Zhao Bingyan knew that Li Heng, the Yuan army commander in charge of the northern siege, was going south to discuss the decisive battle with their commander-in-chief Zhang Hongfan.
He began to plan his defense.
After fighting for days, the casualties of his soldiers were not small. Now it was no longer a question of just relying on the troops recruited from above. He needed to consider how to rescue the many people in the water village from the perspective of defeating the Yuan army.
However, he thought about it all night and still couldn't come up with a complete solution.
While he was worrying about the soldiers, Zhang Qi led three old men onto the deck. Wu Qingyuan, the leader, saluted him and said, "Thank you, general, for caring about the suffering of the people. I thank the general on behalf of the people of Shuizhai."
Zhao Bingyan supported the old man with both hands and said: "Zhesha was born late, so I really don't dare to take it. Now the water village no longer distinguishes between the front and the rear, and both soldiers and civilians are part of the fight against the Yuan army. As long as my soldiers still have food, We won’t let the people go hungry.”
The old man gratefully bowed his hands and saluted, praising Zhao Bingyan for his righteousness.
He said: "The important thing now is to organize the young and strong people in the water village to defeat the Yuan army together with the same hatred."
The three old men kept nodding in agreement and were about to talk. Suddenly they heard the drumming of the Yuan army on the opposite side. Zhao Bingyan immediately said: "Go back quickly, the enemy is about to attack again." He turned around and walked towards the fighting position.
Wang Bao saw him coming in a strange outfit and asked in admiration: "Brother, is it from Mr. Zhuge again?"
Zhao Bingyan said proudly: "Of course, it will be a tough battle today. Are you brothers ready?"
Wang Bao told him not to worry. The brothers felt very comfortable after eating plum candy, and promised to hack all the Tartars to death in the sea.
At this time, I saw three large ships lined up on the opposite side, rushing towards them and shooting arrows horizontally.
Zhao Bingyan shouted, "Good luck!" He took off his 800 million bar and placed it on the female wall, aiming and shooting, one shot at a time, killing the heads one by one.
The enemy ship has not yet approached, and no trace of the enemy soldiers can be seen on the side of the ship.
The soldiers and guards on the left and right were cheering and shouting: "Vice General Zhao is great, and Commander Zhao is mighty."
Seeing that the Yuan army could not attack this section of the water stronghold, they could only use return artillery and trebuchets from a distance to bombard them. The large fleet of ships rushed towards the eastern section guarded by General Fang Rixing.
As soon as Zhao Bingyan's men took a breath, the sentry in charge of the lookout shouted: "Look, the enemy ship has pulled out Prime Minister Wen again."
He looked in the direction of the sentry's finger and saw two large ships approaching from behind. Standing on the bow of the first ship was Wen Tianxiang. Two Yuan soldiers held his left and right hands and stood firmly behind them.
Zhang Qi said angrily: "The Tatars are acting like scoundrels and using Prime Minister Wen to humiliate us. They are too vicious. The brothers are afraid of hurting the Prime Minister and dare not shoot arrows."
When Zhao Bingyan saw Wen Tianxiang, he had a look of admiration on his face. He was a loyal minister who had long been ingrained in his mind.
Without thinking carefully, he said: "Save people." He immediately asked Wang Bao to release three clippers and take his personal guards to kill the enemy ship carrying Wen Tianxiang.
Arrows from the Yuan army came like raindrops, and the guards raised their shields high above their heads to protect them. Arrows still hit Zhao Bingyan's soldiers, and from time to time some people groaned in pain.
They had no choice but to dodge the Yuan army's clustered shots, and Zhao Bingyan's body armor was quickly filled with several arrows.
Still thirty meters away from the enemy ship, he took out a grenade and put it on the 800 million bar and fired directly at the first floor of the enemy ship.
There was a loud bang, and the first floor of the enemy ship was blown to pieces. The huge explosion overturned all the people in the corridors on the first and second floors of the enemy ship, including the deck.
The surrounding soldiers who were nervously watching the battle were stunned by such a powerful explosion. Many soldiers even forgot that they were still fighting and stopped fighting.
Zhao Bingyan had already aimed at the waistline of the enemy ship and fired his second grenade. The building ship was actually shaken violently by the explosion, and a huge hole was torn open near the waterline.
Zhao Bingyan's clipper had arrived at the enemy ship. He immediately jumped into the exploded hull and rushed in. He raised his gun with both hands and pointed at the enemy one by one. The guards following him quickly took control of the bottom warehouse and the first floor. Just grab the building boat and drive it away.
He rushed to the third floor deck with murderous intent, killed the Yuan army guarding Wen Tianxiang with two shots, untied the rope tied to Wen Tianxiang and reported: "The prime minister has suffered, it is too late to rescue Zhao Bingyan."
Wen Tianxiang was severely tortured by the Yuan army and was covered with bruises. He had become numb from the humiliation of the Yuan army coach Zhang Hongfan, who was paraded through the streets.
He looked at Zhao Bingyan in confusion and murmured: "Since ancient times, no one has ever died, leaving a loyal heart to illuminate history."
