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Chapter 460 Canyon
"Keep your head down! Who told you to draw your swords out of their sheaths?!"

Yi Shiying yelled and cursed in a suppressed voice, anger burst out in his eyes.

Those who were scolded by him were a few soldiers of the Luzhou Army, who hurriedly withdrew their knives and lay down on the ground again.

Yi Shiying looked up at Jinyun Mountain in the north, worried that the Mongolian military post would see the reflection of weapons.

Holding the saber, he passed through the array and walked to Li Xia's side, saying, "It's too risky for these soldiers to set up an ambush."

"Yes."

Li Xia was looking at a hill on the other side of the river to the east.If there is a change in the Mongolian army, there will be a red flag waving there; if the Mongolian army is advancing, it will be a green flag.

He nodded approvingly, and said, "There are many soldiers in the army who were recruited from various places before the decisive battle between General Zhang Shi and Niu Lin. Defensive warfare is fine, but ambush warfare is really not enough."

Defense is not the same as ambush.

When defending, Min Zhuang can also play a very important role in carrying Leimu and throwing cannon stones.

Ambush is different, it looks at the shortcomings of an army, and requires everyone not to show their flaws.

Without a master of all battles, without a command from top to bottom like an arm, it can't be done.

The current batch of Luzhou Army has not experienced the Battle of Laojun Mountain or the Battle of Chengdu.

Li Xia and Yi Shiying took over the command for too short a time, so they led them to ambush the Mongolian army rashly, which laid a lot of hidden dangers from the beginning.

These, of course they understand.

They were leading troops to support Diaoyu City, but Shi Tianze had already led his troops to kill them.

The two almost ran into each other face to face.

Fortunately, the movement of Shi Tianze's march was even greater, and the mountain people along the way came to report to the Song army, so that the Song army was able to set up an ambush hastily.

In this battle, we meet on a narrow road, and if we don't fight, we can only fight.

The reason why Shi Tianze came was that Chongqing was short of troops... This is true.

Compared with Lu Wende's tens of thousands of black charcoal army elite and navy.Xulu, with nearly ten thousand people made up of a mixture of civilians and regular troops, is nothing at all on such a large battlefield.

It was necessary to give Shi Tianze a head-on blow, making him mistakenly think that Lu Wende's reinforcements had arrived.

Otherwise, the Mongolian army will immediately know that Tongchuanfu Road is empty, and send a large general to attack Syria and Lu at will, which can strangle the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Then Chongqing is over.

Therefore, the purpose of Li Xia and Yi Shiying's battle was not to defeat Shi Tianze, but to intimidate.

It even allowed the defenders of Diaoyu City to see Lu Wende's reinforcements coming... Of course, this is a more difficult strategic goal to achieve.

Even Li Xia felt helpless.

This is not a small battle with thousands of people. In front of you, there are [-] Mongolian troops advancing by land and water, and there are [-] troops behind them.

After Mengge entered Shu, with the arrival of princes from all over the country and the surrender of Song generals such as Yang Dayuan, the military strength has not decreased but increased.

In this case, if Meng Ge didn't die, no one would be able to turn the tide.

In such a situation, unprepared battles must be fought, and inappropriate strategies must be implemented... This is the helplessness of the passive.

……

Li Xia looked at it for a long time, and finally, he saw a green flag waving on the top of the mountain on the other side.

This time luck was good, the Mongolian sentry who had to march high and look far did not find the ambush.

"The Mongolian army is here."

Li Xia reached out and touched the amulet Gao Mingyue gave her, and put it away.

He held the sword in his hand and warmed up.

Yi Shiying also saw the green flag and began to arrange military orders one after another.

"How about asking Feiyu to lead the Changning Army as the vanguard?"

"Yes."

Li Xia complied.

With the vision of his previous life, he is not bad in grand strategy, but he is still not as experienced as Yi Shiying in specific tactics.

Not only for the mentality of learning, but also for the sake of fighting this battle better, when Pu Zezhi ordered him to lead the army, he still pushed Yi Shiying as the general.

The relationship between the two is therefore very strange.Li Xia formulated a strategy and commanded Yi Shiying to fight; when it came to specific battles, it was Yi Shiying who commanded the entire army.

They are very used to this way, and they have a tacit understanding. ...

Li Xia strode to the front of the Changning army, where Zhu Cheng had led his troops to ambush.

"The sentry of the Mongolian army didn't find us, prepare."

There was no sound of drums, no horns, Song Jun quietly delivered orders, and slowly drew their swords one by one...

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After the water from the Fujiang River and the Qujiang River merged into the Jialing River, the water became stronger.

