"I have a way," Ouyang Xuan said as he walked to Li Shuang and took out the climbing rope from his backpack.

"Hurry up, tie the trees on both sides of the river with ropes, grab the ropes and cross over," Li Shuang gave the order loudly.

Everyone hurriedly filed across the river. At this time, Li Shuang led ten soldiers to form a defensive formation facing the direction of the cavalry. Five men squatted in front and set up wooden shields, and five men behind them set up spears diagonally. The officer said

Blocked. The Mongols were coming quickly. When Ouyang Xuan grabbed the rope and followed everyone to the other side, the faint sound of horses neighing could be heard in the distance. At this time, the officers and soldiers arrayed for defense had not yet crossed the river, except for Li Shuang.

The rest of the soldiers looked fearful, and the team began to commotion.

Li Shuang loudly ordered the remaining soldiers to cross the river one by one, while untying the rope from the tree. The soldiers who had crossed the river lined up with wooden shields to defend, with soldiers holding bows behind the shields, and soldiers holding spears standing far away.

Out of the range of bows and arrows. Ouyang Xuan took a closer look at this 50-man team. The main weapons were wooden shields and spears more than three meters long. Less than half of the people had long knives, and there were only a dozen bows. At this moment, I

Zhuzheng led the archers to draw their bows and strings, facing the other side of the river.

When Li Shuang jumped into the water with the rope, the sound of horse hooves sounded rapidly behind him, and a sharp whistle sounded in the air. Arrows were shot one after another, and the horses were using them at high speeds to hit the wooden shields of the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river.

With a bang bang sound, the arrow sank into the wooden shield, and the arrow feathers were still shaking wildly. Yu Zhu led the archers to start a counterattack, but were soon suppressed by the fierce arrow rain, and could only occasionally apply cold air from the gaps in the wooden shield.

Shoot. At this time, including Li Shuang and two soldiers, they were still swimming along the rope in the river. Among the three soldiers in the river, the front soldier had just climbed up the river embankment when he was shot in the back by a Mongolian ranger who was still a hundred meters away.

Then he rolled into the river, and the soldiers who followed him were so frightened that they failed to hold on to the rope for a moment, and were swept away by the rapids as soon as they let go.

Upon seeing this, Yu Zhu hurriedly led the archers to stand behind the wooden shield and took the risk of shooting at the Mongolian Rangers. This slightly frustrated the Mongolian Rangers and they all dismounted and looked for hiding places. The soldiers hiding behind the shields all pulled the ropes and fired.

Li Shuang pulled Li Shuang up the river bank with force. Li Shuang rolled over and hid behind the shield formation. Even so, there was still an arrow stuck diagonally in his back. Fortunately, the leather armor protected him. His skin was very shallow and his muscles and bones were not injured. But he stood in front of Yu Zhu.

An archer next to him was not so lucky. He was hit by an arrow in the forehead and died immediately with a groan. Yu Zhu lamented when he saw this. This archer was his deputy and the supporter of his team.

, he is also a good brother who has been with him for many years.

Everyone retreated slowly under the cover of the shield array. At this time, the soldiers who had been washed away were already at the slow water point a hundred meters downstream, standing in thigh-deep mud, slowly moving towards the shore. The Mongolian rangers saw this.

, one after another drew their bows and shot at him, and in an instant the soldier turned into a hedgehog covered with arrows.

After retreating beyond the range of bows and arrows, the soldiers turned around and ran wildly without waiting for Li Shuang's order. At this time, the Mongolian horsemen were blocked by the river and restrained their horses in front of the broken bridge. Ouyang Xuan hurriedly looked back while running, and found that

There were no more than 10 Mongolian cavalrymen and no less than 20 horses. Seeing the Song soldiers retreating away, a moment later the Mongolian cavalry also turned around and headed upstream of the river.

When Ouyang Xuan and others ran to Yongkang County out of breath, it was already dusk, and the gate of Yongkang County was closed. Just when Yu Zhu and Li Shuang went to call the door loudly, the sound of rapid horse hooves was heard in the distance.

