On April 22, the Yuan army, which had a one-day truce, attacked again, and the heavy casualties made the instigator finally tear off the mask of benevolence and righteousness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe obvious intention was to use the women and children who walked in front as victims, to use them to level the organs laid by the Song army, clear the obstacles, and fill the impassable ditch with the corpses of these women and children, and then the young men who followed became the bow and arrow cannon fodder that consumed the Song army.

The Mongols were vicious in their tactics, and if the defenders shot them to death to protect the city, they would inevitably arouse the anger of the people in the city, and even if they would not openly rebel, they would try to open the city and surrender; If the defenders show mercy to their subordinates, the Mongols will take the opportunity to cover up and rush into the defenders' camp and capture the city. With this poisonous trick, they can be said to have attacked countless cities and plundered land, but they also sacrificed countless lives.

The news that the Yuan army drove the people to attack the city quickly spread to the palace, and everyone was indignant when they heard it, but there was nothing they could do. And Zhao Yu also realized that if this matter was not handled well, it would not only affect the morale of the army, but also cause chaos in the city, so he must deal with this matter immediately. So Zhao Yu immediately ordered to drive the head of the north city so that it could be dealt with on the spot.

"Your Majesty, it's better not to be here in person!" Ying Jieyan stopped the little emperor and said softly.

"Why?" Zhao Hao asked as he walked.

"If Your Majesty mishandles this matter, it will cause heavy casualties, which will inevitably lead to impeachment from all over the court and dissatisfaction with the army and the people. However, it is inevitable that His Majesty will come in person, and he will bear the responsibility for mistakes, which will be detrimental to His Majesty's gradual takeover of government affairs! Ying Jieyan advised.

"Well, having said that, this matter is too big for anyone to handle!" Zhao Hao knew that the old man meant to send an important minister, or the chief official in front of the battle to deal with the matter, if it was handled properly, everything would be closed, if it was a mistake, it would become a scapegoat, and then he would come forward to clean up the mess, so as to avoid being burned. But Zhao Yu was used to the pot in his previous life and knew the suffering, so he could let Wen Tianxiang preach benevolence and 'deceive' the people of Quanzhou to Qiongzhou, but he couldn't throw this pot that ruined people's future and even lost their heads to anyone.

"Alas, Your Majesty, please think twice, don't lose a big one because of a small one!" Ying Jieyan didn't know that the little emperor couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart, how could His Majesty be so confused, sighed and persuaded again, although he knew that it was mostly in vain.

"Sir is kind and I understand, and I also know that one wrong step is a catastrophe, so this thunder can only be carried by me!" Zhao Yu said.

Ying Jieyan knew that it was useless to persuade him, so he and his ministers escorted His Majesty to the head of the North City, and the scene in front of him made people's hearts tight. I saw thousands of people staggering forward under the drive of the Yuan soldiers, and the crying was heartbreaking. Especially the women and children who walked in front couldn't walk fast, and they supported each other slowly under the whip of the Yuan army, they all knew that advancing was death, and retreating was death, so they could only cry in despair and beg the Song soldiers not to let go of the arrows and spare them.

The young men behind were strung with ropes to prevent them from escaping, their faces were full of anger, but they were silently helpless to move forward under the threat of knives and guns, and once someone showed dissatisfaction and made a slight move, they would be killed on the spot by the Yuan army who supervised the war. The soldiers of the Yuan army didn't even bother to untie the ropes tied to the dead young arms, and cut off their arms with a single sword, dangling on the ropes in a palpitating way.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are clamoring and demanding to go into battle to save the captured people!" At this time, Zhao Mengjin hurriedly climbed the city tower and gasped for breath and reported.

"Zhao Dutong, quickly send troops to suppress it, otherwise once you go to war, you will fall into the Tartar trick!" Zhang Shijie ordered without waiting for the emperor to speak.

"Cardinal commander, the generals of all ministries can still abide by military discipline, and there is no need to send troops to suppress them. But there are many Quanzhou children in the Chinese army, and seeing that their relatives are old, how can they get their hands on it, and they want to open their bows and arrows! Zhao Mengjin said hurriedly.

"What do you generals want to do? Those who violate the order will be beheaded immediately, this is the time of life and death, and you must not be soft-hearted! Zhang Shijie gritted his teeth and said with a hideous face, he had been fighting with the Mongols on the front line of the two Huai for more than 20 years, and naturally knew the tricks of the Mongols, they were using the kinship inside and outside the city to make the opponent's position chaotic, and they took the opportunity to break the city.

"Cardinal, let the last general lead the cavalry to charge, maybe you can save some people!" Zhao Mengjin has also experienced the offensive and defensive battles in Taizhou, and he also knows that he is the one who dies with his soft hands, but it is too cruel to fight with his relatives, he looked at Zhang Shijie and looked at the little emperor half pleading.

