When dawn was about to break out the next day, the people of Shatou City had already discovered that the officers and soldiers guarding Shatou City were evacuating one after another, gathering on the open space north of Shatou City. A few days ago, it was on this land that they had never seen before that fierce battles occurred. Thousands of people fell on this open space, and their blood was moistened into the soil, forming red marks that could not be erased on the open space.

The officers and soldiers of the Tulong Army waited until noon when the officers and soldiers who came to Jiangling to take the defense arrived in a hurry.

"I hope the gateway to Jiangling in Sha City is very careful." Zheng Yunming reminded the deputy governor who led the Jiangling army.

The deputy governor said verbally, but his attitude was just perfunctory. It can be seen that he was only going to take care of his responsibilities, but the Mongols had retreated anyway, so why not do it if they could get some credit?

Zheng Yunming didn't care about this anymore, and he shouted loudly: "The whole army will set off!"

Teams of people and horses were all in their positions according to the flag, without any confusion.

As usual, more than 20 horses to explore the front road, they will be responsible for reporting the terrain, enemy situation and situation along the road to the general.

Zhu Sheng's vanguard battalion is at the forefront of the team. The significance of the vanguard battalion is not just a charge in front of the battle. When marching, the strong vanguard battalion is at the forefront of the team. In addition to ensuring that the enemy can respond in time when they are suddenly attacked by the enemy, it is also responsible for the work of opening roads across mountains and building bridges across water. For soldiers from Ezhou mines, this is not a difficult task.

Peng Man's troops were immediately behind the vanguard battalion, and between the siege camp and the right wing battalion were the siege camp and the right wing battalion. The siege camp and the right wing battalion were like siege and armor, carefully protecting precious materials and military weapons in the march queue. The siege camp was followed by the Central Military Camp. Ge Huai and a hundred guardians were at the end of the queue to accommodate the soldiers who were left behind. If someone fell into the Central Military Camp, he would be punished by the custody immediately.

"Escape from the dense forest! Go forward carefully! When encountering rivers, stop the army to build bridges!" Zheng Yunming shouted: "Passing them one by one!"

"When encountering a fork in the road, you must be careful of ambushing! Be vigilant from both sides and not panic in your heart! When the vanguard encounters an enemy, form a formation on the spot! Make sure to make his own way, and the formation will be strong!" A series of marching orders were heard in the team, and the Tulong Army began to march towards Xiazhou City to the west.

What they didn't know was that this action would be the first action in the history of the Tulong Army to return to nothing.

While driving to Xiazhou from the Sixth Battalion of the Tulong Army, Lu Xunzhi, who was staying in the old camp, was still urging the soldiers to urge them to make military weapons to intensively.

"The burrs on the handle of the long spear must be cleaned up! Otherwise, the enemy will be stabbed without hurting them!"

"Everyone's hand knife and knife to sharpen it. This is the only weapon you have used to protect yourself at the critical moment!"

"The patent leather buckets containing gunpowder should be kept dry! The buckets with water will pollute the gunpowder! Each bucket should be kept in the sun!"

Lu Xunzhi walked to a soldier who was trimming his axe, reached out and picked up the axe and tried it, and then said: "The axe should be plugged tightly with a wooden wedge between the axe handle, otherwise the axe would easily fly out when it was actually used."

He picked up the shovel that another soldier was making and knocked the shovel handle as thin as a teacup: "The shovel handle must be thick and strong enough, like this thin waisted stick swaying in the wind, will it be broken as soon as it is used to use strength?"

His jokes caused a burst of laughter among the soldiers.

The soldier who made the shovel said, "The general manager asked us to fight. The swords, guns, swords and halberds are sharp and the bows and arrows are easy to use. The good or bad shovels and shovels will not affect the killing of the Tartars, right?"

"It's a big mistake!" Lu Xunzhi said loudly: "We want to fight off the Tartars. These shovels and hoes are more useful than swords, guns, bows and arrows!"

When everyone heard the commander say this, they all put down their work in surprise and looked at Lu Xunzhi with round eyes.

"The Tatar cavalry all started to be trained at the age of three." Lu Xunzhi was an official at Hunan Road and paid attention to the northern affairs. Whether interviewing refugees from the north or the words of the Song Dynasty envoys who visited Mongolia, he had a deeper understanding of the Mongolians than the Song Dynasty officials of his peers: "When he was three, his mother would tie him to the horse's back and let him rush on the horse with the shepherd. At the age of five, he used a small wooden bow for children to start hunting small things like sparrows and rabbits. At the age of eleven or twelve, he was assigned to the youth team and began to fight."

"They are proficient in using bows, arrows, swords and axes, which are not something you recruits who have just entered the camp for a few months! And what about you? How many people have seen wooden bows three months ago? Have you ever seen a spear? Do you have to fight one-on-one with the Mongolian cavalry with high martial arts skills through three months of hasty training?"

