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

Chapter 335 The Song Army is difficult to deal with
The Song army also brought artillery this time, but not many. They only brought five cannons, and they were only light artillery of about [-] kilograms. They were mainly used for siege. In addition, they also brought [-] craftsmen and their families. There are also some doctors and family members.

The Song Army had a dedicated engineering team building roads behind the forward sentry cavalry. The sentry cavalry had recorded all the difficult roads for more than half a year. Now they were building roads while walking and using camels to pull cannons. Because there were few cannons, It was relatively easy, but I walked a little slowly.

After crossing Hezhou, the Song Army's march slowed down again. They could only cover about forty miles in a day. There was no way, the artillery was really difficult to move, and the Song Army's own baggage was also heavy. This was based on the preparation for one or two years.

After crossing Hezhou, we went straight north and along the west bank of the Yellow River.

This is safer. The Mongolian army rarely crosses the Yellow River because the transition point is still far away from here. Moreover, at this time, the Mongolian army in Xixia did not know that the Song army and the Jin soldiers had hacked the Mongolian army in the Central Plains. Wokuotai When we decided to pass through the Song Dynasty, we promised the Song people not to send sentries across the Yellow River to enter the original Jin Kingdom. In addition, the map here does not belong to Xixia, nor does it belong to the Jin Kingdom, but to Tubo, so it is rare to see the Mongolian army. The sentry rode across the river.

About four days later, Dazazan followed the Song army to Jishi Prefecture, which was the only place within a few hundred miles where one could cross the Yellow River.

It took the Song Army and 5 civilians four days to cross the Yellow River. Although Dazazan could not see how many people there were in the Song Army, it took such a long time to cross the Yellow River. Counting the Song Army's heavy baggage, there were [-] to [-] people.

Even if you enter the Xining area after crossing the river, it is still very desolate. The area is dominated by tribes from the Tubo Duosima area. It was successively occupied by the Song, Jin, and Xixia. Later, the Mongolian army came in and was occupied by the Mongolian army. The Mongolian army also returned. I want to use them to recruit Brother Zhao Achang, because the locals and Brother Zhao Achang are of the same clan.

However, the Song army came over quickly and knocked out Zhao Age Chang's quilt, and the Mongolian army did not come in time to surrender.

But the Song army was not going to attack Xining. Xining was mainly composed of Tibetans and had a small population. There were only a few hundred Mongolian troops in the area.

The Song army continued to the northwest, bypassing Xining and heading towards Haiyan County in later generations.

During the Song Dynasty, Haiyan County was the territory of Hehuang Tubo Busiyi. It is still occupied by the Tubo people because the Mongolian army has not yet entered.

When the Tubo tribes gathered to fight the Song army, they were on the border between Xixia and Tubo, nearly a thousand miles away from the Song army, so the Tubo people here did not participate.

Moreover, this is only a relatively small tribe and cannot gather many troops.

The Song Army walked this section for nearly eight days, starting in the middle of the first lunar month and arriving here in early February.

By this time, Dazazan and his companions had eaten a lot of the food they had brought and were now able to ride on the camels. The supplies from the dromedary camels were transferred to the two-humped camels. Their speed increased and they could walk a hundred miles a day.

However, the Song army in front had a lot of baggage and was still relatively slow, so we could only slow down with the Song army.

In mid-February, the forward of the Song army passed through Haiyan, and at the same time, the Tibetan troops in the army were sent to trade with the local herdsmen.

At this time, the Tubo people knew that Song troops were coming.

This place is close to Qinghai Lake. The Song Army and all the civilians camped not far from Qinghai Lake. After resting for a day, they were not afraid of the local herdsmen reporting the news. First of all, this would belong to Tubo, not Xixia, and it had nothing to do with the Mongolian army. Secondly, It was far away from the Mongolian army, hundreds of miles away. Even if someone went to report the news, the Song army would have already left by the time the Mongolian army knew about it.

In addition, the Song army traded white saccharine, salt, etc. with the herdsmen, and the herdsmen must be happy.

On the [-]th, the Song army continued to the northwest after resting for a day.

Dazazan actually ate fresh meat again, and they also exchanged fresh meat with local herders.

After passing Haiyan, the Song army picked up speed. Dazazan and the others were also riding on camels, so their speed was a bit fast.

They often go hunting during every break, because there are more birds and animals here, which can provide fresh meat.

But the altitude here is a bit high, and ordinary people are really not used to it. February is still relatively cold. Fortunately, the coldest month is January, and they have already passed the coldest month.

