Chapter 319: Occupy Yichang and lock the Yangtze River

Yichang is the birthplace of Huaxia Ba culture, because of the special geographical location, the throat of Sichuan and Hubei, the three thousand Shu Road, and the special geographical location of the first line of the Gorge Road, it is known as a military important place for soldiers to fight for. （）

However, because the Yuan Dynasty was too interested in the importance of Xiangyang, it did not invest too many troops in Yichang, but regarded him as a very important material transit station, which was also because it never thought that Xiangyang would change hands again, and Yichang could not be attacked.

However, the Yuan army stationed in Yichang has recently been greatly replenished in numbers, and more than 20,000 of the 70,000 or 80,000 yuan troops scattered and fled from the second city of Xiangyang have chosen to go to Yichang to reorganize the army, and perhaps these people still have the idea of fighting with the Song army here.

At that time, Yichang was called Xiazhou, and Ouyang Xiu, a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote the famous "Xiazhou to Xiting Ji" here, and Xiazhou became famous and became one of the three major scenic spots in the Yangtze River basin in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Tianyou gave Liu Changhai the task of recruiting and training the local people after taking Yichang, leaving part of the equipment of the firearms battalion behind, and intercepting the real gold that went deep into the land of Bashu here, so that those Yuan troops could not return to the north in this life.

This mission said to Liu Changhai that it was not difficult at all, but he was also reluctant to come, his heart had been wondering how to follow the army north, and it was enjoyable to kill all the way to Yuan Dadu. If it weren't for Zhao Tianyou personally promising him, as long as Yichang rectified the military affairs normally, he could still take people back to Xiangyang, and the heart he was carrying would have fallen.

Since Kublai Khan's father began to tow mines, the Yuan people have committed too many killings in the land of Bashu, but no matter how cruel the war situation, the hard-working people of Bashu have survived and multiplied tenaciously in the ravines and mountains.

Zhao Tianyou is not only worried about taking Yichang, but also wants to control all the places on the north bank of the Yangtze River that can cross the river and land, and must not cross the Yangtze River with the main force of the Yuan army led by Zhenjin, and solve them in the land of Bashu sooner or later.

The two Song armies met eighty miles outside Yichang City, and compared with each other, the proportion of army recruits who set out from Jingzhou was too large, and the combat effectiveness still needed to be improved, so the main attack and command and dispatch still fell on Liu Changhai.

This time, the Yichang Yuan army did not defend to the death, but went out of the city in advance to ambush Yangjiadong, preparing to make a surprise attack when the Song army was on the river, but he did not expect to be recognized by Liu Changhai in advance, and lured the Yuan army into the muddy land of the river beach.

After a life-and-death battle, the Yuan army lost thousands of horsemen and retreated in a hurry, and this team did not return to Yichang, but followed the trend of the river and fled to the direction of Badong, probably trying to find a way to go north to Shiyan.

The battle of Yichang that followed was fought very hard, and the Yuan army defending the city had no way out, so they could only desperately defend the city, and resisted for nearly half a month with a number superior to the Song army. When Liu Changhai received the first ammunition support from Guangzhou, he killed several Yuan generals in command and destroyed the two city gates, and the remnants of the Yuan army of about 2,000 people planted white flags at the head of the city to surrender.

The two armies of the Yuan and Song dynasties fought, most of the time the prisoners were the Song army, the Yuan people were warlike and physically strong, and when there were a few people left, they did not admit defeat, and would rather die in battle or forcibly break through, and in the case of the establishment system, there was almost no precedent for surrender.

When the city gate was opened and surrendered, the Yuan army was naked, but he hid a short knife in his trouser legs, hoping to take the opportunity of surrender to get close to the Song army, start a close hand-to-hand combat, and fight to the death with the Song army.

Liu Changhai has long been wary of this matter, the archers of the Song army have not relaxed their vigilance, and the cavalry have iron-shelled thunderbolts and lit incense in their hands, and they have surrounded the two thousand yuan army layer by layer.

The generals of the Yuan army who planned this plan obviously had a low IQ, and if you took off your shirt and left your hands empty, the Song army would rest assured that you really surrendered, wouldn't it be a group of fools fighting. Out of the city gate to see the posture of the Song army, the leading Yuan army generals regretted a little, it turned out that the Song army was not a fool, they didn't believe my words, I want to go back to the city to wear clothes, I want to go back to the city to get a long sword, bow and arrow......

Outside the gate of Yichang, Liu Changhai sent people to collect wood, set up firewood piles on the banks of the Yangtze River, and set fire to the corpses of the Yuan soldiers who were hacked to death by knives for three days, and then set fire to the corpses on the side of the Yangtze River.

This feat of the Song army, the news spread rapidly along the Yangtze River to the lower reaches, and led the Song army to recruit new troops in various places, clear the Yuan army forces in the territory, and distribute weapons to the neighbors everywhere to fight and kill those scattered Yuan army routs.

The Zhao Dynasty, which was about to be extinguished, was born on a magical Hong Kong Island, and it took less than two years to recover all the territory in the middle road that Meng Yuan had occupied for more than ten or twenty years.

The Mongol and Yuan officials scattered all over the country were executed, and the Song generals of the Song army who had surrendered were all registered and recorded in detail, searching for the crimes of pandering to the Yuan army and slaughtering and harming their own compatriots.

In the entire area south of the Yangtze River, in addition to the land of Yungui and the prince of the Yuan Dynasty Zhenjin who failed to attack the Diaoyu City for a long time in Bashu, the Yuan army forces in other regions have melted away from the ice and snow and have been cleared away, and the entire Jiangnan region has become the world of the Song people.

In Henan, Anhui, Shandong, the control of the Yuan army was not so stable, and the Yuan people stationed in the smaller county towns all took the initiative to give up and leave, and gathered towards the larger cities, and the entire south of the Yellow River was barren.

The Yuan people were ruthless, even before leaving, they had to burn and loot, with the intention of destroying rather than leaving the Song people. In previous wars, they did this, killing and burning what they couldn't take away, never leaving anything useful for the enemy.

However, Henan and other places have been in their hands for decades, and most of the people who are in charge of power for them are Han officials who have surrendered, and they have a little power in their hands, which is much stronger than ordinary people.

As if it was agreed at the same time, many cities in Henan Province and Shandong Province had the assassination of Yuan army generals, and the officials and people in the entire state capital worked together to kill some Yuan Dynasty officials in court.

More and more news came from the south, and the news that the Yuan army had been completely defeated spread all over the banks of the Yellow River almost overnight, and the matter of rejoining the Great Song Dynasty was discussed in countless hidden places.

Yuan Dadu, which has stopped all project construction, is full of scattered bricks and stones, and all kinds of building materials transported from Jiangnan Cao are also piled up on the wharf, and there is no intention to transport them to Yanjing.

Kublai Khan's eyes were red, and the more than 30 civil and military officials sitting in a circle in front of him sat with their heads bowed, and no one dared to raise their heads to speak, no one could answer his questions, no one could tell him what he had done wrong, and no one could stand up to reorganize the army and help him ride thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

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