Zheng Yunming finally acted! But with more than 100,000 Song troops gathered in Hanyang, how should they cross the vast Yangtze River in the sudden wind and rain? Bai Yijie's question only existed for a moment, and he only heard Zheng Yunming shouting: "The Shawo pontoon bridge has been built, we will cross the river from Shawo and break Meng Ge and his army forward!" ”

In the vast fog, the north and south can not see the action on the river, which implies great danger for Zheng Yunming, but also contains the opportunity for reversal, if the Mongols take advantage of the fog to cross the river to attack, he can only tremble and hold on to the city, it is impossible to free up his hands to organize an offensive, but he also understands that Meng Ge is not the kind of commander who dares to sacrifice his life in the fog to come to the surprise attack. Meng Ge used his troops boldly but never recklessly, and he would never take a military adventure without a certain certainty. Today, Ezhou is already ninety percent sure of attacking, and it is by no means his style to divide troops and fight a decisive battle with the Song army at this time. He will definitely strengthen the periphery first, and then concentrate his forces to capture Ezhou first.

This just gave Zheng Yunming a chance, once Meng Ge gave up the control of the river, it was equivalent to Zheng Yunming holding the control of the zhì, he had already secretly ordered the fishermen in Poyang to prepare boats and planks and other materials, deliberately using the attack of Huhuangzhou as bait, in fact, to Xiang Shibi's army to guard the lower reaches of the river, covering the passage of fishing boats, and then thousands of fishing boats loaded with wooden planks and other materials and the people took advantage of the fog to advance to the Shawo River, using fishing boats as floating boats, laying wooden planks on them, and interlocking iron locks, It only took half a day to erect a temporary pontoon bridge for military horses!

Naturally, only Zheng Yunming knew the efforts behind this, and at the beginning, the purpose of his purposeful training of Poyang Lake fishermen to build pontoon bridges was just to facilitate travel on the river, so as to avoid trouble between Ezhou, Hanyang, and Jiangkou. Originally, the training of Dongting fishermen was only a branch of the armor protection reform, and it was steadily advanced under the leadership of Zheng Yunming. Fortunately, after Jia Rudao came to power, not only did he not abolish this project, but stepped up the drills, all because Jia Xianggong was not small, and he also planned to raise troops to the Northern Expedition to take Yanyun, and needed Poyang's sailors to erect pontoon bridges over the Yellow River for his army.

In any case, Zheng Yunming was finally able to connect the passage between Ezhou and Hanyang at this critical moment, but a troublesome thing had just begun, first the fog, and then such a violent heavy rain, and under such harsh conditions, it was simply whimsical to gather troops and advance to fight a decisive battle with the Mongol army, not to mention that the opposite side was not just a rabble of 400,000, but an experienced Hu army that had just won an unprecedented victory in the westward expedition in history, and wanted to fish in troubled waters with the chaos caused by the wind and rain. It's also a gamble with very little chance of winning.

But Zheng Yunming was completely unmoved, and the stern orders were issued one after another from the big tent of the Chinese army, and the army had been receiving the orders of this young minister for 20 years, and had already reached the point of subconsciously and meticulously completing the orders of the marshal.

"This time is the most dangerous!" Zheng Yunming said to Bai Yijie: "The military advisor went to the front to tell Han Feng that no matter how the enemy provoked, he would not be able to hold out, and he was not allowed to lose an inch of his position, even if the enemy army poured in, he would never lose an inch of land until he was the last person left!" ”

In fact, the Mongol army could not and did not have the intention to launch a large-scale attack on Huama Lake at this time, and their powerful intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities also decreased in the wind and rain. Han Feng really hit the plan, and ordered Han Rui to lead a thousand horses to rush forward in one drum and rush into the Mongolian cavalry formation to defeat it.

Such news added to Meng Ge's doubts, but he still didn't want to give up Ezhou City, which was already in his hands and was only about to deliver the final blow, he ordered Marshal Du to lead 30,000 cavalry out of Yingshan, and ordered Che Li to lead 20,000 Han soldiers in the Central Plains to transfer to Bazimen to control the terrain, and ordered Che to ride on @ General, Shuntianfu Wanhu Nayan Zhang Rou led the elite cavalry of the headquarters out of Zhaojiazhai to block the possible attack of the Song army head-on, and ordered Marshal Nu Phosphorus to lead 30,000 fresh troops as a rescue everywhere, He even ordered Yidu to protect Yisi Ma Dejin, the general commander of Jiangbei Huilongshan, and 30,000 people, and crossed the river from Sanjiangkou to support. And ordered the rest of the troops not to be disturbed by the landing of the Song army, and to concentrate their forces to attack Ezhou!

In fact, although the fog and heavy rain have been hindering the offensive of the Mongol army, the siege action has not stopped for a moment, and under the fierce attack of the proton army led by the fierce general Tang Wuer Wanhu Hudu, the main gate of the old city of Ezhou was captured, and more than 300 heads of the Song army were captured. The Mongol army rushed through the city gate and fought at the last stronghold of the Song army.

