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The 58th General Hunts Across the River (3)

But even so, Zheng Yunming did not dare to lead the army to embark on a journey to rescue Yingzhou, and before setting out, Meng Heng first planned a march route that would use the waterway to get as close to Yingzhou as possible. In the area of the Jinghu water network, the water system extends in all directions, and the nearest place can even go directly to the city of Yingzhou, of course, that will alarm the Mongolian army near Yingzhou. Moreover, the small river leading to the vicinity of Yingzhou was too shallow for the transport ships that carried heavy loads, and the characteristics of the Song army determined that no matter how they streamlined their equipment, there were some loads that were destined to be impossible to abandon. For example, the bamboo shogun and gunpowder carried by people. From here, the Song army had to march forty miles from the city of Yingzhou, and then suddenly appeared behind the flank of a small number of Mongol troops still besieging Yingzhou, and broke the enemy in one fell swoop.

Before that, Meng Heng had to do one more thing, he sent hundreds of soldiers who were good at fighting in advance to take the oars as the vanguard, and they searched the nearby areas along the waterway along the river while advancing.

After preparing to stop, Zheng Yunming and Meng Hui led the army to board ships and set sail towards Yingzhou. After arriving at the place of Deng 6, he changed to march by 6 Road, and after a day of marching, he finally arrived near Yingzhou.

The forty-mile journey is not without waves. Because of the fear of the Mongols, the Song army especially chose a difficult road, the road from the woods all the way through, very narrow and difficult to walk, all rely on Zheng Yunming, Yang Luo and Zhang Weixiao and others to urge, only to maintain no soldiers left behind, on the road also encountered several Mongolian cavalry, fortunately the Song army in the woods through the relatively hidden, the front of the spies is very effective, these few wandering in the forest out of the team alive captured, so that there is no leakage of the news.

"We have used so much effort to finally make it there!" Zhang Weixiao was wearing a black iron armor body, holding the Qingfeng sword in his hand, and looked proudly at the strong Yingzhou city wall in the distance: "There is only the last mile left!" ”

"But only this last mile is the bloodiest and most brutal." Zheng Yunming looked at the unsheltered wilderness in front of him and muttered. In order to prevent the Mongol cavalry from advancing directly under the city of Yingzhou under the cover of the woods, the soldiers and civilians of Yingzhou spent a lot of effort to cut down all the trees around the city. I don't want this to guide the reinforcements of the Song army to lose their shelter on the last mile of the road. They had to be attacked by a cavalry cluster on the last mile of the reinforcement of the state city.

The horn sounded on the position of the Mongolian army in the distance, Zheng Yunming's suspicious plan on the right bank of the Han River could not be used for too long, the brigade moved in the woods, the dust raised, and the frightened birds were unavoidable, even if the entire army had tried to act as secretly as possible, but it was not easy to sneak forward quietly during the day. A part of the cavalry began to run back behind him, laying an evacuation column in the direction of Zheng Yunming's advance, looking nervously at the situation in the woods, and some light bows of the 58th general hunted horses across the river (3)

The cavalry quickly rode forward to the edge of the woods and shot aimlessly at the forest, which was a purposeful test of the strength of the Song army in the forest.

The Song army in the woods has already formed a formation, Zheng Yunming did not carry many soldiers and horses, only about 1,000 people, the main force of which was 800 Zhenwu troops brought from Xiangyang, in order to make the main general who rashly attacked from Xiangyang not be defeated and killed, the Zhenwu army has done its best to hand over the most elite troops in the first army to their main general to take away. Now around Zheng Yunming is the brave division that Wang Deng painstakingly trained, although they are not yet experienced troops, but they are already the best cards in Zheng Yunming's hand.

They were awaiting the order of their general to march and in a few moments to spill the blood of themselves and the Mongol cavalry for the last mile.

Zheng Yunming turned around and shouted loudly: "The armies have listened! You galloped back and forth with me non-stop on the battlefield of Jinghu, first with a beautiful fire attack, burning the Mongolian ships on the river, and then galloping non-stop to aid Yingzhou, which was hard to run, and I would have known it well! Yingzhou is the garrison of my Jinghu Consulate General, and there are military salaries and grain and grass collected by the imperial court from Jiangnan after a lot of hardships in the city. Today, everyone fought hard and rewarded on the spot after driving back the enemy army! ”

There was a burst of enthusiastic cheers from the army, everyone knew that Yingzhou was where the money and grain of the Great Song Dynasty were located, and they could relieve the siege for themselves, not to mention enjoying a big meal, Zheng Yunming's reward would never be stingy.

"I ask you to be fast and steady! Shout and kill loudly enough, and hit hard enough! Zheng Yunming shouted: "Today's battle, let the name of the trapped army spread to the world!" ”

He reached out and drew the sword at his waist, and the blade of the sword flashed a different kind of light through the trees.

