At the critical juncture when Yang Wen and Jiang Hai had only more than a dozen soldiers left, Wang An, the city defender, led his army over and shot most of the assassins with a round of arrow rain before almost killing the assassins. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info more than 200 assassins, leaving four seriously injured alive at that time, only less than ten escaped.

Of the 145 Yang Wen's personal soldiers in this battle, of the 101 who died in the battle at that time, only 44 were alive with trauma, 41 died of their injuries a few days later, and only three survived. Yang Wen's personal guards were completely annihilated by the Mongol Assassins.

And the 120 soldiers of the Jiang family brought by Jiang Hai, including Jiang Hai's three sons and eleven nephews, killed 110 people in the battle.

In the battle, more than sixty percent of the children of the Jiang family in the Zhongshun Army died, and their vitality was greatly damaged, and Jiang Hai was sad and fell seriously ill for months. His wife lost all three of her sons, and she fell ill and went with her three sons for more than two months.

Since that time, the generals no longer dare to take it lightly, and the best martial arts subordinates in each faction have reorganized into a personal army of 120 people to protect Yang Wen day and night.

The martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes were first sent by Ding Jialiang, the hero of Jiang'an, to transmit chivalrous Cambodia, and then got the relevant news from various channels, and came to Jiang'an one after another, either as friends in Yang Wen's mansion, or scattered in the houses and villages inside and outside the city, and were interested in participating in the protection of this Southern Song Dynasty general.

Others, some young people, simply joined the newly formed pro-guard team, and followed Yang Wen day and night.

There are also some people who have high status and martial arts, and they are all around to investigate and intercept the Mongolian master assassins, trying to keep the enemy out of Jiang'an as much as possible.

Yang Wen's life and death touched the hearts of relevant people in Meng and Song, and a fierce assassination and counter-assassination struggle around Yang Wen's life and death began from here. The fight has been going on on on and on.

During this period, nearly 300 martial arts masters of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to protect Yang Wen, a generation of anti-Mongolian generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, united with the remnants of the extinct Western Xia, chased and fought on the land of China without regrets, and sacrificed their precious lives.

At this moment, the river in front of Yang Wen is called the Sand River, which flows for more than 50 miles, and flows to the Rolling River after reaching Cam Ranh Bay. The Rolling River turns westward from Cam Ranh Bay and flows for more than 100 miles into the Jinsha River.

Based on the news he has received during this period of time, Yang Wen feels that the imperial court's strategy and national policy of resisting Mongolia have been decided, and there is no room for maneuver. He didn't understand why these ministers in the court usually talked about the Qi family's strategy of governing the country and leveling the world, but once they really wanted to make a decision, they would enter into endless fights and quarrels.

Judging from what we have learned, these civilian ministers are not arguing over whether to resist Mongolia, but over how to maximize the interests of themselves and their factions in the war against Mongolia. None of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could see that the military strength of this dynasty was really dangerous compared to that of the Mongols?

Yang Wen knew very well that in the face of the rapid mobile combat ability of the Mongolian cavalry, as well as its strategy and tactics of fighting to support the war, he really did not have the slightest certainty of victory. When I thought of the Mongolian soldiers' use of war to feed the war, I couldn't help but be deeply worried about the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

According to the spies, the Mongol soldiers burned down the houses and trampled on the crops wherever they passed, and slaughtered the city and the village at the slightest resistance. The place where the Mongol soldiers passed was a scorched earth, and there was no one for thousands of miles. Everywhere the Mongol soldiers went, they took men, women, children, and children into slavery, and plundered livestock and grain for military rations. What's more, when attacking the city, they will drive the local captives, young and young, young and middle-aged men and women to take the lead, and climb the city wall with a cloud ladder, so that the defenders of the city can kill their neighbors and villagers for their own pleasure. If the soldiers and civilians defending the city were ruthless and had the slightest negligence to put the unarmed civilians in, the Mongol army, disguised in the crowd, would immediately rush in, and its viciousness would be as bad as that of the Jin soldiers.

Although he has not yet figured out how to deal with the Mongol cavalry, one thing is certain when encountering the Mongol cavalry, if the strength of the Mongol army is not more than doubled, never engage in a field battle with the Mongol cavalry in an open area.

But what could be done against the Mongol cavalry?

I remembered that my grandfather Meng Lin said when he was a child that his great-grandfather was once a general of the famous anti-gold general Yue Fei, and his grandfather himself also followed his great-grandfather to serve in the Yue's army. At that time, the heavy armored cavalry "Tiefutu" and the light cavalry "Kidnapping Horse" of the Jin Army were repeatedly broken, and the warriors of the Yuejia Army used hemp knives and big axes to cut off the horse's feet in close combat and win.

Perhaps we can learn from the tactics of breaking the kidnapping horse. It's a pity that I was too young when I heard this, and I listened to it as a story, and I didn't pay attention to the details at all. Moreover, I never thought that I would encounter the same situation when I grew up. It's too late to learn more about it, the older generation is gone, and there is not even anyone to ask for advice. However, recalling a little plot from his grandfather's story, and after checking it in many ways, he learned that the cavalry of the Jin soldiers at that time only accounted for a part of its total strength, and as long as its cavalry was broken, the rest of the infantry army could be dealt with relatively easily.

However, the Mongol army is different, they are all cavalry, according to the information reported by the spies, each Mongolian cavalry is equipped with three or four horses, at least one person and two horses, its impact when attacking and the ability to maneuver in battle can be imagined.

As for the artillery made by Li Xiang, it is a very good weapon to break the cavalry, but the number is less, and now all parts of the Great Song Dynasty are rushing to ask for artillery, but the production of artillery is too small to meet the demand.

Yang Wen thought as he walked slowly upstream along the riverbank, and the guards around him kept a distance from him, slowly moving around him.

It has left the small wharf for more than a mile, and the embankment here is fifty zhang away from the opposite embankment, and the embankment is more than ten zhang away from the water's edge is a sandy beach. Not far downstream, a small boat carrying three people leaned against the embankment and slowly moved upstream, and a young man with his hands on the sculls sang softly in a small tune, and he could clearly be heard singing a song that satirized the evils of the times in a strange and comical voice in a hoarse local voice. An old man and a middle-aged sister-in-law sitting on the dinghy did not pay attention to what the young man was singing, and could vaguely hear them talking loudly about how much there was left after this year's rice harvest.

It seems that the family of three in this small boat has caught some fish and is ready to go home to rest. Everything seemed normal, and it didn't seem to be in any danger.

Yang Wen looked at this family of three enviously, they can go home leisurely after work, as long as they can have no worries about food and clothing, they don't have to worry about the rest of the sky. (To be continued.) )