Pu Shougeng fled in a panic, not one person, but nearly 3,000 people, including soldiers, dependents and servants, packed up their belongings, put on hundreds of carts, and fled from the town overnight, making a lot of noise.

But it didn't have much of a ripple effect in Haijin Town. It's not that everyone doesn't know about the "attack of the southern soldiers", but no one thinks that the weak southern soldiers can take down the town of Haijin garrisoned by Mongolian soldiers! Neither the Han nor the Semu believed that the Mongols, who were the first class in the world, would be defeated by the Southern Barbarians......

In the past thirty or forty years, the invincible soldiers of the Great Mongolian Heavenly Soldiers have long entered the hearts of the people in the land of Yanyun! Even if the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge "died of illness" in Sichuan, the people of Yanyun also thought that it was the water war of the Mongols, which was inferior to people. And here in Haijin Town, there are no big rivers like the Yangtze River, and there are endless plains around it, and even castles are very rare, what else can stop the iron cavalry of Great Mongolia?

So when he learned that Pu Shougeng was scared away by the southern barbarians who landed from Haikou, the merchants in Haijin Town immediately burst into laughter.

This surnamed Pu is also timid! I was actually afraid of the army of the southern Han people coming from the sea, but you must know that Haijin Town is garrisoned by a Mongolian army!

After laughing, those who should sleep sleep, and those who should prepare for war are ready to fight. As mentioned above, the Mongols hated strong city defenses, not only the fortified cities in the land of the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, but also the fortified cities in the northern Han land, so except for Kaiping, Yanjing, Jingzhaofu, and a few cities located on the front line, the Mongols forbade building cities in the northern Han land in principle. Only Yidu Li Pu built a strong Yidu city in the name of preparing for the Song Dynasty. Although Haijin Town is located at the confluence of the Haihe River and the canal, it has not built a strong city defense. There is only a low, thin wooden fence to keep out thieves.

Such a city defense, of course, is not enough to fear.

That's right. Baturu also knows that he can fight! This Daru flower of his is not hereditary. It was earned by following Prince Kuode to the south to fight in his early years and using his military exploits.

He had long seen the field warfare skills of the Han people, even if it was the Meng army that was once strong, that is, a hero in the rugged water towns and mountains, he did not have the strength to fight with the Mongolian army on the Great Plains. Unless they had a tenfold superiority in numbers, or the Mongols they were fighting with had been weakened by Yan Zòng, and were in a situation of lack of men or epidemics, they would be defeated by a comparable number of Han Chinese.

So he didn't mean to defend the city at all, but prepared for a field battle. The battlefield was chosen to be in the east of Haijin Town. On the south bank of the Hai River, on the west bank of the canal in the wilderness. With his back to Haijin Town, under the noses of tens of thousands of merchants, he used Mongolian iron horses to trample on the Han people who did not know whether they were alive or dead!

This was not only a battle, but also a show of the absolute military superiority of the Great Mongols on the northern plains. The governor of Baturu knew that the current Great Mongolia was in a difficult period, there was a civil war between the Mongols, and Chen Dexing, the Han prince and the general of the Southern Barbarians, tried in vain to take advantage of the opportunity of the Mongols to kill each other. Even the Han people around Yanjing Road, under the direct rule of the Great Khan, may not have the intention of turning the sky upside down!

So it was necessary to deter the Han people with a beautiful victory.

Busy overnight to mobilize troops. It was not until the afternoon of the next day that Baturu had a little free time and sat on a bed and rubbed his face vigorously. The guards would have come to a pot of hot soup long ago. for him to wash. Outside the door, there were already a few scouts who were responsible for probing the enemy's situation, waiting to report the latest military information.

The guards opened the door. Suddenly, a cool breeze blowing from the Haihe River rushed in, which made Baturu just refreshed. Several hundred-family members hurried in. After the salute, the report begins.

“…… It was the Southern Barbarians who came, under the banner of 'King Ming' and 'Chen'. There were about three thousand people. The infantry was the mainstay, and the cavalry was about two or three hundred. ”

“…… The two villages near the river were attacked, and the southern barbarians seemed to use a big chimney-like gun to bombard the wall, and the wall collapsed, and the guards of the village descended, and they really had no backbone at all! ”

Baturu snorted, his brows furrowed: "Big gun? How big is it? How can even the wall collapse? ”

The Mongols of this era did not only rely on savages who fought the world bravely, in fact, the Mongols attached great importance to advanced weapons. Wherever they occupy, they will try to find artisans who can make weapons and bring them back to their centers of domination. Today's Helin, Kaiping, and Yanjing all gather a large number of craftsmen from Han and Western Regions.

And the H medicine weapons that originated in the Han region are of course often seen in the Mongolian army. Especially after Möngke Khan was killed by the Heavenly Thunder Arrow, Kublai Khan put the creation of advanced H medicine weapons on a considerable level, and also issued a reward to encourage invention.

