Chapter 202: Hidden Situations (8)
The pass leading to the south was recaptured by Kublai Khan, and Xiang Shibi knew very well that this was the biggest mistake, that pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if you want to break through that pass, you are afraid of heavy casualties.
If the attack had been carried out at night, a large number of casualties could have been avoided, but Kublai Khan's reinforcements could not have been allowed to arrive until dark, and he decisively gave the order to Shibi to attack to the death.
He believed that as long as he tried his best to open the southern exit and rescue the remaining soldiers and horses of Ali Buge, then the Mongolian infighting would never end, even if more than 10,000 people were sacrificed in front of him, it would be worth it.
From taking advantage of the chaos to slash and kill Ali Buge's army, to now desperately rescuing Ali Buge's army, all of this is just a change in interests and the times, and there is also a mixture of Zongzheng's personal goals.
Ali Buge's army of 70,000 is the main force of Mongolia in the final analysis, if Kublai Khan's army is not bloodily subdued, it will inevitably be a disaster for the Great Song Dynasty in the future, and this sharp blade will sooner or later break the heart of the Southern Song Dynasty, so Xiang Shibi has an absolute reason to take advantage of the internal struggle between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge, especially when Ali Buge's army has just encountered a flood, exhausted, and has no combat power, and tries his best to weaken this force.
However, once this advantage turned into a threat, Xiang Shibi had no choice but to withdraw from the valley when he saw the situation, further threatening Kublai Khan's plan to subdue Ali Buge's tens of thousands of elites without blood.
The so-called situation and fighters are changing all the time, Xiang Shibi, as a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, doesn't he know the truth, he knows very well that at this moment, he must try his best to release the fierce beasts in the valley, because, only in this way, Mongolia will continue to fight, and the Great Song Dynasty will maintain peace for a while.
However, all of this is just Xiang Shibi's thoughts, and Zong Zheng saw through his thoughts, so he was able to mobilize his rhetoric, which was also the bargaining chip that Zong Zheng was able to indirectly persuade Xiang Shibi and others.
And Zongzheng's purpose is far less than this, in his heart, revenge is his ultimate goal, whether it is the Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolia, or the Central Plains martial arts factions, or foreign masters, Beauty Valley, this group of people, he has a grudge, and the double combination of Broken Gut Valley and Helin is to bring these forces into a situation of entanglement with each other, and slowly eliminate these forces through this endless struggle.
Whether it is the battle with Lin or the battle of Broken Gut Valley, this is just the beginning of Zongzheng's entire chess game, not the end.
And when Kublai Khan chose to believe in Zongzheng, when he activated the plan of heaven and earth and water, he was destined not to subdue Ali Buge as he wished.
Especially when the army was sent to Shibi, the entire Broken Intestine Valley was doomed to a dead end, or rather, the Broken Intestine Valley itself was more like a morgue.
In the Broken Intestine Valley, the factions of the Central Plains and Ali Buge's army fell into a melee, and as the mortal hostile forces of Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty, the two sides were intolerable and fought.
However, after all, Ali Buge had an advantage in numbers, however, he did not dare to forget that his biggest enemy came from outside the valley, and if he could not break through Kublai Khan's blockade of the Broken Intestine Valley as soon as possible, he knew very well that it would be too late when the elite of Helin arrived.
Therefore, Ali Buge mobilized a part of the army to deal with the various factions in the valley and the Central Plains, and on the other hand, he mobilized heavy troops to launch a fierce attack on the southern exit.
The southern exit is a long, narrow dirt slope with narrow passages covered with hidden piles and stumbling horses.
Ali Buge's cavalry charged the southern exit with long scimitars, and the three horses were in parallel and their morale was high.
Seeing the surging soldiers and horses approaching step by step, Liu Bingzhong, who was in charge of commanding the backfield, held his breath and carefully calculated the best shooting distance.
"Put!"
At the sound of an order, a thousand sharp arrows were shot out in a volley from the long passage, cutting an arc through the air, like locusts crossing the border, approaching the rushing cavalry.
Taking advantage of the terrain, the crossbow was extremely powerful against the cavalry, and the cavalry was shot on their backs, and occasionally two percent of the brave soldiers dodged the rain of arrows, but also fell into the stakes or tripped over the stumbling rope.
Ali Buge was greatly displeased when he saw the cavalry being frustrated.
Suddenly, a horn sounded outside the valley.
Outside the Broken Intestine Valley, the battle for the pass between the army of Xiangshibi and the army of Kublai Khan began.
For Kublai Khan, this was a red flag, and his face suddenly became solemn.
Sure enough, the most feared thing still happened, once the Song army captured the pass, it would be pressing, and the southern exit would no longer be in danger.
Although the narrow passage was a natural barrier, only more than 2,000 soldiers could be lined up, and the rest had to be exposed to the open perimeter.
As for Ali Buge, he seemed to see the dawn of victory in the new defeat, and the corners of his mouth were lightly grinned, with the banter of watching Kublai Khan's good show.
Hearing the sound of fighting outside the valley, Ali Buge could imagine the fierceness of the battle outside the valley, and he felt that this moment was the best time to put pressure on Kublai Khan, so he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to release arrows into the passage as cover, and the cavalry charged again.