Wei Sheng's side is already full of Mongolian corpses, the chain mail on his body, each iron ring is dripping with the blood of the enemy, the blood stains the flag behind him is almost unrecognizable, although only the hand that is not used to weapons can hold the iron cone gun, Wei Sheng is still the tiger that is proud of the Hu people in the north, not to mention, the injured tiger is even more terrifying, under every shocking roar, there will always be an unlucky Mongolian soldier who becomes the sacrifice of his iron spear, but Wei Sheng is not a real steel body after all, from the morning to the present, braving the fog and heavy rain again, the relatives around him don't know how many people have been replaced, and his arm is already numb, after all, this hand supports all the strength, and no matter how tough a person is, there are times when he can't hold it.

He leaned his body against the ruins of a house and asked loudly, "What about Chen Guang?" Do you stand out? ”

"Nope!" The bloodied lieutenant replied in a hoarse voice: "Ximen is full of Tartar soldiers, look at the banner is the cowardly Xue army led by Alihan himself!" Many of the brothers were killed in battle, and the whole army was blocked at the west gate! Chen Dutong's life and death are unknown! ”

"That's it!" Wei Sheng spat fiercely: "Everyone, we must be brothers again in the next life!" As he spoke, he propped himself up with an iron spear and strode towards the gate where the Mongol army was at its thickest. The soldiers behind him shouted loudly, and followed the main general to launch a final charge.

But at this time, something strange suddenly happened, and the Mongol army seemed to be frightened by this fierce counterattack, and rushed to flee outside the city.

"Dutong, the enemy has retreated!" The adjutant general excitedly wiped the blood stains on his face, could this be a miracle from heaven, or did Zheng Xianggong outside the city use some magic skills?

"It is impossible for the enemy to retreat for no reason," Wei Shengden reacted and shouted, "No pursuit!" First, send someone to the lookout post to see the situation. ”

His tired novel muttered, "Something must have gone wrong." ”

Sure enough, the lookout who climbed the tower of the old city thought about a little look at the west, and shouted loudly: "Dutong, there seems to be a commotion in the direction of Sanjiangkou!" “

Wei Sheng's heart moved, and he subconsciously said: "It turns out that this is Xianggong's goal!" ”

Yes, for many years, the result of constantly using weak enemies and strong opponents in officialdom has turned Zheng Yunming's use of troops and officialdom into a mysterious art that makes the enemy unpredictable, and when you are scrambling to deal with his successive tricks, he may have quietly prepared the fifth move, the sixth move, this kind of serial tricks, and even the retired old prime minister Qing Zhigong accused him, the world-famous son, of being "cunning and changeable, and it is difficult to determine the truth and falsehood". For a commander who emphasized "simplicity and tenacity" as the soul of the army at the beginning of the founding of the army, Zheng Yunming's current style of using troops has almost become a little vanity, which several important people around him have noticed, this kind of virtual and real style of using troops may not be able to deceive veterans like Zhang Rou, but it is just right for Meng Ge Khan, who is full of confidence and has a little light on the enemy.

Zheng Yunming secretly sent Zhang Shijie to lead 10,000 Shenwu Left Deputy Army and 200 warships, from the river to the top of the river, using the fog as a cover, launched an attack on the Sanjiangkou pontoon bridge, and this army was just a partial division, the real offensive came from the Xiangjiang River, and was blocked by the Mongolian naval army in Dongting Lake for several months. In one swren, they defeated the Mongol naval army blocking the upper reaches of the river at Wulin, burned and looted hundreds of warships, and cleared the way for the Song army to attack on the Xiangjiang River.

The biggest problem of the Song army is not only the disadvantage of the troops, but also because of the temporary mobilization and the inability to concentrate the army, the total strength of the Song army for the rescue of Xiangyang is actually not less than 250,000 people, but all the military horses are close to Jinghu at different points by the Mongolian army strong resistance, fortunately Zheng Yunming has a strong strategic reserve force in his hands, with 70,000 new troops starting from Lin'an as the backbone, along the river to collect military horses from all over the country, always contain the movement of Meng Ge's main force, So that Meng Ge did not dare to use the Mongolian army's best siege reinforcements and various breakthrough tactics, so that all kinds of troops and horses were concentrated in Jinghu one after another.

Coming from the Xiangjiang River was 10,000 horses and horses of the southwest reserve army left in Jingjiang Mansion, 10,000 people of the Tibetan people who came from Banzhou and Sizhou, and 30,000 people of Yunnan horses and soldiers who rushed back from Yunnan bypass Banzhou, of which there were only 5,000 infantry soldiers and horses from the Great Song Dynasty expedition to Dali, and the remaining 25,000 people were all in the Song Dynasty after the start of the Dali War. Fearsome to the enemy, the waist knife in his hand is made of fine steel, often passed down through generations, these Yi people in the southwest were originally or uneasy factors in the Song and Dali countries, but when the country faced a real crisis, they became one of the fiercest resistance forces.