Chapter 879: The Fierce Blade (I)
How do you depict the beginning of a war?
It's like the ordinary, long life you've been living all along, and one day in that long, almost boring journey, you've almost gotten used to it. You walk, talk, eat, drink, plow, harvest, sleep, repair, talk, play, rub shoulders with your neighbors, and in your day-to-day life, you see the same, seemingly eternal scenery......
Someone pulls you out of such a matter of course.
Not mentally prepared - of course that's pretty much something you won't have no matter how much you build ahead of time. You feel angry, angry...... Then you see the skulls and scarlet blood of your neighbors, and your head and soul can't accept and contain all this, and the most blood you've ever seen in your long life seems to be the result of your neighbor's pushes and shoves in a fight, or the cheering executions in the county when they talk about bandit killers. Is there really such evil in the world? Why did it come on this day? Why do you let yourself be encountered by the person who was born in the world?
It takes a long time to figure it all out......
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Zhou Yuanpu is a junior member in the suburbs of Qingchuan County, west of the Sword Pavilion. The Zhou family lives in Qingchuan, the ancestors have raised people, live in this small place, there are hundreds of acres of fertile land at home, and ten miles and eight townships can be regarded as poetry and book heirlooms.
Although it is adjacent to the Sword Pavilion and is dangerous, but in the southwest, there has not been a war for two hundred years, and the Sword Pavilion is rugged and rugged, and there are occasional bandits in the mountains, but it is not too much trouble. In recent years, both interest groups that trade with the southwest and Si Zhongxian, who guards the Sword Pavilion, have been deliberately maintaining order on this road, and Qingchuan and other places are as safe as a paradise.
Zhou Yuanpu lived to the age of twenty-four, took over the family business, married a wife and a concubine, and had a son and a daughter, a daughter was six years old, and a son was four years old. All the way, peace and joy.
None of this is something that is slowly lost.
In the early days, people in nearby towns and counties occasionally talked about the seemingly distant war, some people said that they had talked about the brutality of the Jurchens and considered whether to leave, and some people said that no matter where the Jurchens occupied, wouldn't they have to leave people to grow some food?
Such discussions were just sporadic and did not make most people overreact, and Zhou Yuanpu only thought seriously about it a few times in his mind.
Late at night on October 17, he was suddenly dragged out of bed in a dazed sleep. Most of the bandits who rushed into the courtyard looked like Han soldiers, and only a few of the leaders were dressed in strange foreign clothes. At this time, the village outside was already crying and shouting, and these people seemed to think that Zhou Yuanpu was a member of the family with a better background, and led the Jurchen "adults" to come and search.
Zhou Yuanpu and his wife, concubines, children, and servants were pulled out of the room, and a Han man led by him asked him where he stored his food and where the money and belongings in the family were hidden.
Zhou Yuanpu explained where the grain was stored at home, and where the calligraphy, paintings, antiques, gold and silver were stored, and he cried and said: "I'll give you everything, don't kill anyone." And when they went to search, the strangers dragged his wife into the room.
The wife cried and resisted, and the foreigner slapped her on the head, and the woman's head hit the steps, and she vomited blood in her mouth, and her eyes were dilated. Seeing that her mother had an accident, the daughter rushed up, hugged the other party's leg and wanted to bite, but the foreigner killed the little girl with a knife, and then dragged his concubine inside.
The concubine didn't dare to resist, several foreigners went in successively, and then others also took turns to go in, his wife was lying on the ground and her body was twitching, her eyes seemed to be reacting, Zhou Yuanpu wanted to go over, but was knocked to the ground, he hugged his four-year-old son, he was completely unresponsive, and he was only thinking in his heart: This is not a nightmare at night.
