The next morning, the commander of the Jiankang Sixth Army came to the government to discuss matters.

After Ye Yiwen introduced his identity, he immediately asked: "I heard that the Jin people have 30,000 troops stationed in Jiangbei, can you retreat from the enemy?" ”

The generals were silent, not daring to speak, not even raising their heads.

Ye Yi asked that it was difficult for them to ask this question, if it was so easy to retreat from the enemy, how could the Song army be forced to lose the land of Jiangbei.

So he immediately asked: "The Jin people in Jiangbei are preparing to cross the river, what are your best strategies to resist the enemy, and how to defend the river?" ”

The generals remained silent.

"How did you set up the river defense?" Ye Yi asked.

The congregation kept their mouths shut and did not make a sound.

"Who have you been waiting for? Who has ever fought with the Jinren? Ye Yi asked again.

The generals will be dumb, neither opening their mouths nor raising their heads.

"Have you ever been in a war?" The good-natured Ye Yiwen was also anxious, and immediately stretched out his hand and pointed to the nearest commander to him.

"Back to my lord, the last general has never fought, and not long ago I only went to Luzhou with the deputy marshal of the king, and I came back before the war." The commander didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at people.

Ye Yiwen pointed to another person, and then asked, "Have you ever fought?" ”

The man hurriedly replied, "No, the last general has not fought yet." ”

"What about you?" Ye Yi asked another person.

"I haven't hit either."

After asking the six people one by one, Ye Yiwen was going crazy, and no one had ever fought, let alone a gold fighter.

At this time, he wanted to scold people, how were these commanders appointed and promoted? This matter must be investigated!

But what about Jiangfang now?

Wang Quan retreated all the way, and with a paper order, he was directly run back to Lin'an, but Li Xianzhong, who replaced him, was delayed, how can this be good?

If the Jin people in Jiangbei knew that Jiankang Jiangfang was like this, I am afraid that they would have rushed over a long time ago, no matter what, before Li Xianzhong came to Jiankang, Jiangfang must be established!

"Listen, if the enemy in the north of the river wants to cross the river, he must take a boat, and when he gets off the boat, he must pass through the river beach. We command you to build a defensive line on the river beach at once, dig a trench half a foot deep, plant thorns, build a fence-like fence, and stop the golden men who cross the river on the river beach or hold back the boats! ”

Together with the silent commander of the Sixth Army, after thinking for a while, Ye Yiwen put forward his own plan for river defense.

The generals were stunned when they heard it, and no one dared to refute it for a while.

"If you don't have any other ideas, just follow what this official said, hurry up and go to the river beach to establish a defensive line!" Ye Yiwen waved his hand, quite imposing.

It was only at this time that a commander couldn't help it anymore and asked cautiously: "My lord, the half-foot-deep trench on the river beach, a wave hits, and the dug trench is bulldozed, and half a foot deep is not enough, right?" ”

Ye Yiwen was slightly surprised and asked, "Really?" If half a foot is not enough, then dig a foot deep, if one foot is not enough, dig a foot and a half, and dig a little more. ”

After a while, another commander said carefully: "My lord, the thorns and fences planted on the river beach seem to be unable to stop the enemy, the sand on the river beach is too soft, and if the enemy waves his sword and spear, or even kicks twice, the fence will fall, and it is difficult to block the enemy." ”

Ye Yi was taken aback, and immediately asked, "Ah, is it?" Thorn fence dare to kick with your feet? Jin people are so savage? ”

The generals were speechless for a moment, and some even couldn't help but lower their heads and laugh.

The commander who asked the question hurriedly replied: "Yes, if the enemy is not savage, he will not run thousands of miles to steal our things!" ”

"Yes, yes, you are right, the Jin people are indeed barbarians." Ye Yiwen nodded, then frowned, and asked, "Since we can't build a thorny fence on the river beach, how can we build a river defense?" ”

None of the commanders have ever fought, let alone fought with the Jin people, and they know a little bit about defending the city, but how to build a river defense where they will know?

After a long silence, Ye Yiwen suddenly said: "In this way, from today onwards, all armies will take turns patrolling the riverside, no matter day or night, they will not stop for a moment, once they find that the Jin people have crossed the river, they will be killed on the riverbank immediately, and they must not be allowed to enter the city!" Do you understand? ”

When the generals heard this, their hearts were half cold, it is now the winter moon, the wind by the river is strong and the weather is cold, the day is fine, you can endure it and get through it, what should you do at night? I'm afraid that if it wasn't for a few days, the enemy hadn't killed them, and they all fell first.

But they didn't dare to say this, after all, the patrol itself is indeed a river defense countermeasure that can be implemented.

The six people received the order and quickly walked out of the gate of the palace.

As soon as they left the mansion, they remembered Ye Yi's plan for Jiang Defense before, and they couldn't help laughing immediately.

"Dig half a foot deep and plant a fence on the river beach, and he thinks of it, and he is also a scholar, so it's stupid to study!"

"Are the golden people so savage?"

"Do you dare to kick the fence?"

Everyone learned Ye Yiwen's tone, retold his words one by one, and listened to the retelling, they couldn't stop laughing, and the tears of laughter fell.

They walked while laughing, and after laughing, they returned to the camp to implement Ye Yiwen's river defense deployment.

