When these frustrated sailors and the Song troops on the shore were searching for Meng Ge, the already lonely monarch quietly swam out for more than half a mile. Seeing no one around, he secretly stepped ashore and saw several figures to the west. There is a willow tree ten steps away. It is so thick and tall that a strong man cannot hold it with both hands. What Meng needs urgently now is a moment of rest. His physical strength and energy have long been exhausted by the bumpy journey to escape. Even walking a hundred steps forward was extremely difficult. Fortunately, he was not as fat as Ogedai Khan, otherwise he might have been caught by the enemy long ago. He stumbled to the willow tree, turned around and leaned against the trunk, gasping for air. This willow tree was unattended and its branches were extremely dense. Compared with the rows of beautiful willow trees on the official road outside Zhongdu City, it was like a row of willow trees. There are monsters and monsters standing on the bank of the river. But Meng Ge didn't care about this. He even felt that meeting a willow tree here was a blessing from the Immortal God. When Genghis Khan started at a young age, he was invited to attack him halfway by his sworn brother Jamukha. It was all because there was a red willow forest on the middle road. As a cover, this battle in the Red Willow Forest, which was well-known to everyone in Mongolia, not only allowed the Temujin family to escape the disaster, but also caused the Jamukha family's prestige to fall. Soon after, Wang Han decided to join forces with Temujin and gave up. Got Jamukha. Therefore, the willow tree is actually a blessing to the Mongolian nation. This time, is it still a blessing that the Mongol Khan can successfully escape? Meng Ge reluctantly stood up. He often heard Hao Jing telling Kublai Khan stories about the Central Plains. After a party was defeated, most of them fled alone. This time he was really running away on a horse. At this time, he had to be casual. Encountering a small army from the Song Dynasty, I was free to capture them without mercy. This is a place of right and wrong, and he cannot stay for a long time. He needs to leave here as soon as possible. The Mongolian army in the north of the Yangtze River desperately infiltrated hundreds of ships to the south of the Yangtze River. There must be ships along the river that can cross the river. Brother Meng suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He instinctively lowered his head and took a look. The sharp tip of the spear had already peeked out of the breastplate. He widened his eyes and turned around to look. Behind him was a trembling young man, who was trembling with fear. He was holding the handle of the gun and wearing an old-fashioned pot helmet. His young eyes were full of fear and nervousness. He reluctantly turned around, and when the soldier saw that he could still move, he was so frightened that he abandoned his spear in a hurry, and tried to pull out the sword from his waist with trembling hands, but he couldn't. In fact, the young soldier was too nervous. He had completely forgotten the training before the war. At this time, as long as he grasped the spear and pulled it out of Meng Ge's heart, the wound would burst and die immediately. The Great Khan of Mongolia, Meng Ge, spat out a mouthful of blood, and the blood spray splashed on the face of the Song soldier, and shouted sternly: "Tell me your name, Sinansi people!" The young man was so frightened that he took two steps back and swelled Courage said with a trembling voice: "I am Wang Xiaoyi, the guard of the North Camp of the Ezhou native soldiers. I want you to die in peace today." Brother Meng coughed out two more mouthfuls of blood and shouted: "Who taught you to ambush here!" Wang Xiaoyi After calming down for a while, he boldly gritted his teeth and said: "My father and mother all died at the hands of the Mongols. The Mongols were defeated today, how could they not take revenge!" "Absurd!" Brother Meng gasped and shouted: "Fight the war. It¡¯s nothing more than killing people and grabbing things, otherwise what¡¯s the point of fighting! How can a warrior attack me from behind?¡± He sat down and straightened his body with the last of his strength: ¡°Pull out your knife and kill me in front of my face!¡± Cut off the head and present it to Zheng Yunming, telling him that the Mongolian Khan did not die in the hands of a coward!" Wang Xiaoyi trembled, and then said loudly: "I don't believe it! You can survive by pretending to be a Tatar! , Bring me the head!" After that, he raised the sharp sword in his hand and slashed at Meng Ge's neck. Zheng Yunming walked slowly on horseback in the wilderness. Reports of victory from various troops came like snowflakes. The envoys who announced the victory to the supervisor lined up under the Qingluo umbrella. They cut off many heads and captured and killed hundreds of people. Thousands of households are no longer enough to be regarded as important merits. At least five ten thousand households have been rewarded with heads, and three ten thousand households have been captured alive. The horses, armor, flags, golden drums, weapons, and honor guards have been captured. Countless amounts of food and supplies were piled up like mountains. Just looking at the various jewelry plundered from the corpses of the Mongolian soldiers on the soldiers was enough to understand the unprecedented extent of this victory. The nomadic tribes in Mobei used cattle and horses to It is private property, and most of the other valuable items are carried with him, so there are many treasures around him. Even though they have become the richest and most powerful country in the world, old habits on the grasslands are still difficult to correct. It has long been said in the Song Dynasty that killing a Mongolian soldier can earn more than three years of