The Song army of the brigade and a small group of the Mongolian elite cowardice surrounded in the Jiuzhong Post confronted each other in silence until the sun rose in the east on the second day.

The sunlight gradually drove away the darkness, and Qi Du stood on the top of the mountain and saw the full appearance of the Song army attacking this time.

The White River was full of boats of all sizes, and the slopes of the mountains were densely packed with Song troops who were nervously preparing. There were not only foot soldiers, but also a small team of horses, craftsmen who were working hard to build small artillery carts, and various husbands and servants who accompanied the army.

The commander-in-chief of the Song army moved almost the entire army under his nose!

But what surprised him the most was not these, but the circle of obstacles that appeared out of thin air around the bottom of the mountain.

It was a line of defense made up of huge vehicles interlocking together.

The so-called partial carriage is a type of chariot that has been adopted by the Central Plains people since ancient times, and was originally used to hide the military and civilians and grain baggage, and block the enemy's cavalry charge. In ancient times, the partial van weighed 600 pounds and could only be dragged by animal power. Now Zheng Yunming wants to use it in the Jinghu battlefield, where the water network is dense and he must often cross the river by boat, he has to modify it slightly. The newly built partial vans are seven feet five inches high, nine feet wide, and one foot and three feet long. The carriages were made of thin planks, strong enough to defend against the fast and rapid feathered arrows fired by the Mongol cavalry, and there were windows for firing with firearms. The cart is made of the large cart used by the people, and when forming the car formation, the side with the wooden plank is facing outward, the front and rear are connected to each other, and the iron lock hook and loop are connected, and the part of the side of the van that is not protected by the compartment wall is made of cotton and linen into a tent, and the soldiers hide in the tent to shoot. Each vehicle has two antlers, which are placed in front of the vehicle to form an antler barrier to block the enemy's charge.

Each vehicle was equipped with two musketeers, a bowl-mouth gunner, a crossbowman, two spearmen, two shield guards, and two heavy axemen or halberds. In wartime, firearms and crossbows are used, and long and short weapons cover each other to prevent the enemy's cavalry from attacking.

Zheng Yunming also used a horse rejection interval between every two vehicles, although the tightness of the fortress was slightly reduced, and the number of chariots was smaller, and the side carriage was covered with cotton cloth to resist the fire of bows and arrows. But the most important point is that Zheng Yunming has set extremely strict rules for the use of such a large vehicle.

The enemy cavalry must not be lightly out on the side, and the terrain is rugged and must not be used as an offensive posture. After much deliberation and consideration of the experience of future generations using this vehicle, he decided to use it as a purely defensive vehicle.

The most important thing is that this kind of vehicle can make up for the weakness of the uneven quality of the ranks of the Song army. The Song army claimed that the generals did not know the soldiers and did not know the generals, but in fact, the basic training tactics were no different from those of the Tang army, so the experience and quality of the soldiers probably came from the training and discipline of its generals. If he is a brave general, his subordinates are strong soldiers, and if he is cowardly, the soldiers are also a rabble.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the various defeats that have been eaten, the reasons for defeat are certainly varied, but the most one is that the enemy grabbed the weaker one of the Song army and beat it, causing the overall collapse of the Song army.

From the moment Zheng Yunming arrived in Jinghu, he clearly put forward the slogan that the soldiers must be all proficient and the generals must be brave, in fact, his own troops could not do this, although in a general sense, the sergeants under the Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Department were indeed well-disciplined and well-trained, but not everyone could form a formation in the wilderness and resist the tide of cavalry attacks.

One of the biggest advantages of using a chariot is that even poorly trained soldiers can rely on the chariot to resist the onslaught of enemy cavalry as long as they can barely obey the orders of their commanders.

Hundreds of years later, the Central Plains soldiers are eroded, tens of thousands of people can not be thieves thousands of horses, still able to rely on the chariot ring equipped with firearms and defend itself, if it is not for the Chongzhen Emperor forced to fight, so that the chariot is not good at attacking the disadvantage in front of the thieves exposed, then the victory or defeat is still undecided.

Although the Song people are weak today, they are not as thieves as they were hundreds of years later, and it is a safe idea to use temporary fortresses of chariots to hold on to the field at any time until all troops can block one or three enemy charges with a strict phalanx of spears and firearms.

Qi Du saw a cool umbrella cover erected in the Song army's array, and the armor soldiers around the umbrella were like clouds, and the axes and beryllium were arranged on both sides, and the figures of the scribes could be vaguely seen. He has been on a long expedition to the south, and he knows that the Han generals have always used literati as their staff, and that must be where the main general of the other party is.

He was thinking about how fast his 800 iron cavalry would need to rush in front of the general, and watched as the Song people slowly began to dig trenches and set up fences behind the first line of defense of the carts, as a second line of defense to prevent the Mongol army from escaping on the mountain.

To make up his mind before the enemy builds the second blockade line, Qi Du's face is getting colder and colder, go or stay? The way to get rid of it, concentrate the forces and charge the enemy a little, tearing out a way out.

