Time: February 5 of the first year of Jingkang, the unitary hour in the afternoon, that is, five o'clock.

Location: In the Wudao Gorge, a large clearing before entering the canyon.

At such a point in time when it was about to get dark, the troops who went to Xiangyang City to support the operation this time had already assembled here.

And all the preparations are ready, and they can go immediately at any time.

At this moment, their group was in the open space at the mouth of the canyon, and a total of four squares were lined up in four distinct squares.

Specifically, these four phalanxes were composed of three battle battalions A, B, and C under the Xuange Battalion, plus a temporary logistics battalion.

There were three war battalions, each with a number of about nine hundred men.

They had sixteen subordinate teams of fifty-five men with the team chief as the highest commander; The combat unit of this kind of team is also the most common basic combat unit in the training of a group of heroes in the rivers and lakes.

It is the same as in the previous mission, the company-based combat method of the new army musketeers of the Great Song Dynasty.

As for these teams composed of fifty-five heroes in the rivers and lakes, what their specific combat effect will be, we will not know until we try it on the battlefield.

The remaining logistics battalion is composed of seventy-two craftsmen including Fu Daji.

There are also more than 100 handlebar types for driving cars, and more than 80 heroes with poor combat effectiveness but good auxiliary ability. It is composed of more than 300 people.

Despite the fact that the logistics battalion does not have many personnel, the overall size is the largest of the four phalanxes.

One of the key reasons for this is that in the phalanx of the logistics battalion, there are a total of 120 specially modified carts with ball bearings on their wheels.

At this moment, all the carts are full of supplies.

Every item of material in it is something that Hu Biao and his team have carefully prepared for the battle of Xiangyang City in the past three months.

The silver and copper coins spent for this cost are probably sold for three or five white jade beauties.

In addition to a spare batch of armor, weapons, and equipment of these troops, there are also pieces of iron ingots, leather, beef tendons and other raw materials.

In addition, there are a large number of medicines, ambulance supplies, etc.

Among the medicines, knife wound medicine and the like only occupy a small part, and the other larger part is a variety of Chinese herbal medicines to treat the plague.

No way! In the siege of the city, the Mongols faced a long-held city.

It is often common to throw rotting corpses into the city with trebuchets, so as to rely on the plague in the city to destroy the city.

In the original history and plot, it seems that there have been no similar situations here in Xiangyang City.

However, in the task of the system, no matter what happens beyond recognition, there is a huge possibility; Therefore, it must be right to beware of such a means as the Mongolian people, and to deal with it well.

Finally, there are bits and pieces, which may not be many in number, but they are all extremely useful.

In short, although these big vehicles in the logistics battalion seem to be a bit cumbersome, Hu Biao and they have to bring them, because they are some key materials that are urgently needed in future battles.

Fortunately, every big car, when the load is full, the maneuverability is not bad.

Mainly thanks to the fact that they made some improvements on the wheels similar to ball bearings; So that every big car in terms of weight and speed, there has been a significant improvement.

And for every big cart, Hu Biao and they extravagantly used two horse-drawn chariots.

Therefore, the real speed of these big cars should be quite good; Once they successfully entered Xiangyang City, the materials they loaded would also play a huge role.

The total number of personnel in the above four phalanxes is almost 3,000 people.

These manpower, but it is not the total number of all the heroes that Hu Biao and they can gather in the past three months.

Because there is still a night camp of more than 200 people, it is already under the leadership of Yu Hanfeng, Singer, Ah Li, and Huang Yizhi, and they are already dispatched in advance.

As of today, the number of troops under Hu Biao and his command has reached 3,200......

What's that! Set off at a time when it was only half an hour and it would be dark.

approaching Xiangyang City in the dark, in fact, it was after careful consideration by Hu Biao and them that it was a helpless decision that was finally made.

This is a special force composed of all heroes and well-equipped and coordinated.

In terms of combat effectiveness, they are naturally quite strong.

But in case it is discovered by the Mongolian people, such a small person will be frantically attacked in the field by more than ten times the opponent's cavalry troops, and no matter how powerful he is, he will not be able to withstand it.

Therefore, they had to ensure the secrecy of this small team, and sneaked all the way to the outside of Xiangyang City.

Only by killing at a critical moment can we give Mengren an unexpected lesson.

Based on the above one idea, the night team led by Yu Hanfeng and them also shouldered a difficult task.

Along the way, they had to remove a large number of exploration horses that had been released by the Mongolian side for at least a hundred miles in the entire battlefield around Xiangyang.

For a short time, the Mongol army was ignorant of their arrival.

Before leaving, Hu Biao and other remaining netizens, as well as Zhang Yimin and other high-level heroes in the rivers and lakes, all stood on a hillside at the mouth of the canyon.

