The sun is shining, and the mountain road between Zizhou and Huangming County is full of people.

The medical team and logistics team that marched forward, the civilians and wounded sent from the battlefield in Huangming County, and the soldiers of the communication team who rushed forward and backward to convey information...... All kinds of figures filled the winding road, and the sound of orders, cries, and shouts converged into one.

"Teams, move forward, keep to the right! Right! Right! Fellow, this side is right, let go-"

The red armband, which was responsible for directing traffic, shouted in the middle of the road, barely keeping the entire road open.

In the process of coming and going, the soldiers who have already undergone various trainings do not have much pressure to command. The most difficult to command is naturally the civilians who were withdrawn from the battlefield in Huangming County, they experienced the most terrifying scene in their lives, many people had blood on their bodies, and perhaps experienced the impact of the death of their families, some people walked forward in a daze, and they couldn't hear anything, and occasionally someone stumbled to meet the opposite team, and after being touched, they lay on the ground and cried.

The red armbands, who were in charge of grooming, had to command them to carry them back into the ranks in time.

In rare cases, these people who have lost their minds will even quarrel loudly with others, and then they can only take some coercive measures. It's inhumane, but it's necessary right now.

Due to the various plans made in advance, although there were all kinds of frictions at this time, the big delay that delayed things did not occur once.

This section of the road from Huangming County to Zizhou is relatively easy to walk after all. The section from the Sword Pavilion to Huangming County that the Jurchens traveled at this time naturally encountered more trouble. In the comparison of various plans made by the General Staff of the Huaxia Army, the smaller number of people still took advantage of the transportation.

In the open field near the middle of the road, tents in the camp for civilians stretched out.

The civilians of the Wu Dynasty who were able to survive the battlefield in Huangming County came here, and the first thing they received was to be guarded and quarantined, and in this process, the Huaxia army arranged a large number of propagandists to hold a meeting for them to give a lecture, so that they could first identify some of the people in the crowd who might be Jurchen spies, and then they would be sent to the rear settlement.

Among the hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder, as long as the Jurchen generals have a little intelligence, they will be mixed with spies, and most of these spies are also members of the Han army who surrendered to the Jurchens. Their attitude is vague and it is difficult to choose, if the Huaxia army has the upper hand, they are even willing to join this side, but in the bounty offered by the Jurchens and the changes in the external situation, these people will also be a time bomb that may jump out at any time.

Anyway, the lives of the Han army are not worth much, and if you send someone from an army to the opposite side, it will only be the enemy who has a headache.

If I were a bad guy, I would definitely do this - although I have always been a good person, Ning Yi is quite knowledgeable about this kind of thing.

“…… On the battlefield of Huangming, the speed of pulling out was a full-scale attack launched around the end of the afternoon...... With Meng'an Wulitan as the vanguard, he led a thousand people to the city, and after the siege was fruitless, this thousand troops were difficult to retreat, so they ordered the Han army to launch a general attack in the vanguard, and the frontal attack was blocked by the artillery regiment, and the casualties were heavy......"

There was a watchtower standing high on the peak next to the avenue, and Ning Yi and the patrol team climbed all the way up. Looking ahead from the hill here, looming at the end of the undulating sea of trees in Huangming County, and in the depths of the mountain range, a column of smoke rising — the wildfires were still spreading — Xu Shaoyuan of the Secretariat recounted yesterday's battle.

“…… In order to rescue the Ulitan team, after that, Balisu launched three large-scale attacks, and ordered artillery on the civilians, disrupting the entire battlefield situation...... The news from Division Commander Pang was that on the 251st, our army suffered only 100 casualties, and most of them were caused by the boulders and bombs they threw over. ”

“…… The casualties of the Jurchen troops were conservatively estimated at more than 5,000 people, and after the first part suffered three rounds of saturation shelling, there was a large-scale rout, and the Jurchen military court team also killed some people, and at that time, the Pull Departure Order to shell the civilians ......"

