In March of the first year of Wu Zhenxing, with the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge as a turning point, the Southwest Campaign, which lasted for four months, entered the strategic counterattack period of the Chinese Army.
The fight for the road and the fighting started at the same time as the "peace negotiations" for the exchange of prisoners. Although it was an exchange of hundreds of prisoners, the Jin State still spent a lot of time selecting the list. On the third day after the negotiations began,
The various departments of the Chinese Army arranged for four lines of troops to extend towards Huangming County and Yuyu River to open up a path for pursuit.
The Jurchen army was deployed equally quickly. While the Chinese army was advancing, the Jin army put up white flags, deployed all their weapons, and assumed a full-scale attack, a desperate posture. In the first few days, this posture was extremely
Resolutely, the Jurchen troops once launched a strong attack on several key local areas. The offensive was fierce and fragmented, with crisscrossing teeth.
If we look at it from the back, such a sophisticated feint attack method once confused many people, and of course it cannot be said to be purely a feint attack. If the Jin people really don't want their lives and insist on breaking into the Chengdu Plain at all costs, then in the long run, there is no way the Jin people can do it.
It is possible to return home, but at least in the short term, it can still cause a lot of trouble to the Huaxia Army. Because of this method, the Huaxia Army was relatively cautious in its actions in the first few days of March, and because the attitude of the Jin Army seemed realistic, it was against Li
The work of Tathagata and other Han generals in instigating rebellion actually suffered delays.
Naturally, this situation cannot last for long. On the sixth day of March, as several special operations teams of the Chinese Army have been advancing resolutely and steadily, the situation of the Jurchens on the front line can no longer be tense. On this day,
As the troops on the front line led the general attack, the main force of the Jin army began to retreat. At the moment when Tu Qiong saw it, the battlefield in the mountains for dozens of miles suddenly boiled.
From Shiling to Xiukou, the attacking troops encountered intensive artillery fire. Half of the remaining rockets were approved for use. Tens of thousands of Han troops were blocked in front of the battlefield. The instigation of rebellion against the Han troops became a battlefield at this time.
part of the key.
The outcome of the battle that took place at Wangyuan Bridge a few days ago, even though a large number of low-level soldiers in the Jin army did not know what the significance was, and the Han army was strictly blocked and cut off from news. However, as senior generals, Li Rulai and others were very concerned about the whole situation.
The ins and outs of the incident were still clear. If they were initially doubtful about the rumors that the Jurchens were about to withdraw, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the Jurchens' true intentions began to become clear.
The large-scale attack on the front line was overwhelming, and Wanyan Saba was extremely strict with Li Rulai and others. However, under the spies of the Chinese Army, the necessary information was still delivered to several key generals.
Regarding the instigation of rebellion this time, the conditions given by the Huaxia Army are actually not tolerant. Once the rebellion is over, all units of the Han Army must immediately enter the battlefield and be responsible for completing the counterattack, containment and annihilation of the Jin Army's advancing troops. In terms of various details, this is
The replica of Liangshan's investment certificate needed to be cleared with one's life. Since they all realized that the war had entered a critical stage, Li Rulai and others wanted to raise the price, but the Chinese army did not compromise in the negotiations.
The person responsible for instigating Li Rulai was Xu Shaoyuan, an officer of the Chinese army who once worked with Ning Yi in the secretary's office. He had successfully contacted Li Rulai twice before. On the sixth day of the lunar month, due to the strict supervision of the Jurchens, he planned to write to Li Rulai.
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 Jurchens, so that the two sides could meet directly.
After conveying the request of the Chinese Army, Li Rulai lowered his face and began to complain, such as "the brothers under his command are not strong in combat", "the golden dogs are very strictly guarded, and it is difficult to tell everyone to take action", "the superiors pulled away from Su Wu"
"It's different from dying." Later, there was also the threat "If we don'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. If you don't change your mind before midnight tonight, we will launch an attack and kill you. If you pretend to be wrong and block the road without working, we will kill you all the same. This is plan number two.
, the plan has been made." Xu Shaoyuan said, "Mr. Ning asked me to give you a few more words."
"……explain."
"Mr. Ning said that for a long time, you were generals of the Wu Dynasty. You were supposed to protect your family and the country, but you failed to do so. Of course, you have your own reasons. You can say that for more than ten years, no one has been here.
There was a beautiful victory before the Jurchens. But this victory is won today."
"The Chinese Army has found a way by taking lives. If you want to leave, take your lives, pick up the dignity and personality you have lost in the past ten years, and fulfill your obligations as a soldier. Of course, if the facts prove that you will
If you don't get up and think you can cause trouble to others, it only means that you have no value in living... Over the years, the Chinese Army has never been afraid of trouble."
The merciless words brought by Xu Shaoyuan made the other party's expression somewhat unnatural. Li Rulai was silent for a long time and sent Xu Shaoyuan out. But when Xu Shaoyuan left, he also added: "You too
Go back and ask Mr. Ning... if he acts like this, won't he be afraid of people pushing him when the wall comes down?"
