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Chapter 353 Luodai Town

Lei Dayan was defeated, and the Mongolian army lost more than two hundred people.And even though Dushi killed Shi Moyong, he couldn't lead the Mongolian army into the ambush point preset by the Song army. Therefore, although the Mongolian army was defeated, it was not wiped out too much.

Just two days later, Ye quickly collected the rout and regrouped 600 people.

From this aspect, Ye Suda'er foiled Li Xia's plan to ambush the Mongolian army and avoided the catastrophe that might have occurred.

Because the time of taking over was too short, they failed to see through the betrayal of Du Shui. Fortunately, this kind of trick could not kill and injure the Mongolian army in large numbers.

Ye Suda'er also discovered one more thing, that is, Li Xia's combat method is actually the same as that of the Mongolian army.

Here the Mongolian army was unwilling to storm Yunding City, which attracted the Song army to harass the wilderness, while Li Xia did not want to fight the Mongolian army in the field, so it attracted the Mongolian army to various valleys and canyons;
Here the Mongolian army recruited Yao Shi'an, and over there Li Xia recruited Du Shi...

Since ancient times, wars have been nothing more than those strategies, it only depends on the use, and Li Xia uses them well.It's clear that the 17-year-old is a freshman and learning fast.

The ridiculous thing is that since the Mongolian army started the war, every time a general of the Song army surrendered to Mongolia, few Mongolian generals surrendered to the Song Dynasty.This matter is unbelievable to both the Mongols and the Song people, as if the Mongols would never surrender.

Almost no Song people tried to recruit Mongolian generals, only Li Xia.Although the method was extremely despicable, Li Xia succeeded.

This incident became a thorn in Ye Suda'er's heart.

"Only cowardly Song people will rebel. This is an eternal truth. Song people must not be allowed to dare to instigate Mongolian people to betray, and they can't even think about it... Only Song people must be humble, greedy for life and afraid of death."

Ye Suda'er repeated in his heart, wanting to kill Li Xia more and more.

In comparison, the disfigurement of the face is not so important.What Ye Suda'er hated even more was the arrogance in Li Xia's bones.To have the confidence to force Mengren to betray him, the more he thought about it, the more he felt Li Xia's arrogance.

"Let me catch you, I will break your spine..."

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Luodai Town.

From the Qin Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, Luodai Town has always been an important post station on the post road. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there was a prosperous market. When Zhuge Liang prospered the city, it was renamed "Wanjing Street", but now, the town is deserted.

On August [-]th, another Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xia led his army into Luodai Town.

A row of soldiers passed through the deserted Wanjing Street, their footsteps were hurried but orderly.

Li Xia chose a dilapidated inn on Wanjing Street as a temporary command post, and laid out maps one by one after moving in.

"Don't transport grain and grass into the town, but leave it on the rolling dragon slope in the east, and transport it every three days; the sentry post is immediately set up; and the post road is dug immediately, and the sinking ditch must be dug to the reed marsh in the west... "

Li Xia tapped on the map, pointing to a small lake to the west of Luodai Town.Luodai Town has no city walls, and this lake is one of their most important defenses to the west.

As for the south, it is a Yudai River.

"Someone must build embankments to intercept the water on the Yudai Lake in the upper reaches of the Yudai River. If the Mongolian army attacks from the south, we will flood them. Yiqing, send someone to do it."

Moving his finger to the north of Luodai Town, Li Xia pondered for a moment, and said: "There is no terrain to rely on in the north, and it is the most difficult place to defend. It must be soon, and I will have to rest and come back soon..."

Yi Qing listened to this, but didn't speak, he was used to obeying Li Xia's orders.

On the contrary, although Nie Zhongyou and Li Xia were old acquaintances, he always maintained independent thinking and asked, "Will Ye Suda'er lead the remnant soldiers to join Niu Lin first?"

"Probably not." Li Xia said: "When he gathers his troops and horses and detours to Chengdu, we have already built fortifications. He is used to fighting and will not allow us to gain a foothold in Luodai. Besides, he is still a young man. , there is always arrogance."

Nie Zhongyou glanced at Li Xia, and his eyes fell on the delicate and smooth skin on the young man's face. He couldn't help thinking that Li Xia's tone of voice when he commented on the youth of others was a bit weird.

"From the west of Luodai Town to Chengdu, there is no ground to rely on. The next step is to face the enemy head-on, and the only option is to fight to the death. We can no longer take chances."

"clear."

"I know that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival." Li Xia said, "But we still have to let the soldiers build defenses overnight. How about this, the three of us will take the lead tonight, each responsible for the defense of the east, south, and north."

