103 Smoke Everywhere (12)
Lin Heng left Guo Jing behind and made him pretend to be a Mongol. This trick is a miracle move, but I have to say that with the help of the tunnel, this trick has achieved a miraculous effect. No, the Mongols who escorted the grain and grass twice were planted in Guo Jing's hands, and the grain and grass left here by the Mongolian army was also transferred and burned by Guo Jing.
It was his actions that caused the Mongol army to stop. No matter how profitable the army is, it is useless without food and grass.
The Mongolian army ran out of food and grass, giving the Song army a chance, Lin Heng seized this opportunity, quickly trained and arranged, and quietly waited for the Mongols to come to the door. Seven days later, the Mongol army arrived, and another great battle broke out.
Again, Lin Heng's army retreated, but the Mongols also paid a huge price, and 30,000 Mongols were left behind in the city.
In all cases, Mongolia has also lost more than 100,000 people, this number is even better than Lin Heng expected, and Mongolia has to stop again because of this huge loss.
In the big tent of the Mongolian army, Meng Ge asked his subordinates for a way, and many people said that they should retreat, if they did not retreat, even if they hit the city of Xiangyang, they would not have the strength to conquer Xiangyang. Many people were also reluctant to retreat, and put forward a strategy of dividing the troops. They say that the great army besieged the city and then divided its forces to attack behind enemy lines. This method made Meng Ge's heart very excited, but thinking of the Song army in the tunnels under the city, he had to give up this plan, because no one was sure whether the Song army would run away in the tunnels and intercept the front army.
After thinking about it, the Mongols did not think of any way. In their opinion, the Song people are using the strength of the city to consume their strength, if you follow the steps of sending people, there are more than a dozen cities in front, then how many Mongolian troops will have to be added, so many people are reluctant to continue to march. But if they retreat, the Mongols will lose face, and they will not be happy, even if it is Mengke's pass, they will not be able to pass.
For a time, the army was stranded.
Lin Heng noticed that the Mongolian army was wrong at the first time, but he didn't have the slightest intention of moving, but asked the generals of all departments to join the training, and at the same time transported the wounded soldiers back to Xiangyang, and urged Xiangyang to send new soldiers and increase the number of troops.
The two parties were so consumed, Lin Heng was willing, because he was not worried that his side would not be able to hold it first. However, his wish was doomed to fail, and ten days later, the Mongolian army went out again. This time, they divided the army in two, one about 100,000 men. They stopped attacking the city, but crossed directly from both sides and pounced on the rear city.
Looking at this, Lin Heng's face was very ugly. The Mongolian army is going to abandon the rear and go straight to Xiangyang. This time, not to mention hitting Lin Heng's soft underbelly, it also made him feel at a loss.
"Brother Lin, what should I do now?" In the camp, Guo Jing asked in a hurry.
Lin Heng shook his head and looked at Huang Rong. He couldn't come up with any good way at this time, so he could only hope for Huang Rong.
Huang Rong didn't have a good way, but at this time, he could only stabilize everyone first, so he said: "I see, we will lead the army to follow behind the Mongolian army." In the city behind, Brother Lin already has an arrangement, even if they can't stop the Mongolian army, they can still cause them a certain amount of damage, and we can take the opportunity to harass the Mongolian army. I don't believe that the Mongolian army can endure it. ”
"Okay, just do it!" Hong Qigong immediately made a decision, and everyone immediately gathered the army and went out of the city to hang behind the Mongolian army.
In this way, the two armies rushed to the city in the rear, but the Mongol army was in front and the Song army was behind. When the two armies arrived at the city, the defender was startled, but he immediately calmed down and arranged for a large army to defend the city.
The Mongol army did not attack the city at the beginning, but arranged military horses to guard against the Song army in the rear, and at the end of the year, tens of thousands of horses were dispatched to attack the city. This time, the Mongol army completely abandoned the other three gates and attacked one side day and night. In this way, only two days later, the gates of the city were opened, and the Mongol army entered the city. After that, he walked towards the next city without stopping.
Later, the Song army still only followed, and took advantage of the gap Lin Heng also entered the city and issued a new round of military orders. He asked everyone to make sure they had as much vitality as possible, to gather in the next city, and so on. After arriving at the end of the day, he concentrated the army in Xiangyang and fought a field battle with the Mongolian army with an absolute superiority in troops. He didn't believe it, and the hundreds of thousands of troops who were waiting for work at ease could not deal with the hungry and tired Mongolian army.
Yes, hunger, exhaustion. The Mongol army completely abandoned the rear, although it could quickly conquer the city in front, but without the support from the rear, how long could their grain and grass last. A month, or two months?
This problem is the death hole of the Mongolian army, I don't know what Lin Heng and the others know, and the Mongolian army also knows the way, so they all hurry quickly, take down a city, and after leaving a soldier to defend the town, they quickly rush to the next city. In this way, in less than a month, the Mongolian army rushed to the outside of Xiangyang.
By this time, the Mongol army had 150,000 troops, while the Song army had 130,000, most of whom were new recruits. Of course, this is a recruit who has participated in one or two battles.
Under the city of Xiangyang, the Song army sandwiched the Mongolian army in the center, Lin Heng did not play anything false this time, and directly let the two armies advance and shook the Mongolian army. He didn't believe it, the hundreds of thousands of superior troops couldn't fight the hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops.
