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Medical teams and logistics teams moving forward, civilians and wounded soldiers being sent back from the Huangming County battlefield, couriers running back and forth…all sorts of figures filled the winding road, with commands, cries, and shouts blending together.

"All teams, keep to the right! Right! Right! Folks, this is the right, make way--"

The red armband in charge of traffic control shouted in the middle of the road, barely maintaining the smooth flow of the entire route.

In the process of going back and forth, soldiers who had undergone various training did not have too much pressure to command. The most difficult to manage were naturally the civilians who had retreated from the Huangming County battlefield. They had just experienced the most terrifying scene of their lives. Many of them were covered in blood and may have experienced the shock of their families' deaths. Some walked forward in a daze, unable to hear anything. Occasionally, someone would stumble into the oncoming队伍, and after being touched, would collapse to the ground and cry loudly.

The red armbands in charge of traffic control would have to promptly direct people to help them back into the队伍.

In rare cases, these irrational people would even argue loudly with others, at which point some coercive measures would have to be taken. Although inhumane, it was necessary at the moment.

Since various contingency plans had been prepared in advance, although various frictions occurred, there were no major delays that held things up.

This section of the road from Huangming County to Zizhou was relatively easy to travel. The Jurchens were naturally encountering more trouble in the section from Jiange to Huangming County. In the various contingency plans made by the Chinese Army's General Staff, the side with fewer people still had the advantage in transportation.

In the open space near the road, the camp tents for sheltering civilians stretched out endlessly.

The Wu Dynasty civilians who survived the Huangming County battlefield were first subjected to surveillance and quarantine. During this process, the Chinese Army arranged for a large number of propaganda personnel to hold meetings and give lectures, asking them to identify those in the crowd who might be Jurchen spies. After filtering in this way, they would be sent to the rear settlements.

Among the hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder, as long as the Jurchen generals had any intelligence, they would infiltrate spies into them. These spies were mostly Han army members who had surrendered to the Jurchens. Their attitudes were ambiguous and difficult to discern. If the Chinese Army gained the upper hand, they would even be willing to join this side. However, in the face of the Jurchens' bounties and changes in the external situation, these people would also be time bombs that could explode at any time.

Anyway, the lives of the Han army were worthless. They would just stuff a person into the army and send them to the other side, and the enemy would be the one with a headache.

If I were a bad guy, I would definitely do this - although he had always been a good person, Ning Yi was quite experienced in this kind of thing.

"...On the Huangming battlefield, Bali Su launched a full-scale attack around 2 p.m....Meng'an Wulitan led a thousand men as the vanguard to climb the city wall. After failing to attack the city, this thousand-man team had difficulty retreating. Bali Su then ordered the Han army to launch a general attack from the front of the vanguard. The frontal attack was blocked by the artillery regiment, causing heavy casualties..."

On the mountain peak beside the avenue, a watchtower stood tall. Ning Yi climbed up with a patrolling squad. Looking forward from the mountain, Huangming County was vaguely visible at the end of the rolling sea of trees, and plumes of smoke were rising from the depths of the mountains - the mountain fire was still spreading - Xu Shaoyuan from the secretariat was repeating yesterday's battle situation.

"...In order to rescue the Wulitan team, Bali Su launched three large-scale attacks successively and ordered the bombardment of civilians, disrupting the entire battlefield situation. The Jurchens approached the Huangming County city wall again in this wave of attacks and engaged in city climbing operations, causing some damage...The message from Commander Pang is that on the 25th, our army suffered only a hundred casualties, mostly caused by the boulders and bombs they threw."

"...And the Jurchen troops suffered conservatively estimated casualties of more than 5,000. After encountering three rounds of saturated shelling, Yu Xian's troops showed signs of large-scale rout. The Jurchen military law team also killed some people. In addition, Bali Su ordered the bombardment of civilians at that time..."

"One to fifty!" Hearing this number, Ning Xi in the队伍 could not hide her excitement. Ning Yi smiled slightly: "Most of the dead are Yu Xian's Han troops, right."

Li Yi, the chief of staff on the side, nodded at this time: "Wulitan is a Jurchen elite. Bali Su ordered him to attack the city with the intention of doing it in one go, but most of Pang Liu'an's subordinates are veterans, and they can't gain any advantage by climbing the city. Seeing this scene, Bali Su immediately ordered the Han army and other affiliated troops to launch a saturated attack, and then bombarded the civilians on the battlefield to disrupt the situation. First, to allow Wulitan's elite troops to retreat by muddying the waters, and second, he wanted to test the lethality of the cannons on the city walls."

Li Yi said here, looking at Ning Xi: "This reveals a key idea, Ning Xi, can you see it?"

Ning Xi frowned and thought for a moment: "They, they...can they accept such losses?"

"...It shows that they don't underestimate us." Ning Yi sighed and patted the child's shoulder,

"The Jurchens have fought a smooth war for twenty or thirty years. In their own minds, they should think that they are the strongest army in the world. Under this mentality, they theoretically won't accept excessively high battle losses. Using a vanguard fierce general like Wulitan to make the first wave of attack shows this kind of psychology. If everything goes normally, Wulitan's troops will gain a foothold on the city walls, and on the 25th, Huangming County should have been captured."

