When the Huaxia Seventh Army and Wanyan Zonghan lit the flames west of the Hanzhong Plain, the flames of the sword pavilion also burned violently for several days.
Qu Zhengyan did not complete the scheduled plan to capture the Jiange within three days.
In the face of the already sprouting desire to die, and with an exceptionally firm consciousness, Qu Zhengyan, who has not taken the lead in terms of military strength, has not been able to climb the mountain quickly. Historically speaking, he was able to break through the gates ahead and slowly rise to the challenge. It has been the only record in the past, and in the subsequent battles, the Huaxia Army as the attacker has always maintained a certain advantage. Measured by the comparison of the strength of the sword pavilion and the comparison of firearms, it is already a situation that is almost a miracle. .
Without a decisive breakthrough in the miniaturization of iron cannons, it was difficult for the troops led by Qu Zhengyan to drag a large number of artillery pieces from the narrow southwest mountain road to attack the fortress. The dozens of rockets brought out by the key points can certainly have a certain advantage in long-distance counterattacks, but too small a number cannot determine the direction of the entire battle.
And Tua Lisu scattered the artillery pieces all over the mountain. Once in a downturn, he ignited the gunpowder keg to blow up the iron cannons. Such resolute resistance made the Huaxia Army’s intention to seize the artillery and attack the fortress. Difficult to implement successfully.
Apart from the already few rockets "Dijiang", Qu Zhengyan's only advantage is that the troops under him are the elite of the elite. Once they enter the melee, they can suppress the opponent's troops. But even so, the Golden Soldiers, who had realized that it was difficult to return home and that surrender would not end well, did not surrender easily.
Qu Zhengyan, who has always been good at walking a tightrope and making surprise soldiers, gave up his plan to carry out a too risky surprise attack in this battle after seeing the resistance posture of pulling away from the speed clearly. In front of a veteran of the level of pulling off speed, playing with scheming is very likely to cause oneself to fall down on the battlefield.
Combining these factors, the battle of Jiange became a tragic but relatively step-by-step battle. The Huaxia Army often identified a point in the attack, and then removed a point, advancing step by step toward the top of the mountain. Counterattack, here is the same calmly organized defense, each other's tricks. Although Qu Zhengyan didn't take too much advantage in the art of war, the sudden counter-offensive organized by Tu Lisu several times, and even the large-scale artillery bombardment, were calmly blocked by Qu Zhengyan and resolved one by one.
Years later, this attack and defense with thousands of people on both sides will appear again and again in the history of warfare. Both sides did their best in this fierce and frequent confrontation.
This is the last battle of Tu Lisu, a veteran general of Jin Guo, in his life. On the one hand, he faced all this with an attitude of breaking the boat, and he always calmly faced the retreat step by step. , the line of defense was compressed; on the other hand, although the fact that the fighting strength of the two sides had reversed had already approached him like the top of a mountain, he still organized fierce resistance at several key points, and set up clever traps and ambushes countermeasures.
Just like the many Jurchen generals who followed Agu to fight decades ago, even though they used to indulge in leisurely pleasures when they destroyed Liao and Wu, when things were going well, but in the face of the downturn of the situation, they still took He had the courage to resist this world as he did in the past, calmly resisting in the face of a huge disadvantage, trying to forcibly tear apart a ray of vitality between this world.
But this time, Qu Zhengyan calmly extinguished every ray of hope he had.
At the same time, Qu Zhengyan and the Chinese Fifth Army in Jiange were actually extremely anxious.
The Huaxia Seventh Army outside the Jiange has already reported Wanyan Zonghan's eagerness and intentions, and the Seventh Army's staff is ready to deal with it head-on. On the one hand, this is the last chance for the Seventh Army to confront Zonghan's troops head-on. On the other hand, it is also to deal with the local defeats caused by Dai Mengwei's rebellion in Xiangfan and other places. If this battle is not fought, including Qi Xinhan, including the Han army The resistance force will be very uncomfortable.
Ning Yi can understand the necessity of this, but on the other hand, although the combat strength of the Seventh Army was estimated in the earlier combat operations and tactical demonstrations, the exercises and discussions are a situation that really pulls It's another situation on the ever-changing battlefield. 20,000 against 90,000, if one is not easy to fall into the opponent's trap, the possibility of the entire army being wiped out is also possible, and it is not small.
