The geographical location of Wumu is very special, it is the junction of Wujin County and Wuxi County, close to the Grand Canal, and is the main road hub of water and land transportation in ancient times. The origin of this place name is also very interesting, according to legend, there are five local Qiang brothers in the Northern Song Dynasty, Ming Yuanming, Junming, Weiming, Zhiming, Xianming, the same branch of Jinshi, and at the same time as the county pastor. People call the place where the five county herds of the Qiang family were born as "five herds".

Yin Yu and Ma Shilong each led more than 3,000 troops, and when they set off from Pingjiang Mansion, the Yuan army probed the horse to learn about the military situation and reported it to Zuo Prime Minister Boyan, who personally led the army to besiege Changzhou. Boyan sent his general Hu Liyu and led his three thousand men to meet the Song Dynasty reinforcements.

This general of the Yuan army is not very capable, but his courage is not small, and he has no Song army that can be supported from his heart. They rode their horses with a big grin, did not make pre-battle preparations, and did not do the slightest concealed action, thinking that the combat effectiveness of the Song army in the field was almost zero, and they would be defeated after seeing a charge, and they could let the Yuan army slaughter at will.

Counting this Yuan general's bad luck, in the Song and Yuan wars, in the field battles, the Song Dynasty army has always been defeated in nine out of ten battles, and it is difficult to form an effective confrontation against the impact tactics of the Mongol iron cavalry. There are many reasons for the formation, and I will not go into detail here, but this battle is very different, because this is a general who has been by Wen Tianxiang's side for a period of time, and the combat effectiveness of the thousands of Guangzhou and Jiangxi troops under his command is also very strong.

Hu Liyu didn't know that Ma Shilong led the army to pass Wumu, set up an ambush on the side of Chenshu Road in the east of Changzhou City, and defeated the defenseless Yuan soldiers in one fell swoop. At the same time, the Zhou brothers of the righteous army sent by Changzhou City were ordered to contact the Song army from Pingjiang to help, and captured the deputy general Huo Ma Yechi alive on the way, and handed it over to Ma Shilong.

That night, the Song army camped in Yuqiao, Yin Yu and Ma Shilong discussed for a while, and then set up an execution ground in front of the barracks, and pulled out the captured Yuan generals Hu Liyu and Huo Ma Chi to behead them, and there were more than 40 Yuan army prisoners who were executed together. This move was to strengthen the prestige of the army and break the rumors that the Yuan army was invincible, and second, there were too few people to take care of the prisoners, let alone send another person to send the prisoners back to Pingjiang or Lin'an.

Its deep meaning is not only that, when the Song army fought the Shunfeng War again, they all fought bravely to kill the enemy first, and their combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the Yuan army. However, in the battle on the plains, the charging tactics of the Mongol iron cavalry, the longbow and fast arrows, the Song army could not resist the impact at all, and it would soon collapse.

And in today's battle, the Mongol cavalry caught in the melee also exposed their weaknesses, and there were many mud swamps near the wetlands on the banks of the river, and the speed of the horses could not be raised at all. When they were besieged by the Song army, because of insufficient preparation in advance, they all fought separately and resisted the enemy in small teams, and could not form a unified combat effectiveness, and were quickly broken by the effective Song army one by one.

The men in the army stewed the captured beef and mutton in a cauldron, and there were two hundred jars of rice wine together with the generals to celebrate the achievement, although it was not a big victory, but this kind of battle that could be won in the first battle of contact was a rare victory for the Song army at that time.

Several main generals also knew very well that after this small victory, they would inevitably meet the retaliation of the Yuan army. Yin Yu and Ma Shilong each arranged for their subordinates to set up an ambush at Yuqiao, and Zhang Quan led his headquarters to escort them on the flanks, preparing to encircle the reinforced Yuan soldiers and annihilate them after encirclement.

Boyan couldn't attack Changzhou City for a long time, delayed the army's plan to invade Lin'an in the south, and lost a large number of soldiers and horses, but there was nothing he could do about this ancient city. After sending men and horses to reinforce Hu Liyu to block the reinforcements, Boyan also sent the surrendered Changzhou Xiucai Wang Liangchen to the rebel army garrison to persuade him to surrender.