When everyone heard his words, they lowered their heads in frustration. Few people in the Tulong Army dared to claim that they were not novice in the knowledge of war.

"What should I do if I want to defeat the Tatars?" Lu Xunzhi continued: "To defeat the Tatars, I have to use the skills you have known since childhood to fight with them!"

"Liang Wu!" He called out a soldier's name: "Tell me, what have you done the longest time?"

Liang Wu stood up and smiled silly, "I followed my father to the mine to carry stones when I was twelve years old. I have to say that the only thing I am good at is digging holes and carrying stones."

His words caused another burst of laughter.

"Mao Shiqi!" Lu Xunzhi did not laugh, but pointed out the name of another soldier: "Where are you?"

Mao Shiqi stood up: "Me too. I went to work in the mine at the age of eleven."

Everyone talked: "What's so great about being eleven? I went to the mine at the age of nine." "I went there at the age of thirteen."

"I'm thirteen years old too!"

"That's right!" Lu Xunzhi said loudly: "Digging holes, filling soil, and building sieges are the most work you have done in your life! You must use this to deal with the Mongolians' people and horses in one, and pass through the poplars with hundreds of steps!"

"Your joke is so big, can you even dig a lot of soil and fill a hole be considered a war?" someone said in a giggle.

"How to win a battle by digging soil and filling pits? Haven't the general manager taught you a long time ago?" Lu Xunzhi pointed to the tall village wall in the distance: "Didn't those things be built by you shoveling soil and hoe?"

Everyone looked at each other, and some people said in confusion: "Building cities and villages can also do these things, but if you hide in the village and don't come out, you can defeat the Mongolians?"

"Just relying on your current skill, it won't work." Lu Xunzhi said: "But the general manager told me that one day, Jinghu will build one Great Wall after another. The Great Wall is covered with large villages with high walls and deep ditches. People live safely, do business, and even cultivate fields. On every road ahead of the enemy, there are countless traps and fortresses waiting for them. One day, we can even do what the senior generals have not done, do what the Han family army and Yue family army have not done, advance into the Central Plains, and regain the two capitals, rely on the hoes in your hands!"

The soldiers were speechless, and someone whispered: "The manager is thinking too beautifully. It would be nice to be able to dig a hole to save his life..."

Lu Xunzhi smiled slightly. Just as he was about to answer, a warning horn suddenly sounded a warning horn in the direction of the watchtower on the top of the mountain.

"The northwest direction of Jingshan warned! A large number of enemy troops approached the mountain village!"

Hearing the sentry's report, Yang Xuan's heart sank.

The beacon mailings at the foot of Jingshan Mountain were selected by him personally to conduct on-site inspections. Unlike other directions, the beacon mailings in Jingshan extend hundreds of miles northwest, almost to Fangzhou. In order to overlap in this direction, the mountains and rivers are not only difficult to patrol, but also because of the difficulty of marching the enemy, the generals as the supreme commander always ignore this place intentionally or unintentionally.

"If you want to cross the mountains to fight, you will be a fool." Human laziness will always unconsciously block something.

But Yang Xuan knew that the most expensive thing about military tactics was to think from the direction that the other party could not imagine. No matter what kind of natural dangers and cliffs were, an army had already overcome them, not to mention a mere low Jingshan.

So he would rather spend a lot of money and deploy manpower to set up dozens of beacon whistle positions in order to suddenly appear in this direction one day so that he would not be caught off guard.

But in his imagination, there were at most a few hundred people, or two or three thousand people. He never thought that the Mongolian army would really use this tortuous and rugged road as the main marching route.

But following this route from the map is the best choice for the Mongolian army's strategy.

As long as you occupy the land of Laoya Mountain and head north, you can raid the unprepared Xiangyang City behind you. There is only one Nanshan in the south of Xiangyang City as a barrier. There are only a few hundred soldiers stationed on the Nanshan Mountain, and the defense is not stable.

If the Mongols were raided from the south with large groups of troops at this time, Xiangyang City might not be sure to hold on.

This principle also applies to Jiangling. The north side of Jiangling is in a state of unpreparedness by default, because Xiangyang is the barrier of Jiangling in the north. But if there is really a soldier and horse that penetrates horizontally between Xiangyang and Jiangling, it can easily move south from Jingmen and surround Jiangling City by land.

Just insert a chess piece between Xiangyang and Jiangling, and you can threaten the world's spine at the same time and Jiangling, the capital of the nine counties of Jingxiang. Yang Xuan couldn't help but want to make such a good deal.

However, there was also Laoya Mountain in front of the Mongols. The 2,000 soldiers in the fourth battalion left by the Tulong Army were the biggest problem that hindered the Mongols from completing the entire plan.

"If I come, I will use all my skills to capture this Laoya Mountain." Yang Xuan hammered the table hard.
Chapter completed!