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

Chapter 420 No Master

None of the generals knew Kuowen Buhua and couldn't help but look at Zhao Di.

Meng Gong nodded to Zhao Di and motioned for him to explain.

"Kouwen Buhua is the second son of Temujin's half-brother Beligutai, and he is also considered the Mongolian clan king——"

This person is recorded in history books as "good at leading troops and rarely disturbing the people." Some people call him a Mongolian sage.

This kind of general is basically regarded as a good general and a good person among the Mongolian generals at this time.

Zhao Di said again, "Ku Wen Bu Hua has many Khitan soldiers under his command."

At that time, Temujin transferred the territories and subjects of King Yelvliu of Liao in Liaodong to Kouwenbuhua, and the Khitan army under Yeluliuge was assigned to Kouwenbuhua, so the pro-army forces of Kouwenbuhua mainly The majority were Khitans, and of the 50,000 Mongolian troops stationed at Keyi Gate, 30,000 were Khitans.

Zhao Di added that Wen Buhua has a good name and is good to the people and subordinates. Everyone is willing to fight for him.

The implication is that this Keyi Gate is not easy to fight.

But when Meng Gong heard that there were so many Khitan people on the opposite side, that they were gentle and kind to his subordinates, he immediately looked around: "Is there anyone willing to persuade them to surrender?"

What he said was quite obvious, and Zhao Di blushed immediately.

Before he opened his mouth, his younger brother Zhao Bin, not knowing how high the sky was, immediately said: "The general is willing."

Zhao Di immediately glared at him, are you looking for death?

They surrendered to the Song army from the Mongolian army back then, and now they are trying to persuade them to surrender. It would be weird if they didn't kill him, but if they think about it again, he is not cruel, at least compared to other Mongolian generals, he is considered a virtuous man. Otherwise, maybe he won't kill his brother.

"Very good." Meng Gong was satisfied with Zhao Bin's attitude and said immediately: "Meng Tatar has always been cruel. I'm afraid you will never come back."

"You go back later. Let's give Wen Buhua a slap in the face first. When he sees how powerful we are, he should be willing to surrender."

Although Zhao Di and his younger brother surrendered to the Song Army for many years and have been following the Song Army, they have never seen the Song Army attack the city.

Zhao Di still advised: "Keyi Gate is easy to defend but difficult to attack. We can only surround it from the north so that they have nowhere to retreat and all their food supplies will fall."

Before Meng Gong sent out troops, Zhao Di persuaded him that the Song army should divide into two groups, crossing the Yellow River from Yingli, passing through the desert and Helan Mountain, going around to the north of Keyimen, and then following the current route to the south of Keyimen. , attacked from two sides, only besieged but not attacked, allowing the Mongolian army to surrender after running out of food.

Because Zhao Di also believes that Keyi Gate cannot be defeated.

Back then, he followed Temujin, but he witnessed with his own eyes the danger of Keyi Gate.

Meng Gong refused at that time, because to cross the Yellow River from Yingli, he had to walk on the mountain road between the Tengli Desert and the Helan Mountain. This was a road that the Mongolian army had not traveled back then. The Song army had countless baggage and carriages. , artillery, there is no way to move.

Zhao Di also suggested sending a group of troops north to attack Heishui City first, and then go around from Heishui City to the north of Keyi Gate.

Meng Gong also refused, thinking it was a waste of time and would require thousands of miles of walking.

It is better to break through Keyi Gate first, then go to Heishui City, and then enter Mobei from Heishui City.

To be honest, Zhao Di was not very happy at this moment, because as a surrendered army, he also made some suggestions that he thought were right. Unexpectedly, Meng Gongquan rejected them.

He stubbornly believed that it was impossible for the Song army to break through such a natural barrier as Keyi Gate.

Keyi Gate now only needs to defend the south side. Fifty thousand Mongolian troops are concentrated in the castle. There are valleys on both sides that are difficult to climb. The only thing that can be climbed is the city wall more than five miles wide in the middle, which is equivalent to more than two thousand meters long.

The 50,000 Mongolian troops defending a defense line of more than 2,000 meters can be divided into several batches to take turns to fight.

