Chapter 289: The hammer anvil is in place
As the Thunderbolt Army got closer and closer to Jiading City, the siege order of New Bolt became more and more urgent. According to the reconnaissance report, the Thunderbolt navy ships were only half a day's away from Jiading City, and the field division led by Cao Ergou was harassed by cavalry and could reach Jiading City in two days, which made the battle-hardened Niu Ling worried. If there were 10,000 or more new troops coming, he would not be anxious at all, but would be happy, happy and sent to the door with military merits. Judging from the situation reported by Kudu, the Thunderbolt army that came to Jiading was by no means a fish belly, but an extremely tricky opponent. What's more, the opponent also has more than 1,000 cavalry, and if you don't deal with it properly, it will even be difficult for your side to retreat.
At this morning's military meeting, in response to the southward movement of the Perak army, he made countermeasures: the new annexed armies of Jianzhou and Longzhou respectively went to the banks of the Min River to build civil positions, and set up siege weapons to prevent the Perak army and naval army from approaching Jiading; Kudu still led the cavalry to delay the Thunderbolt army and waited for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack; Yazhou and other new annexed armies still attacked Jiading City with all their might. For such an arrangement, the Mongol generals obeyed the order, and the generals of the new annexed army were flattering and loudly praised the wisdom and martial arts of the new army. Cao Zhizhou was naturally full of sneers, but in his heart, he asked all the female relatives of Niu Lu, and secretly scolded other generals of the new annexed army for being sycophants.
The new annexed army, which received the siege order, began to attack frantically, because behind them was the warlord of Newland, and the advance may be death but it may fight for glory and wealth, but the retreat will inevitably be a loss of people's heads. It's just that their attack only caused more damage to the Jiading city wall, more damage to the siege equipment, and more damage to the defense facilities. Compared with the losses of the defenders, the losses of the new annexed army were very heavy, and even those who had always attacked the perfunctory Yazhou army were full of mourning. Cao Zhizhou, who couldn't bear the casualties, wanted to repeat his old tricks again, and wanted to fool his Yibo tribe barbarians to attack the city. These brutes have already suffered more than half of the casualties, and they are willing to send their heads again. Seeing that the soft one was not good, Cao Zhizhou pointed to the head hanging on the fence of the camp, wanting to borrow Niu Ling's order to fake the tiger's might. Before, the barbarian soldiers were strong and strong, Cao Zhizhou was aggrieved and begged for all, but now they have more than half of the casualties and their strength has been greatly damaged, who will be used to them?
The leader of the barbarian soldiers didn't eat him at all, and he stared angrily at the neck. Seeing that the Yibo barbarians refused to obey the order, Cao Zhizhou suddenly became angry and wanted to order them all to be killed and seize the property they had robbed. Although these barbarians fought bravely, they were also greedy, and they plundered a lot of money and women along the way, especially when they attacked Hongya and Jiajiang, they gained a lot, which made the Yazhou soldiers very jealous. The Yazhou soldiers have long been displeased with these Yibo barbarians, in their opinion, these barbarians are really not kind, they don't even leave a bite of soup for the friendly army after eating the meat, and they don't gnaw the hard bone of Jiading when they get the benefits.
Seeing this, those barbarians naturally refused to tie their hands, and also formed a formation to prepare for a fight. Just as the two sides were preparing for a firefight, a group of Mongol cavalry rushed to separate them. Niu Lu on horseback rushed with the reins in one hand and the whip in the other, and his accompanying soldiers drew their bows into a full moon and were about to fire. After asking why the two rookies pecked each other, Niu Lin was even more angry and scolded both sides, and the interpreter next to him recounted the swear words in Chinese and Yibo respectively. At that moment, he ordered Cao Zhizhou to lead the Yazhou soldiers to continue the siege of the city, and ordered the Yibo soldiers to camp ten miles north of Jiading City, where the official road was the only way for the Perak army to go south.
