Chapter 51: A Fierce Battle

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With the order of Tumen Khan, the Mongol iron cavalry did not care about resting and launched the first round of offensive against Pingshanzhai.

The Mongols were all warriors who had been rolling on horseback for a long time, and their ancestor Genghis Khan once made a bow with a range of 300 meters, no matter how thick the armor could penetrate, and it can be said to be the most terrifying weapon in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Although Mongolia at this time did not regain the glory of Genghis Khan's time, every Mongol warrior was also strong and strong, and they knew that a direct attack on the Ming army's walls would cost heavy casualties. So they went to another, more terrible and effective method, bow and arrow suppression and earth and stone paving.

The three Mongolian thousand-man teams in the lead, taking advantage of the strong bows and crossbows in their hands, fired arrows intensively at a distance of about 200 meters from Pingshanzhai one after another, suppressing the Ming army on the city wall.

Behind the 3,000-strong team, 5,000 Mongol soldiers continued to gallop their horses and threw bags of earth and stones into the trenches, gradually filling in the trenches and clearing obstacles for the army behind them.

"The Mongols are really not the Jurchens, those dirt buns can be compared, I actually know that the maximum range of my Ming bird's gun is only one hundred and fifty meters, it seems that this battle is not easy to fight" Li Rusong stood on the city wall, through the shield of the guard, watching the orderly attack of the Mongolian iron cavalry, and couldn't help but sigh.

Under the intensive suppression of the Mongols' bows and arrows, it was difficult for the Ming army on the city wall to effectively strike at the Mongols who filled the trenches, after all, this was not a dangerous mountain, and Li Rusong did not have so much time to build a complete fortification like a dangerous mountain. There were not enough defensive facilities on the city wall, and a large number of Ming troops were killed and wounded by the Mongols' bows and arrows at the beginning of the war, and suffered heavy losses.

In less than an hour, the Mongols filled in the three trenches in front of the Pingshan fortress, and they suffered almost no losses. Instead, in the first wave of Mongol attacks, the Ming army was shot dead and wounded by hundreds of people, and their morale was greatly damaged.

"Hahaha, Li Rusong, you are a yellow-mouthed child, but that's it, today you can't escape!" Raising his head and laughing heartily, Tumen Khan waved his hand, and the original three Mongol thousand-man teams retreated, replaced by the other five energetic thousand-man teams, and continued to suppress with bows and arrows.

"Suffered! Li Gongzi, the last general is willing to go out of the city to fight with the Mongol Tartars, and ask Li Gongzi to lead the cavalry to protect the two wings of the last general" Yang Yuntong saw that the Mongols were preparing to carry out a larger-scale fire suppression, and immediately became anxious, and hurriedly took the initiative to ask Ying to fight.

According to this rhythm, within three hours, the Mongol transport troops can use earth and stone cloth bags to directly pile up a road leading directly to the head of the Pingshan walled city, and at that time, the Mongolian iron cavalry can directly kill and injure the Pingshan wall, and the Ming army will be defeated.

"Hehe, Brother Yang, don't be impatient, the younger brother just wants the Mongol Tartars to get close to the city wall, otherwise how can he defeat the enemy army?" Li Rusong smiled and whispered in Yang Yuntong's ear, and the latter suddenly had a happy face, and quickly left the city wall with a thousand birds and soldiers under his command.

At this time, the arrows of the Mongol army were like flying locusts, and the black pressure overwhelmed the entire city wall. Li Rusong promptly evacuated most of the soldiers from the city wall, leaving only a small number of soldiers to hide in strong bunkers and observe the movements of the Mongol army through small holes.

With the suppression of the Mongolian cavalry's five rounds of bows and arrows, the Mongolian cavalry behind took advantage of the Ming army's temporary inability to fight back, and quickly approached the city wall, wanting to repeat the tactics just now, and directly piled up a road to the city wall with earth and stone cloth bags.

"Bang! Bang! When the Mongolian cavalry rode to a distance of less than ten meters from the city wall and was about to speed up the discarding of the earth and stones, a dense sound of bird guns suddenly sounded on the wall of the Pingshan Wall, and the Mongolian cavalry responsible for carrying the earth and stones suddenly turned on their backs.

Accompanied by the white smoke from the bird's gun, countless Mongol cavalry were beaten into sieves, some even had direct headshots, and some fell off their horses because they were injured and trampled into meat sauce by their companions.

"Monk King!" Li Rusong, who had been observing all this on the watchtower, immediately sent an attack signal to Monk Greenqin.

As soon as he heard Li Rusong's signal, he immediately rushed to the city wall, turned over the mechanism to open several traps on the wall of Pingshanzhai, and threw a large number of "10,000 enemies" who had ignited the fuse towards the Mongols who were in a mess under the city wall.

"Boom! Rumble! This move was quite vicious, where did the Mongols think that the Ming army would actually give up blocking above the city wall, or use the shooting holes and traps that had already been drilled under the city wall, waiting for the other party to approach the city wall to attack.

"Hehe, it's still all wood, and it's not hard to drill holes and hit the door. This can probably kill a thousand people younger, right? There was a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, and Li Rusong looked at the Mongolian army under the city wall in chaos.

After the smoke cleared, everyone looked under the wall of Pingshanzhai and couldn't help but gasp: nearly 1,000 Mongolian soldiers fell in a pool of blood, or they had already lost their breath, or they were seriously injured and unable to move.

Li Rusong did a lot of tricks and feet on the city wall of Pingshanzhai in advance, the walls of Pingshanzhai are all made of wood, drilled and made of trap doors, the city wall is a little low and does not use defense, even if a large number of fortifications are set up on the city wall, it is difficult to resist the rocket attack of the Mongols.

Therefore, Li Rusong deliberately dug three trenches outside the city to confuse the Mongols into thinking that they were going to rely on the city wall for defense, and ignored the dense shooting holes on the wooden city wall.

Poor Tumen Khan, when he saw the trench at the beginning, had a preconceived idea that the Ming army would rely on the city to use firearms for defense, and obediently walked into Li Rusong's trap step by step.

"Hehe, with a loss of nearly a thousand people, even the barbarian tribe, which is known as the strongest tribe in the grassland, may not be comfortable, right?" Grinning gloatingly, Li Rusong ordered the soldiers to redeploy the defense at the head of the city, while Yang Yuntong led a thousand birds and guns to stay at the shooting hole.

"Order the warriors to retreat temporarily, retreat fifty miles and encamp! Arrange two thousand-strong teams to harass Pingshanzhai in turn, so that the Ming army can't rest well" At this time, Tumen Khan was unexpectedly calm, and ordered to leave two thousand-man teams to harass as usual, so he led the army to retreat fifty miles and set up camp.

"Cut! Sure enough, it is an old thief who has been fighting with me for decades, and he is so cautious, it seems that he has to think of another way" Seeing the army of Tumen Khan gradually disappearing from sight, Li Rusong couldn't help but pout.

This battle of Pingshanzhai is destined to be an extremely difficult battle!