374 Burning granaries
After Yu He attacked the Mongol army's grain convoy, he learned the location of the Mongol army's granary from a captive, and immediately had the idea of raiding the Mongol army's granary.
Two thousand cavalry, a surprise attack, the Mongolian army can leave up to 5,000 troops to stay in the granary, and according to the prisoners, the Mongolian army's grain and grass are not placed in the captured city, because they are afraid that the Han people in the city will secretly burn the grain and grass, after all, no one knows whether there will be a hole to hide people in the place where the grain and grass are placed, with the hatred of the Han people for the Mongols, it is very likely that they will burn the grain and grass of the Mongolian army regardless of their lives, so the grain and grass of the Mongolian army are placed outside the city, and Wokotai sent 3,000 elite cavalry to guard the granary.
Thinking about it in Wokotai, 3,000 elite cavalry is enough to protect the grain and grass, and the Han cities in the rear have all been defeated, and it is impossible to say that there is any large Han army. Three thousand cavalry was enough to cope with the scene.
Wokotai never thought that there would be such a path for Yu He to pass.
With 2,000 black-armored cavalry, Yu He ran all the way to the Mongolian army's granary 30 miles away, according to the prisoner's confession, the 3,000 cavalry stationed in the granary, there were 1,000 people, and it was the cowardly Xue army.
It was formed in 1204 when Genghis Khan was fighting against the Naiban Sun Khan. After the establishment of Mongolia, Genghis Khan, in order to consolidate his dominance, ordered the expansion of the original 80 guards, 70 guards and stragglers, and expanded to 10,000 people, including 1,000 guards, 1,000 quivers, and 8,000 stragglers. The scattered classes are filled by 10,000, 1,000, 100 and 10 households, as well as those who are skilled and physically strong among the sons of the white man.
And among the 1,000 cowardly Xue soldiers, there are 200 guards. Two hundred filled quiver type, six hundred scattered shifts.
When he learned that there were 1,000 meters of cowardly Xue army, Yu He was indeed a little surprised, and the cowardly Xue army and his father-in-law's back army were called the five elite troops in ancient China. The strength is naturally very strong. Although Yu He is very confident in his black-armored cavalry, compared with the legendary cowardly Xue Army, Yu He still has no bottom in his heart.
But think about it, the cowardly Xue army is powerful, he is still a cavalryman, look at the weapon on his waist, Yu He smiled. The cowardly Xue Jun is powerful. In front of their own repeater. It's also a dead end.
As a special soldier, it is easy to make a simple repeater, and when Yu He becomes the commander of the capital, find the craftsman of the royal family. Craft a repeater. The power is even stronger. When the cowardly Xue Jun encountered the crossbow, it was just a dead end.
It's a pity that because of the skillful technique, the output of the repeater is very low. It takes almost a month to make 300 handfuls. And this is only after the craftsmen are familiar with the production method of repeating crossbows.
Up to now, Yu He's black-armored army only had four thousand repeaters.
On this expedition, Yu He let the 2,000 cavalry have no one to bring two repeaters, each repeater has ten arrows in it, two repeaters shoot in two rounds, and 4,000 arrows are shot in a few minutes.
Yu He swaggered to the outside of the granary with the cavalry.
The soldiers guarding the granary hurried to report to the guard Takir.
Takr was the son of a henchman under Temujin, who was sent to the Cowardly Xue Army for training since he was a child. Therefore, Taker has always been very arrogant, believing that there is no place in the world where the cowardly Xue army cannot be broken.
At this time, he was drinking in the camp, and suddenly heard a black-armored cavalry outside, more than 2,000 people, who were unknown to him.
I thought about it. If it's an enemy, kill it, and if it's your own people, go and see it.
Immediately ordered a thousand cowardly Xue troops and two thousand Mongolian iron cavalry. Out of the camp.
Yu He's purpose is to lure out the cowardly Xue army, and then shoot a crossbow to end the battle, if he lets his black armor ride to fight against the cowardly Xue army, he can't afford to lose.
From Temujin to Ogedei, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 people in the current Cowardly Xue Army, and his own black-armored cavalry is only 2,000 people, so fools will fight against it.
Seeing that the Mongolian granary on the opposite side was opened, and the guard really swaggered out with the cowardly Xue army, Yu He was overjoyed. yelled: "The whole army is assaulting, and the ten-zhang crossbow is fired." β
He rushed over with the black-armored cavalry.
Seeing that the black-armored cavalry was forty zhang away, Taker immediately knew that the other party was the enemy, and sneered, daring to hedge against the Xue army and the Mongolian cavalry on the plain, and the number was still so small, it was really looking for death.
Taker shouted, "Warriors of the Immortal Heaven, rush with me." Brandishing his weapon, he rushed towards the black-armored cavalry.
Thirty zhang, twenty zhang. Suddenly Tucker noticed that the cavalry on the opposite side had slowed down their horses.
Taker couldn't help but think in his heart, the cavalry generals of the southerners were really funny, and they dared to slow down their horses when the cavalry was attacking, this was not looking for death.
Ten zhang.
