Centurion Xiri turned his head on the mountainside and saw Nige retreating to the west.
This is something that can't be helped.
Today, the generals of the Song Army took advantage of the mountains and water flow to complete a blocking attack.
However, Nige failed to occupy the commanding heights and could not see the strength and layout of the Song army. For the sake of safety, the battlefield must be opened up and the Mongolian army's cavalry and shooting advantages must be used.
The order Xiri received was to continue attacking the mountain and occupy the top.
He led his men to climb up for a while and found that the Song army began to fire rocks in his direction again.
Xiri was furious. When she turned around, she suddenly discovered that the Song army at the foot of the mountain did not pursue Nige. Instead, they began to surround his army of 100 men and 200 servants.
"You're not even going to chase Nig? You're too calm."
Xiri felt extremely surprised.
In today's battle, the momentum displayed by the Song soldiers always made people think that they were going to defeat the entire Mongolian army and had already gained an advantage. Unexpectedly, the direction of the main attack could change in an instant.
"Most people can't be so calm..."
He murmured and looked to the west.
Galdi and Tumen Baoyin's two hundred-man troops set off later than him and made a long detour to the west. They had not climbed very high. After receiving the order, they turned around and went down the mountain to gather the prisoners and Dali's servants. Already.
"Everyone left? But Song Jun didn't pursue him..."
Xiri shuddered suddenly and realized that she was surrounded by divisions.
Only then did he panic, and even asked Galdi and Tumen Baoyin for help.
But it was too late.
Nige's sight was blocked by Dali's defeated troops, while the distance between Galdi and Tumen Baoyin had been widened.
"Eh Xiute!" Xiri cursed loudly, extremely angry.
…
Most of the Mongolian army had already rushed far to the west, and the defeated army was chasing them.
The setting sun ran ahead of them.
As the sun sets little by little, Xiri can no longer change the fact that he is surrounded by the Song army...
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On the top of Balu Mountain, the prepared cannon stones were gradually used up.
Seeing that the tactical siege was completed and victory was certain, Li Xia drew his sword and charged down the mountain.
Many of his men are new soldiers, and he needs to take the lead and boost morale.
Li Xia had never studied the art of war. All of his commands came from his reflections on fighting the Mongolian army, and some of them came from reflections on Zhang Shi's defeat.
He learned the tactics of the Mongolian army, but the Mongolian army used cavalry to divide and encircle them, while he used mountains and rivers to divide and encircle them.
…
"puff."
The long sword pierced the neck of a Dali servant, and Li Xia suddenly thought of Gao Mingyue.
He thought about how these Dali people were fighting so loyally for the Mongolian army, and how she and her family could save the situation in Dali.
As soon as this thought passed by, Li Xia's eyes became firmer and his sword swing became more fierce.
"prick!"
Xiong Shi roared and rushed forward.
He believed that he was right to follow Li Xia and join the army.
Baiyan Mountain is right behind you and you can see it looking back from here.
Even if the county captain from another country works so hard to defeat the enemy, how can the men from his hometown still be afraid to move forward?
Following Xiong Shi's roar, the spears in Mao Yi'er's hands plunged downward at the same moment.
Some of them don't know how to fight.
What they knew was that they only stabbed at the command.
"Puff puff……"
Dali's servants almost collapsed after just one encounter.
"Stab!" Xiong Shan shouted again.
Yang Ben stood in the team, holding on to his spear, finally forgetting the military skills in his mind, and just followed the orders like his comrades.
He had been punished many times for disobeying orders. Today he saw the blood of the enemy soldiers, but he also knew that it was more effective for the whole team to fight together than to fight alone.
But Yang Ben couldn't help but look at the Mongolian centurion in the distance.
He wanted to rush forward and take the opponent's head.
I want to stand out and make achievements, but I also have to listen to orders.
At this moment, he was full of passion and felt deeply depressed. All these emotions could only be expressed with the spear in his hand.
"Kill..."
He didn't know how long he had been killing, but suddenly, Yang Ben stared and looked in the blood mist, and saw Liu Jinsuo rushing forward as if he was almost desperate, and shot the centurion through the throat.
He felt so unwilling.
If he were the leader of the squad, he could also lead his men to attack the enemy general.
However, Xiong Shan only wanted to drive away the defeated Dali servants and disperse the Mongolian army, and did not know how to cut the enemy formation...
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Even more unwilling than Yang Ben was Xiri.
After Xiri fell into the siege, he was not determined to fight. He wanted to run westward from the mountainside to recapture the horses, but he was disrupted in the battle line.
When he tried to escape again, a spear pierced his throat.
He also heard the big man behind him gasping and cursing.
"Damn it! You said that I have never fought in a war? How can I never fight in a war?!"
