At dawn on the second day, the people of Shatou City had already found that the officers and soldiers guarding Shatou City were withdrawing one after another, and were assembled in the open space north of Shatou City, and a few days ago, it was on this land that they had never seen fierce battles, thousands of people fell on this clearing, their blood soaked into the soil, forming red marks that could not be erased on the clearing.

The officers and men of Tulong waited until noon, and the officers and men who came from Gangneung to take over the defense hurriedly arrived.

"The gateway to Jiangling in Shashi, I hope you will be careful." When parting, Zheng Yunming took the hand of the deputy commander who led the Jiangling soldiers and admonished.

The pair all said yes, but the attitude was only perfunctory. It can be seen that he led the troops out to deal with the errand, anyway, the Mongols have retreated, so why not take a share of the credit?

Zheng Yunming didn't care about this, he shouted loudly: "The whole army is out!" ”

Teams of men and horses returned to their places according to the flags, without the slightest confusion.

As usual, more than 20 front-road scouts will be released first, and they will be responsible for constantly reporting to the general the terrain ahead, the enemy situation, and the situation along the road.

Zhu Sheng's forward battalion is at the forefront of the team, and the significance of the forward battalion is not just the charge in front during the battle. During the march, the strong forward battalion walked at the forefront of the ranks, and in addition to ensuring that it could respond in time to a sudden attack by the enemy, it was also responsible for opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water. For the soldiers who were born in Ezhou mines, this is not a difficult job.

Peng Man's troops followed closely behind the forward battalion, and between the general and the right wing battalion were the convoys of men and baggage, and the general and right wing battalions were like scarves and armor, carefully protecting the valuable supplies and weapons in the marching procession. Postponed is the Chinese military camp, Ge Huai took a hundred guardians at the end of the queue to accommodate those soldiers who fell behind, if anyone fell into the middle military camp that was overwhelmed, they would be punished by the guardians immediately.

"Encounter the Jungle! Go ahead with caution! Encounter the river, stop the army and build a bridge! Zheng Yunming shouted: "Pass them back one by one!" ”

"When you encounter a fork in the road, you must guard against an ambush! Be vigilant left and right, and don't panic! When the striker encounters the enemy, form a formation on the spot! Take the root foot, and the formation is self-reliant! A sound of marching orders was resounded in the ranks, and the Tulong army began to march towards the city of Xiazhou to the west.

What they didn't know was that this operation would be the first unsuccessful operation in the history of the Earth Dragon Army.

On the way to Xiazhou from the sixth battalion of the Tulong Army, Lu Xunzhi, who stayed in the old camp, was still urging the soldiers to nervously make the used weapons.

"The burrs on the handle of the pike need to be cleaned! Otherwise, he pricked his own hand before he hurt the enemy! ”

"Everyone's hand knives and wrestling knives have to be sharpened, this is the only weapon you can use to protect yourself at a critical moment!"

"Keep the patent keg for gunpowder dry! A bucket with water will contaminate gunpowder! Every bucket should be sunbathed!"

Lu Xunzhi walked up to a soldier who was trimming the axe, stretched out his hand to pick up the axe and tried it, and then said: "The axe and the axe handle should be tightly plugged with a wooden wedge, otherwise the axe will easily fly out of the axe when it is really used." ”

He picked up the shovel that another soldier was making, and knocked on the shovel handle, which was as thin as a teacup: "The shovel handle must be strong and strong enough, like this thin-waisted stick that swings willows in the wind, won't it break when you use your strength?" ”

His joke drew a burst of laughter from the soldiers.

The soldier who made the shovel said: "The chief manager has recruited us to fight, and the sharpness of the swords, guns, swords, and halberds is enough, and the ease of use of the bow and arrow is enough." Whether the shovel and shovel are good or bad doesn't affect the killing of tartars, right? ”

"Big mistake!" Lu Xunzhi said loudly: "Let's fight back the tartars, these shovels and hoes are more effective than knives, guns, bows and arrows!" ”

When everyone heard the chief say this, they all put down the work in their hands in surprise, and looked at Lu Xunzhi with a pair of round eyes.

"The Tatar cavalry was trained from the age of three." When Lu Xunzhi was an official on Hunan Road, he paid attention to the affairs of the north, whether it was interviewing displaced people from the north or paying attention to the words of the Song Dynasty envoys who visited Mongolia, and his understanding of the Mongols was much deeper than that of the Song Dynasty officials of the same generation: "When he was three years old, his mother would tie him to a horse and let him jolt on the horse with the shepherds. At the age of five, he began to shoot small things such as sparrows and rabbits with a small wooden bow used by children, and at the age of eleven or twelve, he was incorporated into the junior team and began to fight. ”

"Their proficiency in the use of bows, arrows, knives and axes is beyond the imagination of those of you recruits who have only been in the camp for a few months! And what about you? How many people saw a wooden bow three months ago? Ever seen a spear? Do you want to rely on three months of hasty training to fight one-on-one with the Mongolian cavalry with high martial arts? ”

Hearing his words, everyone hung their heads in frustration. When it comes to the science of war, few people in the Tulong Army dare to claim that they are not novices.

