On the morning of April 24, a chaotic and tragic battle was already unfolding near the ancient city of Hanzhong.
The first to start the exchange of fire was the scheduled battlefield near the south gate of Hanzhong City. The main body responsible for this defense was the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Huaxia Seventh Army, the artillery and engineer regiments directly under the 1st Division, and a regiment led by Chen Hai. According to later statistics, their number was about 3,300 people. In front of them were Wanyan Xiyin's 13,000 people who were relatively full of energy, and one who entered Hanzhong City first. More than 10,000 Jin Kingdoms were defeated.
Proportionally, they faced an enemy that was about eight times their size.
This is the most tragic blocking battle that will occur in the entire Hanzhong battle.
At the first moment of the artillery fire, the Huaxia Army's position quietly did not make any response, and the soldiers hiding in the bunkers and behind the position had already understood the combat mission and combat purpose this time.
They must cooperate with the reinforcements that may not come in the future, and nail Wanyan Xiyin's army to the east of Hanzhong City, as the main force of the army moving westward at a high speed, to gain precious time to complete its strategic goal.
The first time the cannon sounded, the early morning clouds were floating in the sky, and the explosion raised a small amount of dust, and the soldiers behind the bunker looked at the sky.
"I said, for our combat mission, why didn't we kill Yan Xiyin here? There are only more than 10,000 people on the opposite side..."
When a soldier said something like this, the surrounding soldiers laughed when they heard it.
The company commander not far away threw a lump of dirt and smashed it on his head.
Here are the little fragments from the start of the firefight.
At this moment, Wanyan Xiyin has not yet been able to know the changes in the opposite barracks. Fifteen miles away from the west of Hanzhong City, friction has started one after another.
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The first to fight was the outer scouts.
Such steps are the norm in any battle. The main force under Wanyan Zonghan still has nearly 30,000 at the moment. When the army is advancing, the scouts will be released within a range of nearly two miles. Naturally, there is a time lag in the feedback of the news. But it didn't take long for the intensity of the fight to rise in several different directions.
In the days after the Hanzhong Battle began, the battle was chaotic and intense, and the armies of both sides had been dismantled into countless small pieces. As Wanyan Zonghan dismantled his own army into squads and kept throwing them out, the Huaxia Army also attacked with small combat units one by one.
Different from the Jurchen army, when the Huaxia army was separated from the brigade, they were still able to maintain a clear combat direction and strong combat will based on a big goal. From time to time, there will be battles between scout squads near the array.
Sometimes the soldiers of the Huaxia Army they encountered were brigades of companies and battalions. These teams even lost their positions as the core units of the Huaxia Army for a while, so they gathered in this direction for the purpose of "killing Nianhan". Of course they were on the way. There will be various attacks, but there are many troops miraculously breaking through the defense and extending their fronts in front of Wanyan Zonghan.
In some cases, the scouts outside the Jurchen even encountered a few Chinese soldiers who were good at cooperating with each other and sneaked over after leaving the team. They did not expect to assassinate Wanyan Zonghan, but kept setting traps on the periphery to capture the single Jurchen soldiers in the squad, and then transfer them after killing them.
These Huaxia Army soldiers are active in combat and have a strong purpose. The Jurchen soldiers are occasionally overcast, so it’s okay not to chase them. If the scouts here are provoked and gather strength to hunt them down, those Huaxia Army soldiers will even more. He took the trouble to drag them around in the mountains. Anyway, there are not many of them, and if they attract attention, they will win. On several occasions, Zonghan's entire army was even nervous because of false alarms.
The Jurchen originally had a large number of elite scouts, but with the end of the Battle of Southwest China and the death of Yu Yu and other generals, the strength of the scouts has dropped to the lowest point in history. Beginning on the afternoon of April 19, during the five-day high-intensity battle, these elites were the first to be thrown out. By April 24, the tasks given to the scouts by the Jurchen high-level officials even turned into conservative defense and information detection. , For the friction on the periphery, they are no longer encouraged to actively pursue and kill the enemy, because for several days, they have encountered too many situations.
Among Zonghan's nearly 30,000 people, at this time, more than half of them had already suffered defeats. Some of them came back on their own initiative, and some happened to meet the route of Zonghan's army and regrouped. In this regard, Han Qixian and others have first-class internal affairs ability. Not only did they quickly adjust the leadership of the returning soldiers, but also a Chinese army team disguised and prepared to take advantage of the chaos to merge into the Jurchen brigade was also screened out, and they fled in embarrassment. I underestimated Han Qixian's ability to control the army, thinking that in such a chaotic situation, Jurchen saw the same defeat, and it would be too late to distinguish who was who. Simply naive.
In a sense, except for the local formation area where several armies are highly concentrated, the wild fields near Hanzhong have become a huge scout battle sand table at this time, large and small frictions every day and every moment occur. Even if the Jurchen defeated soldiers lost the will to fight and wanted to find a direction to escape, they might encounter several interceptions unintentionally, and the small team of the Huaxia Army also encountered enemies from time to time.
When Wanyan Zonghan and the others in the battlefield learned about the battle information from several directions, the scout network in the southeast had been breached by nearly half, and battles had also occurred in the east and north.
The battle that was originally scheduled to take place near the south gate of Hanzhong City was imminent. Of course, there were two possibilities of being attacked at this time. Either a regiment-based Huaxia Army unit had launched a large-scale attack on its own side in order to prevent itself from reaching Hanzhong. The harassment, or the main force of the Huaxia Army, has already rushed towards this side. And Zong Han immediately rejected the previous possibility with intuition.
