The journey from Heyang Daying to Languan was about 330 miles, and it took Xinma 20 hours to walk without stopping.
Marching two thousand people is completely different from traveling alone, and it will definitely be much slower.
Linzi only gave the soldiers twenty-four hours.
On the night of the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month, he gathered two thousand soldiers and horses from the Heyang camp to the lower reaches and began to march towards Languan.
When they set off, they looked at the sky and saw that it was the third quarter of the Chou hour. They were determined to arrive at Languan before the Chou hour on the 30th day of the first lunar month.
If it could be reached, such a marching speed would be incredible.
Of course it will be very tiring, but in fact the soldiers understand everything.
Their family and property are all in Guanzhong, and their parents, wives, and children are hiding in various cities. They have just divided the land and built houses not long ago. Of course, they cannot let the enemy troops come in.
"Set off!"
"We have won two major battles in a row and are about to repel the Mongols. Let's grit our teeth and hold on and fight the last battle!"
"Light the torches and drive all night..."
The generals kept shouting to boost morale, and their voices gradually became hoarse and they became more and more breathless.
No one said anything to the soldiers, they just walked on in silence.
The sound of footsteps seemed to express their anxiety...
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Languan.
"Enemy attack!"
Wu Ze was still saying to Shuan Wa, "Our road is the most difficult to fight," when suddenly he heard a loud shout and was thrown to the ground by Hu Hu.
In the chaos, Shuan Wa had already raised his horn and started blowing.
As soon as the horn sounded, the waiting soldiers of Song Dynasty ran out of the barracks and rushed to the top of the city.
"Shuan Wa, well done!"
"puff."
The rain of arrows was coming, and the tower was jingling, the whole sound was the sound of rain of arrows falling.
The horn sound suddenly stopped and Shuan Wa fell to the ground.
"Shuan baby!"
"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"
It was so sudden and chaotic that Wu Ze didn't even have time to grieve, and had already started to kill the enemy with his arms...
More and more Mongolian troops have jumped onto the city in the darkness.
If Wu Qian hadn't warned them in advance, the Song soldiers might have been as shattered as the Dali monarchs and ministers when they saw the Mongolian army leaping down from Cangshan Mountain.
Even so, a sudden attack is naturally difficult to fight, and the Song army suffered far more casualties than when defending the city on weekdays.
Languan seems to be on the verge of being lost.
Wu Ze also felt desperate, but he thought that not long ago he had told Shuan Wa that he would last longer than the Mongolian army. Now that Shuan Wa is dead, he wants to let him down?
Are they all lies to coax him to die?
There is anger in my chest.
While Wu Ze was killing the enemy, he loudly encouraged his morale.
He didn't know what Mr. Dai did before, but he just shouted out the emotion of "must hold on".
On the battlefield, it makes a big difference whether the general's will is firm or not. If the general is brave, the soldiers will also be brave.
"Array! Array! Kill the Mongols and go down."
Finally, more and more garrison soldiers caught up, and Houhu began to organize an array at the top of the city.
Wu Ze took two steps back and stood still with the soldiers.
He found that the man standing next to him was the man pulling the cannon truck he met when he first arrived at Languan.
"Thieves, your mother! Fuck your ancestors! Die, Goulu!"
The man in Guanzhong still looked irritable and kept swearing.
"Stab the fuck..."
"Puff puff……"
The spears knocked over several Mongolian soldiers in front.
The Mongolian soldiers also slashed down several Song soldiers with their swords. Some Mongolian soldiers who were about to fall off the city even reached out and grabbed the Song soldiers' feet and dragged them down the city.
Luhu has led another group of people to face the enemy coming from the left.
Wu Ze's hands were covered in blood and greasy. When he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the man from Guanzhong who was swearing had disappeared.
"Thief against your mother!"
Wu Ze, who came from a scholarly family, cursed subconsciously, preparing to face the next round of attacks from the Meng people.
More people are going to die...
