The night was dark, and a waning moon hung on the eaves of the Shazhou City Tower.) Compared with the sound of killing and corpses, the side of the Linjiang River in Hanyang was much quieter. Not far away, the river surface of the river was shrouded in thin mist. A small boat emerged from the fog and slowly approached the dock of Hanyang. Three military men jumped off the boat and said a few words to the officer who was paying whistle on the dock. The officer led him straight to the Shazhou Gate. The military men handed the arrows from the Ezhou Ministry of War to the city tower for inspection. There was only a vine basket on the top of the city.

Zhao Xingde sent Tong Yunjie away in the afternoon, and heard that the envoy of the Ministry of War was coming. He expected Chen Dong and Cao Liangshi to send a guest. He smiled bitterly in his heart. During the moment when his personal soldiers brought the envoys, Zhao Xingde thought about how to speak so that Chen Dong and Cao Liangshi could give up their interference in the navy.

"My master of the capital, the envoy from Ezhou has arrived."

"Come in."

The messenger was burly, standing at the door, with a beard on his face. The other two stood at the lower head, and had no respect for the messenger. He looked at Zhao Xingde with respect and admiration. Zhao Xingde raised his head, his face was slightly stunned, and he opened his mouth but did not make a sound. When the messenger took off his felt hat and Zhao Xingde saw the person clearly, his face was even more surprised.

"If you have a confidential military matter, please ask General Zhao to retreat."

"You are guarding outside the door." Zhao Xingde covered his surprise and ordered, "No one should approach without hello." The two soldiers retreated according to the order and held the handle of the knife at the door.

After the door was closed, the two generals behind the messenger bowed together and said, "See the Grand Marshal, please forgive me for the future of the crime."

"General Lu, General Luo doesn't have to be too polite." Zhao Xingde bowed his hand and whispered, reaching out to let them sit down at will. He turned to the messenger, no longer covering up his surprise on his face, and asked, "Mr. Han, Heng Haijun is coming from the entire army. When did it arrive?"

"It's about two days ago," Han Shizhong sat down carelessly, suffused the wind with a felt hat, poured a bowl of tea into his stomach. He looked at Zhao Xingde and grinned, "These two days, the arrogant soldiers and generals under your command have not caused me less trouble, and almost burned my ship." He sighed. If it weren't for this, and the Han army insisted that they would not cooperate with the troops without Zhao Xingde's consent, Han Shizhong would not risk exposing his actions to come to Hanyang to visit Zhao Xingde in person.

Whether it is the enemy or us, we are inevitably shocked when we see Han Shizhong appear here. After the Battle of Shuzhou, in order to deceive the enemy, he pretended to be the commander of Yue Fei to the outside world to aid Hubei by the commander of the Zhenguo infantry and tens of thousands of prefectures and counties, and marched along the river with great fanfare, Wang Gui, the commander of the Zhenguo Central Army. Under the banner of Han Shizhong, the commander of the Zhenguo Houjun Army, Fu Xuan, the commander of the Zhenguo Houjun Army. After defeating Tiemuge's troops, Han Shizhong led the navy to set out first, carrying more than 10,000 elite infantrymen from the Zhenguo Baoyi Army to the west to aid Ezhou. Yue Fei's commander of the army cleared the battlefield, and then personally led the Zhenguo cavalry to march on the north bank of the river, looking for fighter jets to attack the rear of the Liao army.

After the arrival of the Henghai Navy, the Navy did not make a big fuss. The Prime Minister's Office of Ezhou also strictly blocked the arrival of reinforcements, and even Zhao Xingde knew. In order to prevent the Liao army from seeing the flaws, the Song Navy and the Liao Navy were on the river a few days ago. Han Shizhong saw it, but he resisted not giving any advice. Because every day there were grain ships and troop ships arrived in Ezhou, the Henghai Army headquarters arrived one after another, scattered at several docks, and the supply and water supply were arranged by the Ezhou Ministry of War. Not only were the soldiers of the Henghai Navy strictly prohibited from going ashore, but even the infantry who arrived with the ship could not get off the ship privately. In the past two days, the Liao Navy had signs of large-scale mobilization, and Han Shizhong estimated that Yelu Dashi would not be able to resist launching an attack. He suggested that Cao Di and Chen Dong agreed to take this opportunity to fight the Liao army on the river.

"The Han army's gunships are indeed powerful, they are large ships made by the Xia Kingdom." Han Shizhong's face was regretful, but he still didn't ask him if he was the Xia general Zhao De, and changed his words, "The Liao army thought that our reinforcements had not arrived. When his navy attacked a large scale tomorrow, we pretended to retreat and led the Liao army navy into Hanyang, between the Ezhou River, and bombarded them from three sides. When the Liao bandit navy retreated, Yangluo Fort sent troops to harass their retreat."

"But," Zhao Xingde looked at Han Shizhong and hesitated, "Are you sure of winning?"

"No problem." Han Shizhong waved his hand, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously, "Although the Liao army has many naval gunships, I have seen it these two days, there are big problems in their formation." He saw that Zhao Xingde was a little suspicious, and did not say anything more, and patted his chest, "Old Zhao, we have known each other for more than ten years, and you can't believe me? Don't worry. If this battle is well fought, Wanyan Zongbi will float back with a board." He laughed twice, not afraid of the tooth soldiers outside who heard it, and said, "Also, you have to give me an order to keep your men in the camp honestly, and don't cause trouble at will without generals. Otherwise, I'm worried that the Liao soldiers will not come yet, and they will first merge with me in the Henghai army." Han Shizhong said, looking at Lu Mingyu and Luo Xian, who were sitting next to him.

