Chapter 1038: The Qinghe War (Part 2)
At this moment, like a sudden change of wind and clouds, the main force of the Jin soldiers behind us activated, the sound of trumpets resounded throughout the sky, the sound of horse hooves rolled across the field like thunder, and thirty thousand cavalry rushed out, Wanyan Jiemu waved her sword and pointed at the front and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Kill here!"
The Song army's muskets were also fired at the moment when two thousand Korean cavalry rushed up. The firing flag was swung, and five thousand muskets were fired at the same time. Five thousand lead bullets were shot out from the barrel, and with a force of breaking gold and cracking stones, they were shot strongly at the two thousand cavalry.
Although the Koryo cavalry were well-equipped, they were wearing tough leather armor, which was difficult to cut through ordinary swords, held spears and shields in their hands, and even their war horses were wearing head armor.
They were only a hundred steps away from the Song army's position, one hundred steps. They only took more than ten seconds to rush through the war horses with extremely strong sprinting power, but this short 100 steps became the source of the nightmare for the Jin soldiers.
The two thousand cavalry looked so thin and fragile in front of the five thousand lead bullets. A lead bullet pierced through the shield and directly penetrated into the chest of the Jin soldiers.
Another lead shot into the chest of a war horse. Two thousand cavalrymen suddenly turned over and fell down. The war horse neighed and fell, twitching and stuttering. Under them were the soldiers who were wriggling in pain and wriggling, pressing the blood-blown hole in their bodies, making the last struggle on the brink of death.
The powerful lead bullet not only severely damaged the Goryeo cavalry, but also gave the final blow to the Bohai cavalry that was in chaos behind the Goryeo cavalry. In an instant, five rows of muskets shot out continuously, and more than 800 people fell to the ground screaming.
"Oh my God!"
When Wanyan Jiemu saw the power of the musket in the distance, he screamed in surprise. When Wanyan Xie also described the power of the musket to him, he felt that Wanyan Xie was more shirking responsibility.
But at this moment, he saw this terrifying scene with his own eyes. More than half of the 2,000 most elite Korean cavalry were killed and injured in a powerful enemy arrow. In just a hundred steps, no one could rush over, and the last hundreds of people were also killed in the overwhelming rain of arrows in the Song army.
The turbulent Jin cavalry had rushed to two hundred steps away, and the rain of arrows from the Song army's crossbowmen was also shot out, and people kept falling off in the speeding.
But they could not stop the rapid impact of nearly 30,000 Jin people's cavalry. They waved their swords, held up their spears, galloped their horses, and shouted and killed throughout the world.
It has been sixty steps, and the Song army's footsteps are still motionless.
At this time, the crossbow army and musketeers jointly launched, and thousands of arrows were fired at once. The black rain of arrows covered the sky and shot into the enemy cavalry. Five thousand lead bullets were like hail, and the casualties of the Jin soldiers increased sharply.
But the Jin soldiers were a powerful elite cavalry after all. They suffered more than 8,000 casualties, but they were still not afraid of arrows and lead bullets, and they fought for the first place. The warning line for the Song crossbowmen to retreat was usually twenty steps, but the enemy cavalry was too fast. When they were forty steps, the crossbowmen were ordered to retreat.
As the last round of crossbow arrows were shot out, the crossbowmen and musketeers quickly retreated. At this time, the Song army fought against the five thousand heavy armored infantry, the most sharp cavalry. Five thousand heavy armored infantry lined up in three rows, and a one-meter-long horse-slashing sword was swung out, and the cold light shone.
As soon as the heavy armored infantry came out, they ushered in a scattered line of Jin cavalry charge. First, the overwhelming arrows roared, but the sharp arrows could not shoot into the heavy armor of the heavy armored infantry. They lined up closely into human walls, and the soldiers half-squatted and used the hilt to hit the ground, and used a collective force to resist the first wave of Jin cavalry's impact.
"Boom!" A huge wave, like a storm, attacked each other, murderous aura dispersed, screams filled with screams, hundreds of Jin soldiers were pierced by the horse-killing sword and died tragically on the spot.
Dozens of heavily armored soldiers of the Song army were knocked over by powerful cavalry, but the heavy armored soldiers in the back row immediately made up.
The main general Guan Sheng roared, and the snow- bright sword slashed down vertically, slashing a head of a Jin soldier, the head of a thousand-man commander in half. The white brain mass rolled all over the ground, and the smell and bloody energy rushed over.
Five thousand heavy armored infantry flew over, and the sharp sword edge cut the soldiers and war horses into a river of blood. The Jin soldiers behind them threw countless short spears at the heavy armored infantry. As dense as a storm, the sharp short spears played a role, and hundreds of heavy armored infantry were shot through their bodies and fell down.
Seeing that the enemy's short spear could actually shoot through heavy armor, Cao Meng immediately made an order, "Cabinets come forward!"
Twenty thousand cavalrymen rushed up from left and right, and fought fiercely with the Jin cavalry.
Yue Fei and Han Shizhong's army also came and launched a sharp attack on the Jin soldiers from the east.
At this moment, the 80,000 Song troops cheered and their morale suddenly rose.
When Wanyan Jiemu turned around, he was shocked and suddenly shook his soul. Two miles behind him, the black Song army came, with an army of 80,000 or 90,000 troops. In the middle was a yellow dragon flag inlaid with gold edges. This was the golden dragon flag that only appeared in the Song army's personal expedition.
Wanyan Jiemu suddenly realized that it must be Li Yanqing who led the army to fight. He was extremely regretful. He should have gone north with Wanyan Zongfu, missed the opportunity to retreat, and he would die on the battlefield.