"boom!"
There was a loud sound.
Wu Ze turned around and saw that Wu Qian was at the main tower at some unknown time.
In the firelight, Wu Qian roared and waved his hands heavily. His figure looked old, but he actually had an incomparable sense of strength.
Vigorous and vigorous.
In fact, it was still dark outside the city. Wu Ze was only focused on dealing with the Mongolian troops who kept climbing up the city. He never thought about whether there were Mongolian troops forming formation outside the city, preparing to enter the city when the city gate was opened.
Wu Qian thought of it.
This time he came to Languan and brought an artillery piece from the top of Chang'an City.
If Languan is lost, what's the use of just guarding Chang'an?
Although he is old, he is more decisive and willing to take risks than young people.
"Peng!"
The shells shot out of the city, and there was a scream...
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At daybreak, all the soldiers gritted their teeth and reluctantly withdrew their troops.
The bodies, which had been beaten into pieces piece by piece, were brought back and placed in front of the camp.
Some were half-body, some had only one leg left, and the broken internal organs were disgusting to see.
"What kind of artillery did the Song army use?"
"Cannon?" Dong Shiqing looked ugly, as if he had swallowed something in his throat again, and murmured: "What cannon can shoot so far and have such power..."
Following his father's order, he came to Languan to send a message. He originally wanted to instigate the capital to break through the city in a day or two, which was only defended by the people. When the results were obtained, he would report back to Shangzhou.
But after this night of fighting, he found that Lan Pass seemed to be no longer something he could win in the short term.
The generals of the Song Army had such a huge cannon, but they waited until the most critical moment to fire it... So what will they encounter next time when they are about to break through Lan Pass?
This kind of psychological game made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Of course, the Mongolian army still had the upper hand.
"I don't care what it is, I can still conquer Lan Pass." Zhu Du said: "I need more arrow feed. You can send it to me in Shangzhou. It will be enough for a few days."
Dong Shiqing was a little reluctant, but he couldn't say anything in front of the instigators, so he could only agree and prepare to drive to Shangzhou to report all this to Dong Wenwei.
Before leaving, he looked back at the dilapidated Guancheng of Languan and felt that this Guancheng, with its walls even torn apart, should not have been defended until now.
Fortunately, the Song army did not have the ability to counterattack.
The Song army, which can only be beaten, will definitely be defeated, it's just a matter of sooner or later.
…
Dong Shiqing hurried back to Shangzhou and found that Dong Wenwei was confronting the enemy. The battlefield was at Guishan, south of Shangzhou.
Everywhere he went there was fighting, which made him feel a little tired.
All the way up to the battle platform, I saw Dong Wenwei standing there wearing armor.
"Father."
"The snow south of the Qinling Mountains has begun to melt." Dong Wenwei murmured to himself, without looking back at his son, and asked: "Has Lan Pass been captured?"
Dong Shiqing stepped forward, glanced at the formations of the two armies in the distance, and whispered: "No, there is a huge cannon in the Song army, which is very powerful..."
After a long time, Dong Wenwei listened to the battle at Languan and said: "No matter how powerful the cannon is, how many people can it kill? The defender can only use it to boost morale. Only by attacking can the enemy be defeated and annihilated."
"Yes." Dong Shiqing looked at the enemy general's flag and said, "Li? Could it be that Li Xia is here in person?"
"This is Li Qishan, the son of Li Fen from Shandong Province. The Li family defected to the Song Dynasty again and became a loyalist army again and again."
Dong Wenwei raised his finger and pointed, saying: "They are more anxious than us..."
He was right. Although the Zhongyi Army captured Wuguan, they were still passive.
The Loyalty Army has no food and grass, and is alone in the depths. If it defends Wuguan, it will have to face the siege of Nanyang defenders on the one hand, and Dong Wenwei in Shangzhou on the other. If the confrontation continues for a long time, it will be the first to collapse.
