After preparations were made, the Mongols launched an attack. To be precise, it was the Xinfu army who launched the attack. Driven by the Xinfu army with swords, chops and sticks, a large number of civilians rushed towards Yokoyuan Fort carrying earth and wood on their backs - they wanted to

Fill in the moat. Only the south and east sides of Yokoyuan Castle have moats. Each side is only a few hundred meters long, only more than ten meters wide, and less than ten meters deep. In fact, according to the design, the moat of Yokoyuan Castle should be wider and deeper.

However, due to the extremely tight construction period and the hard soil, it became more difficult to dig deeper, so the expected depth of 20 meters wide and 15 meters was not reached. Although it was the rainy season at this time, there was no water in the moat. The main reason was Yokoyuan Castle

It is located on a small mound, which is much higher than the surrounding terrain. Because the moat is not deep enough, all the rainwater flows into the Wenjing River next to the fort. Therefore, this moat should actually be called a moat.

The soldiers of the newly affiliated army stood half a mile away from Yokoyuan Fort, driving the civilian laborers to fill the trench. These civilian laborers, a group of several hundred people, threw their things down the trench and ran away, and were driven back with the earthwork. At this time,

The fortress wall did not fire, but shouted: "Brothers, stop working for the Mongols, come to us to have food and clothing..." Cao Ergou really couldn't bear to open fire on these unarmed civilians.

Killing. It is easy to escape. You only need to slip down to the bottom of the trench in the south and run along the trench to the mountain pass. As long as you enter the mountain pass, you can escape from the clutches of the Mongols. However, the soldiers of the Perak Army shouted dry, but only ten

The rest of the people fled to the mountain pass. It was not that these civilians did not want to join the Perak Army, but because they had many families. If they escaped, their families would definitely not escape the murderous hands of the Mongols. More importantly, they felt that they had no chance of winning in the Perak Army, and they would not surrender if they surrendered.

They were massacred by the Mongols. This was also the confidence for the newly attached troops to hide in the rear and supervise the battle.

Cao Ergou saw that his shouting was not effective, and that the peasants were still coming in a steady stream. If they were allowed to fill in the trench, it would not take long for the trench to be filled, so he ordered an attack in desperation. However, he did not order the use of firearms.

Instead, they ordered stones to be thrown down, and the few bows and arrows also had iron arrows. The stones and headless arrows were not fatal, but they also panicked the civilians, and the cries of injury and pain intensified their fear, so they

They became timid and stopped moving forward. Upon seeing this, the new auxiliary soldiers supervising the battle beat the civilians with swords and sticks until they cried and howled. It should be said that these traitor soldiers were too cruel to deal with their own compatriots, and they were injured.

There were actually more civilian laborers than the Perak Army, and they even killed several civilian laborers who were walking slowly. Under the threat of the bows and arrows of the supervisory team, these poor civilian laborers had to tremble and continue to carry earth and wood on their backs to fill the trenches. The evil deeds of the new annexed army were supervised.

Xingrang Cao Ergou was filled with righteous indignation, and he immediately ordered to fire on these two ghosts. In order to avoid accidentally injuring civilians, he only used a few light cannons, and aimed the muzzles at the rear of the supervising team. This artillery attack did not require any killing effect.

The biggest reason is just to scare these traitor troops.

As soon as the cannon fired, a small group of the new auxiliary troops supervising the battle fell. Most of the dead and wounded were the pseudo-officers hiding at the back. The rest fled back one after another. Seeing that the supervising team had escaped, the civilians who were filling the trenches also rushed away.

Scattered, some turned around and ran back, and more ran forward. They dropped their things, jumped down the ditch, and ran to the mountain pass. More than a hundred people ran away at one time. The sound of cannons suddenly woke up these civilians. If they didn't escape,

Either they died unjustly under the artillery fire, or they died under the swords and arrows of the newly attached army supervising team. "The lesser of two evils", there is still a chance of survival by escaping to the mountain pass. As for the safety of my family, I really can't care about it now. I have to first

Save your own life before making next plans.

Cao Ergou, standing on the wall of the fortress, felt quite proud. It was not difficult to repel the new auxiliary army, nor was it difficult to bombard the camps of the new auxiliary army and the Mongolian army. He even hit the governor half a mile away.

It's not too difficult to form a team, as long as you aim carefully. But to hit the enemy accurately without hurting the civilians, you need to have a precise grasp of the timing of the bombardment. The enemy's first round of attack was easily defeated, and more than a hundred were obtained.

The civilian husband defected, which made him feel very good.

After the newly attached army supervisory team retreated for a distance, they stopped one after another when they saw that the Perak Army was no longer shelling. In their perception, new weapons like artillery were powerful, but their range was still a bit short, and they were still inferior to trebuchets and crossbows.

Cannons are two weapons. In fact, the firearms used by the Song Army and the Mongolian Army are indeed primitive, with weak range and power, and are only used as secondary siege weapons. It is also for this reason that Ouyang Xuan has always told Cao Ergou to use them with caution.

weapons, striving to achieve maximum effect. In fact, among the dozens of fortress guns in Yokoyuan Fort, the light guns can shoot more than one mile, and the six heavy guns with the largest caliber can hit more than three miles. If the gunpowder is loaded enough, Yokoyuan

The fort's medium and heavy artillery can hit the Mongolian cavalry and the new annex camp. But now shelling the camp will expose the strength of the Yokoyuan fort, making the Mongols retreat in fear. It is easy for the Mongols to retreat and change their tactics.

, this is obviously not Ouyang Xuan's purpose. His purpose is to turn Hengyuan Fort into a flesh and blood mill for the Mongols and consume as much power as possible from the Sichuan Mongolian Army.

After arranging the team for a while, the new auxiliary troops marched the civilian husbands towards the fortress again. Because they were afraid of shelling, this time the new auxiliary troops stopped after a mile and stopped moving forward. Instead, they used bows and arrows to force the civilian peasants to move forward. These traitors

The army thought that it should be safe one mile away. What they never expected was that as soon as the civilians were out of the range of bows and arrows, under the shouts of the Thunderbolt Army on the wall, they threw away their belongings and fled to the ditch. Seeing that the civilians were about to escape, these newly attached soldiers

The army hurriedly chased after them. Although in their eyes, the civilian men were just talking tools who could beat and scold them at will, but without these coolies who were like animals, the Mongols would definitely leave them vacant.

It is said that the civilians ran very fast when they fled for their lives. Seeing that hundreds of civilians were about to flee to the ditch, the new auxiliary troops behind them pursued them even more urgently. They even forgot about the artillery on the city wall. Just as the civilians were slipping down,

While in the trench, Cao Ergou ordered all the artillery except the heavy artillery to fire together. There were more than ten small and medium-sized artillery on the south wall of the fortress.

A large number of the new annexes fell to the ground, and the rest were so frightened that they turned around and fled directly back to the camp. This round of shelling really hit the new annexes hard, leaving at least a quarter of the new annexes who were supervising the battle dead or injured.

First, there were more than a hundred dead and wounded soldiers lying in front of Yokoyuan Fort alone. More importantly, the defeated soldiers who fled back to the camp spread fear, which made the camp become noisy and chaotic. At this time,

, a group of cavalry rushed straight from the Mongolian camp to the chaotic New Affiliated Army camp. After a while, the noisy New Affiliated Army camp became quiet, and several heads were raised high on the flagpole at the entrance of the camp.
Chapter completed!