In a three-day battle to defend the city, more than half of the Song army's 23,000 people were killed, and only about 9,300 people walked out of the city alive. Such huge losses were caused by Guo Jing and Huang Rong, not to mention Lin Heng.
, Hong Qigong and others were silent. Fortunately, there is good news, that is, more of the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops who invaded the city died. Although they did not have exact figures, everyone believed that in such a big fire,
Next, probably less than half of the Mongolians survived.
There were less than half of the 50,000 to 60,000 people, that is, 20,000 to 30,000 people died. If we add the tens of thousands who died during the attack on the city in the previous three days, they would have lost 30,000 to 40,000 people in this battle.
Estimating this number, Lin Heng's goal of consuming 50,000 people seems to have been initially achieved. Of course, if the subsequent cities consume another 40 to 50,000 people, it will be even more perfect.
The Mongols were plotted by Lin Heng and were naturally furious. Especially when they got the huge loss figures, they hated the Song people even more.
The estimate of Lin Heng and others is correct or not. The number of dead is as estimated by Lin Heng and others, about 50,000. But what about the injured? In a battle between two armies, you cannot count the injured.
It is impossible to walk around in a fire without being injured. Even if the Mongolians can rush out, they will be more or less burned. Some serious cases may even die without treatment. Even if it is not serious, it is impossible to fight immediately.
Therefore, in this fire, Lin Heng not only burned 20,000 to 30,000 people, but more than 40,000 people. With such a large number, plus the 30,000 people killed and injured in front of them, they had already determined that the loss was more than 70,000 people.
So many people were lost just by attacking one city. If we attack one city after another, how many people will be lost!
The Mongols couldn't imagine that some people thought of dividing their troops, but they were immediately rejected. The reason is very simple. That is, when the Mongols attacked the city for the first time, they were defeated by the Song army one by one. Although they came in large numbers this time, if they really
The opportunity was seized by the Song army, and there was no way it would happen again. Therefore, they still concentrated all their forces.
In the end, Meng Ge even issued an order to let the civilians occupy the city and temporarily protect it, while the army continued to advance without any division.
Crazy Mongols are terrifying. No, as soon as Lin Heng and others entered the next town, the Mongolian army rushed over. They surrounded the city without hesitation, and then the army attacked directly. Only this time the Mongolian army
The attack was very strange. They no longer attacked four gates, but concentrated their forces to attack one gate.
The Mongolian army could not do this because they were afraid of repeating the same mistake as the first time, but in order to prevent the Song army from escaping, they still besieged the city. In their view, as long as the Song army had a chance to relax, the Mongolian army would be able to defeat them all.
Annihilate, instead of disappearing silently like last time.
Seeing the actions of the Mongolian army, Lin Heng once again handed over the task to General Wang. At the same time, he secretly sent a message to Guo Jing, Huang Rong and others to gather all the Beggar Gang disciples into the back door, while he himself also secretly moved his troops.
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At night, something unexpected happened to the Mongols. The Song army broke through. They really didn't expect that the Song army would break through so quickly, and its movement would be thunderous. In fact, this was all thanks to the Mongols. If they hadn't only attacked one gate
, gave Lin Heng the conditions to move his troops, and he would not break out so quickly. His breakthrough this time was to concentrate all his troops, cooperate with the Beggar Clan disciples’ sneak attack, and storm the 30,000-strong army at the back door. More than 30,000 people against three
With more than 10,000 people, the Song Army had no numerical advantage. However, first the Beggar Clan disciples attacked, and then they pressed forward. This sudden attack caught the Mongolian Army by surprise, and quickly defeated the Mongolian Army, and the Song Army also
Take advantage of this and quickly break out of the encirclement.
When Brother Meng received the news, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He immediately ordered people to enter the city, and the army chased Lin Heng and others without stopping. But he didn't know that not long after he left, a wave of
The Song army came out of the secret passage prepared by Lin Heng. They closed the city gate, killed all the Mongols in the city, and took over the city again.
This is Lin Heng's back-up plan.
The Mongolian army numbered 300,000, which was supposed to be enough to sweep through the Song Dynasty. However, they did not dare to ignore the attack because Lin Heng came to burn Nanyang and gave them a fatal blow. This made them have to carefully protect their own.
Logistics. In the past, they advanced step by step, and Lin Heng had no choice. This time, Lin Heng took advantage of the opportunity given by the Mongols and directly killed the carbine, allowing Guo Jing to lead a group of Song troops to take over the city and dress up as Mongolians.
, waiting for the Mongolian army's food and grass to be delivered to your door automatically.
On the other side, when Lin Heng retreated to the next town, the Mongolian army also pursued him, but this time, Lin Heng did not run away. He asked Hong Qigong and Huang Rong to lead half of the troops and gather at the front door, while he
Then he led his troops to station on the other side. In this way, the soldiers and the town formed a great wall, blocking the way of the Mongolian army. Of course, there was a danger in doing so, that is, the Mongolian army could send cavalry to directly attack the Song army.