"Drums! Enter! ”

In fact, Yang Luo's surprise attack is not like this, if he leads the troops to make a surprise attack, he doesn't need to line up on the spot, he doesn't need to mobilize before the battle, and he doesn't need to beat the drum and shout to kill these useless tricks, just a sharp whistle, and the soldiers rush up, all brave, and killing the enemy by surprise is the best thing.

But he also knew that Wang Deng's army couldn't do such a thing, Wang Jingsong usually fought battles, heavy discipline, light life and death, but the forest was forward, Mount Tai did not move, and then the enemy army broke away. Taking advantage of the night surprise attack, he is not used to the way of erection, and even the troops he trained are all fools who fight hard to the death.

He saw these strong men with bright armor lined up in formation, and with the adjutant general's shout, the whole army rushed towards Yingzhou.

This is the north wind rising, the red banner of the Zhenwu army is hunting in the wind, Zheng Yunming and Yang Luo stood in the middle of the team and followed the fast forward, Zheng Yunming walked and said to Yang Liang: "This monochrome flag is too boring, and when this battle is over, we also have to think of a simple and clear for Jing Chujun The fifty-eighth general hunted and rode across the river (3)

The symbol, just like the army of the Hu people, even many of the generals of the friendly army may not know the words alone. ”

Yang Luo could only smile bitterly, at this critical moment of life and death, how could he still have the leisure to talk about the sign, and the black man in front of him had already rushed over with a long roar.

Yang Yu shouted: "The archers are in the front, and the spears are in line!" ”

Armored archers and armoured musketeers came out at the call, waiting for the enemy to approach until they were within range of the archers, and then began to shoot. The Mongol cavalry just rushed forward desperately, until the distance where the cavalry bow could shoot, and the front team began to release arrows, killing and wounding the trapped troops with extremely accurate arrows, although they had armor, there were still sergeants who fell from arrows from time to time. But the trapping army did not move at all, waiting for the Mongol cavalry to rush in front of them.

When the heavy body of the cavalry and Rulin's spear collided together, Yang Luo knew that Zheng Yunming's carefully arranged surprise attack and the strategy of luring the enemy on the opposite bank had taken effect. The assault of the cavalry required a strong physique and bold action, but also a necessary condition, sufficient impact distance. To put it another way, there is a need for sufficient battlefield space.

Zheng Yunming's gesture was to compress the distance between the two armies as much as possible and not give the other side a chance. Zheng Yunming knew that the cavalry charge must first take small steps, then run fast in small steps, and finally enter the full impact stage, if the distance of the impact is too short, the men and horses have not entered the full state, the power of the impact will drop a lot, once they lose the strength of the charge, they will not have such terrifying power in the face of the dense defense of the heavy infantry.

Originally, Zheng Yunming's troops were only one mile away from Yingzhou, and the troops of both sides assembled, advanced, and expanded many distances. At this point, the Mongols had no chance and would not push the mount under the crotch to the fullest. Usually in this case, the Mongol cavalry would withdraw and run back, pulling away enough distance from the enemy and us to charge again, but they could not do so at this moment. Behind them was the rolling Han water, on the right flank was the fortified city of Yingzhou, and on the left was the dense woodland, and there was little room to make a detour.

In this cramped and cramped battlefield, the armored infantry, which valued discipline and drill, had a tactical advantage.

As soon as they saw that the cavalry that could not run was restrained by their spears, the infantry of the trap army in the rear rushed up and engaged the enemy in close combat. The weapons in his hands ranged from long-handled stabbing knives to shorter two-handed axes, and even a sturdy club. But without exception, they all went to the lower three roads of the enemy cavalry. The Mongol cavalry in the front row was blocked by the successors who followed behind, and when they could not advance or retreat, it was time for the infantry to use their traditional tactics of restraining the cavalry.

Once the horse's leg is cut off, it not only eliminates the height advantage of the enemy's cavalry, but also directly causes the enemy to fall heavily to the ground. The 58th General Hunting Horse Across the River (3)

The stabbing knife, the powerful tomahawk, and even the simple and crude stick can reach under the horse's belly, and can deal a blow to these high riders.

In the Song Dynasty report afterwards, the same descriptive words were used in the Battle of Yuncheng, praising the soldiers for fighting with the Mongols "with their hands and feet, regardless of their bodies", of course, even the elite trapping army could not really compete with the Yuejia army, which was as strong as Mount Tai. But at this time, the Mongol army did not have the same space for free advance and retreat as the Jurchen iron cavalry in Yuncheng, they were compressed, restrained, and suppressed in the cramped area near the river bank and could not advance and retreat freely. The situation is much worse. Zheng Yunming watched the infantry of his army chop with knives, chop with axes, hit with wooden sticks, and even kick with their hands and feet, knocking the cavalry to the ground one by one.