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

Chapter 539 Alborz Mountains

After the first shot, trebuchets sounded one after another, and large stone bullets flew towards the city head one by one.

Kublai Khan's men and horses at the top of the city had to be careful to avoid them, and at the same time they had to use arrows to shoot the civilians who rushed up.

The shouts of killing were loud, and the villagers came up one after another, rushed to the river, threw down the sandbags, turned around and ran away.

The scene was quite cruel. Many people rushed to the ground and fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. Some people finally threw them into the river, but when they turned around, they were hit by arrows again and fell into the river.

Arrows rained down from the top of the city. Kublai Khan's men also knew that the city could not be breached, so they held up the Mongolian army's trebuchets and shot down.

The Song army's artillery only blew up their artillery or artillery, but a large number of stone sheds still existed, and they could hide in the stone sheds and shoot arrows.

During this period, Tasi kept sending people to ask Liu Zheng, "Your artillery fire continues. The Mongolian army's arrow rain is very fierce, and the city is full of people."

But Liu Zheng said that he had been firing the artillery on the opposite side, and the barrel of the artillery was completely red, and he had to wait for it to cool down.

Tasi had no choice but to let the trebuchet refuel and throw it.

Kublai Khan's defense was excellent, but it also had a shortcoming. There were stone sheds, pools, sand piles, and artillery on his city, which made the space at the top of the city extremely small.

By 2:00 p.m., with the efforts of both the Song Army and Tasi, the moat was finally filled up slowly.

The soldiers of the Song army and civilians pushed the carriage, which was like a shield cart. The arrows fired from the top of the city were useless and could not hit the civilians behind. Kublai Khan immediately ordered the use of rockets.

Tasi immediately turned around: "Push down the carriage loaded with stone bullets and push it directly into the river."

"As many as come, as many as come, the heavy cavalry will assemble first." Yizhala was very anxious. The troops inside and outside the city were in a panic, and there seemed to be not many soldiers and horses who could assemble the entire battalion.

At the same time, the Song Army's artillery, which had rested for a while, began to fire at the top of the city again.

Tuo Lei was defeated in the Kingdom of Jin back then, and finally escaped by running over the mountains.

The river filling speed was very fast now, and many people fell down by arrows by the river.

There was no space at the top of the city, so I watched the people running down the city several times. The moat had not been filled in yet, and I felt angry and anxious.

When Kublai Khan arrived near the North Gate, elite Mongolian troops from all directions were gathering here.

After gathering for about half an hour, the place was already crowded with people and horses everywhere. Kublai Khan estimated that almost 10,000 horses had gathered in the direction of the north gate, and many who were not elites also came over.

I saw that the seven or eight civilians, after a lot of effort, finally pushed the carriage to the shore. With a final push, with a bang, the carriage fell into the moat together with the sandbags.

It would be more fun if the Song Army and the Mongolian Army join forces to attack the city. Both sides have their own advantages. The Mongolian Army shoots at each other with arrows, and the Song Army's flintlock guns help.

He left a confidant to guard the south gate, and the resistance there was also fierce. The confidant's family members were now following Kublai Khan, preparing to run away together.

As Kublai Khan ran, he asked his cronies to gather all the elite heavy armored cavalry, preparing to use the heavy armored cavalry to break out of a road, while letting the light armored cavalry follow him.

After all, everyone had been guarding the city before, and now they suddenly got the order to go down to the city and look for their own horses. It was really a bit panicked.

He hurriedly came to the north first. To the north was the main attack of the Mongolian army from Tasi. The outside was full of Mongolian troops. Moreover, Tasi knew that the north was more important and had heavy troops stationed there. However, Kublai Khan had no choice because he had to cross Alburz from the north. Only then can the mountains escape to the Volga River.

The servants stepped forward with shields and pushed the wounded and corpses nearby into the river.

The stone shed was lost at the top of the city, and the artillery fell to the ground and exploded.

Running over mountains is the fastest and safest. If you run on the plains, both sides are cavalry, and the defeated army will only suffer a worse defeat.

When Kublai Khan saw something was wrong, they immediately had no place for their own people in the city.

Tasi was also a ruthless man and immediately ordered a group of servants to go up and push the corpses and injured people by the river into the river.

Both sides fought one after another. In one morning, no less than 3,000 civilians were killed or injured.

Because the Song-Mongolian coalition mainly attacked the south gate, and there were fewer defenders on the other three sides, there were about 10,000 people still at the top of the city at this time, and most of them were not Kublai Khan's elite main force.

The peasants turned around and ran away.

And he really followed what Liu Zheng said, setting fire to the fallen civilians and throwing them towards the city.

Someone probably heard the news and wanted to break out from the north gate. Some guards came over to join in the fun regardless of military orders. Seeing that the place was getting more and more crowded, Kublai Khan had no choice but to let people open the city gate.

Kublai Khan's men and horses at the top of the city did not dare to go too far forward. As soon as they showed their heads, various arrows and flintlock rifles were fired at from below.

