Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 618
Time: On February [-]th, the first year of Jingkang, at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Location: In Wudaoxia, a large open space before entering the canyon.

At such a time when it was about to get dark, the troops that went to Xiangyang City to support the battle this time had already assembled here.

And all the preparations have been made, and you can start immediately at any time.

At this moment, the group of them formed four distinct square formations in the open space at the mouth of the canyon.

Specifically, the four phalanxes consisted of three battalions A, B, and C under the Xuange Battalion, plus a temporary logistics battalion.

Among the three battalions, each battalion has about 900 people.

They have 55 teams of [-] people with Team Zheng as the highest officer under them; the combat unit of this kind of team is also the most common basic combat unit in the training of heroes from all corners of the country.

It is the same reason as in the last mission, the way of fighting in the company as a unit of the Musketeers of the Song Dynasty and New Army.

As for the team composed of 55 heroes from the rivers and lakes, how effective they are in combat, we will have to wait until we try it on the battlefield to know.

The remaining logistics battalion consisted of 72 craftsmen including Fu Dagangzi.

There are also more than 100 handlebars for driving cars, and more than [-] heroes with poor combat effectiveness but good auxiliary abilities.A total of more than three hundred people.

Although there are not many people in the logistics battalion, the overall size is the largest among the four phalanxes.

One of the key reasons is that in the phalanx of the logistics battalion, there are a total of 120 specially modified carts with ball bearings on the wheels.

At this moment, all the carts are full of supplies.

Every item in it was carefully prepared by Hu Biao and the others for the battle of Xiangyang City in the past three months.

The silver and copper coins spent for this purpose were worth the price of three or five white jade beauties.

In addition to a batch of spare armor, weapons, and equipment for these troops, there are also pieces of raw materials such as iron ingots, leather, and tendon.

In addition, there are a large number of medicines and first aid supplies.

Among the medicines, wound medicines and so on only occupy a small part, and the other larger part are various Chinese herbal medicines for the treatment of plague.

no way!In the siege battle, the Mongols faced a city that could not be attacked for a long time.

It can be said that the operation of throwing rotten corpses into the city with a trebuchet and breaking the city due to the rampant plague in the city can be said to be nothing more than normal.

In the original history and the plot of the novel, it seems that no similar situation happened here in Xiangyang City.

However, in system tasks, no matter what unrecognizable things happen, there is a huge possibility; therefore, it must be right to be wary of tricks such as fooling people, and to deal with them well.

Finally, there are some odds and ends, the number may not be large, but they are all extremely useful things.

In short, although these large carts in the logistics battalion seemed a bit cumbersome, Hu Biao and the others had to take them with them, because they were all key supplies that were urgently needed in future battles.

Fortunately, every large vehicle has a fairly good maneuverability when it is fully loaded.

It is mainly due to the fact that they have made some improvements similar to ball bearings on the wheels; so that the load and speed of each large car have been significantly improved.

And every big cart, Hu Biao and the others used two horse-drawn carts extravagantly.

Therefore, the real speed of these carts should be quite good; once they successfully enter Xiangyang City, the supplies they load will also play a huge role.

Adding up the personnel of the above four phalanxes, there are a total of more than [-] people.

These manpower are not the total number of all the heroes of the rivers and lakes that Hu Biao and the others can gather in the past three months.

Because there is still a camp of two hundred people who do not close at night, they have already been dispatched in advance under the leadership of Yu Hanfeng, Song Zhe, A Li, and Huang Yizhi.

As of today, the strength of Hu Biao and his men has reached [-]...

well!Set off at such a time when it will be dark in just over half an hour.

Approaching Xiangyang City in the dark all the way, in fact, it was a helpless decision that Hu Biao and the others made after careful consideration.

This team is all composed of heroes from the rivers and lakes, and is a special force with good equipment and cooperation.

Naturally, their fighting power is quite strong.

But in case of being discovered by the Mongolian people, such a small number of people will be frantically attacked in the wild by more than ten times the opponent's cavalry troops, no matter how powerful they are, they will not be able to withstand it.

Therefore, they must ensure the secrecy of this small team and sneak all the way outside Xiangyang City.

Killing at a critical moment can teach Mengren an unexpected lesson.

Based on the above idea, the Yebushu team led by Yu Hanfeng and the others also shouldered an arduous task.

They had to be on the way to wipe out a large number of probing horses that the Mongolian side had released in the entire battlefield around Xiangyang for at least a hundred miles.

Let the Mongolian army know nothing about their arrival in a short period of time.

Before leaving, Hu Biao and other netizens, as well as Zhang Yimin and other high-ranking heroes, all stood on a hillside at the mouth of the canyon.

