Tide Five

Under the joint push of more than 100 Song people, the winch slowly rotated, and the trebuchet made a piercing creaking sound, slowly raising the willow basket filled with mud and sand used for counterweight.

Mahamasha measured with his hand full of rings, pointed to the ruler on the lever, and several large cannibals shouted, ordering the soldiers to hang more wicker baskets at the end of the weight, and at the same time, driving the Song people, to carry a round stone egg marked with weight into the gun pocket.

"Put!" With a wave of his hand, Mahamasha pulled the mechanism and relaxed the counterweight. The wicker basket loaded with thousands of catties of sediment fell "suddenly" by gravity, throwing the stone projectile at the other end of the lever far away.

With the sound of the howling wind, the stone eggs swept past the city wall of Chaozhou. Several houses near the city walls were instantly reduced to piles of rubble, and the earthquake trembled and rumbled.

"Lose a hundred pounds of sand," Mahamasha commanded loudly. Another trebuchet near him quickly began to operate, and under the threat of leather whips and steel knives, the captured Da Song Qingzhuang reluctantly climbed up to the adjustment table, carried his hands on his shoulders, and unloaded the wicker basket marked with a heavy weight, and put it aside.

The fate of the people of the city was already sealed, and the toiling slaves thought in despair that a few days ago they could use the advantage of standing on the city walls to destroy the Mongol trebuchets by firing rockets and "ten thousand enemies" (a projectile powder pack used for defense), but today, they did not even have the strength to fight back, and allowed huge stone projectiles to fly in mid-air, and under the correction of the Hui people Mahmasha, little by little close to the city walls.

"Put!" Another stone projectile flew out at Mahamasha's order, whistling and smashing into the enemy tower at the corner of the city wall. The enemy tower made of blue bricks was immediately cut down like tofu, and the smoke and dust rushed up, covering the rising sun.

The counterweight was just right, and Mahamasha compared it with his hand, signaling all the catapults to adjust their counterweights in light of the shot just now. More than two dozen giant trebuchets creaked, and with the jubilant cheers of the Mongols, they threw stone projectiles into the air.

A huge shadow appeared on the ground, the sound of wind and thunder crossed the sky, and huge stone projectiles smashed on the ruined city wall of Chaozhou City, one, two, three. The city wall shook and trembled, and finally could no longer support it, and suddenly cracked a large hole more than three feet wide, exposing all the prosperity of the city that had been quiet for hundreds of years to the eyes of the robbers.

"Woo-woo-woo", the desolate horn sounded under the Chinese army's Daxu, and a golden battle flag slowly rose to the same height as Daxu with the sound of the horn. Seeing the commander-in-chief, Chaganbala, who saw the Lingqi, shouted and galloped forward with more than a thousand warriors.

The catapult stopped firing like a thunderbolt, and the sound of the next was even more terrifying, the sound of more than a thousand feathered arrows flying into the sky, with the sound of the wind and arrows tearing through the air, from the crack in the wall.

The Mongol rider roared and shot as he rode his horse across the moat. With only one round of galloping, there was no more life at the rift. Dense feathered arrows pierced the eaves behind the city walls, and the streets and earthen walls of people's houses were like blood-sucking leeches, filling all places that might hide life.

No effective resistance could be organized inside the city, and through the shattered walls, Suo could see the streets in the distance, with people and soldiers hurrying around. It was the people who hadn't taken advantage of the chaos last night to break out of the siege, and they were trying to build all kinds of barriers in the streets, trying to delay the end of a city.

"Order the new annexed army to build a bridge, Chaganbala's thousand-man team to cover with bows and arrows, Ye Luhe's thousand-man team and those Han troops to prepare, and rush through the gap in the city wall as soon as the bridge is built!" Sodu commanded coldly, his nostrils opening and closing excitedly, as if he had smelled the longed-for blood.

"Yes", he promised left and right, and several battle flags were raised at different heights. Mongol Army. The Tanma Red Army, the Han Army, and the New Annexed Army cooperated with each other, approaching the city of Chaozhou, pushing huge timber carts over and crossing the other side of the moat. After the city broke its walls, a few surviving Song troops rushed out and tried to stop the new annex from building bridges, and were immediately taken care of by the Mongol archers. More than 1,000 Mongols dealt with several targets at once, easily pinning down the defenders. Little by little, the wooden bridge stretched, and finally, the other end fell to the bank of the moat. The soldiers of the Tanma Red Army and the Han Army, who had been waiting on the bank of the river for a long time, let out a cheer and quickly ran over the bridge in the predetermined order, crossed the collapsed city walls, and rushed into the city that was already defenseless.

