The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 35
Soon, dust rose all over the sky in the distance, and then the ground began to vibrate slightly, and the magnitude of this vibration gradually increased, and finally, the figure of the Golden Army cavalry appeared in sight.

The so-called over [-] people are overwhelming, not to mention the [-] vanguard troops of the Jin Army led by Wanyan Zongbi. The government rushed over.

Zhang Xian gripped the spear in his hand vigorously, and his fingers turned white because of too much force. As a warlord who presided over this kind of battle for the first time, it was impossible for him not to be nervous.

"The archers follow my command, don't shoot the arrows yet, wait until their main force comes in!" Zhang Xian said to the archers.

"Take orders!" The archers agreed, but they were also extremely nervous, staring at the cavalry of the golden army who were rushing forward, for fear of accidentally delaying the shooting.

a thousand steps...

Five hundred steps...

one hundred steps...

The vanguard of the Golden Cavalry was about to cross the ditch.

"Light the fire and draw the bow!" Zhang Xian ordered.

"Papapa..." Rockets were ignited one by one, and the faint flames exuded a murderous intent.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and in the time it took to speak, the vanguard of the Jin Army cavalry had already rushed through the trench.

"Fire the arrows!" Zhang Xian gave an order, and in an instant, the sky was full of arrows.

The rocket fell to the ground with a bang.

The oil in the trench (named by Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty) encountered an open flame and immediately burned, and soon the area turned into a sea of ​​flames.

"Woo!..." The cavalry behind saw this, they were startled, and hurriedly pulled the horse's reins, barely holding back the horse at the edge of the sea of ​​flames.

The front was pulling the horse, but the cavalry behind didn't know what was going on and was still rushing forward, so the cavalry in front was also caught in a sea of ​​flames under the impact of the cavalry behind.

For a moment, the cavalry in the front wanted to retreat, and the cavalry in the back wanted to charge forward. The entire cavalry camp immediately became chaotic. Under the crowd, some people were pushed off their horses and were soon trampled to blood. Fuzzy, poor people, they didn't die on the battlefield, but were trampled to death by war horses, what a pity.

The Song Army used the oil in the trench to successfully cut the Jin Army's cavalry in half from the middle.

The cavalry of the Golden Army who had rushed through the trench wanted to retreat at this time. It was basically a dream. Although the trench dug by the Song Army was not deep, it was very wide. A sea of ​​fire, that has become a luxury.

Moreover, after seeing the fire, the horse became irritable and began to run uncontrollably, trying to stay away from what it thought was a dangerous zone.

Surrounded by a sea of ​​flames, only the front was without flames, so the horse didn't need to be commanded, and started galloping desperately towards Kaifeng.

"Fire the arrows!" Zhang Xian ordered when he saw the cavalry of the Jin army rushing over.

So, what greeted this group of cavalry was another wave of arrows, and besides the bows and arrows, there were also Jingkang crossbows mixed in. These huge crossbows were like sharp knives, and wherever they passed, they would form a hole. The power of this thing is really too great.

After three consecutive rounds of arrow rain, the battlefield was already full of corpses of the cavalrymen of the Golden Army. people.

In the circle of fire, there were less than a thousand Jinjun soldiers still alive, and most of them were still covered with colors.

Seeing this, Zhang Xian no longer ordered people to release arrows. There were too few people, and the effect of releasing arrows disappeared, but what should we do with the 1000 people?Should we let them go after the fire burns out?

If they were ordinary generals of the Song army, they would definitely let them go, but now Zhang Xian is leading the army, one of the four great generals under Yue Fei in history. rushed out.

Although the difference in numbers between the two sides is not very big, the strength is indeed very different. On the one hand, they are waiting for work, and on the other hand, they are scared. Under the command of others, they were completely chased and beaten by Song Jun.

Soon, most of the remaining Jin troops were killed, and the remaining hundreds of people were suppressed by Zhang Xian and became prisoners of the Song army.

The battle situation here soon reached Wanyan Zongbi's ears. When he heard that nearly half of the [-] cavalry he led had been lost, he fainted on the spot out of anger, and the lieutenant quickly called for the doctor.

When Wanyan Zongbi woke up leisurely, he pulled the lieutenant beside him and roared, "Tell me, what happened to my cavalry?"

"General, the battle damage has been calculated. Our army's cavalry killed more than [-] people and injured more than [-]. General, we have lost!" The deputy general said to Wanyan Zongbi with a painful expression on his face.

"Impossible, how could I, Wanyan Zongbi, lose? It was Song Jun's cunning, who used tricks to harm me. Those who are capable of fighting with real swords and guns will fight me on the battlefield. It is not the work of real men." Wanyan Zongbi said angrily. Said.

The deputy general knew that Wanyan Zongbi was in a fit of anger at this time, so he didn't dare to answer. Jin Jun was brave and good at fighting, but he was not good at strategy. This was the reason why they hated Song Jun so much.

After all, Wanyan Zongbi was a famous general in history, after roaring for a while, he finally regained his composure, and began to ask about what happened.

"...The Song army sprinkled a kind of fuel that had never been seen in the trench, which divided our cavalry into two ends, so that the head and the tail could not be taken care of. The front army's horses were frightened, and most of them were shot to death by the Song army. A few of them were also captured by the Song army." The lieutenant general said to Wan Yan Zongbi.

Fuel never seen before?Wanyan Zongbi secretly sighed in his heart, the historical accumulation of the Song Dynasty is too rich, which is incomparable to nomadic people like them. At this time, Wanyan Zongbi has already developed a kind of reverence for the high civilization of the Song Dynasty in his heart.

"Order the entire army to retreat and station ten miles outside Bianjing City, and wait for the general to arrive before attacking together." Wan Yan Zongbi said to his lieutenant general.

The deputy general led away, and when he reached the door, Wanyan Zongbi stopped him again.

"Remember to send more people to take care of the food and grass. If anything goes wrong again, I will ask for you." Wanyan Zongbi said to his lieutenant general.

The lieutenant quickly took the order and left.

At this point, the vanguard of the Jin army was stopped outside the city of Bianjing. Wanyan Zongbi seemed to have a psychological shadow. Before Wanyan Zonghan led the army to arrive, he did not dare to act rashly again.

(End of this chapter)