In the ups and downs of troubled times, people go in different directions. Although most people go with the flow and are confused, there are always people who move against the tide and draw their swords forward.

Since the Jurchen Western Route Army broke through Xiangfan, the gate of the Wu Dynasty was opened, and the land of Xiangfan to the Jianmen Pass quickly fell. Numerous people and troops knelt down in front of the Jurchens, and in less than half a year, the gates of the large and small cities of this thousand-mile land were opened for the Jurchens.

Some of the resisters died at that time, and the Jurchen army that was willing to surrender accepted the petition in one way or another, but there were always some people who really chose to be false and wrong, and quietly waited for the turnaround to come.

From the southwest to the north, crossing the Yangtze River is not only Xiangyang and Fancheng, but geographically, the location of Xiangfan is really important. The Jurchen forces, which did not take into account the defeat, always concentrated their fleets at the Xiangfan Ferry. It is also for this reason that when some of the most unlikely situations arise, the plan for the army to sneak attack Xiangfan and cut off the back road of the Jurchens has been circling in the minds of some bold people since last year.

The defeat of the Wangyuan Bridge of the Jin people touched the nerves of Liu Guangshi, Xia Zhongxin, Xiao Zheng and others, and made them quickly make their own choices. At the same time, there are always others who are beginning to contact and implement their own plans.

On the seventh day of the first month of March, after making proper contact with each other, Qi Xinhan led a brigade of troops to set off and marched along the carefully explored path. On March 27, he arrived at the foot of Fancheng and tried to make a sneak attack.

If the sneak attack is successful, it will deal an extremely heavy blow to the Jurchen Western Route Army that is trying to retreat. But the progress since then has not been smooth.

Three thousand men rushed for nearly a thousand miles, and the route chosen was about equal to the enemy's rear, and the whole act was actually extremely risky. But considering the estrangement between the Jin and Han armies and the significance of this operation, Qin Shaoqian finally approved the operation. The most elite team in the army was selected, and several plans were made - although the Han army, which secretly liaised with the Huaxia Army, made a set of elaborate plans, but the Huaxia Army did not follow this plan in the end.

Facts have proved that such a psychology is extremely necessary, when approaching the boundary of Fancheng, Qi Xinhan let go of the scout team heavily, and went to Fancheng City in advance to observe the situation, the army did not enter the agreed place at the appointed time.

The connectors inside Fancheng missed the appointment, and as the scout team took the initiative to signal in the south of the city, someone jumped down on the wall of Fancheng.

The person who was arranged inside Fancheng to try to open the door was originally a junior general of the Han army in the Central Plains, but it is clear that all these plans have been seen through by the Jurchens, who put this young general on the city wall and ordered him to deceive the Huaxia army, but this person's leap also completely erased this possibility.

The Jurchen army and elite puppet military arranged in the Xiangfan area did not determine the whereabouts of the Huaxia army first, and only after capturing Neiying did they carry out a large-scale mobilization, and tens of thousands of troops, including 3,000 Tushan guards, quickly surrounded the outside of the city. Qi Xinhan was not panicked, and 3,000 people quickly retreated to the vicinity of Danyang Town, southwest of Fancheng, taking advantage of the night to set up an ambush by taking advantage of the terrain.

The Han army in Fancheng saw that the Jin people saw through the trajectory of the black flag stealing the city, and began to turn around and flee, and the fighting spirit became resolute, and thousands of people quickly chased to Danyang, and saw a black flag team retreating towards the mountain, and now surging up, trying to seize the favorable terrain. Before they could go up the mountain, the Huaxia army launched an attack in the middle of the formation, cutting the formation in two, and then another ambushed army entered from the rear section, first snatching the gunpowder, carriages, and iron cannons carried by the army.

When Tu Shanwei arrived, the first group of 6,000 Han troops was fleeing all over the mountains, and the Huaxia army was divided into two groups, and set up a horn-shaped artillery array in the mountains, waiting for Tu Shanwei's frontal attack.

Although Tu Shanwei is a Jurchen elite, the total number of people in the hands of Xi Yin outside the Sword Pavilion will not exceed 30,000, and the number that can be arranged in Fancheng and can be transferred to pursue is even less. In comparison with the same number, Qi Xinhan defeated the Han army twice as large as himself, and then directly rushed to Tushanwei, who rushed over.

The person in charge of leading this Tushan Guard was also a fierce general, and when he saw that the Huaxia army looked like no one in his eyes, he immediately launched an attack.

The battle was fierce and unusually fierce at the first time in the night, although the Huaxia army had only done one, but after occupying the geographical advantage, it was actually extremely advantageous to set up a formation. It was precisely because of this that Qi Xinhan directly teased the other party. But the Jurchen generals were not stupid, and in the second half of the first wave of the offensive realized the problem, commanding a large number of troops in an attempt to outflank them, while deploying more Han troops south of Fancheng to block the road. Before his encirclement was completed, Qi Xinhan took advantage of the favorable terrain that he was already optimistic about, and quickly began to move before dawn.

