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

Chapter 416: Leave some seeds for the people

Natu'er didn't expect that his son was already thinking of surrendering at this time.

In order to save his son, he had been waiting for an opportunity outside the city with his troops, and at the same time, he was waiting for reinforcements.

But for three days after the Song army arrived at Dingzhou City, no nearby Mongolian army came to support them.

Natu'er certainly knows why. First of all, the only place within three days' journey from Dingzhou is Yanzhou, and other places such as Xiazhou and Longzhou are further away. Secondly, the Mongolian army has a large number of troops in Xixia, and the one with more than 10,000 is Heishui City. , Wu Lahai City, Keyimen, Xiazhou, and Dingzhou five places.

At this time, Natu'er was observing the Song army's siege and looking east, hoping for the support of the Mongolian army.

Although Xiazhou and Longzhou are relatively far away from here, the sentry sent by Natu'er when he left the city must have arrived at Xiazhou and Longzhou long ago.

But there is no way. The sentinel cavalry can ride two horses, or even three horses, to Xiazhou and Longzhou in two days like an eight-hundred-mile horse. But the soldiers and horses in these places cannot run back in two days in one go. .

"The Song army's formation is a bit small. Doesn't it look like a siege?" At this time, Delbatu suddenly said to Natu'er.

"There may be fierce resistance in the city, and it is impossible for the Song army to attack so quickly." Natu'er said immediately.

From their direction, at such a long distance, they could only see that Song Jun was surrounded by ants, but it seemed that not many people climbed up.

The Song troops ascended the city in batches. The first batch of Song troops were all wearing fire-flavored cloth clothes. When they went up to the top of the city, there was still fire on them.

The second group went up to consolidate their positions, mainly bringing small gasoline bombs thrown by hand, and burned back the Mongolian troops who tried to climb up the city. Then the trebuchets from behind continued to launch, forcing the Mongolian troops to retreat step by step, and kept retreating. A hundred steps away from the city head.

This was the third group to go up to the city. This group of people was also small. After going up, they used ropes to hang up the horses at the crenel.

The Song army hoisted a group of resisting horses, then swung them to the left and right to form obstacles, and then mounted heavy armored fusilier gunners, basically able to defend the 400 steps of the city they had captured earlier.

The next step is to slowly mount the troops, expand the victory, remove the mud and rocks blocking the city gate, and allow the army to enter.

At this time, the Song army probably had less than a thousand men and was busy near the city head. From the perspective of Natu'er and Delbatu in the distance, the Song army's attack was a bit slow, and the resistance in the city was fierce, so the Song army behind them Can't go up.

Because after you go up there, there is no room for anyone to stand up there.

But the Song Army only went up with so few people, which meant that there were more people in the Song Army camp.

Natu'er also wanted to try to sneak attack the Song army to relieve his son's pressure on the defenders, but the Song army was still densely packed under the city. There were too few troops, so of course he did not dare to attack.

"The troops from Yanzhou haven't arrived yet?" someone asked dissatisfiedly.

They have been waiting for three days, but no one has come from Yanzhou.

Delbatu shook his head: "There aren't many people in Yantou. The Song army may set up an ambush on the road, or there may be soldiers and horses to attack Yanzhou. We can't count on them."

The Song Army is the best at encircling a point and calling for reinforcements. Maybe there are Song Army soldiers and horses on the way to call for reinforcements?

Therefore, if the Mongols came to reinforce, they would definitely be cautious for fear of being ambushed.

The subordinates sounded a little disappointed. According to this, there is no hope for reinforcements?

The most promising one is Xiazhou. There are also 30,000 Mongolian troops in Xiazhou. They can leave 5,000 to 10,000 to defend the city and 20,000 reinforcements. But are you afraid that the Song army will also send people to attack Xiazhou?

Everyone was still discussing, suddenly.

In Dingzhou City ahead, there was a loud, earth-shattering roar.

All the Mongolians were shocked. Natu'er and the others could feel the earth shaking from such a distance.

"Is the Song army blowing up the city gate?"

