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    When he was arrogant and prepared to win a name in history with an epic victory against a large number of people, a huge explosion suddenly hit his ears without warning.  Thick smoke billowed in the distance, and flames continued. The pontoon bridge near the land on the Ezhou side had been completely blown up. Dozens of feet of the bridge deck were turned into powder, and the broken wood mixed with the stumps flowed down the river. The scene was unbearable to watch.  Zheng Yunming completely underestimated Meng Ge's determination to cut off his arm. As soon as he saw that the pontoon bridge was not secure, Meng Ge immediately ordered the Mongolian troops to organize a stormtrooper and launch a fierce attack on the Song army on the bridge. Once the Song army was slightly forced to retreat, he immediately mounted a load on the bridge head  A large amount of gunpowder was set off immediately. The explosives carried hundreds of Mongolian and Song army generals who had no time to retreat and rushed into the sky.  This is the decisiveness that a famous general should have.  Once the situation was unfavorable, they simply gave up the war in the direction of Hanyang.  The pontoon bridge connected the transportation between Hanyang and Ezhou. Now it fell into the hands of Zheng Yunming, which meant that the horse infantry of the Song Dynasty could directly cross the river to fight.  If the battle took place in a flat wilderness, Meng Ge might not be afraid. Instead, he would accumulate troops to prepare for siege and reinforcements. However, the rugged terrain near Ezhou was not conducive to the operation of large cavalry regiments.  If they fight in formation, they may not be sure to defeat the large phalanx of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, in the previous battle, the Song Army's cavalry also showed extraordinary combat effectiveness. It is the general's duty to be cautious and use the force to take risks.  The general completely bet his wealth and life on luck, which Meng, who has been on the battlefield for many years, despises.  Once you find that the situation is unfavorable, you can decisively give up certain local interests and ensure the key victory in the key battle. Only then can you be worthy of being a wise man.  Although there are still tens of thousands of people in Hanyang who have not had time to retreat, the Song army will definitely not give up easily once they capture the pontoon bridge. They will organize their forces to concentrate on cleaning up the Mongolian ships, and at the same time continue to devote their troops to the defense of the pontoon bridge.  The Mongolian army relies on the pontoon bridge controlled by the Song Army to attack the city, and will inevitably be attacked from both sides. This will force the Mongolian army to shift its focus from siege to the battle for the pontoon bridge. This kind of battlefield requires the cooperation of water forces and has a narrow combat space.  It was prepared for the Song Army.  Meng Ge decisively ordered to blow up the pontoon bridge, completely blocking the possibility of the Song army directly attacking from here.  In order to rescue Ezhou, the Song Army had to use navy ships to transport troops and land near Ezhou. This would inevitably weaken the forces used to fight for control of the water surface, and the remaining Mongolian ships would also have the opportunity to counterattack.  Even those veteran generals who have been dealing with Zheng Yunming for ten years, such as Zhang Rou, Yan Zhongji, Liu Ni, etc., have to admire the new Khan's magnanimity. Even if there are only five or six turtle-shell ships left, Shi Tianze has won.  After such a failure, there was no trace of frustration on the Khan's face. He just said lightly: "Zheng Yunming thought that he could pack victory into his hunting bag by destroying the turtle ship, but he didn't understand that my fleet  It's just one of my thousand sharp swords, and if I want to capture Ezhou, I'll take out his heart!" He shouted to the re-energized generals under his command: "Listen to me all, three days later!  Ezhou City must be captured within the next few days! "Meng Ge's order is not a wild statement. The current situation in Ezhou is not only at the last moment, it is already shaky.  Continuous heavy artillery bombardment has opened more than ten gaps in the Ezhou city wall. In several gaps, the Mongolian army has paid huge casualties and built shelter fortifications. It is almost impossible for the Song army's light artillery and firecrackers to directly kill the outside of the city wall.  of the Mongolian army.  The opportunity for a general attack on Ezhou has arrived.  In order to prepare for the final general attack, Meng Gehan suppressed his enthusiasm for a quick victory and made serious preparations. He mobilized 50,000 troops from all the armies in Jiangbei and gave them to Mo Gedu to command.  Cross the river and join the general offensive.  They also concentrated the artillery and artillery carriages in the camp, stored ammunition for them for three days of fierce fighting, and used them to attack the temporary fortifications and earth walls built by the Song army in the gap.  In order to ensure that the army would not receive timely supplies of ammunition, bows and arrows after it entered the city, the Khan personally ordered 10,000 people from his subordinates to be selected as a transport team, ready to be called by the generals ahead at any time.  The Great Khan also personally summoned the good doctors from the Western Regions and ordered the Uighur medical officers to be prepared to deal with the huge casualties caused by the general attack.  Of course, the most important step of preparation is that the Great Khan summoned Tachaer, the commander-in-chief of Qixue, and selected 10,000 death squads from the Qoxue Guards and the Proton Army to serve as the arrowhead of the general attack.  The Mongolian army's siege method has always been that foreigners attack first, and the Chinese are only used in the most critical attacks. However, Qixue and the proton army rarely participate in the costly siege operations. Meng Ge used Qixue as the vanguard to attack.  City, showing Meng Ge's firm determination to conquer Ezhou.  On the other side of the city wall, Wei Sheng's situation was quite difficult.  