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

Chapter 451 The revenge of Chengdu must be avenged

Kublai Khan's side didn't collapse originally.

Although the Mongolian army here also suffered heavy casualties, fortunately, the Mongolian army rushed inside and started fighting hand-to-hand with the Song army. As more and more Mongolian troops opened the gap, there was no need to climb high carriages, and the Song army's flintlock rifles The effect becomes smaller and smaller, making it difficult to fight.

The two armies were locked in hand-to-hand combat, with the front row fighting hand-to-hand, and the back row waiting to see whose arrows were more powerful.

Of course, the arrow rain from both sides was quite fierce. The Song army could withstand it for the time being because of its strong armor, while the Mongolian army relied on dead casualties to resist.

After the Mongolian army's 20,000 reserve troops were invested, the offensive became more intense.

The situation was not bad at first, but the Song army suddenly used a trebuchet to throw huge gasoline bombs.

These gasoline bombs were much larger than those thrown by Song Jun.

When the gasoline bomb was dropped, it exploded and burned. The Mongolian army was a little panicked and their offensive was somewhat hindered.

However, the trebuchet has a limited range and cannot affect the entire army. The Mongolian army calmed down and avoided the burning area, and still had a chance to attack forward.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Song Army cavalry suddenly rushed out, and then the Mongolian army in front collapsed first.

At that time, Kublai Khan felt that something was wrong.

On the way out, he was almost hit by a cannonball, and was hit by three arrows. His horse was also shot down. Fortunately, the guards jumped down in time to save him and replaced the horse.

While Kublai Khan was running, he sent people to contact Hedahai and Chagatai further away. At the same time, he kept collecting escaping people on the road.

Now Kublai Khan did not dare to mention the matter of Duanhou. Now it was a defeat, not a retreat. If Duanhou stayed, he might not be able to leave.

After Kublai Khan left the battlefield, he turned around and saw that the huge battlefield was full of fleeing Mongolian troops.

After a while, the sound of horse hooves roared behind them, and thousands of fine knights ran towards this side holding a large flag.

On the vast grassland in front of us, we can still see scattered Mongolian troops fleeing in all directions. Some Mongolian troops saw the large group of people gathering towards them, and some Mongolian troops seemed to lose their minds and did not even look at them. , continue to flee around.

He quickly sent people to find Hedahai and asked Hedahai to reorganize his troops and prepare to retreat. He would lead the team to break up the rear and ensure that the main force withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner.

He actually had a good connection with Chagatai and immediately fled to the Altai Mountains.

Kublai Khan asked people to hold his banner and collect collapsed men and horses everywhere. After a while, he finally collected thousands of horses.

He stopped blankly on a low slope, looked up and looked around.

The Mongolian army has completely lost command. Each unit is fleeing for its life. Mongolian troops are fleeing from all directions. Everyone just wants to get away from the battlefield.

Two-quarters of an hour later, Kublai Khan was already several miles away from the battlefield. At this time, nearly 10,000 horsemen had gathered around him.

But as soon as the messengers ran out, the Hedahai side suddenly collapsed, and the Mongolian army collapsed and fled. Then the Mongolian army on Kublai Khan's side also turned around crazily, and Kublai Khan couldn't even control a few people.

This is the second time Kublai Khan has changed horses today.

Hedahai's body was completely black and he was lying on the horse. It turned out that Hedahai was seriously injured and was taken out by his subordinates.

There is a mountainous area over there, and it is an area controlled by the Mongolian army. The Song army should not dare to pursue it without permission.

He quickly led people to meet him. After the two sides met, Kublai Khan was startled.

However, there were already cavalrymen rushing out to chase the fleeing Mongolian army from the Song army. Kublai Khan was afraid of being entangled by the Song army, so he gave an order, boom, and the whole army fled to the northwest.

He quickly turned around and ran away with his bodyguard.

When Kublai Khan saw the big flag, he saw that it was actually facing the sea.

