Zheng Yunming frowned and shouted in a low voice: "Why are you here? The Mongolian Tartars are about to attack. What trouble will women come to do at this time?"

Lai Ruyue did not answer, but just gave a wink at a middle-aged woman beside her. The middle-aged woman with thick hands and feet strode to Ge Huai, stuffed a heavy iron knife into his hand, and shouted loudly: "Old guy, this is the weapon left by my father. You broke it for a while yesterday, but you lost a lot of people to our family. This time I was defeated by the Tatars. Even Bin'er was not ashamed to stay under Tong Meng. The whole family packed up their bags and went home to farm!"

Ge Huai's beard shook, his eyes widened and shouted, "How can you be the turn of a woman in the military? I'll go back to the cave at home to watch out for a pair of grandchildren. Why are these Tartars rivals?"

Zheng Yunming saw the old couple quarreling very interestingly, but Lai Ruyue winked at Qin Banxia, ​​who was lowering her head. Banxia covered her face with her hands and ran to Wang Deng in small steps. He handed a small paper bag in his hand to Wang Deng's hand, and said in a weak voice like a mosquito: "This is the arrow avoidance talisman I sought in Guandi Temple. I heard from others that with this talisman, the bow and arrow opposite the body would not be shot..."

Wang Deng looked at her and said softly, "You must hide in the cave and don't come out. The Mongols' cannon stones are powerful. You don't have to worry about the outside. With me, Zheng Dutong, and everyone, even if there are a million people in the Tartars, they can't attack."

Lai Ruyue looked at the two of them with affectionate appearances, with a smile on her face, then she immediately turned her face and made a gesture to Wei Ruolan. Wei Ruolan handed her the huge wooden shield in her hand.

This shield was very huge, almost covering Lai Ruyue's tiny figure. She pulled up the shield and walked to Zheng Yunming.

"Heard all the soldiers!" She shouted to the soldiers under the city: "The ones standing here are your family members! When you are fighting on the top of the city, we will stand behind you and support you at any time! The men are fighting all over, let's fill in. As long as there is a living person in Xiangyang City, the Tartars will not be involved in Xiangyang! Women, what do you say!"

The military women shouted in unison: "Either come back after winning the battle, or never come back!"

Lai Ruyue smiled and waved her hands at them. The soldiers rushed forward and stuffed the peace talismans in their hands into their husband's arms.

The scene of separation from life and death at this moment made Zheng Yunming feel particularly moved. Lai Ruyue put the big shield in his hand towards him, and the weight of the big shield almost staggered him.

I saw her beautiful eyes staring at her, her eyes as if she could not express her words.

Then there was only one short and powerful sentence: "Either come back after winning or put the body on this shield and carry it back!"

"This girl really can't speak." Zheng Yunming threw the shield into Han Feng's hand, shook his hands at the army, and shouted with an extremely exaggerated expression: "?: "You guys, please move forward and save my head!"

The original words were what Liu Guangshi said before the Battle of Tuogao. At that time, the Jin people invaded Lianghuai with an army of 200,000. Yue Fei was unable to rescue them. Liu Guangshi hurriedly, and only handed them to the generals in front to deal with them. Gaozong was furious and personally gave him a sword, saying to him that he would either use this sword to kill the enemy general's head back, or defeat him and chop his head back with this sword. Liu Guangshi shouted to the generals in front in a hurry: "Let's move forward and save my head!" So the generals did not dare not fight hard, and finally defeated the Jin people in Tuogao.

At this moment, when the soldiers saw the funny appearance of the army's general, they couldn't help laughing.

Zheng Yunming suddenly changed his face. He held the sword in his waist with a serious expression, waved his right hand towards the city wall, and shouted: "Get out!"

The city wall was already full of soldiers with nervous expressions, and there were archers on standby in each building. Zheng Yunming set up a table inside the Ximen Tower and looked down at the city.

The army lined up in neatly shaped formations, holding up various banners, slowly pressing towards Xiangyang City like a mountain, just like the scene where he woke up in a dream countless times. Now that he really saw it, he didn't feel nervous.

It was like the moment he picked up his pen on the imperial examination court that year, he was particularly clear-headed. The more pressure he was, the more calm he could deal with it. He firmly believed in these subordinates who lived and died with him, the determination of the military and civilians in Xiangyang City to fight against the war, and also firmly believed that his destiny would not end like this.

