In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 362 The uncomfortable broad end

Meng Gong was ready to retaliate.

Flood Zhongxing Mansion the same way Genghis Khan attacked Zhongxing Mansion.

Genghis Khan didn't do this well at the time because he didn't think of this move before he came, and he wasn't well prepared. He only thought of it after he arrived, so he failed in the end.

The Song Army had the experience of Genghis Khan, and Zhao Yurui was well prepared, so the success rate was extremely high.

There will be a rainy season near Zhongxing Mansion from August to September, which lasts for one or two months. In addition, the water level of the Yellow River rises. Using the water of the Yellow River and the water accumulated in the dam will greatly increase the success rate.

After Meng Gong and the generals revealed their tactics that day, they left [-] civilians to start building dams in the southeast and excavating the Yellow River to prepare for water storage. Officials from the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court personally directed it.

In the afternoon, [-] Song troops and [-] Mongolian civilians went to the surrounding area to attack Huaizhou first.

Huaizhou is the closest to Zhongxing Mansion and has less than two thousand defenders. Most of the soldiers and horses in the city were taken away by Kuo Duan.

The next day, the Song army used artillery and trebuchets to drive the Mongolian civilians forward, and captured Huaizhou in half a day. Then they took away men and women over 16 years old as civilians, and took away all supplies and food.

Three days later, the Song army broke through Jingzhou again, following the same pattern.

The Song army also followed the example of the Mongolian army in its attack on Xixia. They first captured several small towns around Zhongxing Prefecture. The Mongolian army massacred the city directly after attacking the city, while the Song army captured the population and laborers to help with the work.

In this way, the Song army had as many as [-] to [-] civilians at its disposal. With more people, it was more powerful. Tens of thousands of civilians worked day and night to dig dikes and build camps. They built many waterproof facilities and the location of the camps was also raised.

Before the rainy season arrives in September, the Song Army is now fully stockpiling supplies, digging fortifications, and taking rainproof measures.

This time, the Song army carried more horse and baggage, and captured 10,000 to [-] Mongolian herdsmen. Nearly [-]+ people were around Zhongxing Mansion. There were also various materials collected from various cities, hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep, which almost destroyed Zhongxing. The entire southeast corner of the mansion was occupied.

This is the highland where the Mongolian army was stationed. It is located about twelve miles southeast of Zhongxing Mansion. With so many people, it takes up a lot of supplies, cattle, horses and sheep. The Song Army's middle camp tent is at the highest point, about ten miles away from Zhongxing Mansion. The front camp Less than three miles away from Zhongxing Mansion, the entire camp is about seven miles wide and fifteen miles long, standing against the Yellow River.

Except for a small number of Song troops, the outermost areas of the camp were all Mongolian herdsmen.

The Song Army and its [-] civilians were concentrated near the highlands. The water storage dams were built by Song civilians, and other fortifications were done by Mongolian herdsmen.

Two water storage dams were built, one at the lower left corner of Songjun Highland, to the south.

If the Mongolian army comes to attack, they will most likely attack from this direction, because the terrain here is higher and the Mongolian army is afraid of being flooded. This was also the main direction where Xixia soldiers often came to harass them.

Now the Song army has been working, and Zhao Di of Zhongxing Mansion did not come out because all the civilians in front were Mongolians.

Half a month ago, the Song army was building fortifications at the west city gate. The Mongolian army tried to come out. As soon as the gate was opened, the Song army started shooting Mongolian civilians.

After shooting, he turned around and ran away, killing civilian husbands as he ran.

When the Mongolian army went out, many civilians in front were killed, and the Song army also ran back.

The Mongolian army knocked down some fortifications, but soon the Song army came over and pushed the Mongolian army close to the city, and then drove the Mongolian civilians to do it again.

So Zhao Di and the others simply ignored it and watched the Song army working on fortifications under the city.

Another water storage dam is east of Zhongxing Mansion, close to the Yellow River, and is also the main direction of flooding.

Zhao Di and the others did not have Xixia knowledge and often came out to harass because it was still early. They believed that Kuanduan and Chagatai would soon be able to unite and when they came back, they could give Meng Gong and the Song army a hard lesson.

But as time went by, nearly [-] civilians and [-] Song troops were building fortifications in the southeast corner of Zhongxing Mansion. Zhao Di and the others became increasingly worried.

If they keep doing this, the Song army can build another city in the southeast corner of Zhongxing Mansion.

Just when Meng Gong was fully preparing to besiege Zhongxing Mansion.

Thousands of miles away, the two armies of the Mongolian army were about to converge.
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Back in early June.

