Chapter 65 Rebooting the Army (3)
"It's better that they are useless."
Li Heng sat opposite him and said meaningfully: "The Song army defeated our army and had a high prestige. Now the voice of resistance against the Yuan Dynasty in Leizhou Prefecture is becoming increasingly loud. It is good that the Leizhou army that he revolted against Lijun did not mutiny and turned against each other. How could he do his best to help him attack the Emperor of Song?"
"hiss……"
Zhang Hongfan took a deep breath, "Does Ge Li Jun mean that he will be defeated?"
Li Heng said: "It may not be defeated, but it will definitely not be able to win. I hope they will suffer both losses, and that will not be in vain. Brother and I will come here to win the sea breeze for him."
As the commander of the Yuan army, Zhang Hongfan was certainly scheming. After pondering for a moment, he figured out Li Heng's plan and said happily: "My brother means that when they both suffer losses, we will attack the island and grab the credit?"
Li Heng smiled sinisterly and treacherously, "If there was such a good opportunity, our army attacked and shouted loudly, instigating our surrendered soldiers to mutiny. Not to mention capturing Emperor Song and taking him off Ge Lijun, it would be a great contribution. Brother should have not reported the surrender of Ge Lijun to the court, right?"
Zhang Hongfan was even more surprised when he heard this and said repeatedly: "No, no."
After saying that, he couldn't help but sigh, "My brother has a mastery of the overall situation and the hearts of the people. Now it depends on whether God will give us two brothers the opportunity to make meritorious service."
Li Heng laughed and became honest in the blink of an eye, and looked like the Maitreya Buddha.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy troops in Leizhou were the first to arrive outside the palace and gathered 500 meters away from the palace wall.
In the next few dozen minutes, the Dinghai Army, the Huzhou Army and the Guardian Army finally arrived one after another.
Because the palace in Yongzhou is surrounded by the sea on both sides, and the west and north are cliffs, these four armies are only gathered in the east and south.
On the city wall, the Song army soldiers were waiting for battle, with countless cannon cars standing in front of them, and crossbow arrows were exposed from the crossbow foundation of the city wall, and the cold light was forcing people.
Generals such as Zhang Shijie, Su Liuyi, Yue Peng, Su Quandang and others stood on the city wall with serious faces on their faces.
Although the Leizhou Army lost ten thousand people, there were still about 30,000 left. In this way, it was distributed throughout the mountains.
Few people can keep it easy when they see such a formation. Especially now, there is a hidden danger of surrendering soldiers in the Song army.
After waiting for dozens of minutes, the scout finally reported the situation to the main ship Ge Lijun.
Ge Li Jun was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Blow the trumpet!"
The desolate and dull sound of cow horns suddenly sounded on the main ship.
The commanders of the Leizhou Army heard the sound of horns and gritted their teeth suddenly. They all raised the weapons in their hands and shouted: "Siege the city!"
Holding shields and carrying ladders in the front row, various soldiers who were pushing the siege cart crossed and rushed towards the palace.
Although the morale of the Dinghai Army, Huzhou Army and the soldiers who defeated the enemy were sluggish, they were still attacking the palace and rushing forward.
But Wu Wenli, the deputy commander of the army, shouted a few times, but no number of soldiers in the army charged forward.
He was originally a staff member of Ge Lijun, and he was a loyal man. The commander of the capital was killed by a landmine. He was ordered to be sentenced to danger. He finally urged the soldiers to come here, and wanted to perform well and strive for the first achievements, but now he saw the soldiers like this, so he was naturally stunned.
Then he gritted his teeth, ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag, raise his sword and shouted: "All the soldiers, follow me to rush to the palace and capture the Emperor of Song. Those who kill thousands of enemies will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, those who kill the enemy will be rewarded with ten taels of gold, those who capture the Emperor of Song alive will be awarded with the title of officials!"
This time he spent a lot of money. This reward was not promised by Ge Lijun, and he might have to pay it out of his own pocket.
After shouting, Wu Wenli waved his whip and rode a horse to take the lead in rushing to the palace. He thought that with a large amount of money, the soldiers would definitely be active.
But when he rushed out not far, he realized that there were still not many people following him, and he could not hear the shocking shouts of motivation.
Most of the soldiers of the escort army were staggering.
This is fucking!
Wu Wenli was angry and turned around and scolded, "You bastards, haven't you charged? Haven't you heard this general's order?"
"Swoosh!"
At this time, a cold arrow suddenly shot from the army and took Wu Wenli's throat.
Wu Wenli was caught off guard and was directly pierced by a cold arrow. Her expression instantly frozen. Blood was gushing out of her mouth, and she fell off the horse's back.
A one-eyed soldier with a left eye with a blindfold raised the long bow in his hand and shouted: "Ge Lijun sells his country and seeks honor, Wu Wenli is greedy and violent. Do you really want to attack our Emperor of Song for them?"
After saying that, he threw the longbow in his hand to the ground.
Originally, the soldiers in the army who were unwilling to charge were patriotic. When they saw Wu Wenli being shot to death by a cold arrow, someone shouted loudly, and he was already taking the lead, and all the courage came up in his heart. No matter what the bullshit horn sounds, people threw weapons to the ground one after another.
Later, the soldiers guarding the flag also cut the flag to the ground.
Wu Wenli has been doing exploitation in the army over the past few years and withholding military pay, which has long been full of complaints.
The escort soldiers who charged forward saw the mutiny in the back, shrank their heads and ran back quickly.
Although some generals were loyal to Ge Lijun, they did not dare to force their soldiers when they saw the general trend, for fear that they would end up like Wu Wenli.
Therefore, before the city was broken, the escort army had surrendered.
When Zhang Shijie and the others saw this scene on the top of the city, they were naturally very happy.
The Huzhou Army, who were sieging the city next to the Protector Army, were affected. The generals who were close to Ge Lijun finally finally stabilized their soldiers.
But the combat power that such an army can exert can naturally be imagined.
After rushing less than three hundred steps, I saw the flags waving on the palace walls.
Then there was a rumbling sound.
"put!"
"put!"
The nearly a hundred catapults of stone throwing poles arranged along the city walls were raised high, and stones as big as horse heads could roar towards the Huzhou Army, Dinghai Army, and breaking the enemy's attack array.
Some soldiers carrying shields in the front row were smashed to the ground, and some soldiers pushing siege cars were even beaten to the ground.
However, there are still too few catapults and insufficient lethality. Compared with tens of thousands of troops, the role can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.
Huzhou, Dinghai, and the three armies of the enemy still charged forward under the command of the military flag.
But just after rushing less than a hundred steps, the ground in front of them exploded and gravel splashed. The shield soldiers rushing in front were instantly blown up and over, with their limbs all over the ground. The entire palace wall seemed to be punished by heaven, with a rumbling sound, and the sky shook and the earth.
Zhao Dongting has already made people bury the mines here as the last defense of the palace.
Chapter completed!