Looking at the formation in front of him, there is a team that is as immobile as a mountain.

Thinking about the huge and arduous efforts they have made in order to allow these heroes of the world to achieve this step during this period of time, many of them feel a little moved.

After some emotion, they finally turned their eyes to Hu Biao and Hu Daxia who were standing in front of them and wearing a flamboyant red cloak behind them.

After waiting for him to come to mobilize on the battlefield, he will issue an order for the whole army to go out.

Just looking at the faces of these heroes full of excitement, fanaticism, heroism and many other expressions, but there is no trace of fear or hesitation.

Before this, Hu Biao, who had done countless pre-war mobilizations, thought of some weird situations, and didn't make a long speech to cheer everyone up.

Just under the qi filling dantian, let the voice start to echo in everyone's ears:

"My Xuan Ge Battalion will win this battle, and my Great Song will win, let's go~"

The voice just fell, and the voice of "must win" was shouted from everyone's mouths immediately, with a heroic spirit that went straight to the sky.

Then with such a heroic spirit, the Jiazi Battle Battalion set off first.

The B and C battalions followed, and the logistics battalion was last.

It's just that these people with high morale didn't realize this point, and because of this point, Hu Biao even gave up on the pre-war mobilization that he planned to make a long speech.

That is: in such an important war that concerns the lives of two Guo Jiahe nations, the court on our side did not send half of the reinforcements.

The only support unit was also spontaneously formed by a group of people from the Jianghu.

And in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was known as extremely rich, they did not get half a copper plate from the court for the equipment, training, and military pay of such a support force.

Instead, it was stolen from various places by means of Jiangyang bandits.

In short, such a matter, as long as we carefully care about it from the beginning to the end, it seems that it is full of an indescribable black humor...

Because during the entire march, it is necessary to maintain the integrity of the team's organizational system.

In addition, the marching speed of the entire team was also dragged down a little by the convoy of the logistics battalion.

Therefore, it took Hu Biao and others two full nights to reach the outside of Xiangyang City during the 260-mile journey from Wudaoxia to Xiangyang City.

Outside the south gate, in a forest about fifteen or six miles away, the whole army hid here.

Fortunately, thanks to Yu Hanfeng and others who did not accept the night, they made great sacrifices along the way; they experienced more than [-] battles, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

The news that the troops of the Xuan Ge Battalion had arrived at the battlefield was well kept secret in a short period of time.

As for the Mongolian people who were killed by them, at least one or two days later, the Mongolian people found that they had not returned for a long time before they became alert.

Of course, there is another reason for being able to arrive so secretly.

That is because of the arrival of the Mongolian army, the people who had suffered a lot within a hundred miles around Xiangyang City either fled into the city for refuge, or fled to Hanyang and other places behind.

It is also a very important factor that there are no people around at all, and it is convenient for the army to advance secretly.

Anyway, at about three o'clock in the morning on February [-]th, Hu Biao and his party finally arrived at the designated place to hide with the army.

The remaining thing is to wait for a suitable or necessary time to go out here.

It's just that what Hu Biao didn't expect was that such a so-called opportunity would come so quickly, and it caught them off guard...

******
"What the hell! These Mongolian grandsons are blowing horns with broken horns early in the morning, blowing wool, they are mourning for their ancestors~"

With such a cursing voice in his mouth, Hu Biao lifted the cloak wrapped around his body, and sat up straight from under a big tree.

He remembered that the Xuange Battalion army arrived here last night, and after a while of busy work, the army was hidden, and it was already four o'clock.

As for Hu Biao himself, although the distance he traveled all the way in the past two days was not far, he was always cheered up because he was worried about being discovered by the blind detectives.

So much so that at that time, I felt a little physically and mentally exhausted.

Hastily explained a few words to Yu Hanfeng, and asked him to lead people to do a good job of guarding, and then he lay down under the shade of a tree; his nose smelled faintly of horse dung, and he fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

If possible, Hu Biao even thought he could sleep for a day and a night.

It's just that he felt that he had just fallen asleep, when a high-pitched and long horn sounded next to his ears, which kept ringing like a reminder.

When I opened my eyes, the sky seemed to be only slightly bright.

It's a pity that before Hu Biao, he vented all his waking energy. Wearing a bamboo hat and a cape behind him, he is completely a martial arts enthusiast Yu Hanfeng dressed as a knight-errant.

It is already using the light work that has finally started, and the toes are constantly tapped under the ground, which is the method and frequency of flying forward two or three meters away.

However, in five or six seconds, he flew over a distance of hundreds of meters and arrived in front of Hu Biao.

After opening his mouth, Hu Biao managed to lose his temper at all: "Old Hu, the situation is not good, it seems that the fool may make a big move today~"

After hearing such a sentence, Hu Biao quickly put his hands on his face and rubbed it vigorously a few times.

