From ancient times to the present, based on the objective attributes of human beings, in order to pursue a better life, people have set various rules for themselves.
From customs, to laws, to all kinds of self-evident basic morals, people set limits for themselves and draw boundaries one after another that should not be easily crossed. It can be said that these boundaries protect the foundation of people's lives.
It prevents people with weak individual strength from being harmed easily, and can properly utilize the strength of each weak individual to gather sand into a tower and ultimately create a powerful and glorious country and civilization.
From this point forward, the rules created by human beings will gradually lose their scope of application. Among large groups such as countries, the nature of the weak and the strong will begin to show its fangs more clearly. It will remind us of the most essential nature of the world.
The truth will clearly tell us that the basis of mutual respect between people only lies in two essential laws:
First, people can use each other.
Second, there is mutual deterrence between people.
When a certain rule between the two models is out of balance to a certain extent, all man-made rules and all the truth, goodness and beauty that seem to be natural may run away at any time and disappear. This is how war arises.
It is a manifestation of the true use of all possible means in human society. All customs and morals cannot prevent it from crushing in. Everything allowed by physical rules may happen before our eyes. It makes the gap between people
It has been enlarged to the scale of emperors and animals, causing countless people to be displaced from their wives and children, making people realize that the human world can be a more terrifying place than hell.
But it also exhausts people's imagination in another direction. It forces people who want to survive to keep moving forward. It reminds people that all good things are not given by God but created and defended by people. It reminds people of the importance of self-improvement.
Necessary, at some point, it will also promote the obsolescence and renewal of this world.
It was the first year of Wu Zhenxing and the fifteenth year of Jin Tianhui. The years have been alternated for dozens of years during the war.
There have been wars one after another that have determined the rise and fall of the world and the direction of history. In the past few decades, these wars have determined that the Jin people have become the most eye-catching role on the world stage, and they have also promoted history.
The wheels crushed the futures of countless people.
At the end of February, such a war was about to break out at a place called Wangyuan Bridge on the Zizhou front line. At this time, the battle between the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army and the Huaxia Army in the southwest had been going on for four months, and people realized that
There will be such a node, it will appear and mark a temporary punctuation point for everything.
But when it appeared, the whole battle process was so surprising.
It is true that at a macro level, the overall situation of the entire Southwest War during the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge was full of grand and passionate scenes. Everyone was doing their best to compete for the chance of victory. But when the entire battle came to an end, people
Only then did I realize that everything was so simple and smooth, even so simple that it made people feel weird.
At the surface level of the battle, this war did not even involve any conspiracies. At first glance, it looked like two armies walking directly in front of each other after a short period of movement, and one side pounced on the other side with all its strength.
, fought so hard until the end of the battle. Many people didn't even react at all, so they were stunned and couldn't breathe...
Of course, within the entire war, there are naturally more intricate causes and effects. To see these clearly, we need to cast a macroscopic view on the entire battlefield on February 23rd as the turning point.
Taking February 23rd of this year in Southwest China as the node, in the vast mountains and fields more than 20 miles in front of Zizhou, the Jin Army troops participating in the southern expedition have been divided into five groups. One side is stabilizing the formation, and the other is
Pour southward.
At this time, the Jin army was located on the front line, with a main force of about 150,000 among the five armies. The southernmost one was the revenge army led by Wanyan Xiebao, which consisted of 20,000 Yanshan Guards. Behind the Yanshan Guards, there were many
Although they lagged slightly behind the more than 10,000 directly affiliated troops led by Qian Cifu, two months later, this army gradually sent thousands of war horses from the rear, which at most made up for the transportation gap when the mountain roads were rugged.
However, as long as they reach the flat terrain near Zizhou, they can once again exert their maximum destructive power.
Echoing the Yanshan Guard, there is always the steady-footed Ba Lisu army walking in the middle. The core of his army is more than 20,000 people, but the scouts in front and behind have the most effective strength. This one conquered Huangming County
The Jurchen generals seemed a little cruel and wanton on the battlefield, and did not take human life seriously, but the entire method of using troops was actually the most stable and the most troublesome to the Chinese army who liked to fish in troubled waters.
