When the battle of Fenshui Pass gradually spread, not only did he start his long-planned 'pit killing operation', but the Yuanmeng Dadu side was also urgently formulating a new response plan.

Li Heng was trapped, and Zhang Hongfan was killed.

Two of the strongest commanders of the Yuan and Mongolian dynasties, who were not of the Mongol lineage, were defeated by the Song army one after another, causing the entire capital to be in an uproar.

The invincible Great Yuan Dynasty in the southern and northern wars, when it was about to trample the Song Dynasty to death, inexplicably lost the waters of Jiangxi and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses are still unclear whether they are alive or dead.

As soon as Kublai Khan became angry, the many nobles who controlled the Yuan Dynasty could only quickly find a way to remedy it.

Thinking about it, this group of nobles who have first-class skills in internal fighting and merit grabbing skills, and who are at the bottom of the army in battle, can only use the method of pulling out the tallest man in the short man, and push the matter to Boyan, who was originally named the generalissimo of the Southern Expedition.

Who told you to always show off?

Today, Xiangyang and Lin'an will be laid down in the south, and tomorrow they will turn around and go to Yanran Mountain to quell the rebellion.

Since you are so good at fighting, then you can continue to play.

The chaotic high-level leaders of the Yuan Dynasty rarely formed a high degree of unanimity within one day, and suggested that Prime Minister Zuo Boyan immediately go south and return to Lin'an to dispatch troops and horses to fight the Song court again.

As for the others, none of them came out to fight.

Dadu, Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion.

Boyan had just returned from the desert grassland for less than a month, he originally thought that he could enjoy Qingfu here, and when Zhang Hongfan was about to finish the Song Dynasty, he would slowly go south to witness this historical moment. But who knew that the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and Zhang Hongfan had been on the expedition for less than half a month, and he died at the water dividing pass so inexplicably.

As soon as Zhang Hongfan died, the pressure of the Southern Expedition was all on him Boyan.

At noon, Boyan sat alone in the mansion to eat, and the only one who served him was the old servants in the mansion, who were also the old soldiers who had followed him and fought on the battlefield.

Seeing that his prime minister's complexion was not good, the old servant inevitably talked a lot after pouring his wine: "My lord, when the Southern Expedition was in danger, Your Majesty and the hundred officials only trusted you, why are you not very happy?" ”

Glad?

If Zhang Hongfan won the battle and invited him, the generalissimo, to visit how to capture Yashan, Boyan might be very happy, but he would not be interested in drinking at all, and he still put it down after holding the wine bowl for a while:

"Li Heng and Zhang Hongfan have been defeated one after another, how happy am I."

"My lord, how can they compare with you, you are the undefeated god of war of our Great Yuan Kingdom." The old servant was undoubtedly a loyal servant, but he didn't understand Boyan's inner thoughts at all, and a word of persuasion was not effective, but made Boyan even more dull.

Mars?

If it is just within the Yuanmeng clan, he can indeed call himself a god of war with a cheeky face.

But looking beyond the Yuanmeng clan?

Everyone in the court and China knew that the battle he took Xiangyang was very beautiful, but only he understood that the battle was purely fought by Liu Quan's troops.

If he hadn't refused Liu Cheng's invitation to continue to go south at that time, and he led people to secretly take Ezhou according to Liu Quan's strategy, the entire battlefield in Jingxiang and even Huainan would have only been a stage for Liu Cheng alone.

The first battle of Xiangyang was like this, and the bloodless attack on Lin'an was even more so.

He, the marshal of the Southern Expedition, said that the biggest role is nothing more than to supervise those non-Yuan and Mongolian commanders under him, as for letting him think of some ingenious strategies or tactics to break the enemy?

That's really embarrassing, my ancestors haven't passed down this gene for ten generations.

Boyan felt a mountain of pressure at the moment, and after putting down the wine bowl, he said in a rough voice: "Go, invite Master Ashu to come to me, I want to discuss the expedition with him." ”

Thinking about it, the helper that Boyan can think of at this moment is also a general in Yuanmeng's own clan who is comparable to his fame and status.

Uliangha Ashu.

………

"What a bunch of useless fools, they can't even take a small Jiangxi."

"There is also a face official in a second-grade high position, which is no different from waste."

Putting aside the movements of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty for the time being, at this time, on the Yangtze River from Ezhou to Poyang, a fleet of no less than 200 warships of all sizes was heading south.

In the main battle ship of the command of this fleet, a man with a black beard and a fierce look was holding a roasted pig's trotter in his hand, and he was insulting while eating.

"The heat of this roasted elbow is also wrong, hum, the things made by the Song people are not as good as my grassland children!"

The corners of his mouth muttered, and he casually threw out the roast pig's trotters, regardless of the greasy face, and shouted directly: "Go and ask, where are we now, have the boats sent to inquire about the situation come back?" ”

This army that came from Xiangfan was the elite division of the naval army left by Yuan Meng around Dongting. And the commander of this army and horses is Pingzhang, the province of Annan of Yuanmeng, who once attacked Ali Hague in Jingxiang with Ashu and Boyan.

At the beginning of the battle of Xiangyang, Boyan took people to the east to fight Lin'an, and Ali Hague was left in Dongting to continue to preside over the follow-up affairs of Xiangfan.

As a brave general on the battlefield, it was obviously not Ali Hague's wish to be left behind, and as soon as he received the defeat message from Jiangxi and Lin'an this time, he knew that his opportunity had come.

In the past, Ali Hague always said that he was no less than Boyan and Ah Shu in terms of ability and merit, but not many people agreed, which made him very embarrassed, but at this moment, Ali Hague hoped that he could be faster, and it was best to meet the troublesome Song soldiers tomorrow, and then break the enemy with one blow.

At that time, he will be the savior on the battlefield of the Southern Expedition, and his status will definitely be able to rise directly from being in charge of the small Jingxiang to a high-ranking official in the capital, and even replacing Boyan as the prime minister.

In this battle, he came with the confidence of victory.

Because from the intelligence point of view, the number of warships mobilized in this surprise attack of the Song people and naval forces was actually only dozens, and it was completely because of surprise that they were able to create such a big mess in Lin'an.

Ali Hague felt that as long as he was not raided, and then attacked the Song army with an absolute superiority in strength, with only a few dozen warships, he could sink them all into the river and feed them to fish in a few days.

Just as Ali Hague strode to the deck, a lieutenant trotted over: "General, the pathfinder boat ahead is back." ”

"Oh? Can you see enemy troops? ”

"The sentinels didn't mention it, they just saved a group of sailors who had retreated from Poyang." The adjutant general shook his head and spoke, and Ali Hague suddenly showed displeasure: "Poyang Water Village has also suffered defeat?" Let the sailors come to me. ”

A moment later, several sailors came to Ali Hague and explained the whole process of their defeat.

As the whole process unfolded in front of Ali Hague, his face finally changed a little: "Then the Song people's water army didn't defeat you on the lake?" tricked you into saving Longxing, and then set up an ambush on the way, and the number of soldiers and horses was as high as tens of thousands? ”

What kind of tactics is this?

How could this be the strength of dozens of warships?

After Ali Hague heard this, his whole face sank.