As Qu Zhengyan's attack on Jiange began, the troops within the Fifth Southwest Army were already being mobilized bit by bit. Like a miser, Ning Yi further adjusted the already tense force structure. On the one hand, he tried to organize as many militiamen as possible. On the other hand, he took out more than a thousand people from the already stretched force. Come out and prepare to go to Jiange.
The whole process raced against time, and the selection and new arrangements were completed within three days. In the middle, some unspeakable placements were once criticized in later generations. Ning Yi concentrated the reduction of troops on the guards of several prison camps, and at the same time strengthened the armed conditions of nearby troops in a targeted manner. Reports like this might give the captives an opportunity to mutiny. Ning Yi's answer was: "If there is a mutiny, then deal with the mutiny."
In the face of the tension and uncontrollability of the situation outside Jianmen Pass, this response shows that Ning Yi is ready to kill prisoners on a large scale to a certain extent, especially when he strengthens the epidemic prevention force near the prison camps where the troops have been reduced. The behavior of issuing epidemic prevention manuals further supports this speculation. This was to deal with the situation when a large number of corpses appeared in the wet mountains. The Huaxia Army soldiers who noticed this movement raised the tension level by another level in the next few days.
At the same time as the mobilization of the troops, Hou Wu and Hou Yuanyong, the officers responsible for guarding the prisoners, consciously revealed the entire prison framework to the "leader" among the prisoners. In particular, Ning Yi's understated order to "deal with the mutiny" was rendered in various ways.
The strength of the Huaxia Army is indeed stretched, but the inner demon has let go of his kindness and is ready to take a more cruel response... This kind of news spread among some middle and high-level personnel who still have a reputation among the Jurchen prisoners, so the prisoners The atmosphere also became more tense and chilling. Death or rebellion, this is the last... own choice faced by some Jin Man captives in their lives.
On April 20th, when Qu Zhengyan did not capture the Jiange as scheduled, Ning Yi lost his temper for a while and asked someone to send a message to the front line: "Ask him, do you want me to come by myself?"
The end of the Battle of Jiange was on the afternoon of April 22. The speed of pulling away from the Jedi allowed the rest of the Golden Soldiers to surrender to the Huaxia Army, and then led eight guards to launch a charge.
This was his last charge. The nearby Huaxia Army soldiers launched a frontal confrontation with the enemy. His personal guards were beheaded by the Huaxia Army one by one. Both sides had been injured in the previous battle, but Tua Lisu was finally beheaded by Wang Dai in a pool of blood.
Ning Yi led more than 1,200 people, and also arrived at Jiange this afternoon. The straight-line distance between Jiange and Hanzhong is more than 300 miles. Considering the winding road, if you want to reach the battlefield, you may have to travel about 500 miles. He ordered more than 1,200 new troops to set off first and attack Zhaohua at the fastest speed. : "Tell Wanyan Zonghan, I'll kill you."
On the same night, he was also in Jiange, and received the preliminary battle report from Hanzhong Plain. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan were stunned: "What a joke, how can Nianhan play micro-manipulation like this!"
Qu Zhengyan didn't quite understand the meaning of "micro-manipulation", but just sighed: "The will of these Jurchens is very determined." The battle situation is facing a disadvantage, or the strong man breaks his wrist, or is completely defeated, but Zong Han did not. Throw it out, and you want to kill the Huaxia Seventh Army. If such a will was placed on the people of the Wu Dynasty, there would have been no second southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom.
"... Zonghan didn't want to engage in a large-scale decisive battle, so he threw out his troops like this. Each unit would only have some combat power when it first engaged. Once it was defeated, it could only rely on the Jurchens who wanted to go home. How determined his will is. I guess Zonghan may have set a mid-term goal, telling these people where to gather after they are defeated, and then use middle-level generals to gather up the defeated soldiers, but the combat power of the defeated soldiers is limited... I think he may have started at the beginning. It will make people feel that there is a steady stream of troops, but after a certain level, the whole shelf will collapse... General Qin also saw this possibility, so he simply chose to remain unchanged and respond to changes, and fight slowly at a time... "
Qu Zhengyan guessed the direction of the entire war on the map. The distance is too far away, such speculation may not be useful, but in general, the Seventh Army did not fall into a trap and collapsed directly. Generally speaking, it can still fight calmly. It also eased Ning Yi's anxiety.
