The chaos continued, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

On the afternoon of June 18, in Yanzhou City, the smoke column was rising.

At this time, it was still the height of summer, the bright sun was shining, the shade of the trees was clearly shaking on the road in the city, and the sound of cicadas chirping, the unconcealable shouts of killing spread among the city. The people closed their doors and waited for the development of things at home, and some of them were originally bloody, carrying knives and sticks, and calling three or five neighbors to come out and kill the Tangut people.

Yanzhou has been ruled by the Western army for many years, and when the people are still bloody and powerless, people have to hide in humiliation, but when an army enters the city, they follow behind and have the courage to vent their anger.

There was also a gray-haired old woman, who opened the courtyard door, carried a bucket of well water, took a few dates, and waited tremblingly for the soldiers who came in to eat and drink. The mouth is asking: "Is it the heavenly soldier who has arrived?" Is it a kind of husband who is back? ”

The soldier pointed to the black flag in the rear: "I'm waiting for Xiaocanghe, Huaxia Army!" ”

The old woman may not understand well, but her eyes have already cried: "My child, he is dead, and they have killed him......" When the Tangut people came, the army slaughtered the city, and then ruled for half a year, and only widows and lonely people were left in the city, not only one or two households.

The squad of soldiers was stunned, and then swept forward, supporting the street fighting.

A procession ran through the streets, stopping at the small square at the end of the street, some gasping and sitting down on the corners of the roadside. This is the second battalion and second company of the second regiment of the Huaxia Army, Mao Yishan is in it, he has been killed and sweated all over, and he washed his body with river water at noon, and now he is half bloodstained with blood, and his hands are tied to the handle of the steel knife. At this time, they were all slightly trembling.

Platoon commander Hou Wu is better than him. Not far away is Qu Qing, who is covering his upper body and acting with them. His skin was dark and solid, his muscles were knotted, and he was still bandaged from his left shoulder to his right ribs, which was already stained with blood and dust. There he was. He opened his mouth slightly, tried to even out his breathing, still holding a knife in his right hand, and reached out with his left hand, snatched the wooden scoop from the bucket brought by a soldier, took a sip, and poured it on his head.

"Haha...... It's cool—"

Everyone knows that he has led soldiers in the past, and his personality is calm and introverted, and he will not be easily publicized. But at this time, the man's right hand trembled slightly. When he shouted this, although he was already in great fatigue, he was heartfelt and excited.

In the rear, some people also shouted violently: "That's right! ”

"That's how it should be! That's how it should be—"

"Enjoyable!"

In the middle of the words, there was a slight tremor. It was a mixture of great excitement, flamboyance, and tiredness.

In front of the vision, more people killed from a distance, and their morale was high. Hungry after.

From yesterday's time out of the mountain, the entire offensive speed of the Black Flag Army. It was so fast, so fast that even the soldiers in the army themselves were surprised and shocked. Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that it is as fast as the wind, aggression as fire, and movement as thunder. However, since yesterday. The Black Flag Army pounced from the mountains, and the entire strategic level was really like a knife splitting out, sacrificing their lives and forgetting death, and they were unstoppable.

No matter how big or small the battle, it will collapse when you touch it!

In the hearts of many soldiers. This battle has never been too simple. In the past year, they have felt the pressure of empathy, and gradually recognized the people around them, so that they did not hesitate when they went out of the mountain, but Xixia was not a soft persimmon, when it was impossible to think, more than 9,000 people killed together, and gave each other a ruthless blow, but for themselves, such an action would inevitably die for a lifetime. However, when he came out with such a will to die, he defeated tens of thousands of troops all the way in two days, and entered Yanzhou City without stopping, and even many people in the army felt that we were all miscellaneous soldiers from Western Xia.

Only a person like Qu Qing can understand what kind of military soul this is. He once commanded the army of the Wu Dynasty, and was wiped out under the pursuit of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, and later in Xia Village, watching this army defeat the resentful army nine to the death, and then to the rebellion, a year of suppression and tempering in the Xiaocang River gave them something too powerful.

