152.The Death of Wuzhou (5)
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The shield soldiers in the front row of the Yuan army were slightly flustered.
Then, before they could kill Yue Peng, there were Song army guards and horses rushing to the front of the battle like a tide.
The city gate of Lipu County was only a few meters wide, and the cavalry rushed in together, crushing the shield array with a powerful impact.
Outside the city, arrows were still raining down, and countless rolling stones were falling down.
The oil burned on the ground, creating a sea of fire that scorched the fallen soldiers, but it still could not stop the cavalry offensive.
Ali Hague stood at the head of the city, his teeth clenched. Before the battle began, the city gates were bombarded by shells, which really caught him off guard and missed the opportunity. The advantage of defending the city can be said to be gone.
If the city gate is not broken, with his troops, not to mention that he will definitely be able to stop the Song army outside the city, but if the Song army wants to break the city, it will at least have to pay a heavy price.
One move is lost, one move is lost.
At present, Ali Hague can no longer control the battle situation, so he can only order the soldiers at the gate of the city to block the cavalry of the Song army.
He knew very well in his heart that the cavalry of the Song army broke through the city gate, relying on the impact of the war horses, which would only be more difficult to deal with, and the city would inevitably be chaotic at that time.
And outside the city, there are still tens of thousands of foot soldiers of the Song army!
In the past few minutes, countless corpses have been piled up in the corridors of the city gates.
Under the strong charge of the cavalry, the shield array of the Yuan army was completely crushed, and the cavalry of the Song army was able to rush to the front of the archery array.
Yue Peng didn't know where to get a war horse, and rushed to the archer formation with all the soldiers, and the silver spears were picked, but they didn't do a fight, but just kept rushing into the city.
In front of them, on the street, there were dense and countless Yuan soldiers.
"Kill!"
Yue Peng raised his gun and shouted.
Before the siege, Zhao Dongting told him, "In this battle, you are the vanguard." The pioneer is like the tip of a knife. ”
What is the role of the tip of the knife, Yue Peng knows very well in his heart, that is, to break through the Yuan army at any cost and let the army enter the city. He didn't blame Zhao Dongting for handing over this arduous task to him, but was grateful. He knew that this was Zhao Dongting giving him an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
He has no foundation in the army, and only by accumulating countless military exploits can he truly become a general of the unified army.
Since he was in Jiezhou, Zhao Dongting has attached great importance to him. Therefore, Yue Peng knew that the siege was dangerous, but he still chose to take the lead.
He is not afraid of the death of a confidant, even if he really dies on the way to the siege. Zhao Dongting's trust and promotion of him are worthy of his life to repay.
At least that's what Yue Peng himself thinks.
What if there are tens of thousands of enemy troops in front of you?
There is no fear in the heart, and the bento is like a horse stepping on the flat river, and it is indomitable.
More and more cavalry poured into the city and fought with the Yuan soldiers. The whole inside of the gate was in confusion.
Ali Hague watched the cavalry outside the city surging into the city, and knew that the soldiers at the city gate were struggling to resist, so he immediately ordered his lieutenant general to personally lead the army down the city to resist the Song army.
He couldn't let the Song cavalry break through the city so violently, and he could only stop the Song army's pace with the lives of his soldiers.
The cavalry relied on the charge, and if it was blocked, the lethality was bound to be greatly reduced.
However, at this moment, something happened in the Yuan army on the streets of the city that made Ali Hague's eyes crack.
When the Song army broke through the city, after all, there were still Yuan soldiers who mutinied.
In the military formation on the street, someone suddenly shouted: "Those who want to live, follow the general to help Song!" ”
This man stood on a horse, and he was the commander of the city before.
He had already developed a rebellion when he was reprimanded by Ali Hague in the Lipu County Government, and it is rare to be able to endure it until now. Before that, the Yuan army mutinied every night, or wanted to escape out of the city, but he never moved, waiting for this moment. If he can help the Song army break through the city and surrender with his military exploits, he will definitely receive preferential treatment in the Song Dynasty at that time.
For this reason, he has secretly colluded with many cronies in the Yuan army.
Although he is just a partial general who does not have much real power, he is also at the level of a captain in the end, and he is a Han Chinese, and he is faintly regarded as the backbone of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers in the army, and it is not difficult to win over some people.
As soon as his roar fell, the hundreds of Yuan soldiers beside him drew their knives and slashed at the non-Han soldiers next to him.
"Children of the Southern Song Dynasty, follow me out of the city!"
"Children of the Southern Song Dynasty, follow me out of the city!"
The sudden shouts of their voices even faintly covered the sound of fighting at the city gates.
This made many of the former Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and generals in the Deyuan army in a trance and ready to move. None of them had a good time in the army.
Fighting broke out on the streets of the city, and chaos gradually spread.
Ali Hague heard these roars at the head of the city, his eyes were red, he was furious, and he said angrily: "Kill all the soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty!" ”
He inevitably regretted it in his heart now, he knew that he should have killed all these Southern Song Dynasty generals and soldiers, and he should not have kept them in the army. Otherwise, there would not be such a mess.
But it's obviously a little late to say that.
Ali Hague can be said to have made another stupid move at this tense juncture.
In general, the power of the Yuan Dynasty was still far stronger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, in fact, some Southern Song generals still did not want to return to the Song army, they believed that although the Song army had an advantage in Guangxi, it would eventually have to be destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty. Although they were discriminated against in the Yuan Dynasty, it was better to die than to live than to die with the sinking ship of the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, Ali Hague's military order forced them to mutiny.
