The sky is gray, and the 170,000-strong army looks mighty in the long autumn colors on the north bank of the Yellow River. The north wind blows and the white grass on the ground is broken, withered grass and dust spread into the distance along with the stretching formation. During the movement of the army, in the distant sky,
Beacon smoke is already rising.
Although he was in a huge square formation, the soldiers around him occasionally made noises, and the movement caused by it was still like a surge. Li Zhizhi was riding a horse, watching the dust stirred up by the movement of troops in front, and the blood in his body had become hot.
Even at the last moment, he was still trying to figure out the real purpose of the Black Flag Army's attack. Was it to intimidate him so that he would not dare to attack Daming Mansion, or was it to attack the east and west, with other purposes behind it... However, the other party finally came to kill.
Echoing this, there is also the fact that Wang Shanyue and others of the "Guangwu Army" opened Daming Mansion and rushed in from the south. The opponent's strategic intention was so simple and crude that he finally no longer had to be suspicious, but it was revealed behind the scenes.
It's something that actually makes one's cheeks feel cold and one's head feel chilly, just like the humiliation of being slapped in the face.
The fact that 50,000 people attacked the 170,000-strong army was so determined could only mean that the other party believed that its combat effectiveness was much higher than our own, and wanted to first destroy their own army of more than 100,000 before facing Zongfu, Zongwang and other Jin army.
Sweep out of the battlefield.
The anger and humiliation after confirming this fact made Li Xizhi tremble all over, but then he turned it into a boiling murderous intention and motivation. If there was some hesitation in Li Xizhi's heart, at this time
, the determination to defeat these two parties has dominated his mind. After being despised to this point, if he doesn't defeat these 50,000 people, will he still be a human being in the future?
More than 100,000 troops were spread out on the battlefield with a radius of more than ten miles. In order to prevent a large-scale defeat, Li Xizhi broke up the army into defense lines one after another, using dense defense to deal with the sharp edge of the black flag. Li Xizhi never
Underestimating the enemy, he understood that Black Flag's offensive was powerful, but no matter how powerful the attack was, there were only ten thousand people. Even if they were delayed, they would still be dragged down in this wilderness.
This day was August 11th in the ninth year of Jian Shuo. When the morning sun rose, the Chinese army launched an attack in two directions and began to penetrate Li Xizhi's army. At the same time, in the direction of Daming Mansion in the south,
The Guangwu Army was divided into three groups and attacked Li Xizhi's position from different directions.
The sun gradually rose, and north of Daming Mansion, the fierce fighting of more than 200,000 people brought the sound of people and the roar of cannons boiling the sky. Arrows flew chaotically, and rushes and explosions occasionally crossed the late autumn hills, and the smoke of gunpowder
Diffuse, accompanied by explosions, floating in the air. This was the first war that the Central Plains experienced after Xiaocang River. Artillery has begun to become popular. Regardless of the quality, the use of this weapon by both sides is actually
They were still not very skilled. On the battlefield to the south, troops of the Guangwu Army occasionally passed through the positions and penetrated the opponent's artillery positions, causing huge explosions. Occasionally, troops were scattered under the opponent's artillery fire.
The Chinese army in the north had a much better attitude towards artillery fire. After three years of fighting at Xiaocanghe, they finally withdrew southward. Some of them were deliberately left in the Central Plains by Ning Yi. There were also some Chinese soldiers who were separated from the main force and failed to do so.
They went south. Those who were separated in the Central Plains returned one after another. Later, most of them gathered in the Liangshan area and joined Zhu Biao's team. These soldiers had experienced the most brutal battle situation. In the three years of war, they had long been accustomed to breathing on the battlefield.
It is often said in later generations that veterans are afraid of guns and new recruits are afraid of artillery. These soldiers have already understood the power of artillery fire and how to deal with it. In two hours, the Black Flag Army commander marched forward and defeated Li Shizhi's subordinates Tang Dingyi, Liu Hui, Geng Guoan and other tens of thousands of soldiers.
The troops pushed the offensive to the Kucaopu area five miles away from Li Xizhi.
Riding on the initial strong momentum, the Guangwu Army's offensive in the south was also advancing continuously. The defense line composed of 170,000 troops was constantly operating under the mobilization of Li Xizhi. From time to time, troops were defeated and fled, and new troops were pushed forward and collapsed.
The troops were reorganized, and the battle went on for more than an hour. Kou Li, the general assigned by Li Xizhi to the southern defense line, led 3,000 men and suddenly rebelled. In an instant, nearly 10,000 people who bore the brunt of the attack were defeated. Li Xizhi's nephew Li
Xuan Wu led the nearby troops to fight hard and finally stabilized the situation.
However, although in the first two hours, the offensives from the south and northeast were approaching, at noon that day, Li Xizhi, who was holding down the Chinese army, finally breathed a sigh of relief and stood on the withered grass in the northeast.
