Soon, the Mongolian general Chahan attacked Zhenzhou. The governor of the state, Qiu Yue, led his army to defend and defeated the enemy one after another. He went out to fight at Xupu Bridge and set up an ambush to lure the enemy. When the enemy came to pursue him, the ambush spread everywhere and killed the Mongolian general. Then the enemy retreated.

.This year was the fourth year of Duanping. The following year, Zhao Yun changed the Yuan Dynasty and the name was Jiaxi.

Because Zhao Yun did not have a suitable person to succeed him as prime minister, he still appointed Qiao Xingjian as the left prime minister and privy envoy. Zheng Qingzhi knew that the minister of the Privy Council also served as the minister of political affairs, Zou Yinglong signed a letter to the Privy Council, Li Zongmian signed a letter to the Privy Council, and the Mongolian soldiers were slightly

Somewhat convergent.

Besides, Mongolian Wo Kuotai first sent troops to invade the south, and then sent generals to withdraw from Lita and conquer Goryeo. Goryeo was originally a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. After the rise of the Liao and Jin Dynasties, it turned to submit to the Liao and Jin Dynasties. When Mongolia became powerful, it also paid tribute to Mongolia.

The new king of Goryeo succeeded to the throne, Yelang was arrogant and killed the Mongolian envoy, so Salita was ordered to march eastward. Goryeo suffered repeated setbacks, so he had to send an envoy to apologize and be willing to increase his coins. Salita reported to Wo Kuotai, Wo Kuotai

He ordered Goryeo to send his son as a hostage before he was willing to make peace, and the King of Goryeo had no choice but to agree.

Ogedai Khan also sent general Chuoma'erhan to kill Zalandin and pacify the Western Region. He then sent Taizu Sun Batu, Subutai and others to conquer Qincha in the west. Taking advantage of the momentum, he invaded the Aluosi tribe and headed north to massacre.

Yeliezan City fell into Moscow and marched into Europe. The princes and kings of northern Europe joined forces to attack and were defeated. The Mongolian army was indomitable and the whole of Europe was shaken. Ogedai Khan temporarily put aside military affairs in the south because he was engaged in the Western Expedition.

After successive victories in the west, the Confederate army was urged to proceed.

The Mongolian general Wen Buhua received the order and led his army to attack Huangzhou. The Yangtze River where Huangzhou is located is very narrow, which is convenient for crossing the river. It is a military center in Huaixi. Zhang Rou's troops captured a large number of ships in the large lake west of Huangzhou City and sent them down the river.

On the Yangtze River, Meng Gong followed Shi Songzhi's order and urgently led the navy from Ezhou to rush to the rescue. When the two sides encountered each other on the river, Meng Gong showed no mercy and used the Song army's fighting ship to ram the Mongolian fleet, disrupting the enemy fleet.

, fought a bloody road and entered Huangzhou. Due to the fierce Mongolian army this time, the Song army was unfavorable in the first battle. The already desperate Huangzhou soldiers and civilians heard that Meng Gong was coming to help, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Huangzhou was originally Meng Gong's base camp. He personally took charge of the city defense measures here, making it difficult for the enemy to conquer. Meng Gong personally visited the city to supervise the Song army's defense, visited the sick and wounded, and beheaded forty-nine fearful soldiers.

The enemy's retreating soldiers finally stabilized the Song army's position. Meng Gong sent his navy to attack the Mongolian navy. The Song army fought bravely, forcing the Mongolian army into chaos, retreating to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and capturing more than 200 warships.

.The Mongolian Navy’s plan to cross the river was completely bankrupt.

The Mongolian army shifted its attack target and attacked the East Embankment of Huangzhou. In order to cut off the connection between Huangzhou and the navy, Meng Gong selected elite soldiers to organize a death squad. After a fierce battle, they recaptured and defended the East Embankment. In this way, the Mongolian army had to attack Huangzhou City directly. Because

Kouwen Buhua sent additional troops from the Western Regions and the surrendered troops from the original Xixia region to attack continuously, and Huangzhou was in crisis. In order to disrupt the Mongolian offensive, Meng Gong sent his troops to divide Liu Quan and other troops into seven groups and attack them at night.

Quietly leaving the city, the troops were divided into seven groups to attack the Mongolian army. As an old friend, Zhang Rou also gave Meng Gong face. His camp was well-defended, causing the Song army's sneak attack to fail. The remaining six groups of Song troops won, and the Mongolian army camp was in chaos, and the morale of the army was

shake.

