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

Chapter 329 The Song Dynasty originally guarded the country for Goryeo

The first few rows of Song soldiers who were thirty paces away mounted their horses in no hurry, hung their bows behind them, and drew their swords or raised their guns one after another.

The Song troops in the back row began to speed up and slowly passed the Song troops in the front row to meet them.

The Song Army's spear was also learned from the Mongolian Army, with a hook in the front.

Basically, for every ten horses, half have swords and half have spears, but every horse has a bow on its back and side.

If you want to come over and shoot, we will dismount and shoot with you.

If you want to come over and fight, we will mount the horse and fight.

Even though the Mongolian army was only thirty steps away, the Song army slowly mounted their horses.

Their entire army of [-] armored cavalry huddled together and were not afraid of the Mongolian army charging into the formation.

At this time, the Song troops in the back row passed the front rows and moved forward. Both the Mongolian and Song troops were speeding up.

The distance between the two sides was very close, and the two armies almost collided with each other in a few seconds.

"Boom." As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Mongolian army fell from their horses everywhere, and the Song army's heavy cavalry was as powerful as a bamboo, invincible.

It was originally wrong for Yelu Xuejun to use light cavalry against heavy cavalry, but it was also a helpless move.

But after he wanted to rush into the Song army's formation, he still had a chance to win with the flexibility of Qingqi.

The number of cavalry on both sides was about the same, both five to six thousand. In the first wave of hedging, Yelu Xuejun suffered heavy losses.

The cavalry of the Song and Mongolian armies quickly intertwined together, and the shouts of killing were deafening. Compared with the Mongolian army's mad attack on the horse formation in the middle, it was a completely different battle situation.

The heavy cavalry of the Song Army increased their speed unhurriedly, and their fighting style was something Yelv Xue Zhen had never seen before.

Usually, when heavy cavalry charges into formation, it will penetrate all the way until it completely cuts through the opponent's cavalry.

However, the Song army stopped after charging about [-] steps. Then as the flag in the middle changed, the Song army began to turn around and charge back.

The heavy cavalry of the Song Army seemed to have no intention of rushing through the Mongolian army's formation, which made Yelu Xueyan look puzzled.

Yelu Xuejun didn't know why the Song army was running around at first, but as time passed, after the continuous trampling by the cavalry from both sides, the snow on the ground began to solidify and form an ice surface.

The Mongolian army was even more unable to speed up at this time. If they were not careful, their horses would slip.

From time to time, Mongolian soldiers would suddenly fall to the ground while running well.

When Yelu Xuehe discovered this problem, he didn't understand that the Song army was obviously a heavily armored cavalry, but few horses fell down.

It was only after his subordinates reminded him that he saw that Song Jun's horses had gauze scarves tied under them.

This prevents slipping when riding at high speeds on ice.

He thought Song Jun was running around just to step out of the ice.

But he was wrong. The Song army ran around, always keeping within [-] steps of the formation for the opportunity of shelling and trebuchet attacks.

In the back-and-forth fight between the two sides, the Mongolian army was very difficult. The Song army had high blood and thick defense, and the horseshoes were not slippery.

The snow became increasingly slippery under the trampling of thousands of troops.

"Kill." Relying on the speed of his horse, a Mongolian army rushed towards the Song army on the opposite side. Seeing that the two men were about to cross each other, the Mongolian army casually lifted the horse rope, and whoosh, the war horse nimbly passed by the Song army's horse. After passing by, Song Jun from the opposite side shot him over.

The Mongolian army quickly dodged to the left, and the opponent missed the target with one shot.

The Mongolian army was overjoyed. Before Song Jun could put away his gun and go back, he slashed Song Jun's waist with his right hand.

Pounce, the heavy sound was like the sound of wood being struck, and he slashed the knife deep into it, but at the next moment, judging from his experience, the knife either failed to penetrate the flesh, or it was only a minor injury.

What's special, is this armor so thick?

There was no time to think at this time. The horses of both sides were passing by each other. The Mongolian army and the Song army had to face the next enemy.

The Mongolian army put away his sword and raised his head, and another Song army came to meet him in front.

He did not forget to turn back hastily and glanced at Song Jun who had just been slashed by him. Song Jun just grunted, and the injury was not serious as expected, so he continued to move forward.

Song Jun in front was holding a knife, and he seemed to have seen the scene where he had just slashed his companion with the knife.

The Song army was completely wrapped in an iron helmet, with only a pair of eyes exposed. This made the Mongolian army unable to see the opponent's expression, and the Mongolian army felt very unhappy.

