Chapter 303: Looking at the Central Plains from afar, who is the Lord (Part II)
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Hearing that Yu Hou mentioned Ye Yingwu, Han Zhen frowned: "This Ye Yingwu is also a heroic figure, I hope there will be no conflict between Xianggong and him, otherwise this country, which is barely supported, will really shake the foundation." ”
If you break it down in detail, Han Zhen can also be regarded as a member of Jia Nidao's party, but he should be regarded as a more rational one, but he simply thinks that since Jia Nidao is a military and state affairs of Pingzhang, as the general of the Great Song Dynasty, he should obey Jia Xianggong's orders, and it is precisely because of this that Han Zhen can take charge of the command of the Jiaozhou Naval Division of the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise he would have been set aside by Jia Nidao's cronies.
Yu Hou was silent for a moment, but he still didn't dare to say anything after all, after all, Han Zhen's emotion was not something that a person in his position had the ability and vision to pick up, so it was better not to speak. Just when the two of them were talking about whether they were playing together, the two sea ships had already broken the waves and rushed directly towards the three Mongolian warships in front. The Mengchong Clippers, who were originally eager to try, were even more excited when they saw the flagship coming in person, and they no longer stepped forward in a queue in turn, but approached together.
"The fog is getting bigger." Han Zhen looked around, getting closer and closer to the Mongolian warship, but the corresponding distance from the coast was also getting closer and closer, even if the fog was thick, he could clearly see the green mountains along the coast, and the surrounding area happened to be a small bay, and the three Mongolian warships were rushing towards the depths of the bay in a panic.
If it weren't for the Mengchong Clipper coming and going, I am afraid that under such fog and the terrain that the Jiaozhou Marines are not very familiar with, they would have lost their opponents and even lost their way.
"There seem to be villages on the shore." Yu Hou's eyes were sharp, and even through the thick fog, he could clearly see the faint outline, "General, it is estimated that it will take less than a cup of tea to catch up with these Mongolian Tatars, but then it will be almost close to the shore." ”
"Let Meng Chong try to contain it as much as possible," Han Zhen said coldly, "These Mongolian Tartars are really cunning, but they can't help but underestimate the Jiaozhou Mariners." ”
With the small size of Meng Chong, it is impossible to stop this kind of warship that is almost like a building ship, and it is estimated that the Mongolian Tatars also want to rush to the shoal as soon as possible, and then hurry ashore and escape before the arrival of the Song army's sea ships.
"Bed crossbow, put it!" Yu Hou Langsheng ordered.
The bed crossbow in the bow of the ship made a sound that shook the heavens and the earth, and the thick iron arrows swept across the sea, piercing straight into the heart of the nearest Mongolian warship, and after a moment of silence, an explosion accompanied by a sky-high fire rose on the surface of the sea.
"Good!" Han Zhen said with a smile.
With this arrow, there is a good chance that this warship that has been backward because of damage will sink, especially more than a dozen Meng Chong have pounced like hungry wolves after seeing their prey fall to the ground, if these huge Mongolian warships just now still make them feel more than capable of strength, now there is nothing to fear, the critically ill tiger can't stop the wolves after all.
It's just that on the mountainside on the side of the bay, looking at the light and flames rising behind the fog, the young general who has been standing silently for an unknown amount of time gritted his teeth, and he knew very well that the fire that suddenly rose at this time was his own warship. A Mongolian general dressed as a commander walked over quickly: "General, the fish has been baited." ”
Looking back at the busy soldiers around him, Zhang Hongfan nodded: "Finally took the bait, it's not in vain that the brothers have worked hard, especially today when the heavens bless you and me, and they just let the two big ships of the Southern Barbarians come alone." After the first drum, you must sink these two ships with a certain sturdy! We must not allow the brothers who went to lure the enemy to die in vain. ”
"Obey!" The commander said solemnly.
Taking a deep breath of the cold and damp air, Zhang Hongfan said in a cold voice: "Sons and daughters of the Great Mongolia, defeat the Southern Barbarian Water Master!" ”
"Defeat the Southern Barbarian Water Division!" Standing in front of and behind Zhang Hongfan, the Mongolian soldiers gritted their teeth.
They have been bullied by the sailors of the Southern Barbarians for too long in Jiaozhou, and now it is finally time to take revenge.
And on the sea ship, when the distance was getting closer and closer, Han Zhen gradually saw clearly what the village was just now, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat, and Yu Hou, who was standing beside him, also showed a surprised look on his face, the vague outline gradually became clear, it was not a village at all, but a camp, as for the one standing faintly in the mist, it was not a chimney, but a trebuchet waiting for him!
