Zhao Futang and the others immediately understood what he meant, their scout must have encountered the Mongolian cavalry, and the team surnamed Qiao must have led people to resist desperately, so they covered the scout to escape back and report the news, it is estimated that Qiao Yong and others have died in battle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Encounter a strong enemy, fight hard to break through and report the news, meritorious! Note! Quickly heal your wounds! Li Xiaotian immediately sent 200 cavalry to pursue the Mongolian cavalry! Zhao Futang ordered loudly.

After the scout thanked him, he was helped down, and Li Xiaotian immediately gave the order with a dark face, and sent the cavalry of the 200th army to pursue the Mongolian rangers.

No matter who they are, the Xindao Mongols are simply too bold, the scouts are not too far away from them, they actually dare to besiege them, and they don't take the Song army seriously!

The two hundred cavalry, led by a Dutou surnamed Sun, immediately rushed out of the army and galloped towards the place where the accident occurred, while Zhao Futang led the team to follow and continued to march in the direction of Enzhou without stopping.

In Zhao Futang's opinion, even if the cavalry of the Song army was not as good as the Mongol soldiers in terms of personal combat effectiveness, there should be no problem for a few people to fight one against two hundred, so he was not too worried about the cavalry sent by this team.

But what surprised him was that it took him half a day to wait for more than 30 Song cavalry to return to the team with some war horses and dozens of pigtailed heads, and those war horses were carrying one or two corpses of Song cavalry on their backs, and then look at the more than 30 Song cavalry basically all injured, and the commander surnamed Sun was not among the living people.

The Song soldiers who came back each had a look of fear and grief on their faces, and one of the teams came to Zhao Futang, kneeling down and replied ashamedly: General Qiyu, I was ordered to pursue the Mongolian cavalry under the leadership of Sun Dutou, and encountered the enemy army more than ten miles away, how could the enemy army be strong, although we were lucky enough to destroy it, but there were heavy casualties, including Sun Dutou, one hundred and sixty-three people, all died in front of the battle! We are ashamed of the general's teachings, please punish the general!

After Zhao Futang and Li Xiaotian heard this, they each took a breath of cool air, they didn't expect that two hundred people would have such heavy casualties against dozens of Mongolian Tatars, this result was really unacceptable to them.

Tell me why you have suffered so many casualties! Zhao Futang immediately asked this team.

Back to the general's words, it is not that we are not the opponents of the enemy, but these Tartars are really cunning and abnormal, seeing that our forces are stronger than them, they do not contact us, we pursue them, they will flee on horseback, but these Tartars are really powerful, they can reflexively shoot arrows backwards, which makes us suffer a great loss, but we still keep chasing them, and finally blocked them at a fork in the river, so that they and us are desperate, but most of our war horses have been exhausted, although we finally killed these Tartars, But there were huge losses! The team replied with a look of shame.

Zhao Futang and Li Xiaotian and others only then understood why this small battle was fought so badly, the Mongols were really powerful, relying on cavalry and archery alone, the Song army was not their opponent, today it was the cavalry of their holy army, if it was someone else, I was afraid that they would chase for a while, and after suffering a loss, they would not dare to chase them anymore, more than 100 people exchanged for the lives of dozens of Mongolian soldiers, and this business was really done at a loss.

However, Shi Chonggui on the side did not look at it that way, he was in awe of these Song cavalry, because he was a person who knew that the Mongolian cavalry was powerful, and he had encountered such a situation more than once, and in the end he often not only could not kill the Mongolian cavalry, but could be killed by the other party, because the Mongolian cavalry was good at riding, and one person with two horses, could gallop for a long time, and they often used such tactics in the case of insufficient troops, first dragging the pursuers to run, and constantly consuming the number of enemy troops in the way of cavalry shooting, Strike at the morale of the enemy, when the enemy's morale is low and they dare not pursue it anymore, they will turn around and chase the enemy, or use the method of cavalry and archery, constantly depleting the enemy's vital strength, once the enemy is forced to pursue them again, they will turn around and run away, in short, after repeating it several times, they can often eat the enemy army far more than their number with a small number of troops.

But today the Song army of 200 cavalry out, stunned to chase to the death, although the loss is very large, but in the end they did not leave a few dozen Mongolian soldiers, so it seems that the combat effectiveness of this Song army should also be quite strong, and their will to fight is also beyond expectations, can be chased until the war horse is exhausted, it can be seen that their determination to carry out the military order is strong.