The first wave of attacks by the Mongolian army was the common rushing and ladder. Six carefully crafted rushing vehicles, covered with cowhide roofs, slowly moved forward under the push and pull of the soldiers. However, they were definitely not the protagonists of this wave of attacks, because there was a twenty-six-meter-wide moat under the city, which isolated all heavy siege weapons outside the city wall. Zheng Yunming was extremely glad that at this moment, the super huge project that had been expanded three times with human labor. This project can almost be called the core part of the reconstruction of the entire city. In order to complete this huge project on schedule, it even reduced the scale of such an important project that was so important that the city wall was covered with bricks. It mobilized countless husbands captured in the battle against the Beijing Lake thieves, and used money to recruit countless other civilians. Even the Xiangyang army in the training personally participated in geotechnical labor, just for the timely completion of this moat that could be called the most magnificent in the world's city.

The tension of manpower and material resources sometimes makes the officials who are responsible for the renovation of the city walls feel a headache. More than one official complained to Zhao Kui about labor shortage, materials shortage, and construction periods too tight. Zheng Yunming's ears were filled with complaints. This is inevitable. On the one hand, we must reserve enough combat readiness resources for the war launched in autumn, but at the same time we must carry out such an amazing urban defense project. In an emergency, Zheng Yunming once ignored his identity and visited the manors of powerful people from all over the country, and squeezed out a part of the money they had left to subsidize the shortage of funds. Finally, he was able to complete the entire urban defense construction before the war began.

Only at this moment when the war was approaching could Zheng Yunming understand how correct Zhao Kui's view that he had to complete the moat on time was. The original moat was only six feet and four feet wide, which was considered the best in the western front. However, from the actual battle examples of the Mongols in the Northern War, they also had cases of overcoming this moat that was six or seven feet wide. And this moat that was twenty-six feet wide was like a real big river, has never appeared since the southward crossing. Under the obstruction of this man-made natural chasm, rushing, goose carriages and tower turrets could not play any role. The Mongols' rushing carriages could only be used when the infantry crossed the moat and thought of putting down the suspension bridge.

Let them do it, Zheng Yunming thought that the six iron chains hanging the suspension bridge were built by Zheng Yunming and Yang Xuan personally supervised the worker. If they thought they could easily destroy it, let the Mongolians try it.

A personal soldier from the corps office of the corps office came to visit the city tower and reported to the report: "The corps office is already in the corps office, and ordered the guards of the gate to report the situation at any time. If there is an emergency in military situation, he must request reinforcements from the corps office in time. Do not act stubbornly, which will lead to major mistakes."

Zheng Yunming laughed in his heart. The chief generals guarding the city walls on all sides were not afraid of fighting. It was because Zhao Kui sent the generals who were not afraid of death to Jinghu to Xiangyang City that he finally sent people to inform everyone that they would not refuse to ask for help based on their blood.

Zheng Yunming, deputy commander of Jing and E, who was in charge of the Ximen City Tower, faced the attack of three Han troops of the Mongolians, to ensure the safety of the northwest and southwest corners, and to ensure the safety of the northwest corners, the defense tasks were the heaviest. Meng Jing, the commander of the Zhongshun Army, faced with the Yan Shijun and Hudu Hu army arranged by the Secretariat of Xingzhong, and Huxian, the commander of the East Gate, commander of the direct commander of the commander of the Dongmen City, commanded all the Zhongyi army troops in Xiangyang City, including three Zhongyi army horses retreating from the north, and a Poche militia led by Wei Zugui. The Sanzhong army was naturally the most unreliable. But Hu Xian was famous and with his qualifications, he could suppress these undisciplined loyal and righteous troops. Moreover, the Mongolian Wanhu Tuduan at the East Gate carried elite cavalry of the Mongolian headquarters. They were the ace troops that the Mongols would not use to attack the city unless they had no choice. The first wave of siege in the east gate would not be attacked. In contrast, the Jing-E commander Wan Wensheng, who was in charge of the South Gate, would face a vast attack. Here, the Jurchen Wanhu Liuqi and the Han army Wanhu Shi Tianze would be the first to launch the attack.

With the detailed information obtained from Lin'an and the careful reconnaissance before the war, the Song army was finally able to find out the number of the enemy troops attacking Xiangyang before the war began. This is a crucial help for defending the city. With detailed information, the Song army can make targeted deployments when arranging defenses. This is the wisest defense strategy for the defensive side with insufficient troops.
Chapter completed!