Although Kang Baohua had tried his best, the team still couldn't move faster. In the second half of the night, the temperature dropped. After walking for a long time, the crowd was exhausted and hungry. More and more people sat on the side of the road to rest. Adults were better, but they could persevere, but the children cried endlessly. The women coaxed helplessly, and the men were urging anxiously, cursing and making a mess.

Kang Baohua and the yamen runners were helplessly coaxing the crowd, saying that as long as they cross Songjiang, it would be safe. The court had prepared and prepared food, and promised to provide pensions for the losses and would never let everyone suffer in vain. For those who were foolish, it was said that the Tartars were only dozens of miles away from them and were chasing them closely behind. If they fell into their hands, their lives would be lost.

When they encounter unreasonable oil and salt, the yamen runners and the village soldiers were unwilling to reason with them. They were beaten up with a stick, and even took out a rope and tied it up, like escorting prisoners. However, this seemingly rough method has a good effect, which warns the honest people and makes those who want to take the opportunity to make trouble, which plays a role in killing the chicken and warning the monkey.

That night, Kang Baohua felt that this was his most frightened and nervous night. Behind the fugitive team, shedding the fallen villagers and placed them on more than a dozen large trucks that forced to be recruited. Halfway through the journey, the large trucks were already full of people. He and the yamen runners gave the mounts to the children who could not walk, and they leaned on their legs to keep up with the team.

"How far is it from Songjiang?" Seeing that the east was already shining, Kang Baohua stopped and beat his sore waist. He worked at his desk for a long time, but he had walked so far. At this moment, his legs were already numb, as if they were not his. He turned his head and asked the county magistrate Li Hui, who was an official who had transferred to the local area after retirement from the Imperial Army. He acted decisively and had a tough style. He trained the yamen runners just one year after taking office, and brought out a strong rural soldier, which greatly improved the security of the county. The brave and fierce villagers could no longer dare to cause trouble and became his arms that he could rely on.

"The magistrate, Fengbangji should be ahead, and it is at least fifteen miles away from the river bank. With the current journey, it will take at least an hour!" Li Hui was not as tired as he was. He stood still and looked at the environment and said.

"How far is the enemy from us?" Kang Baohua looked at the sparse and slow-moving team and knew that even if he arrived at the river bank in an hour, there was no ferry bridge on the Songjiang River, and he still needed to take a ferry to cross the river. It was difficult to cross the river all over the day, so he couldn't help but feel anxious.

"The siege provoker has just arrived in Lezhi Township. Even if they come quickly, it will take half a day." Li Hui told.

"Oh, why is the enemy's movement so slowly?" Kang Baohua's eyes lit up and he said in surprise. According to his estimate, the enemy had arrived at the county town at least this morning, but now he has distanced himself.

"I was ordered to cut off the rear, and the village soldiers have ordered all the bridges and ferries along the way. If the enemy wants to cross the river, they must build a bridge again, or choose a way to detour. How can we get up quickly!" Li Hui said with a narrow smile.

"Haha, County Magistrate Li is really a talented person. I will ask for me for you afterwards!" This may be the best news Kang Baohua has heard in the past two days. The most important thing now is time, and he has bought them at least half a day and said happily.

"It depends on the magistrate's good tutoring, and he dare not make meritorious jobs!" Li Hui bowed and said.

"Prince Li, the enemy suddenly appeared in Jiangnan and was approaching the hinterland of Jiangdong. Why was the court not prepared at all?" Kang Baohua took a moment, gasped, and asked Li Hui, who was walking side by side with a stick, and was very puzzled by the enemy's breakthrough of the Yangtze River.

"Soldiers are the truth, real, real, real. How can the army be mobilized by His Majesty and let the enemy cross the river have a reason, but it is not something we can see through!" Li Hui said with a faint smile.

"Jiangdong is an important place in the capital and the foundation of the imperial court's money and food. Even if there is a huge reason, the enemy cannot be allowed to penetrate deep into the hinterland to abuse it!" Kang Baohua was not so optimistic, and could not understand where Li Hui's confidence in the little emperor, and shook his head and said.

"It is precisely this way that the court will not give up easily. However, we did not receive an order to defend the city. Instead, the establishment of the department ordered us to evacuate the villagers and avoid losses. This shows that the court had a plan, but there were some deviations." Li Hui smiled.

"The county magistrate once served in the army. If you see how our army would respond?" Kang Baohua thought about it and asked again.

"Since the establishment of the Ministry wants us to retreat south of Songjiang, most of them will use Songjiang as a dangerous obstacle to the enemy and encircle and annihilate the enemy." Li Hui said his guess without thinking, and he seemed to be disbelief and said, "The enemy's troops will be exhausted when they attack thousands of miles and penetrate deep into our territory. Our troops will use the Jiang as a basis to wait for work, and counterattack in time, and even go back to it and surround it here. The enemy has no support, lacks food and grass, and can be rampant for several days."

"Everyone is running quickly, there are large military vehicles and horses in front of you, equipped with hot water and hot food..." As if to confirm Li Hui's statement, a team of yamen runners rode on horseback along the road and kept shouting loudly.

"Report to the magistrate, county magistrate, our army has already set up a defense in Fengbangji, and has set up a floating bridge on Songjiang River to connect refugees across the river!" At a moment, the team of people had already arrived near to stop the horse, and Gao Liang jumped off and reported.

"How many people are there?" Kang Baohua asked in surprise.