Arise, and today you have killed the enemy, but you have suffered heavy losses, and you will bury the fallen brothers on the spot, and take them back to their families with no reward or punishment! Wait and heal and rest! Zhao Futang commanded this team with a cold face.

Shi Chonggui couldn't help but feel a little upset for these Song cavalry, they were all injured, it would be good to come back alive, they should have made a big credit, but he didn't expect Zhao Futang to give them credit, so he couldn't accept it.

So Shi Chonggui came out and said: General Zhao, in Shi's opinion, these brothers should make great contributions this time! They are not afraid of strong enemies, desperately pursued, and finally the main general was killed, and all the enemy troops were killed, it was not easy, such a disposal is obviously unfair, and I hope General Zhao will think twice!

Zhao Futang looked at Shi Chonggui and said with a wry smile: General Shi has never worked under our commander, I am afraid that I don't know our military discipline, except for those who escape from the battle, if our army pursues the enemy with superior forces and casualties exceed the enemy's army, it will not be credited! This shows that the leaders are mishandled and lack of practice on weekdays, although I know that they are all good, but I must not take credit for them!

But General Shi rest assured, these fallen soldiers will not die in vain, they fight and die, it is the spirit of our army, our commander has a word in advance, all such people who die in battle, the pension will be doubled, and their families will be exempted from labor for three years! They won't be wronged!

After listening to Zhao Futang's explanation, Shi Chonggui couldn't help but be even more in awe of this Song army, a person who can govern the army like this must be a good general, if the Song army can be like this holy army, then this battle really hopes to repel the Mongol army.

So Shi Chonggui didn't say more, and even admired and retreated to the side, and the army drove in the direction of Enzhou City again.

In fact, this battle can not be said that the Song army suffered a big loss, the number of Han people is far more than the Mongols many, many times, more than 100 people in exchange for the lives of dozens of Mongolian soldiers, it seems that the Song army suffered a great loss, in fact, for the Mongols with few people, it is a big blow, Polu said that this time with an army of 30,000, in fact, the real Mongols are a very small part, only less than 10,000 troops, one less than one, it is difficult to replenish, and these Mongolian soldiers are elite experts, The Mongol soldiers rarely suffered such losses, in fact, it was the Mongols who suffered a big loss.

After the soldiers and civilians in Enzhou City learned the news that the Song army came to garrison Enzhou, they were overjoyed, these days they were really tormented by the Mongols, they wanted to fight, they couldn't hit each other, they didn't fight, the other party buzzed like flies and would bite them from time to time, so that they were helpless, and gradually many people had retreated, wanting to give up Enzhou City and retreat to Jinan Mansion.

But now an elite Song army suddenly came, which suddenly boosted their morale, and the imperial army that they had never counted on rushed here at this time to help them deal with the Mongol army, so there should be no problem in Enzhou City.

So the soldiers under the command of Peng Yibin who defended the city immediately opened the city to welcome the arrival of the Song army, and went out of the city to welcome the Song army into the city of Enzhou.

For the handover of defense, because Shi Chonggui came with the Song army, there was no problem, Enzhou City is also a hot taro now, and no one wants to catch it in their hands if they can throw it out, especially when they see that the Song army is well-equipped and their morale is very high, they feel that it is not a bad thing to hand over Enzhou City to them, so all the handover was successfully completed in one day with the help of Shi Chonggui.

In order to boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Enzhou City, Zhao Futang made people treat the dozens of Mongolian heads captured on the road with lime, and hung them on the four gates respectively, used to show the public, when they saw that the Song army just came, they killed so many Mongolian soldiers, and it made the soldiers and civilians in the city excited.

After Zhao Futang counted the number of defenders in the city, he first let these soldiers under Peng Yibin rest for a while, and allocated them a batch of food brought with them, so that they could have a full meal, because Enzhou did not have much grain reserves, and the defenders here had to save food on weekdays, and they might not be able to eat a full meal for a few days.

In fact, the number of rebels in Enzhou City is not quite a lot, the total number is about 20,000, but when Zhao Futang reviewed these rebels, he was greatly disappointed, because among these rebels, most of them are yellow and thin, and many of them are either teenagers or very old soldiers, and there are only a few thousand people who can be called young and strong.

Moreover, these rebels are seriously lacking in training, compared to their Song army and the Flying Tiger army, they are not at the same level at all, and it is no wonder that they have been defeated in successive battles during this period of time, and they can't raise their heads when they are bullied by the Mongol army, if they defeat Polu's Mongol army in one fell swoop, it will really become a miracle.