Chapter 374: Drawing Water
The more Zhao Yu looked at Zhang Shijie's routine, the more it looked like a procrastination plan, he just wanted to exchange time for space, and dragged Zhang Hongfan to death with this 'unbreakable' water fortress. www.biquge.info But he forgot that all his forces were blocked in the inland sea, so that he did not have mobile forces to intercept enemy reinforcements and destroy enemy supply lines. And now that the whole country has fallen, the large-scale Song army Wen Tianxiang's governor's army has collapsed, and people have been captured; Then there was only the Qiongzhou army, but the Qiongzhou side sent reinforcements to the table but it was all rejected.
It is not right to say that none of the reinforcements came, some volunteers and people from coastal prefectures and counties spontaneously came to King Qin after learning that the Song and Yuan armies had started a war in Yashan, and the number of people who came was also quite large, and there were thousands of warships and tens of thousands of personnel in Zhao Yu's observation. However, their boats were all 'Uyan boats' used for fishing, which were small boats that could carry up to a dozen people, and were armed only with harpoons, knives, and bell rakes, and were untrained, loosely organized, and had very limited combat effectiveness.
Zhang Shijie probably didn't count on these people, but just arranged them in the north of the water village to protect the water and wood mining road, and didn't even let the village in, and the volunteers cruined around the water village during the day and anchored on the shore at night. The momentum is not small, but the effect on changing the situation of the war is limited, and these people's ships are small and carry limited materials, and their self-sustaining power is also poor, if they can't get the supplement of the imperial court, I'm afraid it will be faster than the withdrawal of the Yuan army, and everyone can't fight hungry! Therefore, Zhao Hao thought that there was no strong foreign aid and no plan to break the blockade, and he thought that Zhang Shijie's strategy was a fool's dream after all, and he would still go to the old road of extinction in history.
Sure enough, a few days later, with the addition of more than 200 warships of Zhang Hongfan's trek fleet and Li Heng's fleet, the enemy's strength increased greatly, and they moved from the open sea to the cliff gate to line up, and the Song army was separated by three miles of confrontation. Now the Yuan army warships have arrived on the battlefield There are more than 600 large and small warships, more than 40,000 soldiers, although they are still at a disadvantage in terms of troops, but the pressure on the Song army is huge, causing panic among the troops......
"Your Majesty, it seems that the enemy commander is going to kill people on the ship!" Since the enemy entered the cliff gate, Zhao Yu spent more time on the deck of the cabin to inspect the enemy's situation, although he didn't understand the enemy's formation, but he had a stupid way, every day he would record the number and location of the enemy's warships, so as to understand the changes in the enemy's situation, and speculate on its next move, at this time Zheng Yong reported.
"Oh, who did you kill?" Zhao Hao asked casually, these days, there are also Song troops who are caught by the Yuan army when they are fighting or fleeing, and they kill people to intimidate the Song army, which is not a new thing.
"Your Majesty, today you are tied up like a Mongol!" Zheng Yong replied after looking carefully.
"Let a certain family see, is it rare for Mongols to kill Mongols?" Liu Shiyong, who was accompanying him, leaned over and grabbed Zheng Yong's telescope to look over.
"Your Majesty, look at ......" The telescope was robbed, and Zheng Yong couldn't see anything from such a distance, and shouted angrily.
"Here you go, with me!" Zhao Yu motioned for Wang De to hand him his telescope. He thinks that the relationship between people in the world is very wonderful, and there is really a saying that he has forgotten the New Year, and he can talk about it with Ying Jieyan, Jiang Wanzai, and even Liu Di, they will not treat themselves as children, but will take their opinions seriously, discuss problems together, and find solutions. But he has been in contact with Lu Xiufu and others for a long time, but he can't find that feeling, but he and Liu Shiyong, a martial artist, hit it off at first sight, and the 'relationship' between the two of them has been heating up for a few days, and he feels that if he goes on like this, he will have to worship like Guo Jing and the old naughty boy.
"It's really a Mongolian who is tied up, it seems that he is still a thousand-commander, and the official is not small!" Liu Shiyong made comments while watching, just like the live broadcast now, causing everyone on the boat to stretch their necks to look over there, but how to see clearly.
"Hey, kill it, hit the ground with a knife on the head!" Zheng Yong shouted excitedly. The onlookers even more relieved, some shouted yes, and some clapped their hands and stomped their feet, as if they had stabbed the enemy general.
"Eh, why do you still hang your head on the mast?" Liu Shiyong found out that something was wrong and muttered. In the past, the Yuan army killed people and threw the corpse directly into the sea after cutting it down, and the treatment of hanging the head on the mast was not the general of the Song army, and it had to be a command level.
"It's broken!" Zhao Hao's face tightened when he heard this.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong!" Zheng Yong hurriedly turned around and asked.
"Zhang Hongfan is killing people and establishing authority, purging military discipline, I'm afraid the real war is about to begin!" Zhao Yu glanced at everyone and said.
"Your Majesty's words are reasonable, before the war, the commander often found a reason to kill a few unlucky ghosts who disobeyed the commander and disobeyed military discipline in order to establish his authority, so as to deter the whole army. Zhang Hongfan is a Han Chinese, those Mongols are inevitably arrogant and unwilling to obey the dispatch, and the enemy army is inevitably discordant from the two armies, so he cut a thousand commanders with this knife, who dares to disobey him. Liu Shiyong nodded and said thoughtfully.
'Knock, knock, knock......'
'Woo woo woo ......' while speaking, the war drums on the opposite side sounded like a burst, and the long horn sounded through the sea and air, Zhao Yu couldn't sit still, and jumped up and grabbed the telescope in Zheng Yong's hand to look south, only to see the warships in the enemy formation raising their sails one after another, and the oars were raised, rushing towards the Song army.
"General Liu, the situation is a little wrong, isn't it?" Zhao Yu saw that the enemy was clearly divided into two teams, one was a large and medium-sized warship, and the other was a small warship, and they all came to the Song army's camp.
"Well, it's a little strange, it is said that the enemy wants to attack our water village, and it should be the big ship to meet the enemy first, so as to crash into the water village, and then use the small boat to break into the formation and wait for the opportunity to board the ship, why do they two teams go together?" Liu Shiyong also squinted at the battlefield and said.
"Not good, the enemy is trying to cut off our water and wood collection road, and their big ship is a feint." Liu Shiyong's words made Zhao Yu confirm his judgment, Zhang Hongfan did not want a decisive battle this time, but still wanted to force the Song army to surrender through the siege, or weaken the combat effectiveness.
"Your Majesty's judgment is good, Zhang Hongfan's previous battle was mostly a big ship, several attempts to cut off the water route were unsuccessful, at this time they have a 'Badu' boat, this ship is fast and flexible, we use to draw water The fighting ship is not their opponent, and it uses a big ship to feint attack the water village, so that our army does not dare to send warships to help. If the water road is lost, we are in danger, but we hate it for not listening to advice, which is really self-inflicted! Liu Shiyong saw it more thoroughly than Zhao Yu, and said hatefully...... (To be continued.) )