Chapter 274: Defeat is like a mountain

Zhang Zhensun, who was observing the overall situation in the city, suddenly found that the Yuan army on the edge of both sides of the battlefield was retreating quietly, but they left in a variety of directions, and there was indeed no Yuan soldier retreating towards the camp in the north of the country.

"Haha, brothers, hurry up and fire the artillery, otherwise when they all retreat, we will have no one to blow up, hahaha!"

The contagion speed of defeat is very fast, and when those squads who deliberately slipped away to preserve their strength were the first to escape, Ali Hague completely lost control of the army in the battle situation, and the commander's order passed out could not get an effective response from the troops.

Especially the soldiers who desperately attacked the city, looking back, they no longer had effective support, and the feeling of being abandoned and betrayed could be angry to death at the moment. While the companions in the distance were hesitating, continuing to fight or turning around and retreating, the rapid fire of another round of rapid-fire guns of the Song army at the head of the city played a decisive role.

The defeat was really like a mountain, and after the roll call of the cannon eliminated many middle-level generals, another round of rapid sub-mother cannon firing instantly broke the balance on the battlefield. There were also soldiers who had the strength to turn around, not caring about the cannonballs fired from the city, but desperately waving their horsewhips, so that the horses under their crotches accelerated to escape from this terrible battlefield.

The muzzles of the sub-guns were angled upward, and the range began to exceed a mile of fortifications, pouring shells with the fastest rate of fire, seizing every opportunity to kill and injure the enemy. The Hongyi cannon also adjusted the angle, especially the eighty-eight large-caliber guns, which used their ultra-long range to fire fiercely at the fleeing soldiers' buttocks.

Ali Hague stood in front of the battle with a knife and did not retreat, gritting his teeth and desperately shouting out to the soldiers who turned around and retreated, and when he couldn't bear it, he finally moved his hand to slash two soldiers to death. The guards behind him saw that the situation was not good, and when the soldiers were all red-eyed and wanted to step forward to protect Ali Hague, it was too late.

When the soldiers in front of the two armies mutinied, it was often someone who secretly collaborated with the enemy, and a large number of people were recruited in advance to make preparations, and only when the right time appeared and they rose up to kill the main general. But today's rout of the whole army is the trend of the times, Ali Hague is unwilling to forcibly kill the retreating soldiers, isn't that adding fuel to the fire, these soldiers who have fled against the military order only have a way to survive in their eyes, how can they care about your identity.

In an instant, Ali Hague and his mount were already drowned in the rout, and it was impossible to tell who had made the move, but his guards had turned and joined the group that was fleeing backwards. The boss was killed and the protection was weak, so that the lord's death was unclear, and they couldn't tell who the murderer was, and they were also punished heavily when they went back to restore their lives, so they simply fled with the rout.

If there are three or five soldiers who are afraid of war, as a general, they will definitely kill them and deter other soldiers from obeying orders, but what if tens of thousands of people flee?

After Ali Hague's death, there was no one who could speak to shake the scene, and the Yuan soldiers were stuck in the battle line for several miles, and at this moment they were completely defeated, and there was no soldier facing the city wall of Guangzhou.

However, there are only 30,000 or 40,000 people who can really walk, and after the first batch of more than 20,000 people who escaped with meat shields, 150,000 people have been invested before and after, and eighty percent of them have fallen on the battlefield.

Up to today, 400,000 troops have been lost in the entire battle against Canton, not only the elite troops of Boyan Ali The Hague, who were also valued by Kublai Khan, and the most important link in his entire dynasty.

Once the defeated army is ruthless, no force can stop it, and when they get rid of the death threat of artillery, they will immediately face the disposition of military law.

Those who do not obey orders on the battlefield die, basically every country will have this article, which is also the basis of a complete army structure, once the deterrent effect of this military order is lost, then basically this team is finished.

Therefore, when these routs are defeated and flee, they basically do not choose to return to the camp, but choose to stay away from the direction of Boyan, even if they are a stream of robbers, it is impossible to return to the camp and be dealt with by military law.

There are still 5,000 cavalry around Boyan, but now the herald can't find a channel to give orders, and the news of Ali's death in The Hague has not yet come back, and Boyan is gritting his teeth and cursing Wen Tianxiang, which is simply the biggest shame in his life.

He blamed himself for cherishing talents so much, he was reluctant to behead Wen Tianxiang on the spot, and he didn't care when he imprisoned him, so that he had a chance to escape, and finally caused his own reputation to be ruined, he hated it!

This is what he thought wrong, Wen Tianxiang is indeed talented, and he is also an invincible banner of the Song Dynasty's resistance to the Yuan, but what plays a key role in it is the sudden replacement of gunpowder weapons, or the role played by Zhao Tianyou.

At this time, the intelligence collection of the Yuan soldiers was very backward, and the Yuan army had always been brutal and impermanent, often leaving a person alive and killing some people who had the idea of surrendering, so most of the surrendered were the Song army of the whole system, and surrendered because of the conversion of their own general camp, and there were very few people who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty.

However, most of the intelligence work needs to be collected by civilian people, and the information passed on by word of mouth requires the cooperation of many people, compared to the Song army, which has a foundation, and the ease of obtaining information is far greater than that of the Yuan army.

So until the annihilation of Boyan's army, he didn't know that this person named Zhao Tianyou played a much greater role in Guangzhou than Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Zhensun and others, and it can be said that Boyan's thousands of glory in the past were destroyed by one person.

There are still 10,000 or 20,000 hard laborers in the camp, as well as tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, and countless food supplies, but what is the use of these? Isn't this all brought to the Song army from the north with great difficulty!

"Great Jehovah, ask me for a little guidance to help your faithful believers."

Boyan took out the jewel-encrusted saber from his waist, smiled bitterly and shouted twice at the sky, so frightened that the soldiers around him quickly pounced and snatched his saber from all odds.

"Prime Minister, don't do it!"

"Prime Minister, we still have a million male soldiers in the north, take us to fight again in Japan, don't kill yourself!"

There were also a few generals who had not participated in the war, who temporarily took over the command and protected Boyan, who was already a little distraught, to return to the camp.

When they returned to the camp, they found that the situation had become worse, and there were already scattered soldiers who had fled back to the camp, and the initial purpose must have been to pack up their belongings, but once they opened it, they could not control it, they opened the treasury of the troops to rob money and property, and at the same time relaxed the control of hard labor.

Boyan shook his head and muttered to himself.

"It's all over...... Great Khan, I don't have the face to go back to Xiangyang! ”

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