The Yuan army tried their best, but the tactics of The Hague in the sea were still successful, although the rear army was also full of firepower, trying to intercept the enemy at sea, but it was still powerless in the face of the swarming enemy ships, and it was really difficult to 'take care' of every enemy ship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info blocking the enemy at sea soon turned into a decisive battle on the beachhead, and the melee battle that Zhao Yu least wanted to see still happened.

In fact, not every part of the coast is suitable for landing, and Qiongzhou is the same, some places are collapsed cliffs, some places are overgrown with mangroves, and some places are rocky beaches, and warships cannot dock. The shore of the estuary defended by the rear army was originally a tidal flat formed by the sediment accumulation brought by the Nandu River, so it was like a mud pond, and some sections were artificially transformed, which caused great difficulties to the landing Yuan army.

But now the tide is at its climax, the embankment and the waterline are only more than 100 steps, and the desperate Yuan army does not think about how to go home at all, and the flat-bottomed warships directly rush to the beachhead by inertia. The pointed bottom warship is to plow a long ditch, crooked ashore, the soldiers on it crackled and fell, no need to think about building a springboard, fortunately as long as the quagmire here is not choked to death by the mud soup, but it can't fall to death.

Of course, it was not only mud soup that greeted the Yuan army, although they dodged the bombardment of rockets and heavy ballistas, but entered the sphere of influence of light ballistas and bows. At close range, it was a fixed target, and the hit rate of the Song army's ballistae was greatly improved, and some soldiers were hit by direct flowering shells before they could get off the ship, exploding a rain of blood, accompanied by a terrible wail. The worst thing is that the person who was hit by the burst ballista was floated on the water for many days and was pierced through a transparent hole just after stepping on the land.

The dead are happy, the unlucky are half-dead, and in this era, even if they are injured in the arms and legs, they will suffer a few more days, or even a lifetime. The archers of the Song army also watched the excitement for a long time, and the enemy finally had a place to use when they went ashore, which was also an opportunity to strive for military merit and get a reward, and launched a series of shots against the gathered enemy troops under the order, ruthlessly harvesting human lives.

Under the fierce attack of the Song army, the enemy soldiers who came ashore struggled for their lives in the mud, looking for a place to hide. There are only a few lonely reefs on the shore and seaweed pushed to shore by the waves, and even a rabbit cannot hide it bare. The arrows rained down on the island, and the shrapnel whistling after the explosion flew sideways, and in an instant the beach was covered with corpses, and the sea was dyed pink.

However, it has to be said that the Yuan army is a division of a hundred battles, after the initial panic, braving the rain of arrows to erect shields to block the rain of arrows to establish a simple line of defense, crossbowmen and the Song army began to shoot, covering others to use the boats and broken planks to arrange the barriers, with the rapid gathering of people scattered on the beach to form a force to be reckoned with, and then began to look for the weaknesses in the Song army's defense line, ready to open a breakthrough.

The attacking Yuan army quickly settled on a gentle coast, about a mile long, where the tidal flats were fairly solid, at least they would not be pulled out of their legs, and the sand bank had collapsed under the bombardment of stone throwers and gold juice cannons, and although repaired, it was weaker than the others. The assembled Yuan army took the shield soldiers as the lead to cover the soldiers carrying big axes and long knives, while the crossbowmen kept throwing arrows at the sand bank to suppress the defenders, intending to directly break through the embankment and attack the stockade.

If the enemy army can reach the embankment smoothly, Zhao Hao will be 800 years old, and the attacking Yuan army only cares about blocking the arrows falling overhead, but neglects the feet in the chaos. First he stumbled, then there was a muffled sound, and the people in front of him suddenly disappeared, bowed their heads and hurried to find them, all humming in a huge pit! But no one tried to catch them, one was that time was short; One is that they are basically busy in vain, and those people are turned into meat skewers by the pointed wooden stakes at the bottom of the pit.

When they finally 'filled' the pit and were about to sprint, they suddenly felt a pain under their feet, looked down and saw a bamboo stick on the surface of their feet, and then there was a heart-wrenching howl. If you can't stop eating it, you will fall to the ground and become bamboo skewer meat. And standing still, in the blink of an eye, they will become little hedgehogs. But under the stern coercion of the officers, the people in the front row can only become a stepping stone for others.

After paying a huge sacrifice, the bad luck of the unlucky children is not over, rushing through the bamboo stick array, and it is another minefield, and one accidentally stepping on it is a dead and wounded, and the arms and legs are flying randomly. The deterrent power of landmines is often greater than the lethal effect, in addition to the sound and light effects, giving people a psychological and huge impact, the pioneers who have already suffered heavy casualties are finally unable to advance, surging up and down like a wave, leaving behind a corpse.