"Driving" the Mongolian army did not hesitate, swung their horses and jumped up.

The two sides approached quickly, and just when their horses were about to touch each other, the Mongolian army saw the other side directly swinging their long swords.

He looked in disbelief, because the opponent couldn't hit him at this distance.

Didn't wait for him to react.

Phew, Song Jun slashed his horse's face with a knife.

"Idiot." The Mongolian army must have thought it was the Khitan's national curse at that time. I don't know whether these two words were used, but anyway, the man and the horse fell down at the same time.

After Song Jun cut down his horse, he jumped directly over the horse and continued forward without even looking.

In front of the Song army was the Mongolian army.

This will allow the two sides to continue to deepen and enter each other's formation.

Ahead was the oncoming Mongolian army again.

The Mongolian army also saw the Song army slashing the horse's head with a knife.

He glanced at Song Jun's horses in horror.

The horses of the heavy armored cavalry also had armor on their faces.

He was obviously considering the effect of cutting down the Song army's horses.

But the battlefield was full of flashes of time, and the Song army on the opposite side had already rushed forward.

"Drive" the Mongolian army gritted his teeth, and while speeding up, the weapon in his hand had reached his left hand, and his right hand reached behind his waist at the same time.

Opposite Song Jun bit the knife directly into his mouth.

"..." Meng Jun was stunned for a moment.

I saw Song Jun on the opposite side also reaching his right hand to the back of his waist.

"Damn you." The Mongolian army cursed secretly. Almost at the same time, when the two horses came within five steps, they waved their hands.

"Whizzing"

The wind in the sky was like an arrow.

The Mongolian army flew directly towards Song Jun's face with an iron bone.

The Song army flew a short ax towards the Mongolian army's face.

The Mongolian army reacted quickly. After throwing the Guduo, he used the momentum to lie down on the horse's back. While lying down, he did not forget to look up at the Song army on the opposite side.

Song Jun didn't dodge at all, he lowered his head sharply.

Suddenly, the bone hit the top and side of Song Jun's helmet and bounced away.

"Damn it." The Mongolian army cursed and quickly changed the weapon to his right hand.

The Song army on the opposite side had already charged forward with men and horses. As soon as the Mongolian army got up, their vision went dark.

Plop, he was hit hard on the face with an axe.

When he fell, his face was full of disbelief, because Song Jun's first ax had been avoided by him and did not hit him at all, but he did not expect that Song Jun was actually carrying two axes.

He landed heavily, with stars in his eyes. In a daze, he felt Song Jun coming to him with a knife between his teeth.

Horse hooves trampled around his head.

Song Jun bent over the horse, looked down at him, and then without hesitation, stabbed his neck with a knife, and then slashed hard. Meng Jun let out a painful low groan in his throat, and his body kept twitching.

Song Jun You didn't care about himself or the fighting around him. After slashing his neck hard, he reached out and picked up the ax on his face.

When Song Jun stood up.

Phew, an arrow flew from nowhere and hit Song Jun's right shoulder.

Song Jun shook his body and shook his head left and right, but he didn't see where the arrow came from.

He stretched out his hand directly, kacha, broke the arrow on his shoulder, raised his sword, and rushed towards the Mongolian army again.

The battlefield became more and more intense, and the collision between cavalry and cavalry became more bloody and direct.

The Song army used the weather and terrain to limit the advantages of the Mongolian army, preventing the Mongolian army from approaching their strengths, and then used its own strengths such as artillery and armor to determine its advantage very early.

The Mongolian army was already at a disadvantage from the beginning of the battle, but they still held out for most of an hour.

After the Song army adjusted, trebuchets and artillery began to hit the cavalry on both wings, but Yelvxue's men still did not collapse.

But at this moment, another group of light cavalry rushed out from behind the Song Army's heavy armored cavalry.

This group of light cavalry is the last [-] cavalry in the Song Army's formation, and more than half of them are from the Goryeo Army. They have been waiting for work and have not joined the battlefield.

At this time, the Song army began to counterattack. Ten thousand light cavalry divided into two groups and rushed out from the left and right wings at the same time.

Now Yelu Xuehe couldn't stand it. He was originally at a disadvantage against the heavy cavalry of the Song Army, but the Song Army came out with [-] reinforcements.

Yelu Xuejun's cavalry collapsed instantly, and a large number of cavalry turned around and fled.

But the snow on this battlefield has been trampled into ice. The Mongolian army will suddenly fall down while running. The Mongolian army is even more panicked. If they don't speed up, they may not be able to run away. If they speed up, they may fall down.

