Tasi looked at him with relief. The Han general recruited from near Yanjing was a treasure given to the Mongolian Empire by Changsheng. He led his soldiers to expand territory for the Mongolian Khan. Since twenty years ago, he swept across Hebei, Shandong, and Shaanxi, and has been chasing the Jin Kingdom to the city of Caizhou, annihilated all the Jin Kingdom. Even the most outstanding general in the Mongolian army would not regard Zhang Rou as a comrade who was weaker than him.

Today, we have to rely on this extremely sharp spear to rush forward again, piercing a hole in the tight strategic defense line of Sinan Si people. Then, regardless of the number of people, we will break in in one fell swoop, first go south to Jiangling south of Xiangyang, cross the Yangtze River, and take Lin'an with a sweeping momentum. The largest treasure house on the Southern Dynasty, the continent, fell into the empire's pocket.

But before that, the cunning fox that Hehan mentioned must be dealt with. Zheng Yunming is no longer something that can be impressed by fame and fortune, and the Mongolian army has a consensus. However, fame and fortune are not enough to move their hearts, but the situation can force their ambitions. The Mongolian army has also faced many difficult opponents, but many people have been impressed by the Mongolian army's strong combat power and destiny that are about to be destroyed, and they bow to the Mongolian Khan. Zheng Yunming may be the next one.

Zhang Rou shouted in a deep voice: "Please give an order to lead me to the head of Xiangyang City and capture Zheng Yunming alive and present it to the king!"

Tasi laughed, and he patted Zhang Rou on the back: "You are my Mongolian dog and an elite soldier of the battles. How could you make you rush forward all at once?"

He turned around and shouted, "Yan Shi, let your warrior rush first!"

Yan Shi's corners twitched unaware of it.

It's the same again, always like this. Every time I get to work on the cushion, I always leave it to him.

Uncle Yan Wu was originally a rogue and rogue in the Jin Dynasty. If he had not been born in troubled times, he would have registered in the county jail at most, becoming a "celebrity" who made the village trouble. However, since Genghis Khan drove into the pass, the Jin Dynasty was eager to seek soldiers and the gangsters, and the best soldiers were born to the government. After Yan Shi joined the army, he grew up from ten households to hundreds of households, and then the county magistrate and county magistrate, and became a powerful force. When the Song army arrived, he would surrender to Song, and when the Mongolian came, he would surrender to Mongolia, and he would travel between the three parties. Until the Mongolian army was approaching Hebei, the Song Dynasty retreated and watched friendly forces fall into the siege of the Mongolian army.

Without helping, he felt the extraordinary strength of the Mongolian army and the lack of support from the Song Dynasty. He gave up resistance and led the 300,000 households in the occupied land to surrender to Mu Huali, becoming one of the powerful minions of the Mongolian Empire. But obviously, the Mongolian nobles did not evaluate such two-faced and three-sword surrenderers as Shi Tianying, Shi Tianze, and Zhang Rou, who believed that they could rely on. Whenever they attacked, they either used Yan Shi's troops as cannon fodder or as a stadium for siege. They were very careful about their subordinates. They were not allowed to gain a little, and once Yan Shi had the idea of ​​expanding their troops, they were always stopped by strict orders.

After all, they did not really believe in Yan Shi's loyalty. Once he colluded with the Southern Dynasties, he would become a confidant of the Mongolian army. For Yan Shi and his subordinates, it was the best choice to use it as cannon fodder consumed during the war. Now Yan Shi is over fifty years old, and many years of war have already made his beard gray, but his battles have made his battles. The cities he captured and the heads he won were useless in the end. Uncle Yan Wu still ended up as cannon fodder when he attacked the city.

Yan Shi came up silently, bowed to Tasi to receive the order, turned to the hillside and shouted: "Yan Zhongji, take your people up!"

Yan Zhongji, the eldest son of Yan, was majestic, and his chain mail was personally rewarded by Ogedei Khan. The long feathers on his head swung in the wind, and he raised his iron knife and shouted loudly: "Everything comes with me!"

Zheng Yunming was all filled with his eyes as he played the hukata, drums and horns were ringing, and flags and banners were rotating. Everyone on the city was inevitably nervous. Although this army was no longer a newcomer to the battlefield, facing the huge army outside the city, it was inevitable that he was still worried and worried.

Zheng Yunming knew that this uneasiness could only be eliminated with the blood of fighting. He shouted loudly: "The enemy is going to cross the river, notify the brothers under the city to be ready to intercept the enemy!"

More than a thousand troops of formation have set up small square waves in front of the female wall beside the moat, ready to give the Mongolian army a head-on blow at any time. Zheng Yunming has placed one of his most powerful bargaining chips outside the city gate in order to allow the enemy to be hindered to the greatest extent when crossing the wide moat.

