"From now on, you will be the president of the military family association. President Qin, thank you for your hard work. At home, Zhao Jiaren joked with his wife with an optimistic attitude.

Qin Yuzhen was not amused, she just held Zhao Jiaren's hand silently. As a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty, he has the obligation of a high-ranking official, and Zhao Jiaren cannot avoid it. Just when Zhao Jiaren thought that this silence would continue, Qin Yuzhen sighed: "San Lang, before I got married, I knew that you had made great contributions in Ezhou, and the Mongolian soldiers you killed were like a mountain of corpses. When I saw you, your scarlet robe and silverfish bag were really glamorous and decent. But today, I know that behind this glamour is separation. ”

Zhao Jiaren actually wanted to persuade his wife to be happy, but Qin Yuzhen's words made Zhao Jiaren not know how to deal with it. In the end, he could only say, "I will come back as soon as possible." ”

"Really?" Qin Yuzhen asked.

"Well......" Zhao Jiaren pondered for a moment and then replied: "If I don't return for two years, you can go to the government and divorce me." I'm not going to let that happen. ”

Even though she was in a heavy mood, Qin Yuzhen was forcibly amused by Zhao Jiaren's words, and she couldn't help but throw herself into Zhao Jiaren's arms and beat Zhao Jiaren's shoulder. Although the words are a joke, the laws cited are true. Although there is no saying that the relationship between husband and wife can be divorced if the relationship is broken, the law of the Great Song Dynasty stipulates that if the husband of the family leaves home for two years and does not return, the wife can go to the local government to ask for a divorce. From a legal point of view, many places in the Great Song Dynasty have become very humane.

No matter how reluctant you are, departure is inevitable. Zhao Jiaren personally led the team, and at this time, let the family see that the family was not driven to the battlefield like pigs and sheep, but went to the battlefield under the leadership of Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Zhizhou, who has always been prestigious, this feeling is completely different.

Even so, there was a cry on the separated dock, which made the cadres look bad. Zhao Jiaren didn't blame anyone, he first ordered all troops to line up, and then ordered: "Our army is attacking for the country and the people this time, and sing a song to everyone at the time of parting to clear your ambition!" Let's sing the March Song of the Great Sword! ”

In these days, the song was taught in the army, and it was sung by school students when they were preaching in the streets to fight against the Mongol invasion. Zhao Jiaren gave the order, and all troops obeyed the order.

The great sword slashed at the heads of the tartars

Patriotic compatriots of the whole country

The day of resistance has come

The day of the Anti-Japanese War has come......

After the troops lined up, there was already a sense of slaughter in the army. The song sounded in various troops, and it was still such a song with a bright rhythm and simple content. The feeling of fighting was even stronger, and those crying family members originally felt that their loved ones were going to die on the battlefield, but with the help of singing, even if it was only a faint feeling, they were vaguely aware that their relatives were going to fight. The funeral-like feeling on the pier was also washed away a bit. Taking advantage of such a moment, Zhao Jiaren led the team to board the ship, and the troops set off smoothly.

The fleet arrived in Jiaxingfu, and the shipyard in Jiaxingfu had already built a large number of military ships. While training hard during the rainy season, the troops helped the shipyard to start work with maximum efficiency during the rainy season. When the rainy season is over, the basic number of river combat ships will finally be put together.

The fleet carried troops and supplies upriver to Hubei, where it made short repairs in Ezhou and then went north along the Han River. After passing through Yingzhou, they entered the area controlled by the Mongols. The fleet stopped near the Mongolian walled city that had stopped Xia Gui, and at this time the technical level of grinding lenses in Fuzhou had greatly increased, and after the introduction of hydraulic machines, lens grinders saved a lot of manpower. Not only the senior officers were looking forward to the telescope, but the mid-level officers also picked up the telescope to look at the walled city.

The most striking thing in the walled city is naturally the return cannon that is repeatedly emphasized in the report. This is a counterweight trebuchet. In the past, trebuchets used torsion to throw stones, and the range was not far, and there were not many stones. This kind of return cannon uses the principle of lever, a huge wooden box is placed at the front end of the lever of the trebuchet, and stones are placed inside, and the stones to be projected are placed on a huge tray at the other end of the lever. You don't need a huge amount of torsion to launch, you can use gravity to project the stones out by putting more stones into the large wooden box at the front and pulling the rope to start accelerating.

The officers had all learned the principle of levers, seen the drawings and models of the return gun, and at this time they saw the real thing of the return gun, and everyone easily understood what kind of weapons they had to face the enemy. For a moment, everyone was eager to see how far this thing could actually be thrown. But when I thought about it in my heart, I didn't dare to make such an excessive request. This is a war, and there is no way to explain if your own ships are sunk.

