When the Seventh Army of Huaxia and Wanyan Zonghan lit a flame west of the Hanzhong Plain, the smoke of the Sword Pavilion had been burning violently for several days.

Qu Zhengyan did not complete the planned plan to capture the Sword Pavilion within three days as scheduled.

In the face of the speed of pulling out and leaving the place with an unusually firm consciousness, Qu Zhengyan, who did not have an advantage in terms of troops, did not have an advantage in terms of troops, and the progress of climbing the mountain was not fast - historically, it was already a unique record to be able to break through the Guancheng in front and slowly approach, and in the subsequent battles, the Huaxia Army as the attacker always maintained a certain advantage, and it was already a situation that was almost a miracle when measured by the current comparison of the strength of the Sword Pavilion and the comparison of firearms.

In the case that a decisive breakthrough has not yet been made in the miniaturization of iron artillery, it is difficult for the army led by Qu Zhengyan to drag out a large number of artillery pieces from the narrow southwest mountain road to attack the fortified position. Although the dozens of rockets brought out by the key points can have a certain advantage in long-distance attacks, the number of rockets that are too small cannot determine the trend of the entire battle situation.

The resolute resistance of the artillery was scattered all over the mountain, and once it was in decline, it ignited the powder keg and blew up the iron cannon.

In addition to the already few rockets "Dijiang", Qu Zhengyan's only advantage is that his troops are the elite of the elite, and once they enter the melee, they can suppress the opponent's troops. But even so, the Jin soldiers, who had realized that it would be difficult to return home and that surrendering would not end well, did not easily abandon their weapons and surrender.

Qu Zhengyan, who has always been good at walking tightropes and surprise soldiers, gave up his plan to carry out an overly risky surprise attack in this battle after seeing clearly the resistance posture of pulling out the speed. In front of a veteran of this level of pulling out speed, playing scheming is very likely to cause him to fall on the battlefield.

Combining these factors, the battle of the Sword Pavilion then became a tragic but relatively orderly battle, the Huaxia army always identified a point in the attack, and then pulled out a point, step by step towards the top of the mountain, once the pull out quickly organized a counteroffensive, this side also calmly organized defense, mutual dismantling. Although Qu Zhengyan did not take advantage of too many tactics of war, the sudden counterattacks organized by the pull-out speed, and even large-scale artillery bombardments, were calmly blocked and resolved by Qu Zhengyan one by one.

Many years later, this attack and defense under the command of thousands of men on both sides will appear again and again in the history of warfare. Both sides did their best in this fierce and frequent confrontation.

On the one hand, he faced all this with a broken attitude, always calmly faced the retreat step by step, and the soldiers were dying and the defense line was compressed; On the other hand, despite the fact that the combat strength of the two sides had reversed in front of him like Mount Tai, he still organized fierce resistance and set clever traps and ambush countermeasures at several key points.

Just like many Jurchen generals who followed Ah Gu to fight decades ago, although they also had fun when they were destroying Liao and destroying the martial arts, and when things were smooth sailing around them, in the face of the decline of the situation, they still showed the courage to rebel against this world as they did back then, calmly resist in the face of huge disadvantages, and try to tear a ray of life between this world and the world.

But this time, Qu Zhengyan calmly extinguished every ray of hope in him.

At the same time, what Qu Zhengyan and the Fifth Army of Huaxia within the Sword Pavilion were facing was actually an extremely anxious psychological condition.

The Seventh Army of Huaxia, which was outside the Sword Pavilion, had already reported back the state and intentions of Yan Zonghan, and the staff of the Seventh Army was ready to deal with it head-on. On the one hand, this was the last chance for the Seventh Army to confront Zonghan's troops head-on, and on the other hand, it was also to deal with the partial defeats caused by Dai Mengwei's rebellion in Xiangfan and other places - if this battle was not fought, including Qi Xinhan, including the resistance of the Han army, it would be very uncomfortable.

Ning Yi was able to understand the necessity of this, but on the other hand, although the combat strength of the Seventh Army had been estimated in the earlier martial arts contests and tactical demonstrations, the exercises and discussions were one situation, and it was another situation when it was really pulled to the rapidly changing battlefield. 20,000 to 90,000, one is not good to fall into the trap of the other party, and the possibility of the entire army being wiped out is also there, and it is not small.

