Speaking of which! How big is the Yanshan area where Fengrui, Zhan Xiang, and Ali currently live?
It allows them to bring many refugees with them, and under the control of the Ever-Victorious Army for many years, they can stay in it for so many years; their life becomes more and more prosperous day by day.
So even though it is in the Northland, the area is certainly not small.
Essentially speaking, the mountains to the south of the Bashang Plateau, to the north of the Hebei Plain, to the east of the Baihe River Valley, and to the west of Shanhaiguan actually belong to the Yanshan Mountains.
To sum it up, it is 420 kilometers long from east to west and almost 200 kilometers wide from north to south.
With a radius of more than 80,000 square kilometers, it is the largest area.
Most of the altitudes are between 600 and 1,500 meters. The altitude of the main peak, Donghouding, reaches 2,292.6 meters.
In the past, Fengrui and the others either took advantage of the dangerous terrain and built some fortifications and passes at some dangerous places into the mountains to prevent the Evervictorious Army from entering the mountains.
Or, relying on the familiarity of the terrain and some secret camps arranged in advance.
Leading the victorious army in circles in the mountains, and when they are dragged until they are very tired mentally and physically, then the guys will take the opportunity to kill them from all sides.
These opponents who entered the mountains to encircle and suppress them were severely defeated and had to retreat.
After suffering too many losses, the Ever Victorious Army went into the mountains less and less frequently for encirclement and suppression operations.
After all, while it is difficult for the Evervictorious Army to enter, it also means that as long as the Evervictorious Army controls such important places, it will also be difficult for the Yanshan refugees to come out.
After fighting, there was a tacit understanding between the two parties.
They could also use the large amount of supplies brought back during the evacuation by Fengrui and others who took the opportunity to capture many county towns during the Jingkang Disgrace.
They trained very carefully, forged weapons, and eventually trained more than 30,000 elite mountain infantry.
And using the cattle and horses brought back, more wasteland was reclaimed; with good farming in the coming year, grain output can be increased by at least 50 to 60%.
It is a pity that the above-mentioned good life of the Yanshan refugees came to an end three months ago...
"What the hell! Are Guo Yaoshi, a die-hard traitor, and his victorious army crazy, working so hard for their master?
Ah Li, you immediately evacuate with the wounded, and you don’t have to worry about anything along the way.
Fengrui and you are the second group to start evacuating. Set up a defense line at Yanziling in the back to buy Ali and the others some time. My words will stop you.
If everything goes well, we will meet together near Haituo Mountain tonight."
Looking at a small checkpoint built about one kilometer away, at a col between two mountains, the gate was finally knocked open after a large number of victorious troops rushed forward regardless of life and death.
When Zhan Xiang put down the telescope in his hand, he immediately made a complaint and arranged it without any explanation.
The reason for this is that they were able to live relatively well in the Yanshan area before.
The advantages in geography and guerrilla warfare can indeed be regarded as an aspect; but in essence, it is still inseparable from the idea of preserving the strength of the Evervictorious Army and not fighting them regardless of casualties.
But starting from three months ago, the Ever Victorious Army's attack on Yanshan became more intense.
Especially in the past half month, this kind of attack has reached a heinous level; at the cost of a large number of lives, they broke through every pass and advanced all the way to the depths of Yanshan Mountain.
As for their guerrilla tactics, in the face of the ever-victorious army deploying its full force, plus a large number of other Jin troops.
Although Yanshan has such a large area, after almost three to four hundred thousand troops were filled in by the opponent, it still weaved a huge network.
As such a large network gradually closes, the area left for them to move and move is now becoming less and less.
The so-called guerrilla warfare has gradually lost one of its most important conditions for implementation.
There were even tragedies where the refugees who had been temporarily hiding in secret camps were massacred after being discovered in the face of the coming Jinmen.
The fundamental reason is that Wanyan Wu Qimai, the current pseudo-emperor of the Jin Kingdom, has now personally led an army to Yanjing and lived in Yanjing City, the original palace of the Liao Emperor.
According to inside information, the first thing Wanyan Wu Qimai did after moving into the palace.
That means summoning Pharmacist Guo and telling, or notifying, this slave with the third surname:
The Northern Expedition army of the Song Dynasty was originally powerful. During the fierce battle between the two sides, a group of demons from Yanshan rushed out from the rear with a large number of rebels.
Cutting off their food routes, and even being flanked by the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Dynasty, Dajin is likely to face a lot of misfortune in this battle.
Therefore, before the Great Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition army reached the gates of Yanjing, if they could destroy all the demons in Yanshan, Guo Yaoshi would immediately be granted the title of King with a different surname. As long as the Great Jin Kingdom was around, they, Guo Jia, would always control Yanjing.
If that doesn't work, the Guo family, the generals of the Ever Victorious Army, including family members should not blame Dai Jin for being ruthless.
You know! Wanyan Wu Qimai came to Yanjing City with hundreds of thousands of troops.
