Chapter 191: Wang Kuilu Meets Friendly Army
It is also a miracle that Wang Kui survived and appeared here with more than a thousand of his subordinates who escaped from Hanzhou.
When the city of Chengdu was broken, his city of Hanzhou was still standing, and with the earthen city walls that were more than a zhang shorter than Chengdu, he simply kept the Mongols under the city for more than two months.
If it weren't for the Mongolian soldiers coming to the city of Hanzhou with Chen Longzhi, who was covered in blood and only half his life left, maybe Hanzhou would have been able to hold out longer.
Walking in the shadow of the trees on the path, Wang Kui, whose eyes were on fire, still clearly remembered the scene that happened when Chen Longzhi was escorted to the city of Hanzhou.
It was a flail, the kind that could only accommodate one person standing in it, the kind made of rough wood, and no matter how strong a person was, as long as he was locked in, he would not be able to escape.
Chen Longzhi was flailed inside, only one head was exposed, and when he looked through the gap in the rough wood, he could find that his body was covered with knife marks and arrow wounds, although he was hastily bandaged, but the blood stains still seeped out from between the bandage strips.
The first member of the Great Song Dynasty Sichuan had a pale face, and stood in it without blood, because of the small space inside the flail, he could only stand, his head was locked on it, I don't know how long he had been standing like this, and his whole body was shaking.
The Mongol cavalry surrounded him, triumphantly came to the city of Hanzhou, and asked Wang Kui to come out by name.
Wang Kui had already stood on the city tower, and he hadn't gone down for more than two months.
A Mongol general urged his horse forward and shouted from outside the range of his bow and arrows: "Ah! Wang Kui listened, the city of Chengdu has been broken by our Great Mongolian State, and your system has captured Chen Longzhi here, and he has something to say to you! Prick up your ears and listen carefully! ”
A group of Mongols burst out laughing, and in the midst of laughter, rolled out the flail.
Wang Kui saw Chen Longzhi, who was disheveled and closed his eyes, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
The Mongolian general approached the flail and said something to Chen Longzhi in the flail, and Chen Longzhi's exposed head on the flail slowly opened his eyes.
He first looked at the head of Hanzhou City, and he didn't know if he saw Wang Kui on the head of the city, so he turned his head and looked back.
A group of people were tied up by ropes and strung together, there were old and young, men and women, Wang Kui recognized several of them, all of them were Chen Longzhi's family members, who had seen them when they were in Chengdu before.
The group knelt in a row on the ground, and behind them stood a row of Mongol soldiers, carrying knives.
Chen Longzhi's gaze lingered in that direction for a long time, causing the Mongolian general next to him to scold impatiently a few times before turning his head back. This time, he accurately found Wang Kui.
The two looked at each other from afar, without words, Wang Kui immediately understood why the Mongols had come to get Chen Longzhi to come.
It's a pity to kill the envoy, it's a pity to kill it, it's best to use it to deceive the city.
Just when Wang Kui was struggling with how to deal with it, Chen Longzhi spoke, and his voice was like thunder.
"If the husband dies, he will die, and don't surrender!"
Before the words fell, the Mongols, who were eyeing each other, stabbed their long knives into the flail, and blood splattered all over the place. The same row of Mongolian soldiers waiting in the back raised their swords and fell, and a row of heads fell to the ground.
Wang Kui, who watched Chen Longzhi's family die in front of him, knew that Chengdu had fallen, and Hanzhou was a lonely city in the entire Sichuan, and it was impossible to defend it anymore.
That night, he had more than 1,000 oxen collected in the city gathered together for military rations, tied knives to their horns and hay to their tails, and set fire to drive them out of the south gate.
The fire bull array was launched in the middle of the night when the fingers were missing, and the effect was very good, and the Mongols who got up in a hurry were rushed open, and the remnants of thousands of Song soldiers in the city of Hanzhou broke through by different routes, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
The team led by Wang Kui himself, with a total of more than 2,000 people, has been damaged all the way, and there are more than 1,000 people until now.
