Chapter 396: Opening the Curtain
In Zhao Bing's view, the Mongolian team was composed of traitors, but if you think about it carefully, this is not accurate. It should be said to be a national army composed of multi-ethnic rebels. But what puzzled him was why these rebels from various ethnic groups were willing to be driven by the Mongols, whether they were money, high-ranking officials, or killing? If you were to select the "Top Ten Rebels of the Mongols and Yuan Dynasties", he thought Li Heng should occupy a quota, because this guy is different from other vassals who betrayed his own nation and his own country.?
Li Heng is a descendant of the authentic Xixia clan. His grandfather died in a battle when the Mongols attacked Xixia. His father Li Weizhong was captured. I don’t know if he was smart or obedient and sensible. Not only was he not killed by the Mongols who always liked to kill the roots, he was adopted by the Mongolian clan king. Later, he became a member of Daluhuachi. After Li Heng was born, he was attracted by the princess of the Mongolian clan king, the Prince Song, and was adopted as an adopted son again. However, Zhao Bing was accused of the Mongolians of taking godsons from other clans. He was obscene to the behavior of taking godsons from other clans. He was obscene to the behavior of taking hostages in disguise.
With such a good godfather, Li Heng seemed to have forgotten the hatred and family grudges of the country, or did not have the intention of Murong Fu to restore the country for generations, but became the minion of the Mongols mentally. In the third year of Zhongtong, with the help of his godfather's move to the brother, Li Heng was appointed as the severance officer of the Shangshu, and did not forget his spies to sue Li Yu for rebellion. Therefore, he was appointed as the chief manager of Zilai Road Aolu and was wearing golden talisman by Kublai.
In the seventh year of Zhiyuan, Li Heng was appointed General Xuanwu, and the new army of Zilai in Yidu, and followed the Yuan army to attack Song. The Yuan army attacked Xiangyang. The defending general Lu Wenhuan crossed the Han River with fishing boats to peek at the Yuan army's military power. Li Heng set up an ambush to defeat Lu Wenhuan, and cut off the water route to the outside of Xiangyang. In the spring of the tenth year of Zhiyuan, Li Heng led elite troops to cross the Han River. He first climbed the city from the south of Fancheng. The Yuan army followed the superiors, and Fancheng was defeated. After that, Xiangyang also surrendered. He promoted General Mingwei with his merits and wore the Golden Tiger Talisman. The following year, he defeated the Song commander Xia Gui, captured Ezhou and Hanyang, and promoted to General Xuanwei with his merits.
Later, Li Heng followed Prime Minister Bo Yan Shun to the Yangtze River to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the 12th year of Zhiyuan, Li Heng followed the right prime minister Ali Hague to Dongting and captured the Song general Gao Shijie. Then he captured Yuezhou and Shashi. Soon, the Yuan army divided into three groups to send troops. He was the left deputy marshal, and the marshal Suodu sent troops out of Jiangxi. He chased Song Xiangwen Tianxiang all the way to Kongkeng, captured his wife and daughter, surrendered 200,000 people, captured more than 200,000 people including the Song army recruiting envoy Zhao Shishang, and surrendered more than 200,000 people. Later, he defeated Song soldiers at Meiling.
In the 14th year of Zhiyuan, Li Heng was appointed as the chief political officer and went to Jiangxi Province. In the 15th year of Zhiyuan, Li Heng was appointed as the deputy commander of the Mongolian Han army, captured Guangzhou, and came to Yashan again. He can be said to have participated in the various battles of the destruction of Song, and made great contributions to the Yuan Dynasty. He rose along the way with the bones of the Han people as mountains, becoming the vanguard of the destruction of Song...
