Chapter 62: Coming from the Middle

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Just after the Spring Festival, the smell of the New Year is still strong, as if the New Year was only yesterday, but the peace that had been quiet a year ago was suddenly broken, and the war was rekindled in this ancient land.

The initiators of this war were the Southern Song Dynasty and Yang Yuanhong, and the two sides attacked together, one from the south and the other to the southwest.

The Southern Song Dynasty mainly attacked from Xiangyang, and they relied on the high walls of Xiangyang City as a stronghold, gathered superior forces, and advanced into the interior of the White Night Territory.

I don't know who gave them the idea?

The Southern Song Dynasty grasped that the White Night Army was scattered on all sides, and there were not many soldiers actually defending the city, such as Tangzhou, which they were preparing to attack, only more than 6,000 defenders.

Therefore, they chose a simple and crude method, wanting to win with absolute force. The Southern Song Dynasty actually sent not many troops, this is relatively speaking, only more than 30,000 people, but this is also five times the defenders of Tangzhou City, they want to crush Bai Ye with the advantage of numbers.

Who knows, they use the war of the cold weapon age to estimate the army of a hot weapon, which in itself is the biggest mistake they have made.

Jia Rudao came back from the west, and he really negotiated a contract with the king of Tubo, as for what kind of conditions he paid, Bai Ye did not deliberately understand, but he knew that Tubo was satisfied with the withdrawal of troops and returned the occupied land.

On the eve of Jia Rudao's return to Beijing, a war broke out between the Southern Song Dynasty and the White Night forces. He was not in the court, although he wanted to command remotely, but after all, he was not as good as people in the court, and some people decided this war, which made him angry and thunderous, and he wanted to rush back to Lin'an immediately.

Yang Yuanhong's army was far more than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, a total of 100,000 troops set out, pressing towards the white night, their attack route was the southwest direction, preparing to directly attack the Yellow Dragon, all the way to the administrative center of the white night forces, Luoyang.

The idea and plan are very good, while these two families marched, Li Xuxia was also uneasy in the northwest direction of Baiye, he gathered a large army to stand on the border of Baiye, although it was not explicitly said, but only in this way, it was to put pressure on the Baiye forces and contain and disperse the forces of Baiye.

The army attacking this time was no worse than the previous two Mongol armies, but the critical situation on the surface was not worse than that of the year.

The two joined forces, one contained, and consumed the power of the White Night from different directions, so that it could not concentrate superior forces, and their strategy could be described as very successful.

Two fists are hard to beat four hands, the tiger can't stand the wolves, even if it is the Mongol Empire, under the control of several sides, it is also exhausted, and if you are not careful, you will be broken thousands of miles and hit inside. The White Night Force has never been truly taken seriously, and in their hearts, they are not even tigers.

Based on this kind of thinking, most people in the world are not optimistic about the White Night forces, and they believe that even if the White Night can repel the two forces this time, they will definitely suffer a lot of losses and suffer heavy losses. What's more, there is Li Xuxia who is eyeing the battle group at any time on one side, and if the three sides attack, under the dispersion of troops, the greatest possibility is that each of them will be defeated.

On the contrary, the Mongols, who had fought with Bai Ye twice, unexpectedly thought that Bai Ye would be victorious, and without personally experiencing the battle with Bai Ye's army, they could not know the despair and helplessness of not being able to break through the layers of barbed wire.

They acquiesced in their hearts, but they didn't explain, nor did they watch from the sidelines, but took advantage of Li Xuxia and Yang Yuanhong's idea to quietly organize the army on the side of the white night, and prepare for the change of war, so they attacked both sides fiercely and reoccupied the land they once occupied.

The war was going on, and the forces of several sides collided, starting with the armies of Bai Ye and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the two sides fought fiercely under the city of Tangzhou.

It was said that it was a fierce battle, and it was to raise the Southern Song Dynasty army. They were mostly infantry, and the cavalry was very few. When they approached the city of Tangzhou, they found that there were a few barbed wire fences and a few deep ravines, which was the city they were going to attack.

The Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner of peace, and their army was inferior to the Mongol army in terms of will. As soon as the attack began, they were subjected to heavy artillery fire, and a single shell exploded, and a swarm of blood was scattered. Bullets roared like a storm from the position behind the barbed wire, and the Southern Song soldiers who rushed in front fell to the ground one by one.

It was only a charge, and before it touched the position, more than 1,000 Southern Song soldiers were lost here.

