11th year of the founding of Shuo, December 19.

The dislocation of time will form a dramatic scene in the mountains spreading in the northwest.

The war near Rainwater Creek began tentatively in the early morning of this day.

Near noon, he threw a large number of troops into the battlefield and began a strong attack on the front of the battlefield, which was to cover his intention to lead his own troops to storm the eagle's beak rock.

Halfway through noon, the rear road from Yushuixi to Huangtouyan was cut off by Chen Tian, and the sound of the arrow transmitted the message back to Yushuixi, and Qu Zhengyan ordered the elite to kill from between the various forks and launched a counterattack on the entire Yushuixi position.

The eagle's beak rock was blown up, and the battle between Lili and Mao Yishan entered a white-hot state in an instant.

After noon, Yu Yu, the general of the Jurchen front, led a highly mobile scout force to launch a counterattack in the direction of the mountain road cut off by Chen Tian, and cooperated with the Da Lai headquarters of Huangtouyan in the rear of the garrison.

Yu Yu is thin and thin, starting as a scout, walking through mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, and a pair of iron arms and steel fingers can break down rocks; Medium but strong, he kills people on the battlefield and looks like a huge boar. The two Jurchen generals looked at the rugged mountain road, but their hearts had sunk.

The scouts who had sent the news to the rear were still running on the muddy and slippery road, and there was still a distance of nearly thirty miles from Wanyan Zonghan, the great commander who was sitting in the ten-mile set at this time.

At this moment when the winter rain was dripping, Shiliji was still noisy in a lively scene. The original small transit market was occupied by layers of military camps, even if it rained, the transfer of various materials, the allocation of various armies continued, and the teams waiting for departure were blocked in front of the camp, and the impatient generals and soldiers who were waiting for the roar on a sunny day continued, and there were all kinds of roars in the rain, and after the roar, they scolded and scolded.

This has been going on for more than two months.

Zong Han was comfortable with this phenomenon and frowned at it. What bothered him was not only the stalemate of the battlefield on the front line, the bad road conditions on the way, but also the pressure on the rear was gradually coming to this side.

Wu Qimai suffered a stroke and was paralyzed for more than a year. The Jurchens' southern expedition was originally an act of guidance in which the eastern and western courts maintained the last rational choice when a group of old ministers were still there. It's just that the purpose of Zong Fu and Zong Wang is to compete for merit, and Zong Han Xiyin hopes to use this expedition to solve the last big trouble of the Jin State-the Southwest Huaxia Army.

Wu Qimai's fall this time was already in critical condition, and he had dragged on for more than a year with most of his body paralyzed and only occasionally awake, and now his physical condition is extremely bad. In October, when preparing for the war, Zong Han had repaired a book and handed it to China, and Wu Qimai in the palace asked the people around him to write in a little sober time, and wrote this reply letter to Zong Han, in which he recalled the Rong Ma in their lives, hoping that Zong Han and Xi Yin could calm the situation in the world within half a year, because of the situation in the Jin Kingdom, they also need to come back to guard.

Over the years, Wu Qimai's personality has been rigid and soft, and his will is extremely strong, and he proposed a period of half a year, which may also be realized that even if he forcibly prolongs his life, he can only have so much time.

The memories of the past in the letter are embarrassing, and Wanyan Zonghan, who is already half gray-haired, can't help but sigh. Since October, Zongfu Zongbi on the eastern battlefield in the east has arranged for the army to take more than 100,000 slaves back to the north, and more than 100,000 people have been driven to set off in November.

At that time, it had already snowed in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was unknown how many of these Han slaves who had been driven to the north as cattle had successfully reached the Kingdom of Jin.

Of course, Zong Han Xiyin also understands that these actions of Zong Fu Zong Bi are to take advantage of the fact that the army on the West Road is being dragged in the southwest, first pull the spoils back to China, appease all parties, and reward meritorious deeds.

