A big river separates the two banks, like a hand stretched out by a god, dividing the two worlds, the ice ballast in the north of the river in December is knotted layer after layer, squeezed by the biting river water to make the sound of glass breaking, and the south bank across the river, there is still a kind of green smell in the cold wind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, Zhao Yingding, who knew Jiangzhou with the bachelor of Duanming Hall and the secretary of the military department, was like being frozen by the cold ice, and he was cold from head to foot.

Under the tall city wall of Dehua County, countless people are passing around the city, the shouts of calling for their fathers and mothers are endless, more people are hugging on the edge of the moat, watching the drawbridge rise high, they are loudly begging for the defenders, slowly turning into cursing, and finally there is a push, I don't know who shouted "swim over!" The scene was completely chaotic.

People leaning on the riverside may not be able to swim, not to mention that there are young children among them, Zhao Yingding looked at the heads of those people who rose and fell on the river, and the hardness in his heart was melted little by little, even when Chongqing City was besieged, at the most critical juncture, he had never been so desperate as now, because he knew that there was a support army outside, Zhang Yu would not sit idly by and watch Chongqing fall and ignore it, but now? Where are the reinforcements.

"Dashuai!" A native conductor fell to one knee in front of him, followed by a second and a third...... Around him, all the local garrisons fell to their knees, and this sentiment also infected those brought from Shu, when the last one, his cronies, the new Jiangzhou Governor, did the same.

Zhao Yingding sighed and shook his head: "Open the door." Then he closed his eyes, unable to bear to look outside.

The drawbridge was still not lowered, but the city gate was opened from the inside, and the people who swam across the moat climbed through the mouth of the sheep and horse wall, and one by one they rushed to the city gate.

But the demons don't just eat people, they don't want these defenseless people, but the seemingly tall and well-guarded state city in front of them.

The Yuanren cavalry, which had been following behind, suddenly stopped, and countless foot soldiers rushed up from the gap, and those who rushed ahead without exception carried long ladders, which were not used to climb walls, but to climb over the wide moat.

Their feet were much faster than the people, and soon a large number of long ladders were erected on the surface of the river, and these foot soldiers did not step on them at the first time, but stood by the river with their swords to prevent the people from scrambling, and the foot soldiers from behind rushed up the long ladder, bending down, holding wooden signs, and effortlessly stepped on the long ladder, and rushed to the opposite wall of sheep and horses.

"Stop the enemy!"

At the shouting of Zhang Dutong, all the defenders returned to their positions, but after a long time, the enemy foot soldiers continued to step through the moat, and still not a single arrow was fired, because among those foot soldiers, there were still their relatives.

Zhao Yingding stood on the city tower, his eyes had lost their brilliance, and it was only at this time that he woke up, why did people persuade him to move the state city to Hukou County, because the other party knew early on that it would be this result, his time was too short, and he didn't have time to grasp the hearts of the people in a state, and he was unwilling to use the strong, as a result, the wall was not strong, the clear field was not enough, except for the number of defenders barely expanded to 5,000 people, basically nothing was done.

At the four-person group meeting, both Li Xianggong and Zhang Shijie on the other side of the river asked him to hold on for ten days, originally he didn't think it was too difficult, defending the city was already familiar to him, and all of the more than 1,000 people he brought were like this, and in these three months, at least let the newly recruited local guards also share their experience.

But when all this happened today, everything came to naught, Zhang Du roared hoarsely, and finally let the defenders understand the situation in front of them, either resist or be defeated, the battle under the sheep and horse wall has begun section by section, the city gate was vigorously pushed by the sergeants inside to close it, but let the people outside squeeze away little by little, the situation is already extremely dangerous.

Not to mention ten days, can you hold on for ten quarters of an hour, Zhao Yingding has no hope, he was stunned for a while, he suddenly rushed to the edge of the city wall, pointed down and shouted: "Release the arrow, release the arrow!" ”

The guards were dumbfounded, for he was referring to the people who had gathered at the city gate, and there were already quite a few Yuan foot soldiers mixed in, and they approached the city gate step by step, just waiting for the moment to rush in.

Zhao Yingding saw that no one responded, snatched the bow and arrow from the guards, and shot an arrow without looking.

"Rolling wood, rocking...... Let them all out! ”

The defenders knew that there was no way out, that neither military law nor the enemy outside the city was a dead word, and as a flurry of arrows was fired, the people finally understood that this was war, and they began to flee under the walls, at least no one would shoot them there.

When the people fled, there was no pressure outside the city gate, and the two iron-wood wrapped gates were pushed up by the soldiers, and before the gate was closed, the Yuan people's foot soldiers took over the actions of the people before, and the gate was resisted again.

"Splash it down and burn these turtle sons!" A Shu commander personally took the big spoon, poured the boiling oil into the iron barrel, under the pull of the noose, the iron barrel full of oil was pulled to the top of the city, the sergeants on both sides pulled the wrench suddenly, the iron barrel turned over in the air, the dark fire oil poured down along an acute angle of nearly fifty degrees, and a miserable howl suddenly sounded under the city gate, and a large number of Yuan people foot soldiers covered their heads and faces and fell to the ground, but this is not over.

