Chapter 58, the fierce battle of Xiangyang

Leaving the Valley of the Condor and heading east, I saw that the villages along the way were empty, as if a demon had suddenly appeared and devoured everyone.

"It seems that the Mongol army is coming. Li Shucheng said. How could the people living at the bottom not want to leave their homes for no reason, they must have abandoned their homes because they heard that the Mongols had called.

Walking through several villages, which were empty, Li Shucheng sighed and said, "Let's go to Xiangyang to have a look." Originally, he didn't want to go to Xiangyang again, but now that he has encountered it, if he doesn't go, he will not be able to go, and it will leave a shadow. Maybe the shadow will not become an obstacle to his cultivation of martial arts, but Li Shucheng does not dare to bet.

When they arrived outside the city of Xiangyang, the two armies had already fought in attack and defense, and the mountains were full of broken spears and broken spears, blood and bones, and I wanted to see the tragedy of the battle.

When I entered the city, I saw that the city was full of people, a large number of refugees with their families and families resting along the street against the houses, a group of soldiers in armor and knives patrolling along the street, and many martial arts people with swords and swords wandering on the street.

Li Shucheng casually found a person in the rivers and lakes with a sword, and inquired about the address of Guo Jing and his wife. The two came to the door, Guo Jing was reported, and he hurriedly went out to greet him.

"Li Daxia, you are here. Guo Jing hugged his fists and smiled, "Now that the situation in Xiangyang City is grim, it will be much easier for me as soon as you come." Li Shucheng and his wife came to Xiangyang City, and Guo Jing was of course happy. Here he is a top master, and the other party at least has a master of the Golden Wheel Dharma King. If he is dragged by the Golden Wheel Dharma King, then how can he command the army to defend. Now as soon as Li Shucheng and his wife come, someone will drag the Golden Wheel Dharma King, and he can free up his hands to command the army.

"We were also in the neighborhood for some time, otherwise we would have been home by now. Li Shucheng said.

After entering the door and seeing Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu coming out, Li Shucheng smiled and said, "Aren't you going back? Why are you here again?"

"Li Daxia. Yang Guo bowed and said, "We have only been walking north for a day, and we saw many people along the way dragging their families and mouths, and only after asking did we know that the Mongols were calling, so we came to have a look." ”

As soon as he sat down after entering the house, someone came to inform Guo Jing, Guo Jing was sorry to leave and went to deal with military affairs.

Li Shucheng talked to Huang Rong for a while, and rented two courtyards nearby.

"Li Daxia. Early the next morning, Yang Guo came over.

"If you don't practice swords, do you have anything to do with coming to me?" Li Shucheng asked after practicing a set of swordsmanship.

"With Li Daxia here, of course I have to come and ask you for advice, this is much stronger than my own practice. Yang Guo said with a smile. There is a master on the side, but he is practicing the sword by himself, how stupid is that!

"Okay, let's learn from each other. Li Shucheng said, "No matter how much the truth is said, it is not as profound as the actual action." ”

Here, Li Shucheng and Yang Guo have a fulfilling life, except for going up to the city wall from time to time to participate in the guards, I practice in the courtyard. Guo Jingke was very busy over there, after all, he not only had volunteers composed of people in the rivers and lakes, but also an army of thousands of people, and he needed to do many things himself.

After more than 20 days of offensive and defensive battles, there were many casualties on both sides, and for a time the Mongolian army was a little unable to attack.

On this day, Li Shucheng was looking at the Mongolian military camp opposite on the city wall, and suddenly saw a group of men and horses going north in addition to the main camp, angry horses leaping, iron armor, and the army was extremely prosperous. Li Shucheng knew that it should be the four kings of Mongolia, and later Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, came.

It turned out that the Mongol army had to report that the four kings Kublai Khan had come to the front enemy in person, and the marshals and generals of the whole army greeted them thirty miles away. The generals saw Kublai Khan's Daxu from afar, turned over and dismounted, and lay down beside the road.

Kublai Khan galloped to a close place, looked around, and after a long time, snorted, and said: "Xiangyang City has not been conquered for a long time, and the old man has no success, won't he fall into the prestige of my Great Mongol Empire?" With that, he struck the whip and galloped forward. The generals didn't dare to get up for a long time, and everyone trembled.

At dawn the next day, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the Mongol army attacked the city in a big way, and the arrows rained down like rain and stones fell like hail, and they came to the city one after another. Li Shucheng heard the shouts of killing and went out of the courtyard, dodged the arrows and fell stones to the city wall, and looked down to see many Mongolian soldiers driving the ladder and climbing to the head of the city desperately. However, the city was heavily guarded, and every eight soldiers held a large log and pushed the ladder through the wall.

After a long battle, 100 Mongol soldiers finally attacked the city. The Mongolian army was shouting loudly, and one by one a hundred-man team climbed to help. Suddenly heard the sound of the bangzi in the city, a team of archers flashed out behind the female wall, the feather arrows were urgent, forcing the Mongolian reinforcements to not be able to come forward, and then grabbed a team of Song soldiers, holding torches, burning the ladder, and the Mongolian soldiers on the ladder fell one after another.

In the shouts of the city and the city, a group of brave men with spears and sharp blades flashed out of the city, attacking the Mongol soldiers who climbed the city wall. This team of men does not wear the color of the Song military uniform, some black short clothes, some green cloth robes, and they are not in formation when attacking and killing, but they are agile and skillful, obviously with martial arts, and they are the men of the rivers and lakes in the city. The Mongol soldiers who attacked the head of the city were all warriors in the army, invincible, but when they met this group of men, they were defeated one by one, or they were killed at the head of the city, or under the broken bone wall. A middle-aged man in the Song army is particularly powerful, this person is dressed in gray, bare-handed, come and go freely, as soon as he sees that someone in the Song army suffers, he immediately plunges into the past to relieve the siege, the wind is everywhere, the Mongolian soldiers will be invincible, like a tiger into the flock, it is Guo Jing.

