Chapter 47: The Bloody War
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"How many days do we have enough food?"
Kublai Khan sat in the king's tent, walking back and forth, frowning deeply, and asked a Mongol officer lying on his stomach below.
"Qi Qi Khan, the surplus food in the army is less than three days, save some food, and barely last for seven days."
The officer didn't dare to look up, he knew that Kublai Khan was angry, maybe one of them was not good, and he would be angry with him.
"When will our next shipment arrive?"
Kublai Khan's frown deepened, holding his forehead with one hand, the army had no food to fight, and he could not break through the city in front of him to loot, which made his heart swell with anger, and he wanted to vent it wantonly.
"This ...... This ......"
The Mongolian officer was too cowardly to speak, and his voice trembled.
"Say, This king forgives you for no wrong."
Kublai Khan chuckled in his heart, thought of some bad premonition, turned his head, his eyes were full of anger, and he lowered his head to stare at the Mongol officer.
"For seven days, because of this time to transport grain, someone in the rear specially requisitioned food from many parties in order to provide sufficient food for the army, and collected nearly two months' grain at a time."
The Mongolian officer wiped the sweat from his forehead, this time the loss was too big, enough for 200,000 troops to eat food for two months, how much did it have to be?
"Get out, now, immediately!"
Kublai Khan roared under his breath, like a lion trying to contain his anger, which was what made him better than other Mongol princes, who was able to control his personality and not let anger and tyranny control his mind.
The Mongol officer crawled out of the tent, he didn't want to stay any longer, Kublai Khan was better than the other Mongol princes, but he was just as murderous and cruel. It's just that after becoming the Great Khan, for the sake of the ambition in his heart, he just restrained this character.
Sitting on the throne, Kublai Khan frowned deeply, feeling a period of unhappiness since the conquest. The cannon fodder used to test the attack was gone, the Mongol masters who were sent to remove the barbed wire were gone, the shadows arranged in Luoyang City were gone, and they were used by others, and the cavalry stormed the barbed wire position, and more than 10,000 people were annihilated, so that he had to kill a Han adviser to appease the anger of the cavalry. Now there are people in their own grain transportation team, and it seems to be a good thing to transport a month's worth of grain at a time, but if someone serves it on the road, it will be very troublesome. Well, now, it's really been burned.
If Kublai Khan had known that there is a popular saying on the modern Internet, he would have said, "I'm really beeping a dog!" ”。
Transporting grain is not a trivial matter, the Mongol Empire does have a vast land, and there is no shortage of grain now, but having grain does not mean that it can be transported at any time.
These grains are usually scattered everywhere so that the country can suddenly **** and be in case of emergency. If you want to get food, you have to gather it from all over the place and send it back. It is impossible for a country to put grain in a heap and wait for a shortage of food somewhere, and then put it over, right?
Kublai Khan had a headache, and when he was a prince, he had personally transported grain, and he knew that the cumbersome process and time it took was not as long as the Mongol officer had estimated, but even longer, or even half a month.
Because, this grain transfer from the rear has cleaned up all the grain in the surrounding areas, and if you want to transport it again, you can only transfer it from a farther place.
Headache, headache, Kublai Khan knows very well that his position as the Great Khan is not stable, there are so many people who have been clearly not admitting themselves, and there are a handful of people who claim to be vassals, and they are really waiting for themselves to be embarrassed.
After thinking about it, Kublai Khan had no good way, so he asked the Han staff, and these staff gave him an idea, that is, to hold a collective meeting to explain the current situation to all the Mongolian officers, explain it clearly, and everyone decided together and took the blame together.
The Mongol Empire is an interesting country, it was founded by the Golden Family and other Mongol families, although the Golden Family is huge and commands many families, but it is not possible to do everything as you want, and it is often controlled by other big families.
This is related to the original living habits of Mongolia, which were originally scattered tribes on the steppe, and were finally conquered by the Golden Family, or simply joined them directly.
The Great Khan they elected respected the strength of the sword soldiers in his hands, not the bullshit prestige and virtue.
The wolves on the grassland, the wolf king must be the strongest wolf in order to lead the race to glory.
Kublai Khan agreed to the method of the Han staff, and held a grand party in the camp in the evening, with wine and meat, dancing and singing, and even the Mei Ji offered by the bureaucrats on the road was accompanied by them.
When the wine was half-drunk, seeing that the banquet was almost going on, Kublai Khan waved his hand and let the singing and dancing Mei Ji disperse, and directly said that there was no food in the army and it would not last long.
Sure enough, a group of high-ranking Mongolian officers blew up the pot and shouted and made noise in the camp, which made Kublai Khan sneer in his heart.
Which of these people is not a human spirit, which one of them does not have his own eyeliner, and he does not know that there is no food in the army, so he has to pretend that he does not know, how ridiculous is this.
After some gags, prevarication and insults, these senior officers calmed down and found that such a nonsense was completely meaningless, no food is no food, no matter what you say about a flower, it still has no food. This is a fact, and it is not fantasy and speculation.
