"Alas!" Seeing that the gap in the breakout was opened, but it was disrupted by a sudden Song cavalry, Lahudo couldn't help but sigh.

"Get ready to get out of town!" Tuhuan, who was watching the battle in the city, said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness, are you waiting a little longer......" Lahudo said with some surprise.

The battle situation at this time is not optimistic for their side. After the heavy cavalry successfully broke through the right flank of the first line of defense of the Song army, it immediately mobilized its forces to encircle and block, although it caused a lot of casualties to its own side, but it had already collapsed and retreated. At this time, the cavalry of the Song army suddenly came out and launched a surprise attack on their own heavy cavalry, disrupting the shock formation, forcing them to change their formation and reorganize their formation, but they got a respite for the retreating Song army.

However, just after their own heavy cavalry attacked again, the Song cavalry turned around and attacked their flank again, knocking out a gap between the lieutenant generals, and the two armies fell back into the melee. Although the strikers who successfully broke through the second line of defense were not entangled, their troops were obviously insufficient, and they were stubbornly blocked by the Song army of the third line of defense.

Lahudo knew that the heavy cavalry had lost its speed, and even if it could break through the blockade line, if it was difficult for the follow-up troops to keep up, it would not be possible to carry out continuous assaults due to lack of stamina, so that the opponent could calmly dispatch troops to seal the gap. Although the heavy cavalry is wearing heavy armor, but also because the weight is too large, the combat effectiveness will soon decline, if you lose the ability to maneuver, after falling into the enemy formation, you will be a live target, and you will be knocked off the horse by the enemy.

"Don't wait any longer, Ling Za suddenly led the rest of the heavy cavalry to the left flank of the Song army to resolutely assault, and then we went out of the city to break through to the northeast, no matter how late it is, none of us can leave!" Seeing that he was still hesitating, Tuhuan stretched out his hands to grab Lahudo's neck, pulled it over, and said angrily.

He saw the appearance of the imperial banner of the Southern Dynasty and knew that the Song army was insufficient, and when he found that his side was fully committed to breaking through to the east and the defenders of the eastern city were defeated, the thief had to personally lead the last mobile force to rush to reinforcements. In this way, it was once again confirmed that he had fallen for it, and the thief had already secretly transferred the army to Jiangdong, preparing to encircle and annihilate the Yuxi Timurid Department who crossed the river.

But Tuhuan thought that he had a plan, and he continued to send out gold and silver property, and selected hundreds of beauties from the city to send them to his camp, in order to attract the thief to Yangzhou City, so that he could be annihilated by the inside and outside. But in fact, it was a thief who was a master of chess, not only playing foolish tricks around himself, but also luring Yuxi Timur into the pit, which made him calm.

However, Tuhuan was finally not carried away by the annoyance, and knew that he was still in danger. In his opinion, although the situation was unfavorable to him, at this time, the Song army was rebuilding the fourth line of defense while holding on to the third line of defense. What's even more dangerous is that the Song army, after the initial confusion, readjusted the artillery position, and now has begun to test fire, and shells continue to fall outside the city gate, apparently preparing to concentrate artillery fire to block their only way out of the city.

On the other hand, the Song cavalry has been entangled with its own forward heavy cavalry, and it is impossible to distinguish the winner in a short time. At the moment, as long as all the remaining heavy cavalry was pressed on the left flank, the Song army, which had no mobile forces to adjust, had no time to take care of it. And if he goes out of the city at this moment to break through with all his might, it is possible to break out of the encirclement when the last line of defense of the Song army has not yet been arranged. And Tuohuan also knows that this opportunity is fleeting, and there is no room for hesitation.

'......Boom'

"The city is broken!"

"The Southern Army has entered the city!"

"Let's go!" Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the northern city, and the city wall that was about to go down to the city shook for a while, and his feet slipped, and he almost rolled down the city, and his ears were buzzing. He looked north, but saw the dust and smoke billowing and the flames rising to the sky, and before he could hear the words of the city, he heard someone shouting that the city was broken, and the crowd of ants rushed towards the city. Tuhuan realized that if he didn't leave, he had to go, not to mention that the Song army was coming in an instant, and the fleeing rebels and panicked people would also block the city gate, and they couldn't leave if they wanted to!

"Father, mother and brothers are still in the house!" Seeing that Tuohuan hurriedly went down to the city, he flew on his horse and urged the army out of the city, and Lao Zhang, the eldest son of Shangmeng in the valley, grabbed his reins and asked, but he didn't know that Tuohuan had already made up his mind to abandon his family.

"The enemy army enters the city, and if they don't leave, they will all be trapped in the city, we still have a chance to rush out at the moment, so we can only let them live their destiny!" Tuhuan glanced in the direction of the palace and said in a deep voice.

