The next day, Wang Yinglin and others should be invited to see each other, and they looked at each other, and several people were wearing dark circles, and they didn't sleep well. And several of them are more deeply afraid. It is said that the sacred heart is unpredictable, whether the little emperor was really drunk and talking nonsense last night, or whether he used wine to cover his face for temptation, all of which made them embarrassed.

The ministers proposed to establish a prince as soon as possible, and from the perspective of official affairs, it was to respect the temple and the community, and not forget the world. This move is out of public intentions, and if you oppose it, you will be on the opposite side of everyone; And they also understood that there must be selfish people among them, who intended to test the Sacred Heart and figure out the Sacred Will, so that they could take sides and not rebel against the Emperor.

Seeing Wang De waiting in front of the door, Wang Yinglin wanted to ask His Majesty what his reaction was, but he just smiled and shook his head lightly, but did not speak. He immediately understood that His Majesty did not ask about yesterday, which made him feel a little relieved.

"Minwu, what is Your Majesty summoning?" When Lin Zhiwu met Chen Shi head-on, he asked softly.

"It should be to discuss the rectification of official governance and military affairs, and Ni Dutong has already entered the palace." Chen Shishi replied.

"Well, what happened yesterday ......," Lin Zhiwu asked implicitly.

"Your Majesty didn't mention it, but just ordered the courtiers to take down the recitals, without commenting on it!" Chen Shishi blinked and said with a smile on his face.

"So much the best!" Lin Zhiwu is the predecessor of the Imperial Front Office, so he naturally knows that His Majesty's move is to suppress the recital and not comment, that is, to deal with it coldly.

Sure enough, after the audience, the little emperor arranged official business, and did not mention yesterday's incident, everyone thought that His Majesty was drunk and forgot about it, of course, everyone tacitly kept silent about it, and would never mention it again in the future, even if someone asked about the killing, they would not say. And Wang De also issued a gag order yesterday, and all the little yellow doors serving the food were warned, and only if there was a trace of wind in the inner palace of Beijing, then all of them would die.

After everyone received the holy decree and went out, they all sighed, feeling that they had finally passed this hurdle. But everyone has also made up their minds, no matter what His Majesty says in the future, they must stay out of the matter, even if someone pulls them to play together, they must insist on resigning, and they must not participate in the affairs of the Prince. Then, according to His Majesty's instructions, several people went to meet with the Jingxiang military and political officials who had arrived one after another, and listened to their opinions, so as to understand their state of mind at this time......

In the evening, without waiting for them to return, His Majesty issued another edict to summon them urgently. Wang Yinglin and the others didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly put down the affairs at hand and felt camped.

"Meet Your Majesty!" After a few people entered the hall, they saw His Majesty walking around the hall with some excitement, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Good news, Wen Xiang defeated the Mengyuan Shu army in the Jialing River, recovered Chongqing, captured Lingxiao City, and gained a firm foothold in Shudong!" Zhao Hao couldn't suppress his joy, raised his hand to let them be polite, and said impatiently.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!" Since His Majesty sent the Tenth Army to reinforce the Sichuan-Shu battlefield in April, the news has been cut off for more than two months, and he has no idea about the situation there. Today, there was good news, and everyone was surprised and excited at the same time.

"Regain Chongqing, rebuild the defense system of the mountain city, the back door of the Mengyuan attack on the Great Song Dynasty will be closed, if you recover Xiangyang, Jiangnan will have no worries!" Zhao Yu said very happily, and handed Wen Tianxiang's recital to Wang Yinglin and others for circulation.

Wang Yinglin has seen the experience in detail, and his heart is also full of emotion. The terrain of Sichuan and Shu is dangerous, the road into Sichuan is extremely difficult, the supply of materials is difficult, and only a tough person like Wen Tianxiang can do it with a lonely army of thousands of miles.

At the end of last year, after a hard battle, the army of Shu had opened up the water and land access to Sichuan, and Wen Tianxiang led the army to recover Wanzhou, Zhongzhou, and Fuzhou along the Yangtze River along the land and water, and approached Chongqing. Due to the dry season in winter, the river narrowed and the water was not deep enough for the ships to pass through, so the attack was temporarily suspended. After occupying Duogong City, divide the troops to capture Dazhou, break through Xiliuguan, Keniutou Village, recover and rebuild Liyi City, Rongcheng, Daliang City, Yunshan City, Pingliang City, Qingju City, and the enemy army retreated to Kuzhu Pass. In this way, the two Song armies will join forces in Hechuan.

In view of the uncertain movement of the Mongolian cavalry and the lack of danger in the western Sichuan Plain, Yu Jue was inspired by the Shanshui Village to move the city to the mountains and establish a mountain city defense system. Most of the mountain cities of the Song Dynasty are located on the cliffs of the mountains and rivers, although the average altitude is only three or five hundred meters, but the cliffs are surrounded, far more dangerous than the artificial city walls, some places can even rely on the natural danger without building the city, the geology is vividly called "Fang Mountain".

The top of the "Fangshan" mountain is flat, ranging from hundreds of ten acres to dozens of miles in the circumference, there is land to cultivate, there is forest to use, there is water to drink, it is suitable for the army to be stationed for a long time, and the people who fled also come to the mountain city to cultivate and live, and provide the necessary grain and grass for the army. The Great Song Dynasty built the Fangshan Castle System, which is centered on Hechuan Diaoyu City, which is not only close to Chongqing, the Sichuan Division, but also the terrain is extremely dangerous. In front of these mountain cities, the Mongol iron cavalry lost its speed advantage, and the mountain cities traveled by boat, which made the Mongols who were not good at water warfare suffer.