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Therefore, the Zhongyi Army divided its forces, leaving three thousand men to garrison Wuguan, while the rest of the troops drove directly to Shangzhou.
"Li Qishan is young, and the person standing behind him is Wang Xun. This kid is too crazy. He is exhausted and has no strength."
On this day, Dong Wenwei made this judgment after observing the battlefield.
…
In fact, before Wang Xun decided to divide his troops and come to Shangzhou, he never thought that Shangzhou had already surrendered.
His original plan was to join forces with the defenders under Shangzhou City to defeat Dong Wenwei, and then relieve the siege of Languan.
When they saw Dong Wenwei's soldiers and horses guarding the city, people were a little stunned.
Wang Xun, Dong Kai, Wen Yunsun and others discussed for a long time, talked a lot of nonsense, and even sent someone to persuade Dong Wenwei to surrender. After being rejected, they made a decision.
"beat."
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In the battle of Shangzhou, both sides were almost composed of Shihou's soldiers and horses, and their soldiers' fighting strength was almost the same. The only difference was the number of soldiers, the terrain, and the command.
Among the generals, the Zhongyi Army generals Yang You and Zheng Deyan were both good generals. It was because of them that the Zhongyi Army was able to sneak attack Shi Tongfu and capture Wuguan.
But in a battle between more than 7,000 people and tens of thousands, it still depends on the commander's control.
In Dong Wenwei's opinion, the commander-in-chief on the opposite side did not know anything about soldiers and had no experience.
It was indeed the first time for Wang Xun, Dong Kai and Wen Yunsun to direct such a scene.
They were passionate and courageous, but when the war started, when they stepped onto the battlefield, they had no idea how to coordinate their actions.
This caused the Song army to quickly become a small group of soldiers fighting independently.
Liu Jinsuo was very brave and led his troops straight in, glaring at Dong Wenwei's banner as they fought closer and closer.
There was no warning at all on the battlefield behind him, and he could not see the situation on the entire battlefield, so he always thought he was about to win.
On the left wing, Yang You was trapped in the siege of the Mongolian army. He desperately asked for help from the battle platform, with flags waving and bugles blowing continuously.
There was never an order flag raised on the battlefield to allow Zheng Deyan on the right to come over to support...
At this point in the battle, on the surface, there has not been a big difference in casualties between the two sides.
But Dong Wenwei is already confident of winning.
He calmly commanded his troops to divide the Zhongyi Army, and his thoughts had already flown to Languan. He was thinking of defeating the enemies of Shangzhou today and taking advantage of the opportunity to recapture Wuguan to support the capital.
It’s not easy. Now that it’s February, it’s finally time to establish the overall victory.
A few days ago, I was worried about being surrounded from both sides, but it turned out that the people I met were just scholars who had just entered the battlefield.
"what is that?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded.
Dong Wenwei strode to the north of Zhan Tai, and saw smoke billowing from the north, and a swarm of men and horses rushing towards this side.
"What is that? Go find out."
"Reporting to the general seems to be... instigating the general's defeat?"
"Broken troops?"
How could everything collapse?
Dong Wenwei recalled the capable and fierce appearance of Zhudu, and it was hard to believe that Zhudu would be defeated.
But everything happening in front of me really proves this point.
As if in a dream, when he moved back to the south, he could still see that the Zhongyi Army had been divided. Whether he won or lost, he just wanted to see if he could annihilate the Zhongyi Army before being defeated and overwhelmed.
Both sides are being attacked from both sides by the other side, and there is no way out...
"Go down with the order and stop the retreating troops from the north!"
"Beat the drum! Order the right wing to annihilate Yang You's enemy troops as soon as possible! Soldiers, if we win this battle, we will take Guanzhong. This is the last hard battle. Kill the enemy!"
"Dongdongdong..."
On the battlefield in the distance, those inexperienced scholars actually gave the order to beat the drums first.
They are all smart people, and they will naturally learn to command. At least until now, they have gained a little more experience...