Nige strode through the camp, listening to the loud cry of "attack the camp", and looked around, but did not see the Song army.
"Hari Chagai! Where are the people who attacked the camp?"
Hari Chagai, still running in a hurry, responded: "Going to the north, only twenty riders."
Nig was displeased and asked, "Where's the horse?"
"Still looking. These people are like rats. They dare not break in. They only steal things."
As he said this, he saw a burst of fire in the tent to the north.
As Nige walked, he opened his bow and squinted his eyes. He saw a group of Song soldiers wearing Mongolian leather armor lighting a fire outside the burning tent.
He shot an arrow, and with a "pop" sound, the arrow penetrated the body of a Song soldier.
The remaining ten or so Song soldiers on horseback did not dare to set fire again and immediately fled in all directions.
"A bunch of rats! Damn..."
Tonight's second attack on the camp calmed down again.
Nige did not pursue him, but stood there holding a bow, looking at the burning tent with gloomy eyes.
"Captain, our baggage..."
"I want you to get the horses back!" Nig shouted, "As long as there are horses, I can rob them wherever the baggage is!"
"Yes, wait until the horse is no longer so panicked, and you can come back by blowing the whistle."
A Mongolian horse snorted and looked at the mountains in front of him, reluctant to go up.
A Hmong man was pulling hard on it.
The horse's hooves scratched the ground and refused to move.
With a "pop" sound, Xiong Shi gave it a whip, and it had to climb up the mountain reluctantly.
There were more than seventy Miao people, leading forty horses towards the mountain.
"Uncle Aqi, what do we need so many horses for?" Xiong Shi asked.
Xiong Aqi said: "I think you are living a better life. What do you want a horse for? If you kill it and eat it, it will be meat!"
"Uncle Aqi, Brother Xiong Shi. You can't kill it to eat. The village elder said that if you sell it to Lieutenant Li, you can get a lot of money."
"I know." Xiong Aqi said: "It's a pity that we only found these. This is really strange. I think several villages sent people down to snatch horses. How did they know about this?"
"Li Xianwei sent someone to tell you."
"It would be great if we in Baiyan Village could lead all the horses."
Xiong Shi said: "Where can we lead them all? What Li County Lieutenant wants is to make the Mongolian army have no horses. The more people come to lead the Mongolian army, the more horses they can lead."
"Hey, come to ten villages, and each village only needs thirty horses to trap these Mongolian troops in our territory..."
Someone was shouting from a distance.
"Brother Xiong Shi, I found another one, eating bamboo leaves at the foot of the mountain!"
"Captain...many horses are missing..."
"Gone?" Nige was stunned and asked, "What do you mean missing?"
"It was stolen to the mountains by the old man again."
"Again?!" Nige was furious and cursed: "Damn these southwestern barbarians... how much can you get back?"
"More than seventy horses."
Nige was silent, touching his bald head with his big hands, looking a little decadent.
Not long ago, Ah Shu also had his horse stolen, and he was so angry that he destroyed three Tu Lao Man villages.
But the situation is different now. At that time, Ah Shu was the vanguard, and the army was pressing the formation at the rear; now Nige was alone in Qingfu, and the army was eager to move eastward along the Yangtze River, and had no time to spend with him.
In addition, in the past, the Tulaoman villages did not support each other. Now, if any village is attacked, the Qingfu County defenders will support it.
The most important thing is that he, Nige, is not the son of an unruly man...
"Hari Chagai, you idiot killed me," Nigg said, "I just couldn't trust you, so I asked Tumen Baoyin to guard the camp. Look at you, you lost all the horses."
Hari Chagai was unconvinced and spat, "I didn't expect the Song people to dare to lead those few people to attack the camp."
"If only Tumen Baoyin could think of it."
The next moment, there was movement outside the tent. It was Tumen Baoyin who had returned.
Of the two hundred people Nige met, only about seventy came back, and Galdi died, making his already gloomy face look even worse.
After everything had happened, Tumen Baoyin said in a tearful tone: "Captain, please send two people on horseback to take me back to the capital marshal's camp. My leg is useless."
"good."
