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From customs, to laws, to various unspoken basic morals, people set limits for themselves, drawing one boundary after another that should not be easily crossed. It can be said that these boundaries protect the foundations of people's lives. They prevent individuals with weak power from easily suffering harm, while allowing them to make good use of the strength of each weak individual, accumulating bit by bit to ultimately create powerful and glorious countries and civilizations.

Going beyond this, the rules created by humans gradually lose their applicability. Between large groups like countries, the essence of the law of the jungle begins to reveal its fangs more clearly. It reminds us of the most essential truth of this world, clearly telling us that the foundation of mutual respect between people lies only in two essential principles:

First, people can benefit from each other.

Second, people have the ability to deter each other.

When the balance of a rule between two models is lost to a certain extent, all man-made rules, everything that seems self-evident as truth, goodness, and beauty, can break free and vanish at any time. War arises from this.

That is the truly all-out manifestation of human society. No custom or morality can stop its grinding advance. Everything permitted by the laws of physics can happen before your eyes. It widens the gap between people to the scale of emperors and livestock, displacing countless people and separating families. It makes people realize that the human world can be a place even more terrifying than hell.

But it also exhausts people's imagination in another direction. It forces those who want to survive to keep moving forward. It reminds people that all good things are not gifts from heaven but creations and defenses by people. It reminds people of the necessity of self-improvement. In some cases, it also promotes the world's renewal.

The first year of Wu Zhenxing, the fifteenth year of Jin Tianhui. Time has been rotating and alternating in war for decades.

There have been one war after another that determined the rise and fall of the world and the direction of historical trends. In the past few decades, these wars have determined that the Jin people have become the most dazzling characters on the stage of this world. It has also pushed the wheel of history to crush the futures of countless people.

At the end of February, such a war was about to break out at a place called Wangyuan Bridge on the front line of Zizhou. At this time, the Western Route Army of the Jin Kingdom and the Huaxia Army had been fighting in the southwest for four months. People realized that such a node would appear, that it would inevitably appear and mark a temporary punctuation for everything.

It's just that when it appeared, the entire process of the battle was so surprising.

Admittedly, on the macroscopic level, the overall situation of the Southwest War at the Battle of Wangyuan Bridge was full of grand and passionate scenes. Everyone was doing their best to fight for that glimmer of opportunity to win. But when the entire battle came to an end, people realized that it was so simple and natural, even so simple as to be strange.

In the superficial combat level of this war, there were not even any clever strategies. At first glance, it looked like two armies had briefly maneuvered before walking straight to each other. One side rushed at the other with all its strength, fighting until the end of the battle. Many people didn't even react, stunned and unable to breathe...

Of course, within the entire war, there were naturally more intricate causes and effects. To see these clearly, we need to cast a macroscopic view over the entire battlefield on this day, with February 23rd as the turning point.

Taking February 23rd of this year in the southwest as a node, in the vast mountains and fields more than twenty miles in front of Zizhou, the Jin army participating in the southern expedition had actually been divided into five clusters, steadily stabilizing their own positions while pouring south.

At this time, among the approximately 150,000 main force troops of the Jin army on the front line, the southernmost was the revenge army led by Wanyan Xiebao, mainly consisting of 20,000 Yanshan Guards. Slightly behind the Yanshan Guards were the more than 10,000 direct troops led by Ci Bushi many years ago. Although they were slightly behind, after two months, this army had gradually received thousands of war horses from the rear. At most, they could make up for transportation on rugged mountain roads, but as long as they reached the flat terrain near Zizhou, they could once again exert their greatest destructive power.

Corresponding to the Yanshan Guards was the army of Bali Speed, which had been marching steadily in the middle. The core of his army was more than 20,000 people, but the scouts and reinforcements stretched the most. This Jurchen general who broke through Huangming County seemed somewhat tyrannical and willful on the battlefield, not taking human life seriously. But his entire method of using troops was actually the most stable and the most troublesome for the Huaxia army who liked to fish in troubled waters.

