Chapter 290: Jiading Lifts the Siege

When the Perak cavalry appeared around the camp of the new annex besieging Jiading City, Cao Zhizhou and the other generals of the new annex army were surprised, and the even more surprised Niu and Mongol cavalry did not react to this. As the Thunderbolt cavalry came more and more, surprise turned into panic, and finally panic. They went to the ravine where the Great Tent was located to inquire about the situation, but found that the Mongol cavalry camp was empty. At this moment, there was a faint sound of artillery on the Minjiang River four or five miles away, and some people suddenly said that they saw Niu Ling heading to the Minjiang River in the morning, and these generals hurried over again. At this time, there was not a single Mongolian cavalry on the side of the Min River, let alone the figure of Niu Ling, but the soldiers of the new annexed army guarding the embankments on both sides of the river were scurrying all over the ground, and it was the five warships of the Perak army and the navy that made the soldiers of the new annexed army scurry.

In this season of fire in June, Cao Zhizhou is like falling into an ice cellar at the moment. He and the generals of the newly annexed army had already reacted by this time—Niu Lin left them behind and ran alone with the Mongol cavalry. In fact, Niu Xuan did not flee alone, in addition to Kudu, he also took most of the new annexed troops of Jianzhou and Longzhou with him. Now the new annex army guarding the embankment on both sides of the bank is also the new annex army of Jianlong Prefecture, and after they were left behind, they were cut off by the early arrival of the Perak warships before they could cross the river. Don't look at the strength of these five warships as the strength of a naval company, but they easily defeated the 200 new annexed naval troops guarding the ferry, and completely suppressed the counterattack of the siege equipment on the river embankment.

Within a few days, the situation took a sharp turn, which made Cao Zhizhou and other generals of the new annexed army extremely confused, and in anger, they scolded Niu Ling for being unkind and unjust, and having no etiquette and shame. If Ouyang Xuan saw their righteous indignation, he would feel angry and funny. These traitors and traitors are incorruptible and shameless people, so what qualifications do they have to stand on the moral high ground and accuse others? Tired of scolding, these new generals of the annexed army thought of the current trouble again. With the arrival of the Thunderbolt army and the navy one after another, the Minjiang River has been controlled, it is impossible to cross eastward, Jiading City is lying on the road to the south and can not be attacked for a long time, and the Thunderbolt army is coming slowly in the north, and it is a way to retreat to Yazhou to the west, but the more than 300 Thunderbolt cavalry who arrived in advance will obviously not let them retreat calmly.

At this moment, the Mongolian army besieging Jiading City was precisely more than 2,000 people left in the new annex army, of which the Yazhou army accounted for more than half, so the general of the new annex army pushed Cao Zhizhou to take the lead. It's just that Cao Zhizhou doesn't want to be the leader, he just wants to escape back to Yazhou at night. As the initiator of this surrender to Mongolia and the siege of Jiading, he knew that he had failed, not only did he fail to achieve his goal, but only half of the 3,000 people he brought with him. Fortunately, most of the losses were the 1,000-strong Yibo soldiers, and their Yazhou soldiers only lost 500 people, and they were not injured. Fortunately, it was almost dusk, otherwise the Jiading defenders and the Thunderbolt cavalry would have fought back and forth, and the situation would not be good.

When Zhan Wanshou saw the Perak cavalry coming one after another, he sent someone to contact him, and when he learned that the Perak army's reinforcements by land and water were about to arrive, he was relieved. The soldiers and civilians in the city were also cheering, everyone knew that the siege of Jiading City had been lifted, and the end of being broken and slaughtered by the Mongolian army was avoided. In the midst of jubilation, someone also proposed to join forces with the cavalry outside the city to attack the new annex army, but Zan Wanshou vetoed it after a little thought. At present, although there are still more than 1,000 defenders in Jiading, they are all exhausted and many are wounded and sick. Although there was a battalion of Thunderbolt cavalry outside the city, they did not carry heavy weapons along the way, and the new annexed army was too risky to carry out a surprise attack at dusk with the protection of a wooden fence.

