When the Chinese Seventh Army and Wanyan Zonghan lit up the flames in the west of Hanzhong Plain, the beacon smoke of Jiange continued to burn fiercely for several days.
Qu Zhengyan failed to complete the planned plan to seize Jiange within three days as scheduled.
Facing Bali Su who was already determined to live and die and defended the base with an unusually firm consciousness, Qu Zhengyan, who did not have an advantage in terms of military strength, said that the progress of the mountain climbing was not fast. Historically speaking, he was able to break through the Guancheng in front and gradually advance.
It has been the only record recently, and in subsequent battles, the Chinese army as the attacker has always maintained a certain advantage. Judging from the current comparison of the strength of Jiange and the comparison of firearms, it is already a situation that is almost miraculous.
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As the decisive breakthrough in the miniaturization of iron cannons has not yet been achieved, it is difficult for the troops led by Qu Zhengyan to drag out a large number of artillery pieces from the narrow southwest mountain passes to attack the enemy. Of course, the dozens of rockets brought out in key points
They can gain a certain advantage in long-distance attacks, but too few numbers cannot determine the direction of the entire battle.
And Ba Lisu scattered artillery pieces all over the mountains. Once they were at a disadvantage, they lit gunpowder barrels and blew up the iron cannons. Such resolute resistance made the Chinese army's intention to seize the artillery and then attack the fortress very difficult.
It is difficult to implement smoothly.
In addition to the few rockets "Dijiang", Qu Zhengyan's only advantage is that his troops are all the best among the best. Once they enter a melee, they can suppress the opponent's troops. But even if
In this way, the Jinbing soldiers who had realized that it was difficult to return home and that surrendering would not end well did not surrender easily.
Qu Zhengyan, who has always been good at walking a tightrope and making surprise attacks, gave up his plan to carry out an overly risky surprise attack in this battle after seeing clearly the resistance posture of Ba Lisu. In front of a veteran of Ba Lisu's level, he was playing tricks.
It is very likely that you will fall down on the battlefield.
Combining these factors, the battle at Jiange subsequently became a brutal but relatively step-by-step battle. The Chinese army often identified a point during the attack, then removed it, and advanced towards the top of the mountain step by step. Once removed, they quickly organized
On the counterattack, here they organized defenses equally calmly and fought against each other. Although Qu Zhengyan did not take advantage of too many tactics, the sudden counterattacks and even large-scale artillery bombardments organized by Tua Lisu were all ignored by Qu Zhengyan.
Block them calmly and resolve them one by one.
Many years later, this attack and defense, in which each side commanded thousands of men, would appear again and again in the history of war. Both sides tried their best in this fierce and frequent confrontation.
This was the last battle in the life of Ba Lisu, a veteran of the Jin Kingdom. On the one hand, he faced all this with a desperate attitude, always calmly facing retreat step after step, and the soldiers were dying.
, the defense line was compressed; on the other hand, despite the fact that the combat effectiveness of both sides was reversed, he still organized fierce resistance at several key points and set up clever traps and ambushes.
countermeasures.
Just like the many Jurchen generals who followed the Aguda uprising decades ago, even though they enjoyed themselves when everything was going smoothly when they destroyed Liao and Wu, they still took advantage of the declining situation.
He rebelled against this world as he did back then, resisted calmly in the face of huge disadvantages, and tried to forcefully tear apart a glimmer of life in this world.
But this time, Qu Zhengyan calmly extinguished every ray of hope he had.
At the same time, what Qu Zhengyan and the Chinese Fifth Army in Jiange faced was actually an extremely anxious psychological state.
The Chinese Seventh Army outside Jiange has reported Wanyan Zonghan’s imminent status and intentions, and the staff of the Seventh Army is ready to respond head-on. On the one hand, this is the Seventh Army’s head-on confrontation with Zonghan’s troops.
The last chance, on the other hand, was also to deal with the local defeats caused by Dai Mengwei's rebellion in Xiangfan and other places. If this battle was not fought, Qi Xinhan, including the resistance forces of the Han army, would be very uncomfortable.
Ning Yi can understand the necessity of this, but on the other hand, although the combat power of the Seventh Army was estimated in the earlier combat combat and tactical demonstration, the exercises and discussions are a situation that really pulls the
It's another situation on the ever-changing battlefield. Twenty thousand against ninety thousand, it's hard for one of you to fall into the opponent's trap, and the possibility of the entire army being annihilated is also possible, and it's not small.