Row by row, column by column, I don't know how many trebuchets are concentrated in the Mongolian Tartars, but Han Zhen can guarantee that he has been in the army all his life, and he has never seen such a huge array of trebuchets.
The next moment, a shout erupted from the Mongolian sailor warship, which had only known how to flee forward, and the arrow suddenly jumped up and swept across the surrounding Meng Chong.
And there was a sharp sound in the sky, and Han Zhen subconsciously looked back at this moment.
The Lou Ship Brigade that was delayed to cover the flagship did not know when most of them had already entered the bay, the fog was too heavy, even Han Zhen did not realize that the arms stretched out to the sea in this bay were inevitably a little longer, and they were all covered by green mountains and dense forests.
Enough for the Mongol Tartars to lay down trebuchets, and enough for them to hide in the fog.
"Fireship, fireship!" At the moment when the stones fell from the sky and were as dense as rain, Yu Hou's pupils standing beside Han Zhen dilated suddenly.
Inside and outside the bay, countless fireships have broken the waves, ignoring the stones thrown by their own trebuchets, and the Mongolian soldiers standing in the bow of the ships are desperately shouting against the wind and waves.
After being bullied for too long, they finally chose to explode at this moment.
Ambush, dead end, Mongolian Tartars this is dead!
At the last moment, Han Zhen's mind was already chaotic, and all that came into his eyes was blood and fire.
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"The defeat of King Kong Terrace is expected." Lu Xiufu stood in the Xingzhou meeting hall and said lightly.
The huge map in front of him had been spread out, and in front of him, Jiang Hao, the commander of the four compartments of the Tianwu Army, and Yin Yuhou, Du Yuhou, were already standing solemnly, and Zhang Cheng, who was coordinating all the affairs of the six doors in Xingzhou, was also standing there.
Although there are only four people, they are the core of the entire Xingzhou Tianwu Army.
"The envoy has already said in the previous letter, "Although Jiang Hao's injuries have not healed yet, it is impossible to go into battle to kill the enemy, but at least it is okay to stand in this hall," Boyan and Huaidu, which one is the easiest character to deal with, this time Li Tingzhi is clearly a light enemy. In addition, it also reflects the vulnerability of the Huai army, eighty or ninety thousand people were scattered by a Mongolian cavalry, if it is replaced by the Tianwu army, even if it is all new pawns, a certain can be sure to block it! ”
Lu Xiufu's face was slightly cold: "Now is not the time to say big things, a certain can make it very clear, the Mongolian Tatars not only held the King Kong Terrace this time and continued to cut off the connection between Huaidong and Huaixi, but also with the loss of more than half of the Huai army and the loss of all kinds of large bow and crossbow equipment, there is basically only one option to trap the city, Commander Zhang, you can introduce the situation." ”
Zhang Cheng nodded: "This is the news from the sentry horse, and it has been confirmed by the six doors and the Jinyi guard. ”
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Cheng walked to the side of the map: "In the battle of Jingangtai, about 40,000 people of the Huai army were defeated and returned, and now Huaidong Li Anfu has returned to the Gaoyou army with more than 10,000 of them to the front line of Yangzhou, facing Huaibei layer by layer, and Huaixi Xia pacification is to rectify the remnants of the army in Luzhou, but the remaining tens of thousands of main forces of the Huai army did not enter these cities facing Huaibei or Jingangtai, but shrank in Anqing Mansion and Yangzhou, two important towns in Huaidong and Huaixi, and the meaning of the two pacification envoys is also very clear, As long as Yangzhou and Anqing Mansion can be saved, even if they are completely lost along the Huaishui River, they can also keep the river. ”
Stretching out his hand to point at Anqing Mansion, Zhang Cheng said clearly: "And now it is certain that the Huai army has a full forty or fifty thousand horses in Anqing Mansion, and with the city of Anqing Mansion, it can completely block the Mongolian Tartars from grazing horses southward, but on the side of Yangzhou to Huaibei, there is obviously a shortage of manpower, along the Huaishui River to the Great River, it is an open plain, but there are only twenty or thirty thousand steps to ride, and there is a lack of large equipment, once the Mongolian Tartars are determined to attack, they may even be unable to hold the Huaibei Lianhai and Wuhekou." ”
"What about the sailors of Lianghuai?" Jiang Hao couldn't help but ask, in fact, Huaibei doesn't have so much to worry about, after all, even if the Huainan field is open, but after all, there is still a Huaishui, and the sailors of the two Huai can completely defend it.
