Angry Banana

Chapter 889: Traces, Killing Field

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The war on the front lines had not yet spread, but with the continued rain, Zizhou City had already entered a state of semi-martial law. Search: \, Complete, Book, God, Station, ) to read high-quality literature for free.

In the military camp near the city wall, soldiers were forbidden to go out and were in a state of readiness to move out at any time. The patrols on the city walls and within the city had been strengthened, and the number of scouts outside the city assigned tasks had doubled. For the past two months, this had been the norm in Zizhou City every time it rained.

Ox carts carrying supplies came from the southwest, and some were taken over directly without entering the city and sent to the front lines. Inside the city, after Ning Yi and others patrolled the city walls, a new meeting was also being held.

"...On the front lines, the reserve of hand grenades is less than 20% of what it used to be. As for artillery shells, Huangming County and Yushuixi have both sent more than a dozen requests for resupply. The mountains are humid in winter, and the impact on gunpowder is slightly greater than we previously expected. The Jurchens have also seen this situation clearly..."

"...They see it clearly, and it is easy to form a fixed mindset. According to the General Staff's previous plan, at this time, we can start to consider taking the initiative to attack and seize the initiative. After all, if we just defend passively, the Jurchens can send as many people as they can, and the casualties in Huangming County have exceeded 50,000, and they are still rushing over desperately, which means they can accept 100% losses... But if we take the initiative to attack, their troops are mixed together, and at most 20% losses will cause them to collapse!"

"...The Lunar New Year is the most critical moment for both of us. The more we want to celebrate the New Year, the more we will cause trouble for the other party. Since we are prepared not to have a peaceful New Year, then I think we can make a decision in the next two days..."

In the small room, the meeting was being held with the sound of lunch. Li Yi, Han Jing, Ning Yi and other high-level leaders gathered here, holding their meals and planning the next strategy. Ning Yi looked at the map in front of him and ate, thinking for a while.

"Theoretically, the Jurchens will think that we will regard the Lunar New Year as a critical node."

He paused, holding the chopsticks and shaking them.

"We will guess what the Jurchens are thinking about this matter, and the Jurchens will make corresponding actions because we guessed their thoughts on us... In short, everyone will be on guard during this time. Then, should we consider giving up all active attacks from today and let them think we are preparing. Then... on the 28th, launch the first round of attacks, actively breaking their tense nerves. Next, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, carry out a real full-scale attack. I want to cut off the head of Huangming County..."

Everyone thought for a while, and Han Jing said, "If we want them to relax on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the attack on the 28th must be done beautifully."

"We also have to consider whether the Jurchens will think the same way as us. After all, they have been leading the offensive for the past two months."

Such major strategic decisions are usually not discussed publicly before a preliminary intention is made. The few people were holding a small meeting and discussing when someone ran in from outside, bringing the battlefield intelligence of the highest level of urgency.

The messenger brought in the intelligence. Ning Yi wiped his mouth, tore it open and glanced at it, then pressed it on the table and pushed it to the others.

"Yushuixi, Qu Zhengyan's 'Swallowing Fire' action has begun. It seems that things are developing faster than we expected."

He picked up the bowl and started eating. The news was simple. The others also started to speed up their eating after reading the intelligence one by one. During this period, Han Jing joked, "Pretending to be calm, everyone."

"Hold on, hold on." Ning Yi laughed.

Soon after, news from the battlefield came one after another.

At the end of October in the eleventh year of Jianshuo, the southwest officially started the war. In the two months since then, the Chinese army had been taking a defensive posture and the Jurchens had been leading the offensive.

But as the war progressed, the comparison of combat power between the two sides' various armies gradually became clear, and with the continuation of high-intensity operations, the Jurchen side gradually became tired of maintaining logistics routes, and there were problems with the rigidity of the peripheral vigilance in some links. So on the afternoon of December 19, the Chinese army's scout troops, which had been harassing the rear of Huangming County, suddenly turned their target to Yushuixi.

At one quarter past noon, Chen Tian led 300 elites to suddenly attack, cutting off the mountain road seven miles behind Yushuixi, using explosives to destroy the mountain walls, and destroying the surrounding key roads. Almost at the same time, on the Yushuixi battlefield, more than 5,000 people led by Qu Zhengyan launched a full-scale counterattack against Eliri's camp of more than 40,000 people.

