Chapter 178: A dilemma

The moment when Li Heng docked at the East and West Xiongzhou, it was the juncture of the Song army going up the river outside the mouth of Yashan Mountain, and on the vast river that was dozens of miles apart, there were two armies of more than 100,000 people moving, and neither side found the existence of the other party.

It is not that both sides are negligent in intelligence work, but that they have already discovered their opponents in the nearest range, and their energies are focused on solving the problems at hand, so they ignore the fact that there are greater forces entrenched dozens of miles away.

Perhaps fate has been destined by God, when a large number of Song army ships passed through Yashan, Zhu Qing's sailors rushed to the bay from two directions at the same time, biting the Song army behind the palace, and fought at the mouth of the sea.

At this time, Huyan Aoki, who carried the holy decree of the young emperor, led the army as the vanguard to Xinhui County, and asked Xinhui County to order Li Sihui to receive the decree, so that he could prepare to welcome the young emperor and assist in the construction of the palace station.

Li Heng, who had already set up a big tent of the Chinese army in Xiongzhou, Shanxi, attached great importance to the tiger-headed warship found at the wharf of Xinhui County, which was the configuration of the regular sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, and was one level higher than the warship he brought from Wuzhou. If the township army and naval division can have such a warship, then it must be a great threat to have good combat power, and it is the first goal he has to solve, and take advantage of this to take Xinhui County in one fell swoop.

"Report! My lord, a large number of the main ships of the Song army came from the direction of the bay, the motive is unknown, and it is still twenty miles away from East Xiongzhou! ”

"Ahh Quickly go to find out and report again. ”

Li Heng was taken aback, could it be that he was ambushed and surrounded by the Song army's sailors, how come there are the main warships of the Song army in both directions, where is his mother's Zhang Hongfan! Because the ships he drove from Wuzhou were mainly transport ships, and the loading of people and horses was already mainly grain and grass, and there were only a hundred ships that could really fight on the water, so he would pay attention to the fifty tiger-headed warships in Xinhui.

If a large number of the main warships of the Song army came to attack again, his hundreds of ships would fall into a situation where the enemy would fight on both sides, and his main force would be mainly cavalry, and he would not be accustomed to fighting on the water, which would easily be surrounded by the Song army and annihilated.

"Xie Guoyong listened to the order, led your headquarters warship, went south along the river to meet the enemy, and held it north of Ezhou, and did not allow the Song army's warships to move forward."

After Xie Guoyong took the order and left, Li Heng still felt that he was not worried about the direction of Xinhui County, and he wondered if the fifty warships did not come to attack him.

"Dari Achi, take your headquarters and horses, close to Xinhui County, keep a certain distance, monitor the warships of the Song army, don't take the initiative to attack and don't act rashly!"

"Li Shuai, I'm ......" Dari Achi was originally a general of the cavalry, and the men and horses of the headquarters were all cavalry, and they could only take boats and not fight in water.

Li Heng's face sank and said: "I just asked you to monitor, if you really want to fight, your people won't shoot arrows?" In short, don't let them leave the port from Xinhui, even if they come out, use your ship to block me. ”

"Yes."

After sending two troops, Li Heng was a little relieved, it seems that this is still a hard bone to gnaw, in fact, he has not decided what to do next, if Agudam's cavalry goes well, Xinhui County will be too busy to take care of itself, and it will be difficult to divide troops to attack from the waterway. At the same time, he was also in the middle of the two parts of the Song army, and it was not up to him to decide which side the main force was focused on, and the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, which really made it difficult for him to make up his mind.

Originally, he was cooperating with Zhang Hongfan to intercept Zhang Shijie from the sea, and strive to capture Emperor Song Yousheng alive, Li Heng was full of confidence when he sent out his troops, but he didn't expect that he had not touched Zhang Shijie's side, but he fell into a dilemma.

The river level is gentle and wide, although it is against the water, but the pulppers are not very difficult, Huyan Aoki stands on the bow of the boat, looking at the grass and trees under the cliff mountain, and the mood is very good and touches a lot. This morning, he turned over the desperate battle, killed the morale of the group of golden armor forbidden troops under his command, and spit out the decline of the Song army in battle and defeat over the years, and also won him more opportunities to fight.

In the distance, there was a shadow of sails on the river, and the rows of warships were overlapping and covered the water, blocking the way ahead.

Xie Guoyong occupies an excellent position, the river surface to the south of Ezhou is still quite narrow, if the water surface suddenly widens after here, the river extends in all directions for dozens of miles, and you can directly reach Xinhui County, or you can attack the Li Heng base camp in East Xiongzhou, which is docked.

"General, there are Yuan soldiers and warships blocking the river to block the water, please make a decision."

Huyan Aoki was excited, it seemed that the few escaped Yuan soldiers warships had called for reinforcements, and it happened that the killing was not enjoyable enough during the day, so he had to order his subordinates to prepare for battle, and prepare to accelerate the impact to kill the Yuan soldiers.

"General, our main purpose is to pass on the decree, looking at this situation, I'm afraid that Xinhui County has fallen into the hands of the Yuan army, so let's report to Lord Zhang first, and make plans!" The lieutenant general under his command had more words.

"Hiss......" Huyan Aoki gasped, and thought about it, he only had ten boats, but there were many sails on the opposite side, no less than a hundred boats, and people had a geographical advantage upstream, so they would definitely not take advantage of rushing upstream.

Zhang Shijie's heart was half cold when he heard this, the news came not early or late, most of the Song army ships had sailed into the river, and only a small number of ships were left behind the sea, and they were entangled with Zhu Qing's pursuers.

"I'm afraid that Xinhui County has been lost, and there are a large number of Yuan soldiers and warships blocking the river in front of you, what do you think?"

Zhang Shijie was also helpless, under the sudden reversal of the situation, the chasing soldiers who had just won the battle had arrived again, and the Xinhui County, which was about to settle down, was occupied by the Yuan soldiers again, and the heroic words at the noon celebration banquet were empty in a blink of an eye.

Stationed in Xinhui County and then detouring to Guangzhou, Zhang Shijie thought it was a clever move, but the boat had already arrived in the center of the river, and if it did not advance, it would retreat, and there would be a chasing soldier in front and an interception after that, what should I do? The current situation is not as good as being on the sea, although the wind and waves are high and the danger is many, but there is no dead end in all directions.

Not only did Zhang Shijie run out of ideas, but other civil and military officials also couldn't come up with a good solution, which was nothing more than a question of whether to fight or not, and which side to focus on defending.

Lu Xiufu sank, and arched his hand at Zhang Shijie and said: "Lord Zhang, the river level is slow and open, and the terrain on the shore on the right hand is flat, why don't we camp here and go ashore first, and settle down first to make other plans!" ”

Lu Xiufu's idea is neither good nor bad, neither advancing nor retreating, first stationed in Yashan to settle down, waiting for the military situation on both sides to become clearer, and considering that it is also a way to break through there.

Zhang Shijie was stunned, this idea was put forward relatively suddenly, he never considered it, and after a few thoughts, he also made a decision.

"Okay, then according to Lord Lu's idea, let's form a row of warships, lean against the shallow shore of the cliff water, and the personnel will get off the ship and be stationed on the shore!"

Zhao Tianyou, who was on the top of the mountain, couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the Song army's warships stopped moving forward and a large number of ships leaned to the shore of Yashan.

"Man's fate is predestined!"

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