Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

There were not many Ming army cavalry participating in the night attack, because Li Bao did not have many cavalry in his hands.

Most of the three thousand elites of the direct line landed with mules, and then carried their armor to the northern foothills to ambush them the night before the Jin soldiers arrived.

As Huyantong's troops were noticed by the Jin soldiers, Li Bao immediately led more than a hundred cavalry to launch in advance, while the remaining elite infantry accelerated and ran to attack.

Where did these more than one hundred riders go?

Directly inserted into the east camp of the Jinbing camp.

That's the direction of Jinzhou. The soldiers resting in the camp must be the elite pioneers of the Jin Kingdom!

When the militiamen, craftsmen, and civilians of the Jin Kingdom were frightened away by the surprise Ming army infantry, Li Bao had already led more than a hundred cavalry into the Jin soldiers' east camp.

As expected by Li Bao, there are indeed a large number of elites here, one-third of the gold soldiers and horses, and the rest are all soldiers.

The golden soldiers with their war horses hurriedly mounted their armor and circled to the south, trying to attack the side of Huyantong. The rest of the Jin soldiers quickly gathered into a small team and moved closer to Wanyan Zongbi who was playing the trumpet.

There was no fence set up here, just guns inserted as a camp. Li Bao led more than a hundred cavalry and charged straight in.

Due to the hasty gathering in the darkness, the golden soldiers formed a team of thirty or fifty people, and those who occasionally ran away could only form temporary teams. Many people were wearing their armor while moving, and they didn't even wear their armor neatly.

It was under this situation that Li Bao led his army to attack from the side.

The first group of golden soldiers they encountered consisted of about fifty soldiers. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, they thought it was their own cavalry rushing to the north camp. After completing the task of maintaining order, they returned and made no move to turn around and form a defensive formation.

More than a hundred Ming cavalry rushed from the side and attacked more than fifty elite golden soldiers holding scattered torches.

"It's the Ming Army!"

The two sides were so close that there were only about twenty steps left before the Jin soldiers finally reacted.

But it's too late.

Li Bao rode the cornucopia's son and rushed in first. He raised his spear and picked off a golden soldier, and then shot the other golden soldier in the back with his spear. More than a hundred cavalry swept past behind them. Dozens of golden soldiers were killed or wounded. A few survivors were so frightened that they fled in all directions.

They continued to rush forward, and according to the position of the torch, they killed another group of golden soldiers who were approaching the commander's tent.

This team of golden soldiers also only had a few dozen people. At this moment, they turned around in panic and fired arrows at the Ming cavalry indiscriminately.

Li Bao led his army to pass by them. When they crossed, he raised his spear and struck out, only killing and wounding more than 20 people. After passing by, Li Bao did not come back to kill them all, but continued to charge towards another group of golden soldiers.

While the Jin soldiers were all in small groups, Li Bao's intention was very obvious, which was to prevent them from gathering into a large force.

After successively attacking and harassing five teams of Jin soldiers, the elite infantrymen of Li Bao's direct line finally all rushed into the northern camp of the Jin soldiers.

Most of the Jin militiamen there had fled. The Ming army infantry quickly divided into three groups. One group went to attack and kill the Jin militiamen who had not yet fled, and the remaining two groups went straight to the hill where Commander Wanyan Zongbi's tent was located.

Wanyan Zongbi thought that all the Ming troops were near the sea, so he ordered the elite of the southern camp to form a formation to resist, while the rest of the Jin cavalry circled around to flank the two flanks. As a result, shortly after the cavalry was sent to the south, Ming troops suddenly came out from the east (Li Bao's cavalry) and north (Li Bao's infantry).

Wanyan Zongbi was so frightened that he had no idea how many enemies were coming. He asked the messenger to blow the horn urgently and quickly recalled more than half of the cavalry that had just been sent out. At the same time, he led his own troops to defend the hill.

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Huyantong is the most dangerous place. The elites of the Bohai Sea are arrayed in front to confront them, and many Jurchen cavalry are coming from both sides. They are already in a dilemma of being attacked from three sides.

More than two thousand Ming troops formed a spear formation and fought tooth and nail to resist the encirclement and killing of more than three thousand Jin cavalry.

Most of these soldiers were Shandong bandits. They were trained by Han Shizhong for more than a year and Li Bao for more than half a year. Their military discipline was very poor before, and it is not much better now, but at this moment, no one escaped.

