"The tricks used today are similar to those at that time."

The strategies used tonight do have some common ground with the strategies used by the Zhao brothers in Yangzhou that year. However, the power of the more than 100,000 Hu army outside the city is not comparable to that of Li Quanneng. In Shandong, Li Quan's army of more than 100,000 could not stop the rushing of 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, and was rushed to the city and surrendered. Today, the elite of the Mongolian army outside the city is full of the elites, and it is difficult to use troops similar to those of the past to repel the Iron Cavalry Legion by force.

It is precisely because of this that this night attack has extraordinary significance.

Zheng Yunming and Zhao Kui were waiting for the attack at the top of the city to come. Gong Yanhui, a hundred households of Yizhou Panjiao Army, was quietly lurking in the grass on the south bank of the Han River with dozens of subordinates. On the banks of the Han River that was more than a mile, there were hundreds of elite Yizhou soldiers ambushed, leading them to Zhang Rou's confidant general He Boxiang. Like the Song army at the top of the city, they were also waiting anxiously. The difference was that they were waiting for Meng Gong's night attack team smuggled from the downstream.

He Boxiang followed Zhang Rou for many years, growing from a crude and unwritten brave man to a cunning general who was well versed in military tactics. He understood that the amount of troops in ambush battles was not the biggest problem, and the biggest key was to make the enemy launch a sudden attack when the enemy was most unable to resist effectively.

"Let me lower the big guns in your hands! Hide your body in the grass!" He shouted to the soldiers who participated in the ambush and said, "Meng Gong is best at engaging in sneaky activities. This time, let's teach them a lesson. When these rats get ashore, don't rush to clamor and let them go. When their team is halfway through, you suddenly come out and cut them into two pieces for me, and then beat them hard!"

The two sides of the Han River in the night were blown by the breeze, the grass made rustling sounds, and the moonlight shone on the river surface, and who knew that there were countless murderous intents in the dark ambush in this poetic scene?

Zheng Yunming held up a mirror and looked at the Han River. When there was no telescope tool before, the only person who could vaguely see the movements and stills of the Han River at night was the special skill of Night Eye. Among the Jingchu army, only Lu Xun and Lu Master Lu could do it.

However, after being sent under the mirror to the commander Zhizheng General, anyone with good eyesight could see the general situation on the river from afar when there was a moonlight. The scouts arranged by the government flexibly used this new reconnaissance tool and quickly established a double-demand lookout on the city tower and the sentry tower. Within a few days, the Song Dynasty's lookout "waiting for far and near, the reconnaissance is false, and the thief camp is incomplete, even if it is ridden alone, it can be checked in detail." Zhao Kui was particularly fond of the convenience of this observation equipment. Since the trial, he immediately asked for ten like Zheng Yunming and sent it to several confidant generals and staff for use. He also urged Zheng Yunming to make 200 items immediately after the war, as a tribute to the officials, and then allocated them to the commanders of the major border areas by the court.

It was not that easy. Zheng Yunming put down the mirror and looked at Zhao Kui's words. The commander didn't know how expensive the small brass cylinder was. Just to get the appropriate curve of the lens, he hired 17 craftsmen to work day and night, test lenses of various curves, and then choose the best one. The cost of optical glass is even more unnecessary, so Zheng Yunming sometimes doubted whether he was the commander of a 10,000 army and the actual power of the Transportation Department could take over the entire production of Liu Tingmei. Of course, this price was set by him earlier, and the mirror was indeed something urgently needed by Jinghu Defense, but he did not expect that Liu Tingmei was so passionate about such profitable products, and actually sold his own farm to raise funds, and opened several glass workshops in Yueyang and Ezhou in the south of the Yangtze River to specialize in the manufacturing of optical glass.

When the country is in crisis, there will always be people who make a fortune, but Zheng Yunming vaguely feels that his various actions seem to be giving birth to the first batch of mature industrial and commercial giants in Chinese history. Naturally, the scale of such giants cannot shake any aspect of the Song Dynasty society. Not to mention the royal relatives and nobles in Lin'an City, even the merchants who provide chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, and treasures to noble families, can produce any one of them to compare the tyrants in the border areas such as Liu Tingmei and Cao Wenqi. But what Zheng Yunming provides to the powerful people of Jinghu is a brand new idea, and does not rely on resolute relations with the government or to get rich with gold, silver and land. As long as they make good use of the innovative spirit of craftsmen, make breakthroughs in technology and form monopoly, the speed of making money is much faster. Once they have gained this motivation, although they are still very weak now, one day they will grow into a force that the court cannot ignore.

