Let's talk about Gangneung Province.

After Yeluzhu sent a master to assassinate Liu Zaiyuan, the army was quite strong, and he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to attack on a large scale.

Three days ago, his army had already assembled in Changlin County. He also sent a message to the Yuan army outside the two cities of Ezhou and Longxing Mansion, and directly sent troops to Jiangling Mansion.

This was more or less unexpected by Su Quandang and others.

Because in their minds, the Yuan army should attack Dangyang County first. After all, Liu Zaiyuan, the commander of the Tianli Army guarding Dangyang County, has been assassinated, although the acting army commander Yu Xingwen is actively building fortifications in the county, but its strength cannot be compared with the Jiangling Mansion guarded by the Suquan Dangtiangang Army and the Jiangling Mansion garrison army and the Changde Mansion garrison army.

The Yuan Dynasty approached Jiangling Mansion, which can be said to be a real attack, which is contrary to the military book that advocates avoiding the real and attacking the false.

But if you think about it carefully, there is something wonderful about Yuan Jun like this.

First of all, the Song army can be taken by surprise, and perhaps the Song army in Jiangling Mansion can be negligent in guarding.

Moreover, regardless of the sun, the army can continue to maintain morale and avoid losing many soldiers.

Anyway, if Jiangling Mansion is surrounded, the Tianli Army in Dangyang County, which is only less than 10,000 people, may not dare to rush to Jiangling Mansion to help. Even if it comes, the Yuan army can also divide its forces to intercept it.

It is said that it is to avoid hypocrisy and attack the truth, but in fact, it can also be said to be a direct attack on the Yellow Dragon. Whether this strategy is clever or not depends only on whether it can succeed in taking Jiangling Mansion.

And this plan was naturally conceived by Yeluzhu.

Lu Wenhuan is cautious by nature and is the best at playing steadily. His idea was to first go down to Dangyang, destroy the heavens and establish an army, and then attack Jiangling Mansion.

In this way, he may be able to lure the Song army out of the city in Jiangling Mansion, which is more secure from a strategic point of view.

It's a pity that it is Yeluzhu who holds the real power in the army now, and Yeluzhu does not trust him completely, and he insists on fighting Jiangling, so he may not be without the thoughts of Lu Wenhuan and Song Jun.

In any case, the Yuan army finally arrived outside the Jiangling Mansion.

At this moment, the soldiers of the two sides are already clashing.

At the head of the city and under the city there was a constant sound of artillery fire.

The Yuan army had a large array of 20,000 men attacking from outside the north gate of Jiangling Mansion at the same time, and the two armies fired at each other with grenadiers and catapults.

Su Quandang personally stood at the head of the city to supervise the battle.

In the face of an army of no more than 20,000 yuan, he only let the Tiangang army defend the city. The garrison of Jiangling Mansion and the garrison of Changde Mansion were all arranged by him to be on standby.

It is not yet time for the two armies to really clash each other.

Although Jerodine sent 20,000 troops to attack the city, everyone could see that this was only a temptation. Because, the Yuan army didn't even use the hot air balloon.

The fighting lasted from dawn to this afternoon.

The Yuan army launched several waves of attacks and was repulsed by the artillery fire of the Song army at the head of the city, and the two armies suffered losses to each other, but in general, the losses of the Yuan army that attacked the city were much greater.

The original Lu Wenhuan led an army of 130,000 from Xiangyang, and now, the remaining soldiers are afraid that there are only less than 70,000.

It is not easy to break through Jiangling Mansion with such troops.

After the Yuan army's offensive was repulsed, the army slowly retreated towards the barracks.

Ye Luzhu, Lu Wenhuan and others did not look very good, and walked into the handsome tent with cold faces.

As soon as he entered the tent and sat down, Yeluzhu snorted: "These grenadiers of the Song army are really difficult to deal with!" ”

In the previous waves of temptation, the army under his command was bombarded by the grenadiers of the Song army, and he was stunned that he could not even climb the city wall.

This made him, who had never seen the power of a grenadier before, taste the power of a grenadier for the first time. This thing is indeed much more powerful than the gun throwing cart.

Huang Liangce sat beside him, silent.

He also went up with the army in person just now, and he wanted to rely on force to climb to the top of the city, but he was ashamed of failing to assassinate Su Quandang, but he also had to retreat under the bombardment of grenadiers. He realized the power of the grenadier more truly than Jerrych.

There are more than 100 grenadiers on the head of Jiangling Mansion, and even he can't help but feel a little numb when he thinks about it at this time.