Dang dang dang, with the sound of gold ringing, the Mongolian troops who were surrounding Shazhou City turned around and ran away as if they had been granted amnesty.

There were dead and injured Mongolian troops everywhere under the city, with wailing and screams everywhere. When many Mongolian troops retreated, their faces were pale and terrified.

Chagatai's soldiers and horses have been fighting Shazhou City for more than ten days, and both the Mongolian and Song armies suffered heavy casualties.

The Mongolian army became more and more clever as they fought, and the Song army had already run out of fuel.

But despite this, the Song Army's defense line remained unbreakable.

Soldiers and horses among the Mongolian army attacked the city several times, but were finally beaten down.

The small Shazhou City is like a gutter in front of Chagatai, insurmountable.

"Damn the Song Army." Grandson Hara Xulie cursed. Today they had more than a dozen people on ladders climbing up to the top of the city. Hara Xu Lie almost became ecstatic. He thought they were going to break the city, but they were beaten one after another. down.

The subordinates who came back all said that the Song army at the top of the city had hard-to-break iron armor, strict discipline, and very strong combat effectiveness. The Mongolian army could not defeat them in hand-to-hand combat.

In order to climb the ladder, the Mongolian army all wore light armor, which was impossible to fight against the heavy armor of the Song army.

The Song army was mainly composed of spearmen, with long hands and long spears, which could stab both above and below.

The Song army also liked to poke their feet, which made the Mongolian army's small buckler almost useless.

The Mongolian army could defend the top, but could not defend the bottom. A group of people who went up were killed.

"After we go up, the advantage of our large numbers will be gone. The brothers below still don't dare to shoot arrows up. One person often has to face three or four Song armies, and he can't defeat them." A hundred households were covered in blood and cried. He knelt in front of the inspection platform and shouted.

The Mongolian army was originally more numerous than the Song army, but after climbing to the top of the city, the Mongolian soldiers below did not dare to shoot arrows upwards for fear of hitting their own people.

As for the Mongolian troops who went up, they had to face several of them, so every one who went up died.

Song Jun shot down without any scruples.

The Mongolian troops suffered heavy losses both above and below the city.

Chagatai's face turned livid, and he raised his head and looked into the distance.

In the distance, the Mongolian army was retreating frantically, and the Song army at the top of the city cheered again. Then the Song army used hook guns to hook the ladder left by the Mongolian army, which made Chagatai drink blood again.

The Song army did this every day after the battle. They hooked the ladder that the Mongolian army had not taken away to the top of the city. The Song army cut the ladder open and used it as firewood. The Mongolian army would attack the city tomorrow and build a new ladder.

"Every time I ask you to retreat and bring back the ladder, you just don't listen." Chagatai was furious.

There were many generals kneeling below, but they didn't dare to say a word.

When they heard that they could retreat, everyone hurried back. There was no time to bring the ladder. Many people really forgot about it, and they didn't do it on purpose.

When Chagatai saw no one responding, he secretly sulked. After a while, he turned to his grandson, Haraxuleh: "Go and see what the casualties of our army are."

In less than half an hour, the casualties of the Mongolian army were tallied today, and they lost more than a thousand people.

Several hundred of them were killed and hundreds more were injured.

Chagatai frowned.

After fighting in Shazhou for more than ten days, his men suffered more than [-] casualties.

Can we still fight this Shazhou City?
He brought a total of more than 5 troops, of which one-fifth suffered casualties.

Of course, after a period of time, some of the injured will die from their injuries, while others will be fine. Chagatai estimated that five thousand casualties would be the minimum.

The Mongolian army suffered nearly [-] casualties during the siege, and he thought the Song army would suffer many casualties as well.

Even if the Song army is one-third of them, there are still three or four thousand.

The Song army in Shazhou City is less than [-], which means that the Song army's casualties are about half. If we attack for another ten days, we should be able to win?

I'm afraid that the sons and daughters won't be willing to do it.

The Song army invaded Chagatai's territory, but he refused to go back and kept attacking Shazhou. The nobles under his command, that is, Nayan from each thousand households, were a little dissatisfied.

The siege here resulted in heavy casualties, and all of them were close men and women. How could the Mongol warriors be wasted by siege?

Chagatai was still thinking about fighting for another ten days, but thousands of households below could not bear it anymore: "My Mongol warriors are not good at attacking cities. Let's fight against the Suzhou Song Army and other Song armies."

Chataihe said angrily: "What's not good at? When you followed me on the Western Expedition, were there any cities that you couldn't conquer?"

Qianhu Nayan opened his mouth, but finally shook his head and sighed.