"Father, shall we abandon my mother and brothers?" Lao Zhang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he didn't expect his father to be so ruthless, and he couldn't believe it.

"As the eldest son of the Zhennan Palace, you should know the severity, and now that Yangzhou is lost, the two Huai have no soldiers to fight, and the southern army can go straight to Gyeonggi. We can't mislead state affairs for the sake of family affairs, and we should share the worries of the Great Khan at this time of crisis, and gather two Huai soldiers to block the enemy's northern invasion! Tuohuan snatched the reins of the horse and reprimanded him fiercely.

"......" Lao Zhang was in a dilemma when he heard this, there were not only his mothers, brothers and sisters in the house, but also his own wife and young children, how could he give up as much as he wanted. And he also knew what the fate of the female dependents and relatives who remained in the palace would be once the city was broken, and he was stunned on the spot for a while.

"My brother will protect my father and break through first, and I will lead my troops and horses back to the house to pick up my mother and concubine out of the city, and I will protect them to meet you in a comprehensive way!" At this time, the five barbarians who were out of joy came over and spoke.

"It's okay, once things don't work out, break through immediately, don't fall in love with war!" Tuhuan glanced at the barbarian, with a hint of pity in his eyes, he knew that it would be a life of nine deaths to go back to the house to pick up his family at this moment, and if he couldn't say it, he would be trapped in the city, and he groaned for a moment and said slowly.

"Everything is up to the brothers!" Tuo Buhua exchanged his war horse for the barbarian.

"Be careful, everything is about peace, don't do anything and try to get out immediately, don't fall in love with war!" Lao Zhang patted his brother's shoulder, squeezed out a smile and admonished.

"Father, take care of the two elder brothers!" After the barbarian turned over and said goodbye to his father and brother, he led the soldiers to the palace without looking back.

"Alas, don't fall in love with the war after leaving the city, and don't look back, immediately break through to the south and join the Tuolie capital. If it has already retreated, do not stay and rendezvous at Huai'an. If you don't do it within three days, you will immediately cross the river and go to Dadu to report the details to the Great Khan! After seeing his young son leave, he looked back and said solemnly to his two sons.

"Father, the situation is not so serious, is it? Yuxi Timur has already crossed south and threatened the Jingshi of the Southern Dynasty, isn't the puppet emperor of the Southern Dynasty worried! The barbarian was taken aback when he heard this.

"This defeat is all because of this great achievement, and he is only afraid that he has been deeply encircled, and it is difficult to say whether he can return to Jiangbei alive. Now the two Huai and Shandong and Henan have all been requisitioned and transferred by him, and they are powerless to stop the Song army from advancing northward! Tuohuan sighed and said hatefully.

"Your Highness, the Song army has begun to shell the city gate, let's go!" At this time, Lahudo had already put his team in order, and when he saw that the shelling was intensifying, he stepped forward and urged.

"Let's go, may the Immortal Heaven bless our father and son to successfully break out of the encirclement!" After praying to the heavens, he mounted his horse with the support of Lahudo.

At this time, Za suddenly had already led the rest of the heavy cavalry to change the direction of the attack according to the order, attracting the attention of the Song army. The eldest son, Lao Zhang, led the troops as the vanguard and took the lead out of the city, breaking through to the junction of the northern city and the eastern city of the Song army in the south. His choice of point was very accurate, at this time the northern city was breached, and the Song army was fighting for a breakthrough with all its might, and there was no time to reinforce the defenders of the eastern city. In the middle of the cowardly guards led by Lahudo, Tuhuan protected the caravan carrying the belongings, and followed him out of the city. And the second son, Tuo Buhua, led the headquarters of a thousand people to break off, blocking the people who were swarming and trying to follow out of the city, and shielded the Chinese army out of the city.

After leaving the city, the situation of the battle changed again. Although the heavy cavalry that was the first to leave the city broke through the three lines of defense of the Song army from the middle at this time, it suffered heavy casualties at this moment, and it was difficult to break through the fourth line of defense. The Song army redeployed the small guns of each department, moved the battalion's Ben Lei Gong and Baizi Gong forward, and deployed them on the front line.

Although these small cannons were small in power and had a short range, they could not stand much, and each battalion detachment was equipped with fifteen guns; The Baizi Gong was assigned to the detachment, and the artillery squad was equipped with two guns, and one battalion had 20 guns. In addition, the small cannon is also light in weight, easy to deploy, and fires shotguns, and has fierce melee firepower. After being deployed to the front line for concentrated use, it was launched in echelons, forming continuous firepower, which caused great damage to the enemy's heavy cavalry. In addition, the mortars assigned to various units have also been uniformly dispatched, and mobile deployment has been carried out by taking advantage of their characteristics of easy deployment, high firing range, and fast rate of fire, and they will be deployed wherever the enemy offensive is fierce.

