Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 206 Cutting off the food road, a battle of annihilation

Zhang Yong's idea is to give Wo Kuotai a little guidance and let him discover that the enemy is digging a tunnel.

"Could they have some conspiracy? What would you do if I were the coach of the Kingdom of Jin?" Wo Kuotai asked.

"Father-in-law! This is called empathy. You think from the enemy's perspective, think about how to defeat our own people, and think about the actions they are most likely to take." Zhang Yong said.

"Yes, yes! Your boy is quite talented in war. When Father Khan led us to fight in the past, he often said, if you were our enemy, what would you do?" Wo Kuotai nodded and said.

Genghis Khan often asked them this question before, and they didn't have such a deep understanding before, but Zhang Yong's reminder today made him think of something.

Zhang Yong is right, I should consider some things from the enemy's perspective.

First of all, siege and storming would definitely not work. He himself knew the situation in the city. Not to mention the Jin army outside the city, even if they doubled the number and gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to attack, they would not be able to break through this place.

As for the siege, the Jin people must be able to siege themselves for half a year. After spring begins in the north, my father Khan can lead his troops south.

And there is no possibility of you being besieged. Zhang Yong has clearly seen the nearby roads and your food transportation route.

There are only a few roads. When the time comes, I will take the cavalry to look for it myself, and I will always be able to find your food transport team, and then I will rob you of your food and grass for the next month.

No matter what happens to this group of Jin troops, they seem to be in a situation of death and no life!

"I don't think they have any chance of winning," Ogedai said.

In terms of bravery, they could not compare with their own Mongolian cavalry, and in terms of equipment, they were not as good as themselves and others. After all, they had explosive bags and gasoline.

The most well-equipped Zhongxiao Army had been completely wiped out by Zhang Yong using fire tactics in the previous battle.

The heavy cavalry that could restrain their Mongolian cavalry was completely gone. and. Your heavy cavalry can only restrain that guy from Guiyou. If I personally lead the troops out, they will be restrained by your heavy cavalry. Just kidding!

Even Wokuotai was confident that he would rush out of the city with tens of thousands of troops and annihilate all these Jin troops, but the losses would be greater.

So after thinking about it, Wo Kuotai really couldn't think of any way for Jin Guoren to turn over the cards.

"What if you lead such a Mongolian army to surround us?" Zhang Yong asked.

Your sister's father-in-law, are you smart? I've reminded you like this, but you don't even think about digging tunnels, damn it!
  If this were to be replaced by a drag mine, I'm afraid if I remind the other party a little, they will understand that your military talents are really not of the same level.

"Hahaha! If our Mongolian army besieged this city, I would just use a trebuchet and your explosive packs to bomb it, but the Jin people don't have this!" Wo Kuotai smiled and said.

"Father-in-law! What if you don't have these things!" Zhang Yong said.

"If we don't have these things, according to past habits, if a strong attack or siege doesn't work, I can only dig tunnels." Wo Kuotai said.

In fact, the Mongols' siege techniques were quite simple and crude. Basically, it's to persuade them to surrender, storm and besiege them, and if that doesn't work, dig tunnels.

Wait, dig a tunnel! Then think of the loud noises made by the Jin soldiers outside the city. Even beating the war drum. What did Wo Kuotai think of immediately?
  "These Jin people want to dig a tunnel into the city. Those guys beating gongs and drums outside are to attract our attention. Their real purpose is to buy enough time for these tunnel diggers?" Wo Kuotai looked at it. Looking at Zhang Yong, he spoke.

"Yes, my father-in-law is like this. Now there is only one siege method that the Jin people can use, and that is to dig tunnels, because they have no other way to attack us." Zhang Yong said.

Grandma, you finally thought of this.

"It makes sense, it makes sense. If I were their commander, I would do the same. Otherwise, this battle would be impossible to fight." Ogedai said.

Digging a tunnel to get in was actually a brutal street battle. The Mongolian army would not give up this city. The Jin people were planning to burn everything!
  But I already know your intentions, so I can’t let you succeed!

It's okay if you don't let the enemy know about digging tunnels, but it will be terrible if the enemy finds out about you.

There are so many ways to deal with you, such as pouring water into your tunnel, putting a fire on the opening of the tunnel and using smoke. Anyway, there are many ways to defend the tunnel. As long as you know the enemy's purpose, then the tunnel does not exist at all. any threat.

"Father-in-law, what are you going to do?" Zhang Yong asked.

"Does that need to be said? Naturally, we need to find the place where they dug the tunnel first, and then smoke it with fire! We are also short of water." Wo Kuotai said.

Start looking for it now. After a day or two, if you listen carefully to the sound, you should be able to identify the general direction. Then they will dig a tunnel at this end and connect it on both sides. They will light a fire here to smoke inside, and then send some soldiers and horses to defend it. Basically there is no problem.

It's actually not that easy to dig a tunnel. If you dig some huge rocks to block the road, it will be bad. What's more, the tunnel opening is very narrow. You only need to send a few hundred soldiers to make it possible for one man to pass the barrier. Fumokai situation.