To be honest, on the issue of attaching importance to technological innovation, the Mongol robbers did much better than the Southern Song scholars. In history, Alao Wading, who built a stone machine for the Mongols to attack Xiangyang, was awarded the official position of deputy Wanhu by Kublai Khan - in the Mongolian official system, Wanhu is a very high status, and figures like Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou are all Wanhu. A craftsman can pay homage to the deputy Wanhu, which shows that the Mongols attached great importance to weapon technology.

Under the attention and promotion of Kublai Khan, in the past two years, all kinds of H-drug weapons have emerged in the Mongolian army of Kublai Khan's line, and some of them are tubular H-drug weapons called "guns".

However, the development of H medicine weapons of the Mongols is still in the initial stage of not finding the main line of development. Of course, the current Mongols do not know the main line of the progress of gun weapons and H medicine weapons, and explosive and rocket weapons are only branch lines for a long time - this is the development route of H medicine weapons that the Europeans have been fighting for hundreds of years and gradually sorted out, and the Mongols certainly cannot be unpredictable.

As a result, the H medicine weapons in the Mongolian army are now in a state of disarray. There are many types of weapons, but most of them are very shoddy, there is no high-quality H medicine, and there is no standardized production. Taking tubular weapons as an example, it is estimated that there are no two guns of basically the same caliber in the entire Mongolian army.

In addition to the poor production of zuò, the Mongol firecrackers did not take the route of large-scale. Instead, they are mainly miniaturized iron and copper guns, and occasionally wooden or even leather guns.

However, most of these various H-medicine weapons were supplied to Kublai Khan's main force on the Jinlianchuan steppe, and the Mongol army in Haijin Town only had some iron cannons or porcelain jars filled with inferior H-medicine, and there were also some torsion stone machines used to throw H-medicine weapons. However, the specifications and dimensions of those stone generators are also not uniform, the production of zuò is poor, and the specifications of the iron cannon used as ammunition are not uniform. Therefore, it is very troublesome to use, and it is necessary to repeatedly test the shot, and it is necessary to add counterweight to the iron cannon after weighing it one by one. It's not easy to play in the field, and Baturu's Mongol Erlang would rather throw a cannon and an H canister than manipulate a stone machine.

As for the firecrackers sent down from above, in Baturu's eyes, they are just a loud thing - these things are easy to explode if they add too much gunpowder, and the enemy is not injured, and their own people are blown up! If the gunpowder is missing, the iron sand and stone bullets in it can't hit far, so it's better to shoot with a bow and arrow!

Just when Baturu was about to cheer up and study how powerful Chen Dexing's big gun was. I heard the sound of the hooves of a sick horse suddenly sounding outside, and another horse ranger came to report the military situation!

"Chief, the Southern Barbarian Army is here!" Before the horse ranger arrived, a voice came in, "Thousands of people have come, less than 10 miles from Haijin Town!" ”

Baturu was stunned, and immediately turned his head and shouted: "Give a certain armor!" Raise your troops and fight with someone! ”

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The horn of the dispatch of soldiers and horses whined. On the ground, dust rolled, and groups of officers and soldiers of the Northern Expedition came from the east. These Han family armor soldiers did not stop for a moment, surging and unfolding like iron streams, like flowing clouds and water, forming a horizontal array, reflecting one piece after another of metallic light.

The Chen family army that broke through to Haijin Town was only 4,000 hanging zeros, an infantry division, a cavalry brigade, and an artillery battalion. Among them, there were more than 3,000 foot soldiers, 600 cavalry, no more than 6 bronze cannons, and six mobile three-bow bed crossbows. As for Fa Shi Tianlei, who became famous at the Yangtze Bridge earlier, he has taken a back seat in the Chen family's army.

This westward marching army set out from the mouth of the Haihe River early yesterday morning, and came all the way in a hurry, and along the way also made two closed and self-defended stockades - both of them were the stockades of the Han people in the north, and there was no defense, even the earthen walls and wooden fences against thieves were not very tall. As soon as the cannon sounded, it was a big gap, which frightened the powerful landlords inside to surrender quickly, sent their sons and nephews to accompany the army as hostages, and also offered grain, horses, carts and people accompanying the army.

Lu Hu and Xie Youcai (one of the twenty-two brothers), who commanded the westward march of the army, did not stop at the two surrendered stockades, and drove the army straight to Haijin Town. According to the plan of the General Staff Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Haijin Town is a stronghold that must be quickly captured and controlled! The people, wealth, and goods of the town of Haijin, as well as the ships of the Mongol navy, were extremely valuable trophies. If we can get it, it will be much easier to develop Northeast China in the future.

However, with only 4,000 people, they dared to drive straight into and attack an important town more than 100 miles away from Haikou, which was so courageous, in the eyes of the Han people in the north at this time, it was simply inconceivable and brainless!

Therefore, when the Northern Expeditionary Army was launched in front of Haijin Town, inside the wooden fence of Haijin Town, as well as the west bank of the canal and the north bank of the Haihe River, there were many residents who watched the excitement - there were Han people, there were also Semu people, and some Mongolian masters, all of whom were happy to watch how the iron cavalry of Great Mongolia would trample these Han men of the Southern Dynasty who did not know whether they were alive or dead! (To be continued......)