Slightly north of Bali Speed's army, the armies of Dalai and Saba, coming down from the Rainwater Stream, were the largest parallel force group. Because there were too many troops – the entire group had more than 50,000 people – their pace seemed somewhat bloated. After January, Wanyan Zonghan, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, who had once appeared in the Rainwater Stream, disappeared. Some Huaxia army staff officers speculated that he was in this army, traveling with his most habitually used right-hand man, Wanyan Saba.

Of course, some staff members believed that Zonghan might be stationed in Bali Speed's formation, which was in the middle position. Later, it was proved that this speculation was correct.

A little further to the northwest, there were still about 30,000 Han Chinese troops, interspersed along the edge of the battlefield – not long after the army passed the Rainwater Stream and Huangming County, the Jin army finally completed the separation of the Han Chinese troops who had surrendered from the Central Plains and Jiangnan. Either they were defeated on the battlefield, or they were sent to unimportant edge positions for concentrated advancement.

Now, this force of about 30,000 people is led by the Han Chinese general Li Rulai. The Jurchens don't expect much from them. As long as they can attract the attention of the Huaxia army to a certain extent, divert the Huaxia army's forces, and not retreat to the main battlefield to cause trouble, that's enough.

The war has been going on for four months. The main force that the Jurchens can send to the front line is probably around 120,000. Adding the wounded soldiers and those left behind, the total strength may be able to increase a lot, but it is already difficult to push the rear troops forward.

On the other hand, at the beginning of the war, the Huaxia army had a main force of four divisions and more than 50,000 people. Later, about 20,000 new recruits were added. By the time it reached the end of February, the remaining number of the First Division was about 8,000. The Second Division experienced the defeat of Huangming County. After some wounded soldiers were replenished, it had more than 4,000 people left by the end of February. Qu Zhengyan of the Fourth Division still had 7,000 people. The Fifth Division had more than 8,000. In addition, the army commander He Zhicheng had 6,000 direct special brigades, cadre regiments and other reinforcements. In fact, it was these more than 34,000 people who were participating in blocking the enemy's 150,000 troops on the front lines of Zongxi and Leigang.

Xigua was suppressing bandits in the rear, leading a special operations force, which was not actually that large. After entering February, Ning Yi finally squeezed out the manpower he had prepared. The 6,000 people under his command included the garrison regiment, bandit suppression troops, some special operations personnel who participated in front-line operations, and a small number of technical soldiers.

The more than 34,000 people gathered on the front line were not actually concentrated. Relying on the rugged roads of the mountains before Zongxi and Leigang, and the characteristic that large groups of troops could not be deployed, a large number of troops were sent out and dispersed for combat.

On the morning of February 23rd, several Jurchen troops had already launched large-scale interspersed raids. After the Huaxia army reacted, the first force gathered was about 15,000 troops. First, three groups of 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 people each attacked the weak forces under Xiebao, Bali Speed, and Saba. The battle started in the mountains from noon.

The Huaxia army's forces were still being constantly mobilized.

Ning Yi's departure from Zizhou coincided with the "coincidental" timing chosen by the Jurchens. But with his move, February 23rd had a completely different meaning for the entire Southwest war situation.

Everyone could see that the war situation had reached a critical point. But not many people could understand the motivation behind Ning Yi's choice.

For the Jurchens, the main force entering Jiange was 200,000 troops. Now it has been reduced to only 120,000 on the front line, and the available Han Chinese troops have almost been exhausted. Historically speaking, it is an extremely embarrassing scene. But war does not follow a simple exchange ratio. To use the strength of tens of thousands of people to wear down the Jin troops like this, the Huaxia army is bearing even greater pressure. As the number of troops gradually decreases, the Huaxia army, which is now pieced together with only 40,000 remaining, is more likely to collapse at some point.

