Updated: 2010-05-13

According to normal training, the Anxi Army formed a circular formation with long spears, swords, swords, bows and crossbows, and the Anxi Army flag was erected in the middle, and the cavalry stood by relying on the infantry to reorganize the army. Li Ran, the centurion of the Anxi Cavalry, was commanding the Anxi Cavalry to circle around the formation and drove away the riots. Chen De only stood in front of the formation, staring at the panic with emotion, and running around tens of thousands of imperial guards.

A forest in the distance was riding by a flag officer of the Imperial Camp. Seeing that the Anxi Army camp was still neat, the flag officer shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order. The east and west troupes in front of the hall found Khitan reinforcements in the north of the city. The troops quickly came forward to defeat the enemy!" After saying that, regardless of whether Chen De and others heard it clearly, they bowed to the forest and headed towards another gathering of imperial guards.

Seeing Chen De gaze in the forest, he stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Chen Jiedu, the front army patrol encountered the Khitan team. We will go to reinforce. If the guards are not strong these days, please ask Chen Jiedu Haihan." He had no time to say more, whip the horse's buttocks hard, and turned to the north to catch up with the subordinates of the Xiao Cavalry who had been driving north. The Xiao Cavalry was formed by recruiting the children of the good families of the border counties. At this time, after a long journey to the city of Youzhou, he was about to rest, and almost all his armor was not in place. Many soldiers were almost covered with armor with bare arms, holding various weapons in their hands, and they were no longer neat in their usual order. Although they were a little panicked, they still rushed towards the north of the battle.

Chen De suddenly felt moved, and raised his whip to point at the direction of the cavalry, saying, "There are tens of thousands of troops here, which is even more dangerous. Let's go to the north of the city to see the situation on the battlefield." So he ordered Zhang Zhongyao and Li Ran to take the cavalry forward first, and personally lead other yamen infantry and cavalry to advance along the way of the three thousand cavalry, and go to the place where the shouts of killing were fierce.

When Zhang Zhongyao came to the north of the city, he saw the Liao soldiers at the top of the city of Youzhou constantly shouting to cheer for the friendly troops outside the city, but closed the city gate and did not dare to come out to reinforce, and seemed a little timid. A Song army of about 5,000 cavalry stationed outside the northern gate of Youzhou under the banner of the Iron Cavalry. The leading officer looked angry and was cursing at the top of the city with his soldiers. Zhang Zhongyao knew that this was monitoring the soldiers and horses of Youzhou to prevent them from rushing into the battlefield, so he bypassed them and searched north. Without going for a few miles, he came to the south side of the battlefield.

At this early summer, there was plenty of rain, and the land near Youzhou was wet, and the dust was not raised, and the vision was clear. Teams of cavalry from the Song and Liao armies were hovering, collide and fight together, and many camps were set up farther away. Many had already caught fire and were prepared to flee in all directions. At first glance, the Song army cavalry wearing red tassels and scattered, and the soldiers were sharp, so they were on the battlefield. The Liao people seemed to have been attacked, and many were wearing only Khitan fur coats, revealing half of their arms, each holding scimitar and spear, gritting their teeth to fight the Song army fiercely. At the same time, one after another of the Song cavalry rushed from the south continued to rush into the battlefield. Whenever each reinforcement arrived, the morale of the Song army was boosted, while the morale of the Liao people was lowered.

Zhang Zhongyao was rushing to watch the battle, Chen De had led the follow-up Ya army to arrive, and asked, "What's the situation?" Zhang Zhongyao said, "The Liao people seemed to have been attacked, with few people and horses, and a great victory was expected." Seeing this, Chen De nodded without saying a word. Seeing this, the Liao cavalry was centered on the Zhongjun camp and resisting the superior Song cavalry one after another. Although it had shown defeat, it was not chaotic. There were vaguely rectified the cavalry commander and general who were dispersed by the Song army and re-entered the battlefield. "I have been holding it for too long, can we go and rush to kill a battle?" Li Ran, the centurion of the cavalry, picked up the horse spear and looked at Chen De expectantly. Under him was a Hexi fierce horse who was happy to see the battle formation. Seeing this, he kept sniffing and digging his hooves, as if he was as impatient as the master.

Chen De watched the enemy's camp for a long time, and the Liao army had only more than 10,000 cavalry. According to the routine of military law, the Liao people immediately retreated when they encountered a Song cavalry several times their own. However, these Liao soldiers were still fighting hard around the Zhongjun camp. It can be seen that the commander must be in the camp to strictly supervise it. At this moment, they were fully maintaining the camp. The only hundreds of Liao soldiers in the Central Army dismounted and held their bows. Most of them were alerting the Song cavalry to continue to rush forward, but behind it was empty.

Seeing that the cavalry in the An'anxi showed a look of eagerness to try, Chen De raised his horse whip and pointed to the central army's flag and said, "The Liao people's rear formation seems to have a gap to take. Lead the cavalry from that place to cut in, cut off this flag, and show his power for my Anxi!" He paused and said, "You are all elite soldiers whom I personally train. Don't waste your lives for a while. If the Liao people send a large group of cavalry to intercept you, don't fight to the death and retreat directly."

