On the upper reaches of the river, floating ice flows. The snow in the south of the Yangtze River begins to melt.
In Jinland, the mountain roads in the snow are still rugged and difficult to navigate, but the outside world has gradually awakened from the harsh winter. The conspirators have been braving the cold winter for a long time. When spring comes, the land that has not yet decided the winner finally returns.
Will return to the fighting field of Shura.
Lou Shuwan has been able to deal with all this calmly.
After inspecting the warehouse where the seedlings were stored, she got on the carriage and headed towards the direction of Yu Yulin's main camp. It was still raining lightly outside the carriage. Sitting next to the driver of the carriage was Shi, the "Eight-Armed Dragon King" holding a copper stick.
This allowed Lou Shuwan not to worry too much about the danger of being assassinated, but to concentrate on reading the intelligence that had been compiled in the car.
After the new year, she gained a little weight, and maybe became a little prettier. The clothes she used to wear were finally able to hold up again. Of course, Lou Shuwan was used to her unsmiling behavior in front of outsiders, so she could be more comfortable in this way.
This greatly increases her majesty. Only occasionally when no one is around will she show her fragile side.
That day, after picking up the information and flipping through a few pages, she felt dazed for a moment.
The information gathered from various places was large and small. The information that made her look dazed for a moment was just a few lines. It reported the number of people who died of cold and starvation in a small county in the direction of Jinning in winter. One person died of injuries.
The name of the squire was also recorded.
That name is Zeng Yuhuai.
Lou Shuwan took the information and her thinking was a little confused. She didn't know who had sent this information and what the other party's purpose was. When had she ever told anyone to pay attention to this person? Why did she add it specifically?
This name? Because he participated in the battle against the Jurchens, and later became a monk to save food and help refugees? So his injuries worsened and died. Do the people below think they would be interested in knowing such a person?
Why does this name appear here?
Her thoughts revolved around this point for a moment, and she turned over a page of information. After reading a few lines, she turned back and confirmed the content of these lines.
I once conceived.
Before the war started, he scolded her in the general's office for not paying too much attention to his own reputation. Then he confided in her seriously that he participated in the battle with Liao Yiren and the Jurchens, and soon after lost his legs on the battlefield. She
She once saw the unconscious middle-aged man on a stretcher among the retreating people. She was too busy and did not pay further attention.
... Time passed. After returning to his home in the rear area, his broken legs were in good and bad condition. He left home to store food and helped the refugees near Jinning this winter. On the unsurprising days of the first month, he
As his injuries worsened, he finally died.
Lou Shuwan's eyes were cold and she pursed her lips tightly. She clenched her fist and hammered the wall of the carriage twice hard.
Ahead, the charioteer and Shi Jin both turned back, and Shi Jin said in a loud voice: "Master Lou."
"……fine."
Lou Shuwan turned the page of the information in her hand.
If it were in Hangzhou more than ten years ago, just such a story would make her burst into tears. But after experiencing so many things, the strong emotions will be diluted - perhaps more like being overwhelmed by more mountains.
If a person is pressed down by something heavy and cannot react, he must devote himself to other things.
Turning over another page of intelligence, there is news about the southwest war situation. This is the core of the entire world's fighting and fighting. The conflict of life and death of hundreds of thousands of people is erupting fiercely. Since mid-January, the entire southwest battlefield has been fierce.
And in the chaos, many details, preparations and countermeasures of both sides were difficult to distinguish clearly among the collected intelligence that was thousands of miles away.
Therefore, before the outcome of the matter came to an end, Lou Shuwan only watched the information and felt the heat of the conflict. The man in the southwest, that army, was making a fierce struggle that impressed everyone. Facing it,
Facing the unstoppable Jurchen army in Liao, Jin, Central Plains, and Jiangnan in the past two or three years, or even twenty or thirty years, this black flag is indeed making a fierce counterattack——
It can no longer be said to be a resistance, it is indeed a balanced confrontation.
She once admired and liked that man.
Although it is just a secret obsession and abnormal emotions... She is obsessed with and admires the mystery, calmness and strength displayed by this man, but to be honest, no matter what standards she uses to judge him, in the past days,
, she really did not treat Ning Yi as a being who could compete head-on with the entire Daikin.
