Before the arrival of the new army, the main force of the second division led by Hou Xing arrived at Fushun City by land. Due to the threat of 2,000 cavalry from the flanks, Hou Xing did not dare to attack the city, so he had to set up camp in the five places west of the city, and he had already received an order from Zan Wanshou to defend on the spot and wait for the arrival of the naval army and the Banzhou army.

After Niu Lin led his army to Fushun City, he wanted to eliminate the Hou Xingbu together with the troops of Lost Lida, and then sent troops north to support Baijianu. Just as he was preparing to launch an offensive, urgent military information was delivered to him one after another. These emergency military situations include Baijianu from Zizhou, Yang Wen'an from the Mianshui front, and Yang Dayuan from the former Qingju City, and the content is also surprisingly consistent: The Thunderbolt army is coming, and reinforcements will be sent quickly.

The military information sent to Niu Lin was all 800 miles expedited, and the cavalry who delivered the letter were all covered in dust without exception, and some were still covered with scars and blood scabs, and it was obvious that they had gone through fierce battles on the road. According to the messengers, they were all more than one man with more than one horse, and because they kept running, most of them were killed along the way, and the rest were too much to use because of overwork.

The successive military situations made Niu Lin very puzzled, which place was the main force of the Thunderbolt Army? Baijianu said that the Thunderbolt army under the city of Zizhou had tens of thousands of people and hundreds of artillery, so it was naturally the main force; Yang Wen'an sent a messenger to also say that the Thunderbolt Army on the Mianshui Front has tens of thousands of people and hundreds of warships, and is the absolute main force; Yang Dayuan said that the cavalry of the Perak Army raided and occupied Pengxi Village and Lingquan Mountain, and he was organizing troops and horses to prepare to recapture them. At present, the Jiading army from Xuzhou is also stationed five miles away from Fushun City, and judging from the fact that it is equipped with hundreds of artillery, it definitely has a great relationship with the Thunderbolt army.

According to Niu Xuan's judgment, although the Song army that fought in Shenjian City was under the banner of Jiading Zhan Wanshou and Banzhou, in terms of its huge number of warships and artillery, if it had nothing to do with the Thunderbolt army, he would not believe it if he was killed. Everyone knows that the artillery of the Thunderbolt Army is unique in the world, and even if there are not many other Song troops, they are far from reaching the level of the Thunderbolt Army, and they do not have their earth-destroying performance.

The emergency military situation coming from all directions made Niu Lin unable to distinguish the truth for a while. Judging from his thinking based on the agricultural and pastoral economy, it is impossible to believe that the Thunderbolt army can attack in several ways, and each way is about 10,000 people. If you add in the remaining troops, this means that the Thunderbolt army has reached the size of tens of thousands in a short period of time - he counts the basic militia. In the existing thinking of the Mongolian generals such as Niu Lin, it is reasonable that the Thunderbolt army has only a few thousand people, and at most 10,000 people.

The Mongolian army currently controls half of the four roads in the Sichuan Gorge, and can only afford to raise a few thousand cavalry and more than 30,000 or 40,000 Mongolian Han troops and new annexed troops, which is still under the premise of transferring a large number of resources from the north. Even if the western Sichuan Plain is rich, how can it be possible for the Thunderbolt Army to raise so many troops in one corner of the country, and also be equipped with so many firearms? Liu Heima, who once told him that artillery was even much more expensive than cavalry, and that Liu Heima, who sold iron and smashed pots, only minted a small number of firearms.

Although they didn't believe in these emergency military situations from the bottom of their hearts, Yang Wen'an, Yang Dayuan, Bai Jianu and others were not people who lied about military information, which made Niu Lin, a veteran general, at a loss for a while. If the army is raised to the north to rescue, Fushun City will inevitably fall into the hands of the Thunderbolt army, and its naval army will go up the water, and Zizhou will definitely not be protected; And if you stay in Fushun and fight a decisive battle with the Thunderbolt army, Zizhou without assistance will definitely be lost, and Fushun will fall into a situation of attacking back and forth.

Niu Lin knew that this was an existential crisis. If you win the decisive battle, it is easy to say, if you lose, you will lose the entire Luzhou County of Tongchuan Prefecture. At present, Perak has controlled Jiantandu and Lingquan Mountain, and will even control Fushui with the advantage of the water army, and then Tuoshui and even the Mongolian army west of Fushui will be cut off and surrounded by the Perak army.

