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Chapter 785 Liangzhou
Haranshu originally hoped that Mieli Jixie would be able to rush back to Liangzhou City, gather troops, and contain another Song army.

In his mind, there would be at least one Qixue from a thousand households in Mieli Jixie, who lived in Liangzhou for a long time, and then summoned stragglers and herdsmen, and it would not be difficult to gather more than two thousand people.

This is like the battle of Sanfeng Mountain. Tuo Lei used 3 people to face the Jin Army's 15 troops head-on, and then used 3000 people to specifically harass... The method of fighting is different.

After all, they are descendants of the golden family.

However, he was still commanding soldiers and horses to surround the Song army. When the battle was stalemate, he heard Tan Mahui report: "Marshal Du, it's not good! King Zong was captured by the Song people..."

Haranshu looked away from the battlefield and looked at Liangzhou City.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Liangzhou City was second only to Chang'an Old City. city ​​walls.

On the bare city wall, a Song Army banner has been raised at this time.

It was far away, and Haranshu couldn't see clearly, so he rode his horse and ran over there for a while, and finally saw a few Song soldiers hanging Mieli Jixie on the flagpole.

Mie Liji is not dead yet, he kept yelling for help.

After that, there was a loud "boom", and the body on the flagpole exploded like a firecracker, blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and only one head remained on the flagpole...

Harlan was stunned for a moment.

This scene brought a lot of shock to the nearby Mongolian soldiers, and many of them even forgot to drive their horses.

"Mingjin! Mingjin!"

Harlanshu immediately decided to retire.

It didn't take long for Ashu to take over Kuodan's army and died. As the deputy capital marshal who had just taken office, Haranshu hadn't fully mastered this army. Mieliji died and his morale plummeted.

The Mongolian army never cared about the gains and losses of a city or a place in combat. It was enough to bring the soldiers back to Xingqing Mansion and wait for the Great Khan to send another Zongwang to preside over the battle.

The Song army went deep alone, and as long as they cut off their supply line and besieged for a period of time, the Song army would naturally be defeated.

"Bah!"

The bridles of the horses were pulled, and the Mongolian army turned around and rushed to the northeast, trying to bypass Li Zengbo's right flank.

Haran Shu intends to withdraw to Xingqing Mansion.

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Xingqing Mansion is Yinchuan.

The Yellow River forms the word "ji", and Xingqing Mansion is in the middle of the word "ji".

It is located in the west of the Yellow River and east of Helan Mountain. It is an important town on the Silk Road and the capital of Xixia.

When the Xixia Kingdom was founded, Xingqing Prefecture was the capital and Liangzhou Prefecture was the auxiliary county. There was a saying that "the eastern capital is Xingqing, and the western capital is Liangzhou".

……

Li Zengbo came from the southeast to attack Liangzhou; at this time, Haran Shu withdrew from Liangzhou to the northeast to Xingqing Mansion instead of going west to guard the states in the Hexi Corridor.

Because passing through the Hexi Corridor is the hometown of Xiliao.

When Genghis Khan was there, he entrusted the former land of Xiliao to his second son, Chagatai.

As the elder brother of Okuotai, Chagatai has a high status in the Mongolian Kingdom. He has already formed an almost independent khanate in his own Ulus, and he has also become a khan.

After Chagatai's death, his grandson and great-grandson successively inherited the Khan throne.

A young child sat on the khan's seat, which attracted Kublai Khan, Ali Buge, and Hai Du to make moves in an attempt to occupy the Chagatai Khanate.

Last year, Kublai Khan sent Uruk to be the Khan of the Chagatai Khanate. Uruk was also the great-grandson of Chagatai, but he was killed by Ali Bak's soldiers on the way.

Afterwards, Alu, who supported Brother Ali, suddenly ascended to the throne of the Chagatai Khanate.

All in all, passing through the Hexi Corridor does not belong to Kublai Khan's sphere of influence...

Haranshu didn't intend to defend the Hexi Corridor, so he withdrew decisively.

He originally thought that Song Jun never thought that he would withdraw, and he must have been unable to react and wanted to surround him.

