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Chapter 223 Night Attack
Inside and outside the city, the cries shook the sky.

The Yingxiang Building in the northwest of Qingfu County was on fire, and the surrounding wooden houses were also engulfed in flames.

The offensive of the Mongolian army and the intimidation of massacring the city brought great panic to the people in the city.

Less than a day after the siege of the city, panicked people ran to the county government office and begged Jiang Chun not to defend the city anymore, but to hand over the county's money and food, and send the Mongolian army away...

"County magistrate! If you continue to guard, the Mongolian army will really slaughter the city!"

Jiang Chuncai was going to personally lead people to fight the fire in the city, but he was blocked by a group of people as soon as he left the county government office, and he was in a state of desperation.

"Folks, folks, be quiet, don't panic! I heard from the county that the Mongolian army can't attack Qingfu..."

"Everywhere is on fire! The city gate is going to be burned down!" The howls continued.

"If you keep defending, the Mongolian army will slaughter the city..."

"You don't even have officers and soldiers, how can you guard them?!"

"County magistrate, why haven't the reinforcements come?" Another squire interrupted, crying, "Did they ignore Qingfu County?!"

"It's only been a day of siege..."

Jiang Chun raised his hand, trying to calm down the commotion, but he couldn't.

He had heard about how frightening the Mongolian army's massacre deterrence was.

It is said that when the Xixia and Jin Kingdoms were destroyed, many cities heard that the Mongolian army was coming, and many of them were so frightened that they committed suicide early.

But it’s just what I heard, only when I was really in it, did Jiang Chun feel this panic more deeply.

Suddenly, there was another chaos in the distance, and a fireball ignited a row of houses.

An archer rushed over and shouted: "County magistrate! The owner of the house and Li Xianwei please ask the county magistrate to bring people to put out the fire..."

"Folks, give way, let the county go to put out the fire first..."

"County magistrate! You can't keep guarding like this..."

~~
After Ya.

"Shall we take someone to put out the fire?"

Han Qiaoer turned to look at Jiang Di, and then at Jiang Cang.She is not used to getting along with these two newly recognized righteous sisters and brothers.

"Yes, we are the children of the county magistrate, so we should set an example." Jiang Di said.

She was quite good at assigning people, and said: "Qiaoer, don't you remember the locations of the Qianhuo Buildings in the city? And Jiang Cang, go and call the yamen servants over."

"Okay, I'm going to call someone in the yamen." Jiang Cang responded, a little excited, as if he could do anything as long as he didn't study.

Han Qiaoer hesitated, and said: "But... Is it better if I don't make trouble for Brother Li?"

"This is not adding to the chaos, but taking people to put out the fire is helping."

Jiang Di paced a few steps with his hands behind his back, his posture still seemed a little deliberately pretentious, but he had a bit of the majesty of Jiang Chun as the county lord and Li Xia's resolute spirit.

"Fires broke out everywhere in the city, but my father was blocked in the county office. When someone came forward to organize the fire, it boosted people's hearts."

Han Qiaoer was actually convinced by her words, and replied: "That's fine."

After a while, Jiang Cang ran to the front office and recruited some subordinate officials.

"Come on, let's go through the back door!"

"Walk."

Jiang Di was wearing men's clothes, flicking his ponytail behind his head, he took the lead and walked outside.

At this time, almost everyone in the county was panicking, but these half-grown children were not afraid of tigers when they were born.

In fact, they can't do much, all they can do is imitate others...

~~
In the evening, the setting sun is like blood.

"The county magistrate was blocked by those people, and he almost didn't even go out of the county office. Later, when he heard that the yamen had brought people to put out the fire, the county magistrate also became ruthless and drove everyone away to put out the fire..."

"It's just messing around."

Fang Yankai scolded softly, waved the messenger back, turned to Li Xia and said, "The fire in the city is temporarily under control."

"Ah."

Li Xia responded, looking at the corpse under the city.

The 700 people captured by the Mongolian army have almost died, and the siege has temporarily stopped.

In the siege battle on the first day, the Mongolian army was better at siege than Li Xia imagined.

First massacre the city for deterrence, then drive prisoners to attack the city, and then attack with fire and artillery, all of which are very experienced.

