Chapter 315: Landing

On May 9 of the seventh year of Yanhuang, the son of Mu Huali and the lord of Mengyuan Taishi, Polu, vomited blood and died in the army. Just half an hour after his death, south of Jinzhou, the Great Song Guards and the Loyal Guards launched an attack on Jinzhou City.

Amid the rumbling of artillery, a group of sergeants rushed from Jinzhou to Huanglongfu, carrying secret messages to Meng Ke and Kublai Khan.

At the same time, in Dengzhou's Zhifu Bay, hundreds of large ships gathered here. In the harbor, the sails are like clouds, the wharf is full of people, and groups of soldiers, singing neat military songs, drive one big ship after another.

Before recovering the Central Plains, Liu Quan and Zhao Ziyue successively served as the envoys of Jingdong Huaibei Tuntian, and they hoped to find a suitable port on Jingdong East Road as a base for shipping. With Zhao and Ju's personal intervention, they set this shipping base in Dengzhou, instead of Mizhou, which was controlled earlier and had better infrastructure. At the same time, a railway from Xuzhou to Dengzhou is also being planned. In the second half of the fourth year of Yanhuang, Zhao and Ju made up their minds to solve the threat of Mengyuan before the autumn of the seventh year of Yanhuang. The one leading to Bianliang is easier to do, and the one leading to Dengzhou must first extend north to Jinan Province, and then east to Dengzhou Province in Jinan Province. The planned length of this railway is about 2,000 li (Song system), because considering that it is an important source of raw materials for the cotton textile industry and coal industry in the Great Song Dynasty along the way, and it is also an important source of raw materials for the Northern Song Dynasty industrial zone, under the promotion of some people, this road was built even faster than the one leading to Bianliang, and after two and a half years of day and night fighting, this railway was finally successfully completed at the end of March of the seventh year of Yanhuang.

Compared to Huating Mansion, Dengzhou Port is naturally much smaller, but the wharf is also equipped with many cranes powered by steam engines to lift boxes of military supplies onto ships.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, with two ironclad steamships as the lead and twelve large steamers as the vanguard, carrying the first batch of 5,000 loyal guards, they began to march northward, and their target was Qingnipu, which was across the sea.

This sea-crossing operation, almost all the ships of the Northern Naval Division of the Great Song Dynasty were mobilized, Yu Zhu stood on the deck, looking at the Zhifu Port of Dengzhou, which was gradually moving away, and pursed his mouth, the scars on his face were shining in the sun.

"Dudu, at our current speed, in five hours, we will be able to reach Qingnipu." The boatswain beside him said to him.

After landing at Qingnipu, it took Zhao and Ju to find a suitable landing site along the coast of Mengyuan and Yuan after Zhao and Ju secretly ordered him to determine the landing site. First of all, this is a good port, which is convenient for the transportation of personnel and materials in the Great Song Dynasty, and secondly, it is very close to the Jingdong Peninsula, with the speed of the current steamship, under the calm conditions, it can be reached from Dengzhou to Qingnipu in five to six hours, and the third is that there was only one small fishing village here, after the war between Mengyuan and the Great Song Dynasty, the people in the small fishing village were captured, and it can be said that there is no defense at all.

"Well, it's good if it goes well." Yu Zhu responded lightly.

Although he is only the governor of the navy, this time his opponent is ...... It should be Li Rui.

When he thought of Li Rui, his mood was very contradictory, when he was in Liuqiu, the two were friends, and later one continued to study in the school, and the other got on the boat and became a member of the navy. More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the two have parted ways for a long time, but this time fate seems to be intertwined again.

The crossing of the sea was quite smooth, and at seven o'clock in the evening they officially arrived at Qingnipu, because it was summer, and the sky was still bright at this time, and with the signal flag of the Yu Zhuza ship, dozens of small sampans were put down, and more than ten people were sent to the beach each time.

"If the crossing of the sea is smooth, the progress should be smooth, right?" Yu Zhu thought to himself on the boat.

The choice of Qingnipu to land was not only because of the suitable conditions of Qingnipu, but also because the Great Song Dynasty sailors could not penetrate deep into the territory of Mengyuan. In that Liao River, small boats are not afraid, but boats with a slightly deeper draft will be damaged by various hidden piles buried by the Mengren.

It was Wang Qinian who led the order of this army.

After causing great trouble in Hedong, he returned to Xuzhou to prepare for a cross-sea operation, and this time the first to land was the 1,500 dragoons he led.

"The A-word battalion is the vanguard, immediately enter Liaoyang, reconnoiter the enemy situation along the way, and the B-shaped battalion is the Chinese army, consolidate the beachhead position, and respond to the follow-up troops!" Wang Qinian gave an order.

"Counselor, if you meet Mongolians on the way, do you want to engage them?" Qiao Zhidong is the leader of the Azi Battalion, his temperament jumped slightly, and he asked with a smile.

