Yuxi Timuer was not surprised by the peace of Jiangnan. He knew that the Spring Festival was approaching, and the Han people attached great importance to it. The government sealed the corps and the people returned home to reunite. At this time, they would inevitably relax their vigilance. In addition, the current war occurred in Jiangbei, and the successive battles would make people misunderstand that the war was far away from them. However, for them who wanted to cross the south to attack Lin'an, it was a good opportunity to catch the Southern Dynasty off guard. When they received the urgent report to reorganize their troops, they were already heading to the city.

Think about it, it was the coldest time of the year. The Yangtze River entered a deep dry period. The river surface narrowed and the water flow slowed down, which was also a good time to use troops. Most of the troops stationed in Jiangbei Province in Henan participated in the war to attack and destroy the Southern Song courts and stationed for many years. Later, they integrated the various ten thousand houses of the Mongolian Wanhu Prefectures. They moved north to guard the outskirts of the capital, so they were not unfamiliar with the geography of the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, they are currently in charge of the Privy Council of the Provincial People, controlling more than 100,000 troops of the two Wanhu Prefectures, and were willing to use them for themselves. With the trust and expectations of the Khan, they can be said to have occupied all the time, place, and people.

The situation seemed to be very beneficial to our side. Although Yuxi Timuer still had a little thought in his heart, he knew that the arrow was already on the string and he had to fire it. He dragged it down and missed the fighter. I don’t know how many years would it take. And where is there a 100% sure victory in the world? After thinking about it over and over again, he decided to bet on his own destiny and the national destiny of the Yuan Dynasty.

After Yuxi Timur made up his mind, he immediately gathered the generals to order the troops to order the troops to order the troops to Wanhu Sesanna, Dushi, Shandong, Hebei, Rugao, and lead two teams of 10,000 people to rush to the ferry at night. Be sure to reach the Jiangkou Town Ferry within three days, immediately organize crossing the river to seize the ferry crossing on the other side, and build a floating bridge to cross the river. After crossing the river, you don’t have to wait for the arrival of the army. You immediately set out to capture Changshu, seize the materials hoarded by the Song army, and provide supplies for the army to follow up the battle. After receiving the supplement, you do not stop and continue to attack and advance towards Pingjiang and drive directly to Lin'an.

The four 10,000 teams and four 10,000 teams of the central army were led by Yuxi Timur. Each unit was hiking at night and traveling to Jiangkou Town to cross the river for ten miles apart. At the same time, the reconnaissance cavalry was sent to intercept the approaching Song army's patrol cavalry to prevent the march route from being exposed; the rear army led two 10,000 teams and infantry troops and then set off to prevent the enemy from discovering their attempt to cross the river and resolutely intercepting the Song army that followed.

At the same time, Yuxi Timuer ordered Zhahuertai to attack Taizhou, open reinforcements, and attack the right wing of the Song army to restrain, confuse the Song army, and cover the army to cross the south. He also secretly met with the messenger sent by Ma Shao, asking him to inform King Zhennan and Ma Shao to defend Yangzhou City at all costs and try his best to deal with the Southern Dynasty. The siege of Yangzhou will be lifted within half a month.

The next morning, although there were still drums and horns in the Jiangyan Mongolian Army camp, it was actually no different from the empty camp. Only the elderly and weak left behind were injured in the camp. Zhahuertai troops, thirty miles away, were confused and still challenged outside Taizhou City. But they seemed very guilty. Often, when the cannons sounded on the city, they immediately fled away...

"Tuge, how many miles are there to Changshu!" A team of Mongolian cavalry walked quickly along the main road and turned a corner. The ten thousand men's commander Basa urged the horse to climb up to the high slope next to the road and asked about the capital behind him.

"Reporting to Wanhu, there are still sixty miles!" Tuge looked at the surrounding terrain, took out the sheepskin map in his arms, and replied.

"The journey has not been halfway through, will the scout be rewarded?" Basa looked around and frowned at Tu Huyan. He felt that the situation was very strange because the journey was too peaceful.

Last night, Basa led his troops as a vanguard to Jiangkou Town, where the Huihui navy had arrived in advance in a river bay and immediately began to build a floating bridge when he saw the army arrive. After discovering it, the Song army guarding the ferry immediately ignited the beacon and issued an alarm, and fired artillery based on the fort to try to stop the bridge building. However, the Song army stationed only had one battalion and was equipped with three patrol ships, and the troops were not large.

Although the artillery fire of the Song army was sparse, it still caused considerable obstacles to the building of the bridge, and destroyed the floating boats as support several times. The three patrol boats, regardless of their weakness, clashed in the river, and fought with the navy forces who were driving ships and forced to ferry. They only relied on the two small cannons on their carriers to sink more than a dozen ferries. Until the early morning, a team of people successfully smuggled from the upstream and restrained the Song army in the fortress from the flanks, attracting their firepower, and the ferry bridge was successfully built. Until this moment, the surrounded Song army saw that they were defeated, and the reinforcements were delayed and left the fortress and fled eastward.

Although Song troops arrived one after another, their foundation was lost and they were soon dispersed by their own cavalry. As the brigade crossed the river, the ferry was firmly in their hands, but at this time it was already dawn. The commander Basa obtained was to quickly attack Changshu after crossing the river, and not take into account the harassment of the enemy, and move forward all the way, taking advantage of the situation to occupy this logistics supply area.

