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On the second day, under the supervision of tens of thousands of Mongol troops, thousands of defenders of Luhuling began to retreat back to Xiangyang with all their weapons. Under the gaze of the huge iron cavalry formation like black clouds, a small army of more than 1,000 people marched towards Xiangyang with neat steps. They were a group of warriors to boast of, especially the hundreds of elite soldiers who originally guarded the Luhuling Ridge, surrounded by tens of thousands of Mongol troops, but fought desperately with the city walls and firearms, and kept the key points of this southern flank in the hands of the Song Dynasty from beginning to end.

On the other hand, Meng Heng also sent someone to make an appointment with Tath at the same time, and at the same time began to withdraw their troops. The first to retreat of the Mongol army was the Jurchen Wanhu Jiagu Liuqi Army, which was the unit responsible for transporting captives and baggage, and then the Yan Shi Department and the Shi Tianze Department. Meng Heng arranged 500 warships, loaded half of his troops and baggage, and retreated downstream.

The periphery of Xiangyang City suddenly turned from a murderous battlefield to a noisy construction site, where some people were dismantling camp tents, some people were leading carts and horses, and some people were carrying large and small wooden boxes and leather bags. In the camp of the Song army, there were soldiers and husbands who kept running between the ships and the camp, packing large and small luggage into the boat. More and more residents of Xiangyang are beginning to believe that this time the war is really over and peace is coming.

The only shortcoming today is that the Mongol army did not receive the peace agreement that needed to be approved by the emperor, and the Tasi sent people to wait at the front, waiting for the arrival of the Song envoy who sent the peace agreement. But after waiting for most of the day, he ushered in a messenger of the Song Dynasty who was untidy and wolf-like.

The cowards took him to meet Tarth. Surprised Tuth asked, "How did you get to be like this?" Where is the peace talk? ”

The man fell to the ground and said angrily: "I waited for a group of five people, escorting the messenger carrying the agreement to the north gate, along the main road to the Mongolian camp. How do you know that less than half a mile out of the door, suddenly jumped out of the grass dozens of men with black veils, each with a knife, to block our way, the villain saw that it was not good, hurriedly rode a horse and walked away, the messenger and the rest of the brothers could not escape, all were captured alive by the group of masked men. I walked all the way along the remote path to escape and reach the king. ”

Tath frowned slightly, and asked casually, "What is the origin of this group of robbers?" ”

The man lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, and said in a proper manner: "Listening to their words, it should be the Mongolian spoken by you, the king." ”

Of course, his words were somewhat offensive to the noble king, and the interpreter did not dare to translate it literally, so he had to embellish it and then translate it to Tath.

When Tath heard this, he already believed three points in his heart. For the sake of the stability of the empire, he had to withdraw to the north, but many people were unwilling to withdraw their troops. In the final analysis, the interests of the Mongol Empire as a whole were not in the first place for them.

Zhang Rouwei, Shi Tianze, Liu Wei, Zhang Zhongren, these people, each entrenched in one side, are the powerful warlords in the Yanjing Ten Roads, they don't care much about the stability and strength of the Mongol Empire, naturally, as the courtiers of a big country, they also have some ambitions to serve the lord, but they always come first in how to reap benefits for themselves. For the time being, one is to get as many goods and servants as possible from the Southern Dynasty, and the second is to establish enough merits in front of the Great Khan. Therefore, the peace that Tath hastened to bring about may not be happy for many in the camp.

But the whole thing may be Zheng Yunming's trick again. It was necessary to strengthen the surveillance of Xiangyang, and it was not advisable to rely on the Han Chinese, so he had to order the Wu'er troops under the Copyist subordinates to deploy in front and be vigilant against Xiangyang's every move at any time.

But there is still no abnormal movement in Xiangyang City. In addition, Zheng Yunming also sent a herald envoy to apologize, and promised to send additional personnel to escort him on the second day, and he would definitely deliver the peace conference on time.

The daylight of the day was spent in peace.

But at night, the lights were bright near the Ghost Gate, and the lights were lit from the boat to the shore. As the Mongol sentinels were watching from afar, the soldiers tried to be as careful as possible so as not to show signs that a major battle was about to take place.

In the tent of the Chinese army that was temporarily erected, Meng Heng and his generals were nervously discussing the offensive strategy around a topographic map.

"Although most of the Tartars are looted fishing boats, after all, there are many of them, and if you want to cut off the enemy's retreat, you must wipe out these thousands of fishing boats, which is not an easy task." Meng Hui raised his head and glanced at the generals gathered around the table, among these people were his subordinates, the generals of the Zhenjiang Navy who joined the reinforcements with Jianghai, the capital of Jiangzhou, and the commanders of the Ezhou Tunshui Army, how to arrange the attack, among them were very knowledgeable.

Meng Heng's plan was to let his subordinates take the lead in defeating the resistance of the enemy ships, and then the rest of the troops would advance in turn to reap the full success.

"Where is the command of the navy?" He shouted.

A stocky general said yes.