The Jurchens, of course, understood part of the Huaxia army's purpose of taking the initiative to attack and muddy the waters by using the mountain roads. Siege warfare requires waiting until the attacking side gives up. Field mobile warfare can choose to attack the other side's leader, such as a surprise attack on Zonghan in the most complex mountainous terrain here, or Bali Speed, Saba, Xiebao... As long as one main force is defeated, the results that cannot be easily obtained in siege warfare can be achieved, and even cause the other side to retreat early.

In order to cope with this possibility, Zonghan even chose the most cautious posture, unwilling to let the Huaxia army know his whereabouts. At the same time, his eldest son, Wanyan Sheyema, also did not appear on the front-line battlefield.

The only bait that was truly released was Wanyan Xiebao. This son of Zonghan is known to be reckless, but he is actually meticulous at heart. The revenge army he led, mainly consisting of the Yanshan Guards, was the strongest army in the entire Jin army, second only to the Tushan Guards. Even though Lou Shi had been dead for many years, this force, which had been constantly training with the aim of avenging its shame, was originally the core force of the Jurchens' attack on the southwest.

If the Huaxia army wanted to carry out a beheading, Xiebao was the best target. But to behead Xiebao, you really have to put your life on the line.

In the past month or so of advance, the Jurchens had been moving extremely difficultly and suffered heavy losses, but on the whole, they had not made any fatal mistakes. In theory, once they crossed Leigang and Zongxi, the Huaxia army would have to turn around and return to Zizhou to fight a reluctant siege battle. And at that time, a large number of low-combat troops – such as the Han Chinese army – would be able to drive straight in and wreak havoc on the Huaxia army's rear in the Chengdu Plain.

This would make the Huaxia army very uncomfortable, but the other side had to choose this way – of course, Zonghan and others also predicted another possibility of crossing the Leigang and Zongxi line, that is, Ning Yi realized that being trapped in Zizhou was just waiting for death, so he decisively abandoned the Chengdu Plain and returned to the Liangshan mountains to continue being his mountain king. That would also be a way for the Southwest War to come to an end.

No one expected that Ning Yi would come out.

Sacrificing everything to this extent? Once across the line, launch a full-scale operation with 40,000 people?

Zonghan also knew the story of breaking the cauldrons and sinking the boats, and that a desperate army would win, but in the current situation, this choice seemed very irrational – even ridiculous.

Because of this confusion, the night from the 23rd to the 24th was extremely restless in the Jurchen army. The senior generals made front-line adjustments while pretending to be normal, while discussing with the core command group on Bali Speed's side.

Dalai, Saba and others naturally believed that there was a trap. Wanyan Xiebao began to push forward frantically according to his "setting", making a gesture to seize the first moment of the battle. More than 10,000 troops who had been waiting in the rear were also quickly squeezing over. Gao Qingyi once offered advice: "Ning Yi is betting everything on one throw, and his plan must be very unusual. It is better to order Baoshan Great King to stop quickly and send other troops to test it out."

Wanyan Sheyema held the same cautious attitude, but Zonghan did not make a decision for a while. Bali Speed, as always, did his steady work – ordering the central army to move forward steadily, so that even if something happened, it would not be completely detached from Xiebao's army.

"...Ning Yi's 6,000 people came out, even if their combat power is amazing, what will be the next step? What is his purpose? To give a head-on blow to all the troops that step out of Leigang and Zongxi? How many people can he defeat?"

For half the night, Zonghan and others kept deducing on the map, but could not come to a conclusion. Before dawn, Xiebao's envoy also came, bringing Xiebao's own letter and statement.

"...Our 150,000 troops are attacking, and my son will lead 20,000 people out of Leigang and Zongxi first. Even if the Huaxia army is strong, it will only meet with a total of 40,000 troops. If so, even if my son sets up a formation, all the other armies will have come out, and the Southwest war will be settled... If the Huaxia army cannot meet with 40,000 troops, only Ning Yi's 6,000 troops, what does my son have to fear? At worst, he will defeat my son's 20,000 people with 6,000 people, and my son will gather his troops and fight him again..."

