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In the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, the third year of Mongolia to the Yuan Dynasty, February 18.

The night was dark and the clouds were low, but Huaixi King Kong Terrace was a killing sound.

Torches spread across the mountains illuminate the gloomy mountain fields, and flags flutter in the wind. If you look down from the top of the mountain at this time, the black pressure queue will be lined up to the sky, and there will be no trace of it. Even among them, you can see huge siege machines, revealing hideous faces in the flames.

Among the guards of the ten thousand armies, a banner with the character "Li" occupies the highest position, symbolizing Li Tingzhi, the commander of the Huai Army and the pacification envoy of Huaidong in the Great Song Dynasty. And not far from Li Tingzhi's army, there is also an army with the same large number of people, which is busy transporting all kinds of equipment and arrows, and the general flag in the middle is not smaller than Li Tingzhi at all, and the word "Xia" indicates the identity of the main general.

It was the Great Song Huaixi who appeased Xia Gui.

The two highest-ranking generals of the Song army in the Lianghuai area appeared under the King Kong platform at the same time, and the people gathered around them were the elite main force of the Huai army of 80,000.

Looking at the King Kong Terrace in front of him, Li Tingzhi frowned, this is the second time that the Huai army is preparing to attack, and the tentative attack just now also mobilized 5,000 people, leaving behind corpses in one place, and he didn't even touch the door of the camp.

Looking at the Jingangtai cottage that stretches from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, and several hills take care of each other, Li Tingzhi wanted to scold, but he didn't know who to scold, whether he scolded the Huai army who guarded Jingangtai at the beginning was too incompetent, and even lost such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack cottage without even decent resistance, or scolded Ye Yingwu for being really stingy and cunning, with a new type of firearm such as a flying thunder cannon that specializes in attacking the camp, and he didn't even give Li Tingzhi a one.

General Li, the envoy of Huaixi, still does not know what this legendary new firearm that can wipe out the mountain looks like. But looking at the camp in front of him, he knew very well what kind of psychological shadow such a firearm had left on the Mongolian Tatars opposite.

Not only is the Jingangtai camp much thicker than Li Tingzhi's impression, but the walls of the wall have also been replaced by earthen walls from the rather simple wooden walls of the Song army before, and a deep trench was dug in front of the main wall, and on the inside of the trench, there is a chest-high earthen wall.

This made the attacking Song army have to first cross the trench with difficulty, then climb this earthen wall, and then move forward against the dense arrows and even firearms on the main wall behind the earthen wall. To put it nicely, attacking such a camp is really not afraid of death; To put it mildly, it's a bunch of stupid hats who don't know the height of the sky.

But even if it is a stupid hat, Li Tingzhi has to do it now, after all, Jingangtai is just stuck between Huaishui and Anqing Mansion, if you want to avoid the Mongolian Tatars drinking the Dajiang River, and if you want to avoid the Mongolian cavalry from sweeping the Huainan Plain along the east of Anqing Mansion, Li Tingzhi must take Jingangtai.

Otherwise, he and Xia Gui would have to hide in Yangzhou City and hand over Huainan and Huaibei to others. Thinking about Ye Yingwu's victory in breaking the enemy of 100,000 in the first battle of Xiangyang, and then thinking about it, if he was a turtle with a shrunken head in Yangzhou City and let the town navy on the other side of the river see a joke, Li Tingzhi felt angry.

That would be a shame for him, and he couldn't bear it!

"Let's go on the attack, let the bed crossbow move forward as far as possible, and tie all the other tribulus terrestris." Xia Gui came over, his face was quite solemn, "Although there are no good things like the Flying Thunder Cannon, but we can also steal a hand from Ye Yingwu, as long as we can let the brothers rush under the earthen wall and the wall, and blow up his mother with earth-shaking thunder, even if the casualties are a little bigger, we can gnaw it down after all." ”

Knowing that his colleagues and partners for many years are also worried about the worries of King Kongtai, Li Tingzhi nodded solemnly: "I can't delay it any longer, and the sentry detectives will send out more, and I always feel a little strange in my heart." ”