Kublai Khan himself supervised the battle under the city, and when he saw this man so brave, he couldn't help but be stunned for a long time, and sighed: "Who is the best warrior in the world like this person?"

Huo Du stood beside Kublai Khan, and said respectfully: "The four kings, this person is Guo Jing!" Although he is a Mongolian prince, he is the most marginal Mongolian prince, and his status is far from that of a prince like the four kings, how can he not be respectful?

"It turned out to be him!" Kublai Khan was shocked and sighed, "I didn't expect that such a character would not be of use to my Great Mongolia." "Guo Jing was not only a golden sword and a horse, but also the marshal of the right side of the army to conquer the west, how could Kublai Khan not have heard of his ability. Kublai Khan was of course surprised that his family was not under the command of the Great Mongols, but had become the defenders of the hostile countries.

At this time, the hundreds of Mongol soldiers at the head of the city had been killed, and only the three most courageous centurions were fighting beside the battlements. The commander of the city blew the trumpet and led the army to attack the city, trying to take down the three centurions at the head of the city.

Li Shuwei thought about it, and suddenly heard Guo Jing's long howl, and strode forward. A centurion stabbed with a spear, Guo Jing grabbed the spearhead and sent it forward, followed by his left foot flying out, kicking the shield of another centurion.

Although the two centurions were brave, how could they resist the divine power of this kick? Suddenly, several heels fell off the city, fell to the ground, broke their tendons and broke their bones, and died.

The third centurion was old, his hair was gray, and he knew that he would not be able to survive today, so he waved his long knife and slashed straight up and down, like a mad tiger. Guo Jing's left arm reached out, grabbed his wrist holding the knife, and his right palm was about to split off, when he was suddenly stunned. The centurion had also recognized Guo Jing's face and shouted, "Golden sword and horse, it's you!" It turned out that he was Guo Jing's old department when he was on the western expedition, and Huang Rong planned to take Samarhan, and this person was one of the first warriors to fly into the city.

Guo Jing recalled the old relationship and exclaimed, "Well, are you Ordo?"

When the centurion saw that Guo Jing remembered his name, he couldn't help but burst into tears and exclaimed, "Exactly, it's the villain." ”

"Okay, remember the old love, spare your life today. Catch me next time, don't blame and be ruthless. Guo Jing said and turned his head to the left and right: "Take the rope and tie him down!"

Two sturdy soldiers took a long rope, tied it around Ordo's waist, and carried him to the city.

Ordo is a well-known warrior in the Mongolian army, suddenly was the head of the city Song army rope rope, the Mongolian soldiers under the city are so strange, I don't know what happened, they retreated dozens of zhang together, the head of the city also stopped to release arrows, the two armies stopped fighting for a while.

When Ordo arrived at the city, he bowed to Guo Jing and shouted loudly: "Since the golden sword and horse are here, the villain will not dare to commit another tiger driving if he dies." ”

Guo Jing stood at the head of the city, his face was awe-inspiring, and shouted: "Listen to the Mongolian commander: The Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia formed an alliance with one heart in the past and worked together to destroy Jin, why did you Mongolia invade my borders and harm my people? The people of the Great Song Dynasty are dozens of times more numerous than your Mongolians, if you don't retreat quickly, my Great Song Righteous Soldiers will gather four episodes and discipline you, and the more than 100,000 Mongolian soldiers will die and have no place to be buried." He spoke these words in Mongolian, full of energy, and sent them to the city word by word. The city wall is high, and the two armies are far apart, but these words are heard clearly by tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers, and they can't help but look at each other.

A commander led Ordo to Kublai Khan and reported the reason. Ordo recounted how he followed Guo Jing's expedition to the west, how the golden sword and horse used soldiers like gods, and how to defeat the enemy. Kublai Khan's face sank and shouted, "Take it down and cut it!"

Ordo was stunned for a moment, reacted, and shouted: "Wronged!"

The captain said: "The four kings see that this Ordo has quite a lot of military exploits......

With a wave of Kublai Khan's hand, the four guards had already pulled Ordo down, beheaded him, and presented him. The generals were all terrified.

Kublai Khan said to the commander: "Ordo will pay compensation for his death, and reward his wife with ten catties of gold, thirty slaves, and three hundred cattle. ”

Although the commander was puzzled, he still replied repeatedly: "Yes, yes." ”

Kublai Khan said: "I killed this man, but I rewarded his family, you don't understand the truth in this, yes or no?"

The generals bowed together and said, "Please give instructions to the four kings." ”

Kublai Khan said loudly: "This centurion bowed down to Guo Jing, boasting that Guo Jing was powerful and shook the morale of the army, should he be killed? But he bravely climbed first and fought to the last man, shouldn't he be rewarded?" Such a way of royal majesty, of course, can win people's hearts and make people fear and respect. Merit must be rewarded and punished, and strict discipline can make everyone strive to be the first.

But just now Ordo made this scene, the Mongol soldiers were already depressed, and Kublai Khan knew that even if he desperately attacked the city today, it would be in vain. Seeing that the Mongolian soldiers under the city were accumulating thousands of corpses, all of them were elite soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, he was very angry in his heart, but when he saw that the city wall of Xiangyang was strong and well guarded, there was really no gap, and he couldn't help but sigh and ordered the army to retreat.