In the eleventh year of Jianshuo, December nineteenth.
The dislocation of time will form a dramatic scene in the mountains spreading in the northwest.
The war near Rain Creek began tentatively from the early morning of this day.
As it approached noon, Kuili put a large number of troops into the battlefield and started a strong attack on the front of the battlefield. This action was to cover his intention to lead his personal soldiers to storm Yingzuiyan.
After half noon, the rear road from Yuyuxi to Huangtouyan was cut off by Chen Tian, and the sound of the arrow sent the message back to Yuyuxi.
The Eagle's Mouth Rock was blown off, and the fight between Xu Lili and Mao Yishan became white-hot in an instant.
After noon, the Jurchen front-line general Yu Yu led a highly mobile scout force to launch a counterattack in the direction of the mountain road cut off by Chen Tian.
Yu Yu is a thin, scout who started his career as a scout. He walks through mountains and mountains like walking on the ground. A pair of iron arms and steel fingers can break off rocks. Dalai is medium but strong. The two Jurchen generals looked at the rugged mountain road, but their hearts sank.
The scouts who sent messages to the rear were still running on the muddy and slippery roads, and they were still nearly thirty miles away from Wanyan Zonghan, the commander in charge of Shiliji.
At this moment when the winter rain was pounding, Shiliji was still hustle and bustle in a lively scene. The original small transit market was occupied by layers of military camps. Even if it rained, the transfer of various materials and the deployment of various troops continued. Teams waiting to leave were blocked in front of the camp, waiting impatiently. The generals and soldiers roared constantly in sunny days, and in the rain there were all kinds of roars. After roaring, they scolded. If it wasn't for the pressure of Han Qixian and others, sometimes there would even be signs of a fight.
This situation has been going on for more than two months.
Zonghan felt comfortable and frowned at this phenomenon. What troubled him was not just the stalemate battlefield on the front line and the bad road conditions in the middle, but also the pressure from the rear was gradually coming here. 's letter.
Wu Qimai suffered a stroke and was paralyzed for more than a year. The Jurchen's southern expedition was originally a matter of the fact that a group of old officials were still there, and the eastern and western imperial courts maintained the last rational choice of persuasion. It's just that Zongfu Zongwang's purpose is to compete for merit, while Zong Hanxiyin hopes that this expedition can solve the last confidant of the Jin Kingdom - the forces of the Southwest China Army.
Wu Qimai's collapse this time was already in critical condition. It dragged on for more than a year with most of his body paralyzed and only occasionally awake. Now his physical condition is extremely bad. In October, when Zong Han was preparing to start the war, Zong Han had repaired a letter and sent it to China. Wu Qimai in the palace asked people around him to write the writing during a little sober time, and wrote this letter to Zong Han. In the letter, he recalled their life. Military horses, I hope Zong Han and Xi Yin can calm down the situation in this world within half a year, because of the situation in the Jin Kingdom, they still need to come back to guard.
Over the years, Wu Qimai's personality has been firm and soft, and his will is extremely strong. He proposed a period of half a year, but he may have realized that even if he was forced to prolong his life, he would only have so much time.
The memories of the past in the letter are embarrassing, and Wanyan Zonghan, who is already half-white, can't help but feel emotional. The differences between the Jurchen eastern and western courts, and the younger generation's struggle for power and profit do exist. Since October, Zongfu Zongbi, who was on the battlefield in the east, has arranged for the army to detain more than 100,000 slaves to return to the north, and in November, there are more than ten more. Thousands of people were driven away.
At that time, it was already snowing in the southern part of the Yangtze River, and it was unknown how many of these Han slaves who had been rushed to the northern part as livestock could successfully reach the Jin Kingdom.
Of course, Zong Hanxiyin also understood that these actions of Zongfu Zongbi were to take advantage of the fact that the West Road army was thrown and dragged to the southwest, and first took the spoils and returned to the country, to appease all parties, and to reward them for meritorious deeds.
