When the thunder came from the top of Gongchang City, Tie Bilie was standing on the battle platform of the camp watching the battle.
He saw with his own eyes something crashing from the top of the city into the army in front of him, causing every soldier to be torn apart and blood splattered everywhere.
One of them had his head smashed into pieces, his neck was instantly empty, and blood spurted out particularly high.
The red fountain sprayed for several breaths before the headless body slowly fell down.
There are only forty steps away from Teppilie.
Amidst the screams, another cannonball fell... After that, the gate of Gongchang opened wide, and the Song Army cavalry rushed out.
Tepbili immediately decided to withdraw.
It's not that he is timid and afraid of death, but that's what Mongolian cavalry tactics are like.
Avoid the real and attack the weak.
Fighting should be like killing a cow, cutting off the beef piece by piece. Instead of fighting with the cow.
Now there are terrible artillery carriages and cavalry in Gongchang City, which are like a bull hitting them.
Tie Bilie does not need to retreat too far. He can retreat more than thirty miles and wait for the Song army to return to the city or A Shu to return to camp and then fight back.
Gongchang is an isolated city. It cannot be defended sooner or later, and there is not much food.
He ignored the words.
There are traps everywhere, just catch them.
"Boom! Boom!"
The drum was beaten hard again. The war drum was really old and finally cracked.
Li Zengbo gasped, turned around, and raised the telescope.
After a long time, I finally heard the sound of the Mongolian army ringing gold, and the Mongolian cavalry in the distance began to withdraw eastward.
This was not beyond Li Zengbo's expectation.
He knew that reinforcements led by Lian Xixian had arrived, and he saw the signal in the distance last night.
Today, after looking through the telescope, he concluded that Ah Shu had quietly left with his troops and horses, and it was time to attack Lian Xixian.
When the Mongolian army suddenly began to attack, Li Zengbo became even more certain of this.
Therefore, even if there were only five thousand elites in the city, he still dared to send troops out of the city to charge.
Ten thousand Mongolian troops surrounded the city on four sides, with only more than 2,000 men on each side. The force was only massive because of the prisoners.
The Song army's artillery bombarded its momentum first, and then charged out of the city. The Mongolian army would definitely not fight a tough battle.
Those light cavalry have always been so virtuous. They must disperse and run away before they are sure of victory. What's more, A Shu must not have strictly ordered to break the city today.
Ah Shu's leadership seemed strange, but Li Zengbo had predicted it this time.
In the distance, the banner of the Mongolian clan marshal was getting further and further away. The Song Army cavalry chased it for a while, then turned back and began to take the captured people into the city.
Li Zengbo didn't want to use the artillery just like this. He wanted to wait for a better opportunity, which might achieve miraculous results.
But we had to take the opportunity to repel the Mongolian army and rescue the people.
This has another meaning for Li Zengbo...
He joined forces with Wu Liang, and the fight between Ashu and his son can be traced back to the third year of Xingchang.
That year, Wu Lianghetai raided Sichuan. Li Zengbo, who was the envoy of Jinghu and the envoy of Sichuan, urgently mobilized soldiers and horses from Bozhou to assist in the battle, and achieved nine victories in nine battles.
In the sixth year of Xingchang, after Ashu captured Jiaozhi, he went to Guangxi. Li Zengbo, who was the envoy of Guangnan West Road at that time, defeated Ashu's vanguard. The confrontation lasted for two months. It rained continuously in Guangxi and the Mongolian army was overwhelmed. Because of his illness, Ah Shu withdrew his troops.
In the seventh year of Xingchang, A Shu entered Guangxi again. Li Zengbo and Chen soldiers tens of thousands of troops at Hengshan Village and Laocangguan, trying to intercept A Shu.
At the beginning of the war, A Shu retreated one after another, retreating for forty miles, looting everywhere, and finally sneaked through the bypass, bypassed it, and entered Hunan through the Yining road.
