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Chapter 983 Turning Point ([-])

In March of the first year of Wu Zhenxing, with the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge as a turning point, the Southwest Campaign that lasted for four months entered the strategic counteroffensive period of the Huaxia Army.

The struggle for the road and the slaughter were carried out at the same time as the "peace negotiation" for the exchange of prisoners.Although it was an exchange of hundreds of prisoners, Jin Guo still took a lot of effort to screen the list.On the third day after the negotiation began, the Huaxia Army units arranged for four lines of troops to extend towards Huangming County and Yuyuxi, opening the way for the pursuit.

The army deployment of the Jurchen was also fast. While the Huaxia Army was advancing, the Jin Guo army set up white flags and weapons, and put on a full-scale attack, smashing the boat and sinking the boat.In the first few days, such a stance was extremely resolute. In several key areas, the Jurchen troops once launched a strong attack.

If you look from the back to the front, such a sophisticated feint method once confused many people - of course, it can't be said to be a feint. If the Jin people really want to die, and they have to break into the Chengdu Plain at all costs, then in the long run, the Jin people will certainly be There is a possibility of not being able to go home, but at least in the short term, it can still cause a lot of trouble for the Huaxia army - and because of this method, the Huaxia army was relatively cautious in the first few days of March, and because of the attitude of the Jin army, it seems that Realistic, the instigation of Li Rulai and other Han generals actually suffered delays.

Naturally, such a situation could not last for too long. On the sixth day of March, as several special operations teams of the Huaxia Army had been advancing resolutely and steadily, the situation of Jurchen on the front line could no longer be stretched.On this day, with the general offensive of the front-line army led by Tu Li Shuo, the main force of the Jin army began to retreat. The moment the picture was seen, the battlefield in the mountains for dozens of miles instantly boiled.

From Shiling to Xiukou, the attacking troops encountered intensive shelling, half of the remaining rockets were approved for use, and tens of thousands of Han troops were blocked in front of the battlefield. part of the key.

The result of the battle that took place at Wangyuan Bridge a few days ago, even though a large number of soldiers at the bottom of the Jin army still did not know what it meant, and the Han army was strictly blocked and isolated from the news, but Li Rulai and others, as high-ranking generals, dealt with the whole situation. The ins and outs of the matter are still clear.If they had believed the rumors that the Jurchen would withdraw, they would have been skeptical at first, but on the sixth day of the first lunar month, the real intentions of the Jurchen began to become clear.

The large-scale offensive on the front line caused a great deal of momentum, and Wanyan Saba was very strict with Li Rulai and others, but under the espionage operation of the Huaxia Army, the necessary information was still delivered to the eyes of several key generals.

For this time of rebellion, the conditions given by the Huaxia Army are actually not forgiving.In any case, the Han army units must immediately enter the battlefield and be responsible for completing the counter-offensive, containment and annihilation of the advancing troops of the Jin army. In terms of various rules, this is a replica of Liangshan’s name, and it needs to be exchanged for life. Since they all realized that the war had entered a critical stage, Li Rulai and others once wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, but the negotiations of the Huaxia Army did not compromise.

The person responsible for instigating Li Rulai was Xu Shaoyuan, an officer of the Huaxia Army who once worked with Ning Yi in the secretary's office. He had successfully approached Li Rulai twice before. On the sixth day of the sixth day, due to the strict supervision of the Jurchen, he planned to send a letter to him. Li Rulai issued an ultimatum, but the other party was so powerful that Xu Shaoyuan and his guards exchanged identities under the eyes of the Jurchen, and the two sides were able to meet directly.

After conveying the request of the Huaxia Army, Li Rulai sank his face and began to complain, such as "the brothers under his command are not strong in combat", "the golden dog is very strictly guarded, and it is difficult to tell everyone to do it", "there is no way to pull out and speed up." It's different from sending you to death." After arriving, there was also a threat of "We won't surrender, tens of thousands of people will block the road, and you will be in trouble." Xu Shaoyuan just shook his head indifferently.

"The headquarters and the general staff have made a decision. Before midnight, if you don't do anything, we will launch an attack and kill you. If you do not do anything, if you don't work hard and block the road, we will kill you as well. This is the second plan. , the plan has been made." Xu Shaoyuan said, "Mr. Ning asked me to bring you a few more words."

"……Say."

"Mr. Ning said that you have been the generals of the Wu Dynasty for a long time. You should have defended your family and the country, and you have not done it. Of course, you have your own reasons. You can say that for more than ten years, no one has been there. There was a beautiful victory in front of the Jurchen. But this victory is today."

"The Huaxia Army took your life and made a way out. If you want to go, take out your life, take up the dignity and personality you have lost in the past ten years, and fulfill your duty as a soldier. Of course, if it turns out, you will take your life. If you don't get up, you feel that you can cause trouble to others, that only means that you have no value in living... Over the years, Huaxia Army has never been afraid of trouble."

