From ancient times to the present, based on the objective attributes of human beings, in order to pursue a better life, people have set various rules for themselves.

From customs, to laws, to all kinds of self-evident basic morality, people set limits for themselves, drawing one boundary after another that should not be easily crossed. It can be said that it is these boundaries that protect the foundation of people's lives, so that people with weak individual strength will not be easily damaged, and can make proper use of the strength of each weak individual, gather sand into a tower, and finally create a strong and brilliant country and civilization.

From this point on, the rules created by human beings will gradually lose their scope of application, and the nature of the law of the jungle will begin to show its fangs more clearly among large groups such as nations. It reminds us of the most essential truths of this world, and it clearly tells us that the basis of mutual respect between people lies in only two essential laws:

First, people can use each other.

Second, there is mutual deterrence between people.

When a certain rule between the two models is out of balance to a certain extent, all man-made rules, all truth, goodness and beauty that seem to be taken for granted may be disconnected at any time. War, out of this.

That is the manifestation of the true omnipresence of human society. Nothing can stop it from penetrating, everything that is allowed by the rules of physics can happen in front of our eyes, it widens the gap between people to the scale of emperors and animals, makes countless people displaced, makes people realize that the world is a place that can be more terrifying than hell.

But it also exhausts people's imagination in the other direction, it forces people who want to survive to keep moving forward, it reminds people that all good things are not given by God but created and defended by people, it reminds people of the need for self-improvement, and at some point, it will also promote the renewal of the world.

In the first year of Wu Zhenxing and the fifteenth year of Jintianhui, the years have been alternating for dozens of years in the war.

In the past few decades, these wars have determined that Jin Ren has become the most dazzling role on the stage of the world, and it has also pushed the wheel of history to crush the future of countless people.

At the end of February, one such war was about to break out at a place called Wangyuan Bridge on the Zizhou front. At this time, the first battle between the Jin Western Route Army and the Huaxia Army in the southwest had been going on for four months, and people realized that there would be such a node, which would inevitably appear and then draw a temporary punctuation mark for everything.

It's just that when it appears, the whole process of the battle is so surprising.

It is true that at the macro level, the overall situation of the entire Southwest Battle at the time of the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge was full of grand and bloody pictures, and everyone was trying their best to compete for the opportunity to win that line, but when the whole battle came to an end, people found that all this was so simple and smooth, even so simple that it was strangely simple.

At the surface level of combat, there is not even any conspiracy in this war. At first glance, it looked like two armies had walked straight in front of each other after a brief move, one pounced on the other with all its might, and so on until the end of the battle. Many, many people didn't even react at all, so that they were stunned and couldn't breathe......

Of course, within the entire Great War, there are naturally more inextricable causes and effects, and in order to see these clearly, we need to cast a macroscopic vision on the entire battlefield on the day of the turning point on February 23.

Taking February 23 of this year in the southwest as the node, in the vast mountains and fields more than 20 miles in front of Zizhou, the Jin army troops participating in the southern expedition have essentially been divided into five bundles, stabilizing their own formation on the one hand, and pouring southward on the other.

At this time, the Jin army was located on the front line of the main force of the five armies of about 150,000, the southernmost of which was the revenge army led by Wanyan Xiebao with 20,000 Yanshanwei as the main body, and the rear of Yanshanwei was more than 10,000 directly under the leadership of many years ago, although they were slightly behind, but after two months, this army gradually sent thousands of war horses from the rear, and when the mountain road was rugged, at most it made up for transportation, but as long as they reached the flat terrain near Zizhou, they could once again exert the greatest destructive power.

Echoing with Yan Shanwei, he has always been walking in the middle of the road, with steady steps to pull out the speed army, the core of his army is more than 20,000 people, but the scouts and living forces in front and back are the most. This Jurchen general who broke through Huangming County looked a little brutal and wanton on the battlefield, and did not care about human life, but the whole method of using troops was actually the most stable, and it was also the most tricky for the Huaxia army, which liked to fish in troubled waters.

