After a few more days, Ouyang Xuan finally received a reply from Jiading Mansion and Yazhou and Baizhang County. The reply from Jiading Mansion was sent back to Xinjin City by carrier pigeon, and then sent by clipper overnight.

As expected, Yu Xing not only did not send troops to help, but blamed him for not doing his best. In the letter, he reprimanded Ouyang Xuanmu for having no superiors and carrying out military operations without authorization, saying that the Mongol army was pressing the border, and it was still difficult for Jiading to protect itself, and there were no troops to send at all.

In the end, he asked Ouyang Xuan to lead his troops to fight hard to serve the court, and use his merit to offset his sin of neglecting his boss. Yu Xing's words were high-sounding, but Ouyang Xuan knew that when he attacked Chengdu with Pu Xuezhi, he was psychologically shadowed by the Mongolian army, and he only dared to shrink back to defend and did not dare to send troops at all.

As for the charges he gave Ouyang Xuan to collect, it was just an opportunity to extort property, not really to punish him.

This time, the envoy also brought gold, silver, silk and other property, but Yu Xing was extremely greedy and wanted more property.

Yazhou is closer, and Baizhang County is less than 100 miles away from Qiongzhou City, but the reply is long overdue. The reply from Yazhou was full of arrogance, and the Baizhang County Commander told Ouyang Xuan in the posture of a senior that the Baizhang soldiers had enough food and strong cities, and the Mongolian army would be severely attacked if they dared to attack.

As for the matter of the joint attack, in his opinion, the Thunderbolt army attacked the city of Qiongzhou with less than 1,000 men and horses, which was really a move by Meng Lang, and he should immediately withdraw his troops in order to retreat with his whole body.

Ouyang Xuan couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile after reading the two reply letters. These Southern Song Dynasty officials were timid and cowardly in the face of the Mongols, but they were condescending and insatiable towards their subordinates and colleagues, and they were really two-faced.

Since the Perak army dared to send troops, it must have the confidence to defeat the Qiongzhou Mongolian army. It's just that if Yazhou and Baizhang County can send troops, together with the Thunderbolt army, they will definitely be able to achieve greater results.

In addition to the 300 sailors on the warships, the only Thunderbolt troops who attacked Qiongzhou City were able to go ashore to fight, including five companies of the field battalion and one company of the Guizheng battalion.

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"Triple encirclement, five times attack", the current number of defenders is more than twice that of the attackers. Even with artillery and grenades and other weapons of destruction, the Thunderbolt army blocked the south and east gates, but it was obviously too difficult to block the west gate and the north gate together.

It's just impossible, Ouyang Xuan is also ready to give it a try. He had ordered Zhou Jianshen to lead his troops to Qiongzhou, and Dayi City was defended by the Teaching Company.

In addition, he decided to send another 150 sailors ashore to fight on the premise of ensuring the necessary operators and gunners.

Before the three companies of Zhou Jianshen's Guizheng Battalion arrived, they began to extend the trenches and improvised fortifications in the direction of the north gate.

While the Thunderbolts were stretching out the trenches and fortifications, Cherry had already decided to escape. Another important task for him to garrison here is to recruit Yazhou, Lizhou and the surrounding Tibetan districts, and he has also invested a lot of energy in this regard, and it will not be long before there will be gains, which is also an important reason why he will not retreat.

After the Battle of Yokohara, Liu Heima sent messengers through the Thunderbolt blockade to tell him that Chengdu would send reinforcements.

Just hold on until reinforcements arrive, or drag until the autumn is dry and the ships are inconvenient to advance or retreat, and then you can use the rocket to burn the river.

However, the reinforcements were delayed, and the horses were getting thinner and thinner, and even began to die one after another, and the cavalry under his command were sick all day long because of the heat.

The lack of food can rob the people in the city of food, and even deduct the rations of the newly annexed army, anyway, the cavalry and war horses cannot lack food.

But it is absolutely unacceptable that horses that lack grass and food should continue to die in the scorching heat.

The number of horses is decreasing on the one hand, it is terrible to keep losing weight and even lose the ability to carry them, and even worse, if this situation continues, the plague will definitely occur in the herd.

Are the Mongols, who lost their horses, still invincible? If you don't break the siege by then, you won't even be able to escape.