Now Kublai Khan knew why the Hedahai side collapsed first just now?

It turned out that Heda Hai was unlucky just now. A gasoline bomb from the Song Army's trebuchet fell from the sky, less than five steps away from him. The gasoline bomb exploded on the spot, and a wave of gasoline and flames fell on He Dahai.

The unlucky Hedahai was immediately set on fire. What was terrible was that this guy had many armor and thick clothes to protect him from the Song army's arrows and flintlock guns. His subordinates rushed forward and couldn't even help him take off his clothes.

The fire was finally put out, and Hedahai was burned half to death.

Fortunately, Hedahai was not burned much below his face. The main burns were on his body. Even his beard was burned a lot. He gritted his teeth and grinned in pain. His expression was uglier than crying when he was lying on the horse.

But looking at his injuries, Kublai Khan knew that even if he was not dead now, he might not be able to last long if he returned.

"Don't talk for now. Let's meet up with them (Chagatai and Kuoduan) first." Kublai Khan had no choice but to comfort Hedahai.

Heda Hai, who was usually very brave, now had red eyes and couldn't stop crying.

His lips trembled and he could not speak. He just looked at Kublai Khan and shed tears.

Kublai Khan actually had a normal relationship with him, and because Chagatai supported Ogodei back then and did not support his father's dragging Lei Dang Khan, he was very disgusted with Chagatai's group in his heart, and he wished that Chagatai was dead. good.

But thinking of the defeat of the Mongolian army, Kublai Khan could not help but feel sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died. He gently patted Hedahai and said, "Let's go home first."

Kublai Khan fled to the northwest with more than 10,000 horsemen. On the way, he could still see the fleeing Mongolian troops. He gradually gathered them, and in the middle he encountered a group of Song army cavalry who were chasing them.

On the opposite side, there were about a thousand cavalrymen of the Song army chasing the fleeing Mongolian army. Seeing that there were many of them, the Song army did not dare to push them over, but they also retreated and continued to chase the Mongolian army who were alone or outnumbered.

Kublai Khan's younger brother, Brother Mo, was furious when he saw it and wanted to lead people to rush over, but was stopped by Kublai Khan.

He didn't want to be entangled by the Song army. Even if the Mongolian army was not afraid of the Song army in the field, most of his subordinates had no fighting spirit when they were defeated. Of course, they could run as far as they could.

In November of the seventh year of Yuanzhen, Song and Meng fought near Qianzhou (the upper reaches of the Yenisei River in the Rus Principality).

The two sides fought for less than two hours, and the Mongolian army collapsed first.

After the war, Lu Wende also secretly said that he was lucky to win.

At that time, the Mongolian army launched a frantic attack on the front, regardless of casualties. The Song army's flintlock guns were fired continuously, and many barrels were red.

Before the Mongolian army collapsed, 20% of the Song army's flintlock guns were on the verge of being destroyed. If the Mongolian army had tens of thousands more troops and continued to attack desperately, the Song army would have to engage in full-scale hand-to-hand combat with them.

After the war, the entire Mongolian army ran wildly, with the main force running northwest toward the Altai Mountains, and a small number of others scattered in desperation.

The Mongolian army totaled more than 130,000 people. After the war, the Song army inspected the scene and killed all the Mongolian soldiers who were injured and could not run away, resulting in a total of nearly 40,000 corpses.

The Mongolian army's battle loss ratio was as high as one-third before it collapsed, which can be regarded as the strongest and most combat-effective army in the world except the Song army. After the war, the Song army pursued and killed them everywhere, and the Mongolian army suffered many losses.

In the end, the large group of Mongolian troops who fled with Chagatai, Kuoduan, and Kublai Khan numbered around 70,000, and there were more than 10,000 who fled to various parts of the grassland.

This scene is still much better than other armies.

