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Chapter 56: The Wrath of the Thousand Torches, the Fish, the Dragon, and the Rage (1)

At this safe distance, Zhang Weixiao lined up the splint boats, fishing boats, and the oars of the Ezhou navy, with the archers in front and the musketeers behind, and began to fire rockets and shells at the Mongol warships. It was originally a simple principle that the bow and arrow were the first priority in naval warfare, and only the army that was not accustomed to water warfare and could not shoot accurately on the shaky deck would be forced to choose the method of sacrificing close combat, which is very inefficient at present. Although this method often worked against the demoralized Great Song naval army, for example, a few days ago, Shi Tianze only led a few death squads to attack the Song naval army near Lumen Mountain in Hanshui, causing more than 50 Song warships to surrender. However, against a well-disciplined and high-morale opponent, melee combat is far less effective than fire and bow fire.

The archers unleashed a wave of rockets with barbed spikes, designed for water warfare, and once they pierced through the sails or planks, they were firmly nailed to the top and could not be pulled off, only to allow the flames to burn and burn the sails. As soon as the archer fired, the musketeers picked up. A long-range weapon that is more suitable for water warfare than bows and arrows is the fire gun, although these fire guns are still quite rough and have extremely poor accuracy, but as soon as it became clear that Zheng Yunming, the deputy capital of Jing and Hubei, expected: This will be a sharp weapon that the Great Song Dynasty can obtain on the river in the future to gain an advantage over the Mongolian sailors, so he gave priority to handing over a batch of iron guns to the Jing and E naval forces to use, but the Jingchu army guarded Xiangyang City first after all, and the naval army could not get too many firearms. It's just that the sound of a salvo of only a few dozen firearms is enough to shock the Mongolian army, especially unlike in the 6th place, the Mongolian army at this moment is even crowded on the boat with men and horses, and there is no room to dodge at all, once a lead bullet hits, it often causes a series of casualties.

Zhang Weixiao deployed the soldiers to shoot hard, while commanding the warships to carefully approach the Mongols, and when the distance between the two sides was close enough, he threw weapons such as oil cans, thistles and lime cannons quickly. Zhang Weixiao also ordered someone to fly close to the Mongolian ship in a fast boat, and then used a flamethrower to burn the enemy's bow of the ship, causing further chaos in the Mongolian fleet.

The Mongol generals, who were watching the battle downstream, saw that the Song army had regained the upper hand, and if they continued to engage in the battle, it was likely that the Song people would really burn down the more than 2,000 fishing boats on the Yangtze River, and it would be the most stupid thing to bury the elite army of the Great Khan. He resolutely chose to retreat, and the Mongol army hung all the fishing boats with sails, and the soldiers either used oars or poles, in short, using what they could use, rowing vigorously down the river, and fled downstream.

Zhang Weixiao also did not care about chasing the enemy, his first task at the moment was to rendezvous with his father's boat, and then rescue the rest of Peng Man, who had just experienced a fierce battle, these warships that had been besieged by Mongolian fishing boats were full of corpses and wounded soldiers, and many wounded were floating in the water waiting to be salvaged.

But Peng Man was angry with Zhang Weixiao for stopping the fifty-sixth thousand torches (1)

He was extremely dissatisfied with the pursuit, and when he was taken to meet the father and son on this magnificent big bird boat that was watching the enemy in the rear, he immediately made it clear that Zhang Weixiao had made a big mistake.

"Why don't you take advantage of the victory!" Zhang Yu and Zhang Weixiao's father and son have rarely seen Shen Yi's Peng Manyou when he is so angry: "It doesn't matter to us, the key is to catch the enemy!" We have already spent a lot of hard work to defeat the enemy army, but we do not take advantage of the victory to catch up, then we are besieged by enemy ships, so many brothers have died, is it all in vain! ”

Zhang Weixiao raised his eyebrows, and he was about to scold when he opened his mouth, but was stopped by his old father.

"Everyone has already exerted a lot of strength after fighting for a while. The Tartars are numerous. Zhang Yu responded without humility or arrogance: "We don't seem to lose our momentum, but most of them are fishermen who came to talk about the prestige. If you really fight with the Tartar knife against the gun, it will inevitably show your true colors, not to mention that there are many Tartars after all, and all that can be done is to disperse them. ”

"Why are you afraid of the number of enemies?" Peng Man pointed to the Song army ships that slowly sailed down in the distance and shouted, "What is this not reinforcements?" ”

Zhang Weixiao replied coldly: "We still want to ask you." There has been no recent announcement of the arrival of friendly ships. Where did this fleet of ships come from? ”

He reminded Peng Man in one sentence, and Peng Man walked to the stern of the boat in three steps and two steps, and saw a four-car boat opposite, about twenty plywood boats behind, and slowly approached this side. He stretched out his hand and shouted, "Bring the bow!" An archer hurriedly handed over the bow in his hand, and Peng Man tried the strength of the bow, which seemed to be no match for his love bow. At this time, he couldn't take care of it too much, he took out an arrow and put it on the bow, squeaked and pulled the bowstring, the arrow aimed at the flag on the bow of the four-chariot boat, and shouted: "Where did the ship on the other side come from, report the name of the chief general!" ”

The guards on the four-car boat hurriedly opened the cabin, got out of the cabin, and strode to the bow of the boat, the silver armor on the body flashed, the silver phoenix wing helmet with the white helmet tassels, and the appearance of the instrument was the deputy capital of Jing'e, Zheng Yunming.

