Chapter 183: Qi Huang Chaos and a Few Places of Smoke (I)
Ye Yingwu walked slowly across the ground that had been stained red with blood, his combat boots stepped on the ground, not as hard as he imagined, but soft, and the intertwined black and red blood directly soaked the soles of his boots. Several guards scattered from him in twos and threes, and these guards rushed down with Ye Yingwu, so they could only follow slowly like this.
If it wasn't for someone to help them just now, they wouldn't even be able to get off the horse.
Not only Ye Yingwu's personal guards, but also the other Song soldiers and soldiers all sat paralyzed in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, picked up the hot cake that had just been prepared and sent with bloodstained hands, and bit it down without caring at all.
After a big battle, it seems that even those recruits have been as calm as old soldiers.
Yin Yu walked in front of Ye Yingwu with a knife, gritted his teeth and insisted on arching his hand: "Qiqi envoy, in this battle, 1,236 soldiers were killed in the front of the Tianwu Army, and more than 1,500 people were seriously injured, but in this battle, more than 3,000 Mongolian infantry and cavalry were killed, and there were also 2,000 prisoners, and about three or four hundred people fled, and it was difficult to catch up." ”
Ye Yingwu nodded, such a result was expected, after all, his side occupied the advantage of terrain and troops, and the Mongolian infantry lost a lot when attacking the hillside, and the cavalry was lured to the valley to gather and annihilate it, so most of the captives were Han family foot soldiers. For these fellow clansmen who "help and abuse", Ye Yingwu is also very troubled.
Now the only way is to get these people to the south of the Yangtze River to repair the city, but the large and small fortresses in Xingzhou have already been built, and there is no shortage of 2,000 people.
"All the soldiers who died in the battle must be generously compensated, and the wounded soldiers must also be properly placed and treated, and I will go over and see later, after all, if there are not so many good men going forward this time, it is impossible for the Mongolian infantry to suffer such a heavy blow." Ye Yingwu said softly, "Also, the various passes of the soldiers have been transferred, and the people are sent back quickly, and you must not be negligent." ”
"The last general obeys!" Yin Yu said loudly. Generous compensation for the dead and wounded. This is the practice of the Tianwu Army, relying on the rich financial taxes of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jiangnan West Road, these are just a drop in the bucket, as for the other passes where the troops have been exhausted. Yin Yu also sent the transferred army back just now, and now there are no Mongolian infantry horses within a radius of dozens of miles, so he is not afraid of any accidents.
Therefore, after Yin Yu hesitated for a moment, he did not move, but looked at Ye Yingwu: "Envoy." Isn't there any news from him now? ”
"Pickaxe, this bastard, I don't know where to go, and I still need Lao Tzu to cover him." A sneer appeared at the corner of Ye Yingwu's mouth, "Such an unreliable guy, it is better not to come back according to him." ”
Seeing Ye Yingwu lose his temper, the corners of Yin Yu's mouth couldn't help twitching, Jiang Hao's temper was hot, and the entire Tianwu Army dared to scold Jiang Hao like this, and only Ye Yuanjun was the only one. However, Yin Yu still hopes that Jiang Hao can come back safely, after all, it is not easy to find a commander with a better temper.
Ye Yingwu was furious. Yin Yu naturally couldn't be stunned, and hurriedly changed the topic at the moment: "I don't know what the next step of the envoy is to prepare?" ”
Not only Yin Yu, but Jiang Tie, who was standing behind Ye Yingwu, also subconsciously leaned forward, obviously very interested in this question, of course, he also cursed secretly in his heart, Wu Chucai, this guy is not a fuel-efficient lamp like Jiang Hao, if he hadn't pulled most of the hundred battle generals away, the back road of these foot soldiers would be impacted today, as for the loss of manpower?!
Shaking his head, Ye Yingwu did not answer. Instead, he looked straight at the captives who had walked by dejectedly beside him, and then smiled leisurely. Yin Yu suddenly guessed what Ye Yuanjun wanted to do, and he sighed in his heart, and then sighed: I had long expected that Yuanjun would not let those Mongolian soldiers come so simply.
"Gifts are still exchanged. Ah Shu is not an old acquaintance, so he has to be polite and polite, right? Ye Yingwu walked forward with a slight smile, and it seemed that even the somewhat weak steps just now were sonorous and powerful when he stepped on the ground.
Seeing that the envoy was holding back his stomach again, Jiang Tie and Yin Yu looked at each other.
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"Ahh Jiang Ho sneezed and couldn't help but scold. "Fuck, which guy is poking so-and-so in the backbone? If Lao Tzu knew, he would have to cramp and skin! ”
Wu Chucai, who was lying beside him, teased: "Commander, you can't say that. If you think about the entire Tianwu Army, if you have the ability to poke your backbone in the back, you can only make Jun himself, if you really have the ability, you can try it when you go back. ”
Hearing Wu Chucai's mockery, Jiang Hao was stunned, and immediately stretched out his fist and smashed it on the ground, Okay, for Ye Yingwu, it is possible for the brothers to work together to get him drunk, if it is cramping and peeling, then it is better to wait until the next ?????? Ah no, let's go to the next life, at least he won't dare to lend Jiang Hao a hundred guts now.
