On the night when the goose feather snow fell from the sky, a small fire broke out in the uninhabited courtyard at one end of Zizhou City.
The cause of the fire was that the wind and snow blew off a lantern hanging in the corridor of the house, and the lantern slowly ignited the debris that had been deposited on the side of the corridor for a long time. The couple at the top of the Huaxia Army who were here were a little flustered at first, but then they launched a firefighting operation on this cold winter night. The small fire was put out soon after the heavy snow fell.
Many years later, this mysterious fire that occurred in a corner of Zizhou City during the most intense time of the Southwest Campaign may be dug out from the old paper by a literati or third-rate writer and turned into a barnyard official's unofficial history or a certain The fuse of the conspiracy story. But at that time, not many people noticed this small accident. When the couple walked back to the headquarters along the road in the middle of the night, the sky and the earth were already full of snowflakes, and their faces were speechless. But it does appear to be a relaxed smile.
- left a memory.
This is what happened on the night of December 27th in the eleventh year of Wu Jianshuo. By dawn the next day, the heavy snow had not stopped, and the undulating mountains in the southwest had been wrapped in silver.
The end of the year is coming. From the boundary line between Huangming County and Yuyuxi to Zizhou, the escort of the prisoners continued - the Huaxia Army was still digesting the results of the battle at Yuyuxi - due to the heavy snowfall, some of the Jurchen prisoners took the risk and chose Escaped into the mountains, causing a little confusion, but overall, it was no longer able to affect the overall situation.
On the mountain road extending from the front line of the battlefield to the Jiange, the Jurchen military camp, which was gradually covered by heavy snow, was filled with a depressing, chilling and maddening atmosphere.
In the spread of the heavy snow, there was a small movement caused by the fighting in the mountains. In the snowstorm, some pieces of paper whistled to the camp of the Jurchen army with the heavy snow.
Even in the gap after the staged victory, the Huaxia army's attack did not stop. The scouts approached the Jurchen army camp or the necessary mountain road with the flyers, and the behavior of releasing the flyers occurred from time to time.
The leaflet recounts the process of the Battle of Yuyuxi: The Huaxia Army defeated the Jurchen army head-on, beheaded the Ruilili and then besieged the Yuyuxi camp. A large number of Han people were already on the battlefield anyway, and based on their performance on the battlefield, the Jurchen did not When these Han troops read the flyers, they attached awards to Zonghan's two sons.
Even without these leaflets, the situation of vigilance and hatred against the Han army has actually happened in Jinbing's barracks.
In the past few days, Yu Yu executed dozens of Han army scouts who "did not obey orders": many of them died because of their association with Ren Hengchong.
In the previous war, in order to ensure the combat power of these Han army scouts, the Jinren side drove the Han army scouts to contribute by offering bounties. This could be considered a correct strategy in the first place, but when Ren Hengchong found a way to the rear of the Huaxia Army, he was unwilling to report to the top. Killed a "possibility" that Jin Bing could have found.
What if it wasn't for more than 20 people who ran to the opponent's camp to fight, but 200 or even 2,000 girls were really good players? Maybe the opponent's camp was already in chaos, and Ning Yi's son was either captured or killed, and through the chaos in the wounded camp, the recoil of the frontline Rain Stream, and the battle on December 19, there might be a complete battle. different results.
During Yu Yu's execution of dozens of scouts, Dalai, who was in control of the army, kept an eye on various Han army camps at the same time, and a large number of Han army members who had picked up Huaxia army leaflets were identified and punished. The chilling atmosphere oppressed the living space of each Han army.
"...If it wasn't for the defections of the Nangou, there would be no defeat in the Battle of Rainwater Creek!"
Twenty-eight, the ten-mile main camp where the sky is snowing. When entering the gate of the camp, Dalai pulled down his cape, shook off the snow above him, and criticized the "black sheep" in the war with the generals he met.
To a certain extent, his statement is also one of the main ideas in the current Golden Army. The passing general looked at the Han army camp in the distance and waved his hand vigorously.
"... Nanren are extremely incompetent. I said long ago that they are very difficult to use! Hmph, now that Yuyuxi has lost a little bit, I think they can't be trusted anymore!"
"... The most feared thing is to be a hindrance in the battle. Rainwater Creek has complicated roads, Nangou is incompetent, and it is defeated and fled after being dashed a little, and it also occupies the road in the rear, so that the deployment of rescue on the battlefield cannot be timely. I see, Huangming County is the best place to be adjusted, because the terrain is more open there, and it consumes the artillery shells of the Black Flag Army..."