They are all old thieves. Who knows that they will die if they run away?

Since Hu Yantong, the general who led the army, was still insisting, of course they had to fight desperately. Only by fighting hard could they have a chance to survive.

The Jin cavalry fired arrows on both sides and then attacked. In less than a moment, the Ming army here suffered hundreds of casualties.

"Woooooo~~~"

The horns sounded loudly on the hill, and the Jin cavalry who were continuously attacking on both sides turned their heads in shock and looked in the direction of Wanyan Zongbi's commanding tent.

Their coach was stabbed in the ass by the Ming army!

Thousands of gold cavalry were sent out, left the southern battlefield, and rushed back at full speed to rescue the coach.

"Gong Li is here, everyone will fight with me!"

Hu Yantong roared, and the morale of the besieged Ming army was greatly boosted.

Hu Yantong personally led more than 300 warriors and took the initiative to rush towards the Jin infantry in front.

What he holds in his hand is a four-meter lance. His marksmanship is extremely exquisite, and he can also change his moves among the golden soldiers' spears. Unfortunately, the golden soldiers on the opposite side were all wearing strong armor, and they stabbed several people one after another, but they were only injured but did not die. There was even a golden soldier who was stabbed and was not injured.

These Jin soldiers are all from the Bohai tribe and come from Bamen'an, Bohai.

Their chief general Da Bian died in the siege, and now the deputy general Liang Fu is leading the army.

Liang Fu was a former general of the Bohai tribe in the Liao Kingdom. He was captured by Aguda when he was defending Jiangzhou City (East Stone City, Fuyu County, Jilin). After being surrendered by A Gu, Liang Fu returned to his hometown to recruit Bohai people as soldiers and made great contributions to the expansion of the Jin Kingdom.

This man was already in his forties and looked extremely brave. He actually saw the right opportunity and reached out to grab the barrel of Hu Yantong's gun after Hu Yantong fired it many times.

Hu Yantong and Liang Fu each grabbed one end of the spear and engaged in a tug of war when the two armies were fighting.

The soldiers from both sides nearby stabbed at the enemy general.

Hu Yantong suddenly let go of the spear, and Liang Fu lost strength and fell back.

Hu Yantong took advantage of the situation and dashed forward, dodging the spears and drawing his sword.

He uses a Song Dynasty hand knife. Compared with Tang knives and Ming knives, this Song hand knife is wider and shorter, and the tip is also clumsy.

Like the broad sword of the Song Dynasty, the Song hand knife can also be used as a blunt instrument, and the tip of the knife can easily exert force and have an armor-piercing effect. Even if it can't break through the armor, after multiple slashes, it can still cut off the ropes of the armor by chance, or smash the enemy's bones to cause excruciating pain.

Hu Yantong rushed over like this. Just as Liang Fu regained his strength and stood still, he was hit in the chest by a knife.

The knife did not break the armor, but it caused severe pain in Liang Fu's chest. He quickly abandoned his gun and pulled out the bone to fight back.

Hu Yantong stretched out his hand to hold down Liang Fu's right arm, and continued to chop with his knife.

This knife hit Dun's neck, but it still didn't break the armor, but it made Liang Fu's eyes black, as if his neck had been cut off.

Just when Liang Fu was feeling dizzy, Hu Yantong opened his neck with the tip of his knife, inserted the knife through the gap in his neck, and struck Liang Fu's throat hard.

The whole process was too fast. From the moment Hu Yantong swooped in to the moment he wiped Liang Fu's neck with a knife, it took less than ten seconds in total.

In the darkness, the soldiers on both sides did not react.

"The enemy general is dead!"

Hu Yantong pushed away Liang Fu who was holding his neck and struggling, and slashed at Liang Fu's soldiers with a knife. The Bohai soldiers' formation was instantly in chaos.

It's just a small scene, not worth mentioning.

Historically, when Han Shizhong was surrounded by a lone army, this man rushed up on horseback to fight with the Jin soldiers. The long weapons of both sides were knocked off, and their respective horses fell down. Hu Yantong was stabbed by a short knife and choked the Jin Bing general to death with his bare hands. He captured the Jin Bing general alive and allowed Han Shizhong to successfully break through.

At this moment, the Ming troops on both sides were still forming formations to resist the Golden Cavalry, but under the power of Hu Yantong, the front troops rushed into the Bohai soldiers' formation with hundreds of people.

