The sky was gray and white, and the 170,000-strong army appeared mighty in the long autumn colors on the north bank of the Yellow River. The north wind swept the ground and the white grass was completely broken, withered grass and dust spread into the distance along with the continuous formation. During the mobilization of the army, the sky in the distance was already a beacon.
Although in a huge square, the soldiers around him occasionally made noises, and the movements caused by them gathered together, still like a tidal wave. Li Xizhi rode on the horse, watching the dust from the army in front of him, and the blood on his body had become hot.
Even at the last moment, he was still speculating about the real purpose of the Black Flag Army's killing, whether it was coercion and deterrence, so that he would not dare to let go of attacking the Daming Mansion, or to attack the west, and there were other purposes behind it... However, the other party finally came to kill, and it was with him. It echoed the fact that the "Guangwu Army" Wang Shanyue and others opened the Daming Mansion and rushed in from the south. The other party's strategic intention is so simple and rude that he finally no longer has to be suspicious, but what is revealed behind this is really cold on the cheeks and cold on the mind, like the humiliation of being slapped in the face.
50,000 people attacked the army of 170,000 people, and they came so resolutely. It can only be explained that the opponent believes that the combat effectiveness is far higher than their own, and they want to fight against Zongfu, Zongwang and other Jin Guo army first. Sweep the battlefield.
The feeling of anger and humiliation after confirming this fact made Li Xizhi tremble, but then it was transformed into boiling killing intent and motivation. , the determination to defeat both sides has dominated his mind. Being despised so far, if he doesn't defeat these 50,000 people, will he still be a human being from now on
The army of more than 100,000 people spread out evenly on the battlefield in a radius of more than ten miles. In order to prevent a large-scale rout, Li Xizhi broke up the army into defensive lines one after another, and used dense defenses to deal with the black flag's edge. Li Xizhi never underestimated the enemy. He understood the power of the Black Flag's offensive, but no matter how strong the attack was, there were only ten thousand people.
This day was the eleventh day of the eighth month of the ninth year of Jianshuo. When the sun rose in the morning, the Huaxia army launched an attack in two directions, and started the piercing operation against Li Xizhi's army. At the same time, in the direction of Damingfu in the south, The Guangwu Army was divided into three groups and attacked Li Xizhi's position from different directions.
The sun gradually rose, and in the north of the Daming Mansion, the voices of more than 200,000 people and the roar of cannons boiled the sky. The rain of arrows fluttered chaotically, rushing and exploding occasionally across the hills in the late autumn. This is the first battle in the Central Plains after Xiaocanghe. Artillery has begun to become popular. Regardless of the quality, both sides are not proficient in the use of this weapon. On the battlefield in the south , The Guangwu Army's troops occasionally passed through the position and killed the opponent's artillery position, causing a huge explosion, and occasionally troops were scattered under the opponent's artillery fire.
The Huaxia Army in the north had a much better attitude in the face of artillery fire. After the three-year battle of Xiaocanghe, they finally retreated south. Some people were deliberately left in the Central Plains by Ning Yi, and some soldiers of the Huaxia Army were separated from the main force and failed to go south. Those who were lost in the Central Plains returned to the team one after another, and later most of them gathered in the Liangshan area and joined Zhu Biao's team. These soldiers have experienced the most brutal battle situation. During the three-year war, they have long been accustomed to breathing on the battlefield. It is said in later generations that veterans are afraid of guns and new recruits are afraid of guns. These soldiers have understood the power of artillery fire and how to deal with it. In two hours, the black flag army marched straight ahead, contacted and defeated Li Xizhi's subordinates, including Tang Dingyi, Liu Hui, Geng Guoan, and several other ten-thousand-person teams, and pushed the offensive to the Kucaopu area five miles away from Li Xizhi.
With the sharp momentum in the early stage, the attack launched by the Guangwu Army in the south was also advancing continuously. The defense line formed by the 170,000-strong army continued to operate under the mobilization of Li Xizhi. The army was reorganized again. When the battle was going on for more than an hour, Li Xizhi's general Kou Li, who was on the southern defense line, led 3,000 people to suddenly turn against the water and attacked, instantly causing the defeat of nearly 10,000 people who bore the brunt of the battle. Li Xizhi's nephew Li Xuan Wu led the nearby army to fight hard, and finally stabilized the situation.
