Zheng Yunming finally took action! But there were more than 100,000 Song troops gathered in Hanyang. How should they cross the wide Yangtze River in the sudden storm? Bai Yijie's question only existed for a moment, and Zheng Yunming shouted: "The Shawo Floating Bridge has been built. We cross the river from Shawo and defeat Mengge and his army!"

In the vast fog, neither north nor south could see the actions on the river. This implied great danger for Zheng Yunming, but also contained the opportunity for reversal. If the Mongols crossed the river to attack with the fog, he could only defend the city with fear and could not free up his hands to organize an offensive. But he also understood that Mengge was not the kind of commander who dared to sacrifice his life to attack in the fog. Mengge used his troops boldly but never recklessly, and he was determined not to take any military adventures without certainty. Today, Ezhou is already 90% sure to attack. At this time, division of troops and the Song army was definitely not his style. He would definitely strengthen the periphery first, and then concentrate his strength to capture Ezhou first.

This gave Zheng Yunming the opportunity. Once Meng Ge gave up control of the river, it was equivalent to Zheng Yunming having control. He had already ordered the fishermen in Poyang to prepare materials such as ships and wooden boards, deliberately using the attack from Huhuangzhou as bait. In fact, Xiang Shibi's army guarded the lower reaches of the river and covered the passage of fishing boats for navigation. Then thousands of fishing boats were loaded with materials such as wooden boards and the civilians took advantage of the heavy fog to advance to the Shawo River. The fishing boats were used as floating boats and lay them on them with wooden boards. The iron chains were linked together. It took only half a day to build a temporary floating bridge where military horses could be passed!

Of course, only Zheng Yunming himself knew the efforts behind this. At the beginning, he purposefully trained Poyang Lake fishermen to build floating bridges was just to facilitate the exchanges on the river, so as to avoid troubles in the three places of Ezhou, Hanyang and Jiangkou. The training of Dongting fishermen was originally just a branch of the Baojia reform, and was steadily promoted under the leadership of Zheng Yunming. Fortunately, after Jia Sidao came to power, he not only did not slack the project but instead practiced it quickly, because Jia Xianggong was very ambitious and planned to launch troops to attack the north, and needed Poyang sailors to build floating bridges on the Yellow River for his army.

In any case, Zheng Yunming was able to connect the access between Ezhou and Hanyang at this critical moment, but all the troubles had just begun. First, it was heavy fog, and then it was so violent that it was so violent that it was whimsical to assemble the army under such harsh conditions and go forward to fight the Mongolian army in a decisive battle. Moreover, the opposite side was not just 400,000 mobs, but the experienced Hu people who had just obtained an unprecedented victory in the Western Expedition. It was also a gamble with a very small chance of winning.

But Zheng Yunming was completely unmoved and issued harsh orders one after another from the central army's tent. The army had been following the orders of this young husband for twenty years, and had already reached the point of subconsciously completing the command of the commander in a meticulous manner. Despite the heavy storm and the Yangtze River, the troops gathered near Hanyang still set off in sequence and began to cross the river.

"This is the most dangerous time!" Zheng Yunming said to Bai Yijie: "The military advisor went forward in person to tell Han Feng that no matter how the enemy provoked, he would not stick to it and not lose an inch of his position. Even if the enemy came in full force, he would never lose an inch of his land until the last person left!"

This is naturally too strict. In fact, the Mongolian army could not and had no intention of launching a large-scale attack on Huamahu at this time. In the wind and rain, their powerful intelligence reconnaissance and search capabilities also decreased. When they heard the Song army's hypothetical floating bridge, Mengge also became alert and brought the 30,000 horse infantry troops in Huangniwan and Baituozhou into the command of Nüssel, and then ordered Nüssel to go to test with thousands of cavalry. Han Feng was indeed trapped and ordered Han Rui to lead a thousand horse troops forward in one go, rush into the Mongolian cavalry formation and defeat him.

This news further aggravated Mengge's doubts, but he still did not want to give up Ezhou City, which was already in his hand, which was only the last strike. He ordered Marshal Du to lead 30,000 cavalry out of Yingshan, and ordered the chariot to lead 20,000 Han soldiers in the Central Plains to transfer to the Bazi Gate to control the terrain. He ordered the chariot to ride on the General, and Yan Zhangrou, the ten thousand elite cavalrymen of Shuntian Prefecture, to block the possible attack of the Song army, and to order Marshal Du to lead 30,000 new forces to rescue them everywhere. He even ordered the guardian Yisima Dejin to lead 30,000 strong troops in Jiangbei back to Longshan Western Regions to cross the river from Sanjiangkou to support him. He ordered the rest of the troops not to be disturbed by the landing of the Song army and concentrate their forces to attack Ezhou!

Of course, this is not to be restricted by the attacks of internal and external cooperation between the Song army, but chooses to capture Ezhou before the Song army launches a large-scale attack. In fact, although heavy fog and heavy rain have been hindering the Mongolian army's offensive, the attack did not stop for a moment. Under the fierce attack of the fierce general Tangwuer Wanhuhudu, he seized the main gate of the old city of Ezhou and captured more than 300 heads of the Song army. The Mongolian army advanced from the city gate and fought at the last stronghold of the Song army.

