"What?"
"Is Ambassador Guo Xuan here in person? Is he in Liangxiang?"
Zhang Rou and Miao Daorun were quite surprised. Both of them were experienced veterans. They looked at each other and shouted in unison: "That's the baggage team from Shandong!"
"Exactly!"
The two of them were stunned for a moment. After a long while, Zhang Roucai said: "Ding Haijun fought hard at Zhigu Village, as if he wanted to protect the Lushui Passage with all his strength, but it turned out that it was just a pretense! Guo Liulang, he wanted to send troops overland to support him from the beginning. Zhongdu!”
Miao Daorun also admired it and said: "When Guo Xuan came, he probably hid his servant Anzhen, right? A team of tens of thousands of people crossed Hebei in such a grand manner. How bold!"
Du Shisheng laughed loudly and was confident: "That's true! So you two can rest assured. When the Mongolian army arrives in Liangxiang, what they will see is definitely not a loose and unprepared baggage team... They will only suffer a loss!"
The defenders on the tower were still in panic. The guards following Zhang Rou and Miao Daorun had just realized that Guo Ning had arrived and were making noises in surprise. The people in the city still didn't know that the Mongolian army's goal was not Zhongdu, and they were spreading panic in waves. Many fast-moving people had already rushed towards the east gate with their families, and there were more women and children crying on the road.
According to usual practice, the Wuwei Army and the Zhongdu Police Patrol were always slow to respond at such times, so they first organized their personnel to go out to try to control the people who were out of control. However, their actions themselves were also chaotic and rough. Wherever he went, he stirred up even greater chaos. Immediately, some irritable sergeants slashed and killed with their swords, trying to get rid of the despicable mobs at once. As a result, the chaos turned into a riot. Thick smoke began to emit from the buildings in the city. At that time, some people took advantage of the fire to loot.
Du Shisheng turned slightly sideways and saw this situation in his eyes.
He is a rather compassionate scholar, otherwise he would not have close contacts with all the three religions and schools in Zhongdu. He was never happy to see people suffering.
But he still laughed loudly, because this laughter represented his ridicule for the corrupt imperial court, represented his confidence in Guo Ning, and at the same time suppressed his panic.
Zhang Rou and Miao Daorun didn't notice that with the laughter, the clothes on Du Shisheng's back were gradually soaked with cold sweat.
After all, the main force of the Mongolian army is nearby. The Dinghai navy has just arrived in Liangxiang and will face a fierce battle before its foothold is stable!
In Du Shisheng's view, Guo Ning came to Zhongdu in the hope of adding some variables to the battlefield in Zhongdu, thereby forming a cooperative situation with Zhongdu, forcing the Mongolian army to give up attacking Zhongdu, and in the process, he could Relying on the panic in Zhongdu, Ding Haijun sought some special benefits. Monk Luo led the team of men into the city quietly for this reason.
A fierce battle with a large group of Mongolian troops is very likely to happen, but it may not be the most favorable situation for the Ding Navy.
Since Guo Ning became the military governor of Dinghai Navy, Du Shisheng has been stationed in Zhongdu as his representative. Therefore, he had not witnessed with his own eyes how the Ding Navy was built up bit by bit, let alone the power of this army.
Whether Ding Haijun defeated Tuo Lei's troops, Chen Nayan's troops, or ambushed Tuo Lei, to Du Shisheng they were just written records, but the Mongols' brutality and tyranny always happened around him. He has seen it with his own eyes many times!
Du Shisheng was not as confident as he showed in judging the superiority between the two.
But what can he do? He is the representative of Ding Haijun. If he does not have confidence, what will happen to Miao Daorun and Zhang Rou?
Don't panic! Du Shisheng kept saying to himself in his mind.
How many Mongolians are there in front of you? It must be more than 5,000, so let him count it as 10,000!
There are fifteen thousand elites around Guo Xuanshi! Ding Haijun can win in Haicang Town, Huanglonggang in Xianping Prefecture, and they won a game in Gaizhou not long ago. This time they dispatched an unprecedented huge force, and there will be no problems! No matter what the enemy is, you can beat him!
While Du Shisheng was constantly encouraging himself, within his line of sight, the billowing smoke and dust that continued to move south from the Jinkou River camp was separating into a wisp and approaching Zhongdu at an extremely fast speed.
This move immediately caused the soldiers on the city to scream. However, the experienced warriors were obviously relieved. Zhang Rou immediately sent people to run along the city wall and shout, telling the soldiers that these were obviously Qingqi used to continue to monitor Zhongdu and were not here to fight.
After all, Zhongdu is a big city, and out of caution, the Mongols had to take precautions, lest tens of thousands of troops suddenly rush out of the city. On the contrary, everyone in the city understood that there was no such power in Zhongdu City, and the person in charge did not have such courage.
This team of light cavalry who came to monitor all had excellent riding skills. They all drove the strong horses and did not care about the horse power, so they ran extremely fast. The entire cavalry team was like a huge arrow missing, roaring across the field, arriving near the city in a blink of an eye, then changing direction and galloping close to the city wall.
Miao Daorun's face suddenly darkened.
He saw that these cavalry were not wrapped in dirty robes like ordinary Mongolian cavalry, but they all wore uniform sheepskin robes with square collars on the right side. In addition to leather robes, their armor coverage rate is also much higher than that of ordinary Mongolian cavalry. There are even several groups of cavalry wearing uniform iron stomachs.
The shapes of the armor and stomach are mostly those used by the Jin army, and occasionally the monkey armor of the Party members can be seen. These are obviously fine items captured in previous wars.
Looking at their weapons, the most distinctive feature is the huge leather quiver hanging on the horse's back, and the densely packed arrows in each quiver.
One such quiver can hold fifty arrows. Usually when cavalry goes into battle, it is enough to bring one quiver. But almost everyone in this cavalry team carries more than three quivers, and each quiver is beautifully decorated and can only be used by distinguished Mongolian warriors.
Miao Daorun gasped, took a step back, and then took a step back.
In Mongolian, the quiver is called "fire", and it is regarded as something that warriors cannot leave behind. Many people regard having the quiver taken away as a great shame and humiliation, and many people believe that as a man, he must lie with his quiver, bow and bones when he dies.
These Mongolian knights galloping under the city, since they carry multiple quivers with them, must be extremely strong and good at shooting constantly. There is a special name for them in the Mongolian army, called "Huo'erchi", which is also the "quiver warrior".
These Huo'erchi are as strong as tigers and wolves. They can hit the eagle in space with their spears, and can throw the fish from the bottom of the sea with their spears in the dark. They regard the day of battle as a wedding night and the tip of a spear as a kiss from a beautiful woman. They are the most brave warriors in the Mongolian army.
After the establishment of the Great Mongolia, almost all the "Huoerchi" were transferred to Genghis Khan's Qixue Army. Although their total number is only one thousand, their status is higher than the same number of one thousand Suwei and eight thousand Sanban protons.
The Mongolian army was rampant across the world and was invincible; the Qixue army was the force used by Genghis Khan to frighten and defeat the 100,000-strong Mongolian Uluth army. And Huoerchi was the core elite of Qixue's army and the man responsible for the military force around Genghis Khan.
At this moment, under Zhongdu City, Miao Daorun saw at a glance two to three hundred Huo'erchi running back and forth, shouting intimidation... What does this mean?
Miao Daorun violently grabbed Zhang Rou who was giving orders to the garrison at the top of the city: "Look! Look!"
Zhang Rou looked at it calmly for a long time, but for some reason, her feet suddenly staggered.
