Chapter 117: Windfall

Pan Luohuan escaped from the south gate on horseback, followed by a group of Mongolian cavalry who also rode after him. Although his riding skills are not bad, where can he compare with the Mongols.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and it will not be long before they are only a stone's throw away. When the arrows came within range, the Mongols began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and they didn't care if they were alive or not!

This Pan Luohuan was frightened half to death by the rain of arrows behind him, and the Mongolian horse under him did not listen to the call, and in a panic, he rode his horse into the rice field on the side of the official road with a shake of the reins.

These rice fields were cultivated by the people he drove out not long ago, and several people died of exhaustion for this. In the middle of summer, the rice paddies looked flat and verdant, but the fields were full of water and silt, and the horses could not move when they got stuck in them.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Pan Luohuan wailed loudly and spared his life. The Mongolian cavalry was willing to listen to his call and shoot with their bows, and in an instant, Pan Luohuan was full of feathered arrows and turned into a hedgehog.

Naturally, the Mongols would not let go of the Thunderbolts. It's just that the Mongols focused their attacks on Qiongzhou, Meizhou, Huojing and other state capitals and important fiscal and taxation areas, and repeatedly fought with Jiading Yuxing to fight for Baizhang County in Yazhou, Jingyan County in Longzhou, Pengshan County in Meizhou and other places, and the Thunderbolt army in the mountains of Bi'an is not their main target now.

Moreover, the Yokohara Fort has been built, and the Mongol cavalry, who are not good at attacking the city, will naturally not rush to attack. The last time Yelumaizhu's cavalry and Dayi's new annexed army suffered a crushing defeat at Wanjiabao, they still remember it vividly.

The Mongol strategy against the Perak army was to station a cavalry team of 100 men in Chongqing Fucheng, Dayi and Yongkang City, and the surrendered traitor army and Minzhuang defended the city, while the Mongol cavalry took turns to harass near Hengyuan Fort and capture the various reclamation points of the Perak army in the piedmont plain.

Cao Ergou asked Ouyang Xuan several times to attack the three cities and recapture the cantonment points, but they were all rejected. Ouyang Xuan's order was simple: stay on standby.

In Ouyang Xuan's view, it was easy to capture Chongqing, Yongkang, and Dayi, but it was extremely difficult to hold on to the subsequent Mongol counterattack.

After the Mongol army defeated Yu Xing and completely expelled his army from western Sichuan, Ken Hui turned back to attack the Perak army, and it was too difficult to hold these three cities, and even if they did, the cost would be too great for the Perak army to bear.

At present, the Thunderbolt army has no losses in this wave of Mongol strategies, but there are still a lot of gains and gains.

The camps of the navy in Huaguoshan and Huangjiadang were extremely secretive, and the Mongols did not find out. Of course, even if it is found that the water military camp can rely on the advantage of being familiar with the terrain, let the Mongols turn around in the rootless mountains and reeds, and let them return in vain.

The same is true for the cottage behind Yongkang City, not to mention whether the Mongolian cavalry dares to enter the mountain, even if they can enter the mountain to attack the village, the villagers only need to hold on, so that the Mongolian cavalry who have no weapons to attack the village can sigh.

As for the cultivated crops occupied by the Mongols, Ouyang Xuan didn't care about it. Now that there are two months left in autumn, let the Mongols occupy it first, and it will not be too late for the Thunderbolts to get it back when the harvest season comes.

The gain of the Thunderbolt army lies in the annexation of the Chongqing Naval Army and the surrender of Xinjin City, which increased the elite combat strength of the naval battalion by 600 and the number of personnel to nearly 1,000, and also allowed the Thunderbolt Army to obtain a fortified city in the hinterland of the plains.

After obtaining Xinjin City, Ouyang Xuan ordered people to transport artillery and a large amount of cement, wood, iron and other building materials, along with the fort construction technicians and military instructors.

The configuration of artillery and the reinforced city defense have greatly improved the combat power of Xinjin City. At present, Huang Dagen personally led 800 people to garrison Xinjin City, and Huaguoshan and Huangjiadang camps of the water army camp were stationed with 100 people each.

Since the Mongols did not have a naval army in Chongqing, the control of the river was completely controlled by the Thunderbolt army, and the Mongols without warships did not attack Xinjin City, which was surrounded by water on three sides.

