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

Chapter 538 Why are you as insidious as Zhao Yurui?

Because the Song army had fired several rounds of artillery today, Kublai Khan's artillery was weakened a lot.

The Song army will give up half of the place tomorrow and let the Mongolian army come over.

Liu Zheng specially asked people to bring maps, which made Tasi's eyes light up, because Mongolia had occupied Persia for so many years, but they didn't have such a professional map as the Song people.

Liu Zheng drew lines on the map and circled some conspicuous objects to determine the location of the armies of both sides tomorrow, and also to remind both sides to be on guard against each other.

The two of them had just reached an agreement when suddenly they heard a loud bang.

"What?" Tasi was drunk and seemed to be sober for a moment. He pushed the table away and wanted to pull out the sword with his backhand. Then he recalled that when they entered the camp, all the swords were confiscated.

"What do you want to do?" Tasi thought that Zhao Yurui didn't have martial ethics.

Liu Zheng looked helpless: "Tasi, don't panic, I don't know what happened. Could it be that I, Liu Zheng, who is so mean, will attack you here?"

Everyone was shocked, and then they realized that it was the sound of cannons coming from a distance, and there were also faint shouts of killing.

Yizhara didn't care if everyone was Mongolian or not. Why should Guyu be left to Guyou if he could do such a thing.

There are two high platforms on the left and right outside Liu Zheng's tent, and there are people on duty on them.

He used to help Mongolia manage craftsmen, and later helped Meng Ge and Kublai Khan establish a city shipyard in Rai City to build a small number of Mongolia's own warships.

"Lai City may be occupied by Tasi. Zhao Yurui will definitely fall out with Guyu after he defeats us and Batu?"

"Fortunately, I will arrange for my mother to leave first, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult to leave." Kublai Khan made two preparations and first arranged for the navy to send his mother away.

In Rai City, Kublai Khan was standing at the top of the city with no smile on his face.

Fortunately, Tasi was also prepared, but Kublai Khan opened the city gate, pushed out the cannon, fired several cannons at his camp, and then sent men and horses to charge. The Tasi camp was in chaos, but because it was prepared, The loss is not very big.

What Blue Hague wants is to leave the shipyard to Guyou, who can use it to fight against the Song army in the future.

"Then don't burn the shipyard first." Kublai Khan finally decided to keep the shipyard.

Both of them looked at the burning Tasi camp in front of them in silence.

Kublai Khan noticed immediately and quickly mobilized heavy troops to the south gate.

Kublai Khan nodded. Liu Zheng did not bring many soldiers and horses, and he was not willing to attack the ants easily. Even if he used gasoline bombs to light the city head, because there was a moat, the Mongolian army would have time to counterattack the Song army attacking the city.

"Let's go up and take a look." Liu Zheng climbed up first.

But after Kublai Khan thought about it, he felt that he could not take advantage of the Song people.

After climbing to a high place, I could finally see fire and smoke flashing in the night in the distance. It seemed that a battle was going on in the camp east of Tasi.

Kublai Khan's shipyard is two hundred miles away at the foot of the Alborz Mountains and on the edge of the Caspian Sea. Once they cannot defend this place, they will make an appointment with the people at the shipyard, light three whistle smokes, and the shipyard will start. After burning the factory, the craftsmen retreated to the Volga River.

Standing next to him were his lieutenants, mother-instigated Luheteni's former guard centurion, Yi Zhala, and the lord of Rai City, his confidant Tubo Bulu Haiya.

Rai City was in the hands of Meng Ge and him for several years, and finally established its own navy. However, there are currently less than ten large warships. In the past, they could do business with the Song people, but now that war has begun, they dare not go In the Persian Gulf, they knew that the warships of the Song Army were really powerful.

The most powerful thing of the Song Army was not artillery, but a kind of gasoline bomb, but Liu Zheng didn't even start using it.

At dawn the next day, the horn sounded outside the city. The soldiers and horses of the Song Army and Tasi came out of the camp one after another to gather, and then met at the south gate.

Kublai Khan then said: "Send a signal and have people pile up firewood, cotton, cloth and other flammable materials in important places such as shipyards. Once the city cannot be defended, these shipyards and materials cannot be left to the Song army even if they are burned."

"I would rather burn it than leave it to Guyu."

Tasi had no intention of drinking at the moment and quickly left with fists in his hands.

If Liu Zheng could see the top of the city, he would find that there are pools built every twenty steps on the top of the city. The pools are filled with water, but the water is not used to put out fires, but to soak clothes.

But what he certainly didn't expect was that in the cooperation between Guyu and Zhao Yurui, the city of Lai was reserved for the Song Army, not Guyu.

There were a lot of clothes soaked in the pool. Once the Song army attacked the city with gasoline bombs, the Mongolian army on the city would take them out and put them on themselves.

After a long time, Kublai Khan said: "The weapons of the Song army are becoming more and more advanced. Their artillery can explode now when they are fired. I don't think Rai City can be defended."

