Along the Yangtze River for more than 200 miles from Luzhou to the west to the mouth of the three rivers in Xuzhou (Yangtze River, Min River, Jinsha River), every ten miles, there are military villages set up, and watchtowers are also erected high to observe the river surface to prevent the Mongolian army from smuggling.

These military villages are basically guarded by the Banzhou army. The identity of the Yang family in Banzhou is there, and no matter how meritorious he is, it is impossible to be appeased all the way. Therefore, Yang Wen is far less enthusiastic about the current battle than Liu Quan, Wang Jian, and Yu Xingxian, who is stationed in Jiading Mansion. Pu Zhizhi, who has been supervising Sichuan for some years, also knows the reason, so he stuffed this work to the Banzhou Military Department.

A total of 20 military villages were erected on the river more than 200 miles long, and each village garrisoned one unit, that is, three or four hundred people. To the west of Xuzhou, there are large areas of mountainous areas, and the terrain is complex, which is not conducive to the mobility of the army. As a result, only a small number of sentinels were deployed to monitor them. As for the east of Luzhou and the city of Chongqing, the river is relatively wide, and there are heavy troops stationed in Luzhou and Chongqing, and this section of the mountainous area south of the Yangtze River is the sphere of influence of the Yang family in Banzhou, and every move of the Mongolian army cannot hide the eyes of the Yang family at all!

In addition, Pu Zhizhi also placed the 20 three-layer oars of Chen Dexing's Thunderbolt Navy in Luzhou. Once it was discovered that the Mongol army was preparing to cross the river east of Luzhou, it was no joke that these 20 three-layer oar-block ships, which were behemoths on the Sichuan River, would rush down the river. The wooden rafts and boats that the Mongols were able to collect could not afford to be bumped into by them.

The main forces of this battle, Wang Jian, Liu Quan, and Yu Xing, were stationed in Nanxi County, between Xuzhou City, Luzhou City, and the two state cities. Once it was determined from where the Mongol army was going to cross the river, the three armies immediately rushed to the battlefield by land and water.

Of course, Chen Dexing's three-layer oared warship is the vanguard of this battle. It is necessary to show its might on the river and inflict maximum damage on the Mongols!

……

Night slowly fell. Chen Dexing sat on the fence of Luzhou Water Village and lit a butter torch. Swaying in the gusts of wind and rain, emitting a faint yellow light.

Inside and outside the camp, it was full of men and horses. Some of them were Perak officers and soldiers who went ashore to garrison, and some of them were teenagers who had joined the army in Luzhou. The surroundings of Luzhou were also ravaged by the Mongol army, although the city of Luzhou was not broken, but the rural towns outside the city were almost all burned and killed, and became white land. I don't know how many people have been ruined! Moreover, the Mongol and Song offensive in Sichuan has been going on for 25 years, and almost a generation has lived in continuous war. Hatred has long taken root in the hearts of the Sichuan people, and Chen Dexing, who is eager to expand his strength, will naturally not forget to recruit soldiers in Sichuan.

However, the focus of his recruitment in Sichuan was different from that of the rest of the armies, and the main recruits were not young and strong, but teenagers. Boys between the ages of ten and fifteen, preferably orphans whose parents and family have died in a war accident! In this way, there are thousands of teenagers on the ground in Lianghuai, and when they arrive in Sichuan, there are too many to count!

The volunteer instructor who was in charge of recruiting orphan soldiers went around the city of Luzhou and took hundreds of teenagers to the military camp of the Perak Navy Army - all of them were orphans who had no father or mother and were begging for a living in the city of Luzhou! When these boys are recruited, they are not immediately sent to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder. Instead, it will go through a whole set of brainwashing education, plus rigorous military training.

“…… Other soldiers' are afraid of Tartars, but our soldiers are not afraid of Captain Chen! Just twenty days ago, our brethren from the Perak Navy had fought a battle with the cowardly army of the Great Khan of the Tartars in Nantuochang. And it's a big win! Kill two or three thousand Tartars!

You don't believe it? Oh, hearing is false, seeing is believing! Those who have the courage to take a step forward. It's not to kill the Tartars, you don't have that ability yet. It's to see how we Chen Jiajun killed the Tartars! Does anyone dare to see it? If you have the guts, stand up! ”

Needless to say, these words are Chen Dexing's little brother Zhu Sijiu fooling the young man who has just enlisted in the army. For these teenagers who became beggars because of the ruin of the Mongolian Tartar family. There is no doubt about hating Tartars, but it is also certain to be afraid of Tartars. And to train them into humanoid machines to kill Tartars, the first thing to do is to break the fear of Tartars in their hearts - watching others kill Tartars is the best way to break this fear.

"Me! I have the guts! ”

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy with big eyes and thick eyebrows, and a fairly sturdy figure stood up for the first time and shouted in a Sichuan official dialect of the Song Dynasty.

"Good! Little brother, what's your name? Where? ”

"My surname is Meng, the general of the Qin Dynasty Meng Tian's Meng, I am called Meng Qi, Meng Tian who killed the Huns is my ancestor! I'm going to kill the Mongols! This young man claimed to be a descendant of Meng Tian, and his family turned out to be a little wealthy, he was a local tyrant in Lizhou, and his father also had a military attaché body, and when the Mongols called, he also led the village soldiers to resist. But after all, he couldn't resist the Mongolian army that was in the upper hand, not only was he defeated, but even his family members were scattered when they fled, and only Meng Qi ran to Luzhou alone.

