At that time, after the decisive battle near Tuanshan started, the Huaxia Army had already repelled two rounds of attacks led by Wanyan Xiyin on the positions south of the ancient city of Hanzhong. Black gunpowder smoke wafted in the wind, and the heat wave of the explosion scorched the air and soil on the battlefield to dryness, and the corpses of people and horses piled up one by one on the battlefield.
Wanyan Xiyin had already sensed something was wrong.
From Tuanshan to Hanzhong, a distance of more than ten miles, various small-scale chaos and fighting are unfolding one after another. The scouts who set out from Zonghan Benzhen to Hanzhong were intercepted and killed on the way. Near the west gate of Hanzhong City, The two companies of the Huaxia Army once again launched a sneak attack on the city gate, which caused a wave of chaos in the morning not long ago, and also prevented the messenger soldiers from the west from entering the city easily.
But at this moment, on the hot air balloon rising from the city wall, it was already possible to vaguely observe the war and chaos more than ten miles away.
At three o'clock, Wanyan Yuchi came out of Hanzhong City and arrived at the Jurchen barracks in the southeast. When reporting the news to Wanyan Xiyin from the west, the battlefield here was in an interval between a wave of charges. Wanyan Xiyin Riding on the battle horse, after listening to Wanyan Yuchi's words, it confirmed the doubts in his heart. Then the old man closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"We set the final battle here, and the other party set the final battle at Tuanshan..." He muttered, then opened his eyes and looked forward, "You mobilize three thousand battleable soldiers in the city, and go to Tuanshan." Go out of the city in the west, support the commander, and tell the defenders in the city, Hanzhong, you can give in and give up half."
Wanyan Yuchi was stunned for a while, then she bowed to take orders and turned her head away.
The old man put his hand on the long sword around his waist. He fully understood at this moment that, starting from the morning, the two rounds of fierce offensive he launched, the Huaxia Army soldiers on the opposite position were all pushed back when the troops were insufficient.
On such a battlefield, it is not surprising that when the opponent resists stubbornly, he uses a small number of troops to repel several waves of attacks, but what really beats him in Xi Yin's mind is the continuous attack of the Huaxia Army from last night to this morning. The behavior of leaving only a small number of troops here while preserving reason.
Huaxia Seventh Army, even if the entire army went to the west to attack Tuanshan, there were only more than 10,000 people.
Something was beating against him in his mind.
This is a clue that he had noticed many years ago, and it was something that began to sprout when he first set his sights on the Xiaocang River in the northwest a few years ago. The rebellious army of the Wu Dynasty rebelled against the monarch, and then defeated the Xixia people on Dong Zhiyuan. He vaguely realized that this was a potential threat, a budding bad seed, although under the huge size of the Jin Kingdom, this The seed was too small, but he still sent people over, recruited the opponent, and later eliminated it.
Xiao Canghe's tenacity was beyond his expectations. Although he never went to the northwest in person, he continued to collect information from there. In the combat experience he accumulated throughout his life, many things Xiao Canghe showed made him puzzled.
That army was long overdue for collapse.
The Jurchens were also a team that emerged from extreme adversity, but even if they were replaced by the team led by A Guda, Xiao Canghe would be confusing, not to mention that the two armies had completely different looks.
Since the end of the Three-Year War of Xiaocanghe, the sacrifices of Lou Shi and Ci Youshi have awakened Zong Han and many others. Together with Xi Yin, they have made the southwest the focus of attention, and thus have this southern expedition. At this time, they are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. Some people may only accumulate experience on the battlefield, and some people are familiar with history books and study the art of war. But the appearance of the Southwest Huaxia Army does not exist in any historical book or records of the Art of War.
The experience of the fiasco in the southwest has broadened their cognition every time. When the decisive battle with the Huaxia Seventh Army begins, he can vaguely feel that the complete state of something has been revealed in front of him.
Over the past few days, such a feeling had hit him more and more heavily in his mind, reminding him that he and Zonghan were facing a situation that was different from anything in the past—from the first time they knocked When the gate of the Wu Dynasty was opened, the people of the Wu Dynasty may have faced similar surprises in their hearts, but the northerners who are good at fighting are recorded in many historical books. Only this time, what he faced with Zong Han was probably something that had never been seen in the history books.
