The first war experience of the Tulong Army in Jingxiang came to an end, but the war continued to spread throughout Jinghu.

Although Shi Tianze, who retreated to the north, failed in Laoyashan Village, he used a group of warships looted by Mongolia to severely attack the Song army's naval forces near Xiangyang when crossing the Han River.

At that time, the Song army camps on the steep rocky beach of Han River threatened the Mongolian army heading south and north. Shi Tianze ordered ten warships to challenge them, and immediately retreated after the Song army warships were dispatched to fight. When the Song army returned to the water camp, they sent ships to provoke. In this way, the Song army naval forces were finally careless and ignored the enemy's provocations.

At this time, Shi Tianze led the temporary water fleet to suddenly attack and fiercely attack the Song army's water camp. The Song army, who was originally skilled in water war, was defeated, all warships were destroyed, and the camp was leveled.

At the same time, the Mongolian army went deep into Huaixi and entered Huangpi under the jurisdiction of the Huaixi Command to burn and kill. The cities of Suizhou and Xinyang located on the border of Song and Mongolia were also attacked.

The magistrate of Suizhou heard rumors that as long as people were sent to the Mongolian military camp to provide gold, silver and jewelry, they could avoid attack. So he hurriedly plundered a batch of gold and silver, including gold bottles, gold plates and silver plates, as well as a large number of tea goods and cloth, and sent them to the Mongolian front commander Tachaer camp.

Their attitude of tolerance and surrender profoundly affected the northern generals of the front line, who were originally surrendered by the Jin Dynasty. Soon, the northern generals of Yongzhou and Yingtian surrendered to Mongolia. The Song Dynasty had fought bloody battles for several years and finally recovered from Henan, and almost all of them were instantly lost.

What's ridiculous is that after Tachaer received the tributes from Suizhou, he immediately ordered the attack on Suizhou City. When the Suizhou Magistrate panicked and wanted to escape, the city was already surrounded by the Mongols. Fortunately, the city soldiers fought bravely and barely defeated Tachaer's army.

In addition to attacking Suizhou, the Mongols also siege Xizhou, Guanghua Army and other places, and sent partial troops to continuously put pressure on Xiangyang, where the Song army was heavily stationed.

On November 19th, the Mongolian cavalry crossed the Han River again and camped on the banks of the Tanxi River near Xiangyang. Its strength was about 6,000 cavalrymen. The next day, the Song general Yu Zhe rushed out of Xiangyang City to fight the enemy, but was defeated and lost thousands of people. On the third day, the Song army increased its troops and attacked again, defeating the enemy's cavalry and forcing them to retreat to the north bank of the Han River.

In December, the Mongolian army besieged Fancheng again, and the Song army attacked three times. They fought against the Mongolian army in the northwest of Fancheng. The two sides fought without a chance to lose, and the Mongolians had to take the initiative to retreat. Zhao Fan immediately reported the victory to the court.

But then the Mongols made a comeback and continued to harass the suburbs near Xiangyang with their roaming.

Zheng Yunming kept writing letters to Zhao Fan in Xiangyang City, hoping to lead his army forward to Xiangyang to protect the security of the envoy.

" Stay honestly in the south!" Zhao Jianzhi in the war made his attitude not very good: "The court will naturally arrange rescue forces,

Stay well before receiving the new order from the Commander Office!”

With Zhao Fan's confidence, it was impossible for the court to sit still and watch the world's spine fall into Mongolia's hands.

Of course the court will not sit idly by.

But there was only one reinforcement from Lin'an at the first time.

This is an old man who is fifty-seven years old and has never been to the battlefield.

On November 6, the second year of Duanping, the court officially issued an edict by the Minister of Rites Wei Leweng to supervise the troops of Jinghu Lake, and handed over all the troops in the Jinghu Lake area to the imperial officials sent by the central government.

This Confucian master who was admired by scholars all over the world and the leader of the Shilin who was admired by the people of the times resolutely put down the brush in his hand and picked up the shining pouch when the motherland needed it most.

At this time, the Song Dynasty could not even find a staff member who was given to him. Although in the eyes of scholars and later generations at that time, Wei Leweng was an amazing scholar and sincere gentleman. In the eyes of nobles and bureaucrats in Lin'an Prefecture, Wei Leweng was just an old official who was appointed as the Minister of Rites. He recruited a staff member according to his recommendations, most of the staff member recruited for various reasons. In fact, it was simply because he disliked Wei Leweng's lack of qualifications and his experience in commanding military and horses.

The military officials who were seeking to act as the front line commander, or the closest relatives of the Emperor of the Palace and the confidant generals of the local commander, also ignored the orders of the new supervisor, so that when Wei Leweng set out from Lin'an, the officials of the Jinghu Supervisor's Office had not yet gathered.

The economic difficulties made him even more burdened. The court promised 1,000 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver, and 5 million taels of money to be redeemed, but in fact it was only 3 million tons.

Wei Leweng, who was insufficient manpower and financial resources, also decided to launch a comprehensive rescue of Jinghu on the spot.

He first wrote to Zhao Fan, the ambassador of Jinghu Pacification and Preparation in Xiangyang, allowing him to flexibly use his good relationship with the northern army over the years, and advised Chang Jin and Xia, the rebel leaders of De'an Prefecture who had surrendered to the Mongolian army, to return to their backs and surrender to the Song Dynasty.

