Twenty miles east of Jiangxia City, the wilderness between the northern foot of Luojia Mountain and the shore of East Lake is full of corpses and broken military flags of Huaixi Song soldiers.
Zhang Jun, the often defeated general, suffered another defeat without any surprise.
After crossing south from Huangzhou, his 30,000 Huaixi elite troops marched towards Jiangxia City as planned.
When they arrived at Luojiashan, they encountered the Hanyang army, which had been waiting for them for a long time.
More than 10,000 Hanyang troops lined up between the northern foot of Luojia Mountain and the south bank of East Lake, blocking the path of the Huaixi Army.
When Zhang Jun saw this situation, he not only did not want to take a detour, but instead thought that this was an opportunity to gather together and annihilate the Han army.
A military order was immediately issued, ordering the three armies to organize an attack.
The vanguard was composed of two thousand heavily armored axemen wearing infantry armor and holding axes one to two feet long.
Behind them were two thousand divine arm crossbowmen.
These four thousand people can be said to be the elite of the entire Huaixi Army.
The Han army's military formation still had musketeers in front, but there were no pikemen to provide them with short-range cover.
In order to protect these musketeers, Niu Gao gathered all the spearmen and crossbowmen in the army.
However, the spearmen of these spearmen were as long as the long axes of the opponent's heavy infantry, and the arrows of the crossbowmen could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Song army's heavy infantry.
At the same time, these spearmen and crossbowmen also suffered from the enemy.
The divine arm crossbowmen and other crossbowmen continued to shoot.
Therefore, their role was limited.
If the heavy infantry really approached, they would not be able to protect the musketeers.
The arrows from both sides continued to hit the large shield held up in front of the musketeers and the heavy armor of the Song army, and the sound of "ding-ding-dong-dong" was endless.
The musketeers were protected by large shields placed on the ground and were not harmed by the arrows.
However, the Han soldiers from the Niugao tribe behind them suffered many injuries from arrows.
When the heavy armored men were within seventy paces of these musketeers, the musketeers fired a volley.
Some of the heavy armor of the Song army fell down, and many of the crossbowmen behind were injured by stray bullets.
They could no longer shoot without any scruples.
One thousand musketeers fired three rounds before and after, the last two rounds were aimed shots.
By the time of the last round of shooting, most of the heavy-armed infantry had rushed within two battles, and their axes had already been swung.
At this time, the last round of gunfire sounded one after another.
These heavy armored infantry were beaten into a honeycomb by close-range muskets.
There were only more than a hundred heavy armored axemen still standing on the battlefield, and only a few dozen of them were left.
Still rushing forward, the others were already running back with clumsy steps.
The spearmen behind the musketeers found that their spears could not reach each other, so they simply rushed in front of the musketeers and stabbed at the dozens of heavy armored axemen who were still moving forward.
The latter was stabbed to the ground but not seriously injured.
It wasn't until a Han soldier reminded them to "prick their faces" that their chainmail-covered faces were pricked into honeycombs by the incoming spear blades.
Immediately afterwards, the scene outside Lin'an City happened again.
The dozens of heavy armored infantry who collapsed and fled infected thousands of crossbowmen and sword and shield men who followed them.
Seeing the infantry of the Han army on the opposite side rushing toward him, they also retreated.
When the gunfire rang out, this retreat suddenly turned into a rout.
Zhang Jun collected his defeated troops in the east of Jiangxia City and found casualties.
Nearly 7,000 people were scattered, and most of the casualties were heavy armored infantry and crossbowmen.
The Huaixi army had no baggage, and each soldier only brought enough dry food for ten days.
Therefore, although Zhang Jun still had the strength to fight, he knew that if he could not quickly capture the city and seize a large amount of grain and supplies in Hubei, he would not be able to stay here for a long time.
So he took the remaining defeated generals around Jiangxia and fled south as close to the western foothills of the Mufu Mountains as possible.
As long as he fled to Yuezhou and defected to Lian Nanfu and Han Jing, he would have achieved his goal of strategic transfer.
Niu Gao was going to pursue him, but Yue Yun conveyed Yue Fei's words to him, and he gave up.
Yue Yun left all the 1,000 muskets and remaining ammunition to Niu Gao, and selected dozens of people to stay as instructors.
Then he took the remaining people on a fast boat down the river and hurriedly returned to Huainan to meet Yue Fei who had already crossed the river.
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In the early summer of the second year of the Yue Dynasty of the Han Empire, Yang Yizhong led his three thousand Han troops across the Huaihe River and invaded Shunchang Prefecture.
Han Chang, the guard general of Shunchang Prefecture, had just received an order from Wanyan Wushu, ordering him to rectify his troops and repair his camp, waiting for the southern expedition army to gather in Shunchang.
It turned out that Wanyan Wushu had ordered the mobilization of 300,000 troops to assemble in Xinyang, Shunchang and Huaiyang, preparing to divide his troops into three groups to invade the south again.
This Han Chang is a complete traitor, not because he works for the Kingdom of Jin.
Over the past hundred years, many people were born in the Jin Kingdom in the Liao Kingdom, and then became officials and generals in the Liao Kingdom or the Jin Kingdom.
Han Chang was one of them.
In this era when there are no national concepts, there is nothing to blame.
But Han Chang later did something that confirmed his identity as a traitor.
After the Jin Kingdom plundered the Central Plains, they began to order people to shave their heads and change their clothes.
Han Chang was very concerned about this matter.
He had stricter requirements on the common people than his master, and used this as an excuse to kill countless common people under his rule.
As soon as Han Chang received Wanyan Wushu's order, he took action immediately.
The county magistrates and lieutenants of Shunchang Prefecture were summoned, and they were ordered to collect labor and food and fodder, and build camps in preparation for welcoming the "King's Master".
He himself often went to the military camp to reorganize the army and prepare his troops for further work in the south of the Yangtze River.
At this moment, another reconnaissance cavalry came to report that a Han army of several thousand people crossed the Huai River downstream of Shunchang and went up the Huaihe River to approach Shunchang.
Han Chang was taken aback and asked: "Whose banner is the one coming under, Zhang Xian, Yue Yun, or Niu Gao?"
"No, they are led by Yang Yizhong," the scout reported.
After hearing this, Han Chang burst out laughing: "Who do I know?
It turns out to be this bearded eunuch."
It turned out that Yang Yizhong was known as the bearded eunuch because he had served in Zhao Gou's guard for a long time and was good at flattering people.
This reputation is known to everyone in the world.
Han Chang stopped laughing and thought that since he was a soft persimmon, why not eat him and take the lead?
Thinking of this, his face became solemn and he ordered: "Send my military order to mobilize all the kidnappers and tiefutu in Shunchang Mansion, as well as five thousand infantry.
Follow me to annihilate this invading enemy."
In Shunchang Mansion, there are 500 iron pagodas and 1,000 kidnapping horses left by Wanyan Wushu to Han Chang.
These iron pagodas and kidnapping horses have spread across the world since Aguda and made great contributions to the Jin Kingdom's huge territory. .
It wasn't until they met the Beiwei Army of the Yuejia Army that they met their nemesis.
But the leader of the army now is Yang Yizhong, and there cannot be any backwei soldiers among his three thousand Han troops.
In Han Chang's eyes, the Yue family's army without back-up soldiers was nothing, let alone Yang Yizhong's troops.
In his opinion, the Han army was no different from the Southern Song army that he had dealt with in previous years.
Soon, the two armies met on the north bank of the Huai River.
This was a head-on battle in which both sides were eager.
So after the scouts from both sides discovered each other's traces, they quickly moved closer to each other
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