Tu Shanwei bit it all the way.

Although the Jurchen side had the advantage of troops, the 3,000 men led by Qi Xinhan had been training on the plateau for a long time, and it was only common for them to travel long distances on rugged terrain. They weaved their way through the mountains, occasionally encountering Han troops, but they were crushed in a single blow. This situation made it impossible for the Jurchen side to seize the fighters in the first two days. People can only know that near Fancheng, there has been a lively fight.

Things on the battlefield have lit a flame. Outside the battlefield, the situation is particularly complicated.

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On March 29, the sky north of Zhaohua was gloomy, and the rear camp of the Jinguo West Route Army was large.

The forty-three-year-old general of the Jin State opened the curtain of the big tent and greeted the commander sitting in it: "Teacher." ”

The tent is lit up, and in the center is a huge sand table, with all kinds of small flags inserted in the corresponding position of the sand table, and the names of different forces and armies are written on the flags.

Half a head of white hair, his figure has been thin recently, but he is still in good spirits Wan Yan Xiyin sat on the chair in front of the sand table, Wan Yan Yuchi noticed that he was holding two flags in his hands, and he was looking a little distracted.

"Teacher." Wanyan Yuchi has followed Xiyin for many years, compared to the little prince Qingjue, who is not very supportive of the wall, Wanyan Yuchi's family background is not prominent, but because of this, the real results have climbed up, and he can be regarded as Xiyin's extremely trusted disciple and right-hand man. As soon as he saw Xi Yin's movements, he roughly guessed what was happening: "...... Did you find someone? ”

"Hmm." Wanyan Xiyin nodded, turning the small flag with the name written on it in his hand, and after a while, he sighed slightly, but also showed a smile, "Dai Mengwei, Wang Zhainan, do you remember these two people?" ”

Wanyan Yuchi thought for a while: "Dai Mengwei is a Confucian in Xicheng County, and Wang Zhainan is also a Confucian general...... Are they traitorous? ”

"If you never really surrender, what is the word of rebellion. Yu Chi, as a teacher, I have long said that Confucianism is broad and profound, and not all of these scholars in the south are kneeling. Knowing that it was them, I was a little relieved to be a teacher. ”

"Yes." Wan Yan Yuchi nodded. In fact, Xi Yin's spirit of sinology, his disciples are not all people who love to read.

"You go and deal with it."

Xi Yin's simple words, and after that, there were countless bloody storms.

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At the same time that Yan Yuchi led the troops out, on the thousands of miles between the Yangtze River and the Sword Pavilion, the members of the intelligence department of the Huaxia Army, who were originally lurking, were also quickly making their own reactions and actions.

After the Jurchens occupied this area, they killed people, slaughtered cities, and rebels died and surrendered, and there were always some of them, either up the mountains and grass, or hiding among the refugees, and they were always carrying out their own resistance. There were also those who were inclined to the Huaxia army among the Han army and scholars, and it was Dai Mengwei and Wang Zhainan, who held several places, who contacted the Huaxia army and put forward a plan to capture Fancheng.

But obviously, Wanyan Xiyin had already predicted the importance of Xiangfan, and even the Han army that had surrendered to him earlier would collude with Black Flag, and he never left his calculations. With the advent of the change of Wangyuan Bridge, Qi Xinhan approached Fancheng, and after Xi Yin's arranged back hand was unfolded, after forcing Qi Xinhan back, he reviewed the information in the early stage, and the figures of Dai Mengwei and Wang Zhainan also entered Xi Yin's field of vision.

At the same time, the intelligence department of the Huaxia Army must begin to consider the possibility that Dai Mengwei, Wang Zhainan, and others are in fact real traitors. After such a possibility was initially ruled out, the news of the operation spread in all directions.

Originally, many green forest heroes and rebel forces led by Fu Lu in various cities and refugees began to act, and the purpose of their actions was to unite the forces of all parties and start to rescue Dai and Wang, as well as the relatives and clansmen of these two rebels. Riots unfolded in the raising of arms and shouting, and the Huaxia army began to lobby at the same time against all the remaining Han army teams that could be won over thousands of miles.

The chess pieces on both sides are still falling, and Wanyan Xiyin is waiting for the rebels to appear, trying to suppress them in one fell swoop, so as to set an example for the monkeys, detonate and clean up possible hidden dangers on the way back to the north in advance. For the Huaxia Army, starting with the reckless recklessness of 3,000 people, Qin Shaoqian had to remind everyone: The time for the decisive battle is coming.

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The moment when the fuse outside the Sword Gate was lit. Inside the Sword Gate, the fierce battle continued.

To the south of Huangming County, the air is humid and gloomy, and the smoke of gunpowder fills the sky, accompanied by the smell of oozing blood, which fills people's nostrils.

Wan Yan Sheya Ma brandished a long knife and shouted loudly, and was active in the battle on the front line. His constant activity boosted the morale of the Jin army.

