Ye Yingwu glanced back at Zhang Shijie, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The surrounding rocky beach stretches to the foot of the mountains on both sides in the distance, I'm afraid that there are not four or five miles of land, unless there are millions of troops, how can it be defended?" I am not Kublai Khan, and there is no way to determine where the Mongol Tatars came ashore, so it is naturally impossible to arrange the army in a fixed place to wait for the rabbit, not to mention that the Mongol Tatars will naturally bypass that place when they see the movement and arrangement of our army. www.biquge.info It can be said that the rocky beaches around this area for four or five miles may be the place where Mongolian Tatars landed. ”

Zhang Shijie and Yang Bao couldn't help but gasp, only then did they realize that they had thought about things too simply, no wonder Ye Yingwu would suddenly worry about this matter, which shows that in fact, Ye Yingwu did not have enough confidence in what kind of way the Mongol Tatars would attack.

Subconsciously set his eyes on the other side, Zhang Shijie and Yang Bao, who are also generals who have experienced countless wars, both large and small, have solemn looks on their faces. Kublai Khan, in the end, was the Mongolian god of war, the fierce general who fought all over the Southern Song Dynasty, even if he was a great khan and rarely came to the battlefield in person over the years, he still embarrassed the Ming in the first round of the battle between the two armies.

"Since there is no way to take the initiative, we can only wait for the Mongolian Tatars to make their own choice." Ye Yingwu said in a deep voice, Daming wanted to reduce casualties and delay time, so he gave up the initiative to attack and defend on the Qinshui side, in fact, he had already given up the initiative to a certain extent, after all, if you want to get benefits, you always have to pay a price, and throughout the ages, it has always been to attack to prevent in order to be able to occupy the absolute initiative in the overall situation.

Squinting his eyes, Ye Yingwu then ordered: "Jiang Tie! ”

"The last general!" Jiang Tie, who had been following Ye Yingwu without saying a word, replied, and rode his horse forward, as the commander of the Praetorian Guard, he had been waiting for Ye Yingwu's order for a long time.

"All the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard is on guard at all times, and the heavily armored cavalry is ready to put on armor!" Ye Yingwu shouted, "As long as I give an order, I will immediately attack and kill the enemy, and there will be no delay!" ”

"The last will obey!" Jiang Tie replied loudly.

And Ye Yingwu then shouted: "Zhang Shijie! ”

"The last general!" Zhang Shijie's heart moved, and he took a step forward without hesitation, and in an instant he seemed to be no longer the Ming Dynasty's military department Shangshu and Shangzhuguo, but a young general who was about to face a life-and-death battle.

In a trance, he seemed to be no longer the military secretary who competed with civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, but a real general. The Han River Battle Dong Wenbing, the Huainan Bloody Battle of Boyan, the Huaibei Heavy Rain and the Cowardly Xue Army Desperately, in the past few years, the sand scenes of bloody battles have been constantly passing in front of Zhang Shijie's eyes, just like yesterday.

I don't know when he thought that he might be the end of his life, until Ye Yingwu ordered him to sit in Luoyang, until this moment, Ye Yingwu rode his horse on the hillside and called him by his name in the face of the strong wind! The blood that kept flowing in his chest told Zhang Shijie that this is the life he wants, and this is the life that should belong to him.

The wind blew his clothes and armor, and Zhang Shijie, who was no longer young, solemnly bent down at Ye Yingwu and bowed his hand, as if he was still the Zhang Shijie who once went south alone, as if he was still the Zhang Shijie who once led the sailors across the river, and it seemed that he was still the Zhang Shijie who was dominating the wind and clouds and spilled blood on the battlefield!

"The Praetorian Guard and I are both my brother in the robe, this time I need to sit in the Chinese army, and the Praetorian Guard will be handed over to you to command, even if it is the last person to fight, you must complete my will!" There was only coldness and silence in Ye Yingwu's voice, as if after this order was given, the Praetorian Guard cavalry and Zhang Shijie became a group of lifeless symbols in his mind.

"If you obey the order, you will not fail in your mission!" Zhang Shijie replied angrily.

Ye Yingwu then looked at Yang Bao: "Yang Bao! ”

"The last general!" Yang Bao bowed, his face was full of resoluteness, the veteran who had no hope for the future looked like he couldn't find the slightest bit of cynicism and cunning on his face when he first met, this old soldier who had no hope for his life and planned to live this life in a daze, was bowing his hand in front of Ye Yingwu respectfully at this time.

For Yang Bao, Ye Yingwu, who is standing in front of her, is the biggest benevolent person in her life, without Ye Yingwu's promotion and tempering along the way, there would be no Yang Bao who has been reborn today.

