Chapter 455 Cowardly Xue went south

As soon as the Mongol cavalry archers stopped firing, more than 3,000 Xiangyang troops hiding in bunkers immediately appeared and stopped the Mongol soldiers from ascending the city along the edge of the city. Most of the officers and men of the Xiangyang Military Region were experienced veterans, and they had already prepared for the defense of the city, and more than 20 soldiers poured a pot of boiling oil and water from the top of the city gate in turn, and splashed so much that the Mongolian soldiers next to the car shouted wah, and then dozens of strong men appeared, throwing huge stones downward, smashing the rushing car into unusable. In other places on the city wall, some of the defenders used sticks and steel forks to overturn one after another ladders to climb the city, and some threw down stones and rolling logs and smashed them at the enemy troops who were climbing the city, but they never let the Mongolian army climb the city tower for half a step.

Countless Mongolian soldiers fell down the ladder, and the soldiers behind followed closely as if they were desperate, occasionally opening one or two gaps, which were also desperately replenished by the superior forces concentrated by the defenders of Fancheng. Fan Tianshun led a hundred guards to patrol back and forth on the city wall, and rushed there wherever there was danger.

Round after round of attacks, round after round of defense, the offense and defense of both sides became more and more intense, and it turned out to be white-hot. It was not until an hour and a half later that the Mongol army withdrew its troops at the signal of the main general Ali Hague.

When the Mongol army withdrew from the field of vision of the soldiers of Fancheng, Fan Tianshun shouted excitedly: "We are victorious, reserves, clean up the battlefield." ”

The periphery of Fancheng is far less solid than that of Xiangyang City, and under the repeated bombardment of the Mongolian army's 200 stone throwers for several days, the damage is extremely extensive, and it cannot be repaired in time like the east wall of Xiangyang City. In the last few days, the main generals of the defenders of Fancheng, Niu Fu, Fan Tianshun, and Wang Fu personally commanded the battle in the outer city, although countless enemy soldiers were killed and wounded, but the city wall was full of holes, and although the civil defense team members and the people worked overtime to repair, they still could not catch up with the speed of destruction. In desperation, Niu Fu and others had no choice but to send the report of the emergency war to the Xiangyang Marshal's Mansion.

On 9 April, Lu Wenhuan, deputy envoy of the Xiangyang Military Region, led 500 officers and men of the Black Carbon Regiment to Fancheng.

"See Lu Shuai."

"General Fan, hard work."

Fan Tianshun, who was on duty in the outer city, pointed to the surrounding city walls and said: "Lu Shuai, this area is the most seriously damaged place, the enemy's stone throwers bombard every day, and it is very difficult to hold the outer city for a long time. ”

"General Niu, General Fan, and the marshal have sent the battle report of Fancheng to Lin'an, and will receive instructions from the Military Affairs Yuan in the near future. Two generals, what are the casualties in the past few days? ”

Niu Fu said: "Back to Lu Shuai, more than 600 of our soldiers were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, and the enemy's casualties were at least twice as many as ours. ”

"Okay, both, how long do you expect this outer city to hold out?"

Niu Fu and Fan Tianshun glanced at each other and said, "It should be no problem to hold on until the end of the month." ”

Lu Wenhuan nodded and said: "In the original plan, Your Majesty said that if the outskirts of Fancheng are difficult to hold, you can give up, as long as our army can destroy more enemies, not one city and one place." General Niu and General Fan, the situation in the outer city should be decided after receiving His Majesty's instructions. Before that, on the premise of reducing the casualties of our army, you should kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible, which is the main task of our army in the early stage of the war. ”

"Yes, Lu Shuai, the last general understands."

Lu Wenhuan said: "The battle of Xiangyang has been going on for a while, and the real battle is only in the past two months, and at present, the Mongolian army has invested more than 100,000 troops in the Xiangfan area. At the end of last month, General Xia Gui led the troops of the Jianghuai Military Region to Suizhou, and according to the latest news, the other two integrated brigades of the Second Division of the Imperial Forest Army had also set off from Lin'an and would soon arrive in Yingzhou. The coming May will be a month worth looking forward to. ”

The generals of the Xiangyang Military Region are very convinced of the strategy of the deputy marshal Lu Wenhuan, the power of Lu Wende, the strategy of Lu Wenhuan, and the courage of Lu Wenxin are the strengths of the three brothers of the Lu family. Among them, Lu Wenhuan is known for his resourcefulness, and his analysis of the current battle situation will naturally not be untargeted.

Niu Fu said: "Lu Shuai, does that mean that our army's anti-encirclement plan is about to be implemented?" ”

Lu Wenhuan whispered: "Well, the arrival of half of the Imperial Forest Army's troops means that Your Majesty will come to Xiangfan soon." ”

"Huh?" Niu Fu and Fan Tianshun were surprised at the same time.

"Haha, two, just listen to it, don't spread it for the time being."

"The last will understand." For a general of Niu Fu's level, of course, he won't know about the royal conquest.

"Okay, let's go back to Command first."

"Yes, Lu Shuai."

As soon as everyone returned to the headquarters, they listened to Wang Fudao, the deputy commander of the seventeenth chamber: "Lu Shuai, the commander has an order, let you return to Xiangyang immediately." ”

"General Wang? What's the matter? Lu Wenhuan frowned slightly.

"Lu Shuai, thousands of Mongolian cavalry troops appeared on the road from Xiangyang to Yingzhou, and the direction of progress seems to be Yingzhou, and judging from the banner, it is the cowardly Xue army."

"Cowardice? Is the coach Boyan? ”

"The banner of the Lord General shows that it is Boyan."

