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Chapter 998 The Great Showdown ([-])
The sun was on the western horizon, and only the last glimmer of light remained.The nearby mountains and the earth have already begun to darken.

The neighing of the horses, the spotty flames burning between the mountains and the tidal flats, and the sound of the collapsed soldiers on the ground near the night, far and near, making people a little indistinguishable.

The sound of the explosion sounded on the ridge, and the flames rushed along with the smoke for a moment, appearing particularly dazzling on the dark ground. A golden soldier's corpse stumbled, fell to the ground and climbed up against the corpse's head, his hands covered in sticky blood.

"Geng Changqing! Take good care of my cannon and count it—"

Chen Hai shouted the name of the battalion commander and gave the order.

The battle that had originally been on the Jinbing and Iron Cannon positions was drawing to a close.

The iron cannon manufactured and popularized by the Huaxia Army is an epoch-making weapon, and its power is infinite for the dense battlefield.However, since the emergence of iron cannons, grenades and other objects, the Huaxia Army has actually eliminated the intensive phalanx impact. Of course, the Seventh Army also has phalanx training such as walking straight, but it is mainly to increase the discipline and integrity of the army. It is implied that, in terms of actual combat drills, using explosives to directly blow up the opponent, and also charging with skirmishers, small-scale cooperation at any time and place is the focus of the Seventh Army's operations.

Pucha's [-] strikers brought a total of more than [-] iron cannons. If they faced a whole block of soldiers, they could certainly cause huge damage. Deterrence.But this kind of shock and deterrence is basically ineffective for the veterans in the Huaxia Seventh Army.

If time develops further, on a relatively modern battlefield, recruits are often afraid of guns, and 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 volley, but no one will do it.For an individual soldier, the significance of more than 20 cannons is probably not as good as that of twenty arrows. At least when the arrows are fired, the archer may also aim at someone.And cannons are not fired at a single person.

Chen Hai organized the soldiers under his command to detour lightly along the side foothills in units of squads, and then launched waves of attacks. The artillery did not play a role in blocking. The two sides first attacked each other with grenades and fire and thunder. Afterwards, they fought between the iron cannon positions.The Huaxia Army began to carry out beheading tactics, and the Jinbing also organized a stubborn resistance.

As an army that has dominated the world for 30 years, although it has suffered successive defeats and lost generals recently, the morale of the Jin Army has not been defeated. The pride in the past and the predicament in front of it are superimposed. But there are also many golden soldiers who have been inspired to be brave, at least in small-scale fights, they are still remarkable.

So Chen Hai took a lot of effort to capture this position, and even at the moment when the battle was almost finalized, there were Jurchen soldiers holding torches and launched a desperate attack. The previous explosion was a Jurchen soldier. It was caused by igniting an ammunition barrel on the artillery position, and the explosion spread, and the two nearby cannons were also thrown away, and they were no longer usable.

"Help the wounded!"

"Build a line of defense—"

"Test shot—"

Chen Hai walked on the ground and issued orders one by one. Someone came from a distance and carried a human head: "Head of the regiment, kill Meng An."

"Throw it to feed the dog!"

As he said so, the defeated soldiers on the battlefield below were still fleeing, and by the far 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 flame of fire appeared at the end of the field of vision in the east - on the hills facing each other far away from the mudflat, the torches of the horse team were connected in a line.

"Saba is here. The cannons are ready!" Chen Hai calmly ordered, "Those with spears and engineers, go down to support Brigadier Hou."

……

Wanyan Saba did not immediately enter the battlefield.

He led a total of 2 support troops, of which more than [-] were cavalry.His army was not far from Pucha's team, and it could have been put into battle in half a day, and the speed of the cavalry was of course faster - this time was originally sufficient, but what was unexpected was the change in the battle in Lueyang The situation will be so intense.

On his way over, he received information on the battlefield five times in total. The first two were normal, and the next one was more urgent. The last time the soldiers were simply defeated on the battlefield.The Huaxia Army's offensive was so fierce that it made one's scalp tingle. He led the cavalry to move, and the first moment he brought the battlefield into view, he stopped the cavalry.

In front of the field of vision is a chaotic scene of defeat. Seeing the torches on the hills here, some of the fleeing golden soldiers are coming here. Saba ordered the guards to pack up the defeated soldiers, and at the same time called someone to come to inquire about the situation. Soon after , there is a collection of information one after another.

Pucha's [-] vanguard troops were on the verge of collapse, and a large number of soldiers were scattered by the Huaxia Army. He took the guards of the formation and turned to the Jialing River, trying to defend against the river, and beat the situation of the soldiers.