"Huh?" Xia Gui was stunned, "Are you saying that the Mongolian Tartars will not use their own cavalry and defend in this cottage?" But we have an army of 80,000 here, and there are 20,000 coming one after another, and the various departments of Huaidong are also attacking one after another, and the Mongolian Tartars are only 20,000 or 30,000 people in this camp, how can they have the ability to kill out of the camp. ”

The sound of war drums behind him has already roared, the Song sergeants shouted to lift the bed crossbow, the huge three-bow bed crossbow was slowly raised, several soldiers quickly stepped forward to hang the thick arrows tied to the thistle terrestris on the bed crossbow, and a number of trebuchets have also been in place one after another, and the soldiers who carry arrows and stones are simply shirtless.

Li Tingzhi didn't care about the bed crossbow and trebuchet that were waiting for him, but frowned and looked at Xia Gui: "Having said that, after all, the Mongolian Tartars are good at attacking cities, and we are good at defending cities, and now for the Mongolian Tartars, they are also weak in their own and weak in defending against the enemy." If a certain is a Mongol commander, even if there are six or seven thousand cavalry, they will open the camp and rush out, you see the surrounding mountains of Jingangtai, condescending, once the cavalry hits ・・・・・・"

Taking a breath of cool air, Xia Gui clenched the handle of the knife, what Li Tingzhi said was not wrong at all, if there were six or seven thousand cavalry swooping down from the mountain, let alone the 80,000 now, I am afraid that even 100,000 foot soldiers may not be able to stop it, after all, Xia Gui does not think that these Huai soldiers under his command are the Tianwu Army under Ye Yingwu, as long as there is a collapse in the strict queue in front of him, there is a chance that the entire army will be defeated.

But after thinking about it, Xia Gui breathed a sigh of relief again: "Xiangfu, are you too worried, look at the earthen wall built by the Mongolian Tatars outside the camp, which surrounds the entire camp, and in front of the earthen wall is a deep trench, I'm afraid that the Mongolian Tatar cavalry wants to rush out, it's not so easy." They only left such a small path outside the gate of the camp, even if the Tartar cavalry rushed out, we only need to lock this road with bows and crossbows, and it will be useless for him to have thousands of troops and horses. ”

"Maybe it's because I've thought too much, after all, I haven't fought a decent attack for so many years, and I will inevitably feel apprehensive," Li Tingzhi comforted himself, "And we have so many sentry scouts going out, if the Tartar cavalry is ambushed behind this mountain, it should also be discovered at this time." ”

In the sound of the drum, a command flag was waved fiercely, and the soldiers who controlled the bed crossbow released the bowstring they had pulled tightly, and the bow was like a full moon.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the first huge arrow had already entered the camp, and the screams of the Mongolian soldiers and the explosion of thistles came and went. After dodging the first batch of arrow attacks, the Mongolian trebuchet has begun to roar, although the Song army has not developed much in the trebuchet, but it still has the ability to compete with the Mongols, even if it is attacking the mountain, it does not fall behind in the slightest.

Stone bullets rained down, compared with the Mongolian soldiers, the Song army was still better after all, after all, they could calmly move on the plain under the King Kong platform, and the Mongolian soldiers could only shrink behind the wall and pray that the stones would not fall from the sky.

"Two generals, please hurry up and stay away!" Several guards watched the stones whizz into the crowd not far away, and hurriedly stepped forward to speak.

It's really strange and strange, the Song army is still some distance away from King Kongtai, how did the Mongolian Tatar trebuchet suddenly hit so far?

Just when the guards of the Chinese army were surprised, a fist-sized stone hit the back of the head of one of the guards, and the helmet was deeply dented, and the guard fell off the horse with a scream, and soon disappeared into the panicked horse and the crowd. Li Tingzhi tightened the reins and looked at Xia Gui, and the two of them suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"It is impossible for the Mongolian Tartar trebuchet to fight so far, there is an ambush!" Li Tingzhi had suddenly come to his senses, and shouted loudly, extremely anxious!

