end song

Spring rain is crisp.

This "crispy" refers to ghee, which means that it can nourish all things.

The new year is here, and spring plowing is about to begin.

Whether it is Han or Hu, orthodox or rebellious, the few imperial courts in the world today only differ in where the grain cultivated by farmers should end up, but they must all attach great importance to it.

After the peace talks, the Song court no longer needed to mobilize more than [-] troops to defend Lin'an, and negotiated a peaceful scene for the people to cultivate.

From this point of view, this national policy is very correct.Otherwise, the problem that the 20-year-old currency can solve will not only cost millions of military supplies, but also delay the country's agricultural work for a year or even several years.

On the eighth day of February, the waking of insects.The world is full of troubles, and the fields are full of cultivation.

Jiang Cai climbed to the top of Jiangling City, raised his binoculars and looked towards the outskirts of the city.

"It's a pity, such a good field will be delayed if we don't plow it."

"Look at what the general said." Ma Shilong said: "Isn't that the general that you sent away all the farmers outside Jiangling City?"

Ma Shilong was only a general in the Song army before, but he was promoted to the command in just a few years, and he can already lead an army alone.

He is wearing a majestic armor, and there is a big red cloak on his back. When he talks, he looks around and flicks his cloak with his hands from time to time, like a big rooster with its head high and its toes high.

But in fact, on such a rainy day, the cloak has been drenched into a wet cloth, not only can't block the wind, but it is also very obstructive when hanging on the body.

Jiang Cai held up the telescope without turning his head, and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

Ma Shilong was indeed talking nonsense. The reason why there were no farmers on the outskirts of Jiangling was obviously because of the looming war.

Amidst the rain, a galloping figure appeared to the north.

"The explorer is back."

"Prepare to open the city gate."

"General!" Ma Shilong suddenly shouted and raised his hand, "What is that?"

Jiang Cai squinted his eyes to wipe off the rain on the observation tube, and looked carefully, and saw that just behind his three probing horses, more than ten more cavalry were chasing up.

The two sides are chasing.

"It's Yuan Army!"

It was a rainy day and the ground was slippery. Our Tan Ma tried his best to increase the speed of the horse, and the running was not too slow, but the speed of the dozen or so riders quickly and gradually caught up behind them.

"Ready to respond!" Ma Shilong turned around and shouted, "Archer!"

The archers on the city wall slowly raised their bows, but this distance could not reach the pursuers behind their Tanma.

Jiang Cai put down the binocular, ran to the city wall in two steps, his eyes widened.In the rain, the Yuan army rushed to catch up and cut down his Tan Ma on the ground.

Far away, no sound can be heard.

The soldiers fell to the ground silently, and the blood gushed out and was immediately washed away by the rain.

The empty horse was led by soldiers of the Yuan army.

Instead of leaving, they continued to move forward, ran to the place within a stone's throw of the city wall, and shouted: "Keep the city and surrender as soon as possible, or Jiangling City will be slaughtered!"

"Fire the arrow!" Ma Shilong shouted.

The arrow was hit by the rain, but it couldn't hit the Yuan army, but it made them laugh.

"Let me tell you again, Chang'an has been captured by Da Yuan."

Ma Shilong stretched his neck and shouted: "You dogs, the more you say that, the more your grandfather will not believe it, hahaha."

His neck is thick and his voice is like a bell.

However, Jiang Cai kicked Ma Shilong, reminding him that it is not appropriate to haggle with the enemy's pawns in the command of an army.

"You guard the North City."

"What about you, General?"

"Let you guard Beicheng!"

Jiang Cai gave another order, and led a team of personal guards, striding towards Nancheng.

His boots filled with water and the leather creaked under his feet.Jiang Cai wiped the rainwater off his face, and while walking, he sorted out the situation in his mind.

Throughout Jiangling, he has more than ten thousand troops stationed in Jiangling City, Shashi Town Wharf, and along the Yangtze River.

The Ezhou Huishi has nearly [-] troops, and at the same time it has to protect the population and supplies.

