Chapter 181: A Thousand Moments

This fire destroyed forty tiger-headed warships, and also opened the prelude to the Battle of Yashan in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Dari Achi desperately extinguished the fire, snatched ten tiger-headed warships that burned a small part, but could still be used after repairs, and happily returned to his life.

"Marshal Qiyu, the Song army of Xinhui has set up an empty ship plan for us, and there are no troops stationed at all, and they are just here to scare us, haha! The subordinates grabbed ten big ships and came back, please make a decision! ”

The stone in Li Heng's heart fell to the ground, it seems that the county seat of Xinhui has been tightened, Agudamu should have started to attack Xinhui in the north, otherwise there would not be such an empty plan.

"Dari Achi Ji is a great achievement, you will lead the men and horses of the headquarters to occupy the Xinhui Wharf and the surrounding villages and towns, and after going ashore, get in touch with Agudamu and cooperate with him to attack Xinhui County. Wait until the day when Xinhui breaks the city, and it is also the time for you to receive the reward! ”

"Xie Dashuai!"

Dari Achi was extremely excited, and hurriedly took the order to go, Li Heng has never been interested in the slaughter of the city, which is also related to what happened to them when the Western Xia broke the country. The Mongolian generals who have followed him for many years have only occasionally killed and robbed villages and towns, and have never dared to indulge in the slaughter of cities.

Although the county seat of Xinhui is small, there are tens of thousands of people and thousands of township troops, and the defense under the command of Li Sihui is well organized, and it is not possible to take it in a day or two. But the military situation here has been determined, Li Heng's confidence has increased greatly, and all the forces on the water have been concentrated, and all the ships have been sent to Xie Guoyong's men to block the river from Ezhou to the south in an airtight manner.

At this time, it was difficult to satisfy Li Heng just by blocking, and the sluggish military spirit after the defeat in Guangzhou needed one or two victories to be excited, and the upper reaches were already geographically advantageous, so he ordered Xie Guoyong to choose the opportunity to fight, wanting to eat some sweetness from the Song army in Yashan.

Standing against Xie Guoyong is the morale of Huyan Aoki, one side is eager to try, and the other side is still murderous, the more he looks at the other side, the more unpleasant it is, and they all work together, and they start fighting at the same time with a very tacit understanding.

However, both sides were bound by general orders, and they also knew that it was not yet time for a decisive battle, so they did not dare to devote all their combat power to fight in an all-round way, but each sent more than a dozen or twenty warships, which was basically a relatively balanced situation.

Dozens of warships on the river fought together until it was dark, and then they withdrew their troops. The Song army's trebuchets and giant crossbows were extremely lethal, and they severely damaged several Yuan warships, but the Yuan soldiers had an advantage in bow and arrow archery, and when they approached the battle, the Song soldiers suffered more than half of the battle losses compared to the Yuan army.

In the temporary palace of Emperor Youdi of the Song Dynasty in Yashan, there were forty or fifty ministers from all walks of life who gathered together to discuss the use of troops. But this small court meeting no longer has the differences between the civil officials and military generals in the past, and the main reason for the quarrel is the reconciliation between Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu, or the fact that the past contradictions are let go because the situation is becoming more and more severe.

"General Huyan, I fought desperately with the Yuan soldiers for half a day today, and I worked hard for all the soldiers!"

"Lord Zhang, this is when his subordinates are loyal to the country, even if they are broken."

Zhang Shijie praised it very much, Huyan Aoki was originally a general directly under the emperor, and he won and drew two consecutive battles, which was also a very good record, and he was not proud of his achievements in front of him, which made him very pleased.

Huyan Aoki then said: "But there is one thing that needs to be said by the subordinates, the Yuan soldiers on the opposite ship are good at shooting, which is completely different from the miscellaneous soldiers that we just eliminated, and it should be the main force of the Yuan soldiers with the majority of MGZ soldiers.

But like our army, they didn't want to have a decisive battle right away, so the number of troops we invested was almost equal, and I felt a little strange inside, plus the skyrocketing smoke in the direction of Xinhui County today, Aoki felt that Xinhui County had not yet been occupied by the Yuan soldiers. ”

As soon as Huyan Aoki said this, all the officials in the audience were surprised, including Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu. In the past two days, there have been interceptions by the Yuan army's sailors, which shows that the Yuan soldiers have been in this place for a long time, and the small Xinhui county town can resist for a few days.

Zhang Shijie asked: "There should be many reasons for not wanting to fight a decisive battle, there is smoke in the direction of Xinhui, which just shows that the Yuan soldiers are burning down houses, and they should be burning and robbing the people nearby, how can General Huyan think that Xinhui is still in the hands of my Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Huyan Aoki shook his head, he couldn't say any more reasons to verify that his idea was correct, unless he could send scouts to bypass the blockade and go to Xinhui to check the news.

"Tomorrow, I will continue to lead the army to attract the attention of the enemy, and then send a few scouts who are proficient in water to detour to Xinhui County from the cliff side, and be sure to find out the specific situation of Xinhui!"

Lu Xiufu took over at this time and said: "Zhu Qing's army outside the bay has arrived, and it is difficult to break through to the open sea, and our best way out is to break through to the north, the waterway can extend the flow of the Pearl River to the north, and the land route can also go ashore to cross the Jiangmen and send troops to Guangzhou."

If Xinhui County is in the hands of my Great Song Dynasty, it is likely that they have fallen into the siege of the Yuan soldiers, and now the nearest thing is time, if the intercepted Yuan soldiers break through, they can not only relieve the siege of Xinhui, but also open up the path to Guangzhou in the north. ”

Turning around and fighting Zhang Hongfan's gunboat again, even Huyan Aoki has a big head, and all the generals with troops are helpless, and the only feasible thing is to send a self-sacrificing team to cover the transfer of the main force. Therefore, Lu Xiufu said that eighty percent of the people accepted that if the Xinhui Yuan soldiers had not yet been captured, then concentrating on breaking through to the north seemed to be the best choice for the Song army at the moment.

In the history experienced by Zhao Tianyou, Zhang Shijie's army was transferred from Leizhou to Yashan, where he established long-term stationed palaces, military camps, markets and other places, and opened up barren tuntian in Yashan, and had a long-term plan to use this as a base to fight against the Yuan soldiers.

After being surrounded by Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng, the Song army persisted in fighting for several months before it was completely defeated, and the reason was naturally that there was sufficient preparation time and abundant materials to garrison troops. At that time, there were food materials prepared from Qiongzhou, which were continuously transported to Yashan to support the army, and it was not until Zhang Hongfan's army drove to Yashan that the supply of food and materials was cut off.

And today's Song army, all the way to flee in a hurry, lost their armor, and the loss of ships, personnel and materials has long been impossible to count. It is precisely because of such a predicament that I decided to brave the storm to break through, and I want to come to Xinhui to recuperate and replenish supplies, Yashan is not a place to stay at all.

While Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu were thinking hard about a way out, Zhu Qing was on the flagship, ready to welcome Zhang Hongfan, who was two days late!

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