However, Li Zengbo gave the order almost immediately, and the whole army turned around, rushed to the north, and entered the rear of the Mongolian army obliquely.

It is the rear formation, not blocking the front of the Mongolian army and blocking the escape route of the Mongolian army.

In this terrain, the Song army could not completely wipe out the Mongolian army. If they rushed to encircle it, the formation would be chaotic, and it would give the Mongolian army a chance to break the formation.

Therefore, Li Zengbo only planned to divide a part of the Mongolian army.

It's like two wild beasts are fighting, one of them flees, and if the other tries to stop it, it may not be able to stop it, and it will definitely be bitten.

It would be better to tear off a piece of flesh from its hind leg.

Li Zengbo made a choice in just a split second.

This is how he fights. He seems to have a kind of eagerness and recklessness of "the time is not waiting for me", but when it comes to the critical time, he can make a prudent decision.

It was Yang Ben again who was in charge of intercepting the Mongolian army.

The same as in the first battle of Qianshuiyuan, the cavalry rushed straight into the enemy's formation, firing crossbow arrows, throwing fireballs, and stabbing with long spears. The cavalry of the Song army forcibly penetrated the formation of the Mongolian army.

To the east, Haranshu led more than [-] cavalry to retreat. Looking back, he saw that the Song army used this Mongolian tactic to cut off more than [-] of his troops.

He couldn't help being furious, and commanded a group of troops to contain Li Zengbo's team, intending to surround Yang Ben's troops.

After a while, dust and smoke billowed from the west again, and a big banner quickly swept towards it.

It was Li Xia who had led the people to copy from behind.

This kind of cooperation between Li Xia and Li Zengbo, when the troops were divided, they were defeated individually, and when the troops were combined, the momentum was so great that Harlan Shu had no choice but to abandon the surrounded two thousand people and flee in embarrassment...

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Outside the city of Liangzhou, there is a vast expanse, and Beishan separates the oasis in the Hexi Corridor from the vast desert in the north.

The Great Wall of the Han Dynasty was built along the edge of the desert. Some places have collapsed, leaving only ruins, but some sections still stand like a rock.

From a distance, it looks like a dragon winding.

The black torrent of the Mongolian army rushes eastward at the boundary between the desert yellow sand and the green state.

It was torn apart, as if a big tail had been broken, dragging bloodstains all over the ground.

The blood stained the grass and yellow sand, spreading more and more.

After the Song Army had cavalry, the Mongolian Army could no longer come and go like the wind...

After that, Li Zengbo led his troops to pursue the Mongolian army retreating eastward, and Li Xia led his troops to surround and annihilate the intercepted Mongolian army.

At this point in the battle, there is no need to pay attention to the art of war, only killing.

Suddenly, the soldiers of the Song army who were fighting vigorously looked back and shouted.

"It's on fire!"

"Liangzhou City is on fire..."

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Seeing the fire in Liangzhou city, Li Xia had no choice but to let Li Zengbo continue to preside over the battle outside the city, while he led some troops into the city first.

Riding their horses into Liangzhou, a group of soldiers was holding down several Mongolian soldiers for torture, when someone hurried up to meet them.

"Report, the interrogation has come out... It was Haranshu's nephew Hulu who set the fire."

"how many people?"

"A team of one thousand people. It is said that this Husachu is a well-known fierce general in the Mongolian army. He saw that the situation in Haranshu was not good, so he set fire to the city. After that, he rushed out of the city gate and fled to Yongchang. General Song He has sent people there Chase."

"Don't rush to chase, it's important to put out the fire first."

Li Xia urged his horses to go towards the city, observed the fire in the city, and at the same time dispatched troops and horses to put out the fire and appease the people.

At this time, thick smoke was billowing everywhere in the city, and the fire kept flowing down, making the whole city hot.

Many granaries and dwellings were burned down, and many people died in the sea of ​​fire...

When Li Xia saw it, he felt angry and thought that the Mongolian army was about to jump over the wall in a hurry.

