The fighting on the front line has not yet spread, but as the rain continues, Zizhou City has already entered a semi-martial law state.

In the barracks near the city walls, soldiers were forbidden to go out and were on standby at any time. Patrols were tightened both inside the city walls and inside the city, and twice as many scouts were assigned tasks outside the city. For two months, this has been the norm in Zizhou City every time a rainy day comes.

Ox carts carrying supplies came from the southwest, and some of them were taken over and sent to the front line without entering the city. In the city, after Ning Yi and the others patrolled the city wall, a new meeting was also being held.

“…… On the front line, the stock of grenades is less than 20% of what it used to be. In terms of shells, Huangming County and Yushuixi have already sent more than a dozen requests for replenishment, and the humidity in the mountains in winter has a slightly greater impact on gunpowder than we expected. The Jurchens have also seen this situation clearly......"

“…… When they see it clearly, it will be easy for them to form a fixed state of mind, and according to the previous plan of the General Staff Headquarters, at this time, we can begin to consider the issue of taking the initiative to attack and seize the initiative. After all, blindly holding on, as many people as there are on the Jurchen side, there are as many people as there are people, and the casualties in Huangming County have exceeded 50,000, and they are still desperately rushing over, which means that they can accept 100% attrition...... But if they take the initiative to attack, they are sandwiched together, and at most 20% of the losses will be lost, and they will have to collapse! ”

“…… At the end of the year, we both know that it is the most critical moment, and the more we think about the New Year, the more we will make trouble for each other. Now that we are prepared for the year of peace, I think we can make a decision in these two days......"

In the small room, the meeting was held with the sound of lunch, and several high-level leaders such as Li Yi, Han Jing, and Ning Yi gathered here, holding the meal to plan the next strategy. Ning Yi looked at the map in front of him and thought for a moment.

"Theoretically, the Jurchen side will think that we will look at the Chinese New Year as a key node."

He paused, shaking his chopsticks.

"We will guess what the Jurchens think about things, and the Jurchens will do what we think because we guess what they think of us...... In short, everyone will cheer up to the embankment during this time. So, is it not to think about giving up everything from today to take the initiative and make them feel that we are preparing. And then...... Twenty-eighth, launch the first round of attack, take the initiative to break their tense nerves, and then, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, carry out a real all-out attack, I want to cut off the head of Huangming County......"

Everyone thought about it, and Han Jing said: "If you want them to relax on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the attack on the 28th day must be done beautifully." ”

"We still have to think about whether the Jurchens will want to go with us, after all, they have been leading the offensive for the past two months."

Such major strategic decisions are often not openly discussed before the initial intention is made, and a few people are holding small meetings and discussing on their own, while some people are running from outside, bringing with them the most urgent battlefield intelligence.

The herald sent the information in, Ning Yi wiped his mouth, tore it open and looked at it, then pressed it on the table and pushed it towards the others.

"Rain Creek, Qu Zhengyan's 'fire swallowing' action began. It seems that things are moving faster than we thought. ”

He picked up the bowl and began to pick up the rice, the news was simple, and the rest of the people began to speed up their meals after reading the information one by one. During this period, only Han Jing teased: "Pretend to be calm, everyone." ”

"Hold on, hold on." Ning Yi said with a smile.

Soon after, news from the battlefield came in turn.

At the end of October of the 11th year of Jianshuo, the war officially began in the southwest, and for two months now, the combat has been on the defensive by the Huaxia Army and the Jurchens leading the offensive.

However, with the passage of the war, the comparison of combat power between the armies of the two sides has gradually become clear, and with the continuation of high-intensity operations, the Jurchen side has gradually become exhausted in the maintenance of logistics roads, and the peripheral vigilance has become rigid in some links. So at noon on December 19, the scout troops of the Huaxia Army, who had been harassing the back road of Huangming County, suddenly turned their target to Yushuixi.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Tian led three hundred elites to attack sharply, cutting off the mountain road seven miles behind Yushui Creek, destroying the mountain wall with explosives, and wantonly destroying the key roads around. Almost at the same moment, on the battlefield of Yushuixi, more than 5,000 people under the command of Qu Zhengyan took the lead and launched a full-scale counterattack against more than 40,000 people in the Lili battalion.

