Hot air balloons rise in the sky, and the wind whistles through the rolling hills in view.

In the early winter, the mountains are blue and gray, and the ups and downs are like a strange ocean, and the roads between the mountains are like dragons that break through the ocean, spreading forward with the march of the army. The trees in the distance are undulating, and there is a devouring abyss hidden in the woods.

The terrain of Shu is majestic, and Li Bai once said: Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. But in fact, this road, which is described as difficult to get to the blue sky, is already a relatively easy pass to enter Shu.

To the west of the Sword Pavilion and to the north of the Golden Bull Road, it was later called a place in the Longmen Mountain fault zone, which belonged to the real moat. To the south, although the road is rugged and the cliffs are dense, the Jinniu Road passes through the mountains and mountains, and many post stations and villages are attached to the roadside to see off the merchants, and there can also be hunters in and out of the mountains.

In the past, those who could travel through such rugged mountains were only poor old hunters in the vicinity. Dense mountain forests and rugged terrain make it possible for ordinary people to get lost in the mountains and never turn back after entering the forest. In mid-October, the first waves of large-scale fighting broke out in this terrain.

From a hot air balloon to a watchtower built on a high place, you can occasionally see explosions in the distant woods or mountain streams.

The Huaxia scouts carried explosives called grenades, and the Jurchen scouts also carried fire mines that could be ignited with open flames. In addition to the violent sounds caused by these two, most of the fighting in the forest is not easy for the outside world to see, but there will be screams from afar, and occasionally you can see smoke rising from the forest, or the sound of "bang" coming from nowhere, and the troops on the main road will know that the fight is going on.

In the first few days, the battle in the forest was fierce but scattered, the two troops that began to fight cautiously tested the strength of the opponent, and there were sporadic explosions from far and near, about dozens a day, and occasionally the wounded were withdrawn from the forest, and the Jurchen scouts led by them reported to the generals above the scout combat strength of the Huaxia army.

These scouts are the most elite veterans of the Jurchen army, they are either Orions trained in the harshest environment in the northern mountains, or soldiers who have survived the sea of blood in the mountains of corpses. And many of them are quite famous in the army, and they are trusted confidants by the generals in any army. Yu Yu used these confidants from the beginning, one is to trust them, and the other is to get the most accurate feedback.

The feedback of the first encounter with the wounded and the retreating scouts quickly came back, the Huaxia army scouts who had developed in the southwest for several years were not the slightest stranger to the mountains of Sichuan and Shu, and the first batch of elite scouts who entered the mountains and forests and fought with the Huaxia army achieved some results, but the casualties were not small.

In the first few days of friction, it was actually impossible to judge the exact casualty ratio - but this situation was not surprising to the Jurchen upper echelons - in skirmishes of less than 100 people, even the Wu Dynasty army was often able to fight double-eyed, and the Han people did not lack brave and courageous soldiers, not to mention the Black Flag Army that had killed Lou and the Black Flag Army.

Twentieth, the follow-up scouts arranged in advance entered the mountains one after another, and for these non-Jurchen scouts, the army's top brass offered a very high reward: a reward of 100 yuan for killing a soldier of the Black Flag Army, and the officers increased on this basis, and the company level was given acres of land, official ranks, and even knighthoods, and captured alive by three times.

The gap between the rich and the poor in the society of the Wu Dynasty was huge, and the scattered expenses of the poor families were only a few yuan a year, and they were already relatively rich from about fifteen yuan a month in the Bapin County Order. An ordinary head here is worth a hundred copper dollars, and most of the scouts are elite in the army, and if you kill a few people with flowers on their shoulders, you will be rich and worry-free for a lifetime.

The gold and silver used for the reward were placed in chests next to the barracks of several post stations on the road, and they were dazzling, which the scouts of the various armies could receive directly. As for the army's killing on the battlefield, the reward first belongs to the military merits of each army, and the reward will be uniformly awarded after the battle, but basically it will be almost the same as the head price of the scout leader, even if the battle is killed, as long as the army's military merits are in place, the reward will still be sent to everyone's family in the future.

With such a reward, to "buy" the entire head of the Huaxia Army, the amount of silver that Yan Zonghan needs to spend is at least tens of millions of yuan, but he doesn't mind.