Lu Wenhuan sat at the top of the left and said softly: "Prime Minister, it is not easy for us to break through Jiangling Mansion with our current strength, why don't we turn around and take Dangyang?" ”

Yeluzhu only snorted slightly: "Dare to ask General Lu, even if you take down the mere Yang, what's the use?" ”

He slammed his wine glass on the table, "Not to mention that the Song army in Dangyang County must also have such a thing as a grenadier, our army will have to pay a lot of price to break Dangyang, even if it takes Dangyang, it will be meaningless in this whole battle." The new Song army was defeated and retreated in Kuizhou, you and I both know this, there must be a Yuan army in the Song Kingdom is rushing towards this Jiangling Mansion, our army has not taken Jiangling Mansion as soon as possible, and when those Song troops arrive and take Dangyang, they still have to be driven out? ”

"This ......"

Lu Wenhuan is a little short of words.

He was reluctant to take Gangneung Mansion just because he really couldn't see hope. If you take Dangyang, there will always be a chance to deal with Song Jun.

Yeluzhu said again: "We must take Jiangling Mansion before the Song army and Yuan army arrive, and defend Jiangling, so that the western armies have the opportunity to go straight into the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly looked at Lu Wenhuan with a faint look in his eyes, and said, "In the future, if you take Dangyang, General Lu should not say it again, so as not to disturb the morale of the army." ”

Lu Wenhuan was slightly stunned, and sighed softly in his heart, but he had to nod and give his hand, "Yes." ”

Although Yeluzhu was only a prisoner in name, he was actually a messenger sent by Kublai Khan. He represented Kublai Khan's meaning, and Lü Wenhuan couldn't stalemate with him.

Lu Wenhuan glanced at the tent, and there were not many cronies under his command.

Over the years, although some of the generals who had surrendered in Xiangyang with him had been promoted, most of them had been transferred elsewhere.

Although he led an army of more than 100,000 to attack the Song Dynasty this time, in fact, this army was not surnamed Lu.

Seeing that his close generals were still looking at him, Lu Wenhuan had to say again: "Then how does the prime minister plan to fight next?" ”

Yeluzhu was silent for a long time, his eyes gradually became deeper, and finally looked at Lu Wenhuan deeply, and said, "I want General Lu to pretend to vote for Song." ”

"Huh?"

Lu Wenhuan's brows suddenly condensed.

Yeluzhu only chuckled and said, "At the beginning, General Lu guarded Xiangyang for several years, but he was regarded as a god general by the people of the Song Kingdom. Thinking about it today, those soldiers and civilians of the Song Kingdom still remember your courage and loyalty in defending Xiangyang back then. If you lead the army to surrender to the Song Dynasty at this time, do you think the Song army will believe you? Will it open the gates for you? ”

Lu Wenhuan groaned: "Prime Minister, it's not that I, Lu Wenhuan, am unwilling. Rather, at this time, Song Jun is afraid that he wants to get something strange about this, right? ”

"Huh!"

Yelu said: "If there is a strangeness, it will be done so that they can't see the strangeness." ”

His eyes swept over the generals in the tent, and there were those Lu Wenhuan's cronies, and said: "If General Lu leads the army to mutiny in the camp, and then leads the defeated army to hurriedly go out of the camp to take refuge, do you think those Song troops will think there is something strange in this?" ”

"Router?"

Lu Wenhuan said: "The prime minister means that we will pretend to mutiny and fight in the camp? ”

"Exactly!"

Yeluzhu nodded heavily, "I will let the two generals, Chaolu and Huhelu, lead the army out of the camp with you and go to the front of the city to join the Song army!" ”

Lu Wenhuan was stunned for a long time, and there were chills in his heart, but he finally nodded, "I follow the Prime Minister's order." ”

Yeluzhu didn't let him lead his own soldiers to Jiangling Mansion, which was obviously to prevent him from pretending to be a real thing. His army and horses were all left in the camp, but the two Mongol generals Chaolu and Huhelu followed him to Jiangling Mansion to surrender. When the Song army really wants to accept them into the city, he, Lu Wenhuan, really wants to join the Great Song Dynasty again, and he can't command the soldiers at all.

"Okay."

Seeing that Lu Wenhuan agreed, Yelu Zhu laughed loudly, "Then General Lu and the two generals Chaolu and Huhelu, you can go down and prepare!" ”

Lu Wenhuan got up and followed the two Mongolian generals Chaolu and Huhelu out of the tent.

Outside the tent, Chao Lu and Hu Helu galloped directly to the place where the headquarters was camped to gather the soldiers.

Lu Wenhuan walked back to his tent in a bit of a lost spirit.

In the tent, Yeluzhu asked several generals to come out of the tent one after another, and each went down to prepare.

Chaolu and Huhelu wanted to feign mutiny, which naturally required the cooperation of the rest of the army in the barracks. After all, you have to make it.

Otherwise, even in the name of Lu Wenhuan, it would never be so easy to deceive Song Jun.

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