"I have handed over the river beach and the camp to you to command, including the Divine Guard Army and the Zhendong Army, you must hold the camp and not let the Mongol Tatars capture this foundation land," Ye Yingwu's voice was very calm, as if he didn't realize that every word he said now might represent endless bloody rain and bloody wind, and he stretched out his finger and pointed to the river beach under the hillside and the surrounding rocky beach, "Here or there, it may be the direction of the Mongol Tatar attack, and our troops are insufficient, Even if the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard can block the attack of a Mongol army, there is no way to resist the Mongol Tatars coming from other directions, so in the end, if we want to block the Mongol Tatars, we have to rely on our arrangement in the camp. The camp was lost, and the rear roads of the armies were cut off. Are you aware of your responsibilities? ”

Yang Bao did not hesitate at all, and solemnly bowed his hand: "Minister's Decree 1"

At this moment, the original noisy and noisy sound on the opposite bank gradually subsided, and the tentative artillery bombardment of the Ming army was still rhythmically sounding, and shells and explosives bags continued to fall into the water and on the shore, either kicking up rolling dust, or stirring up columns of water that soared into the sky, and the sound shook the sky.

Ye Yingwu waved his hand violently, and a herald on the hillside rushed down quickly, the command flag in his hand waved down violently, and the artillery of the Ming army, which was still showing off its might, stopped roaring at the same time, and the two naval gunboats on the Qinshui also slowly went upstream, obviously not planning to entangle too much with the Mongolian Tatars on this Qinshui.

The low sound of the horn sounded again, and with the sound of the horn, the Mongolian soldiers of the brigade rushed towards the river beach in a scattered formation, obviously also eating a trench and growing wise, to prevent the Ming army's artillery bombardment from causing extensive damage. The prepared sheepskin raft was quickly lowered into the water, and at the shouts of the chief and the centurion, a group of Mongolian soldiers quickly boarded the ship.

"I'm pretty skilled." Ye Yingwu raised his clairvoyance to chase the figure of the Mongolian soldiers on the other bank, obviously it is not the first time that the Mongolian Tartars have crossed the river in this way, and there must be sufficient drills in advance, which makes Ye Yingwu even more worried, after all, neither Jinyiwei nor the military sentinels have any news in this regard, which shows that the Mongolian Tartars have done a very good vigilance work.

Originally, the Mongols were generally handed over to the Han people in terms of spies, such as Ye Yingwu's old opponent You Xuanfu before, but this time all the people of different races were concealed - otherwise they would almost have colluded with non-Mongolian officials and generals such as the Jurchens, Tang Wuren, and Semu people, and it is impossible for Jinyiwei not to hear the rumors at all - it shows that the Mongolian Tatars attach great importance to the tactics of crossing the river on sheepskin rafts, Second, it shows that the Mongols have figured out the origin of the traitor and the work object of the Ming spy agency, so this time they strictly guard against people of different races.

On the other hand, this proves that the Mongols attached great importance to this tactic, and since it was important, there could not be only one method of attack. Ye Yingwu squinted slightly at the more and more fleets on the river, which were getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "What other tricks are the Mongolian Tatars going to play?" ”

Xiao Yangzi beside him said impatiently: "Your Majesty, the Mongolian Tartar has arrived in the middle of the river." ”

Ye Yingwu nodded: "No matter how they fight, we have to say hello, Xiao Yangzi, pass on my will, the cannon group fires!" ”

Xiao Yangzi hurriedly answered, and the command flag on the hillside waved down again, and the drumming drum rose from the ground, tearing through the howling of the wind, but soon the drum was replaced by the rumbling cannon. Countless shells and explosives bags crossed the top of Ye Yingwu's head, rolling up the light in the sky, like a meteor shower descending on this world.

And Ye Yingwu looked up at the anger of the Ming army's artillery group, his eyes were cold, and he didn't have much joy and excitement like the soldiers at the bottom of the hillside, but silently re-turned his gaze to the other side.

I've already made a move, Kublai Khan, how will you deal with it?

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The cannonballs fell heavily into the water, constantly lifting the water column to the sky, and countless waves rolled on the entire Qinshui water surface, and the tumbling water waves poured directly onto the sheepskin raft, pouring the Mongolian soldiers on the sheepskin raft into soup chickens. Of course, this is lucky, there are many sheepskin rafts directly overturned by the waves, and the Mongolian soldiers on it can only continue to struggle in the stormy waves, of course, some sheepskin rafts are even more unlucky, shells and explosives bags directly smashed up, completely erasing them from the world.

The screams of the Mongol soldiers, the dull roar of cannonballs falling into the water, and the cries of the Mongol chiefs and centurions for the soldiers to calm down were all kinds of sounds that echoed on the surface of the water, which was not actually wide.

"Into the trench!" On the other side of Qinshui, amid the sound of drums, the leaders of the Ming army shouted loudly, and groups of Ming soldiers rushed into the trench behind the river beach with their hands and feet.

