Chapter 467 Former Enemy Meeting

Fang Ling shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, Brother Emperor, there are fierce generals around you, maybe it won't be my turn."

"Really?" I laughed.

Yuan Jian on the side said: "Concubine Lingniang, your task is mainly to protect Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty is safe, it will be a great feat, and it is enough to worship the Hou and the king." ”

Fang Ling said: "I also know this, the so-called merit is higher than the protector." However, I really want to fight on horseback and take the head of the opponent's general among thousands of troops, just like Mr. Storyteller said, Hua Mulan joined the army for her father, and Mu Guiying was in command when she was in danger. ”

"What, Ling'er wants to be a female general?"

"Brother, can't you?"

"Absolutely." I smiled and said, "However, your brother and I are a little tired, give me a good rub tonight, if I am satisfied, maybe I will immediately seal Ling'er as the first female general of our army." ”

"Concubines dare to disobey orders?"

That night, I held the first meeting of the former enemy in the temporary palace in the city of Yingzhou. Xia Gui of Suizhou, Zhang Shun of Junzhou, and Lu Wenhuan, the deputy envoy of the Xiangyang Military Region, who had been notified in advance, all rushed to Yingzhou in the evening.

"Lu Aiqing, you first talk about the current situation."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Lu Xiufu first described the distribution of troops in the area of Xiangyang between the enemy and us, and then said: "Your Majesty, my lords, generals, according to the latest information received, the Yuan Dynasty's mid-route army of more than 30,000 troops stationed in Nanyang will go south in the near future, perhaps on the way, so the troops invested by the two sides are basically the same. According to uncertain information, a force of more than 10,000 people is being assembled in the eastern route of the Yuan Dynasty, and the direction is unknown, and its destination may be Xiangyang. ”

I continued: "I think this is very likely, since I left Lin'an, the Yuan Dynasty should soon know the news of my imperial conquest, for Kublai Khan, Xiangyang is important, I am equally important, so to speak, I am also one of the baits of this great war. Not only the Eastern Route Army, but also the movements of its Western Route Army. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Lu Aiqing, is there any news about the troops attacking Yunnan and Yin Yinglei's advancing column?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no news at the moment. General Tian Xiuyan should arrive in Chengdu around the 20th of this month, and in addition to the time from Chengdu to Yunnan, we will not receive their news until the end of this month at the earliest; according to the predetermined plan, the Southwest Military Region attacking Yunnan will attack from the periphery in three ways on 10 June, and the relics will be in Yunnan at the same time to coordinate with our army's actions. General Yin Yinglei's advance column was expected to reach the coast of Shandong in mid-June, and it is only known that they had set out from Changshazhou (present-day Chongming Island, Shanghai), the base of the North Sea Fleet at the entrance to the Yangtze River. ”

Although there is a way to fly pigeons to transmit messages, it is necessary to constantly change carrier pigeons on the way, and it is affected by factors such as weather and wind, so it is not much faster than 800 miles in long-distance transmission. However, I'm used to this kind of transfer speed.

"Don't care about Tian Xiuyan and Yin Yinglei for now. Xia Aiqing, what is the situation in Suizhou? ”

"Your Majesty, the road from Suizhou to Xiangyang has been figured out, the mountain road is rugged, only suitable for foot troops, if it is a cavalry army, you can only detour to Yingzhou."

"Well, General Zhang Shun, what about Junzhou?"

"Your Majesty, there is no trace of the Mongol army in the Junzhou area."

I nodded and asked, "Lu Aiqing, what is your situation there?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Mongolian army is still bombarding the two cities of Xiang and Fan in turn, but there have been three changes recently, one is that the Ali Hague Department besieging Fancheng has changed the mode of multi-way attack, and only concentrated its forces to storm the north gate of Fancheng, which seems to have found the weakness of the short north of the Fancheng city wall; Second, the number of attacks by the Mongolian naval division began to increase, and our Xiangyang naval division was no longer its enemy, and the naval battles on the Han River were now in charge of the warships of the fleets along the Yangtze River and the East China Sea; The third is that two days before the last general came to Yingzhou, there seemed to be a particularly powerful stone throwing machine that bombarded the north gate of Fancheng, and the stones it threw weighed 15 or 60 catties. ”

"One hundred and fifty pounds? Isn't that just a return gun? ”

"Back to the gun? Your Majesty, what kind of cannon is that? ”

"Oh. Lu Aiqing, I guess it is a kind of large-scale stone throwing machine made by the Mongols, which was built by Hui Alao Wading and Yismain in the Western Regions, and its effective range can reach more than 200 steps, and the heaviest stone fired can reach about 300 catties. ”

Lu Wenhuan was surprised: "Isn't that one or two times stronger than the largest stone thrower now?" If the Mongols had a large number of return guns, ordinary city walls would not be able to resist them. ”

I said "en" and thought to myself, butterfly effect, it seems that the time for the Mongols to use the return cannon has been advanced.

