The sun was on the western horizon, with only its last ray of light left. The nearby mountains and the earth had begun to darken.
Horses neighed, and spots of flames could be seen burning between the mountains and tidal flats. The sounds of rout troops echoed across the land near nightfall, far and near, making it difficult to tell the distance.
The explosion sounded on the ridge, and the flames rushed away with the smoke for a moment, looking particularly dazzling on the dark ground. Half of his body was covered in blood. Chen Hai, who was walking on this position, was almost affected by the explosion. He staggered a few steps and was hit by the explosion.
The corpse of a golden soldier stumbled, fell to the ground, and then got up by pressing the corpse's head. His hands were covered with sticky blood.
"Geng Changqing! Keep an eye on my cannon and count it well——"
Chen Hai loudly shouted the name of his battalion commander and gave the order.
The battle on what was originally the Jin soldiers' iron artillery position was coming to an end.
The iron cannon manufactured and popularized by the Huaxia Army is an epoch-making weapon. It is infinitely powerful for dense battlefield formations. However, starting from the emergence of iron cannons, grenades and other items, the Huaxia Army has actually eliminated dense cannons.
The phalanx was attacked. Although the Seventh Army also had phalanx training such as going forward, it was mainly to increase the discipline and integrity of the army. In actual combat drills, explosives were used to directly blow up the opponent, and our own side also used explosives to blow up the opponent.
Skirmishing charges and small-scale cooperation anytime and anywhere are the focus of the Seventh Army's operations.
Pu Cha's 10,000 forwards brought a total of more than 20 iron cannons. If they faced a whole group of soldiers rushing towards them, they would certainly be able to cause huge damage. The astonishing explosions would be a shock to most people.
Shock. But this kind of shock has basically no effect on the veterans of the Chinese Seventh Army.
If time develops further, on relatively modern battlefields, recruits are often afraid of cannons, while veterans are afraid of guns. In a position composed of more than twenty cannons, it is not a big problem to kill someone with a salvo, but no one can.
You won't do this. To an individual soldier, the significance of more than twenty cannons is probably not as much as that of twenty arrows. At least when the arrows are fired, the archer may be aiming at someone. But cannons will not
Targeted at a certain person.
Chen Hai organized his soldiers to move lightly along the side of the mountain in squad units, and then launched attacks one after another. The artillery did not play much of a blocking role. The two sides first attacked each other with grenades and fire mines.
Then a fight broke out among the iron artillery positions. The Chinese army began to carry out beheading tactics, and the Jin soldiers also organized a tenacious resistance.
As an army that once dominated the world for 30 years, although it has suffered successive defeats recently and lost its generals, the morale of the Jin Army has not been defeated. The pride of the past and the predicament at hand have added up. Of course, some people are timid and run away.
, but there are also many golden soldiers who have been inspired to be brave, at least in small-scale fights, they are still commendable.
So much so that it took Chen Hai a lot of effort to seize this position. Even when the battle situation was almost determined, there were Jurchen soldiers holding torches and launching a desperate attack. The previous explosion was a Jurchen warrior.
It was caused by igniting an ammunition barrel on the artillery position. The explosion spread and two nearby cannons were also blown away, making them useless.
"Treat the wounded!"
"Build a line of defense——"
"Test the cannon——"
Chen Hai was walking on the battlefield, issuing orders one after another. Someone came from a distance, holding a human head: "Captain, kill Meng'an."
"Throw it away and feed it to the dogs!"
As he said this, the defeated troops on the battlefield below were still fleeing, and far away on the Jialing River, the fighting on the main battlefield continued. There was movement on the east side of the field of vision, Chen Hai raised his telescope, and a piece of fire appeared at the end of the east field of vision -
—On the hills facing each other far away from the mud flats, the torches of the cavalry were connected in a line.
"Saba is here. Prepare the artillery!" Chen Hai ordered calmly, "Those with spears and engineers, go down to support Brigadier Hou."
…
Wanyan Saba did not jump into the battlefield immediately.
The support troops he led totaled 20,000 people, of which more than 3,000 were cavalry. His army was not far away from Pu Cha's team. It could have been put on the battlefield in half a day, and the cavalry team was of course faster - this time was originally
It was sufficient, but what I didn't expect was that the changes in the war in Lueyang would be so intense.
On the way here, he received a total of five battlefield intelligences. The first two were normal, and then each time became more urgent. The soldiers in the last time were simply defeated on the battlefield. The Chinese army's offensive was so fierce that
His scalp was so numb that he led the cavalry forward. The first moment the battlefield came into view, he stopped the cavalry.
In front of his field of vision was a chaotic rout scene. Seeing the torches on the hills here, some of the escaped Jin soldiers came towards this direction. Saba ordered his personal guards to pack up the rout soldiers, and at the same time called people over to inquire about the situation. Soon after
, one piece of information was collected one after another.
Pu Cha's 10,000 forward troops were on the verge of collapse, and a large number of soldiers were dispersed by the Chinese army. He led his own guards to the bank of the Jialing River, trying to defend with his back to the river, creating a desperate situation.
