Chapter 1236: Xuzhou Falls

The messenger's words were like a bolt from the blue for the three Tang Gu, they couldn't believe that the more than 30,000 people of the Hararu Guard were wiped out in just four days after leaving the city, you must know that among the guards of the Mengyuan Guard, its combat effectiveness is also among the top three, second only to the Kipchak Guard and the Han Army Guard, and it is the strong force that Kublai Khan relied on.

However, people privately believe that the Han military guards were suppressed and alienated by Kublai Khan due to their involvement in the Ahma assassination case, and not only removed the Han generals, but also strictly forbade them to carry weapons on a daily basis. As a result, the status of the Han army's guards declined, their morale was not high, and they were negligent in training, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as before.

However, the Hararuwei was increasingly valued by the Great Khan, and this situation was also continued after the succession of Zhenjin, so the Hararuwei were not only favored, but also well-armed and well-trained, and were used as the trump card of the guards. This trip to Beijing was also given high hopes by the Great Khan, and he also asked for grain and money under the extremely tight financial situation. And they did not live up to Jun's grace, and after arriving in Xuzhou, they confronted the southern army outside the city, so that they could not get close to the city for half a step.

And Tie Mai Chi is also regarded as a famous general of the dynasty, his good at riding and shooting, when he was a teenager, he was in front of the queen of Hulan, first from Taizu Ding Xixia and from the prince Kuo, Kudu Bald, and the province of Tiemu Daer Ding Henan, tired of military exploits. Later, he conquered Xichuan, Ezhou, and Jiangxia from Kublai Khan. After Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne, he rebelled against the king in a land of lost wood and soil, and his achievements were reaped. It can be said that he has experienced a hundred battles, and he is invincible and invincible, but now he is defeated in such a small ditch as Jiagou Yi, how can he make Tang Gu and others believe it.

"Three generals, humbly ordered to go to Fuli to inform the commander of Tiemai Chidu that Xuzhou is in trouble, and I dare not slack off along the way...... "The messenger drank a bowl of wine, relieved his breath, and told the truth.

"Don't talk that nonsense, pick up the important ones!" Tang Gu listened to the messenger's words, and couldn't help but feel anxious, and said angrily.

"Yes, I understand!" The messenger was frightened, and his speech was much more concise, "At the beginning of the humble position, I thought that Hara Luwei would set off for only three days, and he should be able to catch up before Fu Li under the whip of the fast horse, so he spared no effort along the way to think of the Jiagou Post to change horses and chase again, but when there were still ten miles away from the Jiagou Station, he heard a continuous explosion, and it was suspected that there was a battle ahead, so he slowed down and moved forward carefully!" ”

"The more the humble post went forward, the more intense the explosion, so he sent people to investigate, and found that a large number of southern troops appeared in Jiagouji, under the banner of the imperial protector of the Southern Dynasty, and it was the Hararu Guards who were besieging it, and the war was nearing the end, and the Song army had already invaded the valley, but we could not get close, let alone contact General Tie Maichi, so we could only hide in the distance and wait for changes."

"Before setting off, Tie Maichi said that the Song army was close to the left, and he should speed up his foot, so as not to be intercepted and killed by the Song army along the way, and according to his words, he should camp at Jiagou Post that day." Tang Gu thought for a moment and said.

"If this is the case, when Haraluwei left the city, he will be detected by the Song army and set up an ambush in Jiagouji!" Ming An continued.

"Don't care what happened before, let him tell him what he saw!" But Sumaida interrupted them impatiently, pointing to the messenger.

"Hmm!" Tang Gu waved his hand for the messenger to continue.

"Because of our location far from the battlefield and because the valley was covered in smoke, we couldn't see the details. It wasn't until the sun was in the west and the guns were thinning out that we dared to approach and wait for the Song army to retreat before we dared to enter the valley. I saw ......" The messenger's face became very ugly, and his lips trembled.

"Tell me, what do you see?" Tang Gu actually had the answer in his heart at this time, but he still had a hint of luck and asked.

"Humble ...... After entering the valley, the lowly rank felt that it was bloody, and the eyes were full of the broken corpses of our army, and there was almost no place to stay. The further you go, the more terrifying it becomes, the corpses are piled up, and the boots will be stuck in blood if you stop for a moment. And the dry ditch in the town is also full of corpses, post houses, houses have been razed to the ground, and the corpses of people and horses near the mountain pass leading to Fuli are like mounds, and there are countless people, only a passage left by the Song army when they evacuated......" The messenger thought that he still had not broken free from the terrifying scene he saw, and was silent for a moment before speaking.

"I wanted to find out the truth, but I didn't see a living person in the town for a long time, so I followed the direction of our army's defeat and retreat to the lake, and found that the lake within a radius of more than ten miles was full of floating corpses, and the blood stained the lake red, and the fish and shrimp seemed to be unable to stand the bloody breath, and jumped out of the water one after another......" The messenger said this and slowed down for a moment, and the three Tang Gu looked at each other with gloomy faces, and they all saw each other's shock, but they did not speak, nor did they urge, he sighed before continuing.

