055 Battle of Xiangyang (8)
Two fires, Lin Heng burned the Mongolian army's grain, grass and horses, disrupted the Mongolian camp, and countless Mongolians were trampled to death by horses. If you add the people who died a few days ago, the remaining 15,000 Mongol army is less than 8,000.
In just four days, the Mongols lost half of them, which was an absolute fatal blow to them. So on the fifth day, when the defender of Shinno Castle got the news of the allowment, he immediately decided to take a risk. He asked those martial artists who remained in the city to form a special operations team and launch a sharp knife attack, while he led the soldiers in the city to break through the gap opened by the special operations team into the Mongol army.
After this battle, the Mongols suffered heavy casualties, they no longer had the ability to encircle Xinye, and they were also afraid in the face of those elusive martial artists. No, when they reassembled that day, they withdrew far away.
The crisis in Xinye was lifted, and Lin Heng and the others returned to the city. As soon as they returned, they began to fall asleep. These few days are a huge test not only for the Mongols, but also for them. Fortunately, they are not ordinary people, and they can endure it without sleeping for a few days. But now that they're relaxed, they need to rest too.
Lin Heng slept until the next day, and when he came out, he found that everyone had gathered in the courtyard, and said happily, among them, the guard of Xinye City was also there. As you can tell from the smile on his face, he is also happy.
Compared with these people, Lin Heng thought more. He knew that the crisis in Xinye City had been lifted, but the crisis in Xiangyang had not yet been resolved. There are more than 70,000 Mongolian troops there, and I don't know what happened to Dengzhou. There are also martial arts people there, but can they come up with a way like their own?
Lin Heng, who was thinking silently in his heart, didn't notice that Qiu Chuji walked to his side, and he didn't come back to his senses until Qiu Chuji patted him on the shoulder.
"What are you thinking?" Qiu Chuji looked at Lin Heng strangely. Lin Heng smiled bitterly and said what he had just thought. When Qiu Chuji heard this, he immediately patted his head, he was so happy that he forgot about business. Immediately, he found the guard, told Lin Heng's worries, and said: "Lord Guard, now that the crisis in Xinye has been lifted, those Mongolians are nothing. So I plan to lead everyone to Xiangyang to help Jing'er defend the city. ”
The Keeper nodded and agreed. It's just that Lin Heng, who rushed over, put forward a different opinion, he said: "Uncle Shi, go to Xiangyang, I agree." It's just that I think we can't go now, but go to Dengzhou first. ”
"Dengzhou?" Qiu Chuji wondered.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "That's right." Although there is no shortage of people in Dengzhou, and there is also the help of martial arts friends, we don't know what happened there. So let's take a look first. If they are in danger, we can help them, and by the way, in the same way, destroy the Mongol army there. If they also deal with the Mongols, then we will just meet up with our martial arts friends there and rush to Xiangyang together. In this way, our strength is also larger. ”
"Well, you have a point. Okay, let's go to Dengzhou first! Qiu Chuji nodded, he immediately summoned everyone and told them what they had just discussed, and everyone immediately nodded and agreed. In the past few days, although everyone is very tired, they are full of energy, especially after defeating the Mongols, their spirits are even more uplifted. Now that I heard it, I still have to fight the Mongols, so naturally there is no problem.
Since this is the case, everyone naturally stopped staying longer, and after eating a big meal at noon, everyone began to rush in the direction of Dengzhou.
On the way, Qiu Chuji, Lin Heng and others took out spies and asked them to explore the development of Dengzhou City first, while they themselves slowly hurried away to recover their strength. When they were about to feel Dengzhou, the spies came back, and they talked about the situation in Dengzhou.
In Dengzhou City, there are also smart people. Although they couldn't think of Lin Heng's way, Huang Rong once gave a way, that is, to treat the martial arts people as scout squads. The guards in Dengzhou City did just that, but he didn't leave the martial artists in the city, but put them behind the Mongol army, and gave the Mongol army a moment when he saw the opportunity.
In this way, every time the Mongol army attacked the city, they would sneak attack, and they could not take care of the Mongols before and after. Although six days have passed, Dengzhou is still standing there steadily.
Hearing this, Qiu immediately asked the spies to wait for them to go to the martial arts people in Dengzhou City. Everyone met outside, and Qiu Chuji told him about the situation of himself and others, and when everyone heard it, they all scolded themselves for being stupid, saying why they didn't think of this way. However, it was not too late, and they immediately decided to use the methods of Qiu Chuji and others to sneak attack the Mongol army.