A little further north, the Dalai and Saba armies descending from Yushui Creek were the largest group of forces in parallel, and because of the large number of troops—there were more than 50,000 men in the whole group—their pace was a little bloated. After January, Wanyan Zonghan, the commander of the Western Expedition who had appeared in Yushuixi, disappeared, and some staff officers of the Huaxia Army speculated that he was walking with Wanyan Saba, the right-hand man he was most accustomed to using in this army.

Of course, there are also some staff members who think that Zong Han may be sitting in the middle of the pull-out speed formation. This speculation proved to be correct in hindsight.

A little further northwest, there were still about 30,000 Han troops, interspersed with the edge of the battlefield - soon after the army crossed the line of Yushuixi and Huangming County, the Jin troops finally completed the stripping of the Han troops from the Central Plains and Jiangnan. Either they are defeated on the battlefield, or they are sent to unimportant side positions to concentrate their advances.

Now this army of about 30,000 is led by the Han general Li Rulai. The Jurchens did not have high expectations for them, as long as they could attract the attention of the Huaxia army to a certain extent, disperse the forces of the Huaxia army, and not retreat to the main battlefield to make trouble.

In the four months of the war, the main force that the Jurchens were able to send to the front line was probably the appearance of these 120,000, plus the wounded soldiers and those left behind in the rear, the total strength may be increased a lot, but it is already difficult to push forward the rear troops.

On the other hand, the Huaxia Army, at the beginning of the development of the main force of more than 50,000 people in the four divisions, and later also joined about 20,000 recruits, to the end of February at this point in time, the remaining number of the first division is about 8,000, the second division experienced the defeat of Huangming County, and later supplemented some wounded soldiers, until the end of February, there are more than 4,000 people left, the fourth division Qu Zhengyan still has 7,000 people in his hands, the fifth division more than 8,000, plus the army commander He Zhicheng directly under the special brigade, cadres and other vital forces 6,000, Palm Creek, Leigang front line to participate in the blocking of the opponent's 150,000 troops, In fact, it was more than 34,000 people.

Watermelon suppressed bandits in the rear, and led a special operations force in his hands, which was actually not much, and after entering February, Ning Yi finally pulled out the originally prepared people. The 6,000 people at his disposal include a garrison regiment, an anti-bandit unit, some special operations personnel who participated in front-line operations, and a small number of technical troops.

The more than 34,000 people gathered at the front line were not actually concentrated. Relying on the rugged roads in the mountains before Palm Creek and Leigang, and the characteristics of the large corps that could not be expanded, a large number of troops were released and dispersed to fight.

In the early morning of 23 February, several Jurchen troops had already launched a large-scale interspersed raid, and after the Huaxia Army reacted, it immediately assembled about 15,000 troops, and first met the weak forces under the command of Xianbao, Balisu, and Saba with three groups of 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 men, and the battle began in the mountains at noon.

The forces of the Huaxia Army were then constantly being mobilized.

Ning Yi's departure from Zizhou and the Jurchens chose a point in time that was "inconsistent". But with this step of his move, the day of February 23 has a completely different meaning for the entire southwest war situation.

Everyone can know that the battle situation has reached a critical juncture. But not many people can understand what Ning Yi's motivation was for making this choice.

For the Jurchens, when they entered the Sword Pavilion, the main force was 200,000 troops, but now there are only 120,000 on the front line, and the Han army that can be used is almost exhausted, which is an extremely embarrassing scene in history. But the war does not follow a simple exchange ratio, to use tens of thousands of troops to consume the Jin soldiers like this, the Huaxia Army is under more tremendous pressure, when the strength gradually decreases, it will collapse at a certain moment, and it is more likely that there are only 40,000 Huaxia troops left in the patchwork now.

Regarding the purpose of the Huaxia army taking the initiative to attack and muddy the water through the mountain road, the Jurchens certainly understood part of it. Defending the city needs to be consumed until the attacker gives up, and the field movement can choose to attack the opponent's leader, for example, on the most complex mountainous terrain here, a surprise attack on Zonghan, or pull out the speed, scatter, and oblique protection...... As long as you defeat a main force, you can get results that cannot be easily won in the defense of the city, and even cause the opponent to retreat early.

