Zhao Tai led Wanqi to suddenly attack Pizhou and caught the Song army by surprise.
The Qi army's cavalry troops used the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves, breaking through the Song camp in the eastern and southern suburbs, and then covered up the enemy for fifty miles to the south.
Naturally, the two-legged Song Army could not outrun the four-legged horse army. The Song Army that fled south was either beaten to death by the overtaking Qi Army or became a prisoner of the Qi Army.
There were 50,000 Huai troops under Pizhou City. Except for the 15,000 troops in the western suburbs who were not defeated, the eastern and southern suburbs totaled more than 35,000 troops and were easily defeated by the Qi army.
In this battle, the Qi army killed 5,000 Song troops at the cost of less than 400 cavalry, captured 30,000 Song troops, 20,000 civilians, and seized countless grain, soldiers, armor, and baggage.
When it got dark, the Qi army returned to Pizhou and used the occupied Song army's southern suburbs camp as their camp.
At this time, the defenders in the city sent a large amount of food, and Zhao Tai immediately rewarded the army.
A bonfire was lit in the Qi army camp, and many soldiers gathered around, eating large pieces of meat, and talking enthusiastically about the day's war. Everyone felt exciting and enjoyable.
At this time, Zhao Tai occupied Shi Zhaizhi's military tent and looked at the situation inside the tent. There were many personal belongings of Shi Zhaizhi inside.
Zhao Tai walked to the table, picked up the memorial on it, and took a look at it. It was a memorial half written by Shi Zhaizhi, preparing to report victory to Lin'an after the capture of Pizhou.
Zhao Tai smiled, threw the memorial on the table, and then sat down on Shi Zhaizhi's chair.
"Your Majesty, this battle was really enjoyable!" Wanyan Chenghu was bandaged. The battle was over, but he seemed to be still in a state of excitement: "I am willing to lead the tiger cavalry army to attack the main force of the Song Army southward and capture Shi Song alive. Of!"
Zhao Tai smiled and waved his hand, "Today is indeed a happy day, but we can succeed because we are unexpected and unprepared. Soon all the Song Army will get the news and will definitely strengthen their defenses. It will not be easy if we imagine that horses are riding on the company camp like today. . In today's battle, the Tiger Cavalry Army has made a great contribution. You should take good care of your injuries. There will be opportunities to use you later."
This time the Song army thought they could capture Pizhou in a short time, and also believed that the main force of the Qi army was still in Hebei and they could concentrate on attacking the city, so they did not set up camp seriously.
They all felt that they could break the city quickly, and then broke up the camp and headed north. With Shi Zhaizhi's urging to attack the city, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty just surrounded the city with a fence. Instead of strengthening the camp, they went to prepare siege equipment.
If the Song army camped seriously and arranged trenches, horse traps, and horse rejections, it would be difficult for the Qi army's cavalry to break through the Song army's camp.
When Wanyan Chenghu heard this, he could only clasp his fists in frustration, obviously not enjoying himself enough, "I understand."
Zhao Tai then looked at Xu Erzhu, "How is the situation of the prisoners?"
"Report to your Majesty, after the prisoners disarmed, they were imprisoned in Dongying!" Xu Erzhu saluted: "Their weapons, stomachs, captured grain, and baggage were transported into the city."
Zhao Tai nodded slightly, "Take good care of them and do not abuse them. The wounded must be treated, and the prisoners must have the same food as our soldiers!"
Xu Erzhu said: "Your Majesty, they are all prisoners, and we don't have much food. Do we still need to let them eat so well?"
Zhao Tai smiled and said: "Don't worry about that little food, they will be the key to Gu's disintegration of the Song army! You do as Gu wants. Tomorrow I will go on inspection. If I find that the food is not good, I will hold you accountable."
Xu Erzhu immediately clasped his fists and said, "I obey!"
"Your Majesty, we have destroyed Shi Zhai, what should we do next?" Wanyan Chenghu asked.
Zhao Tai narrowed his eyes, "Didn't Shi Zhaizhi run to the western suburbs camp? Next, we wait for Shi Songzhi to send troops to rescue him!"