This is still in the case of not bringing luggage and not much time.

If Li Xia hadn't fortified the walls and cleared the country in advance, and left a large number of people captured by the Mongolian army, he might easily be pushed to the top of the city by the Mongolian army.

"Look! They withdrew!" Suddenly someone shouted, in a relieved tone.

Only a stone's throw away, the Mongolian cavalry had already retreated westward, leaving only a few cavalry still driving away the Dali servant army.

On the battlefield, only the hundreds of servants, a few Mongolian soldiers, and a few lone artillery carriages could be seen.

"County lieutenant, do you want to go out of the city and destroy their gun carriages?" Yu Bing asked.

"Impossible." Fang Yankai hurriedly said: "Feiyu must not fall for this plan. This is a tactic for the Mongolian army to lure and annihilate. The Mongolian cavalry come and go like the wind, and they will return in a moment. If they send troops out of the city, they will be destroyed."

"I know."

Li Xia's eyes still fell on the corpse under the city, his eyes were stern.

"Housekeeper, tell the truth, how many people outside the city have not had time to move in?"

"It's really gone..."

~~
At the same time, Nigg was in a bad mood.

"How to attack the city without prisoners?!"

Centurion Galdi said: "I have sent scouts to look for it, but the villages to the west have been emptied, so I'm afraid we won't find many people."

"If you can't find it, you have to look for it!" Nige said: "If there are another thousand prisoners, this small county will be pulled out directly."

Gardi took the order, and scattered a few scouts to find the village...

Niger was not satisfied with today's battle.

Qingfu County is not like the mountain city in the north of Shu, nor is it like the fortified city of Xuzhou. As a result, it has not been captured all day, and the situation is passive.

It's not that this battle is difficult, but that he doesn't have much time to consume.

Marshal Du's order was to plunder and destroy ships and go to Hezhou as soon as possible.

But after his small defeat, he needed to take down Qingfu County to get back the lost ships and supplies...

Swallowing the meat in his mouth, Nige stretched out his hand subconsciously, and found that the horse meat had been eaten, and his face became more and more gloomy.

"E Xiute, I don't have much to eat, and the arrows are almost used up...Call me after Galdi catches the prisoners..."

Nige cursed, turned back to the tent, and said, "Tumen Baoyin, you take your centurion to guard the camp tonight."

"I can't wait for the Song army to attack the camp." Tumen Baoyin said, "But they definitely don't dare to fight us in the field. Last night Ha Richagai guarded the camp all night, but there was no sign of the Song army."

"I tell you to guard the camp!"

late at night.

Nigger was still sleeping when he suddenly heard Galdi's cry.

"I've found hundreds of exits. It's in the west. I'm going to run up the mountain."

Nigger got up and scolded: "You don't know how to catch it directly?!"

Gardi said: "Only 200 people can see it from a distance. There are not enough people. We need [-] people to surround it."

Nige said: "Tumen Baoyin, take someone with Gardi. Call Harichagai to guard the camp..."

"Why am I going again?!"

"Your people have not taken off their armor, they are fast, go quickly..."

~~
Two hundred riders attacked the mountain city in the southwest.

Tumen Baoyin looked up, and saw that there were indeed hundreds of figures climbing the mountain under the night, carrying burdens of all sizes.

"Go around."

"Let's go." Galdi said.

After riding up the mountain and chasing for a while, the mountain road gradually became steeper.

"I'm going to get off my horse and give chase."

Tumen Baoyin ordered twenty people to stay and watch the horses and chase them up the mountain.

Galdi saw that he was in a bad mood, and said: "Take these repellents, you will have food, and the county will be captured tomorrow."

"I almost captured the city today, it's so annoying."

The two chased for a while.

"No." Tumen Baoyin suddenly said, "How did those people move so fast?"

"Yeah, it's time to catch up."

Galdi scratched his head, raised his hand, and said, "There is a stockade in front, did they escape into the stockade?"

"Go and have a look."

It is a small village on the mountainside by the stream, surrounded by low tea trees, it seems to be a resting place for nearby villagers to pick tea.

Someone dug the brook and let the stream circle around the small village.

This made Tumen Baoyin feel a little strange.

After stepping across the creek, they entered the stockade.

"no one?"

