Chapter 52: The Prelude to the War

Early the next morning, Li Xuan and Guo Jing and his party set off, King Jinlun and Huo Du both fled, and the Mongolians who stayed outside the village were strangled by Tang Jun and others, and the villa was basically abandoned after a night of inhuman destruction, and the war horses ridden by these Mongolians were naturally cheaper than Li Xuan, part of which was distributed to Guo Jing and his party, and the rest was unceremoniously pocketed by Li Xuan.

After a day of running, the group bypassed the camp of the Mongol army and parted ways outside the city of Xiangyang.

"Isn't the prince really going to enter Xiangyang with us?" On horseback, Guo Jing wanted to make another effort, only with the 50,000 defenders of Xiangyang, facing the 200,000 Mongolian army, the pressure was really not small, if Li Xuan's 30,000 troops could be stationed in Xiangyang, the defense would be much easier.

"As I said, the time has not come." Li Xuan shook his head, arched his hand at Guo Huang and his wife, and said, "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and the two of you are precious." ”

"The prince cherishes it." Seeing that he couldn't move, Guo Jing couldn't help sighing and solemnly hugged his fists.

"Lord Wang, will we go back now?" Tang Jun glanced at the direction of the Mongolian camp, licked his dry lips, his eyes flashed with a beast-like light, although there were only more than 100 people at the moment, as long as Li Xuan gave an order, even if Li Xuan said now that he was going to attack the Mongolian camp and kill Kublai Khan, he and the hundred or so soldiers behind him would never frown.

"Nonsense, put away your donkey's kicked head, the fight didn't go that way." glared fiercely at this stunned young man who didn't know the height of the sky, and said viciously.

"Uh, yes." Tang Jun drooped his head a little coyly, as if all the strength in his body had been drained at this moment.

Not long after saying goodbye to Guo Jing and his entourage, he met Luo Feng, who had already received the news and was waiting outside Xiangyang City, this was the seedling who was selected by Li Xuan with Tang Jun in Lin'an City. Tang Jun is like a fire, fierce and decisive, but Luo Feng is calm and wise, unhurried, but methodical, and quite a general. It can be regarded as Li Xuan's biggest gain so far since he entered the Condor World.

The group rode back to the camp, and according to Li Xuan's request, the camp of the 30,000 army was built in the upper reaches of the Han River, echoing Xiangyang City in the south and north.

"Are you ready?" Returning to the camp, Li Xuan looked at the heavily fortified camp with satisfaction, although it was only a camp. But in terms of defensive capabilities, it is no less than a fortified city, and then he looked at Luo Fengdao.

"According to the requirements of the prince, a total of 318 soldiers who meet the requirements will be selected in the army, and they will be dispatched by the prince at any time." Behind him, an elegant young man with a bit of bookish atmosphere said respectfully.

"From now on, transfer this group of people to Qiandaoyue." Li Xuan nodded, looked at Qiandao Yue and said, "This group of people will be led by you in the future." I can only give you three months, and any resources in the army are at your disposal. But in three months' time, I will see the most detailed map of the deployment of the Mongolian battalion. ”

"Rest assured, three months are enough." Qiandao Moon bowed on his horse.

"Let's go transfer someone." Li Xuan waved his hand, Qiandao Yue can train a special class of Sakura Ninja, and Li Xuan doesn't care about the combat effectiveness of the ninja itself. He is now considered half an expert in military training, but the ninja's ability to sneak in and spy on intelligence is what Li Xuan urgently lacks now, even if the dark department has been established in the Tianlong World. But Mu Qingya's talent is more inclined to fight, assassination, and espionage intelligence, which is not good at things after all, and now with the addition of Qiandaoyue, Li Xuan wants to try the ability of ninjas in this plane, if it is effective, the dark department will be divided into two parts, the dark hall and the battle hall, similar to the east and west factories in the Ming Dynasty, each performing its own duties and being directly responsible for himself.

"No." Luo Feng glanced at Qiandaoyue with some curiosity, he naturally knew that the two girls who looked charming beside Li Xuan had good strength, but marching and fighting were different from fighting in the rivers and lakes, just being strong was not enough, if he did it, he would never let a woman lead the army, but since Li Xuan had already spoken, he naturally had no right to stop it.

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The day after Guo Jing returned to Xiangyang, the Mongol army launched an offensive against Xiangyang, and the 200,000 army was divided into four legions by Kublai Khan, which were led by him, the Mongolian prime minister Boyan, Ashu and the general Ali Hague, and launched a round attack on Xiangyang.

Xiangyang City is in full swing, Li Xuan's side is rare leisurely, Kublai Khan naturally will not ignore this Song army stationed outside Xiangyang City, faintly and Xiangyang into a corner, also sent people to attack, but the combat power of this Song army, but Kublai Khan was surprised, two commanders led 30,000 troops to attack, thought it was a battle to capture, but the final result made a Mongolian general stunned.

