But once morale collapses and the army is defeated, there is absolutely no way he can recover.
If morale was shattered, the first crack was that the sneak attack on Languan failed on the night of the 28th and was instead shelled by the Song army.
At that time, everyone thought that the casualties were not serious and they were just attacking the city a few days later.
But this has planted the worry in the hearts of the soldiers that "until the last moment, the Song army will still have a back-up plan."
After that, the instigating capital ordered to drive Minzhuang to attack the city, and finally broke through Lan Pass on the night of the 30th.
The Mongolian army was overjoyed.
However, after entering the city, they were greeted by fierce fires and explosions throughout Languanguan City... With a loud bang, the Song Army actually destroyed Guancheng directly.
The fire lasted for a day and night. When the Mongolian army finally extinguished the fire, they were met with roaring cannons again.
And a whole Song army that was ready for battle.
How could the Song army still have reinforcements?
Such an important place as Languan had been attacked for so many days. The reinforcements that the Song army could draw had long been withdrawn, and there were no reinforcements anywhere.
As soon as the two sides fought, Song Jun shouted and told them.
"Hebichi is dead, and the Mongolian army was defeated in the Yellow River!"
Regardless of whether they believed it or not, the Mongolian soldiers faced the stubborn defense of the Song army time and time again. They subconsciously believed that they could not enter Guanzhong.
After climbing up Languan, they were beaten back; after breaking through Languan, Guancheng was bombed; after finally extinguishing the fire, they encountered reinforcements from the Song army waiting for them... Then if we fight again, there must be other Song armies.
All the friendly forces along the way of King Zong Hebichi are gone.
Just like when the first piece of snow falls in an avalanche, the first Mongolian soldier to turn around and run away is immediately there.
The instigator was the general manager of Caizhou, and his subordinates were Mongolian and Han troops. He was a Mongolian, and he gave orders through an interpreter.
When you are winning, these are not problems.
But when it comes to adverse trends... it's like an avalanche. In front of the avalanche, manpower is extremely small.
He was so happy that he was so sad. He never expected that he would face such a series of situations after entering the Blue Pass. After being defeated, there was no way he could recover.
~~
Lin Zi was extremely sad and happy.
When he led his troops to the north of Languan, it was the ugly hour on the 30th day of the first lunar month. He saw a huge fire on the city of Languan and thought that Languan had been lost.
After that, I met Wu Qian soon.
Lin Zi couldn't describe how he felt at that time.
He once worked for Cheng Yuanfeng and knew how noble these husbands were, but that night he saw the more prestigious Wu Xianggong in the most embarrassed and haggard appearance.
Stay up until the oil is gone and the lamp is dry.
"Xianggong Wu, this is..."
"Let the soldiers rest for a night, and as soon as the fire is out, defeat the enemy."
The soldiers rested, but Wu Qian did not. He was planning the next battle, adjusting the positions of artillery and ambushes, and arranging horse exploration.
It wasn't until he saw that the fire in Languan was gradually dwindling that he said something.
"Look at the poor kid."
…
"Polu!"
Running from Languan to Shangzhou is a hundred and fifty miles along the Qinling Mountains. It takes ten hours to run as hard as you can.
In order to escape for their lives, the Mongolian soldiers ran, rolled, hacked, and trampled on the mountain roads without taking a breath.
Song Jun actually pursued him.
Luhu was a bit crazy to begin with. He was a mountain man from the Yi ethnic group. He walked on this steep and high mountain as if on flat ground. The soldiers under his command were either his old troops or local people. They were familiar with the terrain and ran fast.
The two thousand people brought by Lin Zi finally reached Languan. After resting for a day and night, they had regained their strength. They did not want to come in vain and did not want to fall behind the defenders of Languan.
The Song army pursued so hard that they chased the Mongolian army to the north of Shangzhou.
Wu Ze originally planned to stop.
He knew the situation better than Lu Hu and Lin Zi. He had always wondered why Xi Du only led a few thousand troops to attack the city. There were at least ten thousand Mongolian troops in Shangzhou, but they were not transferred to Languan.
