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Chapter 157: Visiting Taiyuan

The night began to droop, and countless soldiers with torches shouted and shouted, and continued to chase and fight in the night. The Jin soldiers were defeated and turned from defeat to escape. They were abandoned with weapons and were all running around. No one dared to fight back against the Song army, or organized troops to stumble on the verge of the Song army. This battle from morning to night had already destroyed the spirit of all the soldiers participating in the battle. The winner could barely raise his spirit and sway the sword to chase after him. The loser had already lost all his strength, and the only thought was to escape.

Chase, escape, chase and kill again.

After a long battle, the great victory was completed. The Song army worked hard and never gave the Jin soldiers the opportunity to regain their lives and reorganize their troops. Not only did the Beiwei army chase and kill the enemy, but also the Shengjie and the Chaofeng army also removed heavy armor one after another, without caring about their physical fatigue. The soldiers also held swords behind to kill the remaining left behind by the cavalry, and collected some prisoners of war and kept them under custody.

At the same time, Yue Fei also ordered the army of Tabai and Youjia, far away near Shangzhou, to retreat quickly and join the army to encircle Kaifeng.

The Jin soldiers were defeated in this battle. Even if Zong Bi had collected the remaining soldiers, he would definitely not be able to fight with the Song army in the field again. After this battle, he either collected the remaining soldiers and retreated to Kaifeng, or he would quickly flee to the north and meet with most of the Jin soldiers north of the Yellow River to fight again.

However, in Yingchang's battle, the Jin soldiers gathered all the strength of Tiefutu and Guaizima with 60,000 kings in three sects, and finally ended in a crushing defeat. Even if they could escape back to the north of the Yellow River, with the remaining Jin soldiers' combat power in Hebei, they would definitely not be the opponent of Yue Fei's troops. What's more, there were hundreds of thousands of imperial guards setting up their formations, waiting for Zong Bi to break into Henan, then cut off his retreat, and completely eliminate the vitality of the Jin soldiers.

The chase was late at night, and the soldiers of the three armies were exhausted and could no longer support it. They stopped. At the next day, the dawn in the east, Yue Fei ordered the three armies to rest in place for a while without having to return to the camp. At the same time, he ordered the logistics officers to urgently allocate supplies, food, meat, medicine, and replace the damaged armor and weapons, and then transport the wounded soldiers back.

The more urgent task is to pursue the enemy relentlessly and not give the enemy a chance to breathe. The second is to check the results of the battle, and after obtaining the exact information, summarize and report it to Chang'an so that the next battle plan can be launched.

Yue Fei was also extremely tired. He fought for a day. He personally took arrows and stones several times, and was in the battle formation and killed the enemy with his own hands. As the commander, he still needed to coordinate the overall situation and exhausted his energy. In the middle of the night, he found a place on the battlefield surrounded by his own soldiers and rested for a while. After dawn, he ordered the entire army to pick up casualties. The generals and soldiers of the troops took their troops to rest on the spot, and at the same time presented him with the battle reports so that he could summarize and report.

As his chief strategist, Li Ruoxu joined the army. Seeing the commander so tired, he had to go forward and listen to the battle reports summarized by the various departments. Yue Fei was only half slanted on a slope - he listened to the ground while restoring his mental strength while calculating his next plan.

Yesterday's war, the Jin soldiers invested their troops. When the powerful troops gathered between about 45,000 people, three kings and sixty thousand households, and pure northern cavalry, faced the Song army, which was less than 30,000, they lost a lot. Preliminary battlefield statistics, the corpses of Jurchen soldiers left on the battlefield for dozens of miles, were about 6,000 to 8,000. It is really worthy of the calculation, and the corpses are everywhere."

There were more than 2,000 captured Jurchen soldiers, and they had already returned to Yingchang Prefecture City and were under strict supervision. In addition, there were countless weapons, not many food and grass, and the Jin soldiers came and carried not much materials, so the Song soldiers naturally did not get much.

What made the entire army even more happy was naturally more than 4,000 war horses seized on the battlefield. These war horses were all used by the elite Jin soldiers and cavalry, and were incomparable to the war horses they had obtained in Chang'an. It was not easy for the Song army to have horses, and it was even rare for excellent war horses. This gain naturally made the Song army soldiers ecstatic.

In addition, what made Yue Fei himself even more happy was that the number of enemy generals and middle-level officers killed in this battle was unique since the battle between the Song and Jin dynasties.

Among the ten thousand men, Saba was beheaded by Yang Zaixing in the battle with the Beiwei Army, and then the leader of the kidnapped Madi. Zongbi's son-in-law Xia Jinwu led the way and rushed forward. He was cut off by an axe in the waist and broke into two pieces. He became the second ten thousand men's officer of the Jin Kingdom to die on the battlefield. Wan Hu Lanhan was injured by arrows and struggled to escape for more than ten miles. After falling to the ground, he fell to the ground and died seriously. The other ten thousand men's officers were killed, three thousand men's wife were captured, and there were 78 officers at all levels.

These officers have been in the army for many years. Even a small centurion may have followed him when he was fighting with Wanyan Agu. They are the mainstays of the Jurchen soldiers. It can be said that ordinary soldiers died and injured 1,800 people, but they are not as good as the losses of such an officer being captured or killed in battle.

