In the first year of Wu Zhenxing, the thirteenth year after Ning Yi killed the king, in the first month, the southwest became a messy porridge.

It's just that the upper middle and middle are twenty years, with Jianmen Pass as the boundary, and the southwest side spent twenty days of endless fighting; To the northeast, seventeen battles were fought in seven days.

At the end of January and the beginning of February, the information in the southwest was summarized and transmitted to Lin'an, and the situation in the capital at this time was tense because of the loss of Fuzhou - of course, the most nervous belonged to the group of forces of Zuo Xiang Tieyan, after the death of his cousin and the loss of Fuzhou, his status in the court plummeted - such as Wu Qimei, Gan Fenglin, Li Shan and others, plus many senior members in the court and the army, were mostly for the battle between Xi Yin and Qin Shaoqian, and sighed.

After breaking through more than ten lines of defense in seven days, more than 20,000 people led by Qin Shaoqian began to retreat. In front of Xi Yin, he was calm and relaxed, although he organized seventeen armies to pounce on them one after another and were scattered, his own foundation was unharmed, and in the eyes of everyone, the real master's temperament was born.

“…… The so-called Seventh Army of China led by Qin Shaoqian was nailed to the rear of the Jurchens, which originally played the role of deterrence. With these 20,000 men present, Zonghan's army on the front line must consider how to turn back in the future, so that it will not be able to attack with all its strength, and will have to leave some way back. Once it moves, there will be only 20,000 people, but it will fall to the inferior and not the choice of the army. ”

“…… It's a pity that the black flag of the southwest front, although commanded by the more famous Ning Yi, is actually difficult to deserve. At the end of the year, after a victory, he ran out of strength, and suffered a great defeat on the fourth day of the first month. This Qin Shaoqian must also have a headache, he had to attack forward, he has 20,000 men under his command, and the real elite soldiers, and the Jurchen Manchu is invincible, not to mention the fact that he is invincible, and the Jurchen 20,000 can break 700,000, but unfortunately, Qin Shaoqian's front is not Yelu Yanxi back then, but Xi Yin who defeated Yelu ......"

“…… With the same number of Han troops, more than ten defensive lines were set up in the rear, and they met them again and again. Qin Shaoqian couldn't beat the momentum of the inverted bead curtain, but he was full of strength and decline, he broke the seventeen lines of defense at one time, and Xi Yin gathered the Han army at hand again, maybe he could also form seventeen or twenty-seven defenses. What if it is crushed in one blow? I'm afraid that when he walks in front of Hee Yin, he won't have the strength to hold the knife......"

For a period of time, Lin'an was talking about this battle, from Wu Qimei down, to the scholars in the teahouse, almost all of them could say something about this battle.

“…… Xi Yin's use of troops is really spicy, but Qin Shaoqian can really afford to put it down, so he simply broke the seventeen lines of defense, and then pulled out the camp and walked back to continue to deter. His Seventh Army did not show its cowardice in front of Xi Yin, a hungry wolf, and the combat power and threat of this army fell to the ground more realistically. Speaking of which, it is worthy of being the son of the Qin family, it is not obvious, and he broke his wrist with Xi Yin and actually met his opponent, according to me, in the Huaxia army, Ning Yi's signboard is also the signboard, and the real strength is still the power of the Qin family......"

“…… It's just that this temptation, after all, he failed to share the victory and defeat, Qin Shaoqian walked in a chic manner, and he retreated. But in terms of strategy, he hoped to attack the Jurchen rear road to solve the danger of the front line, but his intention was still in vain. Therefore, in this battle, the person who really wins is Wanyan Xiyin, who waits for work. At this point, the Black Flag Army can only rely on the so-called Fifth Army in the southwest, but it is a pity that the Fifth Army commanded by Ning Yi is now retreating and defeating......"

Thousands of miles apart, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight can really give people the comfort of sitting in a warm room on a snowy day and watching people shiver on the road. Wu Qimei and others talked about the subtlety of this way of using soldiers, or mixed with sighs, or supplemented by sighs, more or less there is a feeling of pointing out the country and taking heaven and earth as a chessboard.

Of course, the reason why the battle between Qin Shaoqian and Xi Yin was analyzed in such detail was because the entire southwest battle situation after the Jianmen Pass was still in a fog. However, after the Jurchens broke through Huangming County, the troops began to press forward towards Zizhou, and Ning Yi's defense line retreated, which was always an undoubted trend.

