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Chapter 55 (2)

Only a few thousand defenders and a small number of inhabitants were left in the city, and after the strong resistance of the defenders, the Mongols led by Zhang Rou led twenty daredevils to touch the walls of De'an at night, and opened the city gates, and the Mongol army entered the city, and the Song army launched a fierce street battle, and finally the entire city fell, and the remaining residents of the city and the captured defenders were all killed.

De'an is the barrier to the eastern part of Jinghu, which is in a sense a miniature version of Xiangyang. The capture of De'an by the Mongol army was equivalent to knocking on the door of the entire eastern line of Jinghu, and the iron cavalry drove straight into the states and counties of the eastern line of Jinghu to attack and plunder. And Zhang Guishou, the retainer of Suizhou, finally couldn't barely hold on to the city as he did a year ago, and abandoned the city and fled before the Mongol army could kill it. The Mongol army, with Zhang Roubu as the vanguard, attacked and plundered in all directions. The next part of Tasi's subordinates attacked Yingzhou, and Yingzhou was stationed in Huguang, the general leader Yao Zhiyuan and the guard Qiao Shi'an with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and were besieged by the Mongol army several times, and the city was not protected, but fortunately, the Jiangling and Ezhou naval armies traced the river and broke the Mongolian fleet. Hundreds of fishing boats carried by the Mongols were burned before the siege of Yingzhou was relieved. Zhang Rou led his troops into the territory of Fuzhou in the southeast of Yingzhou, conquered the state city, killed the guards, and captured more than 10,000 fishermen's boats in Zhangda Lake in Fuzhou, completely solving the problem of insufficient boats for the Mongolian army to cross the river. Then Zhang Rou led the headquarters of Shui 6 to march together and attack Huangzhou, Meng Hui's base camp.

At this time, Meng Hui was ordered by Shi Songzhi, the envoy of Huaixi and the deputy envoy of the Yangtze River, to lead his troops to Tunzha in Ezhou, and when he heard the news that the Mongol army had broken through Fuzhou, he immediately led his troops to return to Huangzhou by warship, and prepared to meet Zhang Rou in Huangzhou.

This is not the first time that Meng Hui and Zhang Rou have met each other, when the Song and Mongolia jointly attacked the imminent Jin court, Meng Hui, as the front-line commander of the Song Dynasty, and Zhang Rou, who was acting as the vanguard under the account of the Mongolian marshal Tachar at that time, also fought side by side. Now the first-class players in the lineups of both sides are finally going to meet in Huangzhou.

Meng Hui is no stranger to this old acquaintance, he knows that if he defends himself according to the traditional way of the Song Dynasty and lets Zhang Rou attack, this famous general who is famous for his bold attacks and sharp troops will soon be able to fully grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

The moon was hidden in thin clouds, and only a meager light was not enough to dispel the darkness on earth. In the gloomy night, a group of Song troops quietly left the Song army camp north of Huangzhou, and sneaked into the vicinity of the Mongolian army camp from the small road.

Zhao Wu removed the cover of the leaves and carefully poked his head out of the dense forest to observe the situation in the Mongolian military camp. As the commander of this night attack on the Mongolian military camp, he could not be cautious, once defeated, not only did he lose face, but also damaged the prestige of Marshal Meng, as Meng Hui's cousin, he controlled the elite troops under the Ma Military Division, and the generals of this era were more willing to let their blood relatives control the heart of the fifty-fifth majestic and mighty into the east stream (2)

In the belly troops, Yue Pengju commanded the iron cavalry with Yue Yun, Zhao Fang commanded the army in front of the tent with Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui brothers, and Meng Hui was no exception, the elite under the account were in the hands of his brothers and cousins, of course, whenever he needed to attack first. Or when there is a bloody battle, it is also these Meng Heng's closest brothers who rush to the forefront.

At this time, it was already the second watch, and according to reason, ten of the Mongolian army had already slept, but the big camp was still hanging torches, the lights were bright, and there were faint figures coming and going in the camp. A team of armor soldiers patrolled back and forth, Zhao Wu raised his eyes to look, and the lights and candles were still shining in the Chinese military tent, and the sound of silk and bamboo came out faintly.

"Very good, it seems that Zhang Rou has been feasting until this time, and she must have been drunk and has no ability to resist." Zhao Wu said to the few generals beside him: "Touch it quietly, move lightly, be hidden, and don't let the Tartars notice." When I got to the side of the barracks, I listened to my orders, first shot down the guards at the camp gate, cut off the antlers, and the first firecrackers sounded, and everyone just rushed to the barracks to kill, this time they must capture Zhang Rouxian and the marshal alive. ”

Everyone agreed in unison, each leading the soldiers, taking advantage of the cover of darkness, slowly approaching the Mongolian army camp, until approaching the periphery of the camp, Zhao Wu personally led a team of crossbowmen to hide in a favorable position, an order, the crossbow arrows in the wooden barrel crossbow, the several Mongolian soldiers guarding outside the camp gate fell to the ground, a team of big axe men rushed forward quickly, and cut the antlers at the camp gate three or two. A firecracker shot straight into the Mongol barracks, making a loud noise in the already somewhat silent camp.

The soldiers of the Song army shouted in unison, rushed into the Mongolian military camp with swords and guns, and followed Zhao Wu directly in front of the Chinese military tent regardless of other camp tents.