"Break through!"
Wanyan Jiemu shouted, but it was meaningless to break through. The 160,000 Song troops surrounded more than 20,000 Jin soldiers from three directions. To the west is the Yongji Canal. It is the summer water rise. The Yongji Canal flows rapidly, with a water surface of more than 40 meters wide. Most of the Jin soldiers will not be able to water.
The battle was fought from morning to afternoon. As the two thousand golden cavalry who finally tried to break through died under the Song army's long spear formation like a dense forest, the 35,000 golden soldiers were finally wiped out.
Li Yanqing had issued a killing order in advance. The 35,000 army composed of 10,000 Bohai cavalry, 10,000 Korean cavalry and 15,000 Jurchen cavalry were all killed, leaving no prisoners of war.
However, the Song army also suffered heavy casualties in this battle. At the heavy price of 6,000 soldiers killed, more than 700 soldiers were killed in heavy armored infantry alone, and countless injuries were caused.
It was the battle that Li Yanqing launched the Northern Expedition and the Song army suffered the most casualties.
But it's all worth it.
The end of this war means that the Song army has completely recovered the lost territory, and the Jin soldiers have no more soldiers in the Song Dynasty.
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The sky gradually became brighter, and the battlefield was covered with incomplete corpses. The earth was stained with blood. The broken flags told the tragic battle in the morning breeze. Teams of Song soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. They carried the bodies of the dead Song soldiers on stretchers, and the bodies of the Jin soldiers were stripped off their armor and threw them into a cart. The dead war horses were also dealt with.
It was hot and they had to deal with all the bodies on the same day to avoid an epidemic.
Zongcheng County is particularly lively, with nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers waiting for treatment. Hu Qing'er led 3,000 female soldiers to deal with the wounded. In the era of cold weapons, only a few soldiers were killed on the spot. Most of the soldiers died of serious injuries. The mortality rate of wounded soldiers was as high as 70%, and many died of excessive bleeding and inflammation of the wound.
Therefore, it gradually became the consensus of the Song army that established female soldiers. Five hundred female soldiers were recruited in the army of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong. At this time, they followed Hu Qing'er to urgently treat the wounded.
At the city gate, tens of thousands of young women who were captured were lined up. Each of them could get compensation of five taels of silver and two dou of rice, and then they took a boat to go home together. Many families were destroyed and homeless women could stay temporarily, or go to the south to settle down, or find a husband in the army to get married.
Li Yanqing inspected the county town under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers. Yue Fei led a young general to come forward and smiled and said, "Yanqing, let you see my son."
Li Yanqing was overjoyed and turned over and got off the horse and walked forward. He saw that the young general was only in his teens, but he had big arms, round waist, thick black eyebrows, and bright tiger eyes.
The young general knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The last general Yue Yun, see Du Shuai!"
"You should call me uncle!"
Li Yanqing smiled and pulled him up and looked up, "Have you grown up so big?"
Yue Fei smiled and said, "I am already thirteen years old. Today I participated in the war for the first time and killed more than a dozen fans."
"Not bad! Not bad! What weapon is used?"
Yue Yun scratched his head, "I like to use a hammer, but my father wants me to use a gun."
Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Then learn everything. Hammer is your hobby, but your father's gunshot technique is famous all over the world. It would be a pity not to learn it. Use guns to fight far away and hammers to fight in close combat. Do you understand?"
"I understand!"
Li Yanqing really liked this nephew. He took down the sword from his waist and handed it to him, "This sword has been with me for many years, and I'll give it to you!"
Yue Fei knew this sword, which was the white dragon sword of his master Zhou Tong. He hurriedly said, "Yanqing, this sword is too precious to use!"
Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Isn't it better for us to pass on the sword left by the master to the third generation?"
Yue Fei thought that his son's hammering technique was also left by his master, and his marksmanship was also taught by his master, so he nodded and said to his son: "Is it okay to thank Uncle Hurry!"
Yue Yun took the sword and knelt down again to salute, "My nephew, uncle, gave the sword!"
Li Yanqing patted his shoulder and asked Yue Fei, "When will you go?"
Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi also wanted to lead their troops to participate in the battle to attack Yanshan Prefecture, while Li Yanqing wanted to lead his army back to Lin'an. Some things in the court needed him to deal with, so he would not participate in the battle of Yanshan Prefecture.
Yue Fei hugged his son's shoulder and smiled, "I'm going to set out in the afternoon. Han Dutong is already impatient."
Li Yanqing nodded, "According to my previous arrangements, we will first seize Pingcheng, cut off the Jin soldiers' rescue route, and then encircle and suppress the Jin soldiers of Yanshan Prefecture. However, Yanshan Prefecture has only 30,000 Han troops, so it should not be a big problem. In addition, Guo Yaoshi's head is sent to Lin'an to me."
"I understand."
Yue Fei gave a gift and took his son to leave and returned to the military camp.
Li Yanqing took his personal soldiers to inspect the wounded barracks. At this moment, Hu Qing'er's personal female guard ran towards him and whispered: "Shishen, go and see General Hu! She cried bitterly in the big tent."
Li Yanqing was stunned, "What happened?"
"It seems like it"
"It seems like something?" Li Yanqing said dissatisfied.
"I dare not talk nonsense."
"you say!"
The female guard then whispered: "Just now walking on the street, a captured woman suddenly ran up and grabbed her and cried, calling her daughter. General Hu was very excited."
Chapter completed!