhen heavy cavalry lost in the first battle!
In this battle, the Song army beheaded tens of thousands of people. If the Song army had no cavalry, the main force of Jin Wushu would have been lost here.

The Song army took advantage of the situation to recover the Jing'an army, and then the army continued to recover Shenzhou and Qizhou to the north.

With the news of the first victory of the Song Army, the land of Hebei was surging, and one by one rebels took the initiative to initiate an uprising and seize the city to the south.

It's not how beautiful the previous Song Dynasty's rule was, how much the people missed it.

It is really that the rule of the Jin army is too cruel. First, they attack the city and occupy the territory, killing people like hemp.Then there was a large-scale collection of corvees and harsh taxes to cope with the war.

In the past two years, the Jin army has not had any governance over Hebei, and it has been tyrannizing and exploiting the people.

In contrast, the people of Hebei still think that it is a good choice to submit to the Song Dynasty.

This also includes a large number of scholar-bureaucrats!

These people even did not hesitate to leave their homeland and return to the south.Some of them did it for the sake of loyalty, while others realized more clearly that the Song court was more fragrant.

As long as the Song court can be stabilized, the interests of the scholar-officials will be fully guaranteed.But if it is occupied by an enemy country, no matter how much land or wealth you have, you may lose your money and people at any time, and you will die by the knife.

When Hebei was turbulent, the Song army also began to march towards Hebei one by one according to the deployment of the imperial court.

Zhe Yanzhi of Qingzhou, who was the first to act, sent troops from Qingzhou, and soon recovered Binzhou, Dezhou and other places, and marched all the way north to Cangzhou Yanshan before being blocked by the Jin army.

The first wave of advantages of the Northern Expedition has almost been exhausted by this point, and the Song Army had to face the most difficult dilemma of the Northern Expedition.

(End of this chapter)