This time the Song Army dispatched 4 people, of which 3 were Tubo people, [-] Xixia people, and the other [-] to [-] were Sichuan troops. Moreover, there are many places in Sichuan that are also plateau areas, so they were selected to be able to adapt. The Sichuan Song Army, plus they have been in Diezhou for several years and often go out for training, can basically adapt.

The only thing that had the greatest impact on the Song Army was the cold.

Fortunately, Song Jun calculated the distance and arrived here in mid-February, skipping the coldest month of January.

The road ahead was sometimes difficult and sometimes easy. For the Song army, it was no less than a long march of thousands of miles. The process was also quite difficult. Because they carried cannons and a large amount of baggage, many places were very difficult. Sometimes seven or eight people were required to carry them directly. Artillery passes.

For Dazazan and Azanbi, the most difficult thing was to enter a Gobi area. At this time, the coal they brought came into effect. This area was completely barren, and they often couldn't find anything to make a fire for dozens or hundreds of miles away. You can only use coal for heating at night. As for cooking hot food, you don’t have to think about it. You can just eat dry food, thereby saving coal.

The Song army walking in front of Dazazan and the others carried no less things than they did, and the march was not easy.

But Dazazan was very shocked in his heart. He could also see how well-prepared the Song army was. They must have spent a long time investigating and calculating the route in the early stage. This was why they encountered no difficulties at all despite the hard work.

After more than two months, the Song army of 5 plus 3000 civilians, a total of [-] people, traveled more than [-] miles through mountains and rivers, crossed the Gobi, and finally approached Shazhou City after hard work.

This was considered a feat in this world. After all, the Song army had a lot of baggage. The Mongolian army could travel thousands of miles, but it would certainly not have so much baggage.

The Mongolian army's second western expedition brought 12 troops and 50 horses.

This time, the Song army had [-] troops and [-] civilians, and brought [-] camels and [-] horses. The difficulty was much greater than that of the Mongolian army. It would be very dangerous if they were ambushed on the road.

At this time, Dazazan and the others did not know that they had arrived near Shazhou. They were behind the Song Army formation and could not see Shazhou City. Zhao Xiaotian came over to inform them that they were almost at their destination and they could sleep outside the city tonight.

Wow, the crowd burst into cheers. Dazazan turned his head excitedly, feeling that the Tubo tribesmen were as happy as if they had won a battle.

Also, after following the Song Army for more than two months, they would have been a little uncomfortable if they hadn't been intensively trained for several months before.

While they were cheering.

In front of them, the Song Army's chief general Meng Ying, deputy general Li Pingxia, generals Shader and Zhang Neng were riding horses not far from Shazhou City.

Behind them, Multi, who has become the captain of the sentinel camp, and Gerile, the deputy captain, are both there.

Multi and Gerile came to Shazhou specifically to investigate the military situation. Shazhou is adjacent to the original Western Liao region and is now an important transit station for the Mongolian army.

If the Mongolian army marches westward, Xixia's war horses and grain will continue to flow from Shazhou to Xiliao, and then gather in Xiliao for the Mongolian army to conquer from the west.

If the Mongolian army invades south, Western Liao's war horses and grain will continue to enter Xixia from Shazhou, and then gather in Xixia for the Mongolian army to attack Sichuan.

Anyway, the Mongolian army is attacking there, so they transport supplies and war horses from the other side, and now they even recruit soldiers.

When Multi and the others came, there were about 500 people in Shazhou City, basically moved from Western Liao, as well as the families of the defenders. There were [-] defenders, of which only [-] were from the Mongolian headquarters, and the rest were Khitans. People and Dangxiang people, and even Turks.

Now that two years have passed, the local population should have increased, but the military strength will not change much. After all, there has never been a war here.

At this time, Meng Ying and others were riding horses one mile outside Shazhou City, looking at Shazhou City in the distance. The defenders on the opposite side should have seen them, because the city was crowded with people.

Meng Ying didn't care at all whether they were discovered, because it was too far away from Zhongxing Mansion, the center of the Mongolian army's rule in Xixia, so they went directly outside the city to watch.

"Let's rest for two days. Tomorrow we will let the craftsmen lead the men to build carts, ladders and trebuchets, and attack the city the day after tomorrow."

"Here" the generals responded, quickly returned to camp, and then led the army to start moving, preparing to surround Shazhou City first.

Before the Song army surrounded them, the Mongolian army in the city had already rushed out with fast horses, preparing to report the enemy attack to Zhongxing Mansion.