These actions of the two juniors made Zong Han feel disdain. Xi Yin proposed some countermeasures. Zong Han just let him do it and didn't want to intervene: as long as the southwest was defeated, everything else was settled. If the battle in the southwest is unfavorable, I have nothing to say when I go back. I just want to concentrate on the battle in the southwest, and the rest of the little things can be decided by Gu Shen.
He wrote to Xi Yin like this, but he was unwilling to participate in Xi Yin's suggestion that he should write a letter to appease and win over the elderly from all over the country. At this time, when he received a reply from Wu Qimai's illness, Zong Han naturally had pride in his heart. He fought with A Gu all his life to establish the Golden Kingdom. Even at the end of the day, he did not put the thoughts of the younger generations in his eyes. .
He walked out of the tent and patrolled the camp, and the rain gradually stopped by the end of the day. The situation of the front-line battle situation changed, and it was only at this time that the distance of 30 miles was passed, and it was transmitted to Shiliji.
At this time, in the rainwater stream more than forty miles away, blood pooled in the pool, and the corpses had covered the hills.
The two-month fierce battle at Yuyuxi was the first time that the Huaxia Army launched a comprehensive counter-offensive. The fourth division led by Qu Zhengyan and the fifth division led by Yu Zhongdao participated in the battle with a total of more than 14,000 people.
When the elites of the Huaxia Army commanded by Qu Zhengyan rushed out from the various mountain roads, the Han army forces in various places on the battlefield were the first to be defeated by this sudden counterattack. The golden army, which was partly composed of Jurchen, Bohai people, and Liaodong people, persisted for a while with fierceness in the chaotic fighting, but as the casualties increased to 10%, most of these armies also showed a decline. Afterwards, they either collapsed, or they chose to retreat.
For the current battle, in the past two months, Qu Zhengyan secretly observed the offensive pattern in the falsehood, recorded the repeated problems of the various troops in Yuyuxi during the rotation, and had been preparing for a long time. But the first step in the so-called battle is to prepare the hard power of the hammer to touch the iron felt after all.
Just this afternoon, the strength of the frontal battle between the two sides was officially put into the sky for a balance measurement under a fair collision.
The first battle was the most tragic.
In order to cover the formidable attack at Yingzuiyan, several positions on the battlefield were attacked on a large scale that day, and the Jurchens took up positions in the muddy water. At the second position near Yingzuiyan, where the attack was most intense, the defending Huaxia Army even broke through the defense line for a time, and almost failed to regain the position.
And with Qu Zhengyan's outrageous force, the Han army who participated in the attack might be a little timid, but the main force of the Jin army, who was already tired of the frustration of the two-month attack, only felt the excitement of the opportunity.
In the eyes of the middle-level generals in the army, as long as they defeat the opponent's attack head-on, they will be able to settle all problems.
The rain was accompanied by infiltrating mud, and the terrain in the area of Yuyuxi was complicated. During the initial attack of Qu Zhengyan's department, the Jinbing troops were ready to meet them, forming eight or nine small and medium-sized confrontation points on the huge battlefield for several kilometers. The two sides were either stable or urgent, attacking or defending, and the shield wall front line composed of more than ten or dozens of people collided in a blink of an eye.
The clash of gold and iron made a heart-pounding muffled sound in the rain curtain between the mountains, and the sound of fighting roared towards the surrounding mountains. On the front line of the battle, the fighting was like a meat-grinding machine that engulfed the advancing life. The soldiers who rushed forward had not fallen down, and their companions at the back had already followed, and the spit of people's roars was bloody. In the hedging against each other, the Huaxia Army is like this, and so are the Jurchen soldiers.
Such weighing, there is not much fancy at all. In the 20 years of this world, Jurchen has almost won every such hedging in the past.
But this time, the Jurchen formation was backing away.
