For the opponents in person, Zhao Yu launched an investigation at the beginning of the recovery of Jiangnan, and the Affairs Bureau also made great efforts in it, especially for the details of several main generals. Not only did they have a comprehensive understanding of their family background, military experience, and the wars they participated in, but they also had a clear investigation of their property, business, wives and concubines, and children. Therefore, at the beginning of the campaign, he had already made a lot of efforts and made tactical arrangements.

According to intelligence, he was a person with 'roots', who followed Genghis Khan's southern expedition to the north and south since his grandfather's generation, and was promoted to a thousand households because of his military exploits; at this time, his father was transferred to serve under Kublai Khan, and made great contributions to his seizure of the Central Plains and his superiority, and was promoted to 10,000 households; since he was a child, he also fought with his father and brother in accordance with the Mongolian tradition, and participated in a series of battles against Huainan.

He fought bravely and rarely suffered defeats, but this developed his arrogant and domineering character, and he did not get along with his colleagues. And he has been stationed in Taizhou for many years, as if he regards this place as his second hometown, and he has put his mind on it. And Taizhou is close to the south of the Yangtze River, not only the land is fertile, suitable for farming, but also the canal, the Yangtze River water transportation convenience, planting land, doing some business, a small life is very nourishing.

Zhao Hao understands very well that taking people's money is the same as killing his parents, and after he recovers Jiangnan, the good days of Delie Capital will come to an end. The two sides clashed constantly, in addition to the economic losses, the military expenditure also increased, especially at the beginning of the year, the Song army actually crossed the river to loot, took away thousands of people, and robbed nearly 20,000 horses, the two sides can be said to have formed a great enmity, so he also lost his strength to harass Jiangnan.

And the other Zhenzhou general who rushed to the aid of Yangzhou, Du Ge, is much inferior to Tuo Liedu, he is not the second generation of officials, and he has become a million households by his own struggle. He can only be cautious without roots, but an unjustified disaster still befell him, and the Song army that crossed the river was turned upside down, and he also lost his troops.

However, Brother Du is also a 'sensible', knowing that he can't afford to provoke the Southern Dynasty, so he gave up retreating along the river with the mentality that he can't afford to hide, does not clash with the Song army, and turns a blind eye to their 'arrival'. And he was also unexpectedly surprised, the smuggling business between the two sides was booming, and his wallets were bulging a lot, so he became more and more negative about Song Zhanzhan, and as for Yuxi Timur's southern invasion plan, he was not very cold.

After learning that it was the two of them who came to Yangzhou, Zhao Yu also formulated corresponding tactics for their different attitudes. For Du Ge all the way, he adopted a 'laissez-faire' attitude and let him enter the city safely, he knew that there was such a 'peace-loving' person in the city guarding the city, which was not a big threat to his side, and would even play an unexpected role.

As for the Tuo Lie Capital, who has not suffered a big loss, the arrogant and militant will have a different attitude. Therefore, Zhao Yu sent troops to intercept it, but did not fight with its main force, but only attacked its rear team, but the intention of this arrangement was not to give him a dismount, but to further provoke him and let him fall into another trap, so as to suppress his arrogance.

Sure enough, the facts and Zhao Hao's analysis was good, after Du Ge came to help, after entering the defensive circle of the Song army, he did not take the initiative to provoke at all, but hurriedly drilled into the city from the gap between the two parts of the Song army with a posture of 'fleeing'. On the contrary, the brigade marched in a swaggering state, which made people look like they had a label of 'you beat me up' on their faces, so as to provoke the Song army to fight.

Zhao Hao's tactics of attacking his rear army after Bandu not only deepened the Song army's view that the Song army was still timid in field warfare and would only adopt sneak attacks, but it also angered it. Therefore, he calculated that the martyrs would attack at night, and the target was of course the camp with the banner of the Great Song Emperor. He thought that if he could capture the emperor of the Southern Dynasty alive, it would be best to take a step back, and it might make the little emperor panic and retreat, and at the same time, he also let out his own bad breath. In addition, they have just landed, and although they will strictly guard against night attacks, due to the tight time, it is impossible to build and complete, and there are still loopholes to exploit.

What Tuo Lie didn't expect was that Zhao Yu had already arranged a big meal for him. He judged that the direction of the attack should be the north gate of the camp, because the west gate faced the canal, and the area was narrow, so it was not easy to spread the formation; Entering from the east gate, on the one hand, it is far away from the camp, and the night attack is fast forward and retreat, and once the task is completed, retreat immediately, no one is so rampant that he thinks that only the attack of a thousand people can sweep a large battalion of tens of thousands of people. On the other hand, attacking from the east gate was also vulnerable to the flanking attack of the Song army attacking from the north gate, and the rear route was cut off.

Based on these judgments, Zhao Yu ordered the sappers to quietly lay a mine array 200 steps in front of the north gate after it was too dark, with a depth of 50 paces, and lay more than 100 mines, and secretly ambushed the demomen, ordering them to wait for most of the enemy's strikers to enter the mine formation before igniting fires, while their own personnel entered and exited through the east and west gates. Sure enough, the Batu battalion, which was playing the vanguard, was hit by a move, and before it got close to the camp gate, it was bombed and the corpses were all over the field......

