Time flies to June. After the Battle of Chengdu, the Mongolian army did not rest and recuperate, but divided its troops into three groups and continued to attack the Song army.
The main force followed Pu Zezhi all the way. The Song troops who followed Pu Zezhi were all his close soldiers and did not abandon their chief officers and flee.
After Pu Zezhi's initial panic, he had calmed down at this time, and his troops directly under his command did not collapse due to failure.
While leading the remnants of his troops to flee to Chongqing Prefecture, he continued to collect defeated troops and fought and retreated. Although he was still defeated in repeated battles and lost cities and territory, his entire army was not destroyed in the end, and he also attracted most of Niulin's troops.
Another main force of the Mongolian army pursued the defeated Song army who fled to Yunding City, intercepted the defeated army before it entered the city, and surrounded Yunding City.
Yunding City has many soldiers, strong generals and sophisticated equipment, and has been managed by Yao Shi'an for more than ten years. It is like a fortified city made of iron. However, its fatal weakness is the lack of food and grass due to the large number of soldiers and horses.
Pu Zezhi once mobilized soldiers and horses from Yunding City and promised to provide food and grass, but Yao Shi'an only sent a small number of troops for his own selfish purposes.
He originally wanted to boil it for a while and it would be ripe in the summer, so there was no need to lose strength for food. It's just that man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. After the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Chengdu, the Mongolian army quickly surrounded Yunding City.
The soldiers of Yunding City could only watch the summer grain outside the city being harvested by the Mongols and were helpless. The location of Yunding City is extremely important. The Mongolian army must capture it if they want to gain a firm foothold in western Sichuan, so the offensive becomes more urgent.
After the Battle of Chengdu, Yunding City's military morale fluctuated. What was even worse was that they ran out of food soon after the city was besieged, which caused the defenders' combat effectiveness and morale to plummet.
When Niulin's general Cheli captured the navy dock and a section of the city wall, Yao Shi'an's nephew Yao De killed Yao Shi'an and surrendered to the Mongolian army in exchange for the lives of the Yao clan.
It's a pity that Yao Shi'an, a great hero, ended up like this. After Yao De surrendered, he acted as the vanguard of the Mongolian army, leading the Mongolian army to attack nearby states and counties.
Under his persuasion to surrender, not only Pengzhou, Hanzhou, Huai'an Army, Mianzhou and other Xichuan counties around Chengdu surrendered one after another, but also Weizhou, Maozhou and other Tibetan areas of Jizhou also surrendered to the Mongols, and the government offices in Chengdu Fulu also surrendered. Moved to Jiading Prefecture.
Compared with the main Mongolian army that attacked the Song Army in the first two routes, the other route was the partial division of the Mongolian army. The purpose of this partial division was to conquer the states and counties around Chengdu in order to establish long-term rule over the western Sichuan Plain.
The Mongolian army along this route was divided into many groups, most of which consisted of hundreds of cavalry teams. They attacked the cities and forts if they could, and detoured around the ones they couldn't and plundered the countryside.
The Song army was in the prefectures and counties in western Sichuan. The defenders plus the civilian population consisted of several hundred people, and some even numbered more than a thousand. Although their combat effectiveness was low, they were more than enough to defend the city.
According to common sense, no matter how strong the Mongolian army was, it would be difficult for a hundred cavalry to capture Wubao, let alone capture the prefecture and county cities, but Niulin's men did it.
The Song army defenders pointed out by the Mongols either abandoned the city and fled, or surrendered without a fight after being persuaded, or even took the initiative to ask for surrender.
In just one month, except for a few areas under the rule of the Perak Army such as Xinjin City and Hengyuan Town, the entire western Sichuan including Chongqing Prefecture fell under the control of the Mongolian cavalry.
The only organized anti-Mongolian force in the entire western Sichuan Plain was the Perak Army. It was expected that the uncles and nephews of the Pan family would dedicate Chongqing Mansion to the Mongols in order to preserve its original glory and wealth, but what was unexpected was that it was Pan Luohuan who took the lead in surrendering the city, not Pan Tongzhi.
Because Pan Tongzhi had died in the chaos during the Battle of Chengdu. The position given to Pan Luohuan by the Mongols was that of the county magistrate of Jinyuan, not the position of prefect of Chongqing that he had longed for.
It is said that when Pan Luohuan received the news that Pan Tongzhi died in the rebellion, Pan Luohuan was not at all sad but secretly happy in his heart - he finally got through it.
