In April of the first year of Wu Zhenxing, in the early summer of the thirteenth year since Ning Yi killed the king in anger and launched the Huaxia banner, many common senses in this world have been violently overturned.
The fourth southern expedition of the Jin Kingdom, which lasted for nearly two years, has come to an end. During this period, the seemingly marginalized Southwest Campaign that has attracted the attention of countless people in the entire world is about to come to an end. The Wu Dynasty fell and collapsed in the attack of the Jin State East Route Army, and the tragedy of almost the whole world kneeling to the Jin people was painful, but it did not surprise many people.
During the entire Jinwu War, the Wu Dynasty had stupid behaviors and tragic resistance, but no matter before or after the war, people clearly knew that in this war, Wu Dynasty was the real weak. The failure of the weak is sighing and heart-wrenching, but most people in the world have at least once thought of such a scene once or twice.
For the black flag in the southwest, people have been reluctant to pay attention to it for a long time. People in the Wu Dynasty have a more or less deviated impression of it. Even many forces that have long-term traded and mutually beneficial with the southwest are very concerned about the fact that they once huddled in Liangshan in the southwest. Among the mere hundreds of thousands of people, it is difficult to produce extremely high evaluations, and this "extremely high" upper limit is at most the same level as the Wu Dynasty.
Even in the Golden Kingdom, the vast majority of the population did not take the threat of the so-called "black flag" very seriously. Although the war that took place in the northwest once caused Jin Guo to lose two generals, it ended with Jin Guo's victory and the massacre of the northwest after all. Only Zonghan, Xi Yin and other senior officials of the Jin Kingdom who really saw the threat of the black flag, and their thinking also stayed on "it's not too late". After the fourth southern expedition, the East Route Army mainly attacked the Wu Dynasty, and the West Route Army focused on the southwest. worried.
Zongfu Zongbi's expedition to Nanwu may still be unsuccessful and return without success, but the target group of the Wu Dynasty gangsters hiding in the mountains that the West Route Army is targeting is basically impossible to escape.
People watched the mighty Jinwu confrontation, watched the process of Nanwu disintegration and destruction, and most of them held a relatively comfortable mentality for the advancement of the West Route Army. If the war process of the Wu Dynasty can support a wonderful game, the development of the war in the southwest can only be a game of time for a long time: when will Zonghan defeat Zizhou and when will he be defeated? Chengdu, when will the so-called Chinese Fifth Army be defeated, when will it triumphantly return to the DPRK... By the beginning of this year, such a bet may be adjusted, but in the general direction, there is still not much change.
Until the inner demon in the southwest turned over the cards in his hand one by one like a master of juggling.
No one expected that the Black Flag Army, which had only a base of hundreds of thousands of people for a long time, would contain such a great power in a remote corner. In the second half of last year, the West Route Army entered the Jiange, and the cards in the hands of the demon were only opened one by one calmly and slowly. .
But this year, especially since February, the cards in Heart Demon's hands have become more intense, even more intense one by one. The small pond shook, and the ground fire was accumulating. Zong Han and the others, who had already penetrated into it, saw what seemed like a surging magma rushing towards them. Those who were preparing to fight against the small pond faced the eruption of the volcano.
From the Wangyuan Bridge in February, to the chase in March, all common sense was broken before our eyes. People thought that the black flag was just an unruly rebel within the Wu Dynasty, like Fang La, like Tian Hu, or at most more The powerful and more extreme Fang La and Tian Hu did not expect that at this moment, the black flag showed a terrifying power that surpassed the rise of the Jurchen and was "invincible".
The most terrifying thing is that such power has not yet bottomed out. If it is said that the firearms that appeared in the southwest in February and March were a temporary breakthrough based on Qi Qiao’s prostitution skills, and in April Zonghan pinned his last hope in the decisive battle of Hanzhong, people were shocked to see the amazing power that even surpassed the power of Ki Qiao’s prostitution skills. one scene.
On April 19, in the records and summaries of later generations, this is the moment when the modern military system and military beliefs really showed their terrible power. As the seventh army led by Qin Shaoqian rushed forward, it once carried the belief of "underdog" and The Jurchen army, which still maintained the peak of the era in terms of the quality of individual soldiers, was almost smashed to the ground when caught off guard. This is the performance of the Huaxia Army of 20,000 people facing the Jin Army of 90,000 people.
