Overall, except for the difficult battle with Wanyan Benjian's personal soldiers, Duan Yi and Xu Ang did not expend much effort in retaking Jiaohe County.
The remnants of the Jin Army without city defense weapons and city defense reserves could not successfully defend the city. Facing the decisive attack of the Liberation Army, they could only retreat steadily and soon the entire army was annihilated.
Those who were killed were killed, and those who surrendered surrendered. Most people quickly lost the confidence to fight and chose to give up resistance.
The Liberation Army then closed the city gates and searched for the golden soldiers in all the houses in the city, so that no one among the golden soldiers escaped.
Through the interrogation and corpse identification after the war, Duan Yi and Xu Ang knew how much contribution they had made and what the battle situation was like on the front line.
To be precise, this battle has been won. The Liberation Army has won a complete victory. The main force led by Su Yonglin has defeated the main force of the Jin Army, and the Jin Army fled.
This escaping force was led by Wanyan Benjian, the general of the Jin Kingdom and the commander-in-chief of the left army. They had been fleeing for several days and ended up being trapped here.
The veteran who committed suicide was Wanyan Benjian. This was the result of identification by a large number of Jin soldiers. When they saw Wanyan Benjian's body, they collectively knelt down and howled, offering their last condolences to the only remaining veteran of the Jin Kingdom. .
In addition to Wanyan Benjian, the Liberation Army also killed four general-level Jin generals and captured two general-level Jin generals. They also captured a small number of officials from the Jin Dynasty court.
After identification, there is a rigorous interrogation.
These pampered guys obviously cannot stand the scrutiny.
Through the mouths of these people, Duan Yi and Xu Ang learned some details about Su Yonglin's victory over the Jin Army, as well as information about the remnants of another Jin Army that fled north.
But it has to be said that Duan Yi and Xu Ang have no other ideas to think about the remnants of the Jin army for the time being.
The joy of victory alone filled their entire bodies and minds.
They won, they won a hard-earned victory, they deserved this victory through brave fighting, and they are about to usher in a full-scale counterattack and glory that belongs to them.
The whole city's Liberation Army fell into a sea of joy.
Then they decided not to continue going south, but to send troops to inform the headquarters of the Liberation Army in the south about the relevant news, and escort the prisoners south. They would lead the main force to turn around and go north, choosing to go to Hejian City to inquire about the latest news from the north.
Duan Yi and Xu Ang were keenly aware that after winning this anti-invasion war, the Liberation Army would immediately switch to a strategic offensive.
This was the strategy proposed by Su Yonglin before the war.
If the counterattack is won, then the main force of the Liberation Army will immediately attack Yanyun after winning the counterattack, recapture Yanyun, recapture the Great Wall, establish a complete northern defense line, and put a seal on their victory.
Then they can relax a little.
This is just a slight breath of relief. After reorganizing the army, they will launch an attack on Liaodong, Hedong and Guanzhong without stopping, and use this power to completely annex and digest the Jin Kingdom.
Only in this way can they truly gain a foothold in the Central Plains, regain China, and ensure that the fruits of their victory are not stolen.
And it is only after they have established a firm foothold in the entire Central Plains that they can have a real rest, end their long and tiring journey, and take a good rest.
No matter how you look at it, it will be several years later. If everything goes well, it will be several years before they can truly rest.
On the contrary, they will have to gallop on the battlefield for a long time in the future.
That was a great opportunity to make a name for themselves in history. Duan Yi and Xu Ang, who had a keen sense of war, would not allow themselves to miss this opportunity.
They immediately went north to the river.
Two of the three fleeing Jin soldiers had already collapsed, and the last one was pursued by Su Yonglin personally.
Through the report of the tracking cavalry sent by Han Jinggui, Su Yonglin learned that the Jin soldiers on the earliest escape route were the most well-equipped and had the largest number of soldiers, so he judged that that should be the main force of the escape.