As said before, if the defensive posture is always adopted, the Jurchen side will always suffer 100% combat attrition. But if they choose to take the initiative to attack, according to previous battlefield experience, the Han Chinese soldiers who surrendered to the Jin army will collapse with only 10% losses, and the people of Liaodong and Bohai can resist to more than 20%, only a few Jurchen, Liaodong, and Bohai elites can continue to fight after suffering 30% casualties.

In this regard, the Chinese army can accept a higher damage ratio.

At this moment, Yushuixi had already experienced two months of attacks. The Han Chinese troops who were originally arranged to continue the attack in the winter rain were mechanically going through the motions, and even some troops composed of Liaodong, Bohai, and Jurchen people felt tired of the cycle of repeated attacks and fruitless results. The elite of the Chinese army counterattacked from the originally complex terrain.

The resolute and fierce offensive under the command of Qu Zhengyan first chose the surrendered Han Chinese troops on the battlefield as the target. Almost immediately after the engagement, these troops collapsed in the face of the head-on blow.

In the late autumn of this year, outside Jiangning City, Zong Fu drove a million surrendered troops to besiege the city, and was once beaten into a tragic situation by Jun Wu. Zong Han, who had learned the lessons of the eastern battlefield, only used relatively elite and firm surrendered troops to increase the number of troops. In the past offensive, they played a certain role, but as the offensive and defensive momentum reversed, they failed to persist on the battlefield for too long.

Tens of thousands of figures in the engagement pushed aside the rain in the mountains.

The news that Yingzui Rock had trapped Eliri quickly reached Zizhou shortly after Qu Zhengyan launched the offensive.

In the command post, figures delivering orders were running around, and the atmosphere had become heated. Warhorses rushed out of the rain, and thousands of reserve soldiers in Zizhou City were wearing raincoats and leaving Zizhou to rush to Yushuixi. Ning Yi slammed his fist on the table and left the room.

Li Yi rushed over from behind: "Why are you leaving at this time?"

"It's none of my business. If the battle is lost, come and tell me. If you win, just celebrate. It doesn't matter if you call me or not."

He sent Li Yi away, and then sent away most of the accompanying guards, only calling on Hongti, and said, "Let's go, let's go, we're going out to take risks."

Hongti's eyes were slightly puzzled, but in the end she didn't ask any questions. The two of them left the command post wearing raincoats and walked towards the city.

After passing the military curfew area, partly because there were not many residents left in Zizhou, and partly because it was raining, only occasional pedestrians could be seen walking on the road. Ning Yi took Hongti's hand, crossed the blue-gray road, bypassed the secluded ancient site called Du Fu Thatched Cottage, and stopped in front of a wealthy courtyard.

"Li Weixuan's villa." Ning Yi stood at the street corner and looked around furtively. "A rich man, a local tyrant, ran away when we attacked Zizhou. He left two old people to take care of the house and courtyard. Later, the old people got sick and were also taken away. I thought about it before, and I can go in and take a look."

Hongti was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but laugh: "You can just tell people, can't you?"

"How can it be more interesting than sneaking in?" Ning Yi smiled, "We couple, today we will play the role of the male and female thieves."

Having been together for more than ten years, Hongti naturally knew that her husband often had playful and outrageous behaviors. In his early years, when he was in the mood, he often acted recklessly. The two had also been chased by wolves and ran wildly in the mountains of Lvliang in the middle of the night. Ning Yi pulled her to the wild to mess around... In the years after the rebellion, there were also children around, and Ning Yi mostly acted steadily, but occasionally he would organize some outings, picnics and other activities. Unexpectedly, at this time, he had moved this strange thought again.

When the Chinese army entered Zizhou, most of the local gentry and squires had already left, and some houses had been stolen. As the war approached, the Chinese army had screened Zizhou City several times, and ordinary refugees had also been cleared out of the city. The small courtyard wall could not stop the highly skilled couple. Ning Yi climbed up the wall, walked directly on it, then walked on the roof and looked at the inner courtyard.

