Chapter 388: Falling apart
From the mouth of the Hanshui River valley to the Jincheng area, which is nearly 400 miles deep into the river valley, the scattered Mongolian Han soldiers are everywhere.
Kublai Khan, the prime minister of the Han region in Mongolia, was ambushed by the Song people, and the news of life and death in the torrent of the great water and torrent was like a thunder rolling over the earth with the warm summer wind, which reached everyone's ears.
This is terrible news, although the Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty in the south, and also died princes such as Kuode, it is not the first time that a Mongol prince has been killed in battle. But Kublai Khan is different, he is the prime minister of the Han land in Monan, and he is the person who took the idea of the entire Han land, when Kuo died and there were important Mongolian ministers such as Kuoduan and Tahai, the scene could be suppressed, Kublai Khan was alone, there was no helper, he was in chaos, and no one could come forward to save the endgame.
This is the disadvantage of Kublai Khan in order to control the Han land without equipping himself with a deputy, he wanted to establish authority, parallel command of the Han land and ten thousand households, did not deliberately elevate anyone, resulting in a situation where he was absent and no one was in charge.
Several of the 10,000 households who followed him had careful thoughts, of course, no one obeyed anyone, and they flew separately when the catastrophe came, and they rushed to retreat in order to preserve their strength, so that the Mongol army in the river valley was in chaos without a fight.
The Song army killed in the oblique stab exacerbated this confusion, and the ambush sites selected by Changsun Hong were very fatal, all of them were narrow sections of the terrain and dangerous terrain, and it was inconvenient for a large force to deploy, and in the mountains, in terms of the combat ability of individual soldiers and small groups, the Shimenfan barbarians were not lost to any army in this world.
The Song soldiers came down from the mountain, rushed and killed indiscriminately, killed people and set fires to all their means, and what was very sinister was that they also burned grain trucks, and the Han army's baggage battalion was almost burned to the ground.
The baggage battalions are all soft persimmons, and the people who push carts and burdens are mostly strong, and they have to run every time they see the situation when they see the situation in battle. Therefore, whenever the army marches and fights, the baggage battalion is often carefully protected from the rear, but in the section of the sheep intestine in the river valley, no matter how many people can only pull into a straight line and march slowly, so when the Song army rushes down from the seemingly steep and unwalkable mountain, no one can parry.
When the black smoke in the sky slowly flew along the river valley, Shi Tianze also arrived at the place covered with sweat.
Naturally, all that was left for him was corpses all over the ground and a grain truck that was burned to charcoal, and Song Jun didn't see anyone else.
Shi Tianze beat his chest with black lines on his face, in order to gain a good impression in front of Kublai Khan this time, he scavenged all the money, grain and strong men in the fiefdom Zhending Five Roads, and gathered tens of thousands of troops, grain and grass thousands of stones, and went west to Henan, but in this Hanshui River Valley, he lost all his money, no matter how you look at it, it can't be drawn.
He looked at the high mountains and dense forests beside him, his teeth itched with hatred, he held a steel knife in his hand but could not find an opponent to vent, he was full of anger and had no place to vent, and his face turned red and purple-black.
"Set fire!" Shi Tianze shouted angrily, and vigorously kicked a mountain rock in front of him: "Set fire to these bandits!" ”
The men then lit torches and climbed up the mountain to burn the mountain, but before the fire was lit, they heard another great commotion ahead.
Shi Tianze's eyelids jumped, he had been in the army for many years, and he had fought with the Mongols, the Jin people, the Song people, and even the Liao people a long time ago. Even the other party's figure lost the soldiers and lost the food, which was really bloody.
At this moment, when I heard my own people screaming, I couldn't help but be angry.
He shouted angrily, "What is the commotion? Don't you know my military regulations! ”
Someone in front of me reported in a panic: "Lord Wanhu, there is a huge rock rolling down from the mountain in front of you, which has injured many of my sergeants and blocked the road, so everyone is panicking." ”
Rocky Blockage?
A stirring spirit in his mind, he woke up as soon as he came to his senses, and the way he came was cut off, so wouldn't he be trapped in this valley and become the king of the urn? Besides, it is easy to burn the mountain, and when the wind direction changes, and the smoke drifts around, will it smoke yourself to death in the middle of this valley bottom?
