The Song army inside and outside Quanzhou City were drinking in big bowls of wine and eating meat. However, the occupied nest was drinking in the big tent. The situation had completely out of his expectation. At first, he learned that the Song army was going to attack Zhangzhou, and he led his troops to rescue the siege, thinking that he could quickly defeat the enemy soldiers as soon as he arrived. However, as soon as he showed up, the enemy soldiers began to retreat and run to Quanzhou before the horse was ready. However, the days of running had exhausted their strength and had no way to return to the rescue immediately. He could only watch the Song army set sail.

Suodu immediately understood that he had been trapped by the opponent's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Although he was annoyed, he was not particularly worried. Because Quanzhou still had more than 10,000 troops to defend, he had his own son in charge, and the city was strong and it was not easy to capture Quanzhou in a short time. So while he stopped, he mobilized the Zhangzhou army to return to the rescue so that the old tricks could be used again to annihilate the invading enemy troops, and ignored the messenger who came to Quanzhou for help.

But the road back to the aid was not smooth. It was frequently attacked by small enemy forces and blocked the road by landmines. The last section of the road took three days to arrive. At this time, the Song army had completed the encirclement of Quanzhou, controlled the surrounding harbors, completed the blockade of the Jinjiang River, and dug two moats. What made Suo feel relieved and surprised was that the city was not not captured, but the enemy did not start siege at all.

Suodu is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. When he saw the formation of the Song army, he knew that this battle was not easy to fight, because the Song army was invincible no matter what. The two moats outside the city were obviously to intercept reinforcements, and the other was to prevent the people in the city from breaking through. Moreover, his naval army was lost. If the battle situation was not good, the Song army could evacuate safely, but they had no choice. However, once the Song army broke the city, it would have to face two moats and a solid city, and it would be extremely difficult to capture the Quanzhou city again.

The relationship between Suodu and Pu Shougeng was as expected by Zhao Bing, the two were not harmonious. Although Pu Shougeng sacrificed the city to surrender the Yuan Dynasty, he knew that he was forced to win over his status due to the situation. In order to win over his commander Dong Wenbing, he not only accepted the tiger talisman, but also recommended him to the Khan several times to take charge of the Maritime Warriors to make money for the country. Later, Dong Wenbing left, and he was in charge of Fujian military and political affairs. In order to prevent Pu Shougeng from occupying Quanzhou alone, he moved the prefecture from Fuzhou to Quanzhou and watched it under his eyes. But Pu Shougeng had the support of the Khan, and his official position was promoted again and again, almost as he was in line with him. Seeing that a profiteer was about to climb onto his head, he could not help suppressing it.

At this time, the Song army besieged the city. One of the so-called "shougen" felt that it was difficult to break through the Jinjiang defense line. The other also wanted to give Pu Shougen a look and let the Khan see if a merchant could defend Quanzhou. However, while mobilizing the troops of the surrounding prefectures, he prepared to cross the river and attacked the Song army warships patrolling the river. Unexpectedly, he "accidentally injured" the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and let him lose a fire at night, and even snatched away several bronze cannons that were regarded as a weapon.

What made Suodu even more unexpected was that the Song army captured Quanzhou City in one battle the next day, thus taking the initiative. He also realized that his mistake in judgment, and the whole country would be shocked if the city was lost. The Khan was furious. While urging reinforcements from all walks of life to come, he also found another place to cross the river to the north city, but he was also worried when he arrived at the city. No matter how he challenged, the Song army was behind the city and refused to step out of the moat. If he got too close, he would be served by crossing the city. Often, he would go without going back. Before the army had gone forward, he would attack the meteor fire. As a result, the city was not captured, and he moved the camp back two miles to prevent the repetition of being burned at night.

After several tentative attacks were repelled, reinforcements from all walks of life gathered at the city. Suo thought that if he wanted to break the city quickly, he could only rely on internal and external cooperation. Just as he stepped up contact with Pu Shougen in the city, the Song army attacked first. He watched the wolf smoke rising in the city but had no choice but to watch Pu Shougen and his son be wiped out. Then the spies who were smuggled into the city came out of information. Pu Shougen and other officials were killed in battle. Then the little emperor started a massacre and executed all the officials and merchants who were related to the Yuan court and participated in the sacrifice of the city in the past day, and sacrificed the murdered Zong son. What made him happy was that although his son was missing, he was not among the killings.

Speaking of which, Suo still admires the young emperor. He can avenge his family at all costs, which is similar to their Mongolians who will revenge if they have revenge. Considering that the Song army has killed what should be killed and robbed what should be grabbed, he can voluntarily withdraw his troops under the pressure of the army, because under this situation, he did not want to risk huge casualties to attack the city, and fight a battle that is difficult to win without the support of the navy.

