Entering the city behind, Lin Heng immediately asked his subordinates to count the personnel and find out the losses. Soon, the people below came back, and he told Lin Heng. In these two battles, the army lost more than 43,000 dead and more than 15,000 wounded. This huge casualty figure made Lin Heng's face ugly, and he asked the Mongolian losses again and asked them to estimate it by professional people. The man thought for a moment and gave his answer.

Above 25,000, below 35,000.

This is the number of people they estimated, in terms of the actual situation, with this result, Song Jun should be happy, but Lin Heng is not happy. Originally, there were many Mongols, but now they have few deaths, and the advantages of the Song army are almost exhausted, how will the future battle be conducted?

"My lord, Lord Guo and Mrs. Guo are back!"

Lin Heng nodded, got up and walked outside the city with Qigong to greet Guo Jing and Huang Rong. When they left, they stayed with more than 3,000 beggar disciples, but after they returned, the number of people who went to sparse Lala was less than 1,000. This time, the beggar gang also suffered heavy losses, not to mention the more than 2,000 people lost by Guo Jing, even the seventh prince himself also lost 3,000 or 4,000 people. Although there are many beggars, they are not an army, so they can't afford to lose such losses.

After thinking about it, Lin Heng said to Qigong: "Qigong, this time the loss of the beggar gang is too great, and the future battles will be in the city, and there will be no need for the disciples of the beggar gang." I think so, you can let the Lu Gang Master take all the beggar disciples away. ”

"What did the kid say?" Hong Qigong glared at Lin Heng with some displeasure, and said, "My beggar gang has always been known for its chivalry, and this time I will help the Great Song Dynasty with the help of the whole gang." At this time, it is the time of life and death, how can you go first? ”

Hearing what else Lin Heng could say, he sighed and said, "In that case, please ask Gang Master Hong and Mrs. Guo to lead the beggars to the outside disciples." ”

"Didn't I say it......" Qigong was furious, and slapped his palm on the table, but fortunately, Huang Rong was smart on the side, grabbed Qigong, and said: "You mean that we will learn the method you used to deal with the Mongols for the first time, harass the Mongols outside, and kill and injure them." ”

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Outside, the beggar disciples can exert a lot of strength, but for defending the city, they are not as good as the sergeants. Now, the Mongols have not yet arrived, and it is best for you to go out. Of course, this is not your priority. Your first task is to send all the people in the city who are willing to leave to Xiangyang, and at the same time secretly dig a tunnel as a way back for the army. ”

"Okay, I'll act with Qigong!" Huang Rong nodded, pulled Qigong and walked out. Seeing them leave, Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head sideways and said to Guo Jing: "Brother Guo, the next thing is our business." Now there are more than 40,000 people in the city, which is too many people for this city. I hope that you will lead half of the people and the residents of the city to leave with Nanako and the others. ”

"Brother Lin, ...... you" Guo Jing didn't expect Lin Heng to want to stay alone, and his heart was a little shocked.

Lin Heng smiled at him and said, "Brother Guo, don't worry." I'll be fine. This time, I plan to burn Nanyang again, if I am lucky, I can't say that a single fire can solve the Mongols, and even if it can't be solved, it will kill a large number of their vitality. Besides, I have already asked people to dig tunnels just now, and Qigong and Madame Guo will also dig tunnels outside, and the Mongols will not be able to trap us. ”

"Good. Brother Lin said this, I, Guo Jing, am not hypocritical! Guo Jing got up and hugged his fists, but Lin Heng immediately grabbed him again and ordered: "Brother Guo, you must prepare four huge stones when you go out this time, if the city is on fire, seal the four gates and seal the Mongols here." ”

"Brother Lin, don't worry, I know!" Guo Jing clenched his fists again and turned to leave.

After a while, only Lin Heng was left in the hall. He sat there and sighed slightly. This time, it's a battle to defend the city, and it must have been a miserable fight at the beginning, so I hope I can retain some more vitality.

In the evening of the same day, Meng Ge's army came, because it was dark, they did not attack the city immediately, but let people surround the city, according to Lin Heng's vision, at least 30,000 Mongolian troops were arranged at each city gate, Lin Heng wanted to break through, it was obviously impossible. Fortunately, he is smart and knows how to use the tunnel, otherwise he would really be trapped here.

The city has been empty a lot, the people who can go have left, and the rest are also unwilling to leave, they don't want to go, Lin Heng has no choice, but if the city is burned, those people will definitely be buried together. Some people may say that Lin Heng is cruel, but in order to deal with the Mongols, he can't care so much.

"General Wang, how is the tunnel digging?" Lin Heng stood on the city wall and asked the general beside him.

General Wang Shou clasped his fists and said, "Returning to the general, we have dug thirty-five tunnels together in accordance with the general's wishes, of which only three can lead to the outside of the city, and the others are connected to these three tunnels. I believe that at that time, with the general's order, our people hiding in the tunnels will be able to turn the city into a city of fire. ”

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Okay." Next, you can command the army to defend the city. Remember, use more equipment to defend the city, and human lives can be saved. ”

"Yes!" General Wang Shou took over the order and immediately began to arrange the task of defending the city, while Lin Heng asked people to move a chair and sit leisurely on the city. He is the main general, and he can't leave here, otherwise he will definitely go back to his room to rest.

