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Chapter 345 Divine Calculation
After a raid was over, it was already broad daylight when the Song Army finished clearing the battlefield.

Kong Xian had been busy all night, and when he had some free time, he returned to Xiao Shixian's body and sat powerlessly on the ground.

The wound on his back was only briefly bandaged, and he began to mobilize troops overnight, chasing and killing the defeated Mongolian army. He lost too much blood, making him look quite weak.

The two heads in his hands fell to the ground with a slight "boom".

"Yao Shi'an, I brought you the head of Mengta." Kong Xian murmured, "I brought it specially for you to see."

He held up the forest belt, placed the half-destroyed head in front of Xiao Shixian, and pulled out the broken stone fragments embedded in it and threw it aside.

"Hey, it's broken. The dog dared to enter the city and was smashed. You see, it's time to rest in peace."

Kong Xian stretched out his blood-stained hand, trying to close Xiao Shixian's angry eyes.

But the hand stopped in the air with some reluctance, and finally fell back.

"Back then, you and I were ordered to be stationed in Lizhou. Didn't you say that one day we would be able to take office in Lizhou? Why did we leave?"

Kong Xian looked at Xiao Shixian, and his thoughts seemed to return to the past.

At that time, they followed Yu Shuai to regain Hanzhong. Although they failed in the end, they brought back a large number of people and luggage.

Xiao Shixian was in high spirits, "This 'Lizhou Garrison' is well sealed! This time, the Hanzhong and Mongolian troops have been severely defeated, and Yu Shuai will be given another two years. Why worry about Hanzhong being gone? At that time, you and my brothers will guard Lizhou and serve as the gateway to Sichuan and Sichuan. .”

However, since then, Xiao Shixian has become more and more reticent, and never laughed like that again.

"Aren't you going to take office in Lizhou together? Why did you leave?"

Kong Xian sat there dejectedly, and said in a low voice: "I've been sorry for you all these years. Every time you said 'I can't bear it, I can't bear it anymore', but every time it was me, I always said 'Be patient, At present, the foreign captives should join forces with Yao Shi'an to fight against the Mongols, but you are right in the end, he values ​​self-interest far more than justice."

At this point, Kong Xiancai, who hadn't had time to cry all night, finally couldn't help crying loudly.

"I killed you...I killed you..."

~~
Outside the hall, Li Xia raised his hand and blocked Nie Zhongyou's footsteps.

"Wait a while."

"Yeah." Nie Zhongyou said: "I came here last night, Yao Shi'an had already left through the side door, and only one Yao Yiming was caught."

Li Xia asked, "Have you been interrogated? What information does he know?"

"It's just someone who contacts Yao Shi'an, what can he know?"

"Where are the military registers and food registers in Yunding City?" Li Xia asked.

Nie Zhongyou said: "I didn't find it. Yao Yiming was interrogated. He said he didn't know. Maybe it was at the place of General Kong?"

"Let's ask later, where is Yao Yiming betting?"

"there."

Li Xia turned around and left, coming back after a while, wiping the blood on the sword as he walked.

Back in front of Nie Zhongyou again, he threw away the rag in his hand and said, "Yao Yiming was injured and did not survive."

Nie Zhongyou lowered his voice and said, "Is this going to kill you? Don't you send it to Lin'an for an explanation?"

"It's not like you and I haven't seen the court before, black can be said to be white. All the soldiers in Yunding City saw what happened last night, and there is no need to 'confirm'. This kind of person will be more complicated and wasteful if kept. Manpower, food."

"But you have no right to..."

"I've said it all, I have Pu Shuai's military order." Li Xia replied casually.

Nie Zhongyou had no choice but to sigh: "Okay."

Seeing that Kong Xian finally calmed down in the hall, the two stepped forward.

"General Kong." Li Xia said, "At dawn, Niu Lin sent troops up the mountain, seeing that the forest belt had been defeated and retreated."

"Fortunately, you snatched back the city gate in time, otherwise Yunding City might have fallen."

Li Xia said: "It was General Kong who summoned the defenders in the city in time, and I dare not take credit for it."