Salita in the distance also had an expression of disbelief when he saw the collapse of Yelvshech's road. Then, like a plague, the collapse of the right wing directly affected the main force of the middle army.

In fact, the main force in the middle attacked the horse-drawn carriage formation, and more people died.

The front suffered a large amount of arrows, artillery and trebuchets. If the Mongolian army had not been strictly disciplined and could not retreat without permission, it would have collapsed long ago.

Now that the right wing has collapsed, the center has also collapsed.

Then I, who was on the left wing, did not hold back, and thousands of Mongolian households under his command also retreated.

The two armies fought for about an hour, and the Mongolian army was completely defeated. There were defeated soldiers running back everywhere, and everyone wanted to get wings.

Wang Rongzu, the general of the Han army, immediately led two horses to Salita and said, "Run. If you don't run, it will be over."

After that, he bent down, took the knife, cut a piece from the corner of his clothes, lowered his head and tied it to the horse's hoof.

Salita's expression was blank. After waiting for a moment, he came back to his senses and said sternly: "What's the use of this?"

"If you run without ties, you will slip. Don't run too fast." Wang Rongzu said.

"You need to tie a gauze scarf, but you don't have one." Salita was furious. He had been fighting in Liaodong and Dongxia all year round, and he knew that a gauze scarf was needed under the horse's hooves. Ordinary cloth and cotton had little effect. , it will become useless after running for a long time.

"..." Wang Rongzu was speechless.

"Where else can we run now?" Salita looked back.

The Mongolian army was defeated, and there were thousands of Mongolian soldiers who fled first after the collapse. These people soon filled the trail.

Salita could imagine that even if he ran back, the road where only three or four horses were riding would be filled with people and horses. If anyone was killed or injured, it might be blocked.

Their entire army of 2 people has been here for nearly an hour, and they will definitely not be able to pass this route if they go back now.

"Where are your archers?" He suddenly reacted.

Wang Rongzu was previously asked to gather thousands of archers and return to camp to prepare rockets.

I didn’t see Wang Rongzu’s rocket shooting just now.

Wang Rongzu's face turned red. The Mongolian army did not bring much kerosene. He had just sent someone back to the camp to get kerosene. It was a seven or eight mile journey back and forth.

After finally getting it to the battlefield, he was organizing the archers to wrap cloth around the arrows, then dip them in kerosene and light them.

Unexpectedly, a kerosene bomb from the Song Army fell from the sky and accidentally hit their kerosene barrel.Flames erupted at the scene, swallowing up a large number of archers in an instant.

Salita almost drank blood after hearing this.

But in this situation, even if their rockets can rise, they still have to lose.

First of all, their bows have a relatively short range, and secondly, the Song army will focus on artillery trebuchets and divine arm bows to attack their archers.

What's more, once the cavalry on both wings collapses, the main force in the middle will not be able to withstand it.

Salita couldn't blame Wang Rongzu, and he couldn't blame him for the current situation.

"Let's go over the mountain." Salita waved his head to the right, took Wang Rongzu's horse, turned around and left.

Wang Rongzu didn't want to go over the mountain, so he said anxiously: "Isn't this a familiar place? It's snowing again."

"Look for the Koreans to lead the way." There were Koreans in their army, and Salita sent someone to call the Korean generals who ran away.

They actually stopped a few of them. Those Koreans thought that the Mongols were going to kill them, so they kept begging for mercy. When they heard that they were leading the way to climb the mountain, they finally came to their senses.

After a while, hundreds of people gathered around Salita, including more than a dozen Koreans.

Everyone took their horses and left the battlefield from the south. After running a rugged mountain road, they finally went up the mountain along another mountain road. Halfway through, the Koreans signaled to throw away the horses.

Everyone didn't want to, but when they walked on, they found that the horses couldn't move.

The Mongolian army had no choice but to lose their horses and carry everything they could carry on their backs.

Wang Rongzu followed the Koreans to climb halfway up the mountain, then turned west.

After climbing for about an hour, everyone was still tired and hungry, still on the mountain.

Suddenly, shouts of killing were heard faintly in front.

Everyone was shocked and hurried forward. When they stretched their heads to look, they realized that it was less than a mile away from the intersection where they entered yesterday.

At the foot of the mountain is the Mongolian army camp. Now the camp is in chaos and has long been razed to the ground.

A large number of Mongolian troops blocked the mountain pass.

The Mongolian army is killing its own people.

