Editor's note: "Yue Fei's Great Victory of Breaking the Golden Wushu Iron Floating Tu" launched before the Cold Weapons Research Institute was fought? In the article, it tells the story of the battle of The Peak battle in Yue Fei's life. As the fiercest fierce battle in the Jin-Song War, both sides only invested more than 10,000 troops, which is really amazing, which is related to the strategic game of Yue Fei and Yan Zongbi, two famous generals in the world. Next, let's enter another classic battle in Shaoxing's ten-year Northern Expedition, the Battle of Yingchang.
As far as Yue Fei Shaoxing's Ten-Year Northern Expedition is concerned, it is not easy to advance to the First Line of Chencheng-Yingchang without being resisted, and it can be seen from the map that the Yue family's army's operations spread almost all over Henan. In the process of advancing the Yue family's army, there have been many scattered operations or small and medium-scale battles between the two sides. On June 13, the left army of Niugao, commanded by the Yue family army, defeated the Jin army at Jingxi Road, and then moved to the area of Ruzhou (汝州, in modern Ruzhou, Henan), and then marched eastward to join the army. On the 23rd, Sun Xian, the commander of the Yue family's army, broke pei's thousand fu commanders between Cai Prefecture and Huaining Province.
▲Niu Gao, the general of the Yue family army
On the nineteenth day, forty miles away from Yingchang Province, the former military commander Zhang Xian commanded Fu Xuan and others to defeat the jin Han dynasty's Wanfu commander Han Chang (a confidant of Emperor Yan zongbi and his number one fierce general). On the 24th, Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Xu Qing, and other troops defeated thousands of Jin army cavalry led by General Zhai and others at the fifteenth Song Dynasty in Huaining Province, and the Jin general Wang Taibao and others were captured. On the twenty-fifth day, Dong Xian and Yao Zheng led the White Army and You Yi's army out of Yingchang City to meet the attack, killing more than 6,000 horses led by the King of Zhenguo, Han Chang, and Evil Ye Wei, and pursuing more than 30 Song Li. On the same day, Yang Cheng, a general in the Yue family's army under Wang Guishou, defeated more than 5,000 horsemen led by the Jin army's Wanfu Chang Man Duhua and conquered Zhengzhou; on the 29th, he prepared to send Liu Zheng again to attack the Man Duhua Department in Zhongmu County, Kaifeng Province, and defeat it.
▲Yue Fei, king of E
On the first day of July, Hao Sheng, deputy commander of the Chinese army, defeated thousands of cavalry led by the Jin general Li Cheng, defeated them, and recaptured Luoyang Province in the western capital on the second day of the first month. Obviously, in a battle of comparable strength, the Jin army was not an opponent of the Yue family army. This is due to the limited number of Jurchen soldiers, after decades of corruption, repeated coups and internal friction have also affected combat effectiveness, and they have to rely on the Khitan and Bohai ethnic groups and Han armies. The Yue family army, on the other hand, is known as "one hundred", and its combat effectiveness is very average. But even so, the backbone strength of the Golden Army, such as the "Hezha Meng'an" and other teams, the combat effectiveness is still amazing and cannot be underestimated. Leng Yan's previous "He is actually the first anti-killing king of Song Jin?" In the article "The defeated general Jin Wushu under Yue Fei is actually beyond imagination", it is said that Yan Zongbi is good at counter-killing, and his strategy to deal with Yue Fei's aggressive Northern Expedition is to wait for the Yue family army to occupy too many places and disperse, concentrate the elite troops to use the advantage of cavalry mobility to carry out a decapitation assault on the Yue family army, and try to eat yue Fei's own army or an important part of the Yue family army.
▲ Finish Yan Zongbi
At the Battle of Haocheng, after Yan Zongbi's command included the Dragon and Tiger King Completed Yan Tu Hesu, the Gaitian King Completed Yan Saili, the Zhaowu General Han Chang and other generals, then this fifteen thousand cavalry, when most of the elite of the Jin Kingdom, still launched a beheading operation against More than 10,000 people in Yue Fei's headquarters failed, and the Emperor withdrew in a hurry.
