After saying that, he sat on the ground and began to sing Buddhist scriptures.

Around the surrounding monks of Yongquan Temple also sat down, their hands clasped and their eyes closed slightly.

Monks in the temple recite Buddhist scriptures together.

In an instant, the sound of the Sanskrit was surging.

The soldiers outside the temple shouted and shouted loudly, worked together to cut wood, and sweated wildly.

At this moment, it seemed that no one cared about the raging fire. Everyone united as one, and all they had to do was just stick to the Yongquan Temple.

At this time, the northern border of the Song Dynasty was also unstable.

In Jianning Mansion, Wen Tianxiang led the three armies of Tiansu, Tianyi, Tiansha and the defenders of Jianning Mansion to guard the city.

Military flags spread on the top of the city, armor was standing on the streets, and artillery chariots and other objects emerged from the walls.

Outside the city, several miles away from the city, you can see that the Yuan army tents are dense.

Their military tent directly surrounded the entire Jianning Mansion, and there was smoke curling in the camp at this time.

Since yesterday, the Yuan army entrenched in Songxi and Zhenghe counties have all come to Jianning Prefecture.

After arriving outside the city, he just set up camp but did not launch an attack on Jianning Mansion. He just sent some scouts to go out of the city. The intention was very obvious, which was to prevent Wen Tianxiang and others from sending troops to aid Fuzhou.

In fact, they had no need for this, because even if they didn't come to the besiege, Wen Tianxiang would not dare to send too many soldiers to Fuzhou for assistance. After all, Jianning Mansion still needs to be guarded.

This Yuan army commander was like this, obviously he didn't even want to release a soldier or a soldier out of the city.

"These Yuan thieves want to completely restrain me..."

Wen Tianxiang stood at the top of the city, looking out of the city, with a faint worry in his expression.

Beside him, Chen Diaoyan, He Chenghua and other generals were also a little solemn.

They didn't want to be afraid of the Yuan army outside the city siege, but the Yuan army besieged the city, but they were really unable to help Fuzhou.

Fuzhou can only rely on the Fuzhou garrison army and the garrison army to defend themselves. The vitality lies in whether Huang Hua and others can persist until the Guangnan East Road garrison army arrives.

Chen Jiuyan suddenly sighed and said to Wen Tianxiang: "Military Order, are we going to wait like this?"

Wen Tianxiang turned his head to look at him, "Do you still want to lead your army out of the city to defeat these Yuan troops?"

They have been discussing this matter for some time, but there has never been a result.

Chen Diaoyan said with his eyes: "If we don't go out of the city to fight these Yuan troops, Fuzhou will be really unable to defend! The commanders of Longxing Prefecture are even more out of reach than us."

"I know this."

Wen Tianxiang shook his head gently and said, "But the Yuan army has more than 100,000 besieged the city and has no intention of fighting with our army. How can we easily destroy them?"

They had been trying to take the initiative to fight the decisive battle with these Yuan troops for many days, but the Yuan army just couldn't stand it. So until now, both sides were still in a state of confrontation.

Chen Diaoyan narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "If they lead their army to attack their camp, can they still avoid the battle?"

Wen Tianxiang frowned, "The camp is easier to capture than a city. What I am worried about is that they are fully prepared in the camp! At that time, the soldiers are afraid..."

Chen Jiyan bowed and said, "If the military plane ordered the general to get the grenade launcher and the sky-rushing cannons were allocated to the last general. The last general was willing to lead the army and horses out of the city to test the reality of the Yuan army."

He looked out of the city and murmured: "Military order, these Yuan troops are rarely out of the city. Although the army is gathering now, it is also a rare opportunity for us..."

"The opportunity must not be missed, and you will never come again..."

Wen Tianxiang's eyes gradually became deeper, and he was muttering this sentence in his heart.

After dozens of seconds, he finally made up his mind and said to Chen Diao's eyes: "Okay, then I will allocate the grenade launcher and sky-storming cannons from Tianyi Army to you. You will lead the army to raid the Yuan camp!"

"Thank you, Marshal!"

Chen Diaoyan quickly agreed, with a look of excitement on his face.

He is not a steady player, but Wen Tianxiang is rare that Wen Tianxiang actually agreed to his request.

Naive Wen Tianxiang said again: "But no matter whether the raid on Yuan camp is successful or not, you must bring back the grenade launcher and sky-storm cannon. Such heavy weapons must not fall into the hands of the Yuan army."

"good!"

Chen Diaoyan focused his head again, and then shouted the soldiers from the headquarters to the city.

Wen Tianxiang did what he said, and sent someone to call Zang Bohou, the commander of Tianyi Army, and asked the grenade launcher and the sky-rushing gunner in General Zang Bohou to temporarily second it to Chen Diaoyan's command to obey the order.

Zang Bohou, who was middle-aged and big and thick, heard Wen Tianxiang's words and said: "Military order, will the unparalleled regiment in our army also be sent?"

