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Chapter 102: Sweeping Huaixi

The sky is blue and blue, and there is no cloud. It is a rare good weather. However, good weather may not necessarily lead to good things, especially for those who fall from the peak to the bottom of the valley, it is definitely a very unlucky day. This unlucky guy is naturally Abaierchi.

Abaierchi had a good talent and had followed A Shu for many years to fight. He was highly appreciated by A Shu. He knew that taking advantage of Zhang Wu's lack of military strength and his siege in the city and his unsuccessful attack, he could fight a great victory, mobilizing the troops in the city and the reinforcements that arrived, he was ready to eat Zhang Wu in one fell swoop.

The Battle of Hefei lasted for many days. Not only did the Song army not capture Hefei, but instead, the Mongolian reinforcements continued to arrive and became increasingly unfavorable. Eating Zhang Wu had absolute confidence in Abaierchi.

Abaierchi drew out the scimitar, held it high above his head, and began to speak, saying, "Eagles on the grassland, spread your wings, fly into the blue sky, and rush towards the chickens on the ground!" The scimitar pointed out outside the city and roared: "Eagles on the grassland, use the scimitar in our hands to continue our glory! Let our scimitar be covered with the flesh and blood of the Southern Barbarians! Genghis Khan!"

Tens of thousands of Mongolian troops opened their mouths and howls, the roars of "Genghis Khan" seemed to roaring countless gigolos, shocking the world and making the wind and clouds shook their colors.

After the speech was completed, Abaierchi commanded the Mongolian army to break out of the city and prepare to attack Zhang Wu. What greeted the Mongolian army was overwhelming artillery fire. Hundreds of artillery guns aimed at the Mongolian formation, and one after another, a series of artillery shells dragged long tail flames, drew beautiful curves, landed in the Mongolian formation, and fireballs flashed, and explosions came one after another.

The Mongolian army, which had been baptized by artillery fire, no longer existed and was buried in Jiangnan. The existing Mongolian army had not been baptized by artillery fire. They had no idea what the artillery fire was, and they didn't know how to deal with it. The explosion sounded and the casualties were heavy, people shouted and neighed, and the mud and dust were raised everywhere, flesh and blood were flying everywhere, and a bloody war picture suddenly appeared.

The bombing effect was so good that Zhang Wu was so excited that his eyes were almost full of blood. He shouted: "Fight and beat me hard, don't save shells, you can control it enough. Lord Zhang said, as long as I can defend, you can fight as much as you like, fight and fight, there are so many shells." He shouted excitedly, his mouth flew everywhere, and he took a breath and said: "I have been holding on for so many days, and now I finally have a place to get out!"

Zhang Wu was so excited that his subordinates had never seen him before. He had only one thought in his mind, that is, today was the first time he was excited in his life, and he looked at him curiously. No wonder, after so many days of anger, there was a place to get out of nowhere, so Zhang Wu couldn't help but be excited.

The reason why he was so excited was not only because he was so frustrated for many days, but also because Zhang Shijie "has been kind" and Zhang Wu can use firearms. Firearms have always been the sharpest weapon of the Song army. I don't know what Zhang Shijie was thinking. He has never allowed him to use it. He can't attack Hefei. With firearms, he can't use them and can only be used as decorations. Don't mention the discomfort in Zhang Wu's heart.

Maybe Zhang Shijie was sleeping on the millstone and wanted to turn around, but he actually allowed Zhang Wu to use firearms. When Zhang Wu received this order, he was a little hard to believe that it was true. It took him a long time to realize that it was not fake. He was so excited that he shouted, "What a great boy! It's so great!" Now that he is fighting the Mongolians so well, it would be abnormal if he is not excited.

After all, the Mongolian army was the best army in the world at that time. It was extremely brave and caused considerable chaos in the first round of artillery attacks of the Song army. It quickly calmed down and reorganized its formation to launch an attack on the Song army.