Zhang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There are three water divisions in the two Huai and one area, which are the self-contained Jiaozhou Water Division, the two Huai Water Divisions belonging to the Huai Army, and the Zhenjiang Fu Water Division belonging to us. The two Huai water divisions were originally left after the division of the water divisions under Zhang Duyu Hou, so there were not many ships, and the water divisions of Zhenjiang Mansion were dispatched by the envoys, and it was impossible for Li Anfu to use them. ”
"Jiaozhou Water Master?" Lu Xiufu blurted out in surprise, the crux of the problem is here.
"Well, the only Jiaozhou sailors who have the ability to stop the Mongolian Tatars from crossing the Huaishui, and most of them are large warships, have not shown any trace until now, and they have not docked for five or six days, so it stands to reason that five or six days is enough for them to go to Jiaozhou to fight the autumn wind and then come back." Zhang Cheng said helplessly.
Jiang Hao and Yin Yu stood up at the same time.
Missing? And is it the most powerful Jiaozhou sailor in the Great Song Dynasty?
What kind of power does it take to be able to do this? Not to mention that the Jiaozhou Naval Division, which is specially equipped with large warships to attack Jiaozhou on an expedition across the sea, is now the Xingzhou Naval Division, and how strong Jiang Hao and Yin Yu are very clear.
To be able to make such a sailor disappear, it can only be that they have encountered a stronger opponent than them, and if they want to defeat the sailor, they can only rely on the sailor, just on land, even if it is a majestic foot rider, it will only be beaten. Is there such a sailor in Mongolia ・・・・・・?
Since the formation of the Tianwu Army, it seems that he has been deliberately opposing the Mongolian sailors, whether it is Luzhou or Hanshui, there is a gloomy smile behind every defeat of the basic Mongolian sailors. It stands to reason that in such a short period of time, even if Mongolia mobilizes all the craftsmen in Jiangbei, it will not be able to form a fleet that can match the Jiaozhou sailors.
"There must be something greasy in this," Lu Xiufu frowned and said, "I seem to know who did this, but I didn't expect that this person is really worthy of the attention of the envoy." ”
Jiang Hao and Yin Yu glanced at each other in some surprise, but Zhang Cheng was already clear, and after a moment of silence, he said word by word: "Zhang Hongfan! ”
Lu Xiufu nodded: "I can't think of anyone else in the Mongolian Tartars besides Zhang Hongfan who has such ability, don't forget that the Yingzhou Naval Division suffered heavy losses and was almost wiped out later, it is the credit of this Zhang Hongfan, and the one who is proficient in water warfare here in Mongolia, in addition to him, is Liu Cheng who is still in Sichuan and Shu, but Gao Anfu took the Sichuan army to watch closely in Luzhou and Hezhou, and Liu Cheng did not have the ability to go to Jiaozhou." ”
"That's true," Zhang Cheng rubbed his chin, "This Zhang Hongfan has some ability, let's interrogate the prisoners, and we also know that Ah Shu has always taken him with him, and together with Boyan he sees it as cultivating the backbone of the next generation, and the strategy of breaking through in Lumen Mountain is also what Zhang Hongfan and Boyan pondered, and the most important thing is that in this Jingangtai battle, there are only the generals of Boyan and Huaidu, and they don't see the banner of this young new general!" ”
Lu Xiufu walked slowly to the outside of the meeting hall, looked at the somewhat gloomy sky, tried his best to look north, and after a long time, he said slowly: "Tianwu Army, prepare for war, once the Huai Army falls, it will be our Tianwu Army." ”
"Obey!" Jiang Ho and Yin Yu bowed their hands at the same time and answered loudly.
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The war horse neighed, Ye Yingwu didn't care about the horse's hooves landing smoothly, so he jumped off the horse's back, and behind him, Jiang Tie and Wu Chucai led the guards to hug Ye Yingwu tightly.
The soldiers standing on both sides of the Chinese military camp tent bowed their hands at the same time, and I don't know when, the original Chinese military camp tent in front of the symbol of Su Liuyi's "Su" character flag has been lowered, replaced by a larger handsome flag, "Song Privy Council makes Ye" six gilded characters on the banner dragon flying phoenix dance.
Ye Yingwu lifted the curtain of the camp tent and walked in quickly, and the main tent was already full of people at this time, Su Liuyi and Zhang Shijie stood side by side on the side of the handsome case, on their side, all the commanders of the town and navy were in the ranks, and although there were only Zhao Wenyi and Guo Chang on the other side, it was just a simple literati dress and a standing posture with hands tied, which was not weaker than the military generals with solemn faces on the other side.