"Thousands of cowards, what's the purpose?" Lu Wenhuan seemed to be talking to himself.

Fan Tianshun said: "Lu Shuai, with these thousands of cowardly Xue troops, it doesn't seem like attacking the city, maybe it's the same as the Dudu Department that day, testing the deployment of my Yingzhou." ”

"Yes, it's very likely. Three generals, I will return to Xiangyang first, and I will leave it to you here, and the five hundred soldiers of the Black Carbon Regiment I brought will stay with you. ”

Niu Fu and the others said happily: "Lu Shuai rest assured, people are in Fancheng." ”

Nearly 5,000 cowardly Xue troops, under the leadership of Boyan, swaggered in the direction of Yingzhou. Bo Yan will not be worried at all about the cowardly Xue army trained by himself, the cowardly Xue army soldiers are one in a thousand, and their quality and talent are beyond the ordinary soldiers, coupled with almost cruel training, there is such an achievement. On the open road, this conceited cowardly Xue army wished that the Song army would attack them, so that they could have a good time.

After Boyan took office, he expanded the original 10,000 cowardly Xue army to 50,000, and after several years of rigorous training, after selection, 29,000 qualified people were left.

The Xue army began from Genghis Khan, and was one of his most important troops, which was stationed around Genghis Khan's Great Ear (tent) in peacetime, divided into four shifts, and took turns to guard them every three days; In wartime, he went on expeditions with Genghis Khan. The Cowardly Xue Army is composed of three teams, including the guards, the guards, and the sanitation, each with a captain, and is always subordinate to the Cowardly Xue Chief, and the Cowardly Xue Army, like other Mongolian armies, has the smallest establishment of a team of 100 people, above which is a team of 1,000 people, and then above is a team of 10,000 people. In Genghis Khan's later years, the number of the cowardly Xue army once reached 120,000. Later successive Mongol Great Khans made clear regulations on the number and treatment of the cowardly Xue army, the number of cowardly Xue was generally controlled between 10,000 and 30,000, and the treatment of ordinary soldiers was not lower than that of 100 or even 1,000 households of the regular army.

Similar to the cowardly Xue army, Huaidu, whose position is only a captain of the guards is the captain of a thousand households, but he can be on an equal footing with the commanders and envoys under Ah Shu, and many outstanding generals such as Ashuhan and Kuthorn are from the cowardly Xue army, which is enough to see the status of cowardly Xue in the Mongolian army.

After passing through Longweizhou, passing through the east of Yicheng County (the county seat is located in the west of Hanshui), and then going south for about two and a half hours, Huaidu said: "General Boyan, further forward is Yingzhou City." ”

"Well, I ordered all the soldiers to rest in place, and tell the general and the map."

In the only way, the Mongolian cowardly Xue army sanitation team is unified by thousands of households.

Huaidu pointed to the map and said: "General, there are three gates in Yingzhou City, according to the information obtained by our army, the east gate is garrisoned by a corps and part of the Imperial Forest Army in the third compartment of the Song Army's Lin'an Military Region, the city gate in the southwest is garrisoned by the Southern Dynasty Naval Division, and the northwest is garrisoned by the other four armies in the third compartment, and its defense line is in the Tanjiawan cottage about two miles outside the city gate, and the total strength of the Song army in the entire Yingzhou City is about 20,000 people. ”

"Okay, let's go to Tanjiawan first. Leave in a quarter of an hour. ”

Tanjiawan Cottage is located in the northwest of Yingzhou, and it is the only way to enter Yingzhou City from the north. Because of its dangerous terrain and easy to defend and difficult to attack, Wang Anjie led the third box soldiers of the Lin'an Military Region to arrive in Yingzhou, and then transformed Tanjiawan Village into a barracks, as the main defense area in the north of Yingzhou City, that is, the west camp of the Yingzhou garrison, and the headquarters of Wu Songhan, the commander of the third box, was located here.

Wu Songhan Zhuo Lizhai Gate, who had already received the news, stood around the main generals of various armies. After a while, I only heard the neighing of war horses, and then I saw countless smoke and dust flying in the air, and thousands of cavalry troops came to the door of Tanjiawan Cottage like a gust of wind, and the whole team was in a tight formation, it was hard to imagine that this was a large cavalry after a long journey.

Wu Songhan and the others looked down, only to see the first general, a white horse and a silver helmet, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd, born with a majestic and majestic style, if the stepping mount is replaced by a red rabbit BMW, it is like the reincarnation of Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms.

"Coming and going to get the same name." Wu Song shouted loudly.

"The deputy marshal of the Great Yuan Zhengnan Boyan is also." Boyan grabbed the reins and asked, "Which general of the Southern Dynasty is above?" ”

"Wu Songhan, the third commander of the Lin'an Military Region."

"It turned out to be General Wu, General Wu from the Wu family, the three major martial arts families of the Southern Dynasty, no wonder he was full of anger and admired for a long time."

Wu Songhan knew that Boyan's skills were superior to the end of the world, and he snorted: "General Boyan, you and others entered my territory for no reason, and they are really unrighteous teachers. ”

Boyan smiled, not annoyed, angrily mentioned the dantian, and said loudly: "General Wu, Boyan heard that the general knows the general and knows the current affairs, and now my Dayuan Dynasty is prosperous, why don't the general work with Boyan to protect the Ming Lord." ”

"The Tao is not the same, General Boyan, Wu Mou respects you as a good man, don't talk nonsense, and fight if you want to fight."

"Okay, General Wu, I heard that your Wu family is strong in martial arts, do you dare to go out of the village and fight Boyan?"