Chapter 249: The Discouraged Scout
It's just that this time is different from the past, today's Kaqi tribe has become stronger and stronger, and after taking the solid city, it will have stronger strength, and it will stop moving forward and integrate.
At this time, presumably Urige would not allow himself to take away the wealth in the fortified city. Not only that, but he was afraid that he would also think about snatching back all the gold, silver and fur in his hands.
The time is about to turn around, and at this critical time, the war is likely to break out, and the most correct way is to leave immediately, taking advantage of the fact that the Kaqi tribe has not yet completed the integration, and leaving while their enemy is present, so that they can leave safely.
This will be the choice of most people, but it is not applicable to Su Shi. He immediately followed him to Gucheng, how could he enter Baoshan and return empty-handed?
If you want to calculate me, then Lao Tzu will calculate you in advance. Su Shi's plan was not to give Urige time to integrate, so that he could have a chance to fish in troubled waters.
In this way, he had to find an opponent for Uzhig to disrupt his sight and concentration, and Moge was undoubtedly the best choice.
In this way, before the scouts set off, Su Shi gave them a strict order, and there was a scene where the scouts took the initiative to release water.
If you want Su Shi to get out safely, the reinforcements of Mo Ge's lost department must come, but the time to come needs to be controlled by Su Shi.
Fortunately, Su Shi already has Wanlitong in his hands, and the scouts also have it in his hands, so that they can protect the connection at any time.
And the existence of Wanlitong is unknown to the Kaqi tribe, they just sent people to keep an eye on the military camp of the Su family army to prevent them from contacting the outside world, but they don't know at all, what it means to know the world without leaving home.
On the surface, Su Shi is very honest in the barracks of the Su family, and from time to time there will be some singing and dancing sounds in the camp, giving people the feeling that he is enjoying it.
There is nothing wrong with the sound of singing and dancing, but it is just Su Shi training Qu Dong'er's literary team. Su Shi did not move, which played a great role in confusing Wu Zhige, making Wu Zhige mistakenly think that the Song people were very obedient, so he couldn't help but relax his vigilance.
On the vast snow, the scouts of the Su family army were still blocking the speed of Mengqi's return to the original city, and when necessary, they would directly kill people and kill those Mengqi who ran fast.
Above the fortified city, when the sun rises, it also indicates the arrival of a new day, indicating that the Mongolian soldiers under the city seem to be ready to launch a deadly attack at any time.
In the morning, General Baha went up to the tower with his guards, and he wanted to see what the strangers under the city were going to do today.
Just as soon as he entered the city, he was surprised by the scene he saw, a full 200 Mengbing soldiers, after a night, seven people were frozen to death, frostbite more than 60 people, even the remaining more than 100 people, all trembling all over, obviously physical fitness has dropped to the freezing point.
If you can't start a fire, you can't bake a fire, and you have to inspect the safety of the city wall without any guarantee under the severe cold, and that kind of hardship makes people feel terrified when you think about it.
It's just that the military order is like a mountain, and even if it is difficult, you have to stick to it. In this way, in order to obey the military order, or to worry that if he disobeyed the military order, he was beheaded, and after a night, although the Mongol army under the city did not launch any attack, the soldiers defending the city still killed and wounded dozens of people.
"This... Send them down to rest immediately, and the replacement person can also raise the fire. Baha was first frightened by the tragic scene in front of him, and then he thought that if he continued, the morale of the army would be greatly damaged, and over time, how to command them, he gritted his teeth and gave the order.
The defenders of the city changed a group and began to prepare for the fire. But the Mongolian soldiers under the city didn't seem to want to let them go, and big snowballs smashed towards the city tower early.
Many soldiers dodged, but the pyres that were being erected were directly destroyed after being hit, and under the huge force, firewood flew everywhere.
Although it can be picked up and rekindled by the fire, who would dare to stand by the fire and roast the fire when the catapult does not stop?
It was destined to be a sad day, and the soldiers defending the city suffered little by little in the cold until the afternoon.
As soon as the sun set and the temperature dropped rapidly, Baha had to bring in a new group of soldiers to climb the tower.
In order to prevent the incident of last night from happening, Baha made arrangements early in the morning. Every two hours, a new army of 200 soldiers would ascend the tower to change the guards.
In a word, there is no need for a garrison to hold out until dawn. It's only two hours, and I think I can hold on.
It is still not possible to light a fire on the castle tower, otherwise the bright flame will become the target of the catapult.
Fortunately, you only need to hold on for two hours, and you can go back to the city to rest, and then you can get into the warm quilt, which is the comfortable time.
