Chapter 41 Section 2 Song Army Yancheng Victory

The news that Jin Wushu tore up the peace agreement and planned to invade the South spread to the Southern Song Dynasty, and Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty panicked.He quickly ordered Yue Fei and other generals to strictly defend.Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty appointed Yue Fei to concurrently serve as the emissary of various roads in the north of Henan. States military.After Yue Fei received the order, he immediately led the army to march northward. Before launching a massive counter-offensive, Yue Fei dispatched generals Niu Gao, Zhang Xian and others to recover various parts of Henan; on the other hand, he sent rebel leader Liang Xing and others back to the Taihang Mountains, and joined forces with other rebels to carry out activities behind the enemy lines to cope with the forces going north. army.In a short period of time, the Song army successively recovered Yingchang (now Xuchang, Henan), Chenzhou (now Huaiyang, Henan), Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places.Yue Fei personally led Qingqi, stationed in Yancheng, and commanded the overall situation.

The Central Plains was a battleground between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty. Whoever controls the Central Plains can break through the opponent's front from the center, creating a favorable strategic situation for dividing the enemy.Therefore, Yue Fei led his army to advance into the Central Plains, which made Jin Jiang Wushu stationed in Tokyo panic.He hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss countermeasures.Wushu believed that all soldiers and horses in the Southern Song Dynasty were easy to deal with, but Yue Fei's army was "courageous and elite, and with the support of Hebei's loyalty and righteousness, it was unstoppable" (Vol. Therefore, it was decided to lure Yue Fei's army, advance alone to the periphery of Kaifeng, and then concentrate the main force to give the opponent a powerful blow.Yue Fei saw through the enemy's conspiracy, so he followed his plan and sent an army to provoke the enemy every day.Wu Shu thought that Yue Fei had fallen for the trick, so he personally led the Dragon and Tiger King, Gaitian King and Puppet Zhaowu General Han Chang and other troops to Yancheng, preparing for a decisive battle with Yue Fei's army.

Yue Fei first ordered his son Yue Yun to lead the "Beiwei Army" (guards, "Beiwei" means shields) to go straight through the enemy's line and give the enemy a heavy blow.Before sending troops, Yue Fei sternly said to Yue Yun: "You must win this time before you can come back. If you can't complete this task, I will behead you first!" When fighting the enemy, he was extremely brave. In just a few dozen rounds, he killed the enemy's corpses and captured tens of thousands of horses. This time the Jin army committed a crime in the south, Wu Shu personally led more than 15,000 elite "Iron Futu" and "Kaizima" riders, intending to copy the base camp of the Yue family army, and then wipe out the main force of the Yue family army. "Iron Futu" is Wushu's special cavalry. Both men and horses are covered with heavy armor, and three cavalry form a team as a frontal charge.Every time you move forward, you block the back road with obstacles, and you are only allowed to advance, not to retreat. "Kizima" refers to the left and right cavalry. When fighting, they cooperate with the "iron floating map" to encircle from both sides.This cavalry team is composed of Jurchens.When it comes to war, it is like an iron curtain, which is very difficult to deal with.Yue Fei thinks that although "Iron Futu" and "Kaizima" are powerful, they can still use their weaknesses to find ways to deal with them.He found that the horse legs of the "iron floating map" could not be fitted with iron armor. As long as the horse legs were cut off, the soldiers riding on the horses would fall down.Therefore, he wisely commanded his soldiers to fight against the enemy with Maza swords and long axes.The Song army hacked up the enemy soldiers, and chopped down the horse's legs. When the Jin soldiers and horses fell, the people followed, and the people and horses were in chaos.Yue Fei jumped on his horse with his spear in hand, and went to the battle in person.He slashed left and right in the enemy's formation, rushing back and forth, and the soldiers were more courageous when they saw him.Yue Fei's beloved general, Yang Zaixing, rode into the enemy's formation alone, dashing left and right, unstoppable, and almost caught Jin Wushu alive.In this battle, from Shenshi (around 4:00 p.m.) to dusk, some of the Jin army were killed by the Song army, and some were trampled into mud by horses, and the dead bodies were all over the field.Jin Wushu's conspiracy to encircle the Song army went bankrupt.Wu Shu was very sad to see his elite armored cavalry being annihilated by the Song army.Two days later, troops were added to Wulidian in the north of Yancheng, ready to fight again.A general named Wang Gang (also known as Gang) under Yue Fei led 50 cavalry to scout out the enemy's situation, bravely broke into the enemy's line, and beheaded several of the enemy's middle and lower rank officers.Yue Fei took advantage of the opportunity to attack with light cavalry, followed by a large group of men and horses, shooting the enemy from the left and right sides, defeating the Wushu army again.After three days of fierce fighting, the Jin Army was hit hard, and the Yue Family Army won a great victory in the Battle of Yancheng.