Chapter 353: Meritorious Service of Fortune

When Guo Jing rushed back to the city wall with the four brothers of "Returning to Laixi", it was another wave of Mongolian troops rushing up the city wall from the cloud ladder, and the defenders were exhausted after days of fighting and were about to be lost.

Guo Jing took the four brothers of "Return to Laixi" to kill the enemy with all their might, and the sickle in the hands of the four brothers of "Return to Laixi" was like a blade of death that kept harvesting the lives of Mongolian soldiers;

Even the young men in the city who were drawn from the people of Xiangyang also joined the war, and they fought bravely to kill the enemy and never retreated, so they could once again repel the Mongol army.

"If it continues like this, I'm afraid that there will be more than one bad luck defending the city!" Zhu Ziliu looked at the current situation and analyzed with a sad face, after all, the number of the Mongolian army was several times that of the defenders of Xiangyang City, and although both sides were exhausted in the war of attrition, the Mongolian army still had a huge advantage in numbers.

"Dun Ru just analyzed that the crazy attack of the Mongolian army at any cost is to cooperate with the Golden Wheel Dharma King and other Zhaoxian Hall masters to sneak attack Rong'er, so as to hit me, and even affect the momentum and confidence of the friends in the rivers and lakes who help the boxer. The two-pronged approach did come close to their success. But the Golden Wheel and the others had already been repulsed. The losses of the Mongol army in the past few days are far above ours, and they have completely exceeded the upper line that they can accept, and it is presumable that after seeing the Golden Wheel Dharma King and others return in vain, Kublai Khan's determination to attack will also be shaken. So as long as we persist a little longer, there should be a turnaround!" Guo Jing agreed with Wu Dunru's analysis.

Zhu Ziliu also felt that it made sense when he heard this, so he nodded and said, "Okay! Take advantage of this attack gap, let's split up and arrange the next round of defense." By the way, cheer up the soldiers and friends who defend the city!"

A quarter of an hour later. The wind is blowing. Guo Jing, Zhu Ziliu, and Zhuge Lichuan had just completed the adjustment of troops, and the Mongol army launched an attack again, with the wind howling, the neighing of people and horses, and the exchange of blades, and immediately entered the scorching stage.

The battle situation became more and more tragic, whether it was the defenders of the city or the heroes of the rivers and lakes, they were already exhausted, and they all relied on one breath to stand up, seeing the Mongol army coming in batches after batches, and their hearts could not help but despair. The situation became more and more critical, and everyone was nervous, wondering if they could survive this wave of attacks.

Guo Jing once again shot the middle and low-level officers of the Mongolian army with a hard bow, and suddenly Zhu Ziliu shouted hoarsely and excitedly: "Look! Look! There is a fire in the sky! It is done!"

Guo Jing hurriedly raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and sure enough, there was a sky-high fire from dozens of miles away, and it was becoming more and more intense! Almost no difference between the front and the back, two more distant places were also lit up with blazing fires.

"It's done! Yun'er succeeded!" Guo Jing was excited, and actually pulled the hard bow in his hand directly with a "snap!".

"The three grain and grass storage places of the Mongolian army have been burned, and it is difficult to do anything under the unstable morale of the army! The danger of Xiangyang City this time has been solved!" Zhu Ziliu let out a sigh of relief.

"That's right! It's time for the next pursuit plan to be carried out! It's just that our army's losses this time are not small, and the plan needs to be slightly changed!" Guo Jing's eyes flashed again, obviously the pursuit plan was not simple.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved. Great armies are at war. Grain and grass are the top priority, how could Guo Jing and them not think of cutting off the enemy's rear road?

Wu Xiuwen before he was suddenly transferred. We have already found out the specific situation of the three places where the Mongol army is storing grain, whether it is how much grain and grass is hoarded in each place, how many guards are stationed, when the army will transport grain and grass, how many troops are escorted, what route to take, and even the personal preferences and temperament of the guards and generals in each grain storage place.