Perhaps the relatively close distance has obliterated the sense of mystery to a certain extent. Ning Yi's calculations and operations are so mind-numbing that it makes people feel numb. Even now, Lou Shuwan still feels helpless when he takes the position of his opponent. But.
In any case, these are always traceable things. The use of conspiracy shows that he is not very strong and always has flaws, so he takes the wrong approach. He killed the king in anger because of Qin Siyuan's affairs, which is also considered by many people to be hasty.
, unconsidered behavior.
In the final analysis, there are many limitations to his power. If he was really strong enough, he would not be trapped in Hangzhou. If he was really strong enough, half of the Su family would not be slaughtered by Liangshan. If he was really strong enough, he
You can save Qin Siyuan instead of watching Qin Siyuan die. It is precisely because this series is not strong enough that after Ning Yi killed the king in anger, he could only move to the northwest in a hurry, and finally endured three years of fighting in Xiaocanghe
and escape.
In fact, in the final analysis, his power has specific traces. But the power of the Jurchens is the power that crushes the entire world. Therefore, in the past days, people always felt that the Chinese army was inferior to the Jurchens, but
Until this time, many people - at least Lou Shuwan's side - had already seen clearly that in the battle in the southwest, the Black Flag Army was an opponent of the same level or even greater than the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army, fighting against the opponent.
Punch an unstoppable punch.
If such an attack falls on me, my side...may not be able to pick it up.
From the intelligence coming in, we can only see a rough outline of the fighting from late January to early February.
It was originally expected and calculated by everyone that the Chinese army, which was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, would take a defensive position in this battle and use the bonus of fortifications to make up for the lack of numbers. The blocking of Huangming County and Yuyuxi once confirmed this speculation. If
This policy continued. After Huangming County was breached, the Chinese army would pin its possibility of victory on the city defense of Zizhou. During the advancement of the Jurchens, they would continue to harass the Jurchens with a small number of elites, take advantage, and retreat steadily.
Which is the best strategy.
However, there should not be large-scale field operations, because even if the Chinese army's offensive will have a slight advantage due to the advantage of the terrain, the outcome of field operations is sometimes not as easy to control as defensive warfare. During several attacks, once they are defeated
If the opponent seizes a flaw and bites it hard, it will probably be an unbearable loss for the Chinese army.
However, according to the intelligence coming in, starting from mid-January, the Chinese army chose such a proactive combat mode. The road from Huangming County and Yuyuxi to Zizhou is still fifty miles away. Since the Jurchen army crossed the fifteen-mile line,
, the first wave of offensive raids had already appeared, and after crossing twenty miles, the troops of the Chinese Army Yuxi took advantage of the fog to disappear and retreated, and began to intersperse the Bali Su troops on the offensive road.
The further the Jurchen army extends forward, the greater the distance between each army. The troops in the front are trying to move steadily, clearing and familiarizing themselves with the nearby mountain roads. The troops from the rear are still coming one after another, but the Chinese army is
The troops began to attack the lone troops in the mountains.
At this time, the two road networks in Huangming County and Yuyuxi began to merge, and there were more and more forked roads in the surrounding mountains. In late January, the Chinese Army took advantage of the mist and forked roads in the mountains to launch an attack. Within ten days,
The battles with the Jurchens, which involved more than 8,000 participants, broke out six times. Three times, the Jurchens' troops were successfully defeated, and more than 6,000 enemies were wiped out. On one occasion, the retreat failed to last and the two sides almost broke into a large-scale positional battle.
Even on January 27th, the three divisions of the Chinese Army even showed their intention to encircle and raid the Yanshan Guards. However, due to Ba Lisu's quick response, nearly 20,000 Chinese Army troops were exposed with clear movements.
Dejectedly, they chose to retreat - the information in the intelligence was an understatement, but it is conceivable that if Ba Lisu's actions were a little slower, for example, if the Chinese army was given more than half a day, they would probably have to attack Wanyan Xiebao Station
The mournful soldiers under his command launched a local decisive battle.
Lou Shuwan couldn't even imagine why Hua Xia Jun showed such confidence.
In early February, the Jurchen army crossed the center line, which was twenty-five miles away from Zizhou. At this time, the Jurchen army divided into three groups and advanced forward. The 30,000 people who came down from the Yuyu River were led by Dalai and Saba.