Since Guo Kan returned from defeat, he has naturally found many ways to deal with artillery with his military talents, such as using scattered troops to attack, not being too focused, using the maneuvering ability of the cavalry to detour, and using the fast sprinting ability of the cavalry to quickly rush to close range. Kublai Kan has always trusted Youjia in Guo Kan. After listening carefully to his opinions, he ordered the valuable experience exchanged for the price of a million troops into instructions and sent it to the army to provide guidance to the Mongolian army.

As soon as the cannon fired, Abaierchi knew that something was wrong and immediately ordered to disperse it. He rushed quickly with a scattered line and rushed to close range, so that the cannon could not be fired.

The Mongolian army quickly rushed to the outside of the Song army camp, and the Song army used the camp as cover to fight back. Except for a few troops, the Song army's individual combat capabilities still have a gap, but the gap is constantly narrowing. It is an indisputable fact that Zhang Wu's army's individual combat capabilities are not as good as the Mongolian army, but it is not only the individual combat capabilities that determine the outcome on the battlefield, but also many other factors. The Song army has camps to cover, and there are also artillery that is exciting when you think about it, and hand-thrown cast iron bombs. Although the Mongolian army is brave and has an absolute advantage in military strength, it cannot shake the Song army's camps after repeated attacks.

Abaierchi was determined to eat Zhang Wu's army. Under the attack of Song's firearms, there were many casualties and could not stop him from attacking. The Mongolian army launched a fierce attack on the Song army camp, which looked like a meat grinder. The corpses on the ground were accumulated more and more, and the blood was thicker and thicker. Not long after, there were corpses and seas of blood, and the ground was red.

Zhang Wu looked at the corpse outside the camp excitedly and shouted: "Come on, come on. Tartars, if you have the guts, rush in. I will tell you that there will be no return."

He really told Zhang Wu that the Mongolians really had a good temper. After paying thousands of dollars, they finally broke a hole in the camp. The Mongolian army rushed in like a tide. Zhang Wu had fought many fierce battles, but had never experienced any dangerous experiences, and was not afraid at all. He ordered the artillery to adjust its position and bombarded the gap.

It is not easy to make a gap under the bombardment of the Song army's artillery. How could Abaierchi give up easily and ordered the Mongolian army to rush in with artillery fire. However, the Song army's artillery was too fierce and even the attack was not successful.

Abaierchi had to re-examine the situation, stare at the battlefield quietly, and think about the problem. Suddenly, the last combat guidance issued mentioned that they were required to use gunpowder as much as possible, as well as various ways of using gunpowder, such as packing it into explosives and packing it in cast iron, which had been used by Li Jun.

This guidance document was edited by Guo Kan. This is a valuable experience exchanged for the price of a million troops. It is very useful. Abaier's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately ordered people to make the only 1,000 kilograms of gunpowder in his hand into a pack, each fifty kilograms, and transport it to the position.

A group of suicide squads were selected, and they rushed to the Song army camp with explosive bags, placed them on the ground and ignited them. Dozens of explosions passed, and more than a dozen openings appeared in the Song army camp.

Abaierchi shouted excitedly: "It's done, let me rush over." He rushed over first. The Mongolian army followed him and rushed towards the camp of the Song army as if in a craziest tide.

Looking at the rushing Mongolian army, a personal soldier blurted out: "It would be great if our reinforcements arrived."

Zhang Wu heard it sincerely. When he heard the word reinforcements, he was angry and shouted: "Shut up. The genius believes that there are reinforcements! It is better to count on ourselves than to rely on reinforcements!"

Zhang Shijie promised to send reinforcements to Zhang Wu countless times, but it disappointed Zhang Wu countless times. The reinforcements were sent out, and they were always slow on the road and would not arrive. Zhang Wu no longer had any hope. This time, Zhang Shijie also told Zhang Wu that he would send reinforcements and asked him to rest assured and let go of his hands and feet. After countless disappointments, Zhang Wu did not believe that this was true at all. When he heard the words of his personal soldiers, he was naturally angry.

