After the Mongols surrendered Yongkang and Hengyuan, their spies heard that there was also an official army in the mountains, and the Mongol general Yelu Maizhu who captured this place ordered Yongkang County to send people to surrender, Yelu Maizhu was a general under Liu Heima, and he was also a Khitan.

It's just that Xiong Ben can't wait to use the hands of the Mongols to destroy the Thunderbolt army, where is he willing to send someone forward. However, he still had to make a show, and sent someone to turn back halfway as soon as he walked into the mountain, and added fuel and vinegar to say that Ouyang Xuan despised the Mongol army.

Yelumaisu sent a Mongol envoy to the mountains, and although the soldiers and civilians along the way were not friendly to the Mongols, they did not embarrass them.

The envoy claimed that as long as the Thunderbolt army surrendered, Ouyang Xuan and the others could save everything, but the result was obvious.

In Yelumai's view, the impact of the Thunderbolt army's refusal to surrender was very bad, but the current Mongol army was mainly focused on attacking the plains, and the current strength in hand was tight, so only a small number of men and horses were sent to harass them.

In Xiong Ben's description of Yelu's purchase, the Thunderbolt army was just a small group of wandering troops, and after coercing a large number of mountain people who did not obey the king, they gathered in the mountains and forests.

This made Yelu Maizu think that he only needed to send people to deter him by force to surrender, and this was the first nuisance of the Mongol army in the mountains.

When the Mongolian army reported that the mountains were steep and fortified, he still did not care, so he sent a team of 100 men to use force

"Persuade". There were also large and small factions in the Mongol army, and under Yelumai's men were Mongols, Tanguts, Jurchens, and Han Chinese.

The first time the centurion of the Mongol army in the mountains was the surrendered Jurchen, and Yelumai scoffed at his words.

The status of surrendering generals and troops in the Mongolian army is not high, and the hatred of Jin Zhenliao makes the Jurchen and Khitan tribes also have a gap in the Mongolian army.

Yelu, who is also a Khitan with Liu Heima, naturally regards his own people as cronies, and most of the 100 people who entered the mountain for the second time are Khitans, and the centurion is his cousin.

However, he did not expect that the Thunderbolts not only refused to surrender, but his cousin was killed under the wall. After this battle, after many inquiries, Yelumai had a preliminary understanding of the strength of the Perak army, although his intelligence sources were not reliable.

The more he got to know him, the more he felt that this Song army should not be underestimated, and it was not the rabble that Xiong Ben said. Although the death of his cousin made Yelumai very angry, the people who fought in the army have long been accustomed to life and death.

It's just that the Perak army held on to the tide of surrender and became an example of the anti-Mongolian forces, causing greater political impact, so he decided to attack the Perak army and completely raze the anti-Mongolian forces in the mountains to show special effect.

Yelumaizhu learned through intelligence that there were 200 people in the Thunderbolt army, and there were about hundreds of militiamen, and this information was actually deliberately spread by Dong Hu's intelligence officers, but it made everyone including Xiong Ben believe it.

Because in their eyes, this mountain is a poor place, and the Thunderbolt army does not levy taxes or search for and oppress the mountain people, and it is already very good to be able to support an army of 200 men, as evidenced by the fact that the Thunderbolt army does not exceed 200 men every time they go into battle.

If he was in the plains, he was convinced that with the invincible cavalry of the Mongol army, he could easily defeat the Thunderbolts with only a hundred-man team, and that the militia with hoes and straw forks in their hands were only a few men.

As for the statement that the thunderbolt army's firearms are more powerful than the thunder, it is just that the Southern Song Dynasty Xiang army and mountain bandits, which had low combat effectiveness, made excuses for their own incompetence and spread false rumors.

But Jerumai also knew that if he wanted to attack the precipitous fortress in the mountains, his own troops would be neither adequate nor adept.

Yelu bought as a thousand-commander, and the Mongolian army under his command was actually only more than 800 people after several losses, and recently Liu Heima's 300 cavalry was transferred to the direction of Meizhou, and now there are only more than 500 troops in his hands.

The plains such as Chongqing Province are also the focus of business as newly conquered places, and they need mobile cavalry to maintain bullet pressure, and it is impossible to attack the mountains on a large scale.

Therefore, Yelu Maizhu decided to send a 100-strong team from his headquarters to the battle this time, and the new annexed army, the Southern Song Army, to attack the Thunderbolt army.

For Jerumai, this is a win-win deal, and defeating the Thunderbolts is of course a good thing, and if the Thunderbolts are not defeated, they can also take the opportunity to consume the forces of the new annexes and eliminate their threat of rebellion.

Of course, he believed that the new annex army was better at siege than it was able to defeat the Thunderbolt army as long as there were enough of them.

To this end, Yelumaizhu transferred 1,200 new annexed troops, which were 600 from Dayi County, 400 from Qingcheng County, and 200 from Yongkang County, all of whom were the former Song army.

Yelumai lived in Chongqing Mansion and commanded the town, and he sent a cavalry team of 100 men to follow the new annexed army, both to escort the battle and to monitor the military operation.

In command of the new annexed army was Zhao Shicai, the newly appointed commander of Dayi County appointed by the Mongols, who was originally the lieutenant of Dayi County, Qiongzhou, and killed the county commander Xiancheng to surrender when the Mongol army attacked.

He was the most enthusiastic and flattering in this dispatch, so Jeremiah appointed him as the commander of the new annexed army.

Zhao Shicai, who was appointed, was so excited that he vowed to defeat the Thunderbolt Army and capture Ouyang Xuan alive in order to pave his way to promotion and fortune.

Compared with the high-spirited Zhao Shicai, Xiong Ben is much more low-key. On the one hand, he was really scared of the firearms of the Thunderbolt Army, and he really didn't want to be a bird; On the other hand, although he also hated Ouyang Xuan to eat flesh and skin, he still had doubts about whether he could defeat the Thunderbolt Army.

It was this kind of psychology of wanting revenge and hating and fearing that his strength would be damaged that made Xiong Ben cower and hesitate, he first played his head and cried to Yelumai, saying that Yongkang County was small and widowed, and it was decayed due to the looting of the Thunderbolt army, and now there are few major generals and most of the old and weak soldiers, and it is not easy to select 200 soldiers; And he offered advice to Jerod, saying, "Though the fortress is strong, but the guard is dull, let men be sent to deceive the gate in the guise of vagabonds and merchants."

Xiong Ben has been entrenched in the mountains for many years, is very familiar with the situation in the mountains, and the analysis of the pros and cons is also clear, coupled with his realistic acting skills, he nodded again and again when he said that Yelu bought it.

Seeing that he was affirmed, Xiong Ben took the opportunity to propose that the soldiers of Yongkang City were weak in battle, and although they were not suitable for a frontal attack, they could choose elite personnel to sneak attack Wanjiazhai from the small road in the direction of Yongkang City, and they could also serve as the duty of guarding grain and grass.

Zhao Shicai has no objection to Xiong Ben's treacherous behavior of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he is now eager to win the favor of Yelu by showing himself, for fear that others will steal merit with him, Xiong Ben offered to play assist, which is exactly what he wants.