As the soldiers were talking, Pu Cha was waiting for rescue on the bank of the Jialing River ahead. In front of his field of vision, the artillery position had been captured by the Chinese army. The Jin soldiers were scattered in disorder in the night, while the Chinese army's
The combat teams clearly formed one stream after another. In such a chaotic battle, they were all subconsciously gathering and forming groups. These groups were not big, but to the disintegrated Jin soldiers, each group was
Like a man-eating ferocious beast, it is devouring every wave of power that can still resist in the field of vision.
The largest group among them had obviously noticed their arrival and was forming a long line under the mountainside with the artillery array. The spears were gathered into a forest. A row of soldiers in front of the forest seemed to be frantically digging the ground.
This infantry team only had two or three thousand people. They were immediately prepared to fight a positional battle with the cavalry to block their way to the Jialing River to rescue people. But Sa Ba naturally understood that such a fast and determined team would
It's quite scary.
What was even more frightening was that he had already initially organized the information that contained the reason for the rapid collapse of Pucha's army, which made him feel like his teeth were a bit acidic.
Ten years ago, he would have thrown his cavalry into the battlefield without hesitation.
Of course, there is not much time left for him to hesitate and wait.
He quickly issued several orders. The first was to order his personal guards to gather and reorganize the fleeing soldiers and restore their combat strength. The second was to have people rush to the Jialing River to send messages, so that Pu Cha could no longer hesitate and finally
He quickly broke through the encirclement towards the east road and rejoined his own side. At the same time, he called the most trusted soldier around him and asked him to quickly return to the rear camp and asked him to convey the problems and findings on this battlefield to Zong Han.
"Go quickly before it's too late."
He said so.
Looking back, the battlefield between the foothills, the woods, the depressions, and the tidal flats was filled with sparse lights and fires. The sun had completely set. For the cavalry, it was certainly not the best time to charge into battle. But it must not be.
If you don't rush, you have to find the opponent's flaws in the movement.
This is the only way out——
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It's getting dark.
Zong Han's camp set up tents among the mountains, and the war horses galloped in and out, making the night lively.
The war has started relatively smoothly in an unexpected way. The war began to ignite in the afternoon. The first battle took place in the mountainous area in the direction of Yangba. The friction and fighting between the scouts was expanding, but the two sides did not clearly understand.
Capturing the location of the opponent's main force, and soon after the battle report came from the Jialing River west of Lueyang County, Saba began to move forward to support.
The main force that Wanyan Zonghan can mobilize this time is about 90,000 people - this is basically the last possession of the West Route Army. The 90,000 people are divided into five groups, Pucha leads 10,000, Sa 80,000 and 20,000, Gao Qingyi
20,000, assuming 10,000 horses, and finally more than 20,000, led by Zong Han himself as the central army's pressure.
Pucha and Saba's armies marched from the north, and Gao Qingyi's troops were mainly responsible for the slightly southern part. Shi Yema's army came from the direction of Zhaohua. Firstly, it was responsible for supporting Gao Qingyi, and secondly, it was to block the route of the Chinese Seventh Army southward to Jiange.
, the five armies are currently moving within a radius of a hundred miles, and are separated by dozens of miles from each other. If they want to support them, they can actually do so very quickly.
The total number of the Chinese army is 20,000, and their combat power is indeed astonishing, but most of the Jurchens are generals who can take charge of their own affairs. They have well-organized offensive and defensive methods. As long as they are not too careless, they should not be eaten by the Chinese army.
Of course Zong Han, Han Qixian and others thought so. From a military point of view, there was naturally no big problem.
After nightfall, intelligence was passed on from time to time, but there was still no big breakthrough in the direction of Yangba. Gao Qingyi only used his troops with the policy of safety, expanding the search while guarding against sneak attacks - or the Chinese army suddenly launched an attack on Jiange. And on the Jialing River
direction, the battle has begun.
"...If the estimate is correct, Pu Cha should have been conducting conservative operations on the banks of the Jialing River. He should have entangled this Chinese army by now, and Sa Badang should have arrived by now. What is unclear now is that Yangba has not
If the fight really starts, will the main force of the Chinese Seventh Army be concentrated in Lueyang, hoping to defeat our northern route with superior force?"
At nightfall, Han Qixian analyzed this possibility with Zong Han in the big tent, and Zong Han also expressed his agreement.
"What the Chinese army is most concerned about now is the battle situation in Jiange. What is true is false and what is true is false. It is not impossible for Qin Shaoqian to simply put the main force in the north." Zong Han said this, "However, Saba has always been prudent in combat and is good at judging the situation.
, Even if Pucha loses to the Seventh Chinese Army, Saba should be able to stabilize his position. We are not far apart now. Once we receive the report, we will raise our troops in the early morning and travel under the stars at night, and we will be able to capture Qin Shaoqian tomorrow."
The bonfire was burning brightly in the camp, and not long after dinner, a new round of battle reports came in. It was determined that the Chinese army appearing in the direction of Lueyang was probably between 7,000 and 10,000 people (Pucha was unwilling to name his opponents).