On the middle road, on the bottom road, there were also 30,000 troops rushing to the front. The revenge army led by Wanyan Xiebao, with Yanshan Guard as the main body, came over with nearly 20,000 cores. More troops were still chasing after them from behind.
.
The advancing mountain road cut the Jurchen troops to a certain extent. Although the three heads responded to each other, they still chose the strategy of setting up camp and holding on step by step. They used the camp as the core to release troops and scout, familiarizing themselves with and mastering the surrounding mountains and forests.
The terrain. However, once a larger force breaks out of camp and moves forward, it will be difficult. The troops that first move forward from here can hardly gain a foothold on the farther road.
It was still early February when the intelligence from the southwest was sent to Jin. However, on the seventh day of the lunar month, two groups of Jurchen vanguards were attacked by the Chinese army during their advance and had to retreat in despair. When the intelligence was sent,
There is still a group of Jurchens with more than 3,000 people in front who have been cut by the Chinese army on the mountain road and blocked the way back. They are being surrounded for reinforcements...
The situation was fierce but stalemate. Lou Shuwan could not predict its direction. Even if the Chinese army was brave and good at fighting, and slapped the Jurchens in the face in this way, how long could it last with his military strength? Ning
What is Yi thinking about? Will he be so simple? Where is Zong Han in front of him?
"...I'm pretending to be a ghost...I don't know how much of it is true."
After being silent for a long time with the information, Lou Shuwan muttered to herself in a low voice.
Her mind could dwell on the battle in the southwest, but she could not put down too much energy to pursue the development of the battle thousands of miles away. After thinking about it for a while, Lou Shuwan cheered up and reported other things.
Read them one by one. There are also matters belonging to her in Jin Land that she is about to deal with.
Toward the evening of that day, the advancing carriage arrived at Yu Yulin's camp. The atmosphere in the military camp seemed a bit solemn. Lou Shuwan and others walked into the camp and saw Yu Yulin who had just finished listening to the report.
This general, who had an overview of the power of the army in Jin and could be regarded as experienced in many battles, was frowning slightly, with an ominous look in his eyes. Lou Shuwan stepped forward: "What's going on in Qixian County? Li Guotang
Did you find it? Are you betraying me again?"
"Qixian County was massacred..."
"..."
Lou Shuwan's eyes widened for a moment, then gradually narrowed: "Liao Yiren...is the whole family really tired of living? Where is Li Guotang? He has more than 3,000 men, and all the things I gave him were fed to the dogs?"
"Li Guotang died, and his head was chopped off and hung in the county town. Also, he said it was not Liao Yiren's fault."
"The head was chopped off, maybe the golden cicada escaped from its shell." Lou Shuwan frowned. Compared to other things, the first thing she paid attention to at this moment was the possibility of betrayal. Of course, she calmed down after a while: "How exactly?
thing?"
"...I found some people who were lucky enough to survive, and said that there was a group of businessmen from out of town who could get a batch of seedlings, and contacted Li Guotang. Li Guotang sent people into the county, probably dozens of people, and after entering the city
He suddenly launched an attack, killed Li Guotang on the spot, fought off the guards around him, and opened the city gate... I don’t know how many people came in later, but I only know that the massacre in Qixian County lasted for three days, and no one who reported the news ran out." Yu Yulin said.
At this point, he paused slightly, "The survivors said that looking at the way those people dressed, they looked like barbarians from the north... like prairie people."
Lou Shuwan thought for a moment: "Dozens of people captured the city... Is Ban Ding far away?"
Yu Yulin said: "There is no such person under Liao Yiren, and the reason why General Li opened the door is that I think he really wanted to do this business because he was sure that the other party was not under Liao Yiren - he knew that we were short of seeds."
"...Continue to investigate." Lou Shuwan said, "Even if the Jurchens really send him reinforcements, they won't be too many, or he took advantage of the winter to find helpers... If he can afford it, we will
Can defeat him."
The anger in her eyes gradually calmed down: "As long as Li Guotang doesn't rebel, we will always avenge him."
It was still raining lightly outside the tent, the sky was gloomy, and the wind was a bit cold. At almost the same moment, Liao Yiren, hundreds of miles away, saw Li Guotang's head.