Chapter 455: Critical Adjustments
Haizhou Prefecture City, above the city wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ali Hague's eyes were burning with rage as he looked at the military camp outside the city, which was almost in ruins.
In the barracks, there were nearly 20,000 Mongolian sergeants, and most of them were the sergeants he brought from Xuancheng to protect Haizhou Prefecture, but half a day passed, and these nearly 20,000 sergeants almost did not exist.
The sneak attack of the Song army, Ali Hague didn't know any news, and a few days ago he sent a sergeant to Xuancheng to report the news of safety, but reality gave him the harshest blow.
Outside the city, there were already dense Song army sergeants, and the city of Haizhou was completely surrounded.
There are only about 10,000 soldiers in the city, and the people are not very many, as early as when Shandong was unstable, many people in the city chose to flee, so there are not many people who can use the army, not to mention the grain, the grain and grass carried by Ali Hague are all escorted by the Chinese army, and the former army only carried a small amount of grain and grass in order to be able to march quickly.
There are not enough troops, there is not enough food and grass, and in the face of the strong Song army, what the outcome is, Ali Hague can figure it out with his ass.
When there was a sudden fight in the military camp outside the city, Ali Hague instinctively felt that something was wrong, he didn't dare to open the city gate and go out to help, if he fell into the Song army's strategy, the soldiers would be able to completely take the state city without blood, and he, the deputy commander of the southern army, would naturally become a prisoner of the Song army.
Wu Shaogang, the king of the Great Song Dynasty and Wei, Ali Hague has heard that the famous prince of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Brother Moge, Habichi, and the chief of ten thousand households, Wuliang Hetai, have all been defeated under this person's command, and the emperor's favorite Boyan is even more of a subordinate who died of this person, once upon a time, Ali Hague did not believe that Wu Shaogang was so powerful, and felt that it might be an infighting between many princes, which led to Wu Shaogang's luck to win, but now he does not dare to have such naïve ideas.
Although Ali Hague is not a particularly high-status person in the Dayuan court, he is also a Mongolian magnate, and the affairs of the court are all known, in fact, Wu Shaogang has not heard of it at all, and no one has paid attention to it at the beginning, let alone fame, name, I have not heard of it, but this person is taking advantage of the neglected time to continue to grow his strength, and when the strength gathers to a certain extent, he can begin to show his skills, and he will take advantage of the time when the Dayuan court is facing many expeditions to launch an attack, making the emperor angry, But they can't free up their hands to suppress and exterminate.
Nowadays, Wu Shaogang's strength is no longer underestimated by anyone, including the emperor.
Looking at the Mongolian army outside the city, Ali Hague's face was very gloomy.
50,000 troops, the Chinese army should not exist, 30,000 people, was actually wiped out by the Song army, think about how frightening this is, what is even more terrible is that Ali Hague has written a letter to the marshal Ashu to report safety, which at least shows that in a short period of time, Ali Hague is unlikely to get any help.
With more than 10,000 people in the city, it is unlikely that it will last too long if you want to resist the strong attack of the Song army.
But Ali Hague still insisted, even if the jade was burned, he would not retreat, I don't know why, in the dark, Ali Hague always felt that his luck would not be so bad, there would definitely be other ways out, at least Haizhou Prefecture City would not be taken by the Song army soon.
A military camp five miles away from the city of Haizhou.
Wu Shaogang's Chinese military tent was set up in the south of the barracks.
The atmosphere in the Chinese military tent was very serious, and there was no joy at all about the capture of Haizhou Prefecture.
Wu Shaogang frowned, looking at the documents in his hand, Hao Jing and the others sat on the side and did not speak.
After a while, Wu Shao sighed slightly just now, and spoke in a somewhat solemn tone.
"A wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, and I didn't expect such a situation to occur, but it has reached such a situation, we will find a way to deal with it, and it is not a big deal."
It turned out that the reinforcements led by the Mongolian prince Hedan had arrived in Shandong, and did not stay, passed through Jinan and Tai'an Prefecture, and rushed directly towards Yizhou, there were 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry under the command of Hedan, in addition to nearly 50,000 new annexed troops, with a total strength of about 100,000 people, and the Mongolian iron cavalry under his command was the elite army of the Great Yuan Dynasty.
Zhang Binghui and Liu Bingzhong, who were responsible for blocking Hedan, commanded the army to hold the city and resist Hedan's reinforcements according to Wu Shaogang's arrangement.
The hero sees the same thing, after all, Hedan is one of the brave generals of the Great Yuan Court, and he has long understood that Shandong is the most important place in Haizhou, as long as Haizhou is firmly defended, he can rely on Haizhou and Juzhou to form a front and rear encirclement of the Song army occupying Yizhou and other places.
When Zhang Shijie and Liu Bingzhong decided to lead the army to pursue, Hedan ordered 20,000 new annexed troops to resist desperately, and he led the main force under his command to still pounce in the direction of Haizhou.
The march speed of the Mongolian iron cavalry was very fast, on the contrary, Zhang Binghui and Liu Bingzhong and others could not be very fast, after all, they carried Dingkun cannons.
