"If it is an ordinary path," Zhang Shun said: "There are countless. However, there are roughly three roads that the army can pass. One is from the Luyanzhai Road in the north to the pipeline, leading to Xiangyang and down to Yingzhou. The other is to take the detour from Baozhu Mountain to Yingzhou. The southernmost road is slowly along the foothills. Although the road is longer, the terrain is flat and suitable for marching."

This time, Zheng Yunming did not dare to deploy defense at will. He thought for a while and said, "Send a probe to the three-way post to investigate which road the enemy is taking."

At the same time, he asked Zhang Shun again: "Where can we temporarily garrison troops? If we are not far away from three roads, our army will temporarily rest and wait for further information."

Zhang Shun thought for a while and said, "There is a hill nearby, the famous work is Wulipo. It is suitable for going to the village."

Zheng Yunming shouted: "In this way, the entire army rushed to Wulipo immediately!"

On the road on the southern foot of Dahong Mountain, the former powerful army of Song Dynasty holding flags is now 5,000 infantrymen under the Mongolian De'an General Office, lined up in a column and were advancing towards Yingzhou.

The team kept a distance of several miles in front and back and moved forward. Generally speaking, the formation was too sparse and was not suitable for marching in the enemy country. However, the commander of the army, the new general manager of the De'an Mongolian army, Xia Quan, believed that his team would not be suddenly attacked by the Song army.

His main confidence comes from two points: in front of his team there were a hundred detectives assigned by the Mongolian general Tachaer, which was a specially selected elite unit among the Mongolian army. It is a special force for the vanguard to open the way and reconnaissance and provocation. As long as they are clearing the way forward, Xia Quan would not have to worry about his troops being attacked by the Song army.

Secondly, with Xia Quan's experience as an official in the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, he did not believe that there was a Song army who dared to come out of the cover of the city wall when the Mongolian army was everywhere. He was already familiar with the routine of the Song generals using troops. First, when the enemy was strongly guarded, he could not stand out and wait for the enemy to gather under the city to siege, the generals of all sizes advanced together and rescued the city in different ways, causing the enemy to fall into the anti-encirclement and forced to retreat on their own or be defeated.

As for those who dared to fight in the field and actively defeat the enemy in the field, few people had such courage after the end of the Shaoxing era. In his memory, only Bi Zaiyu and Hu Zaixing, who had passed away, could do such a brave move. Later, the Song Dynasty could only rely on the remaining Red Coat Army who had been exiled from the north to carry out large-scale field battles in the Southern Dynasty called Zhongyi Army and Horses.

At that time, the idols of the entire Song Dynasty were these Shandong athletes who committed suicide and were on the battlefield. Under the command of Li Quan, the general manager of the Shandong Road of the Song Dynasty, and Yang Miaozhen, the heroic and heroic female hero, there were generals known as four powerful generals. They were Zhang Hui, the chief general of the Flower Hat Army, who was famous in Hebei nicknamed Zhang Fei, and he annihilated the elite Jin general Shi Qing in Huainan. He claimed to be a bold and powerful man with a heavy axe in the iron tower, and Xia Quan, who was known as the number one in the bravery. Under the command of Li Quan, these four powerful generals went south to the Jin army and went north to recover the entire Shandong territory. During the Jiading period, the Song Dynasty was once glorious, and even the tile shops in Lin'an praised their deeds.

However, the white clouds and glabrous dogs, time has changed everything. Li Quan surrendered to Mongolia to rebel against the Song Dynasty and was stabbed to death by the Song army under the city of Yangzhou. Yang Miaozhen fled north to Shandong, and now he is curled up under the wings of Mongolia. He has no spirit of "the four ladies in the sound of drums and horns, and there is no pear blossom gun in the world" that year. Shi Qing was killed by Li Quan because of internal strife, and Guo'an Yong was stationed in Xuzhou for the Song Dynasty. He was captured by the Mongols and threw himself into water and died. The former Red Coat General in the Mongolian army had hatred for him, so he took up his body and peeled off his face, and chopped the body into several pieces.

In the decisive battle between the Three Peaks Mountains of Mongolia and Jin, Zhang Hui led his 20,000 infantry to fight and finally died in battle.

Among the great Li family army members in the Jiading era, only the lonely Xia Quan was finally left.

Fortunately, he made the right choice at the most critical moment. Xia Quan thought so. Compared with the Mongolian army that was extremely powerful in the world, these troops of the Southern Dynasty were too weak. The remnants of the Red Coat Army had been wandering between the Song, Jin and Mongolia for decades, seeking a glimmer of vitality in the cracks.

Today is finally time to choose.

My future destiny is probably to show my strength under the command of a Mongolian marshal or prince, and then accumulate enough achievements to return to the north to live a life of his life.

Xia Quan, who was tired of the wandering life, most hoped for this time was to hurry to Yingzhou and conquer it as his first achievement to the Mongolian Khan after surrendering.

He couldn't help but urge the front army to speed up, even if he arrived in Yingzhou earlier, it could reduce the chance of the Song army's reinforcements.

At this time, a pegasus in front of him turned back, explored the horse Chibahu Bonai platform and asked about the situation, turned around and reported: "The warriors found the camp of Sinansi people thirty miles ahead."

"This is a rare thing." Xia Quan said in surprise: "Is it possible that the brother of the Northern Army who didn't like me, Lao Xia, and wanted to take the opportunity to eat me?"