The place we refer to is the back of the Liao camp. Several cavalrymen of the Song and Liao armies fought there, but there was a gap. When they rushed in there, there was only a group of defeated soldiers who were being rectified. As long as the defeated soldiers were dispersed, they could go straight under the commander's flag. The Song army successively entered the battlefield, and each team of cavalry was eager to find the Liao cavalry to fight, but they did not notice that the Liao army was under the slack of troops, and the rear actually left a flaw that could not be compensated.

"Thank you lord for it!" Li Ran saw Chen De's order and watched the gap between Chen De's command and him, and was overjoyed. More than a hundred Anxi cavalrymen walked around the front of the battlefield where the two armies fought and entered from several Song and Liao cavalrymen who were fighting in a regiment. The cavalry formation formed by the Anxi cavalry was much closer than the ordinary Northern cavalry. The movement of the man and horse was as one, and at this moment it became a unique advantage. The small gap on the battlefield where several enemy and our cavalry were intertwined and fought, and they were actually quick.

It penetrated quickly, and in the middle, a few Song and Liao cavalrymen who were not open their eyes collided. The Anxi army was closely connected and drove away with a horse spear. The Liao cavalry generals who were commanding their subordinates to fight to the death with the Song army were occasionally discovered. They were either stuck to the Wuxia clone by the Song army, or the reaction speed of the cavalry was not as fast as that of the Anxi army. They actually watched the Song cavalry with less than 200 cavalry killing to the Zhongjun Village, where there were only some Liao cavalry who had just retreated from the battlefield.

Seeing that the Liao cavalry turned around and resisted, they all looked panicked, as if they wanted to pluck their horses to escape at any time. They were overjoyed and said to themselves, "The lord's ability to observe the army is like a god's help!" With a loud shout, more than a hundred cavalry were closer together, and they stabbed into the scattered and broken army group like an iron needle. The Liao soldiers either rushed to the side to avoid it, or could not avoid it even if they were stabbed off by an iron spear. After a few breaths, they rushed to the commander's flag.

In front, Li Ran reached out and pulled out the horizontal knife and cut off the rope under the flag with one stroke. The Liao army commander flag floated down from the air like a kite with a broken string. Before the flag could land, Li Ran did not stop and quickly circled a circle with an Anxi cavalry, and rushed out from another gap behind the Liao army camp. He ran back to the place where the infantrymen of the Ya army led by Chen De, looked at the battlefield of the Central Army, held his fists and handed over the order and said, "Fortunately, I am not humiliating my fate!"

The central army commander flag was beheaded, and the morale of the Liao army was greatly destroyed. The defeated soldiers on the battlefield were in chaos and could not be rectified. Finally, Liao soldiers abandoned the camp one after another and retreated north under the leadership of the commander. The main force of the Song army came from afar. Although they defeated, they did not have the strength to chase them. So they paused. They simply cleaned the battlefield and counted the results. They beheaded more than 2,000 levels, captured 500 people, tens of thousands of war horses, and countless other armored wars. Later, they interrogated the Liao army's captives. It turned out that the Liao Kingdom did not expect that after the Song people attacked Taiyuan, more than 200,000 imperial guards would rest for a month, and they actually highlighted the army's strategy of Youyan.

, caught off guard, the King of the North Court, Yelu Xidi, and the commander-in-chief Xiao Haogu, hurriedly gathered 10,000 Liao troops to reinforce Youzhou first, and arrived at the city of Youzhou on the afternoon of June 23. As soon as they set up camp, they encountered the cavalry of the east and west teams led by Fu Qian and Kong Shouzheng who were patrolling the north of Youzhou City. After this encounter, the Liao army was defeated again. The Song army was able to gain a foothold in Youzhou City. After the imperial guards were resting, the troops set up a solid camp in the southeast, southwest and northwest of Youzhou City according to the plan before the expedition, and began to cut down trees on the outskirts of the city, making siege equipment, and preparing to attack Youzhou City.

In addition to the Liao army that was defeated in the north of the city the day before yesterday, several Liao reinforcements have arrived one after another in the past few days. However, when the Song army was in great power, they were all patrolling near Youzhou and did not dare to come up to challenge it. A small group of Liao soldiers would rather use the tunnels they had excavated before and sneak into Youzhou City than pass through the defense line of the Song army besieged. Recently, the imperial guards encountered the Khitan soldiers again in the north of Youzhou and defeated them again.

Seeing this, all the soldiers and civilians around Youzhou all wanted to return to the Central Plains. First, the Han army, Shenwu camp and more than 400 rural soldiers surrendered, and more than 150 nearby county magistrates and gentry Han people, carrying cattle, sheep, wine and food, to reward the army. The Song army swept the surrounding Liao army everywhere and drove away the Liao reinforcements who dared to approach Youzhou. The Khitan officials in the outer area of ​​Youzhou fled one after another, and the Han officials surrendered. The rule of the Liao Kingdom was almost collapsed.

"It seems that the Liao army is indeed not prepared. Even the arrival of reinforcements is like a drop in the bucket." Zhang Zhongyao sighed. As a Han vassal state, he and some other officers of the Anxi Army had a conflicting mind about the Battle of Youzhou. Chen De heard him sigh and said in a deep voice: "Zhong Yao does not have to worry about the Liao people. These Liao soldiers who came one after another only delayed the time of the imperial guards' attack. The Liao people's real victory was the Gong branch army, who had always been guarding the Liao emperor. The imperial guards attacked from afar. They could not capture Youzhou before the Gong branch army arrived, so they needed to fight the Gong branch army to the city. It is unknown who would win."

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