"After a day's horseback ride to Luxia, we deployed two hundred rafts on this river, which were used by the Mongol warriors and the Han Chinese. Then go up the horseback for half a day's journey, there are our warriors to guard both sides of the river, I allocated two thousand households a total of 1,700 soldiers, once found the ship of the Sinan Si people, immediately raise the fire alarm, two thousand households on both sides of the river, with a strong bow to shoot the Sinan Si ship from the downstream, each thousand households are divided into three teams, the three teams take turns to shoot, our army's archery is unparalleled in the world, if the Sinan Si people want to break through, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. ”

Tath was noncommittal, but just let the white horse under the seat slowly move forward, and suddenly said: "Even if there are many people and boats, and they can force through the second line of defense, they can't help this thing." ”

In the direction he pointed to, there were three huge wooden rafts on the bank of the river, each of which was very large in size, and it was made of a large wooden block hugged by one person, a hundred side by side, and the huge log was tied very strong with a thick rope made of more than ten barks. There were Mongol soldiers standing on it and rushing to and fro, almost as if they were on land.

There is also a tall wooden castle built on top of the wooden rows, the castle is built of logs, the key parts are connected by tight mortise and tenon joints, which looks strong and neat, the wooden city is two feet high, and there are stairs hidden in it to climb, the wooden city is divided into three floors, and there are three huge double-bow bed crossbows placed on the top floor.

After last year's conquest of the Song Kingdom was intimidated by the range and power of the bed crossbow, the Mongol army immediately showed their astonishing speed of reaction to the new weapon, and immediately after returning from Jinghu, the army gathered Han craftsmen in the north and began to imitate the Mongols' own bed crossbow.

said that it was an imitation, but it underestimated the craftsmen of the Northland. Although they did not have any concept of the first divine weapon artillery encountered by the Mongols in their southern expedition, they did not talk about imitation at all. But bed crossbows are no strangers to them. In the resistance of the large and small cities encountered in the Mongol conquest of the Jin State, the strength of the bed crossbows of the Jin State has been seen many times, although these bed crossbows are not as powerful as the Song Dynasty, but they can also be called a sharp weapon for long-distance warfare. These bed crossbows were made by the weapons craftsmen of the Jin Kingdom. At this time, the Mongols once again summoned craftsmen to imitate bed crossbows, and immediately got many skilled craftsmen who were good at making large bows and crossbows, so this time when Qu led the people to the south, he was equipped with a considerable number of bed crossbows in the army.

The use of the bed crossbow in water warfare is nothing less than a clever move, the bed crossbow has a long range and great power, which is the only weapon in water warfare. This year, in the two armies that invaded Huaidong and Jinghu, they invariably used bed crossbows to block the river and curb the actions of the Song Dynasty sailors. However, the Mongol army on Huaishang could only place the bed crossbow on the shore and fire it at the river, which was far less than the bed crossbow on the wooden row heavy floor to be close to the Song army's warships, which was convenient for shooting, and the bed crossbow was also covered and covered by the wooden building, and it was not easy to be killed by the arrows of the Song army. All of this is thanks to the idea of this wonderful water castle tower.

"You can't come up with this idea of building a wooden building on the water." Tath knew his men well, and he understood that the Mongols who grew up in the steppes knew nothing about water warfare, and they did not have the concept and skills to build a water tower: "Who built this water tower? ”

He also replied honestly: "When Zhang Rou captured De'an Mansion, he got a craftsman named Gao Xuan, originally the warriors thought he was just an ordinary Sinan Si person, so they wanted to kill him, but he himself lay on the ground and begged, saying that it was a craftsman who built a wooden row for Sinan Si's army, and he would build a wooden row and a wooden building, so Zhang Rou sent this person to our army, I asked him to try, and it was really good, the wooden raft and wooden building built were tall and strong. Fortunately, this person fell into our hands, otherwise the Sinan Si people would use this person to build a water fortress, and it would be even more difficult for us to conquer. ”

"Very well done." Tath never praised his subordinates easily, and this sentence was enough to make Ye Li suddenly excited: "We came from the grassland, and we are born with the ability to not pass through water, but if we can get the help of these Jiangnan craftsmen, this big river will not be a real obstacle." ”

He gently turned the horse's head, and when he returned to the horse, he said suddenly, "But don't forget the strengths of our Mongols. Our cavalry has never met an opponent. You may be very confident in the defense on the river, but if you can't resist Sinansi's warships, you can temporarily abandon the river bank, lure them all to land and then use iron cavalry to assault, this is a tactic to cover up our weaknesses and highlight our advantages. ”

also forced to promise immediately, but there were some disdains in my heart. He thought that the three well-laid Han water defense lines were so strong that even if the Song army downstream had a hundred warships, it would be difficult to attack them. As long as the Song people are powerless on the water, whether it is Yingzhou or Xiangyang, it is equivalent to the bag of the Mongols.

