Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 631: Raise the flag and gather the generals, and fight together

Liu Molin's troops had their backs against the Tuo River, and the Jin army they faced was led by Xie Luan, a commander of ten thousand men.

Xie Luan knew that he was facing an elite force of the Song State, most likely the Three Yamen Imperial Guards sent to support Huaidong.

But he didn't know that Yang Yuan, the military supervisor of Lianghuai, was among the troops that he had blocked.

Behind the Xiluan army, there were two Song army stationed on the left and right sides, one of which was the imperial army and the other was the garrison army.

However, Xie Luan could see that behind these two Song troops, there were also Jin troops.

Because of this, the two Song armies fought very restrainedly.

On the entire Lingbi battlefield, both the enemy and us are now in a state of mutual restraint.

Therefore, Captain Xieluan never killed the enemy Liu Molin's troops in front of him. He was also on guard against the Song army behind him, fearing that they would take advantage of the situation to rob him.

However, this morning, the people of the Xieluan tribe were making a fire and cooking as usual. As soon as the smoke rose, thick fog rolled in from the direction of Tuohe River.

Drums and horns roared, and people and horses came like a tide.

Liu Molin's troops led the charge with cavalry and followed by infantry, launching a fierce attack on the camp of the Xieluan troops.

The Song army launched three waves of attacks like a tide. After paying the price of more than 300 corpses, they forcibly broke through the defense of the Jin army camp and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the sun had risen and the thick fog was gradually dissipating.

As visibility improved, Xiao Yulan's unit of the Song Dynasty cavalry, which was behind the left side of the Oblique Oval Unit, finally saw the situation in the enemy camp clearly.

On the watchtower, the lookout soldier with excellent eyesight saw that the Jin army camp ahead was in chaos and that the Song army stationed by the river had already rushed into the Jin army camp. He was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted to the people below the watchtower to report the military situation.

After hearing this, Xiao Yulan, the commander of the Cavalry Division, immediately came up with an idea. He wanted to split his troops into two groups, one to guard against the enemy behind him, and the other to besiege the Xieluan tribe to create an opportunity for the friendly forces on the Tuo River to break out.

At this time, the soldiers on the watchtower suddenly shouted in an extremely excited voice: "Lianghuai Military Supervisor! Those are the Lianghuai Military Supervisor's troops! Commander Xiao, the troops in front of us are Yang's main force."

They saw clearly that the Song army flags flying in the Jin army camp had a large flag with the word "Yang" on it that read "Lianghuai Military Supervisor".

When Xiao Yulan heard that the people in front were actually the military inspector's own troops, she immediately changed her mind.

Xiao Yulan ordered loudly in a thunderous voice: "All troops, assemble, charge into the Golden Dog Camp, and join up with Supervisor Yang!"

Xiao Yulan decisively gave up the defense against the Jin army in the rear, assembled the entire army and charged towards the camp of the Xiluanbu.

The Xieluan tribe still had defenses on this side, but the camp was already in chaos and the Jin soldiers on this side were already in great disarray.

Under such circumstances, Xiao Yulan put on armor and held a sword, and personally went into the battle line. After a fierce battle, he tore a hole in the Jin army camp and killed his way into the camp of the Xieluan tribe from this side.

With the support of Xiao Yulan's Song army, the Jin army camp was in chaos.

When Xieluan saw the big flag of the Lianghuai Military Supervisor, he realized that the fish that had been blocking him by the river was actually a big fish.

He hurriedly gathered his troops and was about to capture Yang Yuan who had rushed into the camp when Xiao Yulan rushed in from the rear.

The Jin army was unable to take care of both ends and suddenly lost its effective resistance and began to show signs of defeat.

Behind Xiao Yulan's troops were Jin Guoye Subumeng'an's troops, also an elite main force of the Jin Kingdom.

In order to prevent enemy attacks, they set up camp more than two miles away from Xiao Yulan's troops.

Similarly, the Xiao Yulan tribe was two or three miles away from the Xiluan tribe.

As a result, Yesubu's troops did not discover the battle between the Xieluan tribe and the Liu Molin tribe in time.

When Xiao Yulan's entire army assembled and charged into the Xieluan camp, the lookouts in Yesubu's army discovered the unusual movements of the Song army from their high ground.

They immediately sent out scouts to rush closer to observe the enemy situation.