In the words of the soldiers, Pucha was waiting for rescue by the Jialing River in front, and in front of the field of vision, the position of the artillery had been taken by the Huaxia Army. The combat teams have clearly formed a torrent after another. In such a chaotic battle, they are all subconsciously gathering and forming groups. These groups are not big, but for the scattered Jinbing, each group is a big one. Like a beast that devours people, it is devouring every wave of power that can be resisted in the field of vision.

One of the largest clusters had clearly spotted their arrival, forming a long line under the mountainside with artillery formations. Long guns were assembled into a forest, and a row of soldiers in front of the gun forest seemed to be frantically digging into the ground.

This infantry team is only 3000 to [-] people. They were ready to fight the cavalry at the first moment, blocking their way to save people in the Jialing River, but Sa Ba naturally understood that such a fast and resolute team is the most important thing. Pretty scary.

What's more terrifying is that the information containing the reasons for the rapid collapse of the Purchas' troops has been preliminarily organized by him, making him feel that the roots of his teeth are a little pantothenic acid.

If ten years ago, he would not hesitate to put his cavalry on the battlefield.

Of course, there is not much time for him to hesitate and wait right now.

He quickly issued several orders, one of which was to order his personal guards to gather and reorganize the fleeing soldiers to restore their combat power, and the other was to have people rushed to the Jialing River to send a message, so that Pucha could no longer hesitate and use the most Quickly break out of the siege towards the east road and join your own side.At the same time, he called the most important personal soldier around him and asked him to quickly return to the rear camp to convey the problems and findings of this battlefield to Zong Han.

"Come on, don't be late."

He said so.

Looking back, on the battlefield between the foothills, the woods, the depressions, and the tidal flats, there are sparse and sparse fires, and the sun has completely set. For the cavalry, it is certainly not the best time to charge.But had to rush, had to find each other's flaws in the movement.

This is the only way out-

……

It's getting dark.

Zonghan's camp set up a tent between the mountains, and the horses galloped in and out, making the night lively.

The war has started relatively smoothly in an unexpected way.The war started in the afternoon. The first battle took place in the mountainous area in the direction of Yangba. The friction and killing of the scouts were expanding, but the two sides did not clearly capture the main force of the other side. Soon after, it was the Jialing River west of Lueyang County. The battle report came from the side, and Saba began to move forward to support.

The main force that Wanyan Zonghan can use this time is about 9 people-this is basically the last possession of the West Route Army. The 9 people were divided into five groups, with 2 led by Pucha, [-] from Sa, [-] from Gao Qing, [-] from Yema, and finally more than [-], led by Zong Han himself as the Chinese army.

The troops of Pucha and Saba marched from the north road, and Gao Qingyi was in charge of the slightly south. The army of Shiyema came from the direction of Zhaohua. First, it was responsible for supporting Gao Qingyi, and secondly, it was to block the road of the Huaxia Seventh Army going south to Jiange. , the five armies are currently moving within a distance of a hundred miles, and they are separated by dozens of miles from each other. If they want to support, they can actually be quite fast.

The total number of the Huaxia Army is [-], and the combat power is amazing, but the Jurchens are mostly generals who can be on their own.

Of course, Zong Han, Han Qixian and others thought so. From the point of view of the art of war, naturally there is not much problem.

After nightfall, the information came from time to time, but there was still not much breakthrough in the direction of Yangba.In the direction of Jialing River, the battle has already started.

"...If the estimates are correct, Pucha should be fighting conservatively on the banks of the Jialing River. He should have entangled this Huaxia army by now, and Sabatang should have arrived by now. What is unclear now is that Yangba never In the real fight, will the main force of the Huaxia Seventh Army be concentrated in Lueyang, and they want to use their superior forces to defeat our road to the north."

At night, Han Qi first analyzed such a possibility with Zong Han in the tent, and Zong Han also agreed.

"The Huaxia Army should be most concerned about the battle situation in the Jiange. What is true is false. It is not impossible for Qin Shaoqian to put the main force in the north." , even if Pucha loses to the Huaxia Seventh Army, Saba should be able to stabilize his position. We are not far apart now, once we receive the report, we will start troops in the early morning, and we will travel at night, and we will be able to bite Qin Shaoqian tomorrow."

The bonfire was blazing in the big camp, and not long after dinner, a new round of battle reports came, and it was determined that the Huaxia Army that appeared in the direction of Lueyang was probably between 1 and [-] people (Pu Cha was unwilling to say too little), and the opponent's combat power is fierce, Pu Cha is going to entangle the opponent with conservative combat.

