Although Ouyang Xuan knew that Pan Luohuan's virtue of retribution would inevitably cause trouble in the joint attack on Chongqing City, he did not expect that Pan Luohuan would dare to treat the affairs of the country as trivial and use these dandies from aristocratic families as the foundation of his rule.

It was a miracle that the Southern Song Dynasty's court could sustain itself until now. It didn't matter that these decadent classes destroyed themselves, but they killed a large number of people to be buried with them. He suppressed the anger in his heart and ordered Cao Ergou to attack the city as soon as the fog cleared tomorrow morning.

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In the middle of the night, Ouyang Xuan was woken up from his deep sleep. He walked out of the tent with sleepy eyes and found Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu waiting outside the tent. The two reported that dozens of defenders in the city came to surrender, but they did not dare to do anything.

He advocated agreeing and asked them to wait outside the camp gate. Ouyang Xuan knew that this was what Tang Xiangwei and others called before dinner.

As a result of his words, people were asked to collect the weapons of the new vassal troops who would surrender, and then bring them to the camp to warm themselves and eat. Most of these surrenders were old friends and subordinates of Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu, and some of them were also related to Cao Ergou and Huang.

Dagen was familiar with him, so he immediately explained the situation in the city in detail while eating around the fire.

The situation in the city is similar to that under the control of the Perak Army. After the Mongolian cavalry hundred troops withdrew to Chengdu, there are now less than 600 soldiers, including the 50 personal soldiers of the general Semu who defended the city. The new annexed army originally numbered 600 soldiers.

Yu Ming, but since winter due to

Many people died of illness due to hunger and cold, and as people continued to flee, there were now less than 500 people. The Mongols drove men and women who could pick up sticks up to the city wall to help defend the city, and now the city's defense personnel could barely make up a thousand people.

.It’s just that Chongqing Fucheng is a square place.

For a large city with a circumference of several miles, these people could only focus on guarding the four city gates and the north gate direction where the Perak Army was camped. Defense in other directions was like a leaky sieve, so these surrenders found uninhabited places to sneak down to the city.

These surrenders also told Ouyang Xuan that there were people in the city

During the food shortage, except for the Semu generals and their soldiers, the newly attached troops could only eat half full. As for the common people, they were even more lacking in food. Nearly half of the more than 500 households in the city died from hunger and disease. Now,

There are only more than a thousand people left, and most of those who survive are sallow and thin.

Ouyang Xuan also learned that in addition to the low morale of the newly attached troops due to hunger and cold, what was more important was the oppression of the soldiers by the Semu generals. These Semu generals and soldiers were aliens from the Western Regions, well-equipped and powerful, but greedy and brutal compared to

Officials in the Southern Song Dynasty went even further. The Semu people not only raped the people's bones and sucked out their marrow.

They oppressed, killed and asserted their power at every turn, treated Han soldiers as slaves and beat and scolded them at every turn, and withholding food and wages was commonplace. The Han soldiers in the city did not dare to be angry with the Semu people, let alone speak out, but if the war went unfavorably, the city would even be captured.

If we break through, the new annexed army will definitely not fight to the end, and may even counterattack.

After hearing this, Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu looked at each other and proposed to Ouyang Xuan that they would sneak into the city at night to instigate the new auxiliary soldiers, and open the east city gate to cooperate inside and outside. Among the four gates of Chongqing Fucheng, the north gate

Because the gate is facing the Perak Army, which has the largest defensive force, there are also many Semu soldiers here.

In the formation, the west gate came second, and the south gate and east gate were the weakest. Ouyang Xuan immediately agreed that the two of them sneak into the city, and decided to act according to the plan after dawn. In fact, although the Perak Army only had four companies, it was necessary to capture the thousands of guards.

It is not difficult to build a large city. Apart from the lack of food and low morale in the city,

Also because of the crushing advantage of gunpowder weapons over cold weapons. Ouyang Xuan agreed to Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu's adventure into the city. In addition to minimizing accidental injuries to the people in the city, he also wanted to reduce ammunition consumption. After all, "a cannon fires, and a thousand taels of gold".

