Chapter 472 The fire of the prairie (2)
The Song army on the top of the city and the flying army in the sky were still shooting downwards, pouring tinder oil.
This made the fire grow even more.
The screams echoed in this world, heart-wrenching and making people twitch.
The Yuan army's artillery chariots were thrown away countless times and gradually burned to ashes in the sea of fire.
Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng had not noticed the intention of the Song army before, so it was undoubtedly a bit too late to order the Jin Dynasty to withdraw the troops.
The Yuan army soldiers who rushed out of the sea of fire were all covered in dust. Nearly 100,000 troops were siegeing the city, but there were probably only about 60,000 people who ran out.
The one who hated the most was the Flying Army, because even though they withdrew, the Flying Army was still chasing them in the air.
The tinder and torches were poured down, igniting many Yuan soldiers who had finally escaped from the sea of fire again.
"withdraw!"
Zhang Hongfan's face was already so angry that he turned around.
Song Jun used such a fire plan to make the victory and defeat suddenly reverse, which really caught him off guard, and he felt like he suddenly fell from heaven to hell.
The Yuan army followed Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng took the lead in withdrawing.
Afterwards, the soldier who had just run back from the city seemed to be chasing his butt behind him, and he hated his parents for running wildly without giving him two extra legs.
Although they had already run out of the coverage of the Song army's artillery carts, the Flying Army in the sky was still as tight as a gangrene attached to the bones.
Under the city, there were many Yuan troops blocked by the fire screaming. However, the shocking cheers of the Song army came from the top of the city.
With the grasslands on both sides of the official road, the Song army won a great victory this time.
If this battle was not far inferior to the Battle of Red Cliff during the Three Kingdoms, it would probably have left a brilliant page in history books.
Zhang Jue, Su Liuyi and others breathed a sigh of relief.
The Yuan army was defeated, and Hikvision should be safe in a short period of time. At least, it is impossible for the Yuan army to reorganize the offensive today.
After a while, Ren Wei led the Flying Army back and landed on the hollowed-out ground in the city. The tincture oil carried on the hot air balloon was empty.
On the west side of Haikang County, the sky is filled with smoke.
The flames have not yet been extinguished, but there are no Yuan soldiers struggling in it.
Those who could run away ran away. Those who didn't run away were all swallowed by the flames.
The air was filled with a disgusting smell of burnt.
In this battle, the Yuan army lost more than 40,000 yuan. The Song army at the top of the city also paid a price of more than 2,000 people.
Most of these soldiers were killed by the thunder thrown by the Yuan army's catapult.
Some soldiers had already begun to clean the battlefield. Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue returned to the palace to report the results of the battle to Concubine Yang Shu and others.
Li Heng and Zhang Hongfan led their troops back to the coast and boarded the ship to leave.
When they returned to the East China Island and counted the soldiers, there were only less than 60,000 left, which made the two of them almost vomit blood.
How many Song troops are there in Haikang County?
They have not caused much damage to the Song army until now, so they have lost so many troops. If it were the case before, it would be inevitable that the siege would cost a huge price, and they would be able to accept it, but now they also have thunder. They thought they would win Hikvision, but they were defeated by the Song army one after another. This really made the two of them angry and frustrated.
The two of them felt like their IQ was crushed.
The morale of the Yuan army also fell to the bottom due to this battle.
But no matter how angry he was, the war had to continue. In the afternoon, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng led their troops to withdraw their troops and headed to the west coast of Haikang County.
The Song army withdrew to defend Hikkam. Although they had just suffered a great defeat, they still had to approach each other step.
In the end, the two camped at Hikkat just a few miles away.
The Hikang Palace is still solemn.
Although the Yuan army was defeated this time, they stationed troops for several miles outside the city, and obviously they had no intention of quitting.
Anyone can imagine that before the emperor leads his army back to Hikkang, the Yuan army will launch an attack.
Hikvision's danger cannot be completely eliminated by a fire plan.
In the hall, all the important officials of the Southern Song Dynasty stood on both sides. Su Liuyi, who replaced Zhao Dongting in charge of military and political affairs, and Lu Xiufu and the two of them divided the forces to the dragon chariot.
Since Zhao Dongting took office, Concubine Yang has never been in charge of any military and political affairs anymore, and has been her empress dowager with peace of mind.
After a moment of discussion, Lu Xiufu coughed softly, signaled everyone to calm down, and then asked: "Everyone, although the Yuan army was defeated, they set up camps several miles outside the city, and they still wanted to invade our Haikang. Do you have any good ideas in your mind for this?"
Most people in the hall looked at Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue and left.
Although this is a court meeting, after all, Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue are sure to come up with the idea.
Many civil officials in the Song Dynasty also fought in large numbers, and even eunuchs could do so. However, it would be taboo to interfere in the affairs of the government.
Zhang Jue pondered for a few seconds and spoke, "The weeds outside the city have been burned into ashes, and the fire plan is afraid that it will not be able to make any contributions. To stop the Yuan army, our army has no place to rely on, so I am afraid... we can only fight to the death."
His voice was undoubtedly very heavy.
The fire broke out in Liu's house, which made him suddenly appear and he thought of the fire plan. But now, it seems that there is really no good way to retreat to the enemy.
There is no weed, even if tincture oil is used, it will not be possible to form a prairie fire. Obviously, it cannot cause too much damage to the Yuan army.
At this time, Zhao Da spoke, "Deputy Military Order, why would the last general lead his army to chop off the heads of Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng?"
Their Flying Dragon Army has the training subject of assassination. Although its force is definitely not as good as that of Wudingtang, it is not much worse if it comes to assassination skills.
"inappropriate."
After thinking about it, Zhang Jue shook his head, "There are also experts from the Green Forest Camp in the Yuan army. If you go there, it is probably difficult to achieve success."
Zhao shouted: "Then let the Feitian Army blow up his damn!"
This was a singular sentence, but as soon as he finished speaking, all the ministers pondered.
Yes, the Yuan army has moved the barracks several miles outside the city and no longer stayed at the sea. It is completely feasible to use hot air balloons to attack air raids.
Although this may not necessarily kill Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng, it can more or less cause some damage to the Yuan army, right?
Zhang Jue suddenly laughed out loud, "General Zhao's plan is very good."
Zhao Da was confused, "What's the plan?"
He actually didn't care about what he said just now. He forgot it after only more than ten seconds.
The ministers laughed.
Zhang Jue shook his head slightly with amused and cried, ignored Zhao Da, looked at Ren Wei, and said, "General Ren, you will lead your army to air strike the Yuan army camp tonight!"
"The last general will receive the order!"
Ren Wei bowed and took the order.
Not long after that, the ministers retreated one after another.
Zhang Jue just left the hall, but was caught up by Su Liuyi. "Mr. Zhang, the Yuan army already knows that our army has a flying army. Will there be any tricks?"
Chapter completed!