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

Chapter 308 Humiliation of Subotai
The archers of the Song Army were almost men in armor, and their upper bodies exposed at the battlements were covered with thick armor.

After Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, he attached great importance to craftsmen and gave officials official status and the ability to serve as officials. Countless craftsmen from all over the country applied to join the imperial court.

In the past few years, you only need to apply and you can pass. In recent years, more and more imperial craftsmen have applied, and there has been a strong threshold. Only those who pass the assessment and have excellent armor making can pass.

There are tens of thousands of craftsmen working in the country, working day and night, plus Zhao and Rui have money and mines, the entire Song Dynasty machine is operating in an orderly manner, and a steady stream of excellent soldiers and armor is provided to the front line, which is all elites accumulated with money. Soldiers and horses.

The Song army guarding the city was equipped with the heaviest and thickest iron armor in the country, which was prepared for shooting against the siege.

Their upper body weighs more than 40 kilograms, their lower body about twenty kilograms, and their total weight is more than 60 kilograms. They don't need to move around, they can just shoot arrows at the top of the city.

If the attacker goes up to the city, the defenders can throw away their bows and arrows and pick up their swords and shields, and they can immediately go up and chop them down.

The more than 60 kilograms of heavy armor is actually not as heavy as the Song Army's previous Zha armor, but its defensive power is concentrated in the upper half, and it can have the upper hand when cutting.

Let alone slashing, the Song army is just standing there, and it is not easy for the Mongolian army to push him down.

In the past, it was a bit difficult for the Song Army to wear infantry armor weighing 1 kilograms. Only a few hundred people out of [-] people could wear it. Mainly due to poor nutrition and weak body, not many could wear armor and walk, let alone in the army. I have been marching and fighting in the wild for a long time.

Now the Song army is well-fed and well-trained, and basically all of them can wear armor.

Wearing such heavy armor, as long as you don't go out to fight in the field, it is quite advantageous to defend the city. It is all like a humanoid machine.

The Song army now refused to evade at all. They stood there like nails and fired at the Mongolian troops under the city. With the sound of the divine arm bow in their hands, the Mongolian troops under the city screamed and fell to the ground one after another. .

Some Song soldiers did not even lower their heads, but tilted their heads slightly, facing outward from the side, aiming with the corner of their eyes, and fired directly at the Mongolian army, completely ignoring the Mongolian army's horse bows.

Only Zhao Yurui could imagine the one-centimetre-thick heavy armor on the shoulders and chest of the upper body. The Mongolian army could not break through the armor even if they all used heavy arrows, not to mention all heavy arrows.

When Beggar Jin came over, he gathered almost 1000 people from his headquarters, almost all of whom had bows.

They braved the hail of cannons and arrows all the way to within thirty steps of the city, and lost hundreds of people.

Now they are fighting against the Song army, and the casualties are even more heavy.

The two sides had only fired three rounds at each other, but the Mongolian archers couldn't stand it anymore.

Many people used piles of corpses as cover on the ground and did not dare to get up.

But the divine arm archer is not the Song army's biggest killer weapon.

At this time, Chen Xiaodao also discovered that a large number of Mongolian archers were coming forward, and some had even reached the bottom of the city wall, and then fired at it.

The Mongolian army's close range projectiles could still cause a small amount of damage to the Song army.

Because the archery shed at the top of the city does not cover the entire city, it is only found near the crenellations, and some places in the back row cannot be covered.

At first, the archery sheds at the top of the city were built to protect the artillery. Later, more and more were built, but they did not cover the entire city head.

There needs to be space at the back for the movement and adjustment of the artillery. Even when necessary, the Song Army will assemble a trebuchet at the top of the city to throw petroleum bombs.

At this time, the Song army at the top of the city was divided into several waves, including artillery, infantry archers, divine arm archers, spearmen, sword and shield soldiers.

Among all the Song armies, only the divine arm archers had to fight against the Mongolian archers. Their armor was the heaviest and had the highest defense.

The rest of the people have to go out to chase the enemy in the field at any time, so they are not considered to be heavily armored. They can block the arrows more than thirty steps away, but they are easily hit hard after entering thirty steps.

"Change guns, change guns." Chen Xiaodao gave an order at this time, and with a buzz, ten shotguns were pushed up from behind, and ten heavy cannons were pulled back.

At this time, the two sides had been fighting fiercely for nearly half an hour.

Under the city wall were densely packed Mongolian troops.

The corpses of the Mongolian soldiers who died in the battle were piled high.

Chen Xiaodao pointed to several places where Mongolian archers were concentrated.

"Give me a hard hit."

