Chapter 152: The City is Broken
Lin Dan Khan looked at the Wenchen generals below and felt extremely sad in his heart, the Mongol dynasty that had lasted for hundreds of years had fallen to such a point. The enemy besieging the city and the generals could not expel the enemy, and Wenchen had no way to break the enemy, so he could only argue here and come to a conclusion.
A white-bearded old minister was full of energy, and he talked eloquently in front of everyone: "My opinion is to ask the Great Khan to withdraw from the Naturalization City now, and the Jin people will be able to leave the city, if they move the idea of a long-term siege, the Great Khan will not be able to get out of the siege on all sides, we can't let the Great Khan take risks, as long as there is a Great Khan in our Mongols, it will not fail." ”
"The Great Khan will shake the morale of the army when he leaves, so wait a little longer and see. I really can't go again. "A military general still has some illusions about the situation.
Lin Dan Khan understood that the idea of most courtiers was to run, and the focus of the argument was only when to run. I must not run now, the last time I moved west, I gave the land to the Houjin people, and the Houjin people chased after me here, and this time I can run to where I can run again. After running away, the Jin people stopped chasing.
But the power of the Houjin people is too strong, and there are more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in the naturalized city, and there are 100,000 Houjin troops besieging the city, so this battle can't be fought. It took a long time to make peace with Zhang Chu, but when the matter came, he didn't dare to let him go into the city to help defend, he was able to move outside, and distracting Houjin's attention was already considered to have a conscience. There is really no other power to draw on.
The argument was inconclusive, and the ministers dispersed. Lin Dan Khan was left alone there in a daze, he really reached the point of exhaustion. I had to order my personal guards to pack up their things and prepare for withdrawal.
The Great Khan's courtiers were not fools, they were all more shrewd than monkeys, and when they returned, they all began to pack up their gold and silver in their homes and prepare for escape. For a while, rumors spread in the naturalization city, and finally it turned out that Lin Dan Khan and his ministers had already fled the city, and those who remained were only sent to death.
Gui Yingcha has been busy in the past few days, recruiting people to repair the city wall and make city defense equipment, which is already very busy, and then he has to deal with rumors and boost the morale of the troops, but the situation is getting worse day by day.
This is another scramble, and the eldest princess Uliangha with her musket team of fifty men asks to go up to the city to participate in the battle. Others couldn't afford to provoke the princess, so they had to push it to Gui Yingcha.
Guiying said heartily: "Auntie, if you come to the city, we will fight or protect you." I can't say this clearly, I can only calmly analyze the current situation for her, and a few more of them on the city wall will not work.
The eldest princess was also in a daze, and now the city was shouting and fleeing, and she didn't even have a chance to speak. She thought that standing at the head of the city would boost her morale somewhat, and she didn't think about the fact that she was going to be protected. After listening to Gui Yingcha's words, he no longer insisted.
Guiying happened to see that the trouble was solved, and took the opportunity to persuade: "Now that the city is in such chaos, why don't you go to Fugu to relax." ”
"Don't mention the person who won't save me when he dies, I won't go to Fugu, maybe that coward will arrest me and give it to Houjin." The eldest princess has a lot of opinions about Zhang Chu not coming to save Guihua City.
Gui Yingcha still understands some of the reasons, so he persuaded: "Zhang Chu has sent troops and horses over, but the ministers oppose Zhang Chu entering the city, there is no way, I have fought with him, his men and horses are indeed not suitable for field battles with the Houjin cavalry, if they defend the city, they are still very powerful, Zhang Chu wrote to me He camped not far from the west of the city, or you can bring someone to find him, it is really not possible to retreat to Fugu with him, it is much safer than here." ”
"If I don't go, I will die with the Great Khan." The eldest princess felt better, but she was not ready to leave Naturalization City.
Gui Yingcha sent the eldest princess away, and she was very uneasy, now that the Great Khan and the princess were in the city, if the city was breached, the consequences would be unimaginable. Just in case, he ordered the guards to send a hundred elite cavalry in the army as a reserve, so that when the city was in danger, they could go up to plug the gap, and if it didn't work, they could also be used to protect the Great Khan and the princess from evacuating.
Huang Taiji didn't give the people in the Naturalization City much time to think. After the siege, we rested for a day, prepared the siege equipment, and the brutal siege battle began.
Huang Taiji understands his advantage, that is, there are many people, and if you don't accept it, you can't do it, so there is no temptation, no feint, and the attack started on three sides of the Naturalization City, and whoever enters the Naturalization City first is a hero.
The defensive performance of the Mongols could not have been worse, and the few troops were sent to all parts of the city walls, which seemed to be overstretched, and the low morale was even more depressed when they saw the attacking troops scattered all over the Houjin mountains.
The defense didn't last long, and collapsed under a round of attack by the Houjin, who attacked the city.
Gui Yingcha's desperate fight could not save the whole defeat, he rushed up again and again with his guards and reserves, and killed the Houjin people who climbed to the top of the city, and could only hold a section of the city wall.
In other places, the Jin soldiers have occupied the city wall, and the Mongols who are besieging the fortified towers are besieging the towers, and it is only a matter of time before the city gate is opened. Gui Yingcha himself is also covered in blood, and he doesn't know if it's the blood of the enemy or his own. He has more important things to do, to protect the Great Khan and the princess from evacuating, and not to let the Great Khan and the princess become prisoners of the Houjin people.
When Gui Yingcha rushed to Lin Dan Khan's residence, Lin Dan Khan had already learned that the defense of the city had failed and was evacuating under the escort of the guards. He chased after her, joined up with Princess Celestia, and fled towards the west gate of the Naturalization City.
The west gate of the city of naturalization was already in chaos, and the people and officials who wanted to escape from the city crowded together to open the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the city gate had no determination to stop at this time, and were pushed aside. The city gate opened suddenly, and the people rushed out of the city gate in a frenzy, running towards the grassland. Whatever awaits you, get out of here first.
Lin Dan Khan came to the gate of the city at this time, the guards took out their weapons and intimidated for a while before opening a passage at the gate of the city, Lin Dan Khan escaped from the Naturalization City, they were also aimless, they did not know where they were going to flee, but they were more organized than the people, and hundreds of people gathered together and ran to the west.
A small group of a few hundred men became an obvious target, leading to disaster.
Houjin besieged the city on three sides, the whole army attacked, only one person had nothing to do, Hauge was reprimanded by Huang Taiji for his last failure, although he also led the team to Guihua City, but he was not assigned a task when attacking the city.
This made him very depressed, he couldn't enter the city to rob property without attacking the city, and this time he came to Guihua City in vain.
Hauge's mind was still very flexible, and the Houjin army besieged the city on three sides, leaving one side for the Mongols to escape, and people must take their belongings with them when they flee. Don't let me go to the city to rob me and rob me outside, so he took more than a thousand cavalry to the west of Guihua City and waited for those who escaped.
As soon as Lin Dan Khan's group appeared, he immediately attracted Haoge's attention, thinking that there might be a big fish guarding so many people, and chased after Lin Dan Khan with his men and horses. (To be continued.) )