As Qu Zhengyan launched his attack on Jiange, the forces within the Southwest Fifth Army were already being mobilized bit by bit. Ning Yi, like a miser, further mobilized the already extremely tense force structure.
, on the one hand, they tried to organize more militiamen to go forward; on the other hand, they mobilized more than a thousand people from the already stretched troops and prepared to march to Jiange.
The whole process was a race against time, and the transfer and new arrangements were completed within three days. During this period, there were some unspeakable placements that were once criticized by later generations. Ning Yi concentrated the reduction of troops on the guards of several prisoner camps.
At the same time, the armed status of nearby troops was strengthened in a targeted manner. When the staff reported this, 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."
Faced with the tense and uncontrollable situation outside Jianmen Pass, such a response showed that Ning Yi was ready to a certain extent to kill prisoners on a large scale, especially when he strengthened epidemic prevention forces near those prisoner camps with reduced troops.
The act of distributing epidemic prevention manuals further supports this speculation. This is to deal with the situation when a large number of corpses appear in the humid mountains. The Chinese Army soldiers who noticed this trend will be nervous in the next few days.
The speed has been raised to another level.
At the same time as the mobilization of troops, Hou Wu and Hou Yuanyong, who were responsible for guarding the prisoners, consciously revealed the entire political framework to the "leaders" among the prisoners. Especially Ning Yi's understatement of the order to "deal with the mutiny"
, has been rendered by people in various ways.
The strength of the Chinese army is indeed stretched thin, but the inner demon has put aside his mercy and is preparing to take more cruel measures... Such news spread among some middle-level and high-level personnel who still have reputation among the Jurchen prisoners, so the prisoners
The atmosphere in the room also became more tense and chilling. Death or resistance, this is the last...own choice that some Jin captives face in their lives.
On April 20th, Qu Zhengyan failed to capture Jiange as planned. Ning Yi lost his temper and asked someone to send a message to the front line: "Ask him, do you want me to do it myself?"
The Battle of Jiange ended on the afternoon of April 22nd. Balisu, who had been pushed to the edge, allowed the remaining Jin soldiers to surrender to the Chinese army, and then led eight guards to launch a charge.
This was his last charge. The nearby Chinese Army soldiers faced the enemy head-on. His personal guards were killed one by one by the Chinese Army. A Chinese Army platoon leader named Wang Dai and Ba Lisu started fighting each other.
Both sides had been injured in the previous battle, but Bali Su was eventually beheaded by Wang Dai in a pool of blood.
Ning Yi led more than 1,200 people and arrived at Jiange that afternoon. The straight-line distance between Jiange and Hanzhong is more than 300 miles. Considering that the road is winding, if you want to reach the battlefield, you will probably have to trek about 500 miles. He
He ordered more than 1,200 fresh troops to set out first and attack Zhaohua as quickly as possible: "Tell Wanyan Zonghan that I am coming to kill you."
On the same night, he was also in Jiange and received the preliminary battle report from the Hanzhong Plain. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan were stunned: "Are you kidding? Nianhan is micromanaging like this, how can he be so good at it!"
Qu Zhengyan didn't quite understand the meaning of "micro-management", but he just sighed: "The will of these Jurchens is very determined." The battle situation was at a disadvantage, and some strong men might have their hands cut off, or they might be completely defeated, but Zong Han didn't do that, and his troops continued to grow.
Throw it out, and you want to consume the Chinese Seventh Army. If this kind of will was placed on the people of the Wu Dynasty back then, there would have been no second southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom.
"...Zong Han doesn't want to engage in a large-scale decisive battle and throw out his troops like this. Each unit will only have some combat effectiveness during the first battle. Once defeated, he can only rely on these Jurchens to go home.
How determined is his will. I estimate that Zong Han may have set a mid-term goal, telling these people where to gather after they are defeated, and then use middle-level generals to collect the defeated troops, but the combat power of the defeated troops is limited... I think, he
At first, it may seem like a steady stream of troops, but after a certain level, the whole frame will collapse... General Qin also saw this possibility, so he simply chose to remain unchanged in response to changes, and fight slowly one at a time...
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Qu Zhengyan speculated the direction of the entire war on the map. The distance was too far, so such speculation may not be useful. But in general, the Seventh Army did not fall into the trap and collapsed directly. Generally speaking, it could still fight calmly. This is more or less
This relieved Ning Yi's anxiety.
