choke element

Chapter 646 Breakdown

The Mongolian captives were walking towards a pond outside the city. Many of them took off the old sheepskin jackets that were soaked in salt, or removed the heavy foot wraps, hoping to survive the torment of the scorching heat and high-intensity physical labor. Down for a little comfort.

But the sudden alert in Jinshan City alarmed them all.

They stopped suddenly, looking at the city in front of them solemnly.

There were soldiers gathered on the city wall, and they used the winch to stand up the wolf teeth; behind the city gate, a knife cart used to plug the gate was rolled out; go to town.

Then they saw teams of soldiers coming out of the inner city, carrying bundles of arrows to the tall archery towers at the top of the city; spare knives, spears and other weapons were placed behind the horses at the top of the city at intervals; After the distribution of ordnance, the soldiers shouted the chant and pushed the heavy wooden wall to form scattered partitions on the top of the city.

The Mongols have traveled south many times, and they already have some understanding of the number of defense routes in the Central Plains.The defenses they saw were nothing new.The key is people.

Even though they were in a hurry to prepare for the battle, these soldiers were full of energy, and the Mongols did not see any panic in their eyes.This is different from what they saw when attacking any city in the Great Jin Kingdom.And such a city must be as unshakable as cast steel.

Fortunately, this new and powerful regime is now ruling all the Mongolian captives at the same time.Mongolians are full of vitality and wildness, and also have the habit of muqiang passed down from generation to generation.The strong are naturally noble, while the weak are like the captives present, without status and dignity, and even their lives are in the hands of the strong.

Because of this habit, many people stared blankly at the orderly posture of Ding Haijun and began to show envious eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Shi Mo was heard shouting from the side of the city gate: "Everyone come to work! Why are you in a daze!"

The Mongols immediately ran back.

In the next five days, they showed their diligence with all their strength and cleaned up many ruins in Jinshan City. The corpses found in the ruins were also transported and incinerated outside the city by them.

While working hard, they kept hearing sentry horses turning back and reporting military information.

Occasionally, a few words from the soldiers fell into their ears. At first, it was said that thousands of Mongolian households went south, which moved the hearts of some prisoners.Then they heard that the Mongolian sentry cavalry going south collided with Dinghailing's cavalry, and some of the cavalry were intended to provoke and were killed on the spot.

On the fifth day, although the soldiers in the city were still on high alert, everyone looked happy, because Zhao and Qiu each raised their troops, and the situation of encirclement on three sides was completed.Those thousands of Mongolian households have also driven the slaves from the headquarters to the front for reception as promised.

The captives couldn't help but look at each other.

How long has it been since?Although our group was captured, at least we fought!The chaos on the grassland has reached such an extent that tribes with a thousand households directly surrendered, and the tribesmen dare not fight back when they are killed?Could it be that Genghis Khan couldn't control the situation?
This kind of thing would never have happened half a year ago!
From this point of view, the strength of the two companies has really changed so quickly!
In the early morning of the next day, Shi Mo also led his Khitan entourage, riding a pony, and stood among the Mongolian queues: "It's all right, Duolulun and Dawaqi, you two, come out with the headquarters. Follow me to meet you. Drive cattle and carts along the way, cheer me up!"

The two teams of Mongols who were jumped out were the ones who worked very hard recently.The two captains said repeatedly: "Yes, yes."

The infantry and cavalry team in Jinshan City remained cautious, only going out of the city for fifteen miles, and set up their formation against the wetland of Baiyanquan.Watching a group of dark figures slowly approaching.

The soldiers soon discovered that there were only a few Mongolians on the opposite side, and most of them were Han slaves with haggard faces and extremely miserable expressions.They gathered into a black mass and walked in a mess. Each group was about two or three hundred people, one after another, winding like a long dragon.

From Yehuling to Jinshan, it takes more than [-] miles to walk, and there are many mountain roads.These Han slaves were coerced by the Mongols, walking at least forty miles a day, rarely getting rest, and eating poor and poor food.

So everyone looked like they had protruding cheeks and plaster all over their bodies, as if they were about to fall down at any time.Some people were walking, and their footprints were obviously stained with blood, and some people simply crawled on the shoulders of their companions and were reluctantly taken away.

Most of the middle-level officers of the Ding Navy had family members who disappeared in northern Xinjiang. Most of them were directly slaughtered during the Mongolian invasion, and some lost contact during the war.Although several years have passed, many military officers have a vague hope that they may have been taken as slaves by the Mongols, and perhaps God will bless them, and we will see each other again one day.

So seeing the miserable situation of these men, Zhao Xuan ordered the auxiliary soldiers to start the stove quickly and cook some hot water and gruel.

The soldiers felt a little more at ease towards the slaves who were obviously of their own clan.Except for half of the guarded soldiers, everyone else sat down cross-legged one after another, put their weapons within reach, and watched them gradually approaching.

No one expected that the Han'er slaves would suddenly become agitated when they smelled the cooking food.I don't know who shouted a few times in the crowd, hundreds of people suddenly quickened their pace and ran forward suddenly, trying to grab food and drink before others, and even the team behind them became chaotic.

