The next day, the battlefield inventory was completed.
Shi Shu suffered casualties, more than 2,000 people were captured, dozens of ships were seized, and more than 1,000 navy personnel surrendered.
The casualties of the Song army were not small, because the Mongolian navy could throw a large number of cannon stones and arrows from the ship, causing damage to the Song army on the shore.
After the First World War, the two armies began to confront each other.
The "Lü Wende" unit of the Song Army was stationed in the Jinyun Mountains and used cannons and rocks to block the Mongolian army's way to Chongqing.
The Mongolian Army's Shi Tianze Division was stationed in the Yunwu Mountains in the upper reaches of the Jialing River, blocking the Song Army's support for Diaoyu City.
Shi Tianze was obviously furious because of Shi Shu's death, but at the same time he remained rational.
After being ambushed, he became more cautious and did not allow the Song army to have a sneak attack. He successively defeated the Song army's exploratory offensives to support Diaoyu City.
Yi Shiying and Li Xia gradually understood that they were definitely no match for Shi Tianze.
In terms of military strength, Shi Tianze has more than 17,000 men and they have less than 10,000.
In terms of terrain, Shi Tianze occupied the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and they occupied high mountains, with more than enough defense but not enough offense.
More importantly, Shi Tianze's station is not far from the Mongolian army camp, and support can be obtained at any time; on their side, Peizhou does not have any troops, and Chongqing is also stretched, making it difficult to form support.
Even if we only talk about his personal ability, Shi Tianze has been fighting for a lifetime. He has experienced the battle to destroy the Jin Dynasty and the battle to attack the Song Dynasty, and he is a famous general in the world.
Yi Shiying was born as an officer and served in the army for more than ten years. He only had experience in suppressing small groups of Bo people and defending small cities.
As for Li Xia... he has always only played opportunistic battles. So far, he is good at only two styles of play.
First, relying on Shi Jun, Pu Zezhi, and Yi Shiying to contain the Mongolian army on the frontal battlefield, he used a small force to break through the Mongolian army's partial divisions, creating combat opportunities and achieving results.
The second is to use the terrain to quickly penetrate the infantry and lead the Mongolian army into the narrow valley terrain to form an ambush and encirclement.
In short, he only fights when the situation is favorable.
In a head-to-head battle with Shi Tianze, Li Xia asked herself that she didn't have this ability, and it was still too far behind.
I dare to give it a try in a one-on-one challenge.
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After several days of confrontation, the Song army no longer dared to send troops to test whether they could break through Shi Tianze's defense line.
"With the current situation, progress is no longer possible." Yi Shiying stood on the top of the mountain, looking north, and said, "It is very difficult to hold the Jinyun Mountain defense line."
Li Xiandao: "In terms of terrain, Jinyun Mountain is far inferior to Diaoyu City. If Diaoyu City is lost, Jinyun Mountain will have no defensive value."
They stationed troops here to support Diaoyu City, but it was difficult to break out.
If you think about it carefully, it would be better to retreat to Chongqing to preserve your strength, lest they be surrounded alone after the Diaoyu City falls.
But neither Yi Shiying nor Li Xia mentioned this idea.
"It would be good to contain Shi Tianze," Yi Shiying said, "Although, these 20,000 people are just a drop in the bucket to the Mongolian army."
Today, Li Xia seemed to have thought about some plans and said, "General Yi, please continue to contain Shi Tianze here. How about giving me more than a thousand elite troops?"
Yi Shiying turned around and asked, "What do you think?"
"We are far from Shi Tianze's opponent in a head-to-head confrontation, so let's try using my best fighting style..."
If you look at the map, you can see that the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing is a series of fold-like mountains. It separates the flat valleys in Sichuan from the mountains in eastern Sichuan and Chongqing.
Only the Jialing River cuts off these fold-like mountains and merges into the Yangtze River, forming the most convenient and flat road from eastern Sichuan.
This is one of the reasons why Chongqing has become an important town.
In addition to the Jialing River Waterway, you have to cross mountains and ridges to enter Chongqing.
On the west bank of the Jialing River are the Yunwu Mountains and the Jinyun Mountains. On the east bank, the first thing that separates the Mongolian army is the "Huaying Mountains".
Of course, if the Mongolian army is willing to cross the Huaying Mountains, they can also bypass Chongqing, take Wanzhou, and go down the Yangtze River.
But Meng Ge Khan would not be like this.
