A light snow fell from the sky. On this night, in an abandoned courtyard at the edge of Zizhou City, a small fire broke out. Search: \(Complete Book God Station\) to read high-quality literature for free.

The cause of the fire was a lantern hanging in the corridor of the house, which was blown off by the wind and snow. The lantern slowly ignited the debris that had accumulated for a long time on one side of the corridor. The couple, who were at the very top of the Huaxia Army, were initially a little flustered, but then launched a firefighting operation in this cold winter night. In the midst of the heavy snowfall, the small fire was soon extinguished.

Many years later, during the most intense period of the Southwest Campaign, this mysterious fire that occurred in a corner of Zizhou City might be dug out from the old paper piles by some literati or third-rate writers, and turned into a fuse for some unofficial history or a conspiracy story. But at the time, not many people noticed this small change. As the couple walked back to the headquarters along the dark road, the sky and earth were filled with swirling snowflakes, and both of them had an indescribable but indeed relaxed smile on their faces.

——Leaving behind memories.

This was what happened on the night of the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Wu Jianshuo. By the next day, the snow had not stopped, and the rolling mountains of the southwest were covered in silver.

The end of the year was approaching. From the dividing line between Huangming County and Yushui Stream towards Zizhou, the escort of prisoners continued—the Huaxia Army was still digesting the results of the Battle of Yushui Stream—due to the heavy snowfall, some Jurchen prisoners took the risk and chose to escape into the mountains, causing a little chaos, but overall, it was no longer able to affect the overall situation.

And from the front line of the battlefield extending to the Jiange Mountain Road, the Jurchen's military camp, gradually covered by heavy snow, was filled with a suppressed, murderous, and frenzied atmosphere.

As the snow spread, there were small disturbances caused by fighting in the mountains. In the wind and snow, some pieces of paper whistled with the heavy snow towards the Jurchen army's camp.

Even in the gaps after the stage victories, the Huaxia Army's opportunistic attacks did not stop. Scouts with leaflets approached the Jurchen military camp or the necessary mountain roads and released the leaflets from time to time.

The leaflets repeated the process of the Battle of Yushui Stream: the Huaxia Army defeated the Jurchen army head-on, killed Eli Li, and besieged the Yushui Stream camp. A large number of Han people had already defected on the battlefield, and based on their performance on the battlefield, the Jurchens did not regard these Han troops as human beings... After the leaflets, the rewards for Zong Han's two sons were attached.

Even without these leaflets, in the Jin army's camp, vigilance and hatred of the Han army had actually already occurred.

In the past few days, Yu Yu executed dozens of Han army scouts who "disobeyed orders": many of them died because they were related to Ren Hengchong.

In the previous war, in order to ensure the combat power of these Han army scouts, the Jin people used the method of offering rewards to drive the Han army scouts to work hard. This was originally a correct strategy, but when Ren Hengchong found a road leading to the rear of the Huaxia Army, he was unwilling to report it to the top, and insisted on taking people to seize this "credit", but in essence, he strangled a "possibility" that the Jin army could have found.

If it hadn't been for more than twenty people running to the other side's camp to take action, but two hundred or even two thousand Jurchen masters? Maybe the other side's camp would have been in chaos, and Ning Yi's son would have been captured or killed, and through the chaos in the wounded soldier camp, attacking the Yushui Stream front line, the battle on December 19th might have had a completely different result.

During Yu Yu's execution of dozens of scouts, Dalai, who controlled the army, also kept a close eye on the various Han army camps. A large number of Han army members who picked up the Huaxia Army's leaflets were singled out and publicly executed. The murderous atmosphere oppressed the living space of the various Han armies.

"...If it weren't for the defection of these southern dogs, there would be no failure in the Battle of Yushui Stream!"

Twenty-eighth, the Shili Collection main camp was filled with flying snow. When entering the camp gate, Dalai pulled down his cloak and shook off the accumulated snow on it, and was still criticizing the "black sheep" in this war with the generals he met.

To some extent, his statement can be regarded as one of the main ideas in the Jin army at present. The general who came with him looked at the Han army camp in the distance and waved his hand vigorously.

"...The Southern people are extremely incompetent. I have said long ago that they are very difficult to use! Hmph, and now the situation in Yushui Stream is slightly unfavorable. I think they can no longer be trusted!"

"...Warfare is most afraid of those who hold back. The roads in Yushui Stream are complex, and the Southern dogs are incompetent. They were defeated and fled after a slight impact, and they also occupied the roads in the rear, so that the deployment of rescue on the battlefield could not be timely. I think it's best to transfer them all to Huangming County. The terrain there is more open, and they can consume the Black Flag Army's shells..."

"...Huangming County can only hold a few more people at most. If you transfer 50,000 Southern dogs there today, and the Black Flag Army rushes back, you still don't know how many people will defect. When they come back, will you open your camp gate or not?"

