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

Chapter 305 Let them be as obedient as dogs at the negotiation table

When Su Buhan went to Fengxiang City with the imperial edict written by Zhao Yurui, Tuo Lei led his men to bypass Fengxiang and go to Dashan Pass.

The original Dasanguan was almost abandoned and was not well managed. Now Zhang Xuan has been running it here for six or seven years. When Drag Lei came over to take a look, his eyes were opened.

Next to him was a former surrendered general of the Jin Dynasty, Li Changguo of the Han Dynasty. This man also borrowed a way to destroy the Jin Dynasty.

He also said that Dashan Pass is easy to beat.

But Li Changguo hadn't been here for many years, so Tuo Lei called him over. Is this what you call a big break?
Li Changguo was stunned. The Dashan Pass in the distance was much higher than before. If he looked carefully at the city on the side, he could feel that it was even bigger than before and completely different from before.

There are many buildings on the crenels of Guancheng, such as anti-projectile facilities, and they have never seen them before.

"I haven't been here for a few years. Song people seem to have focused on business." Li Changguo had no choice but to bite the bullet and said.

Next to him, Subutai, known as the most brave general in Mongolia, disdained to look at the front: "This Great San Pass looks majestic, but there are at most thousands of soldiers and horses in the pass, and they can attack it in one fell swoop."

Although Dashan Pass has been expanded, it still looks small. After all, it is a small pass, not a city.

Subotai has recently expanded again, and the tragic defeat at Huaihui Valley was not that long ago.

But since the [-] trebuchets he brought back from the Western Expedition were transported to the Guanzhong area, the Mongolian army showed great power and conquered all the cities and counties west of Tongguan in the Kingdom of Jin.

So Subotai doesn't take Dashan Pass seriously now.

Tuo Lei glanced at him, but before he spoke, Subotai said again: "Give me fifty trebuchets and ten thousand troops, and we will conquer this pass within three days."

After saying that, he was worried about dragging thunder and replied: "If we don't hurt the people of Song Dynasty, they will not compromise easily."

Ancient people had experience in negotiation, and everyone has the same experience.

After the Song army beat Tubo painfully, they could sit down and have a good talk with Tubo. The Mongols also wanted to beat up the Song people first and then have a good talk with Meng Gong.

Tuo Lei hesitated for a moment, probably feeling that [-] soldiers and horses were not enough, and the key was that there were no civilians.

"There seems to be a ditch in front of the city. I will recruit five thousand civilians from Pingliang." Tuo Lei said at this time: "I will give you five days."

"Okay." Subotai was overjoyed.

"Let's go back." Tuo Lei was full of confidence, turned his horse's head, and led the people away.

His calculation was very good. As long as he defeated Dashan Pass, he would be able to cut off the connection between Fengxiang and Sichuan. At that time, Guo Zhengsun of Fengxiang City would have no choice but to surrender.

When Tu Lei returned, Su Buhan had already entered Fengxiang City.

When the people of Song Dynasty saw him coming one by one, they lowered the suspension bridge and let him enter through the city gate.

As soon as he entered Wengcheng, a Song army held a black cloth and tried to blindfold him.

Su Buhan said angrily: "I am the envoy of Dameng, and I have your emperor's imperial edict - grass -"

Before he finished speaking, someone snatched the imperial edict away with his hands, and then he was punched in the chest. Then several Song soldiers rushed up and cut his hands behind his back. Some of them tied his eyes, and in the blink of an eye, they tied his hands behind his back. , blindfolded.

Su Buhan could not struggle and could only curse angrily, "Is this what you people from Song Dynasty did to the envoy?"

No one on the other side paid him any attention, and then someone pushed him forward: "Let's go, dog Tatar."

"..." He had no choice but to follow forward helplessly.

At this time, people in the Song Dynasty would call Mongolians Tatars, but most of them called them Mongolian Tatars, and rarely added the character "dog". Su Buhan was so angry and helpless.

I don’t know how long it took, but Su Buhan seemed to be taken into a room.

At this time, he heard someone report: "Prefect Guo, this dog Tatar said that there is an imperial edict from His Majesty. The general will look at him a bit like the fine work of the Jin Dynasty——"

Subuhan listened and understood. The other party seemed to be saying that his edict was false.

"Untie it." Guo Zhengsun's voice sounded quickly.

When Buhan opened his eyes, he found himself in a hall. There were several Song soldiers wearing armor and staring at him sharply. They looked very elite.

Su Buhan immediately said that he came here on the orders of Emperor Dameng's brother Tuo Lei.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty asked you to borrow roads, boats, and food, so that we can attack the Kingdom of Jin.