If you stay, with the obstacles and these houses left by the Song people on the hillside, you can't defend the Song people, and wait for the army in the north to kill here day and night, join forces with yourself, and achieve the first merit of capturing Xiangyang.

But if you forcibly break through at this time while the Song people's formation is not finished, I don't know what the odds of victory are, after all, the number of your troops occupies an absolute disadvantage. But if it is successfully taken off, at least it can ensure that his life is safe.

If you stay here, it will all depend on whether the pigeons that were released in the early morning when the Song Jun's shooter was not seeing well can successfully spread the news. In case the birds don't make it to where they're supposed to be, the only hope is how quickly the Red Army of Tanma, scattered in the southern countryside, will be able to spot the movement of the Nine Posts.

When he hesitated, a soldier of the Confederate Army had already jumped over the side van line and walked up the hill at the bottom of the hill.

Before he could walk halfway up the mountain, Qi Du opened his bow and shot an arrow, hitting the ground near the sergeant.

The sergeant saw that the opposite side had been warned by archery, so he stopped moving forward, and shouted: "Zheng Yunming, deputy commander of Jing'e and Zhangxian County, asked the commander of your army: Since you already know the plan of the road, why don't you surrender early!" The deputy capital is benevolent, righteous and wise, and will never harm your life! If you don't surrender, our Jingchu army will be pressed up, and you will have no way to survive! ”

At that moment, a bald Luhua sergeant from Han nationality translated for Qi Du, and Qi Du Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled: "Thousands of Sinan Si people dare to come to persuade them to surrender!" You tell him, tell him to just do it"

He paused, and suddenly remembered what the previous generation of bald Hua Qianhu had told him, fighting a war is not a fighting spirit, and only doing everything possible to strive for a situation that is beneficial to himself is the true meaning of war.

He suppressed his anger for the time being, and shouted at the sergeant: "Surrender is not a trivial matter! I'm going to have to talk to my subordinates for a while, and everyone agrees!" Please Zheng Nayan give us some time! ”

From this moment on, he made up his mind, he had also told General Lin Tingna'a about the fourth prince Qu Chu's report to the Great Khan, there was a fox as a cunning general in the Southern Dynasty, and several of the offensive of the army were stopped by him, and it seemed that he remembered that the person's name was Zheng Yunming.

If you can use your own small army to hold Zheng Yunming here tightly for Prince Qu Chu, and wait for the army to gather here to capture Zheng Yunming alive, it should be the best salute for Prince Qu Chu to go south. All he had to do was stall as much time as he could.

Unexpectedly, after listening to the interpreter's answer, the sergeant of the Southern Dynasty immediately replied loudly: "The deputy commander ordered that you can only give you half a pillar of incense time to consider, and when the time for half a pillar of incense comes, our army will immediately launch an attack, and we will never hesitate for a moment!" ”

Ma Guangzu put down the teacup in his hand and said to Zheng Yunming, who was sitting idly on the side: "The time of the half-pillar incense seems to be a little too urgent, the other party is the Great Khan's personal guard, and he is arrogant, you asked them to change their minds and surrender to our army in the time of the half-pillar incense, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to do." ”

Zheng Yunming slowly stroked the folding fan in his hand, since the founding of the army, holding a folding fan in his hand seems to have become Zheng Yunming's symbol, to distinguish him from ordinary martial arts generals. But what is ironic is that now the commanders above the commander of the Tulong Zhenwu Second Army, everyone has a folding fan in their hands when they are commanding, and even Ge Huai, a pure old man, learns to hold a scholar's folding fan and point on the map, which is quite a contrast that her husband can also embroider.

The deputy capital of Jing'e is the leader of the armies in Xiangyang, and the first-class and powerful troops under Zhao Kui are organized. Seeing that the generals in his army all held folding fans to add a bit of elegance to themselves, naturally some people followed suit. The people of Jinghu made up such a ballad to ridicule these military generals who pretended to be elegant: "The bears and tigers in the mountains wear Confucian scarves, the cattle and horses in the fields make Confucian robes, and the boy asks the fan bearer, how many words do you know in the three-character classic?" ”

"Sir, do you know what is the most important thing for our army in this battle?" Zheng Yunming unfolded the paper fan and fanned it slightly, at this time it was the end of summer and autumn, and there was still summer heat from time to time, and today was a hot and humid day.

Ma Guangzu is a serious professional talent, and he only reads a few books of "The Art of War" and "Li Weigong Asks the Right Question" to kill time after class, Zheng Yunming suddenly asked, he was indeed a little unsure of how to answer.

"This battle is undoubtedly one word for our army, fast." Zheng Yunming raised his voice, and tapped his folding fan lightly on the table: "Quickly march, deploy quickly, and then the most important thing is to ,,,,,, a quick battle, annihilate the enemy immediately, and then quickly retreat." ”

Ma Guangzu nodded and said: "It is indeed a very dangerous situation for our army to make such a large-scale sortie, and it hangs alone in the blank space between the enemy and us. ”