Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 633: Death Battle (Additional chapter for JJM leader)

The Jin cavalry rushed out of the valley and headed straight for the Song army camp that was fighting fiercely with the Jin army in front of them.

The noise of drums and shouts of killing was like the rolling water of the Qiantang River, as if it would swallow everything.

The battle on the left wing had come to an end, with heavy casualties on both sides.

It is difficult for the attacker to launch a powerful attack, and the defender also needs a certain amount of time to clear and fill positions before re-forming a tight defensive formation.

The Jin army in the mountains had apparently already discovered the battle outside the mountains and chose the best time to attack.

Their horses went from galloping to running wildly, and their shining machetes and spears were raised high in their hands.

The running cavalry gradually turned into an arrow shape, sharply cutting through the already weak defense of the Song army's left wing and penetrating deeply into it.

However, on their right wing, 800 heavily armed cavalry of the Song army also arrived.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves made the earth tremble, and the heavy cavalry of the Song army was like a mudslide rolling down from the mountains.

The Jin army that rushed out of the mountains discovered them when they were halfway through their journey, but the problem was that they could no longer stop at this time.

So they could only speed up their advance. As long as they were entangled in a battle with the Song army, the Song army's heavily armored cavalry would no longer pose a threat.

However, when the vanguard of the Jin army pierced into the left wing camp of the Song army like a sharp knife, the 800 heavy cavalry who broke out from the second-line team of the Song army also pierced into their charging camp.

Sharp knife, cut off the sharp knife.

The same penetration tactics, but with different goals.

The heavy cavalry that broke through the enemy's formation could not be resisted by the light cavalry or even the ordinary infantry.

Both the men and the horses are armored, which allows them to isolate themselves from most damage.

The weapons used by the heavy cavalry were also long and heavy, such as copper hammers, axes, mountain-splitting knives, iron spears...

The charging heavy cavalry poured down on the crops like hail, and where the cavalry passed, they cleared an open area of ​​more than three hundred steps.

This open space was littered with dead people and dead horses. Among them, there were those who were lucky enough not to be crushed to death, trampled to death, or hit to death, but they fell to the ground seriously injured and screaming in agony.

This charge was a one-sided massacre.

The armored cavalry that had charged forward made a circle and they still had the strength to launch another attack.

The Jin soldiers who had not yet rushed out of the valley reined in their horses in fear.

They wanted to retreat, but the Jin soldiers in the rear, confused as to why, were still rushing out quickly.

For a moment, the people in front stopped moving forward, while the people behind rushed forward rapidly. Suddenly, the valley was crowded with people and congested.

The heavy cavalry of the Song Dynasty, which had re-formed its charge formation, charged towards the densely packed Jin army at the valley entrance.

……

Among the cut-off Jin army troops, half of the troops who had penetrated into the Song army camp became isolated troops.

As their rear was cut off by the heavy cavalry of the Song army, their retreat was quickly closed in like a tide by the influx of Song soldiers.

The Jin soldiers trapped in the Song army camp gradually lost their mobility, and with no follow-up troops to continue to charge in to expand the victory, they began to be penetrated by the Song army in the opposite direction.

Attack, divide, penetrate, annihilate...

Both sides didn't even have time to react, and they relied entirely on instinct to form formations and fight.

In this fierce fight that happens in a split second, any delay or confusion could cost them their lives.

On the other side of the mountain pass, the heavy cavalry of the Song army seemed like a red-hot knife cutting into a piece of butter, appearing extremely smooth.

The light cavalry and infantry of the second army also followed.

Once the heavy cavalry loses its speed, they become lambs to be slaughtered.

Fortunately, these lambs had thick skin. Although they lost speed after rushing some distance into the valley and leaving a pile of minced meat on the ground, it took time for the Jin soldiers to cut off their horses' legs, pull them down, and kill them with blunt objects in a short period of time.

At this time, the light cavalry and infantry of the Song army had caught up, and the precious heavy cavalry began to retreat.

While the fighting was going on here, deeper in the mountains, Li Xianzhong also noticed the unusual movements of the Jin army.

On the afternoon of the third day, his troops finally reunited with Lu Tianming's troops.

But the result after the merger was only to control three mountains in the shape of a Chinese character "品", which gave them a certain amount of space to maneuver, and most importantly, a source of water.

Outside them, the Jin army was still surrounding them.

The food that Li Xianzhong's troops brought had to be shared with Lu Tianming's troops. Although they saved again and again, it was completely used up a day and a half ago.

They now feed on the flesh of horses killed in battle.

As reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, Li Xianzhong finally realized the huge problem facing his "center-blooming" tactics.

He lacked absolute command over the troops on the Huaidong battlefield.

If the general's orders cannot be executed as easily as one's own arms, the execution of the general's orders by the troops will be greatly reduced.

As long as the troops from various routes fail to arrive in support in a timely and decisive manner, it will buy precious time for the Jin army's encirclement.

By then, even if the Song army wanted to come to support, they would have lost the initiative and would be eaten up by the Jin army along the way.

Today, Li Xianzhong was ready to break out at night.

No matter how many people die, we must break through tonight.

If they don't leave now, they will be completely cut off from food and water, and will soon lose their combat effectiveness and be at the mercy of others.

Moreover, they were trapped firmly in the mountains, and any reinforcements that failed to arrive in time would be in vain.

Calabash Brothers saves grandpa and sends them away one by one.

But near evening, when he was secretly gathering his entire army and preparing to break out with all his might when it got darker, the Jin soldiers suddenly made unusual moves.

