Tath looked at him with satisfaction, this Han general recruited from near Yanjing was a treasure given to the Mongol Empire by Immortal Heaven. He led his men to expand the territory for the Mongol Khan. Since 20 years ago, it has swept Hebei, Shandong, and Shaanxi, and has been chasing Jin Guo to Caizhou City, and annihilating Jin Guoxing in all. Even the most prominent general in the Mongol army did not regard Zhang Rou as a weaker comrade-in-arms.

Today, he had to rely on this extremely sharp spear to charge into battle again, and poke a hole in the tight strategic defense line of the Sinan Si people. Then, regardless of the number of people, they broke through in one fell swoop, first went south to Jiangling in the south of Xiangyang, crossed the Yangtze River, and swept directly to Lin'an. The Southern Dynasties, the largest treasure house on the continent, fell into the pockets of the empire.

But before that, the cunning fox in Hehan's mouth must be dealt with. The current Zheng Yunming is no longer something that fame and fortune can impress, and there is a consensus on this point from top to bottom of the Mongolian army. However, fame and fortune are not enough to move his heart, but the situation can force his will. The Mongols faced many difficult opponents, but many of them bowed to the Mongol Khan before they were able to fight and fall into ruin. Zheng Yunming may be next.

Zhang Rou shouted in a deep voice: "Please give the king an order, let me lead Erlang to the head of Xiangyang City, and capture that Zheng Yunming alive and present it to the king!" ”

Tath laughed, and he patted Zhang Rou on the back: "You are my Mongolian fierce dog, and you are the elite soldier of a hundred battles. How could it be possible to get you ahead of the curve all at once? ”

He turned around and shouted, "Strict, let your warriors rush first!" ”

The corners of Yan's mouth twitched imperceptibly.

Again, always. Every time I go to the back of the back, I always give it to him to do.

Uncle Yan Wu was originally a ranger scoundrel in the Jin Kingdom, if he hadn't been born in troubled times, he would probably have been registered in the county government prison at most, and became a "celebrity" who gave the township a headache. But since Genghis Khan's long drive into the customs, the Jin country is anxious to ask for soldiers, and the ruffians and hooligans have become the favorite of the government, and after Yan Shi joined the army, since the head of ten households and the head of a hundred households, and then the county lieutenant and the county order, he has grown into a strong party, and the Song soldiers have joined the Song Dynasty, and Mongolia has joined Mongolia, and they have been circling between the three parties. It was not until the Mongol army approached Hebei and the Song Dynasty retreated with great strength, waiting for the friendly army to fall into the encirclement of the Mongol army and not save it, he felt that the Mongol army was unusually strong and the Song Dynasty was inadequate. Only then did he give up resistance and lead 300,000 households in the occupied land to surrender to Muhuali, becoming one of the powerful minions of the Mongol Empire. But obviously, the Mongolian aristocracy did not evaluate this kind of two-faced surrenderer as well as Shi Tianying, Shi Tianze, and Zhang Rou, who thought that they were henchmen who could be relied on. Whenever attacking, the strict part is either used as cannon fodder for the strikers, or as a cushion for siege. And he is very protective of his subordinates. It is not allowed to increase the number of troops slightly, and once Yan has the idea of expanding the army, he is always strictly ordered to stop.

After all, they didn't really believe in strict loyalty, and once he colluded with the Southern Dynasty, he would become a problem for the Mongol army. For Yan Shi and his subordinates, it is the best choice to use it as cannon fodder for consuming in battle. Now Yan Shi is more than half a hundred years old, and many years of conquest have already made his beard gray, but after accumulating military exploits, the cities he has captured and the most powerful first level he has won are all useless, and he Uncle Yan Wu still ended up as cannon fodder when attacking the city.

Yan Shi came up silently, bowed to Tath to receive the order, turned his head and shouted down the hill: "Yan Zhongji, take your people up!" ”

Yan Zhongji's eldest son, Yan Zhongji, has a majestic body, and a chain of chain mail was personally rewarded by Ogedai Khan. The long feathers on his head swayed in the wind, and he raised his iron knife and shouted, "All go with me!" ”

In the distance, the Hu Ji played, the drums and horns sounded in unison, and the flags were turning, Zheng Yunming was all in his eyes, and everyone in the city couldn't help but show a nervous look. Although this army is no longer a newcomer to the battlefield, it is inevitable that it is still uneasy in the face of the earth-shattering momentum of the army outside the city.

Zheng Yunming knew that this kind of uneasiness could only be broken with the blood of battle, and he shouted loudly: "The enemy army is about to cross the river, inform the brothers in the city, prepare to intercept the enemy army!" ”

More than 1,000 trapped troops have already spread out a small phalanx in front of the female wall next to the moat, ready to strike a head-on blow to the Mongol army crossing the river at any time. Zheng Yunming had already placed one of his most powerful chips outside the city gates, so that the enemy would be hindered as much as possible when crossing the wide moat.

