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Chapter 763 Old Rival

"Mingjin! Mingjin!"

When the sound of thunder came from Gongchang City, Tie Bilie was standing on the battle platform of the camp to watch the battle.

He saw with his own eyes that something slammed into the army in front of him from the top of the city, causing soldiers to be torn apart and blood spattered everywhere.

Among them, someone's head was smashed directly, and the neck was instantly empty, and the blood spurted especially high.

The red fountain spouted several breaths before the headless body slowly fell down.

There are only forty steps away from Tie Bilie.

Amidst the screams, another shell fell... Afterwards, the gate of Gongchang City opened wide, and cavalrymen of the Song Army rushed out.

Tie Biliedang even decided to withdraw.

It's not that he is timid and afraid of death, but that the Mongolian cavalry tactics are like this.

Avoid real and fake.

Fighting a war should be like killing a cow, cutting off the beef piece by piece.Instead of colliding with bulls.

Right now Gongchang City has terrible artillery vehicles and cavalry, just like a bull bumping into it.

Tie Bilie didn't have to retreat too far, just retreat more than [-] li, and wait for the Song army to return to the city, or A Shu returned to the camp, and then kill back.

Gongchang is an isolated city, and sooner or later it will not be able to defend it, and there is not much food.

He ignored the excuses.

There are repellents everywhere, just catch them again.

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"Boom! Boom!"

Drum Chui hit it hard again, the battle drum was really old and finally broke.

Li Zengbo panted heavily, turned around, and lifted the binocular.

After a long time, I finally heard the sound of the Mongolian army's cry of gold, and the Mongolian cavalry in the distance began to withdraw to the east.

This did not exceed Li Zengbo's expectations.

He knew that the reinforcements led by Lian Xixian had arrived, and he saw the signal in the distance last night.

Looking through the binocular today, he deduced that Ah Shu had quietly led his troops away, and it was time to attack Lian Xixian.

When the Mongolian army suddenly started an ant attack, Li Zengbo was even more sure 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.

The [-] Mongolian troops surrounded the city on four sides, and there were only more than [-] people on each side. It was only because of the captives that it seemed so powerful.

As soon as the Song army's artillery bombarded, first frighten its momentum, and then go out of the city to charge, the Mongolian army will definitely not fight a tough battle.

Those Qingqi have always had that kind of virtue, before they are sure of winning, they must first spread out and run away.What's more, Ashu must not have strictly ordered the city to be broken today.

Ashu's leadership seemed treacherous, but Li Zengbo had predicted it this time.

In the distance, the banner of the Marshal of the Mongolian Clan was getting farther and farther away. The cavalry of the Song Army chased it for a while, then turned around and began to pick up the captured people into the city.

Li Zengbo didn't want to just use the cannon just like that. He wanted to wait for a better opportunity, which might achieve a miraculous effect.

But he had to take the opportunity to repel the Mongolian army and save the people under his rule.

This has another meaning for Li Zengbo...

His confrontation with Wuliang Hetai and Ashu father and son can be traced back to the third year of Xingchang.

In that year, Wu Liang joined forces with Taiwan to raid Sichuan. Li Zengbo was the envoy of the Jinghu system and the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan.

In the sixth year of Xingchang, after Ashu conquered Jiaozhi, he went to Guangxi. Li Zengbo, who was the envoy of Guangnan West Road at that time, defeated Ashu's vanguard. After two months of confrontation, it rained continuously in Guangxi, and the Mongolian army was full of miasma. sick, Ah Shu withdrew.

In the seventh year of Xingchang, Ashu entered Guangxi again. Li Zengbo and Chen Bing tens of thousands of soldiers were on the line of Hengshanzhai and Laocangguan, trying to intercept Ashu.

At the beginning of the war, Ashu was defeated one after another, retreated forty miles, looted everywhere, and finally sneaked into the middle road, detoured out of it, and entered Hunan from Yining trail.

As a result, there was no general in the entire Song Dynasty who could stop Ashu, let him fight thousands of miles, and return across the Yangtze River.

Li Zengbo was dismissed for the third time because of this.

Even if he had seen the Mongolian army's good offices early on, and asked the imperial court for reinforcements a year in advance.

At that time, Song Ting transferred troops from Huaidong to Guangxi, but when the war started, these reinforcements did not arrive in Tanzhou.

……

Fighting a war is not just about personal ability.It cannot be said that Li Zengbo is stronger or weaker than A Shu, which can determine the victory or defeat on the battlefield.

The Mongolian cavalry's mediation tactics are almost invincible in this world.That's why more than 40 countries were destroyed in just half a hundred years.

Ashu's use of Mongolian cavalry tactics may not be as good as dragging mines, but it is also extremely difficult to prevent.

You can beat him once or twice, even more than ten times, but as long as you can't annihilate him, it's not considered a win.

He just needs to find a way and he can slaughter your population.

Blocking?
One state and one capital can be blocked, but he can go around to the back of your entire territory.

You mobilize ten times and a hundred times more people to guard the soil, as long as there is a small mountain road that is not blocked, he can go around again.

Had no choice but to fortify the wall and clear the field.

Strong walls and clear fields in Sichuan and Shu are the most successful, because the land that should have a population of more than [-] million has only more than one million people. There are steep mountains, and the top of the mountain has to be flat.

When Li Zengbo was in Guangxi, he also fortified the wall and cleared the country, but he failed to make the whole of Hunan also fortify the wall and clear the country, so Ashu "wiped out" 40 enemies...

During the Battle of Longxi, at the beginning of April, Tanma was inquiring about changes in the Mongolian army in Huizhou and Lanzhou, and Li Zengbo was already doing his best to arrange them.

He deployed his troops in the Dingxi and Huining areas, so that Ah Shu did not dare to attack Longxi directly.