A little further north from Lisu's army, at Dalai, which came down from Yuyu River, Saba's army was the largest military group in parallel. Due to the large number of troops - the entire group numbered more than 50,000 people - their pace seemed a bit bloated.
After January, the Western Expedition commander Wanyan Zonghan, who had once appeared in Yuyuxi, disappeared. Some Chinese army staff members speculated that he was traveling with Wanyan Saba, the most accustomed right-hand man in this army.
Of course, some staff members believed that Zong Han might be stationed in the center of the rapid formation. This speculation was later proven to be correct.
A little further to the northwest, there are still about 30,000 Han troops, crossing the border of the battlefield. Soon after the army passed Yuyu Creek and the Huangming County line, the Jin troops finally completed the Central Plains and surrendered from Jiangnan.
The Han troops were separated. Either they were defeated on the battlefield, or they were sent to unimportant sideline positions to concentrate their advance.
Now this army of about 30,000 people is led by Han general Li Rulai. The Jurchens do not have high expectations for them. As long as they can attract the attention of the Chinese army to a certain extent, disperse the Chinese army's strength and do not retreat to the main battlefield to cause trouble
That’s it.
The war has been going on for four months. The main force that the Jurchens can send to the front line is probably these 120,000. Plus the wounded soldiers who stay behind, the total force may be improved a lot, but the strength of the rear force is already very difficult.
Pushed forward.
On the other hand, the Chinese Army initially had four divisions with more than 50,000 men as its main force. Later, about 20,000 new recruits were added. By the end of February, the remaining number of the First Division was about 8,000.
, the Second Division experienced the defeat in Huangming County, and later replenished some wounded soldiers. By the end of February, more than 4,000 men were left. The Fourth Division, Qu Zhengyan, still had 7,000 men, and the Fifth Division had more than 8,000 men.
In addition, Army Commander He Zhicheng was directly under the command of the special brigade, cadre regiment and other 6,000-strong force. It was actually these more than 34,000 people who participated in blocking the opponent's 150,000-strong army on the Zongxi and Leigang front lines.
Xigua was suppressing bandits in the rear and had a special operations force, which was actually not many. After entering February, Ning Yi finally pulled out the manpower he had prepared. The 6,000 people he had on hand included security guards.
Regiment, bandit suppression force, some special operations personnel participating in frontline operations and a small number of technical soldiers.
The more than 34,000 people gathered on the front line were actually not concentrated. Relying on Brown Creek, the rugged roads in the mountains before Leigang, and the inability for large corps to deploy, a large number of troops were released and fought in a scattered manner.
In the early morning of February 23rd, several Jurchen troops had already launched a large-scale interspersed raid. After the Chinese Army reacted, they immediately assembled about 15,000 troops. First of all,
Three groups of 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 people were used to attack Xiebao, pulling away from the speed. Sa Ba's subordinates each had a weak force. The battle started in the mountains at noon.
The strength of the Chinese army continued to be mobilized.
Ning Yi started from Zizhou and chose the same time as the Jurchens. But with his move, on February 23, for the entire southwest war situation,
Completely different meanings.
Everyone can know that the war situation has reached a very critical node. But not many people can understand what Ning Yi's motivation was for making this choice.
For the Jurchens, when they entered the Jiange, the main force was 200,000 troops, but now there are only 120,000 on the front line, and the available Han troops are almost exhausted. From a historical perspective, this is an extremely embarrassing scene. But the war is not
Following a simple exchange ratio, it would take tens of thousands of people to consume the Jin soldiers like this. The Chinese army would be under even greater pressure. When the number of troops gradually decreases, it will collapse at a certain moment. It is more likely that it will just be patched together now.
There are 40,000 Chinese troops left.