The three of them were shocked, and hurriedly beckoned the sailors to dock the boat to Zheng Yunming's four-car boat, and the three jumped up to meet Zheng Yunming.

"You must ask me why I came to Ezhou, it's very simple, because Xiangyang doesn't need me for the time being." Zheng Yunming said: "The war has spread to all the prefectures and counties south of Xiangyang, and it is impossible for Zhao Zhizhi to sit idly by, so he sent me to rush downstream and command the naval army to cooperate with the 6th Army in various places to intercept the Mongols' plunder. ”

The sweeping battle on the periphery of Xiangyang was so successful that it not only prevented the Mongol army from encircling Xiangyang, but also temporarily lifted the threat to the fortresses around Xiangyang.

The Mongol military camp had to withdraw the army across Tanxi and move to the border of Junzhou. On the other hand, Kuduhu sent thousands of cavalry to monitor the movement of the fortress of Luluoling, and he himself led his subordinates to the south of Xiangyang to raid and plunder. The Mongols were not unaware of the dangers of allowing the defenders of Xiangyang to move freely, but because of the favorable situation created by the Song people's initiative, they had to temporarily retreat for a while, giving the defenders of Xiangyang room to move freely. As soon as he saw the Mongols retreating, Zheng Yunming immediately applied to the envoy to lead a team of soldiers and horses to take a boat along the Han River to the south, and go to Ezhou to command the naval army to intercept the Mongol army that was plundering in the south.

"Now sitting in Xiangyang City has nothing to do." His eagerness reminded Zhao Kui of his young self: "It's better for me to take a team of soldiers to Ezhou, meet and command the naval warships up and down the river, and destroy the Mongolian soldiers and horses on the south one by one, it's better to sit here and have a leisurely meal." "The relationship between him and Zhao Zhizhi is not better than others, so he can speak so unscrupulously, if this is changed to Wang Deng or 6 Xunzhi, it will inevitably be misunderstood as the lonely Zhenwu army is ridiculing the generals of Xiangyang who only want to be safe and do not want to forge ahead.

Zhao Zhizhi only smiled slightly when he heard this, he knew that it was the battle the day before yesterday that had aroused Zheng Yunming's blood, this young descendant was crying for war at this moment, unless he used the name of the system envoy to come forward to suppress him, it would be difficult for him to retract his request.

But at this time, Zhao Kui had his own considerations. The Mongols on the left side of Xiangyang had already died down, and he even sent thousands of infantry to cross the river to support Fancheng, driving the Mongols back more than ten miles. But this temporary security did not mean the final victory of the entire battle of Xiangyang, on the contrary, they only achieved a small success, the main force of the Mongols has not really fought with Xiangyang, when they drive the prisoners looted from the south, meet the new craftsmen from the north, the grain and grass are not worried, and the morale is high to come back and fight Xiangyang, they may not be sure to win. And he clearly felt that the Hu people were not just plundering this time, they focused on conquering the important town of Xiangyang, in order to freely enter and exit the Jinghu area in the next few years, and clear the way for crossing the river.

It was imperative to send an army to follow the Mongol army as it moved south, and to intercept them as they plundered. He thought about it, and among the generals in Xiangyang, the most suitable for this task was none other than Zheng Yunming. Wan Wensheng, the capital of Jing'e and Hubei, is a guest general, he has just arrived in Jinghu for a few months, and he is not familiar with the soldiers and horses in various parts of Jinghu, Hu Xian is very old, not to mention that without him in charge, the militiamen with lax discipline do not know what chaos to cause in Xiangyang. Meng Jing is Meng Hui's elder brother, if he is sent south, he can cooperate with Meng Hui downstream, but he is only a commander, and he is not a confidant of the deputy envoy of Jiangling Prefecture, so it is obviously impossible for him to command so many ships and soldiers from Jiangling to Ezhou as the commander-in-chief.

The only one who is qualified to sit in Ezhou and mobilize the army to intercept and kill the Mongolian army is Zheng Yunming. Even though this will send Zheng Gong's son to the front line to go on an adventure, the fifty-sixth thousand torches are angry (1)

But no matter what Zheng Gong said, he is just at home now, and he can't take care of too many political affairs. And Zheng Yunming faintly already has the identity of the first general in Jinghu, if he is not sent out, even the officials and militia generals up and down Jinghu will not be able to say it.

He had only one choice, and that was to let the young general go deep into the front line of the battle again, and let him shine on the new stage.

On the day when Zhao Kui signed the order, Zheng Yunming put in order a group of men and horses to levy, all the baggage and equipment were on the plywood boat and the small material Fuyang boat, the soldiers were on the multi-oared boat, and his own ship was still the four-wheel ship.