However, even though in the first two hours, the offensive from the south and the northeast was constantly approaching, at noon that day, Li Xizhi, who was in the middle of the army, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Nearly 40,000 people finally stopped the Black Flag Army's offensive here, and although the battle in the south was fierce, the advance at this time had begun to slow down. It's an advantage.
He thought so, and it was not bad.
It was only at noon that a huge explosion suddenly came from the side and rear of the formation. The smoke and dust of the explosion rose, and the ground shook. Li Xizhi looked back and saw that the explosion happened two hundred meters away from the side and rear. The gunpowder detonated. The horses neighed and ran, the chaos had spread, and a group of people rushed on their horses: "The black flag has arrived, kill Li Xizhi"
"Lu Jianyun has defected"
"Shuzi is courting death!" Li Xizhi raised his eyebrows sharply, and pulled up the big knife beside him, "The black flag offensive is exhausted! These clowns are just desperate and desperate! The odds are with me today, Zhong Erlang, follow me to kill this thief! I I will cut off his head with my own hands"
At this time, he no longer scrutinizes why there are traitors in the vicinity and Black Flag would arrange traitors. It is not surprising that he has also been a soldier all his life, and he wants to rush over there in person when he shouts and shouts, but the elite soldiers in the rear have blocked it. The assault of the cavalry. The rebellious people retreated in a hurry, and the nearby troops had already surrounded them from all directions. Li Xizhi was giving orders loudly, and a blood-stained knight rushed from the northeast. The scout rolled off his horse when he got close, and the first sentence made Li Xizhi startled.
"The withered grass has fallen"
"...What did you say!" Li Xizhi's mind was blank for a moment, and for a moment, he slashed at the opponent with a long knife, but the scout said the second sentence with a crying voice.
"Tang Dingyi turned his back and chopped off General Liu Hui's head..."
"Down... your mother's ge, Tang Dingyi..."
Li Xizhi was trembling all over, and was so angry that he could not speak, but Wuli Road was not far, just to the northeast, the chaos was beginning to become huge, and there were troops wrapped and scattered, heading towards this side When they came, Li Xizhi immediately ordered 20,000 people to move forward, and the military team drew their swords. On the one hand, they wanted to maintain order, and on the other hand, they gathered the defeated troops and blocked the black flag. However, a chain reaction had already occurred, and Lu Jianyun and others who had defected before were not yet besieged. Killed, and two more broke out in the army anyway, followed by the appearance of the baggage explosion.
There were 20,000 people in front, and as soon as they touched the rushing army, they began to disperse. The black flag slashed the waves in the field of vision and spread, and someone shouted: "The Huaxia Army is here, surrender to avoid death" Li Xizhi ordered the military team to start killing people. It is already the situation of rolling the bead curtain upside down. On the side, a defeated army of about 5,000 troops originally under Feng Qize's command was also shouting at this time that anyway, they fought hard towards Li Xizhi's side. However, in that war, the inner side of the black flag never appeared. This defeated army returned to Li Xizhi and was regrouped. No one expected to defect at the moment.
More than 200,000 people fought for a whole morning, and now they have finally cooked a pot of porridge, and the chaos can no longer be messed up. At this hour of noon, Li Xizhi saw the most fantastic drama in his life. Taking Tang Dingyi's defection as a turning point, among the 170,000 troops, the troops who were turned against by the generals were as many as 20,000, a large-scale army. , Small-scale defections and coup d'etat instantly eroded his army into a sieve, and at the same time destroyed the morale of more than 100,000 troops.
Li Xizhi's eyes were blood red, and he led the 20,000 straight line elites under his command to fight hard. Not long after, nephew Li Xuanwu also came with his army. These 30,000 troops clashed on the battlefield, and correspondingly, hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated and scattered. The Black Flag Army and the Guangwu Army came from the rear, and the entire battlefield spread for more than ten miles, extending from the west side to Daming Mansion. Li Xizhi's direct troops were chased and killed all the way to the bank of the Yellow River on the southwest side of Daming Mansion.
In the evening, more than 15,000 troops were besieged on the banks of the Yellow River, trying to resist stubbornly. Li Xizhi was guarded in the center by his nephew, personal guards and others. By this time, he had lost his energy, kept shaking his head, and said only: "Impossible, impossible..."
If the Black Flag Army had such a large number of spies from the beginning, it would be impossible for the battle to continue until noon.
However, it all happened right before his eyes.
Before that, he was already the prince of the ruling side of the Central Plains. In this world, he was supposed to be the one who made the move in the chess game. However, with the outbreak of the war, his 170,000 elite army faced 50,000 people. The human attack was defeated overnight.