Tumen Baoyin added: "This Qingfu County is different from what we thought. We should not attack the city anymore. We should capture some prisoners elsewhere, seize the ships, and report them to the capital marshal..."
Suddenly, a machete was placed on his neck.
He was stunned, raised his head, and saw Nige's cold eyes.
"Captain?"
"You have lost too many horses. I can't send any more horses to take you back." Nige said, "You have no legs, and I can't take you back."
"Don't do this...I...I can live...please..."
"No, you are a centurion and cannot fall into the hands of the Song army."
Nige said, cutting with the scimitar in his hand.
Tumen Baoyin stared, his throat had been cut, and he died immediately.
"Changshengtian, please protect your people."
Nige murmured and closed Tumen Baoyin's eyes.
"Hari Chagai, go and kill all the seriously injured people..."
Throughout the night, remnant soldiers escaped from Baiyan Mountain from time to time.
The remnants of Tumen Baoyin and Galdi were combined into a centurion. Nige also had four centurions of Tanma Red Army and a hundred Dali servants.
But there are only about seventy war horses.
He had to admit that he was in trouble.
It's nothing to lose the battle.
For more than ten years, the Mongolian army had been losing battles in Sichuan and Shu, and it was better to retreat; in comparison, the Song Dynasty could not bear the losses caused by long-term wars.
But this is a big strategy, and Tanig is not qualified to say this.
For him, repeated setbacks in a small county will only make the marshal think he is incompetent.
But without the war horses, if it continues to be dragged on until it becomes exhausted, everyone may be trapped here, not to mention that Marshal Du did not give him much time.
There were no prisoners, baggage, time, horses, and troops... After much thought, Nige decided to give up the attack on Qingfu County.
He planned to cross the Fu River by force, join the reinforcements on the east bank of the Fu River, and then seize the warships and sail down the river.
The next day, when the sky was dark and bright, the Mongolian army set up camp, bypassed Qingfu County to the south, and then turned east toward the Fu River.
Most of them have become infantry, walking in the early morning, looking a little staggering for no reason.
They are really not used to this kind of marching speed.
Suddenly, someone raised his head and shouted: "Captain, there is smoke!"
Streams of smoke rose from the mountains to the south.
Li Xia stood on the tower and watched for a while, then said: "The Mongolian army is about to cross the river."
Fang Yankai was more prudent and pondered: "Is this a ploy by the Mongolian army to lure the enemy?"
"They have no horses, so we are no longer afraid of them luring the enemy."
Fang Yankai then reminded: "The river patrolman has poor riding skills and should not go into battle on horseback, otherwise the Mongolian army may take the horses back."
Li Xia nodded and said, "Yes," and said, "What the landlord said makes sense."
He had put on his armor and planned to go out of the city to fight, but after thinking about it, he stopped and spread out the map.
"Please also refer to the owner's booklet for details of this strategy."
Fang Yankai was stunned for a moment, then stroked his beard and said, "That's fine."
"After I stole the Mongolian army's horses last night, I thought that the Mongolian army had three responses and made corresponding arrangements." Li Xia said, "The first is to climb over the mountains and head north back to Xuzhou; the second is to climb up the villages and snatch the horses back; The third is to cross the Fu River to grab ships... It seems that they have chosen the third method."
Fang Yankai said: "This shows that there are likely to be reinforcements from the Mongolian army coming from the east."
"Yes, but not yet."
"It is very likely that this Mongolian army reinforcements encountered the Changning army."
Li Xia said: "I have set up a watchtower on Yukou Rock. If the Mongolian army comes to the east, there will be smoke. Let's talk about how to fight the battle in Fujiang first... The Mongolian army will definitely build a pontoon bridge with Dali's servants, and then the cavalry will cross first. , go to the east bank of Fujiang River to explore."
"good."
"I asked Bao San and Jiang Fan to arrange the boats upstream, wait for the Mongolian army to build the pontoon bridge, and attack halfway across the river."
"I'm just afraid of difficulty." Fang Yankai shook his head and said, "The Mongolian army will probably be prepared. If the pontoon is built strong, the ship may be captured by them."