"Zhao Dutong, Your Majesty is in front of the battle, do you want to put Your Majesty in danger?" Zhang Shijie put his hand on the hilt of the knife and said with a blushing face.

"The last general obeys!" Zhao Mengjin looked at His Majesty again, only to see him looking at the battlefield expressionlessly with a telescope, as if he hadn't heard their conversation, he could only bow down and give orders.

"Wait!"

"What does Your Majesty command?" Zhao Mengjin turned around and was about to go down the city, when he was suddenly stopped by His Majesty, he turned around in surprise and asked.

"You immediately go down to the city and lead the cavalry to wait at the east gate, and after receiving the signal to attack, quickly detour to the north city, disperse the enemy soldiers who are supervising the battle, and cover the people to cross the trench!" Zhao Yu commanded.

"Subordinates obey the holy command!" Zhao Mengjin, who was still very depressed just now, immediately became excited and bowed down.

"Your Majesty......" Zhang Shijie was shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly saluted.

"Cardinal, you lead the navy in the city to the west gate to meet the people entering the city, remember not to let them enter the city in one swollen manner, you must screen them one by one, and those who hide sharp weapons will be executed immediately!" Zhao Yu knew what Zhang Shijie was going to say, so he interrupted his words and said.

"Obey orders!" Although Zhang Shijie didn't know how His Majesty arranged it, but seeing that he had cultivated a successful appearance, he still suppressed the words and took his life, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that it was easy to save people, and a slight mistake would cause heavy casualties, not only could not save the people, but also had to take the lives of countless soldiers, which was really a thankless thing.

"Tell Chen Fenglin that he is ready to put down the drawbridge to accept the people to cross the trench, and arrange a guard along the outer trench to lead the people to the west gate, and at the same time be ready to resist the enemy's attack on the defensive line!" Zhao Yu ordered again, and his own soldiers went down to the city to give orders. But his eyes never took off the binoculars, keeping an eye on the team that was slowly moving towards the battlefield.

"Master Gao, you immediately lead five hundred escorts to escort all the Mongols and Semu people who are detained in the city to the city. Oh, and don't forget that hundred-room slave! Zhao Yu instructed Gao Yingsong again.

"Obey the order!" Although Gao Yingsong didn't know what the little emperor was going to do, he didn't care about asking about it now, so he immediately went down to the city to bring people to take people.

"The order was to immediately bombard the front of the formation with rockets for 500 paces without interruption, and to isolate the enemy cavalry from the people; At the same time, the ballistas on the two wings in front of the formation continued to fire flowering shells, cutting off the circuitous route of the enemy's cavalry to both sides. Seeing that the people who were driven away by the Yuan army had already rushed to within three hundred steps in front of the battle, Zhao Yu ordered.

"Your Majesty, this may hurt the people by mistake!" Wen Tianxiang now also knows that the rocket flies out without accuracy, and now His Majesty actually uses this to bombard the junction of the enemy army and the people, although the people are saved from dying by the sword soldiers, but it is also difficult to escape the explosion of the rocket.

"Wenxiang, don't interfere with Your Majesty." Ying Jieyan Laravin Tianxiang's sleeve stopped, "Your Majesty ordered the bombardment to be five hundred steps in front of the formation, and the people have already rushed to the front of the formation, so it is just to cut off the enemy's reinforcements, and the enemy who has slipped through the net has his own cavalry led by Zhao Dutong to block it, so as to buy time for the rescue of the people." ”

"Will this work?" Wen Tianxiang saw that all the armies were moving together, and it was too late for him to stop it, so he frowned and muttered.

The 'boom, boom, boom, ......boom' rockets were the first to strike, roaring into the enemy's rear team, setting off a bloody rain and bloody wind, and the bombers turned on their backs. The day before yesterday, the Mongol army had already suffered from the rockets, and those in the rear turned around and ran back, and those in front rushed forward with their horses, and from time to time looked up at the sky to estimate where the rockets would fall. I think that Zhao Hao, as the inventor, doesn't know where it will fall, they can't guess it anymore, but it has caused more confusion, you think everyone looks up at the sky, don't look ahead, isn't it the same as driving and not paying attention to observation, how can there be no car accidents, rear-end collisions, scrapes are light, the most spectacular is a series of collisions, crackling and falling into a ball.

"Run!" The detained people were also frightened at first, and they all went around to hide, but where to hide in this big open space, everyone felt that they were still lying on the ground and were safe, and they all nested there without greeting. But when they found that the Tartars were taking care of themselves, the Song army camp on the opposite side had already lowered the drawbridge and rushed out of a group of soldiers to come against the front, and some of the people immediately realized that they were coming to save them, got up and ran in the direction of the city shouting.