These actions of the two juniors made Zong Han feel disdainful, and Xi Yin proposed some means to deal with it, but Zong Han just did it with him, and didn't want to interfere: just wait to break through the southwest, and everything else will be settled. If the war in the southwest is unfavorable, I have nothing to say when I go back, I only want to concentrate on the battle in the southwest, and the rest of the small matters are decided by the god of grains.

He wrote to Xi Yin in this way, but he was unwilling to participate in Xi Yin's suggestion that he should write a letter to appease and win over the elderly from all walks of life in the country. At this time, after receiving a reply from Wu Qimai's illness, Zong Han naturally had pride in his heart, he fought with Ah Gu for a lifetime to establish the Jin Kingdom, and now even in the twilight, he did not take the thoughts of a few children in his eyes.

He went out of the tent and went round the camp, and when it was almost sunset, the rain began to subside. The situation of the change in the battle situation on the front line only crossed the distance of thirty miles at this time and spread to ten miles.

At this time, more than 40 miles away, in the rain stream, blood was gathering in the pool, and the corpses were already covered with hills.

In the two-month fierce battle at Yushuixi, this was the first time that the Huaxia Army launched a full-scale counteroffensive, and the main force of the Fourth Division led by Qu Zhengyan and the Fifth Division led by Yu Zhongdao totaled more than 14,000 people participated in this operation.

When the elite of the Huaxia Army commanded by Qu Zhengyan rushed out of the various mountain passes, the Han forces all over the battlefield were first crushed by this sudden counterattack. Some of the Jin soldiers, composed of Jurchens, Bohai people, and Liaodong people, held out for a while with ferocity in the chaotic fighting, but as the casualties expanded to 10% upwards, most of these armies also showed a downward trend, and then either collapsed or chose to retreat.

For the current battle, for two months, Qu Zhengyan secretly observed the offensive pattern of Yulili, and recorded the repeated problems of the various armies in Yushuixi, and had been preparing for a long time. But the first step of the so-called battle is, after all, to prepare the hard power of the hammer against the felt.

It was in this afternoon that the forces of the two sides fighting head-on, under a fair collision, were officially put into the balance of the sky.

In the initial engagement, the casualties were also the most heavi.

In order to cover the strong attack of the Yanli at the Eagle's Beak Rock, several positions on the battlefield on this day were attacked on a large scale, and the Jurchens set up positions in the muddy water. In the No. 2 position, near the Eagle's Beak Rock, which was the most fiercely attacked, the defending Huaxia Army was even broken through the defensive line for a time, and almost failed to recapture the position.

With the brazen slaughter of Qu Zhengyan's troops, the Han troops who participated in the attack may have been a little timid, but the main force of the Jin army, which had already been bored by the two-month offensive setback, only felt the excitement that the opportunity had arrived.

The troops brought out by such a brave general as False Lili will also not be afraid of a frontal decisive battle, and in the eyes of the middle-level generals in the army, as long as the opponent's attack is defeated head-on, all problems will be settled next.

The rain is accompanied by the seeping mud, the terrain around the rain stream is complicated, in the initial attack of the Qu Zhengyan department, the Jin soldiers are happy to catch up, and eight or nine small and medium-sized confrontation points have been formed on the huge battlefield within a radius of several miles, and the two sides are stable or urgent, or offensive or defensive, with more than ten people, dozens of people or so composed of the shield wall front line in the blink of an eye.

The clash of gold and iron made a shuddering sound in the rain curtain of the mountains, and the sound of fighting roared into the surrounding mountains. On the front lines of battle, the fighting engulfed the advancing lives like grinding machines, and the soldiers who rushed forward followed before they could fall, and the comrades behind followed them, and the screams of the people were bloody in their spittle. In the hedging of mutual intransigence, the Huaxia army is like this, and so are the Jurchen soldiers.

There is not much fancy in this kind of weighing. In the past 20 years of vertical and horizontal in the world, almost every such hedge in the past, the Jurchens have almost won.