Such subconsciousness, the appearance of disobedience is beating his head with a "dong dong dong". The opponent should have collapsed long ago, but no, the opponent should not fight like this, but the situation has arisen, and he cannot predict the consequences of his battle.
But apart from the decisive battle, it was impossible to imagine.
He is old.
People always learn when they are young, experience it when they are young, and when they are middle-aged, the wise have seen everything in the world. Even though many new things are emerging, he always understands the basic principles, and it is not something he cannot understand.
But at this moment, dark silhouettes seem to have risen from the bottom of the sea.
dong dong dong —
He could faintly hear such a voice.
But apart from the decisive battle, he has no more options.
If he can break through the Huaxia Army position at the South Gate of Hanzhong as soon as possible, he will be able to decisively interfere with the battle situation in Tuanshan.
Let Wanyan Yuchi lead the elite soldiers in Hanzhong City to leave, in order to give the Black Flag Army a retreat outside the South Gate. There are not many of them. When the position here cannot be supported, they enter Hanzhong City and Xiyin can go straight to Tuanshan. .
He has already done what he can do in terms of tactics and operations.
Soon after, outside the south gate of Hanzhong City, another attack began. The most violent formations came from mountains and seas, shells were flying, and smoke obscured the sky.
Chen Hai greeted him.
dong dong dong —
The outline of a new era is knocking on the door of people's minds.
Wanyan Xiyin, fighting hard to attack.
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In Tuanshan, Wanyan Zonghan, who was in the battle formation, also saw clearly what the Huaxia Seventh Army looked like when it really launched an attack.
The huge attack was like mercury pouring down the ground, peeling off the periphery of the Jurchen army, the fighting spread, and a large number of Jin army soldiers fled in the mountains and fields - Zonghan silently observed all this, although he had guessed many things before, but so big. It was the first time he had really witnessed a large-scale skirmish charge.
In the face of the charge of the Huaxia Army, fighting in formation has completely lost its effect. In the face of dozens of people rushing towards the battle formation of thousands of people, the power of the arrows is reduced to a minimum, and when the opponent rushes close, you can only organize a team to charge - if you want to stand by at ease In the same place, dozens of people on the opposite side threw Huo Lei and turned around and ran away, losing a large area on their own side.
Can only charge to meet.
However, if a 100-strong formation is used to attack, the team may lose command after a battle. Soldiers who are not surrounded by the formation will try to find a place to hide or choose to escape after the formation collapses. Soldiers who are unwilling to escape often gather at the In a group, it will become the target of Huo Lei, and they are often unable to deal with the counterattack of the Huaxia Army. The Jurchen troops who lost their formation could not even retreat, and a retreat without formation would roll into a massive rout.
This Huaxia Army will not have such a situation, this is the most basic gap. In the early stage of the battle, the 100-man team of one's own side was thrown out, and some were defeated in front of only 20 people, and some were attacked from both sides when facing the rushing Huaxia army team. The centurion quickly collapsed.
The Jurchens were not mentally prepared for skirmishing, and they had already encountered a similar situation when they were in the southwest. But by this time, facing the rapid and efficient small-scale charge of the Huaxia Army, he was already several levels behind.
Dozens or even hundreds of charges converged into a mighty tide, but Zong Han could see that the other party dispatched only a few thousand troops. You can throw several times the strength of the opponent on your side, but the response at each point is not as flexible as the opponent.
Of course, he did not sit still. At the moment, as the surrounding combat situation had begun to become chaotic, Gao Qingyi led two thousand iron cavalry from the north, trying to sweep the entire battlefield. A thousand-person reserve team rushed forward and invaded the Jurchen main formation.
Gao Qingyi's 2,000 cavalry caused a serious containment and blow to the attack of the Huaxia Army. Although a large number of nearby Huaxia Army units quickly assembled and responded with fire, thunder and spears, several units were still submerged by the cavalry. The exchange ratio is close to one for one.
This was a ridiculous number in the past. If faced with the Wu Dynasty or even the Liao people on the battlefield, the Jurchen two thousand iron cavalry can often decide the outcome of a war, often when faced with large-scale infantry formations, They would choose to avoid it, but as long as the infantry formations were chaotic, their impact would be enough to smash tens of thousands of troops. But at this moment, facing the scattered Huaxia army, the one-for-one exchange ratio turned out to be the only killer.
