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The three water forces that covered the upper reaches of Jinghu Lake, the water army stationed in Ezhou, and the water army stationed in Jiangling, which were controlled along the river, made Shi Songzhi take over the command power at the beginning of the war, and the first order Shi Songzhi gave to the Jing'e water army after the war was to order them to stick to the water surface of Ezhou, and not to let the Mongolian army cross the Yangtze River with a piece of wood, or go to other places through the water surface of Ezhou.

Or Shi Zhizhi is well-intentioned, because the other two naval armies are responsible for the river surface far more than the Jing'e naval army. This is because the Jing'e Water Army has been in a hurry to promote the army, and the training has only taken a few months, and Shi Songzhi can't figure out the real combat strength of this water army, so he has to arrange for them to sweep the snow in front of the door first, and don't take care of his family's disasters for the time being. But to be honest, even with this task, there is still something that the Jing'e Navy has not done well. At the beginning of the war, they were busy setting up defensive water platoons in Ezhou, burying stakes and obstacles in the river, and wholeheartedly blocking the waterway leading to Dongting Lake. Most of the Jing'e naval army were fishermen from Dongting, and in all fairness, it was normal for them to be so active in arranging the deployment of their own townships, but they spent too much energy on the deployment of the waterway leading to Dongting, but they did not have a minimum of assistance to Zhang Dahu in the north of the Jiangbei, and the Fuzhou guards were negligent in their duties and did not seriously formulate a plan to clear the wilderness. The fishermen in the area of Zhangdahu did not have time to evacuate, and when Zhang Rou broke into the Zhangdahu area, all the fishing boats were taken away, which became the biggest disaster of the entire river defense plan.

On the other hand, the inactivity of the Jing'e naval army in the evacuation of Zhangdahu also stemmed from the contradiction between the fishermen of Dongting and the fishermen of Zhangdahu who competed for catches in peacetime, and discipline could not prevent the infiltration of private feelings in this era, especially when Zheng Yunming encouraged a large number of clans in the township to participate in the army, which invisibly contributed to the subtle role of regional factors in the war. Shi Songzhi also wrote a letter to blame Peng Man, the commander of the Jing'e Navy, because of the robbery of Zhang Da's fishing boat, but obviously Peng Man was helpless about it.

As a result, they had to endure the consequences of that day's disregard for the lives and deaths of their neighbors in an attempt to protect themselves. The Mongol army used these tens of thousands of fishing boats as a tool to go north along the Han River, receive Mongolian cavalry near Xiangyang, and then go down the river to reinforce Zhang Rou's troops in Huangzhou and jointly encircle Huangzhou.

The task of Peng Man and the Jing'e navy was to intercept the Mongol ships coming down from the upper reaches of the river in any case, and not a single ship could make it to Huangzhou. But for the nascent Jing'e Navy, this task seemed difficult to complete.

Compared with the tens of thousands of ships of the Mongol army, the number of warships of the Jing'e naval army is too small. Although they are all well-built warships, the combat effectiveness of warships in this era is not too much that of civilian ships, and the first element of water warfare is the martial bravery of soldiers. For the Jing'e naval army, which failed to dispatch large warships from Dongting Lake in time, intercepting tens of thousands of enemy ships with dozens of light warships was simply a drop in the bucket.

In order to intercept the enemy forces moving east of the river as much as possible, it is necessary to devise corresponding tactics.

At this time, Peng Man summoned the generals of the various armies to hold a small meeting on the shore, the purpose of which was to put the final emphasis on the tactics announced in advance before the battle.

"There are so many Tartar ships that we can't stop them head-on." Peng Man used a tree branch to draw the route of the Yangtze River on the sand: "Thousands of enemy ships descended, and there was no formation, but they drifted with the tide in the direction of Huangzhou. And although the size of the fishing boat is short, it is actually made of miscellaneous wood, and the hull is bulky, which is not as convenient as our military ships. We have ten oarsmen to deploy in a boat, and the Mongols are not accustomed to using oars, and the boats are not as good as our army, so the tactics of our army are not to meet the enemy from the front. Instead, they hid in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and after a large number of fishing boats from the Han River crossed the Zhuankou, our army immediately hoisted their sails and pursued the enemy ships with the help of the wind and water, and pursued the slow enemy ships on the river until the enemy was completely killed. ”

He put the branch in his hand and asked, "What else do you not understand?" ”

No one raised any objections, and the officers of these naval forces were all preparing generals drawn from the Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Division, who were good at 6 battles but knew nothing about water warfare. Zheng Yunming also asked Zhao Kui to allocate some more experienced officers from the Ezhou Navy to take up the role of guidance. However, after last year's war, all the troops were strengthening their own strength, and no one was willing to send out the backbone of the battle to reinforce others. Moreover, Zheng Yunming feared that the officers drawn from other naval armies would have the general atmosphere of war, greed, and laziness in the Song army, and that if they infected the Jingchu army, this new army might also quickly degenerate. However, the result that there were no officers with experience in water warfare in the entire naval army to lead the team was that the soldiers and some officers in this army knew how to sail and watch the wind, and most of the other officers were proficient in six battles, but no one knew how to really fight on the water.