In addition, in Yanjing City, there was the Tiefutu led by Wanyan Zongbi, as well as 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers and horses who had escaped from the Song Dynasty. Although the Ever Victorious Army claimed to have 300,000 soldiers and horses, it was no match for them.
In short, Yaoshi Guo and his ever-victorious army are now cornered.
Because all the young families living in Yanjing City fell into the hands of the Jin people and became hostages, even the option of seeking refuge in the Song Dynasty was completely lost.
He could only fight to the death with Fengrui and the others after putting all his efforts into it.
The scene that happened at the beginning was just a microcosm of the countless battles between Fengrui and the Changsheng Army in the recent period.
Facing the madness of the ever-victorious army, they could only continue to resist and buy time for the people under their command to move.
There is no essential difference from the young soldiers in the base area who withstood the Japanese attack in order to buy time for the fellow villagers to move...
Zhan Xiang faced Fengrui and Ah Li, and after a hurried explanation.
Without waiting for the reaction of the two people, he shouted to behind him: "Follow me in the camp~"
Suddenly, two hundred and thirty or forty men with big muscles and round waists, wearing heavy armor, were carrying two-handed battle axes, short-handled maces, steel whips and other heavy weapons.
It was the 'Tianxiang Imperial Master' who followed them and rushed towards that checkpoint.
The so-called "trapped camp" is just a name given by War Elephant to his own bodyguards out of his own bad taste.
Birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together!
With a commander like Hu Biao, it is quite normal for the members of the Xuange Battalion below to be affected or contaminated.
Each of these members of the "trapped camp" is a master selected from among hundreds of thousands of refugees.
There were originally three hundred people, but after these days of fighting, after many people died or were injured, there are now only two hundred, thirty or forty people left.
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Not to mention facing the war elephant, Fengrui and Ah Li were extremely depressed when they knew that another escape was about to begin.
Immediately, he cursed in his mouth in unison:
"Hu Biao rushed to the street, is he giving birth to a child? How come he hasn't arrived yet after such a short journey?"
However, despite the scolding, they still knew that the precious time that the war elephants had to fight to the death could not be wasted, so they all took action immediately.
Among them, Ali commanded the stretcher team, and after lifting up the wounded, they started running on the winding mountain road.
Fengrui led a team of three to four hundred people and also followed such a team.
The difference is that after they have evacuated three or four miles at most, they need to stop and build another temporary position and adopt a continuous resistance method.
Otherwise, none of Ali’s group of wounded and medical staff would be able to escape.
As for War Elephant, even though her original weight was quite terrifying, now that she has put on several layers of heavy armor and put down her mask, she looks as heavy as a big lump of steel from a distance.
But along the mountain road, the speed of rushing down from such a commanding height was not slow at all.
In a short time, I had already rushed to the checkpoint, but it was only about fifty meters away.
At this point, even if the defenders on the checkpoint resisted desperately, under the charge of a large number of victorious soldiers, the gate position was already filled with their own personnel.
After a few seconds at most, these people can swarm in and completely break through this line of defense.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, Bai Xiang used his free left hand to take out two grenades from his waist that were fastened to his belt and whose bottom covers had been removed in advance.
He bit the fuse with his big white teeth, pulled it open and threw it out.
Then, he took out two more grenades from his waist, repeated the previous action, and threw them three times in a row, and finally gave up after six grenades.
It should be noted that this improved grenade is produced by the Yanshan area itself.
Mainly because of this hair-drawing technology, as long as the layer of window paper is pierced, for Fengrui and others who deliberately brought many craftsmen with them when they evacuated from the mountain outside the county, there is no need for production.
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As for this thing, it is too heavy. Even a well-trained warrior can only throw it thirty steps.
Now that the war elephant is so far away from the fifty-odd paces, it still throws two grenades at once. Isn't it a bit too much?
Just kidding! Can Zhan Xiang’s arm muscles be compared to those of ordinary people?
I saw six grenades emitting black smoke, drawing arcs in the air, landing accurately near the gate, landing one after another, and exploding in the air.
Even when they saw this deadly thing coming, a group of victorious soldiers immediately raised their cards, large and small, in front of them.
Such an action failed to have the slightest effect.
With each grenade's cast-iron shell capable of causing at least 72 fragments of damage when exploded, these ever-victorious troops still fell to the ground.
If it had been before, the huge casualties in such a short period of time would have been enough to end this battle.
But in the blink of an eye, another twenty or thirty soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army rushed in from outside the gate; and there were hundreds of soldiers gathered outside the door and this pass.
A little further away, there were more than two hundred archers shooting with their bows.
This is because the space at the pass is limited and there is really no room for more troops.
Otherwise, in a valley more than a mile away, there were seven to eight thousand elite soldiers behind Guo Yaoshi who went out personally.
As long as the situation permits, Pharmacist Guo will probably suppress all of these people.
Fortunately, after throwing the grenade, the war elephant continued to move forward quickly; but in a very short period of time, it hit those golden soldiers head-on.
