Just as the battle at sea was coming to an end, Li Tingzhi's army had already crossed the Gaoyou army and entered the territory of Chuzhou, which was already the limit for foot soldiers, almost day and night. However, as soon as www.biquge.info crossed, the speed of the whole army slowed down, and the enemy army was in front, which could be regarded as waiting for work, the more anxious it was, the more it was not in a hurry, and the fighters of this battle were fought back by countless naval soldiers with their lives, and there was no room for any mistakes.

"Xu Si." Li Tingzhi put the thick news into the cage and called the ranking of his henchmen.

"The end will be." Xu Wende clenched his fists on the horse.

"Take your cavalry, set off overnight, be sure to take Yukou Town before dawn, control the dock and the harbor, and hold there at least until noon, as soon as noon passes, if there are no reinforcements, you can decide whether to go or stay, however, the materials piled up there by the Yuan people, all the ones that can't be taken away must be burned, can you hear clearly?" Li Tingzhi's tone was hurried and urgent, but his words were very clear.

"The last general ordered that by noon tomorrow, if reinforcements do not arrive, all the supplies will be burned." Xu Wende solemnly repeated it respectfully.

"Go ahead." Li Tingzhi nodded, waited until he turned his horse and moved away, and waved his hand behind him: "The whole army is stationed in Baoying County today, and the prime minister's line is located in the city. ”

Yuan people obviously did not want to stop the enemy, when his army advanced here, Baoying County was already empty, what the enemy wanted to do, Li Tingzhi did not care, the reason why he rushed over in such a hurry, a very important point is that here, there is no need to transfer, you can directly talk to the spies in front, including Chuzhou City.

Although there has always been news, but if you don't listen to it with your own ears, you still don't feel at ease, when Liu Xingzu's somewhat hoarse voice came from the microphone, Li Tingzhi's inner happiness was no less than his, but he still suppressed the excitement in his heart.

“...... During this time, the Yuan people attacked the city more and more frequently, and the strength was really large, and the casualties here under the subordinates were not small, but according to the previous arrangement of the Xianggong, the injured have been treated as much as possible, and the morale of the brothers is still good, and it is normal to hold on for two or three months, and the handsome came to help so quickly, but things have changed? ”

"Your brain." Li Tingzhi did not deny that the original plan was to launch a counteroffensive at least three months later in order to exhaust the enemy, and Liu Xingzu could guess that it was nothing.

"The Yuan people's offensive in Jinghu has been launched, Jiangzhou has been lost, and we can't drag it here, otherwise the pressure on Huaixi and Jiankang will be too great, according to what you see, in the past two months, what has happened to the Yuan people?" The other party is a party to the war, and he should have more experience than the eyes of a spy, Li Tingzhi attaches great importance to his opinion, and the other party obviously understands this, so he did not answer immediately, but thought about it.

"It's hard to say, the Yuanren's offensive was quite prosperous at the beginning, and it slowed down after a month, and most of the people sent to attack the city were mainly new pawns, day by day, and it seemed to have the meaning of consuming our army's arrows, until yesterday, it suddenly stopped, and the subordinates were still puzzled, it turned out that the army of Xianggong had arrived."

Liu Xingzu just retold what he saw, and there was no definite answer, Li Tingzhi knew that he was out of caution, and didn't want his judgment to interfere with the final decision, in fact, there was no difference between saying it and not saying it, because since the beginning of the decision to attack, it represented the advance of the entire plan, whether the enemy army was weakened, and to what extent, it would no longer be a problem.

After a general understanding, Li Tingzhi has some bottom in his heart, the enemy seems to have known about the actions of the other side, they did not stop it, it must be with the intention of a decisive battle, there are not too many choices on this battlefield, and the two sides can add up to more than 200,000 people all of them, and it is impossible to go west of Chuzhou City, where there is Hongze Lake in the past. Only to the east, that is, in the direction of the sea, from Chuzhou City to Yukou Town, the vast area has flat terrain and few rivers, which is very suitable for the actions of the army.

Of course, this is not the main purpose of his order Xu Wende to attack Yukou Town in advance, what is piled up there is not worth exchanging with a cavalry army of 5,000 people, the main purpose of this is to prepare for the offensive at sea, whether the Song army is victorious or defeated, the Yuan people will use the port to repair ships, replenish battle damage, and transport the wounded, and take him to maximize the impact on the living forces of the Yuan people and completely strangle their sea power.

And in Li Tingzhi's heart, there is still a faint hope, this hope is also in Yukou Town, for this reason, he gambled on his biggest mobile force, which can be said to be at any cost.

However, the cavalry can only play the role of a surprise attack, once the Yuan people are alarmed, the follow-up battle still needs the addition of foot soldiers to consolidate the defense, and perhaps also mobilize the enemy's deployment, changing the passive to the active.

