More than ten miles away from Zizhou, Shiling lies in front of the mountains like a crouching lion.
As the sun sets in the west, the black smoke has stopped filling the air. For the first time in six days, the sound of fighting has stopped. The trees near the mountain that were burned to charcoal in the flames are reflected in the light of the setting sun, showing a strong glow.
A strange quiet atmosphere comes.
There were still people running on one defensive position after another, and soldiers were still reinforcing the defense line and checking gun positions. People looked at the Jin soldiers' position in front of their field of vision and only spoke in low voices.
"Do you think the golden dog will come today?"
"If you don't want this, come and do the fucking thing!"
"I heard that we won the battle at Wangyuan Bridge and served as Wanyan Xiebao."
"Remember the people Mr. Ning led? Those who withdrew from the Second Company... Xiebao thought that he had 30,000 people, which was not enough for him, so he went after Mr. Ning..."
"How did you fight..."
"It's not clear yet..."
Amidst such whispers, the sun shines golden across the valley in front, and the Jurchens have been restrained and quiet for more than an hour.
There is a camp for wounded soldiers conveniently behind the mountain. After the battlefield continued in unusual silence for a long time, the wounded soldiers carrying walking sticks and bandages came out of their tents and looked at the back of Shiling Mountain in the distance.
"What's wrong?"
People ask each other like this.
In the hot air balloon, someone was waving flags quickly downwards, reporting every movement in the Jurchen camp. Senior officials from the staff were waiting directly below to confirm that all important clues had not been missed.
The blocking battle at Shiling and Xiukou lasted for nearly six days. In the records of later generations, it is often overshadowed by the significance and glory of the Wangyuan Bridge across the ages. It lasted for five years.
In the month-long Southwest Campaign, they often seemed unimportant. But in fact, they were an important fulcrum for victory in the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge.
During the entire six days, Qu Zhengyan, Yu Zhongdao blocked Yu Xiukou, Han Jing, and Pang Liuan fought at Shiling. Although the Jurchens were counting on the Xiebao troops passing over the mountains to play some tricks in front of Ning Yi
came, but at Shiling and Xiukou, they did not let go or relax at all. The successive attacks stretched the Chinese army's line, which was already small in number, to the extreme. If they were not careful, they might completely collapse.
Although relying on the terrain, the artillery can still take advantage of some defense, but in six days, the combat strength of both sides of the Chinese army has been reduced to 7,000. This kind of attrition speed is actually faster than that of the Yellow Army in some respects.
In Ming County, the situation during the Yuyuxi Defense War was even more tragic.
Especially in the direction of Shiling, after the appearance of Zong Han's flag, the morale of the Jin soldiers was greatly boosted. Zong Han, Ba Lisu and others also used their battlefield command and troop deployment skills for so many years to continuously shake up the army with elite soldiers.
The defense of the entire mountain concentrates the breakthrough point on one point. Sometimes, even the Chinese soldiers involved in the defense have a hard time feeling where they have lost the most troops and are under the greatest pressure. They don’t realize until a certain position is breached.
Zong Han's true tactical intention. At this time, he could only make further arrangements to regain the position from the Jin soldiers.
This is the gap between the generals of the Chinese Army and famous Jurchen generals of Zong Han's level at the tactical level. However, in terms of the quality of individual soldiers and the small-scale tactical cooperation of grassroots soldiers, the Chinese Army has put aside these "invincible"
"A piece of Jurchen soldier.
Among them, especially the Second Division led by Pang Liu'an, which once lost Huangming County, fought extremely bravely. Facing the "old enemy" Bali Su, the soldiers of the Second Division who were eager to avenge even changed for a time.
In order to maintain a steady and defensive style, he showed his most determined fighting will in several repeated battles for positions.
On the one hand, this kind of fighting will is certainly due to the political work. On the other hand, it is also because the division commander Pang Liu'an once put his life and death at risk and personally led the troops forward several times. In order to protect the division commander, the brigade commander under the second division and the regiment
The leader is always the first to take the lead.
On the Jurchen side, Balisu once personally went on the field to break the formation. However, after occupying a position, they were met with a crazy counterattack by the soldiers of the Second Division. One group of soldiers even tried to block Balisu's way and allowed the artillery to bombard the position without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy. The artillery
Although the enemy did not do this, the Second Division's attitude forced Debasu to retreat in despair.
In fact, what is engraved in the hearts of the soldiers of the Second Division is not only the blood feud of the soldiers who died in Huangming County, but also the fact that some soldiers never broke through and were still in the hands of the Jurchens at this time. This matter may be the biggest thing in the hearts of all the soldiers.
of stalks.
There were fierce battles and repeated battles in Shiling. Later, Army Commander He Zhicheng continuously mobilized lightly wounded soldiers from the rear, militiamen and active forces still interspersed in the mountains, and also invested in the front line of Shiling, and finally maintained this rather tense line of defense. If not,
, on the twenty-eighth day, Han Jing could not even mobilize his more than a thousand cavalry. After the battle at Wangyuan Bridge, it was difficult to quickly sweep it away and end it.
The Jin soldiers' truce and flinching in the afternoon was obviously a response after the Wangyuan Bridge battle report, but the Chinese army generals on the position did not relax their vigilance. He Zhicheng and Pang Liu'an kept reminding the frontline soldiers to consolidate the defense line. For Wangyuan,
The information about the bridge was not officially announced to prevent the soldiers from underestimating the enemy and suffering the opponent's losses in the Jurchens' final counterattack.
At around two o'clock in the morning, He Zhicheng, Pang Liu'an and others saw a cart coming from Wangyuan Bridge and a cavalry of about a hundred people in front of the cart on the roadside at the back of Shiling Mountain. Ning Yi was among the cavalry. He approached.