The sword in Jiang Xin's hand was covered with blood, and the blood kept dripping to the ground, making a tick sound, and there was a corpse lying on the ground. Jiang Xin spat and cursed, "Damn it, this little Tartar is not enough to fill my teeth." He bent down and tore off a piece of cloth from a dead Mongolian soldier and wiped the sword, asking, "Didn't you clearly say there are thousands of Tartars here? Why is it just a little, less than a thousand?"

Zhang Shijie began a large-scale mobilization of Huaixi and ordered Jiang Xin to go to Wuwei to wipe out the Mongolian army there. The spies sent by Jiang Xin reported that there were nearly 3,000 Mongolian troops near Wuwei. Unexpectedly, when he arrived, there were only less than 1,000 people. Naturally, he was no match for him, and only one charge, and the Mongolian army was lying on the ground.

Jiang Xin has been holding it in for a long time and wants to kill it well. Unexpectedly, there are only a few people, so naturally it is not enough for him to kill. He doesn't feel that he can kill at all, so he is very dissatisfied.

The personal soldiers replied: "Sir, I just got the news that the other Tartars rushed to Hefei."

"Hefei?" Jiang Xin murmured, jumped up and said, "Oh no. Lord Zhang has made a mistake. He wants us to attack the Tartars elsewhere without going to fight against Hefei. There is still a reason why these Tartars' remnants do not escape to Hefei? That boy Zhang Wu is about to destroy the entire army. Hurry up, pass my order, gather the army, and reinforce Hefei immediately."

Jiang Xin has been following Zhang Shijie for a long time and has not reacted slowly. He immediately thought of it as soon as he reminded his personal soldiers. Unfortunately, he didn't think of one thing, that is, famous generals like Zhang Shijie would not have thought of this. Zhang Shijie asked them to only attack other places, and he would definitely make sense not to attack Hefei.

As soon as he finished speaking, a team of Zhang Shijie's personal soldiers rushed over and rushed to the captain of the personal soldiers, saying, "Jiang Xin listened to the order."

Jiang Xin is really a little difficult to understand Zhang Shijie now. It can be said that he can't understand what he is doing at all. He always issues some strange orders. He has a headache when he sees his personal soldiers and said reluctantly: "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"Jiang Xin immediately gathers your troops and hurry to the north of Huangzhou. Remember, go with great fanfare. Your location is five hundred miles north of Huangzhou and must not be close to Huangzhou. Violators shall be engaged in military law." The captain of the personal soldiers repeated Zhang Shijie's order.

Sure enough, this was another extremely strange order, which was so strange that Jiang Xin couldn't understand. He slapped his head and said, "It would be better for me to rush to go with great fanfare. I would rather write a letter to A Shu and say: A Shu, you dog Tartar, I'm going to Huangzhou, you run away quickly." Looking at the captain of the personal soldiers, he asked, "Do you think A Shu will run away?"

If you don't need to answer this question, you will know the answer, that is, if A Shu knows that he has gone to Huangzhou, he will naturally gather heavy troops to stop him, and he will definitely not escape. If A Shu's heavy troops are stopped, he will be Jiang Xin, but A Shu.

"Jiang Xin, this is the order of the adult. If you don't believe it, you can ask the adult." The captain of the personal soldiers explained.

Jiang Xin hurriedly said, "I believe, I believe." He murmured in his heart: "Strange order." He shouted loudly: "Send the order, gather immediately, set off, and go to Huangzhou to drink horse milk wine. Huangzhou is full of Tartars' horse milk wine, so he will drink it all the dark."

Jiang Xin, who was full of complaining, had no idea that the major reversal under Hefei city had already begun. Abaierchi felt like the sky had collapsed. The reason was that the reinforcements of the Song army really arrived.

After exploding the camp of the Song army, rushing into the camp, and using the Mongolian army's superb chopping skills to fight in a short battle, the Song army's artillery will no longer be useful. Without the cannons, the Song army will no longer have the sharpest weapons, so the chance of victory is naturally much larger. Moreover, he also has the advantage of military strength, so his chance of victory is naturally 100%. When he thinks that victory is right in front of him, Abaier's eyes are full of wonderful little stars, as if victory has been obtained.

