"What's wrong?"

Bai Xiaowen sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at Sigdelifa, who hurriedly entered.

"Master, Shi Miyuan of Lin'an, sent an urgent report with a thousand-mile transmission note. The army of the Song Dynasty in the Northern Expedition suffered a great crisis!"

Bai Xiaowen listened to Sigdelifa's narration, and his face gradually became solemn.

The Mongols withdrew and crossed the Yellow River due to lack of military rations. In the hinterland of the Central Plains occupied by the Jin State, all the cities were basically guarded by the Jin generals, who only hated the Mongols, had no loyalty at all, and had weak troops.

The Mongols left behind their own troops south of the Yellow River numbered only a few thousand.

In this situation, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty marched with the high morale of the country's hatred and family hatred and the recovery of the homeland, and it was invincible.

Bai Xiaowen also felt that the Southern Song Dynasty army would achieve an early victory, at least there would be no problem in recovering Sanjing, and the real difficulty was how to prepare for the attack of the Mongol army after the warm flowers bloomed next spring.

As soon as the Song army began to march, it was really all the way to conquer, and as soon as the general of the Jin Kingdom saw the banner of the Song people, he opened the city gate.

In just a few days, the Quanzicai Department from Luzhou, even Keshou Prefecture, Mengcheng, Bozhou, Taikang and other places, recovered Bianjing.

The Mongols responded by attacking the Song army's grain route with a small force of elite cavalry.

Quan Zicai led the army to Bianjing, only to find that the former capital of the Northern Song Dynasty was already in ruins, with only a few hundred households in the city and less than 1,000 defenders.

Such a city is simply not enough to replenish supplies.

And the gap between the Mongol soldiers and the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers is also reflected. It was only a small group of Mongol troops, but the grain route of the Song army was seriously damaged, and often a small team composed of more than a dozen Mongols dared to attack the grain transport team of hundreds of people, kill and disperse the Song soldiers, burn the grain and grass, and then fly away.

Hearing this, Bai Xiaowen also sighed with some emotion, who said that the ancients did not know how to use soldiers, this tactic of the Mongols is simply a copy of guerrilla warfare.

Bianjing's Quanzicai Department simply did not have enough military rations. The imperial court in the rear is still urging Quanzicai to go west and continue to recover Luoyang, Xijing.

Quan Zicai could only ask the soldiers to divide the five days of food into seven days, divide them into two teams, and go west to Luoyang in order to get supplies in Luoyang.

The Mongols let the first brigade of the Song army enter Luoyang and concentrated their forces to raid the second brigade. The Mongol cavalry launched a surprise battle, and the rear team of the Song soldiers, mainly crossbowmen, did not have time to line up to meet the enemy, so they were scattered by the Mongol army and fled one after another.

They were destined to outrun the elite and horseback Mongols, and suffered many casualties.

Subsequently, the Mongol army approached the remnants of Quanzicai in Luoyang.

Quan Zicai succeeded in entering Luoyang, but he was desperate to find that the situation in Luoyang was not much better than that of Bianjing, and it was also full of white bones, and only hundreds of families were still surviving.

After a stalemate with the Mongols for several days, the Quanzi tribe could only satisfy their hunger with wild grass to make cakes. In desperation, Quanzi chose to break through and flee south.

The military weapons and baggage vehicles carried by the Song army were all abandoned.

Now, the Mongol army is chasing after the tail.

The result of the Mongol army, which was skilled in cavalry and archery and had strong soldiers, pursued a foot soldier who was short of food, and the result was obvious.

It can be said that the Song court's strategy of "guarding the river" has failed completely, and a few thousand Mongol troops have thwarted the northward advance of 60,000 Song troops.

Bai Xiaowen's eyes opened suddenly: "Who is the Mongolian general who stayed in the Central Plains?"

"It's said to be called Tachar. ”

"This man is quite strategic, and it is not simple. Bai Xiaowen made a conclusion, even if the Mongols were better than the Song soldiers, it was definitely a great strategy to defeat 60,000 people with a few thousand people.

"Master, what should we do now? The new envoy Zhao Fan sent an order that the whole army should abandon the plan to advance north and hold on to Chuzhou. ”

Bai Xiaowen shook his head and smiled: "Zhao Fan was frightened by the Mongols. No matter how strong the Mongols were, only a few thousand men and horses left south of the Yellow River could still fly to the east road and attack Huaidong? Tachar was able to defeat the 60,000 Song army, which was already a miracle. Judging from the strategy he showed, it was impossible to do the stupid thing of being greedy for merit and attacking the Southern Song Dynasty with a force of several thousand people. ”

Bai Xiaowen got up and said, "I'll go to see Zhao Fan and ask him to issue an order to allow Abaddon's department to pick up Quan Zicai." ”

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Because Shi Miyuan had greeted him in advance, Zhao Fan had a lot of respect for Bai Xiaowen, a "Taoist master". And he also knew that it was with the help of this Daomen master that the Huaidong Army, which had no leader before, could quickly pacify Li Quan.

Moreover, Abaddon's loyal battalion was itself an independent army, and the money and food were directly allocated through the imperial court. Whether the Zhongyong battalion was in danger or not, Zhao Fan didn't bother to care, so he easily wrote an order and agreed to Abaddon's troops.

Abaddon led three thousand skeletons north.

With the help of Bai Xiaowen, Abaddon took the nearest road, and two days later, he joined Quan Zicai to join Caizhou. At this time, the remnants of Quan Zicai's army were only about 10,000 people, and they had lost five-sixths, and they were all hungry and dish-faced.

Fortunately, the skeleton soldiers under the command of Abaddon did not need to eat or drink, and the dry food and bread they carried could be delivered to the remnants of Quan Zicai's army.

The more than 10,000 Song soldiers under Quan Zicai can be said to be grateful for the "Gulongdu control", which is definitely a life-saving grace. Without the rescue of the "Ancient Dragon Capital", I am afraid that these 10,000 people will eventually be able to escape back to the Song Realm, and there will be no one in ten.

Bai Xiaowen ordered Sigdelifa to reconnoiter the enemy's situation and grasp the movements and routes of the Mongol pursuers.

"Tachar, the Mongol general, must take this opportunity to kill. Bai Xiaowen made careful arrangements.

The front team of Mongolian pursuers was let go by Bai Xiaowen. As the 2,000 elite cavalry of the Chinese army, they were surrounded by 3,000 skeleton soldiers and 10,000 Song legions in Caihezhuang outside Caizhou City.

This battle was very fierce, and the low-level soldiers of Mongolia were all ordinary template strength, and they seemed to be familiar with an energy called "blood qi". Flesh has a significant bonus to physical attacks, including but not limited to melee combat, shooting, etc.

And the small leader of the Mongols is even more elite strength. At the level of centurion, there are almost a few elites in the water, and there are even sporadic boss levels.

Further up, the Mongol commander is a real chieftain-level general, and Tachar, who is the commander-in-chief, is a rare leader.

In a battle of 10,000 people like this, it is absolutely not enough to rely on a few lords to go into battle. Although the lord is strong and can kill ten, hundred, or hundreds of people, there will always be a time when his spiritual power will be exhausted. The so-called ants bite the elephant to death, as long as the enemy soldiers are not afraid of death and charge one after another, they can also kill the lord.

Of course, the lord can go at any time if he wants to, fly out directly, and no one can stop him with high priority, which is where the lord is strong. Unless the opponent also has a lord who can hold it back, that's a different matter.