This made everyone who was about to take a breath anxious, and the soldiers at the top of the city changed their faces and refused to open the city gate. Li Shuang held up the document at the bottom of the city and tried his best to declare to the city gate guards that he came to Yongkang on the order of Pan Tongzhi of Chongqing Mansion.

County, they also shouted the name of Yongkang County Magistrate Xie Jinyong loudly, and the rest of the people also cried out and begged, but the Yongcheng guards remained unmoved and refused to open the city gate. During the commotion, several soldiers followed an officer and left

When they came to the top of the city, it was Cao Zhengyong, the captain of Yongkang County. According to the official system of the Southern Song Dynasty, both the patrol inspector and the county captain were officials responsible for public security, but the patrol inspector was responsible for rural affairs, while the county captain was responsible for public security in the city. Li Shuang and Cao

Just as they were acquainted with each other, Li Shuang was like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw. He shouted loudly: "Master Cao, the Tatar soldiers are chasing you in a hurry. Open the door quickly." "We are here on Master Pan's order. Open the door quickly."

Cao Zhengyong first looked at the official road in the distance, then looked around at the anxious people in the city, twirled his beard under his chin, and said unhurriedly: "Master Li, according to the military system of the Song Dynasty, I'm sorry.

You can't open the city gate, please help yourself." After saying this, he bowed his hand to Li Shuang, and then walked down the tower amidst the pleading and curses of the soldiers outside the city. To say this, Cao Zhengyong's reason is quite consistent.

The official regulations of the Southern Song Dynasty state that when the enemy's situation is unknown, the city gate cannot be opened rashly. However, although it is dark now and there are cavalry attacking, Cao Zhengyong can obviously hear the sound of horse hooves and can only ride more than twenty horses.

, there are at least hundreds of soldiers in Yongkang City. With the city walls, they are definitely capable of fighting. Even if the city gate is opened, the Mongolian cavalry may not dare to rush into the city. In addition to not wanting to take risks for no reason, the more important reason is the Southern Song Dynasty.

The long-standing chronic disease of bureaucracy - internal discord, mutual criticism, and officials from different factions will be fine as long as they don't stab you in the back or add insult to injury. As for risking your life to save you? Don't even think about it. Because the war actually destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty's influence in western Sichuan

In terms of governing order, although Yongkang County is nominally under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Prefecture, Yongkang County Magistrate Xie Jinyong is actually a close confidant of Yunding City Guards Yao Shian, and has never taken Pan Tongzhi of Chongqing Prefecture seriously.

Seeing the sound of Mongolian horse hoofs getting closer and closer, Li Shuang gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and had no choice but to lead his men along the moat and ran towards the mountains behind the left side of Yongkang City. On the right side of Yongkang City was the wide Weijiang River, and everyone was running to the left.

In the mountain forest, it is only more than 200 meters away from the city gate.

The Mongolian cavalry came very fast. From the time they appeared in front of the defenders of Yongkang Village to the time they started shooting arrows, they shouted and borrowed their power to fire arrows at the defenders in the city. The Song troops on the city also responded with a few sparse arrows.

Arrow. Seeing that the city gate was closed and there was no chance to take advantage, the Mongolian cavalry turned to pursue the Song army who was fleeing along the mountainside. Fortunately, when the Mongolian army drew their bows and fired, Ouyang Xuan and others had already followed the path into the woods in the mountains, and the forest was deep.

The trees were dense, and the arrows were blocked by the trees and were not shot. Everyone continued to climb up the mountainside, but only about ten meters forward they encountered an unreachable cliff blocking the way, so they had to continue to turn to the left and move forward into the forest.

At this time, the Mongolian cavalry had rushed to the foot of the mountain, but they did not go up the mountain. They pursued the Song army at the foot of the mountain in the parallel direction of the Song army. They followed on horseback and fired arrows towards the mountain. Although the grass was deep and dense and it was late, the Mongolian army

He just randomly fired arrows at the sound, but two soldiers were still shot, and they were immediately carried forward. Fortunately, after a while, the Mongolian rangers stopped pursuing after seeing that it was too dark, but Li Shuang still did not dare to stop.
Chapter completed!