This Wang Liangchen was originally a frustrated talent who lived in Changzhou, and Dai Zhitai, who surrendered in the city at that time, was all the way, because he was familiar with the situation in Changzhou, he was appreciated and reused by Boyan.

At that time, in addition to the Zhou brothers, there were also Yao Rang, the son of Yao Ting, Zhizhou, and Wang Liangchen rode a horse and led a few followers to find Yao Rang, and after explaining his intentions, he was tied up and taken down by the righteous army.

"If there is another person who descends the yuan, look at the fate of this person!" Yao ordered the rebels to set up a cauldron on the cross street, which was covered with firewood, and after putting Wang Liangchen in the pot, he lit the firewood under the pot to cook the traitors alive.

After hearing the news, Boyan was furious, and personally led 30,000 elites to attack the rebel army of Yao Rang and the Zhou brothers, burning and killing all the people he saw along the way, destroying all the villages and crops along the way, and cutting off all the channels for the rebels to supply food.

On the other hand, the general Huaidu led 10,000 troops and came to attack Yin Yu Ma Shilong's headquarters in Yuqiao. Ma Shilong personally led the army to dig trenches and build earth cities, and fought fiercely with the Yuan soldiers for many days, and most of the more than 3,000 people in his department were killed and wounded. At this time, Zhang Quan, who was supposed to flank the rear of the enemy, was afraid of the enemy soldiers, and without any warning, quietly withdrew from the defensive position, and led the army to flee back to Wumu.

The brave general Ma Shilong suffered the enemy on his back, and was surrounded by the army of Huaidu in the Huanglonggang east of Yuqiao, the number of Yue Zhan was smaller, Ma Shilong was finally outnumbered and killed in battle, and more than 3,000 Jiangxi troops did not surrender.

In this battle, the Song army, like the Yuan army that was surrounded and annihilated last time, was surrounded in a small area and could not interact with the brother troops, and in the case of unequal numbers, it also killed and wounded more than 1,000 Yuan troops and dragged Huaidu for three days.

And the three days that the soldier had earned with his life were once again squandered by the fleeing general Zhang Quan. Yin Yu and Zhu Hua, who were originally stationed in Wumu, led more than 3,000 Guang troops, and could have sent troops to reinforce Ma Shilong, who was besieged in Yuqiao, but was deceived by the lies of Zhang Quan, who led the army, and told them that Ma Shilong was defeated and fled from Wumu, and he lost an opportunity to defeat the Yuan army.

The second general Yin Yu and Zhu Hua prepared to defend the place to meet the enemy, and sent soldiers in the army to dig trenches and bury antlers, but Zhang Quan sent people to stop them, saying that there was an order to transfer from the waterway, and ordered the second general to wait for the order. At this time, the Yuan army had already cleaned up the battlefield and took advantage of the power of total victory to attack the defensive ground of Wumu Zhu Hua's department.

Zhu Hua led the Guang army to meet the enemy, and this battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and the casualties on both sides were very serious, but the morale of the Guangzhou army was high and the enemy was brave, and the outnumbered people did not lose any advantage.

That night, taking advantage of the night, another part of the Yuan army crossed the river and prepared to attack at night to garrison the Jiangxi army led by Yin Yu on the other side. Yin Yu's department did not guard against the Yuan army crossing the river and attacking, because Zhang Quan's department had already put on more than ten warships and anchored them in the canal, but they did not expect them to issue any warning.

Yin Yu has been following Wen Tianxiang for a long time, and he is also a brave and resourceful tiger general, who followed Lord Wen to call King Qin into the guard, and led by the soldiers of the hometown of the Jiangxi army. However, in the face of the enemy crossing the river, Zhang Quan's department not only did not warn, but even watched the Yuan soldiers on the boat to strangle Yin Yu's department, but did not send a single soldier. Yin Yu's troops were defeated, and in the open area on the bank of the river, the cavalry of the Yuan soldiers was fully utilized, and a large number of Song troops died under the flying bows and arrows.

The soldiers who jumped into the river to survive were shot by flying arrows and sank in the boiling river, and Zhang Quan on the warship not only did not fire an arrow, but also cut off the fingers of the Jiangxi soldiers who swam to the boat to survive.

Yin Yu saw all this in his eyes, and he looked up to the sky and screamed sadly, and there was no intention of survival.