As a result, Wu Chucai also sneezed immediately afterwards and was stunned. And by the time he came back to his senses, Jiang Ho was already curled up in the grass with his stomach in his hands, obviously struggling to hold back his laughter. Wu Chucai shook his head helplessly.
Seeing the two bosses lying in the wild grass and joking with each other, they were not nervous at all about the current situation, and the surrounding Song soldiers and soldiers were also relaxed, they were all veterans who had more or less experienced the battle formation, and the psychological burden was not so heavy, Wu Chucai and Jiang Hao did not have the slightest sense of slaughter, and even the people below were naturally very relaxed.
Not far from this group of people is the official road leading to Gwangju in the north, and in the cold wind, the grass on both sides of the official road is desolate, and you can see the household belongings that have been discarded on the side of the road everywhere, and I don't know which time the people fled south to throw away them.
Originally, when the border line of the Song and Jin Dynasty was divided, along the Huai River in the Qinling Mountains, Guangzhou was actually the northernmost state capital of the entire Southern Song Dynasty in the Huaixi region, but with the fiasco of Duanping and Luo, Jiangbei and Huaixi were already in vain, and even Qizhou and Huangzhou, which were adjacent to the Great River in the south, were often harassed and plundered by Mongolian cavalry, not to mention Gwangju.
It is the best choice to transport grain and grass from Gwangju to Gihwang and Huangzhou.
A convoy came from not far away with smoke and dust, this is the third time Jiang Hao and they have seen the Mongolian grain transport team, and it seems that they are also afraid of meeting the Song army sentry riders who have slipped through the net on the road, so these convoys are all silent, but they can appear here at this time, except for the Mongolian grain transport team, I am afraid there is no other business travel.
Previously, the two teams had hundreds of infantry guards, and Jiang Hao and Wu Chucai were afraid that they would not be able to eat this one, but they would attract the attention of the other Mongolian sentinels, so they never started. But this one is different. More than a dozen carts, with a total of less than forty or fifty people guarding.
Wu Chucai looked at Jiang Hao, Jiang Hao nodded, stretched out his hand and circled in front of him, signaling Wu Chucai to lead Baizhan to bypass and copy the back road.
The convoy is getting closer. Jiang Hao wanted to make a quick decision, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he didn't delay anymore, and shouted in a low voice: "Do it!" ”
More than a dozen crossbowmen pulled the trigger at the same time, and then the horses whispered, and a full two hundred cavalry swept down the low hills on both sides. There were already many holes in the Song army's red banner waving in the wind, and in an instant, the cavalry of the Kung Fu Hundred Battles had already killed the Mongolian guards who were caught off guard. If hundreds of people were worried that they would resist before, now that only fifty people can't solve it, there is no need to hold their heads up and be human in a hundred battles.
This battle was not even a battle, a burst of bows and crossbows poured down, and the Mongol guards had already suffered many casualties, and a hundred battles relied on the suddenness of the cavalry impact, and when the sabers were raised and fell, there would inevitably be hot blood gushing out.
In less than a cup of tea, the Mongolian soldiers who had the ability to hold their weapons were already dead on the spot.
The people who were driving the car trembled and knelt on the ground. Jiang Hao's brows furrowed slightly, and Wu Chucai, who rode to his side, shook his head with a wry smile: "These people, it's better that they were all killed by bows and arrows just now, and now they can't be released." ”
Jiang Hao took a breath lightly: "Kill, kill them all, not a single living mouth can be left." We are now north of Huangzhou, and behind Mongolia's southward march, it is possible for anyone to expose our whereabouts. ”
Don't look over, Wu Chucai didn't open his mouth to object. Although he was born as a literati, it does not mean that he will have any compassion at this time. Behind enemy lines is always the craziest and most brutal place. All the living mouths left behind may become enemies that attract wolves and tigers if they don't pay attention to them, and Jiang Hao and Wu Chucai both know this bit of common sense.
With a wave of his hand, Jiang Hao's eyes were blazing, and his face was like iron. In front of him. After hesitating for a moment, the Song soldiers waved their knives in their hands.
The grain carts were dragged to the far side of the hill and the corpses of the Mongol soldiers and those strong men were directly ignited, billowing black smoke rising. Wu Chucai said softly: "It's not good to stay here for a long time, it's better to leave quickly." ”
Black smoke rises in this wasteland, and it is estimated that the Mongolian sentry will sniff it out after a while, so it is the right way to hurry up and run.
"Let's go!" Jiang Hao said in a deep voice. I didn't forget to glance back at the billowing black smoke.
This is the first, but definitely not the last.
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Huaidu looked at the wild vegetables in the pot in a daze, and there was an inexplicable bitterness.
The first batch of grain did arrive as scheduled, but there was no trace of the grain and grass that should have arrived in the afternoon, so that the soldiers had no choice but to temporarily dig wild vegetables outside the city. This is why in the sunset, Huaidu looked at this pot of wild vegetables and was speechless.
