But even so, Zheng Yunming did not dare to easily lead the army to embark on a journey to rescue Yingzhou, and before setting out, Meng Heng first planned a march route that used the waterway to get as close to Yingzhou as possible. In the area of the Jinghu water network, the water system extends in all directions, and the nearest place can even go directly to the city of Yingzhou, of course, that will alarm the Mongolian army near Yingzhou. Moreover, the small river leading to the vicinity of Yingzhou was too shallow to carry the heavy loads, and the characteristics of the Song army determined that no matter how they streamlined their equipment, there were some loads that were destined to be impossible to abandon. For example, the bamboo shogun and gunpowder carried by people. Meng Heng's chosen landing site was forty miles from the city of Yingzhou, and from here, the Song army had to march forty miles, and then suddenly appeared behind the flank of the few Mongol troops still besieging Yingzhou, and broke the enemy in one fell swoop.

Before that, Meng Heng had to do one more thing, he sent hundreds of soldiers who were good at fighting in advance to take the oars as the vanguard, they searched the nearby areas along the waterway along the river while advancing, and once they found the figure of the ranger, they immediately rode on their war horses to hunt and kill, and they must take down the Mongolian eyes and ears along the road in one fell swoop, so as to ensure the secrecy of the march.

After everything was ready, Zheng Yunming and Meng Heng led the army to take a ship and set off towards Yingzhou. After arriving at the landing place, they landed again and marched by land, and after a day's march, they finally arrived near Yingzhou.

The forty-mile journey is not without waves. Because of the fear that the Mongols would find out, the Song army specially chose a difficult road, the road from the woods all the way through, very narrow and difficult to walk, all relying on Zheng Yunming, Yang Luo and Zhang Weixiao and others to supervise, only to maintain no soldiers left behind, on the road also encountered several Mongolian cavalry, fortunately the Song army in the woods through the more hidden, the front of the spies is very effective, these few wandering in the forest out of the team alive captured, so that did not leak the news.

"We have used so much effort to finally make it there!" Zhang Weixiao was wearing a black iron armor body, holding the Qingfeng sword in his hand, and looked proudly at the strong Yingzhou city wall in the distance: "There is only one mile left behind!" ”

"But only this last mile is the bloodiest and most cruel." Zheng Yunming looked at the unsheltered wilderness in front of him and muttered. In order to prevent the Mongol cavalry from advancing directly under the city of Yingzhou under the cover of the woods, the soldiers and civilians of Yingzhou spent a lot of effort to cut down all the trees around the city. I don't want this to cause the Song army's reinforcements to lose their shelter on the road in the last mile. They had to be attacked by a cavalry cluster at the last mile of the reinforcing state city.

The horn sounded on the position of the Mongolian army in the distance, Zheng Yunming's suspicious plan on the right bank of the Han River could not be used for too long, the brigade moved in the woods, the dust raised, and the frightened birds were unavoidable, even if the entire army had tried to act as secretly as possible, but it was not easy to sneak forward quietly during the day. A part of the cavalry began to run back behind them, laying out an evacuation column in the direction of Zheng Yunming's advance, looking nervously at the situation in the woods, and some light archers quickly went out to the edge of the woods and shot arrows aimlessly into the forest, which was a purposeful test of the strength of the Song army in the forest.

The Song army in the woods has already formed a formation, Zheng Yunming did not carry many soldiers and horses, only about 1,000 people, the main force of which was 800 Zhenwu troops brought from Xiangyang, in order to make the main general who rashly attacked from Xiangyang not be defeated and killed, the Zhenwu army has done its best to hand over the most elite troops in the first army to their main general to take away. Now around Zheng Yunming is the brave division that Wang Deng has painstakingly trained, although they are not yet experienced troops, but they are already the best cards in Zheng Yunming's hand.

They were waiting for their general to give the order to march, and in a few moments they were going to sprinkle the blood of themselves and the Mongol cavalry on the last mile.

Zheng Yunming turned around and shouted loudly: "The armies have listened! You galloped back and forth with me non-stop on the battlefield of Jinghu, first with a beautiful fire attack, burning the Mongolian ships on the river, and then galloping non-stop to aid Yingzhou, which was hard to run, and I would have known it well! Yingzhou is the garrison of my Jinghu Consulate General, and there are military salaries and grain and grass collected by the imperial court from Jiangnan after a lot of hardships in the city. Today, everyone fought hard and rewarded on the spot after driving back the enemy army! ”

The army let out a burst of enthusiastic cheers, everyone knew that Yingzhou was where the money and grain of the Great Song Dynasty were located, and they could relieve the siege for themselves, not to mention enjoying a big meal, Zheng Yunming's reward would never be stingy.

"I ask you to be fast and steady! Shout and kill loudly enough, and hit hard enough! Zheng Yunming shouted: "Today's battle, let the name of the trapped army spread to the world!" ”

He reached out and drew the sword at his waist, and the blade of the sword flashed a different kind of light through the trees.

