Ananda's face became increasingly ugly. He knew clearly that his affairs could not withstand investigation. Once the Khan or some political enemies took the opportunity to attack, he would likely deprive the military of his military power and even be demoted for it.

However, Ananda had to admit that the Southern Army he encountered was really difficult to deal with. After the collapse of the formation, he was chased by thousands of enemy cavalry in chaos and fled thirty miles away before he could stand firm and gather the troops. Because he was worried that ignition would attract the Southern Army's ideas, he could only summon the fleeing troops with the sound of a trumpet.

Even so, the Southern Dynastic cavalry still followed the sound and surrounded and killed the small cavalry teams that were left alone. They even blew a trumpet to introduce troops who were unknown to the truth into the ambush circle. They ran away overnight and fought, but the Southern Dynasties gave up until dawn. Ananda replied that the inspection troops had lost no less than 40,000 cavalry in this battle, but they did not dare to return to Datong, worried that the Southern Dynastic army had set up traps and waited for them to enter the hub.

Ananda dared not stay for a long time. After identifying the direction, he headed towards Dadu, trying to get rid of the pursuit of the Southern Dynasties through a rushing march. After a day of rapid progress, they set off for nearly a hundred miles with the Southern Dynasties before they dared to get off the horse and rest. However, the enemy's scouts followed like maggots on their bones and kept harassing them.

According to past experience, the Southern Army, dominated by infantry, marched at most sixty miles a day, but it became a tired army and could not fight again. But what surprised Ananda was that he explored his horse in the morning and reported that the Southern Army had already chased them, and was only more than ten miles away from them. He knew that if they were dragged by the Southern Army, their food and grass would be difficult to maintain the remaining itinerary.

In order to boost the low morale, Ananda ordered other troops to go first. He personally led 5,000 cavalry to launch a counterattack against the enemy and cover the army forward. He thought that the Southern Army was still in the marching and had no time to set up a formation. He suddenly killed a retaliation and would definitely put them in chaos. He took advantage of the chaos and retreated quickly, without giving them a chance to surround and kill.

In this battle, Ananda did not ask for defeating the Southern Army, but only to delay their marching speed and get rid of the passive situation. Then the facts were unexpected. When he met the Southern Army, the Southern Army infantry saw that they were indeed riding various carriages, riding captured war horses, and even camels, donkeys, mules and other livestock. No wonder they could catch up so quickly. But he also realized that Datong was already trapped in the enemy at this time, and had obtained so many livestock, and must have received a lot of supplies.

Looking at the chaotic team, Ananda launched an attack without hesitation, but he misjudged the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army. He did not panic and fled everywhere. First, a team quickly advanced to establish a loose line of defense. When they rushed to less than four hundred steps away from the enemy, hail-like shells fell down.

The power of these shells seemed to be small, but they were extremely dense and had almost no interruptions. A fire wall was set in front of them. The war horses were frightened and uneasy. Ananda replied to the direction in time. The cavalry team turned immediately. He tried to detour to the enemy's flank and attack and cut them off in half.

The Southern Army also reacted very quickly. They took advantage of their short-term turning opportunity to build a simple line of defense with vehicles, and rely on the cover of the vehicle array to fight their impact with dense rain of bullets and grenades. When the front team failed to attack and retreated, these Song troops dared to send scattered soldiers to intercept them.

The front team was intercepted, causing a brief chaos in the rear team that followed, disrupting the rhythm of its own offensive. The Song army took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and the two sides were in a melee. At this time, Ananda found that the smoke and dust storm on his side were storming, which was caused by the sprint of the cavalry. He immediately realized that the Southern Dynasty cavalry had arrived and wanted to cut off his own retreat.

Ananda understood that if the Southern Army infantry were entangled at this time, there would be a possibility of being surrounded and annihilated. He decisively gave up the attack and ordered the cavalry to turn away from the enemy infantry again, and walked in the same direction as the Southern Army cavalry that arrived, quickly left the battlefield. The battle between the two sides was only a few quarters of an hour, but Ananda also left more than a hundred corpses, but finally saw the opportunity and avoided greater losses.

In the days that followed, Ananda felt like he was in a nightmare. The two cavalrymen of the Southern Army were pursuing alternately, and they would bite when they had the chance. If they returned to the army to fight, as long as they delayed for a while, the Song army infantry behind would arrive and encircle and annihilate them. If they turned a blind eye to the attack of the enemy cavalry, they would attack their rear army, cut and peel them from the brigade, and encircle and annihilate them.

Although the losses of such battles that may break out at any time are often not large, Ananda is unable to answer and seriously delays their trip. The consequence of this is that food and supplies are insufficient.

Although the grassland army lived in bitter and cold places most of the time, the Mongols were hard-working and hard-working, and were more hungry and cold than ordinary people, and they could still maintain a certain combat effectiveness in food shortages. However, if they were not allowed to eat or spend a long time, they would still die of freezing and starvation. The war horses also had physical strength and were difficult to march for a long time, especially in spring when they had just passed the severe winter and had severe fat loss.

