Chapter 126: Governor Lu's Grievances (Part II)
The night was dark, and only the torches in the camp still illuminated the square inch of land.
Liu Quan stood outside the tent without the slightest expression on his face. And his personal guards had already been ordered, and they all stood far away, and no one dared to come forward to disturb them.
For Liu Quan, the siege battle at dusk caused heavy casualties to his elite sons, although Liu Yuanzhen's army has arrived one after another, but after all, the training level of the Mongolian soldiers in Chengdu Mansion and the physique of the soldiers themselves are not as good as Liu Quan's command.
It's going to be too difficult to launch an attack as ferocious as it was at dusk today. What's more, now it is like a worse situation to send a battle report of the annihilation of the Yushui Naval Division, which means that the Song Army's Naval Division can calmly cover Luzhou City along the river. This is not only an irresistible psychological pressure for the siege soldiers, but also a real enhancement of the strength of the city.
I didn't expect that I would once again lead the army to this sad place, but I was afraid that I would return with a feather. Liu Cheng sighed softly, and a general walked over majestically: "General Qiyu, everything has been arranged." ”
Liu Quan looked at it casually, it was Liu En, the commander of the army under his command. There was a slight urgency on his face, or rather, eagerness. In the siege battle at dusk, Liu Yuanli, who mainly wanted to be ashamed of the snow, rushed to the front, and Liu En did not find the opportunity to lead people to rush forward, so he had already held his breath.
"Now it's time to wait for the rabbit." Liu Cheng said with some self-deprecation, "The sentry cavalry facing Luzhou City can be recovered, but we can't relax at all in line with the direction of Zhou and Chongqing, and there is still no news of Zhang Juejun?" ”
Liu En smiled: "Still not." ”
"The herald is weak, send more sentry horses, be sure to find Zhang Jue!" Liu Quan's voice turned cold, "Zhang Jue can't find it, it's like a sword hanging on our heads all the time, and we can't let go of our hands and feet to fight no matter what,"
Liu En didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around.
And Liu Quan continued to look ahead, and there were sparks on Luzhou City in the dark. The night is already deeper, Gao Gao, Ye Yingwu, you have the ability to let the horses come, a certain Liu Cheng is here to wait for the arrival of a few people.
Just when Liu Quan's thoughts were full of thoughts, whistling arrows fell from the sky, and then the earth-shaking killing sound surged from the surrounding fields like a tide, and wave after wave slapped against the wall. Liu Cheng subconsciously gritted his teeth: "What direction?!" ”
"Qianzhai, the southern barbarians are fighting in Qianzhai!" A personal guard general showed joy on his face, his own general was really like a god, and he switched the positions of the Tongchuan army and the Chengdu army that were tired after a long battle in advance.
This is just repaired tens of thousands of steps, even if the Luzhou defenders pour out, it is enough to drink a pot.
Just in front of the Mongolian army, the Mongolian soldiers on the arrow tower of the camp have fallen in response, and the dense arrows are whistling over the wall, although they have been prepared or are ready to fight, but under this sudden blow, the Chengdu army still inevitably has losses.
"Set up a crossbow, raise a shield!" Liu Yuanzhen pressed his sword and commanded loudly.
In order to prevent the Luzhou defenders from sneaking in from being suspicious, the soldiers in the camp were all squatting or sitting, without showing their heads at all, and the bows, crossbows, shields and other utensils did not dare to raise them.
The Chengdu government army also reacted very quickly, and the arrows that were denser than the enemy troops who were sneaking up had already whistled out after a while. Countless torches were raised at the same time, lighting up the sky.
Those Song soldiers who were about to rush to the wall were hit by this sudden arrow, and half of them fell down screaming at the moment, but the soldiers behind reacted quickly, and raised their shields one after another, and these shields were not round shields carried by light soldiers, but large shields for real battlefield killing.
The shield fell to the ground with a bang, and spears protruded from the gaps in the shield.
The Song army, which originally attacked the camp, turned to defense in a matter of moments. At this time, the gate of the camp was also opened, and the two Mongolian cavalry teams of 1,000 people rolled up countless smoke and dust, rushing up from the left and right sides, and more foot soldiers followed, head-on to attack the Song army formation.
There were a few orders from the Song army's array, and the flank soldiers without shield protection quickly took two steps back, while the Song soldiers with spears in their hands stepped forward, and immediately half-squatted on the ground, the rear ends of the spears poked on the ground, and the three rows of spears were neatly arranged, which was a small horse-rejecting formation. And behind these pikemen, the Song soldiers armed with assault muskets and crossbows with divine arms and crossbows had blazing eyes, and they were not afraid of the Mongolian cavalry roaring at all.
At this time, Liu Yuanzhen had already realized that something was wrong, but when it came to this, it was too late to retreat. At the next moment, the Mongol cavalry and the Song army's horse rejection array collided violently. The snapping of spears, the whistling of sabers, and the low roar of assault rifles shattered the originally quiet night in an instant, and was replaced by bloody killings.
The flames soared into the sky, and the Song army had no need to hide its whereabouts, the fire fold was ignited, and rockets pierced through the darkness and sank into the camp of the Mongolian army in front.
