A few days later, the fleet of the combined Song and Yuan missions arrived at Xiangyang Province, which had been the seat of the Great Song Dynasty Jingnan Road and was still in the map of the Imperial Palace, but now part of the Yuan Jinghu Province. "Words * love * first * hair

Standing on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Han River, Xiangyang City is very majestic, across the river from Fancheng, once upon a time it was the most reliable frontier fortress of the Great Song Dynasty. In the absence of Guo Jing and his wife and those martial arts masters, they held the Tartars and attacked fiercely wave after wave, and was known as the "Iron City".

At this moment, Liu Yu on the bow of the ship looked at the tall city wall under the sunset, but what came to mind was the wail before Lu Wenhuan was killed, "A certain has been the imperial border of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 30 years, and a certain has lived up to the Great Song Dynasty." The screams did not cease until the gray-haired head was cut off, and this was where he had fought.

Maybe someone Lu is not wrong, his family and in-laws supported the last decades of the Great Song Dynasty, and undertook the defense of the entire Jinghu Lake and most of the river, but with both power and wealth, how could the imperial court fail him? As for his resentful rescue failure, the culprit is precisely his nephew Fan Wenhu, the moment Xiangyang opened the city, a pillar of the country who was deeply expected by the public became a ~ road party, such a person is far more destructive than other ministers, the so-called "traitor is more hateful than the devil", how could Liu Yu let him go?

On this trip, the mission fleet that followed the river did not stop in Ezhou, but went straight to Xiangyang through the Han River. Due to the congestion of a large number of ships in front, it took more time for the ships to enter the port, and those ships looked newly built, both warships and cargo ships, just looking at the direction they were traveling, they could also know what to do and where to go, and now that he saw it with his own eyes, Liu Yu knew that the statements in the survey were not exaggerated.

Xiangyang Mansion is now the material transfer center of the Yuan people, from the dock to the city on a short section of the road, people and horses, vehicles are constantly coming and going, if it is not for the banner of the mission and the dredging of the Yuan people, it is likely that even the road will not be crossed, Lian Xixian peeked at Liu Yu's face, and found that the latter was unmoved, I really don't know if it is calm ~ Kung Fu is good, or I don't know anything.

"Revisiting the old place, Liu Shizhi seems to have gained? Now under the rule of my Great Yuan, there is no more disaster in this place, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and the prosperity is greater than in the past, I don't know what the service system thinks. ”

"Really? Liu has heard a sentence, 'The whole world is not the king's land', Shangshu, what do you say. ”

Lian Xixian was stunned, and then shook his head, this person is really a person who does not admit defeat.

According to the itinerary, the mission will rest here for a full day, and then abandon the boat and go ashore, after which it will be mainly overland, and the speed will be greatly accelerated.

The main gate of Xiangyang City collapsed a corner on the tower, which is the result of being bombarded by the back artillery a few years ago, so many years have passed, no one has thought about repairing it, looking at it from a distance, a group of "sunset remnant building" of the poignant beauty, very some postmodernist tone.

"See your face clearly, is it that brute?"

On the high platform of the city tower, a middle-aged man pointed to the envoy who was walking into the city gate and asked, and the object of his question was a thick man with a beard. He was dressed differently from other Mongol soldiers, with a felt hat and leather robe, and only the iron armor was faintly exposed on his shoulders, and the big man looked at the light of the torch again, and there was a kind of uncertainty in his eyes.

"It was too dark to see clearly, this person? There is a feeling of familiarity, but it doesn't look like it. ”

"Isn't it or doesn't it look like it?" The middle-aged man was not satisfied with this vague answer, and said with some displeasure.

"Not really."

Dahan stared at it with wide eyes for a while, and finally shook his head, dozens of steps away, the person only had an unclear silhouette, no matter how he looked and behaved, it was far from the person in his memory, he didn't dare to completely deny it, he could only say this kind of answer.

"Forget it, Ali Hague, you have to remember to be restrained, the Great Khan is really angry this time, if there is any bad news reported, I can't protect you. Bear with me, wait for the southern expedition to start, and make a few military achievements, I will speak before the Great Khan. ”

The big man didn't answer, his eyes were still fixed on the figure in the distance, if it wasn't for that brute, how could he have fallen here? As soon as he thought of that night, he was full of hatred, and his eyes unconsciously brought a rebellious color, this abnormality was fully seen by the middle-aged man, but he didn't say anything.

