On the first day of the seventh month, the new day, the sky was clear, and it was time to fight.

According to the previous practice, the Meng Yuan side would first send an envoy to persuade him to surrender. Even in a national war related to the survival of the dynasty like the Battle of Kushan back then, Zhang Hongfan also sent Zhang Shijie's nephew to persuade him to surrender. But this time, Meng Yuan didn't greet one at all, and directly invited to fight.

Because this time is completely different, in the past, Meng Yuan was killed at the door of the Great Song Dynasty, and then sent a spy or a peace agreement. War or peace, the initiative is only in the hands of the invaders. But this time it was the other way around, it was the Song lord who personally drove the Northern Expedition and held a knife and gun in front of the nose of the Mengyuan invaders - you asked the attackers to put down their swords and guns and surrender? No matter how arrogant Meng Yuan was, he knew that he didn't have a face to this extent.

Therefore, this battle must be fought, and there is no need to talk about it.

As the inviter, Meng Yuan first sent his own lineup.

“…… The array laid out by the Yuan army is a fish scale array with both offense and defense, the first three and the second back, a total of five formations, and the Chinese army is placed behind the formation, each formation is about 2,000 men and horses, a total of 10,000 horses. The first three sergeants are dressed in gray, and the flag is the word "king", which is distinguished by the flag emblem ornamentation, which should be the deputy vanguard of the Yuan army's expedition to the barbarians, and the new annex army under the command of Wang Weiyi of the next ten thousand households. The second sergeant in the latter formation is dressed in green, which should be the Han army. The Chinese army was about 500 horsemen, dressed as yellow, and was a Mongolian cavalry. From the tooth of the banner of the Chinese army Su Lu, it must be the son of the so-called 'Marshal of the Deputy Capital of Zhengnan' of the Yuan Army, the envoy of Yingzhou, and the ......slave of 100,000 households in the middle of the army."

On the battlefield between the two military camps of the Song and Yuan dynasties, which was more than 20 miles deep, a group of Yuan army cavalry marched out from Nanyuanmen, came to a place of about ten miles, and began to set up a formation.

On Tonggu Mountain, a huge viewing platform with an area of more than 20 zhang and a wooden and stone structure as high as 5 zhang was specially built. At this time, almost all the generals of the Song army on the front line of Tonggu Mountain gathered here and took turns to watch the Yuan army with a clairvoyant mirror.

The praise painting office, with the superintendent Ma Nanchun as the counselor, observed through a clairvoyant mirror, and then synthesized the information of all parties, analyzed and summarized, and reported to the Son of Heaven like a flowing price.

Zhao Lie bowed slightly, satisfied with the performance of this institution similar to the General Staff Department of later generations. This praise and painting office was established as early as the early days of the Northern Expedition, and after several months of actual combat polishing, although it has not yet reached the ideal appearance, its basic functions such as analyzing the enemy's situation, drawing up plans, and organizing operations can be done in a decent way. Learning and improving while playing, it is rare to have this in less than three months.

"There are more than 10,000 people, one of the 10,000 households is the main general, and one of the 10,000 households is the deputy general. It seems that in this battle, the Yuan army is planning to test it. Zhao Lie's gaze swept over the faces of Mrs. Xu, Chen Hangyan, Huang Hua, Li Zifa and the others.

Since the Yuan army is a temptation, of course, it can't show the hole card of the Dragon Bird Army early, so the first battle has to be selected from the non-main force, and the command of these four generals are all selected from the 80,000 Min Guangyi Army, each general commands 5,000 men and horses, a total of 20,000 horses, as the auxiliary army of the Dragon Bird Army, which can be called elite.

Among them, Mrs. Xu, Chen Hangyan, and Huang Hua all belong to the southern Fujian line, and only Li Zifa is from the southern part of the country. Li Zifa had entered the Qiongmian Saint as early as the beginning of the year and became a general of the Dragon Bird Army. A few months later, he was ordered to leave the army and return to Haifeng, using his local prestige and connections to raise another team, which grew stronger and stronger. After the arrival of the Northern Expeditionary Wang Division, he led the people to join and returned to the organization. Because of his outstanding performance, the 5,000 soldiers and horses selected by the Quang Nam side were handed over to him to lead.

Seeing Zhao Lie's eyes sweeping, without waiting for him to speak, the four generals all rushed to fight.

Zhao Lie said: "The enemy army is 10,000, and the strength of our army should also be equal." General Lee! ”

"The end will be." Li Zifa came out in response.

"You will lead 5,000 Guangnan troops to meet the enemy for the left army."

"Yes." Li Zifa took the order and returned to the shift.

Zhao Lie's gaze swept over the faces of the remaining three Southern Fujian generals, and he groaned slightly, and said: "The She army under Madame's command is indeed elite, but Madame's previous injuries have not healed, so it is really not suitable to lead the army to fight......"