Because only a few horses could merge at the crossing, everyone rushed in now, trying to escape for their lives. The scene was extremely chaotic, trampling and killing each other.

More and more people died, and corpses began to block the crossing.

Everyone was watching from the mountainside, and all the generals did not dare to say a word.

In the distance, the Song Army's cavalry was chasing and slashing the Mongolian troops who were fleeing in all directions, and at the same time, they deliberately drove the defeated Mongolian troops toward the crossing.

The Song army was in no hurry to move forward, because dogs would jump over the wall if they were anxious. If they were pushed too hard, the Mongolian army would have no way to retreat and might counterattack.

Now the Song army is hunting on the periphery, pushing the artillery forward, and only uses the divine arm bow to shoot forward.

They also took a break from time to time to allow the Mongolian army to recuperate.

Expelled by the Song army, the Mongolian army ran back even more frantically, and the back became even more crowded.

But everyone on the mountain knew that when the crossing was completely blocked and the Song artillery was pushed up, all these people would be finished, either surrendering or being killed.

"Let's go." Salita couldn't stand it, but luckily he was wise enough not to take this pass.

Everyone quickly turned around and continued climbing the mountain.

Salita believed that the direction of this section of the road was correct. They first went south up the mountain, and then turned west. West was the direction from which their army came, and it should be the way back.

But after climbing for more than an hour, everyone was almost dead from exhaustion. The Koreans took them around the mountain.

By the time it got dark, the Mongolian army could no longer be divided into southeast, northwest and northwest, and the whole group was surrounded.

It was very cold in the mountains at night, but luckily it didn't snow any more. That night they huddled together to keep warm and ate the dry food they had brought. Only a dozen people got frostbite in one night, and most of them were fine.

The next day I continued walking with the Koreans and walked around in the mountains again.

But no one noticed that after getting up in the morning, there were already two fewer Koreans in the team.

The Koreans continued to circle the mountain with Salita.

After another day of detours, Salita had begun to have doubts.

There are hundreds of them on the mountain. They are short of supplies and not much food. How can they go around like this?

And the mountain here is indeed not very big. Is there any reason why you haven’t gone out after going around for so many days?

He asked the Koreans to scold them, but the Koreans said hurry up, they have now arrived at Sanguan Mountain, and they can go down the mountain from the east after crossing Sanshanguan.

There is a plain at the bottom of the mountain. When the time comes, we can find a way to find some horse supplies and we can go back.

Salita also relied on the Koreans to lead the way, but had no choice but to believe it again.

They had a chance to go down the mountain before dark that day, but for safety, Salita volunteered to stay one more night on the mountain and wait until dawn tomorrow before going down.

Early the next morning, the sun was shining brightly, and there was much less snow on the mountain and on the ground. Everyone was in a good mood and hurried down the mountain.

As expected, there was a plain at the foot of the mountain, and Salita was secretly glad to have escaped.

But suddenly someone shouted.

Everyone turned around and saw the dozen Koreans fleeing northward without looking back.

"Cao" Salita was furious, took the bow from his entourage, and whoosh, shot a Korean man over with one arrow.

The remaining Koreans continued to run north.

Just when he was about to send people to chase him, there was a crowd of people in the north, and then a wave of cavalry appeared on the horizon.

"The Koreans betrayed us." Wang Rongzu roared.

Salita looked around and saw that everyone was walking around in the mountains. After walking around for several days, they were tired and tired, and they had no fighting power at all.

He drew his sword in his hand and said solemnly: "I will fight to the death for He Khan, and I don't want to drag you into the water. If you want to surrender, you can go to the Song Army."

There was silence all around.

After a moment, Wang Rongzu looked around, looked at Tang Gu in the crowd, and the two immediately turned around and left the Mongolian army.

Then one after another people left the Mongolian army.

Salita took a look and found that most of the people leaving were Han Chinese, Khitan people, and no Mongolians or Jurchens.

"tui" someone spat at Wang Rongzu and the others.

Salita said calmly: "These Han dogs are like that. They tend to follow the crowd, are greedy for life and fear death, and will fight with whoever is stronger."

They also knew that they couldn't run away, and they all stayed in place to prepare for war with the Song people.

Unexpectedly, not long after Wang Rongzu's group of people arrived, Song Jun seemed to have said something to them, and seemed to have handed them some food.

Then I saw that after Wang Rongzu hurriedly took a few bites, the group of people turned around and came over again.

"?" Salita was confused and felt something was wrong.

Sure enough, when Wang Rongzu and Tang Gu came over, they smiled bitterly at Salita: "I'm sorry, the Song Army wants to surrender and lend your heads."

