Time passed very slowly, and it was finally August.
Ashu has been surrounding Gongchang City for more than twenty days, and the city wall of Gongchang has been soaked in water for more than ten days.
The fighting seemed very fierce. Every day, prisoners were driven into trenches to dig tunnels leading to the city wall; the Song army would shoot arrows to kill prisoners who dug too hard, and the Mongolian army would shoot arrows to kill prisoners who refused to work hard.
The corpse fell, and the blood spread along the shallow river outside the city, making everything reddish-brown.
The Mongolian army no longer fired fireballs at the cannons in the city, but directly fired the cannons of rotting corpses into the city, hoping to cause a plague in the city.
This was not A Shu's original siege tactic, it was a common method during the Western Expedition.
For the prisoners under the city wall, such a battlefield is simply hell.
But in fact, the Mongolian army has not yet begun to attack the city with all its strength, and large groups of soldiers and horses have not entered the place where the artillery carriages on the top of the city can hit...
For the Song army, this battle was very painful.
Lu Xiaoyou, who was responsible for guarding Dongcheng, became increasingly anxious.
Every day, he could only stand on the city wall soaked in water, watching the people die in pain, but he didn't even kill a single enemy.
On this day, Li Zengbo came over for his routine inspection. Lu Xiaoyou finally couldn't help but asked: "Commander, can the artillery hit that camp, let the general open fire?"
He was not a garrison in Gongchang, but a reinforcement from Hanzhong. Although he was at the disposal of Li Zengbo, he was not directly under his command, so he sometimes dared to make suggestions.
"Don't be anxious." Li Zengbo said, "You just killed a dozen Mongols with one shot. What's the point?"
"But if the city wall collapses and no shots are fired..."
"There is no need to consider such irrelevant matters in the battle formation." Li Zengbo suddenly raised his hand, pointed at a group of prisoners under the city, and ordered: "Shoot them."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
There was another round of arrows, and more than ten prisoners who worked too hard to dig the city wall fell to the ground and struggled.
Li Zengbo did not go to see them, but observed the situation of the Mongolian army and thought about it.
"There are no ants attacking the city yet? It is inevitable that Ah Shu wants to encircle the place and bring reinforcements...but this cannot be deduced by common sense..."
After thinking about it, he suddenly thought: "What if we use common sense to deduce it?"
According to common sense, what Ashu should have done was to contain Guanlong's troops and create conditions for Liu Zheng to enter Guanzhong. He should not have gone to Lingtai, let alone Gongchang.
It should be noted that Li Fen was raising the flag in Shandong, and the Song Dynasty had already attacked Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other places. The Mongolian army should not attack Long again.
Why are Liu Zheng and A Shu still coming to kill them?
Use offense instead of defense.
The Mongolian army was not good at defending the city, so they attacked instead of defending.
Thinking about it this way, Ah Shu's fighting seems to be imaginative and imaginative, but in fact, it is common sense.
Is it true that the reason for being dragged under Gongchang City was partly to cooperate with the Mongolian army on the eastern front?
Calculating the time, Liu Zheng was defeated in mid-June. At that time, Ah Shu was still near Lingtai. By the beginning of July, Ah Shu was still taking a circuitous route to Guanshan. In the next twenty days, he had arrived outside Gongchang City.
Within a month and a half, the news of Liu Zheng's defeat came here early.
However, the news about the Mongolian army had to be confirmed by Shanxi first, and then the message was sent to Liangzhou or Liupan Mountain before being passed on to A Shu.
Ah Shu marched too fast and did not know that Liu Zheng had been defeated.
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Li Zengbo thought of this and murmured to himself: "Shuzi, no matter how strange the march is, it is not without traces."
He was old and tired, so he raised his hand and waved.
Lu Xiaoyou then said: "Please give me your orders, Commander-in-Chief."
"There is an urgent military order, can you send someone to break out and spread the word?"
"The general will definitely find a way."
"Don't worry, reinforcements may arrive in the next two days. Let's see if there is a chance..."
Mongolian army tent.
Ah Shu is waiting for Tan Ma to come back.
He plucked his ears out of boredom and said, "Song reinforcements should be coming soon. If the troops arrive are equal to ours, they can fight their way into Guanzhong."
Tie Bilie was very surprised and asked: "You don't dare to fight the Song people even if they have the same military strength?"
"What I mean is that in that case, the defense line on the Guanshan Road will be empty. Of course, we should rush into Guanzhong."