Taiping Prefecture, Jiangfang here is not much better than Jiankang.

Yu Yunwen was almost angry to death on the first day he came, there were almost no ordinary people in the city, all of them were scattered soldiers, either walking the streets and alleys, looking for things from house to house, or hiding in private houses, barracks, drinking and sleeping, basking in the sun, and other than that, no one was doing business.

Ask who the commander of Taiping Prefecture is, ask one who doesn't know, ask one who doesn't know, and ask one who doesn't know, it seems that there has never been a command of the army.

When asked which army they belonged to and where they were under their control, they asked a few in a row, and they all said that they had been separated from the main army, and they didn't know where Shangguan was.

When asked where they came from, some said they were from Luzhou, some said they were from Hanshan, some said they were from Hezhou, and some said they were from Chizhou.

As for how they came to Taipingzhou, they all said that they withdrew all the way from Jiangbei with the large army, and after returning to Taipingzhou, the large army had an establishment, and there was a place to go, and they were separated from their own troops, and they had nowhere to go, so they could only stay here, no one cared about it, and there was no food to eat.

With four guards, it took more than half a day for Yu Yunwen to finally figure out the situation in Taiping Prefecture, and he was so angry!

It turned out that after the governor of Taiping Prefecture was lost in Hezhou, he ran back to his hometown in Huizhou with his family, and then all the officials of the state government saw that Zhizhou had run away, and felt that Taiping Prefecture would definitely not be able to hold it, so they divided the things in the treasury and ran away.

It is equivalent to saying that the entire Taiping Prefecture has been unguarded for most of the month.

And the rebels who have nowhere to go are all nesting in the city, looking for food everywhere, or eating the last meal but not the next meal, the river defense is not at all, if the enemy directly crosses the river to attack, it can be effortless, and it is easy to take down Taipingzhou!

After learning of these circumstances, Yu Yunwen immediately made a decision and did two things.

The first is to spread the word in the city, he was personally sent by the emperor to reward the three armies, and he had money and food in his hands, as long as everyone went out of the city to garrison the river, he would immediately send the food that could not be eaten!

The second thing is to tell people that he has the power in his hands, as long as he has merit in killing the enemy and blocks the enemy from crossing the river, he will be promoted and rewarded on the spot, and the reward for killing an enemy army is ten times, and the reward is thirty times for killing three promoted generals, and the reward is thirty times for killing five promoted generals, and the reward for killing ten generals is fifty times, and the reward for killing ten or more people is promoted to a commander and a reward of three hundred times!

While publicizing everywhere in the city, Yu Yunwen immediately sent his guards back to Jiankang, asked Ye Yi about the actual situation of Taiping Prefecture, and asked him to quickly mobilize food and send it to Taiping Prefecture quickly.

In the evening of the same day, more than 1,000 enemy troops scattered in the city gathered under the temptation of food, money, and promotion, and walked out of the city gate with their respective weapons, and came to the Yangtze River, seven or eight miles away.

According to Yu Yunwen's order, the whole army was divided into three armies, left, center, and right, and one general was selected to be temporarily promoted to the commander of each army, with 500 Chinese troops stationed at the Taiping Ferry, 300 people from the left army ambushed on the left side of the ferry, and 300 people from the right army ambushed on the right side of the ferry.

According to his deployment, if the enemy army landed, the Chinese army could not resist, but they could fight and retreat, and then the left army and the right army came out together, surrounded on three sides!

Yu Yunwen's plan is very good, but the soldiers who stood on the riverbank with weapons in hand and gathered temporarily all knew that they would not be able to defeat the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops on the opposite side, even if the enemy troops came over one by one to line up for them to kill, they would not be able to finish killing even if they were exhausted, not to mention that the enemy knew how to resist and was stronger than them.

But Yu Yunwen is the person sent by the emperor himself to comfort the three armies, and he is a red man in front of the emperor, and he can stand by the river to defend against the enemy as a scholar who has no power to restrain his chickens.

To put it bluntly, the more than 1,000 soldiers who stayed on the riverbank were all people who gave up hope for life, but wanted to do something before they died.

It just so happened that Yu Yunwen came at this time, representing the emperor and pointing out a goal for them.

Therefore, even if they were hungry, they willingly came to the riverside, realized their last value as soldiers, and died on the battlefield!

One night, the sun rises.

The morning fog by the river has just broken, and the river is still full of fog, standing on the shore, even the islands in the river can't be seen clearly.

The first time he spent the night by the river, seeing this situation, Yu Yunwen felt inexplicably nervous.

"Pass the order, raise your vigilance, the morning fog is thick, in case the enemy army takes advantage of the fog to sneak attack!"

Yu Yunwen's order soon spread throughout the three armies, each raising their guard, they looked forward to, but feared that the enemy would suddenly rush ashore from the fog.

As the sun continued to rise, the fog in the river dissipated little by little, and when it was almost over, the fog disappeared completely.

The islands in the river are very clear, unobstructed, three or four miles away on the opposite bank, faintly, you can also see the river bank.

"The enemy has crossed the river!"

I don't know who shouted, interrupting Yu Yunwen, who was admiring the river view, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see a small black spot appear on the river on the opposite bank.

If you look closely, it is dozens of boats crossing the river!