"These prodigal sons..." When he occasionally cursed like this, his tone was much better.
In the early morning of the 23rd, before dawn, the 1,200 Huaxia troops attacked in the dark and broke through the ancient city of Zhaohua, which was currently guarded by the Han army.
After the Jurchen left, there were about 20,000 Han troops guarding here, but there was almost no resistance to the attack. They seemed to have expected the Huaxia Army to come. When the Huaxia Army's vanguard team quickly climbed with ropes On the city wall, there was hardly much fighting, and the Han army guards in the city were already kneeling at the black flag.
According to the subsequent interrogation, some Han army leaders had left the city and fled last night with the remaining gold and silver in the city.
The troops that had captured Jiange rested for a while, Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan mobilized 800 new troops that still had fighting power, and went north to Zhaohua to join the forward.
At noon on the same day, Fan Hongan, the commander of the second battalion of the third regiment of the second division of the Huaxia Seventh Army, led a team to deceive the southern gate of Hanzhong: From a macro perspective, at this time, the tens of thousands of troops led by Zong Han were being destroyed piece by piece by the Huaxia Army. The heavy hammer smashed to pieces, and some of the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom fled towards Hanzhong after losing the battle. Since the failure had been considered in advance, it was impossible for the Jurchen to reject these failed soldiers.
The circulatory system woven by Zong Han in just a few days had problems in some operations. Fan Hongan took advantage of this loophole and began to build a position after capturing the city gate. In the afternoon, Chen Hai led more than 700 people to convoy. Running towards this side, he also had the idea of hitting Hanzhong, but Fan Honganjie took a step ahead.
After that, Gao Qingyi led a team to enter the city from the west gate, and Zonghan, Saba, Sheyema and others also moved here. Qin Shaoqian also rushed to Hanzhong that afternoon, and the crowd was constantly gathering. Street battles started in Hanzhong City, and preparations for positional battles began outside the city.
That evening, Wanyan Xiyin led a mighty fleet to appear on the Hanshui River east of Hanzhong. As soon as the war started, he put down the plan to besiege Qi Xinhan near Xiangfan and mobilized the fleet to go westward against the Han River. At this moment, his appearance brought enormous pressure to the Seventh Army on the battlefield of Hanzhong.
From last year to this year, the existence of Wanyan Xiyin was indeed the most troublesome thing for the Seventh Army. Even though the seventh army was powerful, Xi Yin's response was always the most correct and most difficult part. At the beginning, the Seventh Army Yu Qiang attacked Zhaohua and started a round of killing with Tu Shanwei, but Xi Yin mobilized hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder from the Han Army, so that the Seventh Army's attack failed. Wan Han's army smashed into the sand after anyway, and even Qi Xinhan marched thousands of miles at great risk, and finally fell into a trap. The resistance force of the green forest near Xiangfan was swept away.
Facing such an enemy is the same as facing Ning Yi. Although he has never been afraid in terms of combat effectiveness, no one knows when he will fall into a pit. Psychologically, there will still be pressure.
But luckily another round of news has already arrived.
The Huaxia Fifth Army broke through the Jiange, beheaded and pulled out the speed, and then broke Zhaohua. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan are leading the team and rushing towards Hanzhong. Once this demon grabs the tail, the defeat of Wangyuan Bridge may be repeated on the banks of the Hanshui River.
On March 24th, the Han army teams in Xiangfan and other places east and south of the Han River could not judge from the intelligence which side of the Huaxia Seventh Army and Zonghan Brigade had the upper hand, but Ning Yi killed Po Jian. The news of the door closing has already spread within a thousand miles.
At this time, Dai Mengwei and others had not yet completed the reception of a large number of Jurchen baggage and personnel in the south of Xiangfan, and the deeds of his "saving" millions of Li people were only in the early stage of publicity. On this day, gathered near Xicheng County and met with various Han army generals who had pledged allegiance to Dai Mengwei shortly after, and exchanged news in private.
"The demon of the heart came out of the sword pavilion... and went to Hanzhong..."
When people talk about this matter, their faces and tone are pale and serious...