Three thousand miles away, the people in Lin'an could not know for a while what kind of quagmire the Jin army in the southwest had fallen into.

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Just after the Spring Festival, the breakthrough of the Jurchens in Huangming County did bring a huge loss to the Huaxia army.

If we count the attrition of the Second Division of the Huaxia Army in the past two months or so, the number has exceeded more than 4,000, but it was only a fiasco and battle in the third and fourth days of the first month, and the number of casualties and missing on the battlefield reached more than 2,800.

Most of this terrifying attrition figure stemmed from the unwilling struggle of the Second Division for Huangming County. The sudden loss of Huangming County, for the Huaxia Army, lost not only a city wall, but also a large number of iron cannons and city defense equipment that could not be withdrawn in time, which is one of the most important strategic resources at the moment, and even for a possible counteroffensive, the explosives and other materials transported by the Huaxia Army to Huangming County were once increased.

The idea of launching a counterattack in Huangming County or Yushuixi has been brewing in the General Staff of the Huaxia Army. Originally, it was expected that the attack would be launched around December 28, but on the 19th, Yushuixi had the results of the battle, and Huangming County pulled out and quickly collected troops to defend, and the idea of launching a counterattack in Huangming County was shelved for a while.

If it really planned to launch a counterattack, the 2nd Division would inevitably have to cooperate with other troops, but after the victory of the 4th and 5th Divisions at Yushuixi, the attrition was enough, and they had to guard the wounded, and Huangming County had to go out to counterattack, which was a bit reluctant.

At the beginning of the night of the third day of the new year, the Jurchens' furious attack broke through the city, and a battle broke out on the city wall. A large section of the city wall controlled by the Huaxia army fired hundreds of cannons in unison, and the artillery team threw all the hoarded gunpowder into the overwhelming attack, and there were even several cases of overheating of the barrel and blowing up the bore and affecting their own people. But this situation still did not stop the battlefield situation that had become frantic in the dark night.

For a whole night, the Huaxia army fought and retreated in the small county town, the engineer team dragged part of the iron cannon to the rear of the county seat, and the various squads on the battlefield charged countless times under the leadership of the cadre regiment, and the Jurchens held the results of the city under the strict order of pulling out the speed, but in the county town, the soldiers who rushed in wave after wave were almost beaten under the impact of the Huaxia army.

The corpses were like mountains and rivers of blood, and even some of the Khitan, Xi, and Liaodong troops who were the main force of the Jin soldiers were defeated in the city.

However, the superiority in numbers eventually overwhelmed the courage of the commanders and fighters of the Huaxia Army, and some of the troops of the Huaxia Army were divided and surrounded in their own positions, fighting until late at night or even until dawn, but after all, they gradually drowned in the bloodflow of the battlefield.

In the early morning of the second day, the fighting on the battlefield was still continuing, and most of the Huaxia troops who had gathered at the end of Huangming County to build a position were already wounded soldiers, and they could not retreat with their baggage under the enemy's attack.

Pulling out the speed is not ready to end this time, by this time, the Huaxia army has lost the advantage of urban defense in Huangming County. He gathered the elite in his hand, went into battle repeatedly, and attacked Han Jing without stopping. Han Jing set up a position, and from the afternoon of the fourth day of the new year to the daytime of the fifth day of the new year, he repelled the attacks of the Jurchens several times, and then saw that the Jurchens seemed to weaken the attack, so he began to withdraw.

His retreat had just begun, and the Jurchen troops were fighting again, and the troops of the 1st Division fought and retreated between the mountain passes, and after about three miles away from the county seat of Huangming, the mountains gradually opened up. The Jurchen team bit over from the rear, and then was cut off by Qu Zhengyan, who was killed in the mountain road, and the first and fourth divisions cooperated, and wrapped a dumpling with more than 500 Xi elites who were chasing in front, and more than 100 people were forced off the cliff by the fierce front and rear attacks, and more than 300 people disarmed and surrendered. The troops in the rear finally retreated after the rescue was fruitless.

The pursuit of pulling away speed on the fifth day of the new year was slightly stopped.

On the sixth day of the first month, with the cooperation of the scout team led by Yu Yu, Tu Lisu organized the troops to chase forward again, and a huge trouble appeared.

Extending from Jiange to Zizhou, Huangming County and Yushuixi are two key blocking points. After these two locations, the mountain leading to Zizhou is slightly gentler, and there are more road options. But it doesn't mean that it has been a flat since then.

