Chapter 99: Empty City, Ambush
Möngke had never told anyone about the 'immortal artifact', just as Temujin had never told anyone else before he passed it on to him.
After the initial shock of learning the truth, Möngke also made up his mind...... Unless he has no skills to return to the sky, he will never say anything about this matter to outsiders before passing on this immortal weapon to one of his sons.
According to the original living immortal weapon, and with the help of all kinds of magical abilities in it, unified the chaotic and embarrassing Mongolia, conquered the east and west, and destroyed countless countries of his father Khan Temujin...... This immortal artifact, which he named 'Immortal Heaven', was obtained from the belly of a fish during his childhood wandering.
Originally a bead, it was inadvertently stained with Temujin's blood and opened up a mysterious world.
The world was vast, and although Temujin had spent his entire life exploring, he had not yet reached the edge of that world.
After obtaining the immortal weapon, Meng Ge also organized the elite to explore that world, but those elite knights, who changed to five war horses, ran in all directions for ten days, and finally returned without seeing a different scenery from the grassland.
It was a vast prairie as far as the eye could see...... Even the eagle could not fly to the margins......
So, since then, Möngke has basically given up exploring that grassland. Honestly, according to the experience summed up by his father Khan Temujin, he used the natural pastures there to raise war horses and train the most elite soldiers.
Temujin had already discovered that in this 'eternal life', all horses, cattle and sheep grew much faster than usual.
In the outside world, it often takes a few years of effort, but in the world of immortality, it only takes one-tenth of the time.
As the most important property on the grassland, if livestock and horses can be slaughtered at this speed, it is obviously very great to increase the strength of a tribe.
At the beginning, Temujin relied on the support of this boundless grassland to make a comeback again and again, and launched a high-frequency challenge to those enemies with the backing of sufficient war horses, cattle and sheep! The last one dragged them down and swallowed them up!
Temujin also found that pastures had a similar effect on human growth. Although it is slightly slower than a war horse, the speed of one-fifth to one-sixth can still save a lot of time in the growth and training of teenagers.
After years of development and construction, Temujin has established four large settlements in the 'Immortal Heaven'.
Except for a small number of elite soldiers who were completely loyal to Temujin and treated them like gods, a large number of them were teenagers and children! These children will be trained from an early age to be dead men who regard Temujin as a god! With the abundant supply of meat and goat's milk, and a large amount of war training every day, the soldiers who come out of here are extremely elite and strong! You can give your life to Temujin at any time.
What made Meng Ge a little upset was ...... It may be that his father has done too successful in the relationship.
Therefore, when he inherited this immortal weapon, the soldiers and herdsmen in the Immortal Heaven still had far less reverence for him than Temujin.
No matter how you threaten or induce...... For these people in the Immortal Heavens, he Möngke will always be only Temujin's messenger, and he will always obey Temujin's orders because he is the son of Temujin.
This obviously made Möngke's use of this force less than Temujin's.
I thought that in this life, I would continue to use this secret power and the power of Mongolia itself to conquer all countries and make myself the supreme Khan forever.
However, this time an attack that was in the mood made the immortal weapon send out a hint to find the "same kind"!
In addition to the Immortal Heaven, there are other immortal weapons?
Is the power of those immortal weapons the same as that of the Immortal Heaven? There is also a vast grassland in it? Or the endless mountains?
All kinds of speculation and a great greed are constantly circling in the bottom of Meng Ge's heart......
The hint of the immortal weapon is very clear.
That person should be near this Xiangyang City.
As a result, Meng Ge ordered the slaughter of all possible places near Xiangyang City...... Villages, cottages, county seats...... Not a single one to stay!
However, there is still none.
Apparently......
This place is a hundred miles away, and the biggest possibility is in Xiangyang City in front of you!
Last night, the shouts of killing in Xiangyang City alarmed the Mongol sentinels and also Meng Ge.
Thereupon.
Early this morning, Meng Ge couldn't wait to order people to blow the trumpet and reorganize the troops, wanting to take advantage of last night's riots and the loss of the strength of the Xiangyang defenders to storm Xiangyang!
Originally, this plan was not to begin until at least the arrival of the subsequent Mongol army.
However, last night's accident made Meng Ge keenly grasp the opportunity and prepare to attack Xiangyang with the tens of thousands of cavalry in his hands.
Assemble, prepare, and besiege the city...... After a series of operations, a large number of experienced Mongol soldiers urged the craftsmen brought in the camp to assemble and transport the engineering equipment to the front line of the array.
At least 20,000 Mongol cavalry dismounted and changed their outfits, and watched the Song miscellaneous soldiers who had been forcibly recruited from the north as they advanced towards the city walls.
Hundreds of meters away.
The expected three-bow bed crossbow commonly used by the Song people did not attack. This made the Mongols, who had already been familiar with the tactics of the Song army, a little relieved. After all, no one wants to walk a distance of hundreds of meters with a bed crossbow that can shoot through two oxen.
Within three hundred paces, the rain of arrows thrown by the bow and arrow did not appear.
"Huh?" At this moment, all the Mongolian officers began to be a little puzzled, and they didn't understand what happened to the Song people this time.
But until the ladder was erected at the head of the city, there was no reaction in the city.
A group of selected brave soldiers quickly climbed up and opened the city gate from the inside, and the Mongol soldiers, who did not know why they also understood that Xiangyang had been ten or nine, cheered, and squeezed away the miscellaneous soldiers of the Han people in the north and swarmed into the city......
A large number of Mongol troops marched into the city, because Möngke had planned to slaughter the people of the city, so he did not spare his hand at all, and a large number of Mongol soldiers swarmed into the city.
Soon, Meng Ge also entered Xiangyang as a victor surrounded by the generals.
Kill all day until dusk.
Meng Ge stood anxiously at the head of the city, still not receiving the sound of the 'immortal weapon' prompting him to collect another immortal weapon.
The four gates have been sealed so that no one can escape...... However, at this time, Meng Ge thought of those Southern Song Dynasty martial arts masters who came and went high and posed a great threat to him.
It's okay during the day...... The walls were guarded by Mongol soldiers, and they were not afraid that they would run away...... But as it gets late today, it's hard to guarantee that nothing will go wrong.
So, Meng Ge gave an order to send most of the masters around him to help those ordinary soldiers block the city wall.
In Munke's expectation, the last rays of sunset on the horizon slowly set.
"Great Khan, it's so late, go back and rest first!" The voice of the others' persuasion did not fall, only the sound of a crossbow string was heard...... A sharp arrow swooped towards Möngke!
"Protect the Great Khan!" A master next to him swung his knife and shot down the arrow, blocking Meng Ge's body.
However...... This arrow is not just an isolated sneak attack.
This was followed by a dense shouting of killing!
Suddenly, countless secret passages hidden behind the brick walls in Xiangyang City suddenly flipped and opened, and countless blood clan soldiers wearing black clothes and iron armor swarmed out!