Chapter 56: Thousands of Torchs of Fish and Dragons Rage (4)

Zheng Yunming smiled slightly and said, "This is just one thing, there is another thing, you don't believe that the leader of Peng Zheng can win a water battle, right?"

Sun Xiaoyi and Lao Wang looked up at Peng Man at the same time, and immediately lowered their eyes, not daring to face Peng Man's eyes.

"What are you afraid to say?" Peng Man said loudly: "If you lose, you lose! This time it was my command error. He chased the enemy with a smooth flow. As a result, he could not control the speed of the ship and crashed into the enemy fleet head-on, allowing the enemy to fight with his body and fight with the sidelines, exposing his disadvantage of a small number of people. This is purely because I don't understand the tactics of war."

Zheng Yunming laughed and said to the two soldiers: "The idea of ​​a smooth battle is not what you Peng Zheng thought of. I asked him to do this repeatedly. Speaking of water war, I am like you all, but I think it is nothing special. At least we know water nature better than the Mongolians. We grew up in the south of the Yangtze River and were accustomed to water nature since childhood. Even my young master, who was an official, could swim in the water for hundreds of steps, not to mention you guys begging for food in the wind and waves. You may not see it today.

Many Mongolian troops were caught during the war, but they did not die in the battle, but fell into the water and drowned without knowing the nature of the water. Since ancient times, northerners ride horses and southerners ride boats. You can't ride horses or fight, but they also don't know the nature of the water and are not used to using ships. A battle is nothing great. As long as we hide in the water, the Mongolians will do nothing. What we want is that we cannot lose this battle in vain. How to lose every battle, learn lessons, how to win every battle, enrich experience, and continue to fight, the Mongolians will always be defeated."

Zhang Lian shouted behind him: "The official's words are gone no matter how hard it is! What's the point of losing the first battle? From then on, we know that if we don't want to fight against the enemy, we should not fight against the wind. It is best to fight against the wind, and then go against the wind. If we have to fight against the wind, we must take the sails and use the oars to control the distance and then fight against the war. The battles are accumulated by little experience. If we are afraid of fighting, we will never become a climate in our lifetime!"

Zheng Yunming stood up and patted Zhang Lian on the shoulder: "It's good to say that joining the army is an activity of fighting with his life to fight for experience. As a navy, we should not be timid and timid. We must not only fight in the next battle, but also fight neatly and win!"

Sun Xiaoyi and Lao Wang secretly looked at each other. The generals talked a lot, but when they fought with real swords and guns, how can they guarantee that they would win safely?

Not only were the soldiers of the Jing-E Navy worried about this problem, but the civil servants and military generals in Ezhou were also unstable.

"The Hu people have very strong bows and arrows, and are strong and good at fighting. In terms of individual soldiers, they can be at least three to five Jin soldiers. I have never seen the Jurchens in Shaoxing Nian, but it is probably not much different to say that these Mongols have the best martial arts skills in the world." Zhao Wan looked at the 56th chapter of the Jinghu area hanging high in the court, thousands of torches were roaring fish and dragons (4)

The graph is very worried: "Even if they are not water-free, they can cross the river with just a small boat. Once they get ashore, who can stop them?"

"They didn't cross the river so easily. Yesterday's battle was clearly seen. They were not familiar with water and were not good at handling the ship. Once our army was moving forward, their fleet would disturb themselves." Zheng Yunming responded decisively. If the strong confidence of the supreme commander was expressed at this time, these local officials would easily shake. There are no fewer people like Zhang Guishou, who is hiding among the people of Yichang now. "With me leading the navy, I will definitely block them in Jiangbei."

He pointed to the upper reaches of the Han River with a slimy, straight poplar branches. "The Tartars' army is not just Huangzhou. What is now certain is that there are thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry ambushing near Yingzhou, including foreign cavalry and Han cavalry. Now the general Yao Zhiyuan has barely defended the city, and he dared not give out any more. Yingzhou is the center of food and grass transportation on the west line of Lake Beijing. This place must be rescued, but there is no danger at present."

"The Jingmen Army, from Laoya Mountain to Jiangling, only scattered cavalry to the area of ​​Laoya Mountain, because Xiangyang blocked most of the enemy troops in this direction, and this area is all mountainous areas, and it is difficult to move large cavalry and cannot truly exert their combat power. Last year, the battle of Laoya Mountain had already caused them suffering. I think the Tatars were all smart people and would not repeat the same mistakes. As for the situation east of the Han River, it is hard to say that they are optimistic. Currently, Zhang Rou is entrenched in Huangzhou and Yanshi is entrenched in Suizhou. Tasi is said to have arrived in De'an Prefecture, Guangzhou and Qizhou.