"What to do to defeat the Tatars?" Lu Xunzhi continued: "If you want to defeat the Tatars, you have to use the skills you have learned since childhood to fight them!" ”

"Liang Wu!" He called a soldier's name: "Tell me, what have you been doing for the longest time?" ”

Liang Wu stood up and said with a smile: "When I was twelve years old, I followed my father to the mine to carry stones. ”

His words caused another burst of laughter.

"Mao Seventeen!" Lu Xunzhi didn't laugh, but named another soldier: "What about you?" ”

Mao Qiqi stood up: "Me too, I went to work in the mine at the age of eleven. ”

Everyone said, "What's so great about being eleven years old, I went to the mine at the age of nine." "I went there when I was thirteen."

"I'm thirteen too!"

"That's right!" Lu Xunzhi said loudly: "Digging holes, filling soil, and building fences are the most work you have done in your life!" You have to use this to deal with the Mongols' men and horses, and you will wear through the Yang in a hundred steps! ”

"Your joke is too big, digging and filling in the pit can be considered a war?" Someone laughed.

"How to win a battle by digging and filling in pits, didn't the chief teach you a long time ago?" Lu Xunzhi pointed to the tall walled wall in the distance: "Didn't you build those things with a shovel of soil and a hoe?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and some people said suspiciously: "Repair the city and repair the village, the people can also do this, but if you hide in the village and don't come out, you can repel the Mongols?" ”

"With your current efforts, no." Lu Xunzhi said: "But the general manager told me that one day, Jinghu will build one Great Wall after another, and the Great Wall will be filled with large villages with high walls and deep ditches, in which people can safely live, trade, and even cultivate fields. On every path in which the enemy advances, countless traps and fortresses await them. One day, we will even be able to do what the predecessors and generals did not do, do what the Han army and the Yue army did not do, advance into the Central Plains, and recover the two capitals, relying on the hoes in your hands! ”

The soldiers were all speechless, and someone whispered: "The manager thinks too well, it would be good to be able to dig a hole to save his life."

Lu Xunzhi smiled slightly, and was about to answer when a warning horn suddenly blew in the direction of the watchtower on the top of the mountain.

"Northwest to Jingshan Beacon Smoke Warning! A large number of enemy troops are approaching the cottage! ”

Hearing the sentry's report, Yang Luo's heart sank.

The beacon fire post at the foot of Jingshan Mountain is selected by him personally to take people to the field to investigate, different from other directions, the beacon fire post of Jingshan extends hundreds of miles to the northwest, almost as far as the territory of Fangzhou, in order to overlap the mountains in this direction, not only because of the difficulty of patrolling the sentry, but also because of the difficult relationship between the enemy's march, the generals who are the supreme commanders will always ignore this place intentionally or unintentionally.

"If you want to cross the mountains to fight, unless you are a fool." Human inertia will always unconsciously block something.

But Yang Luo knew that the most expensive thing in the art of war was to think from a direction that the other party couldn't imagine, no matter what kind of natural dangers and cliffs, there were already armies that had overcome them, not to mention a low Jingshan.

Therefore, he would rather spend a lot of money and deploy manpower to set up dozens of beacon posts, just so that one day an army suddenly appears in this direction and will not be caught off guard.

But in his imagination, at most, there were a few hundred, or two or three thousand partial teachers. It never occurred to the Mongol army that this tortuous and rugged road would be the main route of march.

But interspersing along this route from the map is the best choice for the strategy of the Mongol army.

As long as you occupy the land of Lao Ya Mountain, to the north, you can raid the defenseless Xiangyang City behind it, there is only one South Mountain in the south of Xiangyang City as a barrier, and only a few hundred soldiers are stationed on the South Mountain, and the defense is not yet stable.

If the Mongols were to attack from the south with a large group of men and horses at this time, Xiangyang City might not be completely sure that it could be defended.

The same applies to Gangneung. The northern part of Gangneung is undefended by default, and that's because Yangyang serves as a barrier to Gangneung in the north. But if there really was a force of troops and horses that were inserted horizontally between Xiangyang and Jiangling, then it could easily move south from Jingmen and surround Jiangling City by land.

You only need to insert a chess piece between Xiangyang and Jiangling, and you can threaten Xiangyang Mansion, the spine of the world, and Jiangling, the seat of Jingxiang Nine Counties, at the same time. With such a cost-effective deal, Yang Luo himself couldn't help but want to do it.

It's just that there is also an old crow mountain in front of the Mongols. The two thousand sergeants of the four battalions left behind by the Tulong Army were the biggest problem that prevented the Mongols from completing the entire plan.

"If I come, I will use all means to capture this Old Crow Mountain." Yang Luo hammered the table hard.

(It's even later, the ball is rewarded with red tickets...... ）