Nearly 40,000 people finally delayed the Black Flag Army's offensive here. Although the fighting in the south was fierce, the advance at this time had begun to slow down. As long as the opponent's offensive can be slowed down, the next situation will be different.
It's an advantage in itself.
That's what he thought, and it's not bad.
But at noon, a huge explosion suddenly came from the side and rear of the formation. The smoke and dust from the explosion rose and the ground shook. Li Zhizhi looked back and saw that the explosion happened two hundred feet away from the side and rear. Someone was moving the baggage.
The gunpowder detonated. The war horses neighed and ran. Chaos had spread. A group of people rushed over on horseback: "The black flag has arrived, kill Li Xizhi——"
"Lu Jianyun changed sides——"
"Shu Zi is looking for death!" Li Xizhi frowned sharply, and quickly pulled out the sword at his side, "Black Flag's offensive is exhausted! These clowns are just desperate and take risks! Today's chance of winning is with me, all the young men, follow me to kill this thief! I
I want to cut off his head with my own hands——"
At this time, he no longer looked into why there was a traitor so close - it was not surprising that Black Flag would arrange for a traitor - he was also a soldier all his life, and he wanted to rush over there in person while shouting and shouting, but the elite soldiers at the rear
The cavalry attack had been blocked. The rebels retreated hastily, and nearby troops were already surrounding them from all directions. Li Xizhi was giving orders loudly, and a blood-stained knight rushed from the northeast. The scout was getting closer.
Chu rolled off his horse, and his first words made Li Xizhi startled.
"The withered grass is in ruins——"
"...What did you say!" Li Zhizhi's mind went blank for a moment. For a moment, he swung his long knife and slashed at the opponent, but the scout said the second sentence with a cry.
"Tang Dingyi turned against him and beheaded General Liu Hui and Liu..."
"Indeed...your mother's Ge, Tang Dingyi..."
Li Xizhi was trembling all over and was so angry that he couldn't speak. However, five miles was not that far away. Just to the northeast, the chaos was beginning to become huge. There were troops wrapped up and scattered, and they were heading this way.
When they came, Li Xizhi immediately ordered 20,000 people to move forward. The military law team drew their swords, trying to maintain order while gathering the broken troops to block the incoming black flag. However, a chain reaction had already occurred. Lu Jianyun and others who had previously defected were not yet surrounded.
Killings, two more explosions broke out in the military formation, and then there were explosions of baggage supplies.
The 20,000 people in the front began to collapse as soon as they came into contact with the oncoming military formation. The black flags cut through the waves in the field of vision and spread, and someone shouted: "The Chinese army is coming, surrender and avoid death-" Li Xizhi ordered
The military law team began to kill people. He wanted to lead the elite of his formation to charge, but what he faced in front was already a situation of rolling back the bead curtain. On the side, a broken army of about 5,000 people originally belonged to Feng Qize's command.
Shi Ye shouted that anyway, he fought hard towards Li Xizhi - during the Battle of Linhe Ao, what Feng Qize was most afraid of was the defection of the traitor in the army. However, in that battle, the traitor of Black Flag never appeared.
The defeated troops returned to Li Xizhi and were organized into a team again. No one expected that they would defect at this moment.
More than 200,000 people have been fighting for a whole morning, and now they have finally boiled into a pot of porridge. The chaos couldn't be any more chaotic. At this hour of noon, Li Xizhi saw the most fantasy drama in his life, with Tang Dingyi's defection.
At a turning point, among the 170,000-strong army, as many as 20,000 troops defected before the battle because their generals were incited to rebel. Large-scale and small-scale defections and coups instantly reduced his army to a sieve, and at the same time destroyed more than 100,000 troops.
The morale of the army.
Li Xizhi's eyes were bloodshot, and he led his 20,000 direct line elites to charge hard. Soon after, his nephew Li Xuanwu also came with his troops. These 30,000 troops clashed on the battlefield, and correspondingly, there were hundreds of thousands of troops.
Defeated and dispersed. The Black Flag Army and the Guangwu Army pursued them from the rear. The entire battlefield spread for more than ten miles, extending from the west through Daming Mansion. Li Xizhi's direct troops were pursued all the way to the bank of the Yellow River southwest of Daming Mansion.
side.
In the evening, more than 15,000 troops were besieged on the bank of the Yellow River and tried to resist. In the subsequent brutal attack, a large number of troops were killed and pushed into the Yellow River. Li Xizhi was killed by his nephew and personal guard.
Waiting for someone to protect him in the center, when he arrived, his energy was gone and he kept shaking his head, saying only: "Impossible, impossible..."
If the Black Flag Army had so many spies from the beginning, it would be impossible for this battle to continue until noon.
However, it all happened in front of his eyes.
