After receiving the handsome seal, Yu Yunwen felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier and heavier, and from then on, the fate of Zhenjiang was in his hands, and all the responsibilities had to be borne by him!

Fortunately, Liu Qi, who was seriously ill, left him some strategies for dealing with the enemy, and he was not clueless, as long as he urged all armies and battalions to put them in place, the situation in Zhenjiang would not be out of control immediately, and after ten days and half a month, and when Zhang Jun took over, the situation should be better.

Yu Yunwen has no understanding of the armies in Zhenjiang Prefecture, basically does not know anything, although he has discussed some lessons with Yang Congyi these days, but he still knows nothing about the affairs of the army and the river defense, and it is not particularly clear.

Therefore, when inspecting the armies and battalions and supervising the river defense, Yu Yunwen asked Yang Congyi to go with him, and he could ask at any time if he had any questions, and when he saw that the river defense was unprepared and did not arrange the river defense according to the requirements of the marshal's office, he could also point it out in time, and ordered the armies to adjust it immediately, and Yang Congyi became an accompanying staff officer.

After inspecting the Zhenjiang 50-mile river defense on the spot, they felt more and more that the situation was grim.

The enemy army in Yangzhou is different from Hezhou, because the Song army in Hezhou was evacuated in advance, they had time to take away important materials, such as boats, but Yangzhou and Guazhou were suddenly lost, and there were hundreds of large troop transport ships on the bank of the ferry, and now they are all in the hands of the enemy, with a big boat, there is the cost of crossing the river, since the loss of Guazhoudu, the enemy has tried to cross the river many times, and the Great Song Dynasty naval army fought in the river.

However, with the passage of time, more and more ships gathered from Zhenzhou and Yangzhou to the vicinity of Guazhoudu, and there were no less than 1,000 large and small ships, of which large ships accounted for the majority.

If there are enough boats, the enemy army will have the ability to cross the river, and this ability to cross the river is far from being comparable to that in Hezhou before, perhaps this is the reason why the enemy army did not hesitate to destroy the remaining ships after the setback of Hezhou, and turned the horse's head and rushed to Yangzhou.

It is understood that the defenders of Zhenjiang have clashed with the enemy army in Yangzhou five times in the middle of the river, although the losses are not small, but fortunately, Liu Qi made arrangements in advance in Zhenjiang at the beginning, and deployed most of the naval forces in the Jianghuai region on the Yangtze River, with 20,000 naval troops and more than 200 warships, and it seems that they can still hold the defense line in the middle of the river for the time being.

In the first four water battles in the river, Liu Qi personally sat on the riverside, and the Song army coordinated well in the battle and responded in time, although the warship was damaged, the enemy army could not approach the riverbank.

Just a few days ago, the enemy crossed the river for the fifth time, Liu Qi's condition worsened, he could not get out of bed, there was no one to coordinate and command on the battlefield, and the Jiang waterproof army fought separately, and lost dozens of warships after the first battle, if it were not for the enemy's lack of preparation, he would have successfully crossed the river.

Now that Wan Yan Liang commanded the army to Yangzhou, there were many generals and thousands of ships, once the river was crossed, the Zhenjiang naval army would inevitably be unable to resist.

After the on-the-spot investigation was completed, Yu Yunwen immediately adjusted the original deployment of troops, transferred the Jingwu Army and Yangwu Army led by Yang Congyi to the Zhenjiang Ferry directly facing Guazhoudu, and handed over the most important place of Zhenjiang River Defense to Yang Congyi.

At the same time, the two naval armies stationed on the left and right sides of the ferry were also assigned to the command of Yang Congyi, and together with the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army, they formed the Zhenjiang Enemy Front Army, which was commanded by him as the former army, unified command, and deployed to meet the enemy.

"General Yang, the first river defense will be handed over to you, as long as you can prevent the enemy from crossing the river, I will personally be responsible for your logistics supply!" Yu Yunwen looked at Yang Congyi with a solemn expression.

"Lord Yu, don't worry, the end will be, Jiangfang is here!" Yang Congyi hugged his fists and received the order.

In the Taiping War, Yu Yunwen already had a lot of trust in him, and now he is the only person available in front of Yu Yunwen, as long as Zhenjiang is fine, this trust will be further deepened. The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty have always been suspicious and restricted by the imperial court, and it is difficult to gain the trust of civilian officials. Therefore, he naturally has to grasp the opportunity that he finally gets, and he also has to give Yu Yunwen some confidence.

"Okay, do what you do. As for the warships and sailors mentioned earlier, I tried my best to coordinate and mobilize as many as possible. Yu Yunwen nodded slightly, and the huge pressure in his heart seemed to be reduced a little, but the next second and third lines of defense should also be adjusted as soon as possible, select people who can take on heavy responsibilities, and prepare to resist the enemy on the shore.

"Thank you, sir!" Yang Congyi raised his hand and thanked him.

If there are more naval troops, there will be a few more points of certainty in holding the Zhenjiang River, at least there will be more naval troops, and it will not be so easy for the enemy to cross the Yangtze River smoothly, three or two hundred warships are enough to cut off the Yangtze River, even if the naval warships are all destroyed, the enemy ships will not be able to please them, and without enough large ships, it is simply wishful thinking for the army to cross the Yangtze River two or three miles wide.

Yu Yunwen soon left the Jingwu barracks, and Yang Congyi immediately issued an order to convene the generals and officials of the generals and above of the army to discuss the matter.