In fact, after a few miles of Huangming County, although the mountain seems to be a little gentle, the next road is unfamiliar to the Jurchens.

The remaining scout troops groped their way along the mountains, and soon encountered the trouble of landmines - this was a thunderstorm that no one had touched since the start of the war, and at the same time that some of the experienced scouts started a new round of demining work, the scout troops of the Huaxia Army also kept killing them.

Relying on the thunderstorm in the forest, the exchange ratio of the scout troops was further expanded, and only a little contact, Yu Yu had to choose a conservative combat attitude, he could only gather a large number of scouts, and gradually groped forward along the perimeter of the main road.

There were no mines on the main road, so he gathered several units and coordinated with the scouts to advance. But such a lineup could not stop Qu Zhengyan from leading the fourth division to counterattack madly, and the special operations team of the Huaxia Army walked through the forest like a ghost, shooting crossbows or black guns at the Jurchen scout troops or Allah forces on this side of the road from time to time.

These special operations forces were extremely aggressive at this time, often approaching and attacking Jurchen scouts when they spotted roadside mines trying to remove or detonate them. They will sometimes be discovered by Hai Dongqing, and sometimes they will be counterattacked, but it doesn't matter, they will flee deeper into the mountains and forests when they are counterattacked, and more mines that have not yet been removed are buried on the escape route, once a small group of Jurchen troops leave the team, the combat team of the Huaxia Army will quickly pounce on it and eat the other party.

Since the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Jurchens have not been quiet for a moment on the road of progress starting from Huangming County. The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is tired and disturbs, and the enemy retreats and I chase. In terms of geographical advantages, Qu Zhengyan finally took the full initiative, and Qu Zhengyan brought the essence of this tactic to the extreme in front of the Jurchens.

Yu Yu was miserable, at the beginning of the war in the southwest, there were also scouts in the forest, there was a scene of demining and even advancing through mines, and at that time, a huge numerical advantage was still unfolded before the front was pressed. At this time, the numerical advantage of Huang Ming's front-line scouts was no longer obvious, and the other party was fully prepared to wait for work, and the price to be paid for each step forward made him feel a heart-wrenching pain.

But the advance of the great army could not be stopped at this time.

In the first battle of Huangming County, from the overall situation, the Jurchens have occupied a certain advantage, which is that the strength of the Huaxia army has been stretched to the extreme, but the Jurchens still have a considerable amount of vital force to put into battle. From a strategic point of view, it is the most profitable thing to break the line of the Huaxia Army by attacking at multiple points, and the Huaxia Army occupies a favorable geographical position and has an advantage in combat, it does not matter, even if a few people change one, at a certain moment, they will completely collapse.

At the same time that Huangming County was pushing forward, the battle in Yushuixi had also been launched again. Zong Han hoped to use such a two-front battle to exhaust every remaining strength of the Huaxia Army on the battlefield.

And in order to deter the back road to the first line of Yushuixi, the soldiers under his command need to master the road about fifteen miles in front of Huangming County, on this fifteen-mile road, the advantage of the Huaxia army to defend is not high, after all, the mountains are relatively easy to walk, and the places that cannot be opened can already be bypassed - at most there is no more than a wave of thunder - but on the way forward to withstand the attack of the Huaxia army, after all, it is necessary to survive the torment.

Of course, even if you know this truth, as a Jurchen, being ravaged by the enemy on the battlefield like this is really the most humiliating battle in the rest of your life.

The constant autumn breeze on the periphery of the main road was just an appetizer, and sometimes Hai Dongqing would find hundreds of scouts gathering in the rugged mountains, which made the Jurchens extremely nervous. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Qu Zhengyan led the team to intersperse with the advancing female Allah force, and after finding that the other party had done a good defense, he casually released a few arrows and ran away.

On the eleventh day of the first month, the Khitan Xiao Ke led more than 3,000 elites under his command to try to counterattack after discovering the traces of Qu Zhengyan's attack, Qu Zhengyan saw that something was wrong, turned around and ran, Xiao Ke led the troops into the mountains, although the thunder array encountered was not dense, but the three hundred people led by Qu Zhengyan launched a flesh-cutting counterattack against Xiao Ke's three thousand people.

Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he led the main force to quickly attack and eat the flank of the opponent's team, which was still confused, and although Xiao Ke's troops were ten times larger than Qu Zhengyan, they soon became chaotic in the unfamiliar mountains. Xiao Ke relied on his courage to charge forward, and soon after was almost shot in the head by the black gun in the forest, he quickly retreated after sobering up, but more than 200 casualties among the 3,000 people, and his spirit was completely lost.

The ensuing wave of attacks originated on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, when the Han general Liu Nianzhi led more than 4,000 elites to move forward along the mountain road, and was suddenly attacked on the road about seven miles away from Huangming County.

This time it was Chen Tian, chief of staff of the Fourth Division, who led the team, also more than 300 people, after the first wave of engagement, he did not choose to retreat, but launched a wave of strong attack from the side of the mountain road, Liu Nianzhi's soldiers rushed up from the front, and were bombarded by hundreds of grenades of Huaxia Army soldiers in three batches. Six sniper rifles rang out at the same time in the mountains and forests, and the Han general Liu Nianzhi was knocked down in a pool of blood along with the war horse under him. After killing Liu Nian, Chen Tian retreated at full speed with his soldiers.

On the battlefield of Huangming County on the third day of the first lunar month, in the face of the surrender of the Huaxia Army, there were two main Han army troops that resisted the water attack, one of which was led by Liu Nianzhi. They were the Han army that had surrendered to the Jurchens in the Central Plains for a long time, and they also participated in the battle of Xiaocanghe back then, and they resisted the Huaxia army quite a lot. However, the Huaxia Army's attack on Liu Nianzhi also shows that the Huaxia Army inherited from Ning Yi's temperament in battle.

After Liu Nianzhi was sniped, another army led by the Han general Sun Wang hardly dared to leave Huangming County for several days.

Wanfugang, which is more than ten miles away from Huangming County, is camped here with great difficulty by the main force of the forwards sent by Bali, but it is also attacked and harassed by the Fourth Division every day. On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the camp had not yet been set up, and Han Jing led the team of the first division to pull the artillery withdrawn from Huangming County, and launched a frontal assault with great momentum.

At this time, there were only more than 15,000 Jin troops who arrived here, and the number of people mobilized by Han Jing and Qu Zhengyan was almost more than 10,000.

After the Jurchen generals completely chose to shrink down, it was not easy to kill them all, and after destroying the camp and, the Huaxia army did not choose to attack further on this day.

The harassment on the road continued incessantly, and the Jurchens were doing their best to familiarize themselves with and control the territory along the way. On the twentieth day of the first month, there was fog in the mountains, and there was a sound of fighting on the mountain road from Huangming County to Wanfugang.

The revenge army after the merger of the Jurchen Yanshan Wei led by Wanyan Lou and the directly subordinate army of Qi Bulo, at this moment, led by Wanyan Xianbao, the king of Baoshan, arrived at the battlefield in advance, and in the fog, they were waiting for the surprise attack.

Qu Zhengyan commanded the people to turn around and run, and the old scout team belonging to Yanshanwei chased after him from the rear.

On the road from Huangming County to Zizhou, fighting and slaughtering, ambushing and counterattacking, so far every day has been staged in this mountain forest, large or small, but in any case, the Jurchens are constantly expanding their control over the surrounding area in the loss after loss.

In the direction of Yushuixi, the wounded in the camp of the wounded soldiers had been transferred to the rear one after another, but Ning Ji, who was helping in the camp, refused to follow the retreat, as an outstanding member of the military medical team, he was ready to leave when the main force of the front line retreated, and Hongti couldn't convince him for a while.

When the letter reporting the matter was transmitted to Zizhou, and when Ning Xi conveyed it to Ning Yi, Ning Yi was looking at the large map in front of him in contemplation, and he said in a low voice: "Let him be." ”

"Daddy......"

"Alright, I'll make an excuse to withdraw all the people from Rainwater Creek."

“…… Yes? Ning Xi was stunned by these words.

He looked at his father's face carefully, and at this moment, Ning Yi's eyes were staring at the map but not at him, his eyes and words were generally cold.

This was the first time that Ning Xi couldn't tell whether his father's words were a joke or a truth.

In Ning Yi's hand, there was a simple piece of information from the front, and there were two pieces of information recorded in the report.

One: Almost died......

Second: Baoshan admission.

Ning Yi pressed the mark on the map.

Well, I see a lot of book friends saying, see you next year.

Shall I let you go? Really......

(End of chapter)