At this time, the situation in Xuzhou had also reached an extremely dangerous level, although Wokotai had heard the news of the defeat of the Polu army in the north, and also heard the news that Taiyuan Mansion had been captured by the Song army, but he also received the news of the Lin'an mutiny in the Southern Song Dynasty. www.biquge.info The Renchen Revolution launched by Zhao Yun this time invisibly did Wokotai a disservice, making Wokotai make a huge mistake, that is, misjudging the future development of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Under the guidance of inertial thinking, after learning the news of the Lin'an mutiny, Wogetai and his advisers decided that as long as they could finally defeat Xuzhou and solve the Gao Huaiyuan in the city, no matter how the situation in the north developed, the Song army would completely lose its backbone and become a chaotic army without command, and sooner or later it would be solved by their Mongols one by one, and these Song troops were also losing the support of their country and becoming the abandoned pawns of the Southern Song Dynasty. When the time comes, it will be easier to solve the Southern Song Dynasty!

Now Wokotai is no longer satisfied with just destroying the appetite of Jin Guo, after he besieged Xuzhou, his appetite has become even greater, what is the Central Plains? It's just a rag that has been looted by the Jin Kingdom, and the Southern Song Dynasty is a real piece of fat, a fat meal that makes people drool at a glance, and Wokotai even thought of the mountain of gold and silver treasures and endless beauties when he took Jiangnan in the future.

Wokotai was also a little maddened by the temptation of this huge benefit, and he even laughed in the king's tent, laughing at the current emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty as a bastard, but at this time he sent him such a big gift...

Since the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to give him this great gift in front of him, he really had no reason not to accept it, so he was even more determined to break through the dilapidated little Xuzhou City in front of him and tear the damn Gao Huaiyuan in the city to pieces. In fact, as early as the siege of Xuzhou for ten days, the Mongolian army has already had a shortage of soldiers, and the resistance of the two cities of Xuzhou and Junzhou is strong, but also beyond the expectations of Wokotai, repeated attacks have caused his Mongolian army to suffer heavy losses, almost every inch of the battlefield, when they capture, they have to pay for the lives of many soldiers, the entire Xuzhou outside every inch of land, almost is soaked in blood, the original land, so far has become black and red, emitting this strong smell of corpses and ** smell...

The Song army's advance of the wall cleared the wilderness, so that their Mongol army could not sweep the grain on the spot, almost all the villages within a radius of dozens of miles were swept away by the Song army, some villages were even burned by the Song army, only the ruins remained, the common people could hardly even find a hair, almost all of them were moved south by the Song army, making it impossible for the Mongol army to forcibly recruit the people to help them attack the city, let alone rely on robbery to maintain their military needs.

Therefore, when Wokotai attacked Xuzhou and Junzhou several times, he did not have the idea of withdrawing his troops, but when he was hesitating, news came from the Southern Song Dynasty, saying that the Southern Song Dynasty emperor who had been elevated in Lin'an City actually launched a successful mutiny, regained imperial power, and issued a series of edicts to terminate the war of supporting the military's Northern Expedition. . .

This news finally strengthened the determination of Wokotai to capture Xuzhou and kill Gao Huaiyuan, and the Mongolian army agreed that as long as Gao Huaiyuan in Xuzhou was solved, then even if the other Song army won a big victory, it would be difficult to redeem the defeat of the Song army. Under such circumstances, Wokotai once again supervised the division to launch a continuous onslaught on Xuzhou, and even gave up continuing to attack Junzhou, gathered almost all the troops, and attacked Xuzhou City day and night.

The situation in Xuzhou became more difficult, and they had to face attacks by many times the Mongol army every day, repelling the Mongol attacks again and again.

Although during this period of time Gao Huaiyuan adopted Yu Jie's suggestion, often sent the cavalry in Xuzhou City to attack the Mongol army's attack, and did get good results at the beginning, the Mongolian army that was caught off guard suffered two losses, and the throwing carts on both sides of the south and north of the city were almost burned by the Song cavalry who went out of the city to assault, causing great trouble to the Mongol army, and had to rebuild siege equipment to strengthen the attack on Xuzhou. . .

But the Mongols are not stupid, they quickly came up with a way to deal with it, stationed a lot of elite Mongolian cavalry around Xuzhou City, and built an arrow tower outside the four gates, sent troops to wait in turn, as soon as they found that the Song cavalry moved, they immediately warned and summoned the Mongolian iron cavalry to immediately encircle.

As a result, when the Song army attacked again, it suffered a defeat, although the cavalry of the Song army dared to fight, but their combat effectiveness was still not comparable with the Mongolian iron cavalry that played into old fritters, so in a sortie at the end of July, Yu Jie's army suffered a big defeat, the four thousand cavalry out of the city were ambushed by the Mongolian cavalry, the two sides fought fiercely for nearly a day, Yu Jie's body was wounded, only with less than 500 cavalry withdrew to Xuzhou City, and the 500 cavalry were almost all wounded, and the rest of the more than 3,000 Song cavalry did not surrender, All were killed in enemy formation. This defeat dealt a great blow to the Song army in Xuzhou, and since then, the tactics of cavalry raids have been completely abandoned by Gao Huaiyuan, and the remnants of the cavalry have also been temporarily dismantled and supplemented to other armies to enhance the defense capabilities of the armies.