Guazhou is more than 2000 miles away from Zhongxing Mansion. Even if he outruns his horse and runs [-] miles a day, it will still take him three days to get there.

After the Mongolian army left the city, Adachi, the guard at the top of the city, stood on top with a sad face, watching the Song army move and surround them.

Atachi was a Mongolian general who personally captured Shazhou, Ganzhou and other places. Because Shazhou was located on the strategic transportation route between Xiliao and Xixia, he was allowed to garrison it.

The past few years have been peaceful, nothing happened.

But today an army suddenly came out of nowhere and startled him.

You can't blame him for this. When the Mongolian army first occupied this place, sentry riders would go out and wander around basically every day.

But the Mongolian army has occupied this place for almost five years, and there has been no fighting. Later, they basically stopped sending sentry riders, and the sentry riders went out just to fish, and they just walked around a few times and then came back.

When a large group of Song troops suddenly appeared in front of him, Adachi was also confused. Where did this girl come from with so many soldiers and horses?
The key point is that they emerged from the west. Those who didn't know it thought they were the Mongolian troops coming from the direction of Xiliao.

Therefore, even if the sentries of Shazhou City leave the city, they rarely go to the west.

After the Song army appeared, Adachi immediately sent his cronies to lead fifty elite cavalry out of the city, and then ordered to circle around the opposite side to see what kind of soldiers and horses they were and how many people there were.

When they report to the Zhongxing government, they must have data.

So he watched with his own eyes fifty fine knights rushing out of the city.

At the same time that their fifty cavalry rushed out of the city, more than a hundred cavalry were also separated from the Song army on the opposite side.

"Let's go." Multi waved his hand and personally led a group of sentry cavalry to meet them directly.

Of course they couldn't let the Mongolian army observe how many troops they had.

With a rumble, the sentries and cavalry of the two armies approached quickly.

Outside the city, Atachi's elite Mongolian army took the lead in facing the Song army.

These fifty cavalry were all from the headquarters of the Mongolian army, and they were all elites who had experienced hundreds of battles. They all looked relaxed and looked at the Song army in front, as if they were looking at a pile of dead people.

None of these Mongolian troops had been to the Song Dynasty. They had been in the Western Expedition, and then stationed in Western Liao. Later, they followed Temujin to destroy Xixia, and after defeating Xixia, they stationed in Xixia.

Since they formed an army, they have won almost every battle, and they did not take the more than 100 Song troops in front of them at all.

Both sides did not increase their speed at this time and slowly approached.

The Mongolian army clearly saw that the cavalry on the opposite side looked like Song soldiers, but as they ran, they didn't feel like Song soldiers.

Among the people in Multi, there are more than 20 Tubo people, more than 30 Xixia Dangxiang people, and more than 40 Song troops. There are also Sichuan Miao and other tribes in the Song army.

Now the Song Army and the Mongolian Army are both part of the Eight-Nation Alliance, with various tribes present.

The Song Army's selection of sentinel cavalry was even more stringent. All of them had to be excellent cavalry, and they were all the best among the best.

During the assessment of the Song Army, the sentinels were required to accelerate, shoot within fifty steps, and hit six out of ten shots in order to be selected.

When the sentinel rider is slow, he must hit eight out of ten shots within fifty steps to be selected.

All sentries can also perform various complex movements on the horse, and can change their status and position at any time. They are completely in line with the standards of the Mongolian army, and even many standards are not found in the Mongolian army.

Both sides can be said to be the two most elite cavalry in the world.

The leader of the Mongolian army was the centurion pressing Guda.

He is Atachi's nephew and a soldier captain.

Guda was running in the middle at this time, and his cavalry had not yet increased their speed. He originally planned to see how many soldiers and horses the Song Army had, and then headed for Zhongxing Mansion.

But as soon as they left the city, they saw a hundred-cavalry Song army rushing out from the opposite side. According to Guda, he knew immediately that the Song army wanted to drive them away and didn't want them to see how many people there were in the Song army.

"Hahaha." Ying Guda laughed and said to the subordinates beside him: "Song people will drive us away with a hundred horses?"

The subordinate smiled and said: "Two arrows per person is enough."

There was laughter all around.

There seems to be nothing wrong with this. They have fifty riders in total. Wouldn't it be enough to solve the problem with two arrows each?

Pressing Guda smiled, his eyes were still watching the Song Army's formation in the distance.