Because after the military order came out, those soldiers of the Mongolian and Vultures had already aimed their swords at them.
Mutiny, probably not dead now. did not mutiny, but only was wiped out by the Yuan army in an instant.
In this case, how will these Southern Song Dynasty generals and pawns choose?
This is obviously a multiple-choice question that can be made without much consideration.
As a result, more and more former Southern Song Dynasty soldiers in the city have defected. The Mongol and Wu'er soldiers next to them had just swung their swords at them, and they all raised their swords to resist.
Although these generals and soldiers were only a small part of the entire Yuan army, they still made the city even more chaotic.
Moreover, there are some soldiers from other tribes who have also chosen to defect like them.
They were tired, tired, and did not have much loyalty to the Yuan court, and at this moment, they just wanted to rush out of the city and get food from the Song army.
As for the hegemony of the Yuan Dynasty and the glory of the Vultures, to hell with them!
They're neither Mongols nor Fearfuls, and these things are none of their business?
The composition of the Yuan army was mixed, and many of them were soldiers of various ethnic groups who had been captured after the invasion of the land. Many of them were ruined because of the iron hooves of the Yuan Dynasty, and they had a grudge against the Yuan Dynasty. In the past, they had no chance to mutiny, so they could only beg for food in the Yuan army, hiding the hatred in their hearts deep in their hearts. Now that I have such an opportunity, under the temptation of food, even the hatred of the past comes to my heart.
The mutiny in the city gradually became irrepressible.
Immediately after the guards of the horse army, the palace front division of the Praetorian Guard, the Xingguo army in the horse army also entered the city one after another, under the leadership of Yue Peng, Du Hu, Liu Zijun, Jiang Cunzhong and other generals, rushed deeper into the city. The Yuan army had to deal with them again, and they had to deal with the mutinous soldiers, and the formation was in chaos.
And at this time, outside the city, the second drum also sounded.
Tens of thousands of foot soldiers guarded Zhao Dongting's chariot and marched towards the city gate.
A general next to Ali Hague saw this scene and hurriedly said, "Marshal, are we abandoning the city?" ”
Ali Hague groaned for more than ten seconds, gritted his teeth and said: "Tens of thousands of soldiers of our army are still there, how can we abandon the city!" Drum beating! Wholehearted! ”
It's not that he is unwilling to give up Lipu County, but he has other worries in his heart.
He didn't know if Boyan's reinforcements had broken through Wuzhou now and marched to this side. At this time, it was only a moment to resist the Song army, and if he abandoned the city, he didn't know how many soldiers and horses he could take out of the city. Lipu County is still not close to Wuzhou, and his soldiers can't stop the Song army in Lipu County, how far can they escape from the city?
Ali Hague really has no confidence in his heart.
Originally, according to his plan, at least he had to resist the Song army to the moment when the reinforcements broke Wuzhou City. Even, it is best to be able to block the Song army until the reinforcements come to Lipu City.
It's just that he never thought that Song Jun would be able to break the city in such a short time.
Speaking of which, it's all Song Jun's damn mysterious weapon. The grenadier completely disrupted the layout of Ali Hague.
Thinking about it, he said again: "Even if you fight to the death, you have to fight with the Song army for five days in this Lipu County!" ”
As he spoke, he looked out of the city, his eyes full of anticipation. How he wished that Boyan's Yuan army would appear in the middle of those mountains at this time.
But this ...... Obviously impossible.
Even if Wuzhou City has been breached, it will take at least four or five days for reinforcements to rush to Lipu County, even if it is a vanguard cavalry.
The sound of fighting spread in Lipu County.
More and more Song troops rushed into the city and spread everywhere. The fighting raged from the gates of the city to the streets and alleys of the city.
Both sides are losing countless soldiers all the time.
Don't say that the Yuan army, even the Song army suffered unprecedented losses. Without shells, thunder, etc., they are equivalent to losing their trump cards.
In the past few tens of minutes, the streets near the city gate, on the stairs leading to the city walls, were already full of corpses.
However, the Song army was finally able to attack the city wall and fight with the Yuan army guarding the city wall.
This greatly reduced the pressure on the Song army who were entering the city under the head of the city.
Zhao Dongting's chariot also slowly entered the city at this time, surrounded by hundreds of flying dragon soldiers, guarding the chariot impenetrable.
As the emperor, there was no need for Zhao Dongting to enter the city. However, with his chariot and dragon flag, the military spirit is bound to be stronger.
Everywhere the chariot went, the soldiers all raised their arms and shouted, and their morale was high.
After many great victories in Qizhou, Qiongzhou, Jinjin, Pingnan, etc., and then deliberately rendered, Zhao Dongting's image in the army is already like a god.
Most of the soldiers in the Song army saw with their own eyes how Zhao Dongting saved the precarious Southern Song court, and also saw how he built Leizhou in an orderly manner in a short period of time. Leizhou is the kingdom of heaven in their hearts, a utopia in their hearts, and they hope that Zhao Dongting will recover the lost territory of the Southern Song Dynasty and make the entire Southern Song Dynasty like Leizhou.
For this, they are willing to pay with their lives.
However, what no one noticed was that when Zhao Dongting's chariot was getting deeper and deeper, dozens of yuan troops in the chaotic army were also quietly approaching his chariot. Among them, there is a person who is known as the number one killer in the rivers and lakes...... Leave the song.