Next, After Yan Zongbi retreated north to Linying, after a small battle with Zhang Xianbu at Xiaoshangqiao, it may be considered that Linying is closer to The City, and may be surrounded by Zhang Xianbu and Yue Fei's own army, and Yan Zongbi will attack Yingchang, where Wang Guibu of the Yue family army is stationed. According to Wang Gui's department, Hao Zhao's troops had advanced into Luoyang, the western capital, and Cities such as Zhengzhou also needed troops to garrison, so their strength was relatively weak. Zong Bi turned to attack Yingchang, and his vision was indeed poisonous. However, Yue Fei, who was not in a position to do anything, had already anticipated this situation and sent Yue Yun to lead the elite of the 8,000 cavalry of the Back Ridge Army to aid Yingchang. In the Battle of Yingchang, the combat strength of the Yue family army was still more than 10,000 people, but the number of elite troops was not as large as Yue Fei's own army at the Time of The Battle of Haocheng. According to the original data, the number of Jinjun should be 30,000. This was because Yingchang was closer to Feng, and more Jin Army cavalry were able to arrive. Considering that this battle is also of the nature of surprise decapitation, the infantry should not be able to reach the battlefield in time. However, the elite strength of the Jin army was also much smaller than that of the Battle of Haocheng, and after Han Chang was killed by The Son-in-Law xia Jinwu of Jin Wushu and was afraid of being held responsible by Wushu, Song Fang said that Jin Wushu's personal command should be wrong. The commander of the Battle of Yingchang was Han Chang and the King of Zhenguo, and Zong Bi himself should have withdrawn from Linying to Kaifeng to control the overall situation.
▲ Zong Bi's Han general Han Chang
The Dragon and Tiger King completed Yan Suddenly heste, and the Gaitian King completed Yan Saili also did not participate in the Battle of Yingchang, which showed that after the fiasco at the Battle of Haocheng, the elite troops of the backbone of the Jin Dynasty needed to rest, only some of them went to Yingchang, and the rest were second-line cavalry troops. From this point of view, although the Jin army in the Battle of Yingchang was as many as 30,000, its strength was not as good as that of the Battle of Haocheng. After Yue Yun arrived in Yingchang, he commanded with Wang Gui, who commanded the infantry and Yue Yun commanded the cavalry. Dong Xian, the commander of the White Army, and Hu Qing, the deputy commander of the Xuanfeng Army, stayed behind to guard Yingchang City as a reserve. Although the Jin army rushed to the battlefield on horseback, it was inevitable that some of them would dismount and fight, forming a coordination of infantry and horseback. The two armies faced off at the Wuyang Bridge, west of Yingchang City.
▲Yue Fei's eldest son Yue Yun
Since the enemy was outnumbered, the Yue family army was bound to be closer to the city wall than the battle of Haocheng in this battle, in order to protect the back and guard against the jin army with superior strength. After the battle began, Yue Yun personally led the most elite 800-back ridge cavalry directly to the front of the Jin army, forming a preemptive effect, and the infantry attacked on the left and right flanks. Since the yue family army cavalry was definitely more than 800 people in this battle, there should still be thousands of cavalry sweeping around to prevent the Jin army from encircling the flanks. Although the Jin army in this battle was relatively large in number, it was mainly a second-line army in the end, and the combat effectiveness of a single soldier was not as good as that of the Yue family army. When the Yue family army had the city wall protection behind the flank, the exchange ratio was favorable to the Song army.
▲ The Battle of Yingchang
The Battle of Yingchang lasted from mid-morning to midday and lasted about four hours. The battle was so fierce that "man is a blood man, and a horse is a blood horse". Its tactics should be similar to that of the Battle of Haocheng, where the Song infantry used "maza knives, lifting knives, and large axes" against the cavalry, while both sides used crossbows to consume their opponents. However, judging from the more than 100 wounds yue Yun suffered after the war, the 800 armored cavalry led by Yue Yun personally stirred up in the Jin army, which was not the elite of the whole army, which had a great suppressive effect on the Jin army. Therefore, the Song army was able to make more enemies with fewer enemies.
▲ Elite cavalry of the Back Ridge Army
Wang Gui fought timidly in this battle, and was later reprimanded by Yue Fei. Then the war situation should have been more unfavorable to the Song army by noon. However, the advantage of the Yue family's army was that Dong Xianbu, who was defending the city in the city, was a fresh force, and after Yue Yun ordered this force to go out of the city to support through Wang Gui, the tired Jin army was suddenly attacked and was beaten back one after another. It is generally believed that Yang Zaixing died in the Battle of Xiaoshangqiao, but according to Yang Zaixing's legend, Yang Zaixing had previously been in Yue Fei's own army, and during the Battle of Haocheng, he had single-handedly entered the enemy position and tried unsuccessfully to capture Zong Bi. Zhang Xian's "Small Shangqiao Jie" clearly pointed out that Zhang Xianbu and the Jin Army had a small-scale battle at Xiaoshang Bridge. Therefore, the author believes that Yang Zaixing should follow Yue Yun to support Yingchang from Gaocheng.
