Gao Huaiyuan rode on his horse, his thoughts were full of thoughts, he didn't expect to fight the Mongols so soon, and this time his actions have exceeded his expectations when he left Beijing, he knows better than anyone else the situation of the Mongol army, the strength of the Mongolian cavalry and their brutality, are second to none in this world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And he can't avoid it, because he has come here, he has no way out, if he wants to recover Jingdong for the Southern Song Dynasty, this battle must be won, now he feels a little tired, since his debut, like walking on thin ice, be careful in everything, in the eyes of others, his road is smooth sailing, but the hardships are only known to him.

For so many years, no matter what he does, there is often no way out of failure, once he fails, it is likely that he will be doomed, but he persevered, and finally became the hottest figure in the Southern Song Dynasty today, but he still felt uneasy, although Li Quan had been destroyed, but the mess left by Li Quan still needed to be dealt with.

At present, the Mongolian army is still besieging Jizhou and Enzhou, he must defeat Polu and expel the Mongols from the land of Jingdong, and the outcome of this battle is easy to say, but the battle involves a very wide area, even he can not predict what direction history will develop after this battle.

Even for this battle, he did not have full confidence, after all, he and Polu's strength is about the same, and most of the Mongol troops on Polu's side are cavalry, although he is fully prepared, but he still does not dare to assert that this battle will definitely defeat Polu, there are too many unpredictable factors on the battlefield, a little carelessness, it may lead to the loss of the whole game, he dare not have the slightest carelessness.

After coming out of Jinan Mansion, Gao Huaiyuan silently re-examined the plan he made this time all the way, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and even calculating the time of eating from time to time, so that the surrounding generals all felt Gao Huaiyuan's worry.

Huang Yan took a look at the gap and leaned to Gao Huaiyuan's side and said: Is the boss still worried about whether he can win the Mongolian Tatars? Is it worth taking such painstaking pains? I don't believe that Mongolian tartars can give birth to two more legs, and we are also two fists and two feet, afraid that they will do something!

Gao Huaiyuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: Do you think I'm afraid of them? If I'm afraid, I won't come! It's not that I'm afraid of the Tartars, but this battle is so much at stake that we can't afford to lose!

If this battle is defeated, not to mention how much our army has lost, Peng Yibin and the ** army will definitely lose morale because of our defeat, Jizhou and Enzhou, then the door of Jingdong will be opened, and even if we did it in vain, Jingdong will still fall into the hands of the Mongols after all! And once we wait for the defeat of the army, we will definitely incur the impeachment of some ministers when we go back to the DPRK, and if we want to mobilize troops again and go north to expel the Mongol Tatars from Jingdong, I am afraid it will be impossible!

Actually, I won't hide it from you, there are a lot of people in Beijing who oppose me going north now, and there are also a lot of people who don't want to see me win the battle. In any case, we can only win this battle, and even if we don't win, we must at least have a draw with Polu, otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Huang Yan was a little dizzy when he heard this, and scolded: With the relationship between you and the saint, boss, who else in the court dares to be disrespectful to you behind your back? Could it be that they don't want to live? Boss, you even overthrew Shi Miyuan's party, is it possible that you are still afraid that these people will not succeed? If you want me to say, whoever dares to put a dark sword on you behind your back will just let that kid from Judge kill him and pull him down! Let's see if anyone in the DPRK dares to oppose you!

Gao Huaiyuan hurriedly looked around, and saw that only Li Ruohu and Qiu Tong were close to them, so he glared at Huang Yan and said: Presumptuous, what kind of place are you here? Can you say whatever you want? Who are you and I? I'm not a traitor, I kill courtiers indiscriminately in order to take power! In the future, it would be better for you to say less such things, and the province will be listened to, and I will have the reputation of a traitor! Since we sent troops to fight, no matter what the reason is, even if it is only for the lives of these soldiers, we must find a way to win!

I'll hand over the cavalry to you, you bring it to me, we have 2,000 cavalry in our hands right now, you have to be a little more careful with me! And put away your contempt for the Mongols, the Mongol army is definitely not any soldiers and horses you have encountered before, their fierceness is definitely beyond your imagination, there must be no carelessness!