In order to deal with this possibility, Zong Han even chose the most cautious posture, unwilling to let Huaxia Jun know where he was. At the same time, his eldest son, Wanyan Shiyama, did not appear on the frontline battlefield.

The bait that was really released, only Wanyan Xianbao, Zong Han's son is known for his recklessness in the outside world, but in fact, he is delicate in his heart, the revenge army led by Yan Shanwei as the main body is second only to Tu Shanwei in the entire Jin soldiers, even if Lou Mu has been dead for many years, this army that has been trained under the purpose of snow shame is also the core force of the Jurchens to attack the southwest.

If the Huaxia army wants to behead, oblique protection is the best target, but to behead oblique protection, you need to really take your life.

In the past month or so, the Jurchens have made extremely difficult progress and suffered heavy losses, but on the whole they have not made fatal mistakes. Theoretically, once they crossed Leigang and Palm Creek, the Huaxia army would have to turn around and return to Zizhou to fight a reluctant battle to defend the city. At that time, a large number of troops with low combat effectiveness, such as the Han army, the Jurchens were able to let them drive straight forward and spoil the rear of the Huaxia army on the Chengdu Plain.

This will make the Huaxia army very uncomfortable, but the other party must choose this way - of course, Zong Han and others also predicted another possibility of crossing the line of Leigang and Palm Creek, that is, Ning Yi realized that he was trapped in Zizhou and just waited to die, so the strong man broke his wrist and gave up the Chengdu Plain, turned back to the mountains of Liangshan and continued to be his mountain king. That was also a way for the Battle of the Southwest to come to an end.

No one expected that Ning Yi would come out.

A strong man broke his wrist to this extent? Once the line is crossed, a full-scale battle with 40,000 men?

Zong Han also knew the story of the victory of the wrecked ship, but in the current situation, such a choice seemed very irrational - even ridiculous.

Because of this confusion, the night of the 23rd to 24th in the Jurchen army was extremely unpeaceful, and the high-ranking generals made a pretending to make an ordinary front-line transfer while discussing with the core command group on the side of the detachment.

Da Lai , Saba and others naturally thought that there was fraud. Wanyan Xianbao began to push forward frantically according to his "setting", making a gesture of seizing the first moment of the fighter, and more than 10,000 troops who were already ready to attack in the rear were also quickly squeezing over. Gao Qingyi once put forward a warning: "Ning Yi is desperate, and his calculation must be extremely unusual, so it is better to order the King of Baoshan to stop quickly and send another army to test it." ”

Wan Yan Shema also had the same cautious attitude, but Zong Han did not make a decision for a while, and the pull away speed continued to do his steady work - to make the middle lane army move forward calmly, even if there was anything, it would not be completely out of touch with the slanted protection army.

“…… Ning Yi's 6,000 people were killed, even if the combat power was amazing, what would happen next? What is his purpose? Attack all the troops who stepped out of Leigang and Brown Creek head-on? How many people can he beat? ”

For half a night, Zong Han and the others continued to deduce on the map, but they could not come up with the results. Before the day was fully dawn, the messenger of the oblique protector also came, bringing with him the letters and statements of the oblique protector himself.

“…… Our 150,000 people attacked, and my son took 20,000 people to Leigang and Palm Creek first, even if the Huaxia army was strong, but it was greeted with a total of 40,000 people...... If the Huaxia army can't meet with 40,000 people, only Ning Yi's 6,000 troops, what is his son afraid of, the most unfortunate, he defeats his son with 6,000 people, and his son gathers the army and fights him again......"

“…… The two armies fought, and the fighters were fleeting, and Ning Yi was proud of his combat strength, and it was the time when his son slammed head-on. The only thing to worry about is that Ning Yi lured the enemy with 6,000 people, gathered a frontal team, and Yu Xian completely swallowed the army in my hands with the strategy of encirclement, which is the best way to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers, but this matter is not difficult to deal with......"