"Aren't all the Song troops at the top of the city?"

Everyone is incredible.

But of course the Song Army would not blow up even its own people.

The Mongolian army blocked the North City Gate too tightly. The Song army dug a small hole first, stuffed a small amount of explosives, and then blew a big hole with one blast.

Then put a small amount of explosives inside and explode it again.

Not a moment.

Boom, there was another loud noise in the distance.

After the second explosion, the space inside the urn city became even larger.

Song Jun quickly cleared away the rubble, and within a quarter of an hour, he exploded again.

After the third explosion, the entire city gate was finally blown through. At this time, Song troops also came to clean up outside the city.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, Natu'er saw the north gate of Dingzhou City being pushed to the ground by the Song army with a heavy bang.

The entire door was finally completely opened.

But the Song army did not pour in like a tide.

The Song army was still clearing the ground, and there was a buzzing sound behind them. The loaded artillery was already pushing forward, pushing all the way into Wengcheng and then onto the street.

Natu'er couldn't see the artillery pushing forward, and only thought that the Song army was already rushing forward like a tide.

"Let's fight." He gritted his teeth and looked at Delbatu.

At this time, the Song Army is definitely about to enter the city. Attacking the Song Army's rear formation at this time is the only chance to rescue Chala.

Delbatu wanted to refuse, because he knew that the Song army was waiting in the rear and had suffered losses from the Song army before.

But thinking of Natu'er's eagerness to save his son, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and nod: "Let's give it a try."

"Get ready." Natu'er ordered immediately.

Woo, a strong horn sound sounded slowly, and the Mongolian army began to form a team.

The Song army's rear formation on the opposite side was motionless and seemed to have no reaction at all.

Natu'er looked nervous. At a glance, he couldn't see a single Song army, only a row of carriages.

But he had no choice. In order to save his son: "Rush."

Natu'er gave an order, and with a rumble, the Mongolian army's more than 5,000 cavalry began to speed up.

They were not far from the Song Army, only five or six hundred steps away, and the Song Army had not reacted to them before.

But just when they speeded up to about 400 steps.

Boom, the artillery fire from the Song Army's side.

When the cannon sounded, Natu'er was startled. Only then did he remember that the Song army had cannon.

Moreover, their position just now was within the range of the Song Army's artillery, but the Song Army never fired artillery, ignored them, and went all out to attack the city.

Natu'er had no way to retreat, so he could only continue to give orders, charge, charge, charge. All the Mongolian troops rushed forward with their artillery.

With a splash, a cannonball fell from the sky and hit their horses first.

This cannonball was huge, obviously a heavy cannon weighing more than 1,000 kilograms.

This kind of artillery now has a range of more than 800 steps, but the Song army did not fire until they ran within 300 steps before starting to fire.

The shells of this time do not explode like those of later generations. They are very good for hitting dense infantry. After landing, they can jump up and roll for a while.

However, the effect of fighting cavalry is not very good, and the terrain around Dingzhou is soft, so the bounce range is not large when it lands, and it cannot roll very far.

Now artillery, like flintlock muskets, also depends on appearance.

If you're lucky, you can roll over several cavalry, but if you're not lucky, you can't hit any of the cavalry.

Today there are relatively few Mongolian cavalry, only more than 5,000, and the Song army is obviously not willing to use artillery.

The artillery fire of the Song Army continued one after another, but it was not very fierce.

When the Mongolian army rushed all the way two hundred paces.

Swish, swish, an arrow shot out from the Song army.

This is the first time the Mongolian army has seen someone shooting arrows from such a distance.

This is the official use of the Song Army's new pulley bow and arrow on the battlefield.

Pulley bows and arrows were developed earlier than flintlock muskets, but they have not been used for the first time until now.

After the flintlock gun came out in the later period, Zhao Yurui planned to give up the pulley bow and arrow.

Under the current level of technology, that thing is difficult to build and has poor durability. It is better to use a divine arm bow.

So now the Song army is using it as hard as possible until it is used up.

