The Song people almost single-handedly choked the throat of the entire battlefield, although they were controlled in various battlefields, but in Yingzhou, the key point of rushing to the initiative, as long as they held here, the Mongol troops scattered throughout Jinghu could not support each other, but were in danger of being separated.

Because of the continuous barrier of the Dahong Mountain system, at this time, Zhang Rou's department, which was wandering in De'an Mansion, and Liu Heima, Yanshi, who were plundering in Huaixi, had to cross the Dahong Mountain to join his own division, and Qu Chu, who was resting and recuperating in Zaoyang, had to wholeheartedly prepare for the second attack on Xiangyang, and was unable to divide his troops to support him south. Since the retreat of the Grand Army from Xiangyang, the defenders of Xiangyang City have changed their attitude of passively avoiding battle last year, and have launched attacks from all sides to harass the Mongol cavalry that was plundering in various places. They marched along the river, landed near Guimen Mountain, and attacked the Mongol troops who were resting in Zaoyang. Thousands of troops and horses were sent north to counterattack, and the cavalry team in front of Fancheng was driven all the way to Tangzhou.

They also traveled upriver along the Han River to attack the Mongol army in Junzhou. In Junzhou, the Mongols fought three consecutive battles, first defeated and then victorious, cutting off the road from the Shangluo area to the front-line Mongol army. Instead of encircling Xiangyang with 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry, it is better to concentrate on launching a thorough attack and destroy Xiangyang and tens of thousands of troops in the city.

Based on this, Qu Chu had sent arrows to all the Mongol troops in Jinghu, and there was only one order to convey one: gather the troops, form a strong blockade circle near Xiangyang, concentrate the materials and prisoners looted in Jinghu for a period of time, and rendezvous with the supplies and servants from the north, and launch a general attack on Xiangyang Province, a strategic town of the Song Dynasty in Jinghu.

At such a time, no one should care about King Tath's strategy for Yingzhou, and even if Tath had the intention to send 10,000 or 20,000 people from other places to support, it would no longer be an easy matter. For his part, the king himself hoped to lead the limited troops in his hands, with the few captives he had plundered, to carry out a powerful attack on Yingzhou, and Cheng Ze destroyed the Song army base here, blocking the support of the Sinan Si people from the waterway to Xiangyang, and if he failed, he would quickly and far away and join the main force besieging Xiangyang.

But the premise of all this is that you have to get through this damn mountain beam first.

"Liu Badu'er!" Tath suddenly shouted, "What about the enemy ahead!" ”

Liu Baduer understood the king's intentions, and replied loudly: "The enemy army is not fully prepared, and it is a good opportunity for a surprise attack!" ”

Tath waved his right hand vigorously: "I order you to use five hundred cavalry lightning to attack the Sinan Si people who are preparing fortifications at the foot of the mountain, and you can't let them successfully deploy defenses at the foot of the mountain!" ”

Liu Badu'er roared excitedly, turned his horse's head and galloped towards the team.

Every move of Mongolia under the mountain was clearly seen by Zheng Yunming, the deputy capital of Jing'e and Hubei who stood under the red flag. Although the Mongol general who came from afar did not carry the general flag, he was very familiar with that outfit, that is, the direct commander of the Mongol invasion of Jinghu, King Tasi, could not be wrong. If Tath was here, it meant that the main forces of the Mongol legions entrenched in Suizhou and Fuzhou had been exhausted, and his plan had been successful.

Coincidentally, this time Zheng Yunming himself did not carry the flag out, before the head-to-head confrontation with the enemy, he did not plan to expose his name to the Mongols prematurely, Zheng Yunming's three words are no longer as insignificant as before, where this banner appears, it means a lot of things. For example, how the Song Dynasty adjusted its forces, where the Song Dynasty's key defense core was, and when it was not necessary, he was unwilling to let the Mongols share this information unconditionally.

He stared at the Mongolian general wandering in the distance under the mountain, and said to Yang Luo sideways: "Fortunately, Pure Father knows the terrain near Yingzhou well, and can find this place as a place to force Tath to accept the decisive battle. ”

Yang Luo glanced at him, and the whites of his eyes were more black than black: "Where is this?" This is Dahong Mountain! In the Jing Chu army, there are the original guards of Dahong Mountain and the local natives of Dahong Mountain as generals, if you can't even figure out the terrain of Dahong Mountain, wouldn't it be too ridiculous? ”

"But I've never heard Zhang Shun say that there is still danger here in Dahong Mountain." Zheng Yunming never concealed his mistakes: "At that time, the focus of my concern was all around Xiangyang, and Dahongshan only explored the northern vein, and did not pay much attention to the dangerous passes of the southern line. ”

"Here, it's called Fengbu Cliff," Yang Luo pointed his hand to the east: "If you want to approach Yingzhou from the east, you must pass through here." Coming from Fuzhou and Suizhou, this is also an important pass, as the name suggests, as long as a small number of troops guard this place, the army will be closed here, and a single step can not be advanced. When the Green Forest Army got up in the Dahong Mountain, by the way, this is the Green Forest Mountain in the Han Dynasty, the official army came to attack, the Green Forest Army defended here according to the danger, and the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers could not enter, so the place was eroded, and the green forest was raised. ”