Diaoyu City is located in Chongqing City, Hechuan City, five kilometers east of the Diaoyu Mountain, Jialing River and the northeast of the Qujiang River in the mouth of the Quhe River converge, flow through Hechuan City, and the northwest of the Fujiang River converge together, forming a "Ba" shaped inlet, like a "pocket" in general, the Diaoyu City is poured into it. Diaoyu City is surrounded by rivers in the north, west and south, and leans on Huaying Mountain in the east, although the altitude is only about 300 meters, but it is "leaning on the sky and the earth, standing on one side", like a natural military barrier.

At that time, the fierce general Wang Jian guarded the Diaoyu City, and requisitioned more than 100,000 people in Shizhao, Tongliang, Bachuan, early Han Dynasty, and Chishui five counties to strengthen the city, plus the natural height of the mountain, the city wall is tens to 100 meters high, and there are eight city gates such as Qisheng Gate, Zhenxi Gate, and Xiaodong Gate. Among them, there is a city wall next to the small east gate and the strange gate that directly plunges into the Jialing River, called the "one-word city", which cuts off the channel of the Jialing River like a sharp sword. Wang Jian also asked people to dig a pond on the mountain, called Tianchi, and dug seventy-two wells, the spring water does not dry up in all seasons, even if it is besieged, there is a sufficient water source.

I thought there would be a hard battle here, but after Wang Jian surrendered to Mongolia in Diaoyu City, the enemy army was angry that it had been blocked here for more than 30 years, and countless soldiers were killed. In order to vent his anger and prevent it from being used by the Song people again, he wreaked havoc on the mountain city and demolished the main defensive facilities, so that it could not be used at the moment, so he gathered troops in Chongqing and stationed heavy troops on the banks of the Jialing River.

After entering the rainy season, the river rose, and the Song army warships entered the Jialing River. Meng Yuan also had a naval army in Sichuan and Shu, preparing to go down the Yangtze River and capture Jiangnan after occupying Sichuan and Shu. However, due to the change in the strategy of attacking the Song Dynasty, this naval army did not play a role in conquering Jiangnan, and more than ten years later, due to lack of training, its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

In order to prevent the Song army from attacking the city, the Yuan army defenders also adopted the tactics of iron cable and boat in desperation, connecting the warships with iron cables and iron rings, and laying wooden planks in some places to set up water villages to resist the attack of the Song army. In fact, it doesn't matter whether tactics are good or bad, but they must be implemented according to the time and place, and the same is true for the iron chain boat. The benefits of this are obvious, and that is the increased stability and comfort.

And there is more than one disadvantage: it is time-consuming, laborious, and costly; Operational flexibility is seriously reduced and is almost nil; One of the boats is injured and sinks or runs aground on the reef and drags down its companions; Once the enemy forces approached and boarded the ship, it was no different from a land battle; If you win, you will not be able to quickly pursue the enemy, and if you are defeated, you will be annihilated.

When the Yuan army faced the Song army that entered the river, the enemy general believed that his warships were stronger than the Wu army in terms of number and size, but the reason why they still could not achieve a great victory was that they did not give full play to the advantages of the warships. He creatively came up with a clever trick, which was to connect the warships in a row with iron cables, so that the large and small ships could travel at the same speed, and go down the river to fight hard against the Song warships.

However, he did not know the strength of the Song navy and the large number of firearms, so that defeat was already doomed from the moment he connected the warships. Under the command of Liu Shiyong, the Song Navy army used the tactics of small groups and multiple groups to attack in separate ways, detoured back to the enemy's flank, and then bombarded it with artillery. If one enemy ship is sunk in a chain, several ships will sink together, and if a ship is on fire, the adjacent ships will burn together.

In only half a day, the enemy's warships were either burned or sunk, and the enemy soldiers jumped into the river, were swept away by the boiling water, and drowned. More than 30,000 people of the main force of the enemy army died in the first battle, after which the Song naval army covered the siege with warship artillery fire, blew up the north gate of Linjiang and attacked the city, annihilated the enemy army in the city, and occupied the city.

The main force of the enemy's eastern Shudong forces was basically lost in this battle, Wen Tianxiang sent troops to attack south, the enemy was unable to fight again or flee or surrender, connecting and recovering Hutou City and Nanping City, and finally relieved the siege of Lingxiao City, and joined the Song army and people who still insisted on resisting Mongolia, and finally completed the task assigned by His Majesty. After the Song army entered the city, there were only more than 500 soldiers and civilians left in the city, with weak bodies, ragged clothes, weapons lost, and food extremely scarce, and it was already in danger......

"Your Majesty, Wen Xiang has gone on a thousand-mile expedition, not only recovering eastern Sichuan, rebuilding the defense line of the mountain city, but also completing His Majesty's task of rescuing Lingxiao City, which should be rewarded and rewarded to the soldiers and civilians of Lingxiao City!" Wang Yinglin was full of emotion and said to His Majesty.

"The subordinates seconded the proposal, Lingxiao City has been holding the mountain fort for more than ten years with a lone army, fighting hard and not surrendering, it is really a loyal and righteous man of my Great Song Dynasty, and it should be praised!" Lin Zhiwu also saluted.

"Well, I have that intention, too." Zhao Yu nodded and said, "To recover eastern Sichuan, the generals are powerful, and the soldiers are all promoted to the first class, and the merits are negotiable, and 200,000 yuan will be given to reward the army." The soldiers and civilians of Lingxiao City are loyal and patriotic, and they have been fighting alone for more than ten years, and they have all been knighted for their merits to show their praise! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, the ministers and other generations of the Sichuan and Shu soldiers and civilians are grateful!" Everyone was shocked when they heard it, all of them were the first in this dynasty, but they also deserved it......