Kong Xian regained his composure, and said: "Let's talk about the results first. Last night, 380 and six Mongolian soldiers were wiped out, and 220 and four people were captured. 170 and three rebel soldiers were wiped out, and [-] people were captured... It's a pity that Zhang Wei escaped." .”

"Yes."

Li Xia didn't say much about how to deal with these prisoners. Kong Xian was a veteran and knew everything better than him.

What Li Xia cares most is that Yunding City must have troops capable of supporting Pu Zezhi.Regarding this point, Kong Xian reassured him much more than Yao Shian.

After talking for a few words, Kong Xian asked, "How did Feiyu know in advance that Yao Shi'an was going to rebel?"

Li Xia was silent for a while.

How did you know it in advance?
He didn't know.

The fact is, even if Yao Shi'an didn't rebel, Li Xia planned to take him down last night, the difference is whether to kill or not.

It's not good to say this to Kong Xian, Li Xia said: "There is something wrong with him, anyone who is abnormal must be a demon."

Kong Xian couldn't help but sigh.

Yesterday, when Li Xia had a conflict with Yao Shi'an just after entering the city, Kong Xian was still unhappy, but things turned out like this, so he didn't know what to think.

In the end, he had no choice but to sigh: "It's not Yu Yu's god."

Li Xia had no face to bear this compliment, he just cupped his hands and said: "General Kong is injured, and he has to manage the defense of the city, if you have an order, just order it."

Kong Xian asked, "How do you see it?"

"Inquire more about the movement of the Mongolian army. If Niulin attacks the city again, he will stick to the mountain city and drag his troops; if the Mongolian army attacks Chengdu, he will send troops to respond to Pu Shuai."

"That being said," Kong Xiandao said, "but the Mongolian army is mostly cavalry, and in a decisive battle with Pu Shuai, the light cavalry must keep firing arrows to harass, cut and weaken our army. Only when there is a chance of victory with one blow, will the heavy cavalry attack , how should we deal with it?"

At this point, he smiled wryly and said, "I'm not trying to evade, I'm really worried about this."

When the Mongolian army fought, they always scattered their fine cavalry first, and then charged forward by taking advantage of the superiority of the cavalry. There were very few battles in which the two sides formed a square formation and fought each other.

For example, this time, Niu Lin planned to pull out Lingquan Mountain, Jianmen Pass, and Yunding City first, and push Pu Zezhi into a desperate situation.

Then it would be almost impossible for Pu Zezhi and Niu Lin to fight in full swing, and the defenders of Yunding City suddenly rushed into the rear of Niu Lin.

On the contrary, if the defenders of Yunding City dared to leave the mountain city easily, they could easily be turned around and wiped out by the flexible Mongolian cavalry.

Kong Xian couldn't solve this problem.

Li Xia said: "But Niu Lin may not be able to maintain a steady fighting style all the time. If he continues to fight, he will always make mistakes."

This sentence is what Li Xia has often heard. Miraculous comebacks on the field often have this mentality of fighting to the end.

To put it simply, there are few people who can not panic in this kind of adversity.Kong Xian saw it in his eyes and could feel the young man's calmness without arrogance or discouragement.

"Li Feiyu is a reliable person." Kong Xian thought to himself...

~~
Mongolian military camp.

Although Niu Lin was defeated, he was not discouraged, and he paced back and forth in the big tent with a calm expression, thinking.

His stature is extremely high, like a walking tower.

Zhang Wei knelt on the ground and babbled non-stop. He peeked at the Marshal of the Mongolian Army and was terrified in his heart.

After finally finishing the story, Zhang Wei hurriedly said: "The villain and Yao Chengshou are sincerely attached, and I implore Marshal Du to spare his life."

"What did I kill you for?" Niu Lin said, "Get up, can you give me the picture of Yunding's city defense?"

"The villain has brought it, brought it." Zhang Wei hurriedly took out several booklets from his arms and placed them at Niu Lin's feet.

He was obviously very thoughtful, besides saying that he wanted to recruit Zhang Shi for the Mongolian army, he also brought out information about Yuncheng's defenses, military records, grain and grass, and the location of farmland.