What made the Jin Kingdom even more heartbroken was that the entire Tiefutu army was lost, and the kidnapped horses were almost completely lost. In addition, the losses of thousands of personal guards and horses, the Jin soldiers almost completely lost their field capabilities and mobile power in the Central Plains of Henan.

After inspecting the losses of the other party, Yue Fei did not hesitate and assembled the remnants of the three armies. After resting for a long time, he continued to chase and attack. In Linying's territory, he defeated the thousands of Jin soldiers who had just become reunited again, killed hundreds of enemies, captured hundreds of enemies, and seized more than a hundred war horses. After that, Tabai, Youyi and his troops came to join from Shangzhou, and Wang Gui led the troops from Guide to Bo Kaifeng, echoing Yue Fei.

After a series of great victory, we will naturally report to the center of the court. In the next step of military measures, the Pudong Court will naturally be deployed in a intensive manner. Yue Fei achieved unexpected results in this battle. Originally, with the idea of ​​the central government and Zhao Huan, the Jin soldiers naturally had to rescue Kaifeng and fight with Yue Fei's main force. However, the situation developed and evolved to this point. The Jin soldiers raided with elite cavalry and lost most of the landlords in one battle. Although they escaped a lot, they would never be able to fight again in the short term. The two elite soldiers that Zong Bi relied on to establish a foothold in the Jin Kingdom, Tiefutu and Guaizima, were completely destroyed. In this situation, the original allocation and command would naturally change the course and adapt to the overall situation.

The main forces of the Yue army gathered together and gathered near Kaifeng. In the entire Central Plains, except for the lonely cities near Kaifeng, there was no place for the Jurchens to stand up. When the Song army in Tongguan knew that Yue Fei had fought with the Jin soldiers, they had already made rapid efforts to break through the barriers between the two armies and successfully met with Yue Fei's troops. Nearly 200,000 troops were stationed in the Central Plains. Yue Fei's troops captured Kaifeng by cameras. The Song army in Tongguan had already begun to plan to cross the river, build multiple floating bridges, and prepare the army to cross the river more often, and meet with the Song army in Taiyuan, who broke into Hebei to fight.

At the same time, Han Shizhong and other tribes also captured the entire territory of Shandong and looked across the river from the Jin people. They could also take the next steps as the situation develops.

It can be said that the entire battle was already carried out towards the plan of the entire Senate of the CPC Central Committee. The first phase of the war, which was entrusted to Yue Fei, was not only successfully completed, but also achieved unexpected results. What remains is whether the war between the Taiyuan-directed imperial guards in Hebei can achieve miraculous results and completely disrupt the enemy, making it impossible to inherit the beginning and end, and even the whole country is in chaos.

Because the war was in full swing, Zhao Huan could no longer live in Chang'an. He could be completely at ease with the government affairs and logistics support in the south, with Li Gang, an old minister, and Zhao Kai and others in Chang'an were trusted. Since Yue Fei entered the Central Plains and frequently reported good news, Zhao Huan ordered the establishment of a Xingtai in Taiyuan, and all Zhang Jun, Zhao Ding and others were sent over. When the war was in a hurry and changed a few times, although many Privy Council were in Taiyuan, the relationship was too important. Many things could only be asked for instructions to Zhao Huan and then implement them again. The official documents were traveling around, which was a waste of time. Such a national war was a national war.

Although Zhao Huan felt that he didn't have to fight in person, he felt that he could not be completely relieved by relying on pigeons or war horses to convey information under the current communication conditions. At the end of April, just as Yue Fei was going to fight with Zong Bi, he led the entire Privy team, including hundreds of senators, plus the garrisons who stayed in Chang'an and most of the guards in the front squad, tens of thousands of people surrounded him. In the name of personally storing Tongguan to support the front, he left Chang'an in a mighty manner. When he arrived at Hezhong Prefecture, he crossed the river from Longmen and entered Hedong, and quickly rushed to the road. In a few days, he had already obtained Taiyuan City.

Although Taiyuan was repeatedly fired by war, it was also reborn from the fire. Over the past year, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and civilians have worked hard to repair it. Although this city cannot be compared with the peak of Jinyang that day, and before it was destroyed, it cannot be compared. The city walls of dozens of miles were built along the Wei River, and the enemy towers stood in a row, with countless beds, crossbows and strong bows, facing the endless vast desert plains, and the forests of the imperial guards, this important town in Hedong is incomparable to the second year of Jingkang. The tragedy of tens of thousands of Jin soldiers besieging the city will never happen again.

When he learned that the emperor's imperial guards had arrived, many envoys and generals in the city came to welcome the city gates. Everyone bowed and saluted on both sides of the city gates. Zhao Huan was in the carriage and saw everyone coming to greet him, he lowered the car window and greeted everyone with a smile. The civil and military officials near the city gates, along with hundreds of thousands of imperial guards, saw clearly that the emperor was reviving the world and wisely and wisely, would definitely defeat the Jin soldiers and restore the mountains and rivers. Everyone was excited and shouted hello, and the voice of long live resounded throughout the sky.

When he arrived in the city, because the entire city was mostly rebuilt, Taiyuan was the capital of Hedong Road, and the transfer office in the city was very majestic and spacious, he temporarily served as a palace. After the front class of the palace searched and cleared the ground and confirmed that it was safe, Zhao Huan did not have time to rest, so he immediately ordered that the generals above the city and all the envoys of the magistrates.
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