Chapter 280: The Resurgence of Wind and Thunder will meet Kyushu

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Li Ye wiped his sweat and looked ahead excitedly, looking very nervous.

In recent years, Jingdong and Huaibei have developed very rapidly, and there are many treasures buried in the ground of this land, in order to transport these treasures out, Huaibei and Jingdong Tuntian made Liu Quan and Zhao Zi say that they have built many simple roads. During that time, they had manpower in their hands, and Peng Yibin of the Loyal and Righteous Army was also happy to exchange the soldiers who were useless in the war in exchange for money and materials from Huai Jingdong. They even built a hardened concrete road from Xuzhou to the Daimyo's Mansion, connecting large farms through the places, and this road was also the main channel for transporting Jingdong's agricultural products to Xuzhou for processing.

Now Li Ye and the reinforcements he moved from Yanggu are driving on this road.

This unit, with a total strength of 9,000 men, was in fact a new army that was a mixture of the Guards and the Loyal Guards, and it took more than two years to train in the new style of ordnance and training. This is also the gravedigger prepared by Zhao and Ju for this era of cold weapons, and 3,000 of them are equipped with the "Wumu Zero Three" jointly made by Ao Sayang and Ou Bama, which is the most secret code name of the Great Song Dynasty military, "Wu Mu" is its name, and "Zero Three" means that its finalization time is three years of Yanhuang. The other 6,000 men were armed with large shields, spears and waist knives, and an artillery squad of 300 men equipped with fifteen field light guns, and the whole army had more than 4,000 mules and horses, and 600 carts, and the tires of these cars were made of rubber, which made it not only more shock-resistant and shock-absorbing, but also much faster than wooden wheels or iron wheels.

It was also the most extravagant army of this era, with a total number of less than 10,000 men, but the cost of their equipment was more than that of an elite forbidden army with a full strength of 150,000 men, and the popularity of mules and horses among them was far superior to that of any infantry of this era, making it have incomparable mobility for the rest of the infantry.

Of course, this also caused a lot of pressure on the logistics supply of this army, but now for Li Ye, these pressures are not a problem, they are driving in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are military stations along the way to replenish. So he can desperately urge and let this army move quickly and rush to the destination.

"The rubber wheels are just different." Looking at the sluggish troops, he thought to himself.

Rubber was one of the many seeds that the Liuqiu expedition had brought from Dongshengzhou, and when they brought it, everyone wondered why Zhao and Ju had emphasized this thing, which in their opinion was meaningless compared to potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes that could be used as food. And its growth cycle is still long, after five years of planting in Sulu and Mayi, this thing can be considered to be grown, and this year, which is also the seventh year, can officially tap a large number of rubber. Fortunately, since more than a year ago, Ao Sayang led a team of researchers composed of more than 30 of the most outstanding students of the Liuqiu Higher and Secondary Schools, and studied it according to Zhao Youju's instructions.

Sulfuric acid is a treasure for the current industry of the Great Song Dynasty, when the flow of gold smelting, Zhao and Ju paid attention to the extraction and storage of sulfuric acid in the ore, which is also one of Ao Sayang's favorite test raw materials. At present, there is no shortage of sulfuric acid required by the rubber industry, and what is really lacking is the large-scale utilization of rubber. After riding a bicycle, Meng Xisheng immediately decided to open up tens of millions of acres of rubber forests in Sulu and Mayi, and he was very optimistic about the prospects of this product.

"Just counting the military wheels, it's a big deal, this Meng Xisheng is a good calculation." Li Ye thought to himself.

"Commander, there are still fifty miles from Xuzhou, and the nearest military station said that the Mengyuan rangers have been active frequently recently, and they have fought several times with our army's scout cavalry, and they have injured each other."

When he was still thinking about the rubber tires, a scout came to report, Li Ye scratched his neck a little boredly, and sneered: "I'm afraid that they won't come to find us." ”

After a pause, he added: "Playing my banner, the more Menghu I attract here, the less pressure on Chongde's side will be." ”

"What the staff leader wants is not to relieve the pressure on the Qin staff office."