Don't look at the simple changes made, but they successfully consolidated the defensive line, and Lahudo led a team of heavy cavalry to rush left and right, but it was difficult to break through, but suffered heavy losses. Seeing that the repeated attacks had not advanced an inch, the city had been breached again, there was no way back, and the morale was exhausted, and Lahudo was unable to restrain these integrated troops, and after another failed attack, he scattered and fled, each looking for a way out.

The people led by Tuhuan are all composed of cowardly Xue of his cronies, but his combat effectiveness at this time is really not flattering. How to ensure the loyalty of his subordinates and strangle Cao Cao and Sima Yi within their own group in the cradle is a matter of constant concern to the Chinese emperors. Many emperors chose the "proton" method, allowing their subordinates to send their children to live in the capital or join the army, and the emperor's Praetorian Guard was often a club for hostages.

This practice of openly recruiting the children of his subordinates as Praetorian Guards is very popular among the ethnic minorities in the north, and they do not hide it at all. Among them, the most obvious is Li Yuanhao, the Western Xia he established openly called his Praetorian Guard the Proton Army, which is very in line with Li Yuanhao's frank and unscrupulous nature of being a bad guy. He is a decisive monarch, and he does not hesitate to kill his uncle, his mother, his cousin, his wife, and his subordinates. Therefore, his requirement for the establishment of the Proton Army is that the chiefs of the major tribes of the party must hand over to the children of the family, and those who dare not hand it over are rebellions, and they will definitely be killed by the whole family.

Genghis Khan, the "generation of Tianjiao", is the culmination of this practice, and the cowardly Xue army he established is also a place where the children of Mongolian nobles gather. It stipulated that as long as the Mongol officers were more than 10 households in Nayan, they had to send their sons to serve in the 8,000 households in the scattered class. Unlike Li Yuanhao, Genghis Khan also gave these "protons" special treatment, he stipulated that as long as they were his guards, they were equal to Mongolian thousand households when they were placed outside, and they could hold command positions that could only be held by Mongolian thousand households in wartime, and when there was a dispute between the guards and Qianhu Nayan, the opinions of the guards were also based.

For ancient heroes like Li Yuanhao and Genghis Khan, only the courtiers who have children are important ministers, and whoever does not pay his own flesh and blood as a deposit is a traitor, and it is absolutely right to kill him first. During the Mengyuan regime's massacre, the Great Khans had more and more troops in their hands, and the Great Khans took more and more hostages, but not all hostages were treated the same.

First of all, the children of Mongol Nayan were the noblest among the hostages, and these hostages were natural members of the cowardly Xue army. Genghis Khan's military law allowed the children of the nobles to bring their entourage, and the children of the thousand households who entered the Xue army could bring ten of their own retinues, the children of the hundred families could bring five, the children of the ten households and the ordinary nobles could bring three, in addition, the children of the nobles at all levels could also bring one brother to the guard. These aristocratic hostage waiters rose very quickly in the officialdom, and the cowardly Xue was born in the Yuan Dynasty is synonymous with "big heels" and "good heels", and they are promoted quickly and have a good income, and they don't have to go to the battlefield for most of the Yuan Dynasty, so the Mongolian nobles are willing to send their children as hostages.

But not all hostages can enter the Cowardly Xue Army, and Meng Yuan still has a special proton army waiting for them. In Zhongshan, Hebei, Yidu, Shandong, and other places, the Mongol army also carried out large-scale population and property production, and they recruited the children of small and medium-sized landlords into the proton army. In addition, the heirs of the middle- and low-level generals of the Han army were also recruited to serve in the proton army, artificially cutting off the connection between the children of the Han army and them. The proton army, which is mostly the children of these local tyrants, does not have the obligation to guard the Great Khan, so naturally they do not have the privilege of promotion, and they belong to the retail investors who do not have a high status in the Mengyuan army. Therefore, they all send children as hostages, and the children of real shareholders are treated differently from the children of leeks.

The Xue army was the trump card of the Mongol army during the period of Genghis Khan, and later became a place where the Mongols raised their masters. By the time of Kublai Khan, the Mongol cowardly Xue army was no longer the main force of warfare, and even the work of guarding the Great Khan was divided by the guards and pro-army. The Mongol hostages who entered the Cowardly Xue Army were to accompany the Great Khan to eat, drink, and play well, and to serve the Great Khan by various means, which was equivalent to the noble waiters that the Great Khan was looking for. And Han people who have capital, access, or good professional skills can also stay in it as uncles.

Let these masters, who are proficient in everything, not proficient in warfare, charge, and the result can be imagined......