Huang Yan touched his nose and coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, nodded and said with a smile: The last general will take the order! I know, in fact, I have asked a lot of Peng Yibin's subordinates, knowing that the Mongols are not easy to deal with, but boss, you can rest assured, the 1,000 loyal and obedient iron horsemen under my command are not vegetarians, and when the time comes, I will also let the Mongolian Tatars know that we know how powerful our Song army cavalry is!

Gao Huaiyuan shook his head and said: You are still too underestimating the enemy! The Mongolian cavalry is not as simple as you think, first of all, the quality of our cavalry's war horses is far less good than their Mongolian horses, don't look at the Mongolian horses are not tall, but it is hard-working, not afraid of cold, not high requirements for feed, extensive feeding, extremely strong vitality, can survive in difficult and harsh conditions, endurance is very good, suitable for long-distance running, after taming Mongolian horses, on the battlefield is not frightened, brave, the reason why the Mongolians can destroy dozens of countries in a row, Mongolian horses can be said to be indispensable, and our war horses are small, The breeds are miscellaneous, mostly Dali horses, your army is still better, and there are some Tubo horses, but compared with the Mongolian army, it is nothing!

You must know that the Mongolian steppe produces horses, and their cavalry goes out to fight with two or even three horsemen per person, if you pursue them, with the cavalry of our army, you can chase them out for ten miles at most, if you can't solve the enemy army, it will be impossible to catch up with them again!

Mongolian Tatars have lived in the steppe since childhood, and everyone has honed a very resolute character, very hard-working, they can march long distances for many days in a row, and they don't even need to get off horseback, which of you can do it?

How can you do it without getting off the horse? So what do they do when they eat? Huang Yan didn't quite believe what Gao Huaiyuan said, and immediately shouted.

They rely on meat-based, hungry to eat jerky, only a small amount of jerky, can allow them to maintain their strength, and most of them carry horses, really hungry to use mare's milk to survive, and they also milk, mare's milk, goat's milk into jerky, put in the skin bag to shake it into a pot of milk, so they don't have to stop eating and drinking, and can even sleep on horseback while marching, so they are a group of terrible enemies, and your biggest problem is too confident, look down on the enemy, and so on, I'm afraid you're going to suffer a big loss! If you can't realize the strength of the Mongol army, then I'd rather drive you back now, and you will harm yourself and the soldiers under you!" Gao Huaiyuan said to Huang Yan.

After hearing this, Huang Yan no longer dared to despise the Mongolian Tartars, and nodded again and again: According to what you say, Boss, it seems that the Mongolian Tartars are really powerful! I know that I will never despise them again! You can rest assured!

The two of them were talking, only to see several war horses rushing back in front of them, and immediately a member of the war general came to Gao Huaiyuan, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said to Gao Huaiyuan: The last general Fu Daquan see the handsome!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and asked Fu Daquan: What is the situation ahead?

Fu Daquan immediately replied: The last general has already identified the terrain ahead, and ten miles away from this is the Yuhe crossing, and after crossing the river, it is the boundary of Enzhou! Scouts of Tartars have been found on the other side of the river, please decide!

Gao Huaiyuan pondered for a while, although he had never been to this area, but before coming here, he didn't know how many times he had studied and judged the map of this area, and it could be said that he basically knew the terrain here, and after thinking about it for a while, he asked Daquan: Daquan, are you familiar with this area?

Fu Daquan hurriedly replied: "Marshal Qiyu, the little one once led the troops here and fought with General Peng to fight with Li Quan, so he is still familiar with this area, and General Peng was also active in this area back then, and many people in the army are very familiar with this place!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and asked: "That's good, this is also the place where you became famous in the first battle, and you also know something about the Mongolian army, as you can see, where should we engage the Mongolian army?"

Fu Daquan over the years, has also grown into a tiger general, large and small has experienced a lot of battles, for the march and war has long been very rich, after listening to Gao Huaiyuan's inquiry, he is quite a little proud, after a little thought, immediately replied: With a small one, it is best for our army to engage the Mongolian army in the east of the imperial river, so that the Mongolian army has a chance of winning! The Mongol army is very fierce, and once our army crosses the river, it will be very dangerous to be attacked by it! Therefore, it is better to stop in front and engage the Mongol army when it crosses the river to meet our army!