When Zhao Lie's gaze wandered around Chen Hangyan and Huang Hua, Huang Hua suddenly said loudly: "Your Majesty Shengming, Mrs. Xu and General Chen are all injured, and it is not suitable to fight." The last general is willing to drive for my southern Fujian tiger to drive forward, and let the Tartar taste the benefits and disadvantages of my southern Fujian son. ”

Huang Hua's appearance suddenly provoked Chen Hangyan to be furious: "It's true that my sister is injured and has not healed, but I just broke my head, and I didn't get in the way at all, how can I be 'injured'?" ”

Huang Hua ignored Chen Hang's eyes, and saluted respectfully: "Since the last general has been attached to the king's master, he has not made an inch, but he has been greatly rewarded by His Majesty, and his heart is really uneasy. ”

Zhao Lie looked at Huang Hua and said with a smile: "General Huang is loyal to the country, and his fighting spirit is high, very good, very good, so he will take the 5,000 soldiers and horses under your command as the right army." ”

Huang Hua was overjoyed, and said loudly: "Your Majesty." Le Hehe took the arrow and smiled at Li Zifa.

Chen Hangyan tugged at the corner of his eyes and glanced at Mrs. Xu. The latter smiled and shook his head at him, and Chen lowered his head sullenly, not daring to fight anymore.

At this time, Jiang Fenglie came out of the column and asked: "The last general is willing to lead a battalion to the battle." ”

Huang Hua and Li Zifa are both generals at the same level, one is the left army, the other is the right army, and they must have a general with a higher military rank than them as the main general, commanding the formation.

Before Zhao Lie could speak, Shi Yang shouted to Jiang Fenglie: "Brother Shiyi, let me go to this battle first." Let's fight soldiers, generals against generals, you are the deputy marshal, and you will go out when the instigation comes out. ”

Jiang Fenglie smiled bitterly, this Shi Yang is belligerent, especially good at taking the lead. In order to grab the merit of this first battle, they are willing to belittle themselves as "soldiers".

Zhao Lie nodded and said, "It's just a hundred slaves, and it's not worth it for us to send a deputy marshal out." Okay, it's up to you Shi Yang to lead the selection of a battalion of soldiers and horses in the front army. ”

"The last will be ordered."

"In addition, Zhang Ba, the general of the back, led 500 cavalry to serve as a guard on both flanks to drive out the enemy cavalry to attack and harass."

"The last general commands."

……

With the sound of rumbling war drums, the Song army's southern gate slowly opened, the suspension bridge creaked and fell, and the first to rush out were groups of cavalry. The two horsemen ran in parallel, quickly rushed across the suspension bridge, and the horses were like a line between the horses, and immediately galloped to the preset position in the left and right directions as soon as they ran out of the bridge, so as to protect the wings for the next infantry formation. Behind the cavalry, there were groups of infantry troops stepping out neatly, their armor shiny and their fighting spirit high.

At this time, the Yuan army's formation had not yet been completed, and when the Song army was in battle, even if there were hundreds of horsemen galloping out from the left and right of the formation, galloping back and forth in front of the large array, rolling up the yellow dust in the sky.

Although the cavalry of the Yuan Army only moved to protect the wing army formation and did not make an attack action, Zhang Ba and other cavalry soldiers of the Beiwei Army did not dare to relax at all. In the stage of their own formation, their burden is the heaviest, and before the completion of the large army formation, they must not let the enemy cavalry attack and disturb, otherwise the battle will be difficult to finish for a long time, and the sergeants will be tired; If the army is in turmoil, it will be defeated before the battle, and it is the most careless.

On the viewing platform of Tonggu Mountain, Chen Zhi couldn't help but ask a question that all the generals were worried about: "Will the Yuan army interfere with our army's formation?" ”

Zhang Shijie put down the clairvoyant mirror and said with a gloomy face: "Yes, but not now." ”

"When?"

"Halfway through the formation." Zhang Shijie said in a low voice, "At that time, the attack was most likely to disturb the morale of the army, if the law in the army was not strict, and the generals did not control enough, if one was not done well, the consequences would be worrying......"

All the generals nodded secretly, their expressions solemn. Among them, Zhang Shijie has the most experience in fighting with the Yuan army, and his judgment must be reasonable.

Chen Zhi's eyes flashed, knowing that Zhang Shijie's words meant something, and said in a low voice at the moment: "Don't worry, even if you don't have confidence in the She army, don't you have confidence in our backing army?" ”

Zhang Shijie's face was pale, he smiled, and turned his back on the army, but a considerable part of it came from the original Zhang Jiajun, and most of them were trained by his personal general Zhang Ba, how well did he know how to fight, how could he not be confident?

Suddenly, someone exclaimed: "Look, the Yuan army has moved." ”