Phew, the shotguns were aimed at the densely populated areas of the Mongolian army and ignited the gunpowder.

At the same time, under the city wall on the west side, Beggar Jin thought that squatting here was not an option and had to move forward. He saw that the Song Dynasty people did not need to use common things such as rolling stones and logs to defend the city. It might be safer to go under the corner of the city.

"Get ready to cross the ditch and go to the foot of the city to shoot at it. There seems to be no shed behind the Song army." Qierjin found a way to attack: "Stay here, you can only be shot, but you can't shoot at the Song army."

He called one of his subordinates and asked them to pass the order to the living centurions and card heads. All the archers went forward into the ditch, and then fired on it.

The subordinate responded, bent over and half turned around, then shot an arrow at the city wall without even aiming, and didn't know whether he hit it or not, and then ran forward quickly.

Just after running a few steps, an arrow suddenly hit his neck from the side.

With a thud, Beggar Jin watched the subordinate fall to the ground heavily.

"Damn it." Beggar Jin yelled.

He carefully poked his head out from the pile of corpses and happened to see a Song Army archer loading arrows.

The archer also looked towards him almost at the same time.

The two looked at each other from a distance.

The Song archer had no expression on his face, and then slowly lowered his head.

Dang, dang, the moment he lowered his head, Qierjin saw at least three arrows from the Mongolian army hitting the Song army.

Two arrows hit the Song Army's shoulders, and one hit the Song Army's helmet.

Song Jun remained motionless, lowered his head to load the arrow, and then raised the divine arm bow.

Beggar Jin was suddenly as irritated as a cat. The other person looked at him and quickly retracted.

His order was not transmitted, and Qierjin was anxious because his subordinates all around were shooting at the Song army, and he was completely at a disadvantage.

Some smart people will shoot an arrow and squat down to avoid it for a while. Those who don't know how to avoid will soon be shot dead on the spot by the Song army.

"Dol--" Qierjin shouted to a centurion squatting on the ground not far away.

He called several times before the centurion heard him.

He quickly pointed behind the centurion, and then made a few moves forward.

The centurion understood what he meant. The beggar gold meant for him to unfurl the flag and rush forward. This was the military order of the Mongolian army. After seeing the flag unfurled, all troops should rush forward. This meant that everyone should rush forward to the corner of the city. ?
The centurion immediately unfurled his flag and waved it in the air a few times to attract the attention of his companions. Then he raised the rolled flag and stood up abruptly: "Charge."

Take the lead and rush down to the corner of the city.

The Mongolian archers had no choice but to follow.

Beggar Jin patted his son, and the two father and son hurriedly bent over and rushed out.

If they had rushed out a few minutes earlier, they would not have been able to catch up with Chen Xiaodao's shotgun. They would have been much safer after hiding under the corner of the city.

But this time I was really unlucky.

Just when the Mongolian army wanted to charge forward, a large number of Song army's divine arm archers retreated at the top of the city, and then a black muzzle appeared on the top of a stack.

After a while, the team adjusted slightly.

"Boom" an earth-shattering sound of artillery sounded.

Beggar Jin and his son had just reached the halfway mark when they almost saw the ditch. When they looked up, they saw a cannon muzzle sticking out from the top of the city.

"Not good." Beggar Jin exclaimed, and without thinking, he threw his son to the ground.

Amidst the sound of the falling artillery, Qierjin felt his eyes darken and a sharp pain on his face.

Dense plumes of lead rained down around him.

The charging Mongolian army fell in large pieces as if blown by the wind.

Bang, bang, bang, the sound of artillery continued in front of Dashan Pass, and shotguns were fired one after another.

The angle of the shotgun can only hit within twenty or forty steps in front of the pass. The further away the lead bullets are, the more scattered they will be and the weaker their power will be.

But they were too close this time, only about twenty steps away.

The scene within this distance felt like being hit by a rain of steel, with scores of Mongolian troops falling to the ground and screaming in agony.

And this distance is also where the Mongolian army has the most and densest archers.

After ten shotguns fired, it seemed that the area within these two distances had been cleared. There were almost no Mongolian troops still standing in the long line from west to east, although most of them were not directly killed. Instead, they were injured and fell to the ground. Some people could even get up after a while. After all, the lethality of shotguns was not strong enough, but their bodies were full of holes. Even if they could get back to the rear, they would still die sooner or later.

Those who cannot die on the spot will only be more miserable afterwards.

It was so tragic, the scene was so tragic, there were wailing and crying everywhere.

When Bashu lifted up his father's golden body, he couldn't even see his father's face clearly. It was covered with lead.

