On the official road along the river from Dangtu County in Taiping Prefecture to Wuhu, the road surface that is more than ten steps wide is crowded with fleeing people, and it is a coincidence that this road has ushered in two such routs in a row in just a few months, but these people were chasers at that time, and now, they have become even more wolf than the Song people at that time.

Bo Yan, who was dressed in an ordinary soldier's shirt, and the only few remaining personal soldiers were inconspicuous in the team, and they originally wanted to maintain some prestige, but after a few days of escape, they have now become disgraced, and they have long lost the appearance of the commander of the first army, and the ordinary soldiers around him don't even know that this haggard-looking middle-aged man is his own commander.

After the brigade ran out of Jiankang Mansion, the Song people stopped the pursuit, taking advantage of this vacancy, Boyan and others did a lot of retraction in Dangtu County, and the large number of defeated soldiers re-arranged the team according to their respective commanders, and they found a very problem, the army had no food and grass, and even the dry food that the scout cavalry usually carried with them did not have time to bring.

At this time, the Song people's implementation of the strong wall cleared the wilderness to play a role, sent out to fight the grass valley scattered cavalry to run the horses foaming at the mouth, and failed to bring back a grain of grain, here is not like the grassland, are developed thousands of years of residential areas, there is no game to fight at all, the only living thing in the mountains and wilderness may be mice.

Helplessly, Boyan discussed with Ah Shu and others, except for retaining dozens of horsemen as spearheads, the rest of the horses were killed to satisfy hunger, although compared to the huge number of heads, it was a drop in the bucket, but the bottom was meat, and saving food also supported them to walk for a few days.

In order to maintain the morale of the army, Bo Yan refused to let him lead people to ride horses first, and insisted on walking with ordinary foot soldiers, but these could not be eaten as food after all, seeing that the food had been out for almost a day, the soldiers who were hungry and had to hurry quickly slowed down, lowered their heads one by one, and the little morale that had been inspired earlier was gone.

It can't be said that they were unprepared, as early as the day before yesterday, they sent fast horses to the nearest grain and grass assembly point, but it was far away in Tongling, Chizhou, and it was still half a day's journey away from Dingjiazhou, the battlefield of the Great War at that time, not to mention that this is the center of Taiping Prefecture.

Looking at the city that was gradually approaching in the distance, Boyan felt extremely remorseful in his heart, this is the county town of Wuhu that was slaughtered by them, if it wasn't for that action, he would have been able to lie in the city and rest now, but now, Boyan seemed to be able to hear the laughter in the sky, it was tens of thousands of unjust souls watching how they were unlucky, karma, Boyan couldn't help but shudder.

Most of the crowd here escaped from the camp in the west of the city where he was, and those in the other direction, Boyan felt sad when he thought about it, it was close to 100,000 people, and only half of the cavalry led by Ashuhan had run out, although he had not received the exact news, but intuitively, Boyan did not think that they could break through.

How to explain to the Great Khan was no longer the focus of his consideration, since he did not die, he must bear most of the responsibility, but when asked why he lost so badly, how did he answer? Boyan still can't believe that this is something more terrible than the failure itself.

"Huh!" There were bursts of cheers from the riverside, and Boyan knew that it was some Han soldiers with good water characteristics catching fish in the river, because there were no special fishing equipment, they could only rely on their agile skills to play chasing games with the fish, so the daily catch was very small, and it was distributed to everyone, and even drinking a bowl of thick fish soup became a luxury.

These people are the original naval army, Zhang Rongshi, a fool, actually let people burn Dazhai, and buried the naval army that finally formed a combat force, it is nothing if people die, and then recruit it, it is nothing to kill the horses, the Mongols have never lacked that, but this boat, it takes a lot of time to build, and I don't know how much effort it takes to become an army.

What's even more infuriating is that he can't condemn the crime, this fiasco, what he has to do now is to appease him and take the responsibility himself, so as not to chill the hearts of these people. Somehow, Boyan suddenly thought of the slogans that were painted in the empty town, and the words became a prophecy, and he almost lost his life.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded in front, and several horses galloped to this side, and after the dust faded away, Boyan saw that the tall man on the horse was Ah Shu, who had been in front of him. Seeing that several of them slowed down and looked towards the team, Boyan knew that there must be something to find him, so he motioned for his soldiers to say hello.

"The reconnaissance cavalry in front met a few cavalry who passed the message, Ali Hague led people to Yuezhou upstream, from here all the way to Xiangyang, there is no our sailor." Seeing Boyan's figure, Ah Shu jumped off the horse, didn't have the time to be polite, and directly said what he had heard.

After hearing this, Boyan's heart sank suddenly, the messenger of the message had just arrived, and Ali Hague must still be in the direction of Yuezhou and had not returned. Regardless of victory or defeat, it is impossible to let the Ezhou direction support with a naval army, and the Ezhou side does not know their situation, so naturally they will not think that they have no food and grass, and then send people there? Boyan had a headache.

"Dashuai, as soon as you enter Chizhou, you have to go to collect grain, even if you rob it, you have to feed yourself, as for the life and death of the Song people, I can't care about it." Ah Shu said the purpose of his coming, originally the road was very smooth, and basically did not disturb the people much, they were all based on appeasement, and even had to collect less than Song Shi, but now, Ah Shu's meaning is very clear, let's go back to their old jobs, otherwise these people may not be able to survive.