In addition, the Xixia and Mongolian armies have been operating for many years. In particular, the Mongolian army also learned from the experience of the Song army here and built a large number of arrow-proof shelters at the top of the city.

It has to be said that the Mongolian army is very good at learning. It was more difficult for them to attack the city defended by the Song army. The Song army used rockets and arrow-proof rain shelters at all times, but the Mongolian army had to learn these.

Dingzhou did not have an arrow-proof shelter because it was not an important town and it was a trading area for the Song Army.

Keyi Gate is a fortress in the north of Xixia. The Mongolian army has been operating here for several years. At a glance from the top of the city, there are dense arrow-proof rain shelters. The Mongolian troops are standing in the rain shelters. In Zhao Di’s opinion, it is now the turn Song Jun had a headache.

No matter how many bows and arrows the Song army had, the projectiles had no effect on the city.

I wonder how many Song troops will die this time?

Just when Zhao Di was having some random thoughts, Meng Gong reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "I know General Zhao is worried about the victory or defeat of our army."

"Don't worry, when we fight in the Song Dynasty, human life comes first. His Majesty said that no matter what the battle is, try to bring back as many brothers as possible."

"We will not let our brothers die in vain."

Zhao Di didn't take it seriously and could only say casually: "Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous."

However, he soon saw that the Song army's siege method was different from before.

Woo, with the sound of the horn of the Song Army's attack, the first part of the Song Army began to move forward, and then there was a buzzing sound, and a large number of trebuchets were pushed forward.

On the Mongolian side, Wen Buhua was standing at the top of the city. After taking a look, his expression changed slightly.

They imitated the Song army and built an arrow-proof shelter at the top of the city, but this thing was also very afraid of trebuchets.

When the Song army and the Mongolian army fought in Xixia a few years ago, they did not use trebuchets.

The Mongolian army immediately started talking.

No, the Song people have trebuchets.

Afraid of the bird, everyone will go down in a while, not many people will be hurt.

I'm afraid the archery sheds are gone.

Can't shoot without an arrow shed? Never before.

The Mongolian army was slightly panicked, but they were still not afraid. Even if the archery shelter was gone, they could still fight.

Zhao Di stood beside Meng Gong without saying a word, and everyone watched the Song army attack in front.

The Song army went out first with trebuchets, just like Dingzhou.

Bang, a ten-pound iron bullet flew out first for measurement.

After two or three rounds of measurements, the trebuchet determined the distance and weight of the counterweight box.

The Mongolian army at the top of the city did not retreat, and someone brought iron bullets to Kou Wenbuhua.

An iron bullet weighing ten kilograms is not big. If it hits it, it will damage the archery shelter. The Mongolian soldiers can watch and avoid it.

The oral temperature is the same as the previous Chala, which is a bit unbelievable.

When the Mongolian army used trebuchets, they threw hundreds of pounds of heavy stones. The power of the trebuchet could make the enemy troops on the city tremble. If the Song army's iron bullets were so small, the Mongolian army would not have to go down the city.

However, just in case, Kou Wenbuhua felt that the Song army was about to formally attack, so he let most of the people go down first. There were only more than a thousand people left at the top of the city, and on average there was only one Mongolian army per meter.

Kou Wenbuhua hid in the far left corner. There was a rock blocking the way, so he could look down.

As soon as his order was given, most of the Mongolian troops at the top of the city were descending one after another.

Sudden.

Bang, there was a loud noise outside the city, and a fireball shot through the sky.

"So you wanted to attack with fire?" Kou Wenbuhua didn't care.

The Mongolian army had piles of sand at the top of the city. To the north of Keyi Gate was the Badain Jaran Desert and to the west was the Tengger Desert. There was no amount of sand.

Soldiers are coming to block it, fire is coming and the earth is drowning, I thought to myself with a warm mouth.

There was already a Mongolian army at the top of the city who picked up a bag of sand. Looking at the trajectory of the fireball, the Mongolian army couldn't wait. Before the fireball fell, they ran forward with the sandbag in hand, preparing to put out the fire.

With a splash, the fireball landed on the ground a few steps in front of him, and exploded in all directions, turning the area within a few steps into a sea of ​​fire.

