Artillery blasted out from the top of the mountain, causing the mountains on the opposite side to collapse.
The mountain path below has been completely blocked by falling rocks, piles of soil, and corpses.
However, the artillery carts were still throwing wood and rocks, not giving the Mongolian and Han troops a chance to escape.
From early morning to afternoon, the sun was already hanging over the mountains in the distance.
finally.
"That's enough." Li Xia ordered: "Stop blocking the road and shelling the enemy."
The whistle sounded again and the flag waved.
Luhu looked back and shouted: "Don't fucking blast me! I'll dig it out again... push it!"
He personally stepped forward, and together with his soldiers pushed the heavy artillery weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, and adjusted its direction.
Afterwards, Rouhu squinted his eyes and made fine adjustments.
"boom."
There was another muffled sound, and the cannonball was spit out.
At the same time, the artillery vehicles fired together, throwing down thunderbolts that shook the sky.
On the mountain road, there are still Mongolian and Han troops trying to escape westward, hoping to climb over the fallen rocks piled on the road.
"Peng!"
The cannonball directly hit more than ten people, and the huge thrust swept past them, causing blood and flesh to fly.
At the same time as the broken limbs fell to the ground, more than thirty thunderbolts fell and exploded, with pieces of iron flying out...
The ground was full of writhing moaners.
Those who were lucky enough not to be injured by the shells and iron fragments were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and hid by the roadside, holding their heads and shouting.
Only by shouting at the top of one's voice can the fear in the heart be relieved.
However, the more I shouted, the more fear spread...
"Ah! Ah..."
On the top of the mountain, Lu Xiufu had already vomited.
It was so far away that he shouldn't have felt anything in his heart, but he took a look through the telescope and happened to see the internal organs all over the floor.
After a while, Lu Xiufu stood up, picked up the telescope again and looked down the mountain.
In his sight, the sky-shattering thunder exploded, injuring the man and falling to the ground, while the shell tore the man apart... He turned around and saw the man who had dropped his weapon.
"Come on!"
Lu Xiufu ran towards Li Xia and shouted: "Surrender! They are all prisoners!"
Gao Nianfeng stepped forward and stopped Lu Xiufu.
Li Xia ignored them and continued to give orders loudly.
After a while, the cannon fire on the mountain stopped.
Li Xia then waved to Lu Xiufu.
"Commander Jie, they have no intention of fighting anymore, please surrender...too many casualties..."
"Proportionally speaking, not many people can be killed," Li Xia said.
He seemed a little indifferent, with only some compassion in his eyes, but his tone was flat.
"If you look with your eyes, you will see that many people died. But there are more than four hundred miles of mountain road, and there is an ambush point every ten miles. The range that each of our ambush points can cover is only one to two miles... In other words, most of the enemy soldiers At this time, we are huddled between the ambush points."
"They... are Commander-in-Chief afraid of their counterattack?"
"We can't counterattack." Li Xia said: "Where to counterattack? This is the Qishan Road. There are steep mountains everywhere. We control all the mountain roads and passes. They have been divided into forty small formations with less than a thousand people. They can go anywhere. No, I can only stay where I am and wait."
Lu Xiufu said: "So, we captured..."
"It's not time yet, there's not enough fear, there's not enough chaos."
Li Xia murmured casually, and finally said: "Only enough killing can make them fearful."
Lu Xiufu was stunned.
He thought the killing was enough, but he didn't know how Li Xia judged it.
It was nearly dusk.
The trumpet sounds again.
Soon, every three miles, messengers blew their horns one after another, and the sound gradually filled the entire Qishan Road.
The generals at forty ambush points issued orders one after another.
"Stop throwing thunderbolts! Change to fireballs!"
"Stone Fireball!"
"..."
The sun sets slowly, and there is still light on the mountain road.
After a whole day of attacks, the Mongolian and Han armies gradually learned to gather in the mountain road where the Song army could not attack.
As Li Xia said, there are not more than a thousand people per share, but at most six or seven hundred people.
They left the horses on the outside and huddled together one by one.