The merciless words brought by Xu Shaoyuan made the other party's face look somewhat unnatural, Li Rulai was silent for a while, and then sent Xu Shaoyuan out, but when Xu Shaoyuan left, he also added a sentence: "You too Go back and ask Mr. Ning...he does things like this, when the wall falls in the future, won't he be afraid of being pushed by everyone?"

After dark this day, a large-scale uprising broke out in the Han army camp. About a quarter of the army immediately made an attack on the Jin Guo army, and another quarter followed suit. , while more troops were thrown into great chaos.

Wanyan Saba, who was in charge of guarding the troops of the Han army, led the personal guards to clash with the rebel Li Rulai's troops, and then fought out from the heavy siege arranged by Li Rulai.

In the vast mountains, fierce competition is unfolding.During this period, most of the members of the [-]st and [-]nd divisions shouldered the task of blocking Shiling and Xiukou face to pull out the speed. Thousands of people were involved in the blocking, attacking and annihilation of the various mountain roads that the Jin army retreated.

On the sixth day of March, about [-] people attacked the six nodes on the retreating mountain road for the first time. By the eighth day, the scale had expanded to [-]. On the tenth day of the first month, the number of troops advancing in succession reached two. Wan, the front of the offensive extends directly to the rainwater creek with complex terrain.

From Wangyuan Bridge to Jiange, the distance is less than [-] miles. The speed of the forced march can be reached in just one day, but nearly [-] Jin Guo troops were stopped on the winding mountain road.

In fact, in response to the retreat, the army and generals of the Jin Kingdom who knew that they had no luck surrendering also made a tragic and tenacious resistance.At this time, although the Huaxia Army took out a cross-generational firearm, in the rugged mountain road, the power of the firearm was finally reduced to a minimum.The chasing Huaxia troops walked along a path that was more rugged than the road, and they could not carry many weapons and materials. Their advantage was that they could stop a large army by capturing a certain point. On top of that, the numerical advantage of the Jin Army has returned again, and there is no need to fear the firearms of the Huaxia Army too much.

Because of this understanding, during this retreat, Wanyan Zonghan did not flee in a hurry, but to divide and mobilize the various units of the Jin Army in an organized manner. Once blocked by the Huaxia Army, it will stop to gather local superior forces and swallow this part of the Huaxia Army.

From the perspective of the art of war, I have to admit that this kind of response is very correct, and it just reflects the sophistication and difficulty of Wanyan Zonghan's battle life.But what he didn't consider, or even if he considered it, he couldn't do anything about it was that from the moment the army retreated, the invincible spirit of the Jurchen army that had been honed by Wanyan Aguda and Wanyan Zonghan for 30 years finally began to disintegrate.

The difficulty of invading the southwest road before can also be said to be met with an evenly matched enemy - after all, the Jin Army has fought difficult battles before, and the strength of the enemy even made their blood boil - but at this moment, the number of the army has Turning to retreat, invisibly explained many problems.

Some of the "people of insight" among the generals are still maintaining and inspiring morale. In some mountain battlefields, the fighting is still violent and fierce. The Jurchen troops hysterically rushed towards the Huaxia Army blocking the road. The retreating army smashed a path, and used superior forces to cooperate with the spreading mountain road to devour the Huaxia army piece by piece.

But the situation is changing subtly. Even if the cold weapons are rushing to kill each other, the Jin people are defeated again and again in the battles they were originally good at. The Jurchen warriors who are not afraid of death are cut down in a pool of blood. Some soldiers who have begun to cherish life chose to disperse and flee.

Such changes were immediately fed back to the former enemy headquarters of the Huaxia Army: Although the Jurchen response was still extremely old-fashioned, some generals were even more proactive than before, and the battles were still aggressive, but in large-scale operations When cooperating with each other, they often start to appear more than reckless or collapse too fast, and they are gradually losing the composure and tenacity of mutual cooperation.

"...When the Jurchens who are accustomed to savage combat begin to pay attention to the superiority of numbers, it means that their downhill road has begun to become obvious."

On the tenth day of the third month, Ning Yi's order and tone spread throughout the army, and soon after, it reached Jin Jun's side: "The next thing we have to do is to take a [-]-mile mountain road, piece by piece, piece by piece. Taking away their dignity and making each of them recognizable clearly, the so-called invincibility is already an outdated old joke!"

The quality of the Jurchen as the peak army of this era is disintegrating, but for the ordinary army, it is still a nightmare.On March [-]th, the Tuo Lisu and Saba troops who were on the front line began to retreat and break through after paying huge losses. The Han army troops who had been in the rear and kept making trouble became the lambs before the beasts were trapped.

Although Li Rulai and others, who were oppressed by both sides and did not dare to retreat, resisted stubbornly, after a day of fighting, Tu Lisu and Saba still led the team to kill Li Rulai's camp. Anyway, the Han army suffered heavy casualties.

