On December 3, the second year of Xianchun of the Great Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan's 65,000 Mongol army and more than 10,000 plundered Han people Ding Zhuang and women finally appeared in the north of Jihe City, and the company camp was more than ten miles.

At the same time, Chen Dexing personally negotiated with Chen Minyu in the Jihe camp and discussed the plan for unanimous war against Mongolia.

The Li family's 30,000-strong army ambushed the south of the Daqing River, and when the Mongol army was exhausted, they crossed the river to join the battle—the plan couldn't have been simpler, almost identical to the previous Battle of Jingcheng.

In order to attract the Mongol army to the battle, Chen Dexing did not let people build any fortifications in the north of Jihe City. There are no dense pits for the first horses, nor deep and wide trenches, nor breastworks that can withstand the thunder and arrows of the sky.

In front of the Jihe camp, what was set aside as a battlefield was a vast and flat plain. Apart from three abandoned villages and two groves, there is no terrain left to exploit.

However, Chen Dexing's department left only a cavalry division of the New Army (the number has not yet been issued) and some baggage troops, totaling 2,000 people, to stay in the Jihe camp, and the remaining 26,000 people all attacked. Occupies three villages that have been abandoned as support points.

The three villages are arranged in an inverted zigzag pattern, with two in the front and one in the back. In the sky above the village named Gaojialou, the flag of the Sun and Moon King was also fluttered - Chen Dexing's Chinese army was here. The two villages in front of the sudden attack are named Yuzhuang and Xiaoli Village respectively, and they are both so-called "one-surname villages", that is, the clans of one surname live together, and form a settlement that protects each other with clan blood as a link.

The inhabitants of the three villages were armed and the villages where they lived were fortified. It's like a small fortress. There is a rammed earth fence around it, and there is an arrow tower within the wall. There were also moats outside the walls. Although the inhabitants have retreated, they are not willing to set fires. All three villages fell intact into the hands of the Ming army.

Yuzhuang became the headquarters of the Fourth Division of the Army, where Yu Bao (one of the twenty-two brothers) served as the division commander, and also placed an artillery company and a ballista company in the village. More than 10,000 men of the Fourth Division were deployed around Yuzhuang.

Xiaolizhuang became Guo Kan's territory, and his more than 6,000 people and an artillery company and a ballista company were arranged around Xiaolizhuang.

Between the two villages, in front of the Gaojialou where Chen Dexing was located, a guard division of more than 6,000 troops commanded by Zhu Sijiu and an artillery company were deployed.

In addition, Yang Axi's Zhenghei Banner Horse Team, the heavy cavalry division that was taken over by Wei Zhutar as the division commander. and Chen Dexing's five hundred personal guards, all gathered in Gaojialou, which was the reserve of this battle.

The two small woods opposite the three villages became the support points of Kublai Khan's army.

Woo...... The desolate and desolate horn of the bull horn resounded in the sky, and countless Mongolian cavalry surged like a tide, spreading out on both sides of the "East Forest" and "West Forest" called by the Ming army staff, densely covering a large plain, and the number was too numerous to count.

However, between these two woods. But it was empty, and there was no sign of the Mongols.

What formation did the Mongols pose?

When the Ming army on the battlefield was feeling strange, the sentries standing on the watchtower and observing the battlefield suddenly roared loudly.

"Chariots! There was a chariot directly in front, a chariot of the Mongols. Hundreds of ......"

Chariot?

Chen Dexing walked up to the watchtower quickly, raised the monoculars, and looked at the battlefield in front of him. Appears in the eyepiece. It was a row of nearly 200 carts with a huge shield and two large wheels. Behind these shield carts, there are also small board carts that are pushed by two people. On top of every small board car. All erected in a small cannon.

What is this? Earthen tanks of the 13th century, earthen armored vehicles? This is used against their own cannons and heavenly thunder arrows? The Mongols really figured it out!

……

Liu Minzhong only had a dirty Confucian uniform that could not be colored. Shivering in the cold December wind. He pushed one of the push rods of the sand shield cart with both hands, leaned over, used all his strength, and together with the other nine strong men, he tried to push the sand shield cart that was so heavy that it was to death.

The shield is made of hardwood and coated with wet mud to prevent fire. The shield was nailed to the wooden bracket attached to the body, and the back of the shield was not empty, but was piled with sandbags—bags filled with sand. Even if a cannonball pierces a wooden shield, having these sandbags is enough to absorb flying pieces of wood and solid shells.

Although this shield cart has super protective capabilities, it also has a fatal drawback, that is, it is too heavy, and even ten people can't push it fast.

The people who pushed the cart with Liu Minzhong were Ding Zhuang who lived in the same village as him, and one of them was his world friend Xu Ziyuan. Liu Minzhong and his father had lived in his house before, and wanted to wait for the situation to stabilize before going to Bianliang to join the imperial court (of course, the Great Yuan court). But unexpectedly, the Mongolian soldiers came first. killed Liu Minzhong and Xu Ziyuan's father and mother, and also plundered their wives and sisters, and of course, themselves. The woman in the family didn't know where to go, and there was no good end when she thought about it. And the two of them were ordered to push the cart......

