Zhao Rui knew that he was facing Amu Liu Zhengjun, Liu Zheng was a general of the naval army who defected in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Wen Taowu was outstanding in everything.

Previously, Liu Zheng's direct general said to his son before he died, "Liu Zheng is talented, you can't use it, you should kill him, don't stay for another day." ”

It can be seen that this person was highly used in the Yuan Dynasty, which is also an inevitability.

As far as Zhao Rui's eyes could see, he saw that a mountainside was gathering troops, but there was no big action, it was estimated that Liu Zheng must have led the army, Zhao Rui was worried that something would change, and he was urging the convoy transporting supplies.

The current Fancheng City, in fact, is the inner city of Fancheng, the previous outer city has already been destroyed by the return artillery, and at the same time killed a lot of officers and soldiers, and now the population of the inner city is smaller, and the resistance is inevitably insufficient, and the decline has been revealed.

Zhao Rui looked at the officers and soldiers in Fancheng who came out to carry the supplies, most of them were skinny, not only because of the shortage of food, but also because they were suffering from strong psychological pressure.

Some people kept chattering, saying that they could eat fish in the river before, but now that the outer city is broken, they can't even eat fish, they have eaten wild vegetables for many days, plus salted dried fish that were pickled before, and as for food, they haven't eaten it for a long time.

Zhao Rui listened to his heart, but the most important thing to solve at present is Xiangyang, looking at the Han River in front of him, the water area is not wide, and there are pontoon bridges connected, but there are countless ships docked in the water, all of which are hung with the flag of the Yuan army, it seems that it is not easy to transport materials from Fancheng to Xiangyang.

First of all, the mortar can't attack, in case the pontoon bridge is blown up, the materials can't be transported, Zhao Rui is even beginning to regret that he didn't study it earlier**, if there is now, a few soldiers will pass through the pontoon bridge, and a boat will be thrown up directly to solve them.

Most of today's ships are made of wood, and they can't stand the power of the hand at all.

Li Tingzhi took Fan Wenshun, the city guard of Fancheng, to see Zhao Rui, and Fan Wenshun was very impressed by Zhao Rui's ability to break through the encirclement and come in with supplies, and he couldn't stop thanking him.

Zhao Rui said a few perfunctory words, looking absent-minded, so Li Tingzhi and Fan Wenshun spoke on the side.

Just thinking wildly, he suddenly heard a few mortar sounds, Zhao Rui secretly screamed that it was broken, it must be someone from the Yuan army!

Sure enough, after that, there was a series of explosions, and thick smoke came out from both sides of the gap broken by Zhao Rui, although there was an earthen wall blocking it, Zhao Rui couldn't see what was going on, but it was estimated that there would be no fewer people.

But Zhao Rui is not particularly worried, since the Yuan army is within the range of mortars, then it will definitely be wiped out.

However, Zhao Rui then saw that the Yuan army that had been lying in ambush on the mountainside in the distance had moved, and they quickly turned over from behind the mountain, seeing that the posture was to outflank the mortar troops from the flank and rear.

Zhao Rui was a little furious all of a sudden, worthy of Liu Zheng, he saw the key place at once, and knew that the mortar could not resist hard, so he chose to sneak attack, I am afraid that this is the most correct choice of the Yuan army camp at the moment.

No, we must return to help immediately, Zhao Rui knew that all the musketeers on his side had been brought out, if the Yuan army approached the mortar troops at close range, then the consequences would be unimaginable!

However, now that the materials in Fancheng are still being transported, a solution to the Xiangyang crisis has not yet been thought of, and it is very important to leave every ounce of strength.

didn't have time to think about it, Zhao Rui summoned Zhao Gong and asked him to take the troops back to support, leaving a thousand people here to follow him to garrison Fancheng.

At first, Zhao Gong was still full of worries, Fancheng's tattered appearance was about to be lost, wouldn't it be a great danger for Zhao Rui to stay here?

But Zhao Rui didn't have the slightest intention of discussing on his face, Zhao Gong knew that the young master had made a decision, so he answered and took someone away.

The sneak attack troops of the Yuan army that Zhao Rui just pointed to, Zhao Gong also saw it clearly from this angle.

"Zhao Gong, evacuate immediately after the round, pay attention to keeping a distance from the Yuan army, and send someone to inform Wanyazhou, so that they can make all their efforts to make Mauser guns and hands. You can use guerrilla warfare to consume the strength of the Yuan army, I will join you, Fancheng can trap others, but it can't trap me...... Oh, by the way, take Lady Lee! ”

Zhao Rui immediately pulled Li Tingzhi on the side and asked him to follow Zhao Gong, Li Tingzhi learned that Zhao Rui was going to garrison Fancheng with a thousand people, and his face was surprised, he really couldn't imagine that a prince would have such a consciousness of protecting his family and defending the country, and at the same time, a tragic feeling arose spontaneously from his heart.

Li Tingzhi said excitedly: "Lord Wang, don't worry, I will let the reinforcements come to Fancheng immediately!" ”

Zhao Rui thought that he had just beaten up Fan Wenhu, the general of their unified army, and that he was still preparing to go to the Taishi to complain, so he couldn't help but smile faintly.

"Let's go quickly, lest the Tartars surround you, and my people will ask Master Li to take care of them more!"

"That's nature! Be careful, lord! ”

Li Tingzhi bowed to the ground and rushed out with Zhao Gong and them.

The city guard of Fancheng looked at Zhao Rui's young face, and couldn't help but shake his head, this prince is too young, and he probably doesn't understand what the war is all about.