"... Huangming County can at most hold a few people. Today, 50,000 Nangou is dispatched, and the Black Flag Army is rushing back. You may not know how many people will defect. When they come back, will your camp door be opened? "
"...As I see it, anyone who dares to come back if they can't open or attack the city wall will die!"
"... It's just handed over to the Black Flag Army. If the Black Flag Army doesn't take it in and 50,000 people are stuck on the battlefield, we don't have to go forward."
"... a group of rats! Nangou is a bad breed!"
"... There are dozens of Han slaves in the family, and they only know how to be lazy when they do things... "
Several generals stepped on the snow and walked towards the heights of the barracks, exchanging ideas like this. At the other end of the camp, Yu Yu bumped into Wanyan Xiebao, who had a serious face. He looked at the spread out of the camp, and listened to the "King of Baoshan" whispering: "... If he hadn't died in Yingzuiyan, he would have to bear the greatest responsibility for this loss!"
"After all, he is dead, so let's talk less about these words." Hearing Wanyan Xiebao's words, his elder brother Wanyan She also came over immediately.
In the wind and snow, many generals of this southern expedition are gathering toward Shiliji.
Eight days ago, Yuyuxi suddenly lost the battle, which shook the entire southern army of the Jinren. Except for Dalai and Yu Yu who rushed to Yuyuxi to clean up the mess, almost all the high-level generals were shocked and disbelieving at the sudden news from Yuyuxi.
Ruilili led a thousand guards to be beheaded at Yingzuiyan in Yuyuxi. The Huaxia Army suddenly attacked with less than 20,000 troops and defeated the entire Yuyuxi attacking troops head-on. Thousands save half of Rain Creek camp...
For more than two months, among the generals of the Jurchen, with the exception of Ruilili and Tu Lisu, who took charge of the attack on the front line, and Yu Yutong who led the scouts to assist, the rest of the generals were in the middle or in the rear, but they all fought. Spirit, participated in the maintenance and preparation of the entire battlefield.
From Jiange to Huangming County and Yuyuxi is a long and narrow mountain road of nearly 50 miles. The terrain is rugged and difficult to navigate. In many places, the roads are poor, and maintenance is often necessary after the passage of vehicles and horses and after the rain. However, with Xi Yin's prior planning and Han Qixian's logistical operations, hundreds of thousands of troops opened up roads in two months, not only doubled the original roads, but even in some areas that were otherwise impassable. A new plank road was built where the ground could be broken.
The Jurchens were originally barbaric when they started the army thirty years ago. A Guda, Zong Han and other generations are smart and good at learning from others' strengths. They are constantly learning new tactics in battles again and again. In the first ten years of its rise, it relied on the invincible blood and bravery of the brave who met in a narrow path. In the middle ten years, he gradually collected craftsmen from all over the world and learned how to cooperate with equipment and tactics. Thirty years later, Zong Han, Xi Yin, Han Qixian and others finally made an orderly joint operation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Most of the people responsible for opening the mountain and opening the road were the Han army who were driven in and the skilled Han craftsmen who were captured after crossing the river, but it was the Jurchen generals in the rear who managed and supervised these people. For more than two months, the front line has been continuously attacking, and the rear can solve the most troublesome access problem under such circumstances.
Now this is the power of Daikin's full mobilization!
In the past two months, some generals have been discussing that if this war is really protracted, they may even have the pride of mobilizing the Han slaves to "level the mountains in the southwest".
The black flag on the opposite side can last for two months in Huangming County, Yuyuxi and other places, and its defense is as strong as an iron barrel, and it is indeed worthy of admiration. It's no wonder that they defeated Lou Shi and Ci yet. But there is still enough confidence in the entire golden army of the general trend.
The sudden loss of Yuyuxi was a slap in the face when everyone's confidence was the strongest!
At that time, the battle situation on the front line of Yuyuxi collapsed quickly, and in the afternoon, it was forcibly defeated by the front. The information that was sent urgently in the future was to hope that the rescue would come quickly, and it was not kept secret. In the early morning and the next day, emergency information was sent back one after another. The perimeter of Rainwater Creek Camp was defeated before time, and the slaughter drove straight in.
