Chapter 419: First Strike
At the beginning of September, Wu Shaogang arrived in Luoyang Fucheng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Wu Shaowu, the envoy of Henan Province, temporarily set up his official residence in Luoyang Fucheng.
Wu Shaowu's temperament has long changed, he has a lot of experience, he has been a county official, but also a county lieutenant, a county magistrate and a county order, etc., is very familiar with the following government affairs, and later studied in Yunchuan School for a period of time, and did things for a period of time in the festival to make the yamen, and his knowledge has also increased, so he can be qualified for this position.
Wu Shaogang also fully recognized Wu Shaowu's ability.
After Wu Shaowu became the envoy of Henan Province, he mainly did two things, one was to stabilize the locality, and the other was to hoard grain and grass, so that the Fuzhou and counties under the jurisdiction of Henan Province would be full of grain.
This has already shown Wu Shaowu's foresight, and it also shows that he did things completely according to Wu Shaogang's requirements.
There were already 30,000 troops stationed in Luoyang Mansion City, and in mid-August, 30,000 troops temporarily stationed in Jingzhao Mansion also secretly moved to Luoyang Mansion City.
There are a total of 60,000 troops, including 50,000 soldiers from the imperial armies of Hezhou and 10,000 soldiers from the Dingkun army.
Following Wu Shaogang to Luoyang Fucheng, there were also Hao Jing, Zhang Wenqian, Cai Siwei, Zhang Binghui and Yuan Shichun.
The secret deployment of the army benefited from the information obtained by the Intelligence Agency.
The Intelligence Agency did not find out about the changes between the two Huai, but the Intelligence Agency captured the sudden division of the Mongolian army.
According to Wu Shaogang's prediction, at most in October, the city of Xiangyang Mansion will not be able to hold, at such a critical moment, how can the Mongolian army divide its troops, and it is to go to Huaibei.
Could it be that the Mongol army is preparing to attack the city of Xiangyang and Lianghuai at the same time?
This information caused a fierce quarrel in the Yamen in Jiedu.
In the end, the unanimous understanding was that there might be great changes in the two Huai.
The intelligence before and after is linked together, including Jia Rudao's desperate efforts to eliminate dissidents in the imperial court and put Lu Wende to death, all of which may force Lu Wende to take risks and make major decisions.
It is impossible for Lu Wende to rebel, there is not such a big climate, rebellion is a dead end, I believe that he will not choose, and the remaining choice is to return to the Great Yuan Dynasty.
After making this analysis, even Wu Shaogang was shocked into a cold sweat.
Lost the harvest of mulberry elm, I am afraid that Kublai Khan would not have thought of such a good thing.
From the division of the Mongol army, Wu Shaogang admired Kublai Khan's courage and sensed that danger was approaching.
Once the Great Yuan Dynasty took both the Jingnan Road and the Lianghuai, the Great Song Dynasty completely lost hope and the ability to resist the Mongol army's attack, while Kublai Khan was free to use Sichuan as the focus of his strategic offensive.
At the critical moment, Wu Shaogang made a decision to immediately attack Kaifeng Mansion and take Kaifeng Mansion before October.
On the tenth day of September, the army had arrived in Gong County.
On September 15, the army took Xingyang County under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture with lightning speed.
On September 20, the day when the Mongol army took Xiangyang Fucheng, Wu Shaogang's army personally took the empty defense of Zhengzhou Guancheng, and within five days, took control of Zhengzhou.
Wu Shaogang, who was in a high degree of tension, knew that his judgment was completely accurate after learning that the Mongol army had taken the city of Xiangyang, and this move was right.
Wu Shaogang gave the order, and the army no longer concealed its tracks, and began to make great strides towards Kaifeng Mansion.
It seems that Kublai Khan and the Dayuan court did not expect that the development of the situation would be so rapid, and the defense of the Kaifeng Mansion of the Dayuan Court has not had time to strengthen, after all, the end of the negotiations is not long, although Kublai Khan believes that the unanimous agreement cannot bind the two sides, but he still thinks that the Sichuan side needs to rest and recuperate, and will not soon launch an attack on the Kaifeng Fucheng, plus Kublai Khan's focus is still the direction of Xiangyang Fucheng, Therefore, the city of Kaifeng was temporarily ignored.
It's a pity that Wu Shaogang didn't sleep well and has been paying close attention to the situation.
The first strike is strong, and it is expected to take Kaifeng Fucheng, and there will be no problems.
The one stationed in Kaifeng Mansion is still Boyan.
Habichi had already returned to Dadu, and the troops left in Kaifeng Mansion were not very many, mainly the new annexed army, with a small number of Mongolian iron cavalry, and a total strength of 30,000 people.
What made Boyan feel a headache was that the sergeants stationed in Xiangyang Fucheng had all participated in the battle of Henan Road, and they had a natural fear of the Song army in Sichuan, and they wanted to make them desperately resist the Song army, the possibility was not very large, and their morale was low, they could not raise their fighting spirit, and their combat effectiveness could not be very strong.