This time, the two parties came together, and there were about 500 people. So many people, ten people per team, is fifty squads. Every time he attacked, twenty-five squads were used, and the next time he changed a wave, so that he was not as tired as Lin Heng and the others.
Once again, Lin Heng's method was effective, and after two days of harassment, the Mongol army immediately discovered that something was wrong, especially when they knew that Dao Xinye's army had been defeated, and they had also heard about their experience of defeat. Immediately, they knew that it must be a martial arts person from Xinye. Originally, he wanted to fight the ambush of these people, and he did it, but it didn't have much effect, because every time the martial arts people would break through, although they would occasionally kill and injure a few, it would not affect the overall situation, but instead attracted Lin Heng and others to attack more frantically.
So, on the fourth day, he decisively let the army retreat. Looking at this, Lin Hengzhi said, the Mongolians are also going to use tricks.
"Uncle Shi, the Mongols' losses are not big, they still have at least 10,000 people now, so many people can completely pose danger to Dengzhou, if we leave, the Mongol army will attack again......" Lin Heng's words were not finished, but everyone knew what he meant, they thought about it, it was really like this. They could leave Xinye, and that was because the Mongol army in Xinye was crippled by them, and it was not a danger to Xinye. But here is different, the Mongol army was not disabled, they retreated on their own initiative. If he and the others had left at this time, perhaps the Mongols would have come back again.
Thinking of this, Qiu Chuji asked, "Senior nephew, what do you say we should do?" ”
Lin Heng thought about it, but he couldn't think of any good way. If they still follow Xinye's method, I'm afraid it won't work, after all, those Mongols are already prepared. But if it's just harassment and killing, it will take at least a few days. That's too much time, after all, Xiangyang is very dangerous there.
After hesitating for a while, Lin Heng gritted his teeth and said, "Master, in order to be in a hurry, I think we should take a risk." We will return to Dengzhou first, persuade the Dengzhou guards, let him lead the large army and half of the people here to secretly rush to Xinye, combine with Xinye soldiers, and defeat the few remaining Mongols there at one time. When there was no danger at all, they were to return to the place together and fight the Mongol army. And the rest of us are responsible for harassing and attacking the Mongols and delaying time. ”
"This ......" Qiu Chuji hesitated, and Lu Youjiao next to him said: "Brother Lin, isn't this method too risky, if the Mongolian army here finds out that it is wrong, then Dengzhou will not be able to keep it." ”
"There's no way around it, because we're in a hurry. If we had only gone to harass ourselves, we would not have been able to defeat those Mongol troops in five or six days. Moreover, they can completely continue the retreat, what will we do then? Lin Heng quickly asked two rhetorical questions, but Lu Youjiao couldn't answer, and neither could anyone else. In the end, Qiu Chuji made a decision, that is, to implement Lin Heng's method.
Everyone saw that he had decided, so they didn't say anything more, after all, he was the most famous person here. So, everyone returned to Dengzhou and persuaded the Dengzhou guards. That night, the soldiers of Dengzhou quietly set off to Xinye under the leadership of more than 200 martial arts people.
The army did not walk quickly, and it had to go out by day and night, so it was already the third day when they arrived at Xinye. When the new wild guard saw them, he was taken aback, thinking that Dengzhou was lost. But immediately, he knew the cause and effect, and immediately decided to cooperate. As a result, the Dengzhou army joined the Xinye army, a total of more than 5,000 people, and launched a sneak attack on the more than 5,000 Mongols who were still licking their wounds that night.
This time, it was the martial arts people who moved first, and then the army dispatched. This time it was a hard-fought war, and the Mongols, who had no morale, were defeated again, and badly. There were more than 5,000 of them, and by the time they survived, there were less than 1,000. These people can no longer pose a danger to Xinye.
After a night of fighting, the army did not stop, and quickly rushed back to Dengzhou. At the same time, Lin Heng and the others who stayed here were also delaying the Mongolian army very well, and attacked them at night. In three days, they killed at least 2,000 Mongols. This forced the Mongols to retreat. Looking at their appearance at this time, they are almost about to retreat to the Nanyang base camp.
That night, just as the Mongol commander was thinking about whether to give up, all kinds of noises sounded again in the camp, and soon the sound of weapons also came. Originally, he thought that those martial arts people were attacking, but immediately the sound of horses' hooves interrupted his fantasy. He anxiously walked out of the tent and gathered the crowd. It's just that the noise around him is too loud for him to gather people from afar.
Seeing this, he knew that he had lost this time.