Rainwater Creek has nearly 50,000 people, and the camp has a convenient location. In less than a day, it was attacked by a frontal force of the Black Flag Army, which was rumored to be less than 20,000 people. How strong does it have to be
As a veteran of the slaughtering field all his life, many of the Jinbing generals in the rear turned pale when they heard the news. It was only when the second thought was finally picked up that they doubted whether it was a false alarm, or whether it was a false alarm or a It was a tactic that came up against what a black flag and just so happened to play a role.
The hot-tempered Wanyan Xiebao even cut down a tree with a knife on the edge of the barracks, shouting: "This is impossible!" He immediately rushed to the front to kill the scouts who lied about the military situation and disturbed the morale of the army. . He really couldn't believe the result.
The relatively calm and steady Wanyan Shema can only say with confidence: "There must be something wrong."
No one could believe such a victory. For 30 years, this is something the Jurchen has never tasted, whether in fair or injustice.
Nearly ten years ago, Lou Shi once pushed the Black Flag Army in the northwest into a disadvantage—of course, in the records of the Huaxia Army, it was an evenly matched chaos—later because of a small coincidence, he was caught by a Black Flag on the battlefield. The team accidentally beheaded, so that the Jurchen tasted the first defeat in the hands of the Black Flag Army.
Although he was in Yanzhou, the tens of thousands of troops under his command still smashed open the gate of Xiaocanghe, forcing the Black Banner Army to flee south. experienced a fiasco.
Today, a few years later, at the moment when Dajin mobilized the strongest force to march south and many veterans have not yet left the stage, the black flag on the opposite side showed such amazing fangs... Southwest really was born more than thirty years ago. Jurchen crazier army
Fortunately, further explanations will come in the next few days.
At noon on the 19th of December, I was used to taking risks and finally couldn't hold back the restlessness for two months, and led the guards to attack the key breakthrough called Yingzuiyan in person. He was hit by the Black Flag Army. The team was cut off by the rolling boulders, and fell to their deaths.
Secondly, the changeable terrain of Yuyuxi caused the complexity of the offensive. The elites of the Huaxia army came out, but the Jin people had to accept the evil result of the Han army in the team. These original surrendering troops all became a burden when facing the opponent's attack. . When some Jurchen elites retreated or rescued, the road was blocked by these Han troops, so that the battlefield could not operate in time, delaying fighter opportunities.
Coupled with the rapid surrender of some Han troops to the Black Flag on the battlefield, they suddenly launched an attack in the camp that night, causing the perimeter of Yuyuxi Camp to be broken, causing more damage to the main force of the Jin army on the front line. Since he had already died in the battle, although several middle-level warriors fought to the death and defended a small half of the internal camp, it was of no use to the battle itself.
With this information, Yuyuxi's collapse finally had a reasonable explanation.
Li Li was already dead. He was the head of an army during his lifetime. The generals of the Jin army with low status could not speak of him, and his sacrifice on the battlefield could only be comforted by honor. Then the biggest pot can only be carried by the Han army. For a few days after the war, all the troops from Jiange to the front still needed to appease the morale of the army and suppress the restlessness. All the troops on the front line of Yuyuxi moved forward one after another, and the generals in the remaining positions cleaned up the team... 28 It was snowing heavily, and several generals who received the order were recalled to Shiliji by Wanyan Zonghan's order.
The weather was cold, and the huge military barracks lingered in the foothills of the mountains as far as the eye could see. Some generals arrived in the morning, while others arrived one after another in the afternoon. Towards evening, Wanyan Zonghan lit a roaring bonfire in the open space outside the tent - a gathering place, ready to be in the open air in the heavy snow.
Wanyan Zonghan threw wood into the bonfire and watched as the sparks flew out, and the snow was forced away by the fire.
In the white snow, famous generals came one after another: Saba arrived, Yu Yu arrived, Dalai arrived, Han Qi arrived first, Gao Qingyi arrived, Wanyan She also arrived, Wanyan Xiebao arrived... and one after another. After many years of fighting to this point, they saw the flaming flames and gathered here in the snow dance.
Zong Han's tall figure was silent, he threw another log in, and the flames flew up with a bang, and countless flames went up to the sky.
Soon, there are familiar shaman war songs whispering in the crowd.
"...My White Tiger Mountain God, roar!
I am the one who surpasses all people and is favored by God!
…
Mighty God, tell me!
…
O those who are with me!
Please listen carefully.
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My costum spreads its wings—
Free to fly! "
Around the roaring bonfire, there seem to be countless figures following Yinghe…