In contrast, last year during the Western Expedition, the Mongolian army fought a decisive battle with the Allied Army on the banks of the Seyo River. The Allied Army suffered less than one-tenth of its casualties before starting to run away and collapse. Then, it was chased and killed by the Mongolian army while encircling and suppressing them. , the 100,000-strong army was almost completely wiped out, and nearly 90,000 were killed that day.

Both sides were attacked by the Mongolian army, and the outcome was completely opposite.

The reason why the coalition forces were so miserable was not only that their weapons, equipment and tactics were inferior to those of the Song Army, but also that the quality of their personnel was far lower than that of the Song Army. The biggest reason for casualties was that the coalition forces had few cavalry and their command was chaotic. When they were finally defeated, most of the coalition forces There was no order to retreat, the Europeans were not flexible, and most of them were infantry, so the whole army could only resist on the spot.

They were surrounded and suppressed by the Mongolian army at all levels, and there was still sporadic resistance after dark that day, which also caused heavy casualties to the coalition forces.

Looking at the Mongolian army on the other hand, although it was defeated miserably, the main force immediately relied on the mobility of the cavalry and hurriedly left the battlefield. The Song army had few real cavalry. Although it dared to pursue, it only pursued sporadic and small numbers of enemy troops. Against a large-scale Mongolian army, The main force of the army is also focused on expulsion.

After the Mongolian army made a tragic change that day, they immediately left the battlefield and did not even return to Qianzhou.

One part of the Song army was left to kill people on the spot, one part pursued and drove away the defeated Mongolian troops from all around, and the rest quickly approached Qianzhou.

Many of the Mongolian troops who were injured or who had no horses and escaped were first captured by the Song army and ordered to dig pits for three days. After three days, they first buried the bodies of the Mongolian troops and then buried the rest of the Mongolian troops. Kill them all.

At the end of December, the Song army pursued part of the Mongolian army that had fled to Qianzhou and arrived at the gate of Qianzhou City. The Song army was surrounded on all sides and surrendered first. Not surrender.

The Song army surrounded them on all sides, first using petrol bombs and then attacking with ants, and stormed into the city before dark.

Then according to the emperor's order, they were all killed, leaving no one alive.

General Lu Wende of the Song Army was also quite depressed at that time, because Qianzhou, like Hara Helin, was the place where the Mongolian army's logistics and craftsmen were most concentrated. It was also the base camp of the Mongolian army, and many of the Mongolian troops were strong and could be brought back to repair the Yellow River. Waiting for major projects.

But when he led the army in, Emperor Zhao Yurui told him that if Kuo Duan or the soldiers and horses under Kuo Duan were captured, not a single one of them would be spared, and all of them would be killed.

Lu Wende didn't understand why, so he could only do it.

Zhao Yurui couldn't explain it to him, and Lu Wende didn't know that in another time and space, during the Yuanzhen period, one or two years earlier than now, after the Mongolian army invaded Chengdu, Sichuan, Kuoduan With the word "fire to kill" in the book, the people of Chengdu were drawn out in groups of fifty and killed, and then the whole of Chengdu was burned down.

The history book says: "The people of Shu were about to die, so they gathered fifty people together, stabbed them all with knives, and then piled up their corpses. When it came to Mo (twilight), if they suspected that they were still dead, they stabbed them again. The corpses of their descendants were piled underneath, and they stabbed them at dusk. Unexpectedly, the blood-soaked corpse entered the mouth of his grandson. In the middle of the night, he crawled into the forest and hid in another place. Later, he came out of Shu and served as the privy envoy. He even looked at people frankly and cried without hesitation. He Jingquan Chengdu, recorded 140 skeletons in the city Ten thousand, not counting those outside the city."

1.4 million people were killed in the entire city of Chengdu, and there were countless corpses outside the city.

Kuo Duan alone killed nearly two million people in Sichuan.

At this time, the entire Mongolian tribe was only about two million, and Kuoduan killed one Mongolian in Sichuan.

