Just like the ordinary and long life you have been living, one day in that long and almost boring process, you have almost adapted to this place where you have everything. You walk, chat, eat, drink water, plow the land,
Harvesting, sleeping, repairing, talking, playing, passing by neighbors, and seeing the same scenery day after day, seemingly unchanged from time immemorial...
Someone suddenly pulls you out of this natural state of affairs.
Of course, if you are not mentally prepared, it is almost something that you will never have no matter how early you build it. You feel angry, angry... and then you see the neighbor's head and scarlet blood. Your head and soul cannot accept and accommodate this.
All in all, in your long life that seems to be guided by the principles of heaven and earth, the most blood you have ever seen is just the result of pushing and shoving when neighbors fight, or the cheers brought by the county when talking about bandit killers.
Execution. Is there really such evil in the world? Why does it come on this day? Why do you let yourself encounter it when you are born in the world?
It will take a long time to figure all this out...
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Zhou Yuanpu is a young official in the suburbs of Qingchuan County, west of Jiange. The Zhou family has lived in Qingchuan for a long time, and his ancestors have been elected. They live in this small place, with hundreds of acres of fertile land in their family, and they can be regarded as heirlooms of poetry and calligraphy.
Although it is adjacent to the dangerous pass of Jiange, the southwest has not experienced war for two hundred years. The terrain of Jiange Chuchuan is rugged, and there are occasional bandits in the mountains, but they are not serious. In recent years, whether it is the interests of trade with the southwest
Both the group and Si Zhongxian, who was guarding Jiange, were deliberately maintaining order on this road. Qingchuan and other places were as safe as a paradise.
Zhou Yuanpu lived to the age of twenty-four, inherited a relatively wealthy family business, married a wife and a concubine, and had a son and a daughter. His daughter was six years old and his son was four years old. He came here safely and happily.
All this was not lost slowly.
In the past few days, people in nearby villages and counties occasionally talked about the war that seemed extremely far away. Some people talked about the Jurchens' brutality and considered whether to leave. Others said that no matter where the Jurchens occupied, it would not matter.
Don’t we have to leave some people to grow some food?
Such comments were just sporadic and did not cause excessive reactions from most people. Zhou Yuanpu only thought about it seriously in his mind a few times.
Late at night on October 17th, he was suddenly dragged out of bed while he was in a dazed sleep. Most of the bandits who rushed into the yard looked like Han soldiers, only the leading ones were wearing strange foreign clothes.
At that time, the village outside was already crying and shouting. These people seemed to think that Zhou Yuanpu was a member of the Communist Party of China from a better-off family, and brought the "adults" of the Jurchens over to search.
Zhou Yuanpu, his wife, concubines, children, and servants were pulled out of the room. One of the Han leaders asked him where he kept the grain and where the family's money and belongings were hidden. Zhou Yuanpu was still confused, but the foreigners didn't say much. They dragged him away from home.
One of his servants hung the man on a tree and cut open his stomach with a knife. The smell of blood frightened everyone.
Zhou Yuanpu then told where the food was stored in his home, where calligraphy, paintings, antiques, gold and silver were collected. He cried and said, "I will give you everything, don't kill anyone." When everyone went to search, the foreigners dragged his wife into the room.
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The wife cried and resisted, and the foreigner slapped her on the head. The woman hit her head on the steps, vomited blood in her mouth, and her eyes became distracted. The daughter who saw her mother's accident rushed up, hugged her mother's legs and wanted to bite her.
The foreigner killed the little girl with one knife and then dragged his concubine inside.
The concubine did not dare to resist. Several foreigners went in one after another, and then others took turns. The wife was lying on the ground twitching, and her eyes seemed to be responsive. Zhou Yuanpu wanted to go over, but was knocked to the ground. He hugged the four-year-old
My son was completely unresponsive, and he was just thinking: Could this be a nightmare at night?
The night became darker and darker, and the cries and howls outside gradually became fainter. Zhou Yuanpu could not see the concubine in the room again. His wife with blood on her head was lying under the eaves in the courtyard, her eyes seemed to be watching
He also looked at the young child. Zhou Yuanpu knelt on the ground, crying and pleading. Soon after, he was dragged out of the bloody courtyard. He held his young son tightly in his arms, and the last thing he saw was,
He never saw his wife lying under the cold roof, and the concubine in the room again.