"General Manager," said the most trusted general under Xia Quan's tent. Lupin, a thousand-household marching: "Would you like to wait for the evening to take five hundred brothers to steal the camp?"

"No need." Xia Quan's eyes showed murderous aura: "Although Xia Quan is old, he is not old enough to be bullied by anyone. I informed the Mongolian officials that they would build pots and make rice ten miles away from the enemy camp today. They would not need to fight tomorrow. Let me see that Xia Quan teaches the Southern Army a lesson with our troops!"

On the morning of the next day, the horn of assemblages of assembly was blown in the Song army camp. The lookout hand had already found traces of the large group of enemy soldiers on the horizon.

Since the spies and Mongolian whistleblowers came into contact with the South Road, Zheng Yunming judged that the possibility of ambushing the enemy no longer existed. Because the terrain of Dahongshan South Road was still flat, the Mongolian cavalry moved freely on this terrain.

Without cavalry, it means losing control of information. Without control of information, the choice of combat is extremely limited.

Despite this, Zheng Yunming still decided to use his limited time to strengthen the military camp in Wulipo, and he wanted to fight Xia Quan's troops in this place, even if there was no way to conduct a raid.

The generals of the Tulong Army had already known the general's temperament very well, but Zhang Shun opposed this opinion: "There is only half and half the chance of defeating the enemy in the wilderness. For the sake of stability, it is better to ask the general manager to temporarily go to our army's village in Dahong Mountain to wait for the enemy to cross Dahong Mountain before attacking behind."

"No need." Zheng Yunming immediately rejected his suggestion: "It is precisely because our army has been afraid of field battles for many years and has not had enough confidence in itself that the enemy unscrupulously plunders the people in the wilderness, and the morale of our army is getting higher and higher. Today, the Song army is just like ours, but they are just treason and surrendering to the enemy. If even such an army is afraid and dare not deal with it, how can one day compete with the Tartars on the plains in the future?"

He picked up a general and threw it down fiercely, and ordered: "Be sure to fight the enemy to the death!"

Amid the sound of war drums, the gate of the Song army camp opened, and the first Pipai army rushed out began to set up its formation on the front with the arrows of the Red Army who explored the horse.

Then one hundred two-wheeled chariots emerged.

When Zheng Yunming was in Lin'an, he was thinking about how to deal with the Mongolian cavalry. After thinking about it, he could not have the extraordinary wisdom to solve the problems that the ancients could not solve.

In this era, the only things that can suspend the enemy cavalry offensive are probably the only ones except for the city, village, and chariots.

"The General Yao of Wu Jing" records in detail the manufacturing method of the Song Dynasty's chariots. Although the Song army relied on the water network area to fight after the southward transition, there was almost no need for the war chariots. However, the combat chariots on the frontier in the Northern Song Dynasty were a very convenient device.

Zheng Yunming carefully studied the shape of the chariots in "The General Yao of Wu Jing" and believed that large four-wheeled chariots were no longer suitable for the battle to defend half of the rivers and mountains. Not to mention anything else, just saying that when crossing the river, hundreds of people were needed to carry these big guys over, so it was destined that the chariots here would not be the best choice.

What he needs is a lightweight weapon that manpower can carry.

With the help of carpenters recruited by the Tulong Army, Zheng Yunming transformed the wheelbarrows traditionally used to transport materials in the army. The structure of the wheel cannot support the deployment of large firearms, so it must be reformed into a two-wheeled structure. A shield in front of the chariot can be guarded against the threat of arrows, and two long spears are extended in front of the chariot to deal with the impact of the cavalry.

Unlike all Song army chariots in the previous generation, the new second-wheeler chariots have added pile feet to prevent recoil and the base for placing large firearms such as General Zhu.

This is no longer just a paper tiger that relies on two unmovable spears to scare the opponent, but a new generation of fire-breathing beasts.

However, apart from these 100 cars, Xia Quan did not find anything special about the Song army opposite.

He stood in front of the five thousand soldiers, watching the spears lined up like forests on the hills opposite him in an orderly manner.

Obviously, the army opposite was not considered elite. When they lined up, the officers waved the squad flags and the triangular quiet flags and shouted loudly. It was finally easy to complete the square array.

Two teams of soldiers carrying long halberds stood in front of the spear square formation.

Guns are used to resist the enemy, while halberds are used for hand-to-hand combat. The usual phalanx tactics are just to arrange the gun array separately or arrange the halberd soldiers on the two wings of the spear team. After the gun array joins the battle, the halberd soldiers attack both sides of the enemy.

But Xia Quan knew that the commander on the opposite side had his own difficulties in mercying in this way.

Usually, those who use long halberds are veterans with good combat skills. They can use different killing parts of the halberds and spears to create casualties within a controllable range.

This also makes the enemy dare not approach the spear phalanx too much. For many new recruits, the existence of the halberd team is a kind of protection for them.

They just need to stab the wooden gun in their hands with great force under the cover of the long halberd, without worrying that the enemy rushed over and engaged in a melee of hand-to-hand combat.

Archer crossings were deployed in the rear and both wings of the long weapon team. In front of the archer queue were covered by knife hands holding leather cards and broken swords. Once the opponent approached the archer, the sword and shield soldiers would approach the enemy to fight in a melee.

The outermost of the formation is some auxiliary troops with disheveled clothing and armor. The weapons in their hands are uneven and the banners are messy. It seems that they are just some temporary recruits.
Chapter completed!