"Father-in-law! Wait until they are about to dig out the tunnel. Calculating the time, the grain transport team should also set off from the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom. We can send a force of [-] soldiers and horses out of the city at the same time to rob these Jin people. forage.

Then these five thousand people went around to the back of the Jin Kingdom, and asked Chahan to lead [-] Xixia troops to form a siege on them.

After they run out of food, we can launch an encirclement and annihilation campaign against them. All soldiers and horses will attack the Jin people at the same time and completely annihilate them. "Zhang Yong said with a smile.

After defeating the Jin people's tunnel battle, Zhang Yong began to plan an encirclement and annihilation campaign.

First cut off the retreat and food routes of the Jin people and let them run out of food. After the ancient soldiers were deprived of food, their combat effectiveness would drop to a freezing point. By then, let alone tens of thousands of people, even ten thousand people would be able to defeat these Jin people. Harvested.

The Jurchens were naturally called slaves, and the Han army was recruited by themselves.

"Well! Just as you said, I will arrange for people to find the tunnel now. When they are about to dig it, I will send troops to rob the grain and then cut off their escape route." Wo Kuotai said.

"Well! We don't need to pay attention to them now. When they dig the tunnel, it will be their end." Zhang Yong nodded and said.

Next. For seven days, the Jin people continued to yell and curse outside the city, trying to force Wokuotai or other heads of thousands of Mongolian households to come out to fight.

A woman's dress was even sent, but this dress was not sent to Wo Kuotai, but to Zhang Yong.

"Haha! Go tell the envoy from the Jin Kingdom to attack the city if you have the guts, and don't engage in these useless things." Zhang Yong said.

Is it wrong that you are still using Zhuge Liang's trick of attacking Sima Yi? But the Romance of the Three Kingdoms won't be written for hundreds of years, so you are ahead of schedule!
  If this woman's dress is delivered to Wo Kuotai, Zhang Yong will probably get it cheap, and his father-in-law won't be too angry. After all, the Mongolians don't care much about the etiquette of these Han people.

If you give him women's clothes, he won't understand what you mean.

Moreover, the status of Mongolian women in the family is much higher than that of Han women in this era.

Giving them women's clothes will only make them feel strange, what are you doing! What to do?
  But they will never be as angry as the Jurchens, who are deeply influenced by Han culture, or the Han generals.

During this time, Wokuotai had accurately found the tunnel dug by the Jin people, and started digging at the connected places. He also prepared a large number of troops for defense and a pile of gasoline there to prepare for a smoke battle.

Three days later, the Jin people finally dug a tunnel into the city. It was about four or five days later than the half month expected by Wanyan Heda, but in terms of time, it should be enough.

Wanyan Heda immediately called his two most capable generals, and then each led five hundred Jurchen warriors into the tunnel, intending to sneak attack the Mongolian army.

And he led all the troops to the city gate on the east side of the Mongols, intending to join forces with the army inside and capture the city as soon as the tunnel was dug.

The Jurchen soldiers who entered the tunnel quickly reached the bottom of the city, but what awaited them was a wave of arrows and flames ignited by the Mongols.

After pouring gasoline on the straw, it was thrown into the tunnel. The thick smoke produced by burning the gasoline and licorice went down the tunnel.

"Ahem! No, the Mongols have an ambush and they discovered the tunnel we dug."

"Brothers, retreat quickly! Evacuate quickly!" However, under the influence of thick gasoline smoke. There are quite a few. None of the Jin soldiers could run out and were smoked to death in the tunnel.

But Wanyan Heda, who was waiting on the city wall, never heard the shouts of killing coming from the city. The city gate did not open.

"What's going on, what's going on, is there something wrong?" Wanyan Heda said anxiously while riding on his horse.

"It's not good! It's not good! General." At this moment, a voice came that frightened Wanyan and him. A soldier from the rear ran over with his face full of black smoke and knelt in front of him.

Wanyan Heda suddenly had a very bad feeling in his heart. "Don't panic. Tell me what happened and why you are so embarrassed?" Wanyan Heda asked.

"Sir, the Mongols, the Mongols have discovered our tunnel a long time ago. They set up an ambush there. As soon as we arrived, we were shot to death by them.

Then they used the fire that is called immortal to burn us, creating billowing smoke in the tunnel. Many of our brothers were trapped inside, and only a few hundred of them escaped alive. "The soldier knelt on the ground and said.

After hearing this, Wanyan Heda felt that his head was dizzy and his body was shaky.

It's over, this is their last chance, the last chance to defeat the Mongols!

"Ugh!"

Wanyan Heda had no choice but to lead the army back to the camp.

That night, taking advantage of the darkness, Zhang Yong ordered five thousand cavalry to plunder the grain roads of the Jin people. Calculating the time, the grain transport team should be arriving soon.

After all, they have been fighting for more than twenty days, and Wanyan Heda's army should be running out of food and grass. According to time calculation, the Jin people's food transport team should be close to here, just in time to send out cavalry troops.

After dispatching the cavalry troops, Zhang Yong also ordered Chahan to lead [-] troops out of the city from the west gate and quietly go around to the rear of the Jin troops.