After the Mongolian army reorganized, they launched another day and night round of attacks. The Mongolian army bombarded Huangzhou with artillery and burned all the towers on the Huangzhou city wall. However, due to Huangzhou's persistence,

, the city head was filled with gaps at any time, so that the Mongolian army could not take the opportunity to attack the city head. The Mongols rushed to dig the city wall under Huangzhou City, and wanted to directly dig holes in the city wall to enter the city. Meng Gong sent people to dig the wall before the Mongolian army.

In the local city, another city wall was built, and a large pit was dug on the inside of the excavated city wall as a trap, known as a "mass grave".

When the Mongolian army finally dug through the city wall and rushed in, there was still a solid wall in front, and the front troops, pushed by the rear army, fell into the pit one after another and were beaten to death by the Song army with stones and wood. In the spring of the next year,

The Mongolian army, which suffered seventy-eight out of ten casualties, finally retreated. Meng Gong once again reversed the passive situation of the war, and appointed Ningyuan Army as Propaganda Envoy, Deputy Privy Councilor, and soon he was promoted to Beijing as West Hubei Envoy.

After Wen Buhua's defeat in Huangzhou, he turned to attack Anfeng, and Du Gao, a military commander, defended the city. Du Gao's courtesy name was Zixin, and he was a native of Shaowu City. Du Gao was born into a family of officials. His father, Du Ying, came to Jiangxi to be punished.

Prison. Because of his father's relationship, Du Gao was assigned to work in the Haimen Salt Farm. Before he took office, he was summoned by Chen Pengshou, a prisoner in Fujian Province, to act as the deputy captain of Min Wei. Later, he was hired as a staff member by Li Jue, the envoy of Jiang and Huaihe.

In the twelfth year of Jiading, Jin soldiers besieged Chuzhou, and he led troops to rescue him. During the fierce battle, he was shot in the face with two arrows. Not only did he not leave the battlefield, but he remained calm and commanded the battle calmly, which greatly boosted morale and defeated the Jin army.

The Jin soldiers could not attack for a long time, so they had to retreat. This battle showed his outstanding military talents and he was transferred to Jiangshan County. When Zeng Shizhong, the envoy of Huaixi system, was serving as the official of Luzhou Jiedu, a mutiny broke out in the local area.

Du Gao rode alone to quell the rebellion. Tens of thousands of Jin soldiers stationed in Yulinbu asked to surrender. Some people suggested that after the Jin soldiers surrendered, they should be killed and seize the baggage. Du Gao said: "It is unkind to kill and surrender, and it is unjust to accept the goods."

Otherwise, there will be future troubles." He advocated educating the Jin soldiers and then demobilizing them all.

When Mongolia's Wenbuhua tribe attacked Anfeng, Du Gao first moved the soldiers and civilians to Huai City, ordered his son Du Shu to escort the silver and grain supplies, and set up ambushes around the city. The Mongolian army missed the target, and Du Gao led his army in pursuit.

They fought and won a complete victory, and the Mongolian army retreated. The Mongolian army used artillery to attack the city and destroyed all the towers of Anfeng City. Du Gao immediately repaired the city wall as soon as it was damaged. Du Gao also invented a method to build it with wood.

The mobile wooden building, because it is very high, can be placed next to the moat. There are arrow windows on it for shooting. The buildings are connected with crossbars to mobilize troops like a city wall. The strength of this building is

Three times the size of ordinary city towers, and easy to make, Du Gao made hundreds of them at once and arranged them into a defensive line. If any tower was destroyed by the Mongolian army, a new tower would be replaced in the same position, just like a moving city wall.

After a long siege, the Mongolian army used stones to fill in 27 dams and bridges on the river of Anfeng's moat, allowing them to directly attack Anfeng City. However, Du Gao immediately sent Song soldiers to capture it and guard the inside of the moat.

Twenty-seven bridgeheads. The Mongolian army organized a group of daredevils, wearing more than ten layers of thick armor made of cowhide, even covering their faces, to attack the Song army. No matter how tight the armor was, Du Gao could not

Due to the characteristics of completely covering their eyes, a group of sharpshooters from the Song army were selected to use a special small arrow to shoot the eyes of the Mongolian army, killing many brave warriors in the Mongolian army.

As the Mongolian army's siege time prolonged, various Song army reinforcements also approached Anfeng. Lu Wende, the commander of Chizhou, was the first Song general to lead the reinforcements to arrive outside Anfeng City. He used a trick to break through the Mongolian army's encirclement and killed

Entered Anfeng City to meet up with Du Gao. The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and they learned that

The deployment and combat plan of the peripheral Song army.