"Huh." With a bang, an arrow was stuck in the mud ground filled with fire oil, and a bright flame burned behind the arrow, and the fire spread like a stream of water in an instant, and the Yuanren foot soldiers who were stained with fire oil changed from black people to fire people, and one by one they got up and fell, and became charred corpses in the flames.

The war was finally brought back to normal, and the Yuanren foot soldiers, who had lost the cover of the people, could not gain a foothold under the long-range attack at the head of the city, and were driven away by the defenders behind the sheep and horse walls, so they could only retreat step by step across the moat, until they retreated beyond the range of the opponent's arrows.

"This person has some rules, Xie Qing, what do you see?" Kublai Khan did not sit on his palace-like chariot, but came to the boat of Xie Cheng, the commander of the naval army, because only in this way could he get as close as possible to the city and see the whole battle situation from the side.

The first wave of attacks did not work, and did not annoy the ambitious Great Khan, because it was just a risky attempt, and it was good to succeed, but it was nothing, and he had all the strength to spare.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, Zhao Yingding, the warden of Jiangzhou, was originally appointed to Shuzhong, and was transferred back to the dynasty for some reason, and was later sent here by the Song people."

So that's the case, Kublai Khan knew what he was talking about, the plan of the two roads of troops and horses in Shuzhong to encircle Chongqing Mansion was broken by each other, which is not a big setback, so most of the ministers surnamed Zhao are from Chongqing Mansion, no wonder they can deal with such a complicated situation.

"It only took one day for Ta out to cross the Huaishui, and then it took three days to take Shouchun City, Ali Hague led the army to break the Song people's water army, but it was only two hours, and Yuezhou was even more self-defeating, how long do you think this Jiangzhou City, under my eyes, can last?"

"Your Majesty, please give the minister two hours!" Xie Cheng knelt down without hesitation and grabbed the ground with his head.

"Haha!" Kublai Khan suddenly laughed and patted his helmet: "If you want to compete with Ah Tinghan, that can't be done, the loyalty of the Xie family, I have seen it, let this opportunity be given to others, second boy, don't you say?" ”

Xie Chenggui, who was originally standing behind him, unexpectedly mentioned himself, quickly lifted the corner of his robe, and knelt down deeply: "The Great Khan is wise, and the Xie family is willing to break his bones for the great cause of the Great Khan." ”

The civil and military officers on the same boat looked at the favor received by this old son, and they were all jealous, but no one dared to show it, but praised them in unison, and patted the sweat's ass by the way. And just behind them, a fleet of hundreds of civilian ships had already approached the shore of Jiangzhou, and what was unloaded from them was neither weapons and armor, nor heavy grain and grass, but timber as thick as a bowl.

"Marshal, let the lowly lead people to rush again." Under the city of Jiangzhou, a disgraced Han army thousand households did not dare to raise their fists and plead, and Ah Tinghan, who was riding on a horse, suppressed the anger in his heart and did not vent it to him.

He knew very well in his heart that the Great Khan was watching from a short distance, neither returning to the palace behind him, nor sending people over to question, which was an attitude in itself, and there would be no more opportunities, and if the next attack did not work, even if he was a Mongol, he would not be able to escape military law.

"Take your men to Buber, and tell him that he is faster, and that it will not be good in an hour, and that he will be sent to the Great Khan to be punished."

Although the enemy army retreated, Zhao Yingding's heart did not feel relaxed at all, he had never seen so many enemies, the huge army formation was neatly spread out under the city, and what they tried their best to repel was just a drop in the ocean, and the black and white sea was about to flood, he had no doubt about this.

"Go and let people replenish arrows, flying stones, and fire oil."

He was also in despair with the local garrison, who seemed to have more banners and denser banners than the spears on the city, and those who had been driven by the Tartars were hiding under the city, and no one dared to open the gates, but no one knew what their fate would be.

In the face of such low morale, Zhao Yingding couldn't even say a few words of encouragement, and after ordering the guards, he climbed on the battlements and stared blankly at the black and white sea of people.

In the midst of his gaze, there was movement in the enemy formation, and out of the gap in the phalanx of foot soldiers came a group of men, in groups of two or three, neither wearing armor nor carrying weapons, but carrying a long log, which seemed to be very heavy, otherwise it would never have been carried by two or three men, and strangely enough, they put the log on the muddy ground in front of the formation, and retreated, and then another group unloaded it in its place, and so on until the wood was piled up in a stack, and then stopped.

Then there was a group of craftsmen carrying large bundles of rope on their backs, and tying the wood one after the other, and about to form a shelf, and the craftsmen hung a wheel on it, and indexed it out with ropes, and all the men pulled the huge wooden shelf up with a sharp force.

If it weren't for a long wooden arm attached to the wheel, and a net pocket tied to the back of the wooden arm, anyone would have thought that it would be a siege vehicle, because the height of the entire shelf was almost level with the head of the city.