At noon, the attack of the cavalry was contained, and Gao Qingyi led the team back. Some of the Huaxia Army team tore apart the outer Jurchen troops layer by layer like peeling onions, approaching the core of the 8,000-strong Jinbing army, fighting and changing. It became more intense, and some of the Huaxia Army troops temporarily stopped, or began to support their companions on the side.
The front of the soldiers was mighty, bursts of explosions, and the smell of death wafted in the wind. On the right side of the field of vision, the Huaxia Army competed for an artillery position of the Jurchen on the hills, and a team of personal soldiers was sent to support. , In front of the field of vision, the black flags are gradually converging into a surging river, and in the mountains on the left, the figures of the defeated soldiers flock to the mountains one by one. Zong Han stood still under his handsome banner, and only occasionally talked to Han Qixian, who was beside him.
"Dozens of people can form, disperse and adapt... How did they do it..."
"I heard they even made every soldier read and write..."
"The art of warfare and battle formations are mostly useless so far..."
Since thousands of years ago, due to the various characteristics of the army, various tactics have been born. It is difficult to coordinate the walking of thousands of people on the battlefield, so it is necessary to plan the pace with the drumbeat; when countless warriors are put into battle, one is crowding the other, even if some people are timid and want to escape, they will not be able to move at all; a few people can accept one. After the order is executed as much as possible, you can become an officer. More soldiers are just being carried away by the army. If thousands of people can move in one direction without being chaotic, it is often the key to the art of war.
Thousands of you are clumsy, and my movements are a little smoother, and I can go around your side, making you too late to react, causing chaos - only the soldiers and personal soldiers with the most sense of belonging can get out of the battle without chaos or escape , If they are not lazy, they can become scouts. In many cases, scouts also determine the key to victory on the battlefield.
And the Huaxia army threw tens of thousands of people all over the mountains and plains.
They don't need drums, whole teams, or coercion... The tactics of the past will be useless from now on. Zong Han knows that everything he has accumulated over the past few decades has come to nothing here.
This is not a battle of war.
- This is just the head-on crushing of the elite troops.
Even Tu Shanwei, the so-called No. 1 in the world in the past, is no longer comparable to the Huaxia Seventh Army in front of him.
He could know what Ning Yi and Qin Shaoqian did, but he just couldn't understand how the other party did it.
"Where is the first..."
At a certain moment, he spoke dryly in his throat, and then paused for a long time, because the sound of the battlefield came from the wind. Han Qi held his hands and waited for a while before saying, "Commander, maybe it's time to break through." What he saw clearly, many Jurchen generals, these days, why didn't they see clearly.
Zong Han shook his head, and in the surrounding wind came the cry of the Huaxia Army, and the voice of the cry was vaguely: "Kill Nianhan—"
What resounded in his mind was the scene more than ten years ago. It was the first time the Jin Kingdom went south. They knocked on the door of Yanmenguan and marched southward all the way. The Han people resisted weakly, and some relatively tenacious ones The resisters were killed and their corpses hung in the city. When the army advanced to Xinzhou, there was a team of assassins for the first time and almost the only time, stabbing the edge in front of him.
It was in a gymnasium in Xinzhou, and the leader was a white-haired Han old man. He waved a big gun and rushed in with dozens of Han knights, killing blood in the crowd surrounded by the army. The old man's spear stabbed in front of his eyes at one point, and the assassination was almost successful, but in the end, these people were drowned in the army's siege.
"Kill Nianhan—" That's what the Han people at that time shouted.
In the following years, many people may have shouted like this, but Zonghan did not hear it. At this moment, the voice came from a distance again, as if more than ten years later, it rushed to the front again. Zonghan raised his head, the flames burning in his eyes.
"Where is Qi Xian... you see... "
He pointed in the east direction.
"That's Qin Shaoqian."
At this moment, the Jurchen army still has an advantage in numbers. For decades, the old man has never been a weak sheep. Most of the time he is used to being a lion, but even when he is at a disadvantage, he never misses any opportunity.
At noon, the beast moved.
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"Good boy! Rush with me—"
In the main formation of the Jin Army, Wanyan Saba followed the old man to draw his sword and roared up.
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In the front, middle, and rear directions, the Huaxia Army's teams rushed forward one by one.
The company commander, Niu Chengshu, wielded a long sword, covered in blood, and came trapped in the battle.
"Kill Nianhan-"
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The voices of the shouts merged into a raging tide, and each smashed together with an indomitable momentum—