This was not a problem in the past. There were many roads to Dadu, such as post roads, commercial roads, chariot roads, etc. Each road was equipped with many red stations to supply food and grass. In order to facilitate the movement of the Great Sweat in summer and winter, there were pastures around for accompanying war horses to grazing, and there were also prefectures and counties to supplement along the way.

But now many roads are controlled by the Southern Army, Ananda could only walk to Xuande Prefecture to Huailai, and then pass through Juyongguan to Dadu. As the troops who entered the military first had eaten up all the food and grass in Chizhan, the granaries of various prefectures and counties were also plundered, and the villages and towns along the way were as clean as locusts, and the people had already fled.

When Ananda replied that they had arrived, even the grassroots of the pastures were eaten by war horses, and the trees on the road were naked, and the barks were chewed away by war horses. As a result, they could only go further and spend more time looking for horses and food on the pastures. The pursuit of the Southern Army was riding, and the teams that went out to feed were unable to return to the team every time.

Ananda also wanted to destroy the pursuit of the Southern Army vanguard to scare away the pursuers behind. However, the ambush failed several times, but the Southern Army divided them into encirclement and annihilated them. The continuous failures and food shortages made their morale depressed, and the people's hearts gradually dissipated. Some tribal troops left the brigade and acted alone, but when they arrived at most, they did not wait for their arrival. I don't know if they were eliminated or fled back to the grassland.

The team entering the guards became beggars who fled. Ananda knew that only Xuande Mansion could solve the problem at the moment, so they forcibly marched to Xuande Mansion at all costs and forced the city to open with the gold medal tiger talisman in their hands. After the tribes who had been frustrated all the way into the city, they immediately lost control and plundered the city. Not only was the treasury robbed, but the people were not spared.

The burning, killing, looting lasted all day. Before retreating, Ananda ordered all Ding Zhuang in the city to be exiled to supplement the losses on the way. Then he ordered the city to be massacred, and another fire burned the city clean to cover up his bad deeds and issued a closure order, not to spread the matter outside. The court pursued it and blamed the Southern Dynasties army.

After receiving the supplement, they finally got a breather and accelerated their marches for days. They finally left the Southern Dynasties army, and arrived from the north entrance to Juyongguan with the help of the defenders. The Southern Army then arrived, occupied Huailai, and confronted the Juyongguan defenders...

"I think that the responsibility for Datong's defeat and the massacre of Xuande Mansion is no longer important, and it is difficult to find out who is responsible for it. After verification by the ministers, the Southern Army who encountered King Anxi was the personal guards of the Southern Dynasty. Its combat power is the highest in the entire army and has never suffered a defeat. When Yuxi Timur was defeated by him, it was not easy for His Highness to bring the 200,000 troops to Dadu intact." But Mu saw the ministers questioning Ananda, and he also suspected that the loss of Datong's defeat and the massacre of Xuande Mansion are inseparable from him, but now it is the time to use people, so he can only stand up and maintain the overall situation.

"Pingzhang's words are reasonable. How to repel the Southern Army and recover the Central Plains is the most urgent task. Other matters can be discussed later!" Korigis also stood up and agreed.

"Yeah!" Tie Muer nodded. He had just exposed this matter for the time being. He also understood that he could not force him too much. If he threw himself into Song in anger, wouldn't he betrayal? Since he had achieved the goal of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, it would be fine.

"Reported to the Khan, the Southern Army is approaching, and the ministers in the court have different opinions. Some people proposed to strictly guard the passes outside the city and prevent the enemy from approaching the Dadu City; some people think that the Southern Army is powerful, and our dynasty should concentrate our troops in the city and fight the enemy at the city to avoid being defeated by the enemy, resulting in no soldiers available in the city. I dare not decide for myself, so please let the Khan decide!" An Tong stood up and said at this time. He was ordered to preside over the defense affairs of the Dadu City, but the court had a great difference on how to defend the city, and how dare he bear it alone.

"What's the current situation?" Tiemur asked.

"Reported to the Khan, all the guards around the capital have entered the capital, and there have been troops from all directions to be sent to the imperial edict to serve the king. At present, there are about 300,000 troops. In addition, there are 50,000 troops under the government offices and 100,000 rural soldiers formed by Ding Zhuang in the city. If necessary, tens of thousands of people of all kinds can be recruited to serve as soldiers. Now there are 100,000 soldiers, 50,000 crossbows, 10,000 arrows, 10,000 swords and guns in the arsenal. All the grain storage places can be used for the defenders for two years!" An Tong reported.

"Reported to the Great Khan, our army fought with the enemy in Liangxiang and Tongzhou twice, but neither achieved any results and failed to repel the enemy. In addition, more than a hundred battles around the capital were fought, and they were both victorious and defeated, and they could not stop the enemy's offensive." Kurigis also replied, "Now the Southern Army has occupied Huailai, Tanzhou, Liangxiang and Tongzhou, and has controlled all the important roads. The main force of our army is located in Juyongguan and Shunzhou, and the troops in other directions are relatively weak!"
Chapter completed!