Bai Xiaowen sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at Sigdrifa who hurriedly entered.
"Master, Shi Miyuan of Lin'an, used the Thousand Mile Telephone Telephone to send an urgent message. The Song Dynasty army in the Northern Expedition encountered a big crisis!"
Bai Xiaowen's face gradually became serious as he listened to Sigurdlifa's narration.
The Mongols withdrew their troops across the Yellow River due to insufficient military supplies. In the hinterland of the Central Plains occupied by the Jin Kingdom, the cities were basically guarded by the Jin Kingdom's surrendered generals. They only had hatred for the Mongols, no loyalty at all, and their military strength was weak.
Mongolia only has a few thousand troops left south of the Yellow River.
Under this situation, the Southern Song Dynasty army marched with high morale and high morale to regain their homeland.
Bai Xiaowen also felt that the Southern Song Dynasty army would achieve an early victory. At least there would be no problem in recovering the three capitals. The real difficulty lies in how to prepare for the Mongol army's attack after spring comes next year.
As soon as the Song army began to march, they really defeated everything they could. As soon as the Jin generals saw the Song flag, they opened the city gate.
In just a few days, Quan Zicai's troops set out from Luzhou and even restored Bianjing in Keshou, Mengcheng, Bozhou, Taikang and other places.
The Mongols' response was to use small groups of elite cavalry to harass the Song army's food routes.
Quan Zicai led his army to Bianjing and found that this former capital of the Northern Song Dynasty was in ruins. There were only a few hundred households in the city and less than a thousand defenders.
Such a city is simply not enough for supplies.
The gap between Mongolian soldiers and Southern Song soldiers is also reflected. Only a small group of Mongolian troops caused serious damage to the Song army's food routes. Often a team of a dozen Mongolians dared to attack the transportation of hundreds of people.
The grain team killed the Song soldiers, burned the grain and grass, and then walked away.
Hearing this, Bai Xiaowen also felt a little emotional. Who said the ancients didn't know how to use troops? This tactic of the Mongols is simply a replica of guerrilla warfare.
Quan Zicai's troops in Bianjing did not have enough military rations at all. The imperial court in the rear was still urging Quan Zicai to march westward and continue to recover Luoyang, the Xijing.
Quan Zicai could only ask the soldiers to divide the five days of food into seven days, divide them into two teams, and march west to Luoyang in order to obtain supplies there.
The Mongols released the first brigade of the Song Army into Luoyang and concentrated their forces to raid the second brigade. The Mongolian cavalry launched a surprise attack, but the rear group of the Song soldiers, mainly archers and crossbowmen, had no time to line up to meet the enemy, and were defeated by the Mongols.
The troops broke up their formation and fled.
They were destined to be unable to escape the elite and mounted Mongols, so there were many casualties.
Subsequently, the Mongolian army approached the remnants of Quan Zicai in Luoyang.
Quan Zicai successfully entered Luoyang, but he found in despair that the situation in Luoyang was not much better than that in Bianjing. They were also covered in bones and bones, and only a few hundred households were still hanging on.
After several days of stalemate with the Mongols, Quanzi's tribe could only eat weeds to make cakes to satisfy their hunger. In desperation, Quanzi chose to break out and flee south.
The weapons and equipment carried by the Song army were all abandoned.
Now, the Mongolian army is chasing after them.
The Mongolian army, which was proficient in cavalry and archery and had strong soldiers, pursued an infantry that was short of food. The result was obvious.
It can be said that the Song court's strategy of "standing at the pass and guarding the river" has completely failed. A few thousand Mongolian troops defeated the northward advance of 60,000 Song troops.
Bai Xiaowen's eyes suddenly opened: "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 if the Mongols were more capable than the Song soldiers, being able to defeat 60,000 people with just a few thousand men was definitely a great strategy.
"Master, what should we do now? The newly appointed envoy Zhao Fan issued an order for the entire army to abandon the plan to advance north and stick to Chuzhou."
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and laughed: "Zhao Fan was scared to death by the Mongols. No matter how strong the Mongols are, there are only a few thousand troops left south of the Yellow River. Can they still fly to the east and attack Huaidong? Can Tachaer defeat them?
The 60,000 Song troops were already a remarkable achievement. Judging from the strategy he showed, it was impossible to do the stupid thing of attacking the Southern Song Dynasty with a few thousand troops."
Bai Xiaowen stood up and said, "I'm going to see Zhao Fan and ask him to issue a transfer order to allow Abaddon's troops to go and take over Quan Zicai."
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Because Shi Miyuan had greeted him in advance, Zhao Fan respected Bai Xiaowen, a "Taoist master". And he also knew that it was with the help of this Taoist master that the previously leaderless Huaidong Army was able to quickly pacify
Li Quan.
Moreover, Abaddon's Zhongyong Battalion was an independent army in itself, and its money and food were directly allocated through the imperial court. Zhao Fan didn't bother to care whether the Zhongyong Battalion was in danger, so he easily wrote a transfer order and agreed to Abaddon's dispatch of troops.
Abaddon led three thousand skeleton soldiers northward.
With the help of Bai Xiaowen, Abaddon took the shortest road and joined Quan Zicai's army in Caizhou two days later. At this time, Quan Zicai's remnant army had only about 10,000 people left, and it had lost six points.
Five of them, and they are all very hungry, there is nothing to eat.
Fortunately, the skeleton soldiers under Abaddon did not need to eat or drink, and the dry food and bread they carried could be delivered to Quan Zicai's remnant army.
The more than 10,000 Song soldiers under Quan Zicai could be said to be grateful to the "Ancient Dragon Capital Control". This was definitely a life-saving grace. Without the rescue of the "Ancient Dragon Capital Control", I am afraid that these 10,000 people would eventually escape back to the Song Dynasty.
Yes, there is not one out of ten.
Bai Xiaowen ordered Sigurdlifa to investigate the enemy's situation and master the movements and routes of the Mongolian pursuers.
"Tachar, the Mongolian general, must take this opportunity to kill him." Bai Xiaowen made careful arrangements.
The front line of the Mongolian pursuers was let go by Bai Xiaowen. The two thousand fine cavalry of the Chinese army were surrounded by three thousand skeleton soldiers and ten thousand Song legionnaires at Caihe Village outside Caizhou City.
This battle is very fierce. The Mongolian soldiers at the bottom are all of ordinary strength. They seem to be familiar with an energy called "blood energy". Blood energy has considerable effects on physical attacks, including but not limited to melee combat, shooting, etc.
addition.
The small leaders of the Mongols are even more elite. At the level of centurion, there are almost as many rare elites as there are even sporadic leaders.
Further up, the Mongolian captains are truly leader-level generals, and Tachar, as the commander-in-chief, is a rare leader.
In a battle like this involving tens of thousands of people, it is absolutely not enough to rely on just a few lords. Although the lords are strong and can kill ten, a hundred, or hundreds of people, their spiritual power will always be exhausted. It is said that too many ants will kill the elephant.
, as long as the enemy soldiers are not afraid of death and charge forward one after another, they can still kill the lord.
Of course, the lord can leave at any time if he wants, and fly out directly. With his high priority, no one can stop him. This is the strength of the lord. Unless the opponent also has a lord who can hold him back, then that is another matter.