Lu Xiufu smiled and said: "General Lu, don't be surprised, since Your Majesty has long known that there is such a thing as a return artillery, then you have already thought of countermeasures." ”

"Although the return cannon is the pinnacle of the long-range stone thrower in the era of cold weapons, it will eventually be eliminated by firearms, and the effective distance of my artifact can reach three hundred steps away at present, and it will exceed five hundred steps and a thousand steps in the future. Since the Mongol army used the return artillery, it was time for our army to use firearms. ”

Lu Wenhuan turned his worries into joy and said: "Your Majesty, this is great, with the power of my artifact, I will definitely teach these alien invaders a hard lesson." ”

"Well, Lu Aiqing, I will first talk about the tasks of the other armies, and finally talk about the Xiangfan army. Generals, please look at the map, according to the current known situation, the center of the battle of Xiangfan is the two cities of Xiangfan, in addition to the Hanshui passage in the south, the surrounding east, west, and north are blocked by the castle built by the Mongol army in the field, forming the first encirclement close to the center, and then a little farther away is our Yingzhou, Suizhou army and Junzhou army, which is a relatively loose second anti-encirclement. Kublai Khan's purpose was to hope that our army would send troops from Yingzhou and Suizhou to rescue Xiangyang, and they would use the castle to force our army to engage in field battles or attack its castle, so as to eliminate the main reinforcements of our army in a way of fighting that our army was unfamiliar with. In Kublai Khan's thoughts, the strength of our army lies in the defense of the city, but the biggest difference between defending the city and attacking the city is actually in the heart, in the past, because our army is weak in the heart, so the city as the only talisman, once left the protection of the city wall, it seems that there will be no war. However, now it is different, the morale of our army is high, and we dare to fight in the field with the enemy, and all military regions have summed up many methods for the battle of the infantry army and the cavalry army, so even if there are no firearms, our army will not necessarily lose to the Yuan army in the field. Of course, I will not let my soldiers take advantage of the courage of the puppet to make unnecessary sacrifices. ”

After speaking, I first nodded to the general: "General Zhang Shun." ”

"The end will be."

"Your military headquarters takes the battalion as a unit, adopts a flexible guerrilla strategy, ambushes the enemy's logistics baggage troops along the road between Nanyang of the Yuan Dynasty and Xiangyang of our dynasty, if the Yuan army has more troops, then you will only harass it, if it is less, then rob it, the purpose is to prevent its grain route from smoothing, just be careful of the Yuan Dynasty Dengzhou garrison, there is a cavalry army of about 5,000 people, don't be dumplings by the enemy."

"Yes, the last general commands."

Let Zhang Shun go to Junzhou and leave Zhang Gui to guard Lin'an, it's not that I don't recognize their abilities, but I don't want them to repeat the mistakes of history. Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui were both loyal and righteous people, and they were civilian heroes who died in the Xiangfan War in history, and they were much stronger than many generals of the regular army of the Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of any dynasty and the end of the dynasty, there will always be many singing and crying deeds created by small people, and many big people have become defectors in comfort and pleasure.

"Xia Aiqing."

"The end will be." Since it was wartime, Xia Gui, as a general, also called himself the last general.

"The Suizhou garrison from east to west, attacking the eastern part of Lumen Mountain, the eastern part of Lumen Mountain is mostly hilly terrain, which is not conducive to large-scale cavalry operations, your department can take advantage of this, and strive to lure the Yuan army out in an ambush, concentrate superior forces to eat it one by one, if the Yuan army does not come out, then only need to feint to attract its troops."

"Yes, the end will be done."

"General Wang Anjie."

"The end will be."

"You led the 18th and 21st infantry corps of the 3rd Carriage of the Lin'an Military Region to stay in Yingzhou."

"Yes, the last general."

"General Li Zengbo."

"The end will be."

"The task of the naval division is to ensure the smooth flow of the Han River, and the 1,000 officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet in the Yingzhou garrison are under your control, and from tomorrow, you will lead the main force of the naval division to inspect the section from Yingzhou to Xiangyang, and you will not allow the Yuan Army Naval Division to enter the waters. At the same time, in order to cooperate with our army's attack on Lumen Mountain, you arranged for ten warships of the fleet along the river to anchor in the area from Yicheng County to Longweizhou, in case of emergency. ”

"Yes, the last will obey."

"General Xie Daolin, General Wu Songhan, General Jiang Cai, the three of you led the Imperial Forest Army, the Broken Army and the other three armies of the Third Chamber, totaling 28,000 people, to Longwei Continent and attack the enemy army in Lumen Mountain from the front. The 17th Army of Zhao Wenyi's headquarters set out as the vanguard in the early morning of tomorrow, and the rest of the army set out on 21 May, arrived at Longweizhou on 22nd, and set up camp at Songhepo in the south of Longweizhou. In addition, the artillery battalion is slow to move, General Crete, you lead the 1st and 3rd Brigades to set off with the 17th Army. ”

"Yes, the last general."

"Shichen, Lu Aiqing, Zhao Aiqing, the three of you stay in Yingzhou to deal with military and political affairs, Jiang Aiqing, you go to Longweizhou with me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"General Lu, have all the original artillery in the two cities of Xiang and Fan been set up?"

Lu Wenhuan said: "Back to Your Majesty, it has all been erected, at present there are twenty artifacts in Xiangyang City, which are placed in the east, west and north city walls, and there are ten gates on the Fancheng city wall, which are placed on the north and west city gates. ”