With that, he sat down on the floor and began to chant Buddhist scriptures.

The monks of Yongquan Temple also sat down, their hands folded, their eyes slightly closed.

The monks in the temple chanted Buddhist scriptures together.

Suddenly, the Sanskrit sound lingered in my ears.

The soldiers outside the temple shouted loudly, cut down the wood together, and sweated like rain.

At this moment, it seems that no one has taken the raging fire to heart. Everyone is united, and all they have to do is to stick to this Yongquan Temple.

At this time, the northern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty was also not stable.

In Jianning Mansion, Wen Tianxiang led the three armies of Tiansu, Tianyi, and Tianzhi, as well as the defenders of Jianning Mansion to defend the city.

The military flags spread over the city, and the battle armor was lined up. Artillery trucks and other objects are emerging from the wall stacks.

Outside the city, a few miles away from the city, it can be seen that the tents of the Yuan army are densely packed.

Their military tent directly surrounded the entire Jianning Mansion, and at this time there was smoke curling in the camp.

Since yesterday, the Yuan troops entrenched in Songxi, Zhenghe and the two counties have all come to this Jianning Mansion.

After arriving outside the city, he only set up camp, but did not attack Jianning Mansion, but only sent some scouts to roam outside the city. The intention is obvious, this is to prevent Wen Tianxiang and others from sending troops to aid Fuzhou.

In fact, they didn't have to do this, because even if they didn't come to besiege the city, they wouldn't dare to send too many soldiers to Fuzhou to help. After all, this Jianning Mansion still needs to be guarded.

The commander of this Yuan army is like this, obviously he doesn't even want to let a single soldier out of the city.

"These thieves want to completely contain us and others......"

Wen Tianxiang stood at the head of the city, looking out of the city, with a faint worry in his expression.

Next to him, Chen Hangyan, He Chenghua and other generals were also a little dignified.

They didn't want to be afraid of the Yuan army outside the city attacking the city, but the Yuan army besieged the city, but they were really powerless to help Fuzhou.

Fuzhou could only rely on the Fuzhou garrison and the defenders to hold on to themselves. And the vitality lies in whether Huang Hua and others can hold on until the garrison of Guangnan East Road arrives.

Chen Hangyan suddenly sighed, and said to Wen Tianxiang: "Military Aircraft Order, should we just wait?" ”

Wen Tianxiang turned his head to look at him, "You still want to lead the army out of the city to defeat these Yuan troops?" ”

They have been discussing this for some time. It's just that there is no result.

Chen hung his eyes and said: "If we don't go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with these Yuan troops, I'm afraid Fuzhou will really not be able to hold it!" Compared with us, the military commanders of Longxing Mansion are even more unattainable. ”

"I know that."

Wen Tianxiang shook his head lightly; "But the Yuan army of more than 100,000 people is besieging the city, and they have no intention of fighting our army, how can we easily destroy them?"

They had wanted to take the initiative to fight these Yuan troops for many days, but the Yuan army just couldn't hold out. So until now, the two sides are still in a state of confrontation.

Chen Hang's eyes narrowed slightly: "If you lead the army to attack their camp, can they still avoid the battle?" ”

Wen Tianxiang frowned, "The big camp is easier to capture than the city, but what I'm worried about is that they are fully prepared in the camp!" When the time comes, the soldiers are afraid that they will ......"

Chen Hangyan arched his hand and said: "If the military aircraft orders the general to transfer some grenadiers and cupola cannons to the last general, the last general is willing to lead the army and horses of his headquarters out of the city to test the reality of the Yuan army." ”

He looked out of the city and muttered, "Military aircraft order, it is difficult for these Yuan troops to get out of the city." Although the army is gathered right now, it is also a rare opportunity for us......"

"Don't miss the opportunity, lose it again......"

Wen Tianxiang's eyes gradually became deeper, and he muttered this sentence in his heart.

After dozens of seconds, he finally made up his mind and said to Chen: "Okay, then I will transfer the grenadiers and cupola cannons in the Tianyi Army to you." You led the army to raid the Yuan camp! ”

"Thank you, Marshal!"

Chen Hangyan hurriedly agreed, with a little excitement on his face.

He is not a steady and steady faction, but Wen Tianxiang is. It was rare for Wen Tianxiang to agree to his request.

Only Wen Tianxiang said: "But no matter whether the raid on the Yuan camp is successful or not, you must bring back the grenadiers and cupola." Such heavy weapons must not fall into the hands of the Yuan army. ”

"Good!"

Chen Hangyan nodded again, and then shouted to the soldiers of the headquarters and went down to the city.

Wen Tianxiang also did what he said, and sent someone to call Zang Bohou, the commander of the Tianyi Army, so that the grenadiers and cupola gunners among General Zang Bohou were temporarily seconded to Chen Hangyan to listen to the order.

At the middle-aged age, Zang Bohou, who was born five big and three thick, only said after hearing Wen Tianxiang's words: "Military aircraft order, then will the unparalleled regiment in our army also be sent?" ”

The Musou Regiment is a special legion in the Heavenly Alien Army.