Fog rose in the long mountain road, and people were tied up with ropes and driven together. As they walked forward, some people were killed on the side of the road.
It all seems so unreal.
In the next few days of confusion, Zhou Yuanpu thought more than once, is his daughter dead? Is his wife dead? The scene of people being disemboweled flashed through his mind. Isn't this what the world should be like?
Woolen cloth?
Didn't we agree that no matter where we occupy, we must leave people to grow some food?
I gave you food, treasures, and all your savings. Why is it not enough?
The fog in the mountains came and went. As he walked along the slippery mountain road with his child in his arms, he was handed some gruel like a pig's dumpling in the middle. The child seemed to be frightened and did not cry too much.
They followed the army forward, and then, at some point, strange things appeared in front of people's eyes. The low walls of the old county town, the rows of ditches on the hills outside the county town, and the black stretching military flags. They
They were surrounded and guarded for a day or two, and then someone drove them forward.
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Huangming County.
When he saw the position on the opposite side beginning to move, Pang Liu'an, who was standing on top of the city wall, put down his telescope.
The entire Second Division of the Chinese Fifth Army, which came from Zizhou, has now completed its garrison here. In the past few days, Jurchen brigades have been arriving one after another. They can be seen among the many banners on the opposite side, responsible for Huangming County.
The main force on the battlefield is the core team of Jurchen veteran General Ba Lisu.
In the open space in front of Huangming County, the mountains could not accommodate too many troops. As the Jurchen army came one after another, the trees on the surrounding mountains fell and quickly turned into defensive fortifications and fences. The hot air balloons on both sides rose.
Watching the movement on the other side.
While Pang Liu'an was watching on the city wall, he could also vaguely see the generals patrolling on the opposite slope. Regarding the mobilization of the battlefield, both sides were doing it. The soldiers of the Chinese Army who were responsible for defending the positions inside and outside Huangming County were doing their job step by step in silence.
The garrison is being prepared. In the military camp opposite, you can occasionally see groups of fierce warriors gathering and roaring.
Siege equipment and stone-throwing vehicles were quickly assembled within sight.
A head-on confrontation with the main force of the army with the strongest record in this era is officially included in the field of vision.
On the morning of October 25th, Ba Lisu issued an order in the military camp.
"Try them."
The people who were used as cannon fodder were driven away.
Pang Liuan put down the telescope and clenched his fist: "Fuck."
The cannon muzzle on the city head adjusted its direction slightly, and the war drums sounded.
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On the battlefield where the two armies faced each other, people cried and shouted.
Zhou Yuanpu held the child in his arms and was unknowingly pushed to the front by the crowded crowd. There were sounds of murder on both sides of the field of vision.
Zhou Yuanpu's head came to his senses a little.
"Let my child go"
He raised his four-year-old son and cried with all his strength in front of the two armies. However, countless people were crying, and his voice was immediately drowned.
Soon after, the four-year-old child was trampled to death in the crowd and running.
In the short time that passed by suddenly, life's experiences were separated by the distance between heaven and earth. In less than half an hour after the war in Huangming County began on October 25, the entire family that once had Zhou Yuanpu as its pillar had already
Completely disappeared from this world. No care was given, and no preferential treatment was given to women and children.
This is a microcosm of the experiences of thousands of families and people near Jiange. Even if some people are lucky enough to survive, this experience will completely change their lives.
However, no matter how great the anger is, it will not stir up any ripples in the battlefield in front of us. People with countless family interests, tendencies, and wills from all over the world are hedging under this sky.
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In the winter of the last year of Jian Shuo of the Wu Dynasty, the great war that broke out among the mountains in the southwest and determined the trend of the entire world was like an elegy for a great empire that lasted for more than two hundred years, and like a new era.
The era is nurtured by the sound of explosions. It is like a great river coming from afar, surging, yet steady and solid.
People know that all accumulation and silence will be revealed here.
For this battle, the Jurchens made all preparations.
Following Wanyan Zonghan's order, hundreds of thousands of troops began to move forward in an orderly manner. At this time, the first batch of engineering teams had already explored and built roads, and the vanguard troops, mainly composed of Jurchen elites, had also
Occupying a key position along the way.