This round of battle report was sent to Daying after notifying Saba. It has been delayed for a long time, but after listening to the description of the battlefield, Zong Han and Han Qixian believed that Pucha had made the correct response and felt a little relieved.But not long after, Saba's bodyguards rode war horses and rushed into the camp at high speed.

Zong Han and Han Qi first listened to the guard in the big tent talking about the scene when Saba arrived on the battlefield: Lueyang had just approached the enemy around Shen Shi in the afternoon, and at Xu Shi, the 8000 army led by Pu Cha was almost completely defeated. More than [-] people were forced to stay on the banks of the Jialing River, and went to the so-called state of breaking the boat. That is to say, in about two hours, [-] people had been defeated under Pu Cha's conservative combat policy.

"how can that be--"

Zong Han had already patted the table and stood up.

The personal guard knelt there: "...the general asked me to come back and report to the commander. The Huaxia Army is very good at beheading on the battlefield. The 7000 people from the First Division of the Seventh Chinese Army fought against General Pucha. Every soldier can break away from the brigade and fight. When the general entered the battlefield to gather the rout, thousands of people under General Pu Cha's command were defeated. They were detected one by one, and all were killed. Our soldiers had no leader, so they could only flee in all directions, while the Huaxia army was almost not afraid of beheading. Such a method of warfare was never seen before... the general said, if there is no such thing, Countermeasures, our side... has no chance of winning..."

The guard let out a mournful cry, and what he showed was also Saba's anxiety and fear at the time. The first time he discovered this feature, Saba had already faintly felt the horror of this matter.

When the Jurchen West Route Army entered the Jianmen Pass and went to Zizhou to fight, the Huaxia Fifth Army had to rely on the pass to defend, and there were also some recruits, and the pure decapitation combat method had not been fully demonstrated.But at the moment when Zonghan took the initiative to attack in the wild, and both sides stopped holding hands or playing tricks, all the trump cards were opened.

The crushing advantage of the modern military system over the 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 icon inserted on the map. At this moment, the deduction of the battlefield needs to be completely revised.

Layers of goose bumps spread up along with the coolness in the bottom of my heart.

……

On the banks of the Jialing River, Pucha, who was attacked by the two brigades of the First Division of the Huaxia Army, did not break through to the place where it merged with Saba on this night.

The person responsible for blocking the Saba cavalry was more than [-] people led by the brigade commander Hou Lietang, and Chen Hai on the side of the hillside, blocked Saba for a while on the way of Pucha's retreat.

The team led by Qi Xinyi and Pucha's personal guards were killed together. The Jin soldiers were scattered in all directions, and there were chaotic scenes everywhere. It was impossible for Saba's cavalry to break into the Jin soldiers to save people. In the field of vision of both sides, they could see each other. Wherever he arrived, the Huaxia army beheaded Pucha abruptly and lit his flag.

The rescue failed, Saba resolutely withdrew to the rear during the movement, and the infantry under his command were also gathering here one after another at this time.

In addition to the collapsed golden soldiers gathered, the strength of Saba's hands is more than three times that of the opponent.He even brought a cavalry, but at this moment, Saba was a little hesitant about whether to take the initiative to attack.

Among the golden soldiers scattered in the night, he gathered more than 4000 soldiers within an hour or so after arriving. Some soldiers did not lose their will to fight, and they could even fight, but among the [-] soldiers, there were no middle or high-level generals...

From Meng'an to Moke, the leaders of the more than [-] troops were killed by the Huaxia Army in the constant combat impact, and some soldiers were swept away after they could not find the commander.They still don't know the horror of this matter, and feel that they are willing to continue fighting...

In the darkness of the night, the Huaxia Army in the opposite mountain fell into Saba's eyes, and his heart froze.It was like an unsheathed demon's sword, with a bloody aura, eager to try, and ready to choose someone to devour at any time.He fought for half his life and had never seen such an army.

Those 7000 people should be completely crazy.

"Prepare to attack..." he said.

……

The night wind whistled, it extinguished some flames and blew others.

In the mountains in the direction of Yangba, the battle is about to start.

"If Ning Yi came here, he would say we are prodigals." Putting down the telescope, Qin Shaoqian, who was sitting in the dark mountains, said with a low laugh, "But the general died in a hundred battles... A strong man returns after ten years..."

It has been more than ten years since the death of my father and brother...

……

On April [-], a scene that Jurchen never expected had appeared in front of them.Faced with the siege of more than [-] people, the Huaxia Seventh Army, who was desperate to see, launched an unreserved hedging posture. An amazing knife had been chopped down, severing the skin, cutting the blood, and tearing the muscles. out, he went straight to the depths of the bone marrow, and plunged in—

This is the beginning of a decisive battle.

(End of this chapter)