Chapter 354: Sortie

Gao Huaiyuan since he arrived at Jizhou outside the city and set up camp, the days began to be very leisurely, the solid camp so that he does not have to worry about being broken by the Mongolian army, and he has a large number of generals, relying on the camp, he is not afraid of the attack of the Mongolian army at all, and even he wishes that Polu lost his mind and came to attack his camp, and he is now not short of food, two is not short of soldiers, so the small life outside Jizhou City is very comfortable. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Since sending troops, he has really been so leisurely, for the Mongols outside every day to call the enemy scolding array, he ordered his soldiers to ignore them, just listen to the wolf howl, provoke the hair on the bed crossbow on the high earthen platform to the Mongolian army outside the camp to a guy, can not kill a few Tartars, but also frightened them, so that their arrogance immediately reined in, far away dare not approach the camp again.

When the armies were fine in the camp, in addition to the normal drills, they also engaged in various competitions, such as the popular Keju, sumo, archery, etc., which were popular in the Song Dynasty, and they were having fun in the camp, in addition to gambling money, as long as they could make the generals happy, they could be carried out, which was very beneficial to improving the morale of the army and promoting the fighting of the generals.

Even himself, from time to time, will go down to the field to try it, Keju not to mention, he is not very proficient, but sumo and archery, he is a strength, a brute force plus superb martial arts, so that he has almost no opponents in sumo, and he also encourages the generals to learn more wrestling skills, in order to exercise physical fitness.

When engaging in these activities, he also took out money to set up rewards for those soldiers who won the competition, so as to also find a group of quite brave soldiers, handed over to the generals in the army to observe and promote the appointment, and in the archery competition, Zhao Futang's new head Lu Futun is always skilled, and the archery is very exquisite. So he personally tried his archery skills with him, and the two were evenly matched, so Gao Huaiyuan immediately rewarded this Lufutun heavily, which made many people in the righteous army very angry.

However, doing so also narrowed the relationship between the Song army and Peng Yibin's righteous army, Gao Huaiyuan did not do anything in the army, and treated the officers and soldiers of the Song army and the righteous army equally, and the same standard of food and housing, so that these Peng Yibin's subordinates who had suffered for a long time were very grateful, and felt that the commander of the Song army treated them as outsiders, so there was no unpleasantness between them. There is nothing to say, in this way, although they are coalition forces, they are getting along more and more harmoniously, plus there is also the foreshadowing of Zhao Futang joining hands with the righteous army in Enzhou City in advance to resist the enemy, and the coalition forces are very united.

This can also be regarded as a credit of Gao Huaiyuan, since ancient times, often as long as it is a coalition army, it is rare to win a battle, the main reason is the disunity between the coalition forces, so this time he led the troops to fight, and paid great attention to the handling of these things, so in terms of unity, there was basically no problem.

However, their actions still aroused the dissatisfaction of some generals in the rebel army, because Jizhou City was surrounded by many of their brothers, they all wanted to repel the Mongol Tartars as soon as possible, relieve the siege of Jizhou, and rescue the robes in the city, although they did not know the situation in Jizhou City, but they could also figure it out with their butts, Jizhou City must have run out of ammunition and food now, maybe someone in the city would starve to death every day, so they wanted to solve the siege of the Mongolian army as soon as possible.

For this reason, a group of rebel generals represented by Shi Chonggui, after the army arrived outside Jizhou, repeatedly proposed to Gao Huaiyuan the idea of a decisive battle with the Mongolian army, but Gao Huaiyuan vetoed it, and later mentioned it more times, Gao Huaiyuan had to summon Shi Chonggui and other rebel generals, sat down and explained his plan to these people, and after these people listened, they understood Gao Huaiyuan's intentions.

Since this official led the army here, he is not greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise this official would not have come to Jizhou City, but this official is now carrying the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, and he will never risk a decisive battle with the Mongolian army before he is completely sure! The soldiers and civilians in Jizhou City are indeed eager to see through us, but I am afraid that it will take a few days before we wait for them to relieve the siege, and I hope that the generals will endure for a few more days, and once our army begins to fight a decisive battle with the Mongolian army, I hope that the generals will dare to move forward bravely. Gao Huaiyuan finally said to Shi Chonggui and them.

For these people in the righteous army, they are actually very embarrassed, not to mention their repeated failures in rescuing Jizhou, in this battle of the imperial river, the reason why they were able to encircle and annihilate thousands of Mongolian troops in Shibu, in fact, their righteous army did not make much effort, based on the stubborn resistance of the Song army and the Flying Tiger Army, only to block the breakthrough of Shibu, and they only slightly blocked a small number of Mongolian troops who broke through the line, and they were killed and scattered, so these generals of the righteous army are very faceless in this matter, and now it is the tall and handsome people who have the final say, Since they are commanded to do what they are told, it is not good for them to press too hard.