The traces of large groups of enemy troops were found." Zheng Yunming said while sticking a small black flag on the topographic map. It was obvious that there were very few black flags west of the Han River, but the prefectures and counties east of the east were dense. The enemy's intentions were very obvious. Since Xiangyang was suddenly difficult to remove, and De'an had already been trapped, they followed the principle of advancing with the least resistance and broke into the eastern part of Hubei Road and the western part of Huaixi, and looted in areas with weak defenses in the Song people, and then turned around to attack Xiangyang City.

"I went south by boat and had some contact with the Mongolian ships. The Mongolian naval army was already roughly divided." Zheng Yunming greeted Peng Man and Zhang Lian, and his words were mainly to the commanders of the two naval army: "The enemy ships are only upstream of Yingzhou, and are preparing to carry the army across the river to Huangzhou. More than 2,000 remain near Xiangyang. Some of them have set off and are expected to attack Jiangling against the current. There are also the fleet yesterday, carrying a large number of soldiers.

I have already gone to meet with Zhang Rou. Apart from the fleet that has already taken off, Ezhou is the only way for the other fleets. My plan is to first concentrate the warships in my hands and chase these escaped ships along the Yangtze River. After they are wiped out, I will quickly return to Ezhou and defend it here. But it is not just waiting for the situation, but to observe the situation. If you have the opportunity, you will go up against the current and lift the siege of Yingzhou. If you don’t have the opportunity, you will guard the Chaoskou and prevent the enemy from invading Jiangling and Ezhou.

Peng Man asked: "Why don't you divide the troops into two groups? I will lead a ship to Huangzhou to pursue it. The deputy commander only needs to bring the 56th chapter of the 1000 torches, fish and dragons, and the rage (4)

I led a brigade to guard this place, only to fear that when our army was in full bloom, the Mongolian army suddenly crossed the river to capture Ezhou. Wouldn't our army be affected by the enemy from both sides? It is better to put the entire army first, so it is better to be foolproof."

"The principle of using troops is to concentrate troops, and there is no dispersion." Zheng Yunming's tone was quite arbitrary: "The key to defending the region is to capture the movements of the enemy and adjust the deployment based on the enemy's offensive. Leave troops everywhere to defend, and the entire defense area will be loopholes. Now the Mongols are robbing Suizhou and Fuzhou, so how can they have time to cross the river to attack? When they concentrate enough troops to take the ship south, it will be half a month later. In these fifteen days, we will go east quickly, defeat Zhang Rou, and then return to guard Ezhou. The key is only on the word "fast".

Fast is the key to winning all army. Simply put, as long as you are fast enough, you can win the war, and sometimes you can even reach the perfect realm that Sun Wuzi dreams of, and defeat others without fighting. Speed ​​is the life of the army. Even if a field army without speed is brave and good at fighting, it will not be able to control the dominance of war. Zheng Yunming's understanding of this is deeply rooted in the bones, but because the speed of infantry cannot compete with the pure cavalry team anyway, he had no choice but to ensure that he is invincible in the conflict between cavalry. However, if the infantry alone wants to gain the upper hand in the war, even the world's number one general cannot do it.

But the battlefield is limited to the front line of the Yangtze River and the waterways are well connected. Zheng Yunming can use the naval ships that the Song Dynasty is best at increasing the mobility of the army. On this special battlefield, the mobility of the ships is even greater than that of the horse team. Zheng Yunming is about to use this unique advantage of the Song Dynasty to launch a real inside battle.

This battle with the Jing-E Navy as its core element began with the defeat of the enemy ships in Huangzhou.

Meng Gong didn't know that Zheng Yunming was planning a large-scale battle spanning hundreds of miles. He was fully prepared for the battle with the most elite vanguard of the Mongolian army who remained in Huangzhou. On October 18, Meng Gong sent Zhao Wu, his cousin Meng Ying and his commander Zhang Hanying out of the city to fight Zhang Rou. The Song army used General Mu as the vanguard and shot stone cannons to shoot the enemy. He fought with Zhang Rou for ten rounds. He did not take any advantage and had to withdraw his troops and return to the city. Zhang Rou took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to counterattack, attacking the northern mountain peak of Huangzhou City and attacking the western gate of Huangzhou. Meng Gong sent his general Qu Shen, the general of the elected army, to attack from the western gate. Zhang Hanying attacked from the northern gate and fought fiercely with the enemy under the city of Huangzhou. He personally led the central army out of the city to support, and finally repelled Zhang Rou's army.

Although this battle did not touch the walls of Huangzhou, the shouts of killing resounded throughout the sky. The people of Huangzhou were all frightened when they heard this. It was not until the Song army repelled the enemy that they felt relieved.

The day after the war ended, Meng Gong climbed the south gate tower of Huangzhou and looked up at the Yangtze River. While fighting fiercely in Huangzhou City, in Chibi, not far from the city of Zhou, the Song army's navy had just fought with Mongolian ships heading south from the upstream. In the 56th chapter of the river control commander Shi Songzhi's relatives, thousands of torches were roaring fish and dragons (4)
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