No matter how many civil and military officials there were, the Tianwu Army had never lost in momentum.
Ye Yingwu stood in front of the handsome case, turned around to look at the civil and military forces on both sides, and said loudly: "Mongolian Tatar Koubian, the Huai army was defeated in Jingangtai, and more than half of the teachers were lost; The sailors were defeated in Jiaozhou, only two or three sporadic warships were able to escape, and now in the south of the two Huai, they were able to resist the sharp edge of the Mongol Tatars, only I was the navy! ”
The camp became more and more solemn, and everyone raised their heads to look at Ye Yingwu, their eyes flashing with pride and excitement. At this moment, they also felt the glory and responsibility, and the town navy also had to take on the same task as the Tianwu Army, protect half of the mountains and rivers, and save the southeast sky!
When the Huai army was defeated and retreated to Yangzhou, when the Jiaozhou Navy Division was careless, the Mongolian Navy Division was in the limelight for a while, this Great Song Dynasty was in the south of the Yangtze River, in Huainan, and there was also the town navy!
"Now," Ye Yingwu paused for a moment, "I would have been in charge of the Zhenhai Navy and the military and political affairs of the Zhenjiang Prefecture as the envoy of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty and the envoy of the Yanjiang system, and presided over the war in Jiangnan and Huainan. ”
As soon as Ye Yingwu's voice fell, Su Liuyi had already taken a step forward: "Su Liuyi, the commander of the four compartments of the last admiral's town navy, led the town navy to wait for the envoy's orders!" ”
And Zhao Wenyi was not willing to be left behind: "Zhao Wenyi, the prefect of Zhenjiang Mansion, led the officials of Zhenjiang Mansion to wait for the envoy's orders!" ”
Stretching out his hand and tearing open the curtain covering the map, Ye Yingwu's face was as pale as iron, and he stretched out his hand to knock heavily in Anqing Mansion and Yangzhou: "News has come from Xingzhou, the Tianwu Army is already preparing for war, and the Xingzhou Navy Division is about to release the boat to Anqing Mansion; And the Shence Army and Shenwei Army in Xiangyang and Yingzhou are also preparing for the Northern Expedition to Heluo, and all the departments of Sichuan, Shugao and Zhang have entered the preparation for battle, which will help delay the Mongolian infantry in Chengdu and Tongchuan Mansion. ”
After a slight pause, Ye Yingwu continued: "Now the entire front has been moved, but Xiangyang and Sichuan Shu only play a role in containment, for the Mongolian Tatars, after the battle of Jingangtai, there will be no obstacle for them to go south to Anqing Mansion or drive directly to Huainan, so I think you also know very well that the next big war will break out, and it will only be in Yangzhou and Anqing Mansion!" ”
The voice slowly fell, Ye Yingwu looked at Su Liuyi, Su Liuyi nodded, stood up and said: "Now that the Jiaozhou Sailor has been newly defeated, it can be more illustrative that the Mongolian Tartars are likely to be aimed at Huainan Yangzhou, if the so-called Anqing Mansion, it does not need to make such a big move to deal with the Jiaozhou Navy." Only by defeating the Jiaozhou sailors could the Mongol Tatars be able to cross the Huaishui safely. ”
Ye Yingwu snorted and said approvingly: "That's true, this general also thinks that the Mongolian Tatar soldiers are heading, it should be Yangzhou, once the Huaishui is broken, the entire Huainan will be left to its iron cavalry, and it may even rely on the poor scheduling of our army's water division for a while, force the river to cross, enter Jiankang Mansion, and even go straight to Lin'an!" All it takes is a strong enough iron horse, and no one in the entire Jiangnan will be able to stop it! ”
Su Liuyi, Zhang Shijie and others all took a breath lightly, although the Zhenhai Navy was waiting for Zhenjiang Mansion, but everyone knew that the Jiankang Mansion adjacent to the city was actually not heavily guarded, and everyone knew what kind of virtue those Jiankang Mansion soldiers were in their hearts.
Once the Mongol Tatars wanted to cross the river, nine times out of ten they would choose Jiankang Mansion instead of the heavily guarded Zhenjiang Mansion. As long as the cavalry rushed to the fields south of the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River, it would be difficult to stop them even if the town navy tried their best.
Zhang Shun, who had been silent, naturally couldn't be silent at this time, because this was already related to the issue of the water master, and even to the honor of the water master of Zhenjiang Mansion. (To be continued.) )