So they had to agree to come down and say that they would be patient for a few more days, but they all held their breath and wanted to save some face for themselves when they went into battle again in the coming day, and they could not be ashamed of anything.

Therefore, the rebel army also carried out a large-scale training during this time in the camp, and the generals of the Song army also did not hesitate to guide, although there was some suspicion of sharpening the gun in battle, but this kind of training was still quite effective, at least the combat effectiveness of the rebel army was raised to a higher level in a short time, and it was ready for the next move.

It's easy to say, the Song army has been stationed outside Jizhou for nearly 20 days in a blink of an eye, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the rain has become more and more dense, early in the morning, Gao Huaiyuan has just inspected the situation of the battalions, and he received a message from the high platform, saying that the Mongolian army camp a few miles away from them, after getting up in the morning, found some changes, but it is not clear what changes the Mongolian army has changed.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately took Hua Yue and others to a high platform in the northwest corner of the camp, and looked in the direction of the Mongolian camp with the generals, because the distance was far, everyone didn't see it very clearly, so Gao Huaiyuan asked for his magic weapon again, and the monocular began to observe carefully.

In the eyepiece, Gao Huaiyuan could clearly see that although the banners were waving in the Mongolian army camp, there was no figure in sight, and the whole camp had become an empty camp.

Ha ha! Polu finally couldn't hold on anymore! The camp of the Mongol army is now empty, and I think that Polu had already begun to withdraw his troops last night, and today is the time for me to go out of the camp and pursue! Pass on my general's order, the three armies immediately ordered troops and went out of the camp with this commander!

So the drums in the camp of the Song army immediately sounded, and after hearing the drums of war, the generals immediately rushed out of the camp and completed the assembly at a very fast speed.

With Gao Huaiyuan's arrangement, in addition to leaving some of the generals guarding the camp, he ordered a total of 40,000 troops, opened the gate, and led the army to roll away in the direction of Jizhou City.

However, Gao Huaiyuan did not forget to be cautious, although this was a camp pursuit, but he still brought a lot of partial box cars, in case the Mongolian army was a strategy, be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years! It never hurts to be a little more prepared.

And the main force of this pursuit, Gao Huaiyuan, handed over to Huang Yan, because Huang Yan was a shotgun during this time, in the battle of Yuhe, he led the cavalry of the Song army to finally block Shi Bu's breakthrough, although he ran away from Shi Bu, but he left more than 1,000 cavalry he brought out, but at the same time, the cavalry under his command also suffered heavy losses, at least more than half of the casualties, which made Huang Yan feel distressed.

However, in exchange for the Song army, the war captured nearly 10,000 Mongolian horses, and these horses removed some of the wounded, but also selected thousands of good horses, during this time Gao Huaiyuan collected a lot of soldiers in the army who knew how to ride a little, and handed it over to Huang Yan to form a cavalry of 5,000 people, temporarily ordered as the Tianxiong Army, temporarily handed over to Huang Yan to lead, all of a sudden the Song cavalry grew a lot, but also made Huang Yan happy.

In the past 20 days, he has been training these newly formed cavalry in the camp, although the time is still short, and the camp lacks enough space for him to use, but at least it can be used, this time out of the camp, Huang Yan was the vanguard again, led the cavalry out of the camp first, and killed the Mongolian camp in a mighty way.

When Huang Yan led the cavalry into the Mongolian camp, it was really an empty camp where people had already gone to the building, and the Mongols except for throwing away the banners and some broken military tents to confuse the Song army, the camp was cleaned up, leaving only a lot of corpses of women who were tired of being ravaged by them for a long time, and the whole camp was already empty, and it was completely gone.

Damn! Tartars, these brutes! They ran so simply, they were really cheap! Huang Yan rode on his horse, and after inspecting the corpses of the women who had been tortured and killed by the Mongol soldiers, he cursed.

Not long after, Gao Huaiyuan also led his troops to the Mongolian army camp, ordered the burial and burial of the bodies of these poor women, and immediately rushed out of the Mongolian army's camp and rushed towards Jizhou City.

But to their surprise, there were still a lot of soldiers and horses left outside Jizhou City, but judging from the banner, these soldiers and horses were not Polu's direct Mongolian army at all, but the rebels under the rebel general Zhang Rong.

After seeing this scene, Gao Huaiyuan didn't say a word, and with a wave of his big sword, he pointed to these Zhang Rong's troops that appeared in front of him, and then the army was divided into three ways, and under the leadership of Huang Yan, Hua Yue, and Zhao Futang, they went towards Zhang Rong's department.