Lu Mingyu's eyes glared, but Luo Xianshi smiled and said, "The last general led his troops to Ezhou. Knowing that General Zhao was struggling to survive the crisis in Jiangbei, these thousands of elite soldiers were confined to Jiangchuan Water Village by General Han. They could not help. They were worried and made some extraordinary actions. Please forgive General Han." He called Zhao Xingde the general, but he only called Han Shizhong General, and he had a favor with one and the other. Han Shizhong didn't care about him. He grinned and said, "You asked someone to pile up firewood, grab tincture and ammunition, and even the vegetable oil in the kitchen. He was going to set fire in my cabin and water village, and let me die together, burn both jade and stones. This method is amazing."

Zhao Xingde smiled slightly. When he arrived at Ezhou, the Henghai Army refused to let Bao Yi Army get off the ship. It would be strange if Lu Mingyu, Luo Xianshi and others didn't make trouble. After two days of delay, no major incident happened, which was considered to be Han Shizhong's skill. Lu Mingyu and Luo Xianshi brought them to the Bao Yi Army and the 6,000 elite gun battalions that had been through the battle formation of the battle, and Liu Zhijian's artillery battalion gunners were on the ship. If you said you were to defend the city, the 30,000 Song troops in Jiangbei might not be of use as a 6,000 elite soldiers. He turned to look at the two generals, with only joy in his eyes, without any reproach.

Luo Xianshi and Lu Mingyu understood each other. Without waiting for Zhao Xingde to speak, Lu Mingyu bowed and said, "Since we are seeing the Grand Marshal, we will naturally feel relieved. On the day of the decisive battle with Liaogou, we only saw the generals pointing the flag. The generals went through fire and water and would never frown." Luo Xianshi smiled and said, "At that time, I will ask General Han to cross the river to the north."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Han Shizhong couldn't even tell the fire at Zhao Xingde's face. He waved to these two people. He simply did a good job and smiled at Zhao Xingde, "It's true that these guys under you are arrogant, and it's true that they are unambiguous when fighting. In Shuzhou, the Baoyi Army and the Town** Musketball Camp forced Liao Gou to the front of the iron barrel cannon. Later, Liao Gou became anxious and tried his best to rush the horse team to our camp, and he also lost and lost. "

The next morning, the sun had not yet risen. Upstream of the Han River, the large and large rivers in Wuhu Lake were swept by the large and large rivers in Wuhu Lake, and flocked to the wings and flying high. Wuhu Lake is the gateway for the Han River to flow into the Yangtze River. It is the place where Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia during the Three Kingdoms, trained the naval army, so it is also known as Huanghan Lake. It is summer, and floods have flooded the lake surface and river forks, which are very wide, suitable for the gathering of the navy army. At this time, the sound of commands, the sound of trumpets, the sound of ships breaking the water, and the clear waves stirred up one after another, breaking the silence of dawn. Khitan dialect, Jurchen dialect, and the Chinese dialect are noisy. In Chinese dialect, there are both the northern accent and the soft Wu dialect. "God of immortality blesses." The sailors burn incense and kowtow, and raise their anchors.

"It seems that many people are going to die again." A sign army was whispering.

"Rise up, raise up!" someone shouted loudly. The Song-style new building ships, tall and strong iron barrel gun ships, warships converted from merchant ships, Jurchen falcon boats, small wooden boats piled with firewood, and various ships sailed away from the pier and trekked with deep, shallow, large and small water marks, and headed towards the open lake.

A bright red sun rose on the lake. Arrivaled warships were arranged into huge water battle formations, and new large and small ships continued to flow into it. After the Liao army navy formed a formation on the Wuhu Lake, it immediately sailed into the river and came downstream. Wherever the navy passed, the sound of Huzhes corresponded, and the horse and infantry on the shore cheered loudly, and the drums were like thunder. During the gunship battle for several days, the Liao army naval commander also touched some doorways. The warships equipped with iron barrel cannons were located in the middle of the battleship. On the outside of the iron barrel cannon were medium-sized warships, and on the outside of the warship were light boats such as falcon boats, and in the middle of the boat were a few firewood and grass. On the outside of the entire naval array, there were some old-fashioned warships patrolling the outside with small boats.

The Liao army was extremely powerful. In contrast, the Song army seemed to shrink. Yangluo Fort was originally strangled on the east bank of Wuhu Lake. There were tens of thousands of defenders in the fort and hundreds of heavy iron barrel cannons were installed. However, the guard Yao Yuanyi ordered the four forts to be tightly guarded. In order to prevent the Liao army from attacking the fort, he did not fire a single shot or a single arrow to prevent the Liao navy from entering the river. In the lower reaches of the river, the Song navy's large and large warships were arranged in a row to correspond. In contrast to the Liao army's tightly protecting the gunships in the formation, the Song army's iron barrel cannon ships were completely exposed outside the formation. Dozens of iron barrel cannon ships barely arranged in a geese formation on the river, and three Han warships and his warships were dragged back sparsely. The entire navy formation seemed disorganized and loose.
Chapter completed!