The three of them came to pay homage to Meng Heng together, and at this time the Song army gathered here, Meng Heng was the highest-ranking general here, and he was also the temporary commander-in-chief of all the Song troops near Yingzhou. He was accustomed to soliciting the Northern Army, and was very popular among the generals who surrendered in the North, and he was an old acquaintance with Yao Zhiyuan, the commander of Huguang. This time we met, and we were very enthusiastic. The group was discussing arranging for the sailors to transfer the captured fishing boats so that they would not be taken by the Mongols again in the next battle, but they saw the young man in red pressing a Mongolian officer from a distance. He shouted at the Mongolian officer to step forward, and he knelt down in front of Meng Heng.

Meng Hui frowned, and asked solemnly: "This battle is purely under the command of Zheng Du, why don't you come to show merit to him, but come to me instead?" ”

The red-clothed young man raised his head and looked at Zheng Yunming, but he had a beautiful face, but there was always a rebellious aura in his eyebrows that was difficult for people to tame easily. He didn't speak, just arched his hand towards Zheng Yunming, extremely cold.

Meng Hui was furious and shouted: "What kind of attitude is this!" Left and right, drag him down and beat him with ten military sticks to set an example! ”

Zheng Yunming hurriedly stopped: "Punishing meritorious people after victory is unlucky for the army." The handsome man saw my affection and spared him this time. He turned his head to the red-clothed young general and said, "After entering Yingzhou City, the meritorious deeds will be rewarded in order." You first go down to the school merit reward office and enter your merit into the merit book, and later Ben will personally award you a reward. ”

The young general stood up, bowed to Zheng Yunming, and retreated on his own. Only the Mongol officer, who had been tied up with flowers, was left behind to await questioning.

The march of thousands of households is also suddenly, originally a Hongji tribe people, because of the disgust of the lack of fighting spirit of the people of the headquarters, just trying to be comfortable, escaped from the tribe, as a fugitive into the king Mu Huali's subordinates as a soldier, and later was discovered by the Hongji tribe, the lawsuit has been fought in front of the third prince Wo Kotai, it is Mu Huali who cherishes his courage, good at attacking and fighting, and comes forward to protect, so that he can get out of the hometown of the Hongji tribe and let him serve under his subordinates. Ten years across the river, once as the leader of the cavalry team in the field to defeat the elite soldiers of the Jin country, but also as the siege commander first climbed the head of the famous city, this time the Mongolian army to conquer the south, he as the general of the management of the water army dutiful, unexpectedly under the city of Yingzhou suffered the biggest defeat in his life, so that he became a prisoner of the Sinan Si people.

He glared at him and shouted, "Sinan Si's coward, quickly behead me, if you frown, you won't be a Mongolian man!" ”

Zheng Yunming drooped his eyebrows and looked at him with slanted eyes, as if he was looking at a clumsy work of art.

"Cliché, complete cliché." In Mongolian dialect, he said, "Only the rabbit in the burrow has no name, so give it your name." ”

He also suddenly reported his name loudly, and shouted: "King Tasi has 30,000 elite soldiers stationed in the south, as long as he gets the news, it won't take a day to rush to Yingzhou and wipe out all the others?" ”

Zheng Yunming laughed and shouted, "I'll just sit here, waiting for Tath to bring 30,000 troops to invite the battle!" ”

He waved his hand, and the soldiers on his back came up and took the scolding man down.

"Thirty thousand troops" Meng Heng muttered: "If it is 30,000 cavalry troops, it is difficult for our army to contain the opponent in the field battle without double the strength, what does General Li think of this matter?" ”

Li Boyuan was defeated all the way from Henan to Jinghu, and he had long been familiar with the sharp and invincible Mongolian cavalry. But now that he has a firearm in his hand, he is no longer too afraid of the Mongol army attacking the city, and he arched his hand and said: "According to the foolish opinion of the last general, we have 40,000 or 50,000 people in the city, and the city head is full of bamboo generals, and the city of Yingzhou is built with stones, which is extremely strong, and with the help of the bamboo generals, even if there are 30,000 people in Tasi, we can't help it." ”

"It's not going to work." Zheng Yunming said decisively: "Yingzhou is different from Xiangyang, Yingzhou is a small city, and it can't spread an army of 40,000 people, everyone is nested in the city, even if there is no shortage of food, as long as the enemy erects a cannon to attack, every cannon can cause a lot of casualties." ”

"What do you think about it?" Meng Hui asked, "Do you want to use the army here and go down to the land where the water network of Fuzhou is crisscrossed to fight with the Mongolian cavalry?" ”

"Fuzhou is not a battlefield for a large army to start a decisive battle." Zheng Yunming said: "At that place, our army only needs to use thousands of military horses to contain it, which is enough to ensure the safety of Huangzhou and Ezhou. Besides, the Hu people are fast, and the battlefield is not up to us, once Ta Si knows that his back road is cut off, he will definitely rush back overnight to attack our army. ”

"Keeping is what you have to keep, but how to keep it, there is a lot of learning in the middle." Zheng Yunming said: "We will go to the city to replenish the supplies, and the plan will be slowly explained to the three of them. ”

