Chapter 946: Armageddon (10)

At that time, after the decisive battle near Tuanshan began, on the position south of the ancient city of Hanzhong, the Huaxia Army had already repelled two rounds of attacks launched by the command of Wanyan Xiyin. Black gunpowder smoke drifted in the wind, and the heat wave of the explosion scorched the air and dirt on the battlefield dry, and the corpses of people and horses piled up on the battlefield one by one.

Wanyan Xiyin had already sensed that something was wrong.

On the distance of more than ten miles from Tuanshan to Hanzhong, all kinds of small-scale chaos and fighting are unfolding one after another, the scouts who set out from Zonghan's main formation to Hanzhong were intercepted and killed on the way, near the west gate of Hanzhong City, two companies of the Huaxia Army once again launched a sneak attack on the city gate, which caused a wave of chaos in the morning not long ago, and also made it impossible for the messengers from the west to enter the city easily.

But at this moment, on the hot air balloon rising from the city wall, the war and chaos more than ten miles away can be vaguely observed.

At three o'clock, Wanyan Yuchi came out of Hanzhong City, arrived at the Jurchen military camp in the southeast, and reported the message to Wanyan Xiyin in the west, when the battlefield was in an interval between a wave of charges. Then the old man closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"We set the decisive battle site here, and the other party has set the decisive battle site at Tuanshan ......," he muttered, and then opened his eyes and looked ahead, "You mobilize three thousand battleable soldiers in the city, go out of the city to the west, support the commander, and tell the defenders in the city, Hanzhong, to retreat and give up half." ”

Wan Yan Yuchi was stunned, and then, bowed down to receive the order, and turned his head away.

The old man put his hand on the long sword at his waist, and he had fully understood at this moment that since the morning, the two rounds of fierce attacks he launched, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army on the opposite position, were all pushed back with insufficient troops.

On such a battlefield, it is not surprising that the opponent repels several waves of attacks with a small number of troops when he is stubbornly resisting, but what really knocks him in Xi Yin's mind is the continuous attacks launched by the Huaxia Army from last night to this morning, and it is their behavior of leaving only a few troops here while retaining their sanity.

The Seventh Army of China, even if the entire army went to the west to attack Tuanshan, it would only be more than 10,000 people.

Something was pounding at him in his head.

This was a clue that had been noticed for many years, and it was something that had begun to sprout when he first set his sights on the Xiaocang River in the northwest years ago. The rebellious army of the Wu Dynasty, killed the monarch and rebelled, and then defeated the Tangut people on Dong Zhiyuan, he vaguely sensed that this was a potential threat, a budding bad seed, although this seed was too small under the huge size of the Jin State, but he still sent people over, surrendered the other party, and later eliminated it.

Xiao Canghe's tenacity was beyond his expectations. Although he had never been to the northwest in person, he then collected information from there one after another, and in the combat experience he had accumulated in his life, many things that Xiao Canghe had shown made him puzzled.

That army should have collapsed a long time ago.

The Jurchens are also a team that has been killed from extreme adversity, but even if they are replaced by the team led by Aguta, Xiao Canghe is confusing, not to mention that the two armies have completely different appearances.

Since the end of the three-year war of Xiaocanghe, the sacrifice of Lou Room and Ci Bu has awakened Zong Han and many others, and they have taken the southwest as the focus of attention together with Xi Yin, so there is this southern expedition. At this time, they are all veterans of a hundred battles, some may only accumulate experience on the battlefield, and some are familiar with history books and study the art of war. However, the appearance of the Southwest Huaxia Army does not exist in any historical book or record of the art of war.

The experience of the fiasco in the southwest, each time it broadened their cognition, to the point that the decisive battle with the Seventh Army of China was launched, and he could vaguely feel that the complete state of something had been revealed in front of him.

Over the years, this feeling had beaten him more and more heavily in his mind, reminding him that he and Zong Han were facing a situation that was different from anything else in the past—from the first time they knocked on the door of the Wu Dynasty, the Wu Dynasty may have faced a similar surprise in their hearts, but the warlike northerners have been recorded in many history books. Only this time, what he and Zong Han faced was probably something that had never been seen in the history books.

Such a subconscious, the appearance of disobedience is "knocking" on his head. The other side should have collapsed a long time ago, but no, the other side should not have fought like this, but the situation had arisen, and he could not predict the consequences of his battle.

But apart from the decisive battle, it is no longer conceivable.