But most of these have to wait until after the war to slowly think about countermeasures. The most urgent task is to first expel these barbarians who are still fighting spirit.

The shadow of the ship appeared in the Han River. Zheng Yunming looked sideways at the incense burner, probably at the third update.

"Meng Puyu is indeed a person who believes in his words, and the agreed time is not bad at all." Zhao Kui put down the mirror and said to everyone: "Our army is also attacking!"

The water and drought gates in Xiangyang were opened together, and the suspension bridge creaked and lowered. The victory of the previous fierce battle made the enemy dare not force the city wall too close. Once they approached the city wall, they would be bombarded by catapults and general artillery. In this way, the death squad of the Song army no longer had to go down the city like the Jin people. Instead, they opened the door and attacked with dignity.

More than a thousand crossbowmen, guns, sticks, and swords and shields came out along the crack of the door that opened, each holding a mouth and sneaking into the darkness silently. However, they were not the protagonists of the stage tonight.

At the south gate, Bai Yijie carefully inspected the cavalry that was about to go out. There were a total of 500 cavalrymen attacking, including 120 cavalrymen in the Jingchu army's heart, 180 cavalrymen of the Bai army, and 20 personal guards who controlled the envoys. It can be said that it concentrated the essence of the entire Xiangyang defender.

Zheng Yunming and even Zhao Kui were willing to invest so much money and dispatched 500 cavalrymen, with the purpose of sending two light chariots to the top of Wanshan Mountain. These two light chariots were originally mobile artillery mounts secretly developed by Zheng Yunming to develop field artillery. This is also one of the unstandardized Jingchu Army technical development projects. The artillery mounts were modified from large chariots and used a large number of metal components. On the one hand, it was to increase strength, and on the other hand, it was to reduce weight, so that the artillery chariots could keep up with the marching speed of ordinary infantry and even the marching speed of cavalry. Such technology was not available to current vehicles. The two-wheeled chariots that Zheng Yunming used first were even more

Needless to say, it goes without saying that the speed of the man-pushed two-wheeled car is slow and it is impossible to deal with the erratic cavalry. The recoil of General Tong and General Zhu is also a world of difference. General Zhu can shoot nails and fire on the ground. General Tong must disperse the entire chariot accordingly. Therefore, a new type of cannon truck that can be towed by a pack horse is necessary to install General Tong and General Iron. In addition to being light and strong enough, this type of cannon truck also has detachable wooden pile feet to absorb General Tong. Carpenters in Xiangyang were extremely satisfied with their new works and even gave this new two-wheeled car the reputation of "Thousand Miles Car".

However, Zheng Yunming took two of the ten new gun mounts so carefully built. Each gun mount was pulled by three horses, and the things carried on it were carefully covered with felt cloth. These two cars and horses were valuable materials escorted by the entire five hundred cavalry. In other words, whether more than 100,000 soldiers outside the city could be retreated only on these two cars and horses.

"After leaving the city, sneak in the middle of the road. Remember, time is life. If you can't send these two cars to thousands of mountains before dawn, and wait for the enemy cavalry to find you, the big thing will be over." Bai Yijie gave a serious warning.

Wearing the color of a Mongolian household uniform and with white linen on his left arm, Wei Zugui, who thought it was marked, was the main general of the surprise attack this time. The original meaning was that Zheng Yunming wanted to use Zhu Sheng as the commander of the cavalry to lead this cavalry team. However, Zhao Kui personally ordered Wei Zugui to lead this special attack team in the name of the direct commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander of the commander. Obviously, in addition to considering that Wei Zugui's military experience is much richer than Zhu Sheng, who was a scholar, the commander's commander had not failed to train confidant generals to get rid of the meaning of dependence on the Jingchu army.

"I remember it." Wei Zugui clasped his fists and said, "This is the most important thing about the official who has been on the battlefield for the first time. Don't let your brothers get blind in the face of the battle."

Bai Yijie smiled and said, "Although it is still not enough to dispel General Wei's doubts?"

"It's one thing in the test site, but another thing in the battlefield." Wei Zugui smiled bitterly: "At that time, I just hope that the children will remember to light the torch and fire it well. Zheng Guanren is so keen to rashly put new weapons into the battlefield, which may not be a good thing for combat."

Bai Yijie said seriously: "The officials have already reflected on this matter, but it is really difficult to achieve this task without this thing. Please be careful when using the commander."

Wei Zugui said yes and shouted loudly to everyone: "Everyone gets on the horse and prepare to attack!"
Chapter completed!