In today's battle, although everyone suffered a lot of casualties, they finally won the battle.
Although the situation was very dangerous when he was broken into the camp. The three camps before and after were broken, and hundreds of people were killed or injured. However, in order to boost morale, Wang Shixian still greatly praised everyone in the camp and immediately fulfilled his promise to enjoy wine and meat. .
it is necessary.
Facing the incoming Mongolian army, the prerequisite for Guo Ning to launch a decisive blow is that the military fortresses in Haicang Town and Laizhou remain unshakable. Even if the main force of the Mongolian army will not be deployed to attack the fortresses, Haicang Town will not be able to attack the fortresses. At least we must retain the ability to fight the Mongols.
This is not an easy task. It requires tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire camp to show ten times the courage and confidence. When necessary, they must also bear huge sacrifices.
Therefore, the news of Guo Zhongyuan's victory has been sent to various places in Laizhou by Lu Bu to encourage him.
But that's not enough.
Therefore, the victory over the Mongolian Aljinchi raid is worthy of publicity.
Those Mongolian light cavalry, which are full of stench and look like ghosts, are the sharp blades running at the forefront of the Mongolian army. They have acted like this countless times.
Running at high speed, driving into the city, disrupting the interior of the city, causing turmoil, spreading fear, and then causing the seemingly solid city defense to collapse. They have done it too many times, and it is a matter of course; this time they will take the medicine according to the prescription, and prepare to win the battle. They deserved victory. But they failed.
After a fierce battle, when the results were finally counted, it was found that only a dozen Aljinchi died from the heavy swords and axes of Ni Yi's men. And many more people died at the hands of the strong men who frantically fought back.
Correspondingly, the two camps that were initially breached by the Mongols suffered heavy casualties, but many of the strong men who later fought to the death with the Mongols survived.
As Wang Shixian said, as long as you are not in chaos or afraid, the Mongols are human beings and not really ghosts.
There are tens of thousands of people in the camp here, and one person can chop a hundred Mongolian cavalry into pieces with one sword! If you can defeat a hundred people today, you can defeat a thousand people tomorrow!
These words were what Wang Shixian said repeatedly to the people that night.
He arranged extra food and wine, and actually prepared a hundred coins... Each Mongolian cavalry had a consistent life value, and anyone who killed a Mongolian cavalry would be rewarded. Interestingly, at the end of the battle, the Mongols became more and more Fewer and fewer people came, but more and more strong men and soldiers gathered around. As a result, several rewards of constant money were finally divided into five, six or even ten parts, and each person received only dozens of Taihe Tongbao jingling.
It's always good to have money, and a whole celebration works too.
The people were not controlled by the fear caused by the casualties, and some even began to daydream about what next year's spring plowing would be like after the Mongols were repulsed. Wang Shixian also laughed and accompanied the people in their fantasies.
He knew that the common people were different from the soldiers. The soldiers had long been accustomed to life and death, but the common people's nerves could not be tense all the time. They needed a break. They had to be given time to adjust before they could be expected to meet more intense challenges.
The good news is that the main force of the Mongolian army is not yet approaching. After annihilating the Mongolian outposts, Wang Shixian pinched his nose and checked their robes, confirming that they had traveled at least three hundred miles and traveled a long way here.
The main force of the Mongolian army could not march at such a fast speed, so Wang Shixian still had at least two days to improve the defense in a targeted manner.
Wang Shixian has already thought carefully about how to arrange tomorrow.
He was the first subordinate to follow Guo Ning, but now, several people under Guo Ning have a higher status than him.
If you don’t work hard, will Guo Zhongyuan get the best of you?
Wang Shixian had a sense of crisis, so he paid special attention to boosting morale and preparing for a war.
But precisely because of the boosted morale, some soldiers inevitably relaxed a little after returning to the camp... This is human nature and is inevitable.
Late that night, at the end of Chou and the beginning of Yinchu, on the watchtower to the west of the camp, the strong men Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu who were on duty were on guard duty.
Several watchtowers around Haicang Town are all built according to uniform specifications.
The veterans from northern Xinjiang are most familiar with the rules of military camps, so these earliest watchtowers built are all solid and orderly. They have knowledge of how to communicate with each other and how to distribute checkpoints with the watchtower as the center.
clear regulations.
However, as the elite soldiers were withdrawn to the inside of the camp to wait for the battle, and another group of soldiers followed Guo Zhongyuan to Yidu, there were only a few soldiers left in Haicang Town. Most of them became officers and had to lead the temporary
The army was adapted from strong men, and a small number of mobile troops were gathered in Wang Shixian's hands.
As a result, there is obviously a shortage of experienced manpower on the outer watchtower side.
For example, the officer in charge of the watchtower where Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu were located was Wang Shixian's old subordinate, but that officer had fought with the enemy today and was very tired and slightly injured, so he had already gone to bed.
Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu said they were on guard duty, but in fact they spent most of the time chatting.