The people in the Mongolian walled city may have sensed the thoughts of the soldiers in Zhao Jiaren's fleet, or they simply wanted to demonstrate against the Song fleet. The trebuchet fired, and three stone projectiles were thrown in a row. The observer immediately reported the distance, "It is reported that, according to observations, the distance of the Mongol army is a hundred paces. ”

One hundred steps is about 150 meters, which is about the same as the officers' estimates.

"Isn't it so close, isn't it the same range as our two-pound cannon?"

"No, no, looking at the weight of the stone bullet, it must be 30 pounds anyway. More powerful than our two-pound cannon. ”

"Such a big guy only shoots 30 pounds, and if our artillery is so big, it must be able to drop at least 300 pounds of shells."

……

There are different opinions, and Zhao Jiaren can hear everyone's worries from these pretending to be relaxed. Who isn't worried at this time?

"Take measurements and prepare for tomorrow's battle." Zhao Jiaren gave the order.

The next day, as soon as the survey work began, a military ship with the banner of Liu Zi came from the upper reaches of the Han River. The Mongol army besieging Xiangyang was divided into three groups, the army of Zhang Hongfan and the army of Ali Hague on the west bank of the Han River. Zhang Hongfan is in the north, and Ali Hague is in the south. Located in Dong'an, Hanshui is Ah Shu and Liu Quanjun. This army was relatively southern, holding the Han River. The northern part of the entire three major groups was Mongol territory, and there was no Song army.

Liu Quanwanhu received the report, and the Song army's sailors came to the rescue, so it was natural to lead the navy to fight. The two sides looked at each other, and Liu Cheng didn't see any difference from Song Jun's side. Now the warships on the Han River are all the same in shape, and the artillery system is also the same.

Through the battle with the Great Song Navy a few days ago, Liu Cheng became more and more confident, and he immediately ordered the ships to go to the battle. Liu Quan's subordinates immediately pulled the oars and sailed towards the Great Song Navy.

The combat experience of these days has been carefully summed up, and finally a three-word formula of 'fast, steady, and ruthless' has been derived.

'Fast' means that the ship should be fast, so that the fleet can avoid being hit by the Song army to the greatest extent. Moreover, Liu Cheng found that as long as his fleet moved faster, those Great Song naval forces could not help but take the lead in firing artillery, causing their artillery to enter the overheating stage in advance.

The Mongol sailors operated carefully according to their previous experience, and with the fact that they were going downstream, they soon increased the speed of the ships to a considerable extent. Liu Quan saw that the reaction of the Song army on the opposite side seemed to be quite slow, and he didn't know if he was frightened, seeing Liu Quan's water army charging so quickly, they actually left the deep water area and marched towards the shallow water area on the shore, which had the meaning of avoiding the Mongolian army.

Very good! Liu thought in his heart. Since the opponent is a little intimidated, it is time for the Mongol army to give full play to the advantage of 'stability'. That is, to fire the cannon steadily, not to hit the opponent, but to disrupt the opponent's formation.

And 'stability' is followed by 'ruthlessness', taking advantage of the chaos of the Song army, he quickly approached the Song army and fired artillery at close range.

With this three-character formula of 'fast, steady, and ruthless', Liu Cheng's water battles have basically been victorious these days.

'Bang! ''Bang! The Song army opposite Liu Cheng opened fire.

The Mongol ship that rushed ahead was hit in the center of the hull by a cannonball, which smashed a large hole in the hull, and the water rolled into the big hole, and the ship began to sink in an instant.

'Bang! ''Bang! ''Bang! After Zhao Jiaren's fleet entered the shallow water, the oarsmen stopped the boat. The Mongol ships rowed fast, and the Song gunners continued to fire at the Mongol ships that were moving in a straight line at almost uniform speed.

There is a mountain of hope above each cannon. It's not the kind of simple goods that are three points and one line, but the kind of Wangshan that is double round. Gunners who have studied speed and acceleration in physics and passed the exam know that the position of both sides on the water is constantly changing, and it is not reliable to aim completely directly, and it requires a little advance judgment.

Of course, it is not enough to know this principle, and the gunpowder that Zhao Jiaren spent on training gunners was probably between twenty and fifty times that of Liu Quan's training.

Liu Quan didn't know that the army opposite him was cast with money, and all he could see was that the gunners of this Song army were almost out of bullets, and if a few shots were fired, one of the Mongol warships would be shot. The speed of the Song army's artillery bombardment was not fast, but the frequency was very stable. That skillful movement reminded Liu Cheng of the past several years ago. At that time, he was still the head of the army under the Great Song Dynasty, and the temporary instructor of the new naval ships and artillery promoted by the imperial court was Zhao Jiaren. At that time, Zhao Jiaren's subordinates said, 'The shelling should be uniform and stable.'