Now that it is a broken boat, every general and soldier of the Yuan army knows that the way back has been broken, if you can't break through the walled city in front of you, you can't attack Qiongzhou, and you will be trapped on this beach, so you know that you have to rush forward even if you die. After several shocks, the corpses of the Yuan army filled in the trap, stepped on the bamboo stick array, broke through the minefield, and finally rushed to the wall, but what awaited them was not only more dense arrows, but also countless grenades.

Zhuang Siqi commanded the rear army to rely on the camp to repel more than ten attacks of the Yuan army one after another, firmly pressing the enemy on the beachhead and unable to take a step forward. However, the ants bit the elephant to death, and as the enemy's 20,000 troops all came ashore, not only did the pressure increase sharply, but the casualties also increased. He had to shrink the defensive line, move his forces in the direction of the enemy's main attack, and transfer his reserves up......

"Your Majesty, the rear army is running out, and the Yuan army is constantly increasing its troops, and it is time to transfer the right army to come and be ready for reinforcements at any time. In addition, the pressure on Haitian Island is not small, and the number of troops on Baisha Island is no less than 20,000 troops! Zhang Shijie looked at the situation on the entire battlefield and suggested again.

"Well, I still underestimate the intensity of the enemy's attack, it's time to let the right army come up and order them to move closer to Haikou immediately!" Zhao Yu nodded. In the face of the frenzied attacking enemy, Zhuang Siqi not only concentrated his forces, but in order to prevent the sand embankment from being breached, he had already given up attacking the enemy's naval fleet with rockets, but asked them to raise the angle of fire to bombard the forward positions.

It can be said that every general of the Qiongzhou Army knows the performance of the rocket very well, and he is powerless to complain about its uncontrollability after launch, so he uses rockets to bombard long-distance cluster targets, and in order to avoid accidental injury, he must keep a distance of more than 100 steps from his own position, which has become a consensus. However, Zhuang Siqi ignored his own danger and bombarded the enemy troops outside the wall with rockets, obviously he was really anxious, even if he was injured by mistake.

"This is by no means a misjudgment on the part of Your Majesty, the minister has been in the army for 30 years, and has fought more than 100 battles with the Tartars, and he has never seen such a battle. can allow them to use several times the enemy's troops, regardless of casualties, and the attack is only under Diaoyu Castle! Zhang Shijie ordered the right army to come to help, seeing that His Majesty's face was displeased, knowing that he was worried about the 'miscalculation', he hurriedly persuaded him.

"I was overconfident, and I didn't expect Ali Hague to make a desperate gamble, regardless of casualties; At the same time, they went to seek perfection, fearing that the enemy army would attack the east and west, so they did not dare to transfer the troops and horses to the north. Zhao Yu sighed and said.

"Your Majesty must not blame yourself, it is the overall situation for the monarch, not the gains and losses of one city and one place." Zhang Shijie hurriedly said.

"No, a small mistake of mine can decide the life and death of thousands of people, and a wrong judgment can take the lives of thousands of people. But I am not a good commander, if it weren't for the cardinal commander's repeated reminders, I would have made a mistake today! Zhao Yu waved his hand and said with a guilty face, and he also understood that there is no shortcut to ruling a country and leading an army, and it is not something that can be done by just being clever.

"Your Majesty, you admire it to the fullest!" The little emperor directly made self-criticism, what else could Zhang Shijie say, bowed down and saluted. And there were waves in his heart, if Emperor Deyou could have half the efforts of the little emperor back then, the Great Song Dynasty would not be forced to this projectile land.

"Cardinal, I have some ideas about watching the battle today, but I don't know if it's appropriate, and I ask Cardinal Marshal to give me advice." Zhao Hao said weakly.

"Your Majesty, please speak, the minister dares not to do his best!" Zhang Shijie listened to it and saluted again with some trepidation.

"This is just the gossip of our monarchs and ministers, and the cardinal does not need to be polite!" Zhao Hao also had no choice, he couldn't find someone to have a good chat, he couldn't help but give gifts and free courtesy, and he was annoyed, so he helped each other again.

"I see that once the navy is dispatched, it is a battalion, but it is not formed because of the difference in the war. What if we were like the spear battalion, bow battalion, crossbow battalion, and cavalry battalion of the infantry army, and we could send different army formations to participate in the battle according to different tasks? ”

"Your Majesty's meaning is to form separate armies of rocket ships, gunboats, dragon ships, and transport ships, and in case of war, they can be drawn from each army to form a separate army!" Zhang Shijie thought for a while and asked.

"Well, that's exactly what it means. I thought it could be further refined, and the formation was divided according to the size of the ships! Zhao Yu nodded.