"Enter the city, never seal the sword!" Suodu excitedly raised his saber and shouted to the generals behind him.

The soldiers roared like wolves, which was their favorite command. If the knife is not sealed, it means that all the people in this city have been sentenced to death by Suodu.

The soldiers who have "worked hard" for more than 20 days can do whatever they want.

"Brothers, Chong, wealth and women are waiting for us in the city!" A Mongol general turned around and shouted, and rushed out with his headquarters.

The first wave of soldiers who had crossed the wooden bridge had already stormed the city and engaged the defenders in close quarters. One after another Great Song soldiers fell on the streets of Chaozhou, blocking the advance of the Yuan army with their lives.

Several scholars in long robes ran into the streets brandishing rulers, trying to slow the pace of the slaughterers.

"Kill!" The Mongol warrior howled and plunged his spear into the stomach of the scholar who was carrying the ruler to meet him, and his robe was immediately soaked with blood, and the scholar reluctantly grasped the shaft of the spear, and slowly fell down the street covered with broken wood.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk", several cold arrows shot out from the ranks of the Yuan army, knocking over a butcher who was trying to escape. The butcher had just stabbed a Tanma Red Army leader with a pig-killing knife, and when he fell, he still had a satisfied smile on his face.

"Kill, no matter men, women, old and young, no one will be left", this is the order Suo Du gave to the soldiers. The slaughter of the city was necessary, and only in this way could the resistance of the southern barbarians be stopped. This Chaozhou city humiliated the Mongols twice, the first time, he let tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Suodu return. The second time, he held out with a lone army for more than 20 days.

Such a city cannot be left behind, and if it remains, it must be an example for those who rebel.

Sodu roared excitedly, commanding one thousand teams after another to join the slaughter. Another city is about to turn into pastures, and in a few years, the blood-stained land will be fertile, and the Mongols will be able to sing to their heart's content on the steppe and watch the white clouds of sheep flutter across the field.

Someone lit a fire in the city, and smoke rose from all over the city. The strength of the resisters retreated little by little towards the Chaozhou Mansion as the smoke progressed. The Mongol warriors, the party soldiers, the Han army, and the new annexed army cooperated with each other to carry out the work of destroying civilization "professionally".

"Huh!" One of the new Centurions inadvertently lowered his head and picked up a piece of wood that had been mixed with him.

The newly split wood was wet and stained with the blood of the resisters. Underneath the red blood, it was wet, with the fragrance of cauliflower.

"It's broken, don't set fire, don't set fire!" The centurion shouted like crazy.

No one paid any attention to him, and killed the red-eyed Mongol warriors, Tanma Chijun, and lit torches next to the houses that had already begun to burn, and set more houses on fire.

There's nothing more enjoyable than destroying a city. Every time the fire rises, there are countless cheers, including Mongols, Dangxiang people, Khitans, Han people, and their brothers Nanren.

The soldiers went mad and were completely immersed in the "entertainment" that Sodu had given them. Never seal the sword, all the wealth in the city is theirs, and they can grab it as they please. All the women are theirs, and they can rape as they please, although few surviving women have been found so far. All the houses are theirs, and they can burn them as much as they want.

"Don't set fire!" The centurion shouted, watching as the fire in the city grew bigger.

Zhizhou Ma Fa stood in the palace, listening to the shouts and killings outside the yamen, and smiled softly. As a local official of the Great Song Dynasty, he has done everything he can for the city.

"My lord, it's almost time!" Several white-bearded gentry said with a smile.

"yes, almost!" The horse laughed, carried a torch, and walked to the middle of the courtyard. Countless wounded soldiers and people who could not be evacuated smiled and gathered around them, and surrounded their horses in the center, as if they were going to go out hunting with this kind local official.

Will hold a longbow like a full moon, look northwest, and shoot the wolf.

"Bang," a firework suddenly rose from the city, bursting, and falling all over the sky, and in an instant, it was brighter than the sun on the horizon. Countless flames sparkled along the streets, along the roots of the walls, along the rooftops.

