The dislocation of time will create dramatic scenes in the mountains spreading to the northwest.
The war near Yuyu Creek began tentatively in the early morning of this day.
Near noon, Nulili threw a large number of troops into the battlefield and began a strong attack on the front of the battlefield. This action was to cover his intention to lead his own troops to attack Yingzui Rock.
At half past noon, the rear road from Yuyu Creek to Huangtouyan was cut off by Chen Tian. The sound of arrows sent the message back to Yuyu Creek. Qu Zhengyan ordered the elite to rush out from various forks and launch a counterattack on the entire Yuyu Creek position.
The Yingzui Rock was blown apart, and the fight between Nurili and Mao Yishan instantly became intense.
At noon, the Jurchen frontline general Yu Yu led a highly mobile scout force to launch a counterattack in the direction of the mountain road intercepted by Chen Tian. Cooperating with it was the Dalai troops stationed at Huangtouyan behind the troops.
Yu Yu has a skinny build. He started out as a scout and can walk across mountains and ridges as if on flat ground. His pair of iron arms and steel fingers can break off rocks. Dalai is of medium build but strong. He kills people without calculation on the battlefield. He looks like a huge wild boar. Two of them.
The Jurchen general looked at the rugged mountain road, but his heart sank.
The scouts who sent messages to the rear were still running on the muddy and slippery road, and were still nearly thirty miles away from the commander-in-chief Wanyan Zonghan who was currently in charge of Shiliji.
At this moment when the winter rain falls, Shiliji is still a bustling scene. The originally small transit market is occupied by layers of military camps. Even if it rains, the transfer of various materials and the deployment of various armies are still there.
Continuously, teams waiting to set off were blocked in front of the camp. The generals and soldiers were waiting impatiently. They kept shouting on sunny days and in the rain. They yelled and cursed. If Han Qixian and others hadn't suppressed them, sometimes there would even be a fight.
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This situation has been going on for more than two months.
Zong Han felt comfortable with this phenomenon, but also frowned at it. What troubled him was not just the stalemate battlefield on the front line, but also the bad road conditions in the middle, and the pressure from the rear was also gradually coming here. On the 19th,
When the war started on the front line, he received a letter from Jin Emperor Wu Qimai.
Wu Qimai suffered a stroke and was paralyzed for more than a year. The Jurchens' southern expedition was originally a group of veteran ministers who were still there. The eastern and western courts maintained the last rational choice to provide guidance. Only Zongfu Zongwang
The purpose of the two is to compete for merit, while Zong Han and Xi Yin hope to use this expedition to solve the Jin Kingdom's last major concern - the power of the Southwest Chinese Army.
Wu Qimai's condition was already critical when he collapsed. Most of his body was paralyzed and he was only occasionally awake for more than a year. Now his physical condition is extremely bad. In October when he was preparing to start the war, Zong Han once wrote a book.
The envelope was delivered to the country. Wu Qimai in the palace asked someone around him to write this letter when he was awake for a while, and wrote this reply to Zong Han. In the letter, he recalled their military life and hoped that Zong Han and Xi Yin could be together in half a year.
The situation in the world should be calmed down within a certain period of time, because the situation in the Kingdom of Jin still requires them to come back and guard it.
Over the years, Wu Qimai has had a strong yet soft character and an extremely strong will. He proposed the half-year period because he may have realized that even if he forcibly extended his life, he would only have so much time.
The memories of the past in the letter were so sad that Wanyan Zonghan, who was already half white-haired, couldn't help but feel emotional. The differences between the Jurchen and Eastern courts and the struggle for power among the younger generations did exist. Starting from October, the people on the eastern battlefield Zongfu Zongbi had already arranged for the army to take more than 100,000 slaves back north, and in November another 100,000 people were driven away.
At that time, winter snow had begun to fall in the areas south of the Yangtze River. It was unknown how many of these Han slaves who were driven to the north like livestock could successfully reach the Kingdom of Jin.