The first to go out was still the Mongol scattered rangers, who shot at the Song army on the opposite side from a distance through the moat, but the moat was too wide, and the Song army hid under the female wall, and it was extremely difficult for bows and arrows to hurt them. But as long as the actions of the Song army were suppressed, the follow-up infantry would be able to carry out the river crossing operation in an orderly manner. They forced themselves to the embankment of the moat, threw their skins and rafts into the river, and began to row a raft across the river with improvised wooden oars. The archers standing on the bank of the river kept firing their bows and shooting, and anyone who dared to show their heads in the Song army would immediately attract a dense number of arrows.

The trappers had prepared a stop on the opposite bank, not only with a well-equipped female wall to shelter them, but also with huge plaques to defend against the enemy's bows and arrows. Standing seven feet tall on the ground, it was perfectly capable of sheltering a soldier of normal height, allowing him to calmly hide behind him and fire his bow or firebolt. In this regard, the combat efficiency of the pre-prepared defender is naturally higher than that of the strong attacking side, and the archers under Yan Solid are shielded with the help of shield bearers holding large shields in front of them, and the other is relying on the numerical superiority, constantly sprinkling arrows to the opposite bank, and the archers of the trapped army are only a few hundred, so it is naturally difficult to compete with the rows of neat infantry archers on the opposite bank.

Yan Jian's subordinates not only had to cross the river, they had to open the way for the besiegers to follow under the fire of the Song army's head and the fire of the opposite bank. They threw the bamboo rafts made of thick bamboos into the water, tied the skin on both sides of the bamboo rafts as floating sacs, and connected the bamboo rafts with iron locks, and began to build a pontoon bridge under the nose of the Song army.

The bamboo general at the head of the city fired a few cannons, but the head was obviously not enough, and only one shot hit outside the huge water column on the moat, although the bamboo row was shattered, but Yan Shi's subordinates immediately brought another bamboo row to replace, and in the blink of an eye, there were already four pontoon bridges being built on the moat. Under the artillery fire of General Zhu at the head of the city, they extended the four pontoon bridges little by little, extending to the other side of the wide pontoon bridge. The city kept firing stone bullets and various strong crossbows at the bottom of the city, and the strict soldiers covered their bodies with shields could not fully guarantee safety, and people kept turning over and falling into the water, but they did not stop working in the slightest. Apparently they have become accustomed to their role as cannon fodder in the field, and even if their companions are constantly dying by their side, they are just used to it.

The anxious Qu Chu was also afraid that Yan Jian's subordinates would retreat slightly, so he specially arranged a part of the Khitan infantry and the Wuer infantry as overseers to press the formation in the rear, and urged Yan Shi's subordinates to step up the construction of pontoon bridges. It was originally the established policy of the Mongols to use troops between different ethnic groups to spy on each other, and with the surveillance of these Hu people, the strict subordinates did move faster.

"I didn't follow the advice of the military advisor and set up some small artillery trucks outside the city, but now it seems like a real mistake." Zheng Yunming sighed: "If there were more than a dozen artillery carts at the foot of the city wall, the Mongol army would not be allowed to erect its pontoon bridge so easily. ”

"Remorse is useless." Bai Yijie leaned closer and said, "When the pontoon bridge is about to be completed, decisively fight the enemy once." Then he retreated to the city and did some more work. ”

"That's not a worry." Zheng Yunming said: "The trapped army was born for this. If it is said that the formation is decisive and the narrow road meets, it is a good opportunity for this generation to show their talents. ”

At the head of the city, he watched as his strict subordinates withstood the continuous casualties and the increasing number of floating corpses on the moat, and gradually advanced the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank. For every inch they approached the wall, the fire at the head of the city increased by a point, and in addition to the cannons and crossbows, bows and arrows were also added to the fire. However, Yan Shi's subordinates, who had increased casualties, did not dare to retreat slightly, as long as they took half a step back, the sword and axe hands of the Mongolian nobles had been waiting in the rear for a long time.

The trappers had abandoned the women's wall and began to line up behind the cards, this time not to attack, but to defend. So lined up in a small phalanx of hundreds of people, in the front of the two wings of the phalanx are the fire gunners and archers, the periphery of the phalanx is the spearmen holding spears, which is Wang Deng's original crab armor formation, when the enemy approaches, as the crab claws protruding on the two wings, the fire guns and bows and arrows should be the first to fire to the enemy long-range killing, and when the enemy approaches, the gunners and archers retreat, the spearmen line up on the periphery, and the sword and shield soldiers bend down and prepare to start hand-to-hand combat in the gap between the spear arrays.

At the place where the four pontoon bridges were about to approach the opposite bank, there were three crab armor formations on standby, watching the enemy slowly move the bamboo rafts closer, but they stood still at all. Only the archers and musketeers in front of them kept firing. The soldiers on the pontoon bridge on the opposite side also covered their bodies with shields, constantly firing arrows and firing back. Until the last row, a row of bamboo rafts leaned against the moat embankment. It didn't even have time to tie up the bamboo raft behind it with an iron lock. Standing at the front, a hundred households roared with a tiger, and the soldiers with long spears and short knives behind him swarmed up, and flew towards the well-organized military formation.

The crab armor array broke off, and the military formation moved forward in an orderly manner, and the spearmen held the spears in their hands with the momentum of water droplets, and slowly moved forward, crashing into the Mongolian infantry that rushed forward.