During the Western Expedition, the Mongolian army fought more and more servants. Many of the sieges were carried out by the servants.

"Report——" At this moment, there was an urgent report from a sentry in the distance.

"Urgent report from Ali Mali." It was actually information coming from the main city of Chagatai in Western Liaoning.

His son Heda Hai wrote a letter, and a letter from Song Jun was also sent.

Chagatai was furious when he saw it and almost tore up the letter.

He Dahai said that the Song army burned, killed and looted everywhere in the territory, and killed those who could not be taken away. During this period, no one knew how many cattle, horses and sheep were killed in Xiliao.

Countless people were killed.

The Mongolian army left behind in Xiliao organized 2000 men to pursue them, but the effect was not very good. The Song army came in with warriors who were better at riding and shooting, and the grassland was too huge and difficult to intercept.

The Song army plundered countless of their horses, and now each of them has three or four horses, which is more than the Mongolian army's horses, and they can run very fast.

The Song army recently passed through Alimari and fired a batch of rockets at the city of Alimari, infuriating Chagatai to half death.

Chagatai was building his Alimari city, and tens of thousands of craftsmen and civilians were helping. He was building it according to the standards of a capital city. Unexpectedly, when the Song army arrived, they started shooting his craftsmen and setting fires everywhere.

The outer city of Alimari, which was less than half built with great difficulty, was destroyed again.

Then the Song army shot another letter into the city.

The Song Army's letter stated that they just wanted to take back their homeland of Xixia (from the Northern Song Dynasty), and that this area of ​​Western Liao did not belong to their Song Dynasty, so they did not originally plan to enter Western Liao.

But you, Chagatai, are not morally righteous and advanced to Xixia to attack us, so we came to fight.

Chagatai is about to curse again when he sees this. The sinister, shameless and despicable Song people actually say that Chagatai has no moral principles?

Chagatai was extremely angry and laughed.

Song Jun said again, we just want to take back Xixia. As long as you return to Chagatai, we will return to the army. From now on, we will not violate the river.

If you come to attack us again, we will often go to Xiliao to kill your herdsmen and your cattle and sheep.

It depends on how many herdsmen there are in Xiliao that you can kill.

Song Jun's threatening tone directly caused Chagatai to take the blame.

How could the two great kings of the mighty Mongol Empire accept such a threat?
After reading this, Chagatai was furious. He tore up the letter on the spot and asked to continue the attack tomorrow. He must break Shazhou City and then kill all the Song troops in the city to vent his hatred.

Chagatai was furious, and his subordinates talked a lot. They attacked Shazhou City for more than ten days, and the Song Army's cavalry wreaked havoc in Western Liao for more than ten days.

The herdsmen, cattle, horses and sheep suffered numerous casualties, and the losses outweighed the gains.Everyone persuaded Chagatai to return to the army, and some people looked at Hara Huleh.

At this time, Haraxulie also felt that he could no longer fight.

After thinking for a while, Haraxulie suddenly said: "The Song people sent the letter deliberately to anger Owo (grandpa), maybe they didn't mean to let them continue to attack the city?"

"Well" Haraxuleh's words were still taken seriously by Chagatai, who calmed down a little after his anger.

What are the benefits of continuing to siege the city?Obviously no good?But he was unwilling to return to Xiliao.

Or go to fight the Suzhou Song Army?

Just when Chagatai thought of Suzhou, another sentry rider came running back in a panic from a distance.

When Chagatai saw the appearance of the sentry rider, he felt something was wrong.

"The Suzhou Song Army went west, and Bahe led his army to pursue it. They were ambushed by the Song Army. Almost the entire army was wiped out. A small number of people fled towards us. The Song Army will come over soon -"

The news exploded like a bomb in an instant.

The nobles couldn't believe that Suzhou Bahe would be completely wiped out.

Chagatai inquired carefully and found out that the Song army first besieged Suzhou, then pretended to retreat and went west to attack Chagatai. Bahe fell into the trap and brought 200 cavalry to help. He led his troops to pursue them, and more than [-] of them fled in one day. Here, the men and horses are tired.

As a result, he was ambushed by the Song army with Yi Yi in prison.

After the Mongolian army collapsed, they fled in all directions, but their horse power was not as powerful as the Song army's horses, and they were chased and killed one after another.

In the end, Chagatai's sentry riders encountered the fleeing Bahe men and brought them back.

"How far is the Song army from here? How many troops are there?" Chagatai asked quickly.

"About 300 miles, less than [-]."

After the Song army destroyed Bahe, they did not go to Suzhou, but came directly to Shazhou in the west, obviously to support Shazhou.