Because they were not in front of the battle, they spoke very casually, without any etiquette, and they said whatever came to their mind, regardless of whether it was offensive or not.
Ah Shu smiled as he spoke, and then said: "If the Song people catch up and stop me, I will turn back to the south and cross the Qishan Road."
"You keep saying this every day, do you definitely want to go to Guanzhong?"
"Gong Chang's petty fuss is of no use." A Shu yawned and looked sideways outside the tent, saying: "In such a big place, there are only 50,000 people. Back then, I penetrated the Song Dynasty and wiped out the enemy.
More than 400,000 people."
Tie Bilie nodded, feeling the same, and said: "The Great Khan should not have listened to those who spoke out. He should have killed all the Han people in Guanzhong and Henan and changed the fields into grasslands. Then there would be no trouble this time.
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"hehe."
Ah Shu smiled casually.
To put it bluntly, although these two young men have killed hundreds of thousands of people, compared to their grandfathers, they are really only doing it in a small way.
The population of the Jin Kingdom during the seven years of Taihe was approximately 53 million people, but after the Mongolian-Jin War, there were only 10 million people left.
In less than thirty years, more than 40 million people died in wars and massacres.
A Shu's grandfather was Subotai who participated in the war to destroy the Jin Dynasty and led the army to attack Bianjing. At that time, Subotai wanted to massacre Bianliang, but Yelu Chucai rescued 1.47 million people.
Tie Bilie's father was Kuoduan, who slaughtered Shu.
Together, their fathers and ancestors ordered the massacre of tens of millions of people. This time, they led 50,000 prisoners to attack the city for more than 20 days, and only killed a few people every day. It was indeed a bit boring.
"The world is so big, and the Great Mongolia still has so much land that has not yet been conquered." Tiebili added: "The Khan did not massacre the city, and the Han people took back the territory they seized, which was a waste of time."
Ah Shu smiled casually again and did not answer.
Tiberius wanted to speak again, but was interrupted before he could speak.
"Stop judging the Khan's actions."
"All right."
After a while, Tan Ma finally came back.
"Report to the marshal that Lian Xixian has arrived with troops. They are stationed in Zhaiwei Town forty miles to the south. They are all cavalry, with more than 10,000 horses..."
"More than ten thousand horses?" Ah Shu asked, "How many people?"
"No more than five thousand."
Ah Shu was so disappointed.
Lian Xixian and his troops had just come out of Tianshui territory, and they were already spotted by the probing horse. A Shu originally wanted to make a surprise attack, but he didn't expect that the Song Army's cavalry walked for more than ten days on the march route in just three to five days, making camp step by step.
Give him a chance to sneak attack.
Now that Lian Xixian has finally arrived, other groups of Song troops have retreated to various defense lines and continue to block A Shu's road.
Lian Xixian only brought a few thousand people. Was it because he was trying to create suspicion or was he really running out of troops?
Ah Shu was also confused for a moment, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
It was a good idea to adapt to the situation.
"Tie Bilie, tomorrow I will lead five Tanma Chi troops to attack Lian Xixian. You come and attack Gongchang. Don't let the Song troops in the city go out to receive reinforcements."
"good……"
Before dawn, Li Bing had been driven to the east of Gongchang City.
There were originally 10,000 captives on each side of Gongchang City, divided into ten captive teams of 1,000, each guarded by a hundred-man team of Mongolian soldiers.
There have been a lot of casualties recently. Only seven of the ten thousand-man prisoner team on the east side of the city are left, that is, nearly three thousand people have died.
Li Bing stood in a line of thousands of people, his eyes becoming increasingly numb.
His left ear was getting more and more painful, and the buzzing sound hadn't gone away.
He originally thought he would dig the city wall as usual... After more than ten days of digging experience, he already understood how to survive in the trench. He had to pretend to work hard, but not get too close to the city wall. But it might just be luck.
OK, didn't get shot.
But soon, the ladder was lifted up.
Li Bing had a bad premonition and looked at Feng Liangzai.
"us……"
The horn suddenly sounded.
As before, the Mongolian army killed some people and the prisoners rushed towards the city wall.
This time we are not digging, this time we are actually going to the battlefield...
Li Bing knew that he was going to die under the city wall today.
He could already hear the screams of the unlucky ones at the front.
"ah!"
It was as if he had been doused with hot golden juice.
"I want to die quickly... just stone me to death..."
"We can make meritorious deeds!" Feng Liangzai shouted, as if he was emboldening himself with his voice, "If we attack the city, we can join the Badulu Army and become Mongolians..."