Hu Yantong was slashing randomly among the enemies. He probably felt that the power of his sword was too weak. When his soldiers rushed over, he took the opportunity to pick up the iron bone flower of the enemy general Liang Fu and directly activated the unparalleled mode among the Bohai soldiers.

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Three thousand elite infantrymen of Li Bao's direct line had already rushed to the vicinity of the hill.

The elite Jin infantry on the east side were rushed back and forth by Li Bao with more than a hundred cavalry before they could complete the assembly of the brigade, and they completely lost their organization in the darkness.

Seeing that he was about to be attacked from two sides, and not sure how many enemies were coming, Wanyan Zongbi led his soldiers to escape urgently and ran to the south to join the returning Jin cavalry.

He was about to command the cavalry to counterattack when suddenly a horseman came and reported: "Liang Dutong died in battle, and the Bohai army is in chaos!"

"How many enemy troops are there in the south?" Wanyan Zongbi asked.

The cavalryman replied: "Maybe two or three thousand, maybe three or four thousand, it's too dark to see clearly."

At this time, Wanyan Zongbi was not the experienced Jinwu Shu. He has been with Aguda all year round. Although he is familiar with military and political affairs, he has not had many opportunities to go to the battlefield in person. He has only led the army to fight a few times. This is the first time he has led the army alone.

Hearing the shouts of killing coming from all around, Wanyan Zongbi was already a little confused.

More than 5,000 fierce Anmou defeated the troops, more than 1,000 were killed by Li Bao and lost their organization, more than 2,000 were killed by Hu Yantong, and the formation was in chaos, leaving only more than 1,500 cavalry that could still be mobilized.

Most of the more than 6,000 issued militiamen from various ethnic groups were frightened and fled.

As for the thousands of civilians and craftsmen, they have no fighting power.

Wanyan Zongbi's correct approach was to gather all the cavalry in his hands, run to the south to attack Huyantong with all his strength, rescue the elite Bohai soldiers, and then fight back to the north.

But this idea was rejected by Wanyan Zongbi because he didn't know how many Ming troops were coming.

If the progress is unfavorable, they will be surrounded by the Ming army, and the entire army may be annihilated, and the remaining elite cavalry will be destroyed.

"Follow me to break through!!"

Wanyan Zongbi did not use the word "withdrawal", but shouted the slogan "breakout". In panic, he thought he was surrounded.

The horn soon sounded, and the Jinqi who were attacking Huyantong's flanks received the order and left the battlefield, leaving a group of Bohai elites who had lost their leader and were still fighting there.

More than 1,500 golden cavalry were among the defeated troops and fled towards Jinzhou at full speed.

The elites of Bohai, who were already in a chaotic formation, were still resisting with their bloody courage. Now they were suddenly abandoned by the friendly forces. In an instant, their will collapsed and they gave up resistance. They threw away their weapons and fled towards Jinzhou.

"Follow me to pursue the enemy!"

Hu Yantong roared angrily, and the Ming army, which had already killed more than 400 people, was furiously chasing the enemy.

Li Bao was afraid that Wanyan Zongbi would regain his judgment, so he led his few hundred cavalry and chased more than 1,500 golden cavalry. The elite infantrymen of his direct line drove the defeated troops all the way and came to join Huyantong's troops.

The more than 1,500 golden cavalry were scattered into three places at this time. They had no time to gather and they could only flee towards Jinzhou.

There were broken troops everywhere, and the sounds of panic shouting made the Jin cavalry even more panicked.

After running for more than ten miles, the Qili River blocked the road ahead, and more than a thousand golden cavalry could only escape along the river bank.

Wanyan Zongbi led more than 800 cavalrymen and plunged into the mountains upstream of the Qili River. After waiting until daybreak, they safely crossed the river in the mountains and fled back to Jinzhou City in fear.

There were another seven hundred gold cavalry, but they ran south along the river bank, found a suitable ferry, abandoned their armor and led their horses to swim across it.

In fact, Li Bao no longer pursued the cavalry. After encountering the Qili River, he turned back with more than a hundred cavalry, killing and capturing the Jin infantry along the way.

In this night attack, Wanyan Zongbi lost more than 2,000 Bohai elites, more than 800 Jurchen elites, more than 4,000 militiamen issued by various ethnic groups, thousands of craftsmen and civilians, and all the grain and grass accompanying the army were seized by Li Bao.

It can be described as a complete failure!