Until Lin Zi sent a horse controller to report back, saying that he found that there was a war in Shangzhou.
Only then did Wu Ze confirm that there were reinforcements to contain a large part of the Mongolian army.
He immediately joined Hu Hu and Lin Zi as his advisers, and proposed to continue to drive out the defeated troops and break through the Mongolian army's front in Shangzhou.
If Wu Ze were not around, generals like Hu Hu and Lin Zi might still do this, but they might not have the confidence. It was different when it came from Wu Ze. They admired Wu Qian, and they also admired Wu Ze, and they had a natural respect for scholars.
There is a kind of conviction.
If the military strategist said this, it must be right. With this thought, he would have no scruples in charging forward.
…
On Wuguan Road, some people were running away and some were chasing them.
Looking at the roar of killings ahead, it turned out that there was still a battle going on, and the fleeing Mongolian army became even more depressed.
It is said that the Mongolian army is warlike and prefers the kind of war in which they defeat the enemy and plunder wantonly, rather than such hard-fought, hard-fought and defeated wars.
fed up.
There are too many wars.
We finally managed to escape here, but there’s still fighting ahead?!
More and more Mongolian troops went crazy.
They saw that the gates of Shangzhou City were closed, so they roared and continued to rush forward.
The Song army drove behind them, guiding them to escape, and finally crashed into Dong Wenwei's banner.
I didn't even expect such a result.
He originally thought that Dong Wenwei could respond to his "retreating" troops and stabilize the situation.
But now it seems that he is trying to disrupt Dong Wenwei's troops.
…
One of the defeated soldiers was beheaded.
The Mongolian soldier holding the sword shouted loudly: "You are not allowed to rush into the formation! All the defeated troops retreated from both sides..."
The defeated army surged up, pushed down the soldiers, and trampled them to death.
"Winter! Winter! Winter..."
The drums on the Mongolian army's battlefield were beating loudly, and Dong Wenwei had already charged personally, directly attacking Yang You's unit on the left wing of the Zhongyi Army.
The war drums of the Song army were also loud.
Yang You didn't understand what was happening at all. Anyway, it was Wang Shu who was telling him that he was about to win.
But there was still no command flag on the battlefield to remind the right wing to come for support.
Yang You had no choice but to command his soldiers to resist the Mongolian offensive while cursing Wang Xun.
It is undeniable that Wang Xun did conduct poorly.
This bad situation caused the loyal army to be divided. However, the sudden change in the battlefield situation made the entire battlefield tend to be chaotic, and the battle formation seemed to be less important.
All parties fell into chaos.
…
On the left wing, the more than 2,000 people under Yang You's command were divided into several parts, leaving only about a hundred people around.
Yang You is Yang Miaozhen's nephew. He has the recklessness of the Red Coat Army, and he is really fierce in fighting.
His marksmanship is excellent, even better than Liu Jinsuo's, but his strength is not as strong as Liu Lisuo's.
At this time, seeing that Wang Xun had not sent reinforcements yet, Yang You gave up the idea of whether to win or defeat, and simply rushed towards Shi Tongfu's flag.
Once they break into the enemy's formation, regardless of anything else, this small group of loyal soldiers are like sharp knives, heading straight to Shi Tongfu's banner.
Shi Tongfu just commanded to divide the left wing of the Zhongyi Army. When he turned around, he saw Yang You coming to kill him and quickly called his guards to block him.
It was too late, and the spear came in, its tips falling like pear blossoms in the rain, and surrounded Shi Tongfu.
"Ding ding ding ding..."
After only four moves, with a "pop" sound, Yang You shot Shi Tongfu into the eye socket.
"Death!"
He swung the spear, splitting his eyeballs, and knocked off Shi Tongfu's helmet.
A loyal soldier pounced on him and slashed open Shi Tongfu's head with a knife.
The morale of the left wing was boosted.
"Death to the traitor!"
Dong Wenwei and Dong Shiqing have already arrived on horseback, with two long knives clanging against Yang You.
They were both princes of Heshuo. Dong Wenwei recognized Yang You and showed no mercy when meeting him.