Today's night attack has achieved some small results, which are not worth mentioning. Moreover, the Song army is also surrounding them outside. It is difficult to defend Lai City.

Everyone quickly left the camp.

Yizhala said at this time: "I think there are only a few soldiers in the Song Dynasty, only 20,000 or 30,000 people. They are reluctant to ant attack, for fear of losing men and horses, otherwise they would have been loaded with those kind of kerosene bombs."

There are piles of sand piled beside all the pools. These pools, sand piles, and the stone sheds at the top of the city are connected in a row, almost occupying the entire city.

When he returned to the main camp, Kublai Khan's men and horses had retreated. The front camp of his main camp was in chaos, with hundreds of people dead and wounded.

"Kublai Khan." Tasi roared to the sky angrily.

He thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Tasi's people are attacking from the north. Tasi must also want to seize the shipyard and craftsmen."

No matter how hateful Guyou is, we are all relatives after all, connected by blood. We are all fighting for the throne. If we lose, I hope Guyuk can defeat the Song people.

"Bullshit, Kublai Khan attacked us at night?" Tasi was shocked, angry, and speechless. Damn it, Kublai Khan, you wouldn't attack the Song army at night? Why are you beating us?
That's right, Kublai Khan made a sudden night attack tonight and chose the Tasi camp.

After hearing this, Yizala became furious and scolded Kublai Khan before he could speak: "If Guiyu regarded us as his clansmen, he would not kill our clansmen on the Khulil Tower."

Blue Hague and Yizala looked at each other and sighed secretly.

Tasi looked at it and found that it was a wooden structure similar to the ladder used by Song Jun. It was quite high. He shook his head and felt that he was not drunk, so he immediately climbed up.

Hearing that Kublai Khan wanted to burn down the shipyard, Blue Hague showed a look of intolerance on his face.

Therefore, Kublai Khan believed that the city could not be defended.

In order to defend the Song army, Kublai Khan had already developed the defensive fortifications to the extreme.

All their artillery are also hidden in the stone sheds, so it is not easy for the Song army's artillery to hit them, and it will take a long time.

Kublai Khan built countless carved forts on top of the city. If he had not had the experience of later generations, he could have done better.

Outside the south gate of the city, Liu Zhengzheng was with Tasi and others. It was rare for the generals of both sides to command together, but of course each had his own command.

Tasi and other Mongolian generals and the Han army households all looked at the Song army on the opposite side from time to time.

This is also a rare opportunity to watch the Song Army at close range.

I saw that the armor of the Song army was unified, and the whole army was like a whole. When the order was not moved, all the Song troops stood motionless, like a terrifying mountain.

Shi Tianze and the others had fought against the Song Army before, and now they found that the Song Army was becoming more and more elite.

Looking at the weapons of the Song army, there are several rows of spear-shield or sword-shield soldiers and archers in the front, and all fusiliers behind them. If they could stand closer, they would find that the people in the front row were not authentic Song people, but all servants.

However, due to the distance, they could not tell whether the front row was from the Song Dynasty, and they thought they were all regular Song troops.

While Tasi was talking casually to Liu Zheng, he was evaluating. Now that the Song Army does not need a large number of horse-drawn carriages to form a horse-drawn formation, can our cavalry still break the Song Army's formation?

The Mongolian army's light cavalry can skim and shoot, and its heavy cavalry can charge into formations. The Song army does not use horse-drawn carriage formations, so in Tasi's eyes it is easier to fight.

Tasi and Liu Zheng appeared to be in harmony, but they were actually thinking about how to defeat the Song army in the future. At the same time, Liu Zheng was also observing the Mongolian army on the opposite side and thinking about how to defeat the Mongolian army.
With the Song army's powerful flintlock guns now, the Mongolian army's light cavalry were looking for death, and those who could fight would not be able to find their parents.

Some people say that the Mongolian cavalry has the initiative and does not need to rush into battle.

If you are fighting the Song Army now, you will die if you don't rush into the formation. Only by rushing into the formation can you hope to defeat the Song Army.

You are out shooting, and everyone in the Song army has a horse. They can follow you or not. If you want to fight the Song army, the Song army will dismount and line up. You can't do it unless you charge.

Just like the Battle of Baliqiao, Seng Gelinqin, could he not rush?
Where does the British and French allied forces go? If you say that all your cavalry has the initiative, lead the cavalry to the side. Do you think the British and French allied forces will pay attention to you?

You can only rush forward, but you can't glancing. If you glancing, you will die.

The Song Army does not use horse-drawn carriage formations very much now. In addition to being blocked by servants with guns and shields in front, there are also grenades behind.

After flintlock guns and grenades, even if the machine gun does not appear, it is more than enough to deal with the cavalry.

Once the machine gun is available, the gun and shield soldiers in front can also be omitted.

At that time, no matter how many cavalry charges you have, it will be useless.

There are no machine guns now, so gun and shield soldiers are still needed to block the front.