To prevent this possibility, Lin Heng had people build deep ravines on both sides of the city, directly divert water from the moat into them, and build pontoon bridges over them.
In this way, if the Mongolian cavalry charged, they would at most break the Song army's formation and be blocked by the water. He believed that the Mongols would not be so unwise as to let the cavalry come and die.
Sure enough, when the Song army was stationed outside the city and digging the moat and was detected by the Mongolian army, Meng Ge decisively ordered the army to stop moving forward. This time, although he was angry, he did not let the army attack immediately, but just
They set up camp on the ground and carefully thought about the strategy to defeat the enemy. The Mongols were many experts and knew very well about marching and fighting. Soon, they came up with a way, which was to attack by force.
Against the enemy on the battlefield, conspiracies and tricks are indeed useful, but most of them are of little use. What is most used is conspiracy, which is its own strong strength. Compared with the Song Army, the Mongolian Army is strong enough. Now, the Song Army is spread out on three sides, showing a long
, and because of the city, they were unable to support each other. This gave the Mongolian army an opportunity. They could send three armies, one army to attack the city, and two armies to attack the Song army on both sides.
The Mongolian army has the Mongolian army's strategy, and Lin Heng has Lin Heng's considerations. Do you think he doesn't know the disadvantages of doing this to the Song army? However, there is nothing that can be done about it. If he defends the city, the Mongolian army will definitely besiege the city.
, Now they have been attacking the city. If they can, if they lose more people, will they attack again? If they come to encircle the city but don't attack, wouldn't Lin Heng be dumbfounded?
Yes, Lin Heng prepared a lot of supplies. Compared with the Mongolian army, he took advantage of it, but doing so had a huge impact on the morale of the Song army. Moreover, he came out to consume the effective strength of the Mongolian army, not to fight with them.
It consumes time. Therefore, he must be flexible and changeable in order to maximize the damage to the Mongols.
The war broke out again, and another hard-fought confrontation with the Mongols began. Lin Heng was not worried about the city. He was worried about the Song troops on both sides. Their number was not large to begin with, and now they were even smaller.
It is not possible to compete with the Mongols to consume each other, so he must find some ways to preserve himself and consume the Mongolian army.
For this reason, Lin Heng stockpiled a large number of trebuchets and bows and arrows in this city, allowing them to use trebuchets, bows and arrows to stop the enemy. Even the soldiers who were not archers were equipped with a bow and arrow each to shoot at the Mongolian army.
Although this method is terrible, it is very applicable. Archers and catapults attack from a distance, and other soldiers attack with bows and arrows. In this way, when the Mongolian army came close, they had already lost a large number of people. If it were continuous
The attack also gave opportunities to catapults and archers.
This was just Lin Heng's first method. The second method was that he gathered all the Mongolian horses captured some time ago, divided them into the armies on both sides, and attacked the Mongolian army with a fire horse formation.
The horses that were set on fire were crazy. Even the Mongolian army couldn't do anything about them. Think about it, the scene of thousands of flaming horses galloping is so spectacular and unstoppable.
These two methods gave Lin Heng a day. After one day of blocking, the Song Army lost less than the Mongolian Army for the first time, and much less. Of course, this is not counted as supplies. If in the eyes of others,
, Lin Heng was completely wasted, but for Lin Heng who came from a later generation, talent was the most important thing. Therefore, he kept a large number of horses and launched a fire horse formation.
At night, Mongolia launched a sneak attack, but the cautious Lin Heng did not let them succeed. He also used the remaining horses to conduct a fire horse stampede. Unfortunately, he had too few horses. Although he looked very impressive, in fact he
I simply didn't dare to let my army attack the Mongolian military camp, because it was obviously like a meat bun beating a dog!
The next day, the Mongolian army did not attack early, but delayed it until the afternoon. This time, the Mongolian army changed their strategy again. They followed Lin Heng's method on the first day and shamelessly attacked the Song army with archers.
Counter-shooting. Speaking of which, it’s also the Song army’s fault. Why don’t you shoot as far as the Mongols?
When the Mongols took advantage of their advantage, the Song army really had no choice but to be beaten passively. Seeing the dense rain of arrows, Lin Heng had to order the Song army to retreat across the moat, while the Mongolian army pressed further. Seeing this, Lin Heng
Knowing that his plan had failed, he shook his head, moved away from the pontoon bridge, and ordered all the troops to retreat.
The Mongols wanted to pursue them, but what was strange was that Brother Meng ordered the troops to retreat. No one knew what was going on, but they still had to obey the orders of the Great Khan, but Lin Heng thought of some possibility.
