As the Perak Army got closer and closer to Jiading City, Niulin's siege orders became more and more urgent. According to reconnaissance reports, the Pili Navy ships were only half a day away from Jiading City, while the field division led by Cao Ergou could reach Jiading City in two days despite the harassment of cavalry. This made the battle-hardened Niu Lin was worried. If 10,000 or more new auxiliary troops arrive, he will not be anxious at all but will be happy, happy that military exploits are coming to his door. Judging from the situation reported by Hudu, the Perak army coming to Jiading is by no means a weakling, but an extremely difficult opponent. What's more important is that the opponent also has more than a thousand cavalry. If you don't deal with it properly, it will be difficult for you to retreat.
At this morning's military meeting, he made countermeasures in response to the Perak Army moving south: The new auxiliary armies of Jianzhou and Longzhou went to the banks of the Min River to build civil positions and set up siege weapons to prevent the Perak Army and naval forces from approaching Jiading; suddenly Du still led his cavalry to lag behind the Perak army and waited for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack; Yazhou and other new attached armies still attacked Jiading City with all their strength. Regarding this arrangement, the Mongolian generals readily obeyed the orders, while the new generals of the annexed army were full of flattery, loudly praising Niulin for his brilliance and martial prowess. Naturally, Cao Zhizhou also had a flattering smile on his face, but in his heart he asked all the female relatives of Niulin, and secretly cursed the other new annexed generals as sycophants.
The new auxiliary troops who received the order to attack the city began to attack crazily, because behind them was Niulin's supervising team. If they advance, they may die but they may gain glory and wealth, but if they retreat, they will inevitably lose their lives. However, their attack only caused more damage to the Jiading city wall, more damage to the siege equipment, and more damage to the defense facilities. Compared with the losses of the defenders, the losses of the newly affiliated army were very heavy. Even the Yazhou army, which had been attacking perfunctorily, was in mourning. Cao Zhizhou, who really couldn't bear the casualties, wanted to repeat his old trick and tried to trick his barbarian soldiers from the Yi and Tibetan tribes into attacking the city. These barbarians have already suffered more than half their casualties, so they are willing to kill them again. Seeing that he was too weak, Cao Zhizhou pointed at a bunch of heads hanging on the fence of the camp, trying to use Niulin's order to fake the power of the tiger. In the past, the barbarian soldiers were strong and strong, but Cao Zhizhou coaxed and begged for mercy. Now that more than half of them have suffered casualties and their strength has been greatly reduced, who will still tolerate them?
Unexpectedly, the leader of the barbarian soldiers didn't take his advice at all, and stared at him angrily with his neck raised. Seeing that the Yi and Tibetan barbarians refused to obey orders, Cao Zhizhou suddenly became very fearful and wanted to order to kill them all and seize the property they had robbed. Although these barbarian soldiers fought bravely, they were also greedy. They robbed many wealthy women along the way, especially when they attacked Hongya and Jiajiang cities, they gained a lot, which made the Yazhou soldiers very jealous. The Yazhou soldiers have long disliked these Yi and Tibetan barbarians. In their opinion, these barbarians are really unkind. After eating the meat, they would not even leave a mouthful of soup for the friendly troops. They got benefits but did not bite the hard bone of Jiading. They really belong to the Those who couldn't afford it early had no advantage. When they saw Cao Zhizhou's order, they formed a formation and wanted to rush over.
When the barbarian soldiers saw this, they naturally refused to restrain themselves and formed formations to fight. Just as the two sides were preparing to fight, a group of Mongolian cavalry came quickly to separate them. Niulin on horseback came with a rein in one hand and a whip in the other. The accompanying soldiers drew their bows into the shape of a full moon, preparing to fire. After Niulin asked about the reason for the two novices pecking each other, he became even more angry and cursed both sides. The interpreter beside him explained the curse words in Chinese and Yibo dialect respectively. At that moment, he ordered Cao Zhizhou to lead the Yazhou soldiers to continue the attack on the city, and also ordered the Yi and Tibetan soldiers to camp ten miles north of Jiading City. The official road there was the only way for the Perak Army to go south.