"Record."

While they were staring at others, they didn't know that there were also people secretly staring at them, and in a wine shop in the city against the city wall, several men dressed as merchants were observing the movement on the side of the castle tower through an open window, and one of them was holding a clairvoyant mirror, and said while watching.

"There are forty people coming, five people in the entourage, and the person who entered the city yesterday is the Tartar guard, which should be a hundred households."

"Yes or no? How many times has the shopkeeper said that the words "may" and "should" should not appear again, and the description must be accurate. ”

Of course, this request came from Liu Yu's instructions, he was really fed up with the arbitrariness of the ancients' expressions, and others couldn't influence him, but his subordinates, of course, had to be strict, and it was precisely because of this rigor that he won the respect of Li Tingzhi and others, because they also needed such accurate information.

"It's a hundred households, Ezhou, which arrived two months ago a few months ago, should have a very high status, not subject to the control of the local station, what is the name of the post, I'm sorry, the name of the Tartar is too ugly, I must inquire clearly next time."

The reason why they were targeting those two people was because they were concerned about the people in the mission, of course, this was just a routine inquiry, and they didn't know what the other party wanted to do, unless they made targeted moves, they would take further measures.

A man who looked like a leader shook his head and no longer refutated, and casually recorded what he had just said on a piece of paper, these records will not be left behind, they will be destroyed after they are reported through the guò microphone, as for what they see to do, it is someone else's work.

"Shopkeeper, today the city has been reported everywhere, the new Han army has three thousand households, the Tartar cavalry army has one thousand households and five hundred households, the name of the commander and general is waiting to be investigated, and there are 245 new carts into the city, of which 187 carts are loaded with grain, 20 carts of wood, 18 carts of arrows, and 10 carts of armor, all of which are from Guide Mansion."

"The brothers at the wharf outside the city came to report that there were eighty-six big ships and thirty warships going out of the city, carrying a thousand households of the Han army, forty-two ships of grain, and fourteen ships of ordnance, and they were sent to the direction of Ezhou.

Li Shiyi listened to the reports of his subordinates, and from time to time he said "um" that he was listening, such reports would occur every day, all of them were some boring figures, but the owner had said that these things would be the foundation of victory in the future, and what they did was far more important than killing a few Tartars, which Li Shiyi was convinced of.

"Do you want to report it to Jiankang immediately?"

"Wait for all the reports to be gathered, calculate a total and then report it, by the way, from now on, send a copy of this number to Anqing Mansion, and this will be the case in the future."

Li Shiyi is located in a Zhuangzi outside the city, Xiangyang City has been war-torn for many years, the outside of the city has long been out of people, after the Yuan people got the city, those borderless lands were all sold, the price is still very low, this Zhuangzi is they bought in the name of the Xie family, connected with hundreds of acres of land nearby, became a secret stronghold.

In a large courtyard where he was, the same thing was being done everywhere, much like the telecommunications center in later generations, countless news came here from all directions, and then after verification, summarization, and then sent to the place where it was needed, Li Shiyi was also dressed like a landlord with only a few maids who pinched their feet and beat their legs.

"Those things should be used as well as possible, the defense of this periphery should be strengthened, there can be no luck, once there is something wrong, destroy them immediately, remember, people can die, things can not be lost."

Li Shiyi walked to the corner of the room, pointed to a thing and commanded, the thing was cylindrical, with a wooden handle sticking out from both ends, and a sergeant was sitting on a horse, shaking the wooden handle vigorously, and there were two yellow and white lines in front of it connected to a dark green box, and the box flashed with yellow light.

There are three such things in this room, as well as in the other wings of the courtyard, and it is said that they can replenish the food for those microphones, so they have become the treasures of the spies, and they will try their best to protect it without Li Shiyi's orders, but the men in charge of this place do not dare to ignore his words, and nod their heads in a hurry.

Li Shiyi didn't stay here for long, as soon as the mission departed, he had to follow, he came just by the way, seeing that everything that should be told had been advised, he no longer spoke, but quietly watched the brothers do things.

show_read();