When the Liao State was still there, the annual annual coin that the Wu Dynasty paid to the Liao State was only a million yuan of silver, and the Wu Dynasty relied on trade to earn it back in multiple times as soon as it changed hands. Tong Guan ransomed the sixteen states of Yanyun back then, and scraped together tens of millions of dollars worth of property with the big and small families in the north and the bureaucrats of the DPRK and China.

When the Jin Kingdom set foot on the Central Plains and destroyed the Wu Dynasty, they destroyed their families and clans along the way, and the gold and silver that were copied out and the slaves who could be captured back to the north to produce gold and silver were not to mention the number. If they were able to "buy" the Huaxia Army with tens of millions of gold and silver, Zong Han, Xi Yin and others would really not be stingy at this time.

This is the final battle that will determine the world.

In such a huge interest and glory, not only the scouts, but even the soldiers in the middle and lower ranks are gearing up and ready to move.

Twenty-two, the conflict of scouts in the vast mountains and forests suddenly began to become fierce, and the troops invested by the Jurchens and the Huaxia Army chose to increase at the same time and at the same node.

From the afternoon of the 22nd onwards, the most obvious feature of the conflict that could be seen between the rugged mountains was not the occasional explosion, but the black plumes of smoke and fires rising from the trees: this was the strategy chosen by many after fighting in the chaotic environment of the woodland, some of which swirled and extinguished, and some of which spread in the relatively dry environment of early winter, with the help of the howling north wind.

Smoke billowed through the mountains, the traces of burning were clearly visible for more than a dozen miles, and the animals that lived in the woodlands scattered in all directions, and the occasional fighting unfolded in this chaotic situation.

Most of the fires in the forest were caused by the Bohai people, Liaodong people, and Han army scouts on the Jurchen side.

Although the huge bounty offered by the Jurchens made the elites of this group of skilled and bold soldiers eager to enter the mountains to kill the enemy, when they entered the reckless forest and really confronted the Chinese soldiers, the huge pressure fell on everyone.

The mountains and forests of Sichuan and Shu seem to be vast and vast, and those who are good at running through the mountains can indeed find many roads, but the rugged terrain makes these roads seem narrow and dangerous. It is easy to say that you have never encountered an enemy, and once you meet an enemy, it will be the most fierce and treacherous battle.

In groups of ten, the scouts of the Huaxia Army, who were originally trained and prepared for fighting in the forest, wore most of them wearing costumes of similar colors to the scenery of the mountains and forests, and each of them carried a powerful crossbow. At the time of the first encounter, ten members blocked the road from different directions, and just the first wave of crossbow arrows fired from different angles was enough to make people feel terrified.

In addition to the crossbow arrows, each of the thrown grenades carried two or three grenades, and an explosion like this on a narrow road was a real dilemma.

In addition to crossbows, fire and thunder, etc., the ten members have different focuses and coordination, some team members carry steel hooks that are easy to climb, pulley groups that can make people go up and down the mountain like apes, and a small number of elite teams with sniper rifles to move forward, they occupy high places, use binoculars to observe, and send signals to nearby teams.

Of course, there are also Hai Dongqing among the Jurchen scouts, there are many sharpshooters who wear Yang in a hundred steps, and there are people with stunts who are good at climbing dangerous peaks in the mountains, but under the systematic cooperation and forward pressure of these Huaxia army squads, the scout teams that first encountered the enemy on this day suffered huge casualties.

Hundreds of scout troops were still crowded and lively on the main road into the mountain pass, entering the mountains and forests, choosing different roads to disperse, and from time to time encountering the retreat of the elite Jurchen scouts who had entered the mountain in the past few days. They were substituted as a new force, and hundreds of special operations teams of the Huaxia Army had also been killed one after another, and by the afternoon, the fighting in the forest was chaotic, and some of the surviving scouts set fires, and some flames were burning.

Some of the scout troops who submitted to the Jurchen side cried and scolded their mothers, although they were "outnumbered" in this forest, but the combat power of each team was high and low, the style was different, and the deployment and progress of each other were also different. Some troops were fighting in front of them, and they saw the flames spread from behind......

On the other hand, the various special operations teams of the Huaxia Army had a general battle plan earlier, and this was still the early stage of the war, and the ties between the squads were close, and the core teams occupying various commanding heights in different regions were deployed, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and basically there were no teams that were too aggressive.

In the past few days, although I have also encountered extremely powerful veterans, hunters and other characters in the opposing team, some suddenly appeared, sealed their throats with an arrow, and some hid in the pile of dead leaves, and killed people, resulting in many casualties, but in terms of exchange ratio, the Huaxia Army has always taken a huge advantage.