Wooden houses, small bamboo buildings, as well as blue bricks and blue tiles of the wealthy compound, the ancestral hall of the school, all burned together. The Flame Association was wrapped in smoke and devoured the lives of the city. The Mongols, Khitans, Dangxiang people, Han people, and Song people, regardless of country, language, or clan, were wrapped in the flames that covered the sky.

The Yuan troops who had entered the city scattered and fled, desperately running out of the city. A large number of soldiers who rushed into the city to participate in the killing game did not understand what was happening in the city, and could not restrain their steps, collided with the escapees, and rolled on the ground in each other's arms. Countless pairs of feet stepped forward, turning the fallen to the ground into a pulp.

"The southern barbarians use fire, and the southern barbarians use fire to ......," a Northern Yuan general shouted in despair, unable to tell whether his own actions caused the fire, or whether the defenders in the city deliberately lured them into the city and perished.

The gap in the wall that had previously led to the happy paradise was now the only escape route, and the soldiers were crowded, not hesitating to draw their swords against each other. Several soldiers of the Yuan army were chased by the flames and swept into the smoke and dust, and the leather armor on their bodies became a deadly trap. A few of the Red Warriors howled out of the fire and rushed towards the collapsed wall, but before they could get closer, they were slashed down with knives by other soldiers who were scrambling to get out of the city, and the embers on their bodies were extinguished by their own blood, emitting a pungent fishy smell.

The whole city burned, and the flames rolled and roasted the sky blood-red.

In June of the third year of Song Jingyan, Suodu also attacked Chaozhou. Song Zhizhou Mafa City guarded Yibei. Sodosei filled in the trenches, built ladders and goose carts, attacked day and night, and sent people to burn them. After more than 20 days of rejection, the city wall was destroyed by the return cannons. Suodu ordered the slaughter of the city, and at noon, a fierce fire fell from the sky, and the soldiers were killed and wounded.

This is recorded in the "Continuation of Capital Governance Tongjian" written by later generations. With a personal point of view, the historian deliberately ignored the casualty figures circulating at the time. More than 70,000 people who remained in Chaozhou City and did not succeed in breaking through died in the fire, or under the butcher's knives of the Northern Yuan soldiers. As for the Yuan army, more than 2,000 people were burned to death when the fire broke out, and nearly 10,000 people were injured.

There is no record in the history books that it was the Yuan army that set fire to Chaozhou City when they slaughtered the city, or whether the defender Ma Fa deliberately set fire to it and died together with the Yuan army that attacked the city.

The shock of this fire is far from describing how many soldiers and civilians have been killed and wounded. Afterwards, Suodu continued to advance eastward, but was met with fierce resistance from the local armed forces as never before, and many of the cottages fought to the last man. And the effect of his policy of slaughtering cities is getting worse and worse, and individual cities have rebelled, rebelled and surrendered, and the Northern Yuan army has been tossed back and forth.

Talking about this history of blood and fire, some traditional historians naturally gave a lot of praise to Ma Fa's behavior of resisting to the end, believing that their feat of finally dying in the city greatly encouraged the resistance at that time, showing the bloody side of the Great Song Empire in addition to weakness and prosperity. Some trendy scholars believe that it is irresponsible for the people to choose to stick to it even though they know that they can't hold it, and in this case, Ma Fa is more guilty than So.

Of course, this is not the most characteristic point of view. The most distinctive view comes from the pen of a young man who considers himself brilliant but has not read a book for a few days, and compares the more than 100 massacres of the Yuan army in Jiangnan with some historical records of the Chaozhou fires and comes to the conclusion that it was Ma Fa's resistance that triggered the massacre of Suodu. And Zhizhou Ma Fa is a hypocrite who sells his reputation, in order to achieve his loyalty, he does not hesitate to set fire to the city and let tens of thousands of people be martyred for himself. Although this argument is not worth refuting from the statement that "the rape happened because the victim's resistance inspired the suspect's **". But the person who published this idea did indeed gain a great reputation for himself.

On the night of the second day of the Chaozhou fire, a fleet arrived along the Korean River and attacked the Beiyuan Water Camp again at night, causing the inland naval army under Suodu to suffer a catastrophe. More than a hundred ships were burned, and more than 3,000 people were killed.

"General Fang, where are you going?" Standing on the deck, looking through the telescope at Chaozhou City, where the embers had just been extinguished, Du Hu, the commander of the Broken Army and Naval Division, whispered to the general beside him.