In the previous battle for Yashan Island, the Yuan army not only failed to recapture the island, but also suffered heavy casualties and exhausted the enemy's plan to go bankrupt. The commander Zhang Hongfan decided to start a decisive battle recently, but he had a dispute over how to fight. Given the failure of several attacks and the sharp firearms of Song's arms, the generals thought that the large ships should be concentrated as the vanguard to use the large catapults carried on it to smash the water camp made of the Song army with large ships, and then break the camp and annihilate the enemy.
However, Zhang Hongfan did not adopt it. He thought that breaking the Song army's ship formation with a catapult would force it to break out of the ocean and escape, and it would be difficult to complete the task of annihilation here. It was difficult to hand over the task upwards, so he advocated attacking the ship face to face. Li Heng also believed that although he had surrounded the enemy, the Song army could advance and retreat with the tide, and the arrival of the rainy season made it meaningless to cut off the Qiaoji Road. Therefore, it is most suitable to attack quickly, otherwise the opponent could escape by taking advantage of the strong wind and tide, and it would not succeed in the end, which would be a waste of military strength. Therefore, under the leadership of the two commanders, the tactic of attacking the north and the south was formed.
At this moment, Li Heng led his troops to take advantage of the darkness of night and high tide to the sea from Yamen to detour from the island to the north, but he always felt uneasy all the way, as if one eye was staring at his every move, thinking that this was not to sneak attack on the Song camp, but to jump into a trap. Of course, this feeling was not because he did not have the confidence to defeat the Song army, but because he came from the intuition of a veteran on the battlefield.
"Stop the boat and get off the anchor!" Under the leadership of General Song who surrendered to the Yuan army, Li Heng's navy bypassed many reefs and successfully used the rising tide to pass through the narrow road of Dongnengzhou to enter the inland sea. He then ordered the boat to be moored, extinguish the lights, and wait for the tide to recede.
On the dark night, the lights of the Song army's water camp seemed extremely bright, and the island was bright and bright, which made Li Heng feel a little relieved. He thought that if the Song army was aware of it, they would definitely withdraw the garrison on the island into the water camp to strengthen their strength, or concentrate their troops on the island to fight on the 6th. Now that the troops are divided into two places, it will not only be difficult to support each other, but will also disperse the troops and weaken the defensive power of the water camp. As long as the water camp is broken, the Song army on the island will have no way of retreat and surrender without fighting.
"Send a sentry boat to see if there are ambushers hidden!" Deputy General Sahri saw that the tide was still in low for a while, and their mooring place was still more than ten miles away from the Song camp, and he couldn't see the scene clearly, so he wanted to order people to explore the camp.
"No!" Li Heng immediately stopped after hearing this, "The Song army has long become a frightened bird. It will definitely send a sentry ship to patrol nearby. If we meet our army, we will definitely warn us, and it will be difficult to achieve the effect of a surprise attack!"
"Yes, the deputy commander is clear!" Although Sahri was a general in the sect, he was still very convinced by Li Heng and stopped talking.
Li Heng looked back at his fleet. The more than 120 warships he brought from Guangzhou had already lost 40% of the fierce battle with the Song army, and most of them were destroyed by their iron-backed dragon ships and firearms. Therefore, he had to allocate fifty warships from the coach for the rest of the battle. What made him heartbroken was that the strong team he brought from Jiangxi also suffered a lot of losses in the island capture. Although he had added some surrendered troops to make up the amount, his combat effectiveness was obviously not as good as before. But the uneasiness in his heart did not come from this, and this ominous premonition became stronger and stronger. He could not find the reason and could not get rid of it, which made him feel irritated.
"Deputy Commander, the tide has subsided!" After a long time of thought, the deputy general reminded him.
"Each army follows the order, and the battle to destroy Song is about to be the moment. All army must move forward bravely!" Li Heng shook his head vigorously after hearing this. He knew that the war was coming and he should not have these unrealistic ideas. He climbed up the high and shouted loudly, as if he wanted to shout out the stuffy air in his chest, "Rise the anchor, turn the bow of the ship, and use the stern of the ship to catch the enemy!"
Chapter completed!