At this time, it was already June 28 of the first year of Kaiqing, and since the calendar used by the Song Dynasty was similar to the lunar calendar of later generations, June was almost equivalent to the seventh month of later generations. The rolling Yangtze River has ushered in the flood season, although the river is surging, but after the water level rises, many reefs that hinder the boat are all deeply submerged, so the march along the river is quite smooth.

In the mountains of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, a long dragon composed of dozens of large wooden boats is slowly moving forward on a meandering river. However, these wooden boats did not move forward on their own, but were dragged up the river by soldiers and civilians. On the road along the Yangtze River, which is known for its steepness, there are more Song soldiers and soldiers who form a mighty marching procession, marching forward with neat steps.

Chen Dexing, the commander of the Thunderbolt Navy before the Emperor of Quan, rode on a high-level war horse from the Western Regions, and marched forward with his staff and more than 200 soldiers who acted as personal guards. Since ancient times, going up the river has been the hardest chore, not to mention fighting to the death against hundreds of thousands of the most powerful Mongol army of this era. But Chen Dexing's face couldn't hide the brilliance. Because around his Chinese column, there were all soldiers on the march, dragging the artillery carts and baggage wagons that had been unloaded from the ship. But no one complained that they were tired, and they didn't pay a lot of money.

There are no vacancies in Chen Dexing's Perak Army, and there is no deduction of military salaries, let alone the non-commissioned soldiers as domestic slaves, and the food in the army is much better than that of ordinary troops, and the rewards and punishments above the battle array are also fair. Most of the officers at all levels have been promoted through military merit, and there are also additional pensions for the dead and disabled soldiers.

But the military discipline and training were also much stricter than the rest of the Song army! However, there is no need to pay a reward for a little hard training, a reward for marching, and a bargain for a bonus before going into battle to kill the enemy -- there is no problem for this kind of army that falls into the eyes of money to fight a good battle, but there is absolutely no perseverance, and once it encounters a serious setback, it will collapse ironcladly, and it is absolutely impossible to learn from the Red Army to embark on a 25,000-mile long march.

Of course, mercenaries are not unusable, but they cannot be used as core force!

On the bank of the Yangtze River, in addition to the sound of water flow and marching, the voice of the righteous instructors mobilized and cheered up sounded: "We are going to recover the whole Sichuan, and we are going to destroy the demon of the Mongolian Tartars!" Let's work hard, and we'll be walking 120 miles today! ”

"As long as we work hard and get to the Diaoyu City as soon as possible, it will be another big victory for the Yangtze Bridge! Don't let Meng Ge, the big devil, run away this time! What's this point? We also have to kill all the way to Yanjing, kill Helin, and plant Taiwei Chen's flag all the way to Yanran Mountain! ”

"Kill the Tartars, go to the heavenly court, and seal Yanran Mountain!"

The queue resounded with the sound of slogans of harmony. The Perak Navy is now a national army armed with a spiritual atomic bomb. The effects of months of intense brainwashing have already been shown! Although the martial arts of these warriors were far inferior to their Mongol enemies, and even inferior to those veteran Song soldiers who had been in battle for a long time.

But their morale, their discipline, their courage and hard-working spirit are unmatched by any army of our time.

Chen Dexing rode on his horse and looked at the army under his command with satisfaction. For most of the past six months, God knows how much effort he has put into them! The intensity of brainwashing is of the highest standard, and the training is highly targeted...... Instead of competing with the Mongol warriors, it is necessary to rely on iron-like discipline and will to cooperate with gunpowder weapons to give the Mongols the greatest damage! Although the number of Mongolian troops in Fuzhou was as high as 15,000, Chen Dexing really couldn't find a reason why he would fail! There was such a morale-high army, powerful gunpowder weapons, and three-layer oars that could maintain a considerable speed in the countercurrent. Above the Sichuan River, is there anyone else who can fight with him?