Wen Tianxiang groaned for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine." It's really not easy to defeat those Yuan troops outside the city......"

Zang Bohou also went down to the city.

Jiangnan West Road Longxing Mansion.

There are Tianyou, Tiandark, and Sky armies under the command of Wen Tianxiang, as well as the garrison of Longxing Mansion stationed there.

At this time, nearly two months had passed since the Yuan army was entrenched in the Great Song Dynasty frontier, but the Yuan army had repeatedly attacked with small forces, either disturbing the city, or cutting grain troops, or attacking the villages and towns around Longxing Mansion, and did not launch a major war. And Wang Yinglin, the transfer envoy of Jiangnan West Road, and the commanders of the three armies were also worried that they would move their whole bodies, so they did not dare to go out of the city to attack Yuanying. Therefore, the two armies did not have too much fighting from the beginning to the end, and they did not suffer too much damage.

Only today, the Yuan army is more than 100,000 troops coming towards Longxing Mansion.

There is wolf smoke in the mountains outside Longxing Mansion.

Wang Yinglin, as well as Ma Sleeve, the commander of the Tianyou Army, Huang Fu, the commander of the Tianyou Army, and Lu Guang, the commander of the Tiantian Air Force, went to the city.

From the vastness of the wolf smoke, it can be seen that the Yuan army's move was a large-scale attack.

Ma Sleeve and Lu Guang are both generals in the Yuantoutuo Army, and Huang Fu is Huang Hua's younger brother. He previously served as a deputy commander in the Toutuo Army.

At the head of the city, Huang Fu looked at the wolf smoke outside the city, and said to Wang Yinglin: "Lord Wang, it seems that this Yuan army is about to break through my Great Song Frontier." ”

"Hmm."

Wang Yinglin nodded lightly and said, "Letters have been sent from Jiangling Mansion, Ezhou, and Jianning Mansion, and the Yuan army everywhere is ready to move. They, this is about to start a decisive battle. ”

Huang Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, "It seems that the assassination of Commander Liu Zaiyuan has made them very confident now." ”

Wang Yinglin only said: "Regardless of whether General Liu Zaiyuan is assassinated or not, this day will come sooner or later." This is not necessarily a bad thing for us, and the emperor's side also wants to end the war as soon as possible. We are short of soldiers, if these Yuan troops do not take the initiative to attack the city, our Longxing Mansion and the Ezhou defenders on Jinghu North Road will be a little difficult. ”

Previously, the Yuan army only lived in the territory of Jiangnan East Road. There, it is still the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.

Huang Fudao: "Then we will defend this Longxing Mansion and see what skills these Yuan troops have to take this city." ”

Lu Guang on the side suddenly spoke, "Not only do we have to defend, in my opinion, we also have to create an opportunity to kill outside the city and defeat these Yuan troops!" ”

Ma Sleeve also nodded slightly.

There is still a long distance between here and Fuzhou, and they don't have to think about helping Fuzhou. It is only necessary to defeat this Yuan army, which is more than 100,000 people.

Further east.

Ezhou, a border city in the north of Jinghu North Road.

Here, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, and Jiang Xiu respectively led the three forbidden armies of Tianying, Tianfu, and Tianman to defend it. The situation is actually similar to that of Longxing Mansion.

It's just that the Yuan army they faced was from Huainan West Road, and as soon as they entered the Song realm, they approached Ezhou City.

The number of soldiers is not less than that of Longxing Mansion, and there must be more than 100,000 soldiers.

In the past two months, He Fangsong and others have not fought against this Yuan army. The Yuan army was in the territory of Huainan West Road, and they guarded Ezhou City, which seemed to be peaceful.

But in fact, since the Yuan army planned to invade the Song Dynasty and was already stationed on the frontier, the undercurrent was inevitable.

Both sides sent their masters to assassinate.

Take Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and others as examples, in the past two months, they have been assassinated by more than a dozen times.

Only assassination is about surprise, and the further you go, the more difficult it is to make contributions. Both sides continued to assassinate, and few generals fell.

At the head of the city, seeing the Yuan army pressing towards the city, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and the main generals under their command discussed around them, and they did not have the idea of leading the army out of the city to fight bloodily.

They didn't seem to be in a hurry at this time.

They can't control the affairs of Fuzhou. Kuizhou and Guangnan West Road won successes one after another, and they only needed to block this Yuan army outside Ezhou City.

Now it is no longer the situation where the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is in a hurry to fight a decisive battle.

They are even willing to continue to procrastinate.

Because of the delay of enough time, the emperor will send the Yuan army from Jinghu North Road and Kuizhou Road. However, it will be much easier to break these Yuan armies again.

As a result, the Song army in the two cities of Ezhou and Longxingfu was only actively preparing to defend the city. Unlike the Jianning Mansion where Wen Tianxiang was in charge, some were eager to defeat the Yuan army.

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