"...When the two armies fight, the opportunity is fleeting. Since Ning Yi is proud of his combat power, it is the time for my son to give a head-on blow. The only thing to worry about is that Ning Yi uses 6,000 people to lure the enemy, gathers the front troops, and I will first use the strategy of encirclement to completely swallow the army in my hands, which is a strategy of hurting ten fingers is better than cutting off one finger, but this matter is not difficult to deal with..."

Ning Yi's way of killing out so arrogantly is most likely to see that Leigang and Zongxi are no longer defensible, and want to concentrate his superior forces to eat up one of our parts before all the 150,000 troops come out. But how is this a bad thing, in battle, he is not afraid of the other party having an attempt, but is afraid that the other party does not, that is difficult to figure out. It is also for this reason, Baoshan said, Ning Yi wants to eat, I will stuff him to death.

As for the rear, as long as the armies of Bali Speed, Saba, Dalai and others firmly suppress the Huaxia army in the mountains, so that he cannot withdraw many people, the possibility of the Huaxia army's attempt to take chestnuts from the fire is not great – if he can still withdraw troops, it is itself very unbelievable.

From another point of view, if Ning Yi led 6,000 people to say that he wanted to eat Xiebao's two or three thousand main force, and Xiebao's reaction was not "let him eat, please eat it all", then the Jurchens would not have to compete for hegemony in the world.

Even with four to five times the strength of Ning Yi, Xiebao, who led one of the strongest armies of the Jurchens, also made plans for defeat, at most "gather his troops and fight him again". In fact, the Jurchen population's name for the opposite army has unconsciously changed from "Black Flag Army" to "Huaxia Army". This is also the respect that the Huaxia army has beaten out on the Jurchens' faces in the past four months.

On the 24th, Zonghan made a decision, approving Xiebao's plan. At the same time, Bali Speed's army advanced steadily. On the north side, the armies of Dalai and Saba maintained a conservative attitude. This was a deliberate response to the Huaxia army's speculation that "Zonghan and Saba are together."

It is worth mentioning that after obtaining his father's approval, although Xiebao ordered the rear army to continue to accelerate its advance, on the front line, he only maintained a fast posture, and ordered the team to try to invest in the battle with a main force of the Huaxia army, and stretched the time for all troops to cross Zongxi as much as possible.

He still felt that 20,000 people were not safe enough, so he wanted to gather 30,000 troops and then rush to Ning Yi – this action was also testing Ning Yi's true purpose. If the other party really intended to fight him with 6,000 people, then he should wait for himself.

At dawn on the 26th, Xiebao's first team stepped over Zongxi. He originally thought that he would be met with a head-on blow from the other side, but the head-on blow did not come. Ning Yi's army was still gathering several miles away – he seemed to be taking the main force of the Jurchen in the middle of the attack, moved to the side, and made a threatening posture.

——Threaten your ass!

At this time, Zonghan's banner had already been raised in Bali Speed's middle formation, directly pressuring the main force of the Huaxia army on the front line. The fighting in the mountains further escalated, and the offensive and defensive battle had become a positional mode. The Huaxia army used artillery to block the mountain pass and constantly took advantage, but the Jurchens also determined to kill the main force of the Huaxia army so that they could not leave. In fact, everyone was waiting for the next change in the battle situation. Ning Yi's reaction was so strange that people were confused.

On the 28th, Xiebao's nearly 30,000 troops had gathered one after another, and even pulled in 3,000 cavalry. Ning Yi moved forward unhurriedly, and Xiebao also moved forward, he always believed

The other party should be bluffing at some point, but it never happened. The interaction between the two groups looked like two children shouting.

"If you have the guts, cut me!"

"I'll cut you!"

"You cut me!"

"I'll cut you!"

"If you don't cut me, you're a grandson –"

He always had to cut him, otherwise he would become Sima Yi.

On the afternoon of the 28th, the mountain in front was full of fighting. Near Wangyuan Bridge, Wanyan Xiebao slashed down.

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