Another harvest of the Thunderbolt Army is in Qianjiazhai. After the Mongolian army occupied Qiongzhou and Huojing, the two important places of salt and iron finance and taxation, they first sent people to surrender Qianjiazhai, but after being rejected by Qian Laoer, the Mongols did not send troops to attack, but sent troops to attack Baizhang County, Yazhou.

This Baizhang County is located at the junction of the western Sichuan Plain and the western mountainous area, and the location of the county seat is also called Baizhang Pass, which is the throat of Jiading Prefecture, Yazhou and Fan District into the western Sichuan Plain.

The battle with the Mongolian army at Baizhang Pass was not the Yazhou Xiang army, but the elite of Yu Xing's men. On the one hand, it was because the combat strength of the Yazhou army was far inferior to Yu Xingbu's, and on the other hand, the Yazhou officials saw that the prefectures and counties in western Sichuan had voted for the Mongols, and they had already had a wall-riding mentality and were unwilling to contribute to the death.

The fall of Qiongzhou and the repeated tug-of-war between the Mongolian army and Yu Xing's troops in this place made the people flee one after another to escape the war, and the Qianjiazhai located in the deep mountainous area also accepted more than 800 refugees, filling the vacant houses after the Qian clan moved away, including several salt merchants who came with a large amount of salt.

When Qian Lao Er attended the wedding of Cao Ergou and his daughter in Wanjiaping, Ouyang Xuan told him in person that if the Mongols surrounded Qianjiazhai, it would only take half a year to hold on to it, and there would be a turnaround, and then the Thunderbolt army would send troops to meet Qianjiazhai and the armed caravan going south.

At present, a company of Qianjiazhai has a strong army of 400 people, a high wall and a lot of grain, plus artillery, and Qian Lao Er is confident that there will be no problem in holding on for half a year.

It's just that after the Mongols defeated the remnants of Yu Xingbu's army, they did not come to attack, which disappointed the people of Qianjiazhai, who had already made full preparations.

In fact, in the eyes of the Mongols, these fortified forts in the mountains were really worth the effort, and they only needed to be firmly established in the plains and then slowly plotted by political and economic means.

Compared with the above gains, what makes Ouyang even more pleased is the inflow of talents. The number of refugees who poured into the Thunderbolt Army this time was large, and there were also many talented people.

Among the people who fell under the rule of the Perak Army were many people with military, cultural, and medical expertise that the Perak Army urgently needed.

On the one hand, the western part of Sichuan fell this time, and there were more people who did not want to be slaves under the Mongol whip and fled.

Unlike the previous invasions of Shu by the Mongol army, the Mongol army this time adopted Liu Heima's strategy of attaching equal importance to force and political offensives, and did not adopt a scorched earth policy, but prepared to occupy it permanently.

However, although the Mongols no longer blindly burned and killed adultery, and also appointed many Song generals to assist in the management of the region, they also brought the barbaric and brutal governance methods of the Mongols to Shu.

These Mongols take things when they see them, and if they block it, they will be stabbed, and they will push it even more

"The right of the first night", whose daughter-in-law must let the Mongolians sleep on the first night, otherwise the whole family will be destroyed.

This not only destroyed the country but also exterminated the rule, but also promoted the flight of a large number of Han people. On the other hand, it was because of the prestige of the Thunderbolt Army and Ouyang Xuan.

Compared with the government that has been defeated repeatedly and even fled and surrendered without a fight, the Thunderbolt army is obviously more popular.

Not only the refugees in western Sichuan, but also the people with lofty ideals from afar, who have to come to take refuge after a lot of hardships, most of these people are soldiers of a hundred battles or talents with a skill.

Among them is Tang Shun, a famous doctor in Chengdu, who is also the descendant of Tang Shenwei. This Tang Shenwei is a native of Chongqing, is a famous medical master, he in 1082 A.D. compiled a medical masterpiece "through historical evidence class emergency materia medica", this book is highly valued by later generations, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" is also based on this book and blueprint.

Under his rule, Ouyang Xuan also vigorously promoted medical knowledge such as large-scale disinfection (alcohol, quicklime), isolation, and deep burial, which was broken

"After a military disaster, there must be a plague", but his public health knowledge can only achieve prevention, but there is no cure for the sick.

Tang Shun's arrival made up for this shortcoming, greatly improving the medical level of the Thunderbolt Army.