He galloped overnight. In the evening, Yuxi Timur finally escaped from the pursuit of the Song army and led his troops to retreat into Jiading City. A fire before the Song people evacuated many days ago had destroyed all the buildings around the county government. There was a thick layer of black and gray on the ground, and the street was empty. Only stray dogs abandoned by their masters wandered around, looking for food in the ruins. When he saw someone entering the city, he barked a few times at first, but soon disappeared into the streets and alleys with his tails.

Last night, the moon was still bright in the sky, but today it was cloudy. It started to rain lightly at this time. The rain mixed with snow particles whipped on his face cold and bones under the action of the wind. But Yuxi Timuer's heart was even colder. His personal soldiers had found a courtyard that was still intact, cleared out a room, lit several braziers, and quickly warmed up, but he sat beside him, hoping that these days would be a nightmare and passed earlier.

That day, Yuxi Timuer led a large group of troops to withdraw from Changshu and turn south. The situation was similar to what he expected. Song Ting did not expect that he would suddenly change the direction of the attack and give up attacking Pingjiang or Kunshan. Instead, he shot a shot outside Kunshan City and headed towards Jiading. The villages and towns they passed along the way did not evacuate, and the looted materials made their dilemma of being about to be put into a pot without rice.

But Yuxi Timuer knew that this little thing was just a drop in the bucket for a 100,000 army, and could not change the reality of food shortage. Only by capturing a slightly shortage of food can one be slightly short of food shortage. However, in Changshu, he had to withdraw his troops in disgrace and avoid Pingjiang and Kunshan, which had heavy troops in front of him. Jiading became an important supply station to maintain his continued southward advance.

The reality is so cruel. The Jiading County Magistrate who heard the news was so resolute. He burned the county government and the official warehouse and the differences between Yuxi Timur and the generals arose at this time. Wanhu Sesanna, Dushi, Shandong, Hebei, thought that his whereabouts had been leaked, and the Song army in front must be prepared. It is likely to be a trap and should not continue to advance south. We should take advantage of the current state of complete troops and still have the power to fight to quickly retreat, regain the Tongzhou Ferry Crossing, and return to Huaidong.

Although Wanhuha Tusun, the capital of Huaibei, Henan, did not explicitly oppose continuing to advance south, he also had great objections to changing the route to advance south. He was not only short of troops and horses, but also lost all his wits and was extremely disappointed. He complained that he might be fighting the Song army in Kunshan, thinking that the Song army might be bluffing and putting down an empty city plan, but now they have missed the opportunity in vain.

Yuxi Timuer knew that he had embarked on a road of no return when he was crossing the south. If he wins, he will go straight to Lin'an and make a fortune. He will lose in his life and die in the battlefield. He will never go back. Therefore, he initially tried to convince the generals, saying that his side suddenly changed the marching route, causing all the deployment of the Song army to fail. Even if he had to report to re-adjust the deployment now, it would take time. There was no strong city to defend or heavy troops in front of him. He could take advantage of the siege of the Song army and take advantage of the opportunity of panic to defeat the enemy.

Yuxi Timuer judged that this was the last mobile force of the Song army in Jiangdong. As long as they were wiped out, Lin'an would have no troops to defend, and reinforcements from other places could not be rescued at all. However, after crossing the river, the generals were still full of doubts about the beautiful prospects he described, and still believed that withdrawing troops was the best strategy. In desperation, he could only force all troops to march overnight according to the order. At dawn, he had to cross Songjiang and seize Huating County, and was lazy in military law.

The army set off after a short rest, but the marching speed was still not fast. There were many rivers and lakes in Jiangdong, and the water nets and rice fields along the river were densely populated, which had a very adverse impact on the mobility and development of the Mongolian Yuan. The muddy paddy fields and the areas along the river made it difficult for war horses to move forward. They could only march along a few limited roads, and their mobility would be greatly reduced if they left the post road.

A hundred thousand army was crowded on the road and could not get up even if they wanted to. In addition, the evacuated Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians destroyed the crossing bridge, forcing them to stop and repair the crossing bridge to continue marching. After a night of tossing and trying to get to the Songjiang River Basin before noon, they had already found that Song army reconnaissance cavalry had been constantly appearing. Then the forefront reported that the Song army had set up camp ten miles away from the river bank and built fortifications, blocking the way forward.

Although he learned that the Song army was intercepting the front, it did not attract the attention of Yuxi Timur at the beginning. He still thought that he had suddenly changed the marching route and had already left the Song army far behind. Even if they learned that they would not set off from Pingjiang and Kunshan, they would not be so fast. Therefore, he determined that the front was just a small army of the Song army.

Even the nearby village soldiers could not stop their own footsteps.

So Yuxi Timur ordered the front to quickly defeat the enemy troops blocking the road and seize the Songjiang Ferry. But the vanguard army quickly reported that the Song army that intercepted them was not a small group of troops, but the most elite guard of the Song army, and it had been fully launched along the river and built a groundbreaking. They were repelled several times in succession and could not break through the Song army's defense line.