No amount of rigorous training can increase a person's physical strength by two or three times, however, when thousands of people hedge like a tide of rage, the moment they meet the enemy, determines how powerful an army is. The Tanguts were not weak, they formed formations according to training, and when they met the enemy, they swung their blades and stabbed the tips of their spears according to their training. And the biggest thought of these people around him is to slash the enemy in front of them with one sword, not only to cut over, but also to try to push the barrier in front of them and knock them open.

Many people believe that the moment they hedge against the enemy, the soldiers are entangled in tens of millions, and whether they can kill the enemy and survive can only depend on training and luck, and for most armies, this is true. But in fact, when the training reaches a certain level, the soldier's desire to fight, his fanaticism, and the sobriety that coexists with it can still determine the situation of the moment of confrontation.

When there are eight people on one side and only two on the other side of the confrontation, the difference in that moment is enough to cause the sky to fall apart. In such a battle, the outcome is only determined by the killing of the first two or three platoons of the military formation, and when these two or three platoons collapse too quickly, the rear ones will be directly pushed away, and they will be dragged into a mountain of rout.

Of course, how difficult it is to create such a soldier, but after a year of Xiaocanghe, at least at this moment, Qu Qing knows that there is such a group of soldiers gathered around him.

His arms trembled slightly, and the blood in his chest was still surging. With such a group of companions around, what would happen if he met a resentful army a few years ago, and what would happen if he met a Jurchen, it may just be an imagination with a slight emotion. But what will happen next, there will be basically not too much confusion.

"Whose knife is there that has not been stained with blood?"

"Nope!"

"That'...... The battle is not over, have you killed enough!?

"No—"

After a little rest, everyone got up, and the momentum was like a rainbow!

With a bang, the door was pushed open, and the one-eyed general wearing a black blindfold and a black cloak did not stop, moving all the way, surrounded by a team of arch guards. On the way forward, between the courtyards, the banners of the Western Xia people were dumped, and the corpses were scattered. Huge balloons flew overhead.

In a courtyard further ahead, there were a number of large carts, and this was obviously the area where the previous battle was fierce, and a large cart was still burning. The soldiers of the Huaxia Army were carrying buckets and were dousing the flames, and many people gathered here, more or less bloody, surrounded by rows of warehouses. Chen Huozi took a wet towel to wipe the blood on his face and walked over to this side. Sweat and the blood of more enemies had already mixed up on him, congealing into a foul smell.

This smell may be truly terrifying to the enemy.

"General, Ji Shai Cele was caught off guard, and he has not yet arranged for people to burn grain on a large scale, and most of them are now newly harvested wheat, as well as the previous military rations of the Tangut people."

The door of the warehouse opened, and piles of cloth bags were displayed in front of you, piled up like a hill. Qin Shaoqian glanced at it: "What about the other grain depots?" ”

"It's all taken."

The biggest problem Xiaocanghe faces is the lack of food. Chen Huozi and others have been in ambush in Yanzhou City for a long time, and the location of several grain depots has already been clearly explored. After breaking through the North Gate, the first task of several elite troops was to raid these grain depots. The Tangut people always felt that they had the upper hand, and how could they ever think of burning grain.

"The battle in the city must end quickly, but there will be no shortage of Western Xia soldiers remaining in Yanzhou, and we will not have time to stay and clean up. You've been here for months. You've got in touch with the locals, right? ”

The war in the city has not stopped, Qin Shaoqian took a look. While asking, he walked out, Chen Huozi was born in the underworld, his small eyes blinked, gloomy and bloodthirsty: "There are some local gangs who are willing to make a move, and there are also conditions." Hey hey ......"