After much thought, Nutri decided to take a compromise. He first ordered Yang Dayuan to send troops to rescue Yang Wen'an, and waited for the opportunity to recapture Pengxi Village and Lingquan Mountain, and then wrote to ask the Marshal of the Mongolian Marshal Dongchuan Mansion Kipchak and Wang Weizheng of Beichuan to send troops to help; Then he ordered a thousand cavalry to go to Zizhou to report to Kudu's subordinates to help the hundred slaves. These thousand cavalry were originally Kudu's men. In view of Liu Heima's serious illness, he ordered Liu Yuanzhen to go to Zizhou to take him to Fushun City; As for Fushun City, Niu Lin decided to send people to block the shipping lanes in order to stop the Thunderbolt ships in the direction of Zizhou and Luzhou, and eat the nearly 10,000 troops in front of him before the arrival of the Thunderbolt Army and Banzhou.

In Niu Ling's view, although the Song army under the banner of the Jiading Army under the city of Fushun was equipped with a large number of artillery, it did not have the protection of naval ships and lacked logistical support, so he only needed to use cavalry to cut off its grain routes, and then use the new annex army to exhaust its ammunition, and then he could break through the camp in one fell swoop. As soon as the fortifications were breached, the lost cavalry could harvest and slaughter. Of course, the new annex will not be used as cannon fodder in the first place, but will drive the women, children, and children in the city to consume ammunition.

In addition, the two infantry brigades brought a large amount of artillery, so although they were accompanied by 5,000 basic militiamen, hundreds of mules and horses, and a large number of wheelbarrows, they did not carry much ammunition and food. Under the chewing of horses and horses, when they arrived at the city of Fushun, the food of the whole army could only be needed for half a month. Thankfully, it didn't cost much ammo along the way, but it was a pitiful amount compared to the ammo on the transport ships in the Battle of the Divine Arm.

The lack of food, grass and ammunition was also the reason why Hou Xing ordered to hold the camp and wait for reinforcements from the north and south directions. According to the plan, Zan Wanshou will lead the naval army to escort the Banzhou army to Fushun City, and after joining forces, he will encircle and annihilate the Mongolian army of the New Gang with the first division of Cao Ergou going south. It's just that, for some reason, Zan Wanshou's sailors did not appear in the waters of Fushun, and the Banzhou army was not seen for a long time.

Hou Xing also knows his weaknesses and shortcomings. The most obvious weakness was cavalry. Although the cavalry brigade of the 2nd Division and the Duzhang Barbarian cavalry numbered nearly 1,300 men, they could not confront the numerically superior Mongol cavalry head-on while far away from the infantry artillery support, let alone undertake the heavy task of protecting the grain routes, and could only carry out reconnaissance, harassment, and communication tasks.

The second weakness is the disadvantage of troops, the Mongolian army of the New Gang still has 10,000 people after the battle of Shenjian City, plus the 2,000 cavalry of the lost Lida and the 2,000 new annexed troops of Fushun City, there are still 14,000 people after the combined army, and the Mongolian army also captured a large number of people from Fushun City and the surrounding states and counties. In addition to the cavalry, Hou Xing's subordinates only had two infantry brigades of 3,000 people, and even if they added 5,000 basic militia, it was less than 10,000.

Of course, Hou Xing's biggest headache is the problem of grain, grass and ammunition. To this end, he ordered a one-third reduction in food rations so that the supply of grain and grass could be sustained for a longer period of time. At present, the weather is mild, and most of the soldiers and the key militia are quietly in the barracks, and the reduction in rations does not affect morale and combat. On the other hand, he ordered the fortifications to be strengthened. In the past, there were deep trenches in front of the barracks, and mines were also planted in key parts and triangular nails were scattered.

But Hou Xing knew that it was not too difficult for the Mongolian army to break through the defense of the current camp. The most effective weapon to hold the fort is artillery. It's just that the amount of ammunition in the camp is really not sufficient, and even the number of grenades and mines is not much, so he has to be prepared for hand-to-hand combat with the Mongolian army. Strengthening the civil fortifications and doing a good job of adequate defense can offset the Mongolian army's advantage in bows and arrows and numbers to the greatest extent.