With Qu Zhengyan's attack on the Sword Pavilion, the forces within the Fifth Army in the southwest have been moving bit by bit. Ning Yi was like a miser, and further transferred the already extremely tense force structure, on the one hand, he tried to organize as many militia as possible to come forward, and on the other hand, he pulled out more than 1,000 people from the already stretched strength, and prepared to march towards the Sword Pavilion.

The whole process was raced against time, and the transfer and new arrangements were completed within three days. In the middle, some unspeakable placements were once criticized in later generations, Ning Yi concentrated the reduction of troops on the guards of several prisoner camps, and at the same time targeted to strengthen the armed situation of nearby troops (and even strengthened the epidemic prevention force for a time), when the staff reported upwards, it was possible for the prisoners to seize the opportunity and mutiny. Ning Yi's answer was: "If there is a mutiny, then deal with the mutiny." ”

In the face of the tension and uncontrollability of the situation outside the Jianmen Pass, such a response showed that Ning Yi was ready to kill prisoners on a large scale to a certain extent, especially his actions of strengthening the epidemic prevention force and distributing epidemic prevention manuals near the several prisoner camps with reduced troops further confirmed this speculation. This was in response to the appearance of a large number of corpses in the humid mountains, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, who were aware of this movement, raised their tension by another level in the following days.

At the same time as the transfer of troops, it was Hou Wu and Hou Yuan, who were responsible for guarding the prisoners, who consciously revealed the entire ** framework to the "leader" figures among the prisoners. In particular, Ning Yi's understated order to "dispose of the mutiny" has been exaggerated by people in various ways.

The strength of the Huaxia army was indeed stretched, but the demon had already put down his mercy and was ready to take a more brutal response...... The news spread among some of the middle and high-ranking members of the Jurchen captives, and the atmosphere among the captives became more tense and sinister. Death or rebellion is the last ...... that some Jin captives face in their lives Your own choice.

On April 20, Qu Zhengyan did not capture the Sword Pavilion as scheduled, Ning Yi lost his temper for a while, and asked someone to send a message to the front line: "You ask him, do you want me to come by myself?" ”

The Battle of the Sword Pavilion ended on the afternoon of April 22, when the desperate Pullout allowed the rest of the Jin soldiers to surrender to the Huaxia Army, and then led eight guards to charge.

This was his last charge, and the nearby Huaxia Army soldiers launched a frontal battle against the enemy, and his personal guards were killed by the Huaxia Army one by one, and a Huaxia Army platoon commander named Wang Dai fought against each other. Both sides had been wounded in the previous battle, but Ba Lisu was eventually killed in a pool of blood by Wang Dai.

Ning Yi led more than 1,200 people to arrive at the Sword Pavilion in the afternoon of this day. The straight-line distance between the Sword Pavilion and Hanzhong is more than three hundred miles, considering that the road is winding, if you want to reach the battlefield, I am afraid that you will have to trek about five hundred miles, he ordered more than 1,200 fresh troops to set off first and attack Zhaohua as fast as possible: "Tell Yan Zonghan that I have killed me." ”

On the same night, he was also in the Sword Pavilion and received a preliminary battle report from the Hanzhong Plain, Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan were dumbfounded: "What are you kidding, how can you play micro-like this!" ”

Qu Zhengyan didn't quite understand the meaning of "micro exercises", but sighed: "The will of these Jurchens is very resolute. "The battle situation is facing a disadvantage, or the strong man breaks his wrist, or he is defeated, but Zong Han did not do this, and threw his troops out one by one, wanting to consume the Seventh Army of Huaxia. If such a will had been placed on the people of the Wu Dynasty back then, there would have been no second southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom.

“…… Zong Han didn't want to have a large-scale decisive battle, throwing his troops out like this, each army would only have some combat effectiveness in the first engagement, and once it was defeated, it could only be pinned on how resolute these Jurchens' will to go home was. I guess Zong Han may have set a medium-term goal, telling these people where to gather after being defeated, and then using middle-level generals to gather the rout, but the rout's combat power is limited...... I think he might feel like he has a lot of troops at first, but after a certain point, the whole shelf will collapse...... General Qin's side also saw this possibility, so he simply chose to respond to all changes without changing and slowly fight one ...... at a time."