"One to fifty!" Hearing this number, Ning Xi in the team couldn't hide his excitement, and Ning Yi smiled slightly: "Most of the dead are Yu Xian's Han army." ”

Li Yi, the chief of staff on the side, nodded at this time: "Wulitan is a Jurchen elite, and he has a plan to attack the city quickly, but most of the veterans under Pang Liu'an can't take advantage of them when they go to the city." Seeing this scene, Ba Lisu immediately ordered the Han army and other affiliated troops to carry out a saturation attack, and then shelled the civilians on the battlefield to disrupt the situation. First, to allow the elite troops of the Ulitan to fish in troubled waters and retreat, and second, he wanted to test the lethality of the cannons on the city walls. ”

When Li Yi said this, he looked at Ning Xi: "There is a key idea revealed in the middle, Ning Xi, can you see it?" ”

Ning Xi frowned and thought for a moment: "They, they...... Can you accept such a loss? ”

“…… It shows that they did not despise us. Ning Yi sighed and patted the child's shoulder, "The Jurchens have fought a tailwind battle for twenty or thirty years, and in their own psychology, they should feel that they are the strongest army in the world. In such a state of mind, they will theoretically not accept excessively high battle losses, and using a vanguard general like Uritan to do the first wave of attacks has this kind of psychological embodiment. If everything is in order, and the troops of the Uritan have gained a foothold on the city walls, Huangming County should have been breached in the twenty-fifth day. ”

But such a situation did not appear, and the speed of pulling out immediately let the cannon fodder of the Han army rush forward, and then launched three waves of offensives in a row, pushing the battlefield offensive to saturation, and then later, without using the main elite, it withdrew after paying huge casualties...... It shows that at least in the eyes of the high-level Jurchen army like Bali Su, it is necessary to use such damage to find out where the limit of the combat power of the Huaxia army is. This 'necessity' proves that they did not underestimate us in this war, and even looked down on us a lot, before they came to launch this campaign in the southwest. ”

Ning Xi nodded, and Li Yi said: "Zong Han and Xi Yin believe that the rise of the Jurchens has reached its peak, and there is already a problem of corruption inside, and the rising Huaxia army among the Han people is still rising, and if this situation continues, the Jurchens will have the trouble of the kingdom, so they regard the Southwest Campaign as the most critical battle for the Jurchens to survive." Huang Ming fought on the first day, and he could know that they could accept a quick victory, but they could also accept the disparity in combat strength between the two sides, and the possibility of boiling slowly was the most troublesome. ”

Ning Yi looked at the refugee camp on the road below: "How many civilian casualties?" ”

"The second division counts the approximate number, and the civilians who were driven forward in the whole day are about 15,000 to 18,000, and the ...... we saved in the end" Xu Shaoyuan looked at the statistics and looked below, "...... More than 3,600 people. Among them, more than 700 were wounded. ”

There was silence in the team by the watchtower for a moment, and then Ning Yi laughed: "Speaking of which, when the staff department discussed the plan in the early stage, Chen Tian helped the Jurchens think of a very dirty strategy, he thinks that when the Jurchens attack the southwest, the world has been owned by them, and they can stuff the surrendered Han troops into the refugee cannon fodder, and we have to take it, and it is very troublesome to filter it out." ”

In view of this, Chen Tian said that the Jurchens can consider driving out millions, or even millions, of civilians in the Xianghu and Sichuan and Shu areas, raiding homes, stealing food and everything, and then driving millions, two million, or even three million people from the mouth of the Sword Pavilion to our side, whether they can be cannon fodder or send them directly, as long as the Jurchens consider opening a path, we can't digest it at all. Within a year, we'd all be dead......"