Before leaving, Zhang Yong also prepared some explosive packets and gasoline cans for them, asking them to set up a strong line of defense behind the Jin people.

To prevent these Jin people from running away.

A huge encirclement network is gradually forming.

At noon the next day, Wanyan Heda was summoning the Jin generals.

Now that the tunnel battle plan has failed, the Jin army has been forced into a desperate situation.

"Generals, please tell me! What should our army do now?" Wanyan Heda sat in the general's position and asked.

I heard my general ask a question. All the Jin generals present bowed their heads and did not dare to speak.

What else can be done? Now it is really difficult for the gods to save it. This city cannot be captured at all with their small number of people.

"The general can only defend with all his strength now. At least we still have Fengxiang Mansion, and we cannot lose the Guanzhong area."

"General Wanyan, let's withdraw our troops! At least we can be saved."

"How can we leave? When we leave, the gates of Guanzhong are wide open, and Fengxiang, Jingzhao, and Pingliang are all within the attack range of the Mongols.

It is even possible to directly siege Tongguan. "A Jin Kingdom general stood up and said.

He was the first to oppose the withdrawal of troops.

"What will happen if we don't retreat? Let's forget it. Attack the city as a whole. Can we capture this city? Even the siege equipment is only half-finished now, so our troops are completely destroyed.

We may not be able to take this city, and if our army is finished, then the land in Guanzhong will truly be given to the Mongols. "A general stood up and said.

Wanyan Heda looked at the quarreling Jin generals and shook his head helplessly, really not knowing what to say.

While the generals were arguing, a scout rode up to the military tent and stumbled down.

"General, yesterday a Mongolian army came around behind us and cut off our army's retreat."

"What! When did they go around?" Wanyan Heda sat up suddenly, stepped forward and grabbed the messenger, and asked.

"Sir! It must have been last night. They took advantage of the darkness and quietly touched our backs."

"I understand, you go down first and explore again!" Wanyan Heda said.

The messenger nodded and immediately left the military camp on horseback.

"Sir, if our retreat is cut off, then the Mongols might be interested in our food supply. He wants to cut off our food route."

"The Mongols want to annihilate us all here, and then take advantage of the situation to seize Guanzhong."

If their tens of thousands of Jin army were completely annihilated, the consequences would be unimaginable.

There is no decent resistance in Guanzhong. The total number of defenders in Fengxiang Mansion, Jingzhao Mansion, and Pingliang Mansion is less than [-].

And basically these places are occupied by some powerful Han people who are stationed there. As soon as the Mongolian army arrives, these powerful Han people will surrender when they see that the situation is not good.

"It's not too late for the generals to attack. We will attack immediately to drive away these 1 Mongolians."

"Yes, general, give the order quickly! If you don't take action now, it will be over if you wait any longer."

"Alas! According to my military order, [-] soldiers and horses are mobilized to attack the Mongolian troops who have come around to our rear. The remaining people will all pack their bags and we are ready to withdraw." Wanyan Heda said in great pain.

After the tunnel war plan was foiled by the Mongols, he had completely lost all hope of making a living. Now the top priority is to secure this army and then return to the Jin Kingdom to defend Guanzhong.

Although the generals were unwilling to do so, they could only act in accordance with military orders.

Soon, the Jin army was organized. In the afternoon of that day, they launched an attack on Chahan's army.

Following Zhang Yong's order, Chahan lit a gasoline fire wall on the outside, then built several simple defenses and began to resist the Jin people's attack.

At the same time, Zhang Yong on the city tower also sent thousands of cavalry, divided into several groups to harass the rear of the Jin army, preventing them from attacking with all their strength.

For a while, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and the Jin army could neither advance nor retreat.

A few days later, the cavalry finally discovered the Jin people's food transport team in a place hundreds of miles away. After the food transport team was completely wiped out, they grabbed [-] shi of food and grass.

After receiving the news, Zhang Yong nodded with great satisfaction.

Twenty thousand is food and grass, and the [-] army is only enough to feed the army for more than half a month. It seems that the Jin Kingdom has really reached the end of its rope.

Zhang Yong no longer hesitated and ordered the five thousand cavalry to join Chahan's ten thousand soldiers and horses. These fifteen thousand men blocked the retreat of the Jin army.

The Mongolian army in the rear started harassing battles from time to time. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wanyan Heda immediately sent out some scout horses, intending to go to the Guanzhong area to ask for help.

And these messengers were all shot and killed by the Mongolian cavalry. After all, there were five thousand cavalry outside the city, and it was impossible to rush out.

Seven days later, the Jin army was completely out of food, and there was no rice in the army that could be destroyed.

However, Zhang Yong did not order a general attack by the entire army, but continued the siege. After another five days of siege, all the horses in the Jin army had been slaughtered.

The soldiers completely ran out of food sources.

When everyone was starving, Zhang Yong launched a general offensive.

There was no suspense in the ensuing battle. The Jin soldiers did not even have the strength to resist. When the Mongolian army arrived, there was only some sporadic resistance.

Most of the Jin army surrendered directly, and the [-] Jin army was wiped out.

(End of this chapter)