The huge casualties of the soldiers are only part of the dilemma. The serious damage to the city walls is the biggest problem. Even a brave and capable general like Wei Sheng can only maintain the balance of power with the solid city walls of Ezhou and the huge enemy. Now he is  The city walls that had been bombarded intermittently had become useless, and every attack by the Mongolian army caused more serious injuries than at the beginning of the battle.?, just the last two or three attacks have caused the Song army to suffer more than a thousand casualties.  With such a fierce offensive, even Wei Sheng's subordinates were inevitably shaken. In the latest battle, Wei Sheng had to personally execute a lieutenant general he had always trusted, just because he was shocked by the huge casualties and ordered  The frontline soldiers retreated to preserve some strength, which almost caused the front to shake.  This kind of thing has never been seen by Wei Sheng in Zheng Yunming's army.  Equally tense is the supply of military supplies in Ezhou. Originally, all military supplies such as grain and gunpowder in the four major towns must be reserved to support more than three years of use.  For Jinghu, which had just experienced economic reform and had industrial factories in the ascendant, this was originally an easy task.  However, after Jia Sidao took office, he focused on supplying Xiangyang where his cronies were stationed, while constantly drawing reserve supplies from the other three towns. In addition, there had been no fighting in Jinghu for three years, and both the army and the people were a little slack.  While fierce fighting continued in Sichuan and Yunnan, Ezhou's supplies and soldiers also continued to be reinforced in other war zones. The result was that when Ezhou faced the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Hu troops, it actually did not have adequate material preparations.  Tens of days of fierce fighting have depleted Ezhou's small reserves, and the food has not been consumed much. There will be no problem in supporting it for three years. The problem is gunpowder and arrows.  Lu Wenhuan had already intended to rebel, so he used various excuses to transfer large quantities of gunpowder, projectiles and arrows from Ezhou. Wei Sheng's army's combat habit was to use a large number of firearms to support the army, and the consumption of gunpowder and arrows was higher than that of the rest of the army.  There are two to three times more units. Although Wei Sheng knew that the situation was not good as soon as he entered Ezhou City and ordered strict control of the use of ammunition and arrows, once an army's combat habits are formed, it will never be changed overnight.  .  Although Wei Sheng believed that his troops could fulfill their duties even without firearms and fight to the last man, at this point concerning the fate of the Song Dynasty, no one could afford to lose Ezhou again.  The day when the Mongolian army launched a general offensive later became one of the classic fragments in the historical commentaries of the Song Dynasty. The most commonly used words in the commentaries to describe this paragraph are the eight words "balls covered the sky and thunder shook the earth."  Later generations often used this as an exaggeration, but from the perspective of the Song Army soldiers on the front line, this is not an exaggeration. Many years later, veterans would talk about the light weight in shock, and the rain of arrows falling from the sky to every corner of the city.  , the huge stone bullets from the Shenwu cannon smashed one or several mansions to pieces from time to time.  The smoke inside and outside the city was so thick that even the enemy artillery positions in the distance could not be seen clearly. In the white mist, only the deafening horns were heard, followed by the thunderous shouts of killing.  The Mongolian army, led by Qie Xue Jinwei, began to attack more than ten gaps in Ezhou at the same time.  Wei Sheng was not unprepared for the arrival of this day. The increase in the number of Mongolians and flags outside the city, the increase in the number of artillery vehicles, and the intensive artillery firing all heralded the arrival of a final general attack.  From the beginning of the general offensive in the early morning to noon, the fighting was unprecedentedly fierce, but the two sides could generally maintain a stalemate. The Mongolian army's corpses piled up in the gap, but they had only advanced a few hundred steps.  But Mengge Khan was not shaken by the heavy losses at all. The Mongolian army organized hundreds of attack teams and took turns attacking the Song army at various gaps, without giving the defenders any time to breathe.  This was a strangulation battle using human flesh and blood as bargaining chips. In the face of such successive attacks, even Wei Sheng, even Wei Sheng's ever-victorious army, finally began to be unable to support it. In the afternoon, the Mongolian army fought in the southwest of the city.  Progress was made in several gaps in the southeast, repelling the Song army defending them face to face, and rushed into the streets to start street battles with the Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians.  Wei Sheng's reaction was extremely quick and personal. He immediately gathered the guards around him and personally led the Beiwei army to launch a counterattack. Wei Dutong's iron cone spear and black-horned bow were both weapons that the Mongolian army was frightened by.  , and now with the addition of crow-shooting and fire-guns, in the deadly battles in the streets, one brave general is more important than hundreds or thousands of people. The result of Wei Sheng's desperate fight in the front is that the Mongolian army cannot withstand it.  , one after another retreated from the occupied streets and alleys.  This situation deeply stimulated the prince-in-law Jun Buhua. Since Shanggui Khan's eldest daughter Yeli was lost, he had not made any achievements and was often ridiculed behind his back for being a shepherd prince-son. This time, Meng Ge sent him to accompany the army during the southern expedition.  Gave him a valuable opportunity to make meritorious deeds.  Now looking at Wei Sheng fighting in the Mongolian army, I felt angry and shouted, "Little Batulu! This General Sinansi is so arrogant and clearly bullies me that the Mongolian army has no brave generals! Come with me, I will show him  Look, the Mongolian army doesn¡¯t need anything else but brave warriors!¡±
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