Chapter 1667 Responding to the Song Army

"What's wrong?"

Bai Xiaowen sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at Sigdrifa who hurried in.

"Master, Shi Miyuan from Lin'an, sent an urgent report with a thousand-mile sound transmission talisman. The Song Dynasty army in the Northern Expedition encountered a big crisis!"

Bai Xiaowen's expression gradually became serious as he listened to Sigdelifa's narration.

The Mongols withdrew their troops and crossed the Yellow River due to lack of food supplies. In the hinterland of the Central Plains that was occupied by the Kingdom of Jin, all the cities were basically guarded by the surrendered generals of the Kingdom of Jin. They only had hatred for Mongolia, no loyalty at all, and their troops were weak.

There are only a few thousand Mongolian troops left behind in the south of the Yellow River.

Under such circumstances, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty marched with the high morale of national hatred and family hatred, and regained their homeland.

Bai Xiaowen also felt that the Southern Song army would win in the early stage. At least there would be no problem in recovering the three capitals. The real difficulty lies in how to prevent the Mongolian army from attacking after next spring.

As soon as the Song army started to march, it really conquered everything. As soon as the Jin Guojiang general saw the banner of the Song people, he opened the city gate.

In just a few days, the Quan Zicai Department set out from Luzhou, even Keshouzhou, Mengcheng, Bozhou, Taikang and other places, recovered Bianjing.

The Mongols' response was to harass the Song army's grain road by a small group of elite cavalry.

Only then did Quanzi lead his army to Bianjing, only to find that the former capital of the Northern Song Dynasty was in ruins, with only a few hundred households in the city and less than a thousand defenders.

Such a city is simply not enough to replenish.

The gap between Mongolian soldiers and Southern Song soldiers is also reflected. It was only a small group of Mongolian troops, but it caused serious damage to the grain roads of the Song army. Often a small team composed of a dozen Mongolians would dare to attack the grain transportation team of hundreds of people, kill the Song soldiers, burn the grain and grass, and then grow up. and go.

Hearing this, Bai Xiaowen was also a little emotional. Who said that the ancients did not know how to use soldiers? This tactic of the Mongols is simply a replica of guerrilla warfare.

The Quan Zi Cai Department in Bianjing did not have enough military rations at all. The imperial court in the rear is still urging Quan Zicai to go west and continue to recover the Xijing Luoyang.

Quan Zi could only ask the soldiers to divide the five-day ration into seven days, divide them into two teams, and march westward to Luoyang in order to get supplies in Luoyang.

The Mongols let the first brigade of the Song army enter Luoyang, and concentrated their forces to raid the second brigade. The Mongolian cavalry launched a surprise attack, but the rear troops of Song soldiers, mainly composed of crossbowmen, had no time to line up to meet the enemy, and were broken up by the Mongolian army and fled one after another.

They were doomed to escape the elite and horse-riding Mongols, so there were many casualties.

Subsequently, the Mongolian army approached the remnants of Quan Zicai in Luoyang.

Quan Zicai managed to enter Luoyang, but he found out in despair that the situation in Luoyang was not much better than that in Bianjing. There were also many bones, and only hundreds of households were still alive.

After a stalemate with the Mongols for several days, Quan Zicai could only eat weed cakes to satisfy his hunger. In desperation, Quan Zi chose to break out of the encirclement and flee south.

All the weapons and vehicles carried by the Song army were discarded.

Now, the Mongolian army is chasing after them.

The Mongolian army, which is proficient in cavalry and archery and has strong soldiers, pursued an infantry that was short of food.

How obvious the result is.

It can be said that the Song court's strategy of "holding the gate and guarding the river" has completely failed. A few thousand Mongolian troops defeated the great cause of the 60,000 Song army's northward march.

Bai Xiaowen opened his eyes suddenly: "Who is the Mongolian general who stayed in the Central Plains?"

Sigdrifa said: "It is said that it is called Tachar."

"This man has quite a strategy, it's not simple." Bai Xiaowen concluded that even though the Mongols were more powerful than the Song soldiers, it was definitely a great strategy to defeat 60,000 people with a few thousand people.

"Master, what should we do now? The new envoy Zhao Fan sent an order that the whole army abandon the plan to march northward and stick to Chuzhou."

Bai Xiaowen shook his head and smiled, "Zhao Fan was terrified by the Mongols. No matter how strong the Mongols are, there are only a few thousand troops left in the south of the Yellow River. Can they still fly to the East Road and attack Huaidong? Can Tachaer defeat them?" The 60,000 Song army is already a miracle. Judging from the strategy he showed, it is impossible to do the stupid thing of attacking the Southern Song Dynasty with thousands of troops."

Bai Xiaowen stood up and said, "I'll go see Zhao Fan and ask him to issue a transfer order to allow Abaddon's troops to take over Quan Zicai."

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Since Shi Miyuan had greeted him in advance, Zhao Fan respected Bai Xiaowen, a "master of Taoism". And he also knew that it was with the help of this Taoist expert that the Huaidong Army, which had no leader before, could quickly calm down Li Quan.

Moreover, Abaddon's Zhongyong Battalion itself is an independent army, and the money and food are directly allocated by the court. Whether the Zhongyong Battalion was in danger or not, Zhao Fan didn't bother to care, so he easily wrote a transfer order, agreeing to Abaddon's dispatch of troops.

Abaddon led three thousand skeleton soldiers to the north.

With the help of Bai Xiaowen, Abaddon took the shortest route, and two days later, he joined the Quan Zi Cai Department and joined Caizhou. At this time, Quan Zicai's remnant army had only about 10,000 people left, which was five-sixths lost, and all of them were hungry and pale.

Fortunately, the skeleton soldiers under Abaddon's command did not need to eat or drink, and the dry food and bread they carried could be delivered to the remnants of the whole army.

Quan Zicai's more than 10,000 Song soldiers were very grateful to the "Gu Longdu Command", which was definitely a life-saving grace. Without the rescue of the "Gu Longdu Command", I'm afraid that among the ten thousand people who will eventually escape back to the Song Dynasty, not one out of ten will survive.

After Bai Xiaowen ordered Sigdelifa to investigate the enemy's situation, he mastered the movement and route of the Mongolian pursuers.

"Tachal, the Mongolian general, must take this opportunity to kill." Bai Xiaowen made a careful deployment.

Bai Xiaowen let the front team of the Mongolian pursuers go. As the two thousand elite cavalry of the Chinese army, they were surrounded by three thousand skeleton soldiers and ten thousand Song army regiments in Caihezhuang outside Caizhou city.

This battle was very fierce. The low-level Mongolian soldiers were all ordinary template strengths. They seemed to be proficient in a kind of energy called "blood energy". Blood gas has a considerable bonus to physical attacks, including but not limited to melee, shooting, etc.

And the small leader of the Mongols is even more elite. At the level of a centurion, there are almost a handful of rare elites, and there are even sporadic leaders.

Further up, the commander of the Mongols is a genuine leader-level military general, and Tachaer, who is the coach, is a rare leader.

It is absolutely not enough to rely on a few lords to go into battle like this tens of thousands of people. Although the lord is strong and can kill ten, hundreds, or hundreds of people, his spiritual power will always be exhausted. The so-called ants kill elephants, as long as the enemy soldiers are not afraid of death and charge one after another, they can also kill the lord.

Of course, the lord can leave whenever he wants, and he can fly out directly. With high priority, no one can stop him. This is the strength of the lord. Unless the opponent also has a lord who can hold it back, that's another matter.