Basa knew the reason why soldiers were so fast, and had no objection to seizing Changshu, but he could not relieve his doubts. He felt that although the two sides crossing the river had a fierce battle, both the scale of the battle and the subsequent counterattack of the Song army were far from the previous estimate, which made him think it was too relaxed, as if the Song army deliberately gave up the ferry.

Having a knot in his heart, he looked at the smoky smoke everywhere. Basa hesitated for a moment, but still obeyed the order to organize and carefully count the team and prepare to set off for the equipment. However, he also knew that the army march was actually a very complicated task, especially when it penetrated deep into the hinterland of the enemy's territory and the situation ahead was unclear, so he ordered the brigade to move slowly and first dispatched a scout cavalry as usual.

Scouts can be understood as scouts + communications soldiers, which are the tasks of exploring enemy situations and reporting information during the march. It can be said that scouts are the eyes and ears of the army. They are generally organized by ten-person teams. They should pay attention to each other when reconnaissance and not be separated from their respective sights. When marching, the army does not care about how many troops are divided into, and each route must be set up with reconnaissance cavalry. There are twenty-four teams in each route, which are scattered in all directions. Each person is one mile apart, and the maximum dispersion range can reach more than twenty miles.

Each scout cavalry is equipped with multiple war horses. In addition to being equipped with bows and arrows and long swords, it is also equipped with horns and flags to call the army to the police when encountering emergencies. It is said that the flag is actually a flag gun, with a gun being more than meter long and a small flag is placed under the head of the spear. If the enemy team is found, the flag is shining on the left and right. After seeing it, the scout cavalry behind will transmit information to the main general layer by layer. If the enemy is still far away and does not encounter this situation suddenly, then you only need to slowly activate the flag. If the enemy's large forces are aggressive, then you must draw a circle and shake the flag.

If it is a terrain problem, such as having no way to go, and when there is a narrow water, there is no need to shake the flag and just pass it on one layer. In order to avoid the enemy's expulsion of the reconnaissance cavalry and the information is interrupted, the military law stipulates that the reconnaissance cavalry cannot retreat all, but retreat according to the enemy's expulsion strength. For example, the enemy's expulsion team is approaching, and the first reconnaissance cavalry retreats to another reconnaissance cavalry after another. If the enemy continues to pursue, they will retreat in turn. When the enemy's expulsion team retreats, the reconnaissance cavalry will return to its original position, and the enemy will advance, and the enemy will retreat in turn, and each team will proceed in turn.

The geography of the north and the south is mainly due to the different terrain. Although there are high mountains in the north, they are mainly plains, and the long slopes and large rivers outside the border are visible. The southern provinces are very different, with steep mountains and rivers, and waterways are crisscrossing, and there is no land to be hidden, and there is no land to be blocked. Therefore, in the south, in addition to being skilled in archery and horses, the cavalry in the south must also be good at climbing. Whenever the mountain is steep and cannot be visited immediately, they must abandon their horses and walk up the mountain to explore. All valleys and dense forests cannot be missed.

After no problem, the reconnaissance cavalry stood there with a flag, and returned to the army to report from the reconnaissance cavalry behind to find a wide and flat place, stationed in a formation to guard the cavalry, and then the reconnaissance cavalry continued to search forward until they left the valley. If they found out that they were ambushes, the reconnaissance cavalry were killed or shaking the flag, the reconnaissance cavalry behind would also quickly run back to the army to report the police, and then the main general arranged an army to line up to meet the enemy in the shape of a mountain. If the reconnaissance cavalry was not killed, they could be allowed to escape at will and not return to the barracks for the time being. When the war ended, the reconnaissance cavalry would all be rewarded.

In addition, the reconnaissance cavalry obtains intelligence to only transmit to the main general. If the reconnaissance cavalry returns to the battalion to report the information of the investigation, no matter whether it is important or not, the officers and soldiers along the way are not allowed to intercept and interrogate. They only need to go directly to the central army to report the main general, and then the main general summons the officers of various departments to discuss. If someone dares to intercept the reconnaissance cavalry in the middle of the journey, they will deal with it with military law.

In addition, "one army exceeds ten thousand, boundless." When marching, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops can even reach dozens of miles. Because the distance between the team is too long, the golden drums cannot be seen from each other, and the flags cannot be seen, then the reconnaissance cavalry must be relied on to convey information in words. The reconnaissance cavalry is divided into multiple sequences, and it is easy to cause mistakes and omissions to be made through layer by layer. Therefore, it is stipulated that the information transmission should not be simplified in nonsense, and the content should not exceed three sentences, and then it should be passed on layer by layer. When passing, it is necessary to repeat and confirm before it can continue to be transmitted backwards.

"Wanhu, now our army has entered the enemy territory forty miles. None of the reconnaissance cavalry has discovered the Song army in the brigade. They must speed up the marching, otherwise they will not be able to reach Changshu before dark!" Dushi Tuge saw that Wanhu was still hesitating, and he was careful when he entered the marches. When he encountered a valley, the dense forest would be on the line to guard the brigade. He refused to move forward until the reconnaissance cavalry searched. He looked at the sun anxiously.
Chapter completed!