The two roads from Jiange to Huangming County and to Yuyuxi are more than fifty miles each. The mountain road, which is neither long nor short, used to be only responsible for the passage of caravans. With the size of hundreds of thousands of troops, it was immediately
It seems fragile.
Only on the third day after the army officially broke camp, the forward troops led by Ba Lisu and Nianlili each arrived at the scheduled fighting position and began to choose places to camp. And countless troops were on the mountain road that was dozens of miles long.
It spread like a dragon, the mountains were cold in winter, and the originally solid mountain roads soon became muddy, but Han Qixian, Gao Qingyi and other generals had already prepared for these things.
Zou Hu had no objection to this.
He was born as a hunter in the mountains and was poor when he was a child. However, under his father's careful guidance, he developed the ability to cross mountains and ridges. He joined the army when he was more than ten years old. He was in good health and had seen blood. He was regarded as a tiger warrior in the army.
Elite training.
Hou Ji is a general with a traditional temperament, and military training pays attention to a fierce temperament. He thinks that without the temperament of a tiger or a wolf, how can he go into battle to kill the enemy? In the past ten years, the resources of the Wu Dynasty began to be tilted towards the army, and leaders like Hou Ji also got
With the support of some officials, it is not uncommon for soldiers to be domineering and bully villagers under the command of Hou Ji. Zou Hu's temperament was quite simple at first. After more than ten years in such an environment, his temperament has already changed.
Got to be brutal.
A wolf travels a thousand miles to eat meat, and a dog travels a thousand miles to eat shit. In this world, the weak eat the strong, and those who cannot hold a knife should be bullied.
Those who are paid, risking their lives to fight at the front, while others hide behind and enjoy the blessings. Under such circumstances, if you can't get any benefits, it would be really unfair.
The elite men under Hou Ji have always lived in the presence of such voices. When it came to some friction and competition, his group of ferocious tigers and wolves could earn some face. This made them even more determined.
gained faith.
Later, when the army mobilized the Xiangfan defense line and Yue Fei tightened military discipline without acknowledging his relatives, Hou Ji became one of the targets. The Xiangfan battle was already fierce, and the pressure on the front line was not small. Zou Hu thought he was sent out every time, even though he was sent out a few times.
Most people try to survive by tying their heads to the waistband of their pants. How can they endure being held back by others behind them?
Later, when the war situation developed, all the camps around Xiangfan were pulled out, and Hou Ji surrendered at the front line. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Speaking of ordinary times, for the people like themselves who worked hard on the front line, the imperial court put Yue Fei and these young men with green mouth and white teeth in high priority.
The officials' random commanding behavior only added fuel to the fire. They even said that Yue Fei's son was probably having an affair with the lascivious eldest princess in the court, so he was promoted, or he had some unclear relationship with that bullshit prince...
How can the imperial court not be destroyed if it is so ignorant?
After joining the Jurchen army, life became much easier. On the way from Xiangfan to Jiange, although the really wealthy big towns were all raided by the Jurchens, as an elite scout unit under Hou Ji, everyone could always
Some oil and water were obtained and there were almost no enemies. Facing the advance of the old Jurchen commander Wanyan Zonghan, after the Xiangfan defense line was defeated, what followed was a devastation all the way. Even if there were occasional ones who dared to resist, in fact the resistance was extremely weak.
When a man is born into the world, fighting like this is a refreshing experience!
Everyone talked about it every day and said to each other that this was a good employer. Hou Ji didn't have much affection for the Wu Dynasty. He had been poor since he was a child and was always bullied by landlords in the mountains. After he became a soldier, he bullied others. He had already convinced himself
This is the ultimate principle of heaven and earth.
After several months of seeking refuge with the Jurchens, Hou Ji gradually became able to speak more "reasonable" words when talking to his brothers. For example, the decay and destruction of the Wu Dynasty was the destiny of heaven and earth, and the rise of the Jin Dynasty was in line with the destiny of the world.
, this time following Da Jin, future generations will have two to three hundred years of blessings. You can understand it clearly by comparing it to the Wu Dynasty. If you all choose sides in time and make achievements, you will have a place in this world in the future.
