Inside and outside Quanzhou City, the Song army drank in a lively bowl and ate meat in large pieces, but the instigation of the occupied nest was that he drank in the big tent. www.biquge.info At first, when he learned that the Song army was going to attack Zhangzhou, he led his troops to relieve the siege, thinking that he would be able to quickly defeat the enemy as soon as he arrived. But I didn't expect that as soon as I showed up, the enemy soldiers began to retreat to Quanzhou before the horse got off, but the running for days had exhausted their strength, and there was no way to return to help immediately, so they could only watch the Song army sail away.

Instigated all immediately understood that he had fallen into the other party's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and although he was annoyed, he was not particularly worried. Because Quanzhou still has more than 10,000 troops to defend, with his own son in charge, and the city is strong, it is not easy to capture Quanzhou in a short time. Therefore, while he suspended his troops, he also mobilized the Zhangzhou army to return to the reinforcements, so that he could repeat his old skills and annihilate the enemy army as much as possible, and ignored the messengers who came to Quanzhou for help.

However, the road back to the aid was not smooth, it was frequently disturbed by small forces of the enemy, and the road was blocked by mines, and the last part of the road took three days to arrive. At this time, the Song army had completed the encirclement of Quanzhou, controlled the surrounding seaports, completed the blockade of the Jinjiang River, and had dug two trenches. To the relief and surprise of the instigators, it was not that the city had not been captured, but that the enemy army had not begun to attack the city at all.

Instigation is also a battle-hardened veteran, and when he looks at the position of the Song army, he knows that this battle is not easy to fight, because the Song army is invincible no matter what. The two moats on the periphery of the city were obviously to intercept reinforcements, and the other was to prevent the people in the city from breaking through. And their own naval army is lost, if the battle situation is unfavorable, the Song army can evacuate safely, but they have no choice. However, once the Song army broke the city, it had to face two moats and a strong city, and it was even more difficult to recapture Quanzhou City.

The relationship between Instigation Du and Pu Shougeng was as Zhao Yu expected, and the two were not harmonious. Although Pu Shougeng sacrificed the city and lowered the Yuan, he knew that he was forced by the situation, and in order to win over his main general Dong Wenbing, he did not hesitate to surrender his identity, not only accepted the tiger talisman without permission, but also recommended to the Great Khan several times that he should preside over the city to obtain wealth for the country. Later, Dong Wenbing left, he presided over the military and political affairs of Fujian, in order to prevent Pu Shougeng from monopolizing Quanzhou, he moved the government from Fuzhou to Quanzhou, and watched it under his nose. But Pu Shougeng has the support of a great sweat, and his official position is promoted again and again, almost on a par with him, and he will inevitably suppress a profiteer who is about to climb on his head.

At this time, the Song army besieged the city, and the instigated capital felt that the troops were insufficient to break through the Jinjiang defense line, and the other also wanted to give Pu Shougeng some color to see, and then let the Great Khan see if a merchant could hold Quanzhou. However, he still mobilized the troops of the surrounding state capitals, while preparing to cross the river and attack the Song army warships cruising in the river, but he did not expect to 'mistakenly' injure" the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty, so that he would lose the camp with a fire at night, not to mention, and even snatched away a few copper cannons that were regarded as sharp weapons.

What the instigation did not expect was that the Song army captured Quanzhou City in a battle the next day, thus occupying the initiative. And he also realized that he had made a mistake in judgment, and that the loss of the city would surely shock the whole country, and the Great Khan was furious, urging reinforcements from all walks of life to come, and at the same time finding another place to cross the river to the northern city, but when he arrived at the city, he was just as worried. No matter how the challenge is, the Song army is just defending the city behind its back, or refusing to take a step out of the moat, and if it is too close, it is a bow and crossbow to serve, and there is often no return, and the army has not yet lined up, it is a meteor attack. As a result, the city was not taken, and the camp was moved back two miles to prevent the mistake of being burned again at night.

After several tentative attacks were repulsed, reinforcements from all walks of life gathered under the city, instigating that if they wanted to break the city quickly, they could only rely on the inside and outside, just when he stepped up to contact Pu Shou Geng in the city, the Song army launched another attack first, he watched the wolf smoke rising in the city but there was no way, and sat back and watched Pu Shou Geng and his son be annihilated. Then the spies who infiltrated the city sent out information that Pu Shougeng and other officials were killed in battle, and then the little emperor opened a killing spree, and all the officials and businessmen who were related to the Yuan court and participated in the sacrifice of the city were beheaded in a few days, and sacrificed the killed Zongzi with blood, to his relief that although his son was missing, he was not among the killed.