"Where did everyone go?"

Tumen Baoyin frowned, walked outside to the tea forest, and stretched out his hand to wipe the tea tree.

"Fire oil? Let's go! There's an ambush..."

Suddenly, a loud roar sounded in the distance.

"Fire arrows!"

Arrows with fire struck down, instantly igniting the tea trees and villages...

~~
Baiyan Miao Village.

Xiong Chun was looking at the fire below the mountain.

"Fire the cannon!"

The falling rock immediately hit the stockade on the mountainside.

"Keep shooting!"

Amidst the "cracking" of the cannon carriage, Xiong Aqi looked at the flames below the mountain, and said with some distress: "Mr. Zhai, Li County Lieutenant really burned down our tea plantation."

"Life is more important than tea gardens," Xiong Chun murmured.

He thought for a while, and then said to Xiong Aqi: "There will be a lot of horses tonight, you take people down the mountain to bring them back..."

~~
In a forest, Li Xia glanced back at the fire on the mountainside, and then turned to look at the two men guarding the horses in front of him.

"Go!"

Huohu shoots an arrow and hits a Mongolian pawn.

"kill!"

A hundred patrolling soldiers went up to the two Mongolian soldiers.

Li Xia didn't take the lead this time, but just recruited Song He, and said: "Go and remind Xiong Shan, Bao San, and Jiang Fan again, as long as you defeat 200 people on the mountain, you must not be greedy for merit."

"Yes……"

Li Xia nodded and walked quickly towards the horses.

The people running on the mountain tonight are the river patrolmen sent by him; the fire oil and inflammable materials they prepared in the big and small bags; the small stockade on the mountainside is his preset ambush point... …

He originally planned to wait for the Mongolian army to be more exhausted for another two days before proceeding with this ambush.

However, he was not satisfied with the city defense during the day, and felt that his growth was too slow.

If they had known the Mongolian army's siege tactics earlier, perhaps they could have set up an ambush to attack the Mongolian army last night, then the six or seven hundred people might not have died today.

Of course, last night's sneak attack may not be successful.

Perhaps it was precisely because the Song army did not go out of the city to attack last night, so the Mongolian army relaxed its vigilance and fell into ambush tonight; perhaps it was precisely because the six or seven hundred people were dead that the Mongolian army had to chase them up the mountain...

In short, there is no chance to come back.

For Li Xia, to learn how to fight, one has to go through the tempering of blood and fire...

Thinking about this, he stepped forward to strip off the armor of a soldier, and stepped on the horse.

"Twenty horse scouts followed me to attack the camp, and the rest took the horses away..."

~~
Mongolian camp.

The centurion Harichagai, who was on guard at night, heard the sound of horseshoes, and he looked back, a little wary.

In the distance, there was a shout in Mongolian.

"I caught those words, and the centurion asked me to come back first."

"It's good if you catch it." Haricha Gai shouted.

He squinted his eyes and saw that there were only twenty or so riders back in the night, and they did not rush directly to the camp, but ran towards the horse herd.

"I'll put the horse away first." Na Mengyu shouted again.

Harichagai frowned, feeling a little strange.

But the speed of the twenty or so riders was very fast, and they rushed to the vicinity of the horses in an instant.

"Kill them!" Ha Richagai reacted suddenly, and shouted: "It's Song Jun! Kill them quickly..."

He didn't expect that Song Jun would dare to come to steal the camp, let alone such a small number of people would dare to come.

This is a field battle, and the Mongolian cavalry can easily catch up with the Song army and kill them all.

But the next moment, balls of fire were thrown towards the horses.

"Xu Lulu!" The startled horse neighed...

~~
Li Xia took out a burden.

The baggage is full of fireworks.

With less than a month left before the new year, almost all the fireworks and firecrackers in Qingfu County were brought out by his people tonight.

He rode on a horse, ignited several fuses on the burden, and threw them directly at the horses of the Mongolian army.

Tonight, Li Xia's purpose was not to sneak attack the Mongolian army.His purpose is only one...horses.

Arrows shot towards Li Xia, and Li Xia lowered his body and rode his horse to gallop.

Behind him, there was a loud crackling sound and the neighing of horses...

"Ah, law, law..."

(End of this chapter)