"...In my opinion, don't open it. If anyone dares to come back without taking down the city wall, they will all die!"

"...It's just giving them to the Black Flag Army with both hands. If the Black Flag Army doesn't take them in either, and 50,000 people are blocking the battlefield, we don't have to attack forward."

"...A bunch of rats! The Southern dogs are evil!"

"...I keep dozens of Han slaves at home, and when they do things, they only know how to be lazy..."

Several generals walked through the snow towards the high ground of the military camp, exchanging such thoughts. At the other end of the camp, Yu Yu met with Wanyan Xiebao, who had a serious expression on his face. He looked at the military camp that stretched across the tents and listened to the "King Baoshan" whispering: "...Eli Li was brave and decisive, but lacked prudence and was greedy for merit. If he hadn't died at Eagle's Beak Rock, he would have been the most guilty of this defeat!"

"He's dead after all, so say less about these things." Hearing Wanyan Xiebao's words, his brother Wanyan Sheyema walked over from the side.

In the wind and snow, many generals of this southern expedition are gathering at Shili Collection.

The sudden defeat in the Battle of Yushui Stream eight days ago shocked the entire Jin army's southern expedition. In addition to Dalai and Yu Yu rushing to Yushui Stream to clean up the mess as soon as possible, almost all the senior generals were shocked and incredulous at the sudden news from Yushui Stream.

Eli Li led a thousand personal guards and was beheaded by the Huaxia Army at Eagle's Beak Rock in Yushui Stream. The Huaxia Army suddenly attacked with less than 20,000 troops and defeated the entire attacking force of Yushui Stream head-on. The enemy army was defeated like a mountain, and finally only a few thousand people defended half of the Yushui Stream camp...

For more than two months, among the Jurchen generals, in addition to Eli Li and Bali Su sitting on the front line to preside over the attack, and Yu Yu leading the scouts to assist, the remaining generals, although in the middle or rear, also cheered up and participated in the maintenance and preparation of the entire battlefield.

From Jiange to Huangming County and Yushui Stream is a nearly fifty-mile-long mountain road, with rugged terrain and difficult to navigate. Many places have simple roads, and after every car and horse passes and after every rain, difficult maintenance is required. However, under Xiyin's prior planning and Han Qixian's logistical operations, hundreds of thousands of troops opened mountains and roads in two months, not only widening the original roads by two times, but even building new trestle roads in some places where they could not pass but could be moved.

The Jurchens were originally barbaric when they started their army thirty years ago. Aguda, Zong Han and other generations were quick-witted and good at learning from others. They were constantly learning new tactics in battle after battle. In the first ten years, they relied on the invincible courage of the brave who met on a narrow road and won. In the middle ten years, they gradually collected craftsmen from all over the world and learned the combination of equipment and tactics. Until this time thirty years later, Zong Han, Xiyin, Han Qixian and others finally made tens of thousands of people operate in an orderly manner.

Most of the people responsible for opening mountains and roads were the Han troops who were driven in and the skilled Han craftsmen captured after crossing the river, but the management and supervision of these people were ultimately the Jurchen generals in the rear. For more than two months, the front line continued to attack fiercely. The rear was able to solve the most troublesome problem of access in such a situation. All the generals could actually vaguely feel the great power of "man will conquer nature".

This is the power of the Great Jin's full mobilization!

Over the past two months, in the discussions of some generals, if this war really lasted for a long time, they might even have the pride of mobilizing Han slaves to "flatten these southwest mountains."

The fact that the Black Flags on the opposite side were able to persist in Huangming County, Yushui Stream and other places for two months, and that their defenses were as strong as iron barrels and impenetrable, was indeed admirable. It's no wonder they defeated Lou Shi and Ci Bushi that year. But there is still enough confidence in the general trend in the entire Jin army.

The sudden defeat in Yushui Stream was a heavy slap in the face when everyone's confidence was at its strongest!

At that time, the battle situation on the front line of Yushui Stream collapsed rapidly. In the afternoon, the front was brutally defeated. Eli Li was killed by the Huaxia Army at Eagle's Beak Rock, and many troops failed to break through. The urgent intelligence sent afterwards was to hope that rescue would come quickly. It was not kept secret. By dawn the next day, there was successive urgent intelligence returned. The Huaxia Army not only defeated the main force of the army on the front, but even besieged the Yushui Stream camp. Before midnight, the outer perimeter of the Yushui Stream camp was defeated, and the killing drove straight in.

Yushui Stream had nearly 50,000 people, and the camp had the advantage of geographical location. In less than a day, it was said that it was brutally attacked by a Black Flag Army force of no more than 20,000 people. How powerful would the combat power of that Black Flag Army have to be to cause such a tragic situation?