With his proud heart, there are some things that were originally hidden deep in his heart. In the five-day battle of Hanzhong, in terms of the result, before he was defeated, although a large number of his own troops were defeated in the battle, the Jurchen army would not fall to the bottom for a while. In such a battle, And the Huaxia Seventh Army is far more tired than himself. When the opponent is overwhelmed, the two sides will have another big decisive battle. On their own side, they will not lose.
This is the most special battle he has ever encountered in his life. This Chinese army is too strong to attack fortifications, and it is almost a life-threatening ghost. If the two sides start a battle full of energy, they have already experienced the defeat of the southwest. It will only taste the bitter fruit similar to Baobu Dagang. He can only maximize his temporary military advantage in this way. From a strategic point of view, this is correct.
He still maintained the strength of the first battle, and with the arrival of Xiyin, the Huaxia Army also took on a violent fighting stance as always in the south of Hanzhong City. From the beginning of the war to the present, the Huaxia Seventh Army under the leadership of Qin Shaoqian fought fiercely. The style has never changed, but as the intensity of the outer scout battle continued to increase, the Jurchen veteran who had been in all his life finally reacted, and it was dark under the lights.
The arrival of the Huaxia Army was not a simple harassment of divisions. A small number of troops were used to contain their advance, so that the western troops led by him could not reach the Hanzhong battlefield. But in the battle for several days, compared to the Xiyin army, which is small but full of energy, his side has fallen to a low point, becoming a weak point on the battlefield, and becoming an "opportunity" in the eyes of the Huaxia Army. ".
In the countless battles over the past decades, no one will despise Wanyan Zonghan, and no one can despise Wanyan Zonghan. The area where he is located is the strongest and most terrifying place on the entire battlefield. That's why, until he woke up this morning after resting, he never thought about the possibility that he might have such an idea in his sanity, but before it took shape, it was overshadowed by his pride.
This moment was like a blow to the head, blood surging in his mind, he felt humiliation and shame, followed by huge anger. He seemed to be able to see the scene of the Huaxia Army's staff discussing the battle: "Come on, there's a soft persimmon named Nianhan here, let's pinch him." Just like Yue Fei outside Zhenjiang City desperately wanted to break through Xiyin The humiliation and anger Hee-young felt during the army formation.
Of course, the expression on his face at this moment was calm, and no one knew that he experienced a tsunami in his heart.
"… prepare for battle."
Soon after, Huaxia Jun confirmed his idea.
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The crucial, emotional atmosphere of a decisive battle can only be felt from the back and forward, but none of that existed at the time of the battle.
The Huaxia Seventh Army has gone through five days of complex and high-speed operations. Although Xiyin has put on a ferocious attitude in the south of Hanzhong, how much does it have to do with them on the battlefield? Just another fight in a fierce battle.
They have been fighting and moving continuously since a few days ago. Until last night, the madman Chen Hai was constantly attacking the Xiyin camp. By this morning, the rested troops began to move to the northwest again. , to attack. Only the idiot of Xi Yin will regard that place as a key decisive battle location.
Just like playing chess, the two sides will always check each other. If one will not die, they will come to the next one. In the past few days, the two sides in the decisive battle are nothing more than that in the future.
At two o'clock in the morning, the bloody aura was continuously advancing along the sparse woods. The company commander, Niu Chengshu, watched the scattered Jurchen scouts running through the woods. He pulled up the strong bow on his back and shot an arrow towards the back in the distance. . The strong bow was snatched recently and failed to hit. The soldiers in the company stopped at the edge of the forest, and not far away, they could even see the outline of the Jurchen army.
Niu Chengshu estimated the time: "Xiao Sun, tell the regiment headquarters at the fastest speed on horseback that we have broken through the periphery and are ready to fight at any time."
The area where the entire regiment was scattered was not far away, and the correspondent Xiao Sun quickly rode away. Niu Chengshu looked around.
"I'll repeat the combat mission, give me a little bit of wit, one row!"
"Here!" The platoon leader stood up.
"You are responsible for attacking the fortress! If you have the opportunity, rush to me! Throw grenades into the enemy formation in batches, and blow him up! But you don't have many grenades, pay attention to batching, and reserve three times for me to break the formation. Chance!"
"Yes!"
"The second platoon is ready to deal with the cavalry. If the enemy cavalry comes up, I will hand it over to you. If there is a fight, a grenade will be replaced by a horse. If they really die, the horse team will be very dangerous. Don't hide it for me. Tuck!"
"Yes!"
"Three rows of reserve teams are responsible for the general attack. Once the first row opens a gap, you will press me up. Hack those bastards to death! Do you understand?"
"Yes"
"The only thing to be careful about is that if the enemy's artillery fire is fierce, we will hide and look for a place to protect ourselves! Once the enemy's artillery fire is removed, we must increase the momentum and let them pay more attention to us! They only need to focus on us, the others The brothers can cause them trouble!"
Niu Chengshu's body also looked like a cow. As he spoke, he swung his hands and feet in front of the crowd. His voice was still loud. On the nearby hilltop, a fireworks flew into the sky with a loud noise. Then, in the sky to the southeast, fireworks also rose one after another.
"The whole regiment is in place! Everyone, today is a big day, cheer me up, our people have surrounded Wanyan Zonghan, and we will invite him to dinner today! I still say that, observe carefully! Fight calmly Murder should be festive"
One by one, the fireworks were ordered to rise one after another in the refreshing summer sky, representing that the combat units with at least battalion as the organization brought the enemy into the combat vision. On the battlefield, the huge army of Jurchen was whistling, moving, The formation has changed, the huge beast has already lowered its body, and the Huaxia Army has a team of more than 7,000 people who have surrounded this Jurchen army with a total number of nearly 30,000 at the first time, and the rest of the troops are still in the process of arriving one after another. .
Before the three quarters of the hour, the battle was launched.
The ant colony cuts to the giant beast!