Swish, swish, there was a heavy rain of arrows on the scene, and the Mongolian army shot another wave of arrows covering their heads and faces.

During the last night attack, the Song army did not use pulley bows and arrows. Now Natu'er was shocked and frightened. She did not expect that the Song army could shoot such a far distance.

From two hundred steps to about one hundred and twenty steps, Song Jun's arrows never stopped shooting.

The Mongolian army was shot at at least a dozen rounds, and they barely reached the top speed when they increased their speed to more than a hundred steps.

After entering one hundred and twenty steps, bang bang bang, the Song Army's flintlock guns and divine arm bows came at the same time overwhelmingly.

This is already the third wave of long-range strikes by the Song Army.

The closer they rushed, the heavier the Mongolian casualties were. Natour led more than 5,000 cavalry to rush within 150 steps, and the entire army lost less than 500 cavalry.

After rushing within 120 steps, the entire army lost more than a thousand horses.

The Song army on the opposite side had at least two to three thousand pulley archers, and each of them shot about seven or eight arrows at them in a short period of time.

Including the artillery strikes, from 500 steps to 120 steps, the loss was over a thousand cavalry, which was considered a relatively small loss.

However, no one in the charging Mongolian army could count, let alone care how many men and horses they lost.

Only a few Mongolian generals such as Delbatu and Natuer would look at the number of their own troops from time to time.

In their eyes, this kind of loss was considered extremely heavy, even worse than the last night attack.

I haven't seen a Song Army yet.

Then came the flintlock gunshot and the divine arm bow at the same time.

The Song army had about a thousand fusiliers and two thousand divine arm archers.

Plus two to three thousand pulley archers.

After one hundred and twenty steps is the road to hell.

The Mongolian troops fell to the ground layer by layer in an endless stream. In Natour's eyes, this was no different from a suicidal charge.

Natu'er was quite smart and kept running behind the Mongolian army in front, running in a straight line with the Mongolian army in front.

Mainly the fear of being shot with a flintlock.

He had already heard from Delbatu that the Song Army had a powerful new firearm that was more lethal than arrows.

He is heavily armored, and the Song Army's arrows are not very effective on him. He must give priority to fire protection.

Whenever someone fell to the ground in front of him, he immediately changed his position and continued to stay in a straight line with the rider in front.

He and Delbatu ran almost at the end. The two of them looked at the whole army from time to time, and also looked at each other from time to time.

Both of them looked horrified.

Being at the rear, they could clearly see the losses of the entire formation.

When the Mongolian army rushed within fifty steps, the loss was close to 2,000 cavalry.

The Song army in front kept firing flintlock guns and raining arrows. Under heavy blows, nearly half of the elite Mongolian army fell on the road.

Whenever a rider fell down, both of them couldn't help but their hearts beat violently.

I was really scared of being beaten by Song Jun.

I have never seen such a strong long-range strike capability of the Song Army.

There is no difference between a cavalry charge and death.

Of course, maybe some people at the scene would not be seriously injured after falling from their horses, but if the Mongolian army cannot win, these people will be left here forever, no matter how minor their injuries are.

"Xu Xu" Just when the two of them were frightened and frightened, the Mongolian army in front had begun to slow down.

Many Mongolian soldiers cursed loudly.

The Mongolian army that rushed within twenty steps could already see part of the layout in front. The Song army had two rows of carriages lined up in front.

That's right, it's a two-row carriage.

Behind the two rows of carriages were four or five rows of gun and shield soldiers, but these gun and shield soldiers were now shooting at them with rifle bows.

It turns out that among the pulley bows, flintlock muskets, and divine arm bows, there are also walking bows.

Behind four or five rows of gun and shield soldiers were the fusiliers.

There were three rows of Song Army fusiliers. There was a wall in front of each row, and each wall was of different heights.

This ensures that the people in the first row of the Song Army will not affect the second row, and the people in the second row will not affect the third row.

The first row basically fought while squatting and kneeling, the second row had a shallow trench dug underneath and stood in the trench, and the third row stood completely on the ground.