Such a hedging was fierce and surging for the first time, but the subsequent changes were also particularly rapid and obvious in the eyes of many people. The front line moved a little later, and some middle-level generals with the most seniority among the Jurchens, who had no murders, launched an attack with their personal guards. Their collision boosted morale, but soon, these generals and their veterans were also grinding meat. The front line was swallowed up.
During the period from the confrontation to the collapse of one side, people's hearts were either frightened or boiling, and many thoughts did not even turn out to be results in their hearts. The Jurchen generals went in personally according to the predetermined program-because in the previous frontal battles, this choice was the best. By the time they were engulfed, the battle lines had turned from trembling to an avalanche, and the changes did not leave many traces in people's hearts. Then the survivors could only turn around and flee with the running soldiers.
The battlefield is like this. Individual abilities often cannot control the development of the battle situation. People are coerced into doing what they need to do with a positive attitude, and those who are passive can only follow the steps of their companions. At the moment of the head-to-head confrontation this afternoon, both sides suffered huge losses, and the position of the Jurchen side was torn apart by the front not long after.
The rout, the fight, and the battle then rushed to the nearby mountains and valleys like the tide.
After all, the terrain of Yuyu Stream was not open, and the main force of Jurchen was pushed away in this fierce attack, and the Han army was defeated even more completely. Although their numbers are not very large on the entire battlefield, because many mountain roads are narrow, a large number of defeated soldiers still formed a situation like a rolling bead curtain in the crowd, and their defeat blocked the passage of some of the main forces of the Jin army. , was then decisively slashed and killed by the Jin people. In some places, the Jin people formed shield walls to not only defend against the possible attacks of the Huaxia army, but also prevent the escape of these Han army troops.
This fierce battlefield like an oven has become a nightmare for the weak in a blink of an eye.
Some of the defeated Han troops were crushed and killed by the Huaxia and Jin soldiers, and some of them chose a relatively empty place to kneel on their heads after being intercepted. At this time, the soldiers of the 5th Division who were originally guarding the position also participated in the full-scale attack. Qu Zhengyan led the staff of the staff and quickly collected the Han army troops who surrendered in the heavy rain.
"... The back road from Yuyuxi to Huangtouyan has been cut off. Dalai's army will not be able to gain a firm foothold in Yuyuxi within ten days and a half months. Jurchen - including you - the front line of fifty thousand people has been divided and defeated by me. Tonight, as soon as the rain stops, I will knock on the Jurchen camp! Some will be stubborn, and some will resist! We will bury them in Rainwater Creek at all costs!"
"You! As Han Chinese! Raise your sword to your compatriots! The Huaxia Army will not condone such a serious crime. In the southwest, you are only worthy of being thrown into the mountains to dig! Some of you will be publicly judged and slashed with thousands of swords. Why? Kneeling here and regretting it? Regret throwing away the knife so quickly? Our Huaxia Army is not afraid that you have a knife! Even the most murderous Jurchen army, today, we will defeat him head-on! If you do not surrender, we will defeat you head-on! But you put down your knives, on today's battlefield, I will give you a chance!"
"There is only one chance!" Qu Zhengyan shouted in the rain, "Some of you can pick up your knives and go back to Jurchen's barracks! Take Jurchen's head to atone for your past sins! Others of you Some people, we will also give you knives, on the hills around here, at this moment, those who are still running away, still resisting stubbornly, I want you to take them down! It's a man's, earn one for yourself Life!"
Staff officers who were doing more meticulous work walked through the descendants, picked out some of the leading officers, registered information, and taught them face-to-face opportunities. Some soldiers were returned with knives and guns.