From time to time, soldiers who lost their rations killed their fellow soldiers...
~~
Night falls.
Li Xia ordered that 100 people continue to fire, destroying the enemy troops who dared to poke their heads out, while the other 100 people rested.
Lu Xiufu was ordered to rest where he was, but he couldn't sleep at all.
After staying up for half the night, when he stood up again, he saw Gao Nianfeng heading south with a hundred people who had just rested.
Lu Xiufu wanted to ask Li Xia, but where he looked, he saw Li Xia sleeping soundly under a tree.
After a long time, another whistle came from a distance.
Luhu suddenly roared.
"cannon!"
"boom!"
"..."
The screams sounded again, spreading deep into the Qishan Road in the night.
Those Mongolian and Han troops must be restless all night...
~~
Ma Dexi huddled under the cliff and covered his ears, trying to calm down, but he couldn't.
Although his surname is Ma, he is not Han but from the Yolngu ethnic group.
His ancestors once served as military and horse judges in Fengxiang during the Jin Dynasty. Because they were military and horse judges, they changed their surname to "Ma".
Ma Dexi's family fell into decline, so he joined the army and became a centurion under Gong Chang's army. In the Battle of Lintao, he killed three Mongolian elites, which can be said to be brave.
In that battle... Mongolia's elite cavalry and archery were of course superior. But at that time Wang Liangchen ordered a charge, but Hunduhai did not order to distance himself because Alan Dal'er's reinforcements arrived, and the two sides fought in close combat.
Ma Dexi discovered that the Mongolian army was not as powerful as he originally thought, and their fighting spirit was not determined, and they would die if they were hit by a knife.
This victory made him feel that Gongchang's cavalry would be invincible in the world...
Unexpectedly, I encountered such a terrifying scene just after entering Qishan Road.
The body of a comrade was torn to pieces right in front of his eyes, and his intestines splashed across his face.
The horse he dismounted was frightened away. Ma Dexi fell off the horse and escaped from the battlefield full of fire and gunpowder smoke, and has been hiding here.
Some generals shouted to attack the mountain, but he refused to go because the mountain was too high; some told him to rush out, but he did not go because the front was too scary.
The journey here was too far, and he only had time to get a small bag of rations.
The most terrifying thing is that he didn't even see the enemy. He couldn't muster the courage to resist and just wanted to surrender as soon as possible...
More than a hundred steps away, someone was discussing something.
I can faintly hear them saying "rush out" and so on...
suddenly.
Something fell from the cliff behind him, filled with smoke.
Ma Dexi was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, regardless of direction in the dark.
"Peng!"
There was another explosion behind him, and the people and horses screamed...
After running for a while, when the light ahead became brighter and brighter, Ma Dexi's heart trembled and he quickly stopped.
There was another loud noise and screams.
Ma Dexi was so frightened that he immediately fell to the ground. He felt pieces of iron flying and people kept stepping on him.
Then something rolled over.
He carefully looked up and saw the head of a comrade whose head had been shattered by a cannonball...
"ah!"
Ma Dexi turned around again and ran wildly.
Under the feet, there were rations scattered on the ground...
~~
Fourth watch.
Li Xia woke up, told Gao Nianfeng to hug the tiger to sleep, picked up a piece of steamed bun, chewed it, and walked towards the direction of the cannon.
Lu Xiufu hurriedly followed, but did not dare to say anything more.
"Why don't you sleep?" Li Xia ate the steamed bun and clapped his hands.
Lu Xiufu said: "I can't sleep."
"Too noisy?" Li Xia raised the telescope and said, "You will get used to it after fighting a few more times."
"Yes." Lu Xiufu stopped talking.
"Don't worry, I don't mind your verbosity." Li Xia said, "Among the whole army, you are the only one who can help me in the future."
Lu Xiufu was flattered, and then asked: "At night, Commander Gao led his men to conduct a sneak attack. They bombed the enemy troops and killed many more people, Commander Gao."
"yes."
"The enemy's casualties have exceeded 30%, and they have lost their courage. We only need to trap them for one more day before they surrender, so why bother killing more?"