The Mongols' hashed cavalry were still the first to go out. They shot at the Song army opposite through the moat, but the moat was too vast, and the Song army was dormant under the female wall, so it was difficult for the bows and arrows to hurt them. But as long as the Song army's actions were suppressed, the subsequent infantry could carry out the crossing of the river in an orderly manner. They entered the embankment of the moat, threw the skin and wooden rafts in their hands into the river, and started to row the rafts across the river with simple wooden oars. The archers standing by the embankment kept firing their bows and shooting. Anyone who dared to show their heads would immediately attract dense arrows.

The army of the army had already prepared to stop on the other side. Not only did they have a complete female wall to cover, they also carried huge cards to resist the enemy's bows and arrows. The cards were seven feet high on the ground, which could completely cover a soldier of normal height, allowing him to hide behind the archery or fire a musket. In this regard, the combat efficiency of the prepared defense party was naturally higher than that of the strong attacking side. The archers under Yanshi's army used the shield hands to hold a large shield in front of them, and the other was to rely on the number advantage to continuously sprinkle arrow rains on the other side. There were only hundreds of archers of the army of the army, so it was naturally difficult to compete with the neatly lined archers on the other side.

Yan Shi's subordinates not only needed to cross the river, but also wanted to open up a road for the subsequent siegemen under the attack of the firepower at the head of the Song army and the firepower on the other side. They threw the bamboo tray made of thick bamboo into the water, tied the Pihuntuo on both sides of the bamboo tray as floating bags, and connected the bamboo tray with iron locks, and actually started to build a floating bridge under the nose of the Song army.

General Zhu at the top of the city fired a few shots, but his accurate head was obviously not enough. He only hit one shot outside the moat. Although the bamboo platoon was broken, Yan Shi's subordinates immediately transported another bamboo platoon to replace it. In a blink of an eye, four floating bridges were already being built on the moat. They extended the four floating bridges bit by bit with General Zhu's artillery fire on the top of the city, extending them to the opposite bank of the wide floating bridge. The city kept firing stone bullets and various strong attack crossbows at the bottom of the city. The soldiers of Yan Shi could not completely ensure safety with shields covering their bodies with shields. People kept turning over and falling into the water, but did not stop working at all. Obviously, they were used to their role as cannon fodder at the yard. Even if their companions kept dying by their side, they were just used to it.

The anxious Qu Chu was afraid that Yan Shi's subordinates would retreat slightly, so he specially arranged some Khitan infantry and Uygur infantry to supervise the formation in the rear, urging Yan Shi's subordinates to step up the construction of the floating bridge. Using troops from different ethnic groups to monitor each other was originally the established policy of the Mongols. With the surveillance of these Hu people and alien races, Yan Shi's subordinates did move faster.

"I didn't follow the advice of the military advisor and set up some small cannon cars outside the city. Now it seems like a mistake." Zheng Yunming sighed: "If there were more than a dozen cannon cars at the foot of the city wall, it would not be allowed to set up their floating bridges so easily."

"Repentance is useless." Bai Yijie leaned closer and said, "When the floating bridge is about to be completed, fight the enemy decisively once. Then retreat to the city and make a decision."

"There is no need to worry about this." Zheng Yunming said: "The army of the trap was born for this. If we say that the formation was a decisive victory and the meeting on a narrow road is a good opportunity for these people to show their skills."

At the top of the city, he watched Yan Shi's subordinates face constant casualties and the number of floating corpses gradually increasing on the moat, and gradually pushed the floating bridge to the other side. Every time they approached an inch of the city wall, the firepower at the top of the city increased by a little. In addition to general cannons and horn crossbows, bows and arrows and muskets were also added to the shooting. However, Yan Shi's subordinates, who had increased casualties, dared not retreat a little. As long as they retreated half a step, the swords and axes of the Mongolian nobles had been waiting in the rear for a long time.

The army of the army had given up the female wall and started to line up after the card. This time they did not do it for the offense, but to defend. So they lined up into a small square array of 100 people. At the front end of the two wings of the square array were musketeers and archers. The periphery of the square array was a spearman holding a spear. It was Wang Deng's original crab armor formation. When the enemy approached, it was used as crab claws protruding on both wings. Musketeers and archers should fire first to kill and damage the enemy long-range. When the enemy approached, the gunner and archers retreated. The spearman set up a formation on the periphery. The sword and shield soldiers bent down to prepare to start close-range hand-to-hand combat in the gaps of the spear formation.

There were three crab armor formations on the four pontoon bridges that were about to approach the other side, watching the enemy slowly approaching the bamboo rafts, but standing still. Only the archers and musketeers in front kept firing. The soldiers on the opposite pontoon bridge also covered their bodies with shields and kept firing arrows. Until the last row of bamboo rafts leaned on the moat embankment. They didn't even have time to tie them up with the bamboo rafts behind them with iron locks. A hundred households standing in front roared and rushed forward with the long spear and short sword behind them. They rushed forward and rushed towards the merciless military formation.

There was a sudden shout in the crab armor formation, and the military formation moved forward in an orderly manner. The spearmen held the spear in their hands, held the spear with water droplets and held the spear flat in their hands, slowly forwarding, and hitting the Mongolian infantry rushing towards them.
Chapter completed!