It is precisely because of Zhao Yun's troubles that the action of the rest of the armies was greatly delayed, and the rest of the armies had to pay for military supplies on the spot during the period when they lost their logistical support, and as a result, the speed of their offensive was also greatly affected, and even deserters appeared in some armies, and their combat effectiveness was also weakened a lot. . .

As a result, there was a big deviation from Gao Huaiyuan's established plan, which made the hope of Xuzhou breaking the siege slim in a short period of time.

For such a change, Gao Huaiyuan still behaved very calmly on the surface, but he was also anxious inside, calculating the loss of Xuzhou City every day, and preparing for the worst.

And the Mongolian army is not having a good time, Wokotai crossed the river into the Central Plains this time, the original plan was to fight a quick battle, completely solve the Jin State and defeat the Song army at the same time, but the delay of the war in Xuzhou, so that his plan also failed, after a large number of follow-up soldiers and horses were transferred to Henan, the shortage of food for the Mongolian army also appeared, and they could not get food on the spot, so they had to divide their troops to attack everywhere, while grabbing grain, while constantly transferring grain from the direction of Hebei Road to Henan, such consumption made Wokotai unbearable, So in order to solve this problem as soon as possible, Wokotai can only step up the siege of the city, in order to conquer Xuzhou City as soon as possible...

After entering the end of July, the battle in Xuzhou became much more tragic, in another heavy rain, the outer earthen fortresses of Xuzhou were completely lost, and the Mongolian army finally broke through this seemingly not difficult to overcome the earthen fortress, and the army pressed under the walls of Xuzhou.

Fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan and Meng Heng had anticipated the loss of the earthen fortress in advance, when the earthen fortress was conquered by the Mongolian army, and it was not guaranteed, Zhou Hao led Gao Huaiyuan's pro-protection army out of the city, blocked the Mongolian army's front, and rescued most of the Song army defenders outside the city into the city, and finally Zhou Hao fought and retreated, leading the pro-protection army to withdraw into the city. . .

But so far the Song army in Xuzhou has also suffered heavy losses, the original 20,000 or 30,000 Song army, to this time, has lost more than half of the troops, and there are only less than 10,000 people left, even if the Jin army prisoners who originally surrendered in the city continue to replenish the army, they have not been able to recover the decline, and the situation in Xuzhou is becoming more and more critical.

It has been almost two months since Gao Huaiyuan was besieged in Xuzhou, but Gao Huaiyuan still has not received the news that several other armies have completed their tasks, nor has he received the news that Jia Qi has quelled the Lin'an Rebellion.

Gao Huaiyuan had just inspected the city defense with Meng Heng, and when he returned to the marshal's mansion, a general in charge of logistics reported to Gao Huaiyuan and Meng Heng with a worried face: "Handsome! General Meng! I'm afraid things are a little bad! The food in our army city is about to run out, and the fodder has been completely exhausted! The gunpowder is basically gone, and there are less than 20,000 arrows left, which is only enough for our army to last for three days! ”

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and glanced at Meng Heng, and both of them saw a look of determination in each other's eyes...

"Handsome! While we still have a lot of war horses, we are willing to desperately protect the marshal to break out of the city, as long as the marshal can leave here safely, then we still have a chance, can't hesitate! Hurry up and break through! Meng Hui said to Gao Huaiyuan, with a look of absolute expression on his face.

"Nope! I will never leave Xuzhou! We're not at the end of our rope yet! Pass on my command, collect the armor of the wounded in the city, destroy it, and create an arrow cluster for the use of the three armies! If there is not enough food, kill the war horses, and kill all the mules and horses in the city for the soldiers to eat! Without waiting for Meng Heng to finish speaking, Gao Huaiyuan categorically rejected his proposal.

"Handsome! Think again! ......" As soon as Gao Huaiyuan's words landed, all the generals in the lobby knelt down together.

Gao Huaiyuan's expression was slightly excited, and he looked at the faces of everyone in the lobby with his eyes, and what he saw was everyone's anxiety, expectation, sadness, and gratitude.

Over the years, these soldiers of the Song army have been betrayed too much, and when they were in danger in the past, when they wanted to kill the enemy bravely, most of their commanders chose to turn their backs on them, and they slipped away with oil on the soles of their feet first, leaving them without anyone to command, no one to dispatch, and let them be slaughtered by the enemy, but today they took the initiative to ask him as the commander to break out, which shows that he has completely won the hearts of these soldiers.

It is precisely because of this that Gao Huaiyuan made up his mind that he would never let down these soldiers, and he would never choose to break through and escape by himself at this critical moment.

It's not that Gao Huaiyuan hasn't thought about breaking through these days, Zhao Yun stabbed him heavily in the back, which made him very angry, and there was no news from Jia Qi's side for a long time, and he didn't know if Jia Qi was working to solve this matter, he also thought about it, just break out, rush back to Lin'an Mansion, and calm down this matter in person, but can this work?

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