The commander of the Southern Song Dynasty was not a mediocre talent, but a capable man of this era, who was familiar with the art of war since he was a child, but unfortunately he understood cold weapon warfare. He had never seen such a way of warfare, with artillery fire washing the floor, bullets raining down, and annihilating his own soldiers without contact from a distance.

He was in a hurry to read the military books, but none of them could give him instructions, these military books were all about cold weapon warfare, and they could not keep up with the changes of the times.

Some of the famous military books in the era of cold weapons, the strategic ideas in them are still very good, but they are not outdated, but they cannot provide even the slightest help at a time when there is a generation gap between the weapons of the two sides and military and tactical changes.

The commander of the Southern Song Dynasty was silent, he did not attack immediately, but convened a military meeting to analyze the situation in front of him, and everyone who was not stupid knew that this could not be attacked at all, unless it was piled up with human lives.

It rained overnight, the military camp of the Southern Song Dynasty was solemn and quiet, and the city of Tangzhou was still towering, like a giant beast dormant in the night.

The Southern Song Dynasty attacked ineffectively, and Yang Yuanhong's troops also encountered the White Night Army, but he encountered more people and more fierce artillery fire.

Yang Yuanhong's army is not better than the Southern Song Dynasty, they are more warlike, and there are even 20,000 cavalry among them, this cavalry is the elite that Yang Yuanhong spent a lot of effort to survive.

However, he encountered a brutal field battle.

He was not prepared for this sudden field battle, and it was not until the scout reported that he knew that there was an army of the White Night ahead.

When the two armies met, the White Night side had already built a position, and they spread out in this open territory in order to destroy the cavalry of Yang Yuanhong's army.

In three directions, three integrated divisions surrounded and guarded in each direction, just waiting for Yang Yuanhong's cavalry to be caught.

The Central Plains region is already a lot of plains, and such an open field is most suitable for cavalry charges. Yang Yuanhong was not worried that the cavalry would be ambushed, the characteristic of the cavalry was that it came and went like the wind, and there were no traps and obstacles that could not be stopped at all.

With a wave of his hand, the cavalry charged towards the White Night Army, and the White Night Army did not immediately engage it, but retreated a hundred meters and ran to a flat grass.

The grass was not very lush, and on it stood several barbed wire, behind which many people were adjusting their cannons, and the black muzzles were facing the rushing cavalry.

Before the official contact, the guns of the White Night Army began to attack, and under the overwhelming artillery fire, the horses neighed and the people howled. The horses were frightened and ran wildly and struggled, and the horsemen tossed on their horses, and many of them were thrown off their horses and trampled to pulp.

The cavalry was raided, the casualties were not heavy, this was the field, and they quickly retreated back. At this moment, an army in the rear was blocked there, and the position was improvised and had not yet taken shape, but the heavy artillery fire came again.

One shell after another exploded, and people and horses exploded into flesh and blood, horse blood and human blood, horse flesh and human flesh, and it was no longer possible to distinguish each other.

Seeing that the position was not formed, the cavalry organized several waves of charging attacks, but they were stubbornly blocked by that army.

The roaring artillery fire alarmed Yang Yuanhong, and he was in a hurry, and marched with the infantry, but what appeared in front of them was another division, allowing them to rush frantically, wanting to save the cavalry, but retreated in the continuous artillery fire and rain of bullets.

The whole field was ringing, the sound of cannons and guns, the sound of people and horses, and Yang Yuanhong's cavalry finally broke through from both flanks.

But what made him want to cry was that his cavalry had been wounded more than half of them in this battle of less than two hours, and almost all of them were wounded, and the horses were even more badly damaged.

The casualties of the cavalry made Yang Yuanhong's heart ache, and the infantry invested 10,000 people to enter in order to save the cavalry, but in the blink of an eye, more than 3,000 soldiers became flesh and blood, and more than thousands of soldiers were injured.

How should this battle be fought? How to deal with those armies?

Yang Yuanhong looked up at the sky, he remembered that he had gone to Bai Ye for help, and Bai Ye had also sold them muskets and artillery, but those things were almost the same as the artillery fire in front of him.

Their shells are solid iron balls, which rely on kinetic energy to kill people, but the shells fired by these cannons are a mist of blood wherever they explode.

The war had just begun, and it was different from what they expected, and Yang Yuanhong was already wondering if he would be able to go back alive?