They only relied on the ten criteria of the so-called water war under Zheng Yunming, and the first criterion was: In any water war, it is necessary to occupy the upper hand and upper reach, and the significance of the upper wind and the upper water does not lie in the empty so-called momentum, but because of its superiority in mobility and degree, so that the naval army can take the initiative when it has the upper hand and the upper hand. They have the right to freely choose to fight and how to fight. It's as if a sturdy cavalry is directed at a slow-moving infantry brigade. If Peng Man followed the usual tactics of the Song army's naval divisions and laid out dozens of small ships on the river to meet the large number of enemy fishing boats coming from upstream, he would not only move slowly, but also expose his own numerical inferiority. After the Mongol army pinned down the Jing'e navy with a small number of fishing boats, the rest of the ships were still able to carry the full number of soldiers down the river to the Guò Ezhou River. The best way is to wait for a large number of enemy ships to pass through the mouth of Guò, as Peng Manchu deployed, and then the Jing-Hubei navy suddenly kills from the rear, taking advantage of the weakness of the fishing boats that are heavy and slow to load soldiers, spread their sails upstream, and take advantage of the wind to cover the Mongol ships from the rear, and pursue them all the way until the enemy is completely killed.

It's the best they can think of at the moment.

Peng Man continued: "As soon as all the enemy forces have passed through Guò Zhuankou, the whole army will immediately pursue them. With 20 water sentry horses as the vanguard, 40 rowing boats as the Chinese army, and five iron-headed boats on each wing, Commander Zhang led 30 plywood boats to the rear of the palace, and the whole army was fully sailed, and it was necessary to annihilate all the enemy troops before the enemy ships arrived in Huangzhou! ”

He stood up, and all the generals followed suit. Peng Man looked around at the generals and frowned, in the morning, Zhang Yu was invited to eat by a familiar customer in Ezhou City, and Peng Man could only turn a blind eye and let him go. It's just that Zhang Yu hasn't returned at this time, so he can only send someone to look for it.

One of the preparers asked, "Commander Zhang is not here, who will bring the plywood boat?" ”

Peng Man pointed at Zhang Weixiao: "Lao Tzu is not on his son, the plywood boat is led by the little general." ”

Zhang Weixiao just nodded silently and didn't say a word. A few months of working together could not completely dispel his dissatisfaction with the government, although he was already a member of the army in every way.

Peng Man wanted to say a few more words, but a series of tight and urgent gong sounds suddenly came from the place where the warship was moored. Peng Man led everyone to hurry to the river to look, the river is dotted with stars, all white sails, hundreds of boats compete for the current, thousands of boats are racing, thousands of Mongolian fishing boats are full of soldiers with black flags and black armor, are slowly coming in the direction of Zhuankou.

"It's coming so fast." Peng Man exclaimed: "If it were a day earlier, our army would really be caught off guard. ”

He turned to face the crowd and shouted, "According to the arrangement, let the enemy ship pass first, and our army will cover up and kill from behind." Go and prepare, and do what you are told! ”

The generals made a big promise, and immediately dispersed and went onto their own command ships. The military discipline of the Jing'e Navy is still very good, this is because of the inheritance of the tradition of Zheng Yunming's 6th Army, the soldiers did not get off the ship without a special application after the battle, and after the battle announcement of the main general, they took turns to stick to the battle position, ready to enter the battle situation at any time.

Peng Man boarded his command ship, originally when he led the general archery army, he was always used to taking the lead, because of the majority of archers, he was in the front row, which would greatly suppress the enemy's morale. At this time, as the commander of the navy, he still maintained this habit. Originally, the standard command ship was supposed to be the only medium-sized warship in the entire small fleet - a four-wheeled ship "Right Mountain". However, Peng Man handed over the command to the deputy general, and he boarded an iron harrier ship commanded by the former army with his own soldiers and general flags, and he was still used to risking arrows and stones on the front line, even if it was a water battle, the general's charge was still effective.

The Jing'e navy was scattered on the sandbar on the bank of the river, waiting, watching as thousands of fishing boats slowly descended the Yangtze River, sailed past Zhuankou and headed for Huangzhou. The Mongols were not without a hundred Song warships, but they were in a hurry, leaving only about 100 fishing boats anchored at the mouth of the river to keep an eye on the dormant Song warships.

As soon as he saw the Mongol fishing boats sailing past the mouth of the river, Peng Man immediately gave the order to set sail, and the Song warships put away the stone anchors, used poles to prop the boats off the riverbank, hung their sails, and rushed towards the direction of Zhuankou.

The fleet of the Jing'e Navy is still not proficient in arranging the formation to this day, so it has to advance in waves, the forward is the water sentinel horse boat of the raiding team, Peng Man himself with forty oars as the main force to rush forward, Zhang Weixiao led the plywood boat to drag behind. The distance between the three fleets was about 100 zhang, and they headed for the mouth of the river.

The ships of the Mongolian army saw the Song army's sailors coming violently, and more than 100 fishing boats guarding the mouth of the river also left the river bank and came to the center of the river to intercept them. They didn't talk about any formation cooperation, but the armor soldiers on the boat paddled hard, desperately approaching the Song army's ship.