Wan Yan Yong, who was guarding Liaoyang Mansion, was very bored, and a few days ago received the emperor's order to reinforce Jinzhou to rescue Wan Yan Liang who was besieged, which made him in a dilemma. Save Jinzhou, his life is also not very good, the Song army has captured Yaozhou, controlled the mouth of the Liao River is moving north, the states and counties under his jurisdiction are frequently urgent, everywhere to send troops to reinforcements, he is also short of troops; If you don't save it, the emperor has made a holy decree, and if you don't obey it, you will disobey the order, and you will be moody, and it is likely that you will fall to the ground if you are unhappy.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still had to send troops to rescue, so he sent Shenzhou soldiers and horses to make Li the unified army, led 10,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, and joined the defenders of Xianzhou, Qianzhou, Liaoxi Prefecture and other prefectures and counties, a total of 20,000 people to reinforce Jinzhou. Before leaving, he repeatedly told him to fight there quickly, and to return immediately after repelling the Song army, and not to stay too long, so as not to be eaten by the Song army. What made him even more depressed was that the Taishi immediately ordered him to fight the enemy in Liaoyang Mansion and must defeat him. This is really a leader's order, he sent out all the reserves, you let me fight a decisive battle now, what am I going to fight with others!

Wan Yanyong's child basically inherited his father's honest character, although he was helpless, but the reinforcements had been sent, and the battle had to be fought. Now that the land route is still blocked by Jinzhou in front, the top priority is to prevent the Song army's naval division from going north first, and it is best to inflict heavy damage on it.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yi begged Gongsun Yuan, and once floated Liaoshui to transfer the baggage of soldiers from the mouth of the Liao River to the city of Liaoyang; Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty recovered Liaodong, and it was also a flood and drought to force Liaodong under the city. During the Liao period, merchants from the Central Plains and the south also mostly transferred to the Hunhe River and the Lianghe River through the Liao River to traffic goods under the city of Liaoyang. The Song Navy had sent ships to Liaoyang City to pick up the besieged army and the former emperor after the peace conference a few years ago, so the Jin army had long been wary of this.

After Yan Yong was transferred to Liaoyang to stay behind, he began to reorganize his armament for war. He built forts at various ferry crossings and set up barrages at the same time. He also requested the DPRK and China to transfer the sailors who were sheltering from the cold in Liaoyang in winter to the Liaoyang Prefecture in order to strengthen the water defense force. Prevent the Song water army from going north to the hinterland through the Liao River. Wushu felt that today's Jinshui division was slightly better than nothing, and he had never been cheap in the struggle for control with the Song army in the Yalu River in recent years, so he agreed, and now he has become the main force to resist the invasion of the Song army......

"Xu Dutong, after the Song army captured Yaozhou, why did your naval army retreat without a fight and let it go deeper." Wan Yanyong was very angry when he learned that the navy had fled to Xianxiang after only fighting in Yaozhou, and recalled him to Liaoyang for questioning.

"Great commander, the last general is not cowardly. It's just that our navy is too weak compared to the Song army, and the big ships are no more than a thousand hundred, so it is difficult to confront the Song army's warships head-on. In particular, the river surface from Yaozhou to Xianxiang is straight and the water surface is open, and we are not opponents at all, and it is not easy to hit stones with eggs against them. Xu Wen argued.

"Then the naval army retreats without a fight, and allows the Song army to run rampant on the Liao River?" Wan Yanyong was even more angry in his heart when he heard this, this is not cowardice and fear of the enemy, and the tone of his voice couldn't help but become stern.

"Great. Listen to the last general's explanation. After seeing Yan Yong's pale face, Xu Wen knew that he was annoyed, "Dashuai, the last general retreated to Xianxiang just to be able to annihilate the Song Water Army." Don't look at the Song sailors who can rampage at sea with the height of the boat, and it is difficult to maneuver in the middle of the river, and our small boat has room to play. And the river north of Xianxiang is meandering. The waterways are narrow and the rivers are numerous. It is convenient for concealment and can launch an attack on enemy ships by surprise. Dodge their artillery fire. ”

"Marshal, Li Dutong has been immersed in the water division for many years and is familiar with water warfare, so he is a strategy to avoid the real and attack the false, so as not to repeat the mistake of the destruction of the Korean Gulf Water Division." Yin Wanyan of Liaoyang Mansion couldn't help but nod after listening to it, and turned his face to Wanyan Yong.

"This ...... If the Song army abandoned the boat and landed along the main road, would we watch them drive into the city for a long time? Wan Yanyong didn't know how to refute for a while, so he changed the subject.

"Marshal, we can fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and evacuate all the people of the prefectures and counties on both sides of the river to the big city far away from the river bank, and the Song army will not be able to loot the grain and must rely on the waterway to supply the baggage, so they will not dare to land at will. Besides, they are alone in the depths, and our army is on the side, and he will not divide his troops again, so he can only march along the waterway. Liaoyang Soldiers and Horses Supervisor Li Qiong said with a smile.

"Marshal, the two generals are right, the key to our battle is whether we can annihilate the enemy's naval army. If they were to conquer the city, the outcome would be unknown. Wan Yan said with deep understanding.

"There is not much time left for us now, if it is difficult for Zuo Shuaifu to resist the Song army going north by land, they can continue to go north after breaking through Jinzhou, and there is a lack of fortified cities along the way, and they will be able to approach the city in a few days, so we must first break its way before returning to the division and fighting again, otherwise tens of thousands of Song troops will attack the city and will not be able to hold Liaoyang Mansion." Li Qiong said.