He talked a lot, but Guo Zhengsun was reading the imperial edict and ignored him at all.

After he finished speaking, Guo Zhengsun sneered calmly: "You Mengta, you actually used a fake imperial edict to deceive this government. Do you think we are three-year-old children?"

Su Buhan was stunned, how could it be fake.

Guo Zhengsun said, your imperial edict was issued a year and a half ago.

Su Buhan's eyes turned red because we were so late.

Guo Zhengsun was furious and pointed at several forgeries in the imperial edict. Su Buhan was stunned for a while, not knowing whether it was true or false.

Before he could react, Guo Zhengsun screamed, tore up the imperial edict, pointed it at Su Buhan, and said sternly: "You dare to forge my imperial edict. Come, chop off his left and right thumbs and drag him out."

So the unlucky Su Buhan had his thumbs cut off on both hands, and was pushed out of Fengxiang City blindfolded.

In history, because this guy was too crazy, he was killed by Zhang Xuan, the current Dashan gatekeeper, when he was borrowing the passage.

This time it was even worse. Although he was not dead, his hands were completely disabled.

When Tuo Lei came back, he happened to meet Su Buhan who was covered in blood. Hearing this, he became furious.

Hearing that Guo Zhengsun tore up the imperial edict and said that the edict was false, Tuo Lei almost broke out.

But fortunately, he is not the kind of person who gets angry and sends troops.

After returning, he thought about it and discussed it with Subotai and others.

He only has [-] elite cavalry, and Fengxiang City has many soldiers and horses, so it is obviously inconvenient to fight.

Dashan Pass is a small place, and it could only hold 3000 to 5000 people before. Even if the Song army reinforced and expanded it, it would be impossible to hold [-] to [-] people to death.

So Tuo Lei decided to attack Dasanguan first. After cutting off the connection between Fengxiang and Sichuan, Fengxiang had no choice but to surrender, and then Guo Zhengsun's family would have to be killed.

At the beginning of July, the tow mines set off with [-] elite cavalry, [-] catapults, and [-] civilians. Halfway through, they discovered a big problem.

The Jin people and the Song people were all clearing the fields in Fengxiang. Not to mention the lack of food, they couldn't even find a few good big trees. What's more terrible was that they couldn't find any big stones that could be used for their trebuchets. Inside, all the stones that can be transported have been transported to Fengxiang City.

Tachaer led the cavalry around Fengxiang and ran for hundreds of miles, but couldn't find a place with big rocks.

In the end, he had no choice but to take five thousand civilians to Guo County (belonging to Baoji in later generations) between Fengxiang and Dashanguan.

This is the county closest to Fengxiang and Dashanguan, where the Mongolian army demolished city walls and made stones.

At this time, Tuo Lei was already very angry. Since arriving, he had repeatedly hit the wall and everything he did was not going well. Tuo Lei became murderous again, secretly thinking that once the city was breached, he would massacre all of Feng Xiang.

This guy has killed millions of Sichuan people before and after he entered Sichuan in history. Now he is ready to take action, and his mind is filled with massacres of the city.

But it is not easy to remove stones. The Mongolian army removed stones from everywhere on the walls of the houses in Guo County. In this era, the amount of work was large and the efficiency was low.

They also brought five thousand civilians to prepare to fill the ditch, because Dashan Pass had dug additional ditches to protect the pass after Zhao Yurui took power.

A large number of soil bags were specially prepared for this purpose, and the front of Dashanguan Pass was full of rocks. The soil was dug from the bottom of the mountain and then brought up. It can be said that the preparations along the way were very hard.

The Mongolian army's [-] cavalry and [-] men consume food every day.

The Jin and Song people were very serious about building walls and clearing the country. The food they brought out from Pingliang was only enough to last for a few days.

Historically, the Jin Kingdom did not have strong walls and clear fields here. After dragging 20 dan Lei to ride here, they could not hold on to food and grass for a short time, and could only ask the Song army for [-] shi of food.

Therefore, Zhao Yurui's method of clearing the country by fortifying the wall and removing the population was very powerful. Although Tuo Lei had an army of [-], they could only stay in the wild for a few days. If they could not conquer the Great Sanguan, they had to find food supplies.

As soon as the unlucky mine-towing army came out, they found that there were no stones. After two days of getting stones, they found that there was not enough food.

At this time, he became a little anxious and asked Tachaer, how many stones had been obtained in two days and how long could he keep digging?