Of course, Zong Han Xiyin also understood that these actions of Zongfu Zongbi were to take advantage of the army on the west route and be dragged in the southwest, and first bring the spoils back to the country, appease all parties, and reward them according to their merits.
These actions of the two juniors made Zong Han feel disdainful. Xi Yin proposed some countermeasures, but Zong Han just let him do it and did not want to interfere: just wait until the southwest is defeated, and everything else will be taken care of. If the war in the southwest is not going well, I have nothing to say when I get back. I just want to focus on the battle in the southwest, and all other minor matters will be decided by the God of Grain.
He wrote to Xiyin like this, but he was unwilling to participate in Xiyin's suggestion that he write letters to appease and win over the elderly from all walks of life in the country. At this time, when he received Wu Qimai's reply from his illness, Zong Han naturally felt a surge of pride in his heart. Since then, he has been fighting with A Guda all his life to establish the Kingdom of Jin. Even now, even in his twilight years, he does not pay attention to the thoughts of his younger generation.
He walked out of his tent and inspected the camp. It was almost dusk and the rain had gradually stopped. Only then did the changes in the battle situation on the front line spread across the distance of thirty miles to Shiliji.
At this time, in Yuyu Creek more than 40 miles away, blood was pooling in the pools, and corpses were covering the hills.
In the two months of fierce fighting at Yuyuxi, this was the first time that the Chinese Army launched a comprehensive counterattack. The main force of the 4th Division led by Qu Zhengyan and the 5th Division led by Yu Zhongdao participated in this battle with a total of more than 14,000 people.
When the elite Chinese troops commanded by Qu Zhengyan rushed out from various mountain passes, the Han troops in various parts of the battlefield were first defeated by the sudden counterattack. The backbone of the Jin army, partly composed of Jurchens, Bohai people, and Liaodong people, stood there. In the chaotic fighting, they persisted with ferocity for a while, but as the casualties increased to more than 10%, most of these armies also showed signs of decline. Afterwards, they either collapsed or chose to retreat.
For the current battle, Qu Zhengyan secretly observed the offensive patterns in the river for two months and recorded the recurring problems of various armies in Yuyuxi from rotation to rotation. He had been preparing for a long time. But the so-called first step of the battle After all, we still need to be prepared to use the hard power of hitting the iron felt with a hammer.
On this afternoon, the forces of the two sides fighting head-on were officially weighed on the balance of the balance in a fair collision.
The initial battle also had the heaviest casualties.
In order to cover Nurili's strong attack on Yingzui Rock, several positions on the battlefield encountered large-scale attacks on this day. The Jurchens set up their formations in the muddy water. The most intense attack was on the second position near Yingzui Rock. At position No. 1, the defending Chinese army was even broken through the defense line for a time, and almost failed to regain the position.
With the bold attack of Qu Zhengyan's troops, the soldiers of the Han army who participated in the attack may have been a little timid, but the main force of the Jin army, who had been tired of the two months of setbacks in the attack, only felt excited that the opportunity had arrived.
The troops brought out by brave generals like Nuri will not be afraid of frontal decisive battles. In the eyes of the middle-level generals in the army, as long as they defeat the opponent's attack head-on, all problems will be solved.
The rainfall was accompanied by seeping mud, and the terrain around Yuyu Creek was complicated. During the initial attack by Qu Zhengyan's troops, the Jin soldiers readily faced it, and eight or nine small and medium-sized confrontation points were formed on the huge battlefield with a radius of several miles.
The two sides were either steady or anxious, attacking or defending. The front line of the shield wall, composed of more than ten or dozens of people, rushed and collided with each other in the blink of an eye.
The clash of gold and iron made a heart-stopping muffled sound in the rain in the mountains, and the sound of fighting roared to the surrounding mountains. On the front line of the battle, the fighting was like a meat grinding machine, swallowing up the advancing lives, rushing forward
Before the soldiers fell down, their companions in the rear had already caught up with them, and the people's roars and spittle were filled with blood. In the confrontation of unwillingness to give in, the Chinese army was like this, and the Jurchen soldiers were like this too.