The camp for refugees down the hillside looks miserable, but it's just the beginning. Ning Yi talked about Chen Tian's affairs and livened up the atmosphere, with a sigh in his smile, and Li Yi on the side also showed a complicated smile. Ning Xi frowned and thought for a moment: "If that's the case, then what should I do...... However, Zhou Junwu made an inverted bead curtain on the edge of the Yangtze River......"

"There can't be a fight here, whether it's the Sword Pavilion Pass or the various mountain passes of the Golden Bull Road, as long as the Jurchens hold it, millions of civilians will definitely not be able to go back."

"That'...... Is there any way to deal with it? ”

"It's hard for Yangmou to deal with." Ning Yi smiled, "When Chen Tian said it, everyone was a little dumbfounded. The possibility of this incident is very small, because the development expectations are uncontrollable, and the Jurchens can mobilize hundreds of thousands of millions of troops at any time, and there is no need to fight this kind of, but if they really get to this point, and desperately send people inside while fighting, everyone can't cry if they really cry, and the possibility of collapse is very high...... So why does the staff say that Chen Tian has a bad stomach, and Qu Zhengyan is a natural pair......"

Ning Yi looked at the refugee camp below, and after saying this joke, his eyes gradually became serious.

"I can't be optimistic, Huangming County is one to fifty, saying that it is a saturation attack, but in fact, the Jurchen attack is not saturated at all, the elite is on the field, and the catapults and iron cannons are all pushed up, and the entire casualty ratio will be greatly reduced. He is a Jurchen veteran, and since he is mentally prepared, he will soon be able to find the critical point of Huangming County's defensive strength. On the other side of Yushui Creek, the soldiers are still waiting, and they are also waiting for the results of the pull-out speed, and then it will be the real test for us. ”

Ning Yi read the battle report, then stretched out his hand and flicked it on it, and handed it to Li Yi with a wry smile: "Alas, look, there are still debt collectors behind." I said it repeatedly before the war, the shells saved me some use, Pang Liuan and Li Dong, the two guys, lost for a day, and the artillery bombarded more than 5,000 people, which is too high...... As soon as I went back, the report came, and I reported to us that there might not be enough shells. ”

In the Huaxia Army, matters at the purely operational level are under the management of the General Staff and the leaders of various armies, although Ning Yi is responsible for the overall operation, he occasionally analyzes it, and does not directly interfere much. But military logistics, all kinds of material production, raising, and deployment, but they are still in Ning Yi's hands, before analyzing the situation of Huang Ming's battle, Ning Yi said it seriously, but in fact there is not much to worry about, at this time, when someone asks for an account, Ning Yi collapsed his shoulders, and laughed angrily.

"I've taken out all my savings for a few years, and I've been working day and night to catch up with the work, where can I give them more...... Xu Shaoyuan, go back and write a letter to me to scold them, a plan is a plan, and there is no more. He clapped his hands, "Yes, I know that this battle will last for three months, and all of them will drink the northwest wind." ”

The mountains ahead are reckless, the road is winding, Ning Yi talked about these things on the mountain, but he still had these smiles. On the side, Ning Yi frowned and struggled to settle the accounts, and when he got to a secluded place, he found his father and asked, "Dad, are there really not enough things?" Ning Yi looked at this son, who had gradually grown into an adult, and was also funny: "Let's go, take you to settle the account." ”

In the afternoon, the father and son returned to the command post and took the abacus to settle the accounts. Pang Liu'an fought for a day of artillery and began to apply for more supplies based on his achievements, in fact, if he wanted more things, not to mention this army.

In the pre-war mission deployment, the materials of each army have been clearly divided, and the output of the rear in the next few months has also been divided. Ning Yi only had a small margin on hand, but every army was also trying to pull it out of Ning Yi's hands at all costs, and what made Ning Yi sigh and slap the table the most in the past period of time was this kind of thing.

The matter of fighting with the Jurchens felt more like an elderly landlord being divided by his son, and there was a sense of desolation that he would not be able to continue for half a lifetime. He was occasionally so angry with the reports of the armies that he laughed, and he was amused in his misery.