Hiss, the Mongolian army sucked in a breath of air, and everyone was frightened. He stood there, looking at the fire everywhere in front of him, and he didn't come back to his senses for a while.

Until someone behind me cursed: "What are you looking at? Put out the fire."

Only then did the Mongolian soldiers react, and they all picked up sandbags and poured them on the fire.

Huh, huh, fireballs were rolling outside the city, and fire dragons came through the sky one after another.

Bang bang bang, petrol bombs were hit one after another inside and outside the city wall. There were two hundred trebuchets on the Song Army side. After the second round of trebuchets, no one could stand on the top of the city. Whether it's sand, soil or water from the Mongolian army, it's useless to pour it over.

That fire can also be poured on water.

And as soon as you poured out a layer of sand, another petrol bomb arrived.

Many gasoline bombs fell directly onto piles of sand, and then burned on the surface of the sand. The Mongolian army could not get close to retrieve the soil.

When it was thrown into the third round, Kou Wen didn't spend any time in a hurry.

There was no way, he couldn't get down without the city, the city was full of fire.

"Damn it." The deputy general Yelushan Ge who came down cursed.

Brother Yelushan is the younger brother of Yelv Xuechen and the second son of Xuechenliu. It was Temujin who personally ordered that he and his Khitan army be entrusted to Kouwen Buhua.

"Song Jun's fire bombs are more powerful than fire oil. You can't even breathe if you get close to them——"

"There is no place for people to stand on the city wall."

"What if I throw it in?"

All the generals were talking at the foot of the city.

Phew, the sky suddenly turned red, and a fireball flew over the city wall.

"Hold the grass!" A general of the Han army yelled, and everyone dispersed and ran further away.

With a thud, the fireball hit the ground heavily and burned up on the ground.

Then whoosh whoosh, fireballs were thrown over the city wall and into the city one after another.

Even though the temperature in my mouth is not clear, my face will turn green.

If the Song army throws it away like this, it won't take long before the entire Keyimen will be burned down.

It is true that Keyi Gate is a dangerous pass. The reason is that it is dangerous because the terrain is dangerous and the place is small and easy to defend.

But when encountering the Song Army's style of attack in such a place, it would be easy to set the whole city on fire.

If it were thrown into the Mongolian army's granary, the Wenbuhua would be completely cold.

Of course, at this time he didn't know how far the Song Army's trebuchet could throw.

But obviously, Meng Gong was also preparing to scare him.

Boom, the trebuchet is getting closer and closer, and the trebuchet is getting farther and farther, and the counterweight box is getting heavier and heavier.

Petrol bombs were continuously thrown deep into the Keyi Gate.

One hundred steps, two hundred steps, three hundred steps, four hundred steps.

The Song Army's trebuchet was large and the gasoline bombs were small. With constant weighting and distribution of boxes, the maximum distance was close to 400 steps in less than two quarters of an hour.

At this time, the trebuchet outside the city was only about fifty steps away from the Keyimen wall.

If the Mongolian army could stand still at the top of the city, they could shoot the Song army with arrows. Unfortunately, now the city is full of fire and the Mongolian army has also entered the city.

The Song Army reported to Meng Gong that it was now at the farthest attack range. If it wanted to go further, it would have to change the lever and counterweight box, which needed to be temporarily built.

And the quality of this temporary build is definitely not as good as what Song Jun brought.

Meng Gong nodded calmly and called Zhao Bin: "You wait for the fire to subside and go to the city. Talk to Wen Buhua and ask him to surrender. You tell him that our army's trebuchet can throw the furthest one thousand steps. If he doesn't surrender, we will continue to throw him in and burn Keyi Gate."

"No." Zhao Bin nodded excitedly, but he was not afraid.

Zhao Di also had a look of realization at this moment, finally knowing why Meng Gong only needed to attack Keyi Gate.

The Song Army's gasoline bombs and trebuchets are invincible. They don't need to be attached to ants, they can be burned directly.

If Kou Wenbuhua didn't want to die, he would either surrender or the entire army would go north and retreat to Blackwater City Wu Lahai City.

However, we still had to consider whether we should retreat to Heishui City or Wu Lahai City, which would not be able to stop the Song Army's trebuchets and gasoline bombs. In the end, we had no choice but to retreat to the Mobei Grassland.