Dare to say that he is only Shi Dascoop, this guy has no seriousness all day long, unless in wartime, he usually looks indifferent when he sees the chief officer at all times, and he is a natural pair with Wu Fang under Li Yilao at the beginning. He was carrying "Wumu Zero Three", with a belt on his shoulders, and his spirit was flying, as if he was the leader of this army. Beside him, Song Siyi's eyes were a little squinted, one eye closed and the other opened, which made people laugh when they saw it.

"Isn't it to relieve the pressure on Xuzhou or what?" Li Ye said with a smile.

"It's clear that the staff leader wants to repeat the old tricks, and then lure Menghu to a decisive battle." Shi Dasco pouted: "If I am Menghu, I will not be fooled again." ”

"Siyi, what do you say, if you are Menghu, will you be fooled?" Li Ye laughed.

"I don't know." Song Siyi replied in a low voice, still turning a blind eye.

His voice was very small, Li Ye couldn't hear it really, and asked again, Song Siyi seemed a little annoyed, and said loudly: "I don't know." ”

"You're such a boring guy, you can't make a fart with three sticks." Shi Da Spoon sneered beside him: "I'm still practicing the eye method, how can it be useful to hold Buddha's feet temporarily?" ”

"The fist does not leave the hand, and the song does not leave the mouth." Song Siyi responded simply.

Song Siyi also carried the "Wu Mu 03", Li Ye looked at this new type of weapon, he had seen the power of Wu Mu 03 with his own eyes, as far as he knew, before Wu Mu 03 was officially determined to be installed, Ao Sayang and others had invented seven different kinds of weapons, from the initial clumsy, extremely close range and inaccurate firearms, to now a terrible weapon with a range of 120 steps, which can effectively kill and injure leather armor enemies within 60 steps and penetrate the iron armor within 40 steps, it took nearly one million yuan and three years of hard work. Li Ye knows more than others, because of the relationship between the past few years in Lin'an, he has personally seen the changes made by Zhao Youju to Ao Sayang's drawings, and it is these changes that have solved problems such as gunpowder leakage, inaccurate projectile rolling, and slow ignition of ammunition.

"Anyway, if I were Menghu, I would never come to touch us, although we have few people and don't have many marching field artillery, but we have Wu Mu Zero Three, which is ten times my enemy, and there is no advantage at all before Wu Mu Zero Three." Shi Dasco said again.

"You know Wu Mu Zero-three, but Menghu doesn't know, and these six hundred carts, Menghu is only afraid that he will use us as a ...... to transport grain and grass" Li Ye laughed: "I bet that Menghu will come, let's bet on the loser after the war to go to the sword shop for a treat, how about it?" ”

"Bet on it, you're afraid you won't succeed?" Shi Dasco was unconvinced.

Just as Li Ye had guessed, Menghu's scouts spotted their huge convoy from a distance. At first, because he found that there were too many mules and horses among them, Menghu used them as a convoy for logistics supplies.

Li Ye's murderous reputation was also thunderous among Menghu, who fought with him, and all the wounded and defeated were killed, and even the invincible Temujin was defeated by him and eventually became a prisoner. Therefore, if you ask Menghu the most feared person, I am afraid that Li Ye will be at the top of the list. But at the same time, in the past few years, Menghu has not wanted to avenge Taizhuang's revenge, especially to defeat Li Ye on the battlefield, which can not only wash away the shame and restore Menghu's invincible reputation.

For Tuo Lei and Polu, if there is anyone who makes them hate them more than Zhao and Ju, it must be Li Ye. Therefore, after receiving this news, they immediately ordered to gather back the scattered Mengyuan cavalry and prepare to block Li Ye outside Xuzhou City.