Although both sides were not satisfied with Niulin's order, they had no choice but to obey under the strong intimidation of the Mongolian cavalry. In Cao Zhizhou's view, since they have fallen out with the barbarians, they should be eradicated completely. Otherwise, when they return to the land of Yi and Fan, it will be like letting the tiger return to the mountain, bringing endless trouble to Yali and Diaoyan Prefecture. The Yazhou soldiers were even more unwilling. The women who had robbed her with money were really coveted, and it was a pity to let those barbarian soldiers take her away. In the eyes of those Yi and Tibetan barbarians, Niulin's order was really unfair. Everyone knows that Jiading is the largest city in western Sichuan. There are not even a little bit more wealthy women in the city than in Hongya and Jiajiang. He transferred himself before the city was destroyed, obviously because he didn't want to fulfill his previous promise. In order to attack Jiading City, we have suffered more than half of our casualties. There is no merit but hard work, and no hard work there is also fatigue.
Unfortunately, his arm could not twist his thigh, so the Yi and Tibetan barbarians had no choice but to camp in the north. Cao Zhizhou also became angry and ordered his men to attack the city. Seeing that both sides were ordered to leave, Niulin led his troops and rode towards the Minjiang River. He did not go here to inspect the river defense situation, but to cross the Minjiang River before the arrival of the Perak Army and Navy. Just before the military meeting this morning, Kudu sent someone to tell him that the Perak army heading south was unstoppable. The enemy took advantage of the hilly and low-mountain terrain, and the cavalry and infantry cooperated very skillfully. The cavalry on their side could not get an advantage at all. After two days of delayed attack, the other side's cavalry casualties were actually less than our own, which was unimaginable before. If the Perak Army reaches Jiading City and deploys artillery, they will be unable to resist it.
Niulin secretly retreated to the east bank of the Minjiang River with his soldiers, intending to return to Chengdu. Just after the military meeting this morning, he had quietly sent someone to notify Hudu, ordering him to lead his cavalry across the Min River quickly and join the cavalry on the east bank. He prepared dozens of transport ships in advance in the reeds on the east bank, which could allow Hudu's thousand cavalry to cross the river in half a day. In Niulin's view, as long as the 2,000 cavalrymen of the headquarters did not suffer major losses, the battle of Jiading would not be considered a complete failure. As for the newly attached troops, they need to undertake blocking and deception tasks. They can retreat in batches only after all the Mongolian cavalry have crossed the river. Then the new auxiliary army of Jianzhou retreated, then the new auxiliary army of Longzhou..., and finally Yazhou and its affiliated Yifan soldiers. In the eyes of the Mongolian army, the newly attached troops were also divided into different levels according to the length of time they surrendered. Yazhoujun has been a dog for the shortest time, so naturally he can only be ranked last.
As a result, the new auxiliary army behind the break will inevitably suffer disaster. In the eyes of Niulin and other Mongolian generals, this kind of loss is a pity but acceptable. After all, in his eyes, the new annexed troops are just cannon fodder and consumables. The Yifan barbarians were the first batch of consumables. As soon as they arrived at the official road ten miles north of Jiading City, before setting up camp, they heard the faint sound of horse hooves coming from ahead, and the sound became louder and louder. At first they didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just Mongolian cavalry. Niulin told them that Hudu led the Mongolian cavalry to intercept the Perak army. With the invincible Mongolian cavalry in front, the Perak Army cavalry obviously cannot come in large numbers. Even if sporadic reconnaissance cavalry comes, what is there to fear? The Yifan barbarians knew that Hudu and his cavalry had crossed the river to the east bank of the Minjiang River.
A company of cavalry from the Perak Army appeared on the official road ahead. The rapid running of the horses made the ground tremble slightly. When the sharp-eyed Yi Ti barbarians discovered that the knights were not wearing Mongolian attire, nor were they flying the familiar Mongolian flags, the more than a hundred knights had already rushed hundreds of meters in front of the messy camp. The Yifan soldiers were brave and fierce and good at mountain fighting, but they had poor discipline and were not good at fighting in formations. They could resist the impact of cavalry in a hurry. Under the impact of the horse hooves as big as the mouth of a bowl, these Yifan soldiers either fled in all directions, or were either killed or injured with their stomachs broken and their bones broken. In less than half an hour, this one-sided battle was over. After the leading Perak Army company commander ordered his men to take a short rest, he went straight to Jiading City without cleaning the battlefield.