Therefore, when he learned that the Song army had taken Zhengzhou and marched towards Kaifeng Fucheng, Boyan felt that a catastrophe was coming, and there was an avalanche of despair.
It was quickly sent to Dadu, but next Boyan still had to resist the attack of the Song army.
In fact, from his own feelings, not to mention the sergeant below, Boyan himself has a trace of fear for Wu Shaogang, the envoy of the Yunchuan Festival of the Great Song Dynasty, he doesn't know who Wu Shaogang is, judging from the description of the last brother and the prince, Wu Shaogang is about the same age as him, not much older, how can such a young man have the ability to defeat and exterminate hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops, especially the battle of Henan Road, defeated the 80,000 Mongolian army that rushed to help, and completely annihilated the 5,000 heavy cavalry.
After the Battle of Henan Road, Boyan once sent countless scouts and spies to find out what the secret weapon of the Song Army was, how those big iron balls flew, and why they had such terrifying power, but unfortunately a few months passed, and the scouts and spies did not find anything, which once made Boyan feel that the Battle of Henan Road was the favor of God for the Song Army.
The emperor also issued a special order, asking Boyan to find out what firearms the Song army had.
The two princes, Brother Mo and Habichi, when they reported on the battle of Henan Road, both talked about this kind of powerful iron ball.
As the Song army approached, Boyan became more and more agitated, and the Song army moved too fast, so that he did not have time to get the emperor's decree and the imperial court's edict.
This is ironic, once upon a time, the Mongolian army thought about when to attack, and did not care about the Song army at all, but now the situation is different, in the area of Kaifeng Prefecture, it is actually the Song army that wants to attack when it wants, and the Mongolian army is in a state of complete defense.
When the news came that Chengchi in Zhongmu County was occupied by the Song army, Boyan finally collapsed a little.
Zhongmu County is only ninety miles away from Kaifeng Fucheng, which means that the Song army has about two days at most before it can reach Kaifeng Fucheng and launch a large-scale attack.
Boyan even thought of leading the army to evacuate Kaifeng Mansion City and evacuate to Hebei West Road.
Boyan, who had experienced the battle of Henan Road, understood that the Song army had a sharp weapon enough to break the walls of Kaifeng City, and when the Song army entered the city, it would be another massacre of the Mongol army.
The lives of more than 30,000 sergeants of the army, as well as the city of Kaifeng, which one is important, Boyan cannot decide.
Knowing that the battle was a defeat, but he still had to hold on to the city and wait for the impending defeat, this kind of feeling was unbearable for the young Boyan.
The city of Kaifeng has become a rumor.
Boyan's gaffe was a heavier blow to the many sergeants stationed in the city, they had no confidence to resist the Song army's insistence on the city, and the commander showed a collapse at the critical moment, and the sergeants were even more depressed.
After the news that Zhongmu County was captured by the Song army, there was some chaos in the city of Kaifeng.
All the soldiers outside the city have entered the city, the military camp outside has been empty, the city gate has long been closed, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and the soldiers in the city, from the beginning of eating and drinking for nothing, to the later public looting, the entire city has been stirred into a miasma, and the people's hatred for the Mongolian soldiers has reached the extreme.
The streets were full of drunken and messy sergeants, most of the shops were closed, and some of the people who had not had time to hide from the sergeants were beaten at every turn, and there was no place to reason.
The government and the county government, every day there are people come to complain, but unfortunately the officials in the yamen, do not dare to provoke these soldiers, once there are officials to the Lord Boyan, thinking about the situation in the city, not only did not see Lord Boyan, but also encountered ridicule, and left in disgrace.
Since the Mongolian soldiers stationed in the barracks outside the city entered the city, in just a few days, the entire Kaifeng city is like a dead city, all the shops are closed, no one can be seen on the street in broad daylight, no one dares to walk on the street, and the people are also tightly closing the door.
At this moment, the people in the city cursed the Mongolian soldiers, thinking that the Song army would send an attack as soon as possible to exterminate these reckless Mongolian soldiers and save the people in the city.
The day after the Song army took Zhongmu County, Boyan finally appeared and appeared in the government and county offices.
Boyan did not talk about the sergeant's misconduct in the city, but asked the officials of the government and the county government to organize the people in the city to resist the attack of the Song army together with the sergeants, and Boyan also told many officials that if they can't hold the city, then everyone should not think about being able to live, after all, Kaifeng Fucheng was the capital before the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song army captured the city, how could it be possible to spare the officials in the city.
At this moment, Boyan, I'm afraid he doesn't know, he has long lost the people of the entire city, lost the support of the people, and the desperate sergeant's misdeeds in the city have made the people hate it, and the hearts of the people have been attached to the Song army.
Boyan himself has no confidence, he is too young, he has not experienced such a formation, he has lost his wisdom, lost his reason, and even lost his confidence.
It was in this atmosphere that the Song army approached Kaifeng Mansion and surrounded the entire Kaifeng Mansion City. (To be continued.) )