As for how many troops the Yuan army can have?It is not yet known, but Jiang Cai deduced that there should be no more than 5000 people. After all, this is still the Song Dynasty, and the Yuan army can only enter with small groups of soldiers and horses, so it is difficult to enter in large numbers.

Then, it is not easy for the 5000 yuan army to break through Jiangling or defeat the Tang army on the Yangtze River. What is the key to the battle?
Shashi Town Pier!
This is the easiest and most useful strategic location for the Yuan army to capture.

Taking down the wharf, not only have ships, but also can block the river. Once the main force of the Tang army is blocked to the east of Jiangling, the strategic goal will basically be achieved...

Jiang Cai rushed to Nancheng to take a look, and saw that the river was still busy. The boats from Ezhou were still slowly going up the Yangtze River, loaded with people and goods, and there were shirtless and barefoot trackers on the bank desperately pulling the boats. heavy ships.

"Has His Majesty's order arrived?"

"Not yet, the ship is traveling against the river with its luggage, and it will arrive in five days at the earliest."

Hearing that the main army had not yet arrived in Jiangling, Jiang Cai's eyes were filled with worry.

But sailing against the current, there is no other way.

"Prepare immediately, I will personally support the Shashi Town Wharf."

"promise……"

"Jiangling is three thousand and three, how far can we go so far. Wen Huan went to Yangzhou and sent him to Jiangjin Bay."

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shashi Town was the Jindu of the Chu State, and now it has become a strategic and commercial hub in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

The wharf is more than ten miles away from Jiangling City, but its prosperity is not inferior to that of Jiangling City.

Even after the Tang army captured Jiangling, the prosperity of this place did not diminish. Instead, it became a transit port for the Tang army's supplies and spoils, and became even busier after the peace talks.

Nowadays, most of the people in Shashi Town are big merchants and wealthy families, and they don't care much about the loss of half of the country in the Song Dynasty. Instead, they care about business.

"Have you heard? After the peace talks, the forum will be set up in Jiangling, and where can the Jiangling forum be located? It must be the Shashi town wharf."

"I also heard that the rebels... oh, no, it's the Tang army who will be stationed in Jiangling."

"The future can be foreseen. Tsk tsk, the three famous towns of Chu can be connected to the east and the west. At night, the canopy lights shine in the distance, and they always shine like daytime."

The ethos of not caring about the national war but only caring about money is not only owned by the Lu family, nor brought out by Lu Wende.

On the contrary, it can be said that Lu Wende's transformation from a charcoal man who killed the enemy and served the country to a huge greedy man with thousands of excuses may not be due to the influence of this trend.

Since Chanyuan, Da Song has been spending money to buy Taiping, and he is also used to spending money to buy Taiping.It has long been kidnapped by its "richness" and "prosperity".

But sometimes, peace cannot be bought or sought.

When the sound of the horn reached Shashi Town, the busy pier stopped.

The laborers who carried the goods in the rain stopped their movements and looked up blankly; the merchants sitting in the teahouse and wine shop were still talking and put down the cups in their hands...

Through the heavy rain, they didn't see what happened.

As the horn sounded louder, suddenly there were soldiers rushing towards them, yelling endlessly.

"Everyone aboard! Aboard!"

"Get to the pier!"

"What's the matter? Isn't it a peace negotiation? Song Jun and Tang Jun are at war again?"

"It's Yuan soldiers coming! Yuan soldiers are coming..."

Many Li Fu suddenly felt confused.

They haven't connected the new name "Yuan Army" with the Mongolian army who liked to slaughter cities. As for whether this Yuan army still slaughtered cities, no one knows at this time.

The place where the battle took place is still more than ten miles away from the town.

The Yuan army came around from a lake called "Long Lake" in the east of Jiangling City, bypassing the Tang army's defense in Jiangling City.

But just to the north of Shashi Town, there is also a Tang army stationed, and they discovered the traces of the Yuan army in advance.

This Tang army originally planned to build a fortress near the Shashi town wharf for long-term garrison. It had already dug a trench, built a low wall, and lined up behind the low wall without appearing flustered.

"Yuan army is approaching..."

"Quickly report to General Jiang, has Tan Ma returned? How many people are there in the Yuan army?"