According to later statistics, on the 22nd, the Jurchen affiliated scout troops who died in the forest battle were about 600, and the Huaxia army suffered more than 100 casualties. On the 23rd and 24th, the casualties on both sides were reduced, and the scout front of the Huaxia army generally advanced, but there were also several Jurchen scout troops that became more familiar with the mountains and forests, occupying several important observation points in front of the forests. And this is still a small loss before the start of the war.

Yu Yu adapted to this situation and made several adjustments to the mountain battle, but in general, he did not care too much about the stiff response of some of the vassal troops when fighting.

On the twenty-fifth, tens of thousands of troops led by the detachment were ready outside the city of Huangming County, and thousands of Han prisoners were driven in the direction of the county city wall.

Huangming County was developed from a post town originally located here, not a strong city. Its walls are only three zhang high, and the total length of the side facing the mountain pass is 460 zhang, which is 1,500 meters in later generations. The steep slope of the hill winds from the open to the south, creating an "L" shape between the defenses of this section and the lower part of the city, where several catapults and cannons are swinging and the hot-air balloons responsible for observation float high above the castle head.

The northern end of the city wall is adjacent to a mountain stream of six or seven battles, but there is also a city path near the city wall. As the captives arrived, the soldiers at the head of the city shouted loudly, telling them to make a detour to the north of the city to survive. The Jurchens in the rear naturally did not allow it, and they first drove the captives to the south with arrows, and then set up cannons and catapults and began to fire into the crowd at the northern end.

The crowd cried and crowded under the city walls, arrows, stones, and cannonballs fell on the crowd behind them, explosions, cries, and screams mixed together, and the smell of blood spread everywhere.

Some of them shouted under the city that they hoped that the Huaxia army would open the city gate, and some hoped that the ropes would be thrown from above, but the Chinese soldiers on the city wall were unmoved, some of them spread to the north of the city, and some ran to the rugged hillside south of the city.

In fact, at this time, only the path between the mountain stream and the city wall in the north of the city was the only way to escape. In the midst of the Jurchen army, he quietly watched as the captives were driven under the city walls, and when no mines exploded in the middle, and the crowd began to crowd to the north, he ordered the second group of about a thousand captives to be driven out.

Mixed with this group of captives was a team of about 100 archers, who, under the cover of the Han captives, narrowed the distance between them and the city walls, and began to shoot arrows at the captives who fled north under the walls, and some arrows fell on the city sporadically.

Pang Liu'an ordered the cannon to be fired.

Three cannonballs roared out from the city walls of Huangming County and fell into the crowd mixed with the archers. At this time, the Jurchens also sparsely fired at the rear of the running captives, and these three shells flew inconspicuously in a shout and gunsmoke, and they patted their thighs on the horse, and there was a bloodthirsty taste in their eyes.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered his men to release the third group of prisoners.

This group of captives also numbered thousands, and unlike the previous ones, the Jurchens issued dozens of crudely made ladders to these captives.

“…… If you want to flee to the north of the city, you can't get through! The city wall of the county town in front is not high, and the Black Flag Army regards itself as Huaxia, as long as you go up, they will not kill anyone! Flee with a ladder! Slow runners, beware of the Jurchen cannons! ”

Escorted in front of the captives and shouting was an original Wu Dynasty official, who was bloodied, with a blue nose and swollen face, conveying the meaning of the Jurchens to the captives. Among the captives, a large number of people dragged their families and mouths, carried ladders and ran forward, crying and shouting. Some people hugged their children, but they couldn't hear the meaningless pleas for mercy.

At this moment, the Chinese soldiers on the city wall were putting their shields, knives, guns, door panels and other objects towards the crowd below the city to prevent them from stray arrows. Seeing that someone was carrying a ladder at the other end of the battlefield, Pang Liuan and Chief of Staff Guo Chen were only silent for a moment.

“…… Let people shout, telling them not to bring ladders, there are spies in the crowd, don't fall for the Jurchens' schemes. ”

Guo Chen gave the order, and then sent an order to the artillery: "Mark the distance." ”

Loud soldiers shouted desperately ahead at the top of the city with improvised trumpets.

On the "battlefield" ahead, there were no soldiers, only crowds of people fleeing, shouting, and crying, and the smell of blood rose and mixed with gunsmoke and internal organs.