Speaking of which, I still admire the little emperor and can avenge his family at any cost, which is similar to their Mongols' revenge temperament. And considering that the Song army also killed what should be killed and robbed what should be robbed, he was forced to take the initiative to withdraw under the pressure of the army, because in this situation, he did not want to risk huge casualties to attack the city, and fight a battle that was difficult to win without the support of the naval army.

The instigation is good, but Kublai Khan was furious after learning that Pu Shougeng was killed, two years after the end of the main war in the south of the Yangtze River, the remnants of the Southern Dynasty became more and more rampant, not only defeated Liu Shen, Ali Hague and Zhang Hongfan and other armies, but also lost troops and generals, and now they are trapped in Quanzhou again, killing important ministers of the imperial court, and there is a great tendency to resurrect. Therefore, it was strictly ordered and instigated to quickly encircle and annihilate this Song army in Quanzhou, capture and kill the puppet emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and when the merchants from all over the world came, they saw the might and prosperity of the Great Yuan Empire, but not the turbulent Jiangnan.

It is already late April, and in May and June, merchants from all over the world will take advantage of the southwest wind to come, and tens of thousands of merchant ships from all over the country will gather in the ports of Quanzhou, and the big merchants from the interior will also trade in all kinds of goods. After the trade route in the Western Regions was controlled by Hulegu Khan, the main way for the nobles of the Yuan court to obtain the treasures of various places was also an extremely important source of finance......

On April 20, the instigators, who had no way to retreat, ordered a meal to be held at the ugly time, and a formation to attack the city at the end of the day. At this time, the armies of Fuzhou Road gathered, with a total of more than 50,000 soldiers, and instigated Fuzhou Road Dalu Huachi Mengyi to lead the Mongolian army, and Yue Tianzhen, the governor of Fuzhou Road, led the Han army.

The Yuan army began to siege the city. First of all, they were faced with a trench that was four zhang wide and more than a foot deep in front of them, and according to the common methods of siege, one was to erect a trench bridge, and the other was to fill the trench with earth. The moat bridge is simple to make, and once it is successfully erected, it can enable a large number of troops to pass through quickly, which is convenient for concentrating troops to break the breakthrough, and it is also the first choice for siege. After the sound of a trumpet, the Yuan army, which was arrayed two miles outside the city, rushed out a group of archers and quickly moved forward to range, and they would suppress the Song army behind the trench and cover the soldiers who were building the bridge.

When the archers were in position, the bridge-building soldiers who followed behind quickly rushed past the archers, their shields held high, and they pushed the trench carts as fast as they could, trying to get as fast as possible to get close to the trench. Fifty paces from the moat, they were surprised not to wait for the rain of arrows, and just as they wondered if the enemy had been so frightened by their momentum that they could not pull away their bows, there was a sudden loud noise under their feet, and they felt that their bodies were like the trench carts turned into pieces and went up into the sky together. But they could not see that the archers behind them also suffered misfortune.

"Dashuai, what is this?" Yue Tianzhen rubbed his ears and asked, at this moment there was already a cloud of smoke in front of him, the five siege engines had already scattered and become a pile of rotten wood, and the soldiers who were not dead shouted in panic and climbed back.

"Heaven-shattering thunder, earth-shattering thunder planted by enemy soldiers!" Instigator said expressionlessly, "Continue to attack the city and attack along the road you just walked!" ”

"Again!" Yue Tianzhen waved the command flag, and several teams of soldiers rushed out pushing the trench cart, but this time they were much more cautious, not paying attention to the sky and no arrows falling, and watching for anything abnormal under their feet.

Arriving at the place where the previous attack was encountered, the soldiers of the Yuan army who pushed the trench car all put down their steps in unison, and the scene was too miserable. On the ground was a large pit two feet deep, with a wide mouth and blackened smoke, the trench had been blown apart, and the broken corpses were scattered around, and a few undead were struggling and screaming on the ground, which was terrifying. But they didn't dare to stop, pushing the trench car around the deep pit, but what they were most worried about at this moment was that the Song army not only did not attack, but remained silent, and could not even see a figure, which just showed that there was still an ambush ahead.

"Trap ......" walked on the right side of a trench cart, the wheels suddenly sank down, and the soldiers pushing the cart on the side shouted, and the air under their feet also fell. Immediately after the 'boom', one of the wheels of the trench also collapsed, but fortunately, only one wheel fell off the big trench car, but it was also skewed by half of the body, and it could not move again.

'Ah......h

'Ah ......' the body was crooked, in order to prevent being smashed, the soldiers of the cart hurriedly jumped to both sides, but they felt a pain under their feet and did not know what was piercing, and they knew that they were ambushed and did not dare to move again, and some fell to the ground under severe pain, and their bodies were pierced by countless bamboo sticks buried under the floating soil, and blood sprayed wildly, and they died instantly. For a while, a group of people did not dare to move anymore and stood at the scene.