Although the two sides were not satisfied with this order, they had to obey under the strong deterrence of the Mongol cavalry. In Cao Zhizhou's view, since he had turned against the barbarians, he should completely eradicate them, otherwise when he returned to the land of Yibo, it would be like letting a tiger return to the mountains, bringing endless troubles to Yali and Jieyan Prefecture. The Yazhou soldiers were even more unwilling, the money and women who robbed were really coveted, and it was a pity to let those barbarians take them away. In the eyes of those barbarian soldiers, this order was really unfair. Everyone knows that Jiading is the largest city in western Sichuan, and there are more women in the city than Hongya and Jiajiang. Transferring himself away before the city was broken, it was clear that he didn't want to fulfill his previous promise. In order to attack Jiading City, more than half of the casualties were killed, and there was no merit and hard work, and there was fatigue without hard work.
Helplessly, his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and the Yibo barbarians had to go to the north to camp, and Cao Zhizhou was also angry and ordered his subordinates to attack the city. Seeing that the two sides were ordered to leave, Niu Lin led his own army to the Minjiang River and rode away. He did not go to inspect the situation of the river defense, but to cross the Min River before the arrival of the Perak army. Just before the military meeting this morning, Kudu sent someone to tell him that the Thunderbolt army heading south was unstoppable, and that the other side would take advantage of the hilly and low mountain terrain, and the cavalry and infantry were very skillful in cooperating, and the cavalry could not bargain at all. After two days of delayed attack, the opponent's cavalry suffered fewer casualties than the other side, which was unimaginable before. If the Thunderbolt army reached Jiading City and deployed artillery, it would not be able to resist at all.
Niu Ling led his own soldiers to secretly retreat to the east bank of the Minjiang River, and he planned to retreat to Chengdu. Just after the military meeting this morning, he had quietly sent someone to inform Kudu, ordering him to lead his cavalry to quickly cross the Min River and join the cavalry on the east bank. He prepared dozens of transport ships in advance in the reeds on the east bank, which could allow a thousand cavalry under Kudu to cross the river in half a day. In Niu Lin's view, as long as the 2,000 cavalry of the headquarters did not suffer major losses, the battle of Jiading would not be a complete defeat. As for the new annexes, they had to take on the task of blocking and deceiving, and only after the Mongol cavalry had all crossed the river could they retreat in batches. Then the retreat of the new annexed army of Jianzhou, then the ...... of the new annexed army of Longzhou, and finally the Yazhou and its affiliated Yibo soldiers. In the eyes of the Mongolian army, the new annexed army was also divided into different ranks according to the length of time of surrender. The Yazhou army has been a dog for the shortest time, so naturally it can only be ranked last.
In this way, the new annexed army after the break will inevitably suffer a catastrophe. In the eyes of the Mongolian generals such as Niu Xuan, although it is a pity but acceptable to have this kind of loss, after all, in his eyes, the new annexed army is just cannon fodder and consumables. The Yibo barbarians were the first batch of consumables, and as soon as they arrived at the official road ten miles north of Jiading City, before they set up camp, they heard the faint sound of horses' hooves in front of them, and the sound became louder and louder. At first, they didn't think it was just a Mongol cavalry. He told them that Kudu had led the Mongol cavalry to intercept the Thunderbolts. With the invincible Mongol cavalry in front of them, the Thunderbolt cavalry obviously could not come on a large scale, even if there were sporadic scouts coming, what was there to fear? The Yibo barbarians knew that at this moment, Kudu and his cavalry had crossed the river to the east bank of the Min River.
The cavalry of a company of the Thunderbolt Army appeared on the official road ahead, and the rapid running of the war horses made the earth tremble slightly. When the sharp-eyed Yibo barbarians found that the horses were not Mongolian clothes, and they were not playing the familiar Mongolian flags, the more than 100 knights had already rushed to the front of the chaotic camp for hundreds of meters. The Yibo soldiers were brave and fierce and adept at mountain warfare, but they were poorly disciplined and even less adept at fighting in formations, where they were able to resist the onslaught of cavalry in a hurry. Under the stomp of the horses' hooves with the mouth of the bowl, these Yibo soldiers either fled in all directions, or their stomachs were broken or they were either killed or wounded. In less than half an hour, the battle on this side was over. The company commander of the leading Thunderbolt Army ordered his subordinates to take a short rest, and after a short rest, they did not clean up the battlefield and went straight to Jiading City.