Chongqing Prefecture.

A quarter of an hour ago, the horses of the Banzhou Wei army also flew straight into the city of Chongqing. These horsemen belonging to the Yang family in Banzhou are all dressed in a night that does not collect, covered with stinky sweat, and the short Dian horses are tied with collar bells everywhere. In the past, there was a bit of identity in Chongqing Mansion, and anyone who saw these stinky and noisy nights was far away. But now, as soon as these two horsemen entered the city gate, they set off huge waves in Chongqing.

"The Great Khan of the Tartars has gone south!"

The city of Chongqing is now a huge refugee camp. This round of the Sichuan War has been fought so far, and all the Sichuan people who have a little value have brought their families here. Because this is the ruling center of the Great Song Dynasty in Sichuan, Pu Xuezhi, the envoy of the Sichuan Xuanfu system, was stationed here. Moreover, this castle, which is sandwiched between the Yangtze River and the Jialing River and surrounded by water on three sides, is also the base camp of the Song Army in Sichuan, with defenders and militiamen of various names, adding together a total of no less than 60,000 or 70,000! Among them, Liu Quan's army and Yang Jiawei's army in Shizhen Banzhou were the most elite, and they were the mainstay of the defense of Chongqing.

In addition, Chongqing Fucheng is also a good place to enter and retreat. Although Fuzhou has been occupied by the Mongols, the Yangtze River waterway has been cut off for an unknown number of days. But Banzhou, south of Chongqing, the place that was later called Zunyi, was firmly in the hands of warlords loyal to the Great Song Dynasty.

That's right, it's a warlord, and it's a warlord who legitimately separatizes and supports the army. The Banzhou Yang clan is the Han Territory Division of Banzhou since the Tang Dynasty, and Yang Wen is already the fifteenth generation of the current Banzhou pacification. The Banzhou Army has been one of the main forces of the Sichuan Song Army since Yu Jue presided over the Sichuan military administration. The Diaoyu City, which resisted the Mongol Great Khan for several months, was built by Ran Jin, the disciple of the Yang family in Banzhou, and the two brothers Ran Pu.

During this time, Yang Wen, the head of the Yang family in Banzhou, also supervised the army to Chongqing, and together with Liu Quan, took on the important task of defending Chongqing Mansion. However, they only have the ability to defend, and it is a dream to defeat the Mongol Khan and relieve the siege of Diaoyu City!

Even the 10,000 Mongol divisions that occupied Fuzhou did not have the strength to repel it. I fought with Lu Wenhuan Department downstream several times, but they all ended in failure!

After Yu Jue's death, the morale of the Sichuan army plummeted, and it was no longer as brave as it used to be!

The two got together, and in and out of words, they always felt sorry for Yu Yu and Yu Dashuai! If his old man was still there, why would the Sichuan army have been defeated to such an extent!

When the ride arrived, the two brothers were frowning and talking for a while, when they heard the footsteps outside the house and remembered. The people have not yet arrived, and the loud voice has already come. It was Yang Wen's younger brother Yang Dasheng, and his voice was a little trembling: "Brother, the Great Khan of Tartars has moved, and the Great Khan of Tartars has led his army south!" ”

With a bang, Liu Cheng stood up abruptly, and accidentally brought down the chair he was sitting on. The number one sinner in history who caused the demise of the Great Song Dynasty stared at Yang loudly with dead eyes, took a breath and asked, "Diaoyu City...... Broken? ”

Yang Wen also looked at his younger brother fixedly, also waiting for an answer.

"No, it's not broken! Diaoyu City is still in our hands! ”

Liu Cheng and Yang Wen breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. If the Diaoyu City was not broken, it would be impossible for the Mongols to attack Chongqing with all their might, and with the dangerous terrain of Chongqing, they would always be able to hold it.

Yang Wen stood up and took a breath: "Let's go, go to Xuanfu System Division, and listen to what a good way Pu Xuanfu has!" ”

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In Lin City, Fuzhou, 15,000 Mongolian troops gathered.

The Yangtze River goes east, and it passes through guò at the foot of Fuzhou City, surging downstream.

