On the north of Ruyin City, the main force is the right town of the Zhengfeng Army, the fourth town of the Jingsheng Army, and the fifth town of the Tianxiong Army. In the middle of the day, the reinforcements of the Prince's Mansion of Pingyan Zong advanced westward from Mengcheng and other places.

, conduct fierce interception operations; the first town of the Xiaosheng Army, and the second town, entered the battlefield from northeast of Ruyin at Rising, and the intensity was more intense than the battlefield east of the Taihe enemy camp.

In addition to the tens of thousands of surrendered Han troops recruited from Yanji, Yunshuo, Hedong, Hebei and other places, the Zhennanzong Palace and the Pingyanzong Palace were also in Yingzhou and Bozhou, which had a total of more than 80,000 people.

Elite cavalry, after almost no interruption, had controlled the two prefectures in the main areas of the Central Plains, and at this moment, they had already squeezed all the military potential that could be mobilized in the Central Plains to the extreme.

After all, in addition to the main battlefield in Yingzhou, both sides have also invested tens of thousands of troops in confrontation or fierce confrontation in the Ruyang area upstream of the Yishui River, Xuchang area upstream of the Ying River, and Haoshou, Haisi and other places in the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River.

Battle.

In the Qinling Mountains, although the Western Qin army remained unmoved, the Dongchuan army led by Gu Jiqian was also actively dispatching troops to Ziwu Road at this time to launch an army that occupied the Weihe Plain in Guanzhong and belonged to the Prince's Mansion of Jingyanzong???

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Although Zhennanzong Palace and Pingyanzong Palace stationed up to 80,000 enemy cavalry in the cities on both wings of Ruyin, due to the super mobile ability of elite cavalry, if a large number of infantry and cavalry were not sent out, a large number of infantry and cavalry would not be sent out to Ru.

Yin went north, cut it and block it. Ren Ping Yanzong's palace quickly advanced westward to reinforce the area east of Ruyin, and the consequences would be unimaginable; it can even be concluded that once the Chihu people were on the West Wing

To gain an absolute advantage in force, we will definitely ruthlessly tear the flank defense line of the main force of the front army at all costs.

The outcome of this battle depends to a large extent on whether the main force of the left army in Beiruyin City can successfully drag more than 40,000 reinforced cavalrymen from the Prince's Mansion of Pingyanzong before the victory and defeat in the battlefield east of Taihe.

live.

For this reason, the main force of the Left Army, mainly the fourth town of the Jingsheng Army, the fifth town of the Tianxiong Army, and the auxiliary of more than 20,000 troops from various prefectures, went out of Ruyin City to expand in a diagonal direction north.

Compared with the 40,000 elite cavalry who advanced westward to reinforce the palace of Pingyan Sect, more than 50,000 soldiers were leaning against a small river called Wumaxi, a five or six meters long and wide area north of Ruyang City. It formed a formation of a small river called Wumaxi, and it stretched for more than 40 miles.

The interception line is actually extremely weak.

Even though the main force of the Left Army left the city from Ruyin nearby, even in addition to hundreds of fine iron shield cars and iron-arm crossbow cars, Ruyin has organized craftsmen in the past month and urgently built thousands of simple side wings.

The vehicle was used to strengthen the A-step array, and at the same time, it also transferred more than 100 small warships such as boats and paddle boats to support the battle, but overall it was still at a disadvantage.

The Selected Front Army's Armored Cavalry and Heavy Armored Cavalry and Infantry had a total of about 10,000 troops, but they needed to be concentrated on the northern wing to prevent the main cavalry of the Pingyan Sect's Palace from continuing to detour to the north.

This is destined to be an extremely difficult interception battle, with the purpose of dragging the cavalry troops of the Prince of Pingyan Sect at all costs and dragging them to the battlefield east of Taihe to decide the outcome.

The main cavalry force of the Pingyan Sect Palace arrived in the area east of Wumaxi in Japan and China. Without any stop or rest, they directly launched wave after wave of attack on the intercepting positions; they did not wait for the seven or eight in the rear.

The main force of the infantry rushes over.

