Chapter 152: Failed and buried in the sands, twenty-one
Three days later, the Mongolian army attacked again.
The city walls are now high and the moats are deep, the soldiers are well-trained and well-fed, and there are thousands of righteous men in the rivers and lakes who are willing to help. The morale of the people is high and they are full of confidence.
Not long after the sky was bright, the sound of horns could be heard from the mountains. Flags were waving in the north, east, and southwest, and horseshoes were in formation. It was the signal for the Mongolian army to attack.
Xiao Hao stood on the top of the city wall, calmly divided the soldiers into teams, and made arrangements calmly:
"The seven dragons of Xuanling in the north belong to the element of water. Madam Guo will lead 8,000 soldiers, 1,000 of whom will protect the main general. The other 7,000 will be organized into seven teams, led by the elders of the Beggar Gang, corresponding to the seven stars of Xuanwu Doumuxie, Niujinyang, Xurishu, Weiyueyan, Shihuozhu, and Bishui."
"The nine dragons of Qingling in the east belong to the element of wood. Master will lead the army, the same as in the north. Another 7,000 soldiers will be led by Guo Xiang, Cheng Ying, and the Bingxin disciples of Yiying Tower, corresponding to the seven stars of Qinglong, namely Jiaomujiao, Kangjinlong, Dituhe, Fangritu, Xinyuehu, Weihuohu, and Jishuibao."
"The southern Danling Sanfu is of the fire element. It is led by Master Yideng. Zhu Ziliu, Wu Santong, Sishui Yuyin and seven others lead a team of 1,000 people. They correspond to the seven stars of Zhuque Jingmu'an, Guijinyang, Liu Tuzhang, Xingrima, Zhangyuelu, Yishuisheep and Zhenhuoyin."
"The western Bailing is of the gold element. It is led by Shi Zhixuan. The Quanzhen Sect leader Li Zhichang and other three generations of disciples lead a team. They correspond to the seven stars of the White Tiger, Kui Mulang, Loujin Gou, Wei Tuxiong, Angriji, Biyueniao, Zihuohou and Shenshuiyuan."
"The Central Huangling Wufu, I will lead the Cangyun soldiers to attack the center of the Mongolian army and destroy its main force." [Note]
Guo Jing is in Xiangyang, and he and the remaining disciples of Yiyinglou are on guard there, echoing the three passes from afar, and they serve as a fortress for each other.
Lu Wende allowed the Mongolian army to set up a market outside Xiangyang City to block the food supply route of Xiangyang City. Now all the military supplies of Xiangyang are supplied from Xiao Hao. Xiangyang is both their rear base and their second battlefield. If Xiangyang City is broken, the three passes will be surrounded by the Mongolian army, and they will be caught in a trap; if the three passes are lost, Xiangfan will become a siege, which is also very dangerous.
Xiao Hao gave an order, and the soldiers in the city immediately divided into five armies in the east, south, west, north, and center. They prepared their weapons and equipment, and rushed out of the city to fight. The
Western Army Quanzhen Sect has always been famous for its Tiangang Northern Fighting Formation. They were in groups of seven or forty-nine, with long swords as white as snow and sharp blades flying. The Mongolian army was dazzled. Shi Zhixuan also shuttled through their thousand-man formation, closely connecting several groups of Tiangang Northern Fighting Formations to form a larger sword formation. The Mongolian army had no choice but to be surrounded and killed by them.
The eastern route was another scene. The women were as brave as the men. Every six of them formed a Flower Moon Ling Feng formation or a Nine Sounds Jing Xian formation. They were divided into several groups according to the locations indicated by Huang Yaoshi. They seemed to be divided into several groups without any rules, but in fact they were in line with the principles of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams. They were like stakes firmly nailed into the Mongolian army formation. Fans and swords were flying everywhere. All the Mongolian soldiers who fell into the formation were trapped. They had no power to escape and could only shoot arrows to block.
Xiao Hao changed his order and took advantage of the situation: "Gen!"
The shield wall of the Cangyun Army stood up, and the shield bounced back all the arrows they shot. The Cangyun Army did not stop. They pushed forward the flustered Mongolian Army in the center of the formation. There was a gap of about one person in the middle of each row of shield walls. The Cangyun Army in the back row rushed out from the gap one by one, knocked out the enemy in front, and immediately switched shield walls to continue pushing forward.