At this time, the battles on various roads in the mountains did not stop, and some Jurchen soldiers were forced into the desperate corners of the mountains to resist stubbornly. On this side, Qu Zhengyan's voice is ringing, "... We are not afraid of you being false and arrogant! Nor are we afraid that you will fight against us again! Today, as soon as the rain stops, our cannons will make the position of Rainwater Creek no longer exist! We will be with you at that time. Clear up today's account! There is no other way to go! Pick up the knife and be an upright Han man! Be an upright man! Otherwise, I will die here—"
Three minutes later, the first batch of Han soldiers were captured in the woods near Yuyu Stream and joined the counter-attacking Jurchen team. Since the Jurchen army chose to attack for the first time in the head-to-head confrontation, by this time, most of the combat troops were still unable to set foot on the road back to the camp.
-Due to the terrain of Yuyu Stream, the Jurchen camp on this side is not placed in front of the city like Huangming County. Because it can attack several directions at the same time, the Jurchen camp is placed on a hill more than three miles away. On the mountainside, the rear guards the road leading to Huangtouyan.
In this straight-line distance of less than four miles, the actual terrain is complex and changeable in the mountains and lowlands, the Huaxia Army troops who have already calculated the combat steps have selected several key points. For example, the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division, which had the heaviest burden, was led by the head of Shen Changye. After easily cutting through the obstruction of the two parallel import troops, it directly entered the most critical valley on the way of the Jurchen retreat.
On weekdays, it only exists quietly in this valley between the mountains and has no name. Shen Changye's thousand-person regiment set up a defense line in the rain. When he came in, the Jurchen on the battlefield had not carefully considered the idea of retreating, but soon after this In the afternoon, Shen Changye's troops encountered as many as eleven waves of repeated attacks in this canyon.
The corpses piled up into hills in the canyon, and the viscous blood stained the water under their feet. After this day, the canyon was named "Victory Gorge".
The First Regiment of the Second Brigade under Qu Zhengyan also became the most attritioned unit in the entire battlefield. Nearly 50% of the soldiers slept in this bright red canyon forever.
When the Shin time (3:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon) was about to end, the rain had gradually stopped, and the voices of stubborn resistance in the mountains all over the place gradually became smaller. At this time, the news of Li Li's death had spread throughout Yuyu Creek, and the passage from the camp to Huangtouyan had been destroyed, which meant that the reinforcements from Dalai in the rear were difficult to reach, and the two main passages that returned from the battlefield to the barracks were blocked by the Huaxia Army. After repeated competition with the Jurchens, some people fled back to the camp by detours, and many troops were forced into the Jedi. Some strong Jurchen troops spread out their formations and stuck to it, while a large number of the surviving troops chose to surrender.
Including the main force of the Jin army and the Han army troops, the number of Jin soldiers who were directly killed or injured in this battle approached 8,000. In addition, about 15,000 people were captured on the spot, disarmed and escorted to the rear.
The Huaxia Army also suffered a lot of damage, but as the rain subsided, Qu Zhengyan made people drag the cannons that could be used at last to the mountains. Some of them would be used to deal with the Jurchen elites who were stubbornly resisting, and some of them would be dragged towards the Jurchen. Camp.
The packhorses used to carry the load dragged dry firewood branches across the bloody battlefield. After reaching the periphery of the Jurchen camp, Qu Zhengyan instructed the soldiers to light piles of bonfires at the upper wind. After the bonfire was expelled, the wet wood was added, and the black smoke climbed up the hillside towards the Jurchen camp.
The Jurchen camp was not attacked for two months after it was set up. Many of its structures were still in good condition, with wooden walls and canopies stacked with artillery fire, but Qu Zhengyan was not afraid, fighting in Rainwater Creek At the most intense time, some of the "broken soldiers" had already retreated to the camp and "returned" to the camp, and as the black smoke lingered, the horse teams carrying explosive packs had also come one after another.
As long as Dalai's reinforcements can't arrive, the fear of this night will ferment in the barracks ahead. Tonight, or tomorrow at the latest, he will knock on the wooden city wall and stretch the Jurchen to this one in Rainwater Creek. Serpent's head, chop off ruthlessly and thoroughly!