Chapter 576 The old nest was destroyed
Hubili was originally very safe in the center, but he was in trouble when he encountered the close-range mortar attack of the Shenwei Army. His loyal guards fell in groups, and most . Even he himself was covered in blood. His horse was crushed to the ground with its legs broken by the explosion.
After being helped up by the guards, this guy flew into a rage and ordered his troops to fight back and destroy this mighty army.
Shi Tianze ran over and saw Hubili's miserable condition, but there was no time to comfort him. He told him to leave quickly, as his eldest son Shi Ge was also injured, and they should quickly break out to the north.
Hubili listened and felt as if he was being taken advantage of.
This guy didn't have time to imagine and just kept on following the team.
Just now, Liu Zheng used mortars to launch a concentrated fire attack on Hubili, and then ran head-on into the assault vanguard of the Shi family army. Both sides immediately launched intensive fire with muskets and arrows.
In order to avoid the danger of gunpowder becoming ineffective when it comes into contact with water, the Shenwei Army mixed the Shenbi crossbow and the fire gun. Liu Zheng was the first to run in front, and heard the clanging sound of the armored warhorse, and the cotton armor coat was full of arrows. He shouted excitedly, "Shoot, shoot." The cavalry lined up like a goose formation and took turns to shoot arrows and fire guns.
Scout, who was running in front, was quickly hit by two bullets.
Are you kidding? The musket is extremely powerful at such a close distance. No armor can withstand it, let alone the thin armor of the Shi family army?
The short arrows fired from the crossbow bit into his body one by one.
No matter how brave the Shi family army was, their flesh and blood bodies could not resist after all. Moreover, Liu Zheng's night attack team rushed forward like a heavy tank, crushing them and leaving them far behind, without giving them any attention at all.
The Shenwei Army that was responsible for the encirclement and annihilation mission in the surrounding areas was the focus of the aftermath. These troops quickly seized the opportunity as a group to cut the enemy into several sections and encircled and annihilated them.
After daybreak, a melee ended.
The Mongolian army was basically divided into two parts naturally by their breakout method. To the northeast were Tacaer's cavalry and a small number of infantry.
To the northwest were the infantry troops led by Hubili and Shi Tianze.
Tachaer's cavalry charged into battle one after another, but suffered heavy casualties after being bombarded by the Sixth Column, and now there are less than 20,000 soldiers. Hubili and Shi Tianze suffered relatively little loss because Tachaer led the charge, and the remaining soldiers were less than 50,000, but too much military equipment and baggage were abandoned.
The only weapons the soldiers had were swords, guns, bows and arrows.
Both sides are adjusting their deployments and accumulating strength.
However, when the battle started again, Shi Tianze discovered that the force sniping at them had weakened. The Shenwei Army only tried to defeat, harass and follow up, and did not engage in a head-on fight like they did last night.
When they fled to Zhending Prefecture, they found the answer. It turned out that the Shenwei Army had captured Zhending Prefecture.
Hubili ran for hundreds of miles with his injured leg. When he was about to reach Zhending Prefecture, he learned that the flag of the Shenwei Army had been raised there. He immediately turned eastward and fled. The cavalrymen who escaped with him told him that the Shenwei Army was concentrating its forces to snipe at his cavalry all the way, and that Zhending Prefecture no longer had any organized cavalry.
Tachaer's life and death are unknown.
Shi Tianze then realized that the Shenwei Army simply looked down on his infantry and concentrated its forces to annihilate Tachaer's cavalry.
Three days later, Hubili returned to Daxing Prefecture to look at his territory again. The Shenwei Army occupied Zhending Prefecture in the west and Cangzhou in the south. After the navy retreated to the sea, it still monitored the mouth of the Haihe River. He felt like he was being put in a pocket by the New Song army.
This guy didn't have time to think about it and immediately deployed troops to defend.
To the west, a violent storm was brewing at the foot of the distant Altai Mountains.
The envoys from Badu came to entertain the troops with gold, silver, cattle, sheep and Rusmeji. The Khan was very happy and summoned the princesses and generals for a feast, singing and dancing. Unexpectedly, the next day, Guiyou Khan could not get out of bed. The attendants carefully went to the bed and found that he had pressed Rusmeji under him. She had already died.
It turned out that the beautiful girl sent by Badu was a killer from the Western Regions whom he had paid a large sum of money. The woman used her body as a weapon and hid poison in her dentures. When the Khan was in love with her, she bit off the poison and used her tongue as a tool to easily kill people.
The attendant was frightened to death when he saw black blood flowing from the corners of the two men's mouths and strange smiles on their faces.
Damn, this matter has become a big deal, and the Khan's tent immediately became a mess.
When Guiyou's eldest son Hecha learned about this, he led people to capture the envoys of Badu, including the shepherds, and killed them all.
This gave Mengge the opportunity to take action. He immediately led his troops to suppress Hecha's atrocities. The two sides had never gotten along well, so they immediately picked up swords and fought desperately.
Don't think that Da Mengge's troops look like a group of scattered soldiers and guerrillas, that's just a disguise, they are ruthless when it comes to fighting. When the envoys of Badu arrived at the camp, Mengge was preparing to start a rebellion. Hecha led the army to fight and found that he had been fooled as soon as he started fighting.
Meng Ge's men were not only brave, but also had powerful weapons, including hand grenades, new spring-assisted catapults, and mortars obtained from the Shenwei Army.
This kind of combat power is beyond the ability of Hecha to withstand.