Astonishing fighting will, excellent battlefield coordination, and super high organization, reflected in the field battle, is almost a comparison of combat power like a steel knife cutting tofu. On the afternoon of April 19, the vanguard troops led by Purcha seemed to have encountered a huge grinding wheel, and they were irresistibly defeated in an unexpected large-scale beheading tactic.
Before the battle, in this era, they were also a tenacious army of steel, but the steel was crushed abruptly, and Wanyan Saba who came after seemed to be able to hear the crisp smashing sound.
Fierce fighting continued that night.
For many years in later generations, the evaluations of the Jin people in this Hanzhong war often tended to go in two directions.
One believes that the Jurchen army at this time is already on the decline, especially after the defeat in the southwest, the military morale of its army has collapsed in a mess, so the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Seventh Army should be discounted. Measured, in Qin Shaoqian's words at the time, it was probably a cold meal left over from the Fifth Army.
Another view is that, compared with the peak combat power based on the modern military system shown by the Huaxia Army here, Jin Bing, under the leadership of Zong Han and others, also promoted the peak of the feudal army within a certain period of time. Strength, this is the proud remnant of the Jurchen army for more than 30 years in the world. After experiencing the defeat in the southwest, with the difficult march of the road to return to the north, the second setback of the battle of Hanzhong finally inspired a certain desire to be a soldier. When fleeing in the southwest, the awareness of the underdogs probably only existed in the hearts of a small number of middle and high-level aristocrats, such as Tu Lisu and other high-level generals. When they arrived at Hanzhong, the middle and lower levels gradually felt that they might not be able to go back. fear.
Such thoughts of underdogs inspired their combat power to a certain extent. Among the high-level army, the performance of several generals is actually very bright, it even seems like they are burning their own light. Among them, Wanyan Saba, for example, chose to consolidate the position and retreat as soon as possible after the rescue of Pucha was unsuccessful, and in the desperate raid led by the cavalry the next day, it once caused a lot of trouble to the Huaxia Army.
Perhaps the most powerful response was Wanyan Zonghan's response that night. Not long after receiving the news from Saba Ming's personal guard, the Jurchen veteran who had fought in the world for more than 40 years silently mobilized the army and prepared to defend against night attacks and even set up an ambush to counterattack. It was Gao Qingyi who confronted the Second Division of the Huaxia Seventh Army more than ten miles away. The fighting was fierce, and there were even fires in the mountains, but it was later proved that it was a false move of the Huaxia Army.
Qin Shaoqian led the main force of the Second Division, detouring along the mountain road for dozens of miles this night, and launched an attack on Zonghan's camp in the early morning of April 20th when people were most tired and lethargic. Zonghan's response that night was like a wild beast. generally accurate. He himself stayed up all night, and also made the soldiers in the barracks ready to fight, the Huaxia Army attacked, and then fell into a trap. This is the most beautiful scene for Jin Bing in the Hanzhong War.
However, the military quality of the Huaxia Army is also extremely amazing. A company in charge of the front attack first noticed something wrong and began to divide troops for reconnaissance, which made the ambush of the Jinbing unable to surround the Huaxia Army brigade. In the first quarter of an hour after the battle, the Huaxia Army's forward was at a disadvantage due to artillery and fire attacks, but then launched a tenacious resistance and breakthrough.
In the ensuing battle, both sides showed astonishing fighting will. Zong Han and Han Qixian went to the front line to supervise the battle one after another. When they found the enemy leader, some of the Huaxia Army companies and classes that were half-encircled even launched a surprise attack on the core of the opponent. It took a certain amount of sacrifice, but it didn't pay off. As the Huaxia Army retreated, the Jinbing pursued aggressively. Soon after, they encountered a countercharge from the Huaxia Army. Thousands of Jin Army were defeated in the night.
Compared with the previous losses of the Huaxia Army after falling into an ambush, the subsequent battle caused more casualties to the Jinbing. Zong Han already understood the horror of this Huaxia Army's combat power, and since then he has built a heavy defense.
This night's battle also seems to confirm Ning Yi's previous statement. Although the Huaxia Army already has amazing fighting qualities, and it has also gathered the wisdom of everyone through the staff, but in the field command and tactical application of the war, compared to vertical and horizontal fighting The generals of Jin Guo, who have survived after countless trials for decades, are still inferior. Pang Lu'an lost Huangming County, for this reason, Qin Shaoqian's sneak attack that night failed, and that's why.
