On November 3, Zongcheng camped.

The bloody document has arrived: Our guerrillas have completely lost their sharpness, and can no longer stop the frenzied rambling into Xining Prefecture to massacre, and if another massacre occurs, our rich Hehuang area will be completely destroyed. Your volunteer army has enough rest after crossing the Huangshui, so you must quickly support the western battlefield and delay the plan to enter Xining Prefecture. On the night of October 30th. The Great Song Dynasty Aizhou Festival envoy sighed, and the book respected the Privy Council Wang Chengzhi.

In this regard, Wang Yan could only sigh, and the whip was beyond his reach.

Whether there will be another bloody tragedy in Xining Prefecture is beyond Wang Yan's control. It can only be said that people are watching the sky, and there must be a price for doing things. Manba represents the actions of Western Xia in this region, and it will definitely be liquidated. Unless he can destroy the Great Song Dynasty together, the bill will not disappear, and the interest will roll over at any time!

Now even the politics of the two sides are intertwined. Fu Bi's proposal to retire was received by Wang Yan, but Wang Yan did not agree to the ending of shaking hands and making peace now, and Han Qi gave Wang Yan tacit support.

Default support is, after all, limited. Politically, peace can now be returned to the region, with both sides withdrawing from the battlefield. But if Wang Yan's de facto refusal to withdraw from the army leads to the real slaughter of Xining Prefecture by Manba, then this political bill will be counted on Wang Yan's "disappointment".

On the surface, Western Xia would benefit from the bloody Xining Prefecture. But it is only on the surface, because Zhuo Luolan's thinking is different from theirs, Zhuo Luolan should know that once Xining Prefecture is washed in blood, there will be no room for transformation between Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty, and Tubo, so Wang Yan will not be able to let the Western Xia expeditionary force leave this land.

So the conclusion is: the person who can stop the bloody baa of Xining Prefecture is none other than Zhuo Luolan. It's up to her to see if she dares to act.

In view of this, Wang Yan replied: I understand the difficulties and expectations of your ministry better than anyone else. But now that it is a war, there will definitely be bloodshed, and many things depend on the will of God, and some people in Xining Prefecture chose to stay at the beginning, and this is the result that they need to face. The deployment of our volunteers is based on winning the Battle of Hehuang as the highest strategic goal, not to save Xining Prefecture. It is recommended that your ministry do not be stubborn, and take this opportunity to quickly guide the people and guerrillas who can be guided to gather in Zongcheng. Now that winter is approaching, it is no longer suitable for guerrilla tactics, what is needed now is to huddle together to keep warm. All I can promise is that in Zongcheng, whether it is your clan guards or the people of Hehuang, you will be able to get food, clothing, and withstand the cold. As a responsible power, the Great Song Society will do its best to recover this blood debt for your department. On the night of November 3rd. Wang Yan, the supervisor of the Great Song Volunteer Army, is a general who respects the book......

"Newspaper—"

On November 6, the reinforcements of the Jishi Army had not arrived, and the second phase of the ship transportation in Funing County had not arrived, but the small soldiers who were scouting along the river hurriedly entered the camp headquarters and reported: "The report is known to the public, and the movement of the Southern Army Division is strange, it seems that they have abandoned the southern line area, and from this morning they began to repair the bridge from the north of Anlong, it seems that they want to cross the Huangshui, so it will directly threaten the camp of our Zongcheng." ”

It's finally here, does Zhuo Luolan really have the guts?

Wang Yan walked quickly to the map to watch, Zongcheng was not far from the water crossing site reported by the scouts, and theoretically the cavalry could radiate.

"Do you want to stop them from crossing the water?" Chen Ergou asked anxiously.

Wang Yan thought for a while and nodded: "We have to stop it, otherwise we will have to maneuver and fight sports warfare again." This is not a human thing to do in the winter. ”

And he said, "But have a plan, don't be fooled by the smoke of Zhuo Luolan." ”

"What's the explanation?" Mu Guiying asked.

Wang Yan pointed to the map and drew it with a horsewhip: "Now the entire Huangshui is basically controlled by her, but she chose to build the bridge in the area not far from Zongcheng, and we soon found out that this is definitely smoke, and it is the dark Chen Cang who repairs the bridge in the open and clear." In addition, her army of 25,000 could not rely on only one crossing, technically there would be many. So don't think about it, the location we found was only a small part of her death squad, and the real main ferry crossing was elsewhere. ”

"So, where is the main ferry?" Ma Jinsi asked stupidly.