Suodu was thinking well, but Kublai Khan was furious after learning that Pu Shougen was killed. Two years after the main war in Jiangnan ended, the remnants of the Southern Dynasty became more and more rampant. Not only did he defeat Liu Shen, Ali Hague and Zhang Hongfan and other armies, but he also lost troops and generals. Now he trapped Quanzhou again and killed important officials in the court, which was very irritating. Therefore, he ordered Suodu to encircle and annihilate this Song army in Quanzhou and capture and kill the pseudo emperor of the Southern Dynasty. When the foreign merchants from all countries came, they saw the mighty and prosperity of the Yuan Empire, but not the turbulent Jiangnan.

It is already late April. In May and June, foreign merchants from all over the country will come to take advantage of the southwest wind. At that time, tens of thousands of merchant ships from all over the country will gather in Quanzhou ports, and the mainland merchants will also trade various goods for transactions. This is the main way for the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty to obtain rare treasures from all over the country after the business trips in the Western Regions were controlled by Hulagu Khan, and it is also an extremely important financial source. No wonder Kublai Khan was angry, but there was not much time left for Sodu, so he could only do his best...

On April 20, Sodu, who had no way to retreat, ordered dinner at the Chou time and lined up to attack the city at Yin time. At this time, the army of Fuzhou Road gathered, with a total of more than 50,000 soldiers. Sodu ordered Fuzhou Road Daluhuachi Mengyi to lead the Mongolian army, and Fuzhou Road Chief Yue Tianzhen led the Han army. Considering that the Song army's strength was not weaker than that of our own, Sodu ordered concentrated troops to attack Ximen.

The Yuan army began to attack the city. They first faced a trench that was four feet wide and more than meter deep in front of them. According to the common methods of siege, one was to build a trench bridge, and the other was to fill the trench with soil. The trench bridge was simple to manufacture, and once it was successfully built, a large number of troops could pass quickly, so that it was easy to concentrate troops to break the breakthrough, which was also a choice of siege. After a horn sound, the Yuan army, which was lined up about two miles outside the city, rushed out a team of archers and moved forward quickly to the range. They would suppress the Song army behind the trench and cover the soldiers who built the bridge.

When the archers entered the position, the bridge-building troops following behind quickly over the archers and rushed forward. They held their shields high and pushed the trench chariot hard, trying to get close to the trench as fast as possible. When they were fifty steps away from the trench, it was surprising that they did not wait for the rainy arrow. Just when they were wondering whether the enemy was already intimidated by their momentum and could not pull the bow, there was a sudden loud noise under their feet, and their bodies turned into pieces like the trench chariot and went to the sky. But they couldn't see that the archers behind them were also suffering bad luck.

"Master, what is this?" Yue Tianzhen asked with his ears rubbed his ears. At this moment, there was already a cloud of smoke in front of him. Five siege cars had disintegrated and turned into a pile of rotten wood. The undead soldiers crawled back in panic.

"The sky-shaking thunder is the sky-shaking thunder buried by the enemy soldiers!" Suodu said expressionlessly, "Continue to attack the city and attack along the path I just walked!"

"Go again!" Yue Tianzhen waved the order flag, and several teams of soldiers rushed out of the trench cart, but this time they were much more cautious. They didn't notice that there were no arrows falling in the sky, and they had to see if there were any abnormalities under their feet.

Arriving at the place where they were attacked the last time, the Yuan army soldiers who pushed the trench chariots all let go of their steps. The scene was so miserable. There was a big pit two feet deep, with a wide mouth of more than meter, and was completely smoked. The trench chariots had been blown up to pieces, with broken corpses scattered around them, and a few undead struggled on the ground, screaming, which was creepy. But they did not dare to stop and pushed the trench chariots around the deep pit. At this moment, what they were most worried about was that the Song army not only did not attack, but was silent and could not even see their personal figures, which just meant that there was still ambush in front.

"Sank the pit..." A trench cart walking on the right side suddenly sank down. The soldier who was pushing the cart beside him shouted, and his feet fell down. Immediately with a "boom", one of the wheels of the trench cart also fell. Fortunately, the trench cart fell down only by one, but it also tilted half of the body, and could no longer move.