The night became darker and stronger, the crying and howling outside gradually became subtle, Zhou Yuanpu could not see the concubine in the room again, his wife with blood on her head was lying under the eaves in the courtyard, her eyes seemed to be looking at him, and also looking at the young child, Zhou Yuanpu knelt on the ground crying and pleading, and soon after, he was dragged out of the bloody courtyard. He held his young son tightly in his arms, and the last thing he saw was his wife lying under the cold eaves, and the concubine in the room, which he never saw again.
A mist rose from the long mountain trail, and people were bound by ropes and driven together. As we walked forward, another person was killed on the side of the road.
It all seemed so unreal.
In the confusion of the next few days, Zhou Yuanpu thought more than once in his mind, is his daughter dead? Is the wife dead? He flashed back to his mind the scene when people were disemboweled—how could that be the scene of the world?
Didn't you say that no matter where you occupy, you have to keep someone to grow some food?
He gave food, gave treasures, and gave all his savings. Why isn't it enough?
The fog in the mountains came and went, and he carried the child through the slippery mountain path, and in the middle he was given some gruel like pigs. The child also seemed to be scared silly, and did not cry too much.
They followed the army all the way forward, and then I don't know when, strange things appeared in front of people's eyes, the low walls of the old county town, the rows of ditches on the hills outside the county town, the black stretching military flags, they were fenced off, guarded for a day or two, and then, someone drove them to the front.
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Huangming County.
Seeing that the opposite position began to move, Pang Liu'an, who was standing above the city wall, put down his binoculars.
In the past few days, the Jurchen brigade has come one after another, and it can be seen in the banners standing on the opposite side that the core team of the Jurchen generals will pull out the speed.
The open space and mountains in front of Huangming County could not accommodate too many troops, and as the Jurchen army arrived one after another, the trees on the surrounding mountains fell and quickly turned into defensive fortifications and fences, and the hot air balloons on both sides rose, all watching the movement on the opposite side.
While Pang Liu'an was watching from the city wall, he could also vaguely see the generals patrolling on the opposite slope. For the mobilization of the battlefield, both sides are doing, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who are responsible for the defense of the positions inside and outside Huangming County are preparing for the garrison step by step in silence, and in the military camp opposite, you can occasionally see the scene of groups of tigers gathering and roaring.
The siege equipment and the stone-throwing vehicles were quickly assembled as far as the eye could see.
The head-to-head confrontation with the main force of the strongest army in this era is officially included in the field of vision.
On the morning of October 25, he gave the order in the barracks.
"Try them."
The people who were cannon fodder were driven away.
Pang Liu'an put down the binoculars and clenched his fists: "." ”
The muzzles of the guns on the head of the city were finely reoriented, and the war drums sounded.
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On the battlefield where the two armies faced each other, people cried and shouted.
Zhou Yuanpu held the child, and unconsciously, he was squeezed to the front by the crowd. There were murderous voices on both sides of the field of vision.
Zhou Yuanpu's head sobered up slightly.
"Let my child go—"
He lifted his four-year-old son and cried out with all his might in front of the two armies. However, countless people were crying, and his voice was drowned out.
Soon after, the four-year-old was trampled to death in the crowd and running.
In the short time that flies by, the encounters of life are separated by the distance between heaven and earth. In less than half an hour after the start of the war in Huangming County on October 25, the entire family that once had Zhou Yuanpu as the pillar of support had completely disappeared from this world. There is no point-and-click treatment, and there is no preferential treatment for women and children.
This is a microcosm of the experiences of thousands of families and people in the vicinity of the Sword Pavilion, and even if someone survives, this experience will completely change their lives.
However, no amount of anger can stir up the slightest ripple in the battlefield in front of us. People mixed with the interests, tendencies, and wills of countless families in the north and south of the world are hedging under this sky.
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In the winter of the last year of the founding of the Wu Dynasty, the great war that broke out between the mountains in the southwest and decided the trend of the whole world was not only like an elegy for a great empire that lasted for more than 200 years, but also like the sound of a new era being born in the explosion. It is like a big river coming from afar, turbulent and surging, but steady and thick.