The rocket, named "Dijiang", was sent out from the I-frame on the hill, roared with a terrifying tail flame, fell into the stream not far away, and exploded and rushed away. Wanyan Sheye Ma led the team and rushed to the small hill that was occupied by a small number of Huaxia troops.

From Yushui Creek on March 21 to Huangming County on this day, he has been fighting for several days, and his voice is hoarse. In fact, the most critical moment for Zonghan's army to withdraw from the southwest has also arrived.

It was the most difficult and desperate war he had ever encountered in his life, and after five days of fierce fighting at Rainwater Creek, Sheyama thought he was going to die in that mountain forest. The soldiers led by Qu Zhengyan were only more than 4,000 people, although the banner of Ning Yi was just an empty city plan, but he was followed by the most courageous troops in the Black Flag Army.

But among the golden people, there are also warriors. The deputy of the Xi people, who had been fighting with Sheema for nearly 20 years, broke through with the battle flag of Sheyema with all his might, and finally Shaishlang was shot and killed by the Black Flag Army, and Sheyema was lucky to break through and escape.

It is difficult for a person who has been weak all his life to suddenly become a hard bone, and a person who has been proud all his life will not suddenly become weak. After days of fighting, his brother died, the deputy general died, and in the breakthrough, his favorite war horse that was like a person also died, and most of the soldiers around him showed a look of panic and despair that they would never see in the past. After that, it was another two days of fighting to build up the troops, and the artillery fire of the Black Flag Army and the stray arrows on the battlefield did not hit him at all.

The terrain of Yushuixi is complicated, and in the five days, although everyone has not won or lost in rounds of fighting, but for the Jin people, this battle has indeed dragged down Qu Zhengyan's continued to push forward, and when there are more Black Flag troops gathered in Yushuixi, Sheyema will withdraw the army to Huangming County.

At this time, a large number of Jurchen troops were also flocking to the narrow Huangming Mountain Road, and the Huaxia ranks were chasing and killing, causing heavy casualties to the Dejin people.

More than a month ago, the troops that arrived at the front lines of Shiling and Xiukou consisted of a total of 50,000 Han troops and nearly 100,000 Jin troops, and on the mountain roads in the rear, there were also more than 30,000 wounded soldiers and rear troops garrisoning everywhere. After the defeat in the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge, most of the Han army chose to surrender, and the Jin army from Shiling and Xiukou was nearly 70,000, but with the addition of personnel on the rear road, the total number also reached 100,000.

In more than half a month, under the repeated onslaught of the Huaxia Army, the number of casualties and missing of the Jin Army has reached nearly 20,000, and a small number of wounded who have been unable to evacuate have chosen to surrender. By the 25th and 26th, about 50,000 Jurchen troops had successfully passed through the Huangming Pass, and the remaining more than 20,000 were still blocked in front of the road into the mountain. Since it was already difficult to make a detour through the small road near Huangming County, the Huaxia army, which had caught up one after another, launched one charge after another against the fleeing Jurchen troops, and after being defeated, they were captured again.

The morale of these troops who were left behind was already low, and although they often occupied the roads to open up their defenses, the range of the rockets of the Huaxia army was much greater than that of artillery, often with one round of rockets and one charge, and the Jurchen troops in the rear began to surrender on a large scale. During this period, the hard work of Bali Su, Saba and others slowed down the speed of collapse to a certain extent, and Shiyama, who came from Yushuixi, immediately joined in and worked hard to stabilize the morale of the army.

On the 29th, a Huaxia army squad from the side occupied a hill on the side of the road by a sneak attack, almost cutting off the way of thousands of people in the back section, Sheyema led the team to launch two attacks on the mountain, and after the Huaxia army squad with an extremely inferior number of people fired several rockets it carried, it finally chose to retreat when it saw the Jurchens surging in.

A rocket exploded behind a boulder not far from Shiyama's side, and some of the soldiers around him were thrown away, and Shizuma was already shouting hoarsely, and when the guards rushed over, he stood there for a long time, and then realized that he had survived again.

The Huaxia army on the hill withdrew in disarray.

- and live yourself.

He remembered many people who had been called heroes by the Jurchens in the past, Ah Guta, Father, Zong Wang, Xi Yin, Lou Mu, and Bali Su...... At this moment, he suddenly realized where he was inferior to them. I have been fighting with the army for 20 years, and I also boast of being brave, but in fact, most of the battles I fought as an adult were actually good luck.

Ah Guta is different from his father and Xiyin's generation, in the eyes of later generations, they fought all the way generously and heroically, but when they went from Ningjiang Prefecture to Hubu Dagang, they all walked on the edge of life and death with a small number of troops again and again.

At this moment, I really understood how difficult it was to survive.

There was a bleak sun in the sky, and the valley was covered with haze, but at the moment before me, everything was lively. Soon after, he saw the two of them coming from the other side of the road, stained with gunsmoke and blood, nodding to each other and not saying much.

As long as I can return to the Northland, I will not let Dajin die at the hands of the Black Flag.

At this moment, he thought so.