The Cangyun Army was taken care of by the girls of Yiying Building recently. Seeing that the Mongolian Army used dense flying arrows to bully the girls who had saved them, they were all very brave, carrying black iron shields to block the chaotic stray arrows for them.
Although Guo Xiang was young, she was not afraid of the fierce enemy army. She led a group of women to form a battle formation. Kublai Khan saw that she was the leader of this army, so he personally bent his bow and shot an arrow at her.
Xiao Hao jumped up from Ba Hongchen, grabbed the corner of Guo Xiang's clothes with his great lightness skill, and blocked the powerful arrow with his shield in the air. Sparks burst out from the tip of the arrow and the shield surface of the black iron shield, and actually penetrated the solid shield surface and passed through Xiao Hao's shoulder. There
was a hole left on the shield. Xiao Hao looked at it with regret. This 555 shield sword that had accompanied him for so many years was finally going to be completely broken.
The system did leave him a big orange weapon, but the Zhuxuan Huaique was too eye-catching, and he would be a sitting duck if he was moving at night, so Xiao Hao had been using his original weapon.
Guo Xiang was startled and quickly covered his wound, but saw that the wound healed quickly, and even the blood stopped flowing out. Guo Xiang was stunned.
Xiao Hao's movements were blocked for only a moment, and he threw Guo Xiang away, with the Mo Dao and shield on his shoulders. Guo Xiang landed steadily on his shield, and they both landed safely.
Guo Xiang was very curious about the experience of flying on a shield, but she also knew that it was not suitable to be distracted at this moment, so she hurriedly thanked Xiao Hao and turned to throw herself into the Huayue Lingfeng formation of Yiying Tower.
Xiao Hao protected her, and then he shouted again: "Kanzi!"
The disciples of the Northern Beggar Gang set up a water dragon, which sprayed strong acid and kerosene. The Mongolian soldiers cried out in pain when they touched it, and hurriedly fled in the opposite direction, but saw that Master Yideng and others had set up fire bombs and rockets, and the divine arm bow flew out, igniting all the kerosene on their bodies. For a moment, the flames shot up to the sky and the smoke filled the air.
As soon as the 28 constellations formation was deployed, the Mongolian formation was immediately disrupted. Soldiers were fleeing in all directions, and the Mongolian generals were also confused by this formation.
Kublai Khan stared at Xiao Hao in the formation and ordered: "Pass the order, whoever can shoot and kill the commander of the Cangyun Army will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold and promoted three levels!"
Countless people were eager to compete for the reward, and this incentive was very effective. The Mongolian army immediately reorganized their formation and surrounded Xiao Hao's Cangyun Army.
Xiao Hao's face was as gloomy as water. He issued another order, and the Song side's formation changed again. The Cangyun Army changed to rush to the north, the Yiyinglou people turned to the center, the Quanzhen disciples went to the east, Master Yideng and others rushed to the west, and the Beggar Gang disciples turned to guard the Lihuo position. The five elements were reversed, and the mutual generation and restraint changed. The morale of the Mongolian army, which had just been gathered, was immediately in chaos.
Kublai saw the power of this formation, and his mind worked quickly. He immediately ordered the Mongolian army to split into three groups, with tens of thousands of troops to encircle the Song soldiers in the formation, and break them from the inside and outside.
Once this encirclement was formed, although Xiao Hao and his men would not be wiped out, they would be caught in a bitter battle with enemies from both sides. Xiao Hao made a prompt decision and immediately shouted: "Zhen!"
Shi Zhixuan jumped up and deliberately left a wound in the east. The Mongolian army in the formation saw the gap in the formation and rushed to the Zhen position in a hurry, but they did not expect to disrupt the encirclement that Kublai had just formed.
These frustrated Mongolian troops rushed into Kublai Khan's personal soldiers like a tide, and Kublai Khan's deployment was immediately thrown into chaos. The screams and escape postures of these people made the morale plummet and the army was defeated.
Kublai Khan sighed and said to Xiao Hao in the battle line: "The general is really a talent that is unparalleled in the world, but it's a pity that I can't use him. As long as you are here, Xiangfan will always be a problem!"
He has been forced to retreat three times in front of this man. Even if he has the intention, his elite soldiers have no intention of fighting against this man. If
this man is not eliminated, he will eventually be a stumbling block for him to march south.
