With tens of thousands of troops fighting in the daytime, it would be difficult for the commander to understand the overall situation of the battlefield unless he stood at a high position.
If the battle took place at night, it would basically be a blackout.
Kublai Khan was in the camp last night, and the darkness made it possible for him to only listen to the noise, but not to observe with his own eyes the fighting situation outside the gates.
At this time, the results of the battle outside the east, west and south gates have been reported.
Because the three gates were moved by sheep, there were not many gains, but each gate reported more than 200 gains.
Seeing Kublai Khan looking at her expectantly, Zhang Rou gritted her teeth and blushed slightly, "Report to the prince, after counting the low-level positions, I got 2,003 heads."
Kublai Khan frowned, "Why only behead two thousand people?"
There were explosions everywhere last night, and the shouts of killing were endless. The battle was so fierce that Kublai Khan thought it was a great victory.
Although judging from the current statistics, the loss of nearly 30% of the defenders in the city has been good, but it is still far from Kublai Khan's expectations.
Without waiting for Zhang Rou's answer, Kublai Khan asked again, "Have you ever captured or killed Zhao Tai?"
Zhang Rou shook her head, "Judging from the harvested heads, Zhao Tai was not found."
Kublai Khan's face darkened a little, "Have you ever killed the general Zhao Thief?"
Zhang Rou lowered her head and whispered: "Judging from the corpses' armor, no enemy generals have been killed!"
Kublai Khan's good mood disappeared instantly, "Zhao Thief fell into my plan, you will achieve this result."
Kublai Khan admitted that Zhao Taicheng was well defended, but in the field battle, Mongolia still had to look at it.
Zhao Tai left Pizhou City last night. His soldiers and horses lost the protection of the city wall and were suddenly attacked. They must have suffered heavy losses.
When everyone saw Kublai Khan's face changed, the cheerful atmosphere in the tent disappeared, and the generals no longer dared to eat meat or drink wine.
Zhang Rou hurriedly said: "Report to the prince, the battle last night mainly took place at the city gate. After dawn, Beizhi was worried about the crossbow bed at the head of the city and could not send people to harvest the heads, so Beizhi's harvest was actually more than two thousand levels."
After hearing what he said, Kublai Khan touched his short beard under his jaw, suddenly picked up the wine glass, stood up and laughed: "Hahaha, Zhang Wanhu, don't be nervous. You did a great job in the battle last night, come and drink it." This cup."
Zhang Rou stepped forward and took the wine glass, a little embarrassed, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Kublai Khan looked at him with a smile and thought to himself: "Zhang Rou's Han army was defeated by Zhao Tai several times. It is already good to have such a record. Zhao Tai's fellow is also cunning. He must have found out that Zhang Rou is stationed in Beicheng. , specializes in picking weak persimmons. If he had come from the heavily guarded east gate, the whole army might have been destroyed. It is indeed difficult for Zhang Rou to destroy Zhao Tai. After all, Zhang Rou does not have that strength!"
Kublai felt relieved when he thought of this, "Drink!"
Zhang Rou raised her head and drank the wine, thanking her again.
Kublai Khan laughed, gestured for Zhang Rou to take a seat, and then called to everyone: "Come on! Let's continue drinking!"
"Haha~" Many generals in the tent immediately laughed in agreement after hearing this, and the atmosphere became lively again.
At the celebration banquet, Zhang Rou undoubtedly became the focus. Many Mongolian generals came over to propose a toast, which made him quite embarrassed.
On the way here, Zhang Rou was still hesitant about the gains reported by his subordinates.
After all, he only had a few hundred corpses on hand. If his subordinates killed civilians to claim military merit, they might be discovered by Kublai Khan.
On the other hand, he had been tortured badly by Zhao Tai in the past two years. Many of his subordinates followed him and they were starving for nine meals in three days. They did not get any benefits. The family was so poor that they could hardly open the pot.