This is a good thing for Li Rulai and the Han army. Even many years later, he sighed: "Those who survived can finally explain to the Huaxia army."

After the news of his brother Yin Shuke's death came, he pulled out the white turban from his forehead and fought fiercely.But judging from his method of deploying troops, this Jurchen veteran still maintains great sobriety and rationality. He inspires the army with a mournful attitude, cooperates with Wanyan Saba, and stubbornly resists the first Chinese fifth army. , the pursuit of the second division.

The situation in the mountains ahead gradually became difficult in the tragic battle.

Regarding the harsh words of the Jurchen, the scouts' battle continued in the mountains with complex terrain. On a sunny day, you could occasionally see the spreading mountain fires and the smoke rising. If the mountain road was slippery on a rainy day, it was even more difficult to do.The road was dug up from time to time by the Huaxia army, or lay mines, or was occupied by the Huaxia army at a key point. On the way, under such circumstances, occasionally a cold shot would fly out of the woods and hit a general or leader. In a crowded situation, it would be difficult to even escape.

Yu Yu still led the scouts and the elite Jurchen soldiers to run through the mountains, blocking the pursuit of the Huaxia Army soldiers, and also caused trouble to the pursuing Huaxia Army troops within a certain period of time.On March [-]th, the scouts led by Yu Yu encountered the first regiment of the Second Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Huaxia Army. This was an elite regiment of the Huaxia Army, later known as the "Victory Gorge Heroes Regiment" - which was defeated in Yuyuxi last year. In the "Swallowing Fire" operation under the leadership of Corri Li, this regiment, under the leadership of the regiment leader Shen Changye, blocked the enemy's retreating main force in Shengli Gorge, with more than half casualties and no retreat.

Shen Changye, the regiment commander at the time, died on the battlefield in the mountains one month after the battle in Shengli Gorge. Now the regiment commander who takes his place is Qiu Yunsheng, the original battalion commander of the second battalion. After encountering Yu Yu and others, he commanded the troops to fight.

Yu Yu is a veteran general who followed Aguda's rise. He was originally the hottest hunter. He traversed mountains and ridges like walking on the ground. Even in the dark night, he could accurately hit the enemy with his bow and arrows.Qiu Yunsheng came from a farmer, and his family died while fleeing in the Central Plains. He was then recruited by the Tianhu Army and joined the Huaxia Army in a confused way after attacking Xiaocanghe. The advantage of the early survey, with a company, bypassed the most dangerous and slippery mountain road, and started to outflank Yu Yu's rear.

After the battle, Yu Yu's body was picked up among the dead.

The good news spread all over the battlefield, and for the Jin Army troops, of course, it could only be regarded as bad news.

This won't be the only bad news in March.

On March [-], Dalai died in a battle that took the lead.

For more than four months in the entire Southwest Campaign, this manic Jurchen general was thinking of reporting the hatred in the Northwest to Qu Zhengzheng, and the Huaxia Army also made several targeted plans for this.But until the end, such a thing never happened, and the two sides did not start a direct confrontation on the battlefield from beginning to end.

On the [-]th day of the third month, Dalai led his soldiers to attack a small highland called Yuling on the road back to the division, trying to surround and drive out the Huaxia army who were nailed on the top of the mountain to deter the road on the mountainside.The Huaxia Army had a good location to defend, and the battle lasted for most of the day. The tens of thousands of troops in the rear were blocked and stopped. Dalai personally went into battle and organized three charges.

In the attack that was about to advance to the top of the mountain, a Chinese soldier who was seriously injured and fell in a pool of blood suddenly attacked. At that time, there were still eight Jurchen warriors guarding Dalai, but who was on the extremely fierce front line? Without being able to react, the two sides exchanged knives. Dalai's long knife pierced the chest of the Huaxia Army soldier who fell down.The helmet was split open, and half of the head was split on the spot.

The fighting did not stop because of this, until that night, the Huaxia army occupying the top of the mountain was bombarded by the cannons that the Jurchen finally dragged over, and the road one mile ahead was occupied by the soldiers of the Huaxia army. They dug up the road and laid mines.

10 people crowded on the sprawling mountain road, like a giant snake that was too big to get through a tunnel that was too thin, and every attack by the Huaxia Army was like nailing the snake.Due to the influence of the terrain, the scale of each fight is not large, but every fight has to make this big snake almost completely stop.

Both sides are suffering huge losses, but as time progresses, the Jurchen troops are lingering more and more anxious day by day. At this moment, from the generals to the soldiers, they have already realized that the original hunter, Completely turned into prey.The huge and bloated Jin Guo troops began to rush to escape, and the small Huaxia troops had already rushed up like maggots in the tarsus, wanting to tear the prey into skeletons one by one.

(End of this chapter)