![]() ![]() This drawn-out fight lasts nearly a fortnight. Two sides meet in a decisive battle in the fields of white deer the wilderness becomes littered with corpses. In a killing frenzy the Khitan army chases after them up to eighty-miles away, but then Ögedei regroups his forces and launches a counterattack. Routed, the Mongol army scatters into the northern wilderness. Twenty-thousand families either die from friendly fire or beneath the weapons of Mongolian soldiers.Īnother day goes by, and the Khitan reinforcements who have come along the Zhongjing road finally join the rest of their comrades. Shangjing is a scene of devastation, nearly flattened by this great battle. Forty-thousand men once more charge into the city in a fit of incomparable grief. One day later, the Han army seizes the body of their commander back from the enemy. Yet the Khitan army has already made up its mind to burn the bridge behind them and fight to the death, filling the city with their flesh and blood. On the seventh day of the seventh month, Chen and Liao reinforcements fight a desperate battle in the city against the Yuan, and after waves of attacks from Ögedei’s army the Han troops loses its commander-in-chief and is left with little option but to retreat. The Mongol army massacres nearly ten thousand families in the city. ![]() On the seventh day of the seventh month, Shangjing falls. Master post | Characters, Maps & Other Reference Index
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