In order to give full play to his own advantages, Lin Heng divided the two armies into two parts, dispatched one for each attack, and then withdrew and replaced the other. In this way, the back and forth fighting did not give the Mongolian army a chance to rest. At night, he either launched a night attack or mobilized martial arts people, asking them to cause trouble for the Mongolian army and consume their physical strength.
In this way, the battle lasted for three days, almost day and night, everyone was exhausted, and what was more serious was that there was already a river of blood here, and both the Song army and the Mongolian army paid huge casualties. At this point, everyone realized that it would not be possible to go on this further.
First of all, you look at the Mongolian army, three days and three nights of continuous fighting, so that they lost more than 50,000 people, and the rest of the people are also exhausted, all of them are red-eyed, dare not sleep. If this continues, it will not be long before the spirit of the army will collapse, and the Mongolian army will definitely be defeated at that time.
Then there is the Song army, they have suffered greater losses than the Mongolian army, with nearly 100,000 dead and wounded, if Lin Heng hadn't directly pulled the people over, they might not have been able to form an encirclement of the Mongolian army. But even so, the tense spirit made Lin Heng dare not be careless, he was also afraid that Song Jun's spirit would be broken, after all, there were too many people who died in the past few days. Such a big death, not to mention the soldiers, even those Jianghu men who kill people without blinking an eye, are also going crazy.
"Brother Guo, Qigong, it can't go on like this, it seems that we have to let go of a road, otherwise the Mongolian army can only fight with us!" In the camp, Lin Heng said a little anxiously.
The two nodded, they also realized that something was wrong, the three of them discussed it carefully, and immediately moved the army to one side, letting go of the barrier on one side, which gave the Mongols the opportunity to retreat, which is the so-called siege of three missing one.
With the gap on this side, Lin Heng believed that the Mongolian army would definitely waver in their minds to continue fighting, because not only the Song army could not hold on, but they could not hold on either.
At night, Lin Heng continued to stop the night attack of the martial arts people, this time he no longer stopped the army form, but let them play separately, but remember not to go deeper, so as not to fall into the trajectory of the Mongolian army.
The night attack of the martial arts people was absolutely unguardable, and the Mongols lost a lot of people under their night attack. It can be said that the losses of more than 50,000 people, at least generally died at the hands of martial arts people. It is conceivable that if Lin Heng had kept letting them attack at night, maybe ten days and a half later, those Mongols would have been killed by them.
For this reason, the Mongolian army did not tighten the queue and let everyone gather together. But there is also a disadvantage in doing this, that is, Lin Heng will seize the opportunity to hit them with bows and arrows and stone-throwing carts.
Therefore, the current Mongolian army is completely angry at both ends.
On the fifth day, the Mongol army finally could not hold on, and they quickly retreated, and withdrew from the Song army's encirclement overnight. However, perhaps because they were unwilling, they did not withdraw, but continued to be stationed ten miles away from Xiangyang City.
"Abominable ......"
Lin Heng scolded secretly, but Juemengjun was crazy. In fact, it's not that they're crazy, it's that they've been beaten out of their temper. You have to know that this time the Mongolian army of 300,000 people went out to fight, but now, they have less than 70,000 left. With such a huge loss, what right do they have to go back. Therefore, if they don't take Xiangyang, they probably won't be willing to rest.
In Xiangyang City, Lin Heng and the others were discussing strategies, and suddenly there was a commotion outside, and several people were frowning and looking outside. Soon, a small soldier ran in and reported: "I have seen a few generals, and I will find out that there is a riot in the Mongolian army!" ”
"Riots? Do you know what it is? Lin Heng hurriedly asked. The creep shook his head. Seeing this, Lin Heng waved his hand and asked him to go down and continue to investigate.
"Brother Guo, why did you say the Mongolian army was in turmoil?"
"This ......" Guo Jing shook his head, unable to explain why. There was no way, a few people could only endure their temperament and send scouts to find out the news. About three days later, the Mongol army suddenly and completely retreated, and the crowd was very strange, and then the scouts came with the news that the Mongol Han Möngke had been assassinated.
This news made several people baffled, they couldn't imagine that anyone with such ability could assassinate Meng Ge in the army. Later, according to some people, his assassin was a man with a large eagle next to him. As soon as he heard this, Lin Heng thought of Yang Guo and smiled bitterly in his heart. This kid killed Meng Ge after the Condor was at its worst, but now it's ahead of schedule.
Meng Ge died, the Mongolian army retreated, the siege of the Song army was lifted, and everyone cheered. It's just that when Lin Heng and the others got the casualty figures of each department, they couldn't be happy.
Before and after, the Song army lost a total of more than 350,000 people!
Such a big loss is because Lin Heng used new soldiers, but there is no way, Xiangyang's troops are not enough at all, if he does not use new soldiers, how can he give so much damage to the Mongolian army. But the figure of 350,000 is really amazing!
"Alas!"
Sighing heavily, Lin Heng really didn't know what to say, he shook his head and said to Guo Jing: "Brother Guo, my heart is very messy, please leave the next thing to you." ”
After a word, Lin Heng left. Guo Jing wanted to hold Lin Heng, but Qigong and Huang Rong stopped him and shook their heads at him.
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