More than ten miles away from Zizhou, the lion ridge lies in front of the mountains like a lying lion.

As the sun set, the black smoke had ceased to fill, and for the first time in six days, the sound of battle had stopped, and the trees near the mountain that had burned into charred flames were reflected in the light of the setting sun, showing a strange quiet atmosphere.

There were still people running in one defensive position after another, the soldiers were still reinforcing the defensive line and checking the gun positions, and people were looking at the golden soldiers' positions in front of their vision, and they only spoke in low voices.

"You say, will the golden dog come today?"

"If you don't want this, just fuck it!"

"I heard that Wangyuan Bridge won, and I finished Yan Xianbao."

"The people Mr. Ning brought, remember? The ...... of the second company that withdrew Xianbao thought that he had 30,000 people, not enough for him, so he went to Mr. Ning......"

"How did you fight......"

"It's not clear ...... yet"

In the midst of such whispers, the sun was golden and crossed the valley ahead, and the Jurchens' convergence and silence had lasted for more than an hour.

There was a wounded barracks at the back of the hill, and after the battlefield had been unusually quiet for a long time, the wounded men with sticks and bandages came out of their tents and looked out at the back of the Shiling Mountain in front of them.

"What's wrong?"

People are asking each other so much.

In the hot air balloon, someone quickly waved the flag downward, reporting every movement in the Jurchen camp, and a senior officer of the staff waited directly below to make sure that all the important clues were not missed.

The resistance battles at Shiling and Xiukou lasted for nearly six days, and in later records, it was often overshadowed by the cross-era significance and brilliance of the Wangyuan Bridge victory, and they often seemed unimportant throughout the five-month-long southwest campaign. But in fact, they were an important fulcrum for the victory of the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge.

In the entire six-day period, Qu Zhengyan and Yu Zhongdao blocked Yu Xiukou, and Han Jing and Pang Liuan fought in Shiling. Although it was said that the Jurchens were counting on the Diagonal Protection Department that crossed the mountain to play some tricks in front of Ning Yi, but at the two points of Shiling and Xiukou, they did not let go of water or slackened in the slightest, and the repeated attacks made the line of the Huaxia army, which was already small in number, stretched to the extreme, and the slightest carelessness could completely collapse.

Although relying on the terrain and artillery can still take advantage of some defense at the moment, in six days, the combat strength of the Huaxia Army on both sides has also reached 7,000. In some respects, this rate of attrition is actually much more tragic than the situation in Huangming County and Yushuixi during the defense war.

Especially in the direction of Shiling, after the appearance of Zong Han's handsome banner, the morale of the Jin soldiers was greatly boosted, and Zong Han, Ba Lisu and others also used their battlefield command and troop deployment skills for so many years, and constantly shook the defense of the entire mountain with elite soldiers, so that the breakthrough was concentrated at one point. Sometimes, even the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who participated in the defense could hardly feel where the most attrition and pressure were greatest, and it was only when a certain position was broken that they realized Zong Han's true tactical intentions. At this time, they can only make another deployment and take back the position from the hands of the golden soldiers.

This is the gap between the generals of the Huaxia Army and the Jurchen generals of this level at the tactical level, but in terms of the quality of individual soldiers and the small-scale tactical cooperation of grassroots soldiers, the Huaxia Army has put aside these "invincible" Jurchen soldiers.

Among them, especially the Second Division, which was led by Pang Liu'an, which once lost the county seat of Huangming, fought bravely and unusually bravely, and in the face of the "old enemy" of pulling out the speed, the soldiers of the Second Division, who had the will to take revenge in shame, even changed their style of fighting steadily and steadily, and showed the most resolute will to fight during several repeated battles for positions.

On the one hand, such a will to fight is of course due to the merits of political work, and on the other hand, it is also because the division commander Pang Lu'an once put life and death aside and had to personally lead his troops forward several times. In order to protect the division commander, the brigade commander and regiment commander at the bottom of the second division always took the lead in raising the girder.

The Jurchen side once personally went to break the formation, but after occupying a position, they were frantically counterattacked by the soldiers of the Second Division, and a group of soldiers even tried to block the way of the Pullaway Speed and let the artillery bombard the position without distinguishing between the enemy and us.

In fact, what is remembered in the hearts of the soldiers of the Second Division is not only the blood feud of the dead soldiers in Huangming County, some soldiers have never broken through, and they are still in the hands of the Jurchens at this time, this matter may be the biggest stalk in the hearts of the soldiers.

After fierce battles and repeated battles in Shiling, the army commander He Zhicheng continued to mobilize lightly injured soldiers, militiamen, and living forces still interspersed in the mountains from the rear, and also invested in the front line of Shiling, so that this rather tense defense line was finally maintained. If it weren't for this, on the twenty-eighth day, Han Jing wouldn't even be able to draw out his more than 1,000 horses, and after the battle of Wangyuan Bridge, it would be difficult to quickly sweep and end the battle.

The armistice and cowering of the Jin soldiers in the afternoon were obviously the response after receiving the battle report of the Wangyuan Bridge, but the generals of the Huaxia Army on the position did not relax their vigilance, He Zhicheng and Pang Liuan were constantly reminding the front-line soldiers to consolidate the defense line, and did not make an official announcement of the information on the Wangyuan Bridge, so as to avoid the soldiers underestimating the enemy and suffering the loss of the other party in the final counterattack of the Jurchens.