military pay. , Although Zheng Yunming is unwilling to admit it, these facts are the most direct factors for Song Bing to fight bravely. The great victory in the Battle of Ezhou also made the Song army's captures exceed original expectations. The best predictions of the staff of the Supervisory Office were just the same as the results every year in the past twenty years. The Song army attacked steadily and took advantage of weaponsThe advantages in training created a series of small and medium-sized victories, and then forced the Mongolian army to realize the difficulty of crossing the river and retreat. At most, they could take advantage of the pursuit. As for such an unprecedented and huge victory, they could only dream of it. Never thought of it. The price of not making adequate plans before the war was the rush after the war. Bai Yijie even ignored that the war was not completely over yet and the battles of various ministries still required command and coordination, and handed over the task of battlefield dispatch to the fast boat arriving from upstream. Wang Deng, who was on the battlefield, personally went to deal with the collection and transportation of the loot. For today's Song Dynasty, this batch of trophies is by no means a cheap thing that the court talks about in a Lin'an vegetable garden-style tone like "taking enemy prisoners' food and salary to reward the strong men", although Bai Yijie did not notice the supervision during a battle. Xianggong's plan, but this battle was won, but he knew what the Superintendent wanted to do next. For the Supervisor's Mansion and Lin'an, to implement the next more ambitious plan, this batch of seized materials would play a role. decisive role. This importance was even enough for Zheng Yunming to nod and agree that his most important military think tank would temporarily leave his post, just before the war was completely over. In fact, it took some time for the Mongols to be divided and eliminated. During this period, many Mongolian troops bravely launched a counterattack. There was even a small party of party members who rushed to only a few hundred steps away from Zheng Xianggong. Naturally, they continued There was no chance of killing him with one strike like Marshal New Phosphorus, and he was quickly crushed by the elite horse infantry. Although the war is coming to an end, Zheng Yunming still performs his duties of supervising the government meticulously. This is his military style. Everything that starts well must end well. There are tens of millions of things waiting to be dealt with on the battlefield, but the most important thing is to go and see the situation in Ezhou first. Ezhou City was personally planned and built by Zheng Yunming when he was in charge of Jinghu. Zheng Yunming knew every brick and tile of Ezhou very well, even better than Xiangyang, his permanent base. However, this city that he built with great care was unexpectedly visible when he saw it. When looking at the whole picture, Zheng Yunming could hardly recognize it. The brick-clad city wall, which was said to be difficult for tens of thousands of people to cross, had long been in pieces. It was riddled with holes and was far from enough to describe the miserable condition of the city wall. If we wanted to describe it, we could only describe it with a small section of ruins among a pile of rubble. "I didn't expect the power of the Shenwu cannon to reach this point." Xu Yuanjie, who was walking behind Zheng Yunming, sighed casually. As the current backbone official of the Song Dynasty, he went to the frontline organization general headquarters with such an important position as Minister of War, The purpose is to fully protect the huge military supplies of the frontline army. It is no exaggeration to say that this is not a war won with courage and wisdom, but a war won with strong national strength and materials. It is just that it has been Bows and arrows, which were relegated to the secondary front, consumed more than 1.7 million arrows and crossbows of all kinds, not to mention gunpowder. A gunpowder transport ship came from the south of the Yangtze River to transport gunpowder, which cost less than a cup of tea. The time spent was divided up by various departments in urgent need on the front line. The rest, such as armor, golden drums, flags, swords and guns, medicines, tents, etc., were too large to be counted. According to Zheng Yunming's joking statement to Xu Yuanjie, "Even the candies are prepared." If I can't defeat the Mongols again, I will be the most incompetent prime minister in the world." However, Gauss did not buy the credit for Xu Shangshu. He said bluntly: "If the Ministry of War had been earlier. I noticed that the Mongols were casting such magical objects. Wouldn¡¯t it be better if they could develop a method to crack them? The official road was originally as smooth as a mirror, but now it is full of potholes, making it almost impossible to walk: "Things like this that destroy the road every time you walk through it, even if they are powerful, how can they be of great use in field wars?" ? Those copper and iron monsters pulled by dozens of packhorses have fallen behind this era. In the future, the world of standardized artillery and medium and light field artillery will never appear on the battlefield again. " Zheng Yunming looked up and saw the piles of corpses of the two armies inside and outside the city wall, which seemed to tell the story of how shocking today's offensive and defensive operations were. There was no need to watch the horrific scene of the soldiers of the two armies fighting with their fists and teeth until the end. Many people Just look at the desperate look on the face of the deceased before he died, and you can fully understand the huge determination that both parties inside and outside the city have put into this important town in the heart of Jinghu.