Boyan was speechless for a while, before going south, the Great Khan kept telling him to kill as little as possible, and he promised that he would be "Cao Bin in the world" to decide Jiangnan if he didn't kill. The shape is stronger than people, even if he doesn't nod his head and enters Chizhou, how can these soldiers who are only afraid of being so hungry that even people can eat can restrain them? Tongling's grain storage has already been delivered, and the back is still far away in Jingxiang.

"Just according to what you said, if you get food, don't kill if you can, don't kill it, this Jiangnan, we will come back in the future." Boyan added weakly, he also knew that there was not much difference between this and not saying it, the defeated soldiers and the hungry soldiers, put them in the countryside like a beast into a flock, Ah Shu agreed disapprerovitously, and led the people forward.

This southern expedition has come to this point, even if it is over, a complete defeat from politics to military, even the great khanate who personally aided the Great Khan, and the golden wolf head representing the glory of the tribe have become the trophies of the Song people, and they want to wash away this shame I don't know when, Boyan was stunned in place for a while, and sighed long with his back to the sky.

The entrance of Dongting Lake to the lower reaches of the river presents an irregular semicircle, like the open mouth of a fierce beast, and at this time, those high war ships dotted on the lake are like sharp teeth in their mouths, as if they are ready to choose people to eat.

Behind the female wall of the three-story deck, there stood a rough-looking Mongolian man, he held the small stone-throwing support wood in the middle, and his eyes drifted to the lake in front of him, where there was a small island, the Song people called it "Jun Mountain", and the harbor under the island was where the Song people's naval army was located, at this moment, there were only a few small cruisers on the lake, and all the main ships were gone.

Dayuan Jinghu Province Pingzhang Ali Hague was very puzzled, originally the Song people and his navy confronted him across the lake for several days, he did not attack but quietly transferred reserve troops from Ezhou, ready to break the enemy by surprise in one fell swoop, who knew that just ready to stop, the Song people disappeared as if they got the news.

Dongting Lake is too big, hundreds of thousands of boats are hidden, if you want to find out, it is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack, but if you want to take Yuezhou, you must solve these water armies, otherwise you can't even get on the shore, he stared at the direction of the water village for a long time, it was still difficult to make up his mind, and he could hear the footsteps of "kicking" from the wooden ladder behind him.

"Zhong Chou, tell me, what is the reason why the Song people suddenly avoided the war?" The person who came was a Han man in his thirties, Ali Hague called his words, and asked without looking back, although the two were superiors and subordinates, the conversation was very casual, and the Han people stepped forward and looked up, not at all formal.

"So-and-so still said that, the Song people must be waiting for reinforcements, as for how they got the news, I don't know, according to so-and-so, it is still a direct attack on the past, forcing them to fight, and the victory or defeat is immediately visible." After pondering for a moment, Zhang Hongfan, the deputy marshal of the Han army, who marched tens of thousands of households and the Han army, turned his head and said.

Reinforcements? Ali Hague knew that he was talking about the direction of Jiangling Mansion upstream, which was originally their goal, which was the location of the road governance of Jinghu North Road, and it was also one of the few large cities, with population, acres of land, and taxes far exceeding those of other state armies, and only by taking Jiangling Mansion could they be regarded as controlling this road.

The commander of the Song people, Gundam, is a general, cautious and experienced in the use of soldiers, and it is not easy to deal with, so Ali Hague will want to deal with the naval army in front of him before he arrives, but if the enemy can't avoid the battle, will he rush to the well-defended water village?

"Pingzhang, make up your mind, if you don't fight, you can only withdraw, and you can't delay. If you fight, you are willing to be a pioneer and drive for Pingzhang. Zhang Hongfan clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, Ali Hague was about to open his mouth to give an order, when he suddenly found a signal from his clipper not far away.

"It's late, they're already here, and they're pouring out, a good Gao Shijie, and we've all been swept away." Hearing Ali Hague's words, Zhang Hongfan was stunned, and looked in the direction of the incoming ship, the lake in the upstream direction was like a forest, the sails were like clouds, and a large fleet of ships drove over.

"Order, the whole army will turn back." Ali Hague no longer hesitated, waved his hand and issued an order, the herald immediately sent out the order, the flags of the major ships have signaled, the fleet began to turn around, Ali Hague looked at the direction of the Song people's water village with some unwillingness, and found that the water gate there was wide open, one after another warships sailed out, and Gao Shizhuo came!

On the huge building ships of the cruise fleet, the handsome flag fluttering in the wind also has the word "high" written on it, Jinghu North Road appeasement envoy, Zhijiangling Mansion Gaogao coldly watched the movements of the Tartar fleet in the distance, around his ship, except for the most current row of indeed building boat fighting ships, most of the back are unarmed civilian boats, even fishing boats, but there is an extra flag on the mast.

"Lao Gao, your risky move made the official sweat in fear." Zhu Qisun didn't lie, his fat face was covered with sweat, and he didn't know if he was really scared, or if it was hot weather, he wiped his sweat and said with palpitations.

Gundam didn't answer his words, he did come out of the nest this time, but not to fight, but to scare away the enemy, fortunately the plan succeeded, otherwise with these few warships in front of him, he really might not be able to beat the Tartars, having said that, he looked at the enemy's distant sails, his face was still solemn, and there was no joy at all.