"Fengbu Cliff is a good omen," Zheng Yunming looked at the scattered Mongolian cavalry at the foot of the mountain: "If you block the pace of Hulu's invasion of the Great Song Dynasty, you will finally not be responsible as a soldier." ”

He pointed forward and raised his voice and shouted, "Let's wipe out this enemy for me first!" ”

The smoke and dust rose from the mountains and fields in the distance, and the cavalry of the brigade rushed towards the Fengbu Cliff under the guidance of a nine-belt black moon flag.

Yang Luo took a red flag from the Lingqi official and shook it twice on the mountain. Rumbling drums began to sound at the foot of the hill, and a group of trapped soldiers began to spread out their formation behind the rejection of their horses, their spears pointing forward, ready to face the enemy.

"Before the fence is finished, I will definitely send elite soldiers to come, hoping to break through the fence, and then storm the hillside with a large team. Hope to crush our army in one fell swoop. Yang Liang tied the ribbon under his chin, and said with a little nervousness: "Whether you can hold this place or not depends on the outcome of this first battle!" ”

The figure of the Mongolian cavalry from far to near, the knight on the black armored horse pulled the bow and fired arrows, like a storm, the arrows kept shooting at the armored infantry behind the horse, but the strength of the arrows fired in the distance was obviously not enough to penetrate the modified iron armor body improved by the craftsmen of Xiangyang Prefecture, many infantry with feather arrows stuck to their positions, and the infantry archers of the Song army also began to shoot arrows back, and the long arrows they shot could not constitute an effective killing for the heavy cavalry mounts wearing vests, But for the light cavalry galloping on the fast horses on both wings, as long as an arrow hits the war horse, the light cavalry will fall head-on and cease to become combat power.

In an instant, several fast horses in the Mongol cavalry overtook the brigade, rushed to the front of the team, kicked away the thistles on the road all the way, and rushed straight to the front of the rejection of the horse. The others were busy moving the horses to the side, clearing the way for the main charge.

In the shouting and fighting, a gap was opened in the Song army's defense line against horses, and Liu Badu'er roared angrily and led the cavalry to rush over. Seeing the Mongolian cavalry clash coming, Zheng Yunming's face did not have half an expression, he made a gesture, Yang Yu understood, took down a black flag, and waved it vigorously.

Liu Badu'er rushed closer and closer, and was about to rush to the front of a column of spears, and the Mongol soldiers, who were scuffling with the spearmen, hurriedly jumped to the side to avoid their own brigade. The hooves of the horses struck the earth, the wind brought by the men and horses whirred, and the spearmen of the trap army watched this Hades-like villain rush towards them with his long knives.

The team leader's officer suddenly shouted: "Front team, squat!" ”

The spearmen squatted down, the tail of the spear in their hand poked into the ground, stepped on it with their feet, and the tip of the spear stabbed diagonally forward, and only then did the Mongol cavalry see that a row of archers with muskets in their hands were waiting for them in the rear.

"All of them! Hold your breath and wait until the enemy soldiers are close before firing! Fight the enemy general first! The general of the defending team shouted loudly and waved the command flag in his hand.

The brass and iron guns in the hands of the soldiers can be fired on special mounts, but the problem is that the range that can ensure accuracy is extremely limited. There were once Mongolian cavalrymen who laughed at the firecrackers of the Southern Dynasty in front of the battle, and they couldn't hurt him a single hair from a hundred paces. The firecrackers were not angry, and sent thirty men to fire at the one hundred paces away, but as expected, they did not hit a single shot, so that the Mongol soldiers returned to their camp proudly.

Different from the general cannon that shoots stones and is far away, the distance at which the fire gun really exerts its power is within fifty steps, and the distance that the Mongols' riding bow can wield is almost the same, Zheng Yunming has a very interesting saying, the appearance of the fire gun gave the Song soldiers a sharp weapon to deal with the Mongols at close range, which is equivalent to the two sides holding an extra-long virtual spear in their hands in the air, the difference is that the heavy arrows fired by the Mongols from their horses are extremely accurate and powerful, The lead fired by the Song army was more powerful and could greatly deter horses at close range.

Today's decisive victory was also within fifty paces, seeing that the Mongol cavalry had already flattened their bows, and wanted to use their natural cavalry and archery skills to kill and wound a gap in the Song army's tight array. The torch in Song Jun's hand also approached the fire gate, waiting for the fateful moment.

Under the bleak winter mountains, three long columns of infantry and the scattered Mongol cavalry launched a battle at close range. With the opening of fire from the leading officer, the gunfire rang out behind the long anti-horse defense line, and the pungent white gunpowder smoke was head-on towards the Mongol cavalry. After a round of fire, the two sides were about the same amount of damage.