"Yes, that's it. There are our cannon stones on the Qinggang Ridge on the east coast. How about using the cannon stones to destroy the pontoon bridge first, and then letting the ships go down the river to shoot at the enemy soldiers on both sides?"
"It's safer this way."
Fang Yankai pondered deeply, but he couldn't offer any more insights into Li Xia's arrangements, and finally gave a few reminders.
"Has Feiyu ever read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu?"
"No." Li Xia said, "I don't quite understand."
Fang Yankai said: "The opening chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War is the 'strategy' chapter. This 'strategy' does not refer to strategy, but to 'calculation'. To put it simply, there must be more people and fewer enemies. If the enemy is strong and we are weak, the enemy If we are outnumbered, we will disperse them first; if it is difficult to win for a while, we will wait patiently until they are tired and weak."
Li Xia said: "I understand what the host book means. In today's battle, we still don't want to kill a large number of Mongolian troops, we just need to divide them into two."
"exactly……"
Fang Yankai twirled his beard and looked at Li Xia walking out, his eyes filled with contemplation.
I have always felt that Li Feiyu was arrogant, but he also had a calm and humble side when it came to things...
"Bang!"
Cannon stones fell from the Qinggan Ridge east of Fujiang River, breaking the Mongolian army's pontoon bridge; ships rushed down from the upper reaches of Fujiang River, knocking the Mongolian soldiers and Dali soldiers on the pontoon bridge into the river.
The Song army's arrows and cannons attacked the Dali servants and quickly defeated them.
By the time Nige was ready to counterattack, the Song army had quickly retreated along the Fu River.
He looked at the two centurions on the west bank of Fujiang River who had not had time to cross the river, and was a little stunned for a moment.
The casualties were still small.
In fact, since entering Qingfu Realm, the Mongolian army suffered few casualties in every small battle.
But the situation seems to be very bad...
"Send an order for them to return to Xuzhou."
Cannons were still being fired on Qinggang Ridge, and there was not much time for Nige to think about it. He gave the order and quickly led his troops eastward.
Nige began to realize that he might be trapped here.
He led two centurions of the Mongolian troops to Yuokou Rock, and was hit by artillery stones again.
Immediately afterwards, several screams were heard, and the horses fell into the ditch...
Harizhagai led two centuries to stay on the west bank of Fujiang River, looking a little confused.
Today's battle was supposed to capture the Song people's ships and sail them down the river.
Now you have to walk back to Xuzhou?
They had lost their horses, food, grass, and arrows.
Hari Chagai was still calm and did not order to march south. Instead, he ordered to go to the mountains to the north.
You can build some bamboo rafts and float down the river.
After repelling the Song army with arrows, they marched for more than ten miles and garrisoned at a place called Chestnut Bay.
Unable to find any prisoners and losing their servants, Meng had no choice but to let Meng Zu build bamboo rafts himself.
Hari Chagai was very worried, worried that the Song army would attack the camp, but he could only let the soldiers work hard to build bamboo rafts.
That night, the Song army indeed attacked the camp.
Rockets were fired one after another, burning the entire bamboo forest.
…
Liu Jinsuo stood outside the bamboo forest with his gun in hand, watching the Meng soldiers rushing out of the fire, and watching his soldiers rushing forward and stabbing them with their spears.
"Are you still afraid of them?"
"Don't be afraid!"
Speaking of this, Liu Jinsuo recalled the morale-boosting words taught by Li Xia, but in the end he couldn't remember them, so he looked at Huhu.
Luhu couldn't even speak Chinese clearly, so he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Liu Jinsuo then shouted: "Look, two hundred of us can defeat two hundred Mongolian troops, they are no big deal!"
"Yes! It's no big deal!"
…
The shouts spread into the bamboo forest in the sea of flames.
Hari Chagai touched the quiver behind him and found that there were no arrows left.
He listened to the cheers of the Song people outside. Although he didn't understand it, he felt strongly offended.
"Spit, if there are horses and arrows, I will kill you all."
Hari Chagai did not rush out again, he did not want to die in the hands of those cowardly Song soldiers.
So he closed his eyes and let the fire roll over him...