"The minister thought that this strategy was feasible, but the minister needed time to arrange. However, the minister thinks that we can also integrate the ballista battalions and rocket battalions of various armies into an army and deploy them with the war, so that there will be no incident where the rear army is unable to intercept the enemy ships rushing to the shore due to insufficient firepower! ”

"The cardinal has a very good discussion, and I consider that the Privy Council can add artillery troops, baggage, infantry army, cavalry army, and naval army, and reorganize the three departments of the former palace front division, the guard pro-army horse army division, and the guard pro-army infantry division, and take charge of each army." Zhao Yu nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is very big, and it is better to discuss it with all the rulers!" Zhang Shijie hesitated, as His Majesty thought, it was to change the law of the ancestors, if it was not done well, it would cause a controversy, how could he dare to agree to the little emperor!

"Well, this matter is indeed not easy to decide, and the opinions of the army need to be sought!" Zhao Yu thought about it, too, changing the military system not only involves the adjustment of officials and officials, but also changes the strong cadres and weak branches set by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and maintains the national policy of centralized power. There is nothing wrong with Zhang Shijie being so cautious, and he said now.

"Your Majesty, Ali Hague's handsome ship is moving south, and a large number of warships are approaching the mouth of the river!" The situation changed again as he spoke, Guan Tongshou reported.

"Oh!" Zhao Hao shouted in surprise, picked up the telescope and looked at the sea, but saw a large number of warships surrounding a huge boat towards the mouth of the river.

"Your Majesty, it seems that Ali Hague is using the bait of attacking Haitian Island and the west coast of the estuary to attract our troops, and then take the opportunity to advance to Qiongzhou along the north of the river, so that the right army cannot move!" Zhang Shijie analyzed.

"I don't think it's appropriate, it's a taboo for soldiers to change the order every day, the right army should have been drawn now, and we will send an order to let them return to the army, running back and forth will only delay the fighters." Zhao Yu pondered, "But now that Ali Hague has moved, it also shows that their target is Haikoupu, and there is no need to worry about dividing their troops to attack other places, and all other armies can help!" ”

"Your Majesty is reasonable, but the naval army has not yet launched an attack, so I am afraid that it will be difficult for the middle army and the rear army to support the arrival of the armies!" Although Zhang Shijie felt that His Majesty's analysis was good, it was difficult to quench his thirst in the far water, so he suggested again.

"Hmm......" Zhao Hao pondered for a moment and said, "My protectors are still there, let them go into battle, Ni Liang, you quickly lead two battalions of infantry to reinforce the rear army, and everything is subject to the dispatch of Commander Zhuang; Zheng Yong, you lead the dragon fleet to attack the enemy's troop carriers, don't seek complete victory, just delay the enemy! ”

"Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to transfer all the escorts away, right?" Zhang Shijie was shocked when he heard this.

"I took the guard battalion to take the Sheji to immediately block the estuary, intercept the enemy army, and aid the rear army!" Zhao Hao had already arranged it for himself, and immediately replied.

"This ......" Zhang Shijie was shocked and wanted to stop him.

"The military situation is like fire, we can't delay, if we let the enemy break through the defense line, it will go straight to Qiongzhou!" Zhao Yu pointed to the battlefield, now the enemy army has broken through several sand banks in the rear army, and the two armies are fighting desperately; On Haitian Island, the enemy troops have already erected several pontoon bridges under artillery fire and are forcibly crossing.

"How can Your Majesty be in danger, in case of failure, the ministers will die without forgiveness!" Zhang Shijie knelt down on one knee and said.

"The privy envoy Zhang Shijie received my command!" Zhao Yu was also anxious, and said with a straight face when he saw this.

"The minister takes the order!" Seeing that the little emperor had a tense face, it didn't seem to be a fake, and hurriedly knelt down and said.

"I grant you the expedient right to mobilize the garrison, and you must hold Haikoupu, otherwise military law will be engaged!" Zhao Yu said, and at the same time let Wang De hold the box containing the talisman.

"Obey the Divine Commandment!" Zhang Shijie saluted again, got up and took the talisman.

"Cardinal, I'm really not handsome, now my net worth is entrusted to you, but I can't sit back and watch the enemy invade, please!" Zhao Yu arched his hand.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty take care, even if the minister is dead, he will never let the Tartars set foot in Qiongzhou half a step! Zhang Shijie really burst into tears when he heard this, how could he not know that he could mobilize all the armies as long as he relied on the military talisman, as the little emperor said, this is his net worth, how can he not dare to move with such trust, and he knows that it is difficult to stop His Majesty.

"I'm here to win the battle, not to die, so why cry!" Zhao Hao smiled and helped Zhang Shijie up, and after speaking, he couldn't wait to lead the guards down the city and go straight to the dock outside the city......