People know that all the accumulation and silence will be uncovered here.
For this battle, the Jurchens were ready for everything.
With the issuance of Wanyan Zonghan's order, hundreds of thousands of troops began to move forward in an orderly manner. At this time, the first batch of engineers had already explored and built the road, and the vanguard troops, with the Jurchen elite as the main force, had also occupied a key position on the way.
There are more than 50 miles of two roads from Jiange to Huangming County and to Yushuixi, and the mountain roads that are not long or short used to bear the responsibility of caravan traffic, and they immediately became fragile under the size of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Only on the third day after the army officially set up camp, the forward troops led by Ba Lisu and Shen Lili arrived at their intended positions and began to camp in selected places. And countless armies spread long into the mountain roads that are dozens of miles long, and the mountains are cold in winter, and the mountain roads that were originally quite strong soon become muddy, but Han Qixian, Gao Qingyi and other generals have long been prepared for these things.
The Jurchen troops set up barracks at some open points where the mountain road extended for dozens of miles—such as Shiliji, Canghuoyi, Huangtouyan and other places where people were already inhabited—and then drove the Han troops to cut down trees, level the ground, and set up checkpoints.
Even if the Huaxia army is really fierce and brave and invincible on the front line, the levels composed of elites at these key nodes are enough to block the retreating army with low quality and avoid a big defeat in the form of an inverted bead curtain. And with the support of these nodes, some relatively elite Han troops in the rear can be pushed forward and exert the strength they can exert.
In the more than 20 years since the founding of the Jurchen country, Wanyan Zonghan has won more with less countless times, and the generals below him have long been accustomed to risking their lives to attack with a wave of fierce attacks, and the opposite side is like a tide of retreat. Putting on such a calm attitude in actual combat may also be the first time for Zong Han, but considering the experience of Lou Mur and Ci Bu Lose, there are not many people in the Jurchen army who feel redundant about this.
Fighting in the mountains, there are not many troops that can be put out for a while, and the Huaxia army is plugged at several key nodes in the mountains, so that they will not be crushed by the disparity in strength in a short period of time, but as long as the access is maintained, there will be no major problems, and the Jurchen elite troops will be on the ground in waves, which is a ferocious offensive that no one in the whole world can withstand - at least for now, this idea is still the consensus of the whole world.
The chariots and horses are Xiao Xiao, the figures of the soldiers extend between the foothills like ant colonies, all kinds of military flags are spread like dense forests, huge hot air balloons rise in the sky from time to time, above the dense forests, there are sometimes sea east green swirls. An army of 100,000 is like a flood pouring into a narrow road, as long as they break through the stopper point in front of them, their front will be a flat river.
Or, at least, half the victory.
At the end of October, the first wave of temptations on the frontal battlefield appeared in the mountain pass of Huangming County on the East Road Front. The day is October 25.
As early as three days ago, in the rugged mountains that stretched from the confrontation line between Huangming County and Yushuixi in the direction of Sword Pavilion, the incomparably complex scout battle had already begun to escalate.
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Throughout the ages, no matter which unit it is, those who can serve as scouts are the most trusted henchmen and elites in the army.
In the era when the consciousness of the modern army has not yet awakened, this truth is extremely simple: when the people who eat and work hard are humble and lowly, and have no subjective initiative, even if they want to drive the soldiers forward on the battlefield, they can be constrained by extremely strict military laws, and if they want to release the soldiers and complete the task without control, such soldiers can only be the most elite group in the army.
For the close personal guards of the generals, the family members of the big families, or the tigers and wolves who are raised, at least the people who can reap the benefits with the development of the war situation, can give birth to such an active combat mind.
Zou Hu, who is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, was one of the scouts of the original Wu Dynasty army, and his subordinates led a scout squadron of nine people, working under the command of Hou Ji, the general of the Wu Dynasty, and once participated in the resistance of the Xiangfan defense line. He claimed that he was under great pressure from the enemy, and finally surrendered to the Jurchens.