"Drums! Enter! ”

In fact, Yang Luo's surprise attack is not like this, if he leads the troops to make a surprise attack, he doesn't need to line up on the spot, he doesn't need to mobilize before the battle, and he doesn't need to beat the drum and shout to kill these useless tricks, just a sharp whistle, and the soldiers rush up, all brave, and killing the enemy by surprise is the best thing.

But he also knew that Wang Deng's army couldn't do such a thing, Wang Jingsong usually fought, heavy discipline, light life and death, but the forest was forward, Mount Tai did not move, and then the enemy army broke away. Taking advantage of the night surprise attack, he is not used to the way of erection, and even the troops he trained are all fools who fight hard to the death.

He saw these strong men with bright armor lined up in formation, and with the adjutant general's shout, the whole army rushed towards Yingzhou.

This is the north wind rising, the red banner of the Zhenwu army is hunting in the wind, Zheng Yunming and Yang Luo stood in the middle of the team and followed the fast forward, Zheng Yunming walked and said to Yang Luo: "This monochrome flag is too boring, and when this battle is over, we also have to think of a simple and clear sign for the Jing Chu army, just like the army of the Hu people, even many friendly generals may not know the words." ”

Yang Luo could only smile bitterly, at this critical moment of life and death, how could he still have the leisure to talk about the sign, and the black man in front of him had already rushed over with a long roar.

Yang Yu shouted: "The archers are in the front, and the spears are in line!" ”

Armored archers and unarmoured musketeers came out at the call, waiting for the enemy to approach at a rapid pace, until they were within range of the archers, and then began to shoot. The Mongol cavalry just rushed forward desperately, until the distance where the cavalry bow could shoot, and the front team began to release arrows, killing and wounding the trapped troops with extremely accurate arrows, although they had armor, there were still sergeants who fell from arrows from time to time. But the trapping army did not move at all, waiting for the Mongol cavalry to rush in front of them.

When the heavy body of the cavalry and the spear of Rulin collided together, Yang Zhidao and Zheng Yunming's carefully arranged surprise attack and the strategy of luring the enemy on the other side had already had an effect. The assault of the cavalry required strong physical strength and bold action, but it also required a necessary condition, sufficient impact distance. To put it another way, there is a need for sufficient battlefield space.

Everything Zheng Yunming did was to compress the distance between the two armies as much as possible and not give the other side a chance to get up. Zheng Yunming knew that the cavalry charge must first take small steps, and then run fast in small steps, and only enter the full-speed impact stage after the last time, if the distance of the impact is too short, the people and horses have not entered the state of full speed, the power of the impact will drop a lot, once they lose the strength of the charge, they will not have such terrifying power in the face of the dense defense of the heavy infantry.

Originally, Zheng Yunming's troops were only one mile away from Yingzhou, and the troops of both sides assembled, advanced, and expanded many distances. At this point, the Mongols had no chance and would not push their mounts under the crotch to full speed. Usually in this case, the Mongol cavalry would withdraw and run back, pulling away enough distance from the enemy and us to charge again, but they could not do so at this moment. Behind them was the rolling Han water, on the right flank was the fortified city of Yingzhou, and on the left was the dense woodland, and there was little room to make a detour.

In this cramped and cramped battlefield, the armored infantry, which valued discipline and drill, had a tactical advantage.

As soon as they saw that the cavalry that could not run was restrained by their spears, the infantry of the trap army in the rear rushed up and engaged the enemy in close combat. The weapons in his hands ranged from long-handled stabbing knives to shorter two-handed axes, and even a sturdy club. But without exception, they all went to the lower three roads of the enemy cavalry. The Mongol cavalry in the front row was blocked by the successors who followed behind, and when they could not advance or retreat, it was time for the infantry to use their traditional tactics of restraining the cavalry.

Once the horse's leg is cut off, it not only eliminates the height advantage of the enemy's cavalry, but also directly causes the enemy to fall heavily to the ground. The light and nimble stabbing knife, the powerful battle axe, and even the simple and crude wedge of the wreck, as long as they can reach under the belly of the horse, can give these high riders a blow from the bottom of the kettle.

In the Song Dynasty report afterwards, the same descriptive words were used in the Battle of Yuncheng, praising the soldiers for fighting with the Mongols "with their hands and feet, regardless of their bodies", of course, even the elite trapping army could not really compete with the Yuejia army, which was as strong as Mount Tai. But at this time, the Mongol army did not have the same space for free advance and retreat as the Jurchen iron cavalry in Yuncheng, they were compressed, restrained, and suppressed in the cramped area near the river bank and could not advance and retreat freely. The situation is much worse. Zheng Yunming watched the infantry of his army slash with knives, chop with axes, hit with wooden sticks, and even kick with their hands and feet, putting the cavalry to the ground one by one.