Baoying County, which is located on the side of the canal, has completely lost its former prosperity, and the city is full of broken walls. Li Tingzhi, who walked into the city with his own soldiers, knew very well in his heart that this was not done by the Yuan people, but the consequence of the Qingxiang order issued by himself.

He knew about this scene through the military newspaper early in the morning, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he was still shocked, because how many of them left voluntarily and how many of them were forced, and they would definitely not appear in the military newspaper. In the process of these compulsions, there is no warmth and affection, the soldiers are like bandits, and those who can fight can often be robbed, these accounts, I am afraid that they will all be counted on his head in the end, therefore, this battle is not only fought for the imperial court, but also for the people who have suffered from the disaster, and those invaders are the original culprits of all this.

With this belief, Li Tingzhi did not stay in the city, but camped outside the city with the army, and that night, after dinner, all the main generals of the army gathered in his big tent to decide the next move.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Yuan people are in front, only more than 100 miles away, with their backs to Huaishui, waiting for the battle, they may be fighting tomorrow, or they may be waiting for us to pass, no matter what their plans are, they will march into Chuzhou City tomorrow, for this battle, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced, for this battle, countless soldiers have spilled their blood on the battlefield, for this battle, we have waited for more than two months, and tomorrow, is the time to decide. I don't say any military orders to you today, nor do I say anything about meritorious deeds, only say that the people who were driven away from their homes by us, everything they have suffered, tomorrow will depend on you and the Yuan people, otherwise we will be thieves who harm the people, no different from the Yuan people, if the army is defeated, this minister is faceless and then return to Yangzhou, before you escape, please take off this head together. ”

The spacious tent was silent, and all the people below, including a few governors, commanders, more than ten armies, and commanders, and seven or eight marshals' subordinates all looked at the top in a daze, no one thought that this important minister, who wore many hats and had four powers, would say such a thing, without the slightest excitement in his tone, as if a dying man was explaining the aftermath, and there was even some depression and helplessness in it.

"Dare to ask Xianggong, but there is a change ahead?" After a while, a man standing in the front row had the courage to ask, usually this kind of thing was the work of his confidant Xu Wende, but now that people are not there, the people next to him can't reach that height.

Li Tingzhi's gaze swept over the faces of these people one by one, most of them were promoted by themselves, and they had been following for more than ten years, and the short one was less than half a year, that was a few chief generals from Jiankang City, and his eyes stopped at a few people in the front row, these people were of the highest grade, and they were all the chief officials of a state, such as Taizhou Shousun Liangchen, Gaoyou Shouyu Yizheng, who was almost killed in battle, and the one who spoke, Yang Sifu of Zhitongzhou.

"That's what you all think?" Everyone nodded unevenly, and Li Tingzhi took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve cage and sighed.

"This is before the departure, the coastal control division of the navy army in Chuzhou overseas, defeated the Yuan people's navy, a total of sinking and destroying more than 2,500 enemy ships, the Yuan people's navy commander Hong Chaqiu below the 10,000 households of five, more than 30 people, more than 80,000 soldiers, escapes only thousands, 100 boats, after this battle, the Yuan people's navy no longer exists, and our dynasty has no worries."

Once again, the crowd was stunned, almost thinking that their ears had misheard, what was this? An unprecedented victory, even compared with the battle of Jiankang, it is not much better, you know, the sea is not as good as the land, it is difficult to achieve large-scale capture, but Li Tingzhi's tone is extremely flat, there is no joy at all, according to his words, he has received the news before the army, and it will undoubtedly be a great boost to morale when he said it, so the question is, why?

"What about our casualties?" As a last resort, Yang Sifu made this rafter again.

Li Tingzhi put aside the top piece of paper, picked up the back ones, and read out the numbers and names on them one by one, the long list made the people in the tent tremble, they could guess that the casualties were not small, but they didn't expect that it would be this result anyway.

Before the war, there were more than 1,200 commanders, but now there are less than 200 left, and almost all of them are wounded, the left and right two commanders, more than a dozen commanders, hundreds of commanders, more than 20,000 officers and soldiers were martyred, and even the first army was wounded, and the once majestic giant ship was seriously damaged and has sunk in the sea, but this is not counted.

The chief officer of the system, Ye Mengding, who was in his seventies, came to the battlefield in person, and when he was carried down before the army, his breath was already weak, and his life was on the verge of death.

In other words, this victory was fought back by the naval army with their lives, and they fulfilled their promise and cut off one of the enemy's tentacles, at the cost of fighting it all themselves.

"I'll wait...... We also have the will to fight to the death. "When it comes to this, everyone in the big tent knows what to say.