Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 496 Preparations before the incident
Although this incident is a bad thing for Da Song.

But Li Qingwei could only express his spiritual "condolences" to them.

After all, in this battle, the Song and Mongolian armies almost lost a considerable part of their elite forces.This is what Li Qingwei is happy to see.

More than 8000 Mongols were killed in battle, and more than 5000 were injured to varying degrees, and the Mongolian army participating in this battle were all battle-hardened elites.It was formed by Kublai Khan specially drawn from his various troops.

In particular, the team of nearly a thousand people who strapped gunpowder on their bodies, rowed a small boat and shouted "Long live the sweat!", charged forward bravely, and sank six gunboats, was the elite among the elites.

The loss of these people was very heavy for Kublai Khan. Originally, Kublai Khan was desperate this time to win the first battle, bypass Xiangyang, and break through the Huaihe defense line to Lin'an and Jinling like the Jin people back then.

But it's a pity that he underestimated one person this time, and that person is General Cao.

After Li Qingwei's advice last time, General Cao really put his head on his belt to defend against the enemy.

The Song Army suffered heavy casualties in the early stage, largely due to non-combat attrition. When the ferocious Mongols rushed over, the Song Army on the front line began to collapse, followed by a rout.

Many people were trampled to death by their own people.

In ancient frontline operations, it was impossible to contact the front troops in various ways like modern warfare, and ask what happened.

In ancient times, large-scale battles depended entirely on the degree of organizational organization and the basic qualities of soldiers.

Basically, if the forward troops retreat in an all-round way, then the rear troops don't know where they came from, so they don't know what happened ahead.Secondly, out of fear, they will also retreat together.

This is the so-called "defeat like a mountain".

The Song Army encountered this situation in the early stages of this battle.

If it was the usual way, it would definitely be to gather troops, and then organize echelon defenses in depth to fight step by step.

But this time, General Cao didn't. He personally led his own guards and acted as a supervising team on the front line. He first killed a group of fleeing officers, and then announced that whoever dared to take a step back would kill them without mercy.

Everyone saw that the generals of the three armies did not run away, but supervised the battle at the front line, and the morale of the Song army was stabilized at once.

After that, the Song army reversed the situation and counterattacked in an all-round way, and General Cao also sent a fast horse to report the military situation and ask for support.

This time, everyone in the Song court showed unprecedented unity.

Although this group of people are greedy and "insects" of the common people, it doesn't mean that they are all stupid.

The Jianghuai line of defense is an important line of defense for defending the capital. If it is breached by the Mongols, there is no doubt that there will be a knife hanging on their heads that will be cut off at some point.Even if I sleep, I can't sleep well.

Although those aristocrats tend to "traitor the country and seek glory", the premise of "traitor country" is that the Mongols can still protect their interests.

But if the Jianghuai line of defense is lost in this way, and the Mongols are allowed to drive straight in and break through Lin'an, then these clansmen will also lose the capital of "conditional surrender" with the Mongols.

And after the Mongols broke the city, who suffered the most?Certainly not the poor, clean-shaven, half-clothed, and underfed.

It must be their aristocratic family. After all, their "big house" has money, food, and many beautiful girls.

Now that the opponent has broken the city, they don't care about the boring question of whether you surrender or not.

This is unacceptable to these aristocratic families, so this time, both the honorable faction and the aristocratic faction have achieved unity.

Soon the Song Army who was idle everywhere was sent to the Huaihe defense line, and they had food, money, and military resources.

In a word, as long as you can hold the Huaihe line of defense, the lords in the court will give you whatever you want.

In the end, at the cost of tens of thousands of deaths, the Mongols' most tragic attack was finally repelled.

Because of this victory, Li Qingwei, the "empty shell" King Wei, was rarely summoned to attend the court in person.

Li Qingwei also went down the donkey, and made a memorial, asking the imperial court to award generously the meritorious soldiers in this battle.Especially General Cao.

Although Zhao Yu had not formally ascended the throne, in the name of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, he generously rewarded the ministers who contributed to this battle.

In the face of this victory, the happiest person is not Zhao Yu, nor the nobles in the court.

The happiest thing was Li Qingwei himself.

Because of this tragic Huaihe Battle, both the Song and Mongolian armies suffered heavy losses.Especially the Mongolian army. This time the Song army consumed tens of thousands of elite Mongolian soldiers.This is great news for him.

Although he was in Lin'an during this period, Li Qingwei was not idle, because his time to raise troops was set for this year, so he still started his own layout.

And the person who carried out the conveyance task for him was Li Ninglu.

Li Qingwei asked Li Ninglu to go to Xiangyang first, and invited Huang Rong's disciples of the Beggar Clan to spread the nursery rhyme "Mo Daoshi has one eye, and the world will rebel when this thing comes out" in the north.

Although Huang Rong didn't know why, it was Li Qingwei's request, and she had no choice but to comply. Who made Li Qingwei her "junior brother" and gave her second daughter a longevity lock?

Although there is a word "anti", the Yellow River is not in the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty. Even if it is "anti", it is "anti" on both sides of the Yellow River, and it is also "anti" in the place occupied by the Mongols. Therefore, Guo Jing and his wife did not think much about it. follow suit.

And Li Ninglu's trip to Xiangyang this time has another purpose, which is to find out the whereabouts of Yeluqi.

And Li Ninglu really brought good news to Li Qingwei, Yeluqi brother and sister are now in Xiangyang City, and Yelu Chucai is dead.

This made Li Qingwei overjoyed, now that the "East Wind" had arrived, Li Qingwei naturally didn't delay any longer.

He immediately sent Li Ninglu to take his handwritten letter to the garrison mansion of Chang'an City and hand it over to Zhuge Qingyun, so that Zhuge Qingyun could prepare for the incident.

As long as the flood season of the Yellow River arrives and the one-eyed stone man comes out, they will start their big business immediately.

And Li Qingwei also set the time for the uprising after he returned to Chang'an,
But it will not exceed the eighth day of September this year at the latest.If he is not there, Zhuge Qingyun will command the uprising immediately on the eighth day of September.

Now Zhuge Qingyun needs to save food and grass, continue to infiltrate the city defenses around Chang'an, and then try to take the entire Guanzhong area within ten days of the uprising, and then take Luoyang, Hulao, and Wuguan before the Mongols react. , Tianshui, Wuwei and other places, establish the first line of defense.

Li Qingwei chose to launch the uprising on the eighth day of September, not only because of Huang Chao's poem, but also because most of the Mongolian army was cavalry.

If he chooses to launch an uprising in spring and summer when water and grass are abundant, then his Tang army will be disadvantaged.

Because even if the Mongols' food and grass are burned, the Mongols can quickly get new food and grass in spring and summer.After all, the size of the Mongol Empire is very large.

It is so huge that it is unmatched in ancient times, and the resources he occupies are not comparable to those in the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou.

But if it is launched in autumn and winter, as long as they burn their food and grass, it will be difficult for them to get effective replenishment in a short time.

(End of this chapter)