Therefore, there was no general in the entire Song Dynasty who could stop A Shu, allowing him to fight thousands of miles and cross the Yangtze River to return.
Li Zengbo was dismissed from office for the third time because of this.
Even though he had seen the Mongolian army's conspiracy early on, he had requested reinforcements from the imperial court a year in advance.
At that time, the Song Dynasty transferred troops from Huaidong to Guangxi, but when the war started, these reinforcements did not arrive in Tanzhou.
…
Fighting is not just based on personal ability. It cannot be said that Li Zengbo is stronger or weaker than A Shu, which can determine victory or defeat on the battlefield.
The Mongolian cavalry's internal support tactics were almost invincible in the world. That's why they were able to destroy more than forty countries in just half a hundred years.
Ah Shu's use of the Mongolian cavalry's belly-fighting tactics may not be as good as dragging mines, but it is also extremely difficult to prevent.
You can defeat him once, twice, or even more than ten times, but as long as you can't annihilate him, it doesn't count as a victory.
As long as he finds a way, he can slaughter your population.
Blocking?
He can block a whole state, but he can go around to the back of your entire territory.
If you mobilize ten or a hundred times more people to defend the territory, as long as there is a small mountain road that is not blocked, he can bypass it.
We had no choice but to fortify the walls and clear the fields.
Sichuan and Sichuan were the most successful in clearing the country with strong walls, because the land that should have a population of more than 10 million only has more than a million people, and there are steep mountains, and the top of the mountain has to be a flat river.
When he was in Guangxi, Li Zengbo also defended the country and cleared the country, but he failed to clear the entire Hunan Province, so A Shu "annihilated" 400,000 enemies...
In the battle of Longxi this time, in early April, Tan Ma was inquiring about Huizhou. There were changes in the Mongolian army in Lanzhou, and Li Zengbo was already trying his best to arrange it.
He deployed his troops in Dingxi and Huining areas, so that Ashu did not dare to attack Longxi directly.
At the end of May, Li Zengbo was shocked when it was concluded that A Shu would take the Lingtai Ancient Road.
Lingtai is not in Longxi, Lingtai County is east of Longshan, separated by the entire Guanshan Mountain.
In mid-June, Ashu was less than two hundred miles away from Fengxiang Mansion and less than four hundred miles away from Chang'an.
As long as no one is stopped, the Mongolian army rushes into Guanzhong, and hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost.
Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian could only try their best to block the Lingtai ancient road.
At that time, Ashu was more than 700 miles away from Gongchang.
It is also separated by Guanshan Mountain.
The mountains are difficult to cross.
It was almost impossible for Ah Shu to cross the Guan Mountain, just like Kublai Khan was not supposed to cross the Cang Mountain.
If Li Zengbo had to consider that Ah Shu could cross the mountain...then the deployment of troops would be completely chaotic.
He could only mobilize a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, but he had to defend a territory thousands of miles away.
When he mobilizes troops from other places to block the dangerous passes of Guanshan Mountain, there will inevitably be bigger flaws.
The so-called stretched thin.
Asking for more troops? Li Zengbo has also been asking Li Xia for troops, but Liu Zheng once fought as far as Gaoling County, which is only across the river from Chang'an. With fewer troops on the eastern front, the consequences are even more dire.
Looking back on the entire war, how could Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian deploy troops to block the Longxi Pass and protect the people under their rule within three months?
They have been working on strengthening the walls and clearing the country. If they had not relocated the people in Dingxi and Huining, Ashu could have gone to Longxi to plunder first, instead of going to Longdong first.
Dingxi is still clearing the country, Fengxiang is urgently clearing the country again, and then Tongwei County.
It is impossible to move all the people in Longxi to Guanzhong.
Guanzhong was even more dangerous. The enemy's main attack direction was to the east and north. At one time, Ashu was only 200 miles away from Guanzhong via mountain roads.
