As a qualified military commander, you must be able to quickly identify the situation and respond to it. Today's emergencies one after another have long exceeded the previous plan, let alone the plan. Tan Fei knows that his situation is quite dangerous, and there is a possibility of being eaten by the enemy, you must know that no matter how powerful the tiger is, it is afraid of wolves, and if there are more ants, it can bite and kill the elephant.

At this time, the two detachments in charge of the guard had already engaged the enemy in full fire, and they threw the debris on the street, the tables, chairs and benches in the shops, forming a temporary barricade to force the enemy cavalry to slow down, but it was difficult to stop the cavalry charging with all their strength with muskets and grenades alone. Therefore, Tan Fei immediately ordered the improvised mortar squad to immediately fire artillery to support the vigilant troops guarding both ends of the street, slow down the enemy's advance, and on the other hand, deploy troops on the spot to seize Qianhusuo.

When the soldiers in the Thousand Households saw the Song army appearing, they did not rush out, but immediately closed the gate and climbed the wall to defend it. This made Tan Fei a little surprised, but he was relieved, the soldiers who could live in Qianhusu must be Ha Bichi's pro-army, and he would definitely accompany him when he went to war, and there would not be too many soldiers left behind, so he naturally did not dare to fight. He wanted to lure the enemy to fight, and then quickly defeat the enemy, and enter the door in pursuit, but he couldn't hold out, so how could he get in?

The time is tight and Tan Fei can't think too much, if he has a cannon in his hand at this moment, even if it is the least powerful Baizi Gong, he can blow the door open, but now he can only try to blow the door open. So he collected the grenades he was carrying, tied them together, and used them to break down the door. While ordering the teams to fire at the enemy on the wall, cover the Demoman to carry out the blast.

'Bang, bang, bang...... musket shooting is the most basic compulsory training subject of the Song Army, and the marksmanship that can be selected into the guard battalion is naturally not bad, and after joining the team, intensive shooting training must be carried out, and live-fire shooting is indispensable for weekday rotation training. Therefore, instead of firing all guns to suppress the enemy troops on the wall, they carried out accurate shooting, destroying an enemy with one shot, although the guns were sparse, but the enemy did not dare to take the lead. This not only saves bullets, but also deters the enemy, because no one knows when they will be able to break through and how long the battle will take.

The Boom ......Demoman managed to sneak to the gate under cover and ignited the cluster grenade, but the smoke cleared and the gate was not blown open, but the red-painted gate was blackened and did not appear to be badly damaged.

"This gate is covered with iron sheets, and our grenade charge is too small to work!" Qiu Decai, a member of the first squadron, frowned and said.

"Organize blasting again, double the number!" Tan Fei naturally understood that whether it was a fortress or a city, the gate had always been the main target of the attack, so he would spare no effort and financial resources to strengthen it during the design and construction, so he did not say much but ordered again.

"Yes!" The team is going down to organize people to prepare for another blast.

'Squeak ......' was about to carry out the second blast when the gate suddenly opened.

"Come in, quick, quick......" The door was pushed open, revealing two heads, and he beckoned at them as he urged loudly.

"Commander, it can't be a plan, right?" No one dared to move, there were too many things to deceive on the battlefield, Qiu Decai said.

"Whether it's true or not, go in!" Tan Fei quickly made a decision, the current situation was no longer allowed to think about it, he turned his face and said, "I will take a group of people first, you cover outside, if the situation is not right, immediately seize the house next to it, fight with the enemy, and hold on until reinforcements arrive." ”

"Ruler ......"

"Execute the order, don't say more!" Tan Fei waved his hand, and the soldiers of Group A immediately followed, some of them searched in front with guns, and some of them held grenades, once they found that something was wrong, they would throw them out first, buying time for retreat, after all, this thing is more melee than muskets.

"Yes, be careful!" Qiu Decai spoke, and at the same time ordered the archers to closely monitor the city and cover their entry into the palace.

"Quick, quick......" Seeing someone coming, the two men opened the door wide and beckoned them.

"Are you ......" Tan Fei rushed into the gate to look at the two of them, only to see that their clothes were shabby, although they were carrying sticks in their hands, they didn't look like soldiers, and their faces were also Han people, he asked suspiciously.