"But this situation did not occur. Bali Su immediately ordered the Han army's cannon fodder to rush forward, and then launched three consecutive waves of attacks, pushing the battlefield attack to saturation. Later, without using the main elite, he withdrew after paying huge casualties...It shows that at least in the eyes of senior Jurchen army officials like Bali Su, they think it is necessary to use such damage to explore where the limit of the Chinese Army's combat power lies. This 'necessity' proves that they did not underestimate us in this war, and even overestimated us a lot, before launching this southwest campaign."

Ning Xi nodded. Li Yi said: "Zong Han and Xi Yin believe that the Jurchens' rise has reached its peak, and there are internal corruption problems. The Chinese Army, which has risen among the Han people, is still rising. If this situation continues, the Jurchens will have kingdom disasters. Therefore, they regard the southwest campaign as the most critical battle for the Jurchens to exist for a long time. Just from the first day of fighting in Huangming, we can know that they can accept a quick victory, but they can also accept the possibility of a slow grind due to the disparity in combat power between the two sides. This is the most troublesome."

Ning Yi turned his gaze to the refugee camp on the side of the road below: "How many civilian casualties?"

"The Second Division's statistics are approximate numbers. The entire day, about 15,000 to 18,000 civilians were driven forward. In the end, we rescued..." Xu Shaoyuan looked at the statistics and looked below, "...more than 3,600 people. Among them, more than 700 were injured."

The队伍 at the edge of the watchtower was silent for a moment, and then Ning Yi laughed: "Speaking of which, when the General Staff discussed the plan in the early stage, this guy Chen Tian helped the Jurchens come up with a very dirty strategy. He believes that when the Jurchens attack the southwest, the world will be theirs, and they can stuff the surrendered Han army troops into the refugee cannon fodder. We have no choice but to accept them, and it will be very troublesome to filter them out."

"In view of this, Chen Tian said that the Jurchens can consider driving millions, or even millions of civilians in the Xianghu and Sichuan regions, confiscating their homes, robbing their food and all their belongings, and then driving one million, two million, or even three million people from the Jiange Pass to our side, as cannon fodder or sending them directly. The Jurchens only need to consider opening a passage, and we can't digest it at all. In less than a year, we'll all die..."

The refugee camp down the hillside looked miserable, but such things were just the beginning. Ning Yi spoke about Chen Tian to liven up the atmosphere, with a smile full of emotion. Li Yi on the side also showed a complex wry smile. Ning Xi frowned and thought for a moment: "If this is the case, what should we do...but Zhou Junwu just fought a *daojuanzhulian* (倒卷珠帘) on the Yangtze River..."

"It won't be possible to fight here. Whether it's at the Jiange Pass or various mountain passes on the Jinniu Road, if the Jurchens hold them, millions of civilians will definitely not be able to return."

"Then...is there any way to deal with it?"

"It's difficult to deal with a *yangmou* (阳谋)." Ning Yi smiled, "When Chen Tian said it, everyone was a little dumbfounded. The possibility of this is very small, because the development expectations are uncontrollable. The Jurchens can launch hundreds of thousands or millions of troops at any time, and there is no need to fight this kind of useless battle. But if they are really cowardly to this point, sending people in desperately while fighting, everyone will really cry and cry, and the possibility of a collapse is very high...So why does everyone in the General Staff say that Chen Tian is full of bad ideas? He and Qu Zhengyan are a match made in heaven..."

Ning Yi looked at the refugee camp below. After finishing this joke, his eyes gradually became serious.

"I can't be optimistic. In Huangming County, the ratio is one to fifty. It is said to be a saturated attack, but in fact, the Jurchens' attack is not saturated at all. The elite are on the field, and all the catapults and iron cannons are pushed up. The entire casualty ratio will be greatly narrowed. Bali Su is a veteran Jurchen general. Since he is mentally prepared, he will soon find the critical point of the Huangming County's defense force. On the Yushui Creek side, Elili is waiting for Bali Su's actions before attacking, and that will be the real test for us."

Ning Yi looked at the battle report, then reached out and flicked it, handing it to Li Yi with a wry smile: "Alas, look, there are people coming to collect debts behind us. We said it repeatedly before the war, save the shells for me. Pang Liu'an and Li Dong, these two guys, wasted a day, and bombed more than 5,000 people with cannons. They're having a great time...After a summary, the report came over, and they're reporting to us that the shells may not be enough."

In the Chinese Army, pure operational matters are managed by the General Staff and the leadership of each army. Although Ning Yi is responsible for the overall operation and occasionally analyzes it, he does not directly intervene much. However, military supplies and logistics, various material production, collection, and allocation, are still in Ning Yi's hands. When analyzing the Huangming battle situation earlier, Ning Yi spoke seriously, but he was not very worried. But now that he was being asked for debts, Ning Yi slumped his shoulders and laughed angrily.

"We've taken out all our savings from the past few years, and we're working hard day and night to catch up. Where can I give them more...Xu Shaoyuan, go back and write a letter to scold them to death. A plan is a plan, and there's nothing more." He clapped his hands, "Well, I knew it. If we fight this battle for three months, we'll all be drinking the northwest wind."

