In today's battle, although everyone suffered a lot of casualties, they finally won the battle.
Although the situation was very dangerous when he was broken into the camp. The three camps before and after were broken, and hundreds of people were killed or injured. However, in order to boost morale, Wang Shixian still greatly praised everyone in the camp and immediately fulfilled his promise to enjoy wine and meat. .
it is necessary.
Facing the approaching Mongolian army, the prerequisite for Guo Ning to launch a decisive blow was that the military fortresses in Haicang Town and Laizhou remained unwavering. Even if the main force of the Mongolian army will not be deployed to attack the fortress, Haicang Town must at least maintain the power to fight the Mongols.
This is not an easy task. It requires tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire camp to show ten times the courage and confidence. When necessary, they must also bear huge sacrifices.
Therefore, the news of Guo Zhongyuan's victory has been sent to various places in Laizhou by Lu Bu to encourage him.
But that's not enough.
Therefore, the victory over the Mongolian Aljinchi raid is worthy of publicity.
Those Mongolian light cavalry, which are full of stench and look like ghosts, are the sharp blades running at the forefront of the Mongolian army. They have acted like this countless times.
Running at high speed, driving in for a long time, disrupting the interior of the city, causing turmoil, spreading fear, and then causing the seemingly solid city defense to collapse. They have done it too many times and it is so natural; this time they will take the prescribed medicine and prepare to win the victory they deserve. But they failed.
After a fierce battle, when the results were finally counted, it was found that only a dozen Aljinchi died from the heavy swords and axes of Ni Yi's men. And more people died at the hands of the strong men who frantically fought back.
Correspondingly, the two camps that were initially broken through by the Mongols suffered heavy casualties. On the contrary, many of the strong men who later fought the Mongols survived.
As Wang Shixian said, as long as you are not in chaos or afraid, the Mongols are humans and not real ghosts.
There are tens of thousands of people in the camp here, and one person can chop a hundred Mongolian cavalry into pieces with one knife! If you can defeat a hundred people today, you can defeat a thousand people tomorrow!
These words were what Wang Shixian said repeatedly to the people that night.
He arranged extra food and wine, and actually prepared a hundred coins... Each Mongolian cavalry had a consistent life value, and anyone who killed a Mongolian cavalry would be rewarded. What's interesting is that at the end of the battle, there were fewer and fewer Mongolians, and more and more strong men and soldiers surrounded them. As a result, several rewards of constant money were finally divided into five, six or even ten parts, and each person received only dozens of Taihe Tongbao jingling.
Money is always good, and a whole celebration works too.
The people were not controlled by the fear caused by the casualties, and some even began to look forward to what next year's spring plowing would be like after the Mongols were repelled. And Wang Shixian also laughed and dreamed with the people.
He knew that the common people were different from the soldiers. The soldiers had long been accustomed to life and death, but the common people's nerves could not always be tense. They needed a relaxing break. They must be given time to adjust before they can be expected to meet more intense challenges.
The good news is that the main force of the Mongolian army is not yet approaching. After annihilating the Mongolian army sentry cavalry, Wang Shixian pinched his nose and checked their robes, confirming that they had traveled at least three hundred miles and traveled a long way here.
The main force of the Mongolian army cannot march at such a fast speed, so Wang Shixian still has at least two days to improve the defense in a targeted manner.
Wang Shixian has already thought carefully about how to arrange tomorrow.
He was the first subordinate to follow Guo Ning, but now, several people's status under Guo Ning has surpassed him.
If he doesn't work hard, will Guo Zhongyuan get the best of him?
Wang Shixian had a sense of crisis, so he paid special attention to boosting morale and preparing for a war.
But precisely because of the boosted morale, some soldiers inevitably relaxed a little after returning to the camp... This is human nature and is inevitable.
Late that night, at the end of Chou and the beginning of Yinchu, Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu, the strong men on duty, were standing guard on the watchtower west of the camp.
Several watchtowers around Haicang Town are all built according to uniform specifications.
The veterans from northern Xinjiang are most familiar with the rules of the army camp, so these earliest watchtowers built are all solid and orderly. There are clear regulations on how to communicate between several watchtowers and how to distribute checkpoints with the watchtower as the center.
However, as the elite soldiers were withdrawn to the inside of the camp to wait for the battle, and another group of soldiers followed Guo Zhongyuan to Yidu, there were only a few soldiers left in Haicang Town. Most of them became officers and had to lead the temporary The army was adapted from strong men, and a small number of mobile troops were gathered in Wang Shixian's hands.
As a result, there is obviously a shortage of experienced manpower on the outer watchtower side.
For example, the officer in charge of the watchtower where Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu were located was Wang Shixian's old subordinate, but that officer had fought with the enemy today and was very tired and slightly injured, so he had already gone to bed.
Liang Kuo and Ge Qingshu said they were on sentry duty, but in fact they spent most of the time chatting.