But this time, the Jurchens' formation was retreating.

Such a hedging was fierce and surging at first, but the subsequent changes were also extraordinarily rapid and obvious in the eyes of many. Moving a little further forward, some of the most senior and murderous mid-level generals of the Jurchens attacked with their personal guards, and their collision boosted morale, but soon after, these generals and their veterans were also swallowed up on the grinding front.

During the period from the confrontation to the collapse of one side, people's hearts were either panicked or boiling, and many thoughts did not even turn a result in their hearts. The Jurchen generals were personally involved in the predetermined program - because in previous frontal battles, such a choice was the best. By the time they were swallowed up, the battle line turned from trembling to an avalanche, and the changes did not leave many traces in people's hearts. The survivors then had no choice but to turn around and flee with the running soldiers.

The battlefield is like this, individual abilities often cannot influence the development of the war situation, people are coerced, positive to do what they should do, negative can only follow the path of their peers. In this moment of head-to-head confrontation in the afternoon, both sides suffered huge losses, and the positions of the Jurchen side, shortly after, were torn apart head-on.

Retreat, fighting, and fighting then rushed like a tidal wave into the nearby mountains and valleys.

The terrain of Yushuixi was not open after all, and the main forces of the Jurchens were forcefully pushed away in this fierce attack, and the Han troops were even more completely defeated. Although their number on the entire battlefield is not much, but because many mountain roads appear narrow, a large number of routs in the crowd or formed an inverted bead curtain-like situation, their rout blocked the passage of part of the main force of the Jin army, and then was decisively slashed by the Jin people, in some places, the Jin people formed a shield wall, not only to defend against the possible attack of the Huaxia army, but also to prevent the escape of these Han troops.

This fierce battlefield like an oven has become a nightmare for the weak in the blink of an eye.

Some of the defeated Han troops were pressed and killed by the Huaxia army and the Jin soldiers, and some people chose a relatively open place to kneel with their heads in their hands after being intercepted on the way. At this time, the soldiers of the Fifth Division, who were originally holding the position, also participated in the all-out attack, and Qu Zhengyan led the staff of the staff to quickly collect the Han troops who surrendered in the heavy rain.

“…… The back road from Yushuixi to Huangtouyan has been cut off, and it is impossible for Dalai's army to gain a firm foothold in Yushuixi for ten days and half a month, and the Jurchens, including you, have already been divided and defeated by me on the front line! Tonight, as soon as the rain stops, I will knock open the Jurchen camp! There will be people who are stubborn, and there will be people who are stubborn! We will do whatever it takes to bury them in Rainwater Creek! ”

"You guys! As a Han Chinese! Raise a knife to your fellow citizens! The Huaxia Army will not tolerate such a big crime, in the southwest, you only deserve to be thrown into the mountains to mine! Some of you will be judged in public with a thousand cuts! Why? Kneeling here and regretting it? Regret throwing away the knife so quickly? Our Huaxia Army is not afraid that you have a knife! Even the most ferocious Jurchen troops, today, we defeat him head-on! If you don't surrender, we will defeat you head-on! But you put down your swords, and on the battlefield today, I give you a chance! ”

"This is the only one chance!" Qu Zhengyan yelled in the rain, "Some of you can pick up your knife and go back to the Jurchen barracks!" Take the head of the Jurchens to atone for your past sins! For the rest of you, we will give you knives too, and on the surrounding hills, at this very moment, those who are still running away and still resisting, I want you to take them! It's a man's, go earn a life for yourself! ”

The staff officers, who were doing more detailed work, walked through the surrenders, pulled out some of the leading officers, registered the information, and gave face-to-face instructions, and some of the soldiers were returned with swords and guns again.