He wanted to break through the Song army's fortresses along the way and wipe out all the enemies in front of him.
There is no need to take a detour if you are torn apart.
Although they did not intend to cross Huaying Mountain, after Meng Ge's troops surrounded Diaoyu City, they still sent troops to sweep away the Song Army's stronghold at the western foot of Huaying Mountain, which was Liyi Mountain City in Quzhou.
The Mongolian general who defeated Liyi Mountain City for Meng Ge was called "Li Tingyu".
Li Tingyu is from Longxi and calls himself the queen of Li Keyong.
His father's name was Li Jie, who served as a general under Wang Dechen's father, Wang Shixian, and later surrendered to Mongolia with Wang Shixian.
Therefore, Li Tingyu has now become the governor of Wang Dechen's commander-in-chief's office, received the silver talisman, and served as the governor-general of Mongolia.
Both he and Wang Dechen were given Mongolian names by Meng Ge. Wang Dechen was called "Tian Ge" and Li Tingyu was called "Kulanji".
Regardless of Li Tingyu or Li Hulanji, although they have Mongolian names, they are very elegant people.
When Liyi Mountain City was captured, Zhang Zi, the magistrate of Quzhou in the Song Dynasty, committed suicide and died for his country. Li Tingyu collected Zhang Zi's body for burial.
In addition, he did not order the burning of the mountain city, but stationed troops in the city to appease the surrendering soldiers and civilians...
September 15th.
Li Tingyu received a report from the sentry horse, saying that a Mongolian and Han army of more than a thousand people came from the north.
He took a look at the other party's order and was a little surprised.
"Shi Ji?"
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If you ask who was the most famous historian thirty years ago? It was not Shi Tianze, but his eldest brother Shi Tianni.
Shi Tianni built the Qingyue Army, which was invincible and captured the entire Heshuo for the Great Mongolia.
Until he fell into Wuxian's plan and died young.
After Shi Tianni's death, Shi Tianze succeeded him as commander-in-chief. After exterminating the Jin Dynasty, he proposed to Wokuotai that he should be dismissed from his post and the commander-in-chief be returned to his nephew Shi Ji.
Shi Ji was the son of Shi Tianni and the eldest grandson of Shi Tianni.
He inherited Shi Tianni's meritorious title, and was awarded the title of General Manager of Ten Thousand Households in Zhengxing, General Manager of Zhending Military and Horse Capital, and was given the Golden Tiger Talisman.
This was also Shi Tianze's cleverness. Therefore, Brother Meng trusted him and granted him the title of "Five Road Ten Thousand Households".
Not long ago, Shi Shu, the son of his second brother Shi Tianan, cleverly captured Kuzhu Pass, and Brother Meng also gave him the Golden Tiger Talisman.
As a result, the Shi family had 30,000 households and was extremely prominent.
When the war started, Shi Ji would definitely be willing to be commanded by Shi Tianze, but his own title was not lower than that of Shi Tianze.
When such a person arrived, Li Tingyu did not dare to neglect and hurried down the mountain to greet him.
Looking around, I saw a large flag embroidered with the words "Conquering the General Manager of Ten Thousand Households, Definitely Determining the History of the Military and Horse Capital" embroidered on it. More than a thousand soldiers and horses came from the north, their black leather armors dusty with the weather.
Li Tingyu squinted his eyes and waited for the opponent to march closer. After taking a closer look, he saw that all of them were tall and powerful elite soldiers.
As expected of the heroic army of the North...
"The last general, Li Hulanji, the commander-in-chief of the capital of Lizhou, met the commander-in-chief of the capital." Li Tingyu greeted Shi Ji, cupped his fists and saluted.
"No need to be polite."
Shi Ji was in his mid-thirties, with a head that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. His face was thin and stern, his eyes were big and bulging, and he exuded a murderous aura, giving him the air of a general.
He was serious about his words and threw the golden talisman to Li Tingyu for verification.
Li Tingyu quickly took it and looked down, and saw a tiger's head engraved on the golden talisman. Under the tiger's head was a row of Uighur inscriptions "General Manager of Ten Thousand Households on the Expedition", and behind it was the word "History".
After verifying that it was correct, he hurriedly handed back the gold talisman and then handed over his silver talisman.
Shi Ji didn't answer and turned to glance at a young general behind him.
The young general stepped forward, checked the silver talisman, handed it back, and said with a smile: "General Li is a subordinate of General Wang?"