Now the Song army's troops and horses combined with those in the city were about the same as Chagatai.

Although Chagatai was not afraid of the Song army in the field battle, after more than ten days of attacking the city, his troops were exhausted and their morale was greatly reduced.

His mind was spinning rapidly, whether to unite his army to fight the Song Army's cavalry or retreat to Western Liao.

Inexplicable irritability came to his heart. Chagatai had never been so irritable since he joined the army with his father Genghis Khan, and he felt that everything was not going well.

One part of the Song army was burning and killing him everywhere in the hinterland of Xiliao, and another part was about to approach him from hundreds of miles away, and he couldn't even break through the Shazhou City in front of him.

"Hala Xulie" he suddenly said loudly.

"exist."

Chagatai quickly decided to let Hara Huleh lead 1 troops to continue surrounding Shazhou City.

He personally led the remaining [-] people to the east and severely attacked the Song army.

The Song army on the opposite side was about [-], and he was also [-].

But he had just been running eastward for a day with his troops and horses, and received another letter from the sentinels. Suddenly the Song army was divided into two, one went to the northwest, and the other went to Guazhou.

The Song army previously captured Shazhou and Guazhou, leaving fewer troops in Guazhou. Now the Song army is divided into two, with about 5000 men assigned to defend Guazhou. It seems that they intend to fight the Mongolian army. .

The other part goes to the northwest, exactly in the direction of Xiliao, Chagatai.

Suddenly, there were all kinds of curses in the Chagatai camp, and they all asked to return to their territory.

The Song army originally had thousands of horsemen burning, killing and looting everywhere in Xiliao. Now it is enough to add [-] more horsemen to Xiliao without being overthrown.

Chagatai had no choice. After thinking about it carefully, he didn't have time to attack Guazhou, let alone attack the city again. He could only bite the bullet and chase the Song army in the northwest.

The Song army ran directly into the territory of Xiliao and was pursued by Chagatai. However, the Song army turned south within the territory of Xiliao. After passing through an area of ​​Xiliao, it came out of Xiliao and appeared to the west of Shazhou.

The Song Army took Chagatai in a big circle and then returned to the starting point.

The Song army had one man and three horses. When Chagatai led his troops out, he had one man and two horses.

The Mongolian army could not catch up with the Song army at all, and could only be led by the Song army.

I heard from the sentry cavalry that the Song army left Xiliao again and headed west to Shazhou, and Chagatai and the others wanted to scold them all again.

Does Song Jun want to return to Shazhou?
After going around in such a big circle and leading the Mongolian army for thousands of miles just to return to Shazhou?

Hara Xulie, who continued to surround Shazhou, also quickly received the news. He had many wounded soldiers under his command, but he was also relatively fierce. He led his troops out of camp and tried to fight the Song army.

In mid-June, the Song Army returned to the outside of Shazhou City.

Hara Xulie led a battle with the Song army, but failed to gain any advantage. The Song army also came out of Shazhou City at this time. Hara Xulie had to retreat and watched the Song army enter the city.

When the Song army entered the city here, more than 5 troops and horses from Guazhou were already at the gate of Guazhou City. Kuaduan's army fought around Guazhou for several days. Seeing that there were more defenders in the city, they did not bring any siege equipment. It was hard to fight, so I had to turn around and walk away, continuing towards Shazhou.

In late June, Kuaduan and Chagatai ran back and forth between Xixia and Xiliao. After running thousands of miles, they finally met not far from Shazhou.

After the two armies merged, there were approximately more than 9 soldiers and horses.

However, the Song Army's more than 3 troops were divided into two cities, Shazhou and Guazhou, with more than 5000 people in each city. For these two small cities, the troops were quite large.

The two uncles and nephews were quite depressed when they met. Chagatai actually felt like his eyes were filled with tears.

In Mongolia's own territory, being led by the Song army to run around, Chagatai was going crazy.

Each of these Song troops had three or even four horses, and they were quite capable of running. They ran from Xixia to Xiliao, and from Xiliao to Xixia.

Jaghatai was brought to a point where he had no temper at all.

Now that the Song army has entered the two cities, it is clear that they will defend to the death. Without Meng Gong's [-] Song army, Kuoduan and Chagatai could slowly wear out the Song army in these two cities.

Now Meng Gong must have been attacking Zhongxing Mansion, so the two of them were in a dilemma again.

Whether to surround Shazhou and Guazhou, or to return to attack Meng Gong.

There is another problem. Once the two return to fight Meng Gong, the Song troops from Shazhou and Guazhou can follow from behind to support Meng Gong.