Chiyuan, the general who replaced Meng He, took over the reinforcements in the west of the Yanzong Palace, knew very well that he had to wait for the main infantry force in the rear to arrive, and at the earliest he would have to wait until dawn the next day before he could launch a fierce force.

Attack, he didn't dare to bet that the main force gathered in the Taihe camp of the Nanzong Palace would have been able to survive today.

Under the fierce attack of the aid cavalry from the royal palace of Pingyan Sect, the defense line deployed along Wumaxi was once in danger, and countless soldiers fell under the horse hooves and swords of the cavalry. When the battle was most intense, Xu Huai General

Yang Ji and Guo Yunkun's troops were sent to the battlefield, and there were less than 3,000 reserve teams left in Ruyin City.

In order to gain time, the main cavalry of the Pingyan Sect Prince's Mansion did not choose to detour from near Qiaocheng, Bozhou, 120 or 30 miles away. The main force of the Selected Front Army's Right Town then entered the Pingyan Sect Prince's Mansion's cavalry formation.

The north wing, engage in a melee.

At the time of the lunar month (3:00 pm), Yang Qiye led the first town of the Xiaosheng Army, and the main force of the second town finally arrived in Ruyin. More than 25,000 horses and infantry did not have time to rest, and they did not rectify their formation.

The soldiers abandoned their horses directly, and rushed from the east of Ruyin City, and from the south wing to the Ruyin battlefield.

Until late, under the leadership of Chen Zixiao, the main force of the front army completely defeated the 80,000 surrendered Han troops from Yunshuo, Hedong, Guanshan and other places, under the leadership of Chen Zixiao, east of the enemy camp of Taihe.

At this time, the cavalry troops from the Prince's Mansion of Zhennanzong and Pingyanzong Mansion of Pingyanzong were at a loss, and they slowly withdrew from the two battlefields east of Taihe and the northern wing of Ruyin.

, heading to Luyi, Bozhou, Qiaocheng and other places.

On two interception battlefields, Chihu left nearly 20,000 cavalry corpses.

In order to block the Chihu cavalry outside the front army's main formation, more than 20,000 people died in battle in Jingsheng Army, Xiaosheng Army, Tianxiong Army and various prefectures; the selection army also suffered heavy casualties on both sides of the front line.

Tragic, nearly half of the loss.

In comparison, the main force of the front attack on Taihe and defeated 80,000 surrendered Han army, with only more than 10,000 casualties.

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Participating in the fierce battle, the casualties were extremely tragic.

Veteran Xie Zhong, the first general who followed Xu Huai during the Tongbai bandits' rebellion, Han Qi, the commander of the fourth town of Tianxiong Army, and Han generals of Shuozhou, the deputy commander of the first town of Tianxiong Army, and Chen Zixiao Yi, the right-hand man.

, and also from the Jinghu North Road Deployment Department, Chen Su, deputy commander of the second town of Jingsheng Army, unfortunately died in the battlefield.

This battle can only be considered a tragic victory in terms of the number of casualties; even since the Emperor ascended the throne of Xiangyang, there has not been a large-scale battle, and so many senior generals have died on the battlefield.

In the future, Xu Huai ordered the main force of the front army to enter Taihe City to clear out the remaining enemies, and only transferred 10,000 elite soldiers from Jiaopi and Quanhe, and 10,000 provincial government soldiers took naval warships to go up the river overnight.

, through Ying River, it penetrated directly into the vicinity of Wanqiu, Chenzhou, and waited for an opportunity to move.

The Selected Front Army, Tianxiong Army, Jingsheng Army and the Xiaosheng Army may enter Taihe Camp on the spot, or withdraw to Zhanzigou Camp, and the Ruyin City will rest. Xu Huai will stop all the troops and horses along the north bank of the Ying River.

The original combat plan to advance directly to Shenqiu, Xiangcheng and other places, even gave up the idea of ​​the cavalry of the Selected Front Army going roundabout to the hinterland of the northern part of Xuzhou, cutting off the idea of ​​the 30,000 enemy troops in Xuchang's north escape passage.

However, judging from the strategic purpose of launching the Yingzhou Battle, this battle is still the most brilliant victory since Chihu invasion of the south, and it is also a key victory that completely determines the situation of the war in Hehuai and even the entire Central Plains.