Many civilians were pushed directly into the river. Among them, the casualties on the Tasi side were several times that of the Song army. They simply did not regard the civilians as human beings.

Turning around, I saw seven or eight civilian men from the Song Army pushing a carriage. The carriage seemed to be filled with sandbags, and they were pushing forward with force.

At this time, according to the earlier agreement between the two sides, the Mongolian army took the lead in attacking. The sound of trumpets and drums was loud, and a large number of Mongolian soldiers moved forward carrying ladders, while the Song army's fusiliers slowly followed behind.

"Let's go, let's go." He quickly turned around and went down to the city, taking his confidants with him and running north.

There were originally 30,000 troops in the city. Later, Kublai Khan recruited some more and distributed weapons to defend the city. About 50,000 were used to defend the city.

"Ho hey, ho hey, ho hey -"

After watching it for a while, Kublai Khan knew he couldn't hold it any longer.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a roar not far away.

Now Tasi's large stone bullets and corpses were thrown upward. It had only been fighting for less than half an hour. The passage to the south of the city was almost blocked. There were either corpses of both sides killed in the battle or large stone bullets.

"Quickly, push all the corpses down." Kublai Khan ordered the corpses at the top of the city to be pushed down, otherwise there will be no space above.

When the Mongolian army's ladder reached the wall, the Mongolian army began to attack. The Song army fired flintlock rifles more than 100 steps away from the city to help.

Tasi followed suit. He first packed the sandbags into the carriage, then pushed them up with the carriage, and finally pushed the carriage into the river.

But if the rocket is shot up, it won't burn for a while.

At this moment, there was a loud boom not far away that shook the earth, as if the sound of a mountain roaring and a tsunami came from the south gate.

Kublai Khan and Bruhaha looked at each other, probably knowing that the city had been breached.

"Open the city gate and leave quickly." Kublai Khan gave the order, the north gate opened with a bang, and the suspension bridge was lowered.

The Tasi soldiers and horses who were attacking the city outside turned around and began to gather. They also knew that the defenders in the city were about to rush out.

"Rush, rush, rush"

Kublai Khan gave an order, and large groups of heavy cavalry took the lead in rushing out of the city.

The rumble of the cavalry shook the world. Kublai Khan was really afraid that these heavy cavalry would break the suspension bridge.

Fortunately, there were not many Mongolian heavy cavalry, and Kublai Khan didn't have much on hand. Less than half of them had gathered in a hurry. There were originally thousands of heavy cavalry in the city, but only more than 400 arrived at the scene. The heavy cavalry rushed out first, and the civilians who were filling in the moat outside fled in all directions, while the Tasi soldiers and horses were waiting behind them.

Looking at the densely packed Tasi troops and horses in front of them, Kublai Khan's men had no choice but to rush forward. The troops on both sides were about the same, and Tasi only had more than 10,000 troops here.

There were more than ten thousand of them who rushed out of the city.

But as the heavy cavalry ran closer and closer, they discovered that there were densely packed enemy horses not far ahead.

The people in Tasi had obviously learned all the tactics of the Song army, and they also strictly prevented them from rushing into the formation, with rows of horses blocking the front of the formation.

"Charge, charge." The horn of Kublai Khan's rear formation sounded, and the heavy cavalry almost did not hesitate and charged forward against the horse.

They had to clear a way behind.

Swish, swish, the two sides quickly approached, and arrows rained from all directions. The heavy cavalry moved forward against the rain of arrows, and hit the horse with a bang.

Many horses were broken, and countless heavy cavalry fell.

The cavalry from behind rushed up in waves. The people in Tasi did not learn the essence of the Song army. If the Song army was releasing their horses, they would use ropes to connect them one by one. The Mongolian army could not reach the second level after charging through one level. Even if you get to the second level, you can't get to the third level.

Now the people of Tasi just randomly set up a few layers of horse resistance, but Kublai Khan's heavy horse rushed them, and they quickly broke out of a bloody path.

"Kill" The two sides immediately engaged in close combat. The cavalry in the opposite city rushed out desperately, and the people outside also tried their best to stop them.

At the same time, the Mongolian and Song armies in the east and west of the city knew that Kublai Khan was breaking out of the encirclement in the north, and a large number of troops also moved this way.

Liu Zheng was originally with Tasi, watching the Mongolian army enter the city first, while the Song army was still waiting behind.

Suddenly they heard that Kublai Khan was breaking out from the north, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

If Kublai Khan is defeated and flees, the Mongolian army is suitable for chasing and killing. The Song army is all fusiliers, suitable for siege and positional warfare, but not suitable for chasing and killing.

This can only be done by the Mongolian army.

"Let's go to Kublai Khan and watch you in the city. Don't let anyone escape." Tasi laughed and was about to lead his troops away.

Liu Zheng immediately stopped him: "Kublai Khan may have climbed over the mountains. Past the Alborz Mountains is the Caspian Sea. They have built small towns and shipyards on the edge of the Caspian Sea."

Tasi was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "Understood."

Driving, he turned around, mounted his horse, and left. As he walked, he gave orders, separated a group of troops, and hurried to the Caspian Sea.