(too few), and the opponent's combat power was fierce, Pu Cha was prepared to use conservative tactics to entangle the opponent.
This round of battle report was notified to Sa Ba before being sent to the camp. It had been delayed for a long time. But after hearing the description of the battlefield, Zong Han and Han Qixian both thought that Pu Cha had made the right response and were a little relieved. But just
Soon after, Saba's personal guards rode into the camp at high speed on war horses.
Zong Han and Gao Qingyi listened in the big tent to the guard talking about the scene at the moment Saba arrived on the battlefield: Lueyang had just reached the enemy around Shen time in the afternoon, and at Xu o'clock, the 10,000-strong army led by Pu Cha was almost completely defeated.
The remaining two thousand people were forced to stand on the banks of the Jialing River in what is called a desperate situation. In other words, in about two hours, eight thousand people had been defeated under Pu Cha's conservative combat policy.
"How can this be--"
Zong Han had already stood up and slapped the table.
The guard knelt there: "...The general asked me to come back and repay the commander. The Chinese army is very good at beheading on the battlefield. The people who fought against General Pucha were seven thousand people from the first division of the Seventh Chinese Army.
Among them, all the soldiers were able to break away from the group and fight. When the general entered the battlefield to collect the defeated troops, the thousands of people under General Pu Cha's command were completely defeated. The reason was that the army was in a violent state and was trying to defeat them. Anyone who gave orders was almost defeated by the Chinese army.
The soldiers were detected one by one and killed all. Our soldiers were leaderless and could only flee in all directions. However, the Chinese army was almost not afraid of beheading. This kind of tactics was... never seen before. The general said, if this happens,
Without the other party, our side...has no chance of winning..."
The guard screamed sadly, what he showed was Sa Ba's anxiety and fear at that time. The first time he discovered this feature, Sa Ba had already vaguely felt the horror of this matter.
When the Jurchen West Route Army entered Jianmen Pass and fought on Zizhou, the Chinese Fifth Army had to rely on pass defense. There were also some new recruits. The pure beheading combat method had not yet been fully demonstrated. But Zong Han took the initiative to fight in Zizhou.
The attack was launched in the wild, and at this moment when both sides no longer held back or played tricks, all the trump cards were revealed.
The overwhelming advantage of modern military system over ancient military system has been directly pushed to the eyes of Zong Han and Han Qixian. Zong Han and Han Qixian stood up slowly. They looked at the icons inserted on the map and deduced the battlefield.
At this moment, a radical revision is already needed.
Layers of goosebumps spread up along with the chill in my heart.
…
On the bank of Jialing River, Pucha, who was attacked by two brigades of the First Division of the Chinese Army, did not break out to join Saba that night.
The people responsible for blocking Sa Ba's cavalry were more than 2,000 people led by brigade commander Hou Lietang, plus Chen Hai on the side hillside. They blocked Sa Ba for a moment on Pucha's retreat.
The team led by Qi Xinyi and Pu Cha's personal guards were killed. The Jin soldiers were scattered on all sides, and there was chaos everywhere. It was impossible for Saba's cavalry to break into the Jin soldiers to save people. Both sides could see each other.
Where they arrived, the Chinese army killed Pu Cha abruptly and lit his commander's flag.
When the rescue failed, Saba decisively withdrew towards the rear during the movement. At this time, the infantry under his command were gradually gathering towards this side.
Coupled with the gathered scattered golden soldiers, Sa Ba's strength was more than three times that of the opponent. He even brought a cavalry, but at this moment, Sa Ba was a little hesitant about whether to take the initiative to attack.
He gathered more than 4,000 Jin soldiers who were scattered in the night in more than an hour after arriving. Some soldiers did not lose their will to fight, and they could even fight. However, among these 4,000 soldiers, there were no mid-level or high-level generals...
…
From Meng'an to Mouke, the leaders of these more than 4,000 troops were actually killed alive by the Chinese army in the constant battle attacks. Some soldiers were scattered in confusion after they could not find the person who gave the order.
They still don't understand the horror of this matter and feel that they are willing to continue fighting...
In the night, the Chinese army in the mountains opposite fell into Sa Ba's eyes, and he felt chilled in his heart. It was like a demon's sword unsheathed, with the smell of blood, eager to kill anyone at any time. He
After fighting for half my life, I have never seen such an army.
Those seven thousand people should be completely crazy.
"Prepare to attack..." he said.
…
The night wind howled, extinguishing some flames and fanning others.
In the mountains in the direction of Yangba, the battle is about to begin.
"If Ning Yi comes here, he will say that we are prodigal sons." Qin Shaoqian put down his telescope and spoke in a low voice in the dark mountains, "But generals die in a hundred battles... and a strong man returns in ten years..."
It has been more than ten years since the death of my father and brother...
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On April 19th, a scene that the Jurchens had not expected had appeared in front of them. Faced with the encirclement of more than 90,000 people, the Chinese Seventh Army launched an unreserved hedging posture, which was astonishing.
The knife has already been slashed down, cutting open the skin, cutting off the blood vessels, and tearing apart the muscles. When the knife was slashed out, it went straight into the bone marrow and plunged in——