Li Bing only felt desperate.
"Did you hear that?!" Feng Liangzai shouted again: "We want to make meritorious deeds."
Although he shouted loudly, he was already crying.
He has already entered the range of the Song army's arrows and will die at any time.
"We want to make meritorious deeds!"
Feng Liangzai raised his hand and tried to give a final boost to morale.
"If we win this battle, we will no longer be excommunicates. Han officials like Commander Wang will plead for mercy and release the excommunicators..."
Li Bing felt his ears buzzing, and suddenly he didn't want to hear this anymore.
He didn't know why he was still struggling, so he numbly let his instinctive desire to survive drive him.
Let it go.
"puff!"
Blood splashed all over Li Bing's face.
He was stunned, looked back, and looked at Feng Liangzai's tearful and surprised eyes.
In the red mist, Feng Liangzai's neck had been cut in half.
Without even a single unnecessary word, this man who had read books and could speak Mongolian... just fell down so easily.
Li Bing originally thought that he would be the one who lived the longest among tens of thousands of people...
The body fell to the ground, and Li Bing found that he had unknowingly fallen to the end of the thousand people.
A Mongolian soldier on horseback held a bloody scimitar in one hand and held the reins in the other hand, driving the horse back and forth at the junction where the Song army's arrows could reach, shouting.
"Uzhigexi!"
When Feng Liangzai's body fell, Meng Zu still didn't realize that he had killed an interpreter who could speak Mongolian.
He does not need an interpreter. There is no interpreter here, only speaking.
As long as he waved the knife, the expulsions would naturally understand what he was saying.
"Uzhigexi!"
With another loud roar, Meng Zu looked at Li Bing who was stopping and slashed with his sword...
Li Bing was still in a daze.
"boom!"
A thunder struck the sky.
"boom!!"
The earth seemed to shake, and Li Bing suddenly felt that the world was purified.
"ah!"
He couldn't help but roar, his chest hurt, and his whole body was knocked to the ground by the frightened horse...
"Kill the prisoners!"
The Yong'an Gate to the east of Gongchang opened wide, and two thousand cavalry rushed out, circled around, and went straight to kill the Meng cavalry in the distance.
After another thunder, war drums beat loudly on top of the city to encourage the cavalry leaving the city.
Li Zengbo thought it was not loud enough, so he rushed to the drum beating platform, took the drum and beat it down with all his strength.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
A skinny old man in his sixties, he was extremely strong, and his drums were loud and loud, shaking the whole country.
The Mongolian army formation, which was watching the battle across the Weishui River, had no idea that the artillery on top of the city could hit such a distance, and it was already in chaos.
The small group of Mongolian troops who were supervising the battle nearby did not expect that the Song army's cavalry would come out of the city to fight, and they were also confused.
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."
Li Bing could finally hear the sound again.
His left ear still hurt, but the buzzing feeling was gone.
It was as if the sound of thunder shattered the dirt blocking his ears.
Everything seems a little different...
He looked up from the chaos and saw a bright red cloak on the top of the city.
"It's all the fault of the Song Dynasty people." Feng Liangzai's words came to mind again.
Afterwards, Li Bing thought of the officials in Tongwei County.
"Wuhu silk? I won't accept it anymore. I won't accept it anymore. Auntie sold this cloth to buy two more pounds of meat for the baby to see how thin he is..."
"What year? Meng Gehan has been in five years? I borrowed one ounce of money and still owe him five ounces? Don't worry, aunt, I think the county government wants to punish him, not ask you to pay back the money..."
As Li Bing was thinking about it, he saw a small group of Song Army cavalry coming around to his side. They held their horses and started to kill the Mongolian soldiers.
The prisoners were so frightened that they ran around.
Soon another group of Song Army cavalry came on horseback and shouted: "Put down your weapons! Disarm and enter the city!"
The scene is still chaotic.
The position where Li Bing stood was at the very back of this group of prisoners. Not far away was the battlefield where the hundreds of Mongolian and Song cavalry who were supervising the battle were fighting.
When he lowered his head, he suddenly saw the Mongolian soldier who had just killed Feng Liangzai.
The other party has fallen under the horse and is groaning.
Li Bing then leaned over and picked up an arrow from the ground, rushed forward, and stabbed the Meng soldier in the throat.
He is the only one and the first to do this today, not only to avenge Feng Liangzai, but also for his family.
Blood spattered Li Bing's face again, and he realized that he had not forgotten the hatred of his family...