What Zhao Yurui wants to kill most now is Kuo Duan, and his Song Dynasty has no shortage of craftsmen. Even if there is a shortage of craftsmen, they will not want the Mongolian army, so he directly ordered Lu Wende to kill all Mongolian territories where Kuo Duan passes by. Just kill and leave no one alive.

Sichuan had a population of 12 million before the Mongolian army entered, making it the most populous region in the Southern Song Dynasty. After the war, only a few hundred thousand remained.

Almost all of Sichuan was killed by the Mongolian army. Zhao and Rui could not avenge this kind of hatred.

After this battle, the two base camps of the Mongolian Empire on the grasslands, Qianzhou and Haraholin, all fell into the hands of the Song army.

Entering the eighth year of Yuanzhen (1240), Meng Gong's troops also came nearby.

Nearly 200,000 Song troops gathered on the grassland.

In July of the seventh year of Yuanzhen, the Song army set out from Ningxia in three groups. After fighting for more than a year, the left army and the middle army finally joined forces in the core area of ​​Mongolia.

But Batu had not returned at this time, and the Song army was stationed in various places, waiting for Batu's army to return from the west.

Among them, Lu Wende led a Song army of 60,000 to guard Qianzhou, and Meng Gong led a Song army of 60,000 to guard Harahelin.

Meng Ying led 40,000 cavalry back to Yemili Prefecture, Zhao Di led 20,000 cavalry back to Heishui City, and Shader and Li Pingxia each led 10,000 cavalry to search Qianzhou and Harahe Forest for thousands of miles.

The Song troops who went out each brought three horses, looking like nouveau riche.

After successively capturing Haraholin and Qianzhou, and defeating the Mongolian army several times, the Song army now has more war horses than they can use up.

Shader and Li Pingxia each led 10,000 cavalry, each with three horses, and set out everywhere. They killed and looted all the Mongolian tribes they saw. Their main locations were between the later Republic of Tuwa and the Republic of Brigate.

Probably a thousand miles north of Wulanba.

This area is now Mongolian territory, but the further north you go, the fewer Mongolian people there are. The Song army ran in this area mainly to prevent the Mongolian army from detouring eastward to join Wokuotai.

After Qianzhou City was captured, the Song army occupied Qianzhou, Haraholin and other important towns, which was equivalent to cutting the Mongolian Empire into two, divided into Mongolia and Eastern Mongolia.

The current goal is to prevent Batu's army from returning eastward, and then use all our strength to destroy Ogedai first.
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On the other side, Guyu and Choermahan joined forces at the Alas River in November.

After the two Mongolian armies merged, the total number of the Mongolian army reached 260,000.

The Mongolian army bypassed the Caspian Sea and entered Afghanistan along the south side of the Caspian Sea. Guiyu was eager to return home. As he walked, he kept sending people to the east to contact the Mongolian troops in various places and inquire about domestic news.

However, the Mongolian army had too many soldiers and horses and moved slowly.

The Mongolian army is good at mobility, but the fewer the number of people, the stronger the mobility. Now Guyu and Choermahan lead 260,000 troops, most of which are servants. Many of the servants used to be infantry in Europe. I have never ridden any horses. After the Mongolian surrender, I was assigned war horses. The movement of such a large-scale Mongolian army was still relatively slow.

The Mongolian army had only passed through Afghanistan at the end of December, and now they had to consider where to go.

If you point upward, you will go to the original fiefdom of Batu first, if you go to the middle, you will go to the fiefdom of Wokuotai, and if you point downward, you will go to the fiefdom of Chagatai.

The three brothers' fiefdoms are all close together, arranged from top to bottom.

Guyou first ruled out going to Batu territory.

Batu brought an army of 150,000 men and did not even return to his own fiefdom. Guyuk knew that Batu wanted to build his own khanate. He now hated Batu very much.

Originally, with Batu's troops and horses, and more from Europe, they could gather an army of 500,000 to return eastward without having to leave so many behind.

With these half a million troops returning eastward, why not just destroy the Song Dynasty in one battle?

(End of this chapter)