Looking at the front of the formation, there are some immobile teams.

Thinking about this period of time, in order to let these heroes do the step in front of them, their huge and arduous efforts are very emotional.

After some emotion, they finally looked at Hu Biao and Hu Daxia, who were standing in front of them and wearing a riotous red cloak behind them.

Wait for him to come to the last battlefield mobilization, and then issue the order for the whole army to set off.

Just looked at the faces in front of me full of excitement, fanaticism, heroism and many other expressions, but there was no trace of fear and hesitation.

Before this, Hu Biao, who didn't know how many times he had been mobilized before the war, did not give everyone another tirade after thinking of some strange situations.

It's just that under the qi irrigation dantian, the sound began to echo in everyone's ears:

"In this battle, my Xuange camp will win, and my Great Song will win, set off~"

The voice fell, and the voice of 'victory' immediately shouted in everyone's mouths, with a heroic aura that soared into the sky.

Then under such a heroic atmosphere, the A-word war camp took the lead in setting off.

The two battalions of B and C followed, and the logistics battalion was the last.

It's just that these people with high morale didn't realize such a point, and because of this, Hu Biao even gave up on the pre-war mobilization that he originally planned to talk about at length.

That is: in such an important war involving the two Guo Jiahe nations, life and death, the court on this side actually did not send half a reinforcement.

The only support unit was also formed spontaneously by a group of people from the rivers and lakes.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, which was known to be extremely rich, the equipment, training, and military salaries of such a support unit did not get half of the copper plate from the imperial court.

On the contrary, it was stolen in various places by relying on the way of Jiangyang thieves.

In short, such a thing, as long as you think about it a little seriously from beginning to end, seems to be full of indescribable black humor......

Because throughout the march, it is necessary to keep the formation of the troops intact.

In addition, the marching speed of the entire team was also a little slowed down by the convoy of the logistics battalion.

Therefore, the distance from Wudaoxia to Xiangyang City is almost 260 miles, and it took Hu Biao and others two nights to arrive outside Xiangyang City.

Beyond the south gate, in a forest about fifteen or sixteen miles, the whole army hid there.

Fortunately, thanks to Yu Hanfeng and other nights, he paid a lot along the way; After more than 20 battles, more than 50 people were killed and wounded.

The news that the army of the Xuange battalion had arrived on the battlefield was well kept secret for a short time.

As for the Mongols who were killed by them, it would take at least a day or two for the Mongols to find out that they had not returned for a long time.

Of course, there is another reason for being able to arrive so secretly.

That is because of the arrival of the Mongolian army, so that the people who have suffered a lot of losses within a hundred miles around Xiangyang City have either fled into the city for refuge, or fled to Hanyang and other places in the rear.

It is also a very important factor to make the surrounding area uninhabited at all, which facilitates the covert advance of the army.

Anyway, at around 3 o'clock in the morning on February 7, Hu Biao and his party finally arrived at the designated place with the army and hid.

All that's left is to wait for a suitable time, or if you have to go out, to kill them right here.

It's just that Hu Biao didn't expect that such a so-called opportunity would come so quickly, and it caught them off guard......

******

"Special! These Mongolian grandsons are blowing some broken horns early in the morning, blowing wool, and they are mourning their ancestors~"

With such a scolding voice in his mouth, Hu Biao lifted the cloak wrapped around his body and sat up straight from under a big tree.

He remembered that the army of the Xuange battalion arrived here last night, and after a busy period of work, the army had been hidden, and the time was four o'clock.

As for Hu Biao himself, although the journey over the past two days was not far, he was worried about being discovered by the Mongolian Tanma, but he was always cheered up.

So much so that at that time, I felt a little physically and mentally exhausted.

hurriedly explained a few words to Yu Hanfeng, and asked him to lead people to do a good job of vigilance, just lie in the shade of a tree; There was a faint smell of horse manure in his nose, and as soon as his eyes were closed, he fell asleep.

If he could, Hu Biao even felt that he could sleep for a day and a night.

It's just that he felt that he had just fallen asleep, and there was a high-pitched, long horn sound in his ears, which kept sounding like a rush.

When I opened my eyes, the sky seemed to be only slightly bright.

It's a pity that before Hu Biao waited for this product, he vented all his anger when he got up, wearing a hat on his head and a cloak behind him, completely a martial arts lover Yu Hanfeng dressed as a chivalrous man.

It was already with the light skill of finally getting started, and the toes were constantly tapping on the ground, and it was flying forward two or three meters away in a way and frequency.

However, in five or six seconds, he galloped over a distance of 100 meters and came to Hu Biao's side.