"Okay." Yi Qing said: "I will tell the soldiers that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will repel the Mongolian army, and we will have a peaceful Mid-Autumn Festival every year in the future."

Li Xia was silent for a moment, and said: "There is no need to promise such an impossible promise, the war is still long..."

"Oh."

Yiqing scratched his head, he used to be harsh, but now he wants to treat the soldiers leniently, but he doesn't know how to do it.

Nie Zhongyou patted Yi Qing on the back and said, "Let's go..."

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Chengdu.

Because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the food in the city was gradually running out, the morale of the besieged Song army became increasingly low.

Pu Zezhi wanted to reward the soldiers and boost morale, but the battle was getting tighter and he was obviously unable to do so.

That night, he could only go to the camps to visit the soldiers in person.

"Pu Shuai, we are guarding Chengdu, are we waiting for reinforcements from the imperial court?" A team general saw Pu Zezhi's arrival, although he was very grateful, he still asked out his doubts.

"Reinforcements will come, and soldiers and horses will be sent from Xu and Lu to meet them..."

Pu Zezhi stopped in the middle of his words. Given his status, he didn't need to explain more to these soldiers. The reason why he subconsciously said something more was because he didn't have the confidence himself.

There are not many troops in Xuzhou and Luzhou. How can we do it if we want to go upstream from the Minjiang River?
Sometimes even Pu Zezhi himself feels discouraged, but this is not his fault alone, he can only cheer up when he bears the heavy burden of the society.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed in such a sloppy way. Lin'an City may still be full of flowers, but the southwest is deeply involved in war, and the festive atmosphere has long since disappeared.

On August [-], before dawn, the horns of the Mongolian army sounded again, and it was another round of siege.

The city tower has been burned down, and the Song army built another high platform in the east city overnight to watch from afar and command in front of the battle.The soldiers took twelve army drums, horns, and flags of various colors to the high platform, and there was a creaking sound from the wooden beams.

"Pu Shuai, the battle stage is unstable, do you..."

"Sichuan and Shu are also unstable, so we have come to stabilize the crisis. Why are we afraid of a small wooden platform?"

Pu Zezhi interrupted the dissuasion of the soldiers under his command, and strode onto the platform.Standing back with a horoscope, he stood there like a pinnacle of calming the sea.

Looking into the distance, I saw rows of phalanxes of Han soldiers coming from the east in the thin morning light.

Due to the large number of people, it took a lot of time for the two sides to line up, and the sky gradually brightened...

Fortunately, more than [-] people in western Sichuan have been relocated, and the Mongolian army will not capture too many people to attack the city. Otherwise, Chengdu may have fallen a few days ago.

Even so, Meng Qi searched out tens of thousands of people from various villages and drove them to attack the city. These people walked in front of them carrying cloud chairs and pushing artillery carts. The formation was loose, like an ant colony.

Behind them are the Mongolian Han soldiers, with twelve phalanxes, densely formed, driving away the people who attacked the city.In the end, Newell's cavalry, plus the fine cavalry sent by Wang Dechen to support, made up more than [-] people.

More than [-] people were divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry.

The formation of the Qingqi was scattered, and with the sound of the horn, they spread out and walked around Chengdu, looking for the weak point of the defense, and shouted from time to time to order the Mongolian and Han soldiers to drive the people to attack;
The heavy cavalry guarded most of New Lin's central army, lined up, with clanging armor and sharp machetes.They did not take any action, but waited for the Song army to retreat before charging, and defeated the Song army in one fell swoop...

In contrast, the Song Army's momentum is much weaker, and the number of casualties has been less than 3 in the past few days.

The Mongolian army could concentrate its forces to attack only one point, but the Song army had to guard the four walls of the city, and the people who guarded the city and killed were the driven people and Han soldiers, but the Mongolian army fought more and more.

Under such circumstances, the morale of the Song army became increasingly low...

During such intense preparations, the two sides gradually came into contact.

During yesterday's siege, part of the city wall to the east of Chengdu has collapsed, and today this will be the main attack of the Mongolian army...

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In Newell's prediction, Pu Zezhi should have been defeated earlier.

The battle at Jiantandu can be said to be the final outcome.But Pu Zezhi still had to struggle to the death, relocated the population in western Sichuan, and reinforced Yunding City... so that the Song Army was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

This breath should be cut off.

"Today is the time for decisive victory. The Song army can't defend Chengdu, and they are likely to flee from the city. Wait for my order to crush them..."

(End of this chapter)