"Meng Yuan's loss is like this, and he still fights to the death and does not retreat, it is really rampant!" Seeing that the enemy troops who attacked at night suffered heavy casualties, but they also galloped wildly and rushed towards the camp, Wang Yinglin said in surprise.

"Hehe, the two armies are facing each other, once the momentum is formed, it will be the back wave pushing the front wave, and I can't help myself." Zhao Hao couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard what he said, this is the so-called insider watching the doorway, and the layman watching the excitement, Wang Yinglin is obviously a layman.

How did he know that the army would stop if he wanted to hear it, especially the cavalry, it was basically impossible to stop after launching a charge, if you braked suddenly, the war horse that was still charging behind would chase the tail, not to mention hitting your personal back horse, and you would be trampled by the horse's hooves behind, and even the whole corpse could not be saved. There are also horses that are not very bold, and now they are frightened by the sound of explosions, and it is even more difficult to control, so they can only blindly move forward.

In addition, the battle has already begun, and the main general will not stop the attack because of the setback, but will take advantage of this opportunity to oversee the advance of the army, in order to break through the obstacles and open the way with the sacrifice of the vanguard. And the Tuo Liedu took the Batu battalion as the vanguard and used them as cannon fodder, and did not care about these casualties at all, so the rear army continued to charge along the minefield that had been opened.

"Release, release, release......" With the command of the artillery commander, the order was conveyed to the various gun positions layer by layer, and the rapid-fire guns arranged in the forward fortifications and the breech guns arranged in the rear were fired accordingly. Flowering shells explode in the crowd of enemies, each shell can take a few lives, setting off a rain of blood; Shotguns were fanned out with nearly a hundred small projectiles, and all people and horses within the range fell in batches as if they were swept by a broom; The live ammunition fired is like a small alley arched by a wild boar, and those who are hit are all shattered, and even if they miss, they can often hit a few unlucky eggs.

"Hmph, flesh and blood, how can you resist the might of artillery fire!" Seeing the enemy cavalry struggling in the artillery fire, Wang Yinglin, who was still a little worried just now, also became bold, and actually stood up on the grain hoard, and snorted coldly in the face of the battlefield.

"Governor Wang, don't get excited, be careful of falling!" Zhao Hao hurriedly supported him and said with a smile. I was a little amused by the rapid change of joy and sorrow, but I also understood his feelings, where did these people have the opportunity to go to the battlefield on weekdays, and they had never seen the scene of fierce confrontation between the two armies, and they felt new and excited. And now it was dark, far away from the battlefield, and it was impossible to see the tragic situation of those people and horses killed by artillery fire. If you really see it clearly, you can be considered a hero if you don't vomit half to death.

"The enemy cavalry has rushed to the front of the wall!" Wang Yinglin shook off the little emperor's support, and said excitedly and nervously.

"......" Zhao Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head when he saw this, this kind of scene has long been commonplace for him, and the outcome of the battle has long been expected, so he can't be interested. He insisted on watching the battle and was more concerned about the ability of his generals to organize and coordinate the battle, and the reaction speed and response ability of the troops after being attacked, rather than watching the excitement.

At that moment, the enemy cavalry broke through the blockade of the mine array and artillery, and the enemy cavalry threw out the lock sleeve to hook the horse and foothill in front of the camp to clear the road for the rear army, and threw the firewood and grass carried into the trench in an attempt to fill in a road. But Zhao Yu thought that it was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and it was difficult to do anything. The night raid focuses on surprise attacks, and in order to ensure the suddenness and mobility of the attack, the scale of the troops sent will not be too large. And once it is discovered that the other side has been prepared and the assault is blocked, the experienced commander will consider retreating.

At present, there are not many people and horses of the enemy troops rushing to the front of the battalion, and the follow-up troops are blocked by artillery fire, and the attack is bound to be weak, and it is difficult to make great achievements. At this time, the soldiers guarding the camp also began to move, relying on the fortifications or the walls of the fortress to shoot at the approaching enemy with muskets, and under the dense rain of bullets, the enemy soldiers were shot and fell, or fled in all directions.

......Sure enough, the attack was seriously blocked, and the enemy generals also realized that the other side had already prepared, and there was a possibility of being surrounded and annihilated if they continued to fight. The horn of retreat was sounded, and the attacking enemy quickly turned their horses and retreated, and soon fell into darkness.

"Your Majesty, why don't you take advantage of the victory to pursue?" The battle lasted only half an hour, and the enemy army that failed in the night attack retreated, Wang Yinglin felt that it was too enjoyable, but he did not send troops out of the camp to pursue, he said in a hurry.

"Enemy night raids are often met by ambushes on the way back to stop the pursuing opponents. And there are also those who deliberately deceive and lead the other party to pursue into an ambush, or take advantage of the other party's camp to raid again. Therefore, it is not advisable to pursue at this time, so as not to cause unnecessary losses or lose the camp. Zhao Yu explained while helping the curious old man to get off the grain hoard.

"Hehe, Your Majesty will not let them retreat safely, and they have already buried their backs. Governor Wang will wait tomorrow morning to check the results of the battle! At this time, Tan Fei smiled and answered......