Suddenly, Takr saw the cavalry on the opposite side take out something from his waist and point it at him.
A sudden jump in my heart.
Suddenly, he saw a dark shadow covering the sky, and Taker felt a pain in his heart, and then he was shot like a hedgehog.
The dignified and cowardly Xue army of thousands of households, directly under Mu Huali's Tacker, died aggrieved before he could kill the enemy.
Died under advanced technology.
The arrows that covered the sky and the sun were shot into the military formation of the Mongolian cavalry and the cowardly Xue army, and suddenly a large area of the army was empty.
Yu He laughed and roared, "Do it again." β
Another machine crossbow was taken out from the left side, and another round of firing was made.
The black-pressed Mongol army suddenly became sparse. The 3,000 army lost more than 2,000 at once.
The morale of the remaining Mongolian cavalry suddenly collapsed, and before they could rush in front of others, more than half of their own people died, how could they fight.
The remaining Mongol cavalry fled like scattered flies.
Yu He sneered and ordered his lieutenant to take 1,500 men to set fire, and he himself took 500 cavalry to chase and kill these Mongolian soldiers. Because Yu He's acceptance ring just now instantly added dozens of cheats. The cheats are very simple, all riding mastery and saber mastery, and occasionally two wrestling books.
It's all D-class cheats.
And what makes Yu He happy is that riding mastery can not only be applied to horses, but can be used as long as it is riding. Modern motorcycles, bicycles, all belong to mounts.
Yu He smiled and chased after him with five hundred cavalry.
A quarter of an hour later, Yu He had more than 20 cheats in his ring, and he came back with satisfaction and reconciled with his lieutenant, and then rushed back to Xiangyang City directly.
This time he burned almost all the grain and grass of the Mongol army, even if Ogedai was undoubtedly defeated, but if Ogedai wanted to catch himself, a little mouse making trouble behind him, it would still be very easy.
Yu He naturally won't be stupid to continue to stay here, and the grain and grass in Wokotai are broken, and he wants to transport it from Mongolia, but it's too late, so he has to retreat. It was useless for Yu He to stay in the rear, so it was better to go back to Xiangyang City directly, camp in the mountains outside the city, and wait for Wokotai to retreat before making plans.
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On the plain, thick smoke billowed out, obscuring the sky and the sun, 100,000 troops, and half a moon of grain and grass are all here. It burned, and half of the sky was red. The air was distorted by the steaming steam.
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In the sweat tent of Γgedei. Wokotai was reading a book of soldiers from the Southern Song Dynasty, when suddenly a person rushed into the sweat tent and shouted: "Great Khan, it's not good." β
Wokotai slowly put down the soldier's book and said, "What's the matter, you're yelling." β
The man who came in was a captain. He said loudly: "Great Khan, there seems to be an accident over there in the granary." β
Wokotai's heart jumped, trembled, and ran out of the sweat tent, and the captain pointed to the west of the camp and said, "Look at the Great Khan." β
Wokotai raised his eyes and looked at it, only to see that in the direction of his granary, there was billowing black smoke, and the red light covered the sky, although it was still a hundred miles away from here, but it was still very clear that there must have been a big fire, such a big fire.
Wo Kotai's mind was dizzy, his heart jumped suddenly, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
The captain was frightened and hurriedly helped Wokotai back into the sweat tent.
But for a moment, Jochi, Chagatai, Jebe, Chilaowen, Borshu...... All the Mongol generals went to the tent.
As soon as he came, he shouted loudly and asked if the granary of Wokotai was burning.
Wokotai waved everyone to sit down.
Soon the crowd arrived.
Wokotai asked, "All the soldiers saw the scene just now." β
The generals looked at each other and nodded, as long as they were not blind, they could see the scene just now.
Ogedai tiredly supported his head with his left hand. After thinking for a while, he turned to Cheerhu and said, "We still have a few days of grain and grass now. β
Cherhu was the quartermaster of the Mongol army. He wiped the sweat from his head and said, "Qi Qi Khan, there are two and a half days of grain and grass, if you save some, you can also use it for five days." β
"Five-day, hehe, such a warrior, do you still have the strength to fight? β
Wokotai supports the head. He said, "It doesn't matter if the granary burns down or not." Now all of you go back and gather your troops, and we will withdraw our troops. Jebe, Chi Lao Wen, the two of you lead 20,000 troops to the rear of the whole army, slowly retreat, and don't let Guo Jing have a chance to sneak attack. β
The two said yes. All the generals went back to their respective places. Gather your own troops and go.
And this fire, the Mongolian army can see it, and Guo Jing can naturally see it.
Guo Jing and Huang Rong stood on the wall of Xiangyang City, but they didn't know that there was the granary of the Mongols. Guo Jing was puzzled: "Why is there such a big fire over there?" β
Huang Rong thought of it, Yu He led the cavalry to the rear of the Mongolian army, and now there was such a big fire, suddenly his heart twitched, and a huge joy surged into his heart, and he said: "Brother Jing, you see, will the Mongolian army's military formation change later, if it does, it will be good." β
Guo Jing asked again, but Huang Rong didn't answer. (To be continued......)