Niu Lin picked up the map and looked at it for a while, but he was not in a hurry to attack the mountain city first, and ordered the soldiers and horses to rest for a day.

Although the map with yellow paper and black lines is crude, the layout of Yunding Mountain City can be clearly seen.

The north is a dangerous road up the mountain, the Jintang Gorge in the southeast is a cliff, and the west is also difficult to climb, and there is a solid city wall of the Song Army on it.

The location of the Song army's farms was concentrated in the south, because Yunding City, like other mountain cities, was located on Fangshan.

And most of the granaries and warehouses in the city are concentrated in the south.

After thinking about it, Niu Lin thought that it would be extremely difficult to break through the top of the cloud and attack by force. The most important thing was to burn the grain and supplies of the Song army.

"Zhang Wei, can you lead someone to climb to the south of the city?"

Zhang Wei didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately said: "The villain is familiar with the topography of Yunding, so I can."

Niu Lin nodded, with a plan in mind.

When it comes to marching and fighting, what Niu Lin admires the most is not the Great Khan Mengge, but Zongwang Kublai Khan.

In his opinion, Meng Ge was a bit stubborn in fighting. On the other hand, in the battle of Kublai Khan's destruction of Dali, he crossed mountains and leaped mountains, crossed rivers with leather bags, jumped over Cangshan Mountain to attack Longshouguan, and split silk to stop killing...the tenacity, wisdom, and Mind is the style of a general.

New Lin is more willing to learn these tenacity, wisdom, and mind, rather than rushing to attack fortified cities foolishly.

……

Two days later, the second day of August.

At night, Niu Lin selected more than a hundred people to follow Zhang Wei up the cliff from the south.He also ordered his commander-in-chief to lead a team from the west to take advantage of the darkness and go up the mountain to attack the west battlements of Yunding City.

The commanded commander was named "Du La", and he was quite agile.

It is impossible to attack Yunding City with his troops alone, but they didn't intend to break the city.

Under the command of Du Shui, everyone carried a bundle of hay on their backs. The hay was mixed with arsenic, croton, etc., and kerosene was poured on it. Once burned, poisonous smoke billowed.

Du Ra only needs to order people to throw hay into the city and ignite it with fire arrows to burn and kill the Song army in the city.

More importantly, while the Song army was guarding the west city, Zhang Weike led his men up the southern cliff where the defense was weakest, and burned down the Song army's farmland and granaries.

In this way, if the Song army is besieged again, it can be broken without attacking.

In the middle of the night, it was with great difficulty that Du Shui led the people up the steep mountain.

Looking down, I saw that my feet were like an abyss.

They didn't dare to breathe loudly, and carefully observed the defenders on the city wall, and they saw that the guards here were much more lax than those in the northern city.

After resting for a while, Du Shui still hadn't calmed down, but seeing that Song Jun hadn't found out yet, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

"Song people...Song people really didn't expect that we would attack the west... and prepare to set fire to the city."

They continued to climb the last section of the mountain road.

Suddenly, there was a fire on the top of the city.

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of "swish, swish" arrows, and a fire arrow shot down from the top of the city.

Some fire arrows shot into the deep darkness below the mountain, some fell on the steep mountain to ignite the vegetation, but some fire arrows fell on the dry grass on the backs of the Mongolian army.

"Pong!"

As soon as he touched the kerosene, the fire ignited extremely quickly. Before the Mongolian army could unload the hay, it engulfed his body in an instant...

"what!"

The screams were unbearable to hear.

And more and more fire arrows have been shot down from the top of the city.

Du Ra raised his head, stared blankly at the scene in front of him, and murmured: "Be prepared? How come?"

The next moment, a ball of flames fell down with a scream.

"Pong!"

Another group of flames ignited, and the screams became even more horrific.

Followed by billowing poisonous smoke.

The wind direction of the night was from west to east, and gradually, more and more coughing sounded in the city.

Du Sha covered his mouth and nose, trying to prevent himself from rolling down the hillside.

"Quick! Light the hay and throw it on..."

(End of this chapter)