Zou Hu has no opinion on this.
He was born in the mountains and was poor when he was young, but under the careful teaching of his father, he developed the ability to cross mountains and mountains. Joined the army at the age of more than ten years, he was in good health, and he had already seen blood, and he was trained as a tiger elite in the Hou Ji army.
Hou Ji is a general with a traditional temperament, and he pays attention to a ferocious nature in military training. Think that if you don't have the temperament of a tiger wolf, how can you go into battle to kill the enemy? In the past ten years, the resources of the Wu Dynasty began to tilt towards the army, and the leaders of the troops like Hou Ji have also been supported by some officials. Zou Hu's temperament was quite simple at the beginning, but after more than ten years in such an environment, his temperament has already become ferocious.
Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, dogs travel thousands of miles to eat, in this world, the weak eat the strong, and people who can't hold knives should have been bullied.
If you don't get any benefits from those who are paid, and you risk your lives to fight in front of you, while others hide behind and enjoy your happiness, it will be really unjust.
- The elite under Hou Ji has always lived in such a voice, and when it comes to some friction and competition, the fierce and brutal tigers and wolves under him can earn some face. This strengthened their convictions.
Later, the army transferred the Xiangfan defense line, and Yue Fei's six relatives did not recognize the military discipline, and Hou Ji became one of the key points targeted. The battle of Xiangfan was already fierce, and the pressure on the front line was not small, Zou Hu thought that every time he was sent out - although not many times - he tied his head to the belt of his trousers to survive, how could he endure that there were still people in the rear who dragged him back.
Later, when the battle situation developed, the coefficients of the various camps around Xiangfan were pulled out, and Hou Ji surrendered on the front line, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Speaking of it on weekdays, it is even more important for his gang of people to work hard on the front line, and the court's reuse of Yue Fei, a petty official with green mouths and white teeth, to command indiscriminately, and even said that this Yue Fei child is most likely to have a leg with the lewd eldest princess in the court, so he was promoted-or has an unclear relationship with the bullshit prince......
The court is so stupid, how can it not die!
Participated in the Jurchen troops, and life was much better. On the way from Xiangfan to Jiange, although the really wealthy towns were looted by the Jurchens, as an elite scout force under Hou Ji's command, many times everyone could always get some oil and water—and there were almost no enemies. In the face of the Jurchen veteran Yan Zonghan's march, after the defeat of the Xiangfan defense line, the next step was the destruction of the road, even if there were occasional people who dared to resist, in fact, the resistance was extremely weak.
Men are born in the world, and fighting like this is the only way to look cool!
Everyone talked about it every day, and said to each other that this is a good owner. Hou Ji didn't have much emotion for the Wu Dynasty, he was poor since he was a child, and he was always bullied by the landlord in the mountains, and after he became a soldier, he bullied others, and he had already convinced himself in his heart that this was the truth of heaven and earth.
A few months after taking refuge in the Jurchens, when Hou Ji spoke to his brothers, he was gradually able to say some more "reasonable" words, such as the decay of the Wu Dynasty, the destruction of heaven and earth is the certainty of heaven and earth, and the rise of Dajin is in line with the fixed number of the rotation of the world. Everyone chooses a side in time and makes meritorious achievements, and they will have a place in this world in the future.
In short, after fighting this battle, you are going to enjoy happiness!
In August and September, the army arrived at the Sword Pavilion one after another, and the Han army was naturally afraid in their hearts. The Sword Pavilion Xiongguan Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, once the battle starts, most of the Han troops attached to their own group will be regarded as the first to go into battle. But not long after, the Sword Pavilion actually opened the door and surrendered, wouldn't this prove even more that the destiny of my Dajin Kingdom was returned?
Without the Sword Pavilion, the battle in the southwest would be half successful.