But he was not happy for long, because when he sent people to negotiate surrender terms with the Mongols, he did not get what he wanted.
The Mongols were not stupid either. They did not agree to Pan Luohuan's condition that he be offered the position of prefect of Chongqing Prefecture.
The Mongols knew that after Pan Tongzhi's death, Pan Luohuan could not control his subordinate counties at all. Among the four counties of Chongqing Prefecture, Yongkang City has long been in ruins. Jiangyuan and Xinjin City are obeying Pan Luohuan's orders rather than declaring them. He can only control Jinyuan County where the prefecture is located, but he can only control a few thousand people and has only a few troops. Only a few hundred.
After learning that Pan Luohuan was negotiating with the Mongols, Xinjin City directly announced that it would break away from the governance of Chongqing Prefecture. Most of the defenders in the city also mutinied under the instigation of Le Quan'an and others, and took all the warships to defect to the Perak Army. Water camp.
This caused Pan Luohuan to lose his bargaining chip, and he could only reluctantly accept the position of Jinyuan County Magistrate while scolding him.
Pan Luohuan naively thought that he could continue his domineering life after joining the Mongols. But as soon as the Mongolian army entered the city, he discovered that he was wrong, and how wrong he was.
The Mongols respect force and rely only on their fists to reason. In their view, losers do not deserve respect at all.
The conquered Han people were nothing more than slaves who could live and die, they were just tools that could talk. As for the Han people who were demoted, they were just slave leaders.
Pan Luohuan was also a man who could adapt to the changing circumstances. He could accept whether the Mongolian centurion stationed in the capital was arrogant and unreasonable, insulted him wantonly, or yelled at him.
Although he is crazy and stupid, he also understands that people have to bow their heads under the roof. The only thing he couldn't bear was that as soon as the Mongols entered the city, they occupied all the women in the city. The most beautiful ones were naturally taken by the Mongolian centurion, including Pan Luohuan's sweetheart Xiao Cuihua.
This little Cuihua was originally the concubine of a silk and satin merchant in the city. After Pan Luohuan entered the capital, he threw the silk and satin merchant into prison and starved to death on the charge of tax evasion, and seized his family property and Cuihua.
After the Mongolian centurion took Cuihua away, Pan Luohuan was so angry that his eyes were burning but he had no choice but to continue to be the grandson of the Mongols.
Although he is the county magistrate, he only has more than a hundred old and weak soldiers under his command. In order to prevent the Han people in the city from resisting, the Mongols deliberately withheld food. Pan Luohuan's men were so hungry that they could not even carry weapons. How could they resist the Mongols?
Pan Luohuan really couldn't bear the life without women. He often took advantage of the fact that the centurion captain of the Mongolian army was out of the city to rob or was drunk, and secretly had trysts with Xiao Cuihua.
This little green flower was also ravaged to a state of disgrace by the Mongolian Centurion. Every time, she cried and begged Pan Luohuan to take her far away from the sea of misery.
It's just that Pan Luohuan promised all the time before asking for sex, but ignored her afterward. He was obviously a heartless scumbag.
Xiao Cuihua was full of expectations at first, then she became disheartened, and then she became filled with hatred. She simply told the Mongolian Centurion about the affair between the two, and cried that it was Pan Luohuan who had coerced her.
After hearing this, the Mongolian centurion became very barbaric. He drew his sword and searched for Pan Luohuan all over the city. Pan Luohuan was shocked when he learned the news from his cronies, stole a horse and fled.
At present, there is no place for him in Chongqing Mansion, and the Pili Army does not want to see him. He is planning to flee to Jiading Mansion to join Yu Dazhong, the son of Yu Xing.
After Yu Xing sent people to recover Qiongzhou, he ordered Yu Dazhong to take charge of Qiongzhou. Since the two state capitals are adjacent to each other, they have many official contacts with each other. In addition, the two are of similar age and are both playboys, so they have very similar atmospheres.
After the failure of the Battle of Chengdu, before the Mongolian army invaded Qiongzhou, Yu Dazhong abandoned the city and fled by boat along the waterway to Jiading Prefecture.
When passing through Xinjin City, he sent a clipper to invite Pan Luo Huan to go with him. Pan Luohuan knew that when he arrived in Jiading Prefecture, the property of his subordinates would be taken away by the extremely greedy Yu Xing and his son. Without the foundation of Chongqing Prefecture, he would have no capital.
Therefore, he rejected Yu Dazhong's ill-intentioned invitation and stayed to negotiate with the Mongols in an attempt to become the emperor of the country.