"Come, herald, left and right wings, hold on! All the strikers retreated, quick, go! Xia Gui also took a deep breath and gave an order after Li Tingzhi.

As if to respond to his roar, countless stones were thrown from behind the hills on both sides in a chaotic arc, smashing into the left and right flanks of the Song army, and for a time the striker suffered the least blow. At the same time, the earth began to tremble slowly, and at the foot of the King Kong Terrace, along the line of green mountains, countless Mongolian soldiers came out at the same time, covered in dirt and blades of grass, as if they really came out of the ground.

Xia Gui and Li Tingzhi's pupils shrank fiercely, and the originally closed gate of the camp in front of them also opened widely, and the Mongolian infantry of the brigade rushed to the front with a shout, but they did not rush down the hillside, but together with those companions who were hiding behind the first earthen wall, they quickly pulled out something.

The seemingly sturdy earthen wall collapsed in an instant, and piles of earth slid down the gentle slope directly into the deep trench in front of it. And those soldiers were a little struggling to resist the dense arrows of the Song army and threw the logs in their arms into the trench, and the trench, which was still a little uneven, became more and more smooth with these logs and the dust that was still being poured one after another.

Li Tingzhi immediately understood what kind of existence that earthen wall was, this was a complete deception and a trick, and the Mongol Tatars did not intend to trap the camp from beginning to end, and the trench and earthen wall they made seemed to give people the illusion that the Mongol cavalry would not impact, so that the Song army was wholeheartedly preparing to attack the camp.

However, after all kinds of large equipment were spread out, the Mongolian Tartars suddenly rushed out and overthrew the earthen wall, which was able to stand strong under the attack of the Song army's arrows and trebuchets just now, not because of how strong the pile was, but because there were logs behind it, so that it was similar to the thick layer of soil pasted on the outside of the wall of an ordinary camp, and the scattered stones and arrows naturally could not do anything about it.

Moreover, in addition to this foreshadowing, the Mongol Tartars' brigade of foot soldiers were all ambushed at the foot of the mountain, and their bodies were all covered with meadows and even mud, so that the first group of Song troops who rushed up just now did not notice that there were still people in the place they had stepped on.

There were only more than 1,000 of these ambush soldiers, although there were not many, but as the black flags were unfurled, they still roared and crashed into the nearest Song army striker. The forward of the Song army, which was about to attack, had just received an order for the whole army to retreat, and for a while they didn't know how to advance or retreat, and just as the Mongolian ambush soldiers behind them roared up, they simply turned around and collided with the Mongolian soldiers.

These are just some Mongolian Han family foot soldiers, and the Huaijun men are not of a bad breed, especially when everyone passed by Xingzhou, they all saw that the Tianwu Army was about to be lifted to the sky, so at this time, a wave of blood rushed up, and everyone wanted to make contributions.

"Kill, kill the Tartars!" A Song army commanded the envoy to ride a horse to meet the Mongolian foot soldiers, the Song army was full of 10,000 people, who would be afraid of his ambush of more than 1,000 people, and no matter what pikemen, sword and shield hands, they actually pressed up in a chaotic manner.

The sound of horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth, and the forward soldiers of the Song army roared angrily and pounced on the nearest Mongolian Han foot soldier, but they did not see that along the mountainside, a dark cloud had rushed down the hillside, and it was getting faster and faster.

"Ten thousand-strong troops, where did the Mongol Tatars get so many cavalry!" The commander who had rushed to kill him just now inadvertently raised his head and saw ten flags dancing in the wind, and couldn't help but change his face. There are only more than 10,000 foot soldiers under his command, and the formation is already scattered like sand, where can he block the impact of so many Mongolian cavalry.

"Mongol Tatars, Mongol Tatar cavalry!" The forward soldiers of the Song Army, who were still very majestic just now, realized that the big thing was not good, and the blood just now suddenly dissipated completely, "Tartar cavalry, everyone run, you can't fight, you can't fight!" ”

"The Tartar cavalry rushed down from the mountain, they couldn't beat it at all, hurry up and run, there is still a way to live."