Of course, everyone has no selfish motives in this matter, and even this kind of game is very necessary. All Ning Yi could do was to issue an article from time to time to scold the division commanders in front of him, saying that they were losers, and then go to the back to urge the workers to work overtime, and urge the propaganda department to constantly encourage everyone to give full play to their subjective initiative. He occasionally laughs at himself, and his true colors as a black-hearted capitalist can be regarded as exerting himself to the limit.

Even so, the shortage of supplies is still very large. In the early years, in order to maintain the operation of the three counties of Hedeng, basically everything that could be sold was sold. The bulk of the trade was an iron cannon, and what Ning Yi pressed in his hand was a grenade. After capturing the Chengdu Plain, he was more comfortable, and began to prepare for the war with all his might, but the total stock of military funds was still not much, and this battle was fought early after all.

The father and son counted the accounts in the room for half an afternoon, and when they got out, they were already promoting and celebrating the victory of Huangming County for 50 outside. The propaganda team passed by beating gongs and drums, and Ning Xi's expression was like that of a stupid son who suddenly found out that his family was an empty shell, and his expression was a little weak and embarrassed.

"It's all money...... Productivity. Ning Yi sighed with emotion and patted his son on the shoulder, "There is a new factory in Chengdu, I plan for you to learn it, these management is the top priority in the future." ”

“…… I—I'm not going. Ning Xi reacted, "Dad, you lied to me again." ”

"It's telling the truth." Ning Yi's gaze was sincere and calm, "But you have your own ideas, so it's okay, then stay in Zizhou first." ”

Ning Yi's expression did not show the slightest flaw, on the 26th, Huangming County experienced another round of fighting, Pang Liu'an reduced the frequency of shelling, and the damage on the battlefield was reduced. And even if the cannon is not fired, the combat power of Huangming County is still stronger than steel. This was only the beginning of the war, and the results of the attack and some of the conclusions were transmitted back to each of the leaders of the Jurchen army.

The fire lit during the confrontation between the scout troops in the mountains has spread more and more widely, and the exchange of about one to six is a huge threat that is unbearable for the subsidiary troops who enter the mountains for the bounty, even if the Jurchen high-level has ordered that it is not allowed to set fire easily, but once attacked, who can control the order in the life and death situation, whether it is fishing in troubled waters or turning around and fleeing, setting fire is the preferred strategy.

The scouts of the Huaxia army temporarily chose to maintain the battle line, and some of the Jurchen elite scouts slowly began to adapt to the operations of the Huaxia army.

Everyone understands that the temptation and stalemate at the beginning will not last too long, once the temptation is completed, what awaits the Huaxia army will inevitably be a large-scale, high-intensity repeated charge and change of the Jurchens, and the artillery arrays of the two sides will be bombarded, even if you go up and down, the Jurchens will not be at an absolute disadvantage. The most important thing is: no matter how manpower and material resources, they can afford it.

After dealing with things on the night of the twenty-sixth, Ning Yi took out the letter paper and wrote to the family in the rear, and the letter to Su Tan'er was written like this:

I found that when the children grew up, they were far less cute than when they were children, and told Wenwen, Ning Ke, Ning Shuang, and Ning Ning that their father liked them the most, and their brothers were not likable.

Well, Ning He is still young, but he is as cute as them.

……

Soon after, Su Tan'er also wrote to him:

Yesterday, I received a letter from Xi'er, saying that you always want to trick him into going to the rear, it is really the old habits of some old people, he wants to be a cool young man, and he should not learn from you in this regard.

I was glad that he had his own discernment, and of course the letter scolded him.

Then you will not be angry with him any more.

……

- I'll be angry with him!

- I'm glad you're sister!

Ning Yi's face was so angry by his wife's letter that his face darkened.

But compared to war, these are indescribably happy things.