At this time, one of Kuoduan's subordinates suggested that it would be better to let Chagatai continue to surround Shazhou and Guazhou, while Kuoduan's troops would return to attack Meng Gong.

Kuo Duan's face turned dark when he heard this, and he almost wanted to chop him with a knife.

Isn't this a return to the original path?Did I ride a horse for more than 2000 miles to get here just to see Shazhou and then go back?

But now the gods are useless here, and Genghis Khan doesn’t know how to fight even after he is resurrected.

That day, big bosses from more than a thousand households in the Mongolian army gathered at the Chagatai camp to discuss countermeasures.

Now the three Song armies are in Mongolia.

There is Meng Gong's tribe more than 2000 miles away, Shazhou in front of us, and Guazhou hundreds of miles away.

The Mongolian army has more than 9 troops.Where to fight first now?
There are three Mongolian troops closest to them. The first wave is from Suzhou, which is seven or eight hundred miles away. However, the Eighth Division of Suzhou has been defeated. The remaining ones can only defend the city and dare not come out. Even if they are all called over, it will only take one. 2000 people, but don’t Suzhou City need to be defended?

The other two waves were in Ganzhou and Heishui City. There were not many people and horses, and they were both about a thousand miles away.

Kuoduan had already mobilized all the Mongolian troops that could fight, so there was no large group of Mongolian troops within a thousand miles that could come to support him.

Kuoduan and Chagatai were in great pain. Kuaduan had finally traveled more than 2000 miles to join Chagatai, so he definitely couldn't divide his forces any more.

But after joining forces, it is very difficult to decide who to fight first.

The two discussed for a day and finally decided to attack Shazhou first because Chagatai already had experience here.

But with more than 1 Song troops in Shazhou City, it became easier to defend.

The Mongolian army fought around Shazhou City for several days, but made no progress and suffered a great loss of morale.

The voices in Chagatai's army calling for the troops to return became louder and louder, and sentries from Xiliao came over every day to report the emergency.

The two were unconvinced and did not care about Shazhou. The two parties came to Guazhou hundreds of miles away.

The Mongolian army fought against Guazhou for several more days, but it was still in vain and there was nothing they could do. The Mongolian army had no siege equipment and there was really nothing they could do to take the fortified city.

Some people proposed to imitate the Song army and dig trenches and build walls under Guazhou City to surround the Song people.

If it weren't for Meng Gong's unit, the Mongolian army would have plenty of time to play with Meng Ying.

But there's no time now.

It was almost mid-July, and the combined forces of Kuaduan and Chagatai, which numbered more than 9, had made no progress and had not won a major victory.

Chagatai really had no choice, so he said, forget it, ignore these Song troops, let's go attack Meng Gong's tribe and relieve the siege of Zhongxing Mansion.

Kuo Duan also frowned when he heard this, because the Song Army and Meng Gong's route were all defensive and positional warfare, and it was not easy to fight.

The Song army here is relatively easy to fight, but they can't defend the city.

Kuoduan originally wanted to try to dig tunnels and attack Guazhou, just like the Mongolian army had conquered Shazhou before.

But soon I found that I didn’t have enough time and the food and grass were not enough.

The Kuaduan and Chagatai tribes were guerrillas outside with only their war horses and some provisions. Their armies had been out for a month or two.

The Shazhou and Guazhou areas had been swept by the Song army before. All the cattle, horses and sheep that could be snatched were brought into the city by the Song army. stand up.

The Song army had enough food and grass in the city, but more than 9 Mongolian troops were outside every day, but found that they could not find food or drink.

The nearby herdsmen were either killed or captured by the Song army, or they fled towards Suzhou.

The two uncles and nephews had no choice now, so they made a plan to ignore Meng Ying and send the whole army back to attack Meng Gong again.

This time, Kuoduan's subordinates started to curse loudly.

They fought well in Xiazhou, but they insisted on coming to attack the Shazhou Song Army. Well, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses ran for more than 2000 miles. They fought in Shazhou and Guazhou for more than ten days and failed to capture any of them. Now they have to fight again. Return to the army.

Kuo Duan said, I didn't know Song Jun was so cunning. When they saw us coming, they all entered the city and didn't come out.

Meng Ying's Song army was wandering outside every day, as if they wanted to fight with the Mongolian army everywhere.

When Chagatai and Kuoduan chased after them, they immediately turned into shrinking turtles and retreated into the city. The Mongolian army could only stare.

After entering mid-July, the Kuoduan and Chagatai armies converged, numbering more than 9, and turned eastward, returning to Zhongxingfu.

(End of this chapter)