Chapter 59: Qiang Flute Rain by Zhaoxin City (4)

Since the Song Dynasty, Qi, Liang, Chen and Dingding Dingding Jiangnan, there have been vehicles and ships. However, vehicles and ships are popular in the era before and after the Song Dynasty crossed south. In the second year of Shaoxing, the official army tried to make four-car small boats. Later, the so-called bandits such as Yang Yao in Dongting Lake built various vehicles and ships, with a total of more than ten specifications, with a large number of twenty-four vehicles, which could carry 300 elite naval troops. The vehicles and ships of the Dongting Navy were finally broken by Yue Fei's strategy of throwing grass into the lake and luring the enemy into the depths. At the same time, they also obtained the method of manufacturing vehicles and ships. The craftsmen in Jinghu made vehicles and ships were also passed down from that time.

Vehicles and ships are extremely sharp weapons for water wars. Because the wheels can be stepped on by multiple people at the same time, once they are mobilized, they move lightly and run like flying on the vast lake. The deposed emperor Wanyan Liang once fought south with an army of 600,000. When crossing the river in Caishiji, he was blocked by the Song navy and could not advance. At that time, the Zhenjiang navy of the Song Dynasty only galloped back and forth on the river with several vehicles and ships, advancing and retreating freely, and the six hundred thousand army was seized by the spirit of crossing the river. There was no longer a crossing of the river.

But the vehicles and ships also have their own weaknesses. Needless to say, there are two biggest weaknesses of vehicles and ships: the bulky body of the super-large vehicles and ships are difficult to move through rivers, and the vehicles and ships are difficult to withstand wind and waves and cannot fight at sea. There is no obstacle to the latter one. Originally, the Song Dynasty navy had sailboats for sea confrontation. However, the first one was a bit troublesome. The giant warship carrying three or four hundred people was indeed difficult to operate on main battlefields such as the Yangtze River and Han River.

Therefore, the scale of vehicles and ships used to create river and water war should not be too large. Similar to the eight-car 16-wheeled vehicles planned by Zhang Lian for Zheng Yunming, it is already the limit of river and water warfare. According to Zhang Lian's idea, even eight-car crafts are difficult to drive when driving on the water. It is best to build a large number of second-car and fourth-car warships for offense and defense. However, Zheng Yunming still insisted on spending a lot of money to build a batch of eight-car large ships. His focus is not on today, but on the long-term considerations in the future. One day, the Song army will equip a truly powerful water war weapon, and this weapon must have a warship with enough space to load it.

The eight-chariot warship is a good platform for carrying huge weapons. The ship has sixteen wheels and forty oars. It can carry 220 fully armed soldiers, ninety oars and ninety oars. The ship is divided into three levels. The deck is equipped with bed crossbows aimed at both sides. The middle-level artillery windows are placed with general cannons of various colors. The lower level is a pedal room for oars and pedals. The Jing-E Navy's new ship is that the Jing-E Navy's new car and ship does not have a tall ship tower that can accommodate archers to shoot arrows in it. Instead, a low command building was built at the stern of the ship. The deck of the large ship is the main combat platform for the crossbowmen. In order to defend against the attacks of enemy bows and arrows, a row of huge horse-drawn defense was set up on both sides, and a cowhide battle shed was also built above the deck.

"Bows and arrows must have a high advantage in combat. Warships of similar shapes to Jinge Navy may suffer losses when they encounter tall tower ships." Zhang Lian once explained to Zheng Yunming like this.

"What we have to deal with is just some rafts and fishing boats. Even if there is no boat tower at all, it can still have a high advantage over the Mongolians." Although Zheng Yunming gave this 59th chapter, the Qiang Flute Rain on the edge of Zhaoxin City (4)

He answered the same answer, but Zhang Lian always disagreed. Did the Mongolians never learn how to build ships in their entire lives and could only use fishing boats as warships? He knew that there were also places with dense lakes and lakes in the north. If the Mongolian Xuanchai general and local powerful generals recruited craftsmen to build tall warships and combined with sailors who were accustomed to wind and waves, Zheng Yunming's low and large ship might not have the upper hand.

However, at this time, Meng Gong no longer cared for such eight-carat ships with a low building. He now needed as many warships as possible and divided tens of thousands of reinforcements from water and land to reinforce Xiangyang.

On the main hall of the Yingzhou Prefectural Office, a huge table was displayed with a huge terrain of Hubei. The dense red wooden blocks outside Yingzhou City were densely packed with small wooden blocks, each of which was a local Song army of Jinghu. Now Yingzhou City has become the advance base for all the Song army that reinforced the upper reaches and counterattacked the Mongolian army near Xiangyang. In addition, the important function of supply warehouses has made Yingzhou even busier inside and outside.

Meng Gong pointed to the map and said to Zheng Yunming: "Now Yingzhou can be said to have concentrated all the mobile forces that the imperial court could use in Jinghu. In addition to the 3,000 troops brought out by the officials from Xiangyang, our headquarters was 30,000, and the Jianghai Commander led Jiangzhou and 20,000 troops in Huaixi, stationed in Ezhou and Yueyang, and the Jing-E Commander General sent from Jiangling, 12,000 troops under the commander General Yangyi, a total of 75,000 troops, preparing to launch an unprecedented battle with the Mongols."