After opening his mouth, he successfully made Hu Biao lose his temper at all: "Old Hu, the situation is a little bad, it seems that there may be a big move in Mongolia today~"

After hearing such a sentence, Hu Biao quickly rubbed his hands on his face and rubbed them a few times.

In such a way, after forcibly cheering himself up, he shouted at Yu Hanfeng: "Go, call the others together, hurry over and have a look~"

About thirty minutes later, it was already getting dark.

A golden morning sun has risen in the east, shining everything in heaven and earth with golden brilliance.

Under the gust of spring breeze, the temperature is about ten degrees, and it seems that today is another good weather suitable for fighting and the dead.

Hu Biao and the others went around the boss and successfully avoided the Mongolian probe.

finally came to the west of Xiangyang City, in a forest seven or eight miles.

When they arrived here, they borrowed the monocular that they had processed during the period in Wudaoxia, an eight-fold lens.

In the north of Xiangyang City, which has been able to be attacked by the people, the various situations above and below the city wall can be seen more clearly and intuitively.

It should be noted that the four walls of Xiangyang City have long been completely surrounded by the Mongols.

However, judging from the distribution of troops outside the Mongolian city, except for the northern city wall, where the heavy troops gathered, the other three city walls only looked like tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, the Mongolian people directly made it clear that their main direction of attack was the north.

It's just that the other three city walls, each of which has 10,000 troops of 10,000 people, is still a powerful force for the defenders, and they still dare not have the slightest carelessness in these three city defense cities.

In this way, a considerable part of the energy and troops are involved.

And after Hu Biao and the others arrived, the return artillery position outside the city had been firing at the city wall for a while.

I saw that it was about 400 meters away from the city.

There are a total of thirty looks, compared to all the trebuchets encountered by Hu Biao and others in all the tasks they have experienced in the past, the entire scale is much larger than the counterweight trebuchets, which have been lined up all the way under the city.

There is no doubt that these things are the famous siege weapons in the hands of the Mongols in history: the return cannon.

I don't know if this Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Ma Yin, these two great experts who used the return cannon, are now directly commanding under the city.

But from a distance, these return cannons were under the command of some of the Semu people.

Every time it is officially launched, there is a round stone that weighs almost 300 catties and has been obviously polished.

After drawing an arc in the air, he smashed it towards the city wall.

These big stones, which have been calculated by the color eye people, are not only quite good on the quasi-head, but also far more powerful than those that Hu Biao and they have encountered in their previous missions.

Under the lens of Hu Biao and others, with a telescope in their hands.

As long as these stones hit the wall battlements, or some buildings such as watchtowers on the city wall, they will basically be smashed immediately.

If it falls behind the battlements, the boulders that roll all the way often at least knock several defenders to the ground, and the shields in their hands have no effect.

Hit by such a huge force, there is no need to think much about what happened to the defenders in the city.

Anyway, if you hit your hands and feet, it will be a comminuted fracture immediately; If you are hit by the vital point, you will be killed immediately, and there is no second possibility at all.

It is the main body of the city wall that is covered with earth on the inside and large bricks on the outside.

After being hit by this large stone, the same splash of brick splinters left a clear mark on the wall.

However, Hu Biao and others know that this is not the most deadly.

The most lethal point is that under the long-term and high-intensity boulder bombardment, the seemingly incomparably strong and majestic Xiangyang City, the city wall will eventually be blasted out of a big hole.

This is absolutely fatal to the morale of the defenders, as well as the difficulty of defending.

However, at present, Xiangyang City, without waiting for a period of continuous artillery bombardment, the strong city wall was blasted open, and it seemed that it had encountered a big trouble.

Because under the city, there was already a Mongolian cavalry team of 10,000 people, and the infantry of the three northern Han armies began to gather.

Among them, the Mongolian cavalry of 10,000 people looked like a force used to supervise the war.

But in the ranks of the Han army, there were many long ladders, and at a glance they knew that they were preparing to attack the city; The moat under the northern wall had already been filled in the previous time.

In some other places, a middle-aged Mongolian man riding a white horse is a god.

Guarded by thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry, and some of the apparently high-ranking Mongolian officers, they were pointing at the city walls.

Even if they relied on the eight-fold mirror in their hands, Hu Biao and the others couldn't see the appearance of this blind person for a while.

But just by taking a look, a realization arose in their hearts, this is the current commander of the Mongolian Northern Route Army.

Now he is only the emperor's younger brother, but in the future, he is the big man of Emperor Mengyuan: Kublai Khan.

Suddenly, in everyone's hearts, a huge impulse like a devil arose, kill him, kill him desperately, and let Meng Yuan in the back finish the calf in one day.

In that way, the 80 million people of the Southern Song Dynasty would not be reduced to the so-called fourth-class people......

(End of chapter)