The defenders began to gather in the direction of the goose cart, and the two sides began a strangulation battle at the head of the city.

Although the garrison was numerous, the soldiers of Hejian who rushed to the wall first were all extraordinary in martial arts and had an advantage in one-on-one battles.

In addition to the regular army rushing in front, there were also many strong men on the Tulong army, and when they saw the enemy ascending the city with such a fierce momentum, they immediately panicked.

Yang Luo saw this scene in his eyes.

"Come with me!" He shouted to Ma Xiang and rushed over with a horned bow in his hand.

Ma Xiang led two groups of soldiers with swords and guns to follow closely.

The sergeants who landed in the city saw the opposing generals coming, and they all turned their heads and rushed towards Yang Luo. Yang Yan quickly raised his hand, and shot the head of a brand with a heavy axe that rushed to the front and shot it down the wall.

He was unceremoniously, bowed a series of arrows in his hand, and shot several Hejian soldiers who had landed in the city down the city one after another, and the Song army swarmed up, and instantly occupied the position of the goose cart on the wall.

Several soldiers from the left military camp wanted to fork the ladder with fork rods in their hands, but Yang Luo stopped loudly: "You can't fork it!" Leave it to General Ma to deal with! ”

Before the words fell, Ma Xiang rushed to the ladder and threw a lit iron cannon down.

As soon as the rope in his hand was tightened, the iron cannon hung right on the roof of the goose cart.

The soldiers of Hejian, who were fighting with the Song army at the head of the city on the ladder, knew that the road was not good, and brandished a wrestling knife to cut the rope.

At this time, the goose cart under them made a loud explosion. The air wave rose into the sky and threw several soldiers off the ladder.

The iron cannons, replaced with fine gunpowder, were so powerful that they destroyed the tall goose cart with a single shot, killing or wounding the elite soldiers in the cart, shattering the ladder and scattering the soldiers of the city.

Motivated, the Song soldiers began to follow the example of the battalion generals, using iron artillery to destroy the goose carts parked under the wall. After a hard battle, two more goose carts were damaged by iron artillery.

But the remaining three carts had already transported enough Hejian soldiers to the top of the city, and they formed a formation on the wall, advancing step by step, and the Song troops in either Yang Luo or elsewhere could no longer get close to the goose carts.

The Mongol infantry army was endless, and they fought their way up the city wall along the ladder of goose carts.

The soldiers of the Tulong Army could not stop these wolf-like infantry with all their strength, and even if they put a wooden general on the wall, the soldiers of the river still stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed forward to kill.

Seeing that there were more and more Mongolian soldiers on the city wall, Yang Luo hurriedly retreated to the north gate tower, and said to Lu Xunzhi: "The children can't resist the enemy, please take refuge in the lower gate for the time being, and let's retreat to the top of the mountain to defend." ”

"How can this be reasonable, this official is here under the order of the governor, and it is impossible to leave." Lu Xunzhi's face was still calm: "Pure father, although we have only known each other for a few months, we hit it off at first sight. In the future, as long as you hone more, you will definitely become a pillar of support for the country. ”

"Please inform the chief manager, although this battle is defeated, the Earth Dragon Army will eventually rise again." "What are you talking about?" Yang Yu shouted angrily: "Now is not the time to play loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness!" Please retire quickly! I'm going to resist the pursuers! ”

Lu Xunzhi shouted loudly: "Yang Luo received the order! ”

"Order you to lead the remaining soldiers and civilians to fight out from the south gate and retreat in the direction of Gangneung!"

"Nonsense!" Yang Luo was anxious, and grabbed Lu Xunzhi's arm: "How to obey the chaotic order!" Around! Tie me up and carry me down! ”

The Mongolian Great Khan's order, the great name of the river is really set in Jinan, Dongping Wulu Wanhu Shi Tianze, at this time quietly looking at his battle flag fluttering on the old crow cottage, the banner of the Song army has gradually retreated to the vicinity of the gatehouse and the two corners, victory is already an indisputable fact.

"Pass the order!" The object of his order was He Boxiang, the commander of the army who followed him: "Tell the children to search carefully after breaking the village, fight from house to house, and be sure to cut down the men, women and children in the village!" ”

That majestic appearance is as if death is really living in the world.

He Boxiang bowed down and was about to go down to distribute the order, when suddenly a tight gong sounded behind him.

Shi Tianze was furious, and shouted angrily: "Whoever messes with me will order Ming Jin for no reason!" Knife and axeman, go to his head, take the head and come back to his life! ”

A lukewarm voice came from behind him: "I don't need others, I sent the head myself." ”

Shi Tianze didn't need to look back, he knew that Lu Dao was the deputy marshal of the marching army and Liaodong Wanhu Jiagu Liuqi was talking.