What he could not imagine was that just when he rushed into the Song army camp, the earth-shaking trumpet sounded, which was extremely clear and loud. This sound was much better than the trumpet sound of the Mongols. It was very comfortable to hear it. Abaier Chi looked at the sound and saw a smooth water line appearing in the distance.

The flowing speed of this waterline was very fast and became clear in an instant. Abaierchi saw it clearly. It was the banner of the Song army. The big banner with the word Zhang was roaring in the wind, stretching in the wind, as beautiful as a painting.

Teams of charge trumpets were held in their hands and whispered while walking. The clear and loud trumpet was the ones in their hands.

Countless Song troops lined up in battle formations from Hefei City in all directions. The sound of thunderous horse hooves and footsteps were shocking, and the wind and clouds were shaking.

Abaierchi had been in battle for a long time and reacted very quickly. With a brief estimate, he knew that this army had at least 100,000 people. Not to mention Zhang Wu's army in the camp, he could not resist this army alone. Abaierchi's army was mainly composed of remnants who retreated from the Huaixi area. These remnants were the Mongolian army defeated by Zhang Shijie. When there was nowhere to go, they naturally ran to Hefei, which was safe and likely to win, and came to take refuge.

The remnants were increasing, and the number was increasing, but the overall combat effectiveness had decreased. Except for the 30,000 troops in his hands and the troops who came to reinforce the army were pretty good, the rest of the troops had no combat effectiveness at all. Of course, Abaierchi had also taken measures to restore their combat effectiveness, but unfortunately, the time was too short and the results were not great.

Abaierchi, who knew the situation very well, immediately knew that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered to retreat, retreat to the city, and prepare to stand by and wait for assistance. As for when the reinforcements could arrive, Abaierchi himself was not very clear. He knew very well that Huaixi now, except Hefei, all other places fell into the hands of the Song army. Of course, he also had a glimmer of hope. His old boss A Shu would not abandon him and would definitely send troops to rescue him.

Of course he would not know that A Shu was a clay Buddha crossing the river at this time, and he was unable to save himself, so where could he save him?

Abaierchi's reaction was fast enough, but unfortunately, the famous general Zhang Shijie did not give him a chance at all. A deafening roar came, and countless shells dragged long tail flames and drew beautiful parabolas, landing accurately on the head of Hefei City. Fireballs flashed, and one earth-shaking explosion after another sounded. Smoke and dust and gravel splashed on the head of Hefei City, the most sturdy city in Huaixi. The smoke disappeared, and there were many gaps on the head of the city. Needless to say, as long as there were a few more rounds of bombing, there would definitely be many gaps in Hefei City. By then, Hefei City would never be able to stop the Song army's attack.

A light of inspiration flowed through his heart, and Abaierchi shouted: "I've been fooled! I've been fooled!"

Abaierchi was right. The plan proposed by the young officer was to use the attack on Hefei City as bait to attract the Mongolian army in Huaixi to Hefei, so as to gather and annihilate it, so as not to clear it out from city to city and land in the future. Zhang Shijie asked Zhang Wu to attack Hefei City, and the purpose of restricting him from using firearms was to be afraid that he would use firearms to defeat Hefei City in one go, and then he would lose the bait, and the Mongolian army in Huaixi would collapse, and the difficulty of encirclement and suppression in the future would increase.

For military strategists, it is actually not difficult to defeat a large army. What is troublesome is that the scattered soldiers and raids are scattered everywhere. It takes too time to clear them and it is difficult to work. If they can gather and annihilate them, it is naturally the best. Hefei attacks without breaking them, just like a piece of magnet that will suck the surrounding troops.

If Zhang Shijie stays in Hefei and fights, he will fight other places first, and the Mongolian remnants will naturally escape to Hefei. Hefei has no hope of winning. As long as Hefei is still there, these remnants will escape to him. Not to mention, judging from the current situation, it is very likely that the Mongolian army under Hefei city will win, and it is unreasonable not to take refuge.
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