As mentioned before, if the defensive position is always taken, the Jurchen side will always suffer 100% battle losses. However, if you choose to take the initiative to attack, according to the previous battlefield experience, the Han army that surrendered on the Jurchen side will be defeated in the case of a loss of one percent, and the Liaodong and Bohai people can stubbornly resist to more than two percent, and only some of the Jurchen, Liaodong, and Bohai elites can continue to fight after three percent of the casualties.

In this regard, the damage ratio that the Huaxia Army can accept is higher.

At this moment, Yushuixi has experienced two months of offensive, and some of the Han army troops that were originally arranged to continue to attack in the winter rain are already mechanically grinding foreign workers, and even some troops composed of Liaodong, Bohai, and Jurchen people are all tired in the cycle of attacking again and again and without results. The elite of the Huaxia Army, from the original complex terrain, counterattacked.

The resolute and ferocious attack under the command of Qu Zhengyan was the first target chosen by the Han army on the battlefield, and almost a moment after the engagement, these troops were defeated in a head-on blow.

This year, outside the city of Jiangning in late autumn, Zongfu drove a million troops to besiege the city, and was once beaten by Junwu into a tragic inverted bead curtain. Having learned the lessons of the eastern battlefield, Zong Han only increased the number of troops with relatively elite and firm surrenders, and in the past offensives, they played a certain role, but with the reversal of offensive and defensive momentum, they did not hold out on the battlefield for long.

Tens of thousands of clashing figures pushed away the rain in the mountains.

The news that the eagle's beak rock was trapped in Lili also spread quickly to Zizhou almost shortly after Qu Zhengyan launched an offensive.

In the room of the command post, the figure of the herald was running, and the atmosphere had become warm. There were war horses rushing out of the rain curtain, and thousands of reservists in Zizhou City were wearing robes, leaving Zizhou and rushing to Yushui Creek. Ning Yi slammed his fist on the table and left the room.

Li Yi rushed over from the rear: "What are you going to do at this time?" ”

"It's none of my business, the battle was lost, come and tell me. If you win, just celebrate, call me or not. ”

He sent Li Yi away, and then also sent away most of the accompanying security personnel around him, only called Hongti and said, "Let's go, let's go out on an adventure." ”

Hongti's gaze was slightly puzzled, but she didn't ask any questions after all. The two of them walked out of the command post in their robes and walked all the way in the direction of the city.

After passing the military martial law zone, first, there were not many residents left in Zizhou, and second, it was raining again, and only occasionally pedestrians were seen walking on the road. Ning Yi took the red hand, crossed the gray road, bypassed the secluded monument called Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, and stopped in front of a spacious courtyard.

"Li Weixuan's Annex." Ning Yi stood at the corner of the street and looked around sneakily, "Rich people, local tyrants, people ran away when we attacked Zizhou. I left two old people to take care of the home, and then the old man got sick and was also taken away, I thought about it before, I can go in and have a look. ”

Hongti was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "It's good if you just say no to someone." ”

"It's more fun than stealing." Ning Yi smiled, "The two of us, let's play the male and female thieves today." ”

After getting along with each other for more than ten years, Hongti naturally knew that he often had naughty and out-of-character behaviors, and he often ignored them in his early years, and the two were chased by wolves on Luliang Mountain late at night, and Ning Yi pulled her into the wilderness...... In the years after the rebellion, there were children around him, and Ning Yi was mostly steady, but occasionally organized some outings, picnics and other activities. Unexpectedly, at this time, he moved this strange mind again.

When the Huaxia army entered Zizhou, most of the local wealthy gentlemen had been empty, and some of the houses had been robbed. The small courtyard wall couldn't stop the couple with strong martial arts, Ning Yi climbed up the wall and walked directly on it, and then walked up to the roof and looked at the inner courtyard.