"At the time of crisis, I won't say much gossip, there is only one question, the enemy has gathered heavily in Yangzhou, and will launch a full-scale battle to cross the river at any time, what do you think in your hearts? Tell the truth, don't be scrupled. ”

Yang Congyi sat in the middle of the camp tent, and dozens of generals and commanders sat on both sides.

As soon as the words fell, a person said: "What else can you think, if you win, you will fight, if you can't win, you will withdraw first, stay in the green mountains, and you will not be afraid of no firewood!" ”

"Well, that's all there is to it. As soon as the commander fell ill, the enemy army attacked again, and we could not defend it with only our little strength. ”

"I heard that there are 500,000 enemy troops, 500,000, how many people are there in Zhenjiang? The forbidden army, the garrison army, and the box army together do not have 100,000 people, so what can they do? Prepare early! ”

"Luzhou, Hezhou, Zhenzhou, Yangzhou, there are so many grains, grasses and military funds, they all give them up and flee all the way back to Jiangnan, why do we want to work hard here! Do people say it's fair? ”

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The generals of the two naval armies stationed at the ferry port kept saying strange things, and almost no one said that they would fight to the death with the enemy army and defend Zhenjiang to the death, either withdrawing or preparing to withdraw, and it seemed that there was not much fighting spirit at all.

Yang Congyi sat there, listening to their opinions at will, the expression on his face did not change much, he did not refute it, and he did not admit it.

However, the generals of the Jingwu army couldn't sit still, they were going to fight and make meritorious contributions, and they had just experienced a big victory, and their morale was booming, so it was easy to escape.

The general immediately retorted: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, usually we eat the imperial court, which is the grain grown by the people, and now the enemy has entered the house, I don't want to drive away the enemy, but I think about how to escape, how to save my life, don't you feel blushing when you look at the clothes and armor you are wearing?" ”

"When the enemy army is coming, he should fight back, and where he came from, drive him back! As a soldier, what's the matter if you think about running away every day? Didn't you eat it for nothing? ”

"Although the enemy army claims to be 500,000, as long as they can't cross the river, it is zero, what are you afraid of? A group of barbarians from the grassland, who have never seen the big rivers, are all landlubbers, and they get dizzy when they get on the boat, and we are proficient in water warfare, and they can beat us in the water? If they can't beat us, why should they cross the river? As long as you can't cross the river, let alone 500,000, even a million people are also decorations, scaring and scaring cowards! ”

"You are all people who have fought with the enemy in the river, and you don't know what they look like in the water. Can two of them beat one of our ships? Fighting in the river, we occupy a favorable geographical position, as long as we dare to fight, we will definitely not lose! ”

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The rebuttal of the Jingwu Army led by Su Zhong and Pan Cheng made the faces of the other two armies ugly and unable to get off the stage.

Then someone said angrily: "Have you ever fought with the Jinren? Sitting and talking doesn't hurt your back! If the Jin people are so easy to fight, can they occupy all the Huaidong and Huaixi in a month? Can Liu Dashuai return all the way back to Zhenjiang from Huaiyin? Are you more powerful than Liu Dashuai? If you have the ability, go to the golden people to see, and set an example for us! ”

Yuan Hua, who had not spoken for a long time, immediately refuted: "This is wrong, the enemy occupies the Lianghuai region in Jiangbei for a month, but it has nothing to do with whether they can fight or not." Originally, the marshal and the royal army were divided into two ways, the marshal led the army north to Xuyi and Huaiyin, resisted the enemy head-on, sent the royal power to lead the troops westward, supported Shouchun, and prevented the enemy from crossing the Huai River, the enemy's east route army was stopped by the marshal in Xuyi and Huaiyin, and could not advance an inch, so he had to send a large army to Huaixi and attack Shouchun, but the royal power was slow to move and could not reach Shouchun, resulting in the weak Shouchun being occupied by the enemy, and slowly arrived at the royal power of Luzhou, I heard that after the enemy occupied Shouchun, he actually fled from Luzhou overnight with hundreds of thousands of troops, Fled all the way back to Hezhou, and soon fled back to Jiankang, the enemy soldiers occupied the entire Huaixi without blood, and the marshal fought well in Xuyi and Huaiyin, and the rear was all lost, can you continue to fight? If Wang Quan does not disobey the order and leads the army to Shouchun in time, maybe the enemy army is still blocked north of the Huai River, and the loss of Jiangbei is all because Wang Quan did not listen to the orders of the marshal and led 100,000 troops to escape, what does it have to do with the marshal? What does it have to do with whether the enemy can fight or not? ”

Pan Cheng said: "Whether the enemy can fight or not, I don't know, anyway, we killed more than 5,000 enemy soldiers in the first battle of Guazhou Soaphorn Forest, captured four or five hundred people, and killed their commander Gao Jingshan, and we didn't kill any soldiers except for a few minor injuries!" Is the enemy really powerful? ”

Su Zhong immediately said: "Do you know why the 500,000 enemy troops originally gathered in Hezhou came to Yangzhou? I don't say, you certainly don't know. In fact, there was only one reason why they came to Yangzhou, because they suffered a defeat in Hezhou, and the battle to cross the river launched after more than a month of preparation failed, and almost all the ships of the navy were destroyed, and even if they had 50 people in Hezhou, after a defeat, it was impossible to cross the river again in a month or two. We are not afraid to tell you that we are the ones who let them suffer this defeat! ”

After the two said this, the camp immediately quieted down, and everyone had different mentalities, and the atmosphere became awkward and weird.