In short, after fighting this battle, you will enjoy happiness!
In August and September, large armies arrived at Jiange one after another, and all the Han troops were naturally afraid. Jiange's majestic pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Once the battle started, most of the Han troops who had surrendered would be regarded as the first to enter the battle. However,
Not long after, Jiange actually opened the door and surrendered. Doesn't this further prove that our Kingdom of Jin has its destiny?
Without the Jiange, the battle in the southwest would be half successful.
In October, the army gradually passed the border. The main force under Hou Ji's command was arranged to hold the battle behind Jiange to transport food. Zou Hu and other elite scouts were sent in first. On October 12th, the military civilian officials registered and reviewed everyone's roster and information.
, Zou Hu understood that this was a preparation to prevent them from defecting or surrendering to the enemy before the battle. Then, scouts from each army were gathered.
Tens of thousands of elite scouts were mobilized, including more than two thousand elite veterans among the Jurchens. The person responsible for leading the scout troops was Yu Yu, a veteran of the Jin Kingdom.
"...There are more than 10,000 scouts alone...the war to destroy the country is set up..."
When talking to the brothers around him, Zou Hu imitated the tone he usually heard when reading poems and watching plays. His words were quite frivolous, but he could not help but feel shocked and proud in his heart.
"...The black flag ahead is not something to be trifled with."
When someone in the team said this, Zou Hu also nodded and took out his mantra: "A wolf travels a thousand miles to eat meat, and a dog travels a thousand miles to eat shit. Don't you all see enough of the truth in this world? The commander has raised us for so many years.
You keep everything secret, why? If you are fierce enough, you will have something to eat... The Wu Dynasty has been out of business for a long time. The man surnamed Ning is indeed fierce. He killed the emperor. Isn't it that we couldn't stand those guys and rebelled?
You are surrounded by the most ferocious people in the world... In the future, whether you will eat meat or eat shit, no one will be able to gossip after fighting in the Southwest."
"...Why are we the ones who come in, while the others are arranged to transport food outside the Jiange? Because...this is where only the most vicious people can come in!"
Zou Hu cheered up his soldiers like this, feeling both fear and excitement in his heart. After joining the Jurchens, he was quite concerned about the reputation of being a traitor. He was not a traitor, nor a coward. He was a close friend of the Jurchens.
Generally, ferocious warriors and the court's stupidity forced their own gang to rebel! Just like the inner demon Ning Yi!
Now everyone is gathered in the southwest. This is the battlefield for the most powerful people in the world. After fighting this battle and earning great fame, people in the world will naturally look at you with admiration. Of course, by that time, you don’t have to explain yourself.
What, the world is full of money, and there will naturally be wealth waiting in front of you.
The scout troops assembled and the Jurchen general Yu Yu inspected the high platform, Zou Hu confirmed this. On the campus where he was inspected, there were elite tiger warriors everywhere. They belonged to the Jurchen scout team.
At first glance, he is the toughest veteran who has walked through the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood. This is one of the troops that Wanyan Zonghandu relies on the most.
In addition, the teams of Bohai people, Liao people, and Liaodong Han people are also the most elite scout members in the world at this time. Even if they are selected from the various surrendered armies, who among them does not have countless hands on their hands?
The elite among the elite who donate blood are a little less qualified. They are only qualified to plunder and keep food in the rear. They can't even enter the sword pavilion because it's too damn crowded here.
If such a lineup kills you, how can your side lose?
The Jurchens announced to the scouts the details of how to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service, and the scout troops were soon sent out in batches. Near the mountain road that was dozens of miles long, the first thing the surrounding scouts had to build was a hundred-foot-long defense line.
This was to prevent the black flag scout troops from sneak attacks on the Jurchen generals and damage to the roads, and the most elite group of people were released into the rugged mountains to find passable paths.
The mountains near Jiange are surrounded by mountains, making it difficult for vehicles and horses to move. However, after passing the most rugged Xiaojian Mountain pass of Dajian Mountain, although there are cliffs, it does not mean that it is completely impossible to walk. The Jurchen army has enough manpower. If they can find a way
Coming through a narrow road, and then letting the insignificant Han army pass by, no matter whether the damage is huge or not, will completely defeat the undermanned Black Flag Army's blocking plan.