Zhao Wuchong was at the forefront, picked open the tent of the Chinese army with a red oil wooden gun, crashed into it, and shouted: "Zhang Rou dog thief, take the level!" ”

Everyone shouted in unison, and they were about to rush in to kill, but the strange thing was that after Zhao Wu rushed in and shouted like this, there was no movement in a blink of an eye, neither the sound of shouting and shouting, nor the sound of swords clashing, and even the sound stopped, and the troops were surprised, and suddenly saw a small colonel coming from behind, and shouted angrily: "General, the camp tent is empty, let's"

The tent of the Chinese army snapped again, and Zhao Wu raised the big gun and said hatefully: "We have been tricked!" ”

The tent of the Chinese army was empty, only a few straw men in armor stood inside, and when they were reflected by the lights, the shadows were reflected on the curtain as if they were drinking and feasting in the tent, and the musicians who were forced to play here had already scattered in fright after seeing the Song army rushing into the camp, and only these sneak troops were left in the whole camp.

Suddenly, in the dark night, trumpets sounded in all directions, and the surrounding mountains lit up with torches, and the earth-shattering shouts shook the night sky.

"Nanban dog thieves, you have been tricked!"

Zhao Wu slammed the tent and shouted, "The rear army retreats!" I'm going to resist the pursuers! "On the fifty-fifth majestic march into the eastward stream (2)

Even if he didn't give this order, the Song army had already begun to retreat in the direction of Huangzhou, and the infantry of the Mongol army rushed into the camp from all directions with spears, driving and slaughtering the night raiders who were caught off guard, and the cavalry galloped across the perimeter, cutting down the enemies who escaped from the camp one by one. Zhao Wu led a team of elite soldiers to fight desperately, and he was shot three times before he reluctantly withdrew from the battlefield with his team.

"The southern army is nothing more than that, I think this time Wanhu will definitely be able to break through Huangzhou and seize the first merit in the south." He Boxiang, the head of the march, excitedly watched the soldiers of the first battalion thunderous, and said excitedly to Zhang Rou.

But when he raised his eyes, the murderous face under the pine branch torch was not proud at all, but said in a deep voice with that hoarse voice: "Meng Puyu, more than that. ”

Sure enough, three days later, Zhang Rou personally led a large army to attack the Song army camp in Beishan, Huangzhou. Meng Hui listed the 40 bamboo generals and 20 wooden generals newly built by the Huangzhou guard Ma Junsi in the mountainside. Although Zhang Rou's subordinates all followed the main general to learn a body of foot archery kung fu, and the Song army suppressed by accurate shooting could hardly raise their heads, but they had never faced the enemy head-on with firearms, and they once again repeated the mistakes of Shi Tianze's subordinates in Shatou City, and the fierce artillery fire in the face made these infantry who were accustomed to attacking from the back in dense formations suffer heavy casualties, and even Zhang Rou's vanguard marching army Sun Yancheng was also concentrated by the stone cannon and died on the spot. Zhang Rou had no choice but to retreat, leading the cavalry of his headquarters to be stationed twenty miles northwest of Huangzhou, while monitoring Meng Hui's movements, and urging the Mongolian reinforcements who took the ships to come to reinforcements and cooperate with his army to encircle Huangzhou.

Meng Heng seemed to be satisfied with the victory in the Battle of Beishan, stationed his troops around Huangzhou, and refused to send troops to fight Zhang Rou head-on. Whenever Zhang Rou sent troops to challenge, the Song people only indiscriminately used stone cannons and fire guns to intimidate and drive the Mongol cavalry away.

This delay of not advancing or retreating was in favor of the Mongol side, because just as Zhang Rou was reorganizing his troops in Huangzhou, a large number of newly captured Zhang Dahu fishing boats were bringing reinforcements from upstream.

The civil and military generals in Huangzhou were all worried about this, and the generals asked several times to take the initiative to attack Zhang Rou's troops and drive him out of Huangzhou before the Mongol army gathered. Even Zhao Wu, who was wrapped in bandages, took the initiative to ask Ying and said: "Please give the general an order, let me take a group of soldiers and horses out of the city and drive Zhang Rou away, otherwise wait for the enemy's army to gather, and Huangzhou will be in danger!" ”

Meng Hui just said calmly: "The time is not yet." With such a simple answer, all requests to take the initiative were rejected. In the growing panic, the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou trembled and waited for the opportunity that the general of the city said.

And the right time for the battle that Meng Hui expected was slowly brewing on the surface of the Yangtze River, thousands of miles up and down, and it would soon come in an unexpected way.

The 55th round of Ezhou is majestic and enters the eastward stream (2)

More than ten miles in the northwest, is the place where the Han water flows into the Yangtze River, the water potential here is gentle, the river surface is open, you can see the city of Ezhou in the east, you can see the county town of Hankou in the north, its name is called Zhuankou. It is probably because the Han River carries the yellow sediment from the upper reaches of Xiangfan to the south, and here it converges with the turquoise water of the Yangtze River, indistinguishing the chaos of the river water here.

Dozens of warships carrying the banner of the naval army of the deputy capital of the Great Song Dynasty and Jing'e were lined up along the sandbar on the river bank and moored on the shore. Zheng Yunming, who was stationed in Xiangyang, couldn't spare his energy at this time, and he couldn't cross the distance of hundreds of miles and control his own naval army with more than 100,000 Mongolian troops in the middle.