At about two o'clock, He Zhicheng, Pang Liu'an and others saw the cart coming from Wangyuan Bridge and a horse team of about 100 people in front of the cart on the side of the road at the back of Shiling Mountain, and Ning Yi was among the horse teams. He approached and dismounted, and He Zhicheng said with a smile: "Mr. Ning is out of the horse, this battle is decided...... It's not easy. ”

There was also gunsmoke on his face, and when he said this, there were tears in his eyes. Pang Liu'an on the side was already wearing ribbon blood, due to the defeat of Huangming County, he was the acting commander of the second division at this time, and saluted Ning Yi: "The second division of the Fifth Army of China was ordered to defend the front line of Shikou, fortunately not dishonored. ”

"Thanks to you."

If he used Ning Yi's personality in normal times, he might have said something witty, but not at this time, he saluted the two of them and walked forward, Pang Liu'an looked at the car behind him: "This is 'Dijiang'?" ”

Ning Yi nodded: "Actually, the whole idea was already in Xiaocanghe, and the manual operation was completed in the last year. In the southwest, it slowly began, and in a few years, the first military industry had no less than two hundred dead and crippled for it, tightening the belt and slowly grinding these things. We were worried about whether it was enough, but fortunately, the diagonal protection bumped into it, and it also played a role. ”

Perhaps thinking back on the course of these years, his tone was serious, but not nervous, serious with a slight sense of relaxation. After walking forward for a moment, he said:

"The others are still in Wangyuan Bridge, and more than 20,000 people have been captured, and it is not easy to take care of them, and it will be difficult to deal with them for a while. We were worried that the Jurchens would go crazy here, so we dragged these over first. Originally, it was more than 600 rounds, and before the battle, I was worried about whether it would be enough, and whether I could give the Jurchens the most painful blow in the first battle, but in the end, it took less than 300 - how did Zong Han react? ”

"The reaction speed is fast, and the ginger is old and spicy." He Zhicheng smiled, there was a mountain road ahead, he raised his hand, and looked at the back again, "These cars ......"

"Drag it up slowly, some may rely on horses, don't rush, find a good place." Ning Yi said with a smile, "The measured range, normally more than four hundred zhang, before he can't find a way to deal with it, it's enough for Zong Han to drink a pot." ”

"However, Zong Han has taken precautions."

“…… So fast? ”

"It started half an hour ago, and their line is retreating." He Zhicheng said, "At the beginning, it was just a simple retreat, probably to deal with the failure of the Wangyuan Bridge, which seemed a bit hasty. But a quarter of an hour ago, there were a lot of adjustments, and the movements were not big and very methodical. ”

Everyone walked all the way up the hillside, crossed the high line on the ridge, and saw the situation of the entire Shiling battlefield in the setting sun, one after another positions stained red with blood, one pit after another blackened by shells, in the camp of the Jin soldiers in front, the big tent and the handsome flag were still fluttering, the Jin people built a simple wooden city wall, and there were intertwined wooden thorns outside the wall - the retreat of the troops in front made the whole arrangement of the Jin people appear on the defensive, and the movement of the troops in the camp seemed to be continuing.

Ning Yi looked over there with a telescope, and He Zhicheng and others introduced on the side: "...... From the situation seen half an hour ago, some people are retreating to the mountain pass in the rear, the retreat of the front line is the most obvious, the tent behind the wooden wall has not moved, and it seems that there are still people, but summarizing the information of various observation points, the Jin people are pulling out the soldiers in the tent in front of them in a large-scale transfer. In addition, looking at the high point of the mountain pass behind, there were people who had moved the iron cannon upwards earlier, apparently to block the road when retreating. ”

"Zong Han, these people are indeed masterpieces in the world." Ning Yi exhaled and muttered.

Lin Jingwei, the chief engineer on the side, was also looking at the situation over there curiously, and said at this time: "It is indeed a veteran who has been in the world for thirty years, if I were in a different place, I am afraid that I would not believe in the existence of such a strange thing as rockets in an hour." ”

"Even if you believe it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to turn this corner in my heart." There is humanity on the side.

"Facing the reality is the basic quality of a famous general, no matter what, there is indeed a firearm on the battlefield of Wangyuan Bridge that can be as far as four or five hundred zhang, he must deal with this matter, otherwise, will he wait for the emperor to fall on his head and confirm it again?" Ning Yi took the binoculars and said while thinking, and then smiled: "But ah, you can praise him a few more words, and write it into the book in the future - it seems that we are more powerful." ”

Everyone laughed, and someone said: "If Zonghan is prepared, I'm afraid that our rockets will be difficult to achieve the effect of surprise soldiers, and now that the Jurchen camp is mobilizing, do you want to take this opportunity to quickly crash into the rocket and blow it up in their camp?" ”

He Zhicheng and the others looked at each other, most of them were thinking, and Ning Yi lowered his head and was obviously thinking about this matter. He just said that facing reality is the basic quality of a famous general, but in fact, Zong Han made decisions and faced reality quickly, he also had some admiration, if it was himself, if he was still the same person back then, when he experienced a head in the mall, could he admit the reality in such a short time - or when his son suffered bad luck? He wasn't sure.

And how useful can throwing these rockets at this time be?

Ning Yi's tongue licked his lips: "Fiction is real, reality is fiction, rockets are erected, in case they show the enemy weakness and then do a counterattack, bomb directly, don't use it for the time being." In addition to killing some people and scaring them, I am afraid it will be difficult to play a decisive role. ”

The people around him nodded.

"From today on, the invincible era of the Jurchens has completely passed."

Ning Yi said: "Wanyan Zonghan's mood must be very complicated now. I'll write a letter and throw it over, and his son will be in my hand to see if he's interested in talking to me. ”

The sun is setting, and as February approaches, everything is in full swing. Even old creatures will not stop rebelling against this world. The transmission and reincarnation of the world always proceed in this way.