Chapter 2706: One River and Han Water, Two Cities, Flames in the Sky, Thinking of Suspicious Soldiers
From the left and right sides of Fancheng, red signal flares continued to rise, expanding to a place ten miles away from the two wings.
Then the Hurricane Battalion soldiers who had released the signal flare immediately instigated the horses to run back and forth quickly!…Miss Jiang turned around and saw Yelu Hua holding the signal gun with a puzzled expression and asked herself, "What are you doing?"
Miss Jiang immediately replied: "Xiangyang City has the most important part of the world, and it is a place that must be defended, so all our actions must ensure the safety of Xiangyang City, which is also the prerequisite for this battle."
"If the Mongolian army pressed outside Fancheng, we could only retreat all five hundred troops to the south of the Han River and defend Xiangyang with all our might.
At that time, the people in the city will inevitably be poisoned by the Mongolians."
When I said this, I saw Miss Jiang holding the chassis, looking at the cavalry soldiers running back to Xiangyang City one by one, and then said, "So I ordered twenty soldiers to spread such a long line and fire signal flares into the sky within a range of twenty miles wide, in order to make the Mongols suspicious."
"The Mongols have seen these red signal flares, and they know that this is a signal of the Tongzhou army launching an attack."
"In this case, they did not expect to encounter our Tongzhou troops in Xiangyang.
Second, our signal indicates that there is a huge army that is attacking them at the same time on the front of ten miles wide."
"This may immediately change them from marching to defensive formation.
It is possible that in order to ensure the safety of the army, they will retreat for a certain distance to avoid being raided by our army."
When Miss Jiang said this, she sighed softly: "If the Mongolians are fooled, we can drag our time until dark."
"And if reinforcements come this night, the elders of Fancheng will still survive!"
"But if the Mongols are not fooled, or if no reinforcements arrive that night, even if the gods come, there will be no rescue!"
… “Why can’t we gather our troops and defend Fancheng here?”
At this time, Yelu Hua asked in confusion: "Just rely on our troops to defend the city, even if we cannot kill the enemy, it will be fine to delay for a few days, right?"
“How is that easy?”
Upon hearing this, Miss Jiang immediately shook her head and said, "In history, when the north attacked the south, it was always protracted when attacking Xiangyang, and even siege and attacked for several years.
But before this, it was easy for them to pull out Fancheng!"
"Because Xiangyang has a barrier to Hanjiang River and a gate of Hushan.
But Fancheng is lonely in the north of the river, with no danger to defend, and no help."
"So, this is what history says: Xiangyang is made of iron, Fancheng is covered with paper!"
"If our five hundred men only defend Fancheng, the enemy only needs to cross the river at night and take over Xiangyang with one impact. At that time, Fancheng in Jiangbei will be dead."
"At that time, we will not only be wiped out, but also completely abandon this important town... Do you understand this time?"
After hearing Miss Jiang's words, Yelu Hua also gritted his teeth and nodded.
Now he also understood that Marshal Jiang was doing his best to protect Fancheng.
But whether the people in Fancheng can survive depends on the will of God!... Just as Miss Jiang and the others were talking, dozens of reconnaissance cavalry emerged from the Mongolian army opposite at the same time.
Each of them had about a hundred people, and rushed out of the dark army formation on the far horizon.
These cavalrymen rode out quickly, advancing in unison like dozens of sharp arrows, running towards Fancheng.
Seeing this scene, Miss Jiang couldn't help but grit her teeth! Not only did this Mongolian army not use conservative retreat methods, but also immediately sent cavalry to investigate here... The general who led the army on the opposite side looked vicious and decisive, and was a powerful opponent! If this continues, in a short time, the truth about no large-scale army under Fancheng will be exposed.
At that time, Fancheng will face violent attacks from more than 100,000 Mongolian troops! Miss Jiang shook her head helplessly, gritted her teeth and ordered: "The whole army will leave the city and retreat to Xiangyang!"
Just as the five hundred hurricane battalion troops were quickly leaving the city and preparing to board the ship and leave the shore, Miss Jiang hesitated for a moment when she stepped on the last boat.
She looked back again and saw dust flying in the sky, and the Mongolian army had already begun to advance the entire army again.
It won't take long to flood the Fancheng like a tide! Miss Jiang was helplessly about to turn around the boat, but she was suddenly stunned... At this moment, Miss Jiang's face suddenly turned red! At this moment, a fleet of ships were coming from afar in the lower reaches of the Han River!...Miss Jiang immediately sent someone to send out a green signal flare as a contact signal, and then looked at the white sails in the distance with anxiety.
Immediately, she saw another signal flare rising from the fleet on the Han River. It was really a friendly army! Miss Jiang gritted her silver teeth and ordered the Hurricane Camp fleet to set off immediately to the south bank to occupy Xiangyang, but she stayed herself.
Not long after, the fleet arrived and began to dock at the North Gate Pier of Fancheng.
Before the springboard was laid, a man above flew down from the boat and jumped to the dock.
Two people jumped down behind her, and the three of them walked towards Miss Jiang quickly.
Miss Jiang saw at a glance that the person who was leading the way was actually a beautiful and graceful female general. This person was Hai Mutang.
There were still about ten meters away from each other, Miss Jiang shouted loudly to Hai Mutang over there: "Report the number of troops and the armed conditions!"
When he heard Marshal Jiang's voice was very anxious, Hai Mutang ran towards this side and shouted loudly: "The new army in Huainan West Road, 5,000 rifles, and twenty-four sixteen-pound cannons!"
"And artillery?
Why are there so few?"
When Miss Jiang heard the word "cannon", she was immediately ecstatic.
But as soon as she realized the number of artillery, she immediately frowned! "Five thousand new Huaixi troops... can be fought in this battle!"
At this moment, Miss Jiang immediately planned quickly in her heart.
Then, she immediately patted Hai Mutang on the shoulders of the rushing towards him! "Order your troops to distribute 3,000 people and immediately garrison on the walls of Fancheng."
Miss Jiang issued an order without hesitation: "Bring twelve cannons and half of the shells! Go now!"
"yes!"
At this time, Hai Mutang turned his face and saw a dusty smoke covering the sky and the sun in the distance. The Mongolian army was galloping towards this side! So she immediately ordered three thousand troops to be divided from the ship and climbed the city to defend with her.
Chapter completed!