Because his own strength was not yet trusted, Zou Hu and the people around him were initially placed on fixed posts relatively far back. They squatted on the commanding heights among the rugged mountains, and there were still enough manpower to respond. Such an arrangement was not dangerous.
Not much, as the friction ahead continues to intensify, some in the team are happy, and some are restless. They are all elites in the army, and most of them have special skills in walking in the mountains to survive. Many of them are eager to show it off and make something dazzling.
results.
The Han army may be far inferior to the Jurchens on the battlefield. They are just a bunch of soldiers who can't hold up the wall. But when it comes to individual soldier skills, after all, there are a lot of high-spirited characters among the scouts. Some of them are
Running in the mountains for a day is not tiring, some are walking across the mountains and ridges as if walking on flat ground, some are good at hiding, some are so murderous that ferocious beasts tremble at the sight of them, some traps are so well laid that it is difficult for ordinary people to avoid them, they have also received attention in the past
, now that we have surrendered, we naturally want to show off our skills to scare those Jurchens who have their eyes high above their heads.
Starting from Jiange to Huangming County, after walking ten miles, there is a relatively open settlement called Shiliji, which has been expanded into a military camp. The place guarded by Zou Hu's team is in the nearby mountains.
The densely packed soldiers were cutting down the trees, changing their appearance every day, as if they had the power to move mountains and reclaim seas.
He rested in the military camp near Shiliji every night. Not far away was another camp where elites gathered: it was a gathering place for the Jianghu people who belonged to the Jurchens. There were about 800 people.
Among the green forest masters who joined Zong Han one after another in the year, some of them had a grudge against Black Flag, and some even participated in the Xiaocang River War that year. The leading group among them all made great achievements in the war that year.
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Most of these Green Foresters are Han Chinese, and people from both sides occasionally interact with each other. Many of the Green Foresters have unique martial arts skills. Originally, their eyes were higher than the top. Zou Hu and other elite scouts also had unique skills. When they showed each other, they all saved a point.
Respect. On the other side, one of the leaders was a green forest tycoon named Ren Hengchong, nicknamed "Blood Covering Divine Fist". He met Zou Hu and hit it off. When chatting, he talked about the Chinese army in front and said: "Ning Ning
Yi is nothing special. He was forced to be like Sun Tzu in Bianliang. Even in Xiaocanghe, I killed many of his subordinates."
Only then did Zou Hu know that the other party had known Ning Yi in Bianliang and had achieved success in the battle of Xiaocanghe. He immediately asked for advice. Ren Hengchong then talked about the battle with the Chinese army at Xiaocanghe, and also talked about his past.
He fell in love with Ning Yi in the capital, and later vowed to kill Ning Yi.
Before this, many green forest people had fallen into Ning Yi's hands because of this matter. Ren Hengchong learned his lesson and did not face Ning Yi recklessly. During the battle of Xiaocang River, he led a group of disciples and disciples into the mountains, holding hands
He killed many members of the Chinese Army. His original nickname was "Red Fist", but later he became "Blood Covering Divine Fist" to show his domineering power.
After the Battle of Xiaocanghe, Ren Hengchong was appreciated by the Jurchens and secretly funded him, specializing in studying against the Chinese army. After the Chinese army moved to the southwest, Ren Hengchong came several times to do sabotage, but was not caught.
Last year, the Chinese army issued an order to eliminate traitors and compiled a list. Ren Hengchong was placed on the list, and his worth soared. This time, he was brought over as an elite during the Southern Expedition.
Ren Hengchong was a man of great ambition. He was successful in martial arts and was proud of himself for half his life. At that time, the situation in Bianliang was changing rapidly, and the leader of the Great Guangming Sect mobilized all the powerful men from all over the world to come to Beijing. Ren Hengchong came to Beijing as the leader of Huainan Green Forest.
At that time, he had been famous for more than ten years and was known as a famous figure in the green forest. In fact, he was only in his early thirties. He was really high-spirited and had a bright future. Some of the people who came to Beijing at that time were old. Even if they were more powerful in martial arts, he did not care about them.
In eyes.