After another fire attack by the Mongolian army using the wind failed, Du Gao recruited daredevils to counterattack the Mongolian army and captured some of the dams and bridges used by the Mongolian army to fill in the trenches and rivers to protect the city. At the subsequently agreed time, Anfeng City

Du Gao's army, Lu Wende's army, Yu Jie's army, Zhao Kui's army, Xia Gui's army and others outside Anfeng City attacked the Mongolian army from both inside and outside, drove back the Mongolian army, and took away all the Mongolian army's artillery, siege equipment and other equipment that could not be evacuated in time.

The Mongolian army suffered a severe blow and retreated hastily after leaving more than 17,000 corpses. After the war, Du Gao was promoted to the deputy envoy of Huaixi and also known as Luzhou.

In the autumn of the second year of Jiaxi, more than half a year after the Mongolian army failed in Anfeng, the Mongolian commander Chahan led the Mongolian army to attack Lianghuai again. The Mongolian army claimed to have an army of 800,000 and surrounded Luzhou with the intention of conquering Luzhou.

Using Chaohu as a base, the navy was trained to cross the Yangtze River.

This time the Mongolian army was more fully prepared, and the siege equipment was several times that used when attacking Anfeng. However, due to Du Gao's meritorious service in defending Anfeng, he was promoted to the deputy envoy of Huaixi Zhizhi and also knew Luzhou.

The deputy director general is located in Luzhou. Just like the Battle of Anfeng more than half a year ago, the Mongolian army and the Song army fought back and forth for offensive and defensive equipment. In order to prevent the Song army from reinforcing, the Mongolian army built a sixty-mile-long soil barrier.

The wall surrounded Luzhou. But it was eventually destroyed by Du Gao. The Mongolian army continued to attack Luzhou with artillery. This time Du Gao used the sufficient supplies in Luzhou City to add a gun tower based on the wooden building he designed last time.

, launched an artillery battle with the Mongolian army. After such an offensive and defensive battle for a period of time, the Mongolian army knew that it could not capture Luzhou defended by Du Gao, so they had to withdraw from the siege and march eastward.

Du Gao now had far more troops than he had during the Battle of Anfeng. He waited for most of the Mongolian army to withdraw, and then took advantage of the victory to open the city gate and attack the Mongolian army. Song generals Lu Wang and Li Wei led two hundred soldiers who dared to die and rushed in.

The Mongolian army defeated the Mongolian army. Du Gao commanded other Song armies and chased them for dozens of miles before returning. He also sent Lu Wende, Nie Bin and other naval forces to guard the Huai River, preventing the Mongolian army from continuing to go south. After this battle,

Due to his meritorious service, Du Gao was promoted to be an envoy to Huaixi.

Meng Gong was ordered to set up envoys for the Jinghu system to prepare for the recapture of Jing and Xiang. Meng Gong believed that Yingzhou must be captured before he could pay his salary. He also had to capture Jingmen before he could send out surprise troops. So he ordered the Jiangling Temperance Department to enter

Daoxiang and Deng themselves came to Yuezhou to summon the generals and give instructions on the strategy. Song general Zhang Jun recovered Yingzhou, He Shun recovered Jingmen, and Liu Quan defeated the Mongolian army three times at Zhongtou, Fancheng, and Langshen Mountain. Then he recovered the Xinyang army.

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Encouraged by the successive victories of various Song armies, Liu Tingmei, a local armed force who originally took advantage of the emptiness of Xiangyang given up by the Mongolian and Song armies to occupy Xiangyang City, then surrendered to Mongolia, made a secret agreement with the Song army to unite the rivers and seas to attack the Mongolian army in Xiangyang.

With internal support, the Song army successfully advanced to Xiangfan and recaptured Fancheng. Jiang Hai led his army from Jingmen, recruiting officers and soldiers along the way to prepare for long-term operations after regaining Xiangyang. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Song army, Xiangyang Meng captured Liu Yi

You Xian and others later surrendered to the Song army.

But Meng Gong knew that the recapture of Xiangyang so easily did not mean how powerful the Song army was, but because Mongolia did not take Xiangyang seriously at all. After he entered Xiangyang, he reported to the court: "Xiangyang"

, Fan is the foundation of the imperial court. It has been won in a hundred battles. It should be managed to protect the vitality. One hundred thousand non-armored soldiers are not enough to defend it. Rather than withdrawing troops after the enemy comes, who can guarantee this complete victory? Come up with troops to attack and plan.
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