Chapter 307: Under the City of Xiangyang

Since he took over the affairs of the Yuan army, the state of the Yuan army in Xiangyang has been much better than before, and Boyan's prestige in the army in the past has played a great role.

The antagonism and distrust between the soldiers of different tribes gradually subsided, and the big and small leaders began to make preparations before the battle, urging their subordinates to put aside the immediate contradictions and concentrate their energy on the next battle against the Song army.

After careful consideration and analysis, Boyan still did not send troops to attack the Song army that was struggling to advance in the mud.

The excellent fighter plane for the Yuan army was fleeting, and after the Song army passed through the mud and crossed the river, there was no longer a chance for Boyan to create a miracle, and getting rid of the rainy and muddy firearms battalion was no longer something he could defeat.

Zhao Tianyou was hungry when it rained on the first day, and he was a little worried in his heart, the weakness of artillery and various firearms was that he was afraid of water and wetness, and he was like being tied up in this continuous drizzle, and he couldn't deal with possible accidents at all. If Boyan sent a large number of cavalry at this time, it would inflict a fatal blow on the Song army, just relying on the sharpness of the armor-piercing cone, the Song army could not resist the charge of the heavy cavalry of the Yuan army, and if he was lucky, Boyan could capture a few cannons and drag them back.

But the opportunity has passed, it will never come back, the weather is dry and windless and cloudless, Suizhou Song army crossed the Han River and pointed to Fancheng, just like the Yuan army attacked Xiangyang, first take Fancheng and then fight Xiangyang.

Unlike when Lu Wende defended Xiangyang, Boyan also had to face a team from the south at the same time, Chen Longfu's 100,000 army with the might of a new victory, set out from Jingmen, and went up the Han River from the south to take Xiangyang.

Once such a two-sided encirclement is formed, the Yuan army in Xiangyang will be equal to a turtle in the urn, and if you want to escape, you have to weigh whether the meat on your body is enough to cut. But to give up such an important strategic location as Xiangyang, Boyan led the army and fled, and he could not return to the Mongolian territory, and it is estimated that Kublai Khan wanted to tear Boyan alive in his dreams at that time.

Boyan in Xiangyang has only one fate at this time, he is waiting for reinforcements to come to save him, but who can come? Suizhou's men and horses have been destroyed, and the Yuan army that went south from Henan Province to support must first fight with Suizhou's army before they can come to support him.

But the Song army, which occupies the right time and place, and has Hongyi cannons, will send reinforcements to support Xiangyang? From this point of view, unless Kublai Khan ordered the army in the north to assemble, hundreds of thousands of cavalry all went south, and another large-scale battle was launched, it was possible to change the current situation.

In this case, increasing the number of troops and supporting little by little is the most stupid behavior, which is tantamount to sending meat to the Song army who is waiting with their mouths open, just like the fate of these tens of thousands of horses in Suizhou, and even the corpses of the capital have fallen.

If he abandoned the city and fled at this time, the Song army in the northbound passage had already been deployed to prevent him from escaping, and at the same time, he was also on guard whether the Yuan army would come to support Xiangyang. There are many scouts released by Zhao Tianyou, covering an area of three hundred miles, mainly to monitor the movements of the Henan Dao territory, because only here are there still a large force of Yuan troops to deploy.

The battle in Sichuan to the west has been stalemate, and there has been no great progress, and the terrain of high mountains and mountains has limited the advantage of the cavalry of the Yuan army, and the battle with the local Song army will always be a mess and get to the point of inextricability.

They simply couldn't afford to return to the rescue of Xiangyang, and even they needed Xiangyang's grain, grass and horses to support them in the battle, if it was possible, it was Boyan who led the Yuan army of Xiangyang into Sichuan to avoid the menacing Song army.

But all this ended with the cannon sound of the Song army, Chen Longfu, who was the first to launch the offensive, won two cities in succession, and he was very eager to make some achievements in Xiangyang, so he made his own initiative and fired artillery from the southern city of Xiangyang in advance.

There are two acropolis in the south of Xiangyang, which are specially used to defend Haozhan and have flexible corridors in the middle, so that if the first wall is defeated, the defenders can quickly retreat into the second wall. After destroying the road, the enemy who came to fight had to continue to attack the city, but in a small area, the condescending defenders could be said to have the advantage.

These fortified city defenses were built by Lu Wende, who was stationed in the Xiangyang area for more than 30 years, and after repeated repairs and reinforcements, Xiangyang was really built into an impenetrable fortress. The last time it was attacked by the Yuan army for six years, if it wasn't for the grain and grass support that couldn't keep up, and Lu Wende didn't make a mistake and died, the Yuan Dynasty army would have been fighting for two years, and it would not have been able to break through the iron bucket-like defense of Xiangyang.

At that time, the Yuan soldiers once built a few zhang high earthen city outside Fancheng, mounted the iron cannons of the Song Dynasty captured from Jinling Mansion, fired iron nails and debris at the defenders in the city, and used rockets to attack the city and set fire. But at that time, the gunpowder was still very primitive, in addition to the relatively large fireworks, as a propellant, the biggest effect was arson, but these methods did not work in front of the iron bucket array in Xiangyang.

But now under the command of Chen Longfu, fifty cannons were aimed at the Yuan army guarding the southern city, and they just made a polite bombing shot, which probably meant to tell the Yuan army in the city that I was coming, and at the same time greeted Zhao Tianyou in the north.

The sound of artillery rumbled and shook both sides of the Han River, the sound of continuous explosions spread for several miles, and the smell of gunpowder smoke drifted to the opposite bank with the wind, and the Suizhou troops led by Zhao Tianyou immediately responded loudly with the sound of artillery.

At this time, the battle situation was completely free to play, Zhao Tianyou did not give a word to Chen Longfu in the south, and Du Hu, who was also commanding in Fancheng, also relied on his own ideas to fight. The rapid growth of grass-roots officers is due to the style of passing on and helping the graduates of the martial arts hall, and they have never spared the skills they have learned and the so-called unique skills, as long as there is an ordinary soldier who is interested, they will take the trouble to explain and teach.

This is the impression that Zhao Tianyou left on them when he taught them, and deeply engraved this characteristic into their blood, and gradually formed a tradition of lecture martial arts, which was passed down among every graduate and carried forward in the army.

It is better to talk about it in class for three days, than to practice it on the battlefield for half a day, and the lecture martial arts academy with advanced sergeant theory starts with grassroots officers, and then spreads out step by step. You bring out three, I bring out five, and most of the soldiers who perform well have the opportunity to become the captain, the smallest soldier.

"My lord, as soon as we fired yesterday, the outermost Yuan army ran away, and no one was killed. Is there another round of bombardment today, and if they still run, we will immediately send infantry to attack the city? ”

Chen Longfu looked at the layers of city walls in Xiangyang and slowly shook his head.

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