"If there are assassins following around, they might be staring at you somewhere at this time." Hongti watched the surroundings vigilantly.

"You're right, I have to be low-key."

Ning Yi took her reminder and went down from the roof, walking inside the courtyard, looking around as he walked.

Under the gloomy sky, the courtyard that had been uninhabited for a long time appeared dark, old, quiet, and desolate, but many places could still see traces of previous human habitation. This was a rather large courtyard complex, with several courtyards, front yards, back yards, residences, and gardens. Weeds had grown in the courtyards, and some courtyards had accumulated water and turned into small pools. In some courtyards, the things that had not been taken away seemed to be telling the scene before people left. Ning Yi even found rouge powder in the drawers of some rooms and curiously visited the world where the women lived.

Hongti followed Ning Yi all the way, sometimes looking at the living space, the calligraphy and paintings hanging in some rooms, and the small objects left between the drawers of the study... She used to walk the Jianghu and had secretly investigated some people's homes, but at this time, these courtyards were empty, and the couple spied on the clues before the owner left across time, and their mood was naturally different.

She also gradually understood Ning Yi's thoughts: "You used to live in such a courtyard in Jiangning."

"The pattern is similar. The Su family is rich. First they bought an old house, and then they expanded and renovated it. A courtyard with several entrances housed hundreds of people. At that time, I felt it was very noisy, and I had to say hello to everyone I met. I felt a little annoyed in my heart. At that time, I thought it was better to leave and not stay there."

Ning Yi smiled. They were standing on a corridor on the second floor, and could see the deep and quiet courtyards nearby: "However, sometimes it's quite interesting. After dinner, the courtyards were lit with lights, and it was very lively at a glance. Now the liveliness has been extinguished. At that time,

, there were some small things around me. Tan'er dealt with things, sometimes with a few maids, and came back relatively late. Thinking about it, it's like a child. It's not far from when I met you. Xiao Chan and the others, you also met them at that time."

Hongti smiled and didn't speak. Ning Yi leaned against the wall: "After Jun Wu broke out of Jiangning, Jiangning was massacred. Now they are all big things, but sometimes, I think it's more interesting to live in small things occasionally. When you look over here, the courtyards with people living in them and those without people living in them, more or less have their own small things."

As he said this, he leaned against the wall by the corridor and sat down. The rain was still falling, soaking everything in front of him in blue-gray and gray-black. In the past in his memory, there would be smiling girls walking through the Langyuan, and chattering children running around. At this time, there was a war going on in the distance.

Under the collapsed Yingzui Rock, knives and shields collided and fought in the muddy water. People collided together, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

The swung blade cut through flesh, the spear pierced through people's intestines, some people shouted, some people screamed, some people fell in the mud, and some people tore up the enemy's head and slammed it against the hard rocks.

Blood gushed out of Mao Yishan's body. In the frantic fight, he raised his shield in the surging muddy water and slammed it hard on Eliri's knee. Eliri's body leaned forward and punched him in the face. Mao Yishan's body shook, and he also punched out. The two entangled together. At one moment, Mao Yishan lifted Eliri's entire body into the air in a loud shout, and with a bang, the two figures slammed hard into the muddy water.

Eliri struggled frantically in the water, and Mao Yishan punched him hard, and was kicked away by him. He stood up from the muddy water and was about to rush forward, and Mao Yishan also rushed up in the muddy water, holding the shield he had found in the water in his hand, and waving it out as if drawing a bow to its limit.

A terrifying roar came from the wind and rain. Half of Eliri's face was torn open by the shield, and two rows of teeth with the flesh and blood of the oral cavity were exposed. He staggered a few steps, his eyes still locked on Mao Yishan, and Mao Yishan had been running over non-stop from the muddy water, his two big hands like tigers clasped Eliri's hideous head.

Eliri's arm reflexively resisted, and the two figures stepped a few steps in the muddy water. Mao Yishan pressed Eliri's tall body and slammed the back of his head hard on the bluestone, dragged it up, and slammed it down again, crashing it three times in a row.

In the dim light and shadow, there were still hideous figures fighting everywhere. Mao Yishan took the knife handed over by his comrades and chopped off Eliri's head on the bluestone.

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