The river loops through Hezhou and Diaoyu Mountains, breaks through the Yunwu Mountains and Jinyun Mountains, and rushes towards Beizhou and Chongqing.

It is the narrowest river in Jinyun Canyon, and the water is the most urgent.

Therefore, this section of road is called "Jialing Small Three Gorges".

Faced with such a situation, Shi Tianze had to stop and rest.

He has 1 people under his command, plus Shi Shu's [-] vanguard.

Also, hundreds of warships were captured at the South Water Army Wharf of Diaoyu City.Meng Ge allocated another part of the Song army who surrendered, and gave him five thousand sailors.

This navy is newly recruited and still needs to be adjusted.Therefore, the Mongolian army was not in a hurry to attack Chongqing.

Even so, with a force of [-] troops, advancing by land and water, they are almost invincible...

Shi Tianze looked up at Jinyun Mountain, only to see the flag waving on the top of the mountain, but there was no sound of gongs, which meant that the sentry did not find an ambush ahead.

He waved his hand and gave an order, ordering the vanguard to move on, and ordering the navy to cooperate with fifty warships.

Shi Tianze had fought all his life, so of course he wouldn't force [-] troops into this ten-mile-long canyon.

Let a part of the troops go ahead and strangle the beginning and end of the canyon before they can march calmly.

This has nothing to do with whether there is an ambush or not, it is the common sense of the march and the experience of the general.

……

"set off!"

Shi Shu straddled his horse and drove his troops along the canyon.

This is a small path by the river for trackers to pull their tows, and only two or three people can ride horses in parallel in the narrow place.

Soldiers and horses slowly.

After traveling for more than ten miles, I saw that as soon as I got out of the canyon, the river was about to widen.

suddenly.

"Oh!"

Porcelain terrier fireballs were thrown down from above and landed in the Mongolian formation.

The porcelain caltrop fireball did not rely on the power of gunpowder to directly injure the soldiers and horses, but shot out pieces of iron after the explosion, and the wounded soldiers screamed incessantly.

The horse was frightened and neighed.

A mess.

"There is an ambush!"

Shi Shu didn't panic when he met the enemy, he got off his horse and shouted: "Order Shi Shaxian to lead the front army to advance immediately and break through the Song army's defense line. Those who dare to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

"Send a single Yunde, the river boat speeds up immediately, and shoot Song Jun from the river for me!"

"Shi Shawu, you lead two hundred of the most elite warriors around, climb to the top of the cliff for me, and quickly wipe out the ambushes on the mountain..."

"Bang!" The fireball kept exploding in front of him.

"Gag the horse's ears! Keep going!"

It has to be said that Shi Shu was extremely calm.

He has been in the army since he was a child, and fought against the Kingdom of Jin with his father's generation. He has rich experience in fighting.At this time, there was a sudden change, and his reaction made the Mongolian army calm down.

The canyon road is so wide, if they retreat in a panic, not to mention that they cannot go back, even if they escape back to Shi Tianze's formation, the Mongolian soldiers will be punished by military law, and they can only obey orders and move forward.

……

"Kill the past!"

Shi Shawu walked in the front, and immediately led the troops to charge after receiving Shi Shu's order.

He is a historian.

In the battle between Meng and Jin, Shi Tianni, the eldest historian, was tricked by Wu Xian, the general of the Kingdom of Jin, to go to a banquet and killed at the banquet.Historians hate Wuxian deeply, and most of the family members named their sons "Shawu" and "Miewu".

So far, this generation has become the most loyal and valiant group of generals in historians.

Shi Shawu raised his bow and set up an arrow, and threw them at the Song army, while constantly driving the soldiers forward.

This place was already at the end of the canyon, and the Song army blocked the wide area in front, standing in row after row. Taking advantage of the terrain, it formed the advantage of more than ten people fighting against one Mongolian soldier.

Shi Shawu had to push back the Song army's defense line so that the Mongolian army could gather in a wide area.

This is very difficult, because the Song army on the mountain is still attacking.

Bodies quickly piled up on the road.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers in front, Shi Shawu charged forward with his head hammer.

"Oh!"

He is excellent in equestrian skills, and he stepped on the shoulder of a Song soldier's shield hand when he controlled the horse, and trampled the opponent to death with the horse.

With a heavy blow with the head hammer, three Song soldiers were killed instantly.

Seeing him like this, the Mongolian soldiers at the back, their morale lifted, rushed forward, squeezed out of the canyon with all their strength, and fought hand-to-hand with the Song army.

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"Pikeman! Stab!"

The Song Army's spears were like a forest, and they stabbed suddenly.

The Changning Army, commanded by Li Xia, not only blocked the exit of the canyon, but also continuously shot the Mongolian Army from high places.