"We can't delay here too long, once we delay here, we won't have time to besiege Xiangyang before the summer." Tathzema ran towards the camp: "We must take this city within ten days!" ”

At this moment, the Mongol king had no idea that the Song army had already begun to prepare for a counterattack. The target of the counteroffensive was the main Mongol forces on the outskirts of Yingzhou.

When he returned to the camp, it happened that an arrow warrior galloped in from the south, bringing urgent news from the Mongol army stationed in Fuzhou, and after the Song army drove Zhang Rou back in Huangzhou, he went up the river and rushed into Zhangdahu with 50 warships, and used more than 200 ships for the transportation of the Mongols in Zhangdahu. At the same time, the Song army in Huangzhou, the main general Meng Dutong, led a large army to break into Fuzhou, and the Mongolian army fought more than 1,000 people, three battles and three victories, the Mongolian army except for a part of the Song army left to contain the Song army, the rest of the people were ready to drive away the captured cattle and horses to prepare to retreat north. However, it was found that the torches in the south of the Yangtze River stretched for hundreds of miles, with at least 100,000 horses, and the people were noisy, preparing to cross the river into Fuzhou. The Mongol marching thousands of households in Fuzhou did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent envoys to Tath to report the emergency.

When he heard the news that the Song army was preparing to cross the river with an army of 100,000 to attack, he became excited, and as soon as the quiver retreated, he stood up and shouted: "Please give me 3,000 cavalry, please give me 3,000 cavalry, I am willing to personally go to Fuzhou to wipe out all the 100,000 people of Sinan Si!" ”

Tath smiled and asked, "Sinan Si has so many soldiers and horses, and each of you can shoot you into a hedgehog with an arrow, aren't you afraid?" ”

Liu Badu'er smiled and reached out to take a camel bone arrow from the arrow gourd, and said: "The arrows shot by the Sinan Si people are weak and weak, and I want to sweep them 100,000 people as simple as that." With a slight force, the camel bone arrow broke in two. The so-called camel bone arrow is not necessarily made of the shin bone of a camel, but the camel bone is extremely tough, and the name shows the strength of the arrow shaft, but in the hands of Liu Baduer, it was as easy to break as a dead branch.

Tath waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be anxious and rejoice, let me ask you, what if Sinan Si people are in front of you with artillery, and meet your 3,000 cavalry?" ”

Liu Badu'er immediately stopped laughing and shouted: "Just like the king ordered, although Sinansi's artillery is powerful, but the first hit is not accurate, once the cylinder is fired, it will not hit our knights at all, and secondly, when they want to fire again, it will always take a lot of effort and feet, and it will take a certain amount of time before the second shot can be fired." Let's just like the king said, when encountering the enemy's artillery in front, do not panic, scatter the cavalry brigade, split up and charge at Sinansi's artillery as fast as possible, and before their infantry can catch up with the artillery to cover the artillery, rush to the side of the artillery and slash and kill, and cut down all the enemy's gunners. The key to breaking the artillery is not to be frightened by its momentum, as long as you calm down and deal with it carefully, you will find that it is actually no different from the loud ram on the grassland, as long as an arrow, it can make it unable to bark again. ”

"Okay, I didn't expect that our vanguard would also talk about the truth of war, if you think about these truths more often, our Mongolian warriors will be able to die less." Tath shouted: "But Sinan Si is strong, we don't have to underestimate the enemy, you first lead three thousand cavalry as the vanguard, and I will lead the brigade to come later." ”

Someone asked: "Go here, how many men and horses will be left to besiege Sinan Si soldiers and horses here?" ”

"There are 5,000 cavalry enough to besiege the enemy here, although they fought well, after all, they are only foot troops." "If necessary," said Tath, "shrink all your forces defending the riverbank back to join the siege." ”

Ye Lihu asked: "But what if Sinan Siren attack from downstream at this time?" ”

"If you attack from downstream, it will only be a harassment of thousands of troops. You will then," Tath asked, gesturing his finger to his chest, "Understood?" ”

He wanted to follow his plan and lead the Song army ashore to encircle and annihilate it in one fell swoop. If the Song army really came in a big way, it would undoubtedly be the best way to lure them to the land and then annihilate them with cavalry.

After making this arrangement, Tath immediately set out with 10,000 thousands of cavalry, and they were to reach Fuzhou before the Song army crossed the Yangtze River, and dealt a heavy blow to the huge number of enemy troops before all the enemy troops landed, so that the enemy army would abandon the attempt to reinforce Xiangyang in the north.

But when Tath came to the north bank of the Yangtze River, looking at the dense flags on the south bank of the Yangtze River and the starry tent hidden under the trees, he couldn't help but be faintly worried.