However, General Jin is better at tactics, and the director of the Huaxia Army is better at strategy. Ning Yi is good at operations research. With modern military discipline and brutal training, the quality of the 7th Army that has been built is enough to smooth out some tactical flaws. Even if 1,000 people surround 500 people, the 500 people only need to turn the 1,000 people down.
After the night, Qin Shaoqian separated half of his troops and headed north, and cooperated with the first division to attack Yan Saba. Saba managed to stabilize his position, trying to take advantage of the artillery to drag the situation into the positional defense battle of the large army. . At the same time, Gao Qingyi and Zong Han went north, and Qin Shaoqian led the troops to attack the middle. Zong Han mobilized a large number of middle and low-level generals, and launched round after round of fighting with the Huaxia army with a fierce and long offensive.
Zong Han did not choose to retreat before the amazing combat power of the Huaxia Army. At this time, retreating is the real dead end. Even though the Chinese Seventh Army is already extremely powerful, but it adds up to less than 20,000 people. This Jurchen veteran knows that the only way out is to grit his teeth and fight against consumption.
He, Han Qixian, Gao Qingyi, etc. did their best to maintain the organization of the army, made small-scale cuts of the relatively large army, and launched continuous and frequent attacks on the Huaxia army round by round. At this time, they were fighting locally. There have been more losses than wins, but as long as there is no large-scale decisive battle such as guarding the step and Dagang, Zong Han has decided that even if the advantage of numbers is used, the Huaxia army will be consumed to death.
Within a radius of hundreds of miles, the two armies were chaotically intertwined. The two armies fought each other from one point to the next and one hill to the next. The Huaxia army was tenacious, but the Jurchen, under the control of Zong Han, Gao Qingyi, and others, lost their strength. Dense and responsive. Whenever one of its troops is defeated, it is convenient to mobilize two troops, and when two are defeated, there must be two troops behind them waiting to fight. The wave charge has solved most of the enemies in this world. But after 40 years of control over the army, Wanyan Zonghan had to face another test. No one expected that he would be able to deal with this test in this way.
The army of tens of thousands of people was almost cut into units of about a hundred people by him. Zong Han threw these troops everywhere like a game of chess. Some troops were given death orders, while others were relatively flexible. A Meng An and Moke received relatively specific instructions in front of him. There is an inherent delay in the transmission of information on the battlefield, but Zong Han and others rely on years of battlefield experience and the reactions of other middle and high-level generals to predict the trend of the battlefield.
Part of the arrangement fell through, but the general direction of the battle was almost predicted by the old man in advance. In several high-intensity combat areas, the Jurchen reinforcements were continuous, which made the Huaxia Army feel tired for a while.
According to records a few years later, in the days when the decisive battle of Hanzhong began, soldiers in the Jurchen Army proved that Wanyan Zonghan "had not slept for three days, his eyes were red, and his beard and hair were all white." , consumes himself to the extreme.
After the failure of the initial sneak attack, the Huaxia Army changed to a more structured and calm combat mode. Although the intensity of the battle was extremely high, the attack, battle, division, and transfer were also extremely frequent. However, the staff's operational planning Don't panic, the 20,000 people are maintaining mutual echo and integrity in the general direction, and every attack is aimed at defeating the opponent at the least cost. Since Wanyan Zonghan has shown a cautious response, he can't get through and directly assassinate the king. The Huaxia Army simply turned into countless small mouths, and through local victories one after another, gnawed the opponent to the point of a nervous breakdown.
Near Hanzhong, more than one million "Han Army" or just their leaders are watching this crazy and fierce fight with bated breath. But news changes even faster than their ability to perceive reality. From the morning of April 19th to 23rd, people watching from the outside could not see clearly how the war in the west of Hanzhong was burning. At most, we can only know that the veterans of the Jin people are doing their best to burn themselves, trying to burn the terrifying enemies in front of them, and the Huaxia Army's attack is like a heavy hammer smashed again and again, trying to destroy the fire of the Jin Kingdom. Extinguished, the fight between the two has exceeded the common sense of the past...
At noon on the same day, a battalion of the Huaxia Seventh Army disguised itself as a broken Jurchen army and seized the South Gate of Hanzhong. In the afternoon, the focus of the two armies' contention shifted to here. The war that was originally entangled in the west of Hanzhong seemed to suddenly spread, and suddenly, the entire Hanzhong was turned into a sea of fire.
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