If his guess was correct, Wan Yanliang was among the Jin soldiers on this route, and the main elite of the escaped Jin soldiers were also there, so Su Yonglin personally led the cavalry to follow them.
The remaining two groups have to be dealt with, but if they don't have enough troops, then they can send people back to the cavalry camp to organize the pursuit troops to pursue them north, but he himself has to set off first.
No matter what, we can't let go of Wan Yanliang and the Jin Army Center beside him. Even if the war horse under his crotch is run away and his legs are worn out and bloody, he still has to catch up with Wan Yanliang and kill Wan Yanliang. .
The fleeing force led by Wanyan Yiying had maps, guides, relatively sufficient food, and a configuration of one person and two horses. It was considered the best among the three-way fleeing force.
In the process of escaping, Wanyan Yiying knew that he needed to maintain a certain marching speed, and at the same time avoid encountering obstacles from the Liberation Army in the front, and strive to return to Yanyun with zero contact.
This is a technical job. For this reason, Wanyan Yiying arranged vanguard and rear troops about a day apart in front and rear of the marching army to explore the path and avoid risks for the main force in the middle.
If a problem occurs, the front and rear immediately accelerate to the location of the main force and provide lightning protection information to the main force.
According to this plan, their marching speed could have kept up with the consumption of food and fodder, and was enough to support their schedule of returning to Yanyun. However, the problem was that God's calculations were not as good as those of humans.
Because of being assigned by Wanyan Benjian, Wanyan Yiying not only escaped with the cavalry, but also had to take a large number of court officials with him.
These court officials are not like the elite cavalry who have enough physical strength to support long-term riding. These officials are delicate, pampered, and are masters of political struggles in their offices. When it comes to the pain of marching, they say they fully bear it. No.
When going south, they, like Wan Yanliang, took a bus.
Senior officials also have high-end vehicles, and lower-ranking officials also have relatively comfortable vehicles. When going south, the army can only march at a speed of thirty miles a day, and sometimes only twenty miles. They are fed, drank and taken care of, so they are not needed at all. How tiring.
But how could there be so much rest time and vehicles for them to use on this escape road?
After about three days of high-intensity marching, the Jin army arrived at Xinrao'an Town in Cangzhou. Here, the delicate and expensive court officials couldn't hold on any longer and asked for rest, vehicles, and hot water. Serve hot.
It's not that hypocritical, it's true that people and their physiques cannot be generalized. How can these court bureaucrats who have been engaged in office struggles for a long time compete with elite cavalry in physical strength and riding skills?
Riding on a horse also requires physical strength.
Wanyan Yiying was very angry about this and cursed these bureaucrats so hard that they could not hold their heads up.
But no matter what, they really couldn't hold on anymore and couldn't run anymore.
It is impossible to leave them behind. These people are half of the officials in the imperial court, and they are all service officials. If they all die here, it will take at least a few years for Jinting to recover. Wanyan Yiying cannot bear this responsibility.
So Wanyan Yiying could only assign some soldiers with superb riding skills to continue riding with these delicate and noble bureaucrats, and let the bureaucrats hold the bodies of these knights and ride together, so as to relieve fatigue and allow the large army to continue to move forward. .
However, this puts an excessive load on the war horses, causing the frequency of replacement of war horses to increase, the fatigue of the war horses to increase, and the speed of the journey has to be slowed down.
Two days later, the team arrived near Yanshan County.
Here, the fatigue of the Jin Army soldiers and the fatigue of the war horses reached a critical value.
Many people suffered from colds and coughs due to the rain and low temperature, and some had high fevers that persisted and were unable to move forward. Especially those court officials, many of whom were sick, could no longer keep going, which seriously hindered the army's progress.
Many horses fell to the ground due to lack of physical strength and slippery roads on rainy days. As a result, they were injured and could not be ridden, so they had to give up.
The massive consumption of food and horse feed also threatened the army's forward speed.
Although Wanyan Yiying was unwilling to stop, the reality was that he had to stop and rest. If he continued running, the entire team would fall apart.
