"Don't hide it, my lord, we only have more than 4,500 reinforcements on the west road, and it is far from enough to garrison Taiping City. But we can divide it into two armies, one army stationed on the river beach at the ferry, and the other army entangled with enemy ships in the river, disrupting the enemy's plan to cross the river, so that it can be delayed for several days. However, if the enemy crosses the river in a scattered manner, we will not be able to take care of it with our fifty or sixty ships. Therefore, the best way is to burn and sink all the enemy ships, so that they cannot cross the river, and only in this way can they hold Taiping Prefecture! Yang Congyi bluntly told the plan to break the enemy that he had already envisioned.

The officials who can hold the Taiping Ferry at this time are absolutely impossible to be capitulators, and if they want to win, all the actions of the Jingwu Army must be supported by the imperial court, and if they are constrained, then they will not be able to do anything.

"What the general said is good, are there any other reinforcements that can rush to Taiping Prefecture, I don't know, even if there are reinforcements, there will not be too many, blindly defending, it is indeed not as thorough as burning the enemy ships. Can General Yang be sure to go to the other side and burn their ships? Yu Yunwen hurriedly asked.

"The last general has just arrived in Taiping Prefecture, and the specific situation on the other side is not yet clear, and we need to reconnoiter and understand the enemy's situation before we can know how certain we are." Yang Congyi replied truthfully.

Yu Yunwen was about to say something, but when he saw Su Zhong sweating profusely, he hurriedly ran to report the results of the battle, and only heard him: "My lord, the enemy troops who landed on the shore have all been annihilated, and no one has escaped. A total of 1,628 enemy troops were annihilated in this battle, of which more than 730 local defenders were killed. ”

Yang Congyi said in a loud voice: "Okay." We arrived in time this time, but we only blocked the enemy's first attack across the river, so we should not be careless. After assisting the local defenders to clean up the battlefield, they immediately set up camp nearby and stationed at Taiping Ferry! ”

"Yes, sir!" Su Zhong took the order and left.

"General Yang's subordinates are all elites, and they really live up to the name of elite martial arts!" Yu Yunwen flattered.

"Your Excellency has won a prize!" Yang Congyi hurriedly excused himself.

Then he asked, "If you don't have a big surname, where do you serve?" How did you come to this undefended Taiping State? ”

Yu Yunwen said: "This official Yu Yunwen, who was previously in Lin'an, was a scholar in Lin'an, and left Lin'an last month with Ye Yiwen, a member of the Privy Council, to supervise the Jianghuai soldiers and horses, and served as a military staff officer. I am a military staff officer, and I am ordered by the imperial court to comfort the front line, and in the face of such a situation, even if I do not understand military affairs, I cannot fail to do my duty. Fortunately, General Yang came to support in time with a large army, otherwise the defenders and I would have died, and Taiping Prefecture could not be saved, and if Taiping Prefecture was not protected, the entire Jiangnan would be in danger. ”

"It turned out to be Lord Yu, look up for a long time!" Hearing the other party's name, Yang Congyi was shocked.

He had heard this name, in history, Yu Yunwen commanded the defenders of the Great Song Dynasty as a civilian official, defeated the Jin army in Quarshiji, and smashed the attempt of a million Jin troops to cross the Yangtze River, and since then he has become famous, and then took on a heavy responsibility, presiding over the Northern Expedition in the entire northwest direction, and the battle of Quarshiji also left a brilliant mark in history.

When Yu Yunwen heard Yang Congyi say this, he asked with some confusion: "What does General Yang mean by this?" I don't seem to have anything in touch with the general. ”

Yang Congyi replied: "The last general has been serving in Lin'an before, and now although he is leading the army, he is still the envoy of the imperial court. ”

"Oh, no wonder General Yang's name sounds familiar, it turns out that he is serving in the Hui Yi Department. General Yang is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, which is really the luck of the Great Song Dynasty! Yu Yunwen suddenly realized, the name of the return office, he has heard it more than once over the years, before the general order to reward Yang Congyi, calling on the world's officials to take him as a model The commendation document was drafted by him personally, and once reminded, he naturally remembered it.

Yang Congyi said modestly: "Lord Yu has won the award, and the last general will not dare to be it!" ”

"General Yang is too modest. The general's achievements today, I will immediately report to the imperial court and send an order to the whole army to boost morale! Thinking of Fang Cai's battle, Yu Yunwen was still very excited.

"Lord Yu, the last general thinks that there is no hurry to repay the merits, and the top priority is to gather the stragglers in Taiping City, some of them will defend the city, and the others will all go out of the city, and work with us to establish a defensive line by the river to prevent the enemy from sneaking in!"

Since Yu Yunwen is a military staff officer with the emperor's order, and not long ago he personally organized the battle of Jiangfang, in order to achieve greater results, Yang Congyi immediately put forward a proposal to reorganize the army, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, relying only on the elite army, Yangwu army, is far from enough, they need help.

Hearing this, Yu Yunwen calmed down, thought about it for a while, and said: "What General Yang said is reasonable, and he is sure that the army should be reorganized first, and he can't get carried away because of a victory. Yu doesn't understand military affairs, and the matter of reorganizing the army is probably going to trouble General Yang. ”

"The last general obeys!" Yang Congyi hugged his fists and received the order.