Ge Qingshu came from a well-off family and had a better life than Liang Kuo, a poor man. He always showed off his wife's cooking skills and boasted about how delicious the roasted pork was.
As Liang Kuo listened, he leaned against the wall and dozed off.
When he woke up with a start, he found that Ge Qingshu had also fallen asleep. He rubbed his eyes and removed Ge Qingshu's thigh that was pressing on him. He felt sore and sore all over his body.
Perhaps it was because Ge Qingshu always talked about roasting pork. Liang Kuo just had a dream in which he was raped by a dozen big pigs.
He pressed hard on the sore spot on his shoulder and slowly thought about what happened in the past few days.
Although everyone knew that the Mongolian army was coming, the army and the people had to do their best to prepare for the defense. However, digging soil and building walls in the past few days was miserable, so it was inevitable to be lazy when working, and many strong men did not do much.
As time passed, everyone was complaining about being tired. As a result, after a few days, the earth barriers on the outside of the camp were repaired, and many wooden fences on the inside of the camp were very loose.
Someone secretly said that there are more than 10,000 people here. Even if the Mongols come, it will not be my turn to go to the city to fight. Even if they fight, I will find a place to hide and then pass. This camp is not my own land, so why bother?
Are you bothering? Aren’t you tired?
People who talk like this will definitely be despised from now on.
You will only know how ferocious the Mongols are after seeing them. They are just as the warriors said, they are all killers and beasts! The hundred cavalry rushed in and killed heads. If there were no fences and trenches, who could
withstand?
I just regret that the movement was a little slow in the past few days and the fence was not strong enough, which resulted in the death of many people!
If the wooden fences were stronger and thicker, and if the wooden bridges on the southeastern side of the camp were replaced with suspension bridges early on, how could the Mongols rush in? There is really no way to hide what happened in this fighting field. If you try to cut corners, you will end up dead.
It will be myself!
Liang Kuo was lost in thought when he heard a rustling sound in his ears. Was it the sound from below the watchtower, as if someone was moving?
He thought it was one of his comrades in the camp below who was up late at night, so he leaned out and prepared to say hello.
He looked down and could only vaguely see a few figures. Those figures walked into the tent softly. Then the tent shook suddenly a few times, and someone inside seemed to make a muffled scream, and on the gray tent, suddenly
There are a few more dark marks.
Liang Kuo was startled, and when he was about to shout, someone outside the tent suddenly felt something and raised his head suddenly.
Fortunately, Liang Kuo retracted his body in time and was not noticed by the man. But he was huddled in the watchtower, and his whole body collapsed. In that sudden glance, Liang Kuo saw the man's face and clothing, and saw
Their murderous gray eyes... those are the Mongols!
The Mongols are here again!
Damn, what's going on with them? Why do they come so unexpectedly every time?
Are we now at the bottom of the watchtower? Are all the night guard posts in front of us fools?
Liang Kuo cursed in his heart. But he was just a civil servant, what could he do? He could only tremble all over and shrink into the corner with his hands and feet.
Inadvertently, his foot stepped on Ge Qingshu's hand.
Ge Qingshu yelled "Wow" and opened his eyes in confusion, seeing Liang Kuo's face as pale as a ghost, sweating like a waterfall.
Ge Qingshu was frightened and screamed again.
Liang Kuo said sadly: "Stop screaming, the Mongols are coming."
"What?" Ge Qingshu jumped up in shock.
As soon as his figure appeared in front of the window of the watchtower, two arrows shot from below. One pierced Ge Qingshu's shoulder, and the other flew close to his forehead, scratching a deep mark on his scalp.
Bloodstains on the ground.
Ge Qingshu, on the other hand, didn't care at all about the person shooting the arrow below, and didn't seem to feel any pain.
He took a few steps back and stared into the distance dumbfounded.
The moonlight is not bright tonight, and there are dark clouds rolling in the night sky, which seem to correspond to the waves of the sea to the north of Haicang Town. The roar of the waves is getting louder and louder, as if a dark black wave is rolling on the land, spreading out on the vast front.
, and kept pressing towards the fortress of Haicang Town.
Compared with this dark black wave, the fortress is too small and too weak.
The wave was getting closer and closer, and fire suddenly lit up in the wave. The light of the fire increased from ten to hundreds, and from hundreds to thousands, illuminating the wave itself.
It turned out that it was not a wave, but a crowd. Thousands of Mongolian cavalry, riding up and down, looked like black silhouettes in the firelight, and the silhouettes held thousands of swords and guns high, shining with cold light.
What was originally thought to be the sound of the sea tide was actually the loud noise of thousands of troops galloping. Compared with this terrifying momentum, the raids by the Mongolian light cavalry during the day were just like children's play... This is the real strength of the Mongolian army.
Strength?
From several watchtowers in the rear, sharp gong sounds suddenly sounded. Ge Qingshu cursed, took the gong hanging on the wall, and started banging it hard.
Liang Kuo was still huddled in the corner.
"The Mongols are really here! Are we going to die?" he murmured.