Although the supplies are available now, the return artillery of the Tartars has been bombarding constantly, and it is estimated that Fancheng will not be able to hold on for long, I hope that this young prince will not regret today's decision.

At this time, the deputy general Niu Fu also came to see Zhao Rui, Zhao Rui knew that the two of them had sacrificed heroically for Fancheng in history, nodded approvingly to them, remembered the mortar unit in his heart, and hurriedly led people into the inner city and climbed the city tower to check the situation.

On the high place, using the telescope, it was really much clearer than simple vision, at this time Liu Zheng's troops had disappeared at the other end of the mountain, and Zhao Gong led the team back to help should not be discovered.

With the continuous artillery fire on both sides, Zhao Gong led the musketeers and rode to the position where the mortar troops were hiding.

When the supplies entered the city, the officers and soldiers who had been hungry for a long time hurriedly set up a cauldron to make gruel, not because they didn't want to eat it, but because they hadn't eaten food for too long, they were worried that they wouldn't be able to adapt for a while.

Now Fancheng can be said to be a whole people, officers and soldiers, and the people have long been part of each other, eating and sleeping together, with the same fate, and the same resistance to the enemy.

The cooks are all old and young, women and children, and the officers and soldiers and young men are still sorting out the materials, most of these materials are to be sent to Xiangyang, most of them are grain and salt, extremely heavy, Zhao Rui has not thought about what method can be used to transport to Xiangyang.

When the air was filled with the sweet fragrance of rice, Zhao Rui had already seen Zhao Gong leading people to catch up with Liu Zheng's army, Liu Zheng's army pounced on the flank and rear of the mortar force like a hungry wolf, but was unexpectedly attacked by Zhao Gong and others.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The distant and crisp sound of gunfire rang out, like the sound of firecrackers in the distance during the Chinese New Year, which was wantonly harvesting the lives of the Yuan army, and the Yuan army in Zhao Rui's vision kept falling, even if they kept adjusting their formation and using more bows and arrows, they still couldn't avoid continuous casualties.

Soon Liu Zheng's army could not hold on, and after paying more than half of the casualties, they finally broke up and fled frantically towards the mountainous area where they came.

It is estimated that the Yuan troops on both sides of Fancheng also felt that they had suffered heavy casualties and slowed down the dispatch of troops, and the sound of mortars weakened significantly at this time.

With Zhao Gong going back to lead the team, Zhao Rui is much more relieved, after all, Zhao Gong has always followed him, knows the consistent tactics, and the importance of mortars is self-evident, he will definitely reserve the combat power of mortars for himself.

Zhao Rui had no worries in his heart, and began to study the battle situation around Fancheng again.

Because the tower of Zhao Rui Station belongs to the highest place in the surrounding area, you can clearly see the situation on all sides. After checking the situation, Zhao Rui had to admit that Fancheng was already in danger.

As far as the eye can see, the walls of the outer city of Fancheng have been dilapidated, and they are all scenes that have collapsed after being attacked by the return artillery.

Not only was the position near the water's edge guarded by a large number of troops of the Yuan army, but also there was an earthen wall that surrounded Fancheng, and the earthen wall that Zhao Rui had just ordered someone to break was very abrupt, so it was no wonder that the Yuan army wanted to fill this hole as soon as possible.

It's just that Fangcai's mortar attack is too fierce, and the strength of the Yuan army can't be relied on, and the Yuan army at this time is also waiting for an opportunity to outflank in the direction of the mountains, which should have the same idea as Liu Zheng's troops.

Because of the large number of the Yuan army, the consequences of really letting them get close are also extremely dangerous, not that the musketeers can't beat the archers, but the mountains are undulating, and the Yuan army is easy to use the advantage of the terrain to break the enemy.

Zhao Gong, he should be able to see this as well.

Zhao Rui silently watched the direction of the mortar with a telescope, and unexpectedly, under the leadership of Zhao Gong, the musketeers and mortar troops quickly packed up their bags and retreated in an orderly manner.

Soon after Zhao Gong's team retreated, some Tartar soldiers went to the damaged part of the earthen wall to probe, and after finding that there was no danger, they hurriedly ordered people to rebuild the earthen wall in good condition, and this time, Fancheng was besieged again. Zhao Rui himself was in it, and naturally felt the oppressive feeling of being unable to fly.

It seems that they have been hungry for too long, the officers and soldiers of Fancheng have long been accustomed to this kind of siege, and filling their stomachs at the moment is the most important thing, and for a while, the city was full of snoring and drinking porridge.

The people in the city looked in the direction of Zhao Rui while eating porridge, and seemed to know that it was a prince who forcibly broke through with supplies.

They also admired it in their hearts, after all, now Fancheng is surrounded like an iron bucket, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken, and the Southern Song Dynasty has lined up many times to transport supplies for support, but they have not been able to break through the siege.

I remember that the last time I got a supplement was in May and June, when the second official of the Zhang family continued to sweat, he used well-equipped warships to finally break through the siege and sent them supplies to Xiangyang and Fancheng, but in the process of breaking through, they were all in ambush and died on the battlefield.

If you want to say that you are afraid now, there must be some, but the officers and soldiers of Fancheng have more endless hatred for the Yuan army.

The siege of the Battle of Xiangfan had lasted for more than four years, and the casualties were incalculable, and if they were able to do so, they would have been eager to pounce on them and eat the flesh of the Tartars and drink their blood.