Wang Yan slapped him on the back of the head and said, "If you ask me, I will ask who to go, do you really think that I can tell a hexagram." ”

Mu Guiying said: "In this way, it will be troublesome, now our troops are really limited, we can't attack from multiple sides, if we divide too few troops, even if we find a ferry and have the advantage of flintlock pistols, it will be difficult to resist their forced crossing." ”

Wang Yan slapped his palm on the table and said, "Fight!" Make every possible effort. If she succeeds in crossing the water, I will take pills. Passing on my order, the Funing army was divided into multiple divisions, and went south to bypass the known Zhuo Luolan crossing point and ignore it, continue to search, and if they find it, they will beat me to the death, and they cannot be allowed to cross the river. The other part searched eastward, and I suspected that there would also be a ferry port in the Minhe area, and if I found it, I would be beaten to the death. ”

"In that case, Zongcheng will be empty, and what about the nearby ferry that is known now?" Ma Jinsi said.

Wang Yan waved his hand and said: "If Zongcheng is empty, let it be empty, in short, if we can't resist her crossing the river, we won't be able to hold Zongcheng, and sooner or later we will have to give up Zongcheng's mobility." As for the known ferries, they must be smoke, but a small group of Western Xia troops are bluffing, and I will personally lead fifty peasants and block the river with fierce fire oil to teach them how to behave. ”

All the people are sweating, and the big demon king has a big brain, and he actually wants to lead fifty peasants to resist the forced crossing plan of the regular cavalry of the Western Xia army. It's too ...... What's that. But today, based on his prestige, which has reached its peak, no one will question it.

So all of them stood upright.

In short, the current situation is: with limited strength, how many days can Zhuo Luolan be blocked south of Huangshui? Everyone has no bottom in their hearts at this point, and there is no bottom at all when the Jishi Army will arrive. It's all a matter of luck.

However, there is one thing that everyone is not worried about, the worst-case scenario is to abandon the base and enter the maneuver again. With blind faith, the Great Demon King can still lead everyone out of the darkness in the toughest sports battles......

Outside the weakly defended Zongcheng Town, the battle line has entered a situation of war and chaos, and ordinary people can no longer walk close to the river.

Because the vigorous battle to defend Huangshui has been going on for seven hours.

From night to noon, the flames of war flew along the Huangshui line. The Zhuo Luolan Corps obviously violated Manba's order, and attacked everywhere on the whole front, with the purpose of forcibly crossing the Huangshui. They simultaneously launched a forcible crossing plan in the multi-line areas of Minhe, Tonghuang, Ledu, Suiyuan, and even Baosai.

The strength of the Funing Army is weak, and the loopholes along the entire Huangshui line are too large, and they can't be blocked even if they want to.

In addition to the five known ferry areas, Wang Yan believes that Zhuo Luolan not only has these ferry ports, but she will even extend the battle line to Qingtang and Ningxi. There is a main force in those positions, and it is impossible for Wang Yan's department to stop it.

In other words, the extremely smart Zhuo Luolan is copying the original "Hundred Regiments Breakthrough" tactic, and the price for her in this process will be more painful, but it is like a fish crossing the river, and in the end, her main force will be preserved for the northern front and Wang Yan's department.

Unless she was beheaded by Manba for "violating military orders" due to internal contradictions, the Zongcheng base was no longer safe for the visible time, and sooner or later it would be eaten by her heavy troops.

Fortunately, in order to prevent Wang Yan from crossing the Huangshui, the entire river bridge was destroyed by Zhuo Luolan, and now the temperature is very cold, in this case, the Southern Military Division has to meet the water to build a bridge, and also face the flintlock sniper of the volunteer army with a long range on the other side of the river, so even if the number of Zhuo Luolan ferry passages is very large, the progress is limited for the time being.

The arduous battle to defend Huangshui lasted until the early morning of November 8, and seeing that the weak Funing Army could no longer effectively prevent Zhuo Luolan's main force from crossing Huangshui under the condition of dividing its troops, Wang Yan temporarily adjusted his tactics and contracted.

In the Zongcheng camp of the Volunteer Army, Wang Yan didn't even wear armor, because the weather was already very cold, and the metal armor was a "radiator" on his body.