Liu Cheng's first wave sent twelve warships, and the Song army in front of him was sinking Liu Quan's ships at a constant speed, and it didn't take long for the artillery to stop roaring, and Liu Quan's twelve warships had all been shot and began to sink. The Song ships sailed into the deep waters, and some people on board took hooks and lass and began to arrest the Mongols who had fallen into the river.

Seeing that his subordinates were caught, Liu Quan's blood went up and shouted: "The second team, the third team set off." Get our people back! ”

More than an hour later, Liu Cheng led the sixth team and the remaining half of the fifth team to desperately retreat into the range of the return artillery of the walled city on the shore. The catapults in the Mongolian walled city also began to throw stones in deterrence and tried to block the pursuit of the Great Song naval army.

Zhao Jiaren's fleet was also out of range of the Mongol return artillery, and more than 60 ships captured prisoners on the river, and the marines on the shore also captured the Mongol troops swimming to the shore.

The Mongol navy under Liu Quanwanhu took ships designed by Zhao Jiaren, each with a full crew of 25 men. Liu's team has 12 ships, that is, 300 people. In the previous water battle, Liu Quan's three fleets were completely sunk, and he sent ships to try to rescue the people who had fallen into the water, and another half fleet was sunk, and the four and a half fleets were 1,350 people.

Although he didn't see Liu Quan's expression, Zhao Jiaren, who was watching the battle from afar, could understand that Liu Cheng would make a fleet operation that turned back three times in one step. If Zhao Jiaren also encountered such a loss, his mood would inevitably be the same as Liu Quan.

After more than an hour of busy work, more than 800 prisoners were finally captured and more than 200 corpses were collected. It is impossible to completely kill all the enemies in a war, and even if the situation is unfavorable, there are always some lucky people who can escape the battlefield with the favor of fate. Zhao Jiaren was satisfied with this result, and he ordered to continue the surveying and mapping work to prepare for the war that followed.

The next day, Zhao Jiaren's fleet attacked again. From morning to night, I only saw the figure of a Mongolian naval ship in the upper reaches in the telescope. However, a whole day passed, and Liu Quanwanhu's naval army did not dare to fight Zhao Jiaren.

The next night, Lai Zhishan, who was in charge of screening the captives, came to Zhao Jiaren, "Zhizhou, the captured Mongolian captives have been screened, this is the list." ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't look at it immediately after taking the list, he replied: "Those with some backgrounds stayed, and those with no backgrounds were cut." ”

"There are only a few dozen people from background, and the remaining more than a thousand people have been killed?" Lai Zhishan said with a frown.

"Kill them all!" Zhao Jiaren replied decisively.

Seeing Zhao Jiaren's firm attitude, Lai Zhishan sighed: "It takes a lot of effort to bury them." ”

"Well......" Zhao Jiaren felt that this was very right, most of the excavation tools at this time were wooden, and the buried corpses needed to be buried deeply, and the amount of labor was very large. After thinking about it, he replied, "Then let the captives dig their own pits and bury them with the pits they have dug." If you feel that it is more tiring to cut off your head, then you will be shot. ”

With efficient means, Lai Zhishan completed the heavy work in less than 36 hours. At the time of his arrival, the military council had also completed plans to conquer the Mongol fortresses.

"Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, we will continue to fight the Mongols in the wilderness. Such a combat environment is arduous and the battle is hard, and everyone needs to be energetic at all times to fight the enemy. This is the war we have to face. In the past, the Mongol army outnumbered us in field battles, so they could go wherever they wanted, and we could only limit them through terrain such as rivers and mountains, and we could only stop them by defending the city and the walled city. Now I ask you to master the knowledge of field warfare, and to be able to defeat the Mongol army in the field, so as to completely overwhelm them! Do you have faith? ”

After Zhao Jiaren finished speaking, he felt that there was a problem. This is not so much a pre-war mobilization as an expository essay. And the final agitation is simply the teacher's speech to the students?

The reaction of the following group of people was really as Zhao Jiaren expected, and it was also soft.

"Yes." "Zhizhou, we have confidence." "Have faith." The answers were scattered.

Syllable! Zhao Jiaren slapped his palm on the table, and he shouted loudly, "If it's a man, don't talk like that, have confidence or no confidence, say it to me together, say it loudly." ”

This stimulus had an effect, and everyone looked noticeably more energetic. Their answer was also forceful and coherent, "We have faith!" ”

"Follow me, we are confident that we can defeat the Mongols!" Zhao Jiaren began to shout slogans.

Seeing that Zhao Jiaren was so determined, the response of his subordinates was also firm, "We are confident that we can defeat the Mongols!" ”