"Fart, Menghu has already been transferred to Jinzhou along the way, you don't make trouble there, a little Han army, just disperse, let's hurry, we don't have time to entangle with them!" Wang Qinian's eyes were cold: "Lao Tzu is a flying general, you are a dragoon, remember, if you don't block Menghu's retreat, we will be defeated!" ”

"Yes!" Qiao Zhidong awe-inspiring and left.

In the urgent order from Zhao and Ju and the military department, the time of this cross-sea operation was advanced, and their purpose was to capture Liaoyang and Huanglongfu, and hold these two places with infantry, while the cavalry ran wildly to block them before Menghu went north. At the same time that the Song fleet appeared in Qingnipu, the messenger who asked for help had already rushed away, and in the afternoon of the same day, Li Rui got the news in Liaoyang Mansion.

Tuo Lei gathered troops in Jinzhou, and there was no Mongolian general in Liaoyang Fu, only a Khitan general led by a 3,000 Tanma Red Army. His rank and authority are not high, and he didn't dare to be big in front of Li Rui, but after hearing the news, he immediately came to Li Rui. In his mind, Li Rui won the trust of Tuolei, and these Han troops were selected by him from among the factory miners, and now they are all under Li Rui's account, so they can only be mobilized after communicating with Li Rui.

Li Rui was also refreshed, not only promised to transfer all the troops to him, but also insisted on going out with him to meet the attack. The two of them ordered the soldiers and horses, but they were also mighty. When he was stationed in the camp that night, Li Rui set up wine to boost morale, and the Khitan general only said that the Song people were still in Qingnipu, and it was okay to drink, and Li Rui repeatedly persuaded him to drink, so he couldn't help getting drunk, and he was beheaded by Li Rui's order on the banquet.

These Han soldiers were originally just farmers in Tuntian or miners who opened mines, and they had long been accustomed to obeying the orders of Li's uncle and nephew, and they were not surprised to kill some drunken Tanma Red Army, because the core backbone of them were all characters who had been planted by Li Rui in the past few years.

But when the troops turned around overnight, someone still came up and asked: "Didn't you go south to meet the Song army, how to go north?" ”

Li Rui's expression was calm: "Our enemy is in the Huanglong Mansion. ”

"The Song people landed in Qingnipu, Li Rui led the army to meet the battle, and returned defeated, having lost Liaoyang Mansion and is retreating to Huanglong Mansion!"

When the news reached Huanglong Mansion, it was already late, and Meng Ge and Kublai Khan were holding a letter that had just come from Jinzhou, and when they heard the news, they couldn't help but look at each other.

"Big brother, ...... of these" Although Kublai Khan was only sixteen years old, he was bold and heroic, and even sneaked into the Song Realm to attend the Song People's Primary School for more than a year, so he was very assertive, he frowned: "Did what happened in my father's letter?" ”

After receiving Polu's warning, Tuo Lei immediately sent a message back to Huanglong Mansion, asking Meng Ge and Kublai Khan to pay attention to the movements of Li Quan and Li's uncle and nephew, and not to be deceived by them, but this secret letter had just been received, and the news of the Song army's landing came from there, which made the brothers very confused.

"I don't know...... But let's arrest Li Quan first. Meng Ge glared: "If there is any situation, ......"

"Li Quan had already left Huanglong Mansion the day before yesterday and went to the north to collect food and clothing for us." Kublai Khan smiled bitterly: "He is out of the city, unless we are brothers, who can control him?" ”

"He left the city, why don't I know?" Montgotta.

Li Quan left Huanglong Mansion and rushed to Huining Mansion in the north, which would be the starting point of the Long March of Mengyuan, he said that he would go here to dispatch supplies, and in the division of labor between Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, Meng Ge, who had accompanied his father and ancestors, was in charge of military affairs, and Kublai Khan, who was proficient in the written language of the Song people, was in charge of civil affairs. Hearing Meng Ge say this, Kublai Khan smiled bitterly: "Didn't you tell your brother when you left, and my brother forgot?" ”

Although Tuo Lei attaches great importance to Li Quan's uncle and nephew's civil affairs ability, Meng Ge thinks that the uncle and nephew do not have troops in their hands, but they are just in charge of some logistics and baggage, so they don't need to be too careful, so last time Li Quan said that he would go to Huining Mansion in some time, he agreed without thinking about it.

"I remember, he said it to me five days ago, and then ...... Just run away without a sound? Meng Gewei groaned slightly, and immediately decided: "We will also go to Huining, in advance, we can't wait any longer!" ”

"I can't wait any longer!" Kublai Khan also nodded.

However, even if they began to mobilize overnight and went from Huanglong Mansion to Huining, there were too many preparations to be made, and Li Quan had made a lot of preparations before, such as the stacking of materials, the order of transportation, and so on, all of which were shown to Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, but when the matter came to an end, the two realized that the well-organized arrangements in Li Quan's speech had become chaotic in their hands.