Near the Lin City Ferry, there is already a fleet of hundreds of boats. These boats were reinforced, and the ships were filled with bed, crossbows, shields, and other tools for war, and many Sichuan River boatmen were recruited to operate the boats. Prepare to rely on a pontoon bridge not far away across the north and south of the Sichuan River, and the camp offensive on both sides of the Sichuan River to confront the Song army fleet coming from the west.

The marshal of the Mongolian capital, Niu Ling, was taking his personal guards at the moment, inspecting and inspecting the preparations of this Mongolian naval army over and over again.

Speaking of the achievements of the Mongolian marshal in Sichuan, it can really be described as a miracle. After the death of his predecessor Atahu, he was recommended as a marshal by the generals, and with less than 20,000 newly defeated soldiers, he defeated the army led by Pu Xuezhi, the Sichuan envoy, in the battle of Lingquan Mountain, and pacified the entire Chengdu Basin. Then with 15,000 men and 200 warships, they marched eastward, and actually fought all the way to Guò, from the city of Chongqing, which was heavily defended by the Song army, to Guò, and advanced to Fuzhou, and also built a pontoon bridge in Fuzhou to cut off the channel of the Sichuan River. He also built warships on the spot in Fuzhou, organized a naval army, and repelled the attacks of Liu Quan and Lu Wenhuan several times!

But after the successive battles, as the commander of the three armies, Niu Lu did not mean to despise the Song army at all. After learning that the reinforcements of the Song army had gone up the river, they cheered up their spirit and began to prepare for war in earnest.

After an early summer rainstorm, the water surface of the Sichuan River suddenly widened several feet, and the speed of the water flow also accelerated a lot. This was extremely beneficial to the Mongol naval army, which had the advantage of going downstream. Moreover, a few days ago, the Great Khan sent dozens of stone machines with a range of up to 200 paces, and if such stone machines were erected on both sides of the Sichuan River, it would be enough to block the river with stone bullets and iron cannons that were only four or five hundred steps wide.

However, there are many unfavorable factors for the Mongols, first of all, the weather is becoming more and more humid and hot, which makes the Mongols who live in the north all year round very uncomfortable. The epidemic had already begun to spread among the army, and although it was not very severe, dozens of Mongol warriors still fell ill every day. Seeing that the good warriors did not fall under the swords, guns, bows and crossbows of the Han people, but were so sick that they vomited and were dying, Niu Ling had a very bad premonition - this war has been fought for too long, and the sons and daughters are already exhausted, and it is not enough to say that they are tired teachers, so that the slightest illness will vomit and diarrhea out of control.

The second is that the resistance of the Han people is becoming more and more resolute, of course, it is not how resolute the Song army in Sichuan is, but the people in eastern Sichuan are unwilling to be the slaves of the Great Khan, either fleeing or defending the cottages, and constantly attacking small groups of Mongol Han troops, making it an extremely dangerous errand to collect grain and arrest Ding. Even if the Mongolian warriors repeatedly dispatched, the bloodbath of more than a dozen cottages did not have much effect. Now there is hardly a single southern barbarian common man in the left side of Fuzhou, where the Great Mongolian warriors are guarded. In order to grab some food, Niu Ling even sent troops over the mountains and mountains to fight Banzhou! I didn't grab much either, though.

In June, the supply of the Mongolian army stationed in Fuzhou began to be difficult, if it were not for Yang Dayuan, the general of the Southern Army, who organized the Han army to catch fish and shrimp in the Yangtze River, the food and drink of more than 10,000 people here in Fuzhou would really be a problem!

And this morning, the Great Khan's envoy went to the Fuzhou army again, and passed down the decree, saying that the Great Khan had personally unified the army to the south, and that he would soon arrive in Fuzhou to meet the main force of the Song army advancing westward, and after victory, he would go down the river to join King Kublai Khan, who was attacking Jinghu, in order to destroy the southern barbarians in one fell swoop. and ordered the New Wheel to train more sailors and build more warships to be called.

Although the task assigned by the Great Khan was not light, the thought of leaving the ghost place in the mountains of Sichuan soon, and then surging south, washed the entire Jiangnan in blood! The Mongol army stationed in Fuzhou immediately became energetic, and attacked even more frantically, looting supplies and people, and forcing the Han people they detained to work day and night in order to build more warships. In order to raise timber for shipbuilding, they even demolished the city of Fuzhou into white ground!

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