A few of them were even more unexpectedly running much faster than their own corporaries. Most of them are veterans who have been killed several times.

These veterans of the Huai Army are different from the veterans of the Tianwu Army, because the soldiers of the Tianwu Army are tempered by one brilliant victory after another, not to mention the courage of the masters, but also have no fear of the Mongolian Tartars, and some are only deeply disdainful, so often these ancestors can act as the sharp knives of the army charging forward and overcoming the enemy's heavy guards in the key places, such as in the battle of Hutou Mountain in Xiangyang, Wang Jin and Yang Bao relied on the veterans of the Tianwu Army to rush forward and blast at the risk of death, so that they could occupy the Hutou Mountain camp in front of Ashu.

And here in the Huai Army, the veterans are often survivors who have come out of one defeat after another, and they can survive again and again, mainly by virtue of their ability to escape stronger than others.

"Hold your ground and hold off the Tartar cavalry!" Li Tingzhi saw that the forward was quickly defeated, and even the left and right wings began to loosen, and he was dumbfounded, but this was his Huai army, which was already the most elite team outside the Tianwu Army.

In an instant, Li Tingzhi and Xia Gui both had a strong sense of powerlessness, and the Huai army might be able to fight well in defending the camp, but it was a bit difficult for a strong man to really fight face-to-face with the Mongolian Tartars in this open place in the wilderness, not to mention that they were still facing the Mongolian cavalry who were condescending to assault.

"Kill all the Nanban and avenge the dead brothers in Xiangyang!" Under a big banner, the Mongolian general Boyan took the lead, as the deputy commander of the two Huai Mongolian armies, at this time he led the cavalry to rush to the front, which was the greatest encouragement to the Mongolian soldiers.

This young general, who was praised by Kublai Khan the Great Khan, was able to rush forward with arrows, so what else did everyone have to fear, let these southern barbarians moan and cry under the hooves of the steppe eagles. The battle of Xiangyang was just an accident, and this time it gave them a glimpse of the majesty of the Mongol Erlang.

"Xiangfu, we can't hold on any longer." Xia Gui pointed with a whip, "You see, the forward can't hold it now, and the Tartar cavalry can cut the front after a while, and then they can go straight to the Chinese army, which is clearly aimed at you and me." Although there are 30,000 Chinese troops, 20,000 of them are behind to help the rear army pack up their equipment, and 10,000 people can't stop the impact of a 10,000-strong team of Tartar cavalry! ”

"If you can't stop it, you have to block it!" The sudden reversal of the battle situation made Li Tingzhi frown, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Pass the order, the left and right wings begin to slowly retreat, be sure to stabilize the position, and the rear army will send two thousand crossbowmen to step forward, and cooperate with the Chinese army's crossbowmen to shoot the position, whether it is the forward retreat, or the Mongolian Tatar cavalry, as long as anyone wants to impact the Chinese army, they will shoot and kill!" ”

After Xia Gui was silent for a moment, he gritted his teeth and nodded, at this time, he could not hesitate too much, it was already a critical juncture for the life and death of the Huai army.

King Kongtai is already doomed to defeat, but the main force of the Huai army still has to be saved.

The Mongolian cavalry was like a whirlwind, quickly swept to the front of the formation, and the Huai army was also the elite of the selection, there was no fear at the moment, the heavily armored soldiers opened the way in front, the spearmen followed, and the dense arrows were already roaring into the air!

"Kill!" Li Tingzhi drew his saber and roared and pointed straight ahead.

Although the Huai soldiers of the brigade knew that the Mongolian Tartars in front were not easy to deal with, they also knew that it would be a dead end to turn around and run now, so they simply followed the boss and rushed forward with the roar. Li Tingzhi and Xia Gui's generals also fearlessly held their banners in front, facing the Mongolian cavalry.

"Good time!" Boyan saw the two flags in the army at a glance and laughed.

What I desire is such an opponent.

For a while, King Kong was under the stage, the sword light and sword shadow, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

But if you look closely, you will see that the Mongol cavalry is like a black tide crashing against a reef, but when the tide arrives, the reef shatters. (To be continued.) )