That's thousands of people!If they run around like this, the army formation will be washed away!These people trampled on each other, and there was going to be a big mess!

The soldiers knew it in their hearts, but they didn't know what to do for a while.

On the contrary, Shi Mo also jumped up first, and shouted sharply: "Fight! Drive them back!"

The Khitans and Mongols who followed him jumped up immediately.These people are not soldiers of the navy, and they are not allowed to hold weapons in their hands. Riding whips, short sticks, poles, etc. are more useful than knives and guns at this time.

A Mongolian threw the short whip in his hand as a blue.The short riding whip drew an arc in the air, hitting the chest of a young man.

The young man snorted and fell on his back.

The rest of the Mongols also beat them with whips or poles with horses.Their Mongol faces and ferocious looks were what the Han slaves were most afraid of, so they forcibly suppressed the momentum of the Han people running away.

Zhao Xuan couldn't help cursing, and then mobilized two teams of cavalry to outflank the Han people who were trying to run around into the circle.In addition, dozens of people were sent to rush into the line of Han'er slaves, shouting along the way: "Sit down! Sit down!"

The young man who was knocked down by the short riding whip took a lot of effort to sit up.His bony chest was hit by a horsewhip, and there was a large black and blue patch on the whip scars on his skin and flesh, and it hurt even a little bit of force.
He wouldn't have been so reckless, but he was so hungry and lost his mind after trekking these few days; Once the whip is smashed, it will not stand up.

The young man's surname is Lu, and his name is Lu Wusi.He was not plundered to the grassland in the past two years, but one of the Han people who fled to the grassland because they couldn't bear the oppression of the Dajin court in the last years of Taihe.Because he has read books and knows how to do arithmetic, he also worked as a housekeeper for hundreds of Mongolian households in his early years. As for how he ended up like this in the end, that is a very long story.

Lu Wusi gasped for breath, and spat out two ho-ho.After calming down, he remembered that he followed the Mongolian nobles to the south and surrendered to the general of the Dajin Kingdom.

Lu Wusi had no idea when the Dajin Kingdom had such a powerful general.There are so many murderous Mongols, all of them are extremely fierce. How they lost, Lu Wusi didn't understand.

But there is one thing, what the generals of the Dajin Kingdom usually do, and how reckless the troops of the Dajin Kingdom usually act. He had seen it before when he was a child.At that moment, he turned his head back, thinking that he would see the killing and blood, the people howling and weeping, and those who dared to move would be punished immediately and die by the side of the road.

As a result, there was none.

This team of golden troops only yelled loudly, threatening everyone to stop in place.

Lu Wusi panted heavily, seeing the women and children hidden in the queue were fine.From time to time, screams came from the depths of the team, but one could tell from the sound that no one was killed, but someone who reacted too slowly and was beaten.

That's fine.People who have been slaves on the grassland for so many years have long been used to being beaten.

Lu Wusi immediately saw that there were many Mongolian lords walking around among the crowd of Han slaves.He instantly recalled the situation when he was knocked over, as if the one who attacked him was also a Mongolian master!

He was used to seeing the ferocity of the Mongols. This situation seemed to be a combination of two nightmares, which made him sweat all over and tremble violently.

Suddenly a horseshoe appeared in front of him, and he suddenly lowered his head and lay on the ground, listening to the cavalry talking and laughing.

One of the cavalry snorted coldly: "Shi Mo is also very courageous, he dared to lead others to fight before Commander Zhao gave the order! He himself, and even the Mongols under him, are prisoners! How could he Why is he in charge? He still dares to beat Han'er! He's courting death!"

Someone also persuaded: "Fortunately, let's bring these Mongolians here, otherwise, what should we do? Do you want to do it yourself? These are poor people in front of you. Can you, Ge Qingshu, fight? What if there is any general here?" Relatives, can you afford it?"

Lu Wusi was a little confused. He kept lying on his stomach, feeling more and more pain in his chest, and he was really hungry, and his whole body was cold.

Seeing that he was about to faint, he saw several Golden Army soldiers rushing out of the crowd, pushing and shoving a struggling Mongolian.Lu Wusi recognized the Mongol as Huo Youchi who was in charge of raising sheep under Qianhu's account.It seems that he was the one shouting just now, causing everyone to rush forward subconsciously?

"I found it, it's this guy who made trouble!" The soldier yelled repeatedly: "Commander, why do we..."

The person known as the Commander responded from a distance, but the voice was not loud, and Lu Wusi couldn't hear it clearly.

The soldiers heard it clearly, so they pressed the Mongolian to his knees.The cavalryman named Ge Qingshu was angry, and he shouted: "I'm coming!"

Lu Wusi put his face on the ground and watched Ge Qingshu stride towards the Mongolian.With a sudden swing of his knife, blood spurted from the Mongol's severed neck.

The two soldiers who were in charge of holding down the Mongols quickly jumped away and complained: "Ge, you should say something before you do it!"

The Mongol's corpse twitched on the ground, blood gushed out with a strong stench.

But at the same time, Lu Wusi also smelled the aroma of miscellaneous grains being boiled in water not far away.The mixture of these two smells made him a little dazed, not knowing whether to take a deep breath or hold his breath.

(End of this chapter)