Before that, he was already a prince who ruled the Central Plains. In this world, he should have been the one who made the most moves in the chess game. However, with the outbreak of the war, his 170,000 elite army faced 50,000
The human attack was defeated overnight.
It is unimaginable how many wavering people there were in his army before this. As this battle with no room for change progressed, the Chinese army's internal agents completed the work of instigating rebellion against the wavering people.
The sun was setting, and the Chinese army began to persuade them to surrender. Li Xizhi, who was covered in blood and dust, picked up a broadsword and refused to surrender. What greeted his guards was the incoming artillery shells. Li Xizhi was knocked to the ground by one of the artillery shells, and he stumbled.
He staggered up, brandished his sword and rushed towards the Chinese soldiers who were coming to kill him. The other party chopped him to the ground.
"I told you, adults are fighting - children, get out of here -"
At this moment, countless corpses were surging on the Yellow River, and the smoke outside Daming Mansion had not yet stopped. On this day, there were only a few days before Wanyan Zongbi's Jurchen forwards arrived, but the defeat of the 170,000-strong army was also
It will definitely shock everyone's attention in these few days.
Back to more than twenty days ago, Wang Shanyue met with Zhu Biao of the Chinese Army on a hill and brought up a dangerous topic.
"I have a life-threatening plan, and I brought it to you today."
"..."
"It has been many years since the Jurchens marched south, and thousands of horses in the Central Plains have been in silence. I want to seize the Daming Mansion and create some trouble for the Jurchens, but I am afraid that such small troubles are not exciting enough, and I am not sure that the Jurchens can stay in the Daming... Black Flag
There are countless people who helped me make Li Xizhi first."
"...the Chinese army has an internal agent, but the internal agent is not a fairy. No matter how incompetent Li Xizhi is, it will be very difficult with 170,000 people placed there."
"You helped me become Li Xizhi, but I won't let you help keep your name."
"...You really don't want to die."
"... In recent years, Li Xizhi, the Jurchens have become more and more cruel, but fewer and fewer people are resisting. This time the Jurchens go south, they will no longer leave room for the Wu Dynasty. This is the land of the Central Plains, but not many people dare to
Take action, even if you capture Liu Yu and return the world to the Wu Dynasty... Dou Mingde, the leader of the Yellow Snake Village, and his whole family were killed by the Jurchens. Now he no longer dares to use his arms as a chariot. The gray mountain is in a terrible state, and his daughter was captured and tortured by the Jin people.
Then he was killed. I went to ask him for help, but he didn't believe me. If we can defeat Li Xizhi and hold off the Jurchen army in Daming Mansion, every extra day will give them more confidence... Ning Yi is right, save
The world depends on the people of the world, and relying on us alone is not enough."
When he said this, it was when the sky was filled with stars. Wang Shanyue had long hair and looked like a woman, but his eyes seemed to be pregnant with cold hope. But Zhu Biao understood better that based on the management of the Huaxia Army over the years,
, it is not impossible to defeat Li Xizhi with all his strength, but after defeating Li Xizhi, who will come to see Daming Mansion? Without Li Xizhi to watch Daming Mansion, the only people who come to see Daming Mansion are the Jurchen troops.
But the Wang family has always been like this. More than 20 years ago, when the Liao people went south, Wang Qisong led the whole family of men to fight against the Jurchen army. They were all slaughtered. The old man was skinned and his body was buried. The bones were not intact when he was buried. Now, the only remaining male of the Wang family
We are about to embark on this path.
"Help me kill Li Xizhi." He said.
"I will defend Daming Mansion... as another Taiyuan!"
By August 11th, Li Xizhi's army was defeated like an avalanche under a fierce offensive. The Guangwu Army gathered a small number of troops and took over the baggage. However, for most people who could not be trusted, they still let them go after publicity.
On August 13th, hundreds of people from Huang Shezhai arrived at Daming Mansion. After that, groups of people came every day and were taken in by the Guangwu Army. Until August 16th, all
Yan Zongbi's cavalry advanced within a hundred miles of Daming Prefecture, and as many as 6,000 martyrs arrived at Daming Prefecture. These people either lost their families to the Jurchens' butcher's knives, or they had righteous thoughts and were depressed by the Jurchens' oppression over the years.
Most of the people with lofty ideals understand that after entering Daming Mansion, it will be difficult to get out.
The Chinese army left Daming Mansion.
On the fifteenth day of the month, the moon was sixteen full. That night, Zhu Biao left at the end of the team. Looking back at Daming Mansion, Wang Shanyue smiled and waved at the top of the city, his clothes were like snow, and his belt was in the wind. At this moment, autumn was already deep.
, the Yellow River in the south is still rushing, and what is contained in the lonely city under the moonlight is an extremely heroic dream.
I will hold off the Jurchens for as long as I can.
until……
Chapter completed!