The Wushuang Regiment is the special forces group of Tianyi Army.

Wen Tianxiang pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's good. It's really not easy to defeat the Yuan army outside the city..."

Zang Bohou also walked down the city.

Longxing Prefecture, Jiangnan West Road.

There were Tianyou, Tianan, Tianan, Tiankong and the three armies of the Longxing Prefecture garrisons.

At this time, it had been nearly two months since the Yuan army occupied the border of the Song Dynasty, but the Yuan army repeatedly only attacked small groups, either disturbing the city, cutting the grain transport army, or ramming the villages and towns around Longxing Prefecture, and did not launch a big war. Wang Yinglin, the commander of the Jiangnan West Road Transportation Road, and the commanders of the three armies were also worried that it would affect their whole body and did not dare to go out of the city to attack the Yuan camp. Therefore, the two armies did not have too many wars from beginning to end, and there were not much damage.

Today, the Yuan army was coming towards Longxing Mansion with tens of thousands of troops.

There are wolf smoke soaring into the sky in the mountains outside Longxing Prefecture.

Wang Yinglin, Tianan Army commander Ma Xiu, Tianyou Army commander Huang Fu, Tianan Army commander Lu Guang and others all came to the city.

From the vastness of the wolf smoke, it can be seen that the Yuan army's move was a massive attack.

Ma Xiu and Lu Guang were both generals of the original Toutuo Army, and Huang Fu was Huang Hua's younger brother. He used to serve as deputy commander in the Toutuo Army.

Up to the top of the city, Huang Fu looked at the wolf smoke outside the city and said to Wang Yinglin: "Mr. Wang, it seems that the Yuan army is about to break through the borders of our Song Dynasty."

"Um."

Wang Yinglin nodded slightly and said, "From Jiangling Prefecture, Ezhou, and Jianning Prefecture, letters have been reported, and the Yuan army in various places are ready to move. They are going to launch a decisive battle."

Huang Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, "It seems that the assassination of Commander Liu Zaiyuan made them very confident now."

Wang Yinglin only said: "No matter whether General Liu Zaiyuan was assassinated or not, this day will come sooner or later. This may not be a bad thing for us. The emperor also wants to end the war soon. We are short of soldiers. If these Yuan troops do not come to attack the city on their own initiative, our Longxing Prefecture and the Ezhou defenders on Jinghu North Road will be in a dilemma."

Before, the Yuan army only lived in Jiangnan East Road. There is still the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.

Huang Fu said: "Then let's guard this Longxing Mansion to see what skills these Yuan troops have to take over this city."

Lu Guang, on the side, suddenly spoke, "Not only do we have to defend, but in my opinion, we also have to create opportunities to break out of the city and defeat these Yuan troops!"

Ma Xiu nodded slightly too.

This place is still far away from Fuzhou, so they don’t have to think about helping Fuzhou. They just need to defeat this group of tens of thousands of Yuan troops.

Go east further.

Jinghu North Road, the northern border town of Ezhou.

Here, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, and Jiang Xiu led the three imperial guards of Tianying, Tianfu and Tianman to guard the guard. The situation is actually similar to that of Longxing Prefecture.

It’s just that the Yuan army they faced was invading from Huainan West Road. As soon as they entered the Song Dynasty, they were approaching Ezhou City.

There are a lot of soldiers compared to Longxing Prefecture, and there must be more than 100,000.

In the past two months, He Fangsong and others have not fought with this Yuan army. The Yuan army is guarding Ezhou City on Huainan West Road, and it seems that they are in peace.

But in fact, since the Yuan army planned to invade Song territory and had already stationed on the border, the undercurrent was inevitable.

Both sides sent experts to assassinate.

Take Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and others as an example. In the past two months, they have been assassinated by dozens of assassinations.

The only thing about assassination is to be unexpected, and the more you go to the back, the more difficult it is to make achievements. Both sides continue to assassinate, and few generals fall.

At the beginning of the city, he watched the Yuan army pressing down the city, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and his commander were discussing, and he did not have the idea of ​​leading his army out of the city to fight bloody battles.

They were no longer in a hurry at this time.

They couldn't take care of Fuzhou. Kuizhou and Guangnan West Road won successive victory one after another, and they just needed to block the Yuan army outside Ezhou City.

Now it is no longer the situation where the Song Dynasty imperial guards are eager to seek a decisive battle.

They even said that they were willing to continue to delay.

Because it was delayed enough time, the emperor would send Yuan troops to come from Jinghu North Road and Kuizhou Road. However, it would be much easier to defeat these Yuan troops.

Therefore, the Song army in Ezhou and Longxing Prefecture were only actively preparing for war to defend the city. Unlike Jianning Prefecture where Wen Tianxiang was in charge, they were eager to defeat the Yuan army.
Chapter completed!