Ning Yi killed everything in such an empty sight, the greatest possibility was nothing more than seeing that Lei Gang and Palm Creek were no longer defendable, and wanted to concentrate superior forces to eat one of his own side before all the 150,000 troops came out. But this is not a bad thing, in the battle, we are not afraid that the other side will have an attempt, but we are afraid that the other side will not, then it is elusive. is also for this reason, Baoshan Dao, Ning Yi wants to eat, I will kill him.

As for the rear, as long as the troops of Tuli Su, Saba, Dalai and others stubbornly suppressed the Huaxia army in the mountains, so that he could not withdraw many men, the possibility of realizing the attempt to win the chestnut in the Huaxia arms was not very likely to be realized-if he could still withdraw his troops, it would be very unbelievable in itself.

From another point of view, if Ning Yi led 6,000 people over and said that he wanted to eat the 20,000 or 30,000 main forces in the hands of the Xianbao, and the reaction of the Xianbao was not "let him eat, please finish eating", then the Jurchens actually don't have to fight for hegemony in the world anymore.

Even if he was four to five times stronger than Ning Yi, Xianbao, who led one of the strongest Jurchen armies, also planned to be defeated, at most, "gather the army and fight him again", in fact, the Jurchen people's name for the opposite army has also unconsciously changed from "Black Flag Army" to "Huaxia Army", which is also the respect that the Huaxia Army has played on the faces of the Jurchens in the past four months.

On the twenty-fourth, Zong Han made a decision and approved the plan of the oblique protection, and at the same time, the army of Tuli Su pressed forward steadily, and a little to the north, the armies of Dalai and Saba maintained a conservative attitude, which was a deliberate response to the speculation of the Huaxia army that "Zong Han and Saba were together".

It is worth mentioning that after obtaining his father's approval, although Xianbao ordered the rear army to continue to speed up the pace of advance, on the front line, he only maintained a fast posture, and ordered the team to devote themselves to the battle with the main force of the Huaxia Army as much as possible, and extended the time for all the troops to cross Brown Creek by one day as much as possible.

He still felt that 20,000 people was not enough insurance, so he wanted to gather an army of 30,000 people, and then rush towards Ning Yi - this action was also to test Ning Yi's true purpose, if the other party was really trying to fight with 6,000 people, then he should wait for himself.

In the early morning of the twenty-sixth, the first team of Xianbao stepped across Brown Creek, he originally thought that he would be met by the other party, but the head-on attack did not come, and Ning Yi's army was still gathering several miles away—he looked like he was going to take the right female Allah to meet it, and moved to the side, assuming a threatening posture.

- Deterrent you from being paralyzed!

At this time, in the middle of the pull-out speed, Zong Han's handsome banner had been played, and the main force of the Huaxia Army on the front line was being pressed head-on. The fighting in the mountains has further escalated, and the offensive and defensive battles have been fought into a positional mode, and the Huaxia army has blocked the mountain pass with artillery arrays and constantly taken advantage, but the Jurchens are also sure that they will die, and the main force of the Huaxia army will not be able to leave. In fact, everyone was waiting for the next change in the battle situation, and Ning Yi's reaction was so strange that it was confusing.

Twenty-eighth, nearly 30,000 troops have been assembled one after another, and even 3,000 cavalry have been pulled. Ning Yi moved forward unhurriedly, and Xianbao also moved forward, he always thought that the other party should be deceived at some point, but it never did, and the interaction between the two groups of people looked like the shouting of two children.

"There's a kind of you chopping!"

"I cut it!"

"You cut it!"

"I cut it!"

"If you don't cut it, it's your grandson—"

You have to cut it, otherwise you will become Sima Yi.

On the afternoon of the 28th, there was a fierce battle in the mountains ahead. Near the Wangyuan Bridge, Wanyan Xianbao slashed down.

(End of chapter)