Originally, I thought that it would be the same as yesterday, just need to prevent the cold, but what I didn't expect was that after dark, the Kaqimeng soldiers under the city were not resting, but were busy shouting.
I don't know what they're doing, but I can hear the sound of footsteps walking around, and there seems to be a faint sound of a trumpet.
But whenever the Mongolian soldiers on the city tower wanted to reconnoiter the situation, they were greeted by either big snowballs or bows and arrows.
I couldn't figure out what Yimeng was doing, and someone immediately reported the situation to Lord Baha, who was already sleeping, and learned that Yimeng finally moved, worried about whether they would attack the city late at night, Baha dressed while ordering all the Mongolian troops in the city not to sleep, and began to assemble and climb the tower to prevent the enemy from attacking the city overnight.
The soldiers in the city reluctantly walked out of the warm bed under the military order, and when they assembled the whole team, it was already half an hour later.
And it was at this time that news came from the city tower, saying that the Yimeng under the city had no intention of attacking the city at all, and the previous movement was gone, and it seemed that he had gone to rest.
"What's going on? Didn't they siege the city? Baha asked, looking confused.
"No, there was absolutely no siege, the soldiers defending the city have always been very conscientious, although they can't see the situation under the city walls, but everyone has not slept, they are always on guard with knives." A Mongolian teenager who came to report said repeatedly.
What are you kidding, it's such a cold day, and they don't have any heating equipment, they can fall asleep.
It's really sleepy and unbearable, and often as soon as you close your eyes, it becomes forever. Listening to the siege of the city, Baha was still wondering if it would be some trick they were playing, when a guard stepped forward and reminded in a low voice,
"General, is this going to be a trick of the strangers, they just don't want us to have a good rest." After this reminder, Baha thought that there was a great possibility, so he nodded again and again: "That's true. Hum! Presumably they are preparing to attack the city tomorrow, but they want to drain our physical strength tonight, which is despicable. The order was given, and the army rested immediately. There are also two hundred more soldiers defending the city, telling them that as long as the strangers do not attack the city, they will not care what they will do. Baha thought he had seen through the trick of the strangers, and after making some arrangements, he went back to sleep in peace.
As soon as the other Mongolian soldiers got up, some of them were in a state of confusion, not knowing what was going on, so they got the news that they could go back to rest, and many of them were still scolding and scolding, and went back to the house to sleep.
There were only two hundred more soldiers on the city tower. But with these four hundred people, once the Yimeng under the city really wants to attack the city, they can also resist for a while, and then the main force in the city will rush to support them.
The people in the city had enough of making trouble, and went to rest again. After there was no movement, the Mongolian soldiers outside the city began to get busy again, and there was the sound of footsteps hurrying back and forth.
But with the previous experience, the soldiers defending the city just stared at whether anyone went up to the tower, and they would not look at what the opponent was busy with under the city.
And this movement lasted until the second half of the night, when there were still more than two hours before dawn, and finally everything was calm.
....... On the main road between Gucheng and Yuancheng, nearly twenty Mongolian scouts fell that night.
Most of them are tired, after all, it is not easy to persist for two days in cold weather. When there is no place to rest, their physical strength is not replenished at all.
Except for the nearly ten people who were exhausted, the rest were scouts who wanted to hurry up and die. They felt that they were carrying important military information and needed to be teleported to the original city earlier, so they hurried desperately.
Two of them didn't even need a war horse, but they were just walking on their legs, they were originally the best of the scouts, their physical strength was really good, their alertness was also very high, and they also carried bows and arrows and weapons on their bodies.
When you are thirsty, you eat snow, and when you are hungry, you go into the dense forest to look for some small animals that are not hibernating. But how could the powerful Mongolian army scouts be the opponents of the well-equipped Su family army scouts, and in the end, both of them died under the bow and arrow, one was stared at the tree, and the other was shot down in the heavy snow.
It was already a day later when the Mongolian scouts who came behind found their bodies. The faces were very ugly, with the vigilance of the scouts, they had long known that there were enemy scouts staring at them nearby, in fact, the scouts of the Su family army did not mean to hide their traces at all, but the number of exposed was small, giving the Mongolian army scouts an illusion that their number was not large.
Knowing that he had been targeted, the rest of the scouts gathered together, ready to kill the Su family army scouts who were staring at him.
But their physical strength is already very weak, where will they be opponents, after rushing twice, in addition to more than 20 people who died, they did not even touch the shadow of the Su family's army scouts, and they were finally discouraged.