"Don't doubt it, general, we are also Song people, but Luzhou people, named Liu Qian. Ten years ago, he was plundered by Habichi as a driving mouth and served in a thousand households. Now, he led most of his own soldiers to fight, leaving only two ten-person teams to watch the house, and his son was sent back to the house after being killed in battle, and the family was busy in the back house. Finding out that Wang Shi was coming, he let us go up the wall to defend it, and the two teams of Mongolian troops were killed by you more than a dozen, and the rest were beaten to death by us with sticks, this time open the door to welcome Wang Shi into the house! One of the men in his forties didn't wait to ask each other, so he preemptively said.

"Thank you, big brother!" Although he said sincerely, Tan Fei didn't dare to be careless, so he made a look and made the two of them go to the city immediately to check, and he smiled and saluted.

"We have all seen the situation outside, the Tartars are overwhelming, let everyone enter the mansion quickly, I will lead the general to the back house to behead all the Tartars!" Liu Qian urged.

"Good!" After the soldiers on inspection gave a safety signal, Tan Fei beckoned them to enter the mansion to set up defenses, and at the same time received the alert detachment to retreat into the mansion.

"We heard that after the emperor recovered Jiangnan, we looked forward to Wang Shi crossing the river and the northern expedition as soon as possible to save the people from fire and water and get out of the sea of suffering!" Liu Qian pulled Tan Fei and chattered as if he were a relative, while the other young man seemed very interested in the musket in his hand. With the officers and men of the guard battalion evacuating into the Thousand Households in alternate cover, they have also taken control of the siege, occupied the corner towers, and arranged defenses.

Tan Fei led a group of soldiers under the leadership of Liu Qian to search and advance backwards, and at this time, one hundred and ten expulsors who were on duty in the Thousand Households were quickly gathered around them. When these people saw the Song army entering the palace, they seemed to have a battle momentum immediately, and their waists were also stiff, some were armed with sticks, and some took the weapons of the killed Yuan soldiers and surrounded them to search for the remaining enemy troops.

Tan Fei was very surprised when he saw this, these people seemed to hate the Mongols very much, and wherever they passed, they were killed, regardless of men, women, and children. And he doesn't know much about the exodus. Since the Khitan and Jin invaded the Song Dynasty, they called the people they plundered as Qikou or Qiding, which were actually slaves, had no personal freedom, and were the private property of their masters, but they had to pay rent to the envoy and pay taxes to the imperial court.

After the Mongols invaded the Central Plains, a large number of expulsions were extremely common. Most of the Han households captured in the war were occupied by nobles and forced to engage in agricultural labor or other labor, and a middle-ranking official may have hundreds of outlets, and an ambassador may have tens of thousands, and they can buy and sell at will in the "people's market" that they open.

The status of the expulsion is completely different from that of a beloved, and it is usually forbidden to intermarry with a beloved. The laws of the Yuan Dynasty clearly stipulate that "the drive is the same as the money", and the owner can buy and sell or give it away at will. The master kills eighty-seven innocent staffs, and the lover kills one hundred and seventeen others. The punishment for killing a "drove" is almost the same as the punishment for slaughtering cattle and horses, and slaves and maids are no different from horses and cattle. The men who were taken captive to serve in the army were called expendables, and their status was not only to serve as husbands, but also to use as consumables in war, just like cannon fodder.

After searching the backyard, Tan Fei felt that his eyes lit up, the architecture of the inner house not only absorbed the style of the northern manor, but also added the architectural characteristics of the Jiangnan garden, forming a set of residential and defense functions in one, and constructing a unique architectural style. The whole house is connected or screened by corridors, walls, corridors, less luxurious decoration, mainly simple and practical, integrating residences, ancestral halls, academies, gardens, etc., and there are warehouses and workshops inside, which are scattered and unique, which is not only a daily life residence, but also a fortress that can be defended during the war.

"The old pig and dog are here!" Entering the back house, someone pointed to a small courtyard that resembled a temple and shouted.

"Kill her!" When the crowd heard this, they immediately rushed over and shouted.

"Be careful, don't hurt yourself......" Tan Fei and his subordinates were squeezed to the back, and the front was already fighting, and the sound of weapons crashing and shouting was constantly heard, he thought that he couldn't control the situation, and the other soldiers were also helpless, he could only shout in vain.

"General, everyone else in the mansion has run away through the back door, leaving only the old pig dog and her dead ghost son!" When Tan Fei squeezed to the front, he saw an old woman lying on the ground with blurred flesh and blood, and the rotten flesh in the shape of a human being who was cut down and smashed next to him was probably the son of Ha Bichi. Liu Qian stepped forward and said angrily.