'ah……'

‘Ah…’ The body of the car was crooked. In order to prevent it from being hit, the soldiers pushing the cart hurriedly jumped away to both sides, but they felt a pain under their feet and were pierced by something. They cleverly knew that they were ambushed and dared not move anymore. Some of them fell to the ground in severe pain, and their bodies were pierced by countless bamboo sticks buried under the floating soil. Blood squirted wildly and died instantly. For a moment, no one dared to move anymore and stood at the scene.

‘Swoosh…’ At this time, the Song army archers behind the chest wall of the moat suddenly appeared, shooting a rain of arrows to cover the Yuan soldiers, and then a rocket shot out to ignite the trench cart.

"Go again!" Suodu's face twitched a few times and ordered again.

"Master, this kind of attack is not enough!" Yue Tianzhen said worriedly. They had already killed and injured hundreds of people without even touching the edge of the trench. Even if they had a large number of people, they could not bear such losses.

"The Song army is cunning. If the attack is stopped today and the arrangement will be made tomorrow, and more people will die!" Suodu said sternly.

"Yes, I will obey the order!" Yue Tianzhen said gritting his teeth, waving the order flag to attack again.

Perhaps the Song army had used up the ambush. As soon as they approached, they fired crossbows and destroyed all the trench chariots. They failed several times. The more than 20 trench chariots prepared were all destroyed in front of the formation. It was noon at this moment, but they had no inch. Seeing that the city was right in front of them, the attack was slow to achieve results, and morale was inevitably hit. It was really unpleasant to stand in the hot day in the sun and hungry and thirsty.

"The infantry took turns to rest and eat. Use the cavalry to fill the trenches!" Suodu looked at the sky, then looked at the generals who were a little impatient.

"Master General..." Meng Yi was shocked when he heard this.

"The Khan strictly ordered that Quanzhou must be recovered by the end of the month. Do you want to violate the order?" Suodu said sternly.

"The Grand Commander, the last general dare not. The Song army is powerful and powerful. If you use cavalry to fill the trenches, you will suffer a lot of losses. It is better to find another way!" Meng Yi argued that he knew that using cavalry to fill the trenches was a common method used by the Mongols when they entered the Central Plains. They used cavalry camels to bring firewood or soil bags, and quickly approached the trenches to throw the firewood and soil bags into the moat. They repeated this until a road was filled out, but they often suffered huge losses.

"What are you doing?" asked Suodu.

"Turn the people to fill the trenches!" Meng Yiyan said.

"Now Jiangnan is our land of the Yuan Dynasty. The Khan ordered that the people should not be slaughtered at will. Have you forgotten?" Suodu frowned and said after hearing this.

Suodu also knew this method, which was extremely cruel. He caught all the people around him and drove them to fill the trenches with his troops. If the defending generals were soft-hearted and refused to shoot arrows and shoot the people, they could only watch the moats being filled up until the city was under the city. What was even more cruel was to drive the people directly into the ditches and use humans as filling until the trenches were filled up, and subsequent soldiers attacked the city with dead bodies. The Mongols used this method to sweep across West Asia and scatter countless cities in the Central Plains.

However, in the battle to pacify Jiangnan, Kublai Khan listened to the suggestions of the Han ministers, and changed the previous bloody massacre and deterrence methods, but used a gentle policy to appease the hearts of the people, so as to reduce resistance and quickly complete the battle of unification. After seizing Jiangnan, a series of decrees were issued to maintain the rule, prohibiting the massacre of the people at will, in order to maintain the prosperity of Jiangnan and gain more wealth. Therefore, the sojourn did not dare to abuse the strategy of expelling the people, so as not to arouse civil rebellion.

"I know!" Meng Yi was not a Mongolian person, but a native of Jinan, Shandong. At best, he was a northerner. However, Daluwachi, who guarded the road, had to be the Mongols at first. He was able to achieve this position because he made great contributions, but he became more fierce than the Mongols. After hearing this, he gritted his teeth.

"Remember, the Song army's bows and crossbows are strong, so you must not advance in large groups. Instead, you must disperse the formation. When you throw things, the horses will not diminish. Go and return quickly!" Suodu also found a lot of experience through several contacts with the Song army. He understood that it was the city captured by the huge lethality of meteor fire and the powerful crossbow, so you must avoid the front and not be strongly shaken.

"The last general will obey the order!" Meng Yi bowed and answered the order, then swung the order flag to mobilize the army to prepare for firewood to fill the trenches. He also understood that the role of siege cavalry was very small, and the war horses could not get to the city. The roads in the city were tortuous, and the war horses could not run fast, and the impact power was greatly reduced. Its main function was to intercept the enemy troops breaking out of the city, and pursue the fleeing enemy soldiers. The work of filling the trenches could only be done by them.
Chapter completed!