"Although that's the case, it's just a journey, but the military strategy is not in line with each other." Before Zheng Yunming spoke, the general general of Huguang, Yao Zhiyuan, said first: "Why not divide the troops and go to Xiangyang together so that the Mongolians cannot defend themselves, and then the siege of Xiangyang can be lifted?"

After hearing his words, Meng Gong turned around and asked Zheng Yunming, "What's the plan?"

Zheng Yunming nodded at the general leader of Huguang and turned his head to Meng Gong and said, "This is the common tactic of military strategy, but it is not applicable to today's strategy of advancing troops. It was originally intended to make the enemy unable to understand the true direction of the march and make the enemy unable to deploy defensive forces. However, today we face not only more enemy forces than us, but also cavalry with strong combat power and high mobility. Even if they divide their troops to guard various passes, they have enough time to gather a powerful field force to attack our army on the way forward. At that time, our strategy of advancing troops in different directions achieved the purpose of the Mongols defeating each of them."

Li Boyuan also hurriedly said: "That's true. When the Jin Dynasty used the trick of advancing troops in different directions to deal with the Mongols, but every time they were caught by the Mongols, they were beaten all the way, and then the rest of the road collapsed. Almost no one could succeed. Anyone who succeeded was to concentrate all the troops, highlight the surprise troops, and give unexpected blows to the Mongols."

Meng Gong looked up at Li Boyuan. As a typical general of the Northern Army, Li Boyuan naturally did not want to lead a team of troops to Xiangyang alone. For these people, the army in their hands is the capital to settle down. If they encounter the Mongols halfway, the 59th chapter of the Qiang Diyu on the edge of Zhaoxin City (4)

The main force, even if the fast horse escapes his life, the army is annihilated, which means that the comfortable life in the Southern Dynasty has reached the end. He cannot consult his opinion on this issue.

The only one who can trust the most is Zheng Yunming. His main force is still trapped in Xiangyang City, and he is also responsible for defending Xiangyang. Regarding the desire to rescue Xiangyang, no one of the generals gathered in Yingzhou should be more urgent than him. He still asked Zheng Yunming: "So, according to the opinions of the deputy governor, what should be done?"

"It's actually very simple to say." Zheng Yunming picked up a small mahogany piece, which represented his troops and gently advanced along the Han River to Xiangyang: "I took 3,000 people from the headquarters, took the Jinge Navy warship first, and investigated the strictness of the Mongolian army encirclement of Xiangyang on the road. After I returned to Xiangyang, the general led the army to advance along the Han River and land. There were 60,000 defenders in Xiangyang. Cooperating with the Meng army to attack inside and outside the periphery, the siege of Xiangyang is not difficult to resolve."

Meng Gong pondered: "If the officials went first, wouldn't it be a warning to the snake? Nagqu was unaware of the situation and would not be prepared for the army that would continue to advance."

"The army gathered in the downstream, and the Mongols had known this for a long time. Whether I go or not, they will be on guard against each other. But if I go first, I can see the reality of the Mongols on the water and land. If I am not in Xiangyang, all the generals in the city will be incompatible. Zhao Jian will only add a lot of trouble when he coordinates the army."

Of course, there is another thing that does not need to be said clearly. Zheng Yunming's headquarters are all in Xiangyang City. Although everyone respects him in Yingzhou, he is only the three thousand people who can really command. This trip to Xiangyang was originally intended to prevent the Mongolian army from bypassing Xiangyang and crossing the Yangtze River. Now after several beautiful water-land battles, the Mongolian army's plan to cross the river has been completely defeated.

At this time, Meng Gong also had a concern that the Mongolian army would use several times the maneuverability of the Song army several times, and use the tactics of fighting east and west to avoid the real and flawlessness, first tricked the main force of the Song army into rushing to help Xiangyang, and then took advantage of the empty hinterland of Jinghu to raise troops to invade south again. This is one of the reasons why he repeatedly considered in Yingzhou but did not dare to move blindly.

But what he didn't know was that the Mongols had indeed lost interest in invading the hinterland of Jinghu Lake again, and the reason was a factor that was inhuman.

Zheng Yunming took advantage of the generals gathering to discuss the situation of the war, shouted Meng Gong to the place where no one was behind the screen and asked in a low voice: "I have another thing I have to worry about, so it's not easy to talk to everyone in front of you. Now there are at least a dozen troops with numbers near Yingzhou, which belong to several CS and Rongji in the Yangtze River. There are so many armies of different backgrounds gathered together, and there may be disputes over the ownership of command."

He frowned and said, "According to the customs of the court, it is naturally the most suitable for you, the chief commander of the Imperial Horse Army Commander, who has the largest official position, as the chief commander. Shi Songzhi did also appointed you to control the military and horses of Jinghu. But you must know that the Shi Governor manages the commander along the river, and most of the troops gathered here are Qiang Diyu on the edge of Zhaoxin City in the 59th chapter of the 59th chapter of the Qiang Diyu on the side of Zhaoxin City (4)

The Zhao commander was under the jurisdiction of the envoy. Now that the enemy surrounds Xiangyang, the commander of the Zhao commander cannot be more than an inch high wall. The general needs to communicate more with Jiangling's other deputy envoys to avoid the generals from disagreeing and causing internal problems."
Chapter completed!