'Whoosh...... Song archers behind the breastwork on the side of the moat suddenly appeared, and shot a rain of arrows to cover the Yuan soldiers, and then rockets shot out and set the trench carts on fire.

"Again!" Instigated Du's face twitched a few times, and he ordered again.

"Dashuai, it's not okay to attack like this!" Yue Tianzhen was worried about the tunnel, they hadn't even touched the edge of the trench, and hundreds of people had already been killed and injured, even if there were many of them, they couldn't bear such losses.

"The Song army is cunning, if we stop attacking today and rearrange it tomorrow, we will die even more!" Instigated to say sharply.

"Yes, the last general obeys!" Yue Tianzhen gritted his teeth and said, waving the command flag to attack again.

Perhaps the Song army's organs ran out of ambushes, and as soon as they approached within a hundred paces, they fired ballistas to destroy all the trenches, and they failed several times, and the more than 20 trenches that were prepared were all destroyed in front of the formation, and it was already noon at this moment, but there was no inch. Seeing that the city was in front of him, the attack was slow to work, and the morale was inevitably hit, and it was really uncomfortable to stand hungry and thirsty under the sun on a hot day.

"The infantry took turns to rest and eat. Fill the trenches with cavalry! He looked at the sky, and looked at the generals who were a little impatient.

"Handsome ......," Meng Yi said in surprise when he heard this.

"The Great Khan strictly ordered that Quanzhou must be recovered at the end of the month, do you want to disobey the decree?" Instigated all said sharply.

"Dashuai, the last general will not dare, the Song army is strong and powerful, and there will be a lot of losses if the cavalry is used to fill the trenches, so why don't you find another way!" Meng Yi argued that he knew that filling the trench with cavalry was a common method used by the Mongols when they first entered the Central Plains, that is, using cavalry camels to carry firewood, grass or soil bags, quickly approaching the trench and throwing firewood, grass and soil bags into the trench, and so on until a road was filled, but often there were huge losses.

"What can you do?" Instigator asked.

"Fill in the trenches!" Meng Yi said.

"Now that Jiangnan is our Great Yuan Land, the Great Khan has ordered that the people should not be slaughtered at will, have you forgotten?" Hearing this, he frowned and said.

The instigator also knew this method, which was also extremely cruel, and when it came to it, he would arrest all the people around him, and then drive them to fill in the ditch with soldiers. If the defending generals are soft-hearted and refuse to shoot the people with their bows and arrows, they can only watch as the moats are filled in until they reach the bottom of the city. What is even more cruel is to drive the people directly into the ditch and fill it with people until the ditch is filled, and the follow-up soldiers step on the dead corpses to attack the city. At that time, the Mongols used this method to sweep through West Asia and level countless cities in the Central Plains.

However, in the battle to pacify Jiangnan in the south, Kublai Khan listened to the advice of the Han ministers, and instead of the previous method of bloody massacres and deterrence, he reassured the people with a policy of gentleness, so as to reduce resistance and quickly complete the battle of unification. After seizing Jiangnan, in order to maintain the rule, a series of decrees were promulgated, prohibiting the slaughter of the people at will, so as to maintain the prosperity of Jiangnan and gain more wealth.

"The last general knows!" Meng Yi is not a Mongolian, but a native of Jinan, Shandong, at best, a northerner, but the Daru Huachi who guards all the way must be held by a Mongolian at first, and he can do this position because he has made great contributions, but he has become more fierce than the Mongols, he gritted his teeth after listening.

"Remember, the Song army's bows and crossbows are strong, and you must not march in unison, but spread out the formation, and the speed of the horses will not decrease when throwing objects, go and return quickly!" Through several contacts with the Song army, he also found a lot of experience, and understood that it relied on the huge lethality of meteor fire and crossbow to capture the city, so it was necessary to avoid the front and not be strong.

"The last general obeys!" Meng Yi bowed down to receive the order, and then waved the order flag to mobilize the army to prepare firewood and grass to fill the trench. And he also understood that in fact, the role of the siege cavalry was very small, how could the war horses not get on the city, and the roads in the city were tortuous, the war horses could not run fast, and the impact was greatly reduced, and its main role was to intercept the enemy troops who broke through the city, pursue the fleeing enemy soldiers, and fill the trenches This work can only be done by them.

At the order, the Mongol cavalry opened the distance in units of 100 men, attacked in the form of scattered horses, quickly approached the trench and immediately threw firewood and grass, and the horses did not slow down and returned in a circle, because of their speed, it was not easy to aim at them, and the formation was loose, and it was difficult to inflict heavy damage on them with covering shots...... (To be continued.) )