The Song army should have just arrived in Shazhou and were preparing to encircle Shazhou. Once the Song army was allowed to encircle Shazhou, they would not be able to go out to communicate.Now there are two options in Kudat.

Either ride eastward in groups first and report to Zhongxing Mansion that the Song army is coming.

Either kill the hundred Song soldiers in front of you and then fly away.

But if the latter fails, they will not be able to get out when the Song army is surrounded, and the news will not reach Zhongxing Mansion.

Press Guda obviously did not expect the problem of failure.

Even if he couldn't kill these one hundred knights, he still had the confidence to turn around and leave. After all, it would take at least half an hour to an hour for the Song army to surround the entire Shazhou City.

At that moment, he raised his whip and pointed it at most of the Song army: "The Song army should want to surround Shazhou. With so many people surrounding them, it will take at least half to an hour."

"My sons, are you sure that we can kill this Song army in a quarter of an hour?"

"Kill." The subordinates roared: "Kill in a quarter of an hour."

"Drive" pressed Guda and whipped the horse's whip hard, bang bang bang, and hit the horse's buttocks several times in a row. The Mongolian army began to speed up and rush forward.

They planned to kill everyone in Multi within a quarter of an hour.

At the top of the city, watching Yingguda's entire army rushing forward, Adachi also nodded to the people around him: "Yingguda is still more brave. We should kill these one hundred Song troops first, and then go to Zhongxing Mansion." This improvement is enough. The role of morale.

The generals all around nodded.

The deputy general, A La Gu, a Khitan man, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why don't the entire army leave the city and defeat the Song army at once?"

A La Gu was also full of confidence and felt that he should go out and defeat the Song army.

Adachi was stunned for a moment. He only had more than 2000 men under his command, most of whom were servants. There were tens of thousands of Song troops on the opposite side. Isn't this necessary?If they lose the battle, they will lose even Shazhou City.

"I don't know how many people there are in the Song Army. Let's take a look at the situation first." Adachi didn't show any weakness and responded calmly.

At this time, the Song army was still far away and had not surrounded them. They could not see how many people there were in the Song army. When the Song army surrounded the edge of Shazhou City, they could roughly estimate how many people there were in the Song army.

Someone on the side immediately started scolding: "Aren't we uniting with the Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty? Why did the Song army come to attack Shazhou?"

The last time they used the road to destroy the gold, the Mongols gave the Song Army tens of thousands of war horses, all of which were shipped from Xixia. Everyone was really angry when they thought that the Song Army was now riding the horses they sent to beat them.

Adachi didn't know why, so he could only say: "This area is rich in war horses, cattle and sheep, and the people of Song Dynasty may want to take this place as their own."

Xixia, Gan, Su, Xiliang and other places can herd hundreds of thousands of war horses, and countless cattle and sheep. This is the base camp of the Mongolian Western Expedition. Wouldn't the Song people be jealous of such an important strategic material production place?

While everyone at the top of the city was talking about it, Aguda below had already approached Multi.

While pressing Guda to speed up, Murti on the opposite side seemed to be responding to them and also speeding up.

The Song Army's hundred cavalry dispersed quickly and quickly formed a half-moon shape.

Guda was stunned when he saw it. This routine was a bit like theirs, wasn't it?
They were also dispersing now, but they didn't expect Song Jun to disperse earlier than them.

The cavalry of both sides were scattered into a half-moon shape. The Song army had twice as many horses as them, so the half-moon shape seemed larger.

At this time, the two sides were already about a hundred steps closer. "Drive", Bingguda quickly whipped his riding whip a few times, immediately stuffed the riding whip behind his waist, and bent slightly to take out the horse's bow.

His horse bow is as strong as a stone, and can shoot from seventy or eighty steps away. According to the speed of the Song army and their horses, and they are facing each other head-on, he can draw the bow at a hundred steps and shoot the arrow at the same time. , the two sides are approaching at high speed, and the range is completely sufficient.

"Drive" pressed Guda and shouted loudly again, straightened up and drew the bow, holding the horse's belly tightly with his legs.

The war horse is running at high speed, but he can draw the bow and shoot arrows.

The ups and downs of his body did not affect his shooting skills.

It was almost based on feeling, there was no time at all, and there was no way to aim.

"collapse"

An arrow pierced through the air.

When his arrow went out, both sides should have taken about eighty steps.

Phew, Ying Guda watched his arrow fly into the Song Army's cavalry.

The arrow must have hit, but I don't know whether it hit a horse or a human.

But since the distance is seventy or eighty steps, the damage may not be very great.