Ge Qingshu came from a well-off family and had a better life than Liang Kuo, a poor man. He always showed off his wife's cooking skills and boasted about how delicious the roasted pork was.
As Liang Kuo listened, he leaned against the wall and dozed off.
When he woke up with a start, he found that Ge Qingshu had also fallen asleep. He rubbed his eyes and removed Ge Qingshu's thigh that was pressing on him. He felt sore all over his body.
Perhaps it was because Ge Qingshu always talked about roasting pork. Liang Kuo just had a dream, dreaming that he was being raped by more than a dozen big pigs.
He pressed hard on the sore spot on his shoulder and slowly thought about what happened in the past few days.
Although everyone knew that the Mongolian army was coming, the army and the people had to do their best to prepare for the defense. But the past few days of digging soil and building walls have been excruciating, so it is inevitable to be lazy when working. Many strong men complained that they were tired after working for only a short time. As a result, after a few days, the earthen barriers on the outside of the camp were not enough, and many of the wooden fences on the inside of the camp were very loose.
Someone secretly said that at least there are more than 10,000 people here. Even if the Mongols come, it will not be my turn to go to the city to fight. Even if they fight, I will find a place to hide and then pass. This fortress is not your own land, so why bother? Aren't you tired?
People who talk like this will definitely be despised from now on.
How ferocious the Mongols are, you will only know after seeing them. As the warriors said, they are all killers and beasts! Those hundred cavalry rushed in and killed heads. If there were no fences and trenches, who could resist?
I just regret that the movement was a little slow in the past few days and the fence was not strong enough, which resulted in the death of many people!
If the wooden fence was stronger and thicker, and if the wooden bridges on the southeastern side of the camp were replaced with suspension bridges early, how could the Mongols rush in? There is really no hiding anything about what happened in this fight. If you try to cut corners, you will only end up dead!
Liang Kuo was lost in thought when a rustling sound came from his ears. Is that the sound from below the watchtower, as if someone is moving?
He thought it was one of his comrades in the camp below who was up at night, so he leaned out, ready to say hello.
He looked down and could only vaguely see a few figures. The figures walked quietly into the tent. Immediately, the tent shook suddenly, and someone inside seemed to be letting out a strange, muffled scream, and several dark marks suddenly appeared on the gray tent.
Liang Kuo was startled, and when he was about to shout, someone outside the tent suddenly felt something and raised his head suddenly.
Fortunately, Liang Kuo retracted his body in time and was not noticed by the man. But he was huddled in the watchtower, and his whole body collapsed. In that sudden glance, Liang Kuo saw the face and clothing of the man, and saw their murderous gray eyes... Those were Mongolians!
The Mongols are here again!
Damn, what happened to them? Why does it come so unexpectedly every time?
Is this under the watchtower? Are all the night checkpoints in front of us fools?
Liang Kuo cursed in his heart. But he is just a civil servant, what can he do? He could only tremble all over and shrink into the corner with his hands and feet.
Inadvertently, his foot stepped on Ge Qingshu's hand.
Ge Qingshu yelled "Wow", opened his eyes in confusion, and saw Liang Kuo's face as pale as a ghost, sweating like a waterfall.
Ge Qingshu was frightened and screamed again.
Liang Kuo said sadly: "Stop screaming, the Mongols are coming."
"What?" Ge Qingshu jumped up in shock.
As soon as his figure appeared in front of the window of the watchtower, two arrows shot from below. One penetrated Ge Qingshu's shoulder, and another flew past his forehead, wiping deep blood marks on his scalp.
Ge Qingshu, on the other hand, didn't care at all about the person shooting the arrow below, and didn't seem to feel any pain.
He took a few steps back and stared into the distance dumbfounded.
The moonlight is not bright tonight, and there are dark clouds rolling in the night sky, as if they correspond to the waves of the sea to the north of Haicang Town. The roar of the waves became louder and louder, as if a dark black wave was rolling onto the land, spreading out wide and pressing towards the fortress of Haicang Town.
Compared with this dark black wave, the fortress is too small and too weak.
The wave was getting closer and closer, and fire suddenly lit up in the wave. The fire light increased from ten to hundreds, and from hundreds to thousands, illuminating the wave itself.
It turned out that it was not a wave, but a crowd. Thousands of Mongolian cavalry, riding up and down, looked like black silhouettes in the firelight, and the silhouettes held thousands of swords and guns high, shining with cold light.
What was originally thought to be the sound of the ocean tide was actually the loud sound of thousands of troops galloping. Compared with this terrifying momentum, the raids by those Mongolian light cavalry during the day were just like children's play... Is this the real power of the Mongolian army?
Sharp gongs suddenly sounded from several watchtowers in the rear. Ge Qingshu cursed, took the gong hanging on the wall, and started banging it hard.
Liang Kuo was still huddled in the corner.
"The Mongols are really coming! Are we going to die?" he murmured.
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