After pacing with his hands behind his back, Wang Yan pointed to several areas of the military map: "In the visible area, Zhuo Luolan's troops attacked and repaired ferries in many areas such as Minhe, Tonghuang, Ledu, and Suiyuan. I once took 50 peasants to the Tonghuang ferry and stopped them with fierce fire oil. However, the effect was too poor, because the flow rate of the water was too rapid, and it was difficult for our army to form an effective defensive line. ”

"As a last resort, there are 2,000 people left in my Funing army, and now they are divided into four parts, relying on the range of flintlock pistols to block them. But the efficiency is too low, and it can be seen that Zhuo Luolan is really here this time, regardless of the cost, so in the future, I think that the main force of Zhuo Luolan's department has crossed the Huangshui and has become an irreversible fact. ”

At this point, everyone took a deep breath of cold air, there was no doubt that Zhuo Luolan's troops would definitely attack the Zongcheng base after crossing the Huangshui.

Wang Yan looked around and said: "You can't be stubborn in war, sometimes you can win, but sometimes you can't win. Since I don't take the will of our army as a diversion, my rule is not to get entangled, let go, and turn to do what we can. ”

Everyone looked at each other.

"So what can we do?" At this point, Wang Yan pointed to two places on the map again: "There are too many ferries to be sealed, so I might as well go back to my earliest thoughts, it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers." Since it can't be sealed, it can't be sealed. We really can't control the farther Ledu and Suiyuan areas, so we will focus on the Minhe and Tonghuang ferries, which pose the greatest threat to our army. ”

"How?" After a pause, Wang Yan's words were astonishing: "Withdraw the scattered troops and concentrate on the two areas of Tonghuang and Minhe to ambush." On the surface, we still made the situation that our army was not strong enough to hold the two crossings, and deliberately let some Western Xia soldiers cross the river, and then burned the bridge with fierce fire oil to slow down their crossing of the river. ”

After a pause, Wang Yan said again: "This is indeed a harm to the Western Xia army, but it is still effective and cannot reverse the passivity of the Huangshui North Region. But it was better to do it than not to do it when there was no way, which weakened their morale and strength. As long as we can eat the two water-crossing forces of Tonghuang and Minhe, Zhuo Luolan's water-crossing troops will be concentrated to the west of Huangzhou City. Then even if there is no interference, her main force will be regrouped, and there will be a process to suppress my Zongcheng base in the east. At the same time, her main force must cross the Huangshui and Ruhe forks again. ”

Wang Yan pointed to the map: "What happened to this Huangshui fork?" At the earliest, Dong Yu's department, which was very happy, took the initiative to attack here, and was seriously injured by Zhuo Luolan's musket regiment at the Huangshui fork. Therefore, as long as our army shrinks its strength and wins at Minhe and Tonghuang, theoretically there will be a time lag to repeat the Huangshui fork again, and copy and post the tactics of Zhuo Luolan against Dong Yu. ”

"If she doesn't want to fight the Battle of Huangshui Fork, she must bypass the long tributary Ruhe, then she will have to walk for at least four more days, detour from the Nanzong area, and re-encircle our army. With this time, our tactical respite will be even greater. ”

Hearing this, Mu Guiying took a deep breath, feeling that the Great Demon King had a lot of brains and courage, but it was also a feasible strategy.

However, Mu Guiying also pointed to the map and said: "What needs to be reminded is that if our army does not pull away immediately now, stay and force Tonghuang and Minhe, even if it can be completely annihilated." There is a high probability that Zhuo Luolan will not fight our army at the Huangshui fork, and she will really make a detour to the Nanzong region. So as soon as her main force marched fast, and after effectively using the time difference to march to the Nanzong area, it was equivalent to our army entering the pocket, at that time, there were her heavy troops in the north, and the west and the south were in the east, and our army was facing the encirclement of the natural river loop, and it was probably impossible to break through in this situation? ”

Wang Yan nodded and said: "There is this possibility as you said, so this is a competition between efficiency and speed." If the marching speed of Zhuo Luolan's main force is greater than the speed of our annihilation of Tonghuangmin and the two forcible crossing corps, then our army will indeed be in an embattled situation. ”

After looking around at this, Wang Yan said again: "Is there any cure?" If you want me to see that there is, there is. The premise is that we must win the two corps of Tonghuang and Minhe Qiangdu, and if we can wait for the reinforcements of the Jishi Army to arrive during this period, then we will defend Zongcheng and drag down the Zhuo Luolan Department in the bitter winter. If you can't wait for the Jishi Army, then our army will cross the Huangshui again, and pull the team away from afar, and we will return to the South District when she comes to the North District, and I am riveted with this girl. She's simply ghostly. ”

At this point, no one said any more, and all of them stood up and said: "Swear to follow Xianggong in Tonghuang and the two places, and try to annihilate the Nantong Mi and the Tile Spur Corps!" ”

……