After getting off his horse, He Zhicheng smiled and said: "Mr. Ning takes action, this battle can be decided... It's not easy."
There was smoke on his face, and when he said this, there were actually tears in his eyes. Pang Liuan on the side was already covered in ribbons and blood. Due to the defeat in Huangming County, he was the acting commander of the Second Division at this time, and Chaoning
Yi saluted: "The Second Division of the Fifth Chinese Army was ordered to defend the Shikou front line. Fortunately, it lived up to its mission."
"Thanks to you."
If Ning Yi's character was normal, he might have said something witty, but not at this time. He saluted the two of them and walked forward. Pang Liu'an looked at the big car behind him: "Is this the 'Dijiang'?"
Ning Yi nodded: "Actually, the whole idea was already in place when we were in Xiaocanghe. The manual operation was completed in the last year. It was only slowly started when we arrived in the southwest. In a few years, many people in the first military industry died for it.
The cost was no less than 200, and we tightened our belts and slowly wore out these things. We were originally worried about whether it was enough, but fortunately, the diagonal security bumped into it, and it also had an effect."
Perhaps recalling these years, his tone was serious, but not nervous. It was serious with a sense of relaxation. He walked forward for a moment and then said:
"The others are still at Wangyuan Bridge, and they have captured more than 20,000 people. It is not easy to guard them, and it will be difficult to deal with them in a while. We are worried that the Jurchens will go crazy here, so we dragged these here first. Originally, there were more than 600
Fa, before the war started, I was worried about whether it would be enough to inflict the most painful blow on the Jurchens in the first battle, but in the end it only took less than three hundred - how did Zong Han react?"
"The reaction speed is very fast. Jiang is very old." He Zhicheng smiled. There was a mountain road in front of him. He raised his hand and looked behind him, "These cars..."
"Drag it up slowly. Some of it may be carried by horses. Don't be in a hurry. Find a good place." Ning Yi said with a smile, "The actual measured range is normally more than four hundred feet. Before we can find a way to deal with it, it will be enough for Zong Han."
It’s a pot.”
"However, Zong Han is prepared."
"……So fast?"
"It started less than half an hour ago, and their troops were retreating." He Zhicheng said, "At the beginning, it was just a simple retreat, probably in response to the defeat of Wangyuan Bridge, which seemed a bit hasty. But a quarter of an hour ago,
There have been a lot of adjustments, little movement, very methodical.”
Everyone walked up the hillside and crossed the high line on the ridge. In the setting sun, they saw the conditions of the entire Shiling battlefield, the battlefields stained red with blood, and the pits blackened by artillery shells.
, in the Jin soldiers' camp ahead, the tents and flags were still flying. The Jin people built a simple wooden city wall with intertwined wooden thorns outside the wall - the retreat of the troops in front made the entire Jin people's arrangement look defensive.
Come on, the transfer of teams in the camp seems to be continuing.
Ning Yi looked over there with a telescope. He Zhicheng and others introduced: "...from the situation seen half an hour ago, some people are retreating to the mountain pass at the rear. The retreat of the front line is the most obvious. The tents behind the wooden wall
It seems that there are still people there, but after summarizing the intelligence from various observation points, the Jin people are making large-scale mobilizations and are removing the soldiers in the tents in front. In addition, looking at the heights of the mountain pass behind, someone has previously moved iron cannons towards
It seems that the purpose of moving up is to block the road during retreat."
"People like Zong Han are indeed outstanding people in the world." Ning Yi took a breath and murmured.
Lin Jingwei, the chief engineer on the side, was also looking at the situation over there curiously. At this time, he said: "He is indeed a veteran who has been in the world for thirty years. If I were in a different place, I probably wouldn't believe that there are rockets within an hour."
The existence of such strange things."
"Even if I believe it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change my mind." Someone on the side said.
"Facing reality is the basic quality of a famous general. No matter what, firearms that can reach four to five hundred feet did appear on the Wangyuan Bridge battlefield. He must respond to this matter. Otherwise, would he wait for Di Jiang
Do you want to confirm again after it falls on your head?" Ning Yi held the telescope and said while thinking, and then smiled: "But, you can praise him a few more words and write them into the book later - this will make us more
sharp."
Everyone laughed, and someone said: "If Zonghan is prepared, I am afraid that our rockets will not be able to have the effect of surprising soldiers. Now the Jurchen camp is being mobilized. Why don't you take this opportunity to hit the rockets and head towards their camp?"
How about something fried in it?"
He Zhicheng and others looked at each other and started thinking. Ning Yi lowered his head and was obviously thinking about this matter. He just said that facing reality is the basic quality of a famous general, but in fact, Zong Han made a decision and faced reality.
He also admired the speed. If it were him, if he was still the same person back then, when he experienced a shock in the mall, would he be able to admit the reality in such a short period of time - or when his son also encountered bad luck? He
There is no certainty either.
And what effect will these rockets have if they are thrown out at this time?
Ning Yi licked his tongue on his lips: "What is false is what is true, what is true is false. The rockets are set up to prevent them from showing weakness to the enemy and then counterattack. Just bomb them directly. They will not be used for the time being. In addition to killing some people and scaring them,
I’m afraid it won’t be able to give the final word.”
The people around nodded.
"From today on, the era when the Jurchens were completely invincible has completely passed."
Ning Yi said: "Wanyan Zonghan must be in a very complicated mood right now. I will write a letter and throw it over later. I have his son in my hand. I want to see if he is interested and talk to me."
The sunset is setting, and as February approaches, all things are growing. Even the old creatures will not stop their resistance to the world. The inheritance and reincarnation of the world always proceed like this.