But to go to the Caspian Sea, you have to go around the Alborz Mountains. The straight-line distance between Rai City and the Caspian Sea is two hundred miles, and it takes more than a thousand miles to go around the Alborz Mountains. The key depends on whether Kublai Khan can climb over the mountain quickly or they can Chase quickly.

After the Mongolian army left, Liu Zheng looked around and asked the Song army to wait for a while. After the Mongolian army entered the city, the Song army began to enter the city.

According to the agreement, both sides would each occupy half, and each would clear out the other half, plundering money, materials and people. The craftsmen obtained by the Song army would be given to the Mongols.

After the city of Lai was broken, the defenders in the city felt uncomfortable facing the incoming Tasi soldiers and horses and the Song army.

The Tasi people were very cruel and showed no mercy in killing people. The Song people were even more ruthless, throwing incendiary bombs at every turn and never attacking the enemy.

Fires broke out in the city, and resistance became weaker and weaker.

Then a large group of Mongolian troops fled from west to east, fled towards the attack direction of Tasi, and threw themselves directly at the Mongolian troops in Tasi.

Because the people in Tasi were beating and shouting, asking them to surrender. They are all Mongols and should not surrender to the Song people.

Of course, there were also armies of other tribes in the city, some surrendered to the Mongols, and some surrendered to the Song army.

At this time, there was a Persian army in the west of the city still guarding the city. Because the Song army outside knew that the south gate was broken, they did not attack again. A large number of Song troops were gathering and waiting.

There were many Mongolian troops running eastward at the top of the city. There were three to four hundred Persians in this group, and everyone gathered around the leader Yeer.

Finally someone couldn't help it: "The city is broken, what should we do? Who should we surrender?"

"I see that some Turks have not left, and they seem to be preparing to surrender to the Song people."

"The Georgians seem to be heading east, and may want to bring down the Mongols."

Everyone was talking about it. Generally speaking, the Georgians who had been running away from Batu and Mongke, including the Oghuz people of the Rum Sultanate who had just been conquered, thought that the Mongolian army was powerful and surrendered to the Mongolian army.

However, some Turks, Khitans, Jurchens, etc. may have fought with the Song army before, and they were withdrawn from the original Xixia territory. They thought that the Song army was still stronger, so they stayed behind to prepare to surrender to the Song army.

Yeer scratched his head in confusion, and finally said: "It seems that the Song Army is more powerful, so why don't we surrender to the Song Army?"

"Okay." Everyone said in unison and went on to do it.

There were other Mongolian troops guarding outside the west city gate. Some Mongolian troops ran away, while others were still holding on. Yeer led hundreds of people down to the top of the city and gave the order.

"Kill" rushed forward and quickly opened the west gate to let the Song army from the west also enter the city.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, all four gates of Lai City were opened. The Song and Mongolian armies poured in like a tide. Everyone inside began to surrender, and there was almost no resistance before dark.

So what about Kublai Khan at this time?
Kublai Khan did what Liu Zheng thought, he rushed directly to the Alborz Mountains.

There was nothing they could do. Although they came out with a large group of cavalry, if they wanted to escape toward the Caspian Sea, the cavalry from Tasi behind them would chase them all the way, and they didn't know if there would be an ambush in front of them.

Alborz is just north of Rai City. They have stayed here for several years and are quite familiar with it. They have already built the mountain road.

On the other side of the mountain is the Caspian Sea. They have also built castles and shipyards on the edge of the Caspian Sea. As long as the defenders at the shipyard stop them, they have a chance to escape into the Caspian Sea.

Kublai Khan's men fought with the Mongolian army outside the north gate for nearly half an hour, and finally fought their way to the foot of Mount Alborz.

Kublai Khan originally built two forts at the foot of the mountain, mainly to guard the mountain road. Of course, when Tasi came over, they had already been captured by Tasi. Now Kublai Khan left some people behind to attack, and the rest directly attacked Rush over.

There were dozens of people on each fort, shooting arrows below, but Kublai Khan's men and horses didn't care and rushed directly into the mountain road.

Those who were left behind to storm would attack the fort.

By about three or four o'clock, Kublai Khan was already halfway up the mountain.

If his father Tuo Lei was still alive in this situation, father and son would probably hug each other and cry. It was very similar to the time Tuo Lei suffered a disastrous defeat and climbed a mountain to escape.

Kublai Khan stood halfway up the mountain, looking at the foot of the mountain. There were fires everywhere at the foot of the mountain, and there was a battlefield outside. Kublai Khan left behind people who were still fighting with the Mongolian army in Tasi.

After a while, there was a boom, and they seemed to hear the sound of artillery. Kublai Khan's face turned even more ugly, knowing that Tasi or the Song army had pulled the artillery over.

The sound of the artillery sounded a bit like the artillery of the Song Army. As soon as the artillery of the Song Army arrived, the soldiers and horses behind him were even more unable to withstand it.

He looked at the smoke-filled city of Rye in the distance, feeling quite unwilling to do so.

(End of this chapter)