Beggar Jin was unlucky. He was hit in the head with more than a dozen lead pellets and was beaten to death on the spot.

"Dad——" Bashu cried in pain while hugging his father.

But before he could cry a few times, his whole body trembled and he was hit by an arrow in his right shoulder.

Bashu squatted on the ground and raised his head in despair.

I saw a Song army raising a bow and aiming at him.

When he looked at Song Jun, Song Jun grinned.

Then let go.

Puchi.

The second arrow hit Bashu right in the face.

The arrow was shot from the bridge of his nose, and the arrowhead emerged from the back of his head. It was extremely powerful.

Boom, Bashu fell to the ground holding his father's body.

Almost at the same time, Bashu fell to the ground.

I don't know who was the first to turn around and run away, and then the whole scene completely collapsed. The Mongolian troops who finally gathered at the corner of the city turned around and ran away.

The Mongolian soldiers were crying and shouting, throwing away their armor and fleeing for their lives. Everyone was afraid that if they were a step slower, the devastating artillery fire just now would sound again.

The failure spread to the rear like an infectious disease, and the Mongolian troops behind were completely unable to stop it. Many Mongolian troops desperately shot and killed the defeated soldiers to no avail.

In the blink of an eye, the Mongolian army was completely defeated.

Hu Shengsun, who was in the rear, ordered to shoot several waves of defeated soldiers, but he still couldn't stop. He could only shake his head and let the horn sound to withdraw the troops.

The Mongolian army's first attack on the Song city ended in failure.

When the horn sounded to close the call, Subotai, who was behind the line, swung his horsewhip fiercely, his face dark and blue with a mixture of shame and anger.

Except for the [-] Mongolians from his own army who did not participate in this battle, the rest of the servant army did.

Fifteen thousand people stormed a small city pass that was only a few hundred steps away, but they were defeated and returned.

Thinking of what he said before attacking, he couldn't help but want to kill all the defeated soldiers.

But obviously this is inappropriate.After the defeated troops retreated, Su Shengsun made an excuse, selected a Han army, and killed the entire Qianhu team, saying that they retreated first and caused the collapse.

In fact, the Qianhu team suffered heavy losses in the previous attack. There were less than 300 people left in the team, which was just used to kill people and establish prestige.

Waiting for a while, I stopped to reorganize my troops and horses, and almost fell off my horse when my vision went dark.

The Mongolian army had just mobilized 1 troops to attack the city. They fought for just over half an hour, but less than [-] came back.

Moreover, many of the people who came back were hit by the Song Army's arrows and some were shot by the Song Army's cannons. According to the medical standards of this era, at least one or two thousand more people would die afterwards.

What is the concept of a small and large-scale battle, with less than one-fifth of the casualties being killed or injured in an hour?
This is not a war, this is a meat grinder, this is killing people.

This is a massacre of our Damon warriors.

After being angry, Subotai's face became more serious.

Back then, he followed Jebe in the Western Expedition and swept through Central Asia. The Mongolian army fought countless victories and encountered tough opponents. However, no matter what battles, none were as tragic as today's siege battles, and they rarely lasted less than an hour. There were so many casualties.

The way the Song army defended the city was different from any other army, and their artillery was even more terrifying than ever before. Subotai couldn't help but think of Tuo Lei's words again. The Song people were sleeping tigers. If they were to wake up, they would be worse than before. The golden man is several times more terrifying.

When Tuo Lei was running for Great Khan, he persuaded the Mongolian nobles many times, stating that he wanted to deal with the Song people first, and even believed that in order to deal with the Song people, he could temporarily choose to form an alliance with the Jin. Tuo Lei's statement shocked most Mongolian nobles, and There was strong opposition, which caused many Mongolian nobles to side with Ogedai.

At that time, even Subutai thought that dragging thunder was an exaggeration, but after seeing the performance of the Song army today, Subotai definitely believed that if all the soldiers and horses of the Song army were like this, it would become very scary.

Subotai stood speechless for a long time.

Seeing that he didn't hum, Su Shengsun knew what he was thinking and couldn't help but said: "This Song army may be different, but most Song armies are definitely not so strong, otherwise they would not be beaten by the Jin Kingdom. If we seek peace, only half of the country will be left.”

He added: "I heard that the Sichuan Army of the Song Dynasty is different from other Song armies, and they don't really listen to the imperial court's call."

Subotai came back to his senses and said: "The small Sanguan Pass cannot stop us Mongolian warriors. Let's go back first."

Subotai believed that despite the disastrous defeat, Mongolia could still win the Great Sanguan.