Of course, the Jurchens understand part of the Chinese army's purpose of taking the initiative to attack through mountain roads to stir up trouble. The battle to defend the city needs to last until the attacker gives up. For mobile operations in the field, you can choose to attack the opponent's leader. For example, the most complicated one here
On mountainous terrain, a surprise attack on Zonghan, or pulling out Lisu, Saba, Xiebao... As long as a main force is defeated, you can obtain results that cannot be easily achieved in city defense operations, and may even cause the opponent to retreat early.
In order to deal with this possibility, Zong Han even chose the most cautious posture and was unwilling to let the Chinese army know his whereabouts. At the same time, his eldest son Wanyan Sheyema did not appear on the frontline battlefield.
The only bait that was actually released was Wanyan Xiebao. Zong Han's son was known to the outside world as reckless, but in fact he was delicate at heart. The revenge army led by him, with Yanshan Guard as the main body, was second only to the entire Jin army.
The strong army of the Tushan Guards, even if Lou Shi had been dead for many years, had been trained for the purpose of avenging his shame, and was the core force of the Jurchens in attacking the southwest.
If the Chinese army wants to behead Xie Bao, Xie Bao is the best target, but in order to behead Xie Bao, his life must be really at stake.
The Jurchens' advance over the past month has been extremely difficult and suffered heavy losses, but overall they did not make any fatal mistakes. Theoretically, once they cross Leigang and Brown Creek, the Chinese army must turn around and return.
Go to Zizhou and fight a reluctant battle to defend the city. At that time, a large number of troops with low combat effectiveness-such as the Han army and the Jurchens can make them march forward and fight as much as they want on the Chengdu Plain.
Destroy the Chinese army's rear area.
This will make the Chinese army uncomfortable, but the other side must choose this way - of course, Zong Han and others once predicted another possibility beyond Leigang and the Brown River line, that is, Ning Yi realized that he was just sitting back and waiting to die in Zizhou.
So the strong man broke his wrist and gave up the Chengdu Plain, and returned to the Liangshan Mountains to continue to be his mountain king. This was also a way for the Southwest War to come to an end.
No one expected that Ning Yi would come out.
How can a strong man break his wrist to this extent? Once he crosses the line, will he launch an all-out battle with 40,000 people?
Zong Han also knew the story of sinking the cauldron and destroying the enemy, but in the current situation, such a choice seemed very irrational - even ridiculous.
Because of this confusion, the Jurchen Army's transition from twenty-three to twenty-four was extremely unstable on that night. The top generals pretended to be ordinary and made frontline maneuvers while discussing with the core command group on Balisu's side.
.
Naturally, Dalai, Sa Ba and others thought it was a scam. Wanyan Xiebao started to push forward crazily according to his "setting", pretending to seize the first opportunity.
The rest of the troops were also crowding in quickly. Gao Qingyi once made a suggestion: "Ning Yi is desperate, and his plan must be extremely unusual. It is better to order King Baoshan to stop quickly and send another army to test."
Wan Yanshe also took the same cautious attitude, but Zong Han did not make a decision for a while, while Ba Lisu did his steady job as always - making the army in the middle move forward calmly, so that even if something happened, it would not be
Completely out of touch with the Xiebao army.
"...Ning Yi's 6,000 men came out, even if their combat power is amazing, what will happen next? What is his purpose? To face all the troops who step out of Lei Gang, Zongxi's troops will attack them head-on? How many people can he defeat?"
For half the night, Zong Han and others continued to conduct deductions on the map, but could not deduce the results. Before dawn, Xiebao's envoy also came, bringing letters and speeches from Xiebao himself.
"... We attack with 150,000 people, and my son leads 20,000 people out of Leigang and Zongxi first. No matter how strong the Chinese army is, they can only meet it with a total of 40,000 people. If this is the case, even if my son sets up a formation, the rest of the armies will
It has been concluded that the situation of the southwest war has been decided... If the Chinese army cannot meet with 40,000 troops, and Ning Yi only has 6,000 troops, what should he fear? The worst thing is that he defeated his son with 20,000 troops with 6,000 troops, and his son gathered the army
Fighting him again would be..."