Tachaer asked the trebuchets Qianhu who were accompanying the army. The thousand households said that the current stones were only enough for ten trebuchets to cast for half an hour.

Fifty trebuchets were thrown together, and they were gone in a while.

Moreover, at this time, the city walls in many counties were made of large earth blocks, as were the houses, so some stones might break if they hit the city walls.

After all, mountain rocks are the best stones.

Qianhu said that gunpowder could be used to blow up the mountains and extract rocks.

Tuo Lei asked how long it would take?

Qianhu said that to support a war, it would take at least several days and a large amount of gunpowder.

Tuo Lei had no firearms and no gunpowder at all.

Not much can be collected from various counties in a short period of time.

No more time to wait.

But Tuo Lei did not fight an unprepared battle. He took his troops back to Pingliang and requisitioned local food.

Five thousand civilians continued to collect stones and prepare earth bags. After delaying for five days, they sent out troops again.

An ordinary Mongolian general would feel very embarrassed if he went out with [-] warriors and came back without fighting. Subotai disagreed and insisted on going to the Great Sanguan in advance.

But Tuo Lei did not fight an unprepared battle. Because he had no experience using the trebuchet for the first time, he wasted several days before getting ready.

Forty thousand troops were walking around in the west of Fengxiang City, heading to Dashan Pass for a while and then back to Pingliang Mansion. The Song Army was also stunned for a moment.

In mid-July, the tortured Mongolian army was finally ready and set out again. Tuo Lei personally led [-] cavalry in Guo County between Fengxiang and Dashan Pass. If the Fengxiang garrison came out to support Dashan Pass, he would surround the area and provide reinforcements. , directly attack Fengxiang Song Army reinforcements.

Subotai originally only had [-] troops, but Tolei gave him [-].

On July [-], Subotai led Hu Shengsun (Zhebie's son), [-] elite cavalry, [-] civilians, and [-] catapults to the front of Dashan Pass.

There is a difficult plank road in front of Dashan Pass. The plank road is not wide. The Song Army once burned it down in order to prevent the Jin soldiers. However, in recent years, the plank road has been widened.

Subotai became angry when he saw the widened plank road. He felt that Song Jun was provoking him, as if he was saying, come on, come on, come and beat me.

"After breaking through Dashan Pass, massacre them all." Subotai turned around and said to Kusheng Sun fiercely.

Hu Shengsun didn't leave much of a name in history, but he was also a brave man who was good at fighting. He immediately nodded: "Don't leave anyone behind. The people of Song Dynasty are the most deceitful."

On the [-]th, the army passed through the plank road one after another and entered Chencang Road. In the afternoon of that day, they camped a dozen miles outside Dashan Pass.

The Mongolian cavalry went out and found that there was no movement at Dasanguan and there were few people at the top of the city. Subotai knew that the Mongolian army did not have much food and could not wait long, so he immediately ordered the assembly of trebuchets and prepared for the attack.

Dashan Pass is opposite to Tong Pass, wide from north to south and narrow from east to west. The Mongolian army came from the south to attack the Song army from the north.

The whole city of Dashanguan is only over 3000 meters long. The north side is the same as the west side of Tongguan, only 400 meters wide.

So the direction of their attack is not very wide.

When the Mongolian army was setting up the trebuchet, Subutai, Hu Shengsun and others were already leading the troops and watching from behind.

At the same time, a large number of people were pushing big rocks to the scene.

The Dashanguan plank road is difficult to walk, and the largest stone used by the Mongolian army only weighed more than 100 kilograms.

Subotai then ordered that half of the civilians unload the stones and the other half fill the trenches.

Dashan Pass is located in the north of the Qinling Mountains. Originally there was no moat because there were no ditches passing through the mountains.

But after Meng Gong came, he had people dig ditches. It didn't matter whether there was water or not. They could still defend themselves by digging ditches.Tree stumps were also driven into the trench, which was three meters deep and five meters wide.

So Subotai could only bring some civilians over.

The civilian husbands were captured by breaking into the Jin Kingdom's city government, and of course most of them were Han Chinese.

However, they were previously considered Jin people, and many of them were born in the Jin country. But in the eyes of the Mongols, these were all Han people, and they could be exploited.

"Let them prepare to fill the ditch." Subotai waved his hand at this time and ordered the first batch of thousands of people to prepare to move forward.

Suddenly Sun Sun was about to speak but stopped. He looked at the very quiet place in front of him and felt that there was something strange about Dashan Pass.

But before he could speak, the Mongolian army's horn had already sounded, and the peasants moved forward carrying the first batch of bags of mud and rocks that had been prepared long ago.