This time only fifty trebuchets came, and they had no experience. They were caught off guard by the Song army's artillery.

They also have more than 3 troops and more than 300 trebuchets. If they attack together, they will definitely be able to break the Great Sanguan.

"The artillery fire of the Song Dynasty is very slow. As long as there are enough troops and horses and sufficient preparations, they can still break through the Great Sanguan." Subotai cheered himself up and also encouraged the generals around him.

"But the Song people are really hateful." Subotai suddenly cursed again.

The Song people fortified the walls and cleared the fields near Linzhao, and Guo County could not find even a one-meter-long wooden plank. This made the Mongolian army unprepared and unable to carry enough siege equipment.

Even the stones for the trebuchet took several days to get together from Guo County.

The area near Dashan Pass is dominated by mountains and rocks. It is extremely difficult to dig soil to fill the ditch. If there are not tens of thousands of people, it will be troublesome to fill the ditch next time.

The more Subotai thought about it, the angrier he became. The angrier he became, the more he wanted to break this barrier so that he could have a good time.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion among the troops in front.

The Mongolian army has begun to give orders to prepare for a retreat.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a bang on the other side of Dashan Pass. Just like before, the suspension bridge was lowered again.

The dejected Mongolian soldiers fell silent instantly, and everyone looked attentively.

I saw a Song army of about 200 people slowly leaving the city.

There were wounded Mongolian soldiers everywhere outside the city. Especially after the shotgun fire just now, there were more injured than dead. Most of them were lying on the ground and could not go back.

There were even more Mongolian soldiers who were injured and unable to walk in and outside the ditch.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi" the Song army began to stab and kill the wounded soldiers.

In front of tens of thousands of Mongolian troops, the Song army stabbed and killed them directly outside the city.

Outside the city there were screams, pleas for mercy, and even cries.

Subotai and Kusheng Sun's faces turned green.

This is another deliberate attempt to pick on them.

"They won't be proud for long." Hu Shengsun was afraid that Subotai would not be provoked, so he hurriedly said: "Let them live for a few more days, wait until the Great Sanguan is broken, and all the people of Song Dynasty will be slaughtered."

Subotai didn't speak, just looked ahead coldly.

The Song army in front became more and more courageous and began to move forward, stabbing the wounded soldiers farther away from the city wall.

A group of Song soldiers also dragged a dozen people from among the wounded soldiers. Just like before, they pinned them to the ground one by one and knelt down facing the Mongolian army.

"#￥#￥" The Mongolian army suddenly shouted curses.

Subotai and Kazuki Sun knew that the other party was irritating them, so they both turned red and were so angry that their mouths were filled with smoke.

I saw a Song soldier raised his long knife, waved it towards the Mongolian army, and then cut the wounded Mongolian soldier's neck with the knife.

He did not chop off the Mongolian army's head, but slowly cut it with a knife.

The wounded soldier of the Mongolian army screamed repeatedly, and after screaming several times, there was no sound at all.

His screams made the Mongolian troops six or seven hundred steps away feel frightened. Although they could not hear them, everyone had the illusion of hearing them.

After the Song army slowly cut off the Mongolian army's head, another Song army nearby picked up a spear, pounced, and stabbed the Mongolian army's head.

Then he raised his spear, with a head on it, and walked around in a mighty manner.

"Tiger." Suddenly someone shouted from the top of Song Jun's city.

Song Jun raised his head high on his spear.

"Tiger" the Song troops at the top of the city roared in unison.

Song Jun raised his spear again.

The Song army at the top of the "Tiger" city roared again.

This is completely a humiliation to Subotai and the Mongolian army, and a humiliation to Chi Guoguo.

"Fuck you." Subotai couldn't bear it any longer and shouted a curse-like sound. He almost subconsciously grabbed his horse and rushed out. Fortunately, Su Shengsun had quick eyes and quick hands and caught him.

These things the Song Army did were all things they had done in Central Asia.

How they showed off their military prowess in Central Asia back then, you can feel the complicated emotions of the Central Asians back then today.

The Song army has challenged Subotai's bottom line again and again. Subotai cannot enter Sichuan now. It would be better to kill all the Song people in Sichuan.

When the Dashan Pass is broken, all the Song people in Sichuan must be slaughtered, he thought viciously.

"Let's go." Subotai roared fiercely, turned around and walked away.

The demoralized Mongolian troops turned around and ran away as if they had been granted amnesty.

When the Mongolian army came, some civilians pushed carts loaded with large stone bullets. Now they have killed all the peasants, and no one is taking care of these carts.