Seeing that Hecha was defeated, Mengge decided to drastically attack Hecha by ordering the Heavenly Army that had followed him to attack. He forced Hecha's men to flee in all directions. He then ordered his own brothers to attack and hack Hecha into pieces on the spot.
The princes and generals around were all terrified. Some raised their flags and cursed Mengge for treason. Both sides raised their scimitars and chopped again.
Da Mengge had the help of the heavenly army trained by Hu Bili, and the twenty hot air balloons were invincible as soon as they appeared. While suppressing those who disobeyed, he sent messengers to negotiate among the princes, and soon reached an agreement not to chop off the enemy and return to the grassland royal court in the east.
We must go back and elect Da Mengge as Khan, the heroic leader of the grassland.
However, after a fight on the grassland, there were heavy casualties, and the first thing to do was to rescue the wounded and stabilize the team.
Mengge was very generous. He distributed the gold and silver found in Guiyou's account and the cattle and sheep sent by Badu to the kings to reward the troops, and sent his own medical officers to treat the wounded. They then discovered that Guiyou Khan had hidden a large amount of gold and silver, especially the brand new silver coins that the new Song Kingdom had just sent to redeem the hostages, which were very dazzling.
This made the princes convinced. Da Mongke spent the money together and did not keep it all to himself. Da Mengge was still saving lives and helping the wounded. Da Mongke was the Khan in their hearts.
Everyone immediately surrounded Mengge and shouted "Great Khan" and "Emperor".
Wow, I finally achieved .
Brother Meng was delighted, and calmly ordered everyone to restrain their subordinates, block the news, and return to the royal court to carry out great events together.
However, it took this group of people a month to travel, and they were still a long way from the royal court when the messengers of Hubili and Kuoduan arrived and reported to them in tears that the Central Plains had been defeated. The royal army had lost the battle with the New Song Army and had lost Daming Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Bingzhou and Cangzhou.
Meng Ge was stunned by the reports of these consecutive defeats.
When he left the royal court to march west, he had anticipated that the New Song might take the opportunity to counterattack and seize some counties and cities on the border. However, he did not expect that the New Song army was so powerful that it could capture several prefectures in one fell swoop.
This guy calmed himself down and told the kings not to worry, saying that we would go back and sort out the government before planning the southern expedition to take back what we deserved.
In Daming Prefecture in the east, Zhao Yulin was also holding a meeting.
The Shenwei Army cleverly captured Daming Prefecture, tricked Zhending Prefecture into opening, and conquered Bingzhou, winning victory after victory. It basically stabilized Hedong and compressed the Mongolian army along the Great Wall in Daxing Prefecture and Datong Prefecture.
Zhao Yulin promoted Bingzhou to Taiyuan Prefecture and ordered Lai Chuanfang to be transferred to be the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture to coordinate the operations of the Hedong troops. He also ordered Yang Xingyun to be transferred to be the prefect of Zhending Prefecture to coordinate and command the operations of the Eastern Route Army.
He told the two commanders: They must not only take up swords and guns to annihilate the enemy, but also take up pens and open their mouths to speak of the fairness, justice and equality of all in the new Song Dynasty, so as to win back the hearts of the people in Hedong and Hebei.
He said: Brothers, you have seen the troops fighting in Hedong this time were almost all Han soldiers, and Han people fought against Han people. Moreover, these troops incorporated by the Mongolian army were strong and not inferior to their grassland regular troops at all.
Why does this situation happen?
Why were so many Han people willing to work for the grassland masters? This was inseparable from Shi Tianze's fairness and Hubili's respect for others.
We must firmly implement the New Song Dynasty's philosophy of equality for all and republican deliberation, reward those who have made contributions and punish those who have committed mistakes, so that people's hearts will return to the New Song Dynasty.
He looked at newly promoted generals such as Liu Zheng, Ma Yi, and Xu Yongzhong and said: The battlefield is full of killing, and it is inevitable that the enemy will surrender and the brothers will have to take action.
However, brothers must remember: the Shenwei Army does not kill prisoners and is not allowed to harm innocent people. This loophole cannot be opened. He cited the example of the Mongolian army massacring a city to make sense to everyone. If the Shenwei Army massacred cities and villages like the Mongolian army, what difference would there be between them and the Mongolian army, which is worse than beasts?
Yang Xingyun continued: The team is about to enter the grassland and the desert to fight. The third young master is worried that we are too vengeful and will kill us as if we have exterminated our entire clan if we catch them, so he is sounding the alarm for the brothers in advance.
Cao Youwen laughed and said: How wonderful! I didn't expect that after more than a month of fierce fighting in Hedong, we would easily recover a large area of territory and soon drive the northern barbarians out of our Song territory completely, hahaha.
That’s great.
He thought it was very good that Commander Zhao reorganized the army in advance. Our new Song army must become an invincible army, relying on strict military discipline. Our army can endure hardships and is not afraid of sacrifice, all because our army emphasizes unity between officers and soldiers, and is the children of the people.
Zhao Yulin handled the military affairs in Hebei. After seeing off the generals, he asked Yang Xingyun to accompany him south to inspect Daming Prefecture.
He told Yang Xingyun: Daming Prefecture has two rivers on the left and right. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it is most afraid of flooding. Many houses in the city have been damaged due to the war, and houses and streets are no longer built in the low-lying areas. We need to find craftsmen to plan well, clean up these low-lying areas, and dig deeper to form a water storage lake, and dredge the rivers in the city to facilitate drainage and prevent waterlogging.
He said: We can use the excavated sand, gravel and soil to build some high platforms and highlands. In the future, when there are natural disasters, we don’t have to worry about the city being flooded and the people having no place to stand.