But at the end of May, when it was deduced that Ashu was going to take the ancient Lingtai Road, Li Zengbo was taken aback.

Lingtai is not in Longxi, Lingtai County is to the 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 one of them is not stopped, hundreds of thousands of lives will be wiped out if the Mongolian army enters Guanzhong.

Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian could only do their best to block the ancient Lingtai Road.

At that time, Ashu was more than seven hundred miles away from Gongchang.

Among them is Guanshan.

Guanshan is hard to get over.

It is almost impossible for Ashu to cross Guanshan Mountain, just like Kublai Khan should not have crossed Cangshan Mountain.

If it is said that Li Zengbo must consider that Ah Shu can cross the Guanshan... then the deployment of troops will be completely messed up.

He can only mobilize a total of [-] soldiers and horses, but he has to defend a land of thousands of miles.

When he mobilizes troops from other places to block the pass, there will inevitably be bigger loopholes.

The so-called stretched.

Ask for more troops?Li Zengbo has also been asking for soldiers from Li Xia, but Liu Zheng once killed Gaoling County, which is only across the river from Chang'an.With fewer troops on the Eastern Front, the consequences were even more dire.

Looking back on the entire battle, how did Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian plan to deploy troops to block Longxi Guanzhong and protect the people under their rule within three months?

Jianbi Qingye has been doing it all the time, if they hadn't moved the people from Dingxi and Huining, Ashu could have gone to Longxi to plunder first, instead of going to Longdong first.

Dingxi is still hardening the walls and clearing the wilderness, Fengxiang will urgently fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, and then Tongwei County.

It is impossible to move all the people of Longxi to Guanzhong.

Guanzhong was even more dangerous. The east and north were the enemy's main attack directions, and Ashu was once only two hundred miles away from Guanzhong by mountain roads.

It only said that hundreds of thousands of people walked on the narrow road of Chencang, once the Mongolian army overtook them, the consequences would be disastrous.

It takes three to five days for the cavalry to go around a thousand miles, but it takes tens of thousands of people to work hard for a state and county to fortify its walls and clear its fields.

The whole of Longxi, and any place in Guanzhong, even Hanzhong and Chengdu, may be interspersed by the Mongolian army.

It wasn't that the Mongolian army came to kill, Li Zengbo refused to fortify the wall and clear the country.

Instead, he has been doing his best to defend and clear the field, so the Mongolian army killed the place where he could not defend and had no time to strengthen the wall and clear the field.

This is wofu.

This time, Li Zengbo knew that he had reached the limit and did not cause the evil consequences of Ren Ashu crossing Hunan and Hubei to kill 40 people in the seven years of Xingchang.

With fewer troops, he defended areas that were more difficult to defend than Guangxi, and reduced casualties when he failed to guess Ashu's marching route one after another.

He still doesn't know the casualties in Gongchang Prefecture, but at least 5 people were captured.

Li Zengbo had to rescue them, he wanted to do more than the limit, to make up for the guilt of not being able to block Ashu in Jingjiang Mansion that year.

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Gongchang City has an inner and outer city, and the captives received at this time were all placed between the inner and outer cities.

The Wei River water seeping into the city was dripping everywhere on the ground, and the captives squatted obediently one by one.

Li Zengbo went down to the top of the city to personally inspect the resettlement of the people.

There was no joy on his face after a small victory, only heaviness...

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"Be honest!"

"Whoever is injured, get up and go over there for treatment!"

"..."

Li Bing's left ear still hurt, but he didn't respond to the shouting soldier.

He just squatted by the city wall, holding his head in his hands, and remained motionless.

"You have blood all over your face and hands, are you injured?"

Suddenly someone asked.

Li Bing raised his head, saw that it was a doctor in the Song army, shook his head, and said, "I killed a Mongolian."

What he wanted to say was that he killed a Mongol with blood on his face and no injuries.

But his mind was a little dazed and he looked dull.

The doctor narrowed his eyes.

Li Bingping killed someone for the first time in his life, and he was afraid that the other party would regard him as a murderer, so he explained it again.

"I will avenge my mother, my sister, and brother-in-law..."

"Good."

A thumb was raised in front of Li Bing.

"You're doing well, little brother. Your left ear hurts, right? Go to the bunk over there..."

The city was very busy, and the Song army was still taking prisoners into the city.

After receiving acupuncture and moxibustion, Li Bing drank another bowl of kudzu root soup, then left the den and squatted silently by the wall.

suddenly.

There was only a scream from the hall.

"what!"

Li Bing looked over and saw that it was a doctor who was cutting the leg of a man with a rotten leg.

"Sir, there is not enough alcohol..."

"Quick! Soldering iron!"

"Zi..."

"what!"

"Hold him! Hold him!"

"what!"

Li Bing didn't dare to look any more, and continued to squat there.

After a while, he heard a woman crying.

"You pay for my man's life! Pay for it..."

The cry was very miserable, and some soldiers passed by, as if they wanted to control the woman.

"Don't touch me! It's all caused by you Song people! Mr. Feng said...it's all caused by you...you can't protect the people, why do you want to drive Marshal Wang away...you unconscionable trash! Trash! "

"Cowards! Song people are all cowards...don't touch me..."

Li Bing listened, and suddenly felt a figure in front of him.

He raised his head, and saw an old general standing there, listening silently.

Another soldier came over.

This made Li Bing even more frightened, and buried his head down.

"Master..."

"Let her scold, we should listen carefully..."

After an unknown amount of time, Li Bing finally dared to raise his head to take a look, only to see the figure of the old general reflected in the setting sun, wiping away his tears with his hands, but he couldn't wipe them away, and finally wept uncontrollably.

This was the first time he saw someone who was a general cry...

(End of this chapter)