After dark that 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 army, and another quarter followed suit.
on, and more troops fell into huge chaos.
Wanyan Saba, who was responsible for guarding the Han army, led his personal guards to clash with the rebel Li Rulai's troops, and then fought their way out from the heavy siege arranged by Li Rulai.
In the vast mountains, a fierce battle began. During this period, most members of the First Division and the Second Division shouldered the responsibility of Shiling. Xiukou was facing the blocking task of Balisu. The Fourth Division and the Fifth Division
The most effective forces in the army who are best at field battles, combined with thousands of people led by Ning Yi, successively devoted themselves to blocking, attacking and annihilating the Jin army's retreat through the mountain roads.
On the sixth day of March, more than 7,000 troops launched an attack on the six nodes on the retreating mountain road immediately. On the eighth day of March, the scale expanded to 13,000. On the tenth day of the lunar month, the number of troops attacking the front reached two.
Wan, the front line of the attack extended directly to the Yuyu Creek with complex terrain.
The distance from Wangyuan Bridge to Jiange was less than a hundred miles in total. It only took one day to reach it at the speed of a forced march, but nearly 100,000 Jin troops were stopped on the winding mountain road.
In fact, in response to the retreat, the troops and generals of the Jin Kingdom, who knew that they had no luck in surrendering, also put up a fierce and tenacious resistance. Although the Chinese army brought out time-honored firearms at this time, in the rugged mountain roads, the difficulty of the firearms
After all, the strength was reduced to a minimum. The pursuing Chinese army walked along a path that was more rugged than the road. They could not carry many weapons and supplies. Their advantage was only to capture a certain point to stop them.
A large army, but in some parts of the battle, the Jin Army's numerical advantage has returned again, and there is no need to be too afraid of the Huaxia Army's firearms.
Because of this understanding, Wanyan Zonghan's approach during this retreat was not to flee in a hurry, but to divide and mobilize the various units in the Jin Army in an organized manner. He made the task clear to each commander.
Once encountering resistance from the Chinese Army, they would stop and gather local superior forces to swallow up this part of the Chinese Army.
From a military point of view, we have to admit that this response is very correct, and it exactly reflects Wanyan Zonghan's sophistication and difficulty in fighting throughout his life. But one thing he never considered, or even if he did, was unable to do anything about it, was the retreat from the army.
Starting from the moment of , the invincible morale of the Jurchen army, which Wanyan Aguda, Wanyan Zonghan and others spent thirty years to polish, finally began to disintegrate.
The difficulty of the previous invasion of the southwest could be said to be due to the fact that they encountered evenly matched enemies. After all, the Jin Army had fought difficult battles before, and the strength of the enemy even made their blood boil. But at this moment, the army with overwhelming numbers turned to retreat.
It virtually explains many problems.
Some of the "insightful men" among the generals are still maintaining and encouraging morale. On local mountain battlefields, the fighting is still violent and fierce. The Jurchen troops are hysterically rushing towards the Chinese army blocking the road. The generals are taking the lead and must prepare for those behind them.
The retreating army must fight to open a road, and use superior force to cooperate with the spreading mountain road to engulf the Chinese army piece by piece.
But the situation is changing subtly. Even with cold weapons fighting each other, the Jin people have been defeated time and time again in the battles they were originally good at. The Jurchen warriors who were not afraid of death were chopped down in a pool of blood.
Some soldiers who had begun to value their lives chose to break up and flee.
Such changes were immediately fed back to the former enemy headquarters of the Chinese Army: Although the Jurchens' response was still extremely sophisticated, some generals were even more proactive in strategizing than before, and the fighting was still fierce, but in large-scale operations
When cooperating with others, they often start to become too reckless or collapse too quickly. They are gradually losing the composure and resilience to cooperate with each other.
"...When the Jurchens, who are accustomed to brutal fighting, begin to focus on numerical superiority, it means that the downhill path they are taking has begun to become obvious."
On the tenth day of March, Ning Yi's order and tone spread throughout the army, and soon after it reached the Jin Army: "What we have to do next is to fight piece by piece on the mountain road of a hundred miles.
Strip away their dignity and let each one of them clearly understand that the so-called invincibility is an outdated old joke!"
The quality of the Jurchens as the pinnacle army of this era is disintegrating, but for ordinary armies, it is still a nightmare. On March 11, blocking the front line, Saba troops began to retreat and break through after paying huge losses.
, the Han army troops that were originally blocking the rear and constantly causing trouble became the lambs before the trapped beasts.
Although Li Rulai and others were under pressure from both sides and did not dare to retreat, they resisted tenaciously. However, after a day of fighting, Saba still led his troops to penetrate Li Rulai's camp. Anyway, the Han army suffered heavy casualties.
This was a good thing for Li Rulai and the various departments of the Han army. Many years later, he even lamented: "The people who survived can finally answer the Chinese army."