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"Long live the Great Khan! Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols! ”

The Mongol soldiers who stood on top of each other on the hillside let out a high-pitched cheer. The Mongolian Great Khan Meng Ge, who was standing on the highest part of Shizi Mountain, also showed a satisfied smile.

Unlike the situation in history when he was hanged from the tree in Diaoyu City, Meng Ge obeyed the general Shu Suhu Li's Jianyi, temporarily gave up the siege, and turned south to Chongqing Mansion to meet the main force of the Song army from the west. And the reason why this Mongolian Khan made such a decision was because of the torsion stone machine offered by the little demon girl!

Although the overall handicraft strength of the Mongol Empire cannot be compared with that of the Great Song Dynasty, the Mongol army has always been a good craftsman. In just two or three months, a thousand torsion machines of all sizes have been built. At the same time, Meng Ge also had tens of thousands of iron cannons captured from the Song army collected and sent them to the Hezhou army.

However, these torsion cannons are of little use to Diaoyu Castle, a city built on a mountain. First, the range of the torsion cannon is too close, and the projectile is light; Second, there is no large enough flat land around Diaoyu City to place so many torque cannons, and a small number of torque cannons are simply tickling Diaoyu City. After using torsion cannons to attack the city to no avail, Meng Ge naturally thought of using torsion cannons for water warfare - thinking of the scene of thousands of torsion cannons placed on the bank of the Yangtze River and firing together, Meng Ge couldn't help but want to command the army south to Fuzhou.

As long as the Southern Song reinforcements from Jinghu are defeated on the Yangtze River, what does it matter if Diaoyu City and Chongqing City can be defeated? Anyway, the Han people would only shrink behind the city wall and not come out, as long as they defeated the Song people's naval army on the river, the soldiers could naturally go down the river. At that time, the entire Jiangnan will be in the bag of Great Mongolia!

After Möngke announced his decision in front of the whole army, he was greeted by a frenzied shout.

Meng Ge pulled out the scimitar made of Uzi steel, held it high above his head, and pointed sharply to the south: "Warriors of Great Mongolia, 150 miles ahead is the Yangtze River, 400 miles is Fuzhou, and 1500 miles is Jiangling...... After going down the river, 3,500 miles away is Lin'an! Advance! ”

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At this time, on the official road from Jiangling to Chongqing, hundreds of soldiers covered a group of chariots and horses slowly moving westward.

In the largest and most comfortable carriage, Jiang Wanli and Liang Chongru were weighing black and white in the carriage, and the chess players were talking. The two beautiful maids presented by Lu Wende sat silently and knelt aside, pouring tea and water for the two officials at any time.

On the chessboard, Liang Chongru was already struggling to support, and Jiang Wanli's fall made him a big dragon in a desperate situation.

Liang Chongru pondered for a long time, suddenly threw a white piece, and said with a wry smile: "The bachelor's chess is one move higher, and Chongru loses convincingly." ”

Jiang Wanli played with the chess pieces and replied with a smile: "Yifu was famous for his fitness when he was studying Taixue, why did his chess strength decrease greatly after winning the Jinshi?" Could it be that the officialdom is busy with affairs and has no heart to play chess? ”

Liang Chongru waved his hand and said: "Hundreds of thousands of troops will hunt in Sichuan, and the soldiers of the Western Army are all arrogant soldiers, where can they be compared to the Huai Army?" Chong Confucian's intelligence is limited, and he is believed in Ren, so he can only do his best to repay one or two, how can he still be distracted by chess skills? ”

Jiang Wanli smiled and said nothing, looked at Liang Chongru with a smile on his beard, and only picked up a chess piece after a while, and said: "Now that the national disaster is at hand, it is the time for the arrogant soldiers to be used, but after all, they are just chess pieces, chess pieces in the hands of our civil officials!" If you listen to it, you might as well support one or two, and if you don't listen to it, you will fight it down, if you can't fight it...... Just wait for the autumn to settle the score? Yifu, this is the way of today's martial arts! ”

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