Chapter 49: The Battle of Changzhou (3)

The killing unfolded on the bank of the canal, and countless Song soldiers who fell into the river and were shot by the Yuan army, and the blood of the soldiers dyed the rolling river red. Yin Yu gathered hundreds of remnants of the army, and with the heart of death, he fought with the Yuan army until nightfall.

At this time, Zhang Quan and his lieutenant Zeng Yu fled from Wumu by boat at night.

The Song army originally had nearly 6,000 elite soldiers on the Wumu battlefield, and the 10,000 soldiers who came to fight were fighting, if they all did their best, the Song army had the advantage of camps and fortifications, and it was a difficult battle with unpredictable victory or defeat. However, in the case of Zhang Quan's deliberate self-preservation, in the ugly act of repeatedly delaying the fighter plane and betraying his comrades, the Song army that set out from the Pingjiang Wen Tianxiang Department was almost completely annihilated.

On the bank of the canal, there were only 500 remnants of Yin Yu's troops, who did not eat or rest for a day and night, and fought with the Yuan army until dawn in the night with the support of a loyal and brave spirit in his chest. In this hand-to-hand combat at night, the Yuan army suffered numerous casualties, and the dead and wounded horses and the corpses of the Yuan soldiers were piled up all over the rice fields along the river.

Similarly, among the more than 500 people in Yin Yu's department, only four escaped from danger, and all the others died in battle, and none of them surrendered.

Yin Yu killed dozens of Yuan soldiers with his own hands, and was hit by many arrows all over his body, although the heavy armor he wore saved his life, but it was also dyed red by the blood that flowed from the arrow piercing. Until he was left alone, he was still able to hold a sword and cut down three Yuan soldiers who rushed up.

The rest of the Yuan soldiers were afraid of him like a god of war, and no one dared to approach him to fight, and in the end he was exhausted, and was held by four spears around his head and neck, and his skull was crushed with long sticks and died. Also killed at the same time as Yin Yu were the Zhou brothers of the righteous army, and the righteous army composed of the people in Changzhou led by them also died in the Battle of Wumu.

These ordinary people of the Song Dynasty were already suffering from the heavier taxes of the Southern Song Dynasty court year by year, and the court was unable to provide them with strong protection. This is a kind of temperament that would rather be broken than jade, and it is also this kind of temperament that has supported Changzhou without the slightest foreign aid for four months.

In the Battle of Wumu, the Song army lost not only these thousands of men and horses, but also the opportunity to support Changzhou again. Wen Tianxiang faced Zhang Quan, who fled back to Pingjiang in a cowardly manner, and wanted to behead him as a punishment, but after reporting to the imperial court, he was delayed and refused. In desperation, he just beheaded Zeng Yu, the deputy general who fled together, outside the gate, and hung his head at the city gate for half a moon to sacrifice the Song officers and soldiers who died in the Wumu battle.

Wen Tianxiang was very moved by this battle and wrote the famous "Hanging Five Muslims"

"The first time to go to the king's service, the success is the day.

Fuping is famous, and good tears are in the river.

I conjure spirits and think, who is drowning in the bones.

ZTE must lift again and send condolences to the spring. ”

At this time, Changzhou has completely become a lonely city, and there is no way to go out for help and opportunities, this century-old city with a radius of more than 40 miles has resisted the repeated attacks of 200,000 yuan soldiers.

Boyan personally supervised the army to fight, but in the face of Changzhou, where the city defense was so fragile, he himself shook his head and called it a "paper city", which should have been a matter of stepping on the city gate and breaking the city in three days. But four months have passed, and he is still standing so trembling, becoming a fish bone in Boyan's throat, and he can't swallow it and toss and turn.

In the current city of Changzhou, although some grain was stored before the battle, after four months of siege, the grain is almost exhausted. The defenders of the city had almost nothing but weapons such as long grasses, broadswords, sticks, and stones.

Boyan sent people to shoot a book into the city to persuade him to surrender, and the book read: "Don't be suspicious of having surrendered and rebel, and don't be afraid of rejecting the enemy and my division." The guards of the city did not pay attention, and Boyan sent Zhang Yan to persuade him to surrender under the city, and Liu Shiyong, the defender of the city, pointed at Zhang Yan and scolded: "You don't think about retribution with the country's kindness, and you are still serving in the Yuan army, what face do you have to come to see us, and kill yourself and die quickly." Zhang Yan was scolded and ashamed, and he didn't think about tea and dinner for a few days after returning.

Boyan sent the general Lu Wenhuan to the city to persuade him to surrender, Lu Wenhuan held the northern town of Xiangyang City in the Southern Song Dynasty for five years, and finally surrendered in the case of all the aids, and he is a famous general, the elite of the Lu family. But when Lu Wenhuan went to the city and shouted Yao Ting to speak, the defenders in the city recognized the identity of this Lu Wenhuan, and did not inform Yao Ting at all, and the archer at the head of the city directly shot Lu Wenhuan in the shoulder.

Boyan always thought that there was no food in the city, and he couldn't hold out for a few days, but the war was stalemate. It was already late autumn in October, and Boyan tried everything he could, but he couldn't, so he had to step up the siege. The Yuan soldiers attacked the city day by day, and the volunteers defended the city more strongly, and in the days and nights of fierce battles, the soldiers defending the city fought with hunger and hardship.

Mu Chenglin was detained when the ship was purchased in Fuzhou because of business problems, and it was delayed for a while, and when he rushed to Pingjiang Mansion with a thunderbolt, it was already late autumn and November.

Wen Tianxiang was very happy to see more than 2,000 thunderbolts, and after the test, he was even more overjoyed. After being detonated in several humanoid puppets, the leg and arm were broken within three feet, and the surrounding area would be affected within two zhang meters, and the sound was loud like thunder, which had a great frightening effect on the horses of the Yuan cavalry.

With a powerful weapon in his hand, Wen Tianxiang was eager to try it in his heart, ready to mobilize military horses again and send troops to receive the siege of Changzhou. Not only Wen Tianxiang was worried, but Boyan was even more anxious, Changzhou's strategic position was too important, and Lin'an, Pingjiang, Wuxi, etc. were in a triangle, and it was also a must-take place to attack Lin'an.

If the city of Changzhou is not broken for a day, hundreds of thousands of soldiers will not be able to continue to invade the south with peace of mind, and it is even more impossible to attack Pingjiang and Lin'an, so more than 20 people and horses will be invested here, vowing to attack Changzhou before the winter comes.

However, Lin'an's order was ambiguous, the main battle faction and the faction were still fighting, and Emperor Deyou was weak, so he couldn't make up his mind, and the matter of increasing troops to support Changzhou was even more undecided. The time that passed in the struggle between the two factions was actually the last vitality of Emperor Deyou, and the neglect of Wen Tianxiang's twists and turns made matters worse, ruining Changzhou's last chance and losing his throne.

On November 16, Boyan led the Yuan army to break through the south gate of Changzhou City, and the red banner representing the military tent of the left prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty was planted at the south gate of Changzhou, and the city of Changzhou was broken since then!