The top generals of the Song army each mounted their mounts and rode towards Yingzhou, with the second general of Yingzhou in front and Zheng Yunming and Meng Heng behind. Zheng Yunming leaned towards Meng Hui and asked, "Who is the young man in red?" ”

Meng Heng laughed: "I know that the Daoist will definitely like this person." This person's name is Chen Yingrui, who was originally Li Hu's subordinate. After the Xiangyang Rebellion, Li Hu was pursued by the imperial court to intensify the conflict, and was demoted three levels in a row and sent to Jiangxi for thought. His subordinates were placed under the control of several governors. Say it's escrow, and everyone understands what's going on. This son was silent after being returned to my subordinates, but the training in peacetime was extremely strict with the soldiers, and it was indeed brave and difficult to rush up in battle. It's even better than my subordinates. ”

"He sent people under the fence, of course, to avoid suspicion. Now when the country is in danger, such a tiger will be a spring of thirst for us, and the commander needs to be careful not to let him easily lose in the hands of the Mongols. ”

"I'll take care of this," Meng Heng asked rhetorically: "On the contrary, it is an official, Tath will immediately lead an army to Yingzhou when he learns that the siege of Yingzhou has been defeated, and maybe new troops will be mobilized from all over the country." How to deal with it then? ”

Zheng Yunming shrugged his shoulders and expressed his helplessness about this problem: "I don't have any good way, there are only four words, so that Tasi can retreat in the face of difficulties." ”

Although there are only four simple words, it must not be an easy thing to call the Mongolian iron horsemen, who are accustomed to victory, to retreat in the face of difficulties.

When Tath heard that the cavalry he had sent out had been driven back by the Song army, he surprised the young general of the Mongol Empire. He sent out not dozens or hundreds of people to explore Ma Chi, but as many as a thousand forward reconnaissance troops. Tath had his own original tactics of using reconnaissance cavalry, and was not accustomed to using the Red Army to scatter in groups to cover the whole area, which was usually the usual method used by Mongol generals. Tath's reconnaissance tactics are different, he is accustomed to putting 500 to 1,000 elite armored cavalry on the main marching route, these cavalry may not necessarily specialize in reconnaissance, but they deploy vigilant Tanma Red Army in front of the front and left, these vanguard cavalry lead the way in front of the large army, once they encounter a small group of enemy troops on the spot to attack and annihilate them, once they encounter the enemy's army, they harass and contain on the one hand, and Pegasus on the other hand to inform the main general, so that the main army is ready for a decisive battle in time.

In fact, this time the vanguard troops were just an accidental miss, when they rushed up the ridge, because the mountains were full of bushes, they did not find the Song Dynasty vanguard infantry team who was also climbing the mountain, and they were caught off guard by the enemy.

Tath was furious, and with a wave of his whip struck the vanguard general's back, who gritted his teeth in pain, but did not dare to scream.

"You have been fighting for so many years, don't you know that under the shade of the trees is a good place for ambush soldiers, and you have forgotten Genghis Khan's great battle in the Red Willow Forest!" Tath shouted: "Liu Badu'er! Tomorrow I will go with me to watch the reality of Sinan Siren! ”

Liu Badu'er agreed angrily, as long as there are Sinan Si people who can fight, he is the most happy. As for whether there are many Sinan Si troops there, there may be danger, he didn't think about it at all, as long as Liu Badu'er is there, Si Nan Si Jun will definitely flee in despair.

This time, the Sinan army may not retreat as easily as the Mongol warriors intended, and the tall mountains are already covered with various miscellaneous banners. Under the banner, groups of soldiers were in strict formation, and soldiers kept coming from behind the mountain to the front over the ridge. There is no doubt that the southern army is not just a part of their sight, they are very clever to set up their camp on the side of the mountain that the Mongol army cannot see, and the flank terrain is dangerous and guarded by the southern army, even if the Tanma Red army makes a detour, they cannot find out the details of the situation behind the mountain. Not seeing the full picture of the enemy's army, the commander was a little tricky when arranging the battle defense.

What made Tath find even more troublesome was that the Song army had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with the cavalry at all, but only seized the time to build fortifications and obstacles. The ridge they had seized only yesterday had now set up a makeshift line of horses and thistles at the foot of the mountain. After the rejection of the horses, the Song people were working overtime to dig trenches and erect fences behind the trenches. In a word, they put on a posture of a turtle not coming out, completely giving up the spirit of active attack. The lack of initiative in the Confederate army was a fact that Tuth had known for a long time, and if he had encountered it on another battlefield, he might despise the cowardice of his opponents while distributing his cavalry to mobilize the enemies in these turtle shells, and at the same time seek an opportunity to kill them. But here and now, he couldn't help but start to have a headache for these Southern troops who were preparing to defend it.

The reconnaissance line of Tanmachi stretched for hundreds of miles to the two wings, and the final conclusion was that it was almost a necessary place to attack Yingzhou. On his way south, Tath had also kept an eye out for the ridge, which at the time seemed to be one of the more accessible parts of the endless mountain range. But he didn't expect that the strategic location here would be so important.