At that time, Ren Hengchong believed that he would become a great martial arts master like Zhou Tong, Fang La, and Lin Zongwu in the future. At that time, the powerful Qin Siyuan stepped down, and the Jurchens were pushed back.
The land is vast, just waiting for him to perform on stage. Unexpectedly, a group of people later hunted Qin Siyuan, and everything was ruined in that massacre.
That day in the field outside Bianliang City, Ren Hengchong and others saw the inner demon Ning Yi standing on the slope in the distance, looking at them with a pale face and resentment. Lin Zongwu and others walked up and laughed at him.
Hengchong thought about challenging the big devil who was rumored to have the status of "grandmaster". All he thought about was making a big splash, but the next moment countless cavalry jumped out from behind.
Even Lin Zongwu, the best in the world, turned around and ran away at that time. Ren Hengchong was nicknamed "Red Fist", but in the face of the collision of the cavalry, his boxing skills were useless. He was collided by the horse and fell to the ground and was broken to pieces.
A tooth, his mouth full of blood, and then he was dragged and rubbed on the ground, his pants were worn off, and he was covered in wounds. A group of green forest people were chased by the cavalry until night, and he pretended to be dead among the corpses with his bare buttocks and buttocks
He was stabbed in the body and didn't dare to move, thus saving his life.
For Ren Hengchong, who had been pampered since he was a child, this was the most humiliating moment in his life. No one knew it, but since then, he has become more and more self-esteem. He tried his best to fight against the Chinese army and the reckless Green Forest people.
Different, after that massacre, Ren Hengchong understood the importance of the army and organization. He trained his disciples and disciples to cooperate with each other, secretly waiting for opportunities to kill people, and in this way weakened the power of the Chinese army. Because of this, he once received Wanyan
Xi Yin’s interview.
Even when faced with the Jurchens who were looking above their heads, Ren Hengchong felt that he was not at a disadvantage. The army finally reached the southwest, and he was holding back his energy to kill another group of Chinese army members just like Xiaocanghe did back then.
Li Wei, his heart was already boiling. When he talked about this matter with Zou Hu and others, he encouraged those Jurchens to see, "What does killing mean?"
In the past few days, the elite Jurchen scouts who went forward to explore the road have been injured one after another and were carried back. Some were injured by landmines, and some fell into the coordinated ambush of the Chinese army. As for the ferocity of the Chinese army, they have been
One after another, some people felt it.
Soon after, they got a chance to move forward.
On October 19, the vanguard troops had set up camp and built fortifications on the confrontation line. Yu Yu issued orders to more scouts, asking them to start advancing toward the border line in order to use their numerical advantage to kill the Chinese army's scouts.
, breaking through the Chinese army's mountain defense line with brute force.
Ren Hengchong led more than a hundred of his disciples and set out that day.
Zou Hu was among the next group. At this time, he hadn't felt much yet. As a scout team that had lagged behind, theoretically, even if they rushed to the front, there would not be many opportunities left for them. Chuan
The Shushan Mountains are complex, and there are only so many roads that can be walked. Thousands of people plowed forward in hundreds of batches, leaving little for the rear.
The mountain road was difficult to navigate, and the pressure from the elite scouts to push forward did not reach the frontline positions until two days later.
At this time, the person in charge of the Chinese army's scout troops was Fang Shuchang, who was born in Ba Dao. On the afternoon of the 20th, when he met with Chen Tian, the chief of staff of the Fourth Division, he received the attack order from the other party. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan were there
The saying is: "We are going to start a fight and blind their eyes."
At this time, there were more than 4,000 scout troops assigned to Fang Shuchang, half of whom were from the special operations team trained by Qu Zhengyan of the Fourth Division for infiltration, hunting, beheading and other purposes. The mountain road near Jiange,
The terrain had been repeatedly explored in the past six months, and the Fourth Division's staff had planned operations at almost every key location and coordinated with the plan. By the twentieth day, everything was completely determined.
Pre-departure arrangements and mobilization meetings were organized in the afternoon and evening of that day. On the 21st, in addition to the more than 1,500 people who were originally fighting in the mountains and the 500 reserve teams kept by Fang Shuchang, there were a total of 200 squad-based troops.
A large number of basic special operations units were thrown into the mountains ahead from different directions.