Chapter 270: Capturing Zhao Qi'er Alive
The brothers of the Shenwei Army's flying squadron roared with hoarse voices, "Yes."
In the big white tent in the distance, Hubili murmured after seeing the hot air balloons in the sky through the telescope: Despite all the obstacles, they have finally formed an army, they have finally formed an army.
Hubili's telescopes were all picked up from the Shenwei Army on the battlefield. They were very precious, and the generals below would present them as gifts to the princes and generals of his level after obtaining them.
This makes it difficult to play its best advantages.
If the telescope was in Zhao Yulin's hands, he would definitely give it to the brother in charge of reconnaissance to carry with him and investigate the enemy situation clearly from a distance.
The commander-in-chief is in charge of the central army and makes plans based on the comprehensive battlefield situation. Why is he holding a telescope?
When Android saw Hubili in a daze, he shouted "Kill," and led his guards out to reverse the situation on the battlefield.
Hubili looked at the Divine Might Army flying straight over the camp and ordered his men to withdraw.
Android is a member of the prince Kuoduan's army. He didn't understand and angrily asked Hubili why he wanted to withdraw his troops. Our army has not collapsed. Are hundreds of thousands of people afraid of the poor loser Gao Fengzi on the opposite side?
Hubili pointed to the direction where the hot air balloon was flying away and asked him if he saw it.
That's the Heavenly Army of the Divine Power. They just flew past our tent but didn't drop a thunder bomb and flew straight to the northwest. Why?
Hubili said that was the direction of Guyuan, and the Shenwei Army must have launched a full-scale counterattack.
He said that our main forces were exhausted after attacking here, and the Divine Might Army was constantly gathering and increasing its strength. This was the limit of our advance.
The two sides fought for ten days on a battle line of hundreds of miles without making any progress, and their losses were getting heavier and heavier.
Now, Zhao Qier's heavenly army has gone to battle, and we have only captured three small cities without completing the adjustment and deployment. When should we leave?
Before Hubili could convince Anduo'er, the military report arrived: the Shenwei Army in the direction of Luochuan launched an all-out attack, and Yan'an Prefecture was lost in just half a day.
The Shenwei Army marched westward in large numbers, fearing that they would take Lingzhou directly, so Prince Kuoduan ordered an immediate withdrawal.
Soon after, bad news came from Huichuan: Guo Chongma launched an attack like a savage without regard for his life, and Hubili's right-wing army attacking Zhenshunzhou had been defeated and was fleeing towards Anhua.
Hubili certainly didn't know that while Hao Xiaoming in Lanzhou was on high alert, the Mongolian army did not launch a surprise attack on Wuwei as they had done in the past. After the battle of Guyuan broke out, he immediately adjusted his deployment, using cavalry to support the Northern Theater Command, and together with Guo Chongma, launched a counterattack. How could the exhausted Mongolian army withstand the attack of the Shenwei Army cavalry armed with advanced firearms?
Zhao Yulin was still struggling in the sky at this time.
Guyuan was in sight, but two balloons reported that their fuel was running low. Everyone checked one by one and found that there was not much paint left on the balloons.
The hot air balloon used pure nanmu charcoal, which had very good firepower. However, the emergency operation just now consumed a lot of charcoal, and the flight from Anhua to Guyuan was more than 200 miles, so the balloon was quickly used up.
My god, without fuel you can’t stay in the air. It looks like you’re going to fall and die for your country.
Zhao Yulin saw that there were only a few black thunder bombs left in the hanging basket, and the scraped railings of the hanging basket were baring their fangs as if they were about to kill someone. It would be a good idea to dismantle them and use them as fuel.
He picked up the microphone and shouted, asking his brothers to dismantle the railings to make fuel, and they immediately looked for tools and started working.
In the afternoon, nine hot air balloons finally flew to Guyuan in unison, and the battlefield could be seen clearly from afar. The enemy was attacking Guyuan City desperately, and catapults from both sides were firing at each other. Thunder bombs continued to explode inside and outside the city and on the city walls.
The Guyuan mentioned here is Zhenrong City, which has been half captured by the Mongolian army.
The Mongolian army, led by Prince Kuoduan, surrounded Guyuan like an iron barrel.
The commander drove the soldiers with explosive packs tied to their bodies and attacked against the wall . He even used the dead bodies of the soldiers to blow up the two walls of the old city of Guyuan and rushed in.
Right now, the Mongolian army is desperately attacking the new city of Guyuan.
However, the expansion attack ends here.
Wanyan Chengmin, with his face covered in blood on the city wall, thought he would die with the city. Suddenly, he saw several large balloons flying from the southeast. He immediately thought of the rumor among senior generals that the hot air balloon army was being developed in Cuiping Mountain in Xuzhou.
He raised the telescope and looked carefully, and actually saw someone in the basket under the balloon on the right looking at him with binoculars.
Well, isn’t that our Third Young Master?
Because only the Third Young Master has a telescope with two eyes.
Wanyan Chengmin immediately picked up the microphone and shouted: "The Third Young Master is here, our Heavenly Army has arrived, brothers, kill them, Commander Zhao is here to save us."
Most of the soldiers were staring at the battle ahead and didn't see any reinforcements coming. But when they heard that the Third Young Master was coming, they were very excited, like chicken blood, and the morale of the Shenwei Army was greatly boosted, and the shouts of killing were raised eight degrees.
Then, black thunder bombs fell on the camps and positions of the Mongolian army. Amid the violent explosions, the Mongolian soldiers who were attacking the city hid here and there, and were so shocked that they didn't know what to do. When they were about to draw their bows and shoot arrows, the huge balloon had already flown over their heads.