War is a waste of money. Cao Ergou commanded Yongkang City

Although the battle was a complete victory, he basically used up all the ammunition he carried, and was severely criticized by Ouyang Xuan. Due to the constraints of gunpowder production capacity, the production of Pili munitions and gunpowder has always been in short supply. In addition to the needs of military products

In addition to gunpowder, mining, road construction, etc. also require a large amount of gunpowder.

The morning of the next day was still heavy fog. Instigated by Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu who had sneaked into the city, more than a hundred new auxiliary troops and minzhuang took advantage of the heavy fog to sneak down from the city and surrender to the Perak Army. Under the cover of the heavy fog,

Ouyang Xuan sent Huang Dagen and his teaching company to ambush in the grass half a mile outside the east gate, preparing to rush in after Tang Xiangwei and Liao Niluo opened the city gate. To the middle

When the thick fog finally dissipated at noon, the Perak Army launched an artillery bombardment. Cao Ergou, who was criticized for wasting ammunition, learned his lesson and no longer attacked all directions, but concentrated his firepower on the city gate tower of the north gate. Because

According to the intelligence of the surrendering soldiers, the Semu generals and most of the soldiers were hiding inside, warming themselves over a fire and drinking wine while monitoring the newly attached troops in the city.

After several rounds of shelling, a thick smoke rose from the city, and the east city gate slowly opened. Huang Dagen, who was lying in the grass with numb hands and feet, was overjoyed when the city gate was opened. He thought it was Tang Xiangwei and Liao Nilu who opened the city gate.

Then he ordered the teaching company to get up and rush to the city to meet up with the internal staff. Unexpectedly, the teaching company just rushed out of the bushes and heard the news inside the city.

There was a rapid sound of horse hooves in the direction, and then dozens of horsemen rushed out from the city gate. This sudden change made Huang Dagen break out in a cold sweat. He immediately ordered the soldiers to stop and prepare for battle. The Perak Army and the Han soldiers of the New Affiliated Army

There were no horses, and there were very few soldiers who could ride horses. These cavalrymen who rushed out were undoubtedly Mongols.

Huang Dagen's judgment was correct. These cavalrymen were the Semu generals and their troops. The Pili army's bombardment caused chaos at the north gate. The newly attached troops and the Minzhuang temporarily captured to defend the city fled in all directions, unable to suppress them at all.

The Semu people general saw the cannonballs falling continuously on the city gate tower, and one more cannonball hit the city gate tower, killing his relatives.

The soldiers also killed and wounded several people. Knowing that the city could no longer be defended, they simply decided to "take the Thirty-six Strategies as the best strategy" and ran away with their own soldiers. Among the four gates of Chongzhou Mansion, the west gate leads to Qiongzhou

, the south gate leads to Xinjin and Jiangyuan County, the north gate leads to Yongkang and Hengyuan, and the east gate leads to Chengdu. The Semu people who fled from the east gate naturally fled to Chengdu.

The cavalry came very fast and rushed to the teaching company within a stone's throw in an instant. Huang Dagen even saw the yellow hair of the Semu cavalry at the front. He was so anxious that he repeatedly ordered to shoot and throw grenades. He knew that there was no formation.

basic experience of infantry

We cannot withstand the impact of the cavalry. Ouyang Xuan has repeatedly told the top brass of the Perak Army that without obstacles, even muskets and grenades on the plains cannot withstand the impact of the cavalry. The only way to withstand the impact of the cavalry is artillery and machine guns.

when

It is impossible to produce machine guns under the technical conditions, and the teaching company did not carry heavy artillery during this ambush, but only newly developed muskets. Fortunately, the Pili Army hastily threw grenades and unaimed muskets, although the accuracy was lacking.

Jiadan

The explosion was not small, and the horses were frightened to the point of neighing. The Semu people were eager to escape and had no intention of fighting. When they saw someone blocking the front, they quickly turned their horses' heads and bypassed the hastily formed formation of the teaching company, neighing all the way.
Chapter completed!