"What happened?"
Bai Xiaowen sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at Sig's Delifa, who hurried in.
"Master, Lin 'an's Shi Miyuan used a thousand mile voice transmission talisman to send an emergency report. The Song Dynasty army is facing a huge crisis! "
As Bai Xiaowen listened to Sig's description of the Delifa, his face slowly turned solemn.
As the Mongols did not have enough grain, they retreated across the Yellow River. In the central plains that were occupied by the Jin Country, the various cities were basically guarded by surrendered Jin Country generals. They only had hatred toward the Mongols and had no loyalty.
The Mongols only had a few thousand troops south of the Yellow River.
Under such a situation, the South Song army carried the hatred of their country and the high morale of reclaiming their land.
Bai Xiaowen also felt that the South Song army would obtain an early victory. At the very least, reclaiming the three capitals would not be a problem. The real problem was how to defend against the Mongol army's attack next spring.
The moment the Song army started to advance, they were really unstoppable. The moment the surrendered Jin Country generals saw the Song flag, they opened the city gates.
In just a few days, Quan Zicai's forces set out from Luzhou and even conquered Shou Zhou, Meng City, Bozhou, Taikang, etc., reclaiming Bian City.
The Mongols' response was to send small groups of elite cavalry to disturb the Song army's grain path.
When Quan Zicai led his troops to Bian City, he realized that the North Song capital was already in ruins. There were only a few hundred families in the city and less than a thousand defending.
Such a city was not enough to resupply.
The difference between the Mongol and South Song soldiers was also evident. Just a small group of Mongol troops was able to cause serious damage to the Song army's grain path. Often, a small group of ten Mongols would dare to attack a group of a few hundred. After killing the Song soldiers, they would burn the grain and leave.
When he heard that, Bai Xiaowen felt a little emotional. Who said that the ancient people did not know how to use troops? The Mongols' tactic was pretty much a replica of guerrilla warfare.
Quan Zicai's forces in Bian City did not have enough grain. The Imperial Court was still rushing Quan Zicai to continue west to reclaim Luoyang.
Quan Zicai could only let the soldiers split five days' worth of grain into two groups and head west to Luoyang to resupply.
The Mongols allowed the Song army's first team to enter Luoyang and gathered their forces to ambush the second team. The Mongol cavalry launched a sneak attack, and the archers at the back of the Song army did not even have time to form up to face the enemy. Their formation was broken, and they all fled.
They were destined to be unable to escape from the elite Mongols on horseback, hence the number of casualties was extremely high.
Following which, the Mongol army directly attacked the remnants of Quan Zi Cai in Luoyang.
Quan Zicai had successfully entered Luoyang, but he realized in despair that the situation in Luoyang wasn't much better than Bian City. It was similarly littered with bones, and only a few hundred commoners were still struggling at death's door.
After a few days of stalemate with the Mongols, Quan Zi Cai's forces could only eat wild grass to fill their stomachs. With no other choice, Quan Zi chose to break out of the encirclement and flee to the south.
The Song Nation's army abandoned all the military equipment and carriages they brought.
Now, the Mongol army was chasing after them.
The Mongol army was skilled in cavalry and archery, and the quality of their soldiers were strong. If they chased after a group of infantrymen who lacked food, the outcome was obvious.
One could say that the Song Ting's strategy of guarding the pass and river had failed. A few thousand Mongol troops had defeated the 60 thousand Song troops heading north.
Bai Xiaowen's eyes suddenly opened, "Who is the Mongol general defending the mid plains?"
Sig Delifa said, "I heard that he is called Taqaer."
"This person has a lot of strategy and is not simple." Bai Xiaowen concluded. Even if the Mongol army was stronger than the Song army, to use a few thousand to defeat 60 thousand was already an amazing strategy.
"Master, what should we do now? Zhao Fan ordered the army to give up on the plan to head north and defend Chuzhou. "
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and smiled, "Zhao Fan was scared out of his wits by the Mongols. No matter how strong the Mongols are, they only have a few thousand south of the Yellow River. Can they fly to the east and attack Huaidong? For Taqaer to be able to crush 60 thousand Song troops is already a miracle. Based on the strategy he has shown, it is impossible for him to be greedy and act rashly by attacking the Southern Song Dynasty with a few thousand men. "
Bai Xiaowen got up and said, "I'll go find Zhao Fan and ask him to send out orders to allow Abaddon's forces to help Quan Zi Cai."
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Due to Shi Miyuan's prior greeting, Zhao Fan was rather respectful towards Bai Xiaowen, a Daoist expert. He also knew that it was with the help of this Taoist that the leaderless Huaidong army was able to defeat Li Quan so quickly.
Furthermore, Abaddon's Loyal and Brave Battalion was an independent army. The money and food were given directly by the Imperial Court. Zhao Fan was too lazy to care whether the Loyal and Brave Battalion was in danger or not. He easily wrote the order and allowed Abaddon to send out troops.
Abaddon led three thousand skeleton soldiers to head north.
With Bai Xiaowen's help, Abaddon took the shortest route and met up with Quan Zi Cai's forces in Cai Zhou two days later. At this point, Quan Zi Cai's army was only left with around 10 thousand men. They had lost 5/6 of their forces and were all starving.
Luckily, the skeleton soldiers under Abaddon did not need to eat or drink. The dry rations they brought with them could be given to Quan Zi Cai's army.
The ten thousand Song soldiers under Quan Zicai's command could be said to be grateful to the Ancient Dragon Capital. This was definitely a life-saving grace. Without the Gulong Capital Command, less than 10% of them would be able to escape back to the Song Territory.
After Bai Xiaowen ordered the Sig Delifa to investigate the enemy, he grasped the movement and route of the Mongol army.
"We have to use this chance to kill Taichar." Bai Xiaowen made a detailed plan.
Bai Xiaowen let the front of the Mongol army pass. The two thousand elite cavalry were surrounded by three thousand skeleton soldiers and ten thousand Song soldiers at Cai Hezhuang outside of Cai Zhou City.
This battle was really intense. The low-level Mongol soldiers all had normal strength. They seemed to know a type of energy known as blood energy. Blood energy had a huge buff to physical attacks, including but not limited to close combat, shooting, and the like.
The small leaders of the Mongol army were all elites. At the level of centurion, they were pretty much all rare elites. There were even a few commander level ones.
Further up, the Mongol Chiliarchs were true leader-level generals. As the main commander, Tatcha'er was a rare leader.
In such a ten thousand man battle, it was definitely not enough to rely on a few lords. Although lords were strong and could kill ten, a hundred, or even hundreds of people, there would be a time when their spiritual energy was used up. As they say, many ants could bite an elephant to death. As long as the enemy soldiers were not afraid of death and continued to charge, they would be able to kill the lords.
Of course, lords could leave whenever they wanted to. They could directly fly out. With their high priority status, no one could stop them. This was where lords were strong. Unless the enemy had lords to hold them back, then it was a different story.
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