Wang Dahai commanded his brothers to throw the remaining thunder bombs into the old city occupied by the enemy, causing smoke to fill the area and people to cry for their parents.
Wanyan Chengmin's deputy general Wanyan Hongchang immediately led his brothers in a counterattack, taking advantage of the chaos to attack the old city and recapture the entire city.
As soon as Zhao Yulin approached the city, he asked the operator to lower the engine and lower the altitude. The balloons landed steadily on the training ground, and all eight balloons landed successfully.
However, the military supervisor Liu Zhi was at high altitude, but because he was unable to operate in time, he fell into the old city where fierce fighting was still going on.
He lifted the 800 million bar and stepped out of the hanging basket, then rushed to the old city with his brothers to rescue people.
Wang Dahai immediately shouted to protect the third young master, and Wanyan Hongchang's personal guards immediately came over.
Zhao Yulin shouted: Fight, blow the charge.
The charge of the Shenwei Army sounded immediately, and he followed behind Wanyan Hongchang and kept firing, shooting at any Mongolian soldier who dared to show his head. The guards protected him and threw hand grenades. A violent storm-like attack drove the Mongolian army out of the old city.
However, three Heavenly Army soldiers including Liu Zhi were shot to death by the Mongolian army because they fell behind enemy lines.
Zhao Yulin asked Wang Dahai to clean up the mess and asked Wanyan Hongchang to lead the way and inspect the positions. He praised Wanyan Hongchang for his good leadership of the soldiers and called each of them a true hero.
Wanyan Chengmin ran over excitedly and asked why the third young master was here, it was so dangerous.
He patted his chest and said, everything is fine, his brothers are not afraid, so why should he be afraid?
The group entered the government office to discuss matters.
Zhao Yulin unexpectedly saw Hong Sheng from Lin'an among them. The prefect reported to him that Hong Sheng was a great talent from Nanzheng Academy, a rare young talent who could write and paint, and was also good at educating the people.
Zhao Yulin asked him with a smile: Have you received the letter from his mother? His mother should have arrived in Nanzheng.
Hong Sheng said happily that he had received it. The students from Nanzheng did not bring shame to the third young master and they all stayed with the garrison.
He gave Hongsheng a thumbs up and encouraged him to work hard.
Wanyan Chengmin reported to him that his brothers were unwilling to abandon the people and retreat, and were surrounded by the Mongolian army after retreating into Zhenrong City. Almost half of the 20,000 men were now lying down, and the remaining people were determined to defend the city even if they had to sleep with their dead brothers as pillows.
Zhao Yulin was silent. He took off his hat and mourned for his dead brothers. He told Wanyan Chengmin to be careful of the Mongolian army's sneak attack at night.
However, he estimated that the Mongolian army would only be able to survive for two days.
Zhao Yulin said: He has ordered the Eastern Group to attack Yan'an Prefecture. If Lai Chuanfang and his men make good progress, they should be able to capture Yan'an Prefecture.
The Shenwei Army is about to march into Lingzhou. If Kuoduan still doesn't leave by then, won't he be waiting to die here?
Chengmin immediately became excited and called on his brothers to deploy to defend the city.
Zhao Yulin asked him to find all the water jars and bury them around the inner city to monitor the situation and prevent the enemy from digging tunnels and launching surprise attacks.
Because of the drought here, it is very convenient to dig tunnels, which are concealed and not prone to landslides. The defenders placed water tanks under the inner wall as amplifiers for underground sound transmission, which became the best tool for monitoring the enemy's tunnels.
Wanyan Chengmin said that they had already done it. Kuoduan dug a tunnel to get in from underground, built a high platform to attack the city, and concentrated the Hui artillery to bombard the city. They used all means, so we had to hold on.
Zhao Yulin thought of their catapults and asked Wanyan Chengmin how many of them were still usable?
Wanyan Chengmin told him that dozens of planes had been lost and there were not many that could be used. The craftsmen's battalion was repairing them and it was estimated that there were less than twenty that could be used.
However, his artillerymen in the city could not see the situation outside the city, and the artillery cover could not play a very role. Instead, the Mongolian army's Huihui artillery fired at the city wall and hit it accurately.
Zhao Yulin said that the southeast wind was too strong, and the Sky Army could not take off tomorrow and could not provide battlefield support. However, they could provide guidance for our artillery.
He suddenly felt a rush of blood and quickly covered his mouth and coughed violently twice, and then he continued to make arrangements quickly.
Everyone left, but Wanyan Chengmin looked at him with a conflicted expression.
What did Zhao Yulin ask?
Aren’t you busy yet?
Wanyan Chengmin grabbed his hand and looked at it. There was blood on the corners of his mouth and hands. He immediately asked nervously: "Third Young Master, this..."
Zhao Yulin immediately covered his mouth and whispered to him not to talk, otherwise it would disrupt the morale of the army. Zhao Yulin told him that it was just a recurrence of internal injuries and loss of internal strength, and it was nothing serious.
Wanyan Chengmin said with great distress that two of the three wells here had been damaged by the Mongolian army, and only one well still had some life-saving water, so there was no way for the young master to retire.
He said it was okay, found a piece of rag to wipe it clean, and then went to the craftsman camp to make his hot air balloon earth-sky intercom.
After receiving the report of the loss of Yan'an Prefecture and the defeat of Zhenshun, Hubili of Anhua had already arranged the retreat.
However, it was not so easy for him to escape unscathed, because Miao Gui and Gao Jin, commanding nearly 150,000 troops, were coming to attack him.
After Hubili gave instructions and made the arrangements, he immediately fled back to Guyuan. In the middle of the night, he heard explosions from the direction of Guyuan, and sighed that the warmongerer Koufubuhua was really crazy.