It is not easy to observe the number of Yuan troops on rainy days, and the sight from high places is not good, and the dust and smoke of cavalry marching cannot be seen at all.

Although there are more than 700 Tang troops stationed in Shashi Town, there are less than [-] people at the defense point in the north, standing inside the low wall and waiting in full force.

The Yuan army gradually came out in the rain, the team was scattered, and the cavalry did not stop, but surrounded the town as if looking for a breakthrough.

"More than two thousand."

The commander of the Tang army defending the Shashi town wharf was counting the number of Yuan troops while holding the binoculars.

"Three thousand..."

Another Thousands flag came into view, and another after that.

"Four thousand, five thousand...Damn, the manager of ten thousand households! Hurry up! Report it to General Jiang immediately...Damn, why did the Song army let so many troops enter the country?!"

The sound of rain and river waves covered up too many horseshoes.

However, the tremors of the earth still passed.

These soldiers of the Tang army guarding the north could feel that it was the Yuan army launching an offensive to the east, and the defense force in the east was even smaller, only more than [-] people.

"Commander! They're attacking the docks from the right!"

"Why panic! Guard the enemy in front of you!"

Suddenly there was a "boom" on the east side of the pier. It was the artillery on the river boat that was bombarding the sneak attacking Yuan army.

At the same time, those Yuan troops in the north also moved their horseshoes and killed them.

"Meet the enemy!"

The commander of the Tang army remained calm and did not blindly go to save Dongmian.

But the voices of the people on the pier crying for their fathers and mothers have already been heard, disturbing the minds of these soldiers.

At the same time, Jiangling City.

Jiang Cai has temporarily led his troops to support Shashi Town, and handed over the defense of the city to Ma Shilong.

It was the first time for Ma Shilong to receive such an important job. He immediately turned from a beautiful big rooster into an ant on a hot pot. Regardless of the rain, he walked around the city, waiting for the second group of scouts to come back.

Finally, this group of probing horses was not stopped by the cavalry of the Yuan army, and quickly rushed back to Jiangling City.

"Report to General Ma, it's not good! The Yuan army attacked the pier in Shashi Town with tens of thousands of people. General Jiang led people to support him, and was attacked by a Yuan army cavalry on the bank of Jiangjin Lake..."

Shashi Town is more than ten miles away from Jiangling City, and Jiangjin Lake is located northwest of the wharf.

It can be seen from this that the Yuan army did not want to forcibly attack the city, but wanted to encircle and fight for aid.

Ma Shilong looked reckless, but when he thought about it, he understood that if the Yuan army wanted to seal off His Majesty, they had to capture the Shashi Town Wharf within five days, so he used a trick to behead Jiang Cai first.

"General Ma, do you want to send someone to support General Jiang?"

"Of course!" Ma Shilong ordered without hesitation, "Attack the troops immediately... wait! Did General Jiang ask me for help?"

"The Yuan army was fast, cut off General Jiang's retreat, and shot and killed the messenger who broke through. We haven't received General Jiang's order yet."

"Damn." Ma Shilong spat and cursed, thinking of Jiang Cai's repeated explanations before leaving, he was very entangled.

After struggling to the end, he finally ordered: "There is no order, continue to defend the city!"

People don't have front and back eyes, and they don't know whether it is right or wrong when making every decision in wartime.

But in the early morning of the next day, when the rain was over and the sky cleared, Ma Shilong raised his binoculars on the top of the city and saw the densely packed Yuan army stationed in the dense forest outside the city.

If he dared to open the city gate to support Jiang Cai yesterday, he was afraid that Jiangling City would be lost if he was rushed by these Yuan troops ambushing nearby.

"Damn! How many people did you let in from Xiangyang!" Ma Shilong was furious.

And those Yuan troops stopped hiding with him, and started cruising outside Jiangling City to surround him.

Ma Shilong then cut off the news with Jiang Cai. He could not get Jiang Cai's order, and he didn't know how the battle at the Shashi Town Wharf would be, and whether he could hold out until the main force arrived.

"It's all right now, I've been promoted, and I really have to be alone..."