The mountains ahead were vast, and the road was winding. Ning Yi said these things on the mountain, but he still had a smile on his face. Ning Yi frowned beside him, painstakingly calculating the accounts. When he reached a quiet place, he finally found his father and asked: "Dad, are things really not enough?" Ning Yi looked at his son, who had gradually grown into an adult, and found it amusing: "Come on, let's go and calculate the accounts."

In the afternoon, the father and son returned to the command post and buried themselves in calculating the accounts with an abacus. Pang Liu'an started to apply for more supplies based on his battle achievements after firing cannons for a whole day. In fact, more than just this army wanted more things.

In the pre-war task allocation, the supplies for each army had been clearly divided, and the future output of the rear in the next few months had also been divided. Ning Yi only kept a small amount of surplus on hand, but each army was trying their best to extract it from Ning Yi's hands. The thing that made Ning Yi sigh and slam the table the most in the past was this kind of thing.

For him, fighting the Jurchens felt more like an old landlord being divided his property by his sons, with a kind of desolate feeling that he would not have a single coin left in his life. He occasionally laughed when he was angered by the reports from the various armies, finding joy in suffering.

Of course, everyone had no selfish motives in this matter, and even this kind of game was very necessary. All Ning Yi could do was to occasionally send documents to scold the commanders in front, saying they were spendthrifts, and then go to the back to urge the workers to work overtime and urge the propaganda department to continuously encourage everyone to give play to their subjective initiative. He occasionally ridiculed himself, saying that his black-hearted capitalist nature had been brought to the extreme.

Even so, the shortage of materials was still very large. In order to maintain the operation of Dengsan County in the early years, basically everything that could be sold had been sold. The large-scale sale was of iron cannons, and what Ning Yi had suppressed in his hands were hand grenades. After conquering the Chengdu Plain, they lived more comfortably and began to prepare for war with all their strength, but the total amount of military capital was still not much. After all, this battle was fought too early.

The father and son calculated the accounts in the room for half an afternoon. When they came out, the outside was already publicizing and celebrating the great victory of one to fifty in Huangming County. The propaganda team passed by, beating gongs and drums. Ning Xi's expression was like that of a foolish son of a landlord who suddenly discovered that his family was actually an empty shell, and his expression was a little guilty and awkward.

"It's all money...productivity." Ning Yi sighed and patted his son's shoulder, "There's a new factory in Chengdu. I plan to let you go to learn about it. This management is the most important thing in the future."

"...I, I'm not going." Ning Xi reacted, "Dad, you lied to me again."

"Everything I said is true." Ning Yi's eyes were sincere and calm, "But you have your own ideas, that's good too. Then stay in Zizhou for now."

Ning Yi's expression did not reveal any flaws. On the 26th, Huangming County experienced another round of war. Pang Liu'an reduced the frequency of shelling, and the damage on the battlefield was reduced. Even without shelling, the combat power on the walls of Huangming County was still as strong as steel. This was just the beginning of the war, and Bali Su sent the results of the attack and some conclusions back to every leader in the Jurchen army.

The fire started by the skirmishes between the scout teams in the mountains spread even more widely. An exchange ratio of about one to six was a huge threat to the affiliated troops who went into the mountains for rewards. Even if the Jurchen high-level officials had ordered not to set fires easily, who would care about the orders at the critical moment of life and death? Whether it was to muddy the waters or turn around and flee for their lives, setting a fire was the preferred strategy.

The Chinese Army's scouts temporarily chose to maintain the front line and stand still. Some elite Jurchen scouts gradually began to adapt to the Chinese Army's operations. Occasionally, when they rushed forward and occupied key positions, they were isolated by the fire of their own people. After returning, they cursed endlessly. Some of them never returned.

Everyone understood that the initial probing and stalemate would not last too long. Once the probing was over, what awaited the Chinese Army would inevitably be large-scale, high-intensity, and repeated charges and pawn exchanges by the Jurchens. The two sides' artillery arrays would bombard each other. Even if one side was up and the other was down, the Jurchens would not be at an absolute disadvantage. Most importantly: they could afford to exchange them, whether it was manpower or material resources.

After dealing with things on the evening of the 26th, Ning Yi took out letter paper to write to his family in the rear. This is what he wrote in the letter to Su Tan'er:

I found that after the children grow up, they are not as cute as when they were young. Tell Wenwen, Ning Ke, Ning Shuang, and Ning Ning that Dad loves them the most, and their brother is not likable.

Well, Ning He is still young, so he is as lovely as them.

……

Soon after, Su Tan'er wrote back:

Yesterday, I received a letter from Xi'er, saying that you always wanted to trick him into going to the rear, which is really some old man's stale habits. He wants to be a straightforward young man, and says he shouldn't learn from you in this regard.

He has his own discernment, and I am happy in my heart. Of course, I scolded him in the letter.

Don't be angry with him anymore.

……

——I'll be angry with him!

——Happy my ass!

Ning Yi was so angry with his wife's letter that his face turned black.

But compared to war, these are unspeakable happy things.

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