"Brother Duanfu, I can't push it, and I don't want to push it!" The young man named Xu Ziyuan gasped, his face full of resentment. His father was originally an official on Jinan Road, and his family had land and tenants, and he was a local tyrant. When Li Pu raised the army, Xu Ziyuan's father was unwilling to rebel, so he left Jinan and returned to his hometown on Dongchang Road with his friend Liu Jingshi. But who knows what will happen in the end!

"I knew that I should have stayed in Jinan, the Li family wanted my father to be a waiter, so let's run away together later......" Xu Ziyuan said hatefully.

"Don't talk nonsense, the emperor is Mingjun. These are all people doing nonsense below, we have to live, and if we pass the Jinshi in the future, we will be able to avenge our families! "Liu Minzhong has great ambitions, and he is not depressed because of the misfortune that has happened to his family. And he did not get angry because his family was killed, blaming Kublai Khan, the Great Khan.

In short, all the bad things are done below, and the emperor at the top, the Great Khan, is all good, and they are all blinded...... If you want to avenge your grievances, the best way is to take the Jinshi exam, and if you become an official and have power, there is nothing that cannot be solved.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

The two leather whips were whipped down and hit Liu Minzhong's body, and the clothes were suddenly cut into two cuts, and the flesh inside was also torn, oozing red blood.

"A money man, hurry up and push!"

The Mongols roared in stiff Chinese. Five thousand-man teams in iron armor (formerly Tachar's palace tent army) followed behind the sand shield cart and the artillery cart (operated by the Semu artillery belonging to the Ti Xue system), each holding a bow and a light arrow, staring at the Han Zhuang Ding who was pushing the cart in front of them, as long as anyone dared to turn back and escape, they would understand with one arrow. There were also some Mongol armoured soldiers who were pulling wagons, and the carts were piled with shoddy wooden guns, which were intended to be issued to the strong men who pushed the carts—although they were only a penny man, they still had to be put to good use!

Liu Minzhong, who was whipped twice, could only use the strength to push the cart, but a resentment rose in his heart. It was not to Li Pu and Chen Dexing, but to Kublai Khan - why couldn't this Great Yuan Emperor manage these lawless Mongols?

"Boom, boom!"

An earth-shattering loud noise came, and the frightened Liu Minzhong's legs and feet weakened, and he almost fell to his knees. Before he could figure out what was going on, there was a loud bang of the "tent tent". Then there was a burst of screaming and swearing. Liu Minzhong followed the prestige and saw a shield cart somehow overturned to the ground, as if a wheel had broken (in fact, the shield cart was hit by a 3-inch cannonball, and the huge momentum shook off the wheel), and there was also a Han man Ding Zhuang who was pushing the cart as if he was crushed to the leg by the overturned cart, and he was crying and screaming.

'It's miserable! Liu Minzhong was very sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. It's not the first day that the Han people in the north have suffered a hard life, but Liu Minzhong, who was born in the house of the official eunuch, has always been hiding in the study to read the truth of loyalty and patriotism, and he has not thought about whether the third-class Han should be as patriotic as the first-class Mongolian - in fact, he was not a real third-class person in the past, but a child of an official, let's be regarded as a second-class and a half-person...... And now, he is a third-class man who is really at the bottom, just like those Northland Han people who were born in the common people!

At this moment, two Mongol soldiers walked up to the wounded Han man, one reached out and grabbed the man's hair in a bun, and the other drew his scimitar and cut off the man's head with a single swing. Then the Mongolian soldier who grabbed his hair in a bun threw away his head, and he threw it at Liu Minzhong's feet impartially!

Liu Minzhong trembled, and was about to turn his head to say something to Xu Ziyuan to release the fear in his heart, but in a blink of an eye, there was no Xu Ziyuan behind him.

He hurriedly looked around, and suddenly saw a figure that seemed to be Xu Ziyuan's back running desperately forward, running against the shells fired by the constantly flying Ming army!

"Are you crazy? Come back! Liu Minzhong couldn't help but shout loudly.

This is to surrender to the enemy! and surrendered to the enemy in front of so many Mongolian generals, it was simply sensational!

A few feather arrows were shot, and these Mongols didn't seem to expect this to happen, so the arrows were shot in a hurry, and only one was inserted in Xu Ziyuan's back impartially. But he's still running desperately, desperately running!

But the Mongol warriors did not chase after them, because eighteen cannons and eighteen three-bow bed crossbows were firing desperately, and the cannonballs rained down like thunder and arrows......

In the end, Xu Ziyuan actually ran all the way into a village garrisoned by the anti-Ming army more than a mile away!

Liu Minzhong's eyes widened, and the emotions of envy and admiration rose uncontrollably in his heart.

As long as he runs a few hundred steps in the face of the Mongols' arrows and the Ming army's artillery fire, this third-class man will become a first-class man!? (To be continued......)