After severely damaging 60,000 to 70,000, the main force of the Western Han army in Beijing and continued to besiege the remnants of the Western Han army outside Jiaopi and Quanhe cities. This battle further devastatingly hit the town.

The 80,000 surrendered to the Han army under the jurisdiction of the Nanzong Palace.

So far, the Battle of Yingzhou has almost wiped out all the main forces of the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion, except for the Heluo Han Army, Cao Shixiong and Xuzhou Han Army. The direct cavalry unit of the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion and the Pingyan Zong Prince's Mansion.

, the troops and horses of the garrisons in the two prefectures were also severely damaged.

When the two kings of Chihu, Wululie and Tu Ge, passed through Yanyun and swept across the Central Plains, they used the elites of Chihu clan and the Semu cavalry recruited from the southern and northern tribes of Mo. The total force was about 120,000.

After several wars, injuries and injuries were damaged and the old soldiers returned home. After the two prefectures swept across the Central Plains, they mainly relied on the Han army to control the local area. In the future, only a small number of new soldiers were added from the grassland tribes. Before this Yingzhou Battle,

The cavalry of the garrison under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures has dropped to more than 80,000.

Even if we included the Khitan and the foreign cavalry who were surrendered to Yan and Ji with Meng He and others, the two prefectures had only a few more cavalry units under their jurisdiction throughout the Central Plains.

The two prefectures abandoned 20,000 cavalry corpses on the battlefield this time. It is expected that the number of cavalry personnel who suffered severe damage and were disabled should not be lower than this number.

This also means that before Zhennanzong's palace was recruited from the grassland, the Yanzong's palace could drive the battle on the Central Plains battlefield.

The scale of cavalry has been greatly reduced to about 60,000.

Although the 80,000 Han troops who advanced westward to reinforce the palace of Pingyanzong fled to Mengcheng and other places in time, did not participate in the war, and preserved their strength, after this battle, at least in the Hehuai area, Dayue had completely occupied the military.

Advantage.

However, Xu Huai couldn't sleep all night due to such tragic casualties.

He no longer had the chance to go to the battlefield again. At night, he stood on the north city tower of Ruyin, watching hundreds of baggage soldiers along the Wuxi River, using the stars of bonfires to collect the bodies of the soldiers.

Before I knew it, it was dawn again. Liu Shiwang, who had not been asleep all night, climbed up to the city tower, gave Wang Ju a gift, walked to Xu Huai who was standing at the entrance of the wall like a sculpture, and said, "With Shen Qiu, Xiang Chengshou

Like the army, the Wanqiu defenders also fled in a hurry overnight. Fu Liang had led 5,000 front troops into Wanqiu City. The defenders fled in a hurry and did not have time to destroy the city. Except for more than a thousand houses that were set on fire,

The others were generally intact; more than 100,000 people and the families of the Han army surrendered to the Han army were still stranded in the city. However, the Wanqiu granary had been set on fire and there was very little food in the people. Fu Liang asked to quickly transfer 100,000 stones of grain to Wanqiu!"

"You are just doing it," Xu Huai turned around and asked, "Is there any news coming back from Xuchang?"

Xuchang is the capital of Xuzhou, located in the middle of the Yingshui River, and is an important town in the western wing of the enemy's defense line in the west of Beijing. It has long confronted the Caizhou defense line with Xiangcheng and Zhaoling as its core.

Since the Ying River originates from Songshan Mountain and flows into the Huai River from northwest to southeast, Xuchang is located on the northwest side of Ruyin and Wanqiu, and is geographically located quite north, less than 150 miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.

Before the Battle of Yingzhou, Xuchang was commanded by Feng Shizhao, the general under Yue Hailou, and was stationed in garrison.

Wanqiu, Xiangcheng, Shenqiu's enemy abandoned the city in a hurry and fled north. This is what I expected. Even if I don't escape, Xu Huai can calmly rely on the Yingshui River to surround these cities on the north bank of the Yingshui River. The Red Hunter Remnant Cavalry dared to easily support the south again.
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