However, as soon as Zhao Yingding saw the formed appearance, his face turned pale, and his lips trembled and he couldn't say a whole sentence.

"Little ...... Be careful, cast ...... Lapidation...... Machine! “

He was right, the wooden shelf was indeed a trebuchet, more than two hundred paces from the city, a distance from which nothing could be hit, but as long as the size of the shelf was seen, no one would doubt its power.

By the time the craftsmen had dragged a huge wooden chest, filled it with dirt under their noses, and hoisted it with rope to the other end of the wooden arm, all the guards understood what was coming.

"Try it." A man dressed as a man of color stood near the wooden shelf, looked around, felt that there was nothing wrong, and gave an order to the group of craftsmen in the unskilled Chinese.

Hearing his command, several craftsmen immediately brought a stone from behind the battle, not the kind of regular round bullet, but a natural stone that I didn't know where to dig it, with edges and corners, and an irregular polyhedron.

Several craftsmen forcefully put the stone into the net pocket at one end of the wooden arm, and pulled the long arm off with a pull hook, and at the same time the large box at the other end was pulled into the air, and the leader of the craftsmen at the head glanced at the man with colored eyes, saw him nod, turned around and waved his hand.

"Put."

The wooden arm that was pulled down by a group of craftsmen was released in an instant, and the large box that had lost its clamp immediately fell, and the huge gravity bounced the wooden arm up, and the net tied to the back of the net jumped high with the stones inside, drew an arc in the air, and flew towards the city in the distance.

"Shh

Stones the size of half a human body flew past the city tower, and under the eyes of Zhao Yingding and the guards, they directly crossed the curtain pulled up by the city head, and smashed into the street below the city tower, and a large pit immediately appeared on the stone paved street, and the stones popped out of the pit until they touched the wall on the side of the street before stopping, and a crack slowly appeared on the wall, and then extended like a spider's web, and finally collapsed.

All the guards who witnessed this were stunned, and no one dared to imagine what would be left if that stone fell on them.

"Well, in an hour, knock out all these stones."

The man of color checked the wooden shelves again, and saw that there was no sign of them falling apart, and nodded in satisfaction.

Under his command, all the wooden shelves standing in front of the formation began to bombard as before, and huge stones were constantly being fired out and filled the sky, and immediately new stones were brought from behind the formation, as if there was no end to it.

"Zhang Qing, you have experienced the Jiankang War, tell me, how are my cannons compared to the Song people?"

On the river, Zhang Rongshi, who was called by Kublai Khan, was still immersed in the shocking picture produced by the salvo bombardment of 10,000 cannons in the distance, suddenly heard the question of the Great Khan, and subconsciously said a word.

"That's excellent, of course."

"Well said, this thing will be named 'Xunyang Cannon'." Kublai Khan slapped his palm on the women's wall, looking excited.

When everyone reacted, they found that the roar in the distance had disappeared, and a white flag was raised on the city of the Song people, and they descended.

Anqing Mansion, which is separated by a river, when the Yuan people invaded Jiangzhou, of course, they will not forget here, but unlike the other side, since Huangmei County in Qizhou, there are almost no people, and Susong County, Taihu County, and even Wangjiang County along the Yuanjiang River, such a situation has to wait until Anqing City, all of which are the same.

The nearly 200,000 troops prepared by the Yuan people for this purpose were equivalent to a pounce, and they were unable to obtain any supplies from the enemy territory, so they had to stop after capturing the empty capital city and wait for their Great Khan's next order.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Shijie, who was far away in the mountainous area of Tongcheng, received an official edict from the imperial court, saying that he was the envoy of the Qingyuan Army and served as the military of the Governor's Mansion at the same time.

It was only one day, and Jiangzhou City fell, which made him unbelievable, you know, since three months ago, he and Li Xianggong and others had already informed them of the truth, and they didn't expect it to drag on for long, but it could never be only one day!

"The Tartars bombarded with huge cannons, the city towers all collapsed, the walls were damaged in many places, and the defenders were mostly new pawns.

The spies' explanation did not relieve the depression in his heart, Jiangzhou could not be stopped, there was a smooth road ahead, Chizhou, the Taiping army, and the Nankang army would fall, and what was even more troublesome was that the Tartars who broke into Anqing Mansion had no worries, and it was a matter of time before he fought with himself, and he would be in a situation where he would be attacked on his back!

Do you really want to retreat into the Dabie Mountains as Liu Yu said? At this moment, Zhang Shijie actually remembered the plan that he thought was very ridiculous before, without him, he was really desperate now.

"Immediately tell the people to retreat in the direction of Wuwei Army and Hezhou, this place is no longer to be feared."

"And what about me?" This problem is not only the concern of his subordinates, but also the military horses of the Yuan Xia Department under his command.

"I have to go around the neighborhood for a while to delay the escape of the people."

At this moment, Zhang Shijie's gaze is extremely firm, not to mention the difficulties, but even if he wants to leave, he can't leave anything to the enemy, which has almost become a certain belief, deeply engraved in his mind, because the lesson on the other side can be said to provide him with a very intuitive example, a counterexample.