In October, the army passed through one after another, and the main force under Hou Ji's command was arranged to carry grain in the rear of the Sword Pavilion, and Zou Hu and other scout elites were sent in first. On 12 October, the Chinese officers of the army registered and reviewed the rosters and materials of each person, and Zou Hu understood that this was to prevent them from defecting or defecting to the enemy before the battle. After that, the scouts of the various armies were assembled.
There were as many as 10,000 elite scouts who were mobilized, and there were more than 2,000 elite veterans among the Jurchens.
“…… There are more than 10,000 scouts alone...... The battle to destroy the country, this shelf is set up......"
When talking to the brothers around him, Zou Hu imitated the tone he usually heard when watching a play in a collection of poems, and his words were quite frivolous, but he couldn't help but be shocked and honored in his heart.
“…… The black flag ahead is not easy to mess with. ”
When someone in the team said this, Zou Hu also nodded and took out the mantra: "Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat." The truth in this world, don't you have enough of it, the handsome man has raised us for so many years, and everything is in his pocket, why? If you're fierce enough, you'll have something to eat...... The Wu Dynasty has long been out of play, the one surnamed Ning is really fierce, and if he killed the emperor, don't we just can't stand those guys to rebel. You are surrounded by the fiercest people in the world...... In the future, whether you eat meat or, after the battle in the southwest, no one can gossip. ”
“…… Why are we who came in, and the others were arranged to transport grain outside the Sword Pavilion? Because...... This is where only the fiercest people can come in! ”
Zou Hu cheered up the soldiers under his command like this, and there was both fear and excitement in his heart. After taking refuge in the Jurchens, he still minded the infamy of traitors in his heart. He is not a traitor, nor is he a coward, he is a fierce warrior like the Jurchens, and the court is stupid, so he forced his gang to rebel! Like that demon Ning Yi!
Now everyone is gathered in the southwest, this is the battlefield of the most powerful people in the world, after this battle, earn a great reputation, the world will naturally look at themselves. Of course, at that time, you don't have to explain anything, the world is all golden, and there will naturally be a wealth waiting in front of you.
The moment the scout troops assembled, and the Jurchen general Yu Yu patrolled on the high platform, Zou Hu determined this. On the school field that was being inspected, there were elite tigers everywhere in the front and back, left and right. The scout team belonging to the Jurchens looked like the most difficult veterans who came over in the sea of corpses and blood—this was one of the troops that Wanyan Zonghan relied on the most.
In addition, the teams of the Bohai people, the Liao people, and the Liaodong Han people were also the most elite scout members in the world at this time. It's his own group of people who were selected from the various affiliated armies, and who is not the elite of the elite who have countless blood donations on their hands - a little worse, they are only worthy of looting and food in the rear, and they can't even enter the Sword Pavilion because it's too crowded here.
With such a lineup, how can you lose on your side?
The Jurchens announced to the scouts the details of their meritorious service to kill the enemy, and the scout troops were soon sent out in batches. In the vicinity of the mountain road that is tens of miles long, the first thing that the surrounding scouts have to build is a defense line that is hundreds of feet long - this is to avoid the sneak attack of the Jurchen generals and the destruction of the road by the Black Flag scout troops, and the most elite group of people are sent out to the rugged mountains to find a path that can be passed.
Surrounded by mountains near the Sword Pavilion, it is difficult for chariots and horses to travel, but after passing the most rugged pass of Dajian Mountain and Xiaojian Mountain, although there are also cliffs and cliffs, it does not mean that they are completely unable to walk, and the Jurchen troops are well manned, if they can find a narrow road, and then let the insignificant Han army pass - whether the damage is huge or not - will completely break the undermanned Black Flag Army's blocking plan.
Because his own strength was not yet trusted, Zou Hu and the people around him were initially arranged in fixed posts in the rear, and they squatted on the commanding heights between the rugged mountains, and the corresponding manpower was still sufficient. Such an arrangement is not very dangerous, as the friction in front continues to intensify, some people in the team are happy, and some are restless - they are all elites in the army, and most of them have the skills of walking and surviving in the mountains, and many people are eager to show them and make a brilliant achievement.