They had no share in going south to Huainan to plunder, and Pizhou couldn't be conquered, so they had no chance to make money.
Now that his subordinates are reporting their military exploits, if he doesn't report them to Mongolia and defrauds them of rewards, then his subordinates will definitely be dissatisfied with him.
As a result, the team will be difficult to lead.
The battle last night mainly took place under the city wall. Zhang Rou thought that after fighting for most of the night, he lost more than 2,000 people. If Zhao Tai messed up the ambush, the loss should be no less than his own, so it is not too exaggerated to report a gain of 2,000. Results.
Thinking of this, and the continuous toasts from the surrounding generals, Zhang Rou, who was originally a little guilty, gradually integrated into the atmosphere of victory and began to exchange glasses with everyone.
At this time, Kublai Khan waved his hand, directly pushing the atmosphere of the banquet to a climax, "I keep my word, behead one level, and reward ten knives, and the officer's reward will be doubled."
"Your Majesty is wise!" After hearing this, everyone was overjoyed and their morale increased greatly.
Kublai Khan led more than 100,000 people into Shandong. After slamming the nail on Pizhou, he divided his troops into two groups, went south to attack Huainan and plundered, and followed him all the way to besiege Pizhou.
The Mongolian army who besieged Pizhou was naturally dissatisfied when they saw that the Mongolian army marching south had made a fortune.
Now, Wuliang Hetai would be continuously transported from Huainan, and Kublai Khan decided to take this opportunity to reward various ministries.
At this time, he saw that everyone was smiling happily, and then said: "Zhao Tai suffered heavy losses last night. The number of troops in Pizhou City is estimated to be reduced by 40%. I have decided to attack Pizhou again. After you have received the reward, you should attack the city with all your strength!"
Judging from the battle achievements reported by various ministries, Zhao Tai's three thousand men and horses were killed and wounded in the east, west and south gates, and two thousand were beheaded in the north gate. In addition, there are uncountable gains near the city wall. It is optimistically estimated that Zhao Tai lost nearly half of his troops. A conservative estimate is that three to four adults and horses were lost.
Therefore, the current defensive strength of Pizhou City is definitely not as good as before. Kublai Khan wanted to attack again to see if it was true or not. He might be able to break through and capture Zhao Tai alive.
The three towns in Shandong, headed by Zhao Tai, defeated Zhao Tai, and the other two towns were not afraid.
When the generals heard that they were going to attack the city, their faces showed embarrassment.
The total number of soldiers and horses that Zhao Tai sent out of the city last night did not exceed 3,000, and each sect reported that the number of beheadings alone was close to 3,000. It was obvious that each sect had falsely reported their military exploits to varying degrees.
They heard that Kublai Khan was going to attack the city again. Zhang Rou was frightened and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, although Zhao Tai suffered heavy losses, we have no way to restrain the artillery group in the city. In addition, there are no siege equipment!"
Kublai Khan frowned slightly and was about to speak when he raised the curtain and entered the big tent.
He glanced at everyone, then walked straight to Kublai Khan, and then whispered.
When Kublai Khan heard what he said, his eyes became sinister. He waved the man back for a while, and then said to everyone in a deep voice: "The situation has changed! Zhang Rou, you continue to prepare siege equipment, and the other ministries will mobilize the horse army." , secretly leave the camp tonight and go to Yanzhou to rescue Yan Zhongji."
When Kublai Khan went south, he seemed to be invincible, but in fact he did not seriously injure Wu Xian and Li Fen.
Now the soldiers and horses of the two towns are counterattacking, and the Mongolian army has only Yan Zhongji's troops left in northern Shandong, so naturally it cannot withstand the counterattack of the two towns.
Yan Zhongji could not see his rivals in the two towns, so he gave up Jinan and went south to join Kublai Khan. However, he did not want to be blocked by Liu Dun of the loyal army, and was surrounded by Wuxian and Li Fen who came from behind and surrounded Yanzhou.