After the news of his brother Yin Shuke's death came, Li Su tied a white scarf on his forehead and fought fiercely. But judging from the way he mobilized his troops, this Jurchen general still maintained great sobriety and reason.
The mournful soldier's posture inspired the army's morale, and he cooperated with Wanyan Saba to take the rear, and tenaciously resisted the pursuit of the First and Second Divisions of the Fifth Chinese Army.
The situation in the mountains ahead gradually became difficult during the fierce battle.
Regarding the Jurchens' bad words, the scout operations continued in the mountains with complex terrain. On sunny days, you can occasionally see spreading mountain fires and smoke rising. If the mountain roads are slippery on rainy days, it will be even more difficult to travel. The Chinese troops are killed on the road from time to time.
Digging off, laying mines, or being occupied by the Chinese army at a certain key point, the offensive at the front is in progress, and the following troops are besieged on the road in the mountains and valleys. Under such circumstances, occasionally
There will also be cold guns flying out of the woods and hitting a certain general or leader. When the crowd is crowded, even avoiding them becomes difficult.
Yu Yu still led the scouts and elite Jurchen soldiers to run through the mountains, blocking the pursuit of the Chinese soldiers, and causing trouble to the pursuing Chinese soldiers for a certain period of time. On March 14th, the scouts led by Yu Yu
Encountered the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division of the Chinese Army, which was an elite regiment in the Chinese Army and was later known as the "Shengli Gorge Hero Regiment". In the "Fire Swallowing" operation at Yuyuxi River last year when they defeated Nulili's troops,
This regiment, led by its commander Shen Changye, blocked the enemy's main force from retreating at Shengli Gorge. It suffered more than half of its casualties and refused to retreat even an inch.
The then regiment commander Shen Changye died on the mountain battlefield one month after the battle at Shengli Gorge. The regiment commander who took his place now was Qiu Yunsheng, the original commander of the second battalion. After encountering Yu Yu and others, he commanded the troops to start the battle.
Yu Yu is a veteran general who rose up with Aguda. He is the most experienced hunter. He can cross mountains and ridges as if walking on plain ground. He can accurately hit the enemy with his bow and arrow even in the dark night. Qiu Yunsheng was born in a farmer's family, and his family died while fleeing in the Central Plains.
, he was subsequently recruited by Tian Hu's troops, and joined the Chinese army inexplicably after attacking Xiaocanghe. After encountering Yu Yu, he asked his troops to fight head-on based on the terrain, while he relied on the advantages of early surveys to lead a company and bypass
The most dangerous and slippery mountain road surrounded Yu Yu's rear.
After the battle, people picked out Yu Yu's corpse from the pile of dead.
The good news spread throughout the battlefield. For the Jin army, of course, it could only be regarded as bad news.
This won't be the only bad news in March.
On March 16, Dalai died in a leading battle.
Throughout the more than four months of the Southwest Campaign, this arrogant Jurchen general was thinking about repaying his hatred in the northwest, and the Chinese Army also made several targeted plans for this. But until
In the end, nothing like this ever happened, and the two sides never had a direct confrontation on the battlefield from beginning to end.
On March 16th, Dalai led his soldiers to attack a small highland called Yuling on the way back to the division, trying to surround and drive out the Chinese army that was nailed to the top of the mountain and threatening the road on the mountainside. The Chinese army had a favorable location
To defend, the battle lasted for most of the day, and tens of thousands of troops in the rear were blocked and stopped. Dalai personally went into battle and organized three charges.
During the attack that was about to advance to the top of the mountain, a Chinese soldier who was seriously injured and lying in a pool of blood suddenly launched an attack. At that time, there were still eight Jurchen warriors guarding Dalai. But on that extremely fierce front line, who could
Neither of them could react. The two sides exchanged swords. Dalai's long sword penetrated the chest of the Chinese soldier who jumped down, but the Chinese soldier's sword was directed at the front and chopped off the head. The helmet was split open.
Half of the head was split open on the spot.
The fighting did not stop. Only that night did the Chinese army occupying the hilltop leave under the bombardment of the artillery that the Jurchens had finally dragged over. The road one mile ahead was then occupied by Chinese soldiers.
They dug up roads and laid mines.
One hundred thousand people crowded on the sprawling mountain road, like a giant snake that was too big trying to squeeze through a tunnel that was too thin, and every attack by the Chinese army was like driving a nail into the snake's body. Due to the influence of the terrain,
The scale of each fight was not large, but each battle almost brought the big snake to a complete stop.
Both sides were suffering huge losses, but as time went on, the Jurchen troops became more and more anxious day by day. At this moment, everyone from the generals to the soldiers had realized that the original hunter,
It has completely turned into prey. The huge and bloated Jin Kingdom troops began to rush to escape, while the small Chinese army troops rushed up like tarsal maggots, trying to tear this prey apart bite by bite.