The sentinels and heralds sent out one after another have not even heard from him so far, and Huaidu suddenly regretted inexplicably why he only carried two or three days of grain when he went south, and he knew that he should have brought the grain carts of the brigade and the brigade over.
Damn the commander of the baggage battalion, shouldn't you have forgotten these 3,000 people! And is it that the guy who took the road in Huangzhou could only grab it because he had captured too many prisoners and not enough food and grass? Huaidu suddenly found that the possibility of the latter is still quite large.
My stomach was rumbling, but looking at the wild vegetables in front of me, I didn't have the slightest appetite at all. These damn cowardly Nanbans run quite fast, as if they were smeared with oil on the soles of their feet, but in any case, they left a little stuff between Lao Tzu's teeth!
The winter night on the north bank of the river is not cold to the bone, but if the stomach is empty, it is enough to suffer. Huaidu scolded and picked up the steamed wild vegetable dumplings and took a bite, but he was not interested in the wild vegetable porridge that exuded a faint earthy smell next to him. Most of the wells in the city have been artificially blocked, and the water from the remaining wells is really not enough, and the soil on the wild vegetables has been washed thankfully.
The night has gradually invaded from a distance, at noon simply gnawed dry food, and at night by this wild vegetable dumpling made no appetite at all, Huaidu frowned and put on his clothes and walked out, the rolling cold wind swirled in the empty street, the street was on both sides of the broken walls, in order to be able to find enough firewood, many soldiers even removed those thresholds and beams.
Rao is like this, and the last fire that rises is also very few, but compared with sleeping in the wilderness, it is already unattainable. The patrol sergeant, who was obviously not well fed, walked weakly from the street, and did not even react to salute when he saw Huaidu passing by.
Huaidu didn't care about these small details, everything was routine patrols, guards, and sentry, and he didn't believe that the Song army, who had already fled, had the ability to kill it suddenly. He would rather believe that the grain that did not arrive had been snatched away by the Song army!
The walls of Qizhou are also somewhat broken after several battles, but it is still possible to hold on. Huaidu shook his head violently in the wind, hold on? What are you thinking about now, you have to know that your 3,000-step cavalry is not here to defend the city, but to attack, although now Huaidu doesn't know where he should attack before he has the command of Ah Shu.
Within a radius of dozens of miles, there was not even a figure of the Song army.
After a moment of silence, Huaidu still slowly climbed the steps, and the soldiers on the city wall sat or stood in twos and threes, and when they saw Huaidu coming up, they barely raised their strength to salute. After all, it is still acceptable to gallop on horseback on the steppe and skip a meal, so on the contrary, most of the Mongolian cavalry have already picked up their blades and gone to the city.
Where large instruments such as bed crossbows and trebuchets were originally placed, only deep grooves remained, as if to tell the conquerors of the city about the original situation.
Stretched out his hand and patted the battlements, Huaidu looked at it, but the next moment, his pupils suddenly dilated.
Because he clearly saw that the dense black figures, from far to near, were like waves, more like ?????? No, it's no longer like it, but it's Song Jun, those Song Jun who escaped by themselves as cowards!
At the same time, there was a commotion behind him, and flames rose in the city.
"Hit the mark!" These three words came to Huaidu's mind, and it was too late.
Just as he was stunned, a dense stream of arrows whistled overhead, swept under the slowly rising moon, flew into the city, and pierced into the chests of the defenders. To tell the truth, the Mongol cavalry, who had never defended the city before, was suddenly in confusion, they did not even have a shield to hide the arrows, and each man only had a saber.
Under the arrows fired by the crossbow of the Divine Arm, the saber is nothing.
"Quick, drumming, get ready!" Huaidu shouted almost with all his strength, and the voice in his voice was not so much urgency as a thick horror!
He had forgotten that his generals and snare drums were all in the government office, and the big drums on the city tower had long been broken and covered with dust. Even the Qizhou City Gate below, there is one that is not closed at all, that is, the water gate facing the river.
The sound of killing shook the sky, not only outside the city, but also inside the city.
One by one, the Mengchong fast ships rushed directly into the city from the water gate, not because Huaidu forgot to close the water gate, but more than ten fences used to block the water gate, which had already been destroyed five or six, and later the Mongol soldiers burned the fire and pulled out all the other fences and cut them down.
In other words, the Song army's sailors were actually put into the city by the Mongol soldiers themselves.
The flames in the city that Huaidu saw just now were the Mengchong warships pouring rockets on both sides of the waterway, and the bed crossbows and assault rifles were also bombarded without money, and none of the Mongolian soldiers on the streets near the waterway were standing.
It's just that these Huaidu are no longer visible, and the black-pressed Song army has quickly climbed the city wall, and there are hundreds of cloud ladders on one city wall, and tens of thousands of Song troops are attacking at the same time. The Mongol soldiers guarding the city wall were only more than a hundred people, and they were all cavalrymen with sabers.
No matter how high the city wall is, it can no longer prevent the Song army from suddenly appearing to ascend the city. (To be continued.) )