Subotai did not plan to fill in all the ditches in the front, but only needed to fill in a dozen roads so that he could attack the city.

Under the threat of the Mongolian army, the civilians moved forward one after another.

Everyone looked up at Dashan Pass in front of them, and some people couldn't help but cheer: "Don't panic, they are all Han people, the Song army will not shoot us."

At this time, they began to call themselves Han people.

It was quiet on the top of the city. The Mongolian army in the distance could not even see how many Song troops were on the top of the city.

The civilians running below were getting more and more energetic, and they felt that the Song army might really not fight them.

After someone ran eighty steps, they all started shouting: "We are Song people, we are Song people." They signaled the Song troops at the top of the city not to attack.

At this moment, many black shadows suddenly appeared on the top of the city, and almost all of the Song soldiers took arrows.

"Don't waste arrows, aim well, prepare -" As officers at all levels shouted, the Song army drew their bows.

"Free fire, shoot."

Swish, swish, arrows rained down from the city head.

As soon as the peasants came within sixty steps, they were shot in the face.

The city suddenly screamed again and again, and many civilians fell to the ground on the spot.

Some people were so frightened that they turned around and ran away, while others continued to move forward, and some even cried that they were from the Song Dynasty.

Swish, swish, the Song army at the top of the city was merciless, and the arrows kept raining.

The Mongolians had not yet learned how to use Hou Jin's shield chariot during the siege, so the civilians rushing up like this were almost looking for death. Before they even got within twenty steps of the city, there were already a lot of dead and wounded in front of them.

Then it collapsed, and a large number of people threw down their earth bags and ran away.

Nearly a thousand people rushed forward and after a while, only about half of them came back, without even throwing a single earth bag into the ditch.

"Come here, chop them all down." Tuo Lei was furious, and with an order, the Mongolian army dragged all the returning civilians to the front of the formation.

They were forced to kneel in front of Dashanguan City, and then, heads fell to the ground one by one.

Every time one was cut, the Mongolian soldiers cheered in unison from behind.

This is their common method to boost morale and at the same time attack the Song army on the opposite side.

So the first wave of thousands of civilians were all killed by the Song Army and the Mongolian Army in the blink of an eye. There were corpses everywhere in front of the formation of the two armies, and the scene was horrific.

Now the other four thousand people behind were trembling.

At this time, Hu Shengsun rode up to the second group of civilians and said in a good voice, "You rush up and throw away the soil bags, and then come back, and you can survive."

If you don't even throw away the soil bag, you will be dead if you come back.

He added, the ditch is quite shallow. You can throw two of them each and run two or three times to fill it up. Then you can go home safely.

The people dared not speak out in anger, so they could only continue.

Woo, as the horn sounded again, the second wave of thousands of people began to rush forward.

The Mongolians even reminded them to walk slowly ahead. After taking sixty steps, they should put the earth bag on their chests to prevent arrows. After forty steps, they should speed up. When they reached the edge of the ditch, throw away the speed and return.

In order to prevent the Song people from raining arrows, the Mongolian army asked them to disperse and keep the distance between them front, rear, left and right.

"Up, up, up, up." As the Mongolian army pressed them, the civilians bravely moved forward again.

On the wall of Dashanguan, guard Zhang Xuanzheng quietly watched the civilians move forward.

He did not expect that the Mongolian army would bring trebuchets.

There is an arrow-proof shelter built at the top of the city of Dashanguan, which is made of wooden boards and sand and gravel. The projectiles of the Mongolian army will cause minimal damage to them. The anti-arrow effect is very good, but it is really troublesome for the Mongolian army to bring trebuchets.

Fortunately, the terrain in front is from high to low. It will be more difficult for the Mongolian army to push up. They can use heavy artillery on the way.

At this moment, there are 5000 defenders in his Dashan Pass, but there are only about 1000 at the top of the city, and another [-] are resting and waiting below the city. Most of these [-] people are crossbowmen.

Seeing the Han people rushing towards him in the darkness below, there was no trace of mercy on his face. There is no such thing as benevolence, justice and morality on the battlefield. Being kind to the enemy is cruel to your brothers.

Moreover, the Han people across the street all grew up in the Kingdom of Jin. Many of them regard themselves as Jin people and have no sense of identity with Song Ting at all.

"Get ready." Zhang Xuan waved his hand, and someone around him immediately raised a small flag.

The officers around started shouting, aim, don't rush, don't waste arrows, you can shoot them in the leg.

Wait for the peasants to come within sixty steps.