This was the beginning of the most "gentle" on the entire battlefield, and with bloodthirsty fanaticism in his eyes, he watched all this.

For the Jurchens, it was a simple massacre that he hadn't even let go of, but he enjoyed the dilemma of the enemy, and what the generals on the other side showed - whether decisive or angry - would satisfy him.

For the Huaxia Army, this is also a cruel but extremely ordinary psychological test, as early as the Xiaocanghe period, many people have already experienced it, and now, a large number of soldiers have to go through it again.

The Jurchens swept across the world, and if they needed to be captured, millions of them would not be a problem at all, driving them forward, chasing them and slaughtering them. If the soldiers on the city wall showed the slightest weakness or flaw because of this, after these thousands of people, Bali Su, Zong Han and the others would not mind driving another 100,000 or a million people over and killing them in front of the battle array.

The captives holding the ladder were driven over, closing the distance and beginning to merge with the previous group of captives. The shouting soldiers on the walls were hoarse. Pang Liu'an took a breath.

"Open fire."

On the ramparts, the soldiers dropped their torches, the muzzles of the iron cannons rattled, and the cannonballs rushed out of the flames and flew over the sea of people.

One shell was followed by another, then a third, and some people were blown away, others broke their hands and feet, and they cried out in a terrible way.

"Hahahaha......" pulled out the speed of the war horse laughed, and the follow-up orders were issued in an orderly manner.

Catapults in all directions of the battlefield began to take advantage of the confusion to slowly advance forward, artillery arrays advanced, and the fourth group of prisoners was driven out...... In the Jurchen camp, Meng'an (commander of a thousand people) Wulitan and his subordinates were ready and waiting to set off.

This is the vanguard of the Jurchens who have experienced a hundred battles, and as early as when Aguta was still alive, Ulitan was the henchman of the command. This attack on the Huaxia Army is of great significance to Zong Han and Xi Yin, and many people also regard it as the last obstacle to conquering the world, but the cautious use of troops and the full preparation do not mean that the people in the army have lost their original sharpness.

In the face of this obstacle in Huangming County, after pulling out the quick position, Wu Litan asked the main general for his life, hoping to lead the battle in this battle and seize the first credit in the battle of revenge for the marshal such as Lou Room and Resign. Pull out the speed and agree to come down.

As the captives were driven out one after another, the formation of the Jurchen army was slowly advancing. Around noon, the catapults with the longest range successively included the city wall of Huangming County into the attack range, and the Huaxia army, which was waiting for work, first attacked the Jurchen cart camp with catapults, and the Jurchens quickly fixed their equipment and launched a counterattack. At this time, less than eleven people were able to escape from the battlefield from the trail north of Huangming County, and the battlefield had turned into a meat grinder for civilians.

In a few moments, at the most tiring and tiring time of the afternoon, the first wave of climax broke out on the bloody battlefield, and the thousand-man team led by Ulitan changed their clothes slightly, and began to advance in the direction of the city wall with another group of civilians. He predetermined the location of the attack, divided the team of 1,000 men into ten groups, and killed them from different paths.

Pulling off the speed of riding on the warhorse, his eyes calmly looking at the battlefield, and at one moment, his brow furrowed slightly.

The battlefield was still crying and shouting, the catapults on both sides attacked each other, the catapults erected by the Jurchens had been smashed five, and under the city wall of Huangming County, I don't know how many people were rolled into meat sauce by the flying boulders. The flying stones caused great damage and did not stop for a moment. But at the head of Huangming County, at a certain point in time, the atmosphere seemed to suddenly quiet.

Pullaway felt the silence for a moment.

On the city wall, Pang Liu'an rushed forward suddenly, he picked up the binoculars and quickly scanned the battlefield. Some of the veterans of the Huaxia Army soldiers guarding the city also seemed to feel something, they looked out under the cover of shields, and some of the novices in the army who did not have much experience watched the movements of these veterans who had experienced the Xiaocanghe period.

"Hey...... Damn, finally, to, dare, come, come, ......"

The long knife was pulled out of its sheath, and the sound in its throat was suppressed into the bone marrow, and the fierce aura that spread through the city was like a slaughterhouse.

“…… Come here, do you want to open fire? ”

The city wall of Huangming County is only three zhang, if the enemy is close, he can quickly enter the city to fight, Pang Liu'an's eyes swept over the battlefield filled with overflowing blood and terrible wails, and his teeth grinded.

“…… Seer blood. ”