The Han army may be far inferior to the Jurchens on the battlefield, it is a bunch of soldiers who can't support the wall, but if you talk about individual soldier skills, after all, there are a large number of high-spirited characters among the scouts. Some of them are not tired after running in the mountains for a day, some are walking through the mountains and mountains, some are good at hiding, some are murderous and the beasts are trembling when they see it, and some of the traps are exquisitely arranged and ordinary people are difficult to avoid, and they have also been valued in the past.
Starting from the Sword Pavilion to Huangming County, walking ten miles, there is a relatively open settlement called Shiliji, which has been widened into a military camp at this time. The place where Zou Hu's team is guarded is in the nearby mountains, and every day I watch the dense soldiers cutting down trees, which changes day by day, as if they have the power to move mountains and reclaim the sea.
He rested in the military camp near Shiliji every night, and not far away was another group of elite camps: it was a gathering place for the Jianghu people under the command of the Jurchens, about 800 people, all of whom were the masters of the green forest under the command of Zong Han over the years, some of whom had enmity with the black flag, and some of them even participated in the Xiaocanghe War that year, and the group of people who led it had made great contributions in the war that year.
Most of these green forest people are Han people, and the personnel of the two sides occasionally have contacts, and the green forest people have many martial arts skills in their hands, and they are originally above the top, and Zou Hu and other elite scouts also have stunts, and they all have a little respect for each other. On the opposite side, as one of the leaders, a green forest tycoon named Ren Hengchong, nicknamed "Bloody God Fist", met Zou Hu and fell in love, and when chatting, he talked about the Huaxia army in front of him, and said: "That Ning Yi is nothing remarkable, he was forced to be the same as his grandson in Bianliang back then, even if it is Xiao Canghe, Lao Tzu killed a lot of cubs under him." ”
Zou Hu knew that the other party knew Ning Yi in Bianliang at the beginning, and there were achievements in the battle of Xiaocanghe, and he asked carefully at the moment, Ren Hengchong talked about the battle with the Huaxia army when Xiaocanghe, and said that he married Ning Yi in the capital back then, and later vowed to kill Ning Yi as the goal.
——Before this, many people in the green forest were folded in Ning Yi's hands because of this incident, Ren Hengchong summed up the lesson, and did not recklessly face Ning Yi. During the battle of Xiaocanghe, he led a group of disciples into the mountain, and killed many members of the Huaxia Army under his hands.
After the Battle of Xiaocanghe, Ren Hengchong was appreciated by the Jurchens and secretly funded to specialize in studying against the Huaxia Army. After the Huaxia army moved to the southwest, Ren Hengchong also came to do several sabotage, but was not caught, last year the Huaxia army issued an order to remove traitors, a list, Ren Hengchong was on it, and his value soared, and this southern expedition brought him over as an elite.
Ren Hengchong is a person with a lot of heart, he has been successful in martial arts, and he has been proud for half his life. At that time, the situation in Bianliang was changing, and the leader of the Great Bright Sect mobilized the world's heroes to enter Beijing, and Ren Hengchong went to Beijing as the leader of the Huainan Green Forest. At that time, he had been famous for more than ten years, known as the Green Forest Celebrity, but in fact he was only in his early thirties, which was really high-spirited and promising.
At that time, Ren Hengchong thought that he would become a martial arts master like Zhou Dong, Fang La, and Lin Zongwu in the future. At that time, Qin Siyuan, who was in power for a while, stepped down, and the Jurchens were beaten back again, and all kinds of ruins were waiting to be rebuilt, and the land of the capital could be described as a vast sky, waiting for him to perform on stage. Who knew that later, a group of people chased and killed Qin Siyuan, and everything was buried in that massacre.
