After galloping all night, in the evening, Yuxi Timur finally got rid of the pursuit of the Song army and led the army to retreat into the city of Jiading. A fire before the Song evacuation a few days ago had burned down all the buildings around the county government, there was a thick layer of black ash on the ground, and the streets were empty, only the stray dogs abandoned by their owners roamed around, looking for food in the ruins, and when they saw people entering the city, they barked a few times at first, but soon disappeared into the streets and alleys with their tails between their legs.

Last night was still a bright moon, but today it is cloudy, and at this time it actually rained lightly, and the rain mixed with snow particles whipped on the face under the action of the wind. But Timur's heart was even colder, and the soldiers had found a courtyard that was still intact, cleared out a room, and lit a few braziers, which soon warmed up, but he sat aside calmly, hoping that these days would be a nightmare and pass sooner.

On that day, Yuxi Timur led a large group of men and horses from Changshu to quietly withdraw troops and turn south, the situation was similar to what he expected, Song Ting did not expect that he would suddenly change the direction of the attack, give up attacking Pingjiang or Kunshan, but outside Kunshan City, a false shot towards Jiading. The villages and towns they passed along the way did not know that they had changed, and they did not evacuate, and the looted materials eased their dilemma of running out of rice.

But Yuxi Timur knew that for an army of 100,000 people, this little thing was just a drop in the bucket, and it could not change the reality of food shortage, and only by capturing a slightly larger city could there be a slight shortage of food. After Changshu could not be attacked for a long time, and had to withdraw its troops gloomily, and avoided Pingjiang and Kunshan, which were heavily defended in front, Jiading became an important supply depot to maintain their southward advance.

The reality is so cruel, the Jiading county order that heard the news was so resolute, and the county government and the official warehouse were burned with a fire, and the disagreement between Yuxi Timur and the generals also arose at this time. Shandong and Hebei Metropolis Wanhu Saisana thought that his whereabouts had been leaked, and the Song army in front must be prepared, which was likely to be a trap and could not continue to advance south. It should take advantage of the fact that the troops of the various departments are complete at the moment, and there is still a battle force to quickly retreat, recapture the Tongzhou ferry, and return to Huaidong.

Although Hatusun, the capital of Huaibei in Henan, did not explicitly oppose the continuation of the southward advance, he also had very opinions on changing the route to the south, and was extremely disappointed that he was not only sleepy and lacking in troops and horses for running for hundreds of miles, but also fell into vain. It's better to complain than to fight with the Song army in Kunshan, thinking that the Song army may be bluffing, and what they are laying out is an empty city plan, and now they have missed the opportunity in vain.

Yuxi Timur knew that he had embarked on a road of no return at the moment he crossed to the south, and if he succeeded, he would go straight to Lin'an and build an immortal achievement; Defeated in disrepute and disgraced, and died in battle; There is no turning back in any case. Therefore, at first, he also tried to persuade the generals, saying that his side suddenly changed the route of the march, so that the deployment of the Song army was all in vain, even if it was reported that it would take time to readjust the deployment, and there was no strong city to defend in front of him, and there was no heavy garrison, so he could take advantage of the gap to jump out of the encirclement of the Song army, and take advantage of its panicked mobilization to break the enemy.

Yuxi Timur judged that this was the last mobile force of the Song army in Jiangdong, as long as they were annihilated, Lin'an would have no troops to defend, and reinforcements from other places could not rescue at all. However, after crossing the river, the generals were still full of doubts about the bright prospects he depicted, and still believed that withdrawal was the best policy at this time. In desperation, he could only force all his troops to march overnight according to the order, and he had to cross the Songjiang River and seize Huating County at dawn.

The army set off after a short rest, but the speed of the march was never fast, and there were many rivers and lakes in Jiangdong, and the water network and rice fields along the river were dense, which brought a considerable adverse impact on the maneuver and development of Mengyuan. The muddy paddy fields and riverside terrain made it difficult for the horses, and they could only march along a few limited roads, which would greatly reduce their mobility if they broke away from the post roads.

An army of 100,000 marched on the main road, and it was impossible to get up as fast as it wanted. In addition, the evacuated Song soldiers and civilians destroyed the bridge, forcing them to stop and repair the bridge from time to time before they could continue the march. After a night of tossing, they arrived near the Songjiang River basin before noon, and at this time it had been discovered that there were constantly Song army scouts and horses, and then the forward came to report that the Song army had set up a village ten miles away from the river bank, built fortifications, and blocked the way forward.

Although he learned that the Song army was intercepting at the front, it did not attract the attention of Yuxi Timur at first, and he still thought that he had suddenly changed the route of the march and had left the Song army far behind, and even if they learned that they would not be so quick to set off from Pingjiang and Kunshan. Therefore, he judged that the front was just a small force of the Song army, or even just a nearby village soldier, and he couldn't stop his footsteps at all.

So Yuxi Timur ordered the front to quickly defeat the enemy forces blocking the road and seize the Songjiang crossing. But the vanguard army soon came to report that the Song army that intercepted them was not a small force, but the most elite imperial guard of the Song army, and it had been fully deployed along the river, building earthen ramparts, and they were repulsed several times in succession, unable to break through the Song army's defensive line.