"If there are assassins around, they may be watching you somewhere." Redti looked around warily.

"That's what you said, keep a low profile."

Ning Yi was reminded by her, went down from the roof, from the inside of the courtyard, and walked forward while looking.

Under the hazy sky, the courtyard that has not been inhabited for a long time looks dim, old, quiet and desolate, but traces of previous habitation can still be seen in many places. This is a large courtyard group, several into the front yard, backyard, residence, garden, weeds have grown in the yard everywhere, some yards have accumulated water, into a small pool, in some courtyards, the things that have not been taken away seem to tell the scene before people leave, Ning Yi even found rouge gouache from the drawers of some rooms, curiously visited the world where the ladies lived.

Hongti followed Ning Yi all the way, and sometimes looked at the living space, some calligraphy and paintings hanging in the room, and the small objects left in the drawers of the study...... She walked the rivers and lakes in the past, and also secretly explored some people's homes, but at this time, these courtyards were empty, and the couple peeked at the clues before the owner left from a distance, and their moods were naturally different.

She also gradually understood Ning Yi's thoughts: "You lived in such a courtyard when you were in Jiangning. ”

"The pattern is almost the same, the Su family has money, first bought the old house, and later expanded and renovated, and the courtyard where they entered lived hundreds of people. I felt a little annoyed that I had to say hello to everyone I met, and I thought it would be better to leave and not stay there. ”

Ning Yi smiled, they stood on a walkway on the second floor, and they could see the deep and quiet courtyards nearby: "However, sometimes it's more interesting, after eating, the courtyards are lit up one by one, and it looks very fireworks at a glance." Now the smoke and fire are gone. At that time, there were some small things around me, Tan'er dealt with things, sometimes with a few girls, came back late, think about it like a child, it's not far from me knowing you, Xiaochan them, you also saw them at the time. ”

Hongti smiled and didn't speak, Ning Yi leaned against the wall: "After Junwu killed Jiangning, Jiangning was slaughtered. It's all big things now, but sometimes, I think it's more interesting to live the little things once in a while. If you look at it from here, there are courtyards where people live and where people don't live, and there are more or less their little things. ”

As he spoke, he sat down against the wall on the edge of the walkway, the rain still falling, soaking everything in front of him. In the past in memory, there will be smiling girls walking through Langyuan, and chattering children running around. In the distance at this time, there is a war going on.

Under the collapsed eagle's beak rock, knives and shields collided and fought in the muddy water, people collided together, and the smell of blood filled the air.

The light of the sword slashed through flesh, spears pierced people's intestines, some shouted, some screamed, some fell into the mud, some tore up the heads of their enemies and crashed them into hard rock.

The blood on Mao Yishan's body gushed out, and in the crazy fight, he raised his shield in the churning muddy water, smashed his knees, leaned forward, and swung a punch on his cheek, Mao Yishan's body shook, and the same punch was smashed out, and the two were entangled.

Nick Lili struggled frantically in the water, Mao Yishan slammed his fist and was kicked away by him. He stood up from the muddy water and was about to rush forward, Mao Yishan also rushed up in the muddy water, holding the shield he felt out of the water in his hand, and waved it out like a bow to the limit.

There was a terrifying whistling sound in the wind and rain, half of his face was torn out by the shield, two rows of teeth with the flesh and blood of the mouth were presented outside, his figure staggered a few steps, his eyes were still locked on Mao Yishan, Mao Yishan had been running from the muddy water for a moment, and the two big hands were like tigers clasping the hideous head of Lili.

Lili's arm reflexively resisted, and the two figures walked a few steps in the muddy water, Mao Yishan pressed Lili's tall body, smashed the back of his head on the bluestone, dragged it up, and smashed it down again, so three times in a row.

In the dim light and shadow, there were still hideous fighting figures everywhere, Mao Yishan took the knife handed by his comrade-in-arms and chopped off the head of the inside on the bluestone.