"General Yang led the army from afar, if you need anything, just put it forward, and Yu will definitely try his best to support and coordinate." came a person who could command the army and understand military affairs, and Yu Yunwen suddenly felt that the pressure on his body was much lighter.

"Grain and grass, we came all the way from Quanzhou, the grain and grass carried by the ship have long been consumed, there were some supplements in Guazhou Town near Yangzhou before, and a lot was consumed on the road, and now there are only five days of rations, and I hope that Lord Yu will provide us with enough grain and grass!" Yang Congyi was also not polite, and immediately brought up the grain and grass problem that he was worried about.

Due to the sudden loss of Yangzhou, countless grains and grasses in the city have become supplies for the enemy, and when the Jingwu army left Guazhoudu, they only received fifteen days of food, and now there is not much left.

"Okay, Yu will immediately send someone back to Jiankang to mobilize grain and grass! Anything else? Yu Yunwen immediately agreed, in fact, he had already sent someone back to Jiankang yesterday to collect grain and grass.

Yang Congyi thought for a moment, and then said: "If possible, I hope that Lord Yu can coordinate with the government, mobilize the people nearby, let them participate in the river defense, inspect the upper and lower twenty miles of river beaches day and night, and report to us immediately if they find the enemy's movements, so as to prevent the enemy team from smuggling from elsewhere, disturbing the rear and disturbing the morale of the army!" ”

"This matter is really important, and Yu can also coordinate it. Still have questions? Yu Yunwen thought about it for a while, and finally agreed.

"There is no need for anything else at the moment."

"Okay, then the matter of the whole army and the defense of the river will be handed over to General Yang!"

"The last general obeys!"

Then the two separated, Yu Yunwen rushed back to Taiping City, rebuilt the local government, and reorganized the order in the city, while Yang Congyi quickly began to reorganize the army.

Time was pressing, so the generals were summoned to the riverside and the tasks were immediately assigned.

He ordered Su Zhong and Pan Cheng to each lead 1,000 Jingwu troops, quickly set up camp on the spot around the ferry, and together with the Yangwu army, they established a defense line along the river within an hour.

Xue Wang was ordered to immediately lead ten vehicles, ships, and warships to patrol the river, and once an unknown ship was found trying to cross the river, it would be intercepted immediately, and if an enemy ship was found, it would be directly sunk, and the first line of defense should be established in the river within half an hour to strictly prevent the enemy from smuggling.

Subsequently, Yang Congyi rushed to the location of the previous battlefield, and the battlefield had not yet been cleaned.

A squad of elite warriors is working with the local defenders to clean up the corpses and clean up the mess.

Looking at the soldiers who were so exhausted that they could barely lift their arms and couldn't retreat, Yang Congyi immediately found the commander of this group of defenders, the commander of the horses promoted by Yu Yunwen, and told him that the Jingwu Army could provide them with a day's rations, so that the soldiers could rest on the spot immediately.

The grain on the ship was moved to the shore and cooked in the pot.

After fighting desperately for several hours, the local defenders who had not eaten a grain of rice were the first to eat fragrant white rice, and after a few bowls of rice, their spirits immediately recovered.

At this time, Yang Congyi once again found the commander of the horse and asked him to return to the city immediately to pull the stragglers out of the city and consolidate the defense of the Yangtze River together.

A few hours later, a rebellious army of more than 2,000 people led by Commander Ma to the riverside ferry, and the Jingwu army did not hesitate to distribute a day's rations to them, which instantly stabilized the hearts of the rebellious soldiers.

In the chaos of the war, there is a bite of food to eat, it is the happiest thing, whoever gives food to eat, will give his life, in the eyes of the rebels, it is justified.

Therefore, after eating enough, they were quickly placed under the command of Ma Commander and divided into three divisions to assist the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army to establish defenses along the river.

So far, within a few hours of the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army coming to Taipingzhou, relying on Taipingdu, more than 7,000 reinforcements and defenders have jointly established two defensive fronts, and Taiping Prefecture has a river defense.

As the sun set, Xue Wang's warship patrolling the river returned to the ferry camp and reported that everything was normal in the river, and that no enemy ships had been found attempting to cross the river, and that they had tried to observe closely, but because they were not familiar with the waters, they had not been able to do so for the time being.

Nothing happened overnight.

Early the next morning, Xue Wang led the warship to continue to patrol the river, and brought several local defenders who were familiar with the environment to accompany him, so as to arrive to reconnoiter the enemy's naval camp.

The nearly 7,000 soldiers stationed on the river beach were not idle, and in addition to normal patrols, they began to build fortifications where enemy ships might dock, occupy advantageous terrain, and suppress enemy troops who might land with bows and crossbows.

At noon that day, Yu Yunwen came to the ferry camp and brought Yang Congyi a good rest.

I heard that Taiping Prefecture has not been lost, and a large amount of grain and grass transferred from Jiankang has been on the road, and it will be transported to the ferry camp tomorrow.

At the same time, it also brought a bad news, with the Privy Council Ye Yiwen, yesterday I heard that the enemy crossed the river from Taiping Prefecture and captured the ferry, and had left Jiankang and went to Zhenjiang, and the relatives of the Jiankang prefect had also been sent away, and the prefect himself was ready to leave at any time, so now the Jiankang Mansion is almost in a state of no one's business, and after this batch of grain and grass is delivered, there may not be the next batch of grain and grass.