In the battle of Ezhou that year, Kublai Khan followed Zhang Wenqian's advice that "the king's teacher should be conquered but not fought. He should be treated equally and not be bloodthirsty". Don't burn people's houses indiscriminately, and release all prisoners.

Li Xia didn't know if it was out of benevolence or righteousness, but he only knew that Kublai Khan must have thought that Jiangnan would sooner or later be under his rule.

Sometimes the general chooses to destroy or preserve a city, the motivation is whether he intends to occupy it.

After Kuo Duan entered Chengdu, he first asked the wizard if he could occupy Chengdu. After divination, the wizard said, "The hearts of the people will not return, and Chengdu will die in four places. If you live in it, but if you live in the second generation, you don't want to wash away with blood." Kuo Duan then slaughtered Shu.

There is no confidence to occupy, so you have to slaughter them all.

weak.

For more than [-] years, Mongolia's offensive against the Song Dynasty did not show a domineering spirit consistent with its territory. It just kept robbing and massacring, and was beaten by the Song army time and time again. It will come back next time, until the Song Dynasty bleeds Die from exhaustion.

Of course, war is inherently despicable, as long as it can be won.

Being despicable first, and then gradually gaining victories, Kublai Khan could show the aura of "the king's teacher" during the Ezhou battle.

But once the victory is gone, the Great Mongolia will only show its true colors again.

Its disadvantages are much more serious than those of the Song Dynasty, but they are all hidden behind the powerful cloth. Once this powerful cloth is torn off, its barbaric, backward and rough side will be revealed...

Now, the Mongolian army can no longer claim to be the "master of the king". Facing Li Xia's offensive, they began to burn and kill again.

Burning and killing Guanlong and Liangzhou, even they felt that they were bandits, not political power, and felt that these cities were more like places under Li Xia's rule.

Because these cities were originally under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, how could a bandit who didn't know how to manage them not feel guilty?
But Li Xia had just entered Liangzhou, but he had already regarded Liangzhou as his country, and began to put out all his strength to fight the fire.

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After the Song army outside the city wiped out the two surrounded Mongolian armies, they did not continue to pursue and expand the results of the battle, but quickly turned back to Liangzhou city.

Finally, the army and the people worked together, and the fire was finally extinguished at night.

Smoke still lingers in the ruins.

The soldiers were so smoked that their faces were covered in ashes, and they fell to the side of the street panting for breath.

But when people from Liangzhou held water basins for them to wash their faces, and took out melons and fruits to thank them...the atmosphere began to change.

The generals who were exhausted from fighting the fire only remembered at this time, before they had time to inform the whole city——

"Let the fathers and elders of Liangzhou know that the king's master entered the city today, and he did not commit any crimes in the autumn. He has been reduced to the dust for hundreds of years, with his hair on his left lapel, and now he is the crown of the Han family..."

"Let the fathers and elders of Liangzhou know that Master Wang entered the city today, and Qiu did not commit any crime..."

These words were ordered by Li Zengbo.

He didn't have time to arrange for someone to learn the local dialect to shout, so he simply said what he wanted to say.

Don't force the people of Liangzhou to understand it now, anyway sooner or later.

At this moment, as long as they can feel that the soldiers and horses entering the city are their own people.

Because of this fire, the people of Liangzhou really felt it. Song Jun helped them put out the fire, and they also helped Song Jun set up camp...

The whole night passed in this situation of fighting the fire, camping, and feeding the pots of milk to welcome the master.

Seeing this situation, Li Zengbo couldn't help being relieved, and shouted to Li Xia, but his voice became hoarse because of the fire.

"Recovering lost ground is really a smooth thing in life."

"What did Mr. Li say?"

Li Zengbo waved his hands, unable to speak anymore, he just straightened his beard and smiled dumbly.Full of enthusiasm for serving the country, I realized alone in my heart...

"Last night, the barbarians avenged the country, and Shazhou defended and destroyed Liangzhou. The nine bends of the Yellow River now return to the Han, and the battle outside the Great Wall is bloody."

(End of this chapter)