After a night of preparation, the Mongol army began to attack the city the next day. With the Mongols, they would not make a feint, but would attack from all sides. In this regard, Lin Heng had expected it, so there were more than 20,000 people in the city, and he divided 5,000 people at each city gate, of which 3,000 were guarding the city, 2,000 were reserves, and the rest of the people were either digging tunnels or arranging various traps, waiting to give the Mongols a fatal blow.

There is nothing to say about the city defense station, that is, the Mongols attacked, and the Song army defended it by various methods. Stone throwers, bows and arrows, rolling stones, gold water, oil, etc., were all used by them. Because this was the first day, the Song army was well numbered and prepared, and there was no danger in the moment, so they simply held the town and killed and wounded a large number of Mongols. However, they also suffered many casualties, counting more than 3,000 deaths.

This is only the first day, and I believe that the casualties on the second day will be greater, but there is no way, this is the battle to defend the city.

The next day, the defending troops still inflicted a large number of casualties on the Mongol army, countless Mongol soldiers died under the city walls, and the Song army also sent more than 5,000 casualties. Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the Mongolian army kept attacking the city, they relied on the large number of people, and took over the attack again and again, which caused great fatigue to the Song army.

It can be said that if there was no reserve team prepared by Lin Heng, the city might have been breached today. Now, the city is defended, but the garrison is also exhausted. If the Mongol army still attacked like this the next day, it would be difficult for the Song army to hold it.

On the third day, the Mongolian army did not change its attack strategy, but what was even more excessive was that they launched an attack during meal time, so as not to let the Song army have a moment to rest, while the Mongolian army took advantage of the change of troops to make a splash.

By the afternoon, the Song army was too tired, and a lot of the materials for defending the city were also consumed because of Lin Heng's words. He knew that the city could not be defended.

"General Wang Shou, you send orders to all city walls, so that they can prepare to shrink their forces and withdraw to the palace!"

"Yes!"

Withdrawal is to be withdrawn, but how to withdraw is also a science. In order not to let the Mongol army find out that something was wrong in the city, Lin Heng asked the army to defend the city hard, but the reserve team did not need to be on board, but waited until the Mongol army attacked the city wall, gathered those defeated routs, and retreated to the palace together.

The Mongol army seemed to see the exhaustion of the Song army, and the attack became stronger and more urgent. Soon, the Song army could not hold on, and waves of Mongol armies poured up like a tide. Lin Heng immediately ordered the army to retreat, and let the archers lie in ambush on both sides of the street, ready to stop the Mongol army, while he himself retreated to the palace with the defeated defenders.

"My lord, this is the tunnel you ordered to dig!" Looking at the dark entrance of the cave on the ground, Lin Heng nodded with satisfaction, and he turned his head sideways to General Wang and said, "Okay, now you give the order to let the army withdraw from the tunnel." Remember, the wounded go first! ”

"Yes!"

General Wang clenched his fists, and then gave the order to go. Soon, the army was divided into four groups, three of which entered three tunnels and exited the city through the tunnels, while the last group was distributed throughout the government and garrisoned the government offices.

As the archers retreated into the palace, the Mongol army began the most rear-end attack, and Lin Heng personally could only defend the army, and commanded the army to defend the palace without retreating.

Interestingly, there is an interlude in the middle, that is, Möngke sent someone to recruit the troops. However, everyone knew that Lord Lin had already prepared a way to retreat, and they naturally would not throw themselves into it, so that person was beaten out of the way, and in exchange for it, it was naturally a lifeless attack by the Mongolian army.

"My lord, the Mongolian army has broken through the first line of defense!"

"My lord, the Mongolian army has broken through the second line of defense!"

"My lord, the Mongolian army has attacked!"

The military reports came to Lin Heng again and again, he listened quietly, and did not speak, and when the Mongolian army attacked the mansion, he immediately ordered: "Tell everyone, let them withdraw from the tunnel." Wang Shoujiang, set it on fire! ”

"Yes!" The king will bow down and receive the order. He took a few soldiers with him and immediately walked out of the city. Soon, a sky-high fire burned in the palace, and the fire burned as if it had eyes, and surrounded the inner office, and then it quickly burned outward, and as for the inside, although it was also burned, it was far less harmful than the outside.

Under the cover of the fire, Song Jun quickly pushed into the tunnel, and Lin Heng also entered the tunnel after the most rear, and at the same time took out the sound of arrows and shot them into the sky. This is Lin Heng's signal. As soon as the signal was given, the Song army hidden in the various tunnels in the city immediately began to set fire, and in an instant, the fire burned all over the city, blocking the entry and retreat of the Mongolian army.

The sky-high fire was soon seen by Huang Rong, Guo Jing, Qigong and others who were ambushed outside the city, and they immediately followed Lin Heng's instructions and blocked the city gate with big stones. It's a pity that they only blocked the city gates on three sides, and as for the city gate where the main army was located, they couldn't approach it at all, which also left a way for the Mongolian army to escape and ascend to heaven. But, that's also something that can't be helped, isn't it?

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