"Taishi can't be reckless, although Li Ye is young, he is not a reckless person, he comes out with such fanfare, there must be fraud in it." The Jin army forward is now replaced by Wu Xian, this person is extremely cunning, and Polu, Yan Shi fought on the Hebei West Road for several years, both sides can not help each other, after hearing that Polu wants to attack Li Ye's troops outside the city of Xuzhou, he immediately rode to the Meng Yuan camp and persuaded bitterly: "Xuzhou is a top priority, now our army has surrounded Xuzhou, just wait for the artillery to arrive to attack the city, Taishi only needs a little peace to Temujin Khan's great enemy, why take this risk at this time?" ”

"Marshal Wu, are you sure that the artillery will be able to conquer Xuzhou when it arrives?" Polu has a negative attitude towards this: "The battle of Qinglong Fort, your army with an absolute superiority of troops, exhausted the Song army's artillery and can not break the city, this Xuzhou Song army has been operating for a long time, hoarding countless artillery fire, its main general Qin Dashi is a stoic person, if he does not go out of the city, when will we spend under the city?" Now that your country's supply is already difficult, and with the strength of you and me, you can compete with a military region of the Song State, don't you understand what this means? ”

"You and me, the original strategy has to be changed." Polu sneered: "Originally, you and I wanted to occupy Xuzhou, and if I got Xuzhou, the wealth and money and food of the children of Huai Beijing Dongzi were all owned by you and my family, but now I can see it clearly, with your Jin country, don't say that it is difficult to take Xuzhou, that is, it will be captured, and the losses are unimaginable, and it may not be able to defend under the onslaught of Song reinforcements." Now there is only one way, besiege the city to send reinforcements, take advantage of the opportunity of the different reinforcements from all over the Song State, take advantage of the mobility of our Dayuan cavalry outside Xuzhou, break its grain and grass baggage, and force it to disperse. ”

"You and I have two scouts who have found out clearly, Li Ye is from the south of Jingdong Yang Valley this time, and he has less than 10,000 men, but he has 600 carts and more than 3,000 mules and horses. Polu said again: "If you come to help Xuzhou, Peng Yibin has hundreds of thousands of people in Jingdong, Hebei, how can he only bring less than 10,000 people?" ”

"What the Taishi said is reasonable, but has the Taishi ever thought that Li Yeyuan, who was the first confidant of the Southern Dynasty Emperor's Xiao'er Palace, how could he take the risk and come to Xuzhou with this chariot and horse of less than 10,000 people? If there is no fraud behind this, who can believe it? Taishi, although your army is brave, but there is also the defeat of Taizhuang, you must not be careful! Hearing Polu's words, Wu Xian also moved slightly angry, and spoke with some ridicule.

"The defeat of Taizhuang is a great shame for my Dayuan, and His Majesty and I have reviewed it many times afterwards, and I feel that the defeat in one place is to fight with the Song people on the battlefield preset by the Song people, so I fell for the tricks of the Song people." Po Lu sneered: "If you don't go to Taizhuang and change to any place, how can the Song people's poisonous fire array have time to set up?" Now that Li Ye is halfway, it is impossible to preset the position, on the contrary, our army comes and goes like the wind, and where to fight with it is up to our army to choose, and the initiative is in me, so why are you afraid that it will have a treacherous ambush? Marshal Wu, seeking stability is a foolproof strategy, but if you are too stable, I am afraid that the fighter will be lost! ”

The dispute between the two almost ended in unhappiness, and finally Polu considered the need for the Jin army to surround Xuzhou to prevent Qin Dashi from sending reinforcements, and finally reached a consensus with Wuxian, the Yuan army first assaulted Li Ye, and then intimidated Xuzhou with Li Ye and others' first achievements after victory, and then attacked Xuzhou with the morale of Xuzhou.

Just when Polu and Wu Xian were arguing, in the north of the Qinling Mountains, Yu Jue and Zhao Jingyun also had a fierce dispute.

"Manqing, you are a Confucian student, you have never been to the battle in person, so you followed the governor to sit in the Chinese army, and I and Meng Puyu can go to the front line." Yu Jue said a little helplessly.