He turned around and arched his hand: "The battle ahead is tight, the marshal, please step back for the time being, and wait for a certain sweep of the southern soldiers to come back to report to the marshal." ”

"No need." Jiagu Liuqi said: "Let's immediately leave the camp and set off, this stockade" He looked at the slaughtering Lao Crow Mountain in front of him: "Let's let go of the Southern Army for the time being." ”

Shi Tianze's eyes bulged out, and he said in a calm voice: "Please forgive me for being rude, the soldiers are about to break the cottage in front, you are now saying that you want to withdraw your troops and retreat north, Shi has been on the battlefield for thirty years, and I have never seen such a reason for using soldiers!" ”

"Then I'll teach you that." Although he is a Jurchen nobleman, Jiagu Liuqi has studied Chinese since he was a child, and he is accustomed to reciting poems against each other, and he has a good self-cultivation, even so, he can no longer tolerate the arrogant martial artist in front of him: "Bodner Qianhu, what is the reward for the Mongolian sentry cavalry?" ”

The Mongol Qianhu Bodner clasped his left hand on his right chest, leaned over and replied in Mongolian: "The cavalry from the east and south have brought back news, and there are traces of the Sinan Si people (the Mongolian name for the Southern Song Dynasty) on both sides." ”

"Southerners are useless." Shi Tianze brushed his sleeves and said: "Choose three thousand iron cavalry to rush and kill for a while, and you can kill them immediately." ”

Jiagu Liuqi sneered: "Can't you see that this is the Song people's plan?" ”

"This place is located in the middle of Ezhou, Jiangling and Xiangyang, and it is also a mountainous area that is inconvenient for our army to gallop. The Song people deliberately set up a big village in this place, with elite soldiers and strong generals to guard as bait, waiting for our army to come to attack rashly, at that time Xiangyang, Jiangling and Ezhou army came out together, from three sides will be our army here surrounded, at that time heavy troops gathered, our army can not be opened, it is the danger of the whole army annihilated! ”

"This point, the prince of Quchu knows better than you!"

Jiagu Liuqi clapped his hands, and a Mongolian quiver (known as Huo'er Chi in Mongolian) stepped forward with an arrow in his hand, leaned over and said: "Qu has an order, the southern expedition in the year of the dog is enough, and the Tumian Nayan and Minhan Nayan from all over the country should lead the people and cattle and sheep they have grabbed to the north." ”

"There will be no disapproval of the king's order outside!" Shi Tianze argued: "If King Quchu himself is here, he will also agree to break this stockade first and then retreat!" ”

The quiver man listened to the words of the interpreter, and said with an inexplicable panicked expression: "The Great Khan ordered Qu to be the commander-in-chief of the southern expedition, how could he not listen to his words?" The weeds of the grassland can grow longer after gnawing, and the soil can not be pressed back when your head is cut off. ”

Jiagu Liuqi sneered: "If you want to seek death yourself, it's okay, I am the commander of this army, the Great Khan punished me, and I became your substitute for the dead, such a cheap good thing, you Han people like to do it the most." ”

Shi Tianze glared at Jiagu Liuqi angrily, and was silent and did not speak.

When the Mongol army first started, they were all clan brothers in their own tribe, which can be called sincere unity. After Genghis Khan unified Mobei, mixed the people of various tribes together, and established the establishment of 95,000 households in Mobei, including the conquered people of Naman, Tatar, Mierqi, Kereh and other tribes, at this time there was a vague tendency to divide the mountains in the Mongol army. But under Temujin's strict military law and strict tribal control, the signs of this were not very obvious.

When the Mongol army went south to crusade against the Jin State, it absorbed a large number of Han Chinese, Khitans, Jurchens and all kinds of miscellaneous Hu people from North China and Liaodong, and gradually formed a kind of estrangement between generals and soldiers from different ethnic groups.

The successor of the Mongol Great Khan, Okotai, saw this more clearly than his three brothers, and every time he went on an expedition, he would make the noble relatives of the Mongol clan as the commander-in-chief, the Jurchen, Khitan or the Dangxiang ethnic group as the second commander, and the powerful generals of the Han army below. He hoped to use the Mongol way to ease the contradictions between the generals of different nationalities.

However, the relationship between Han and Hu, which had been entangled for hundreds of years, was obviously not something that the Mongols who had just emerged from the steppe could completely solve, and under the constraints of the Mongol military might and strict laws, the generals of all ethnic groups were able to unite as one and jointly conquer the east and west for the Great Khan.

But once there is a slight gap, the small actions of stumbling and applying eye medicine to each other among the generals of different nationalities are also endless.

Although he surrendered to Genghis Khan in Liaoyang very early, he also continued to attack his own state for the Great Khan in the years that followed, leading the army to mercilessly kill and slaughter the Jurchen soldiers and civilians of his own compatriot blood, so that he was able to gain the trust of the Great Khan, and rise step by step.

But he was a Jurchen. The state was destroyed, the temple was destroyed, and the emperor's bones were passed to the northern cities for display, which was a great shame for every Jurchen who lived secretly. Many of the remnants of the Jin Kingdom were still fighting in various places at this time and refused to surrender, and if Jiagu Liuqi was suspected by the Great Khan at this time and did not listen to the dispatch, he could put himself on the brink of danger at any time.

In order to ensure their own safety, they must show themselves more importance in front of the Great Khan, and the source of importance is naturally military exploits and powerful troops. However, after more than 20 years of the Mengjin War, there were few powerful Jurchen warriors left, and the other people who survived by luck had also lost their enterprising spirit.

On the contrary, it was the powerful warlords of the Han people led by Zhang, Shi, Guo, and Yan who clashed and decided in the troubled times, and became more and more courageous the more they fought. There is a faint tendency to replace the Jurchen and Khitan generals.

If you can't use your weak headquarters to build more feats, then at least you must stop the Han people from continuing to conquer the city and reduce their threat to yourself.

This is Jiagu Liuqi's thoughts, and his little calculation Shi Tianze is also very clear.