choke element

Chapter 205 Crowd

Chucai suddenly felt restless.

In the past few days, all ministries have been intensively preparing for the battle, but there is no such thing as a pure literati like him.Guo Ning took good care of him, and the house left for him was in a corner of Tunbao, with thick walls on three sides.It's a little cramped, but safe.

Yila Chucai would not be satisfied with this false sense of security. He was inevitably a little apprehensive about the current situation. Although he was not too lazy to eat and drink, he often tossed and turned in the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night, he woke up suddenly. He only felt a deep and huge strange noise outside, like thunder, but he couldn't hear it clearly through the wall.He woke up suddenly, still drowsy, and still a little dizzy, got up in a daze, raised an oil lamp, and stood at the door of the room.

Pushing open the wooden door, the sound waves burst in.

It was the sound of drums and horns, and the sound shook the roof tiles. It was the sound of shouts and screams echoing for a long time, like a raging tide hitting the shore.

The soldiers in the fort had been awakened a long time ago. Some were preparing their weapons, some were putting their armor on their shoulders before opening their eyes, and some subconsciously approached the general of the team to inquire about the enemy's situation.The actions of thousands of people formed another wave of noise within the high walls of the Tunpu.

Yicha Chucai's drowsiness disappeared, he hurriedly pulled his feet up and went to the Chinese military tent on the upper half floor.

After walking a few steps, I looked up and saw Guo Ning standing by the railing of the pier, smiling at the officers and saying, "This move of the Mongols was already in our expectation. You don't have to worry, you can also tell the soldiers Ladies and gentlemen, victory is within sight."

Having said that, he yawned, and waved his hands to the soldiers who had gathered nearby one after another under the Tunbao: "Go to sleep, what are you busy with now? Get enough sleep and refresh yourself. When you kill the enemy and make meritorious service! Just wait for my order with peace of mind!"

Guo Ning's confident attitude immediately calmed down the soldiers.

When the soldiers and horses are in a trance, ordinary soldiers don't have so much knowledge, so they don't think too much. They can only place their trust in the general, and believe that the general will bring them victory as usual.

But in fact, is Guo Ning really that calm?

What the soldiers didn't notice was that Guo Ning yawned and put on a relaxed look. In fact, Xu Bu had inspected more than half of the camp and at least said the same thing to dozens of soldiers.The number of troops patrolling and guarding the defensive points of the Tunbao has increased a lot, and the person in charge of the guard has been replaced by the trusted general Qiu Huiluo.

When the soldiers were all relieved to return to the camp, Guo Ning turned back to the Chinese army.Monk Luo, Li Ting, Ma Bao and others will all arrive.

Except for a few watchtowers, the Chinese army is at the highest point of the Tunpu.Standing in front of the tent of the Chinese army and looking out, you can see the surrounding situation.

The front cavalry of the Mongolian army did not break into the camp directly, but dispersed into several medium-sized cavalry teams, galloping horizontally around the trench outside the camp.

Under the attack of these cavalry, seven or eight watchtowers were knocked down from the west and south sides of the camp all the way to the port.The small camp on the edge was thrown into torches, and in the blazing fire, there were figures of soldiers struggling in pain.

And the edge of the line of sight... that distance is not very far.Yila Chucai raised his head to look at the sky, the thick dark clouds half covered the stars and the moon, and the wind and clouds moved like turbid waves.In the darkest place under the clouds, a large pure white banner is waving forward.Around the big banner, Mongolians riding one after another stood in black like a forest, spreading out continuously.

"First pull out the outer strongholds...they are going to come for real!" Guo Ning's eyes were like lightning, he glanced back and forth several times, and exhaled: "Fortunately, we discovered it early."

At this time, with the sound of war drums in the camp, hundreds of strong men and soldiers hurriedly got up and assembled quickly.Looking down from a high place, it can be seen that the people were flustered, turbulent, and noisy, with men and women crying and shouting, but because the officers at all levels arrived in time and ordered restraint, there was no large-scale chaos.

At the same time, on the tall pier near the south of the camp, pine torches were lit instantly, and Wang Shixian stepped onto the stage with clanging armor.Guo Ning saw that he nodded slightly towards the height of the fort, and turned to dispatch troops.

Guo Ning turned back and sat down in the tent.