Did Meng Gong not want to fight with Kou Wenbuhua, or was he planning to let him live and let him go?

While Zhao Di was deep in thought, his younger brother Zhao Bin had already climbed up the city slowly along the ladder, wearing a set of fire cloth clothes.

The trebuchets of the Song Army also stopped one after another.

Zhao Bin waited for the fire to dim, then ran to the inner crenel and looked into the distance.

He didn't go down because Meng Gong didn't want him to die and asked him to pay attention to save his life.

Zhao Bin looked around at the crenel, and soon Chengxia Kou Wenbuhua noticed him.

"It's Zhao Bin, younger brother Zhao Di."

"The Song army went to the city?"

"The city is broken?"

The Mongolian soldiers screamed in alarm.

Wen Buhua's face turned red in his mouth. Was he breached before he even hit him?

Where is the promised first dangerous pass in Xixia?

"Don't make any noise." Brother Yelu Shan's younger brother Yelu Tata'er yelled at everyone around him, and then looked at Kou Wen Buhua.

Kou Wenbuhua's expression changed several times, and he found that Zhao Bin seemed to be the only one in the city.

"I'm afraid I can't defend Keyi Gate. The fireballs of the Song people are too powerful." He Wenbuhua said: "Zhao Bin went to the city to persuade him to surrender, Brother Yelushan."

"exist."

Guowen Buhua asked Brother Yelushan to talk to Zhao Bin.

Brother Yelushan flashed a fierce look in his eyes, stretched out his hand and made a killing gesture, and said: "Back then, the two brothers offered the Zhongxing Mansion to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Do you want it?"

"Don't do it." As expected, Kou Wen Bu Hua is known as the Mongolian sage. He said solemnly: "When the two countries are at war, if you don't kill the envoy, you have to talk to him first." Kou Wen Bu Hua was afraid of offending the Song army. , the Song Army's trebuchet had just stopped and killed Zhao Bin, what should I do if more fireballs were thrown at him?

As soon as Brother Yelushan left, he immediately said warmly: "Keyi Gate may not be able to be defended, but we cannot retreat without a fight."

He ordered Yelu Tata'er and Yelu Tianyou to lead five thousand troops to break up the rear. After the Song army entered the city, they fought with the Song army in the streets. The rest prepared food, grass and horses and retreated to Heishui City.

That's right, the temperature of the mouth was not lowered at all. Seeing the fierce attack of the Song army, he also knew that he could not hold it, so he decided to evacuate to Heishui City, and then persuaded the defender of Heishui City, Aotun Shiying, to evacuate to Mobei and Harahe. Lin withdrew.

It seems that the Song army's position fighting is too fierce, and the artillery and trebuchets are also powerful. Only by leading the Song army to the grassland can they have the power to fight.

The Mongolian army immediately mobilized and prepared to withdraw from Keyi Gate from the north.

Yelu Tata'er and Yelu Tianyou were gathering their troops, preparing to fight the Song army for a while before retreating.

But there was still a fire in the middle, and it was difficult for Brother Yelushan to walk. Brother Yelushan lingered and slowly climbed up to the top of the city along the area where there was no fire.

About a quarter of an hour later, Brother Yelushan came back from the top of the city.

"Second brother." Yelu Tata'er and others rushed up: "How do you say the person named Zhao?"

Brother Yelushan didn't answer, but looked at them strangely: "What are you doing?"

"Your Majesty asked us to fight in one wave and then retreat, while the rest of the troops retreated first."

"The king asked you to talk to Zhao Bin to delay time."

Brother Yelushan turned his head and looked back at Zhao Bin, who was not far away. Zhao Bin had not yet left the city, so he could definitely see what was going on in the city. How could the Mongolian army retreat in large numbers from the Song army?

He couldn't help but think of what Zhao Bin said just now.

"You, the Yelu clan of Liaodong, are the slaves given by Temujin to King Zong Wenbuhua. Koouwenbuhua is your master."

"But if we surrender to the Song Dynasty, you will have no master except His Majesty the Song Dynasty."

"My eldest brother Zhao Di has no master now."

(End of this chapter)