"I'm a Confucian student, and you, Yu Yifu, are you a military general? What's more, when I was in the Huating Civil Revolution, I personally braved the arrows and stones to kill the enemy, where did I not come to the battle in person? Zhao Jingyun said unconvinced: "Don't worry, I've trained with the Guards in Liuqiu, and I can take care of myself!" ”

His words were suspected of bragging, Meng Hui looked at these two people helplessly, if he followed his thoughts, he didn't want to bring these two people. Born as a martial artist, it is an obligation to protect the family and defend the country and shed blood and sweat, just like listening to the Son of Heaven at the Great Song Army School, "Martial artists take loyalty to the country as their own responsibility, who dares to disrespect them", these Confucian students can strategize in the rear army, as for the battle, it is better to hand over to them these brave men.

But he is not easy to offend these two people, Meng Heng is a general, and he knows what Zhao Jingyun's teacher, Hubu Shangshu Wei Liaoweng, means to the army, and he also learned from Li Ye and others that the Son of Heaven is impressed by Zhao Jingyun, so he doesn't dare to be too lazy. And that Yu Jue made Meng Hui even more convinced.

"It's a bold character......" Thinking of this, he quietly glanced at Yu Jue.

There is a reason why he treats Yu Jue like this, long before Meng Jue arrived in Xiangyang, Yu Jue saw Zhao Kui at night and said that he would change his strategy, advance the army to the north, and start attacking the Central Plains in advance. He lived in Jingxiang, and was able to use the little information in his hand to judge the movement of the Mengyuan and Jin armies earlier than the military counselors in Lin'an City, and his keen sense of the battlefield was the first thing Meng Heng admired.

When he realized that the battle situation might change, he was able to use his life as a guarantee to persuade Zhao Kui to resolutely go north in advance, and the risk was so great that if there was a slight mistake, the military law would investigate it, and his Yu Jue would not be able to cut off even eighteen heads. Changing places, Meng Heng is not sure if he will do the same, this is the second place that Meng Heng admires.

"Otherwise, you and I will have a competition here to see who is strong in martial arts, the loser will stay in the Chinese army, and the winner will go to war with General Meng?" Yu Jue said with a smile.

"Bibibi, I'm still afraid of you?" Zhao Jingyun snorted and struck a pose.

Seeing that the two of them were really going to fight, Meng Heng was afraid of hurting their harmony, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Bringing one more person is also one more, and bringing two more people is also one more, it is better for the two of you to go with me together, if there is any change in the military aircraft, there are many people planning for my counselor!" ”

"What Meng Puyu said is right." Both nodded.

A sense of pride welled up in their hearts, and now they were stepping on the border of the Jin State instead of the Song Kingdom—though they preferred to call it the Fallen Homeland.

Looking back at the reckless Qinling, Yu Jue couldn't help but chant: "Thirty thousand miles of the east of the river into the sea, five thousand miles of mountains on the sky, the remnants of the tears in the dust, looking south to the king for another year!" ”

"The dead Yuan knows that everything is empty, but the sadness is not the same as Kyushu, the king of the north sets the Central Plains Day, and the empty sacrifice is not forgotten!" Zhao Jingyun was not to be outdone.

"Manqing, you take advantage of me!" Yu Jue said unhappily: "Could it be that you look down on me? ”

When the two of them were chanting poems, Zhao Jingyun really seemed to take advantage of Yu Jue, claiming to be his "Nai Weng", Meng Heng secretly bent his mouth and smiled, feeling that these two people did not have the roundabout atmosphere of ordinary scholars, but were as bold as martial artists. Moreover, in the exchanges along the way, Meng Heng felt that their attitude towards himself was not like ordinary literati who despised the defensive warriors, but a kind of respect.

"The mind of a military general cannot be refuted, and he only needs to think about one thing, and that is to sacrifice his life for the country. If this can be the case, why worry about the king's suspicion, why worry about the contempt of the literati, and why worry about the separation of wealth and wealth? Serve the country wholeheartedly, be brave as the king, move forward bravely, and love soldiers like sons, this is the way of a dignified and upright warrior. ”

Thinking of the words in the "Martial Arts" in the army school drill code, Meng Heng only felt that his heart was boiling: the eldest husband has made meritorious contributions, and it is the right time.

On November 26, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, the army from the Song State finally crossed the Qinling Mountains and set foot on their homeland, which had been lost for more than 100 years.