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In the Song Army camp in the western suburbs, Shi Zhaizhi, the former commander of the Song Army, sat in the tent with dull eyes. His face no longer had the high spirits when he was fighting to be the vanguard, and his face was full of fear.
In the Song army's tent, many generals were also downcast and unwilling to recall the embarrassment of the day.
The attack of the Qi army's cavalry during the day directly knocked Shi Zhaizhi unconscious. He did not expect that Zhao Tai would appear in Pizhou, nor did he expect that the Qi army's cavalry would be so powerful.
If Shi Zhaizhi was blindly confident a few days ago and did not pay attention to Zhao Tai and the Qi army, thinking that with 300,000 Song troops going north to attack Zhao Tai from the north and south with Mongolia, he would undoubtedly win.
So now Shi Zhaizhi is in deep fear and self-doubt.
"Ms. sir, we suffered such a huge defeat and lost all our food, grass and supplies. What should we do next?" A general broke the silence.
"I didn't expect Zhao Thief to appear in Pizhou. Since he appeared, it means that the Qi army has gone south." Shi Zhaizhi came back to his senses and felt sad, "I shouldn't have believed in the Mongols so much. I really didn't expect the Mongols to be so It’s unreliable! Now that Zhao Tai has returned to the army, we have to evacuate quickly, meet up with Shi Xiang, and then make plans!"
Shi Zhaizhi complained about the Mongols. If they could hold Zhao Tai back, how could he suffer such a disastrous defeat.
Shi Zhaizhi shed tears of regret. He used to value the Mongols too much and thought they were invincible. He never expected that Zhao Tai would withdraw from Hebei.
"Ms. sir, how do we retreat now?" Jiang Wanzai said: "More than two hundred miles south from Pizhou are plains. When we leave the camp, we will be overtaken by the Qi cavalry like the defeated troops of Dongying and Nanying. Then tie them back one by one."
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Shi Zhai's face turned pale, "Then we can only wait for Prime Minister Shi to send troops to rescue us!"
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In the eastern suburbs of Pizhou, tens of thousands of people were crowded together in the prisoner camp.
On ancient battlefields, once a soldier was captured, the outcome would most likely be tragic.
Because most of the time prisoners are a burden to the victorious side. Not only do they have to consume food to feed them, but they also have to be guarded by separate troops, which affects the army's ability to continue fighting.
If the war is not over at this time, then the victorious side will choose to kill the prisoners in order to continue fighting.
Therefore, in the prison camp, the captured soldiers of Song Dynasty were very frightened. Only the sobs and groans of the wounded soldiers were heard in the camp, which was extremely miserable.
At this time, a group of Qi soldiers entered the camp and immediately caused a commotion among the prisoners.
"I am the medical officer of the Qi army!" The leader, a thin official wearing official robes, shouted to everyone: "My king said that you are also men of the Han family, and you entered Qi territory because of the traitor. This battle is wrong. You traitor, I won't wait any longer. Those of you who are injured can come out immediately, and I will take you to the medical camp for treatment!"
As soon as these words came out, the prisoners couldn't help but talk about it. Those prisoners who could only wait for death after being injured suddenly felt a glimmer of hope in their hearts.
"Those are Qi Army medical soldiers. I saw them during the Huainan War. They shuttled across the battlefield to treat wounded soldiers!" Among the prisoners, an old soldier from the Song Army happily helped up his comrade, "Mazi, you are saved! Medical officer, save me." Save my brother!"
The medical officer saw this and signaled to his subordinates, and soldiers immediately carried a stretcher over to carry away the wounded soldier.
Seeing this, the prisoners of the Song Army quickly helped out all the wounded around them and handed them over to the Qi Army.
At this time, the medical officer asked several more times, and after confirming that there were no wounded, he led the team out of the camp, leaving the prisoners talking among themselves.
In the Song army, except for officers who could receive medical treatment, ordinary soldiers had no chance to receive treatment.
The originally frightened prisoners in the camp gradually felt relieved when they saw that Qi Jun was willing to treat even the wounded soldiers.
"Linyi Wang Renyi!"
The prisoners couldn't help but sigh. They had no complaints in their hearts against the Qi army that defeated them. Instead, they felt ashamed that they had stepped into Shandong and attacked the Qi army.
