Chapter 364 Big Trouble

Dingjiazhou is a small island with a mudflat land less than ten miles long. Sun Huchen, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty, led tens of thousands of people to set up camps and defend along the way.

With the support of the Southern Song Dynasty navy, it should have been impregnable.

However, Jia Sidao and his generals obviously did not expect that Kublai Khan would suddenly launch such a fierce offensive at the cost of casualties.

If you look from the sky, this land has been stained with blood.

Nearly 700,000 troops from the Song and Mongolia sides fought together, and the scene was extremely tragic.

On the battlefield, flags fluttered, drums roared, and the shouts of soldiers and the sounds of fighting were intertwined, as if it was a symphony of death.

On this tragic battlefield, the most eye-catching thing was the collision of the two naval ships.

These ships collided with each other like beasts, and the splashes of water were as high as dozens of feet.

The soldiers on the ship held various weapons and rushed towards the other ship.

However, the Southern Song navy was much better than Mongolia in terms of ships and even training.

On the other hand, most of the navy under Lu Wenhuan were surrendered Song soldiers who were recently recruited temporarily, and they were filled with fishing boats.

Jia Sidao looked at the Mongolian boats that were sunk into the water under the attack of the Southern Song navy's crossbow catapults, and a smug look flashed across his face.

"You Tartars, do you know the advantage of boats?"

Jia Sidao thought that his arrangements were foolproof, and with the fire attack that had been arranged, he could catch the Mongolian navy in one fell swoop as long as he waited for them to enter the ambush circle.

However, the next move of the Mongolian navy instantly froze the smile on his face.

Just see!

Dozens of small boats filled with hay and oil swarmed out and rushed directly to the Southern Song navy.

Fire attack!

In ancient times, fire attack was the most effective means for naval forces fighting in inland rivers.

Obviously, the other party also thought of it.

Just look at the chaos of the Southern Song navy's formation for a moment, and many warships were hit by fireboats and then burned.

For a while, the river surface was full of flames.

Fortunately, Jia Sidao's navy was not restrained by chains, so the number of Southern Song ships set on fire by fire ships was not large in total.

But even so, the first line of defense of the Southern Song side was eventually breached by the Mongolian navy.

Jia Sidao looked at the Song-Mongol navy entering the boarding battle, and his face was ugly.

He didn't want his precious navy's main force to be dragged into such a bad battle.

And Lu Wenhuan must be thinking of using cannon fodder to exchange with the Southern Song navy, so he naturally couldn't let the other party succeed.

Jia Sidao made a prompt decision and issued a military order:

"Pass on this commander's military order, order Xia Gui to lead the navy to retreat!"

The Southern Song navy, which received Jia Sidao's order, began to retreat quickly as if it had been pardoned.

But the Mongolian navy was relentless and followed closely.

Moreover, under Jia Sidao's stunned gaze, a large number of Mongolian fleets suddenly appeared and landed on the Dingjiazhou mudflats.

Tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers disembarked and formed a battle array, heading straight for the camp where Sun Huchen was stationed.

Jia Sidao's face was gloomy. If the Mongolian soldiers succeeded, the consequences would be disastrous.

He immediately sent someone to tell Sun Huchen that he must annihilate the Mongolian troops that landed at any cost!

The Song army followed his orders.

But he didn't expect that.

As soon as the two sides of the soldiers fought, Jia Sidao heard a piece of bad news.

It said that Sun Huchen abandoned the army and fled, and there was a Mongolian cavalry behind him that bypassed Dingjiazhou and cut off the food supply of the Southern Song army!

"How could it be like this?!"

Jia Sidao heard this, his face full of horror.

Just like the original history.

This life-and-death battle that determined the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty was extremely ridiculous.

The Southern Song general Sun Huchen fled after hearing the battle.

There was also Xia Gui, the commander of the Southern Song navy. When he learned that Sun Huchen had escaped, he was afraid that Jia Sidao would win, so he also took most of the Southern Song navy boats and ran away.

Because he had been defeated in the battle of Huhuangzhou before, if Jia Sidao won this time, he would not be able to escape the blame for the defeat. Only by dragging Jia Sidao into the water could he think of safety.

Therefore, in just half a day, most of the elite Southern Song soldiers led by Jia Sidao were lost.