"Tomorrow will lead the Huangzhou Navy first. After the deputy general Tongding and Chi Shenwei, if there is a fall, he will raise his head to see Ben Shuai! Although Meng Heng pretended to be stern, he also believed that the strong combat strength of his subordinates would never be overwhelmed by the small boats of the Mongol army on the Han River.

Qu Shen just wanted to reach out to receive the order, but the fat general on the side opened his mouth to stop him: "This kind of work of the vanguard, please hand it over to our Jingchu Naval Army to do." ”

If it is an ordinary war, it is inevitable that some people will think that Zhang Yu is stealing the limelight of the Huangzhou Water Army. But tomorrow will face more than 100,000 Mongolian troops to attack, it is very likely that there is no return, at this time to stand up and grab the work of the vanguard, by no means for the limelight.

Meng Hui was not surprised, Zheng Yunming's subordinates were young and vigorous, and most of the generals were young men in their twenties and thirties, and they were warlike and greedy. He said to Peng Manyan: "Tomorrow's battle is related to the safety of Xiangyang, if defeated, the Mongols will be free in the Han River, and they will inevitably attack the city with a large army in retaliation, and the Zheng officials and Jing Chu's army will immediately have their lives in danger, and this matter must not be regarded as child's play." ”

Peng Man also replied: "The Jingchu Navy is willing to act as the vanguard, it is not our momentary words, let the warships of the headquarters be in front, it is precisely to win the battle tomorrow." ”

"When Peng Man went on the expedition, Zheng Guanren told me that in the final decisive battle in the future, the navy must be one of the protagonists, at that time, I must ask Meng Shuai Chen to let our army serve as the vanguard, not because the Jingchu navy is braver and better at fighting than you, but for other reasons."

Qu Shen snorted and shouted, "It's just because you Jing Chu have a lot of firearms." ”

Needless to say, all the generals present here have already experienced the role of firearms from actual combat, especially in water battles, the longer the range and the more powerful the weapon, the more advantageous. Firearms have unique advantages in this regard, and with their own arson attributes, they are even more restrained from wooden warships. Zheng Yunming has now become the promoter of the entire Great Song Firearms Exhibition, and Jing Chujun has also become the core of the Song Army's firearms allocation. The firepower of the Jing Chu army highlights two key parts, that is, the city defense and the naval army. The firearms at this stage are very bulky and powerful, and they can only shoot primitive shotguns and grapeshot, which does not pose a sufficient barrage threat to the cavalry. Therefore, the field battle is still more powerful with bows and arrows and formations. The firearms on the city defense and ships can be fully wielded, and there is no need to worry about the problem that the firearms are heavy and cannot be maneuvered.

In a certain way, the firearms configuration of the Jingchu Navy even passed the city fire extinguishers. In terms of light ships alone, there are a total of 150 light warships placed on the bow of the bamboo guns, these light ships as the protagonist of the pilot battle and the escort to cover the big ship, after the addition of firearms, the power is doubled, in the past, a multi-oared warship full of Song army may not be the opponent of a fishing boat full of Mongolian archers, because although the Mongols are not accustomed to water warfare, but after all, the bow and horse are sharp, whether the two armies are far away or close, in addition to the advantage of being familiar with ship warfare, the Song army does not have an absolute advantage in small boat engagement. But now the small boats are equipped with cannons, and before each battle, the warships are lined up on the river like a military formation, and ten thousand cannons are fired in unison, and the Mongol army is dizzy by the bombardment before they have time to perform their marksmanship, and then they are again fired by the gunners. The Song army rushed into the battle with all its might, often unstoppable, which had already begun to emerge in previous engagements.

However, the lethal weapon of the Jing Chu army was not small boats, but large warship forces composed of vehicles and loach boats. In the early decades of the Southern Crossing, the imperial court was shocked by the strength of the Jurchen cavalry, and often invested in naval forces at any cost, creating a lot of large and inappropriate equipment. Among them were 24 and 32 giant cars, and it turned out that these water monsters were only suitable for driving on the open lake, and once they entered the river waterway, they immediately did not work well, and it was quite difficult to even turn around.

Therefore, in river operations, Zheng Yunming's eight-car, six-car, and four-car warships were already the largest warships. Among them, four chariots and ships carried ten bamboo generals, six chariots and ships carried four iron generals, and twenty-four bamboo generals, and the eight-chariot warships were divided into two layers, which were open-air decks and gun decks, but the gun decks were still quite rudimentary, and if it were not for Zheng Yunming's personal order, they would not even be equipped with thick cables used to make the most primitive brake and retreat machines. The eight chariots and ships are equipped with a total of six iron generals, four bronze generals, and a total of 44 bamboo generals and wooden generals, which is worthy of the strongest surface warship in the world. Whether it is the multi-oared warship that dominates the Mediterranean Sea at this time, the dhows used by the Great Food Country to crisscross the West Sea, or the Viking dragon warship that still exists at this time, it is almost equivalent to a toy in front of the most advanced eight-car gunboats of the Great Song Dynasty.