Chapter 9: The Turning Point
Outside the city of Qudiao Alan, Yang Kang couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Hua Zheng, was this discovered? Then he realized that Hua Zheng was the only one, presumably following Li Ping, but in this way, their whereabouts were exposed, he watched Hua Zheng walk towards this side, thinking about countermeasures in his heart.
Did you knock out and take it away?
There is an essential difference between taking Li Ping and taking Hua Zheng away, the Mongols may not care about Li Ping, but the princess's disappearance will definitely be investigated, which will add unnecessary trouble to this rescue, but at the moment, Hua Zheng can't be let go, and no one can predict whether she will tell the Mongols about this matter after she goes back.
"Aunt Guo?" Hua Zheng walked closer and called out with concern.
Li Ping poked her head out of the carriage, showing a surprised expression, and had to talk to Hua Zheng.
Yang Kang didn't want to waste any more time, Hua Zheng is a celebrity in the city, it is easy to attract attention, the longer the time drags on, the more dangerous it is, he took advantage of Li Ping to find a reason to deal with Hua Zheng suddenly made a move, dragged the Mongolian princess into the carriage, and then beat the horse and whipped and left the Mongolian capital.
The route back had already been arranged, and the men he brought with him would spy on the Mongols' movements in the back, and once the Mongol army pursued, they would look for opportunities to create chaos and divert the attention of the Mongols, which was a successful rescue, except for an extra Mongol princess.
All the way to the gallop, night fell, and the carriage stopped on the vast grassland.
Yang Kang took out the prepared food and water, Hua Zheng had already woken up, Li Ping told her the reason for leaving Mobei, the Mongolian princess was gloomy, even Guo Jing and Aunt Guo were leaving, she and Guo Jing have known each other since childhood, and Hua Zheng has always felt sorry for the death of Guo Jing's six masters who saved her when she was a child.
Since then, Guo Jing has practiced martial arts hard, and he has been with a group of beggars, and he has a lot less time to play with Hua Zheng, and then there is endless war, and the rise of Mongolia is based on constant killing and expansion, Tuo Lei and Guo Jing are keen on war, and Hua Zheng stays by his mother's side.
Tuo Lei once said that she would marry Guo Jing, but then Wo Kotai married her to the Song Kingdom, Hua Zheng read the pamphlet written by Shi Songzhi, and knew that the Emperor of the Song State was Wan Yankang, and then she understood why she had never seen the emperor in the Song Palace, and Wan Yankang was deliberately avoiding her.
The Mongolian princess didn't know that the Mongolian man who was eating dry food not far from her was Wan Yankang, Yang Kang asked Li Ping not to reveal his identity, only said that it was a passerby who was ordered to save people, and he neither spoke nor made contact with Hua Zheng, so as not to be recognized by Hua Zheng.
Li Ping looked at the man and woman, and couldn't help sighing, the so-called creation makes people, probably like this.
Now that she has come out, Hua Zheng doesn't want to go back to Qudiao Alan City, she wants to go to the fiefdom of Tuo Lei in the Western Regions, Yang Kang feels that there is no objection on the way, at this time the Central Plains is in a scuffle, and the Western Regions are also fighting, and it is the safest route to pass through the territory of Tu Lei, just like that, they continue on the road.
After a few counts, the three of them entered the territory of the Western Regions and sent Hua Zheng safely to the city under the rule of Tuolei.
Yang Kang looked at Hua Zheng's back as he drifted away, turned around and left, fate made them meet and separate again.
At the same time, the Mongol army has attacked the city of Xiangyang, because Guo Jing leaked the military information several times to guide the Song army repeated defeats, retreated all the way from Kaifeng City, and finally retreated to Xiangyang, Xiangyang City is the gateway of the Song State to defend the north, once Xiangyang is lost, the Mongol army can drive straight in, invade the hinterland of the Song State.
Xiangyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Song army has been operating in Xiangyang City for many years, defending the city is the strength of the Song army, the Mongolian army has attacked for half a month and still has no progress, Wokotai can't help but think of Guo Jing, it turns out that the information provided by Guo Jing is very accurate, so that the Song army has suffered heavy losses, it is worth believing.
If Guo Jing was in the city and opened the gate of Xiangyang, why worry about the big thing? However, Guo Jing had already had a lot of contact with him, so could it be that he had been discovered by the Song army? Wo Kotai began to worry.
This is exactly Meng Zongzheng's strategy, he used the entire Xiangyang City as a bait to ** Wo Kotai, the Song State lost tens of thousands of troops so that Guo Jing initially gained the trust of Wo Kotai, but if it is at this time to lure the enemy, it is easy to arouse suspicion, only when the Mongol army can not attack for a long time, it is possible to succeed.
The longer the Song army held out in Xiangyang City, the more Wokotai needed Guo Jing's help.
The battle of attack and defense of Xiangyang City continued, and the Mongol Khan was eager to make meritorious achievements, set foot in the south of the Yangtze River, and dominate the world, but this Xiangyang City was blocking his way forward, and King Jinlun and Gongsun Zhi had broken into Xiangyang City, but were stopped by the martial arts masters of the Song State, including Yin Zhiping and Zhou Botong, who were in charge of the Quanzhen Sect.
At the moment of Wo Kotai's anxiety, Guo Jing appeared, he recruited a group of beggars to wait for the opportunity to open the city gate and let the Mongolian army attack Xiangyang City, these rì he has been doing this, Wo Kotai and Guo Jing discussed and decided to launch a general attack after three rì, and broke the city in one fell swoop.
"Great Khan, Weichen and General Meng are quite acquainted, this person is brave and brave, but these times rì's war is not like General Meng's style, this matter may be strange. Shi Songzhi dissuaded.
"What do you think?" asked Ogedei.
"It's better to divide the army. Shi Songzhi said, "You can send 30,000 troops into the city to test it, and if you don't ambush and then send the rest of the army to attack it, you can worry about it." ”
Wokotai thought about it and felt justified and accepted it, but for the sake of insurance, he sent an army of 50,000, after all, this kind of opportunity is only once, and it is a pity to waste it.
On the night after three rì, the sound of fighting suddenly came from Xiangyang City, and then a cluster of fireworks rose into the air, the gate of Xiangyang City was opened by the beggar gang, and the opportunity could not be lost, and the Mongolian army that had already been ready rushed into Xiangyang City, they rushed all the way over, and when they were about to burn and loot, they fell from their horses.
Ropes and traps had already been laid on the roads of Xiangyang City, countless sharp arrows had come down from the surrounding houses, and the mighty Mongol iron horsemen were useless in the small space inside the city, unable to organize a large-scale charge, and the neighing of war horses and the howls of Mongol soldiers resounded in the night sky.
The gates of Xiangyang City slowly closed, trapping 50,000 Mongol troops in the city.
Wo Kotai knew that he had been ambushed, and ordered the army outside the city to attack the city overnight to rescue the soldiers in the city, Meng Zongzheng had already prepared for defense, and this battle was fought from dark to dawn, until the screams in the city completely stopped, and Wo Kotai understood that the 50,000 soldiers would never come back.
That night was a turning point in the war.
The Great Khan of Mongolia was resentful in his heart, and ordered Guo Jing to be removed from all official positions in Mongolia, punished for treason, and put Guo Jing's mother to death to avenge 50,000 Mongolian soldiers. (To be continued.) )