"Yes." Li Tingyu took the silver charm back and asked, "I wonder who you are?"
"Shi Zhang, courtesy name Jingxian."
Shi Zhang was halfway through his words and saw that Li Tingyu didn't react much, so he added: "My father's name is 'Tianze'."
"It's Mr. Shi who's in front of you. I'm so rude." Li Tingyu was startled and hurriedly saluted again.
Shi Zhang smiled, he didn't talk much, he had the air of a young man from an aristocratic family.
"Zhending and Hanzhong are thousands of miles apart. If it hadn't been for the Great Khan's personal expedition this time, we would have almost missed the opportunity to meet the heroes of the Shi family."
Li Tingyu exchanged pleasantries, arranged for Shi Ji's soldiers and horses to rest in Liyi Mountain City, and held a banquet in honor of the two cousins of the Shi family.
After working for a long time, the three of them entered the hall and sat down.
Shi Ji took the main seat, while Li Tingyu and Shi Zhang sat on the left and right.
Li Tingyu made a toast first and said: "I just met Marshal Shi and General Shi Shu a few days ago. I heard that they divided their forces to attack Chongqing."
Shi Ji was obviously a little arrogant and did not speak.
Shi Zhang asked: "Oh? How are my father and cousin doing now?"
"It seems that they are still confronting the Chongqing Song Army." Li Tingyu responded, "Even if there is news, it will not reach the general. But the sentry horse saw soldiers and horses stationed on the other side of the Jialing River from a distance, thinking it was Shi Shuai's camp."
Shi Zhang nodded and said, "I haven't seen my father for more than half a year, which makes Mr. Li laugh."
He spoke with a slight Henan accent, perhaps because he stayed in Kaifeng for a long time.
Li Tingyu asked: "Since Commander Shi has led his troops to follow the Great Khan to conquer Shu, how can he mobilize more troops?"
Shi Zhang said: "General Li doesn't know something. My father is stationed in Kaifeng, and my cousin Shu is stationed in Dengzhou. It is close to Shu, so he arrived earlier."
As he spoke, he turned to Shi Ji and glanced at him.
Shi Ji spoke reluctantly: "I'm stationed in Zhending. It's a long way to go, so I'm late."
Li Tingyu said: "That's it."
Shi Zhang laughed again and said: "I am different from my cousins. I usually only like poems and dramas, but I don't know anything about military matters. This time, my father was worried that my cousin was not good at socializing with others, so he ordered me to stay in Kaifeng and accompany him.
Come."
Li Tingyu smiled and said: "I don't know about military affairs? Shi Langjun is so humble. He is obviously very skilled."
"oh?"
"I'm offended." Li Tingyu looked at Shi Zhang's handsome face, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile: "Langjun looks thin and wears armor, but he has arms and waist, broad shoulders and broad back. The general can still do it."
You can see it.”
Shi Zhang said: "My father was strict in discipline and forced me to practice martial arts and keep fit. This is the family tradition."
His calm temperament makes people feel close to him.
After getting along for a short time, Li Tingyu also admired his style, toasted him with a glass of wine, and said: "If Lang Jun and the governor are not in a hurry, why not take a few days' rest, and then go to see the Great Khan with the general?"
"Isn't General Li stationed here?" Shi Zhang asked.
Li Tingyu said: "At the end of the day, General Wang is under the command of General Wang. After conquering this place, the population will soon be relocated and supplies will be returned to the camp."
Shi Zhang said: "Don't you set up troops in Liyi Mountain City?"
"Why set up troops?"
Shi Zhang thought for a while and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the Song army will attack from here?"
Li Tingyu shook his head and smiled, raising his hand to point to the Huaying Mountains to the east.
"Shi Langjun doesn't know the terrain of Sichuan and Shu. To the east, there are five or six mountains like this. If the Song army wants to cross mountains and ridges to support Diaoyu City, how will the baggage be transported?"
"What if there are tens of thousands of Song troops transporting baggage?"
"The sentry horse will naturally get the news."
Shi Zhang asked again: "Then, what if a small group of Song troops interspersed?"
Li Tingyu smiled and said: "Can a small group of Song troops cross Huaying Mountain and fight with our Mongolian cavalry in the plains? The general is really hoping that Song troops will come and die."
Shi Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and said: "So, it is impossible for the Song Army to appear in Quzhou?"