"Bullshit." He was furious.

"Kill." The two sides instantly killed each other.

Wang Rongzu's group of people was not strong enough and the number was still small. Originally, the Song army agreed to come to help, but the Song army was reluctant to move. When they were almost killed, the Song army slowly moved forward.

Now Wang Rongzu and the others regretted it, but Salita would not give them a chance.

After a bloody battle, less than 100 Mongolian troops remained, and the entire regiment on the opposite side was wiped out.

Thousands of Song troops advanced slowly.

Soon within fifty steps.

"Come on." Salita raised his sword and roared: "Who dares to come up?"

Song Jun looked at them like idiots.

The leading general was none other than Lu Wende's younger brother Lu Wenxin. He chuckled, dismounted suddenly, and then waved his hand.

The Song troops in the first few rows of the scene dismounted one after another, and then took their bows from their horses.

"..." Salita was furious. The Song army had no martial ethics at all.

"Charge." He roared wildly, leading nearly a hundred Mongolian troops to charge madly.

The Song army drew their bows and loaded arrows on the spot.

Puchi puchi.

Mongolian troops kept falling to the ground along the way.

When he rushed within [-] steps of the Song army, only Salita was left, with seven or eight arrows stuck in his body. He was very brave.

He still wanted to try to push forward, but he was really out of energy.

Finally, ten steps away from Lu Wenxin, he plopped down and knelt heavily on the ground with his legs.

He stared at Lu Wenxin with a dissatisfied look on his face.

Lu Wenxin was raising his bow, and the Song troops around him were waiting for him.

He glanced again and again, then let go suddenly.

Phew, an arrow shot into the bridge of Salita's nose.

In the battle of Guanyue Mountain, the Song army, led by the Koryo people, made full use of the terrain and attracted the arrogant and arrogant Mongolian army into the basin, which effectively cut off the Mongolian army's retreat.

Coupled with weather and other reasons, the speed of the Mongolian cavalry was limited.

In this battle, whoever loses will be doomed.

If the Song Army and the Goryeo Army were defeated, there would be no way out. Under normal circumstances, it would take a long time for tens of thousands of troops to pass through the narrow mountain road, and it would be impossible to pass through it in the chaos.

Almost all the 1000 Mongolian troops were wiped out, and only the first [-] riders who passed through the mountain road fled the scene.

Salita was unlucky. He didn't expect that a Korean would betray them, so he was caught by Lu Wenxin.

After the Song army defeated the Salita troops, they besieged Pu Tao in Kaijing. After receiving the news, Di Ju quickly joined forces and retreated to the west.

During the march, some of the Goryeo troops who had surrendered to them defected and fled in all directions.

When the two retreated to Anbei Prefecture, there were only more than 6000 soldiers in the army, including many female immortals and Khitan people. The Han people also ran away.

Because in the original history, during the first and second Goryeo Wars, there were a large number of Jurchens, Khitans, and Han people in the Mongolian army who were unwilling to fight for the Mongolian army and fled to various parts of Goryeo. Later, Goryeo gathered these people Get up and make arrangements for farming.

At that time, when the Mongolian army was still victorious, many people were unwilling to serve as soldiers and were forcibly recruited by the Mongolian army.

Now that the Mongolian army was defeated, more tribesmen in the army fled to Goryeo.

Pu Tao and Di Ju retreated all the way and did not dare to stay. Goryeo still had Guizhou near Anbei Prefecture that had not been conquered. The Guizhou defenders got the news and came out to fight, and actually won.

The Mongolian army had no intention of fighting at this time, and rushed all the way back to Tielzhou. After a short rest, they retreated to Yizhou, and then returned to the country along the original route across the Yalu River.

The Mongolian army of 5000 troops entered Goryeo, but when they finally returned to the country, less than [-] troops were left. Not only did they suffer heavy losses, but the general Salita and the trusted bodyguards of Ogedei were also killed in the battle. It was a disastrous defeat.

After Lv Wende defeated the Mongolian army, he officially appeared as the Song army. At the same time, according to the official's request, Goryeo temporarily loaned the five states of Yizhou, Suzhou, Linzhou, Tiezhu, and Guizhou to the Song army.

Goryeo moved five thousand households to each state to farm fields and build fortifications for the Song army. The Song Dynasty was willing to guard the country for Goryeo and resist the Mongolian army and the Eastern Xia Kingdom.

When everyone in Goryeo heard this, they were overjoyed and praised the benevolence and righteousness of the people of Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)