"I haven't seen any smart people yet." Li Xia said.
Lu Xiufu couldn't help but be a little confused.
"Put yourself in my shoes," Li Xia said, "Think in my shoes, what would you do if you were at the foot of the mountain?"
Lu Xiufu fell silent, frowning and thinking.
This is the time when dawn is approaching and the night is at its deepest.
suddenly.
"Take the telescope and look... there."
Lu Xiufu followed Li Xia and saw soldiers and horses suddenly jumping out of the mountain col and rushing westward.
"About four hundred people." Li Xia said, "It's very powerful. We can still gather four hundred people at this time."
"How does Commander-in-Chief know?"
"Listen to the horse's hooves." Li Xia said, "Who raised the flag...who is it?"
At this time, the soldiers and horses rushed to the range that the artillery carriage could attack, and the front was full of burning stone flames.
Lu Xiufu squinted his eyes and murmured: "General Commander of Gongchang's Left Wing..."
"Wang Zuochen."
"Where was he hiding before?" Lu Xiufu was very puzzled and said, "Commander Gao obviously made a sneak attack once."
"That's why he was very patient and kept his troops stationary...the artillery was ready."
Li Xia's instructions were taken care of, and he smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wang Zuochen kept letting people consume him until he thought we had exhausted our artillery fire, wood and rocks, and then he ran for his life."
Lu Xiufu looked through the telescope and saw Wang Zuochen's men charging wildly, trampling over corpses one after another.
Li Xia said: "But no, our preparations can last for three days and three nights."
"boom!"
The shells shot out.
People were on their backs and their horses were overturned, and everything was in a mess.
In the light of the fire, Wang Zuochen had disappeared.
Only the artillery carriage dropped the sky-shattering thunder again.
"Peng! Peng! Peng..."
The screams continued until dawn.
Faintly, there were shouts coming from the bottom of the mountain. It was hard to hear at first, but then it gradually gathered into a chorus of shouts...
~~
The sky is bright.
Mao Yi'er stood at the top of Yangpingguan City all night, and finally saw people running wildly from a distance.
He raised his hand and shouted: "Prepare the artillery stones!"
After a long time, the sound of crying came from far away.
Mao Yi'er picked up the telescope, looked at it for a long time, and then ordered again: "Call Hu Legen."
Soon, Hu Legen, who had been waiting for a long time in armor, ran to the top of the city.
"Mao... Commander Mao, I didn't sleep..."
"Shout!"
Hu Legen turned his head and looked at the situation in front of him, and was stunned for a moment...
For Hulegen, a good Mongolian would definitely not be willing to be captured by the Song people.
It can only be said that Li Xia was frightened and had no choice.
It's not because of race, but because I still think that Mongolia is stronger.
Over the years, he had personally watched Li Xia rise from county lieutenant to Shu commander. This emotion had faded a lot, but it was still there. There was no turning back.
However, in just the past two years, many things have gradually begun to change.
First, Meng Gehan died in Diaoyu City, and Li Xia did it.
I also heard that the two clan kings were fighting to the death for the throne.
Hu Legen had a vague idea... Following Li Xia like this seems to be a good idea.
Except that I still miss the grassland occasionally, there is nothing wrong with it.
Until this moment, he was standing at the city gate of Yangping Pass, and more and more tribesmen were running towards him, crying and howling.
Four or five years ago, Hulgen could not have imagined that the Mongolian warriors would be like this.
Captured, driven here, and ambushed like this.
He didn't even have his armor, his weapons had fallen off, and he was shouting for mercy.
Hu Legen even felt a little embarrassed...
"Peng!"
A thunderbolt was ignited by Mao Yi'er and he threw it away with his hand.
"Those who surrender, put down your weapons and take off your armor! Raise your hands high and squat under the city wall! If you dare to approach the former with a knife, you will be killed without mercy!"
Soon, the soldiers of Yangping Pass shouted in unison.
Hu Legen came back to his senses. After they finished shouting in Chinese, he kept waving his hands and shouting in Mongolian.