One Piece of Song Dynasty

Gao Song set up his formation while waiting for Wanyan Zongxian's arrival. Soon Wanyan Zongxian arrived. After Gao Song conveyed Jin Wushu's order, he took over the command of Wanyan Zongxian's troops. Wanyan Zongxian led The soldiers went after Jin Wushu.

As soon as Wanyan Zongxian left, Hu Zhan rushed over with the remaining cavalry. Behind Hu Zhan were Yue Yun and Li Shifu's pursuers. Seeing this, Gao Song ordered the crossbowmen to shoot at the Song cavalry to cover Hu Zhan's retreat.

When Yue Yun and Li Shifu noticed the rain of arrows coming, they quickly ordered to stop the pursuit. Hu Zhan thanked Gao Song and then headed towards Yanmen Pass.

Yue Yun and Li Shifu stopped after noticing the formation of the Jin Army's infantry in front. After waiting for a while, the infantry led by Qu Duan followed up. When they saw Qu Duan, Li Shifu introduced him: "Commander Qu, the Jin Army on the opposite side has already formed a formation." , but this should be the enemy's rear-cutting army, and Jin Wushu and others should have withdrawn northward with the army."

Qu Duan looked at it with a telescope and said: "General Li stepped forward to see if he could persuade the enemy generals to surrender. If he could persuade the enemy generals to surrender, it would be the best, and it would also avoid unnecessary casualties for our army."

Li Shifu cupped his fists and said, "Yes, Qu Shuai."

Li Shifu rode up to the front of the two armies and shouted: "Li Shifu, please tell me who is the coach and can you come forward to answer me?"

Gao Song heard this and rode forward: "General Li, I am Gao Song, the commander-in-chief of this army. I wonder if you have any advice?"

Li Shifu said: "General Gao must understand the current situation. How long does General Gao think that you and these soldiers can resist our army? Since Jin Wushu sent General Gao and these soldiers to stop us, it means that he has abandoned you. Gao Why should the general sacrifice his life for Jin Wushu? It is better to surrender to our army. I guarantee that Commander Qu will ask the prince to take credit for General Gao, and it will be easy to get an official title."

Gao Songgong cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, General Li, for your kindness. I have been favored by the marshal, so I cannot and cannot surrender. General Li, please come back. We will see the truth on the battlefield."

Hearing this, Li Shifu could only ride back. When he saw Qu Duan, he said: "Commander Qu, the enemy general should have been promoted by Jin Wushu himself. He refused to surrender."

Qu Duan nodded and said: "Then prepare a few more loudspeakers. If the enemy general is willing to die, it does not mean that the soldiers below are also willing to die. Find a few soldiers with loud voices to shout, and give those soldiers half an hour to choose. Your cavalry Arrange them on both wings first, and then attack if there is no movement from the enemy after half an hour."

Li Shifu cupped his fists and said, "I will make arrangements right now."

Soon there were shouts from the Song Army camp, persuading the Jin Army soldiers on the opposite side to surrender. After all, most of the Jin Army soldiers were Khitan and Han people, and most of them could understand Chinese. The repeated words of persuasion to surrender caused a commotion among the Jin army soldiers.

Gao Song looked at it and thought: The Song army is really insidious. If they fail to persuade the general to surrender, they will persuade the soldiers to surrender. If they continue like this for a while, they will collapse without fighting.

In fact, it is normal. The entire Jin army has not won a victory since it started its southern invasion in May. The first two months were all siege battles. The siege battles were very depleting of morale. Starting in August, they retreated all the way north. By the time Now, except for troops like Wanyan Xiyin's command who had recently joined the battlefield, the morale of the rest of the Jin army was almost wiped out.

Gao Song saw that the team would be finished if he waited any longer, so he raised his spear and shouted: "Brothers, don't listen to the Song Army's nonsense. We and the Song Army have sworn enemies. They will not let us off easily. Brothers, please follow Kill someone”

After calling Gao Song, he led his soldiers to attack the Song army camp. Seeing this, Qu Duan immediately raised his hand to signal Li Shifu and Yue Yun to lead the cavalry to attack the Jin army from the left and right wings. He also ordered the infantry in the middle to press forward, bows and arrows. Crossbowman shoots.

From time to time, some of the Jin Army soldiers who rushed forward fell down. Li Shifu and Yue Yun's cavalry quickly rushed into the Jin Army's formation from the left and right wings. At this time, if you look at it from the sky, you can see that the Jin Army's charging formation was very scattered, possibly due to the attack of the Song Dynasty. Due to the influence of the army's shouting, some Jin Army soldiers did not charge or walked very slowly. When Yue Yun and Li Shifu's cavalry arrived, they threw away their weapons and surrendered or turned around and fled.

As a result, the whole battle did not last long and ended after an hour. Gao Song was hit by several arrows and died during the charge. At this time, Jin Wushu led his army only five miles away from Yanmen Pass. Sa Lihe and Han Changze Arriving at Yanmen Pass early and already starting to set up defenses, this means that it is basically impossible for the Song army to catch up with Jin Wushu before they arrive at Yanmen Pass. In this sense, Gao Song's blocking was considered a success.

Qu Duan called Li Shifu and Yue Yun said: "You two should lead the cavalry and go after Jin Wushu. It will be difficult to catch up with this delay. Regardless of whether you can catch up or not, you can only catch up to Yanmen Pass, which is not Yanmen Pass." If you don't see Jin Wushu when you get to Yanmen Pass, stop and wait for someone to arrive with his army."

The two clasped their fists and said, "Yes, Qu Shuai."

It was more than half an hour after Li Shifu and Yue Yun arrived at Yanmen Pass with their cavalry. Jin Wushu had already led the entire army into Yanmen Pass, and the Jin army at Yanmen Pass had already set up a posture to guard the pass.

Standing on the pass, Jin Wushu looked at the Song Army cavalry outside the pass and sighed: "Thanks to Gao Song for buying us time, otherwise it would have been difficult to get rid of the Song Army. It's better now. We are temporarily safe after entering Yanmen Pass." .”

Wanyan Xiyin on the side said: "Marshal, now is not the time to relax. We have one night off today. We will continue to drive to Datong tomorrow. It will take at least two days from Yanmen Pass to Datong. The sooner we return to Datong, the better. Okay, as for Yanmen Pass, just leave one general to defend it."

Jin Wushu nodded and said: "Well, let's do this. Sa Lihe, let Hu Zhan stay with infantry to guard Yanmen Pass, and we will return to Datong with the remaining people."

Sa Li shouted: "Yes, Marshal, I will tell Hu Zhan about this matter and let him guard Yanmen Pass."

In the evening, the army led by Han Shizhong finally arrived at Daizhou. However, at this time, the city of Daizhou had been taken over by Qu Duan. After Han Shizhong learned that Qu Duan was leading his army to Yanmen Pass, he also led his army to Yanmen Pass.

After Qu Duan led his army to Yanmen Pass, he set up camp. After Han Shizhong arrived at Yanmen Pass, Qu Duan heard the news and went out to greet him personally and said: "Han Shuai, long time no see."

Han Shizhong replied: "Qu Shuai is great, but it's a pity that Han arrived late and missed a good show."

Qu Duan said: "It's not like missing a good show. General Li Shifu under Han Shuai took part in this good show instead of Han Shuai."

Han Shizhong asked: "Commander Qu, I wonder what the outcome of the battle will be during the day?"

Qu Duan sighed and said: "Stop talking, let Jin Wushu escape into Yanmen Pass. Although he killed Jin Wushu's troops, tens of thousands of people were taken away by Jin Wushu. Let's go, Han Shuai." , let’s go in and talk.”