There is not much bells and whistles in this kind of weighing. In the past twenty years, the Jurchens have almost always won such a confrontation.
But this time, the Jurchen formation was retreating.
This kind of hedging showed fierce and surging power at the first moment, but the subsequent changes were also extremely rapid and obvious in the eyes of many people. The front line moved back a little, and some middle-level generals with the most seniority among the Jurchens and unreasonable murderers led
The guards launched an attack, and their collision boosted morale, but soon after, these generals and their veterans were also swallowed up by the mincing front.
During the period from the confrontation to the collapse of one side, people were either panicked or excited, and many thoughts did not even come to a conclusion in their hearts. The Jurchen generals personally threw themselves into it according to the predetermined program - because they had done it time and time again in the past.
In a frontal battle, this choice was the best. By the time they were swallowed up, the battle line turned from trembling to an avalanche, and the changes did not leave many traces in people's hearts. Then the survivors could only turn around and flee with the running soldiers.
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The battlefield is like this. Individual abilities often cannot control the development of the battle. People are coerced into doing what they should do with a positive attitude, while passive people can only follow their peers. In this moment of head-on confrontation in the afternoon, both sides suffered
Huge losses, the Jurchen side's position was torn apart from the front soon after.
They retreated and fought, and the battle then rushed to the nearby mountains and valleys like a tidal wave.
After all, the terrain of Yuyu Creek is not open. The main force of the Jurchens was pushed away in this fierce attack, and the Han army was defeated even more completely. Although their number was not that many on the entire battlefield
, but due to the narrowness of many mountain roads, a large number of defeated troops still formed a situation like a rolled-up bead curtain in the crowd. Their defeat blocked the passage of some of the main forces of the Jin army, and were subsequently killed by the Jin people with decisive swords.
In some places, the Jin people formed shield walls to not only defend against possible attacks by the Chinese army, but also to prevent the escape of these Han army troops.
This fierce battlefield like an oven has suddenly become a nightmare for the weak.
Part of the defeated Han army was suppressed and killed by the Huaxia Army and the Jin soldiers. After their way was intercepted, some people chose a relatively open place to kneel down with their heads in their hands. At this time, the soldiers of the Fifth Division who were originally guarding the position also participated in the comprehensive attack.
During the attack, Qu Zhengyan led the staff and quickly collected the Han troops who surrendered in the heavy rain.
"...the back road from Yuyu Creek to Huangtouyan has been cut off. Dalai's army will not be able to gain a foothold in Yuyu Creek within ten days and a half. The Jurchens - including you - 50,000 people on the front line have been captured.
I will divide and defeat them! Tonight, as soon as the rain stops, I will knock on the Jurchen camp! There will be some who are stubborn, and there will be those who will resist! We will bury them in Yuyu Creek at all costs!"
"You! As Han people! Raise your sword to your compatriots! The Chinese army will not condone such a heinous crime. In the southwest, you only deserve to be thrown into the mountains to dig mines! Some of you will be publicly tried and cut to pieces
!Why? Kneel here and regret? Regret that you threw away the knife so quickly? Our Chinese army is not afraid that you have a knife! Even the most ferocious Jurchen army, today, we will defeat him head-on! If you don’t surrender, we will defeat you head-on!
But you put down your sword, and on today's battlefield, I will give you a chance!"
"There is only one chance!" Qu Zhengyan shouted in the rain, "Some of you can pick up the sword and return to the Jurchens' military camp! Take the Jurchens' heads to atone for your past sins! Others of you can
Some people, we will also give you knives. On the hills around here, at this moment, those people who are still running away and still resisting, I want you to take them down! They are men, go and earn one for yourself.
Life!"
The staff officers who were doing more detailed work walked through the surrendering troops, picked out some of the leading officers, registered the information, and gave face-to-face instructions. Some soldiers were given back their weapons and weapons again.