It only said that hundreds of thousands of people were walking on the narrow road in Chencang. Once the Mongolian army caught up with them, the consequences would be disastrous.
The cavalry circled a thousand miles and took three to five days. It took tens of thousands of people to strengthen the walls and clear the fields of a state or county.
The entire Longxi and any place in Guanzhong, even Hanzhong and Chengdu, may be penetrated by the Mongolian army.
Unless the Mongolian army came to kill him, Li Zengbo refused to strengthen the wall and clear the country.
Instead, he had been trying his best to defend and clear the country, so the Mongolian army reached a place where he couldn't defend and it was too late to build a wall and clear the country.
This is the abdominal cavity.
This time, Li Zengbo knew that he had reached the limit and did not cause the evil consequences that happened in the seventh year of Xingchang when Ashu passed through Hunan and Hubei and killed 400,000 people.
With fewer troops, he defended an area that was more difficult to defend than Guangxi, and he reduced casualties even though he failed to guess A Shu's marching route one after another.
He didn't know the casualties in Gongchang Mansion yet, but at least 50,000 people were captured.
Li Zengbo had to rescue them, and he wanted to do more than the limit to make up for the guilt of not being able to stop A Shu in Jingjiang Mansion that year.
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Gongchang City has an inner and outer city, and the captives brought in at this time were placed between the inner and outer cities.
The Weihe River water seeping into the city was flowing everywhere on the ground, and the prisoners were squatting obediently.
Li Zengbo walked down to the top of the city and personally inspected the settlement of the people.
There was no joy after the small victory on his face, only heaviness...
"Be honest!"
"If anyone is injured, get up and get treated over there!"
"..."
Li Bing's left ear still hurt, but he didn't answer the shouting soldier.
He just squatted by the city wall, holding his head in his hands, motionless.
"There is blood on your face and hands. Are you injured?"
Suddenly someone asked.
Li Bing raised his head and saw a doctor from the Song army. He shook his head and said, "I killed a Mongolian."
What he wanted to say was that he killed a Mongolian and had blood on his face but no injuries.
But his mind was a little dazed and he looked dull.
The doctor narrowed his eyes.
It was the first time in Li Bing's life to kill someone. He was afraid that the other party would regard him as the murderer, so he explained it again.
"I avenge my mother, my sister, and my brother-in-law..."
"Well done."
A thumb was raised in front of Li Bing.
"Well done, little brother. Is your left ear injured? Go to the den over there..."
The city was very busy, and the Song army was still bringing prisoners into the city.
Li Bing received acupuncture and drank a bowl of kudzu soup, then left the den and squatted silently by the wall.
suddenly.
Only a scream was heard in the hall.
"ah!"
Li Bing looked over and saw that the doctor was cutting off the leg of a man with a rotten leg.
"Sir, there's not enough alcohol..."
"Quick! Soldering iron!"
"Zi..."
"ah!"
"Hold him down! Hold him down!"
"ah!"
Li Bing didn't dare to look anymore and continued to squat there.
After a while, he heard a woman crying.
"You will pay for my man's life! Pay for it..."
The cry was very pitiful, and some soldiers came over, seeming to control the woman.
"Don't touch me! It's all the fault of you Song people! Mr. Feng said... It's all the fault of you... You can't protect the people, why did you drive Marshal Wang away... You conscienceless trash! Trash!
"
"Cowards! Song people are all cowards...don't touch me..."
As Li Bing listened, he suddenly felt a figure in front of him.
He raised his head and saw an old general standing there, listening silently.
More soldiers came over.
This made Li Bing even more frightened and he buried his head.
"Commander..."
"Let her scold, we should listen carefully..."
I don't know how long it took, but Li Bing finally dared to raise his head and take a look, only to see the old general's figure reflected in the sunset. He was wiping his tears with his hands, but he couldn't wipe them away. In the end, he burst into tears.
This was the first time he saw a general crying...