Chapter 59: Big Things Are Not Good
Such a scene is staged in the city at any time, both sides are desperately attacking the enemy, even those people in the city have spontaneously joined the ranks of the soldiers, lifting stones and heavy trees to smash the Mongolian army under the city, more people rushed to the city wall with the door panel, braving the rain of arrows shot up from the city, constantly carrying some wounded soldiers off the city wall, handed over to the army medical officer and the city Langzhong for treatment, so that It played a great role in supporting the morale of the Song officers and soldiers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Seeing that those pointed wooden donkeys were retreated to the city, some Mongolian soldiers, under the cover of the wooden donkey cart, got under the cart, began to pick up pickaxes, and frantically dug the ground under the city wall, so that the officers and soldiers in the city had no way to take them, stones could not hit them, rolling wood could not hurt them, and bows and arrows had no way to take them.
Huang Yan jumped to his feet angrily, and immediately asked his subordinates how to restrain these wooden donkey carts, and someone immediately came up, collected a few heavy grinding discs and stone grinders in the city, and with the concerted efforts of countless people, carried these things up the city wall.
More craftsmen risked death to enter the city, quickly transformed a few wooden frames that hung wolf teeth, hung up these stone grinders and grinding discs with ropes, aimed at the wooden donkey carts below, and cut off the ropes, these boulders weighing hundreds of pounds when they fell down, the huge kinetic energy they carried, even if they were sturdy, the result was that the effect of such a blow was wonderful, when even a few wooden donkey carts leaning against the foot of the city wall were smashed, even the Mongolian soldiers who were digging holes below were crushed to death, and the rest were not dead, was also stuffed below, helplessly letting out a cry for help.
In just more than half a day of fierce fighting, the Mongolian army paid at least more than 1,000 casualties under the city, but it can be said that it has not achieved an inch, a large number of corpses of newly attached officers and soldiers are lying under the city, and more wounded are lying in a terrible scream.
But Tuo Lei immediately fell into the middle of the Chinese army, and even frowned, as if those who died had nothing to do with him at all, and continued to press batches of new annexed troops onto the battlefield.
In this way, the two armies fought fiercely until it was getting late, and the Huang Yan soldiers in the city came to block the water and cover the earth, and the Mongol army launched attacks again and again collapsed under the city, and also killed and injured a large number of living forces of the Mongol army, so that the new annexed army of the Mongols was almost frightened, and the offensive began to slow down.
Returning to the tent, Tuo Lei and his generals sat down on the carpet, drank some mare's milk wine, grabbed some mutton and ate some of it, and then discussed military affairs.
Do you have any discoveries in today's battle? Tuo Lei asked his generals in a gloomy voice.
A general immediately replied: The strength of this Song army in the city is beyond our expectations, and it seems that they are now sworn to protect this small county town! Moreover, the officers and soldiers of the other side are much stronger than those Song troops we met when we just entered the Song realm, and I am afraid that it will not be easy for us to conquer this city in a short period of time!
Tuo Lei nodded, this day of fierce fighting, also made him feel deeply, and even produced a sense of frustration, if the Song army is like this army of soldiers and horses, then their plan to enter the Song realm this time to force the Song people to bow down to them may have to be re-examined, the performance of this Song army greatly exceeded the expectations of all of them, even if he led the army to fight for many years, he rarely encountered such a strong opponent.
He was most concerned about who led this Song army and why they were so strong, so he asked Hai Lasu, who had been lying behind and had not spoken: Hai Lasu, you were defeated by this Song army a few days ago, do you know who commanded this Song army?
Hailasu came out and knelt in front of Tuo Lei, and replied with a sad and indignant face: Back to the king's words, the little one is incompetent, I only know that this Song army is the soldiers and horses of the Song State, and the person who commands the army is surnamed Huang, and the others are not clear!
Tuo Lei was really choked by this Hailasu, and he was killed by others and returned defeated, but he didn't figure out who the enemy army was, so he waved his hand to let Hailasu get out of the big tent, turned his head and asked his advisers: Zhang Chengliang, you are a Han Chinese, and you know the situation in Song Zhishu very well, so do you know who is in charge of this army?
This Zhang Chengliang hurriedly came out and replied: King Qiyu, this time, when the king conquered Jiezhou, he personally interrogated some soldiers and officials of Jiezhou, and learned some news!
At the beginning of the year, the Southern Song Dynasty sent their privy envoy Gao Huaiyuan into Sichuan to quell the rebellion.
After this person entered Lizhou, within a short period of time, he pacified the Lizhou military rebellion and began to preside over the military administration of Lizhou, and this Song army general surnamed Huang is likely to be his general Huang Yan, and now he is appointed by him as the commander of the capital of the capital of Chuzhou, and this person heard that he used to serve in Jingxi, and he was once the commander of the Zhongshun Army in Beijing, and he was very capable of fighting! This is the person we are likely to meet this time!
