The Great Khan, with 36,000 men stationed in the acropolis, is also the place with the strongest army at present. ”

Kublai Khan nodded and said, "Send an order to send 16,000 warriors into the city, ready to support the military village outside the south gate at any time!" The generals of the other divisions must all put on armor and go into battle to command their troops on the city wall, and no one can be spared a single step beyond the city wall. ”

At this time, Kublai Khan's troops were already stretched, think about the earlier, with a wave of his arm, there were a million male divisions following behind him, compared with the current 10,000 horses have to be carefully considered, it is simply a heaven and an earth, not the same day.

The large-scale dispatch of more than 300,000 Song troops, the majestic and mighty formation, really stunned Kublai Khan in the city, and all he thought about was to defend the capital of Yuan or retreat to the grassland, which was the best choice.

In fact, Kublai Khan's stubborn defense of the capital of Yuan is also conditional, not to mention anything else, that is, food for cattle and sheep forage, the reserve materials in the capital of Yuan are enough to eat for a year, and the Song army does not need to worry about besieging the city for a year.

100,000 hard laborers plus 200,000 ordinary residents can go into battle, and the existing 100,000 troops are still a powerful force, not lagging behind the more than 300,000 troops of the Song army in terms of numbers.

However, the inability to do anything about the artillery attack is the key to their defeat, and the products imitating the Hongyi cannon of the Song Army have been made, and there is no major problem with the barrel and breech. However, the formula of gunpowder is not powerful, and when it was test-fired, it was not as good as what Dong Wenbing and Zhang Hongfan had made during the period, and the range of a hundred steps was really embarrassing, and I was even more embarrassed to go to the city to compare with the Song army.

But it's too late to think about this, when the Song army completed the entire siege plan, Kublai Khan and a kind of officials and generals in the city were cold in their hearts at the same time, and their mood could only be described in two words, that is, it was over.

When the acropolis outside the city was surrounded by Li Yiming's troops who suddenly appeared, he had just completed the plan for the transfer of troops and sent the elite 16,000 soldiers to the capital of Yuan, but he did not expect to be surrounded immediately after.

For this most heavily armed acropolis, Li Yiming's methods were simple and crude, and the walls were relatively low compared to the main city, so there was no need to go to the master after they collapsed. As long as the firepower was concentrated to wipe out the soldiers on and near the city wall, the Song soldiers quickly climbed up, and quickly gained a foothold with the support of artillery, and a long section of the city wall was occupied by the Song army.

The sub-cannon, which had been disassembled into pieces, was resisted by the shoulders of the Song soldiers, and when they combined and began to shoot, the end of the garrisoned 20,000 yuan army had arrived. The sections of the acropolis walls, the urn city corridors, and all the places used to hide the soldiers' figures were all bombarded by the Song army's artillery fire.

It only took a few hours of effort, and the Yuan army of the entire acropolis was slaughtered in pieces, and it was no longer possible to form an organized confrontation, at this time the Song infantry opened two gates and began to enter in a big way.

The next door-to-door street fighting is the highlight of this battle, because there are many buildings in the Acropolis, barracks, warehouses and houses, and thousands of Yuan troops are scattered among them, and they are divided into pieces and start hand-to-hand combat with the Song army.

Two years ago, more than a dozen soldiers of the Song army were not necessarily able to defeat three or five Yuan troops armed with scimitars, not only because of the gap in combat effectiveness, but also in the training of weapons and equipment on weekdays, etc., it was not a step behind the Yuan soldiers.

The infantry of the Song army who entered the city today are not veterans of war, they are part of the 150,000 new army, but don't underestimate them as new soldiers, they have received the most mature and complete systematic training.

The first and second batches of graduates of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall basically followed the army to fight in the Northern Expedition, and the trainees who were trained one after another all entered the grassroots level of the new army, which became the cornerstone of building this new army.

Unlike the first two trainees, the teaching materials are written as they go, the training and learning time is also short, the classification of subjects is not clear, and the students learn miscellaneous but not proficient. When Zhao Tianyou left, the main textbooks of the lecture hall had basically been compiled, and the overall learning system was also different.

For the largest military and infantry of the Song Dynasty, there are more than a dozen skills and equipment that need to be mastered, bows, horses, swords and swords are basic subjects, and all the infantry are required to be able to ride horses, not how proficient they are, at least you can ride back to the barracks with a horse.

The saber in their hands is designed and built from the ground on Hong Kong Island, specially used for hand-to-hand combat on the ground, sharp and tenacious is the foundation, can be chopped and chopped can be stabbed for a variety of functions, and even the knife skills are uniformly trained.

They are different from the Yuan army scattered in the city, the lowest combination of tactical squads must have three people, spears, shields, crossbowmen are necessary personnel, once the battle is over, the speed is eye-catching.

The three pairs of three seemed to be evenly matched, but once they fought in close quarters, the fierce and fierce Yuan army was like chickens, slaughtered quickly, and the battle ended very quickly. When there are wounded or battle damage in the squad, their first choice is to withdraw from the battle, and treating their comrades becomes the first task.

Li Yiming has only been in contact with the new army for a month, and in the past it was all training subjects, and the real combat effectiveness was not fully reflected.

When the Song army surrounded the acropolis, Kublai Khan felt deep despair, according to this arrangement, the Song army's intention was very obvious, they would not let go of a person or a horse, but this change was too fast.

Since Zhao Tianyou led the army to Daxing Mansion, hundreds of thousands of soldiers died on the battlefield, and tens of thousands of soldiers of various tribes retreated or fled, and there were small groups of deserters almost every day. Some generals in the capital of Yuan once suspected that these troops who fled or retreated were all under the intrigue and instigation of the Song army, so the Song army wished that the people in Yuan Dadu would run clean, and they would be able to directly take the capital by attacking with great effort.

Kublai Khan and his courtiers believed that what the Song army wanted was the city, the land, and the vast territory, and as long as they returned it to the Song army, they could return to their steppe at any time, and this concept has always been ingrained in their hearts.

But today, Zhao Tianyou revealed his true intentions, he wanted people, everyone including Kublai Khan.

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