In an emergency, Liu Yuanzhen hurriedly ordered several teams of 100 people to go to fight the fire, and he galloped out of the camp on horseback, and the front suddenly opened up, and the Song army formation was like an iron turtle, although it slowly retreated under the squeeze of the Mongolian infantry cavalry, but there was no possibility of collapse.
It seems that this phalanx is less than 2,000 people, and it carries weapons such as large shields and fire arrows, which are definitely not for sneak attacks. Liu Yuanzhen secretly shouted in his heart that it was not good, no matter how stupid a person was, he would not only send less than two thousand people and then run out of the city with these things to sneak attack!
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Outside the Mongolian army.
Yang Bao and Jiang Tie glanced at each other, and they both saw the smile in each other's eyes.
"This time, it hurt Wang Zhizhou." Jiang Tie looked at the sky-high flames in front of him, and drew his saber, "Let's hurry up and take action, so that Jun will watch from behind." And if Liu Quan is allowed to react, it will really fall short. The sailor Zhang Du has won, and our Tianwu army can't admit it on this land! ”
"Sons, the success or failure of Luzhou, in one fell swoop, kill!" Yang Bao let out a low roar and rode his horse straight away!
In the dark, the cavalry of the three hundred battles was like a sharp sword, and it burst out of its sheath!
On the back of the galloping horse, Jiang Tie laughed, holding the reins of the knife in one hand, and pulling the trigger violently in the other hand. The short crossbow equipped with a hundred battles belongs to the hand crossbow, and the strength used is small compared with the foot ** of the god arm crossbow, and the natural range is also short, but it is enough at this time.
Not only Jiang Tie, but also the cavalry of the other hundred battles also pulled the trigger, and the dense arrows covered the already small arrow tower behind the camp, and the Mongolian soldiers on the arrow tower had not even had time to discover the enemy who suddenly came out of the darkness.
The thin gate of the camp could not stop the onslaught of the cavalry, and the three hundred cavalry roared in the darkness like a wolf in the sheepfold. A fire fold was thrown to the nearest camp tent, and what was even more fortunate was that the grain and grass of the Mongolian army was near the back door, and the fire fold was thrown up, and a raging fire was immediately rolled up, and the entire Mongolian army rear village was shrouded in smoke and flames!
"Southern Barbarian, enemy attack!" Liu Quan's roar was hoarse, he didn't expect that he had calculated everything, but in the end he was still recognized by Ye Yingwu, not to mention the Chengdu government army that had been attracted out of the camp, and even the Tongchuan government army under his command was also gathering and ready to support Qianzhai at any time.
But who would have thought that the enemy would come from behind!
The cavalry of the Hundred Battles was divided into two, Jiang Tie led one to cover in the direction of the stable, while Yang Bao rushed directly to Liu Quan's camp. Behind the Hundred Battles, Ye Yingwu personally led the Song Army's infantry brigade into the camp.
The Tongchuan army turned around in a hurry to meet the hundred battles, this is these Mongolian foot soldiers have not even seen the cavalry of the Song army, where do they have the experience of dealing with cavalry, not to mention that at this time the entire camp has been in chaos, pikemen, shield soldiers, crossbowmen are running around, and they have long been soldiers and generals who are not subordinate to each other, and they are fighting separately.
Liu Cheng gritted his teeth fiercely, if Ye Yingwu had more manpower, I am afraid that tonight would be a situation where the whole army would be annihilated!
The exhausted Tongchuan army was killed by a hundred battles that swept up the smoke and dust, and the only Mongolian cavalry that could resist them was because of the hot weather, coupled with a rush to kill at dusk, they couldn't lift their spirits, and they rested early, at this time, they were naturally also caught off guard by being killed, and several Mongolian soldiers who watched the stables just turned over and got on their horses, and were split in half by the roaring Jiang Tie!
"Kill, let the horses out!" Jiang Tie was covered with blood on his body and face, but he couldn't take care of it at this time. This Ye Yingwu's cronies roared in the flames, and the horses under his crotch stood up, and in an instant, the cavalry of the hundred battles around him were infected by the heroic posture of his own commander, and he didn't care about the Mongolian soldiers who roared and pounced on foot, and they all slashed at the big rope that tied the horse to the stable.
Hundreds of Song soldiers rushed out of the sloping ground, swords and guns at the same time, killing the Mongolian soldiers who were even poorly armoured. A young general was draped all over his body, and he stepped forward on his horse, but there was a majesty in his somewhat hoarse voice: "You kid is so majestic, kill all the people in front of you!" ”
Jiang Tie didn't say a word, raised his saber high, and the other cavalry of the hundred battles drove these panicked Mongolian horses to the continuous camp in front! The envoy watched from behind them, the blood and fire burned beside them, and the once invincible Mongol cavalry was under their horses' hooves**!
And Ye Yingwu looked at his own son-in-law who was killing in front of him, and breathed a sigh of relief, but subconsciously looked at the east, Zhang Jue, General Zhang, Zhang Yuanjun, can this battle be successful, a certain Ye Yingwu has done his best to do his best, and the rest is up to you.