After listening to Zhang Chengliang's words, Tuo Lei then asked: So that means that this person should be the general surnamed Gao?
Zhang Chengliang knelt in front of the low table of the towing mine, and quickly nodded and said: The little one thinks it should be like this!
After thinking about it for a while, he nodded and waved his hand to let Zhang Chengliang retreat, twisted his beard and summed it up again, and suddenly had a plan in his mind, so he immediately began to arrange for his generals.
Huang Yan led the troops and the Mongolian army to fight fiercely for a day, blocking the repeated attacks of the Mongolian army, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city suddenly had confidence, and they worked together overnight to make all kinds of imperial utensils, and under the dispatch of Li Chan in the city, they rushed to repair the city wall damaged by the Mongolian army during the day, and the entire county was brightly lit overnight, and the city defense was made much stronger, just waiting for the next day to fight again.
Even some ordinary people in order to support the Song army to resist the Mongol army, they called some people, demolished their houses, and sent bricks, tiles, beams and other things to the city wall to supply the officials and soldiers for guarding or repairing the city wall, as well as rich families, they killed the pigs and sheep in the house, and took them out to reward the officials and soldiers, and the whole Jiangli County became a monolith, which made Huang Yan quite pleased, and he also lay down and rested beautifully for a night.
After Huang Yan rested for a night, he climbed the city wall in high spirits early the next morning, inspected the defense of the entire city wall, and saw that the abundant imperial guards were piled up on the city wall, and the soldiers and civilians were even more energetic, and strengthened his determination to resist for a long time.
But what happened next made Huang Yan a little puzzled, and the next day and one day, the Mongol army changed yesterday's fierce attack at any cost, and actually stopped, only sent a small number of new annexed troops, carried out two feints, and immediately withdrew from the battle as soon as it was counterattacked by the soldiers and civilians defending the city.
Most of the soldiers and civilians were very happy about this situation, thinking that the Mongol army was frightened by their first day and did not dare to storm Jiangli County again, so the people in the city rushed to tell each other and celebrated with their foreheads.
But Huang Yan felt that something was not right, he was already familiar with the fierceness of the Mongols, and he would never dare to attack because of yesterday's defeat, but now it is true that the Mongols have died down and will no longer launch a strong attack, so it is very likely that the Mongols have come up with some bad moves, and they may not know when they will be in the dark.
So Huang Yan personally climbed the city tower and carefully observed the situation of the Mongolian camp with a telescope, but there were enough shadows, and he couldn't see any major actions of the Mongolian army, only that the Mongolian camp was supervising the construction of more siege equipment, and there were not too many abnormalities.
Huang Yan was relieved a little at this time, and ordered his subordinates to strengthen the monitoring of the Mongolian army, not to slacken, so that the Mongolian army took advantage of the loophole.
At this time, Gao Huaiyuan led more than 1,000 pro-protection troops under his command to drive out of Qifang Pass, entered the territory of Jiezhou, and rushed towards the direction of Jiezhou in a hurry.
Along the way, from the mouths of the refugees who fled into the pass, he learned that Huang Yan had led the army through here and rushed to the direction of Jiezhou, so he continued to supervise the army and rushed forward.
Just when he was about to march to Niutou Mountain, he heard the news that Huang Yan led the army to win a great victory in Niutou Mountain, Gao Huaiyuan was a little relieved, and said in his heart that Huang Yan really lived up to his expectations, and became more and more able to fight, after estimating the time, Gao Huaiyuan no longer worried about Huang Yan's safety, so he ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot for one night.
Rushing all the way, they basically didn't have much rest, even Gao Huaiyuan himself, he felt a little tired, not to mention the generals under his command, although he was in a hurry to meet Huang Yan, but he also knew that he couldn't go too far, otherwise, it was likely to make the soldiers and horses under his command too tired, otherwise, it was likely to be too fast, once they encountered the enemy, the overly tired soldiers would lose the strength to fight.
After learning the news of Huangyan's victory in Niutou Mountain, Gao Huaiyuan ordered to rest and recuperate, and this place was already very close to Niutou Mountain, Gao Huaiyuan chose a hill and asked his soldiers to stop and rest on the spot for one night.
But Gao Huaiyuan didn't dare to relax, and sent Li Ruohu to arrange two scout teams to go out to find out about Huang Yan's news, and then after inspecting the camp, he lay down to rest.
But before dawn, Gao Huaiyuan was hurriedly woken up from his dream by Li Ruohu.
Lord! Big things are wrong! The scout has just come to report that Huang Yan's army has marched to Jiangli County, surrounded by the Mongolian army in Jiangli County, and on the way back the scout found a large number of traces of the Mongolian army in the west of us, and a large number of Mongolian troops are rushing towards us, please decide! Li Ruohu saw Gao Huaiyuan wake up as soon as he woke up, so he said to Gao Huaiyuan eagerly.
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