This trench is similar to the trench dug by Xu Chen on the Great Wall of Youyan Gubeikou, and it can be seen that it was all pointed out by Ye Yingwu. It's just that compared to the trench under the Great Wall that also gave Boyan a headache for a long time, although this trench is not easy to dig because there are a lot of rocks in the soil, the reason why it is not very deep is not very deep, but it is long enough, and the criss-crossing trench is the first obstacle that the Mongols need to face, this trench has been extending from the river beach to the camp, if you don't stand on a high place to overlook or participate in the excavation, it is easy to get lost in this Heqian Mo vertical and horizontal trench, and there are enough broken roads and T-shaped roads at every other section, Just like the layout of the streets in a fortress, as long as the defenders know the trenches well, even if there are two or three times as many enemies, there is no need to be afraid.

Of course, this is only the first barrier, there is also the wall behind the wall and a row of knife carts behind the wall, for the Mongolian army, the Ming Dynasty has prepared a net here. However, Ye Yingwu is not very satisfied with these defensive arrangements that have made the generals of the Ming army tremble, but unfortunately there is no way to produce enough hardness and length of iron wire in this era, otherwise Ye Yingwu will still be able to weave a barbed wire fence in front of this trench, and then it will really make the Mongolian Tartars call the sky ineffective, and the earth should not be!

There was no barbed wire, Ye Yingwu naturally did not intend to cheapen the Mongols, and a large number of traps and antlers were arranged in front of the trenches, and the crossbowmen of the Ming army could hide behind the antlers to face the Mongol army ashore for the first round of strikes.

It can be said that the camp behind this river beach is not like a fortress, but more like a fortress.

One by one, the sheepskin rafts quickly rushed out of the area covered by the monstrous water column and came towards the beachhead, but Ye Yingwu's eyes did not fall on the hundreds of sheepskin rafts in the front, but closely followed the sheepskin rafts that followed one after another.

Although there were only a few dozen of them, the sheepskin rafts moved quickly on the water, and they followed the current, avoiding the air waves and water columns set off by shells and explosives packs, and rushed directly downstream to the rocky beach. With the help of the current, and the soldiers on both sides of the raft paddling desperately, this group of sheepskin rafts came very quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was almost to the shore.

"Praetorian cavalry ready to attack!" Ye Yingwu was not nervous, but breathed a sigh of relief, the Mongolian Tatars chose the rocky beach downstream as the direction of the detour or even the main attack, but it was expected, it was better than the Mongolian Tatars resorting to other conspiracies.

Several guns on the hillside that had not been in a hurry to fire slowly turned their barrels at the same time, aiming at the sheepskin rafts that were speeding on the water, and at the same time unleashed their anger. Shells whizzed across arcs and slammed into the water, and the Mongol soldiers on the sheepskin rafts apparently realized that they had been discovered, and continued without the slightest hesitation, after all, the rocky beach was in front of them.

This rocky beach is where the water turns below the other side of the hillside jutting out into the center of the river, and the current is gentle, otherwise the rocks would have been washed away into gravel. When the river arrives here, it constantly swirls between large and small stones, and the surface of the water seems to be calm, but in fact there are large and small whirlpools underwater, and if you are not careful, you may be swept into the whirlpool.

The first sheepskin raft rushed into the left side of the rocky beach was directly rolled up by the whirlpool, and the Mongolian soldiers on the boat panicked and watched the sheepskin raft continue to spin in the current, and jumped down from the sheepskin raft in desperation.

These Mongolian soldiers originally came from the steppe, and there were few people who knew how to water, and the whole rocky beach looked like a shallow, but in fact, there was a swirling stream of water under the stones, even if they could barely step on the bottom of the river, they would be knocked by the stones next to them because of the huge whirling force of the current.

More sheepskin rafts in the back continued to move forward without fear, and soon after the loss of four or five sheepskin rafts, several safe roads on the rocky beach were suddenly tested, and the Mongol soldiers did not have time to wait for the sheepskin rafts to land, and jumped out of their boats and rushed towards the beach.

Explosive packets and shells thrown from the hillside constantly exploded on the rocky beach, setting off smoke and water splashes, and of course, many fell directly into the crowd, tearing the Mongol soldiers who rushed forward to pieces. With the sound of horses' hooves, a group of Ming cavalry suddenly came out of the smoke and dust, and the crossbows and firearms in their hands were aimed at the Mongols who were close at hand!

The arrows roared into the chests of the Mongolian soldiers, and countless iron bullets directly overturned the Mongolian soldiers who were still on the sheepskin raft to the ground.

However, the Mongolian crossbowmen who followed up quickly counterattacked, and one arrow after another also fell into the Ming cavalry. Zhang Shijie clenched his saber, knocked down the arrows flying left and right, and pulled the reins of the horse fiercely, causing the soldiers behind him to retreat and let out of the landing port. The Praetorian Guard cavalry was on horseback, and the Mongolian crossbowmen were hiding behind the large and small stones, the enemy was dark and I was clear, Zhang Shijie naturally didn't want to take the precious lives of the Praetorian Guard soldiers to fight the Mongolian Tatars.

"Rush forward!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, a Mongolian centurion took the lead in roaring and running towards the beach, and the Mongolian soldiers behind him also rushed forward desperately.