At this time, the fighting on various roads in the mountains has not stopped, and some Jurchen soldiers were forced into the dead end of the mountains to resist. On this side, Qu Zhengyan's voice sounded, "...We are not afraid of you being conceited! We are not afraid of you fighting us again! Today
As soon as the rain stops, our cannons will make the Yuxi Creek position no longer exist! At that time, we will work with you to settle today's account! There is no other way to go! Pick up the knife and be an upright Han Chinese!
An upright man! Otherwise, you will all die here——"
Within three moments, the first batch of Han soldiers were incited to rebel in the grove near Yuyu Creek and joined the counterattack against the Jurchens. Since the Jurchen army chose to attack at the first time during the head-on confrontation, by the time
At this time, most of the combat troops were still unable to return to camp.
——Due to the terrain of Yuyu Creek, the Jurchen camp on this side is not placed in front of the city like Huangming County. Since it can launch attacks in several directions at the same time, the Jurchen camp is placed more than three miles away.
On the hillside, the road to Huangtou Rock is guarded at the rear.
In the mountains, forests and lowlands, which are less than four miles away in a straight line but the actual terrain is complex and changeable, the Chinese army, which has already calculated the combat steps, selected several key points. For example, the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division was heaviest.
, led by the regiment leader Shen Changye, after easily breaking through the obstruction of the two parallel-imported troops, they directly entered the most critical valley on the way of the Jurchens' withdrawal.
The valley that usually exists quietly in this mountain has no name yet. Shen Changye's thousand-man regiment set up a defense line in the rain. When he came in, the Jurchens on the battlefield had not carefully considered the idea of retreating, but not long after On this afternoon, Shen Changye's troops encountered as many as eleven attacks in this canyon, repeated like a tidal wave.
Bodies piled up into hills in the canyon, and the thick blood dyed the water under their feet red. After this day, the canyon was named "Victory Gorge".
The first regiment of the 2nd Brigade under Qu Zhengyan also became the unit with the largest attrition in the entire battlefield. Nearly 50% of the soldiers slept in this bright red canyon forever.
At the end of Shenshi (3pm to 5pm), the rain has gradually stopped, and the sounds of stubborn resistance in the mountains have gradually become smaller. At this time, the news of Nie Lili's death has spread throughout the Yuyu River. The access road from the main camp to Huangtouyan has been destroyed, which means that reinforcements from Dalai in the rear are difficult to reach. The two main roads returning to the military camp from the battlefield were repeatedly fought over by the Chinese army and the Jurchens. Some people fled back to the main camp by taking small roads, and many troops They were all forced into a desperate situation. Some powerful Jurchen troops formed formations and stood firm, while a large number of surviving troops chose to surrender.
Including the main force of the Jin army and the Han army, the number of direct casualties of the Jin army in this battle was close to 8,000. In addition, about 15,000 people were captured on the spot, disarmed and taken to the rear.
The Chinese army also suffered a lot of damage, but as the rain gradually subsided, Qu Zhengyan asked people to drag the last remaining cannons into the mountains. Some of them would be used to deal with the Jurchen elites who were stubbornly resisting, and some of them would be dragged towards the Jurchens. Camp.
The packhorses used to carry the load dragged dry firewood through the bloody battlefield. After arriving at the outskirts of the Jurchen camp, Qu Zhengyan directed the soldiers to light piles of bonfires at the upwind point. After the bonfires were lined up, wet firewood was added, and a A line of black smoke climbed up the hillside toward the Jurchen camp.
This Jurchen camp was not attacked in the two months after it was set up. Many of its structures were still intact, including wooden walls and awnings filled with artillery fire. However, Qu Zhengyan was not afraid and fought at Yuyu Creek. At the most intense moment, some of the "broken troops" had already retreated "back" toward the camp, and as the black smoke lingered, horse teams carrying explosive packs also came over one after another.
As long as Dalai's reinforcements cannot arrive, the fear will ferment in the military camp ahead that night. Tonight, tomorrow at the latest, he will knock on the wooden city wall and stretch the Jurchens to the Yuyu River. The snake head, chop it off severely and completely!