The cavalry on the opposite side seemed to be shaken, but Song Jun continued to run forward.

According to Guda, he was not full of energy and quickly raised the arrow again.

The two sides were now within seventy steps, and other people around him began to raise their bows and take arrows.

"Beng" hit Guda's second arrow completely based on feeling, and there was no time to aim.

"Boom!" The opposite side fell down in response, and a Song Army man and his horse fell to the ground with a crash.

Now, according to Guda, he found that the Song army on the opposite side was somewhat scattered, even more scattered than their Mongolian army. There were at least ten steps between the cavalry and the cavalry.

The Song army was still very dense when they started running, but became more and more scattered as they ran.

The Song army's original formation was only twice as big as the Mongolian army. After running sixty steps, the Song army's formation was quite scattered and was already three or four times their size.

The Song Army's cavalry dispersed so widely, so his first arrow might have missed and hit the open space.

Moreover, although the second arrow hit, the Song army behind had sufficient time to adjust, and the following horses did not hit the fallen comrades in front.

"This Song army is difficult to deal with." Ying Guda thought to himself.

At this time, the two sides were getting closer and closer. The men around him loaded their arrows one after another, and he also pulled up the third arrow again.

Almost at the same time, people on both sides raised their hands and waved riding whips or bows and arrows.

Sixty steps, fifty steps.

With a rumble, both sides slowed down at the same time and scattered to both sides. Their movements were almost exactly the same.

The Mongolian army's best kite shooting began.

Unexpectedly, the Song Army on the opposite side was also like this.

The two sides coincidentally started to turn around fifty steps away and move away from each other.

After this sweep, the front rows of both sides were already within forty steps.

If you look at it from mid-air at this time, the formations of both sides separate at the same time, forming a beautiful wave, which is like a fancy performance, very beautiful.

Atachi and other Mongolian generals who were watching the battle at the top of the city also looked in disbelief.

The opponent accelerated, slowed down, and swept to both sides. The whole movement was extremely smooth, almost as good as the Mongolian army.

The frustration of some of the servants in the Mongolian army is completely invisible.

next moment.

Beng Beng Beng, arrows and feathers intertwined in the air, and the Mongolian army and the Song army shot directly at each other.

Plop, plop, people on the scene fell on their backs, and people on both sides fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty had many arrows, and 50 men shot men and 50 men shot horses.

To be precise, there were more than 50 people, because none of them was an integer of 100, plus the officers at all levels were over a hundred.

The first wave of attacks against the Mongolian army suffered heavy losses.

The distance between the two sides was relatively close, and their cavalry and shooting were equal. The Song army had more people and more arrows, so it clearly had the upper hand.

The scene was full of fallen horses and people.

Part of the Mongolian army continued to plunder on both sides, and the Song army also plundered in separate directions, so the two sides had formed a parallel line, with one team running on the left and right.

As Guda ran and watched, there was a Song Army who was not forty steps away from the opposite side and was also looking at him.

He could tell at a glance that this Song army was the opponent's general, and his armor was a little different.

The other side also saw that he was the commander here, and the two of them ran to the outside together. Soon they were at the outermost edge of their own troops, about thirty steps away.

"Drive" Guda held a bow in one hand, patted the horse's butt gently with his hand, and turned his head to look at Murti opposite from time to time.

At such a close range, he had already seen that Multi was not from the Song Dynasty. No wonder he was so skilled at riding and shooting.

Both sides ran forward along parallel lines, both looking at each other as they ran.

Ying Guda did not hesitate and quickly took the arrow while looking at the other side with his peripheral vision.

This time the Mongolian army actually had the upper hand.

Because according to Guda, they were on the left facing the Song army on the right.

If Song Jun holds the bow in his left hand, he needs to straighten his body and twist it, which is more difficult.

Even if the Mongolian army holds a bow in its left hand, it can bend down and shoot sideways at the Song army.

Unexpectedly, Multi on the opposite side suddenly changed his hand and raised the bow with his right hand.

"Hiss" Guda looked in disbelief. He didn't expect that there would be someone who could cum with both hands.

The most famous person in the Song Army who can shoot with both hands is Yue Fei.

He didn't expect that he could shoot any sentry rider he saw with both hands.

He quickly loaded the arrow, bent down and lay on the horse, lowering the part of his body that was hit.

Almost at the same time as he cocked the arrow, Murti on the opposite side did the same.

Both of them lowered their bodies and were on guard.

(End of this chapter)