But it's not easy to find even large trees in Linzhao, and it's also hard to find rocks.

Suddenly Sun had no choice but to let the Mongolian army dismount and push the cart and stones back because they would need them again in the future.

Subutai led the defeated troops back to Guoxian County in despair.

Tuo Lei, who was stationed in Guoxian County and prepared to encircle the point for reinforcements, did not wait for the reinforcements of the Song army from Fengxiang.

Tuo Lei was also shocked when he saw Subotai coming back from a disastrous defeat.

He asked about the experience of Subotai's research, but he didn't say anything for a long time.

After a while, Subotai said, let's go back to Pingliang to get more civilians, prepare well, and then attack the Great Sanguan, we will definitely be able to break it.

Subutai was unwilling to give in and persuaded Tu Lei to attack Dashan Pass again. He also said that there were not many soldiers guarding Dashan Pass, only 3000 or [-] people.

Indeed, only more than 2000 Song troops appeared on the city wall at that time.

But in fact, the Song army had five thousand defenders, and there were also large weapons of no use.

Subotai said that the Song army relied on artillery and bows and arrows to defend the city, without the use of rolling stones, wood or kerosene. As long as we prepare more equipment, bring more shields and wooden boards, and have the help of trebuchets, we will be able to break through the Dashan Pass.

He also thought of a way to deal with the artillery, which was to push several trebuchets up in turn.

The artillery of the Song Dynasty fires slowly, and the hit rate against the smaller number of trebuchets is not high. The artillery of the Song Dynasty can be consumed slowly.

Tuo Lei hesitated.

They came here to borrow the road. It would be best if they could avoid a full-scale war with the Song army, but without hurting the Song people, the Song people might not necessarily use the road.

At this time, a Han general named Wang Zhengguo suggested that we could go around Gannan and try Tianshui and Xihe Prefecture. We could also enter Sichuan from Qishan Road. Then we could go around to the back of Dashanguan Pass. Dead.

Tuo Lei was preparing to fight the Tianshui Army just like in history.

In the original history, the Song army was vulnerable. Tianshui and Xihe Prefecture were successively conquered. The Mongolian army also massacred these two cities. Then the Mongolian army conquered Qifangguan and Xianrenguan. The three passes and five states in Wu Jie's era were destroyed by the Mongolian army. It's like destroying dry matter under the front, and it has no effect.

Then the Mongolian army divided into two groups and successively attacked Xingyuan, Yangzhou, Mianzhou, Da'an, Jiameng, Xishui, Nanfang and other state capitals, killing hundreds of thousands of Song soldiers and civilians.

The system in Sichuan at that time caused Du Ruyuan to be frightened and fled before the battle, and was forced to agree to borrow a road to lead the way for the Mongolian army.

Because the Song army led the way, the Mongolian army successfully passed Raofeng Pass, then marched eastward along the Han River, and finally entered the territory of the Jin Kingdom.

But things are different now.

Tuo Lei led the army back to Pingliang to rest and prepare materials and equipment. Until September, Tuo Lei personally led an army of [-] people and took [-] civilians who had finally gathered together to fight against Tianshui.

There is no way, there is no available population here, and the people left by the Jin Kingdom are almost used up by Mongolia.

Tuo Lei planned to relocate civilians from Xi'an and other places to attack the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the attack on the Tianshui Mongolian army was another failure.

The Tianshui army has 150 Song troops, more people than Dashanguan, and [-] cannons at the top of the city.

The Song army fired a burst of artillery fire, and the Mongolian army was beaten and fled away.

Tuo Lei, who had been victorious in every battle, once again suffered a disastrous defeat.

Of course, he would not admit his disastrous defeat. He could only say that the attack on the city was fruitless and he retreated.

Tuo Lei fought with the Song army in the Shukou area. From July to September, he attacked two places in two months, but lost all of them and lost troops and generals. At this time, Tuo Lei knew that the Song people were not easy to attack.

At least it would be difficult to attack the Song people's cities.

In mid-September, he returned to Fengxiang with Lei Lei and sent another message to Fengxiang to discuss the matter of borrowing the road. He said that before we attacked the Song Dynasty people, it was because you injured our envoy. In fact, we did not intend to attack you.

At this time, Tuo Lei was already a little anxious. He couldn't find a way out, and he couldn't defeat the Great Sanguan. Wo Kuotai would put all the responsibility on him when the time came.

He was eager to start renewed peace talks with the Song army.

Just as Chen Xiaodao said to Zhang Xuan, as long as the Meng people are beaten painfully, they will sit down at the negotiation table like obedient dogs.

(End of this chapter)