"Block the back door and prevent the enemy from penetrating from there!" Tan Fei frowned, treating an old woman like this and insulting a corpse made him feel very uncomfortable, but he still didn't say much, just ordered his subordinates to quickly block the back door.

"Hurry up and help Master Wang block the back door, don't let the Tartars break in!" Liu Qian seemed to have prestige in the hearts of everyone, he nodded a few young men and said, "The general doesn't know, this old pig and dog is the most hateful, he often beats and scolds me, and he also touches people's wives and daughters at every turn, making flesh and blood separate." And the little beast was also very tyrannical, and the number of people who died in his hands was unknown, so they hated them from top to bottom, and could not sleep on their skin and eat their flesh. ”

"I see, you have suffered!" Tan Fei nodded.

"General, we are willing to help the king defend the city, and the thief Habichi has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years, and he is hidden in the mansion, we are willing to dedicate all of it to the general, I only hope that after the success, I can take me back to Jiangnan!" Liu Qian said.

"You are willing to risk your life to kill the enemy to open the door, how do you know that I will take you with you?" Tan Fei asked with some confusion after hearing this.

"Ago, when the official army crossed north to disturb the post house in the town, several officers and soldiers were trapped in the town, and committed suicide and martyrdom after it was difficult to break through, and we were also very emotional, but Hu Bichi's thief chief exposed their corpses to the public, and let the beasts gnaw, everyone was indignant, but they were powerless to collect their bones." Liu Qian said with a gloomy face, "And today, I heard that the army crossed the river, and I saw that the general was not afraid of hardships and dangers, and the lone army entered the town to collect the bones for him, so I knew that the general was a benevolent and righteous army, and he would definitely not abandon us and other Great Song Dynasty relics to die and die!" ”

"My brother is overrated!" Tan Fei saluted slightly, "I just made an oath when I raised troops against the emperor, and I will never give up a robe brother, and I will definitely bring them home." When the emperor learned that some soldiers were left in Jiangbei, and after several attempts to rescue them to no avail, he ordered to use a large army to cross the river and rescue the trapped soldiers at any cost. You are the same as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and Your Majesty will save you from fire and water. ”

"Long live my emperor, it is also a blessing for our remnants to have this master!" Liu Qian saluted to the south.

"At present, our army has crossed the river and seized the ferry, Habichi has suffered heavy losses, and the army will attack the town later, as long as we guard the hospital, we will be able to get out of danger!" Tan Fei said.

"Thank you, General, we will serve the dead!" Liu Qian bowed deeply to everyone......

Entering the Thousand Households, although he was able to escape for the time being, the situation is still not optimistic. Tan Fei went to the city to inspect the enemy's situation, and saw that nearly a thousand enemy troops had gathered outside the courtyard, but there were many old and young among them, obviously recruiting their last strength. Although the combat effectiveness of these people is worrying, he still does not dare to be careless, he knows that those old men are veterans who have fought for many years and have rich combat experience. As for those teenagers, although they have not been in battle, they have been trained as warriors since they were children, and their newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and they are not afraid of death in battle. The combination of the two is not so easy to deal with.

These thousands of houses seem to be high-walled and deep-seated houses, which can be used as barriers, but due to the passage of time, their military role has been greatly weakened. First of all, there were no trenches, and the enemy could easily approach the city; Moreover, due to the increasing prosperity of the town, shops were built on the east and west sides, and their roofs were almost level with the wall, and the distance between them was not more than a few zhang, and the narrow place was only two zhang, and they did not even need a ladder, but only took a gangplank to climb the wall; In addition, there is the disparity in strength, and there are less than 300 of them plus the expulsors who help in the battle, and the enemy army is still three times as many as theirs.

"Set fire!" After Tan Fei quickly ascertained the situation, he ordered the shops on the east and west sides to be set on fire. He knew that the gap in strength was still his own dead end, and the enemy army could rely on the superiority in strength to besiege on all sides, but they had to fortify everywhere, which led to the dispersion of troops, and it was inevitable to lose one or the other in a fight. Now by setting fire to adjacent houses, you can stop the enemy from attacking from both east and west, so you can concentrate your forces to defend in both directions.

'Whoosh, whoosh...... more than a dozen torches were thrown at the houses on both sides, and the houses at this time were all wooden structures, with few bricks and stones, and they were dipped in fire. The Song army was fighting in enemy-occupied areas, and these mansions, shops, and inns had long been occupied by the Mongols, so it could be said that they were enemy property, and burning them would not have any psychological burden, let alone harm the people......