He's old.

People always learn when they are young, experience when they are young, and when they reach middle age, the wise man has roughly seen everything in the world, even if he has not experienced it, most of them can draw inferences from one another, just like the study of things that arose in the hands of Nan Ningyi in Xining, even though many new things are emerging, but the basic principles, he always understands, that is not something that cannot be understood.

But at this moment, the dark silhouette seemed to have risen from the bottom of the sea.

Knock Knock Knock –

He could faintly hear it.

But he has no more options than a decisive battle.

If he can break through the Huaxia Army's position at the south gate of Hanzhong as soon as possible, he will be able to make a decisive intervention in the battle situation in Tuanshan.

Let Wanyan Yuchi lead the elite soldiers in Hanzhong City to leave, in order to give the Black Flag Army outside the South Gate a way to retreat, they are not many in number, when the position here can not be supported, they kill into Hanzhong City, Xi Yin can go straight to Tuanshan.

What he can do in the art of war and in terms of strategy, he has already done.

Soon after, outside the south gate of Hanzhong City, another wave of attacks began, and the most violent charges came in torrential formations, shells flying, and smoke obscured the day.

Chen Hai greeted him.

Knock Knock Knock –

The outline of the new era is knocking on the door of people's minds.

After Yan Xiyin, he attacked hard.

……

Tuanshan, Wanyan Zonghan in the battle formation also saw clearly what the Seventh Army of China looked like when it really launched an attack.

The huge attack was like mercury pouring down, peeling away the perimeter of the Jurchen army, the fighting spread, and a large number of Jin soldiers fled all over the mountains - Zong Han observed all this silently, although he had guessed many things before, but it was really the first time he had witnessed such a large-scale straggler charge.

In the face of the charge of the Huaxia army, fighting in formation has completely lost its effect. In the face of dozens of people rushing towards the battle formation of thousands of people, the power of the arrows was minimized, and when the other party rushed closer, their own side could only organize a team to charge - if they wanted to stand in place with leisure, dozens of people on the opposite side threw fire and thunder and turned around and ran, and their side would lose a large area.

You can only charge and attack.

However, if the 100-man array charges to meet the attack, after a battle, this team may lose its command, and the soldiers who are not coerced by the military formation will try to find a place to hide or choose to flee after the formation collapses, and the soldiers who do not want to flee will often gather together, so that they will become the target of fire and thunder, and they are often unable to cope with the counterattack of the Huaxia army. This kind of Jurchen troops, which have lost their formation, cannot even retreat, and a retreat without a formation will be rolled into a large-scale rout.

This Huaxia army will not have such a situation, this is the most basic gap. In the early stage of the battle, one by one of the 100-man teams of their own side were thrown out, some of them were killed head-on in the face of only more than 20 people, and some of them encountered attacks from both sides when they met the rushing Chinese army, and the 100-man team quickly collapsed.

The Jurchens were not unprepared for stragglers, and they had already encountered a similar situation in the southwest. But at this time, in the face of the rapid and efficient small-scale charge of the Huaxia Army, his side was already several levels behind.

Dozens or even hundreds of points of charge converged into a mighty tide, but Zong Han could see that the other party was only dispatching thousands of troops. On your side, you can throw several times the opponent's forces, but the response at each point is not as flexible as the opponent's.

Of course, he did not sit still, and at the second moment, as the battle situation on the periphery had begun to become chaotic, Gao Qingyi led two thousand iron cavalry to rush out from the north, trying to sweep the entire battlefield, while the Huaxia army had a thousand-man reserve from the north, northeast, and southwest surging towards the Jurchen main formation.

Gao Qingyi's 2,000 cavalry caused a serious containment and blow to the attack of the Huaxia army, although a large number of nearby Huaxia army troops quickly assembled, with fire and thunder, spears to make a counterattack, but there were still several troops overwhelmed by this cavalry, the exchange ratio on the battlefield was close to one for one.

In the past, this was a ridiculous number, if it was on the battlefield facing the Wu Dynasty or even the Liao, the Jurchen 2,000 iron cavalry could often decide the outcome of a war, often in the face of large-scale infantry formations, they would choose to avoid, but as long as the infantry formation was chaotic, their impact was enough to kill tens of thousands of soldiers. But at this moment, in the face of the scattered Huaxia Army, the one-for-one exchange ratio turned out to be the only killer feature.