The loss of the army, the two commanders at the beginning of the war, was killed by the other party with an arrow, and the subsequent battles, almost all of them were Song people performing, killing 30,000 troops and throwing off their armor, and finally able to escape back, less than 10,000 people, not to mention dealing with the weak and incompetent Han people, even in all the wars of Mongolia abroad, this battle is definitely one of the most heavy losses.

When did the Song people appear with such an army?

Kublai Khan was very curious, although in this battle, there were two commanders who underestimated the enemy, but the strength of this Song army itself was definitely a strong army, and that kind of courage should not have appeared in the weak Song people.

It was also after this that Kublai Khan had to divide an army to defend against the Song army in addition to attacking Xiangyang, which greatly relieved the pressure on Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is full of war, Li Xuan's life is very nourishing, during the day, he drills soldiers and horses, supervises the construction of embankments along the river, although the Eastern Evil has not yet arrived, but Li Xuan is not ready to wait like this, intercepting the river and cutting off the flow is naturally not something that anyone can do, but this is not the world of Xianxia, some infrastructure is universal, and even Li Xuan has begun to explore the sketch by himself, if Huang Yaoshi really does not move, he can't say it, so he has to do it himself, although he is not proficient in this aspect, but he has also dabbled, Although the army cannot find top talents in this field, ordinary ones can still be found, and brainstorming does not necessarily mean that it cannot be completed.

Not far from Li Xuan's military camp, the Mongols also set up a camp to sit in Shige, the son of Shi Tianze, a Han general who surrendered to the Mongols.

On this day, Shige was sitting in his big tent drinking to relieve his boredom, these days Shige was very depressed, this time to the south, he was originally ambitious, hoping to take the opportunity of this war against the Song Dynasty, to show what he had learned, so that those Mongolian generals who looked down on him on weekdays shut up, but who thought, finally got a position of commander, but was sent to see this Song people's partial division.

It is to watch rather than exterminate, and even Kublai Khan personally ordered that if the other party does not act, he must not start a war in person!

What is this? Look down on yourself? Shi Ge thought angrily in his heart, especially when he was raided by this group of Song troops some time ago, and his neck was almost wiped off, Shi Ge's prestige in this army that belonged to his commander fell to the freezing point, Mo said that those Mongolian generals who were not very convinced of him were those Mongolian soldiers, Shi Ge felt that they looked at him with disdain, and because of this, he became discouraged and began to use alcohol to kill his sorrows.

"Newspaper~"

When it was dark, a personal guard suddenly rushed over, clasped his fists at Shi Ge and said, "General, our scouts just discovered that someone had secretly entered the Song army camp!" ”

"Oh?" Shi Ge raised his eyelids when he heard this, and asked drunkenly, "How many centaurs are there?" ”

At the beginning, Shi Ge did not think about encircling this Song army camp, although the number was similar, but the Mongolian warriors were all cavalry, extremely mobile, and their combat power far exceeded that of any army in the Song Dynasty.

It's just that later, Li Xuan used practical actions to make Shige's strategy naΓ―ve and ridiculous.

The training of the 30,000-strong army, in addition to regular training, every once in a while, there will be actual combat training, the so-called actual combat, that is, the troops are divided into 500 units, for 60 squads, each by a commander responsible for leading, select the target, extermination, Li Xuan adopts a point system for judging, each killing a Mongolian soldier, you can get one point, capture a war horse to get five points, kill a Mongolian centurion or above, get ten points, and each time you lose a soldier, deduct ten points, and finally settle down, The troops with the highest total score are rewarded with 100 taels of gold and can be promoted to the rank of commander, and all soldiers under his command are rewarded with 10 taels of silver each, and can enjoy the priority supply of captured horses.

In addition, the top 10 will also receive different rewards, mostly based on gold and silver food, and the bottom 10 will be in charge of the construction of the embankment before the next actual combat exercise.

The construction of the embankment is a must-do, and the punishment is not too heavy, but this army is a unit trained by Li Xuan himself, and it has defeated the Mongolian army head-on many times, and the sense of honor of the soldiers is much stronger than that of other troops, and it is regarded as the bottom of the three armies, whether it is a shame for the capital or the soldiers, not to mention that the top ten or even the first reward is too rich, whether it is for the rich reward or not to bear the shame of the bottom, these Song army soldiers are crazy one by one, the Mongolian warriors who were originally brave and good at fighting on the battlefield, But they became fat sheep to be slaughtered, and Shi Ge was even more empathetic to separate these Mongolian warriors, intending to surround Li Xuan's camp.

What exactly happened, even now, Shige didn't figure it out, that night, as if he was surrounded by the Song army, the defense line that originally seemed to him to be no problem was attacked indiscriminately, after the war, statistics showed that the number of people and horses damaged that night alone was nearly 3,000, and the war horses were countless, and since then, Shige's prestige has been hit by a huge blow, and since then he has cowered in his own military camp, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows, and he has collapsed.

"General Hui, there are not many people, less than ten people."

"Less than ten?" Rolling his eyes, he was a little dissatisfied with the fuss of this guard, and waved his hand impatiently: "It must be a Song Dynasty warrior who came to defect, don't pay attention to it." (To be continued......)