But today, the fight was so jealous that the Dong family and his son were obviously overconfident. In order to win quickly, they charged in person.
"Hush!"
A loyal soldier rushed forward and collided with Dong Shiqing's horse. With a muffled sound, the soldier fell to the ground and vomited blood, and Dong Shiqing also fell off his horse.
"puff!"
In this flash of lightning, Yang You rushed forward and stabbed Dong Shiqing over, laughing loudly.
"puff!"
Dong Wenwei stepped forward and chopped down Yang You with one knife.
Blood splattered, and the arm holding the gun was chopped off.
"Death!"
Finally, the flag of the general on the left wing of the Loyalty Army fell down.
Dong Wenwei was sad and happy, standing in front of his son's body and crying loudly.
"Victory! Victory!"
He had defeated the flanks of the Zhongyi Army and would soon be able to drive them to rout and disrupt the entire Song army.
But it was too late. When I looked back, I saw that the defeated army was coming up like a tide.
…
Wei Ruoxu, the magistrate of Shangzhou who had just surrendered to the Mongolian army, was still standing near the Mongolian army's battle platform.
When he turned around, he saw that the Song army was already charging towards them.
"Do not kill me!"
Wei Ruoxu hurriedly climbed to a higher place and shouted back: "I am the governor of Shangzhou appointed by the king of the county. I have no choice but to..."
"puff!"
The red-eyed Song soldiers didn't care about this at all. When they saw the Mongolian senior officials, they immediately killed them to reward their merits.
"Kill!"
…
The entire battlefield gradually shifted to the west.
Dong Wenwei wanted to defeat the Song army, but was forced to flee westward by his defeated army.
But to the west were the high mountains of the Qinling Mountains. After running away, he was finally trapped under the cliff.
Today's battle suddenly turned from a sure victory to such a disastrous defeat.
Ridiculous, yet irredeemable.
Of course, he was unwilling to give in. The opponent simply didn’t know how to command, but he was just too lucky.
"It's time, fate... you just have to vote."
Dong Wenwei thought that there were six brothers and dozens of nephews and nephews in his family who served in Mongolia. The capture of Dong Wenyong had caused great embarrassment to the family.
As soon as he thought about it, he directly picked up the knife and put it on his neck.
The body fell to the ground.
"General!"
The soldiers around were crying...
~~
Once defeated, the number of casualties rose sharply.
More and more corpses fell by the Danjiang River, until suddenly someone shouted.
"I got the general!"
"The prisoners instigated everything."
"..."
Zhaodu has almost escaped the Song army's front and is about to leave the battlefield.
But in fact, there is no way to escape. The Wuguan in front is still under the control of the Song army.
It's not that he didn't have the courage to die in battle, it was just that when he was defeated at Languan for the first time, he still had a chance to turn defeat into victory, but then he fled all the way, running away, and no longer knew when to die in battle.
He was escorted all the way to the battlefield of the Song Army. When he saw Wang Xun standing there triumphantly, he couldn't help but curse.
"Is this what you Han people call loyalty? Wang Xun, you said you would be loyal to the Great Khan, but you are still secretly plotting rebellion. You are so shameless! We Mongolians would rather break our bones than be as treacherous as you...
"
Wang Xin sneered, stepped forward, slapped Sodu, and scolded him in Mongolian.
"Eh Xiute, your bullshit is not treacherous? You would rather break the bones? Believe it or not, I will pull out your tongue and roast it into delicious food like you roast beef and mutton."
"..."
Wen Yunsun turned his head, whispered a few words to Dong Kai, and listened to Dong Kai translate these conversations.
"What did he say again?"
"He said that he would not surrender and that the Mongols would not beg the enemy for protection."
Wen Yun Sun said: "He is indeed a good man. He will not surrender, but he will pass on his head to frighten the Mongolian soldiers. How about that?"
His tone was calm, the battle in Shangzhou has basically been decided, how to deal with the enemy general is just a trivial matter.
Dong Kai looked at the battlefield in the distance and nodded.
"What Song Rui said is true."
…
"puff."
Instigated by Wen Yunsun's praise, his head was hung up soon...