It was at this time that the situation changed significantly.
Hedan's move is also full of danger, and it is a huge danger, if he can't quickly take the city of Haizhou, then the army led by him will be surrounded by the Song army and the front and rear of the situation.
The artist is bold, and Hedan is not afraid of such a huge danger.
The more than 100,000 troops led by Wu Shaogang, because of the division of troops, only nearly 70,000 troops besieged Haizhou City, and they faced 10,000 Mongolian troops in Haizhou City, as well as nearly 80,000 Mongolian troops under Hedan, including the most elite 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry.
The superiority in strength was instantly wiped out.
At this time, Wu Shaogang can still make a choice, that is, to quickly stop the attack on Haizhou City, assemble the army in the direction of Lianshui County, let Hedan and the Mongolian army under his command occupy Haizhou City, and then mobilize a large army to launch an attack on Haizhou City, whether it can take Haizhou City in the shortest possible time, at least avoid danger.
But Wu Shaogang didn't make up his mind for a long time.
The situation in front of him was not easy to come by, Wu Shaogang and everyone spent countless energy, from the decisive choice of the time to attack, to the two beautiful battles, the extermination of nearly 50,000 Mongolian troops, all within the predetermined plan, the final goal is to take Haizhou Prefecture.
Once the city of Haizhou was taken, it completely occupied the initiative, and even if Kublai Khan personally led a large army to conquer, Wu Shaogang was fearless, and must order part of the army to defend Haizhou and other places, and its main force was to go south to defeat and destroy the Mongol army led by Ah Shu in one fell swoop.
The battle plan that has been painstakingly worked out can be regarded as almost a perfect deployment, but is it necessary to completely change it because of a small change?
Wu Shaogang was unwilling, he knew very well that once he let Hedan enter the city of Haizhou, the situation would definitely change, and the army under the command of Hedan would have a total strength of more than 100,000 people, and it was impossible for Wu Shaogang to concentrate 200,000 troops to attack the city of Haizhou, if he really did that, a huge loophole would appear, if Ashu in the south led the army to come to the rescue, and Kublai Khan also personally led the army to come, then the 200,000 army would fall into great danger, and all the efforts made before would come to naught.
The 100,000 army led by Zhang Binghui could not catch up with the Mongolian iron cavalry, which also stemmed from the arrangement made by Wu Shaogang.
Wu Shaogang believed that the Mongolian reinforcements were likely to advance step by step, gradually conquering Yizhou and Xuzhou, and the army led by Zhang Binghui was very powerful in defensive operations, and the Mongolian reinforcements did not have the slightest chance, and as for offensive operations, less than 20,000 of the 100,000 troops under his command had participated in the operations in the Monan grassland, and the number was far from enough.
The 100,000 troops who are good at mobile warfare are all under the direct command of Wu Shaogang, and all the troops on this road have been sharpened in the Monan grassland, among which there are even more than 20,000 Mongols, so that this army can fight face to face with the army led by Hedan.
Mistakes at critical moments have led to a reversal of the current situation.
The army led by Hedan is speeding in the direction of Haizhou Prefecture.
Time is running out, and Wu Shaogang must make a final decision.
Finally, Wu Shaogang slammed the table and stood up.
"Continue to attack Haizhou City, be sure to take Haizhou City and defend Haizhou City."
As soon as Wu Shaogang's words fell, Hao Jing, Zhang Wenqian, Cai Siwei, Zhang Jue and others all breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at everyone's expressions, Wu Shaogang smiled bitterly and spoke.
"Why, do you think I'm going to decide to withdraw the army temporarily, you're too cautious."
There was a brief burst of laughter around, but it quickly stopped.
Wu Shaogang's expression became serious again.
"There are 70,000 troops attacking Haizhou City, and now I have made the following adjustments, Cai Siwei led 20,000 soldiers to attack Haizhou City, including 10,000 Dingkun soldiers, Zhang Jue led 50,000 soldiers to resist Hedan's aid."
"The battle to attack Haizhou Prefecture City began at noon, and the Dingkun Army was ordered to bombard Haizhou Prefecture City, even if the city wall was blown apart, it didn't matter, it must be captured within three days."
"The 50,000 army led by Zhang Jue is facing the nearly 80,000 Mongolian army led by Hedan, no matter how many casualties you pay, you will not allow Hedan to get close to Haizhou Prefecture."
"Yuan Shichun, give an order to Zhang Binghui and Liu Bingzhong, divide 50,000 troops, and launch an attack from behind Hedan, the attack must be fierce, so that it is difficult for Hedan to take care of both the end and the end."
"The task of this operation is to completely annihilate the Mongolian army that is firmly defending the city of Haizhou Prefecture and repel the rush of Hedan."
"I believe that once the news of the fall of Haizhou Prefecture spreads, Hedan will definitely retreat."
When Wu Shao first said this, his expression became resolute.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot and will not give up the initial operational deployment, which is related to our future, and even more so to the country of our Great Song Dynasty."