Xiao Hao raised his head and smiled, "It is not my own achievement to force the Mongol army to retreat, but the achievement of the Cangyun Army and the righteous men of the Song Dynasty. If we can scare the Mongol army back a thousand miles in one day, we will live a long life until the Mongol army can no longer move!"
Kublai Khan stared at him for a long time with a dark face, raised his arms and shouted, "The whole army retreats north!" The
Mongol army was defeated and retreated slowly. The Song army burst into earth-shaking shouts, and they all gathered their formations. Everyone's face was full of pride and joy.
Not long after, news of the great victory came from Xiangyang, and everyone cheered and returned to the city together.
This time, the Mongol army's momentum was completely frustrated, and its offensive to the south might be blocked. Xiangfan and the Three Passes were impregnable, and in the eyes of the Mongolian army, they had been frustrated repeatedly. The longer the time dragged on, the less confidence they had in conquering this place.
Now that Cangyun was no longer under the control of the court, there was no need to report any war situation, but Xiao Hao, for the sake of safety, still planned to report the situation here truthfully. However, Shi Zhixuan stopped him and even asked everyone in the pass not to spread the news of the great victory. Instead, he sent a team to Lin'an Prefecture, saying that the fighting here was fierce and that they would soon be unable to hold on, and that the Tartars would attack Lin'an today.
Xiao Hao was stunned for a moment and then reacted and acquiesced to his approach.
There was still a sinner in the capital who owed him 226 lives, and this revenge must be avenged.
After counting the number of people in this battle, although the Mongolian army lost tens of thousands of people, they also suffered heavy losses.
The Lin'an kid who took over Lu Wuhuan's job of managing the Zongzipo was called Du Kegong. When he first came, there were only three Haos and a few tombs here; but within a day, more than 220 Cangyuns were buried here; before the weeds in the mountains grew, a new batch arrived. The kid finally stopped complaining about Xiao Hao not letting him go to the battlefield.
He still wanted to fight, but not just to make achievements.
He began to understand the meaning of his guarding this place: no matter how many Cangyuns were charging ahead on the front line, they would eventually return here, and there would be brothers to fight for them.
What he was guarding was not a group of lonely overgrown graves, but the souls of the Cangyun Army.
There was still a lot of resettlement work to be done after the war, and Xiao Hao was quite tired. Shi Zhixuan couldn't bear to see him worrying too much, so he forced him to go and rest first. Xiao Hao couldn't get away from him, so he had to obey.
But he didn't expect that he would sleep for five full days.
The heroes were originally in high spirits and wanted to have a banquet in the city to celebrate the victory, but they couldn't call Xiao Hao. Shi Zhixuan said that he was too tired and had gone to bed, so the heroes gave up.
However, they gave up after not seeing Xiao Hao for one night. After not seeing him for five consecutive days, everyone felt that something was wrong.
Guo Xiang was anxious, and secretly went to see Shi Zhixuan and told him what happened on the battlefield. Shi Zhixuan was suddenly startled, and while asking her not to make a sound, he quickly rushed back to Xiao Hao's tent where he was resting.
Xiao Hao stretched his back, and he was full of energy, and there was no sign of anything abnormal on the surface. Shi Zhixuan saw him wake up, immediately put away his sad face and came forward: "Ah Hao finally woke up."
Xiao Hao noticed that the weather outside was not right, and laughed: "Ah, it's really been too long since I last exercised. I actually slept past noon. What a shame..."
Shi Zhixuan was silent for a moment, and said to him: "The news we spread before has worked."
Xiao Hao thought for a long time before he realized what news he was talking about. He narrowed his eyes and said: "Oh?"
"The court thought that Ezhou was going to fall, and people all said that Jia Sidao was a military genius who was no less than you. He was highly regarded. The students of the Imperial College urged him to go to the battlefield in person. Jia Sidao couldn't stand the pressure, so he had to come in person."
The author has something to say: It seems that there is one more chapter to end this volume, and there is a
side story at the end. Those with sharp eyes may find some clues. It is related to the Meow Teaching Volume.
_(:з」∠)_ I am inexplicably excited again 2333333333333
Note: Referenced from the original work and Baidu Encyclopedia Qimen Dunjia.
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