"Regardless of the conditions, your manpower will be left, and the other five regiments will leave another two hundred people for you, collect the wounded along the way in Yanzhou City, and be optimistic about these grain depots. The army will take five days' rations. Everything else will be left to come back to. ”

Chen Huozi blinked: "Is the army going to move on?" General, I am willing to follow and kill the enemy, Yanzhou has been pacified, and it is really boring to stay. ”

The two of them had already walked out all the way at this time, Qin Shaoqian turned around and patted him on the shoulder: "I want someone who can hold down here, you have been with Brother Ning for so long, and you have been in Yanzhou City for several months, which is the most reassuring." I waited to fight fast and slow, and Yanzhou took advantage of the surprise, but only Yanzhou, it is meaningless, and the next thing is the real ruin, if there is a problem, you are in the rear, and it is easy to respond. ”

It's a simple statement, but it's heavy. Chen Huozi nodded and bowed his hand, Qin Shaoqian turned over and got on the horse, and also bowed: "Brother Chen, take care." ”

"General, take care. Take care, everyone. ”

In the city of Yanzhou, blood flowed, battle scars poured out, a large number of Western Xia soldiers had retreated from the west and southwest of Yanzhou at this time, and the soldiers of the Black Flag Army who were chasing and killing also continued to come out from the rear, and among the mountains in the northwest outside the city, a whirlpool of fighting continued, and the Shuai Qi of Spicy Sail had fallen, but several teams chasing him were like mad tigers, from the time they entered the city, these teams went straight into his own formation, and at this time, they were still tightly holding on.

Because the psychological expectations at the time of sending troops were too high, at this time, inside and outside Yanzhou, there were many soldiers of the Black Flag Army who felt that they had not killed enough, especially for these generals of the army, and for a certain part of the young soldiers in Xiaocanghe, there was a huge temptation, this is because Xiaocanghe's current spiritual leader killed an emperor.

A small number of guards and a large number of routs surrounded him, and the Western Xia general stood on the ground with his spear in his arms, his chest full of suppressed tightness and pain. This army from the mountains was an army he had never seen before. Even in front of him, he was still a little confused, in just two days, the world was turned upside down, tens of thousands of troops collapsed, and the other party was like a wolf and tiger. From an objective point of view, he can know the reason why he failed, but ...... Still incomprehensible.

It was purely too disparity in combat power, and at the moment of the confrontation, the intensity of the battle that suddenly erupted from the other side was far beyond the capacity of ordinary troops. There is no problem with his own command, there is no problem with his strategy, there is no problem with the plan for defending the city that was set before, but there is no plan, and it is prepared to deal with so many things beyond common sense.

It's like the comparison of the combat power of the Jurchen soldiers and the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty. When the generals of the Wu Dynasty accepted the fact that the Jurchens were powerful and fought against the Jurchen army, they could still have dealings. If from the beginning, everyone put each other on the same level to measure, then only one hedge is needed, and no matter how many troops the Wu Dynasty has, it will only be defeated.

In the northwest of the land, the Western Xia army already has the advantage, even in the face of the Zhejia army, it is not a bad choice to hedge against each other. Who would have expected such an unreasonable team to suddenly pop out of the mountains?

A great chaos swept in, and faintly, the sun on the horizon was already orange-yellow. The shouts of killing are getting closer and closer. In the last few visions, he saw a young general not far away, who was covered in red, killing a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and shouting: "My-" Slightly tilted his head, someone was holding a steel knife, and his head was chopped down-

Yanzhou. The Gansu Military Division of Ganzhou in Western Xia, led by Ji Raselle, held out on the land in the northwest for only two days, and on the afternoon of June 18, the city of Yanzhou was broken, and the Western Xia army was routed and scattered like a sea tide. And after the sudden rush from the mountain, this sudden army was like a crazy move, and only the first half of the step was completed by this time.

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Boom-boom-boom-boom

Lightning swept through the gloomy curtain of rain, and thunder was heard in the midst of the heavy rain.