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The battle ended before sunset...
Another sixteen-year-old boy might have been dazzled by victory, but Li Xia was still very calm.
He knew that today could only be considered a small victory at best. Apart from the seizure of three ships and more than two hundred prisoners, the battle losses between the two sides were not much different.
Probably more than 80 Mongolian soldiers were killed with fifty casualties.
Now is not the time to expand the results.
Li Xia quickly ordered the withdrawal of troops and issued orders one after another at the same time.
"Count the casualties, search and rescue the wounded..."
"Driving the captured Dali soldiers to drag the boats back to the camp as soon as possible..."
"Ask Song He to inform the Miao villages such as Duantou Mountain and Jianzi Mountain in the west to prepare cannons and rocks at all times to make the Mongolian army think that we have troops stationed in the mountains. Tell them to remember to guard against night attacks by the Mongolian army..."
"Let Yu Bing quickly notify the county seat and move all the people into the city before tomorrow..."
"Louhu, you lead people to guard Baili Mountain, detect the movements of the Mongolian army, and replenish stone and wood..."
"Liu Jinsuo, you and I go to the west to have a look. Others, please return to the camp quickly to prepare..."
"..."
After giving the instructions, Li Xia led Liu Jinsuo's team of 100 people to the west along the mountain slopes.
The sky is getting dark.
After walking for a long time, I finally saw a bonfire at the foot of the mountain.
"Damn it, these Mongolian Tatars gathered their defeated troops so quickly." Liu Jinsuo cursed.
Li Xia said: "Send people to inform each village of the location of the Mongolian troops..."
After watching for a while, I saw that the Mongolian army at the foot of the mountain extinguished the bonfire and disappeared with the sound of horse hooves.
"Did they find us?"
"No, it's because we are cautious and don't camp too close to the battlefield."
Li Xia looked at the mountains in the night and felt that after today's small victory, the war would be even harder to fight.
The Mongolian army lost its ships and would come over from any mountain.
It would be difficult to figure out their route and ambush them like today...
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The sky was slightly bright, and Li Xia woke up in the mountains and forests.
He didn't dare to light a fire at night. He only slept a little and his body was covered with dew.
I took the map out of my pocket and looked at it. Fortunately, it wasn't wet yet.
On the map, the terrain of Qingfu County is like an eye, with mountains sandwiching it to the north and south, and the county seat is like an eyeball.
And Fu Jiang is like a knife mark on this eye, breaking through the mountains in the north and south.
The reason why Li Xia went to guard Wuchi Road was to prevent the Mongolian army from coming down the Fujiang River from the north.
Yesterday, we met at Bailikou to prevent the Mongolian army from going up the Fu River from the south.
With the north-south waterways secured, the Mongolian army could only cross the mountains. Crossing the mountains meant that they could not carry too much supplies.
This is the meaning of maintaining a strong wall and clearing the field.
Li Xia drew his hand on the map along the mountains in the north and south of Qingfu County and murmured something.
"If you dare to come in, I will drag you to death here."
He stood up and led people down the mountain. He observed the horse hoof prints left by the Mongolian army on the ground, chased them for a while, and continued to mark them on the map to prepare for the next ambush.
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Nige didn't know that Li Xia was following him.
He gathered four hundred-man troops of Red Army scouts and more than a hundred Dali servants, thinking about the next situation.
Should he return to Xuzhou to report Wu Lianghetai's defeat? Or should he continue to plunder Qingfu County, seize back ships and grain, and then go down the Fu River?
After hesitating for a long time, Nige sent someone to report that he had been intercepted by more than a thousand Changning troops. He also said that there was a navy in Qingfu County and asked Marshal Du to send troops to attack from the east.
And he planned to climb over the mountains, recover the losses, and cover up this small defeat...
After making these arrangements, Nige realized that the three captured ships and Song soldiers and sailors were actually a bit of a burden.
It was precisely because of them that the Song army knew their marching route in advance, set up an ambush, and lost the advantage of coming and going like the wind.
"Eh Xiute! What kind of navy do you want? The navy will only hurt me!"
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In the next two days, Nige led his troops in the valley southwest of Fuqing County and tried to climb over the mountains. However, they were attacked by cannons and rocks at Duantou Mountain, Jianzi Mountain and other places.
He was surprised how there could be so many garrison troops in a small county town, and he had two judgments in his heart.
Either there are some indigenous barbarians on the mountain who have learned how to fire cannons; or the Changning Army is really stationed in Qingfu County.
Nige was too lazy to attack these poor villages. He looked around and prepared to cross the mountains at Leech Ridge...
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"The Mongolian army is about to climb over the mountains at Leechuling."
Li Xia sat on the ground, spread out the map, and called the people around him.