There was silence, and the high-ranking Mongolian officers, like Kublai Khan, frowned deeply and looked bad.
After some sincere discussion, a group of Mongolian officers decided to take advantage of the current food to attack Luoyang City, once Luoyang was taken, not only to win but also to solve the plight of the army, why not?
It was only while they were debating who should attack first, that the group of people shouted again, and no one refused to break into the barbed wire position, which looked like they were going to die. In the end, Kublai Khan stepped in and drew a part of each army's troops to form a team of 30,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry to attack the city together, so that the officers were silent.
That night, Ye Fei and Guo Xiang received news from inside the Mongolian camp that the Mongolian army would gather 50,000 troops to attack the city in the early morning of the next day due to the lack of food in the army.
Ye Fei and Guo Xiang hurriedly convened a meeting of officers from various departments overnight to agree on the battle plan together, and at the same time began to deploy positions, and there would be a bloody battle tomorrow.
Ye Fei and Guo Xiang also commissioned special combat personnel to send a letter to Tang Zhe, preparing to jointly deal a fierce blow to Mongolia when the 50,000 Mongolian army collapsed.
Everything was arranged in an orderly manner in the busy, Tang Zhe was shocked when he received the news when it was about to dawn, and immediately went to prepare for the work of burning the wilderness.
Taking advantage of the eyes of the Mongol army to attack the city, he wanted to make this wilderness a place that the Mongol army would never forget.
The next morning, the sun rose, the fog in the wilderness had not yet lifted, the desolate Mongolian trumpet sounded, the door of the Mongolian barracks was wide open, and a force of tens of thousands of people slaughtered the positions of the first and second divisions.
The cavalry charged, the infantry followed, the ancient tactics chose a different approach, and this time the Mongols had horses before the cavalry, and they had to use these horses to break through the barbed wire in front.
Guns roared, bullets rained down, shells fell from the sky, and crazy horses were beaten into bloody pulp by bullets and shells.
Some horses covered in blood galloped and smashed through the first barbed wire, only to be crippled by a trench behind the barbed wire.
Horse blood rained down, horse flesh was crushed, followed by a surge of Mongol cavalry and infantry.
The cavalry attacked through the gap in the first barbed wire, and before they could touch the second, they fell off their horses.
Horses howled on the battlefield, knights fell from their horses, drops of blood condensed into streams, and the red blood could not tell whether it was a horse or a man, and the land was dyed red anyway.
The 1st and 2nd Divisions were also red-eyed, with a constant stream of gunfire and artillery fire, keeping the cavalry out of the second barbed wire.
However, it was only a while, more Mongolian infantry came with the Mongolian cavalry, fearlessly charging in front of the barbed wire, some people had a big hole in their stomachs, their intestines flowed out, and they did not forget to cut the barbed wire, and some people's legs were broken by shells, dragging their bodies, and they had to move forward on their stomachs.
This is a savage army, and once the ferocity is aroused, it will be incomparably mad.
The second barbed wire fence could not withstand it and was split wide, and in the era when there were no machine guns, as long as the cavalry did not care about casualties, they would have nothing to stop under the iron hoof charge.
The 1st and 2nd divisions received bayonets, there were casualties, and the soldiers who could not retreat within the second barbed wire were killed by the Mongol infantry or Mongol cavalry, who were still charging and rushed towards the third barbed wire.
Thousands of Mongol troops were wiped out in just over half an hour after the brutal war, but after they broke through the first and second barbed wires, they gave them infinite hope and violently stormed the third barbed wire.
"Give me a hard beating, don't feel sorry for the ammunition. We must buy time for Tang Zhe! ”
Ye Fei looked at the city tower, clenched his fists in his hands, the most difficult moment of this battle came, the Mongolian cavalry and the infantry approached, and every moment there were Mongolian soldiers falling, but they didn't seem to see it, this was a group of beasts, a group of bloodthirsty wolves who didn't know pain.
"If the fourth barbed wire fence is breached, immediately abandon the position and retreat into the city, the walls will teach them an unforgettable lesson."
Ye Fei knew that this group of crazy cavalry couldn't stop it, and the current firepower density was far from enough to suppress the cavalry charge. In the past, there was barbed wire protection, so that the Mongol commanders could not be defeated because of casualties, but at present, this kind of charge at the cost of death cannot be resisted by barbed wire.
"Our towers are not so easy to capture!"
Guo Xiang said indifferently, the city tower under his feet is seven or eight meters high, and there is no staircase to go upstairs, only an internal opening in the distance, where the city wall comes up.
When the wall was built, it was thought that the enemy would break through the position, and the means of building a staircase from the inside were adopted. Moreover, the material is made of cement, which is very strong, and it is difficult to leave traces when slashed with a sword.
The cavalry charge is okay, but the siege can only be laughed, and the infantry can go up the ladder, but when they come up and find that there is no way down, how wonderful the expression will be.
Even if the infantry found the passage inside the city walls, the terrain was narrow and there was an ambush. I have to say that the White Night gang used this inconspicuous city wall to trap the Mongols!