With such a big fire, there will definitely not be a living person in the city, and there is no point in returning to Chaozhou. And a young and talented general like Fang Sheng was exactly what his pirate sailors lacked.

"Let's go upstream and find a place to avoid first, and then go back to Chaozhou," Fang Sheng replied with red eyes. He met Du Hu in Shantou, and after settling down in the ship, he rushed back to Chaozhou for reinforcements in the starry night, but he didn't expect it to be a step too late. The enraged Du Hu led a group of pirates to wipe out the water power under Suodu's command, but the blood of the Yuan army could not be exchanged for the rebirth of Chaozhou City.

"Be careful, Suodu's team didn't go far" Du Hu was a little disappointed, but quickly let go of the idea of wooing. He understood Fang Sheng's mood at this time, although his home had been burned, it was the land they had fought in after all. "The Mongols are extremely vindictive, they have suffered losses in the water battle, and they will definitely find a way to get it back on land!"

"Killing one is enough, killing two earns one!" Fang Sheng gritted his teeth and replied, and took more than 100 of his brothers to get off Du Hu's ship, stepped on the boat prepared for them by the Broken Army, and slowly rowed towards the ruined wall with black smoke.

Before Suodu's command had completely withdrawn, the Mongol scouts were galloping not far from the riverbank, but Fang Sheng turned a blind eye to this. Chaozhou City is gone, and these survivors have lived many days longer than their companions, and the rest of their lives are revenge and fighting.

"General Fang, wait, let's go to Chaozhou together!" Du Hu's fleet caught up from behind, slowly guarding Fang Sheng's left and right. The Yuan army, having lost its power on the water, rushed to the shore and in vain fired rockets at the fleet along the beach. Blown by the river wind, the rockets did not wait to reach the range and fell into the water one after another.

"Push our treasure up and give the Tartars a try!" Pirate Captain Long Ying commanded loudly. The organization of this fleet, consisting of a small number of broken captives and a large number of pirates, was somewhat disorganized. Du Hu has led the team for a short time, and he has not yet established absolute authority in the army.

The gunners looked at Du Hu and asked him with their eyes whether to carry out Long Ying's order.

They were answered by a broad smiley face. After experiencing life and death once, Du Hu's mind was much more open-minded than before, nodded, and ordered in a low voice: "Shoot three times in a row, try to hit a place with a lot of people"!

"Hey!" The gunners said yes and quickly ran down the deck. The battleship Fengyun was the only small ship equipped with artillery, and there were two small cannons on the second deck on the left and right sides, which had a surprising effect in the fierce battle last night, and many Yuan warships were blown through the side by shells before they could get close.

Several shells whizzed out and landed on the shore. More than a dozen Mongol archers were sent into the sky by shells, and the remaining Yuan troops quickly withdrew from the river bank with their heads in their hands.

"It's the legendary thunder!" Someone shouted. The unknown force was the most terrifying, when the Northern Yuan attacked Xiangyang, with the help of the Arabs' improved lever-type return cannon, successfully broke the will of resistance of the defenders. And when confronted with an invincible force, the Mongol warriors were no braver than the Han Chinese.

The Northern Yuan soldiers who had suffered losses no longer approached the shore, and the Breakers stopped shooting. More than a dozen warships, showing off their might in front of the Yuan army, slowly passed by. Du Hu, the general of the Broken Army, stood on the deck, with a smile on his scarred face, and he thought of another good way to deal with the Yuan army. However, because of its rapid development, the Broken Army was far out of the scope of guerrilla warfare.

Fang Sheng in front of him, as well as the resistors in those conquered areas. The tactics of guerrilla warfare, which are more applicable to them.

Du Hu took out a cloth bag from his arms, ordered someone to row a boat, and sent it to Fang Sheng's boat. It was a guerrilla tactic recorded by himself, which was summed up by Wen Tianxiang's explanation and actual combat experience. A spark can start a prairie fire, and Lord Wen has already sprinkled a few fires in the area controlled by the Yuan army, and he can help him sprinkle more.

Drunkard's note: 1, the official history, Suodu attacked Chaozhou twice, the second time, Chaozhou Zhizhou Ma Fa was killed in battle, Suodu ordered the slaughter of the city because of his own losses, and no one was left in the city.

2. The trebuchet in the text is a lever trebuchet, which is a sharp weapon in the Mongol army, with a longer range and higher accuracy than the catapult trebuchet.

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