"Then whether we can hold Liaoyang City depends on Xu Dutong." Wan Yanyong arched his hand to Xu Wen and said.

"The big handsome is serious, the last general will be favored by His Majesty and the Taishi, and he will be heavily handsome, and he will not be able to repay his broken bones, and the last general will lead the army to Xianxiang and do his best to annihilate the enemy in the Liao River!" Xu Wen was flattered and hurriedly saluted.

Next, Wan Yanyong ordered Tuhe to quickly urge all prefectures and counties to clear the fields, requisition and dispatch Ding Zhuang of all departments, and send troops to cooperate with the naval army to fight by land to strengthen the strength of the fortresses along the river. Sent Liqiong to seize the time to consolidate the city and hoard grain and grass in case the water army lost Yicheng and the Song army......

After receiving the order, Xu Wen immediately mobilized all the ships down the river to meet the Song army's naval division. He was originally the general of the old Song Dynasty naval army, with rich experience in water warfare, and his command ability in the naval army is also one of the few, but because of his bad background, he has always been jealous of his colleagues, and he led his troops to join the Jin State in a fit of anger. But he also did not get what he wanted in the Golden Water Army, and although he was a high-ranking official, he was still not trusted, and this situation was not changed until the defeat of the Golden Water Army.

When Xu Wen took over the Jin State Naval Army, although it was just a mess, he still tried his best to restore it, but it no longer had the scale of the day, and it became a dispensable army, and they were strictly ordered not to provoke the sailors and merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty. Xu Wen is so aggrieved, he wants to compete with his old club, but his several warships together are not as big as others, how dare he. However, he did hold his breath, thinking that Song Jin would fight sooner or later, and he would definitely have a place to be brave.

The vicissitudes of more than ten years have turned the former water dragon into a water dragon who is nearly sixty years old, but Xu Wen's desire to fight has not diminished, and now he finally has the opportunity to prove his worth by fighting with the Song army, so that the Great Song who forced him away knows what regret is, and let the Jin Guo who took him in understand what it means to be worthwhile. He led his fleet down the river to the front line to meet the Song army......

After the Song navy captured Yaozhou, it began to march upstream, and began to plan to coordinate the two routes of water and drought, with the navy responsible for providing fire support, the marines pulling out the forts along the way, and the tiger generals and the leopard winged army accompanying along the river bank to guard against the enemy's land raids. However, they soon found that due to the warm spring flowers, the soil on the banks of the river had been civilized, and the banks were mostly covered with reeds and wetlands and grasses formed when the water rose, which made the roads muddy and difficult to march, especially the heavy artillery wagons could not pass, so they had to board ships again and march by water.

But the waterway is not all smooth, especially now that the rainy season has just arrived, the upstream water is so small that the Liao River is not abundant, in the Haikou is fine, the water surface is open, with the help of the tide of the backflow warship can sail freely. However, the further up you go, the narrower the river begins to narrow, and the more bends there become, so you should be careful of the shoals and rivers formed by the impact of the river, so as to prevent the warship from running aground or straying into other waterways.

On this day, the sun had just risen, and the 'Weihu' warship had already begun its reconnaissance operations, because most of the auxiliary vessels that entered the Liaohe River last time were Weizi-class auxiliary vessels, with a small tonnage, and the river had been diverted or silted up for many years, so that the channel had changed, in order to prevent accidents, the navy sent an advance ship to survey the channel and draw a chart. Since there is a stream in front of it that joins the Liao River to form a river, because the sediment brought by the river is easy to silt out in the river when the amount of water decreases, the depth of the water and the width of the channel must be carefully measured, and it is now moored in the channel.

The surveyor-in-charge of the 'Mighty Tiger' had already begun his work, the sails had been lowered, and the lookout post on the mast was watching around vigilantly, but he soon became bored, and there was no wind on the river, and the current was relatively gentle, but there was not a single boat in sight, not even a small sampan. He looked down at the gunners on the bow of the ship chatting leisurely against the guns, the machine gunners on the top of the ship tower looked at the river in a daze, and the gunners in the stern were even lazier and did not even uncover their gun jackets, completely unaware of being in an enemy country.

It's not that the navy is willing to do this, but when they thought that they could do a big job in this expedition, they found that there was no opponent at all, and the golden navy only disappeared when they entered the estuary, and many warships entered for many days and the opportunity to fire their guns was not yet touched. And these days, except for their mighty fleet on the river, the reconnaissance ships of the Jin army are nowhere to be seen, and they spend their days in boring and monotonous voyages every day.

Therefore, although the 'Weihu' is now on a single ship, no one is worried that the enemy will appear. The largest warship of the Jin army has Qianhu, even if it collides head-on, it is not their opponent, not to mention that there are artillery and machine guns on their own warship, I am afraid that it will be sunk before it can get closer. Even if a large number of enemy warships appeared, as long as they signaled, the front warships five miles behind them could quickly rush to reinforce them.

"Enemy attack!" Just as the lookout was about to stand up and stretch, he suddenly noticed a commotion in the reeds on both sides of the river, and at first he thought it was some wild thing, but when he rubbed his eyes, he saw that several enemy ships were quietly sailing out of the river and approaching them...... (To be continued......)