The two coaches Liu Zhengtasi were thinking about their own thoughts. After a while, they heard a buzzing sound, but it was the Mongols pushing their heavy trebuchet over.

When Liu Zheng saw this thing, it was really heavy. It was much heavier than Song Jun's. It took more than a dozen people to push it.

There were carriages behind, pulling heavy stone bullets, almost one carriage pulling two.

This put a lot of pressure on logistics, so the Mongolian army brought a large number of Persian civilians.

Judging from the current scale, the Mongolian army sent troops to attack the city, and it brought more civilians than the Song army. Naturally, there was greater logistical pressure due to the large number of people, so Tasi also hoped to capture Lai City as soon as possible.

"It's not easy to get these stone bullets out?" Liu Zheng laughed at this time. The Mongolian army's stone bullets weighed several hundred kilograms, and it was not easy to get even one piece out.

Historically, the Mongolian army surrounded Xiangyang with hundreds of catapults for several years. No one knows how many stones they threw and where they came from. It is estimated that they also demolished other captured city walls nearby.

Of course, when the Mongolian army ran out of stones to throw, they threw the rotting corpses into the city, which could also be used as biological and chemical weapons.

At this time, Shi Tianze on the side said: "Stone bullets are not easy to get. We only have a few dozen now. We still have to rely on your Song army's artillery. We will destroy their stone sheds, and you will destroy their artillery."

Liu Zheng rolled his eyes and thought of a way for them: "When there are no more stone bombs, you can light the corpses of your dead civilians on fire, and then throw them up."

"..." Tasi and Shi Tianze glared at Liu Zheng, how could you be as insidious as Zhao Yurui and say such unethical words.

But it is indeed a good idea. Before Shi Tianze could say anything, Tasi nodded decisively: "This is okay. You won't have to worry about running out of stone bullets in the future."

"." Shi Tianze and all the Han soldiers were speechless.

If Zhao Yurui had been at the scene, he would have suspected that it was Liu Zheng who brought up the idea of ​​the Mongolian army attacking Xiangyang and throwing away corpses.

In the morning, both sides waited for a long time for the trebuchets and artillery to arrive.

The Song army's artillery arrived first, five hundred steps outside the city. Anyway, the Mongolian army's artillery could not hit that far.

Then Tasi's trebuchet arrived five hundred paces away.

Then they did not dare to step forward, fearing that they would be waiting for the artillery from the city head, so they had to wait for the Song army's artillery.

After Liu Zheng looked at it, he waved slightly.

"fire."

Boom, the Song Army's artillery fired first.

The artillery roared at the scene, and the Song Army's artillery fired at the stone shed, and the hit rate was a bit low.

But as soon as one was hit, it exploded immediately, and there were Kublai Khan's artillery and even gunpowder barrels in the stone shed. After a while, a boom was heard, and one of the stone sheds actually exploded.

There were cheers outside the city, and Tasi and others were also extremely excited. Only Liu Zheng looked unhappy.

It took more than twenty rounds to demolish a stone shed.

The Song Army's artillery fired intermittently for nearly an hour. Because the firing lasted too long, Liu Zheng simply ordered the Song Army to sit down and rest.

Seeing this, Tasi also ordered the Mongolian troops to sit down and rest where they were.

So both sides sat and watched the Song army fight.

At this time, Tasi could also see that the Song army's artillery hit farther and faster, and was more powerful than their artillery. He was very envious.

He also thought that if the cavalry faced this kind of artillery, it would be quite troublesome and it would explode into pieces.

Fortunately, there are not many artillery in Liu Zheng's belt. If it is used on a battlefield with tens of thousands of people, it should not be very useful.

If there were hundreds or hundreds of doors, that would be terrible.

While everyone was thinking, the Song Army's artillery fired intermittently at the south side of the city for nearly an hour, firing hundreds of shots.

The barrels of the artillery were all red, and they finally dug up the entire area within two hundred steps of the city. All Kublai Khan's artillery within two hundred steps were knocked out by the Song army.

There was chaos at the top of the city. The Mongolian troops gave way everywhere, and no one dared to be at the top of the city most of the time.

At this moment, Tasi from the city gate gave an order, and the trebuchet began to move forward, followed by the civilian men carrying sandbags on their backs to follow.

Kublai Khan saw the attack on the city and quickly ordered his troops to move forward.

At this time, they had almost no artillery available in the south and could only wait for the coalition forces to fill the river.

"Come on." The Mongolian army supervisor team was holding knives from behind and forcing the Persian civilian husbands. If the civilian husbands ran slower, they would be easily chopped down by the knife. The civilian husbands ran forward as hard as they could.

There were also Persian civilians on the Song Army's side, but the overall situation was much better than that on the Tasi side. The Song Army did not threaten them and gave them money.

"Boom" followed by a loud noise, the trebuchet that entered two hundred steps took the lead and threw it towards the city head. The huge stone bullet hit the city head like a black shadow.

However, the first throw was inaccurate, and it hit the city wall with a splash and rolled to the moat.

(End of this chapter)