Guyu looked at the city in the distance and didn't take it seriously.
I don’t know how many cities like this the Mongols captured in the Central Plains.
He looked at the city of Kiev in the distance, turned back and ordered: "Bedar, you lead three thousand cavalry to attack immediately. If you find a flaw, I will attack the city directly!"
"Follow the order!" Baidaer punched his chest, then waved his hand back and raised the flag.
Behind him, three thousand cavalry followed Bedar, roaring towards the city of Kiev a few miles away.
At this time, the defenders of Kiev City saw the Mongolian army and hurriedly closed the city gate. The Mongolian cavalry walked around the city and suddenly discovered that there was a small gate in the south of the city that had not been closed in time.
"Come in!" With a wave of Baidu'er's scimitar, a group of cavalry sped up and roared towards the small door.
Guiyou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw it from a distance, but unexpectedly the Mongolian cavalry rushed in and discovered that this was a trap left by the defenders.
The cavalry rushed in and found a narrow passage inside. They wanted to exit and ambush the defenders on both sides. They used bows, arrows and stones to kill nearly a hundred Mongolian cavalry. Baidaer could only lead the cavalry to retreat in a hurry.
Baidaer galloped back to the banner and said through gritted teeth: "The enemy troops in the city are ready!"
Guyuk's face was grim. He didn't expect that the Kiev people would dare to play dirty tricks. When he invaded the city, he would cut off the heads of every man in the city to relieve his anger.
Brother Meng said: "Since the defenders are ready, let's set up camp first and then attack the city when we are ready!"
Guiyou nodded with a black face and immediately ordered, "The army will camp on the spot."
The Mongols set up camp, and at night Guiyou summoned the generals to discuss how to capture Kiev.
In the military tent, several people were discussing, when the tent curtain was suddenly raised, and everyone saw that it was Kublai Khan.
Guyu frowned, "Kublai Khan, what are you doing here?"
The attack on the Song Dynasty failed miserably, and after Kublai Khan was deprived of his fiefdom and pasture by Wokuotai, he returned to the grassland without a face and led several of his confidants to run west to seek refuge with his eldest brother Meng Ge in Eastern Europe.
Meng Ge is here to protect him, but the Mongolian nobles don't like to see this kid who ruined tens of thousands of Mongolian elite soldiers.
Kublai Khan looked a little ugly, "Aren't we discussing attacking the city?"
Guiyang and others looked at each other and couldn't help but show ridicule, "We are discussing siege of the city, but what are you doing here?"
Kublai Khan blushed instantly when he was humiliated in public.
"Come and sit down here!" Meng Ge came to Kublai Khan's rescue with a black face. "I asked Kublai Khan to come here. The equipment and firearms he made helped the army capture the city of Kozelsk. He is qualified to participate in the army. Discuss!"
The Mongolian army swept across Eastern Europe, and the fight was relatively easy. It was not until they met the Slavic hero Vasily in Kozelsk that they encountered a decent resistance.
Kublai Khan came to the Western Expedition Army for more than a year. After Meng Ge took him in, he did not let him continue to command the army. Instead, he was asked to manage the craftsmen brought by the Mongols from the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions.
For more than a year, Kublai Khan asked craftsmen to build many sharp weapons for the Mongolian army, which helped the Mongolian army achieve great results in Eastern Europe.
Guyu and others stopped smiling when they saw Meng Ge talking, and the topic returned to the attack on Kiev.
However, Kublai Khan destroyed tens of thousands of Mongolian troops, which not only affected Wokuotai's battle against Zhao Tai, but also affected the Western Expeditionary Army.
Nowadays, the Mongolian nobles are a little timid when formulating battle plans, fearing that their troops will suffer losses.
Kublai Khan saw that everyone had not made up his mind on how to attack the city, so he said to Meng Ge: "Ah, I just asked the craftsmen to make the Pizhou cannon. You can use the Pizhou cannon to bombard the city wall and the city first to create chaos, and then Let the Slavs attack the city with a heavy reward, wait for them to open a gap, and finally let us Mongols go in and harvest! This will reduce casualties and make the tribes fear us Mongolia."
Meng Ge looked at him, "Is it the gun truck you mentioned before?"
Kublai Khan nodded, and Brother Meng immediately said: "Everyone, Kublai Khan has a way to attack the city, and I think it is feasible!"
After speaking, Brother Meng asked Kublai Khan to express his thoughts in public. Everyone questioned a few words after listening, but the pragmatic attitude of the Mongols still made everyone think it was feasible.
Three days later, early morning.
The Mongols set up artillery carts outside the city, and the range of this artillery cart was much better than the previous trebuchets.
The Huihui artillery was originally used by the Mongols when they attacked Xiangyang, but Zhao Tai took the lead in building it when he was defending the city in Pizhou and obtained the right to name it.
After Kublai Khan was defeated in Huainan, he regretted every night that he did not attack Pizhou regardless of the cost.
If he had made up his mind to capture Pizhou and kill Zhao Tai, he would not have suffered the disastrous defeat that followed.
After coming to the Western Expeditionary Army, Meng Ge asked Kublai Khan to manage the craftsmen and baggage. He then hired craftsmen to imitate the Pizhou cannon. Finally, with the help of returning craftsmen, he helped Mongolia obtain this siege weapon in advance. .
Compared with other gun carriages, the Pizhou gun has a long range and is easy to operate.
Ordinary artillery carriages are mounted outside the city and can only bombard close to the city wall. However, due to its long range, the Pizhou artillery carriage can not only fire heavier stones to bombard the city wall, but also throw firearms into the city, covering most of the city.
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In this way, the artillery group can create chaos in the city and affect the defenders' defense of the city.
After three days of calm, the atmosphere over the city of Kiev suddenly became tense. The defenders watched the Mongolian troops setting up artillery groups outside the city, while the Slavic traitors held weapons and formed a formation outside the city.
At the rear of the military formation, among the crowds of Mongolian cavalry, Guyuk saw that the army was ready, and immediately ordered, "Let's begin!"
Because the defenders in the city did not use artillery tactics, and there was no artillery group in the city to threaten the Mongolian army's artillery group, so the Mongolian army's artillery group was positioned relatively forward so that it could cover a larger area in the city.
At this time, when the order was given, the Pizhou artillery group all fired up. First, they threw stone bullets weighing a hundred kilograms and smashed the city wall of Kiev until it was crumbling. Then they replaced it with thunderbolts and threw them into the city. .
"Boom, boom, boom" explosions rang out everywhere in the city, and the soldiers and civilians in Kiev suffered a devastating blow.
Thunderbolts exploded everywhere, setting off flames that ignited the entire city of Kiev.
This day was an extremely terrifying day for the soldiers and civilians in Kiev. It was not until hundreds of years later that Europeans talked about the Mongols coming from the East to attack Kiev, and called them demons from the East, bringing fire from the sky and destroying thousands of people. Mother of the city.
Under the bombardment of the Mongolian artillery group, Kiev fell into a sea of fire, and the city was in chaos. The Slavic servants who were promised a heavy reward immediately launched a fierce attack on Kiev.
After a while, the gates of Kiev were opened, and the Mongolian cavalry swarmed in and captured this famous Eastern European city that had stood for nearly three hundred years.
At this time, the Mongolian army rushed into the city and massacred. A group of Mongolian cavalry suddenly galloped to the banner of the Great Banner. The leading cavalry came to Guyu and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Great Khan has ordered that the Western Expeditionary Army return eastward immediately!"