"These losers..." When he occasionally scolded him like this, his tone sounded much better.
In the early morning of the 23rd, before dawn, 1,200 Chinese troops took advantage of the darkness to sneak attack and defeated the ancient city of Zhaohua, which was currently guarded by Han troops.
After the Jurchens left, there were about 20,000 Han troops guarding here, but their attack encountered almost no resistance. They seemed to have expected the arrival of the Chinese army. When the vanguard of the Chinese army climbed up quickly on ropes,
On the city wall, there was almost no fighting, and the Han army guards in the city were already kneeling in front of the black flag.
According to subsequent interrogations, some Han army leaders took the remaining gold and silver in the city and fled out of the city last night.
The troops who captured Jiange rested for a while. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan mobilized 800 fresh troops who were still capable of fighting and headed north to Zhaohua to join the vanguard.
At noon of the same day, Fan Hong'an, commander of the second battalion of the third regiment of the second division of the Chinese Seventh Army, led his team to trick the southern city gate of Hanzhong into opening: From a macro perspective, at this time, the tens of thousands of troops led by Zong Han were being attacked piece by piece by the Chinese army.
The heavy hammer smashed them into pieces, and some of the Jin soldiers who were defeated and separated fled towards Hanzhong. Since they had already considered failure in advance, it was impossible for the Jurchens to reject these defeated soldiers.
The circulation system woven by Zong Han in just a few days had problems in some operations. Fan Hongan took advantage of this loophole and began to build a position after seizing the city gate. In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Hai led more than 700 people.
Running wildly this way, he was also planning on Hanzhong, but Fan Hongan took the lead.
After that, Gao Qingyi led his team into the city from the west gate. Zong Han, Saba, Sheyema and others also moved here. In the afternoon, Qin Shaoqian also rushed to Hanzhong. Crowds were gathering continuously. Street fighting started in Hanzhong City. Outside the city
Then preparations for positional warfare began.
In the evening of that day, Wanyan Xiyin led a mighty fleet to appear on the Hanshui River east of Hanzhong. The army he led went into battle. This was the last ten thousand living force that the Jurchen West Route Army could use. After learning about this
As soon as the war broke out, he put aside his plan to besiege Qi Xinhan near Xiangfan and mobilized his fleet to move westward against the Han River. At this moment, his appearance put tremendous pressure on the Seventh Army on the battlefield in Hanzhong.
From last year to this year, Wanyan Xiyin's existence was indeed the most troublesome thing for the Seventh Army. Even though the Seventh Army was powerful, Xiyin's response was always the most correct and difficult part.
At first, the remnants of the Seventh Army attacked Zhaohua and started a round of fighting with the Tushan Guards. However, Xi Yin mobilized hundreds of thousands of Han army cannon fodder, which made the Seventh Army's attack in vain. This year, he manipulated the situation in Xiangfan and made countless more enemies.
After the Wan Han army retreated, even Qi Xinhan marched thousands of miles at great risk and finally fell into a trap. The resistance in the green forests near Xiangfan was wiped out.
Facing such an enemy is just like facing Ning Yi. Although he is not afraid of the combat power, no one knows when he will fall into a pit. Psychologically, there will still be pressure.
But fortunately, another round of news has also arrived.
The Chinese Fifth Army defeated Jiange, killed Ba Lisu, and then defeated Zhaohua. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyanzheng led the team and ran towards Hanzhong. Once the inner demon caught the tail, Wangyuan Bridge was
The defeat may happen again on the banks of the Han River.
On March 24, the Han troops in the east and south of the Han River, Xiangfan and other places were still unable to judge from the intelligence which side the Seventh Chinese Army and Zong Han's brigade had the upper hand, but Ning Yi killed the sword.
The news about the gate has spread to a thousand miles.
At this time, Dai Mengwei and others had not yet completed the reception of a large number of Jurchen supplies and personnel south of Xiangfan, and the story of him "saving" millions of people was only in the early stages of publicity. On this day, people gathered near Xicheng County,
Not long after he pledged his allegiance to Dai Mengwei, various Han generals met and exchanged news privately.
"The inner demon came out of the sword pavilion... and headed towards Hanzhong..."
When people talk about this matter, their faces and tone are pale and serious...