Yuxi Timur was shocked and angry when he heard the news, and was shocked that his plan had already been seen through by the Song army, and Pingjiang and Kunshan were all suspicious soldiers, so as to force him to change his route and introduce a preset ambush circle. Angry that the tens of thousands of troops in the front could not break through a low earthen fortress, it must have been Ha Tusun, who opened the way, was frightened by the Song army. You must know that its unit was adapted from several Oulu provinces, and in the past, they were all non-combat units responsible for manufacturing weapons and transporting baggage, and then they stayed in Tuntian in the Henan region, and stopped the attack after a slight setback.

However, when Yuxi Timur arrived at the front, he was left with surprise. As far as the eye can see, there are banners of the Song army for several miles ahead, and they are densely packed with people and horses. But after all, he was battle-hardened, and the fortifications built by the Song army were very simple, but they were made of local materials, digging earth mixed with reeds, and the soil was still wet at this time, and it was obviously built in a hurry not long after arriving, and it was too late to reinforce.

In addition, Yuxi Timur thought that it was really a taboo for soldiers to line up against the water, and in order to succeed in this battle, in addition to having the fighting spirit of "putting them to death and resurrecting them", they must also meet two conditions: they can bear it head-on, and they will not be attacked from behind. His idea is not unreasonable, judging from the experience of fighting with the Song army in the past, once its formation collapses, the formation is easy to be confused in the process of retreating, and it is a sure defeat.

The battle soon began, Yuxi Timur personally led 8,000 heavy cavalry to charge into battle, followed by 100,000 troops, and the momentum was like a rainbow for a while, and the continuous assault was unstoppable. However, the defense line arranged by the Song army was not an ordinary battle formation, and it was not so easy to be crushed, and with the cooperation of guns and artillery, they stubbornly blocked their attack. Even if a line of defense is broken, there is still a layer behind it, layer upon layer, blocking on multiple lines, giving them great damage.

The battle lasted until the evening, and with the repeated attacks of the Yuan army, several lines of defense of the Song army were broken through one by one, and they had to retreat from both flanks. Yuxi Timur thought that victory was in sight, and hurriedly ordered a fierce pursuit, hoping to boost the morale of the repeated setbacks. But when they crossed the first sand belt, they were met with a more stubborn resistance from the Song army, and the fierce artillery fire turned the entire night sky red, causing them extremely heavy losses, and it was difficult to advance an inch.

At this time, it was completely dark, and Timur realized that the distance between the front and rear armies was widened due to the speed of the attack, especially the slow infantry could not keep up with the pace of their attack. At the same time, the scouts spotted the Song army on both flanks, and tried to make a detour to the flank and split their cavalry. Moreover, since the evacuation of Changshu, all the troops have been marching day and night, only after a short rest in the middle, and now after half a day of fierce fighting, the troops are already sleepy and weak, unable to fight again.

Considering this, Yuxi Timur decided to stop the attack and gather his troops, and in order to prevent the Song army from attacking at night, he withdrew his whole army to the north side of the sand belt and set up camp. They formed a ring with baggage vehicles, and the Chinese army was stationed in the middle, and they assigned the armies to use the earthen fortresses abandoned by the Song army to deploy defenses in the periphery, and built walled walls at the east and west ends, forming a long encirclement. Since the grain and grass were exhausted, he ordered the dead horses to be skinned and deboned as military rations, and distributed them to the various armies to receive food.

At present, it has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Jiangdong, surrounded by the enemy, and all armies are waiting for the future, and they dare not slack off in the slightest. But they did not wait for the night attack of the Song army, and only heard the sound of the Song army's position on the opposite side for a night until dawn. But the next day, Yuxi Timur received a report from the scouts, and the Song army built a wall in front of the position overnight, dug a trench, arranged a foothill, and rejected horses.

To the east of their camp, the Song army dug a river embankment to divert water, turning the beach into a swamp; A large number of Song troops appeared on the road to the north, dug a trench and fortified five miles away from them, dug a deep trench several miles long and a few feet deep, and used the excavated sediment to build a long encirclement, cutting off the road for their northward retreat. The banner of the Song army also appeared in Kunshan in the northwest, and they used two earthen ridges to set up villages on both sides of the road three miles away, blocking the passage to Kunshan.

Yuxi Timur's face changed suddenly after receiving the report, and he didn't care about washing up and went out of the camp in armor, and when he inspected it, he had to admit that he had fallen into the pit. The army under his command was besieged by the Song army in an area of more than ten miles from east to west and no more than fifteen miles from north to south, and the army gathered by the Song army was at least more than its own. This made him very annoyed, thinking about the whole process from the Song army's northward crossing to attack Yangzhou to his own plan to go south to Jiangdong, and realized that he had been led by the Song army from beginning to end, and he threw himself into the net step by step.

Although he was annoyed, Yuxi Timur did not intend to be captured, after all, he still had 100,000 troops in his hands, even if there were losses, the establishment was basically complete, and there was still a battle force......