▲ Jinguo heavy armored cavalry
After the Song army turned into a counter-offensive, Yang Zaixing was extremely brave and brave, leading 500 horses into the enemy line, claiming to have killed thousands of enemy people, but yang Zaixing, Wang Lan, and Gao Lin were also killed. Obviously, as the Song army moved farther and farther away from Yingchang City, the superiority of the Jin army's strength was brought into play, and Yue Yun put all the reserves defending the city on the ground, although he defeated the Jin army, but also put the army at risk. Yang Zaixing had already died in battle, and if he could not withstand the counterattack of the Jin army, then there was no one in the city when he retreated.
▲ The fierce general Yang Zaixing was killed in battle
Fortunately, at this time, it rained heavily, which was not conducive to the cavalry charge. The Jin army, which had suffered heavy losses, also lost its fighting spirit, and after killing Yang Zaixing, it gave up the counterattack and withdrew. The Battle of Yingchang ended with the victory of the Yue family's army. According to the "Wang Guiying Chang Jie Song", the Song army killed one person from ten thousand households and five people from a thousand households, and the preliminary statistics of annihilating the enemy were 500 people. Considering that the preliminary statistics are generally small, the annihilation of the enemy in this battle should be more than a thousand people, but Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke's statement in the "Compilation of Jin Tuo" that the enemy annihilation of 5,000 is too exaggerated. The ten thousand households killed were Xia Jinwu, the son-in-law of Emperor Yan Zongbi, so Han Chang was afraid of being punished by Jin Wushu, and after the war, he secretly communicated with the Yue family army. The record of Yun Yun's "Capture Bo Bao, Han'er Wang Songshou, Jurchen and Han Er Du Ti Dian, Qianhu Zhang Laisun, Qianhu Ali bu, Zuo Ban Qihou under Tian Ou, More than 2,000 Xiaofan, more than 3,000 horses, and seven gold seals" according to the "Jin TuoZhi Compilation" is quite suspicious, because Yue Yun declared in advance that he would not capture prisoners, and there was no collapse in the retreat of the Jin army, and it was very difficult to capture horses in battle with the cavalry, and the Battle of Haocheng only obtained 200 horses, how could Yue Yun and others have obtained more than 3,000 horses?
Judging from the death of Yang Zaixing and others, the losses of the Yue family army in the Battle of Yingchang will not be too small, and it will be extremely thrilling. Yue Yun was young and vigorous, and his way of fighting was adventurous. However, in any case, the Yue family army won the victory by attacking the crowd with a small number of people, which made the Jin people lose their morale and did not dare to engage in a large-scale battle with the Yue family army. "Awakening Magazine" Volume VII: Shaoxing Six Marshals are all fruitful and loyal, and regard ancient famous generals. Yue Gongfei came out alone, and for a while his reputation was several times crowned by the dukes. On the day of death, wuchang's tun to 109,000 people, all of which can be a hundred. "Jin Tuo Zhi Compilation" Volume 16 Yue Fei "Wang Gui YingChang Jie Song": Since the fourteenth day of this month, there have been four princes of Fan Thief, the Great King of Zhenguo, and the great general of Zhaowu (Deputy Commandery, Zheng Sipin) Han Chang, and four people of Fan Thief Wanhu, personally leading Fan Bing, ma jun more than 30,000 horses, straight to the west gate of Yingchang Province to lay out the "Biography of Song Shi Yang Zaixing": Flying defeat jin people in Haocheng, Wu Shu Anger, Helong Tiger King, GaiTian King, and Han Changbing forced him. Fei Sent Ziyun became the enemy, fighting dozens of battles, and the enemy was unable to support. Zaixing rode into his army alone, but did not succeed in his capture, killing hundreds of people by hand and returning. "Compilation of the Northern League of the Three Dynasties": Yang Zaixing and Wang Lan rode straight into the captive line with five hundred horses, killing thousands of enemies, Zaixing and Lan were killed in battle, and Gao Lin was also killed. He who hears it will be spared, and the corpse of the resurrection will be burned, and the arrow will be two liters. "Compilation of the Three Dynasties Northern League": The sky is heavy rain, the streams are overflowing, the captives cannot enter, and the officers and troops must be returned. "Wang Guiying Chang Jie Song": From the hour of the hour to the noon, the bloody battle was tens of dozens, and the battle killed one person from 10,000 households and five people from 1,000 households. The thieves were strewn across the field, about 500 people, and the number of seriously injured thieves was unknown. It has captured countless horses, gold, drums, flags, guns, armor, etc., see the root brush, and the number of continuations is offered for application. The commission is a big victory.
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