It was July 30th, and the moonlight was dim at night.
In the dim darkness, Yunding City looks even more dangerous.
For more than fourteen years, nearly 30,000 Mongolian troops have buried their bones here, but they have never captured it once.
In front of the north gate, the road up the mountain is shaped like a fish spine. Walking on this road, it feels like there is a deep cliff under your feet.
With only a thousand or so people in the forest belt, they secretly climbed up the mountain.
He was also secretly frightened by such a dangerous road. Fortunately, there were personal soldiers arranged by Yao Shi'an in the corner of the mountain to meet him. Then he crawled forward and contacted Zhang Wei to open the city gate.
Tuolindai couldn't help but lick his lips, leaned down, and looked at the movement at the city gate from a distance.
Finally, only a "clucking" sound was heard, and the city gate was slowly opened.
"Enter the city." Tuolingdai shouted in a low voice.
If it had not been for the surrender of the defenders, the mountain city in central Sichuan would have hardly been captured by the Mongolian army, which made him a little excited.
He saw the soldiers at the front rushing into the city gate.
After a while, everything calmed down.
Tuolindai also rushed into the city gate. Looking up, he saw that the Wengcheng gate in front had also been opened, and the Mongolian army was controlling the Wengcheng.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
There was no ambush.
Once Wengcheng is controlled, the top of Yuncheng can also be considered captured.
Immediately afterwards, I heard rapid footsteps coming from the front, and it was obvious that there were many people in the city rushing towards this direction.
Someone from a distance shouted: "The last general Yao Shi'an welcomes the Mongol general into the city!"
Tuolin was overjoyed and climbed to the top of Wengcheng in person and looked into the city...
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Inside Yunding City.
Xiao Shixian lowered his head, looking at the dagger tip on his chest and the gurgling blood, with a confused expression.
Over the years, he has experienced too many battlefields where arrows were flying and fire was rising into the sky.
He waded through mountains of corpses and seas of blood again and again, and never fell.
Even the arrogant Mongolian King Zong like Xu Liewu suffered a disastrous defeat in front of him.
But I didn't expect that in the end, he died not under the bow of a blind man, but at the hands of his colleagues?
Xiao Shixian opened his mouth and asked: "Why...why...?"
"That's enough!" Yao Shi'an shouted, "That's enough! Go to hell!"
He seemed to be afraid that the dying Xiao Shixian would pounce on him again, so he immediately took a few steps back and shouted: "Kill them!"
"Protect...protect General Kong from leaving!"
Only then did Xiao Shixian and the few soldiers behind Kong Xian react, and they all stepped forward to protect them with their swords in hand.
Yao Shi'an's ambush swordsmen and axemen over there have already started to kill, and the two sides are fighting together.
Yao Shi'an no longer had the courage to kill the enemy, so he took a few steps back and said to Yao Yiming: "Kill them and take their heads to the city gate. I will go to meet the Mongolian army first."
He did not want to pass through the lobby where the fighting was going on, so he took refuge in the back hall and left in a hurry.
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In the hall, Kong Xiancai supported Xiao Shixian and looked down, only to see that Xiao Shixian had lost his life, only one of his eyes was still staring, full of anger and unwillingness.
Kong Xianbei came out of this, and before he could cry out, he was stabbed in the back.
He groaned, pulled out the dagger from Xiao Shixian's chest, rushed towards the axeman behind him, and stabbed him fiercely with the dagger.
In the chaos, another swordsman came towards him.
Suddenly, a loud "bang" was heard, and several screams came from the front door. Someone had come in with a knife.
"General Kong!"
Kong Xian turned around and saw Nie Zhongyou leading dozens of people to rush up...
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North of the city.
After taking off the forest belt and climbing to the top of Wengcheng, Zhang Wei quickly followed.
He didn't dare to get too close to the forest belt, but he just bent down and couldn't help but ask the interpreter: "What is the Mongolian saying in the city?"
"He's talking about 'The last general Yao Shi'an welcomes the Mongol general into the city'."
Zhang Wei said: "That's not General Yao's voice, and he doesn't speak Mongolian. Maybe it's..."
Before he finished speaking, the group of people rushed to a distance of fifty steps, suddenly raised their crossbows and fired arrows at the top of the city.
As soon as the arrows sounded, the Mongolian army fell down on the city top.
"Kill!"
Zhang Wei was shocked, received a blow on his body, and was knocked down by two Mongolian soldiers.
Tuolindai was furious and shouted: "You lied to me?!"
Before the interpreter could speak, he already understood that Yao Shi'an was not planning to ambush him, otherwise he would be ambushed as soon as he entered Wengcheng.
It can only be that Yao Shian was defeated and some of the city guards reacted temporarily.
"Exiute! Stop them! Hold on!"
Tuolin belt could no longer care about Zhang Wei, so he ordered his men to take him down, pulled out his bow and arrow, and shot at the Song army.