"I waited by the lake for a long time, until it was dark to find a few soldiers who escaped by luck, and after inquiry, I learned that the Song army of Haraluwei stayed overnight at the Jiagou Post in the early morning of the next day, attacked and seized the commanding heights of the mountain pass, and bombarded the post house with artillery, and the commander of the camp who stayed in it was unfortunately killed by the artillery, and the whole army was in chaos for a while. The Song army took the opportunity to block the mountain passes at both ends, and the generals later elected Temulu as the leader, and then launched a counterattack to open the passage, but thousands of soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and they were all repulsed. ”

"The day before yesterday, the Song army launched a counteroffensive, and our army suffered 10,000 casualties and barely held the dry ditch. Yesterday, the Song army opened the way with heavy artillery fire and rushed into the town in one fell swoop. Our army was broken up under the enemy's attack on three sides, and was forced into the lake by the Song army, and countless people were drowned. Then the Song army just roughly cleaned up the battlefield and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield! ”

"Then no one escaped, where did the Song army go?" Ming An asked.

"The people we asked said that the scene was very chaotic, and all the troops were scattered, and they saw Temuru leading a group of men and horses to break through to the south, and they didn't know what was going on. They were driven to the lake, and a few people may have escaped by wading into the mountains on the other side of the river, while they hid in the pile of corpses, and the Song army only hastily cleaned up the battlefield without checking one by one, and only survived. The messenger replied.

"As for the whereabouts of the Song army, Beizhi also followed the trail left by his march out of the mountain pass, but it was very strange that they did not turn to Fuli, nor did they come to Xuzhou, but went to the northwest. Because of the urgency of the situation, the lowly official did not continue to track down, but sent a few people to Fuli to report the news, hoping that they would send people to find the whereabouts of the remnants of the Hararu Guard, and we will return to report to the generals overnight! ”

"They're going northwest?! Isn't that the direction of Ying Tianfu, is it ......" Su Maida was stunned, put down the wine bowl and said in surprise.

"Are they going to capture Ying Tianfu? No, Tutuha also received the will of the Great Khan like us, and he would defeat the enemy in front of him and recover Huaibei. And when they are running to the northwest at this time, are they not in the same way as they are encountering Tutuha! "Ming Anxin secretly calculated that according to the itinerary, the enemy and our two armies happened to meet halfway.

"Bring back such important news, you have worked hard, go down first to get fifty ingots and rest!" Tang Gu glanced at him and asked the other two not to say anything more, but to send the messenger to go down and rest first.

"The Hararu Guards were almost completely annihilated, and the Song army went to meet the Tutu Habu, which seems to be not a small plan. The Song army under the city of Xuzhou who came to Xuzhou is probably not just to contain us, but to capture the city! Seeing that there was no one else in the hall, Tang Gu knocked on the case twice and said a few words.

"Yes, after a thousand calculations, those wastes in the court still haven't been able to calculate the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty." Ming An dried his wine and sighed gloomily, "Now the situation is basically clear, the grain and grass that were attacked by the Song army's rear camp were all fake, or it was also the Song army's deliberate connivance to let it succeed, you must know that grain and grass are the top priority, how can you be so careless." ”

"You are saying that the burning of the grain and grass of the Song army was the bait released by them, and they mistakenly thought that they lacked food and grass and were unable to fight again, so they had to retreat. So as to trick us into making a plan to increase our troops, break the Song army camp in one fell swoop, and then recover Huaibei and even Huainan. However, they secretly sent heavy troops to set up an ambush on the way, taking advantage of our departure from the city to encircle and annihilate them. Once the goal is achieved, whether it is Fuli, Xuzhou, or even Ying Tianfu, they are all unable to hold on to it due to the emptiness of their troops, and they will become their pockets! Sumaida said with a wry smile.

"Hehe, it seems that the loss of Xuzhou is only a matter of time, we have to start from a new plan!" Tang Gu also cried and laughed again and again. And the analysis of the three of them is actually infinitely close to the truth, if those important ministers and famous generals know that they are not as scheming as the three guys who have always been regarded as waste, and they have seen the truth, will they die of shame, or will they kill them......

That night, after learning that Haraluwei was ambushed in Jiagouji, Tang Gu, who acted as the chief general of Xuzhou, led the soldiers of the headquarters of the Malong Zhenwei and Gui Chiwei out of the city to respond, but soon after they went out of the city, the people who learned the news of the defeat and death of the Tiemai Red soldiers were panicked and wanted to open the city and flee, and clashed with the defenders of the city, which led to a popular uprising, and wanted to lead the Song soldiers into the city, and there were scoundrels in the city who took the opportunity to make trouble, smashed the shops, and plundered the big households.

There was a great chaos in the city for a while, and the Xibao Chiwei who stayed behind couldn't suppress the bullets, but fortunately, Long Zhenwei and Gui Chiwei were not far from the city, and they quickly returned to the city after learning the warning. The three armies worked together to suppress the rebellion, and entered from three gates, and along the way, hundreds of people died under the sword and gun, most of the shops were looted, and the rich people in the city were almost not spared, and they were all plundered.

The three armies converged in the city, and the 'mob' flocked to the west gate, opened the gate and fled, and the three armies pursued them. The city was unprepared, the mob opened the east gate, and the Song army outside the city took the opportunity to attack the city, but at this time the city was empty and invincible to the Song army, resulting in the loss of the city gate, and although the three armies returned in time, they also lost the opportunity, but were driven out and chased by the Song army, and had to retreat north to Pei County to stop their footing, and sent a messenger to the imperial court to report, please send reinforcements......

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