Wei Sheng was already surrounded by Mongolian corpses. The chain mail and each iron ring dripped with the enemy's blood. The blood stained the flag behind him to almost no recognition. Although only the hand that was not used to weapons could hold the iron cone gun, Wei Sheng was still the tiger that looked down on the northern Hu tribe. Rather, the wounded tiger was even more terrifying. Under every shocking roar, there would always be an unlucky Mongolian soldier who became the sacrifice under his iron spear. However, Wei Sheng was not a real body of steel. From the morning fight to the present, he was braved by heavy fog and heavy rain. He had no idea how many people had changed around his side, and his arms were already numb. After all, this hand supported all the strength, and even the toughest people could not hold on.

He leaned his body against the ruins of a house and asked loudly: "Where is Chen Guang? Are you protruding?"

"No!" The deputy general, who was covered in blood, replied in a hoarse voice: "Ximen is all Tartar soldiers. Judging from the banner, it is the Qiexue army led by Alihan! Many of the brothers died in battle, and the brigade was blocked by Ximen! Chen Dutong's life and death are unknown!"

"Forget it!" Wei Sheng spat hard: "Everyone, we must be brothers again in the next life!" As he said that, he supported himself with an iron spear and rushed towards the city gate where the Mongolian army had the strongest strength. The soldiers behind him shouted loudly, and followed the chief general to launch a final charge.

But at this time something strange happened suddenly. The Mongolian army seemed to be frightened by this aggressive counterattack and rushed to flee outside the city.

"Master, the enemy has retreated!" The deputy general wiped the blood from his face excitedly. Could this be a miracle of heaven, or did Zheng Xianggong use some magic tricks outside the city?

"The enemy cannot retreat for no reason," Wei Sheng immediately reacted and shouted: "Don't pursue! Send people to the watchtower first to see the situation."

His tired novel muttered: "Something must have been wrong."

Sure enough, the lookout hand who climbed the old city tower thought about looking at the West and shouted loudly: "Tong, there seems to be a commotion in the direction of Sanjiangkou!"

Wei Sheng's heart moved and subconsciously said, "So this is my husband's goal!"

Yes, over the years, the result of weak enemy strong and strong opponents in the officialdom has turned Zheng Yunming's military use and official methods into a mysterious art that makes the enemy unpredictable. When you are busy dealing with his successive tricks, he may have quietly prepared the fifth move, the sixth move, this series of tricks, and even the retired old prime minister, Qing Zhigong, accused him of being a famous son who is "crawling and changeable, and it is difficult to predict the authenticity." For a commander who emphasized "simple and tenacity" as the military soul at the beginning of the founding of the army, Zheng Yunming's military use style has almost become a bit vain. Several important figures around him have noticed this. This virtual and real style of military use may not deceive Zhang Rou, such a veteran like Zhang Rou, but it is just right for Mengge Dahan, who is confident and underestimated the enemy.

The landing attack in the heavy fog was just a frontal guise to attract Mengge's attention. Zheng Yunming secretly sent Zhang Shijie to lead the left deputy Shenwu army of 10,000 and 200 warships from the river, and used heavy fog as a cover to launch an attack on the Sanjiangkou floating bridge. This soldier was just a partial division. The real offensive came from the Xiangjiang River. One of the Dongting Navy, who was blocked by the Mongolian navy in Dongting Lake for several months, was launched to fight back to death under the command of Jiangling commander Peng Man. Taking advantage of the fierce battle with Zheng Yunming in the downstream, the Mongolian army rushed forward and defeated the Mongolian navy that blocked the upper river in Wulin, burned and robbed hundreds of warships, clearing the obstacles for the Song army's attack on the Xiangjiang River.

The biggest problem of the Song army was not only the disadvantage of military strength, but also the inability to concentrate the army due to temporary mobilization. The total force of the Song army to rescue Xiangyang was actually no less than 250,000, but all the troops were strongly blocked by the Mongolian army at different locations near Jinghu. Fortunately, Zheng Yunming had a strong strategic reserve force in his hand. With 70,000 new army starting from Lin'an as the backbone, he gathered the troops and horses from all over the river along the river, always restraining the movements of Mengge's main force, making Mengge dare not use the Mongolian army's best besiege to attack the city and aid. Each defeat tactic was to cause various troops to concentrate to Jinghu one after another.

From the Xiangjiang River were 10,000 cavalry and infantrymen stationed in Jingjiang Prefecture, 10,000 French infantry and cavalry from Bozhou and Sizhou, and 30,000 Yunnan cavalry and infantrymen who detoured from Bozhou in Yunnan. Among them, only 5,000 infantrymen from the Song Dynasty expedition to Dali, and the remaining 25,000 people joined the Baiman Wuman Resistance Army on the Song Dynasty after the Dali War began. These southwestern barbarians mostly did not have simple armor, but were just cloaks made of local cloth, and their faces were painted with red and green patterns, which made the enemy dazzled. The waist knives in their hands were made of excellent steel, which often passed down to generations. These barbarians in the southwest were originally the uneasy factors of the Song and Dali countries. When the country was facing a real crisis, they became one of the strongest forces to resist.
Chapter completed!