Normally, as long as this line of defense is held, the Mongolian army must be defeated earlier.

But Shi Wusha was so brave that he almost forced the Song army to retreat.

Moreover, on the Jialing River, the Mongolian army's warships broke down and moved slowly, but they accelerated to the gentle river in the lower reaches of the canyon, moved closer to the bank, and began to shoot arrows at the Song army.

Due to Shi Shu's calm response to this ambush, the Mongolian army gradually calmed down from the panic and tried to turn the tide of the battle.

Li Xia quickly ordered Zhu Cheng to fill up the line of defense, and at the same time turned his head to look at the Jiang'an behind.

The Mongolian navy still needs Yi Shiying to command the defense of the rear army in order to guarantee his advantage.

~~
A large flag was erected on the hillside, with the words "Jiedu Envoy of the Baokang Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and Lu, Deputy Envoy of Sichuan Zhizhi" written on it.

Under the banner, Yi Shiying watched the battlefield with anxiety in his eyes.

Not good at water combat... This is his and Li Xia's shortcoming.

The Xu and Lushui divisions have suffered heavy losses since the defeat of Zhang Shima Hujiang, although they captured New Lin's ships this time.Yi Shiying did not dare to lead the fleet back up the Jialing River.

Fighting water is not impossible to win according to the downstream, but it is very difficult.To defend and counterattack requires strong strength and command ability.He is indeed inferior to Lu Wende in this regard.

In addition, if you use the navy to go to Hezhou, you will be detected by the sentry horses of the Mongolian army.

Therefore, Li Xia boldly proposed to intersperse the Jinyun Mountains with infantry, surprise the Mongolian army, and strangle the canyon at the same time.

Unexpectedly, he bumped into Shi Tianze again.

The Mongolian army had a water commander, but the Song army did not, so it suffered a big loss when the war started.

If the Mongolian army could not be hit hard once, it would be difficult for Yi Shiying to make people believe that the banner of Lu Wende above his head was real.

"Desire Wang Yixin, be sure to lead the Luzhou Army to hook the Mongolian Army ships to the shore!"

……

"charge!"

Luzhou Army General Wang Yixin drew his saber and roared loudly.

The whining horn sounded, and he was the first to rush out.

A large group of Song soldiers in the rear also rushed towards the river against the arrow rain.

Those who were shot by the arrows screamed and fell to the ground, their bodies still twitching, but the rest of the soldiers rushed to the river.

"Pull the boat over!"

Wang Yixin swung the rope hook in his hand and threw it out heavily.

He once fought the battle of Mahujiang with Zhang Shi.

At that time, their ships were forcibly dragged to the shore by the Mongolian army in this way, changing from a water battle to a land battle.

The world is unpredictable, who would have thought that one day, the Mongolian army would have a navy, but the Song army would not.

This time it was the Song Army who wanted to use this method to deal with the Mongolian navy.

Damn it!The Mongols still have sailors, these people on the navy pier in the south of Diaoyu City... Sigh.

Wang Yixin is also not easy to scold.In the battle of Mahujiang, he himself was captured by Wulianghetai.

At that time, if Shi Jun hadn't defeated Wuliang Hetai, he would have become a Mongolian army today...

In short, today is the last shame!

"Quick! Pull!"

"Help the general! Pull one boat with all your strength, and the rest will be easy to fight!"

……

"Shoot them!"

On a warship behind, Shan Yunde, the general of the Mongolian Navy, kept yelling.

He is different from Wang Yixin.

The battle of Mahujiang was only about whether Wuliang could be blocked from joining forces, and at that time the main general Zhang Shi had fled, so Wang Yixin had no choice, so he could return to justice after being captured.

The Battle of Diaoyu City was about the fate of the Song Dynasty, and when the Nanshui Army Wharf was breached, Diaoyu City was still there, and the chief general Wang Jian was desperately trying to rescue him, but Shan Yunde was the first to surrender. After he surrendered, thirteen sailors The division general committed suicide and died for the country.

Shan Yunde's back road has been cut off, and there is no possibility of returning to justice, so he can only help Mongolia wholeheartedly and make contributions to the Great Khan.

Following his command, the arrows on the warship struck.

"Puff puff……"

The blood of the Song army flowed into the Jialing River.

Wang Yi was wounded and refused to retreat, vowing to pull the boat to the river.

There is a section of iron chain at the iron hook, and the soldiers on the ship are struggling to chop.

Seeing him like this, Song Bing rushed forward. Some people protected Wang Yixin, while more people shouted chant and pulled the rope desperately.

So far, the battle situation has become more and more stalemate...

(End of this chapter)