That's right, you can't burn the mountain! 、
He hurriedly ordered: "Stop! Don't burn the mountain, follow me forward to kill the enemy, kill a Song army who presents the left ear, and there will be a reward! ”
The surrounding soldiers are all brave soldiers, shouting one after another, morale is high, Shi Tianze has clear rewards and punishments, he is not stingy with meritorious people, and his daughter is scattered only to reward those who kill the enemy, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward, so his subordinates have strong combat effectiveness.
A group of people screamed and rushed forward, ran out for more than a mile, and sure enough, they saw that it was another dangerous place by the mountain and the water, and the huge boulders fell from the cliff side of the mountain on one side, and the chickens and dogs jumped below, and the people who were hit by the stones were bleeding from their heads at best, and they became meatloaf.
Shi Tianze stood in a safe place, his eyes were full of fire, and his anger was unbearable, so he immediately ordered to organize a death squad to climb up the mountain at the risk of being hit by a stone and breaking his bones and tendons.
Under the heavy reward, the death squad is also easy to organize, and the flexible and brave soldiers began to climb up the mountain, Shi Tianze hid by the stone at the bottom of the mountain and stared nervously, seeing that his people had just climbed to the mountainside under the stone rain, and heard the drum noise behind him.
"It's going off, it's going off!" Some Han soldiers shouted: "There is a fire on the mountain!" ”
Shi Tianze looked back with a complicated feeling, and saw that on the way he came just now, thick smoke was billowing in the dense forest, and a mountain fire was burning.
At this moment, it is the south wind that rises, raging along the river, the climate in summer is already dry, the forest is dense, the fire will see smoke together, the wind will help the fire, and a mountain fire will take shape in a blink of an eye.
The smoke was blown down by the wind, like a huge black mountain, and it was quickly pressed down.
The soldiers in the rear are running desperately, running wherever there is no smoke, and it is difficult for those who are wrapped in smoke to come out again.
The stone is single, bouncing on the slope, but there is always a pattern to be found, the eyesight is good and the movement is quick, and it can always be avoided, but what about the smoke, how to avoid it?
There is also the fire that is getting closer, and the scorching temperature can melt the stones.
The people around Shi Tianze began to panic, in the face of the power of nature, no matter how brave a warrior is, no matter how strong his body is, he is also an ant-like existence.
When the first person to take the lead in escaping from the falling stones appeared, the momentum of defeat and collapse could not be contained.
Shi Tianze swung his knife and slashed a few soldiers who disrespected orders, but after more and more people fled regardless of it, his knife could not stop the defeat.
"My lord, if you don't leave, it's too late!" The relatives around him saw that the smoke of the fire behind him was getting tighter and tighter, and Shi Tianze was still unwilling to admit defeat and showed the courage for a while, and couldn't bear it anymore, and ran towards the direction of Taniguchi with him.
Shi Tianze was the last Wanhu in the river valley to be organized, and when he dispersed, tens of thousands of Han troops in the river valley became a rout running along the Han River in a blink of an eye.
Even when he was on the road, Shi Tianze was still thinking, how did he lose this battle? What's the problem? He didn't figure it out.
ran forward in a daze, and when he reached the flat and wide terrain, Shi Tianze's hanging heart finally returned to the cavity, there would be no threat of wildfires on the open ground, and no boulders would fall, let alone a sudden trap that would harm people, and it would be safe.
Look at the soldiers around him, all of them are scattered and abandoned armor, and many of them are still black-faced, and they are so smoky that they have lost their human shapes.
Shi Tianze couldn't help but lament sadly, such a failed image, how could it ever appear on my Shi Tianze, the three generations of the Shi family's father and son, across Hebei, who listened to the name of the Shi family and didn't give a thumbs up to praise the hero, and now this matter is spreading, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
When he was depressed, he heard a cannon sound in the distance, and a team with a clear banner and bright armor killed from afar, and the big banner embroidered with the word "eldest grandson" fluttered in the wind, and it could be seen from afar.
Shi Tianze's heart suddenly pinched again.