Zhao Bingyan's nose hurt and he couldn't bear to look directly, so Zhang Qi managed to protect him and turned to the parapet behind the building to shoot at the pursuing enemy ship. The sound of gunshots like 800 million fried beans rang out and the enemy ship was quickly gone. The person who showed up.
The guards had already cleared away the remnants of the enemy and used the trebuchet on the ship to attack the enemy ships behind. The big ship turned around and sailed towards the water village with difficulty.
The Song army saw that their own people had recaptured an enemy ship in minutes. After rescuing Wen Tianxiang, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted. On the walls of the water village, swords and swords were flashing, and the shouts of killing went straight into the sky.
In today's first battle, the Yuan army was easily defeated because of Zhao Bingyan's surprise attack.
On Fang Rixing's side, because Zhao Bingyan fought fiercely and captured the building ship where Wen Tianxiang was detained, the pressure was greatly reduced, and it was also a great victory. The man happily came over to catch Wen Tianxiang and rushed towards Zhang Shijie's handsome ship.
Yuan army coach Zhang Hongfan learned that the building boat escorting Wen Tianxiang to demonstrate had been hijacked. Wen Tianxiang was dumbfounded after escaping.
This guy was furious and shouted hysterically: "Kill, kill for me, kill all the little Nanmans."
This guy with Han blood flowing in his body was seeking glory by selling himself to his master, and he was willing to be the eagle dog of the Mongolian master. He used all his strength on his talons to pounce on his compatriots who didn't even have fresh water to eat.
On the side of the Song army, Zhao Bingyan heard the Yuan army beating drums before he could get the captured building boats to the wall of Shuizhai, and knew that the enemy soldiers were about to attack again.
He told Wang Bao not to do anything, so he anchored down, dug a breach and took a sunken boat to serve as a bridgehead for us to guard the front of the water village.
Before Zhao Bingyan could wipe the blood from his face, the Yuan army came up, attacking from a distance with return artillery and trebuchets.
Although the accuracy of this heavy weapon was poor, it was enough to hit a shell. The large ship blocking the water village was concentrated by enemy artillery from time to time. Broken wood flew everywhere, and the injured soldiers fell into the sea screaming.
The enemy quickly occupied the newly built bridgehead. The soldiers guarding it refused to retreat and set fire to the Yuan army.
Zhao Bingyan looked at the soldiers fighting with the Yuan army in the burning building, his eyes were bleeding. He shouted commands and kept pulling the trigger in his hand to shoot.
I saw sticks flying on the city wall, violently hitting the approaching enemy ships, firing bows, arrows, cannons and rocks. Yuan troops continued to climb up the female wall. Zhao Bingyan killed three of them with spears and stabbed them with a hundred Mongolian troops on the deck. A fight breaks out.
This guy was very powerful, but he didn't know that Zhao Bingyan was a special warfare elite who had been tempered hundreds of times. After two rounds, he stabbed him in the thigh with a gunshot. He screamed in pain, and the scimitar in his hand was still raised above his head, making a fierce gesture. Cut it down.
How could Zhao Bingyan make this guy take the sword? He drew back his gun in the midst of lightning and flint, and stabbed the 800 million spear straight into the chest of the hundred households, pushing the guy off the parapet.
In the afternoon, the Yuan army rarely stopped attacking.
Everyone lay down on the spot and took a breath to rest.
Zhao Bingyan dragged his exhausted body back to the command ship, and Zhang Qi reported to him: Including the wounded, there were less than thirty personal guards alive.
Wang Bao reported to him: There are less than 500 soldiers who can still fight.
Several generals gathered together to discuss the deployment of troops.
Wu Qing, the old man in charge of the overall situation in the water village, came out and asked Zhao Bingyan to use young people to fight the enemy. Many young people were able to fight.
Zhao Bingyan was overjoyed and asked Wang Bao to pick out anyone who could be beaten.
He began to check the material reserves in the super-dimensional space and found that a lot of things had been piled up inside. There was actually a self-heating rice, which was a good thing.
He quickly ran to the bottom warehouse, got into the storage room where the weapons had been removed, and secretly released 300 kilograms of plum candy and 5,000 boxes of self-heating rice. After teaching the guards to eat them, he asked Zhang Qi to distribute them.
Before he could take a closer look at the others, the messenger came and asked him to go to the general's handsome ship to discuss matters.
Zhao Bingyan explained the essentials of defense to Wang Bao and Liu Dali, and boarded a boat to the handsome ship.
The deputy envoy of the Privy Council, General Zhang Shijie, changed his previous displeasure and introduced Zhao Bingyan to Wen Tianxiang. He said happily: "Great kindness, it is this little general who saved the right prime minister."
Wen Tianxiang couldn't help but nod, and repeatedly praised Zhao Bingyan for his extraordinary wit and unmatched courage, and that he was a pillar of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Bingyan quickly declined modestly and thanked the Prime Minister for the compliment.
Empress Dowager Yang was very amused and asked him what reward he wanted.