At this time, the fighting on various roads in the mountains did not stop, and some Jurchen soldiers were forced into a desperate corner of the mountains and resisted stubbornly. On this side, Qu Zhengyan's voice was ringing, "...... We are not afraid of your hypocrisy and wrongdoing! I'm not afraid that you will fight us again! As soon as the rain stops today, our artillery will make the position of Rain Creek cease to exist! When the time comes, we will settle today's account with you! There is no other way to go! Pick up the knife and be an upright Han man! Be a dignified man! Otherwise, I'll all die here—"

Within three moments, the first batch of Han soldiers were rebelled in the grove near Yushui Creek and joined the counterattack against the Jurchens. Since the Jurchen army chose to attack at the first time during the head-to-head confrontation, at this time, most of the combat troops still failed to embark on the road back to the camp.

Due to the topography of Yushui Creek, the Jurchen camp on this side was not placed in front of the city like Huangming County, because it could attack in several directions at the same time, the Jurchen camp was placed on the mountainside of a small hill more than three miles away, and the road to Huangtouyan was guarded in the rear.

In this lowland of mountains and forests, which is less than four miles away in a straight line and the actual terrain is complex and changeable, the troops of the Huaxia Army, which had already calculated the combat steps, selected several key points. For example, the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division, which had the heaviest burden, led by regiment commander Shen Changye, easily cut through the obstruction of the two parallel goods troops, and directly entered the most critical valley on the way to the Jurchen withdrawal.

Shen Changye's thousand-man regiment set up a defensive line in the rain, and the Jurchens on the battlefield had not carefully considered the idea of retreating when he came in, but soon after, this afternoon, Shen Changye's troops had encountered as many as eleven repeated attacks like a tidal wave in this canyon.

The corpses were piled up in a hill in the canyon, and the sticky blood stained the water beneath their feet. After this day, the canyon was named "Victory Gorge".

The First Regiment of the Second Brigade under Qu Zhengyan also became the unit with the largest attrition in the entire battlefield, and nearly half of the soldiers slept forever in this bright red canyon.

By the end of the hour (3 p.m. to 5 p.m.), the rain had gradually stopped, and the voices of stubborn resistance in the various corners of the mountains had gradually become quieter. At this time, the news of Lili's death had spread throughout Yushuixi, and the passage from the camp to Huangtouyan had been destroyed, which meant that it was difficult for reinforcements from the rear to arrive, and the two main routes for the battlefield to return to the barracks were repeatedly contested by the Huaxia army and the Jurchens, some people fled back to the camp around the path, many troops were forced into the Jedi, some strong Jurchen troops set up a formation to hold on, and a large number of surviving troops chose to surrender.

Including the main force of the Jin soldiers and the Han army, the number of Jin troops directly killed and wounded in this battle approached 8,000, and about 15,000 people were captured on the spot, disarmed and escorted to the rear.

The Huaxia army also suffered a lot of damage, but as the rain gradually stopped, Qu Zhengyan had people drag the last usable cannons into the mountains, some of them would be used to deal with the recalcitrant Jurchen elites, and some would be dragged to the Jurchen camp.

Pack horses for carrying heavy loads dragged dry firewood through the bloody battlefield, and after arriving at the outskirts of the Jurchen camp, Qu Zhengyan commanded the soldiers to light piles of bonfires upwind. After the campfire was cleared, wet wood was added, and black smoke climbed up the hillside in the direction of the Jurchen camp.

The Jurchen camp was not attacked in the two months after it was set up, and many of its structures were still intact, with wooden walls and canopies piled with artillery fire, but Qu Zhengyan was not afraid, and when the battle at Yushuixi was at its fiercest, some of the "routed soldiers" had already retreated to the side of the camp to "go back", and with the black smoke swirling, the horse teams carrying explosive bags had also come over one after another.

As long as Dalai's reinforcements could not arrive, the fear of the night would ferment in the barracks ahead, and tonight, tomorrow at the latest, he would knock on the wooden wall, and chop down the head of the Jurchen snake that stretched out to the rain stream, and chop it down fiercely and completely!