As seasoned veterans who had fought on the battlefield for their entire lives, many Jin army generals in the rear turned pale when they heard the news. It was not until the second thought finally caught up that they suspected that it was a misreport, or that they had encountered some kind of superb tactic on the part of the Black Flags that had happened to work.

Wanyan Xiebao, who had a fiery temper, even cut down a tree with a knife next to the military camp, shouting: "This is impossible!" He immediately wanted to rush to the front line and kill this group of scouts who were spreading false military information and disrupting the morale of the army. He really couldn't believe this result.

Wanyan Sheyema, who was relatively calm and composed, could only confidently say: "There must be something fishy about this."

No one could believe such a result. In the thirty years since, the Jurchens had never tasted such a taste, whether in fair or unfair situations.

Lou Shi almost forced the Black Flag Army in the Northwest into a disadvantageous position nearly ten years ago—of course, in the Huaxia Army's records, it was a balanced chaos—later, it was because of a small coincidence that he was accidentally beheaded by a Black Flag squad on the battlefield that the Jurchens tasted their first defeat at the hands of the Black Flag Army.

Although Ci Bushi was tricked in Yanzhou, his tens of thousands of troops still smashed open the gate of Little Cang River, forcing the Black Flag Army at that time to flee miserably to the south. On the frontal battlefield, the Jurchen army could not be considered to have experienced a crushing defeat.

Today, several years later, at this moment when the Great Jin mobilized its strongest forces to launch a southern expedition, and many veteran generals have not yet left the stage, the Black Flags on the opposite side have revealed such amazing fangs... Has the southwest really given birth to a more crazy army than the Jurchens thirty years ago?

Fortunately, further explanations arrived successively in the following days.

On the noon of December 19th, Eli Li, who was used to taking risks, finally couldn't restrain his two months of restlessness and led his guards to personally attack the key breakthrough called Eagle's Beak Rock. He fell into the trap of the Black Flag Army, and his team was cut off by rolling boulders. Eli Li was ambushed and died.

Secondly, the changeable terrain of Yushui Stream caused the complexity of the offensive. The Black Flag Army dispatched its elite troops, but the Jin people had to accept the consequences of the fact that their troops were mixed with Han troops. These original surrendered troops all became a burden when faced with the opponent's attack. Some Jurchen elites were blocked by these Han troops when retreating or rescuing, so that the battlefield operation was not timely, which delayed the opportunity.

In addition, some Han troops quickly surrendered to the Black Flags on the battlefield and suddenly launched an attack in the camp that night, causing the outer perimeter of the Yushui Stream camp to be broken, which caused greater damage to the Jin army's main force on the front line. Since Eli Li had already died in battle, although several mid-level fierce generals fought desperately later and defended a small half of the inner camp, it was of no help to the battle situation itself.

With this information, the defeat of Yushui Stream finally had a reasonable explanation.

Eli Li is already dead. He was the head of an army during his lifetime, and the low-ranking generals in the Jin army could not criticize him. Moreover, sacrifice on the battlefield can only be comforted with honor. Then the biggest blame can only be borne by the Han army. In the days after the war, the armies from Jiange to the front line still need to appease the morale of the army and suppress the restlessness. The various armies on the Yushui Stream line are successively transferred forward, and the generals in the remaining positions are rectifying the troops... On the 28th, it snowed heavily, and several generals who received orders were summoned back to Shili Collection by Wanyan Zong Han's order.

The weather was cold, and the huge military camp was built according to the terrain, stretching across the rolling mountains visible in the field of vision. The heat and noise of the crowd's activities were immersed in the snowflakes that danced all over the sky. Some generals arrived in the morning, and some arrived successively in the afternoon. As evening approached, Wanyan Zong Han lit a roaring bonfire on the open space outside the main tent—a gathering place, ready to be in the open air snow.

Wanyan Zong Han threw wood into the bonfire, watching the sparks fly out, and the snowflakes were forced away by the fire.

In the white snow, one general after another came: Sa Ba arrived, Yu Yu arrived, Dalai arrived, Han Qixian arrived, Gao Qingyi arrived, Wanyan Sheyema arrived, Wanyan Xiebao arrived... and there were one after another figures who had experienced years of war to this point. They saw this burning flame and gathered here in the midst of the snow.

Zong Han's tall figure was silent. He threw another piece of wood in, and the flame soared up with a whoosh, and countless flames soared into the sky.

Soon, a familiar shaman war song was whispered in the crowd.

"...My White Tiger Mountain God, roar!

I am the one who has overcome ten thousand people and received Heaven's favor!

……

Powerful God, tell me!

……

You who accompany me!

Please listen carefully.

……

My Haidongqing spreads its wings—

Fly freely!"

Around the roaring bonfire, there seemed to be countless figures, following and echoing...

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