Before sunset, the cavalry of the Thunderbolt Army outside the city suddenly rushed in front of the camp of the new annex army and rushed straight into the city of Jiading. After a day's battle, the cavalry was too tired to dig a ditch and set up a camp. In order to prevent the night attack of the new annexed army, the battalion commander immediately decided to rush into the city of Jiading to rest, which frightened the new attached army. The cavalry of the Perak army is also one man and two horses, and a battalion of 500 cavalry has 1,000 horses. The horses galloped at the same time, and the momentum was amazing. It was also at this moment that the last bit of desire to win in Cao Zhizhou's heart was also shattered, and he understood that staying would definitely destroy the whole army. He decided to run away at night.

Running away is also a science. Cao Zhizhou immediately sent someone to meet Zan Wanshou in the city of Jiading, claiming that he was bewitched by Liu Da'er, and he was blinded by lard for a while and actually did such a stupid thing as surrendering, and now he suddenly woke up and regretted it. In view of the fact that it is late today, tomorrow will come to the city to kneel down and present the table. At the same time, he sent someone to inform the other generals of the new annex army that they would come to his big tent early tomorrow morning. The Yazhou military camp and the other new annex army camps were not connected together, and they were one or two miles away from each other.

At the end of the moon, the Yazhou army quietly abandoned the camp and went to Yazhou. Cao Zhizhou did not notify the other new annexed troops, on the one hand, he was afraid that there would be too many people, and on the other hand, he also wanted the remaining people to attract the Thunderbolt army and act as cannon fodder and queen of the palace, which was the same as what Niu Lu did. In fact, just as he sent someone to inform the other generals of the New Army to discuss the matter tomorrow morning, he had already ordered his subordinates to make preparations secretly. The summer night sky is bright and starry, and it's a good time to hurry. Most of the soldiers of the Yazhou Army also suffered from night blindness, and the bright moonlight solved this problem.

Early in the morning of the second day, the neighboring Xinfu army found that the Yazhou military camp next door was silent, so they sent people to inspect it and found it empty. This news blew up under Jiading City in an instant, and the remaining new annexed troops also scattered and fled. Zan Wanshou was also very annoyed when he learned that Cao Zhizhou had slipped away at night, and immediately sent the Jiading army to pursue the new annex army that was fleeing to the surrounding mountains and forests, and sent someone to invite the cavalry battalion of the Perak Army to pursue the Yazhou army. If the new annexes who fled into the mountains and forests were not captured in time, they would surely fall into the grass and harass the countryside as bandits. As for Cao Zhizhou's troops, it is estimated that they have fled for dozens of miles, and they must rely on cavalry to catch up.

Huang Dagen, who had just arrived in Jiading with the naval brigade, learned that Niu Xuan had retreated and besieged the Jiading Mongol army and retreated, so he immediately adjusted his operational deployment: the naval brigade and the Jiading naval army went to capture Jingyan City, which was rich in salt and was by the river, which was very easy to capture; In addition to one battalion of the cavalry brigade of the field division to pursue the Yazhou army, the other two battalions went to recover the counties under the rule of Meizhou and eliminate all the remnants of the Mongolian army and Liu Daer; One of the two infantry brigades of the field division returned to Meizhou to prevent the counterattack of the Mongolian army, and the other was led by Cao Ergou to Hongya County. Hongya is the only way for Cao Zhizhou to return to Yazhou, and it is best if he can intercept his retreat.

At this moment, Cao Zhizhou is leading his troops to rush to the wolves, and under the shouting and whipping of his own soldiers, the Yazhou soldiers are sweating profusely, and some people fall behind from time to time. I'm really tired from running. The big-headed soldiers couldn't help but complain, but they were whipped even more. As time went by, more and more soldiers fell behind, but Cao Zhizhou refused to let the soldiers stop and rest. Because he knew that although there were only a few hundred cavalry of the Thunderbolt Army in Jiading City, they could not defeat their own 1,500 infantry in the field. What's more, this time he fled overnight, only with light equipment, and the only way to fight against the cavalry was the spear and shield in his hand.