It's hard to imagine how many swingers there were in his army before this. With the progress of this unresolved battle, the intern of the Huaxia Army completed the work of instigating the swingers.
The sun was setting, and the Huaxia Army began to persuade him to surrender. Li Xizhi, who was covered in blood and dust, picked up a big sword and was unwilling to surrender. What greeted his bodyguards was an incoming cannonball. Li Xizhi was knocked to the ground by a cannonball. He staggered to get up, and swung his sword towards the killing Huaxia soldiers, who chopped him to the ground.
"I told you, adults fight, children get out of the way"
At this moment on the Yellow River, countless corpses were surging with the water waves, and the smoke of gunpowder outside the Daming Mansion had not stopped. On this day, it was only a few days before Wanyan Zongbi's Jurchen striker arrived. However, the defeat of the 170,000-strong army will surely startle everyone's attention in these days.
Back in time more than 20 days ago, Wang Shanyue gathered with Zhu Biao of the Huaxia Army on the hill, bringing a dangerous topic.
"I have a desperate plan, and I'll bring it to you today."
"… "
"It has been many years since the Jurchen went south, and the Central Plains have all been together. I want to take the Daming Mansion and cause some trouble for the Jurchen, but I am afraid such a little trouble is not enough to inspire people, and I am not sure to let the Jurchen stay in the big name... Countless, help me make Li Xizhi first."
"... The Huaxia Army has an inner response, but the inner response is not an immortal. No matter how incompetent Li Xizhi is, it is very difficult to place 170,000 people there."
"You helped me make Li Xizhi, and I won't let you help me keep my name."
"... You really don't want to die."
"... Over the years, Li Xizhi and Jurchen have become more and more brutal, but fewer and fewer people resist. This time the Jurchen goes south, there will be no room for the Wu Dynasty. It is the land of the Central Plains, but not many people dare to do it. Even if you capture Liu Yu and return the world to the Wu Dynasty... Dou Mingde, the owner of Huangshe Village, his family was killed by Jurchen, and now he no longer dares to be a car, the gray mountain is harsh, and his daughter was captured and tortured by the Jinguo people and then killed. Now, I went to ask him for help, but he didn't believe me. If we can defeat Li Xizhi and hold back the Jurchen army in Daming Mansion, every extra day will give them more confidence... Ning Yi is right, to save the world, we must It's not enough to rely on the people of the world, just rely on us."
When he said this, it was the time when the stars were filling the sky. Wang Shanyue had long hair and a face like a woman, but there seemed to be a cold hope in her eyes. However, Zhu Biao can understand better that with the management of the Huaxia Army over the years, it is not impossible to defeat Li Xizhi with all his strength. However, if Li Xizhi is defeated, who will come to live in Daming Mansion? It can only be the female army.
But the Wang family has always been like this. More than 20 years ago, when the Liao people went south, Wang Qisong led the whole family of men to fight against the Jurchen army. All of them were slaughtered. Now, the only remaining male of the Wang family is going to embark on this path.
"You help me kill Li Xizhi," he said.
"I'll keep the Daming Mansion...into another Taiyuan!"
By August 11th, Li Xizhi's army had collapsed like an avalanche under the fierce offensive. The Guangwu Army had incorporated a small number of troops and took over the baggage, but for most of the untrustworthy people, they were released after propaganda. . On the thirteenth of August, hundreds of people from the Yellow Snake Village arrived at the Daming Mansion, and every day thereafter, groups of men and horses came over and were incorporated by the Guangwu Army until the sixteenth of August, when Wanyan Zongbi's The cavalry advanced to within a hundred miles of the Daming Mansion, and there were as many as 6,000 righteous men who arrived in the Daming Mansion. These people either lost their families under the slaughtering knife of the Jurchen, or they had a righteous heart and were oppressed by the Jurchen over the years. Most of them understand that after entering the Daming Mansion, it will be difficult to get out.
The Huaxia Army left from the Daming Mansion.
On the fifteenth day, the moon is sixteen rounds. That night, Zhu Biao left at the end of the team. Looking back at the Daming Mansion, Wang Shanyue smiled and waved at the top of the city, dressed like snow, with Wu belt as the wind. At this moment, the autumn is already deep, the Yellow River to the south is still galloping, and the lonely city under the moonlight contains an incomparably heroic dream.
I will delay Jurchen for as long as possible.
until…
… the coming of victory.