Li Ting also took a seat beside him, and said loudly: "Our plan is not wrong! At least the first half of it was successful, and the Mongolian army did reach Laizhou! It's just that they underestimated our army's city defense in Laizhou, so they tried to seize the city first, and then Aid? It’s nothing, it’s nothing more than defending the city! Just resist them!”

Guo Ning nodded, then shook his head again: "That being said, there are two things that we are not sure about."

"Which two things?"

"The first thing is that the confidence of the Mongols is much stronger than we imagined. They broke into the Central Plains this time and broke a lot of cities. They have already summed up some methods of attacking the cities. We still look at them with old eyes, but instead Be passive."

Besieging the city and fighting for aid in order to defeat the enemy in the wild is the usual routine of the Mongolian army.All the generals of the Ding Navy from Guo Ning are veteran generals who are well aware of the strengths of the Mongolian army, so this time the Mongolian army was mobilized to take advantage of this method.

But just because they knew the Mongolian army so well, they didn't expect the Mongolian army's confidence to increase so much.Now that the Mongolian army chooses to attack the city before the field battle, the defense of Haicang Town will definitely bear terrible pressure.

In this regard, yesterday's raid by Mongolian Qingqi was already a sign.But this sign did not arouse the vigilance of the generals, because the Mongolian army obviously made advance preparations for this.The Qingqi they sent were urgently recruited from three or four hundred miles away.

After inspecting the corpse of the Mongolian Qingqi, our side mistakenly believed that the main force of the Mongolian army was still far away, and that our side still had enough time to prepare... As a result, it fell into the calculation of the Mongolian army. , was also raided a second time.

If you think about it further, the main force of the Mongolian army is obviously stationed not far from Laizhou, so that this attack can be realized. Where will they be?
"This is the second thing we didn't calculate correctly..." Guo Ning pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Wanyan Sala's grasp of Shandong East Road is weaker than we expected. The elite troops of the Mongolian army, He has long been able to freely pass through the defense line he set up in Yidu."

"This guy Wanyan Sasha... voted for Mongolia?" Li Ting was speechless: "He is a member of the third rank!"

Monk Luo said in a deep voice: "If Wanyan Sala votes for Mongolia, the battle will not be fought in this way. The problem lies in Weizhou."

Yira Chucai opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something, Guo Ning glanced at him and shook his head.Monk Luo's judgment is likely to be true, but Weizhou's cooperation with the Mongols is not as simple as a simple traitor.

There is no need to discuss this matter in detail here. After the current battle is won, there will naturally be an explanation.

What has had a huge impact on the battle situation is that since the Mongolian army can freely pass through the two lines of defense of Zishui and Qushui, they are not exhausted soldiers, but recharged soldiers.They sneaked into Shandong, it can be said that it is difficult to know, but once they are activated, they will definitely move like thunder.

"They're here!"

Ma Bao, who had been watching the situation all the time, exclaimed.

While the generals were talking for a moment, the Mongolian army approached in a dark manner.Under the dark sky, it can only be calculated by the light of pine torches, it should be the size of twenty centurions.All the Mongolian troops dismounted from their horses, held iron shields, and covered themselves with fire.

All the archers under Wang Shixian's command climbed onto the outer wall, and there was no need to aim at this time, just shoot at full speed at the outer night.

But the Mongols were really brave. They marched forward against the rain of arrows. Even though there were casualties, everyone's footsteps neither slowed down nor accelerated.Occasionally, a pine torch falls to the ground, and someone can be vaguely seen being seriously injured by arrows being penetrated into the body.But even so, the man didn't roar, just fell to the ground silently, and the rear team stepped on the bodies of the wounded and dead in the front team without hesitation, like waves piled forward.

The harsh environment of the Mongolian plateau has created such tough and terrifying fighters, and created their character of ignoring life and death.Their bravery is astounding.

This group of Mongols still did not attack the camp, but quickly overthrew and moved away the scattered defense facilities Wang Shixian had set up in the outer trench, including fences, antlers, etc.

But Wang Shixian could only watch helplessly, most of his subordinates were strong men, so naturally they didn't dare to go out to drive away... It was really no different from courting death.

Guo Ning's subordinates are the reliance on the outcome, and they will not act rashly.

In an instant, the perimeter of the camp was completely cleared.

　Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the child will take the high school entrance examination... the work these days is a bit nerve-wracking, so I think it will be shorter... Readers, let's make do.

　
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