By the time they finally understood what was happening, Xieluan had been attacked from both sides by Yang Yuan, Liu Molin and Xiao Yulan's troops and was completely defeated.

Stationed at the right corner behind the Oblong Division was Jiang Jingteng's Sizhou Elite Army.

After the fog cleared, Jiang Jingteng could see the situation in the Xieluo Army clearly and knew that it was the Lianghuai Military Envoy. At this time, he made the same decision as Xiao Yulan.

Save the Military Supervisor!
This achievement is huge.

However, the Jin army stationed behind him was on a hillside. The Jin army here was in a commanding position and observed the chaos in the Xieluobu camp almost at the same time as him.

Just as Jiang Jingteng was about to lead his troops to attack the Xieluan camp, the Jin army behind him had already gathered and attacked.

Jiang Jingteng was furious. Seeing that Xiao Yulan's troops had already charged into the Xieluan tribe's camp, he knew it would be difficult for him to gain credit for this achievement. He immediately turned his horse around viciously and charged towards the enemy troops attacking from behind.

Yesubu gathered his troops and hurried out of the camp, wading through the camp of Xiao Yulan's troops. Just as he was about to charge into the camp of Xie Luan's troops, the defeated troops of Xie Luan rushed over.

This chaotic army rushed around and broke Yesubu's attack formation into pieces.

Ye Subu was filled with anger and was about to order anyone who rushed into the battle to be executed immediately when Yang Yuan rushed out with Xie Luan's head pointed at his spear.

Yang Yuan shouted with a swift voice, "Here is the head of the Jin army commander. If you throw down your weapons, I won't kill you!"

On each of his wings were three young generals, each holding a large spear, and they were chasing the fleeing Jin soldiers in a goose feather formation.

Yesubu's expression turned fierce, and he was about to order to shoot all enemies and friends, but the crossbows of the Song army came like a dark cloud. In the long-range battle, the Song army "took the city first".

Yang Yuan, with six female generals and a group of personal soldiers, chased the fleeing Xiluan Jin soldiers and ran into Yesubu's camp.

The Yesubu army, whose camp had been disrupted by the fleeing soldiers, suddenly fell into chaos.

The whole mountain and plain were filled with cavalry and infantry fighting back and forth, the shouts of killing were like thunder piercing the plain, and from time to time people were lying in pools of blood.

Yesubu organized four counterattacks in succession, but all of them failed because the formation was disrupted by the fleeing soldiers and then the Song army wedged in.

Liu Molin and other Song army generals personally led their troops to charge into the battle, and Yesubu's troops were cut into pieces.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yesubu had no choice but to flee in anger, leading hundreds of his personal soldiers to break out.

Jiang Jingteng's troops were entangled by the Jin soldiers in the rear and were unable to respond to Yang Yuan for a while.

But when Yang Yuan and Xiao Yulan attacked from the front and back, raided Xie Luan's camp, beheaded Xie Luan's men, and took advantage of the victory to kill Yesubu, the Jin soldiers fighting with Jiang Jingteng's troops found that the momentum was not right.

They decisively withdrew from the battle, retreated quickly, still occupied the high ground, hid back in the fortifications they had built previously, and became alert.

When Jiang Jingteng saw this, he took the opportunity to lead his troops to abandon the camp and chase after Yang Yuan's army.

On the battlefield where death was at stake, the troops of Liu Molin, Xiao Yulan, and Jiang Jingteng successfully joined forces.

Yang Yuan sat on the blood-stained grass. Chunwu Xiaonai knelt in front of him. She cut off the arrow that pierced his thigh with a knife and quickly pulled out the arrow shaft.

Yazawa Kanon immediately poured a packet of healing medicine on him, and Leng Yuchan quickly wrapped a white cloth around his thigh.

Liu Molin led Jiang Jingteng and Xiao Yulan, who were covered in blood, to Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan stood up with the help of Fei Yuye and Fujiwara Himeka, and shook the armor on his chest.

In this battle, no less than dozens of people were killed by his spear, including many brave generals of the Jin army.

Yang Yuan discovered that his Yang family's pear blossom spear was indeed created for fighting on the battlefield. If it were a martial arts skill used by martial artists, this pear blossom spear might not be that powerful, but on the battlefield, its efficiency in killing the enemy is much more efficient than the martial arts skills of martial artists.