Seeing the rain of arrows flying in the valley, Liu Bingzhong hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to hide temporarily, and the army in front raised their shields to block the rain of arrows through the pincers of the narrow passage.
Seeing the rain of arrows hitting the shield, unscathed to Kublai Khan's army, Ali Buge clenched his fists with a clucking sound.
Although his soldiers recovered a little, they were still not physically good after all, and the terrain of the valley mouth in the south was not conducive to Ali Buge's army, so Ali Buge's army suffered one defeat after another, and suffered heavy setbacks in many charges, and their morale was greatly reduced.
The cavalry was repeatedly blocked and harassed by tripping horses and hidden piles, and for a time, Ali Buge was in a stalemate.
The battle outside the valley is also at an impasse.
The entire Broken Intestine Valley is a sea of swords, mountains and blood.
Kublai Khan was attacked from both sides and was under pressure, and his hope was to send additional reinforcements to the Helin direction.
However, his wishful thinking may be in vain, because Zongzheng has already arranged everything.
The gorge of Xinbri was not only an obstacle that stopped Ali Buge's army from moving forward, but now it is also an obstacle to Kublai Khan and Lin's reinforcements.
According to Zongzheng's plan, in order to block Ali Buge's pursuit, Kublai Khan relied on the terrain in the canyon of Xinbri to build an earthen city at the narrowest passage.
And Ma Yi has been lurking there for a long time according to Zongzheng's words, waiting for the appearance of the target.
The nine masters rescued from Juxian Pavilion rushed to Xinbuli, the main road that must be passed, and were intercepted by Ma Yi.
Ma Yi took out the seal letter of his own faction and clarified Zongzheng's plan, after Dao Ming broke the situation in the Gut Valley, the nine masters felt that the situation was grim, thinking that it was not only Zongzheng's arrangement, but also Zongzheng's rescue of himself, so he would not harm himself, so he believed Zongzheng unreservedly.
According to Zongzheng's plan, they prepared to block the reinforcements that came from Kazulin in the earthen city of Xinbri with all their might.
When the army led by Brother Yixiang and Zhang Hongyan rushed to Xinbri, they encountered a strong interception by the nine masters in Tucheng.
Brother Shift's cavalry and infantry launched many charges, but they were all repelled by the nine masters.
Under the cover of Tucheng, the number of troops is no longer an advantage, and although the number of the nine masters is small, they are the people who broke through from the ghost gate of Juxian Pavilion, all of them are skilled in martial arts, and with the help of the terrain advantage, the defense line composed of nine people is impregnable.
Brother Yixiang did not know about the critical situation on Kublai Khan's side, and was not in a hurry to rush to the bottom of his heart, but the frustration in front aroused his strong dissatisfaction, and seeing that the cavalry and infantry were defeated, he instead ordered the bow feather team to release arrows.
Thousands of arrows rose into the sky and headed straight for the earthen city.
The small earth city was instantly filled with clusters of arrows, and the original earth city turned into a big hedgehog, lying motionless on the main road.
The rain of arrows settled, and the earth city turned quiet,
Brother Shifter made a forward gesture,
Immediately, the rear of the hundreds of infantry carefully groped their way to the earthen city.
Just when they were more than ten steps away from Tucheng, a cold strong wind suddenly gathered in Tucheng, and the arrows inserted in Tucheng were all absorbed by this strong wind.
With only a burst of counterattack, the rain of arrows went towards the infantry.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of infantry were badly wounded, wailing and rolling.
Among the nine masters, the internal force of any one of them is enough to turn power into qi and protect the body with qi and strength, and the internal force gathered by the nine masters is naturally extraordinary.
When Brother Xiang saw the smoke and dust rolling up in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh what kind of demons were stationed in the earth city.
Inside and outside the Broken Intestine Valley, the two sides fought fiercely, until the sky was dark, and the sun and moon were dark.
The smell of blood was unusually strong, and the vultures from inside and outside the white came to smell the smell and gradually came, more and more, and they shouted, ready to eat a bite of corpse meat.
The whole pass was like a corpse dump, and the soil was stained with blood and water, and it was a little black and red.
In the middle of the day, the tide of battle at the pass was reversed.
Of course, this reversal came at the cost of a large number of casualties, and it would be quite rare if there were no large numbers of dead soldiers to compensate for the disadvantage of the terrain.
Soon, although Dong Wenbing was brave, he could not resist the attacking Song army, and had to retreat outside the southern exit.
There, Fasipa had already set up a large defensive array,
The blocking of the pass left an unusually valuable time for Fasi Pabu to defend and effectively drained the physical strength of the Song army, while Kublai Khan's army waited for work, so for the time being, Kublai Khan had a slight advantage.
There are Fa Siba and Liu Bingzhong in the front and back courts, Kublai Khan can naturally trust it, but he is also anxious in his heart, and he has been calculating the time in his heart.
He was looking forward to it, waiting for the appearance of reinforcements from Helin.
Depending on the time, Brother Shifter would arrive around noon, so in Kublai Khan's mind, he only had to resist both sides for an hour, and everything would be reversed.
After approaching the southern exit of the Shibi army, he personally led his army to rush to the Fasipa army under the escort of the rain of arrows.
A fierce fight ensued between the two sides.
The battle in Xinbri was in a brief stalemate, and poor Brother Shifter did not know what kind of pressure Kublai Khan was with.