"Shoot." Someone waved a small flag, whoosh whoosh, and arrows were flying wildly from the top of the city again.

This wave of peasants walked more loosely than the previous wave, and began to learn to use earth bags to block their way, stumbling forward all the way.

Although many people were shot down, many people rushed into the vicinity of the ditch.

Some people were shot into ditches, while others simply threw away their earth bags and ran away.

There were screams and cries at the scene.

About half of this wave was successfully thrown into the ditch, and the other half either fell on the road or in the ditch.

By the time they ran back, half of them were gone.

Subotai and Kushengson's faces were blue and black, and they were very ugly.

Judging from the depth and length of the trenches of the Song Dynasty, it is estimated that it would take a day or two to fill the trenches alone. Let alone [-] civilians, [-] would not be enough, unless all these civilians were pushed into the trench.

"Stop." Subotai suddenly ordered to stop.

The Mongolian generals looked at him strangely.

"Push these Han dogs forward and drive them into the ditch." Subotai said in a ferocious voice, "Otherwise, it won't take three days and three nights to fill the ditch."

Hu Shengsun immediately recruited a Han army from the servant army (most of the troops from the Jin Kingdom surrendered), and drove the remaining 3000 civilians to gather forward.

Now the civilians also knew what was going to happen. Many people cried loudly, and some tried to come forward to beg for mercy, but the Mongolian army was not polite and killed them with a knife.

"Go forward, you all cry and beg the Song Dynasty people to lower the suspension bridge. The Song Dynasty people will let you enter the city. Once you enter the city, you will be safe."

"Go forward, whoever is the last to kill whom." The Mongolian army deceived these civilians, and forced them with knives from behind, slashing a dozen civilians who fell behind.

Now the civilians were like a frying pan, running forward one after another.

"What should we do? Commander Zhang?" At this time, a defender at the top of the city asked Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but glance at the artillery commander Chen Xiaodao beside him.

Chen Xiaodao said without hesitation: "Ignore the civilians first, shoot the Han army behind."

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but nodded.

"Who is the general on the opposite side?"

"The big flag looks like Subotai."

"Subotai?" Chen Xiaodao couldn't help but look at Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan looked puzzled.

"His Majesty said that barbarians like this must be beaten severely before they can be as obedient as dogs at the negotiation table." Chen Xiaodao immediately spoke to Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan suddenly A weird smile appeared on his face.

In just a few words, the Han army drove the civilians to the ditch.

Many people paused, and then a large number of people knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the Song army, and asked the Song people to lower the suspension bridge and open the city gate to let them in.

But more people rushed up from behind.

The Mongolian army slashed at the back with a knife, and then rushed forward with all its strength.

"Ah" the people in front started to scream and were pushed into the ditch.

The scene quickly became like dumplings being dropped. People kept falling down, and there was a mixture of screams and cries.

The Song soldiers at the top of the city yelled and cursed.

"They are all golden people, don't worry about them."

"Won't you turn around and bite those Mongols to death?"

"I would rather be killed than resist. These people deserve to die by firing arrows."

As officers of the Song Army at all levels issued orders one after another.

Swish, swish, arrows rained from the top of the city again, shooting at the Han troops behind them.

There are Han soldiers with shields, but some Han soldiers will be shot down, and there are also civilians who will be shot down.

The scene was like a Shura hell. The Han army tried their best to push the civilians forward so that they could go back early.

The Song army kept shooting arrows at the Han army behind them.

The civilians were pushed down the ditch in batches. Thousands of people were pushed down together, and the ditch soon began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the last group of people were pushed into the ditch, the Song army on the scene fired their crossbows and the sound of bows and arrows was heard. The Han army on the opposite side also screamed and fell many times.

Then they turned around and ran away, as if they had been granted amnesty.

More than 3000 people were pushed down. Almost all the ditches within a hundred steps to the left and right of the main entrance of Dashanguan in the north were filled to about [-]% to [-]%. Although some places were not filled to [-]%, the wooden piles underneath were gone. , it’s full of people.

Most of them survived, and many were still trying to climb up. The screams and pleas for mercy could not be heard.

In this case, the Mongolian army can already start to climb the city with ladders.

Because the most difficult thing about setting up the ladder before was that there were fallen piles underneath and the ditch bottom was uneven.

Now the farmers have filled the bottom of the ditch.

It was at the same time that the Mongolian army was filling in the bottom of the ditch.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the weather was quite hot, and the Mongolian army's rear formation was sweating profusely as they pushed fifty trebuchets forward.

The Mongolian army's trebuchet was finally installed.

(End of this chapter)