What's more serious is that the Southern Song navy taken away by Xia Gui made Dingjiazhou lose its geographical defensive advantage, and the Southern Song soldiers stationed there fell into a dilemma!

Jia Sidao was worried, fearing that the Mongolian army would learn of this news, and immediately ordered the army to retreat.

He himself took a small boat and ran away first.

The entire Dingjiazhou battle was full of absurdity and ridiculousness on the Southern Song side.

In this battle, the Southern Song lost 180,000 soldiers, while the Mongolian side lost less than 20,000 people.

Since then, there was no place to defend Lin'an.

Soon, Kublai Khan learned about the changes in the Southern Song army and laughed.

Jia Sidao really deserves the word "childish" as he evaluated.

He immediately ordered the rear troops to move forward quickly, commanded the navy to charge at full speed, and asked the army on both sides to chase the Song army along the river.

The Southern Song army, which lost its commander, was like a headless fly. The soldiers fought on their own, without any rules, and even deserted.

The warships of the Song army drifted in the Yangtze River, gathering and dispersing from time to time, and in chaos.

Lv Wenhuan looked at the chaotic Southern Song army with confidence, thinking that the destruction of the Song Dynasty was imminent, and his position in Mongolia would also be improved.

He decided to ask Kublai Khan to serve as a vanguard and attack Lin'an.

Lv Wenhuan knew that as a traitor, there was no turning back.

Only by betraying to the end can he gain Kublai Khan's trust.

But just when Lv Wenhuan was about to send all his Mongolian navy to Dingjiazhou, he suddenly heard his men commotion.

"Huh?"

Lv Wenhuan couldn't help but look annoyed and frowned.

Just when he was about to ask, he saw a fleet appearing out of thin air a few miles upstream!

"What is this...?!"

This sudden appearance of the fleet shocked Lv Wenhuan.

You know, under his command, the flank of the Mongolian navy that was chasing was completely exposed to the other side.

If the other side was not a friendly army, the consequences would be disastrous!

"Wait..."

Lv Wenhuan was horrified, and a thought flashed through his mind. "Could this be Jia Sidao's strategy to lure the enemy deep into our territory?"

No!

Lv Wenhuan immediately dismissed this idea.

How could an incompetent like Jia Sidao come up with such a plan? !

Just when Lv Wenhuan hoped that the newcomers were not the Southern Song navy, he hurriedly ordered his men to send a fleet to intercept them.

But it is not easy to separate the Mongolian navy with iron chains connecting the boats.

At the same time, Kublai Khan in the military camp also learned that a mysterious fleet had arrived upstream.

His face became gloomy. He did not expect that a strange army would appear behind him.

Kublai Khan had many veterans and capable ministers under his command. They immediately reacted and repeatedly asked Kublai Khan to move to another place.

After all, the Mongolian army was now following military orders to pursue the defeated Southern Song army, so that the rear was empty and not much defense.

As for this mysterious fleet, it was naturally led by the two brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun.

"According to the order of the adults, we need to kill this barbarian navy as soon as possible!" Zhang Heng shouted excitedly.

Compared with the Mongolian navy,

the navy he led had less than a hundred ships, while the Mongolian side had thousands!

However, Zhang Heng was not afraid at all.

He vaguely remembered that his adults had said that times had changed!

Indeed.

Times had changed.

Boom!

This sudden naval fleet lined up neatly three miles away from Lv Wenhuan.

What surprised Lv Wenhuan even more was that the two largest ships in the fleet with strange shapes actually showed one side of the ship towards him.

What was this for?

Then...

Lv Wenhuan saw dozens of flames suddenly spurting out from the side of the big ship, like gorgeous fireworks blooming in the night sky!

That's right, accompanied by loud noises, the thunderous muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons fired.

Each solid iron ball the size of a human head was pushed by the kinetic energy of gunpowder and hit the Mongolian navy heavily.

The Mongolian navy soldiers who didn't know what was going on hadn't reacted yet.

They saw many colleagues turned into broken limbs and flesh under the impact of the thing that broke through the air!

Lv Wenhuan stared blankly at the strange thing that smashed a dozen ships into pieces with a volley, and felt something was wrong.

After a long time, he realized that the one coming was an enemy, not a friend!

At the same time, Lv Wenhuan noticed that the enemy fleet had revealed a merchant ship full of tung oil and other fire starters after some maneuvers.

This scene made Lv Wenhuan's forehead sweat.

Big trouble!