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On the ninth day of February, the warship passed through Gong'an County, and it was three or five days away from Jiangling City.

Brothers Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui would climb up the mast to look at them every day, and they seemed very anxious.

On the main boat, Li Xia looked calm on the surface, but most of the time he also started to climb up the oar, watching the situation on the river ahead.

If there are ships carrying people turning back on the river, it means that Jiangling's wharf is lost, and the Yuan army has blocked the river.

This situation has not happened yet, and Jiang Cai has not yet fallen, but Li Xia does not know how much he paid.

He didn't want to show anxiety, he wanted to avoid the courtiers and followers around him, and go to be alone, and he didn't even want to see his concubines.

After proclaiming himself emperor, he occasionally had this habit.

"You wait outside."

Turning around the cabin, leaving the guard outside the cabin on the top floor, Li Xia entered a cabin alone, sat down, and rubbed his forehead.

It's much more comfortable not to have to put on an air of supremacy in front of people.

Considering the situation, regardless of the expression in his eyes, Li Xia also scolded Lu Wenhuan to himself, scolding him for deliberately letting the Yuan army go down to Jiangling.

His voice was not loud, but he had just finished cursing when he heard someone scolding: "I just think Li Xia is despicable."

The voice was neither loud nor low, but it was magnanimous.

Li Xia pushed open the window, and saw that there was a corridor outside the window, and there were two women standing on the railing across a few cabins, Zhao Jin and Wang Cui.

Zhao Jin heard the sound of pushing the window, turned his head to see Li Xia, put his hands on his waist instead, and said: "Even if the court recognizes his throne by pinching his nose, so what, I have never seen the emperor?" ? Anyway, in my eyes, he just doesn't deserve to be an emperor."

Wang Cui couldn't help pulling her gently, reminding her to stop talking.

Zhao Jin didn't pretend to be stupid, and said: "What are you afraid of, at worst, he will kill me. If the bad woman dares not let me go, I will be so angry that he will take revenge sooner or later."

Li Xia's attitude is very clear, Yan Rong can take care of Zhao Jin, as long as he doesn't disturb him.

Zhao Jin knew exactly this, and whenever he had the opportunity to meet him, he would deliberately make noise.Usually at times like this, Li Xia usually ignores her, turns around and walks away or lets Yan Rong take her down.

Today, he didn't walk away, but turned around, leaning against the window, listening to Zhao Jin's abuse.

"I think Li Xia is despicable, shameless, and pretending. He clearly has a wolfish ambition, and in order to confuse people, he always talks about the righteousness of restoring the Central Plains. Take him as Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Is there such a poor emperor? Like a bandit leader. One night, he puts on airs, but he is not lustful behind his back, robbing concubines, and has no conscience... ..."

The river wind blew past, blowing her words into Li Xia's ears, and soon dissipated over the Yangtze River.

When Zhao Jin said that his mouth was dry, he turned his head and glanced, only to see that figure was still leaning against the window, and his back was straightened even when doing this kind of movement, which made it even more annoying to watch.

However, Li Xia didn't respond to scolding for so long.

She couldn't help muttering to herself, she couldn't really piss him off.

After a while, Li Xia saw that she didn't scold anymore, so she turned her head and looked at her again. She didn't speak, and quickly recited her back.

However, his expression seemed very relaxed.

"Whatever you look at, I'm just scolding you." Zhao Jin raised his voice.

"Good scolding."

"You pretend? It's useless to pretend to be generous. I will not admit that you, a traitor, are the emperor."

"I don't need you to admit it, and you can't change anything."

"Are you laughing? Bah, I think you're so worried, you're just pretending all day long."

"Yes, I'm so worried." Li Xia replied bluntly.

He wanted to be the emperor of the world, but he couldn't be Zhao Jin's emperor anyway.After all, he is an enemy to her, and they have nothing to do with each other.

Then no matter how much he shoulders, he doesn't need to shoulder her expectations.

So Li Xia closed the window with a bang, looking very rude.

I can still hear Zhao Jin shouting: "Do you think he looks like an emperor? He is only one..."

The river boat continued to go up the river, and finally got an urgent report from the upper reaches.

The letter was only issued two days ago. Jiang Cai bluntly said that the Yuan army was powerful. Ali Haiya personally led an army to attack the Shashi town wharf. The Tang army suffered heavy casualties and urgently needed support.

Even Shi Jun, who has always been calm, became anxious when he heard the news.

Li Xia, on the other hand, looked more and more majestic, and asked calmly, "Does Shi Qing know how Meng Gong defeated the enemy in the battle between Song and Meng Jiangling? The sword."

He was talking about the first battle 30 years ago. At that time, the Mongolian army had captured Xiangyang, and the troops were divided into two groups. One went to Huangzhou along the Han River, and the other directly attacked Jiangling by land.