This is also all thanks to the magical effect of the "Soul Dementoring Dafa", which can allow Wu Xiuwen to unconsciously find out extremely useful information, and there is no danger of exposure.

After receiving reliable information, Guo Jing handed over this arduous task to Shi Yun at the suggestion of Wu Dunru. Shi Yun led a group of beggar disciples who were good at lightening the body and the heroes of the rivers and lakes quietly out of Xiangyang City and rushed towards the three places where the grain was stored.

That is, soon after they left the city, the Mongol army launched this fierce siege battle, Shi Yun knew that the situation was urgent, and there was no room for mistakes, so he led everyone all the way to carefully avoid the detection of the Mongol army and rushed to the place where the grain was stored.

The amount of grain and grass needed by hundreds of thousands of troops was astronomical, and although it was hoarded in three places, each of them was an astonishing amount.

But burning grain and grass is not so simple, Kublai Khan is eloquent, and he knew in advance that there are many capable people in Xiangyang City. Therefore, the guards at the place where the grain is stored are quite strict, and a lot of defensive measures have been taken to prevent people from the rivers and lakes from coming to burn the grain and grass, and there is an emergency firefighting plan.

This caused a lot of trouble for Shiyun's operation, and after the troops were divided into three ways, Shiyun was of course responsible for the most important one, and successfully infiltrated the camp with detailed information, and unknowingly destroyed the pre-made protective measures and emergency fire plans made by the Mongol soldiers during their regular inspections.

In order to ensure that the fire could burn all the grain and grass of the Mongol army, Shiyun buried fire starters around each granary, and waited until the wind was in good times before burning the grain and grass.

Of course, the other two teams had different methods, but the results were similar, and they did not hesitate to burn the food and grass of the Mongol army when the wind suddenly rose. Only then did there be a spectacular scene of three grain storage sites catching fire at the same time, almost in no particular order.

"The Mongolian Tartar grain and grass have all been burned! They have no reinforcements behind them, the grain and grass have been lost, and they will definitely be defeated! All the soldiers and heroes of Xiangyang City, follow me to fight bravely to kill the enemy and swear to keep Xiangyang safe!" Guo Jing was angry and sank into the dantian, and let the words spread throughout Xiangyang City with his profound internal strength.

What's even more desperate is that Guo Jing once again shouted in Mongolian three times about the fact that all the grain and grass of the Mongolian army were burned.

Suddenly, the hearts of the army in Xiangyang City were greatly invigorated, and the flame of hope was once again ignited in everyone's hearts, and the tired body and mind miraculously recovered their combat effectiveness, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became; and the Mongolian army suddenly heard the bad news, turned around and looked at the three monstrous fires in the distance, and suddenly became chaotic, where was there still the mind of attacking, and then looked at the mountains of corpses of comrades piled up under the city wall, the Mongolian army actually directly routed like a tide.

Seeing this situation, Kublai Khan's face under the royal banner suddenly changed greatly, and he couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood, which frightened the guards beside him at a loss.

This desperate attack on Xiangyang City was originally divided into two routes, thinking that it was foolproof.

The Mongol army even stormed Xiangyang City day after day, regardless of losses, and the number of casualties has reached tens of thousands, which can be said to have never happened in the history of the Mongol Empire's wars!

But the result was that Huo Du, the apprentice of the Golden Wheel National Teacher, died in the Zhaoxian Pavilion, the prince of the Mongol Empire, although he was not a direct prince, but he died in Kublai Khan's army, and he still inevitably got into trouble, and Gongsun Zhi, who had just defected, was seriously injured and fell into a coma.

On the other hand, the Mongol army may be able to take Xiangyang with more effort, if this is the case, even if the casualties are heavy, it is still a victory, but at the critical moment again, the grain and grass are burned, and the army's spirit has been lost, and there is no way to do it.

Kublai Khan knew that if he insisted on ordering the siege of the city, it would inevitably cause a mutiny among the army, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Mingjin retreats!" Kublai Khan, whose face was pale, gritted his teeth and ordered! (To be continued......)

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