Yuxi Timuer was shocked and angry when he heard the news. He was so shocked that his plan had been discovered by the Song army. Pingjiang and Kunshan were both suspicious soldiers, forcing him to change the route and introduced a preset ambush circle. He was angry that tens of thousands of troops at the forefront could not break through a low earth turret. It must be that Hatusun, who was the clearing road, was scared by the Song army. You must know that his troops were adapted from several Aolu Mansions. In the past, they were all non-combat troops responsible for making weapons and transporting baggage. Since then, they have stayed in Henan to farm without going through a large battle. They stopped attacking after being frustrated.

However, when Yuxi Timuer arrived ahead, he was surprised. Looking around, there were many banners of the Song army in front of him, and there were countless people. But he was a long-standing battle formation. After all, he looked at it carefully and found that the fortifications built by the Song army were very simple. They were just used to use materials on the spot and dug soil mixed with reeds. The soil was still wet at this time, and it was obviously built in a hurry just now, and there was no time to reinforce it.

In addition, Yuxi Timuer thought that tying a formation on the back is a taboo in military strategists. If he wants to succeed in this battle, in addition to having the fighting spirit of "putting it to death and living", he must also meet two conditions: to withstand it head-on and not be attacked behind his back. His idea is not unreasonable. Judging from his previous experience in fighting with the Song army, once his formation collapses, his formation will easily be chaotic during the retreat, which is a situation of defeat.

The battle started quickly. Yuxi Timur personally led 8,000 heavy cavalry to attack, and a hundred thousand troops followed closely behind. He was astonishing as a rainbow for a momentum, and continued to attack with unstoppable power. However, the defense line arranged by the Song army was not an ordinary battle formation, and it was not so easy to be destroyed. With the cooperation of guns and cannons, they stubbornly blocked their attack. Even if a line of defense was destroyed, there was another layer behind, layered and multi-line blocking, giving them great damage.

In the evening, with the continuous attacks of the Yuan army, several lines of defense of the Song army were broken through one by one and had to retreat from both wings. Yuxi Timur thought victory was in sight, so he urgently ordered his pursuit to increase his morale of being frustrated. However, when they crossed the first sand belt, they were more stubbornly blocked by the Song army. The fierce artillery fire turned the entire night sky red, causing them extremely heavy losses, and it was difficult to make any progress.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and Yuxi Timuer also realized that due to the rapid attack speed, the distance between the front and rear troops was widened, especially the slow-moving infantry and army, which could not keep up with their attack rhythm. At the same time, the reconnaissance cavalry found that there were signs of Song troops appearing on both wings, trying to detour to the side and divide their infantry and cavalry. Furthermore, since evacuating Changshu, all units have been moving day and night, and only a brief rest in the middle. Now after half a day of fierce fighting, the troops are already trapped and unable to fight again.

At this point, Yuxi Timur decided to stop attacking and gather troops. In order to prevent the Song army from attacking at night, he retreated the entire army to the sand belt on the north side to establish a camp. They surrounded the baggage chariots, and the central army stationed there. They also sent troops to use the abandoned earthen brigades of the Song army to set up defenses around them, and built walls of villages at the east and west ends to form a long encirclement. Since the food and grass had been exhausted, he ordered the killing war horses to be skinned and boned as military rations, and sent the troops to receive food.

At that time, it had already penetrated deep into the hinterland of Jiangdong, surrounded by enemies, and each army was waiting for the battle and did not dare to slack off at all. However, they did not wait for the Song army's night attack. They could only hear the direction of the Song army's position opposite, and they stopped until dawn. But the next day, Yuxi Timur received a report from the scout as soon as he got up. The Song army built a wall in front of the position overnight, dug trenches, laid out ridges, and resisted horses.

In the east of their camp, the Song army dug up the river embankment to divert water, turning the beach into a swamp; on the way to the north, a large number of Song soldiers appeared, dug trenches five miles away, and dug out a deep trenches of several miles and about meter deep, and used the digging of mud and sand to build a long encirclement, cutting off their way to retreat north. The banner of the Song army also appeared in Kunshan, northwest. They used two earth ridges three miles away to set up villages on both sides of the road, blocking the road to Kunshan.

After receiving the report, Yuxi Timuer's face changed suddenly. He didn't care about washing and put on his armor and went out of the camp.

After inspecting, he had to admit that he had fallen into a pit. The army he commanded was besieged by the Song army in an area of ​​more than ten miles east and west, and only fifteen miles north and south, and the army gathered by the Song army was at least twice his own side. This made him very upset. He thought about the entire process from the Song army's crossing north to attack Yangzhou to his plan to go south to Jiangdong, and realized that he had been led by the Song army from beginning to end, and he fell into the trap step by step.
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