The two-handed ax in her hand was as wide as a tabletop. Even if she grabbed it with one hand and swung it, it still made a whistling sound that broke the air.
It's like a silver light striking the scene, it's so fast and urgent.
A commander of thousands who is as majestic as a black bear in an ever-victorious army thinks that he is also a man of courage.
Unable to dodge, he gritted his teeth and blocked the war elephant's ax with a wrought-iron eyebrow stick in his hands.
The expression on his face was very nervous, but also filled with some expectations.
Because at this moment, he is surrounded by his soldiers from the Victory Army. As long as he can block this axe, the rest of them will come out with swords and guns.
Tian Xiang, a famous demon, no matter how powerful he is, can never escape the end of being chopped down.
I thought of the outrageously rich rewards offered by my own general, Guo Yaoshi, and even the emperor, Wanyan Wu Qimei, for killing any one of the three demons in Yanshan.
This commander of a victorious army even breathed rapidly.
It's a pity that he still seriously underestimated the power that the war elephant, which was originally gifted, possessed after crazy targeted training.
In a thunderous sound of gold and iron clashing, the jaws of his hands were torn open, and at the same time, the wrought iron eyebrow-leveling stick in his hand flew out.
What's even worse is that he tried his best to parry this time, but it seemed that he didn't even consume half of the opponent's strength.
The speed at which the silver light struck was not slow at all, making it impossible for him to avoid it.
Anyway, after a moment.
The circle of soldiers of the Victory Army in front of the war elephant were all swept to the ground like rubbish; two of them, including the captain of the Victory Army, were directly chopped into two pieces.
This scene in front of him fell into the sharp eyes of the man who happened to look back.
Even Fengrui, a veteran of the team who had seen such a violent scene more than once, couldn't help but mutter a curse word:
"This girl Zhan Xiang was really born for the battlefield.
Even if it were placed in a world like the legendary Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it would probably be a girl version of a tough guy like Dian Wei and Xu Zhu."
The soldiers who were trapped in the camp who rushed over with the war elephants saw this scene, and their morale skyrocketed.
There is no doubt that in a cold-weapon war.
An invincible general's morale boost is terrifying.
In the following time, the war elephant stood alone against the open door, and with just one ax in his hand, he went down, splitting his opponent in half on the spot, or using a wild fighting style.
The soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army were blocked from the door, and they were unable to advance even an inch.
And those soldiers of the victorious army who crossed the level by using ladders were also killed by other soldiers in the trapped camp.
It's just that this kind of fighting method consumes too much physical strength for the war elephant.
But after about three minutes, Zhan Xiang clearly felt that his breathing was a little messed up; while his arms were a little sore, the big ax also began to bear some weight.
Originally, this girl planned to hold on for another minute or two, so that Fengrui and others could have more time to prepare for evacuation.
But when she saw something with the corner of her eye, she immediately shouted in her mouth: "Back off, back off~"
That's when she saw three or four dead soldiers from the victorious army, holding a smoking hemp bag in their arms, rushing towards this side.
After a group of soldiers from the Victory Army saw it, they immediately ran to the left and right to get out of the way desperately.
Even the attack was somewhat neglected.
After seeing the power of gunpowder weapons, the Jin people naturally would not remain indifferent. Especially in the past few months, they have conducted intensive research.
It is different from those muskets that were made by master craftsmen but were very heavy and heavy, would explode at every turn, and had to be manually ignited.
There are also grenades that also require manual ignition and explode in half when thrown on the ground.
The Jin people still successfully developed a weapon like the black powder explosive pack; it was just that the proportions were not so reasonable and the power was somewhat inferior, but this could be solved by increasing the weight.
But among the huge army, they can still find some dead soldiers through various means.
Therefore, such a method originally prepared by the Jin people for the Northern Expedition army was allowed to be enjoyed by Zhan Xiang and others in advance.
Otherwise, relying on their good terrain, Zhan Xiang and the others would not have been so embarrassed by the victorious army in the past half month.
Just like that, amidst the roar of the war elephants, the soldiers trapped in the camp quickly turned around and ran away.
The war elephant, who had always been at the forefront and retreated at the end of the battle, pulled away the last two grenades on his body, threw them out, and ran away desperately.
A few seconds later, three consecutive violent explosions sounded, and a ball of stone half the size of a fist flew, coincidentally hitting the back of the running white elephant.
Immediately, there was a fishy-sweet taste in this girl's mouth.
It can be said that she suffered a serious internal injury in the misfortune.
"What the hell! If I had known earlier, I would have retreated. It is said that in the battle at Zhuxian Town that day, the imperial concubine, a rookie, encountered such a situation. She was hit on the chest, which at least reduced the impact by half.
Sister, I have never been weaker than anyone else in my life, how can I be inferior to her with this kind of physical advantage?"
After thinking of something, Zhan Xiang began to complain; but his steps did not slow down at all...