From the direction of the Mongolian army, only the fusiliers' helmets and guns can be seen mounted on the wall.

Behind the fusiliers, there are walls one after another, followed by divine arm archers and pulley archers.

"Xu Xu" the Mongolian troops reined in their horses one after another. The two rows of carriages in front could not rush up at all. At this time, they had to either shoot at the Song troops, or dismount and climb over the carriages.

"Kill." The shouts from the front shook the sky. I don't know who gave the order. Anyway, General Youmeng took the lead and jumped off the horse, and then climbed directly onto the carriage.

Bang bang bang, gunshots rang out from the opposite side, and arrows came like rain. The Mongolian troops climbed onto the carriage one after another, one after another, and one group after another.

If you climb to a high place, you will die.

There were also Mongolian troops shooting at the Song troops from behind.

But the Song soldiers had many arrows and thick armor, so they were not afraid at all.

Nearly three thousand Mongolian troops swarmed in front of the two carriages. They were constantly beaten by various weapons of the Song army, and artillery fell from time to time.

The casualties on the scene became faster.

Delbatu watched for a long time, but he didn't see any Mongolian soldiers who could survive on the carriage for more than three seconds.

A Mongolian soldier with thick armor was shot with several arrows on his body. After being shot again, he was able to cross two carriages, but the opposite side was densely packed with spearmen.

Several members of the Song army threw away their bows and arrows, picked up their spears and stabbed them over. In a blink of an eye, they knocked the Mongolian army to the ground.

Song Jun went back to pick up his rifle and continued shooting.

A few people would die if they rushed forward, unless a large number of people rushed forward together.

The Mongolian army suffered more and more casualties. The mountains of corpses piled on the carriage became higher, making it more difficult for the Mongolian army to climb over.

"Withdraw." Delbatu finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned to Natu'er and said, "If we keep fighting, the whole army will be wiped out."

There is a wall behind the carriage, and there is a wall behind the wall. How many lines of defense can the Mongolian army charge through like this?

The Song army was leaning against the wall, and it was difficult for the Mongolian army's bows and arrows to cause a lot of damage, and it was even more difficult for level shots to hit vital points.

Those fusiliers barely had their eyes exposed. Some smart ones dug a hole in the wall, and the fusiliers protruded from the hole. They didn't even want their eyes to be exposed.

Can't beat it at all.

Delbatu thought that he would not be able to kill many Song troops, but he would die in vain, which was not worthwhile.

Cavalry must rely on speed and impact to defeat infantry.

Now that the Song army lined up two rows of carriages, the Mongolian army's impact and speed were all gone.

The Mongolian army, which was known for its speed, all turned into infantry camps.

In front of the Song army, the only chance was to be slaughtered.

Not to mention that the Song Army also had foot bows, divine arm bows and pulley bows at this time.

Even if there were only three rows of fusiliers, it would be difficult for the Mongolian army to charge forward.

"Withdraw?" Natu'er's expression looked like she was crying.

He looked around blankly.

How long did it take for more than 5,000 Mongolian elites to charge forward?

Not even two quarters of an hour had passed, and there were already less than a thousand riders on the scene.

It's too late to withdraw now.

"Leave some seeds for the people." Delbatu was about to cry.

Every minute of delay, more Mongolian warriors will fall in front.

"Withdraw, withdraw - withdraw." Natour finally knew that he could not attack again.

With the sound of the retreat horn, all the remaining Mongolian troops were pardoned and turned around and fled.

But when they turned around and ran back, Song Jun's attack did not stop.

The divine arm bows, pulley bows, and even artillery and flintlock guns that can hit them will continue.

After Natu'er finally escaped from the Song army's artillery attack range with the remaining troops, he counted the number of people again and almost fainted.

In just one charge, 5,000 Mongolian troops rode up, but only 800 came back.

He was dead now, and he felt like Baliang Baliang. Even if he returned to Guanshan now, would Wo Kuotai be able to kill him directly? Do you believe it?

(End of this chapter)