Yang Yuan stood still with his spear in hand, and Jiang Jingteng and Xiao Yulan stepped forward and introduced themselves and their names to him, and also reported to him the approximate number of soldiers and horses under their command.

Yang Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, you all go back to your base camps immediately and rest for three quarters of an hour. Then follow me and we will kill along the line of Yanshan, Chantang, Fengmiao, and Huigou."

Jiang Jingteng and Xiao Yulan knew that the military supervisor was the top scholar in the imperial examination, and they had also heard that he came from the military, but they had never thought that Yang Yuan, with such a noble status, would personally lead the charge into battle.

When the two men arrived at Yang Yuan's side, they saw the wound on his leg, the marks of knife and sword cuts on his armor, and the red tassel under the tip of his spear that was streaked with sticky blood. They knew that this military supervisor was truly leading the troops and had achieved considerable success.

Therefore, the two generals respected Yang Yuan and no longer had any doubts or resistance to his military orders.

However, when they heard Yang Yuan's strange route of action, they were still stunned.

What is this military supervisor trying to do? Why is he going around in circles in Lingbi County instead of rushing into the mountains to rescue Li Xianzhong and Lu Tianming immediately?

Jiang Jingteng hesitated for a moment, but still clasped his fists and asked, "General Yang, I am stupid and don't know what the purpose of your action is?"

Yang Yuan said calmly: "We will go all the way and defeat the Jin army when we see it. Do you see this flag of the military supervisor?"

Yang Yuan pointed to the large flags with the Chinese character Yang on them and said, "You will each take a few flags back in a while, collect all the flags in your army, and only raise the flag of this military supervisor."

Yang Yuan raised his hand and drew an oval circle in the air: "I want to gather all the Song troops that are scattered among the Jin army.

If the Jin army fails to gather, our army will crush them. If the Jin army also seizes the opportunity to gather, we will fight them to the death! "

Yang Yuan's tactical plan left the two generals stunned.

In the afternoon, around 3 p.m., Yang Yuan completed his first action plan, which was to join forces.

As he killed his way forward, his troops were like a snowball, killing more and more people.

As the number of troops increased, Yang Yuan began to adopt a strategy of fighting in rotation to ensure that after each battle, there were soldiers waiting behind to clean up and rest.

Until the afternoon, he might not have been able to gather all the Song troops on the Huaidong battlefield, but according to rough estimates, the total strength of the Song troops gathered here under the hundreds of peaks was already 90,000.

As for the Jin soldiers, they really cannot be underestimated.

Although they suffered a loss, under Yang Yuan's strange fighting style, each group of Jin soldiers was unable to cope with Yang Yuan's superior forces, so they retreated one after another after suffering heavy losses, allowing the Song army to successfully connect and gather.

However, the more mobile and scattered Jin troops were able to connect with each other one after another because the Song army was "looking for friends" along the way and did not pursue them relentlessly. They formed a huge team and chased the Song army in a mighty manner until they arrived here.

Although the Song army had a large number of soldiers and horses at this time, on the battlefield that stretched for more than ten miles, there were no flags of the three imperial guards, nor the flags of the garrison troops. It was even more difficult to tell who was from Sizhou, who was from Suzhou, and who was from Haozhou. They only had the same flag: "Lianghuai Supervisor Yang!"

Yang Yuan disrupted the sequence of all the troops. He only divided the army into archers, spearmen, swordsmen, axemen, light cavalry, armored infantry, and heavy cavalry.

He also divided the more than 90,000 people into three sequences according to the ratio of arms, namely the front army, the central army and the rear army. He ordered Ji Xiang to bring Hanako and Xiao Nai to the central army with a "jie" as military supervisors; and Fei Yuye to bring Leng Yuchan to the rear army with a "talisman" as military supervisors. Anyone who dared to miss the opportunity to fight would be executed immediately.

He brought Emmanuelle Belle with him, and used Liu Molin's troops from the Palace Guard as the center of the vanguard, standing solemnly in front of the two armies.

Long spears stand like a forest, shield walls stretch like mountains, huge banners flutter like fire, and the war is about to break out!
PS: The seven-day slog has come to an end. I just got home. The next chapter will be written tomorrow during the day. I owe you two chapters of "Let's Be Frank" and three chapters of "JJM". I'm trying to finish them before the next round of annoying meetings.

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