June 20, Xiaocang River Valley. It was shrouded in a torrential rain.

In the small courtyard halfway up the mountain, oil lamps were lit in the house, and in the courtyard, there were still people running back, chickens and dogs jumping. When Yunzhu sat by the door with her daughter in her arms and watched the rain, she could still hear a voice coming from next door.

“…… If you want to change the clichés of the world, it sounds good and makes the people know about it. It's just nice to say. If you can do it, do you think that no one has tried it all these years? What will it look like...... Your Xiaocanghe's army is good, you can return the bloody nature to them, and be brave for a while, but how can you control it in the future. If you can fight for yourself, is it called sensible? What do you think you don't want to be ......reasonable?"

“…… Moreover, reasoning is not something that can be solved by reading. You said it too. My left family has no descendants, which family is good? Could it be that they are just doted on by their elders!? Who can't study among the descendants of the Zuo family? Isn't my Zuo family's style strict? Those who don't understand the truth and are self-righteous have nine times out of ten. This is because my left family is a family heirloom. Zuo dares to assert that even if you really make everyone in the world have books to read. Those who can understand the world will not be eleven! ”

“…… Confucianism is a circle! Although this circle is difficult to change, it may not be able to expand slowly, it just can't reach the sky in one step! Are you anti-Confucian? How much is this in between? You want people to be sensible, what book do you take to read to them? You Huangkou Kid wrote it yourself!? They don't want to read the Analects, they want to read the words of the sages. After reading it, won't you let them believe it? The old man took a step back and said, even if one day, there is really a knowledge in the world that can make people understand and reason, but it is different from Confucianism, and it becomes a void between Confucianism and non-Confucianism, what do you use to fill it? If you can't fill it up, you're just talking nonsense—"

After the scuffle in the valley the day before yesterday, Li Pin left, but Zuo Duanyou stayed. At this time, in the midst of the thunderstorm, the old man's words were deafening, and Ning Yi couldn't help but nod and frown when he heard it......

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In the hinterland of Yuanzhou, in the military camp of the Western Xia army, Lou Shuwan walked out of the camp tent and saw the abnormal movement in the barracks, and some party and aristocratic officers hurried over, still talking about something. When asking the entourage around him who understood Xixia dialect, the other party frowned: "It seems to be ...... Their Emperor His Majesty, wounded......"

Lou Shuwan was shocked, she frowned, then sped up two steps, rushed over and grabbed a young officer who was already familiar: "What's wrong?" You guys...... Your Majesty was assassinated? ”

"No, Your Majesty knocked over his table and got some minor injuries on his hands." The officer looked around, "There is a battle report from Yanzhou. ”

"Yanzhou?"

"The officer was about to elaborate...... when he suddenly remembered the woman's origin and some of the things she had said," ...... As you said earlier, the bandits in the mountains have moved. ”

“…… Ning Yi? Lou Shuwan was even stunned for a moment before she said the name, and then her eyes widened, "Those people in Xiaocanghe?" ”

"Four days ago, they came out of the mountains on the east side of Yanzhou, a total of 10,000 people, and went straight to Yanzhou, and they couldn't stop them."

“…… They bypassed Yanzhou? Where to go? ”

"Storm Yanzhou, break the city in half a day......" Lou Shuwan's stunned gaze, the officer said a message like a myth, the wind blew over the barracks, and the sky and the earth looked desolate. Lou Shuwan was stunned at first, and then groaned, she wanted to say, "I expected him to make a move", she did have this kind of expectation in her heart, but she didn't expect it to be such an action, and the other party never sat still.

But what really shocked her to the extreme, for a moment, as if the air of the whole world was disappearing, the unreal information came from the next casual question.

……

She asked, "What about after the capture of Yanzhou?" They ......"

The other party answered his question. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's almost overturned and rewritten, and the two are more likely to be unrealistic. I will post the scrap manuscript of 675 in the book review area later, if you are interested, you can take a look.