"Order the cavalry to attack and kill the enemy cavalry!" Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"Attack!" Zhao Mengjin finally waited for the order, roared, and immediately led a battalion of cavalry to rush out of the east gate, and rushed through the drawbridge on the trench along the horse path that was set aside to turn northwest and plunge into the enemy.

"Run, run!" Zhao Yu clenched his fists and said softly in his mouth. At this moment, he can be said to be anxious, on the one hand, he is worried that the people will be intercepted and killed by enemy cavalry before running into the safe zone; On the other hand, they hoped that their cavalry would hurry to the battlefield and destroy the enemy cavalry that had escaped the rocket attack, but they were also worried.

Now with the improvement of the equipment of the various armies under the Xing Dynasty, the most precious ones are no longer the ballista army and the rocket army, but the cavalry army. Relying on more than 1,000 war horses captured from Guangzhou, the Qiongzhou Army formed a total of three cavalry armies, one each of the Protector Army, the Central Army and the Rear Army. And the reason why they are valuable is actually that the war horses are hard to find.

Qiongzhou is dominated by imported Guangxi horses, which are smaller than Mongolian horses and are not suitable for war horses, so they can only rely on external imports. War horses are not only a symbol of wealth for the Mongols, but also an important strategic resource, and it is certainly impossible to buy horses on a large scale from them, and the south is not suitable for raising horses, and it is even more difficult to choose a good horse that can be used as a war horse.

In this way, even if Zhao Hao wanted to expand the cavalry army, it was impossible, and now these three battalions of cavalry are mainly responsible for strategic maneuver tasks, responsible for supporting the whole island from the land operation, and they are reluctant to use it under normal circumstances. This time, only the cavalry of the Chinese army came to fight with the army, and the other two commanders stayed in Qiongzhou. It is precisely because of the scarcity of war horses that there is a lot of room for the selection of cavalry, and those who can serve as cavalry are all good at one in a hundred. But the baby is the baby, and it can only be used at this critical moment, but they really don't know whether they can beat the Mongolian soldiers Zhao Hao.

"Your Majesty, the women and children have already been trenched!" Ying Jieyan looked at His Majesty's face as if he was calm, but his fists were clenched, his forehead was sweaty, and he was obviously very nervous and under great pressure. Seeing that the women and children who were walking in the front had already stepped onto the drawbridge with the help of the soldiers, he pointed to His Majesty and prayed.

"Well, whether they can escape this catastrophe depends on themselves!" Zhao Hao nodded and said, now there are only two or three hundred enemy soldiers intercepted in front of the rocket barrage, while there are thousands of people, including no less than three thousand young and strong, but now they only know how to escape, and they are constantly being cut down by the Yuan soldiers who are trying to stop them. But they didn't know that as long as they turned back to fight, they could kill all the enemy soldiers who were more than ten times less than themselves, so that they could escape.

"Alas, alas, pathetic!" Ying Jieyan was also angry, shook his head and sighed.

"Our people are so honest that they don't know how to resist when they stand up to their necks!" Zhao Yu was also angry.

"Yes, as Your Majesty said back then, the country does not know that there are people, and the people do not know that there is a country!" Ying Jieyan also sighed.

"This is my responsibility, but also the responsibility of the imperial court, we must let the people understand the truth of 'only if there is a country, only when there is a family, and only when there is a country', can there be hope for the restoration of the country by turning the resistance to the yuan into a conscious and spontaneous behavior!" Zhao Hao pondered for a moment and said, thinking in his heart how wise and correct Grandpa Mao's strategy of mobilizing the masses and fighting the war of resistance of the whole people seemed now!

"Your Majesty, Zhao Dutong has taken the enemy!" Ying Jieyan nodded and pointed to the battlefield again. At this moment, the Song army was the same enemy, holding back a force to kill the generals, and the enemy's retreat was cut off, and it was blown up, and it was dizzy, and it wanted to rely on these people as a shield to hold on for a while, but now the Song army of the brigade is also in chaos, and they dare not engage in battle, and hide in the crowd, intending to escape the catastrophe.

"The people are also starting to help in the war!" Zhao Yu said in surprise. Perhaps it was the long-suppressed courage that erupted in the life-and-death situation, or perhaps it was the arrival of the officers and soldiers that emboldened the people to attack the enemy soldiers who broke into the crowd. Although they only had sticks and bamboo spears in their hands, they were more than enough to deal with the lone enemy soldiers, and they tore them off their horses, and before they could struggle, they landed the sticks and stoned them to death.

"Yes, although the people are cowardly, as long as there is Your Majesty and the king, they will also turn from sheep to wolves!" He should be strict and brush his beard...... (To be continued.) )