On that day, in the wilderness outside Bianliang City, Ren Hengchong and the others saw the heart demon Ning Yi standing on the dirt slope in the distance, looking at them with a pale and resentful face, Lin Zongwu and the others walked up to laugh at him, Ren Hengchong wanted to go over and challenge the rumored big devil with the identity of "grandmaster", all he thought about was something to be in the limelight, but the next moment countless cavalry jumped out from the rear.
Even Lin Zongwu, who was the first in the world, turned around and ran at that time, and Ren Hengchong was nicknamed "Red Fist", but in the face of the cavalry's collision, the fist method was really useless. He was rammed by a war horse, fell to the ground and broke a tooth, and his mouth was covered with blood, and then he was dragged to the ground and rubbed, his pants were worn off, and he was covered in wounds. A group of green forest people were chased by cavalry until night, and he pretended to be dead in the pile of corpses with his bare buttocks, and he didn't dare to move even after being stabbed in the buttocks, so that his life was saved.
For Ren Hengchong, who has been pampered since childhood, this is the most humiliating moment in his life, no one knows, but since then, his self-esteem has become more and more self-respecting. He tried his best to oppose the Huaxia army - unlike the reckless Green Forest people, after that massacre, Ren Hengchong understood the importance of the army and the organization, and he trained his disciples and grandchildren to cooperate with each other, secretly waiting for opportunities to kill, and weakening the power of the Huaxia army in this way, and because of this, he was once received by Yan Xiyin.
Even in the face of the Jurchens who are above the top, Ren Hengchong thinks that he is not inferior. The army finally reached the southwest, and he was holding back his strength to kill a group of members of the Huaxia Army to establish his prestige like Xiaocanghe back then, and his heart was already boiling. talked about this matter with Zou Hu and others, and opened his mouth to encourage the Jurchens to see, "What is called killing."
In the past few days, the elite Jurchen scouts who were exploring the way forward have been injured and carried back one after another, some were injured by mines, and some fell into the ambush of the Huaxia Army.
It wasn't long before they were given a chance to move forward.
On October 19, the forward troops had already set up camp and built fortifications on the confrontation line, and Yu Yu issued an order to more scouts to start advancing in the direction of the junction line, in order to use their numerical superiority to kill and wound the scout forces of the Huaxia army and break through the mountain defense line of the Huaxia army by brute force.
Ren Hengchong led more than 100 disciples and grandchildren under his command, and set off on the same day.
Zou Hu was the next batch, at this time, he hadn't felt too much, as a scout team that had lagged behind, theoretically speaking, even if they rushed to the front, there were not many opportunities left for them. The Sichuan and Shu Mountains are complicated, and there are only so many roads that can be walked after all, thousands of people plough towards the front in hundreds of batches, and there is not much left for the rear.
The mountain road was difficult to navigate, and the pressure of the scout elite to push forward was transmitted to the front-line position two days later.
At this time, the person in charge of the scout troops of the Huaxia Army was Fang Shuchang, who was born in Badao, and on the afternoon of the 20th, when he met with Chen Tian, chief of staff of the Fourth Division, he received an attack order brought by the other party. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan's statement was: "If you want to start fighting, you will blind their eyes." ”
At this time, there were more than 4,000 scout troops assigned to Fang Shuchang's hands, half of which were from the special operations squad trained by Qu Zhengyan of the Fourth Division for the purposes of infiltration, hunting, and beheading. The mountain roads and terrain near the Sword Pavilion had been repeatedly explored half a year earlier, and the staff headquarters of the Fourth Division had planned the operation and coordination plans for almost every key location. By the twentieth day, everything was completely settled.
In the afternoon and evening of the same day, pre-departure arrangements and mobilization meetings were organized. 21. In addition to the more than 1,500 men who were already fighting in the mountains and the 500 reserve units that Fang Shuchang had on hand, a total of 200 basic special operations units with the scale of squads were thrown into the mountains ahead from different directions.