Qu Zhengyan speculated on the map about the direction of the entire battle, and the distance was too far away, so this speculation may not be useful, but in general, the Seventh Army did not fall into the trap and collapsed directly, and on the whole, it was still able to fight calmly, which somewhat alleviated Ning Yi's anxiety.

"This group of losers ......" occasionally scolded like this, and his tone was much better.

In the early morning of the 23rd, before dawn, 1,200 Huaxia troops took advantage of the night to sneak attack and break the ancient city of Zhaohua, which was now guarded by the Han army.

After the Jurchens left, there were about 20,000 Han troops guarding the place, but the attack was almost not met with any resistance, they seemed to have expected the Chinese army to come, when the vanguard of the Chinese army quickly climbed the city wall with ropes, almost after much fighting, the Han guards in the city had already knelt under the black flag.

According to the subsequent interrogation, some of the leaders of the Han army had fled out of the city last night with the remaining gold and silver in the city.

The troops who captured the Sword Pavilion rested for a while, and Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan mobilized 800 new troops that still had combat power, and went north to Zhaohua to join the forward.

At noon on the same day, Fan Hongan, commander of the second battalion of the third regiment of the second division of the Seventh Army of China, led a team to deceive the southern gate of Hanzhong: from a macro point of view, at this time, the tens of thousands of troops led by Zong Han were being smashed by the hammer of the Huaxia army one by one.

In just a few days, the circulation system woven by Zong Han was partially operational, after all, there was a problem, Fan Hongan took advantage of this loophole, and after seizing the city gate, he began to build a position, and in the afternoon of the same day, Chen Hai led more than 700 people to rush towards this side - he was also fighting the idea of Hanzhong, but Fan Hongan took the first step.

After that, it was Gao Qingyi who led the team into the city from the West Gate, and Zong Han, Saba, Sheyema and others also moved towards this side. In the afternoon of the same day, Qin Shaoqian also rushed to Hanzhong, and the crowd was constantly gathering, street battles began in Hanzhong City, and preparations for positional battles began outside the city.

In the evening of this day, Wanyan Xiyin led a mighty fleet to appear on the Hanshui River east of Hanzhong, and the army he led was put into battle - this is the last Jurchen West Route Army can use more than 10,000 living forces, in the first time he learned of the beginning of the war here, he put down the plan to besiege Qi Xinhan near Xiangfan, and mobilized the fleet to move westward against the Han River, at this moment, his appearance brought great pressure to the Seventh Army on the battlefield of Hanzhong.

From last year to this year, the existence of Wanyan Xiyin is indeed the most troublesome thing for the Seventh Army. Despite the strength of the Seventh Army, Xi Yin's response has always been the most correct and difficult link. At the beginning, the remnants of the Seventh Army attacked Zhaohua and started a round of fighting with Tushanwei, but Xi Yin mobilized hundreds of thousands of Han army cannon fodder, so that the attack of the Seventh Army was in vain, and this year he manipulated the situation in Xiangfan, and made tens of thousands of Han troops sink into the sand after the anyway, and even Qi Xinhan risked a great danger of thousands of miles to march, and finally fell into the trap, and the resistance of the green forest near Xiangfan was swept away.

Facing such an enemy is the same as facing Ning Yi, although he has never been afraid in terms of combat effectiveness, no one knows when he will fall into a pit, and psychologically, in short, there will still be pressure.

But fortunately, another round of news has also arrived.

The Fifth Army of China broke through the Sword Pavilion, slashed and pulled out the speed, and then broke Zhaohua. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan are leading the team and rushing towards Hanzhong, once they are caught by this demon, the defeat of Wangyuan Bridge may be repeated on the bank of the Hanshui River.

On March 24, the Han army teams east and south of Hanshui, Xiangfan and other places could not judge from the intelligence which side of the Huaxia Seventh Army and the Zonghan Brigade had the upper hand, but the news of Ning Yi's killing of the Jianmen Pass had already spread to a range of thousands of miles.

At this time, Dai Mengwei and others had not yet completed the reception of a large number of Jurchen baggage and personnel south of Xiangfan, and his deeds of "saving" millions of Li people were only in the early stage of propaganda. On this day, the generals of the Han army, who gathered near Xicheng County and were serving Dai Mengwei shortly after, met and exchanged news in private.

"The heart demon slaughtered the Sword Pavilion...... Killed in the Han Dynasty ......"

When people talk about it, their faces and tones are pale and serious......