…
The North City Gate and the Wengcheng Gate are both under the cliffs of Qixingyan, and the terrain is narrow.
Among the Wengcheng were Zhang Wei's more than 300 men, and the Mongolian army entered the city with more than 400 men. They had just seized the city head, half of them were guarding the north city head, and the other half were guarding the head of the Wengcheng city.
There are still more than 600 people crowded outside the North City Gate.
If they were given a little more time, they could set up their positions in the city. At this time, they could only pass through the city gate and go up the stairs to support the Mongolian army on the top of Wengcheng.
"Fire the arrow!"
There was no time to think too much, and the forest belt had already ordered the arrows to be released.
At least, he still has 200 people who occupy the advantageous position at the head of Wengcheng and can rely on the advantage of bows and arrows.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..."
The arrows of the Mongolian army here shot down at the Song soldiers, and the rockets of the Song army also shot down from the Qixing Rock there, igniting the straw accumulated on the top of the Wengcheng city.
The fire broke out violently.
After two rounds of arrow rain, the Song army rushed to the inner city wall. Some people rushed to the city gate to block the Mongolian army rushing up at the city gate. Some people rushed to the stone steps.
"Guard Yunding City!" Song Jun shouted.
"Take this mountain city!" the Mongolian army shouted.
In just a moment, blood stains had gathered on the stone steps of the inner city wall and flowed downwards.
The sound of blood dripping on the stone was very soft, completely covered by the sound of killing.
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Inside Stonetop City.
The blood on Kong Xian's back kept flowing down, dripping on the stone road.
"General Nie... why are you here? How did you know that Yao Shi'an rebelled?"
Nie Zhongyou did not answer, but just supported Kong Xian and walked out, saying: "Quick! Li Xia has sent Wu Xin's army to guard the city gate. General Kong please hurry up and dispatch the garrison in the city."
Although Kong Xian didn't understand what was going on, he couldn't help but speed up his steps.
Nie Zhongyou's eyes were filled with anxiety and fear.
…
He had no idea that Yao Shian had rebelled.
Li Xia didn't know either.
But even though he didn't know about Yao Shi'an's rebellion, he was still very determined to capture Yao Shi'an.
Li Xia's original words were, "What we want is a Genting defender who can guarantee that he can play a role with Pu Shuai. Yao Shi'an will never be able to do that. This is enough."
"Is this enough?"
At that time, Nie Zhongyou was completely stunned...
"That's right." Li Xia said: "That's why I want to come to Yunding City, so I want to anger Yao Shi'an. Not to mention the fear of conflict with Yao Shi'an, I have no intention of letting him continue to guard Yunding City."
"But this..."
"If I were you, before the battle at Jiandutan, I noticed that Liu Zheng was not determined to fight, I would take Liu Zheng in his place."
"What nonsense are you talking about? You have no right to change the Genting defender."
"Yes." Li Xia said: "In addition to letting me provide reinforcements, Marshal Pu also gave me full responsibility for the defense of Yunding City. I can act according to the situation and replace Yao Shi'an at critical times."
"No way? Even if Pu Shuai comes in person, he may not dare to act like this."
"I have a message from Pu Shuai." Li Xia said: "I asked about it. Yao Shi'an invited Kong Xian and Xiao Shixian to a banquet tonight. Let's take this opportunity to capture Yao Shi'an."
"This...doing this will definitely lead to endless disasters."
"The consequences will be endless?" Li Xia asked, "Back then, Commander Yu personally led 3,000 people to Yunding, but Yao Shi'an refused to accept him. Commander Yu was afraid of endless consequences and did not dare to kill him. What's the result? The situation in Sichuan and Sichuan is at this point.
Is it a disaster?"
Nie Zhongyou was even more stunned, and heard Li Xiaji say something decisively in his ears.
"How can there be so many worries at this time? There is no need to think about having both ends of the world. There is no such thing as having both sides in the world. What is needed is decision-making."
Even though they were old acquaintances and had gone through dangerous situations in the North together, Nie Zhongyou was still shocked that Li Xia had the courage to make such a decision.
What was even more frightening to him was that if this were not the case, Yunding City might really fall tonight, and the situation in Sichuan and Sichuan would really lead to endless disasters again.
Who would have thought?
No, actually everyone can think of it.
…
This is exactly what makes him pitiful and hateful. Almost everyone knows that Yao Shian has selfish motives. Yu Jie, Kong Xian, Xiao Shixian, and Pu Zezhi can all see it.
Not everyone in the court wanted to impeach Uncle Xie Fang, and Yao Shian framed Yu Jie, but in the end everything was ignored.
Because uncovering this matter means that the officials really killed Yu Jie in vain.
In the end, only Li Xia dared to chop off this piece of rotten flesh with a sword.
The carrion of the Song Dynasty was far more than just this piece of meat...