More Song soldiers roared forward from either side of him, and any Mongol soldiers who slipped through the net were mercilessly drowned. The red flags were unfurled, as if they were about to merge with the burning blood and fire.
The entire Mongolian army has been in chaos.
And on the side of the Mongolian army's rear village, a few black shadows hurriedly came, and the voice came from far and near: "Zhang Jue! Zhang Jue is just behind!! ”
However, it was too late, even if they delivered the news, it was useless, the entire Mongolian army was on the verge of collapse, and Liu Yuanzhen's Chengdu army was dragged to death by Wang Shichang commanding more than 2,000 Song army soldiers.
What's more, their news could not be delivered, and several sharp arrows roared out of the darkness and sank into the backs of several people. And they didn't even have a chance to turn back, a cavalry of the Song army, full four or five hundred men, swept past their unfallen corpses, and their sabers flashed coldly, cutting off the heads of several Mongol sentinels.
Behind these Song cavalry that swept like a black whirlwind, the Song army infantry of the brigade strode forward like a black wave!
Red flags were stretched out in the night wind, and at this critical juncture, Zhang Jue led the army to arrive as scheduled.
The sound of the Song army's killing came from a distance, and the Song soldiers on the city of Luzhou, who were ready to meet their robes at any time, burst into cheers.
Looking at the soaring flames and the retreating Mongol army, Gundam slapped the city wall fiercely: "The old man really didn't misunderstand this kid." The order went down, and the various departments went out of the city in turn and killed the old man fiercely! ”
The east gate of Luzhou, which had been closed, suddenly opened, the red flag of the Great Song Dynasty was in front, and countless Luzhou defenders stepped over the corpses of the enemy all over the ground, walked through the siege ladder vehicle that had been burned and collapsed, and the swords in their hands pointed straight ahead.
In this battle, the Song army won after all!
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It's getting brighter.
You can see crows hovering around you.
The flames that burned in the middle of the night were finally replaced by the light of the sky, leaving only wisps of smoke and dust rising into the air. The once continuous Mongolian military camps were all burned to the ground. From the city of Luzhou to the distance, there are blades and ownerless war horses everywhere. And more than that, it attracted the crow's corpse.
The corpses of the Mongolian army and the Song army were spread out, as if telling a tragic song of blood and fire.
The Song soldiers, who were supporting each other back and forth on the battlefield, were tired, but their faces were full of heartfelt joy. This battle, whether on land or on water, was won by its own family. And it's a big win.
Liu Quan's Tongchuan army was annihilated, and although Liu Yuanzhen's Chengdu army retreated in time, it also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the Song army in Dazhou, Jiading and other places had been dispatched one after another, ready to bite off a piece of meat on this Mongolian army that fled north in a hurry.
In the short term, the entire Sichuan-Shu Song army will have the strength to turn defense into offense. And for Mongolia, where the main force of the army is gathered in Xiangyang, it is undoubtedly a slap in the face.
However, the fly in the ointment, which made Ye Yingwu regret the most, Liu Quan still escaped after all, and under the leadership of Liu Yuanli, Liu En and other fierce generals, he fought his way out of the encirclement and joined Liu Yuanzhen. Liu Cheng was still there, and the boulder pressed in Song Jun's heart was not shattered.
However, everything cannot be perfect, looking at the corpses of the Mongolian army all over the mountains and the large amount of grain, grass, equipment, and baggage discarded, Ye Yingwu had nothing to say except for sighing. The faces of the soldiers around him were full of joy, and if they put on a sad look, wouldn't it be too much.
In any case, Luzhou is finally over. That's all he can do for the Sichuan, Shu and Song Army, and the rest depends on Zhang Jue and them.
Wen Tianxiang slowly walked to Ye Yingwu's side, this was the location of Liu Quanzhong's military camp tent, just in front of Ye Yingwu, Liu Quan's flag fell to the ground, already full of footprints. However, there were many fallen Mongol soldiers around, and it seems that they had also fought bloodily to protect the banner.
There is a smell of burning ** in the air, it smells very bad, normal civil officials have never seen such a bloody scene, I am afraid that I will have to vomit and vomit when I come here.
However, Wen Tianxiang didn't even frown, but said softly: "Yuanlie, I'm afraid the war here is over." ”
Yang Bao, Jiang Tie and others who were standing on Ye Yingwu's side also pricked up their ears in anticipation. After all, this is Luzhou, not Xingzhou, and no matter how it is, it can't give them a sense of home. It's better to be with the brothers of the Tianwu Army.
Ye Yingwu smiled lightly, his eyes swept over Wen Tianxiang, Yang Bao, Jiang Tie and Yang Xu in turn, and then said, "That's right, it's over." Let's go home, and take our brothers who have died in a hundred battles, and let's go home together. ”
In an instant, several people's hearts were shocked, and tears flashed faintly.
No longer looking at a few people, Ye Yingwu smiled and greeted the figure walking in front of him.
Zhang Jue, Gao Gao, Wang Shichang.
Several people looked at each other and laughed in the morning light.