"Haole, brother Meng, you will follow me and see together how our Chen Jiajun killed the Tartars!" Zhu Sijiu glanced at the rest of the boys, "Is there anyone who dares to go to the battlefield with me?" ”

"Yes, I'll go too."

"Yes!"

"I'll go!"

After a while, the teenagers moved forward one after another, and more than 200 people stood up one after another. It's not all, but it's enough. As long as these people saw how the Thunderbolt army killed the Tartars, they would add salt and vinegar to the youth camp to preach it.

"Big brother, there are two hundred and twenty-one people in total." Zhu Sijiu handed a list to Chen Dexing with both hands. The names, places of origin, and ages of all the teenagers who came forward have been recorded. And the boy named Meng Qi is at the top of the list.

"Okay, hand it over to Kong Yu for the record." Chen Dexing glanced at the list twice, and handed the list back to Zhu Sijiu, "There are eleven on each boat, there is no combat mission, just to watch the battle, let the righteous instructors on the ship pay attention to it, and write a report to me after the war." ”

These teenagers, like Chen Dexing's fake sons, are the seedlings of the backbone of the Chen family's army. Cultivating these seedlings into cadres that can really be relied on is something that requires patience and long-term dedication. Moreover, not every seedling has the hope of becoming a killing machine, which requires careful observation of their performance in the battle array, and then selects the key cultivation objects.

Of course, the killing machine is not the only way out for these teenagers, they also have the opportunity to learn mathematics, chemistry, medicine, navigation, iron casting, as well as the ability to propaganda and agitation, as well as the ability to engage in intelligence work. The future Chen Jiajun needs not only soldiers, but also talents from all aspects. It's just that Chen Dexing is busy with the war at the moment, and he can only focus on military talents. As for the rest, I can only wait until I am done with this period and think about it after returning to Lin'an.

As soon as he thought of Lin'an, Chen Dexing's mind brought up two women, Li Cuixian and Zhao Lin'er. I wonder how they're doing?

……

The rain continued to fall, covering the world in the early morning into a white expanse. The water of the Yangtze River has also risen, and the two banks have become wetlands with puddles due to heavy rains for several days. And the military horses that quietly gathered on the south bank of the Yangtze River are in iron armor at this moment, with frosty blades, waiting for the arrival of the decisive battle.

After almost a month of marching on wet and rugged roads, the Mongol army once again reached the south bank of the Yangtze River, exhausted from exhaustion, and had reached a shocking point of attrition due to injuries and illnesses along the way. The army gathered on the south bank of the Yangtze River, under everyone's helmet, most of them were weak faces.

Although this force is in the dead end, no one can deny that they are still one of the most powerful forces in the world.

In addition to these Mongolian generals, the Shi family, the Dong family, the Liu family and other important generals of the Han army's marquis family were all running back and forth in the queue, and their shouts were heard from time to time in the rain curtain, commanding and dispatching the men and horses under their respective commands to set up camp. A tattered banner is flying, surrounded by the symbol of the Mongolian Great Khan, the nine tours of Baixu, from a distance, there is always a sense of sadness and end. Most of the Mongol warriors were no longer horses, and they seemed to have lost the sharpness of the Eurasian continent, but they kept wiping their faces with rain, and they were all muttering curses about this ghost weather.

Li Cuixian and Princess Baoyin also lost their horses, and they didn't need to charge into battle, but they just wore the helmet of the cowardly Xue Army to guard around Jiu Xuan Baixu.

Li Cuixian held her neck high, and kept looking around, on the nearby high post, there were also the banners of Brother Mo, Tuhuan, Niu Ling and others. It seems that the entire Mongol army has been gathered here. But Li Cuixian knew that under the banner of these great emperors, most of them did not have such a sect king, just like the Jiuyou Baixu behind him was also empty, there was neither Meng Ge's coffin, nor the queen's coffin. Vulture fan! The only one who commanded the battle here was Jianyi Mengke who gave up the attack on Hezhou and went east.

"Sister Baoyin, are we ......" Li Cuixian asked Baoyin beside her in a low voice. The words are not finished, but the meaning is clear - are we abandoned!

The elite and bigwigs of Mongolia are gone!

"It's okay, when the king of Mogo defeats the army of the Southern Barbarians, he will come to meet us. If they don't come, there's nothing. "Princess Baoyin was very quiet at this time.

Although she is half of the Rus's blood, she is a steppe daughter in thought, and she doesn't know much chivalry. The struggle for survival on the grassland is the most brutal, and the young and strong who can fight on horseback are the core strength of the tribe. Once you encounter a strong enemy that is difficult to defeat, it is a matter of course to abandon your wife and daughter to protect your elite. As women on the grassland, of course, they will not go to martyrdom for their husbands, they also believe in the law of the law of the jungle, if anyone can snatch themselves from their father, brother or husband, then who is the strong on the grassland...... (To be continued......)