De'an is located in the center of the entire Jinghu Defense Zone. If the rebellion of De'an Prefecture can be resolved without bloodshed, it will cause considerable trouble to the Mongols who are attacking from all directions.

Then he wrote to Zheng Yunming, the general manager of the Jinghu Control Commander who was stationed at the foot of Laoya Mountain in the south of Xiangyang, and ordered him to lead his troops to Yingzhou to guard against the rebels in De'an who suddenly attacked Yingzhou and occupied the Han River Pass and blocked the court's support for Xiangyang.

He also sent a letter to Huang Bogu, deputy envoy of the Yangtze River, and ordered him to strengthen the defense of the river and strictly prevent the Mongolian cavalry from seizing civilian ships and smuggling across the river.

Worried about the unstable situation in Ezhou, he specially appointed a general named Yang Yi to rush to the Ezhou River to command and defend.

Finally, he did something that was of far-reaching significance to the later development of history, and no one could know the importance of this matter at that time.

Wei Leweng ordered people to bring two hundred sub-guards to the rivers of Jinghu and post along the river. The content was about the invasion of the Tatars in the north. He hoped that the powerful households from all over the country could take action, recruit Ding Zhuang, and handle unity. In order to protect their hometown and fight with the enemy, if there was a winning government reward.

At that time, this was just a common reaction of the imperial court when the enemy invaded, but it had a completely different effect from previous policies.

After all the preparations were completed, Wei Leweng ordered the various units of the Song army stationed downstream garrisons: Li Hu, the commander of Zhenjiang, Wang Jian, the commander of Jiankang, and Yang Fuxing, the deputy commander of Quanjiang Prefecture, to go to Xiangyang for rescue, and the troops in these people were only more than 10,000.

The court attached great importance to the Supervisory Office. Emperor Duanping almost gave all his talents prepared for the later government affairs hall: he ordered Wu Qian, the top scholar of the Jiading ten-year Golden List, to serve as Wei Leweng's staff officer, and Zhao Shanhan and Ma Guangzu served as senators.

But the funds are still not enough.

Finally on December 14th, the imperial court ordered the supervision of the Jinghu army, Ma Wei, and Weng Xiangping to bid farewell to Emperor Duanping. He took his shogunate, guards and officials to start a journey of supervising the entire Jinghu war zone.

At this time, what this world-renowned great scholar had never understood was that a disaster that could shake the basics of the Song Dynasty was waiting for him.

On December 20, the main force of the Tulong Army had already entered Yingzhou to garrison.

During this month's rest, Zheng Yunming did a few things.

He recruited new recruits from the civilians who fled to Laoyashan Village and Shatou City Village to supplement the war loss. Anyway, it is a time of chaos, and no one is in the mood to really investigate whether the department is over-staffed. As long as it can provide food and salary, the court will not ask how many people it can be recruited.

So he secretly increased the number of Tulong Army to 8,000.

However, although no one came to take care of the number of Tulong Army, no local officials could care about allocating excess food and salary. The Mongolians were making plans everywhere in Jinghu after the autumn, and the autumn harvest and taxation of the entire Jinghu area were greatly damaged. Not to mention Zheng Yunming's troops, even the troops in Xiangyang and Jiangling were barely supported by the treasury of previous years.

Zheng Yunming had no choice but to use the old methods to beat the local tyrants and evil gentry.

Liu Tingmei ahead was organizing the fight between the strong men and tenants and the Mongolians. Of course, he was embarrassed and couldn't ask for money now.

Fortunately, several large households on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Cao Wenqi from Ezhou, Zhang Lian from Dongting, Song Weiting from Zhijiang County, and Jia Gongliang from Yidu County, were still living a free and easy life at home.

Zheng Yunming handed the letters and sent a small school to send them to local tyrants along the river. The central idea was nothing more than one, asking for money.

Cao Wenqi looked at the words "urgent people and dangers", "important military affairs", and "relatives from the rivers and lakes", and his eyes were filled with phantoms of Zheng Guanren smiling and taking money from his pocket.

Cao Wenqi's manor was downstream and had almost never been attacked by the Mongolian army, so his trial production of enamel porcelain was much smoother than Liu Tingmei. In July, the first batch of qualified enamel porcelain had been released from the kiln and was quickly sent to Jiangnan for sale.

Although the atmosphere of war was already very tense at this time, Cao Dahu was a big man after all, and he tried every means to clear the channels, and the fleet arrived at Lin'an Prefecture within a month.

The Fan Shangbao cargo ships from the South China countries to Mingzhou can only come twice a year in April and July due to the sea breeze season. Most of the people transport spices, rhubarb, bolognese, etc. The ability to have enamel porcelain depends on whether there is stock in the Nanyang market. The enamel porcelain on the Nanyang market is transported from the port of the Grand Sekigan Kingdom across the entire southern ocean, and the risk is very high. Many enamel porcelain sank into the warm and turquoise waters of the southern seas on the way.

Therefore, the enamel porcelain that can travel thousands of miles to China and appear in the shops in Lin'an Prefecture is of course a treasure among the treasures.

As soon as Cao Wenqi's batch of enamel porcelain arrived, a storm immediately set off in the Lin'an merchant market.

Lin'an big and small treasure merchants and middle-aged people who smelled the wind surrounded Cao Wenqi's Lin'an shop and tried to find out the origin of this batch of Dashi porcelain.
Chapter completed!