At noon, the onslaught of the cavalry was contained, Gao Qingyi led the team back, and part of the Huaxia army tore apart the outer Jurchen troops layer by layer like peeling an onion, approaching the core of the 8,000 people of the Jin soldiers' main formation, and the fighting became more intense, and some of the Huaxia army troops temporarily stopped, or began to support their companions on the flank.

On the right side of the field of vision, the Huaxia army fought for an artillery position of the Jurchens on the hills, and a team of pro-soldiers was ordered to go to support, in front of the field of vision, the black flags were gradually converging into a surging river, and in the mountains on the left, the figures of the defeated soldiers were rushing to the mountains one by one. Zong Han stood under his handsome flag, standing still, and only occasionally talked to Han Qi on the side.

"Dozens of people can form a formation, disperse and respond...... How they did it......"

"I heard that they even made every soldier read and write......"

"The art of war battle array, so far most of it is useless......"

Since thousands of years ago, various military techniques have been born because of the various characteristics of the army. It is difficult to coordinate the movement of tens of millions of people on the battlefield, so it is necessary to plan the pace with the beat of the drum; When countless warriors set up in formation, one squeezing the other, even if some people were timid and wanted to escape, they could not move at all; A few people who can take an order and then carry it out as best they can become officers, and many more soldiers are just carried away by a large army, and if thousands of people can move in one direction without confusion, it is often the key to the art of war.

Thousands of you move clumsily, but my movements are a little smoother, and they can go around your side, so that you don't have time to react, and there is confusion - only the soldiers and personal soldiers with the most sense of belonging can break away from the battle formation without chaos, flight, or laziness, they can become scouts, and many times, scouts also determine the key to victory or defeat on the battlefield.

And the Huaxia army threw tens of thousands of people all over the mountains.

They don't need drumming, they don't need a whole team, they don't need coercion...... The art of war in the past will be useless from now on, and Zong Han knows that everything he has accumulated over the past decades has been lost here.

This is not a battle in the art of war.

- This is just the head-on crushing of elite troops.

Even Tu Shanwei, who was the so-called number one in the world in the past, is no longer comparable to the Seventh Army of China in front of him at this moment.

He could know what Ning Yi and Qin Shaoqian had done, but he just couldn't understand how the other party did it.

"Which ...... first"

At one point, he spoke with a dry throat, and then paused for a long time because the sound of the battlefield came from the wind. Han Qi waited first, and after a while, he said, "Dashuai, maybe it's time to break through." "What he saw clearly, many Jurchen generals, in these days, how can they not see it clearly.

Zong Han shook his head, and the shouts of the Huaxia Army came from the wind around him, and the voice of the shouts was vague: "Kill Sticky Han-"

What sounded in his mind was the scene of more than ten years ago, it was the first time that the Jin Kingdom went south, they knocked on the door of Yanmen Pass, and marched south all the way, the Han people put up weak resistance, and some relatively stubborn resisters were killed and hung in the city. When the army advanced to Xinzhou, there was once a group of assassins who stabbed the edge in front of him for the first and almost only time.

It was in a Taoist hall in Xinzhou, led by a white-haired Han old man, who brandished a big gun and rushed in with dozens of Han knights, killing blood in the crowd surrounded by the army. The old man's spear stabbed him in front of the eye for a time, and the assassination almost succeeded, but in the end, these people were drowned in the siege of the army.

"Kill Sticky Han—" That's how the Han people shouted at that time.

In the years that followed, many people may have shouted like this, but Zong Han did not hear it. At this moment, the voice came from afar, as if it had been more than ten years, and it rushed to the front again. Zong Han raised his head, and there was a flame burning in his eyes.

"Which one is the first...... You see......"

He pointed in the direction of the east.

"That's Qin Shaoqian."

At this moment, the Jurchen army still had a numerical advantage. For decades, the old man was never a weak sheep, most of the time he was used to being a lion, but even when he was at a disadvantage, he never let go of any opportunity.

As noon drew to a close, the beast moved.

……

"Good boy! Charge with me—"

In the middle of the Jin army's main formation, Wanyan Saba roared up with the old man drawing his sword.

……

In the front, middle, and rear directions, the ranks of the Huaxia Army came one by one.

Company commander Niu Chengshu wielded a long knife, covered in blood, and came into battle.

"Kill Sticky-"

……

The shouts converged into a surging tide, each with an indomitable momentum, and shattered together—