After much deliberation, Cherry decided to flee west. Although it was a plain area to the east and south, the cities and strongholds such as Dayi and Pujiang were occupied by the Perak army, and the attack was bound to suffer heavy losses in the absence of siege equipment, not to mention that it was impossible to cross the Nanhe River and the Jinma River at all.

As for the mountainous area in the north, it is obviously a dead land, and to the west, although it is also a mountainous area, it can bypass Mingshan County, Yazhou, Hongya County, Jiading Prefecture, and join the Mongolian army in Pengshan County, Meizhou.

As for the biggest obstacle on the way to the west, Baizhang Pass, in the eyes of Cheri, it has long been a smooth road. Before the battle of Yokohara Fort, the two prefectures and subordinate counties of Ya and Li saw that the Mongolian army was strong, and they all had the intention of surrendering under the persuasion of the envoys sent by Cheri, and the reason why they did not surrender immediately was because the officials of these prefectures and counties asked for too high a price, and Cheri did not dare to agree to ask for instructions without authorization.

Before he could reply, the defeat of Yokohara Fort occurred, and these wall grasses changed their minds one after another, expelled the Mongol envoys and continued to ride the wall.

However, Cherry has not found nothing, and his envoys have bought a number of schools to defend the city as internal responses, and the county governor of Baizhang County is one of them.

Taking advantage of the darkness before dawn, part of the Mongolian army in Qiongzhou secretly fled westward. Part of the reason for saying this is that in addition to the 500 Mongol cavalry, Cheri only took 600 new annexes with him this time.

Some of these new annexes rode horses, while those who did not ride were fastened to the saddle with ropes. The reason why Cherry brought these people was not only because they were familiar with the geographical and road conditions, but more importantly, the Mongolian cavalry was tortured by the scorching heat and their combat effectiveness decreased a lot, and these new annexed soldiers could be used as cannon fodder at critical times.

The Thunderbolts, of course, knew that the Mongols were fleeing westward, but they did not immediately pursue them. On the one hand, there are still 900 new annexes in the city to clean up, and on the other hand, there are scruples, after all, the Mongolian army is good at using deceit tactics, often using the horse pistol to defeat the opponent.

As soon as Cherry ran away with his people, the abandoned new annex army in the city was suddenly in chaos. At this moment, the artillery on the warship began to shell, and the artillery at the south and east gates also sounded at the same time.

Under the dense artillery, the new annexed troops in the city had no intention of resisting at all, and threw away their weapons and ran around. After several rounds of shelling, the wooden gate of the south gate was also destroyed.

Before Cao Ergou could launch a charge, the new annexed army in the city shouted: "Don't shell, I'll surrender."

Ouyang Xuan ordered Le Quan'an to lead the navy and Zhou Jianshen, who rushed over, to defend Qiongzhou City. He and Cao Ergou rushed to Baizhang Pass with the field camp.

In order to prevent the sudden return of the Mongolian cavalry, the field battalion did not take the official road with flat terrain, but was led by the people of Qianjiazhai to rush to Baizhang Pass along the mountain path.

When the Thunderbolt Army first arrived in Qiongzhou, they sent people to contact Qianjiazhai, and Qian Laoer, who stayed in Qianjiazhai, was overjoyed when he heard the news, and rushed over with people, on the one hand, to report the situation to Ouyang Xuan, and on the other hand, to visit his son-in-law Cao Ergou.

As a native, Qian Lao Er is extremely familiar with the surroundings of Baizhang Pass. In many years of business, he and Boss Qian also tried to find a way to bypass Baizhang Pass in order to pay less taxes, but many attempts were fruitless.

He reported to Ouyang Xuan that the brigade could not bypass Baizhang Pass at all, and could only reach the front of Baizhang Pass by small road, and if they wanted to pass the pass, they had to take the pass.

Ouyang Xuan was not worried but happy when he heard this, he was actually worried that the Mongolian army would find a small way to detour to Baizhang Pass. Now the Mongolian army will definitely be blocked by Baizhang Pass, and when they fold their strength in front of the pass, they will definitely be very panicked.

The field battalion could then sneak into the rear of the Mongolian army through the path and launch a surprise attack. At that time, Baizhang Pass will be a chopping board, the field camp will be a quick knife, and the fleeing Mongolian army will be fish and meat.