"...The two armies are fighting, and the opportunity is fleeting. Ning Yi is proud of his combat power, and it is the time for his son to attack head-on. The only thing to worry about is that Ning Yi lures the enemy with 6,000 men, gathers the front troops, and the remaining
First, use the strategy of encirclement to completely swallow up the army in my hand. It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, but this matter is not difficult to deal with..."
The most likely reason why Ning Yi came out so arrogantly was because he saw that Lei Gang and Brown Creek could no longer be defended, and wanted to concentrate the superior force to capture one of his own troops before all the 150,000 troops came out. But this is not the case.
Bad things, in battle, you are not afraid that the other party has an intention, but you are afraid that the other party does not have it, which is elusive. Therefore, Baoshan said, if Ning Yi wants to eat, I will just hold him to death.
As for the rear, as long as Lisu, Saba, Dalai and others' troops suppress the Chinese army in the mountains and prevent them from withdrawing many people, the Chinese army's attempt to seize chestnuts from the army is unlikely to be realized - if
The fact that we can still withdraw our troops is incredible in itself.
From another perspective, if Ning Yi brings 6,000 people over and says he wants to eat the 20,000 to 30,000 main men in Xie Bao's hands, and Xie Bao's response is not "Let him eat, please finish it", then the woman
Real people actually don’t have to fight for world supremacy anymore.
Even with four to five times the strength of Ning Yi, Xie Bao, who led one of the strongest Jurchen armies, also made plans to defeat. At most, he would just "gather the army and fight him again." In fact, the Jurchens said that they were against the opposing army.
The title of the army has also been unknowingly changed from "Black Flag Army" to "Chinese Army". This is also the respect that the Huaxia Army has shown on the faces of the Jurchens in the past four months.
On the 24th, Zonghan made a decision and approved Xiebao's plan. At the same time, Lisu's army pressed forward steadily, while a little to the north, at Dalai, Saba's army maintained a conservative attitude.
This was a deliberate response to the Chinese Army's speculation that "Zong Han and Sa Ba are together."
It is worth mentioning that after obtaining his father's approval, although Xie Bao ordered the rear army to continue to move faster, on the front line, he only maintained a fast posture and ordered the team to devote as much energy as possible to fighting with the main force of the Chinese army.
In one battle, the time for all the troops to cross Brown Creek was extended as much as one day.
He still felt that 20,000 people were not safe enough, so he wanted to assemble an army of 30,000 people, and then rush towards Ning Yi - this action was also to test Ning Yi's true purpose. If the other party really tried to fight him with 6,000 people,
Then he should wait for himself.
In the early morning of the 26th, Xie Bao's first team crossed the Brown Creek. He originally thought that he would be attacked head-on by the opponent, but the head-on attack did not come. Ning Yi's army was still gathering a few miles away - he saw
As if to seize the power of the goddess who was in the middle of the attack, she moved to the side and assumed a threatening posture.
——To intimidate you into paralysis!
At this time, Zong Han's commanding flag was already flying in the central formation of Lisu, pressing the main force of the Chinese army on the front line. The fighting in the mountains further escalated, and the offensive and defensive battles have become positional mode. The Chinese army blocked it with artillery formations.
Yamaguchi kept taking advantage, but the Jurchens were also determined to kill the main force of the Chinese army so that they could not leave. In fact, everyone was waiting for the next change in the battle situation. Ning Yi's reaction was so weird that it was confusing.
On the twenty-eighth, Xie Bao's force of nearly 30,000 people had been assembled one after another, and even three thousand cavalry were brought in. Ning Yi moved forward unhurriedly, and Xie Bao also moved forward. He always believed that the opponent should
At some point there was some cheating, but never, and the interaction between the two groups looked like the shouting of two children.
"If you have the guts, cut it off!"
"I cut it!"
"Cut it!"
"I cut it!"
"If you don't cut it, it's your grandson——"
You have to cut him off, otherwise he will become Sima Yi.
On the afternoon of the 28th, fighting was raging in the mountains ahead. Near the Wangyuan Bridge, Wanyan Xiebao chopped down with his sword.