At this time, only the mountain peaks were still bathed in the sunset, and the valley was already dyed inky black. Standing on a high place, one could see that the Jin army was rapidly moving out of the mountain.

Of course, the Jin army still left behind troops to defend against them with the help of fortifications, but the main force was indeed moving out of the mountain.

"Tianming, come and see!"

Li Xianzhong called out to Lu Tianming.

Lu Tianming was deeply uneasy because he had implicated Li Xianzhong due to his reckless advance and fell into an ambush.

In order to break out tonight, he had finally managed to gain the qualification from Li Xianzhong to lead the death squad in the assault.

Hearing Li Xianzhong's words, Lu Tianming, who was holding a big knife across his knees and closing his eyes to gather strength, hurried to his side.

"look……"

Li Xianzhong pointed to the distance and said excitedly: "Reinforcements have arrived."

Lu Tianming looked carefully and saw the Jin soldiers hurriedly moving out of the mountain. He was overjoyed: "The Jin soldiers who besieged us are moving out of the mountain. This means that the force that came to rescue us is enough to threaten the troops they ambushed outside the mountain!"

"Not bad!"

Li Xianzhong thought thoughtfully: "Logically speaking, if the troops are not under unified command and advance separately, as long as they miss the best opportunity for rescue, they will fall into a passive position and be annihilated one by one by the Jin army that has taken the initiative. But the current situation..."

Although the two were not clear about the situation outside the mountain, they did not suspect that it was a trick set by the Jin people.

The Jin people have already besieged them here. The best solution is to defend and trap them to death. There is no need to create unnecessary trouble.

Although they were not clear about the specific situation outside the mountain, the two knew that they must seize this opportunity.

Lu Tianming said excitedly: "General, I will go down the mountain immediately and break through the Golden Dog's defense!"

Li Xianzhong shook his head and said, "There is no need to conduct a test attack. Gather the entire army and make a breakthrough with all our strength to fight our way out!"

Outside the mountains, after raising the White Tiger Flag, Yang Yuan entered a defensive state.

Except for a heavy cavalry and some cavalry infantry to intercept the Jin soldiers rushing out of the mountains, the rest of the second-line troops in the rear moved forward one after another.

The Song Army and the Jin Army completed the "shift change" in the fight. The exhausted Song Army's first-line troops withdrew, while the third-line troops had just eaten and drunk and were slowly advancing forward. The withdrawn first-line combatants were rushing towards the camp they left behind.

The cooked food and drinking water in the camp were left there so they could be enjoyed immediately upon arrival.

At the front, the fresh reinforcements that had just been replaced immediately switched to an offensive posture after they were all in place, and once again broke into the Jin army's camp.

Yelu Yuanyi stood on a high watchtower of the central army and saw the Song army's shift change before the battle clearly from afar. He immediately ordered the front army to build defenses and the rear army to go forward to change shifts.

It is difficult for this battle to produce results in a short period of time.

The front-line troops of the Jin army started fighting around the Shen time, and now it is already past the You time, so it is time for a rotation.

Judging from the situation, both sides will only have to fight for one more hour at most, and then they will have to withdraw their troops and set up camp and fight again tomorrow.

However, Yelu Yuanyi had already begun to consider retreating and wanted to withdraw overnight.

They launched this war in order to cooperate with the "Blood Pagoda" in the internal affairs of Song Dynasty.

While responding to the Blood Pagoda Plan, they wanted to destroy the elite forces of the Song Army as much as possible.

As for capturing and occupying the cities in the Lianghuai region, it is not currently under their consideration.

Because the Song State had no place to retreat, it could not afford to lose the Huai River area.

If the Jin Kingdom occupied the military fortresses in Lianghuai, the Song Kingdom would certainly fight with all its might.

Wanyan Liang's current plan is to completely eliminate the threat from the Song State, and then he can boldly draw elite troops from the southern front and march north with all his strength to eliminate the New Jin, which is a major threat to the Jin people.

The war is now in chaos, and it is no longer possible to destroy the elite troops of the Song State without paying a heavy price. Therefore, it will be meaningless for the Jin State to continue the stalemate.

Yang Yuan was on the watchtower of the central army, observing the movements of the Jin army.

It was dusk, and the red sun in the sky was still struggling to retain its half-circle of red glow.

The Jin army launched several rounds of counterattacks. After several rounds of fierce fighting, they finally stabilized their position after more than half an hour of fighting.

Afterwards, the Jin soldiers began to carry out "shift changes during the battle."

The Jin army in the rear began to move forward, and the Jin soldiers in the front began to retreat one after another after receiving support.

Although the Jin army had a large number of soldiers deployed in the front at this time, its formation was also the most chaotic.

At this time, the sun had completely set and the sky and the earth were vast.

On top of the Song army's watchtower, a flagpole stood high in the middle.

Yang Yuan took a large flag, tied a rope to it, and slowly raised it to the highest point.

"Crack!"

The ring on the flag fits into the ring groove at the top of the flagpole.

Yang Yuan and others went down from the watchtower and mounted their war horses.

The fire started from under the watchtower. It was not yet big enough for the fire to reach the top of the watchtower, but the fire had already illuminated the big flag on the flagpole at the top of the watchtower.

It was a tooth flag, the commander-in-chief's flag.

During a battle, if the Ya flag falls, it means the commander-in-chief is dead, which will lead to the defeat of the three armies.

But at this time, Yang Yuan's flag was in his own military camp, placed on the watchtower, with a raging fire underneath.

It was conveying the final military order, "Fight to the death!"

From this moment on, there will be no more commander in chief, no more orders issued, everyone will fight on their own until death!

(End of this chapter)