Gao Huaiyuan first nodded and then shook his head and said: What you said is reasonable, but I'm afraid that Polu will not do what I want! The generals of the herald army came over to discuss the matter, and we discussed what to do next!

The army immediately stopped advancing, and the generals of the army were ordered to run to the place where Gao Huaiyuan was, and did not set up a big tent, and the group casually found a big tree, sat on the ground and discussed.

The front is the Royal River, after crossing the Royal River, there are only more than 20 miles left from Enzhou City, if Polu wants to stop us from rescuing Enzhou, then he will control the ferry, so that our army can not cross the river, it can be said that this Polu is to wait for work, for our army, the situation is quite unfavorable, and General Fu has found out that the Mongolian army scouts have been found in the area of the ferry, you think, how should we fight this battle? Gao Huaiyuan asked people to spread a map on the ground, show it in front of the generals, and pointed to the map with a branch and said to the generals.

The generals looked at the map one after another, and they all wrinkled their brows, Gao Huaiyuan said well, in terms of the Mongolian army, they must have found out the dynamics of their Song army, since they besieged Enzhou, they would not easily let the Song army arrive in Enzhou, and they took advantage of Peng Yibin during this time, and the siege of the city to send reinforcements was smooth, from the terrain of this area, it was their best choice to block the Song army at the ferry, and if they wanted to go to Enzhou to break the siege, then they must break through the defense of the Mongolian army, But how easy is that!

He thought that if we could lead the Mongol army to the east bank of the river, we still had a chance of victory, and if we forcibly crossed the river, the Mongol army would only need to attack us in the middle of the crossing, and our army would definitely be defeated, unless an army could force the crossing first and resist the attack of the Mongol army on the opposite bank, and our army would be able to cross the river safely! It's just that now we don't know how many troops Polu will use to stop us, and it is very dangerous to force the crossing! Hua Yue thought for a while and then said.

The generals also nodded, thinking that what Hua Yue said was good, this is actually what everyone wants to say, since they entered Jinan, they have heard a lot about the cruelty of the Mongols and their ferocity along the way, and now everyone has calmed down from the excitement of just pacifying Li Quan.

Everyone knows very well what kind of army they are facing, as long as they are careless, it is likely to put their tens of thousands of people in a place of no return, and they dare not be careless.

But no matter what, we must cross the river! If we don't cross the river, how can we relieve the siege of Enzhou? General Zhao is still besieged in Enzhou City with the Holy Protector Army! Liu Dayong stood up and said impatiently.

Who said we weren't going to relieve the siege of Enzhou? For now, we have to think long-term, and we can't be careless! Gao Huaiyuan smiled and said to Liu Dayong.

As soon as everyone saw Gao Huaiyuan's expression, they knew that he had an idea, so they were all happy again, and said to Gao Huaiyuan: The marshal must have already had a plan, so please ask the marshal to give orders!

Gao Huaiyuan had indeed made up his mind, and when he saw that the generals were eager to fight, he stopped selling Guanzi, stood up and pointed to the cowhide map with a branch and said: I expect that Poluding will block our army at the ferry in front, since this is the case, we will plan it!

Tonight, we will march to the east bank of the imperial river, and start to build a pontoon bridge with great fanfare, and make a posture of forced crossing, the Mongolian army will not let us cross the river easily, and will definitely attack our army after we build a bridge, so you go down and start arranging, we will meet the Mongolian army at the ferry, and see what they have to offer!

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's plan, Hua Yue immediately nodded and said yes, Hua Yue is also a wise general, acting very steadily, and the plan that can make him feel that there is no problem can basically be said to be not much of a problem.

After a short rest, the army marched again, and marched in the direction of the ferry, and finally arrived at the crossing of the river in the afternoon, and set up camp on the east bank of the ferry.

A group of Mongol cavalry stood on the west bank, watching the movements of the Song army, and when all the Song troops arrived, the Mongol scouts left the river bank and galloped quickly in the direction of Enzhou in the west.

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