Fortunately, Kublai Khan stole a primary school in Xuzhou for a year and a half, and he still knew a little bit about arithmetic arrangement, and with the help of Haiyun monks, they finally spent two days to arrange everything, and then ordered all the people to go north to Huining, at this time, the Jinzhou battle report also came.

The 10,000 cowardly Xue who dragged the mine was defeated by the 10,000 musketeers of the Song people with a platoon of guns in the frontal field battle, and the Tanma Red Army and the rest of the armies took advantage of the situation to make an incident, and the whole army of the Tuo Lei was routed, and its whereabouts are unknown!

"That's the devil, the devil, the immortal heaven!" The Mongol soldiers, who fled back to report the news, could not control their fear, and shouted: "We can't get close at all, and we can't get close to them on the fastest horse, Your Majesty has sent people to attack their flanks, but the cowardice of 5,000 people can't get close to the other side 1,000 people......"

Although two days had passed, he still remembered the situation on the battlefield vividly.

Because of the hot and humid weather, Tuo Lei launched an attack in the relatively cool early morning, first using the Han army's miscellaneous cards to lure the Song army out of the camp, and then using 5,000 cowardly Xue to attack from the flank, trying to cut off the Song army's rear road. This was Menghu's favorite tactic, which was to disrupt the enemy's supply and food routes by attacking the enemy's flank and rear in the field. And the Song people seem to be carried away by the successive victories, and also gave Tuo Lei this opportunity, its main force of more than 20,000 people, only the auxiliary troops to guard the camp, and the troops guarding the flanks and rear flanks are only a thousand people, they do not even carry large carts, it is impossible to form a car formation.

At that time, the front and rear armies of the Song army had been stretched very open, and it seemed that the front army had been unable to return to the flank, and after discovering that the Song army's battle line was scattered, Tuo Lei immediately invested 5,000 Tanma Red Army, intending to intersperse, completely separating the middle army and the rear army of the Song army, and ordering the Han army to move forward and bite the forward of the Song army, thus dividing the Song army into three parts that were not connected to the head, body and tail. His plan was to destroy the rear army of the Song people by virtue of the advantage of strength after the division, and then continue to divide the front army of the Song army by virtue of the victory, and after defeating the front army of the Song army, the Song army, which had lost more than 20%, had to retreat, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue.

His plan was very successful at first, the front army of the Song army was really pinned down, and was busy shooting at the Han army that was driven away, while the Chinese army seemed to have no good way to deal with the situation that the front army and the rear army were attacked at the same time, so they just stayed in place and provided artillery support to the front and rear.

Moreover, the Tanma Red Army, which was responsible for separating the Song Army's central army from the rear army, also easily rushed into the gap between the two armies, but then they found that they were simply killing themselves.

The Song people first used artillery to blow up the formation of Cowardly Xue, and their field artillery, although light, had a long range, which was not comparable to Meng Yuan's bulky and poor safety artillery. The Mongols were not heroic, and even in this case, they still approached the Song people, and the nearest was only forty paces, but at this moment, the Song troops resounded in the midst of a strafing fire like fried beans.

In addition to the terrifyingly dense row of guns, the Song people's new style of beaded muskets weaved into the hell of death. After more than two years and nearly three years of development, the metallurgical industry of the Great Song Dynasty has made great progress, and now the musket is no longer a paper bullet case, but a recyclable copper bullet case, and the beaded musket is loaded with the help of the recoil of the bullet, which can fire one hundred and twenty bullets per minute, and nearly ten such muskets are fired at the same time, and the barrage woven is enough to tear any flesh and blood.

After Huo Lianzhu blocked the cowardice from the side, the fate of the Tanma Red Army that broke into the rear army of the Song people and the Chinese army was doomed. In the face of simultaneous fire from the front and rear, they were even more miserable than the five thousand cowards, and in just ten minutes, they were wiped out by the whole army.

The destruction of the Tanma Red Army did not make Tuo Lei lose confidence, and he once again organized a cowardly Xue death assault, but at this time, the Han army, which was responsible for containing the front army of the Song Army, could not withstand the pressure and completely collapsed, and the chaotic army not only lost its own task, but also rushed to its own home, making Tuo Lei's last effort seem to have become a time to escape for them.

"Your Majesty asked me to come back and report the news, please let the two princes leave quickly, leaving Li Quan to guard the city, he and the Song Emperor are mortal enemies, and they have to fight to the death...... It's miserable, two princes, when I left, I looked at His Majesty's battle flag, which was torn by the Song people's artillery and only a few strips of cloth remained......"

At this, the messenger howled and wept, and Möngke and Kublai Khan burst into tears.

"Where's my father, what about my father!" Kublai Khan shouted.

However, the Courier knew nothing about the safety of Towley, and all he could remember was the tattered battle flag he had seen when he left.

Note 1: Qingnipu is now Dalian.

Note 2: Huining is next to present-day Harbin.