The remnants of the army were defeated, and it is extremely rare to be able to maintain such an establishment without dispersing.
Looking at the sun overhead, Wang Kui estimated the direction and distance, since breaking out of Hanzhou ten days ago, he walked day and night, picking jerky and difficult to find paths, carefully avoiding the Mongols on the road, although this team was safe, but also paid the price of time to go around the big circle.
The breakthrough was carefully prepared, except for simple armor and weapons, everyone brought dry food, but they had already eaten, and they had been leaning on the mountains to pick up some wild vegetables and fruits for several days, and the small villages in the mountains saw soldiers coming from afar, and the villagers ran away early in the morning, and they did not dare to go out of the mountains and mountains to find a bigger city. Unable to find supplies, everyone from Wang Kui down was hungry and panicked.
"If you're lucky, you'll be able to get to Puzhou tonight, where even if you're in the mountains, there are not many signs of Mongol activity, you can find the prefecture and county, and have a full meal." Wang Kui walked while cheering up the people around him, although he was also hungry, so hungry that his chest was close to his back.
The soldiers agreed weakly, they were tired of Wang Kui's method of learning Cao Cao's Wangmei to quench their thirst, and Wang Kui had used this trick many times.
"I can't make a mistake this time, I must be able to find a town that has not been looted by the Mongols, and there is a Peng system in eastern Sichuan, which is very stable." Wang Kui continued to encourage and cheer up, even if he didn't believe it himself.
The tired soldiers followed him, with a hint of hope in their eyes.
The mountain is a low, dirt hill with dense vegetation, half-man-tall shrubs and thatched shrubs and wall-like trees that rise and fall along the mountain, and the team walks slowly on a path that only allows one person to walk in the grass, and the sun shines through the gaps in the leaves, dappled and swaying in the wind.
Wang Kui's mind was a little restless, and he always looked nervously into the depths of the shadows of the trees on both sides, as if there was something snooping in the place where his eyes could not see.
This feeling was the intuition of the generals, and Wang Kui relied on this intuition to avoid several waves of Mongol Tanma Red Army, which were rangers released by the Mongols, often wandering far away from the brigade.
There will be no Mongols here, Wang Kui comforted himself, how could the Mongols appear here, the road to the south is closer to the city, they will not come here.
But instinct made him walk, and at the same time unconsciously looked to the side, where the light and shadow were colorful, he felt that there was a tuft of grass moving.
The grass was growing taller, abruptly taller, and the grass was only half a person tall, but in the blink of an eye, it became a person tall.
Wang Kui was taken aback, stood still, clenched the big knife and shouted, and at that moment the fluffy grass also made a sound.
"Is it the Great Song Dynasty official army?"
Pure Chinese.
Wang Kui was slightly stunned, not a Mongolian, great.
"Exactly, we are the defenders of Hanzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, and I am Wang Kui, the prefect of Hanzhou!"
While agreeing, Wang Kui's vigilant heart did not relax, and the big knife pointed very steadily in the direction of the haystack, and the soldiers behind him also reacted, and began to quickly detour to both sides, occupying favorable terrain.
The grass stretched out two hands and began to pull the grass, and it turned out to be a person, with grass all over his body, lying on the ground, and he would never have thought that it was a person.
The man was wearing a black leather armor rarely seen by the Song army, wearing hemp pants, stepping on hemp shoes, wrapping a dark blue cloth strip around his head, and carrying a narrow knife behind his back. ”
The man was very dark-skinned and rough-footed, not like a soldier but more like a farmer, and he arched his hand when he heard the voice: "I am a soldier under the command of Sun Hong, the deputy envoy of the defense of Xuzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, and I have seen the prefect of Wang. ”
"Sun Hong, the deputy envoy of Xuzhou Defense?" Wang Kui was overjoyed, it turned out to be a friendly army!
But on second thought, no, why hasn't this person heard of it?
(End of chapter)