It was Meng Gong who saved Jiangling, Huangzhou, and recovered Xiangyang.

Naturally, Shi Jun understood the past, and immediately responded: "Back then, Meng Gong was well aware of the disparity in military strength. He first gathered troops to block the river, and then resorted to suspicious tactics. During the day, he changed flags and military uniforms to support Jiangling. At night, he bluffed. The torches were lined up for tens of miles along the river, as if a large army was coming to help. The Mongolian army was unaware of reality, and their hearts were restless. Meng Gong took the opportunity to attack, smashed 24 enemy camps, and took back more than [-] captured civilians."

After a short story was told, the civil and military officials became much calmer.

Li Xia praised: "As expected of Meng Gong, he fought against Mongolia alone, and he is still the pillar of Zhao and Song Dynasties."

"Your Majesty, the situation is different after all. Although Meng Gong had few troops back then, Jiangling had many, so he could be rescued slowly; the situation in Jiangling today lies in the word 'critical'."

"Since we are in a hurry, I have sent cavalry to the shore to quickly support Jiangling by land."

Fang Yankai was taken aback for a moment.

There were indeed cavalry in the army, but this battle was after all an attack on Ezhou along the river, most of the main forces were navy and infantry, and all the cavalry added up were only a thousand or so like Lu Xiaoyou.

No matter how many there are, the ships will not be able to carry them.

"Jiang Cai said that there are more than ten thousand Yuan troops, and sending thousands of riders to the shore to rescue them is just a drop in the bucket."

At this point, Fang Yankai saw Shi Jun waving his hand to signal him not to say any more.

He himself has figured it out.

As long as Lu Xiaoyou's thousand riders can reach Jiangling first, isn't that exactly what Meng Gong encountered back then?The disparity in military strength can be used as a strategy for suspicious soldiers.

Shashi Town Wharf.

"Fire arrows!"

"Frozen!"

With the cries of the two warring parties, arrows and nacres crossed in the air.

The ships carrying the Tang army's artillery had moored downstream in order to attack the Yuan army attacking from the east during the first battle.

In the next two days, the Yuan army quickly went around to the west to attack, avoiding the artillery.The big ship was still struggling to go up the river.

The problem is that the continuous spring rains have made the Jiangzhu muddy, and it is even more difficult for the trackers to pull the warship.

During the war, the people hiding on the pier were crying loudly.

The Tang army was also retreating little by little, and the battle line had been drawn within the range of the bows and arrows of the ships and chariots on the riverside.

The defenses on land were nearly collapsed.

The Yuan army also suffered casualties, but maintained high morale.

In any case, what they seized was a good opportunity.

Li Xia broke Song State's Beijing-Xiangxiang defense line, and Song State also consumed Li Xia on the Yangtze River, which was their opportunity to benefit.

When the generals of the Yuan army analyzed the situation, they mentioned the state of Song and Li Xia, but they rarely mentioned the word "Tang State", because for them, the one who had always been a threat was Li Xia as a general or commander. people.

For the time being, Tang has not yet threatened Da Yuan with the power of a single country.

Therefore, they thought that getting rid of Li Xia was equivalent to destroying Tang.

"Shashi Town must be taken today! Those who make meritorious deeds will be rewarded..."

Liu Guojie rode his horse through the front line, raised his sword and shouted.

He was originally Zhang Hongfan's general. Although he had an ordinary Han name, he was actually a Jurchen, whose surname was U Gulun.It was Liu who changed his surname after following the Zhang family.

Later, Ali Hague took over Bozhou, and Liu Guojie believed that staying in Bozhou and following Ali Hague would definitely have more opportunities to make contributions, so he wanted to stay.

Zhang Hongfan was also generous, seeing that he had such thoughts, he agreed.

Sure enough, now Liu Guojie waited for this opportunity.

He knew that he was about to capture Shashi Town.

What people hate is the wet and rainy weather and the soft and muddy land in the land of Jinghu.

From time to time, when it rained, the horse's hoof stepped into the mud and it was difficult to pull it out. When shooting against the Tang Army's navy, the casualties were much greater than usual.

There were also many soldiers in the army who could not tolerate such water and soil and fell ill.

"Warriors! Grit your teeth and take down the pier today. There are countless treasures and wine women. We are waiting for Li Xia's ship to come."

"Kill!"

The sky suddenly darkened, and the Yuan army maintained a crazy offensive, hoping to break through the Tang army's defense line before nightfall.

The people on the pier were terrified and began to loot the boats, screaming and falling into the water.

suddenly.

"Li Xia is here!"

A soldier of the Yuan army came on a flying horse and roared wildly at the top of his voice.

Liu Guojie was shocked, turned around and asked, "Li Xia is here?! So soon? Did you see his flag?"

"There are no banners, but the cavalry are coming..."