Using such a method, after forcing himself to cheer up, he yelled at Yu Hanfeng: "Go, call other people together, hurry over and have a look~"

About three or ten minutes later, the sky was already bright.

A round of golden sun has already risen in the east, shining golden on everything in the world.

Under the gusts of spring breeze, the temperature was about ten degrees. It seemed that today was another good weather for fighting and killing people.

After Hu Biao and others went around the boss, they successfully avoided the Mongolian probing horse.

Finally came to the west of Xiangyang City, in a forest seven or eight miles away.

When they got here, they borrowed the monocular, the eight-fold lens, that they had processed during the time in Wudaoxia.

The situation on the north side of Xiangyang City, which is currently the main attack, and the situation above and below the city wall can be seen more clearly and intuitively.

What needs to be explained is that the four walls of Xiangyang City have long been completely surrounded by Mongolians.

However, judging from the distribution of troops outside the Mongolian city, except for the northern city wall where heavy troops gather, there are only tens of thousands of people outside the other three city walls.

So the Mongolians made it clear that their main direction of attack was the north.

It's just that for the other three walls, the [-]-strong army on each side is still a powerful force for the defenders, and they still dare not have the slightest carelessness about the city defenses on these three sides.

In this way, a considerable part of energy and troops were involved.

And after Hu Biao and others arrived, the artillery position outside the city had been firing at the city wall for some time.

I saw that it was about 400 meters away from the city.

There are a total of [-] trebuchets. Compared with all the trebuchets that Hu Biao and others have encountered in all the missions they have experienced in the past, the whole scale is much larger. The counterweight trebuchets are already lined up all the way under the city. up.

There is no doubt that these things are the famous siege weapons in the hands of the Mongols in history: the return cannon.

I don't know whether this Alao Wading and Yisi Mayin, the two masters who used the return gun, are now directly commanding under the city.

But from a distance, these return guns are under the command of some Semu people.

Every time it was officially launched, there was a round stone that weighed almost 300 kilograms and was obviously polished.

After drawing an arc in the air, it smashed towards the city wall.

These big stones, which have been calculated by the Semu people, are not only quite good in terms of accuracy, but also far exceed those that Hu Biao and the others have encountered in their previous missions.

Under the lens of the telescope in the hands of Hu Biao and others.

As long as these stones hit the wall, or some buildings such as watchtowers on the city wall, they will basically end up being smashed immediately.

If it fell behind the wall stack, the boulder rolling all the way would often at least knock several defenders to the ground, and the shields in their hands would be useless.

Being hit by such a huge force, there is no need to think about what will happen to the defenders on the city.

Anyway, if it hits a hand or foot, it will immediately cause a comminuted fracture; if it hits a vital point, it will kill him immediately, there is no second possibility at all.

It is the main body of the city wall that is built with soil inside and wrapped with big bricks outside.

After being hit by this kind of big stone, there was also a burst of brick dust splashing, leaving a clear mark on the wall.

But Hu Biao and others know that this is not the most deadly.

The most deadly point is that under the long-term and high-intensity bombardment of boulders, the seemingly incomparably strong and majestic Xiangyang City will eventually have a big hole in the city wall.

This is absolutely fatal to the morale of the defenders and the difficulty of defense.

But at present, Xiangyang City did not wait for a period of continuous return artillery bombardment, and the strong city wall was blasted away, and it seemed that it was in a big trouble.

Because there was already a [-] Mongolian cavalry team under the city, and three northern Han army infantry teams of [-] soldiers began to gather.

Among them, the Mongolian cavalry team of [-] people seemed to be a troop used to supervise the battle.

However, those Han army teams were carrying many long ladders, and they knew at a glance that they were preparing to attack the city; and the moat under the northern city wall had been filled in a long time ago.

In addition, in some places farther away, there is a middle-aged Mongolian man riding a magnificent white horse.

Guarded by thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry, and guarded by some obviously senior Mongolian officers, they are pointing at the city wall.

Even relying on the eight-fold mirror in their hands, Hu Biao and others couldn't see the blind man's appearance clearly for a while.

But just looking at it, they all had a clear realization in their hearts that this guy is the current commander of the Mongolian North Route Army.

Now he is only the emperor's younger brother, but in the future he will be the big man of Emperor Meng Yuan: Bo'er Jijin Kublai Khan.

Immediately, in everyone's hearts, there was a huge devil-like impulse to kill him, kill him recklessly, and let Meng Yuanyi behind him finish the calf.

In that way, the 8000 million people in the Southern Song Dynasty would not be reduced to the so-called fourth-class people...

(End of this chapter)