"I don't know the job!" Gao Liang shook his head, saw the face of the magistrate with disappointment and said, "Many, many, many, and there are no sight at first sight. There are still troop transport ships that keep docking, and they can't count them at all."

"Haha..." Kang Baohua suddenly laughed to the sky, his face full of joy of resurrection.

"The magistrate, County Magistrate Hu has crossed the river to contact Huating County first. He has made preparations for resettlement and ordered the humble post to come and take over." Gao Liang continued.

"Okay, okay, let's go quickly, it will be safe to cross the river!" Kang Baohua looked at Li Hui and said happily, obviously convinced him.

"The magistrate should get on the horse!" Li Hui asked the yamen runners to give up a horse and support him.

"I am so disrespectful!" Kang Baohua heard the good news, and the force that was pressing on his heart immediately ejaculated. He felt exhausted and no longer refused. With his help, he stood up and bowed, and no longer looked anxious on his face, and walked towards Chaoyang with high spirits...

At the same time, the Song army had arrived at Jiangqiao Town on the north bank of Songjiang River and instantly turned this not-complex town into a huge military camp. Zhao Mengjin also came with the army and opened a command post in a small temple northeast of the town. The temple seemed small, but the rubble all over the surrounding area also showed its glory. It was extremely incense a hundred years ago, and it had more than a thousand temples, enshrined in the Tathagata Buddha, the Eighteen Arhats, Thousand-Handed Guanyin, Tiangou, the fierce general, the land god, etc.

It is said that due to the large number of monks and the bells ringing during the meal, the monks in the temple came to use the thai when they heard the sound. Because the temple was large and there were many monks, the time difference between the thai was very large. Therefore, there was a saying that "the Taoist temple was added to the ancestral hall, and there was no morning light for dinner." However, in the seventh year of Tianhui, the famous Jurchen general Wu Shu crossed the river to chase Gaozong. Through this place, Gaozong entered the temple to temporarily avoid it. When he learned that the pursuers arrived, he immediately crossed the Songjiang River and fled. Wu Shu chased the temple to the temple and saw that the Emperor of Song had fled, so he set fire to the temple. Thousands of temple rooms were burned down, leaving only dozens of temple rooms in the north and south. Zhao Mengjin was unintentionally moved the feelings of his ancestors at that time. After coming in, he arranged defenses to the generals and prepared to fight against the enemy.

When everyone was hesitating about Ni Liang's judgment that day, they urgently reported it back. The Mongolian Yuan army flew fifty miles away from Kunshan and suddenly turned east, and turned south to Kunjiayi Road in Liu'an Town, as if they were trying to cross the Liuhe River. This news completely confirmed Ni Liang's judgment. After everyone urgently discussed, they thought that the small moat in Jiading City was shallow and there was no regular army stationed, so the village soldiers could not stop the enemy's impact. In order to avoid losses, Jiang Yan and Zhao Mengjin jointly signed an order, and ordered the order to abandon Jiading County for 800 miles, and all the people crossed Songjiang to the south to take refuge.

An emergency occurred, and the combat plan to encircle and annihilate the enemy Yu Pingjiang could no longer be implemented. Zhao Mengjin discussed with the generals and immediately redeployed it. He formulated a new plan to intercept the enemy on the north bank of Songjiang and control the enemy's rear route along the Liuhe River, surround the enemy between Songjiang and Liuhe River, and face the triangle area towards the coast. Then he pressed the enemy from west to east, shrinked the encirclement and forced the enemy to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

After determining the direction, Zhao Mengjin ordered the Kunshan garrison closest to Jiading to set off immediately, rushed to Fengbangji line to deploy defense at night, and blocked the enemy's vanishing south, and at the same time blocked the enemy's vanguard to buy time for the deployment of Songjiang defense line. At the same time, the army stationed in Pingjiang quickly assembled, set up floating bridges along the south of Songjiang River and arranged second-line positions; the main Wuxi departments quickly moved south along the canal, then turned to the south bank of Liuhe to arrange defense lines, and cut off the enemy's rear route. The Fifth Brigade of the Guard stationed in Changshu followed up, harassing the enemy's rear and driving the enemy into the hub.

The plan was decided, Ni Liang set out overnight to Kunshan, mobilizing the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guards, the Fourth Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade and Xiuzhou Army, and the Kunshan Army to the battlefield. Yesterday afternoon, he personally led the Cavalry Brigade to Fengbangji first, surveyed the terrain, and sent guards to the north. When the Imperial Guards, the Fourth Brigade arrived, he did not have time to rest, and immediately spread his wings with the main road as the center, built fortifications overnight, and built two simple defense lines. The Xiuzhou Army and Kunshan Army who arrived this morning also arrived at the destination and built defense lines east of Kunshan to prevent the enemy from breaking west.

Because the journey was long, the troops stationed in Pingjiang sent their subordinate cavalry 1st division to Jiangqiao Town overnight to set off by land for advance; while collecting civilian ships and set sail immediately after each set up a sect. The Fifth Army of the Imperial Army, the First Artillery Brigade and the Shaoxing Army, the Pingjiang Army arrived near Jiangqiao Town within one day, and set up three floating bridges in the early morning of this day, opening a temporary ferry and material transfer site.

Due to the hasty incident, it was too late to formulate a detailed combat plan. The tasks were not clear after the army arrived, and the positions were too late to be allocated. Zhao Mengjin led the direct troops of the department to set off with the vanguard of the Five Army. After arriving in Jiangqiao Town, he immediately led his staff to investigate the terrain, formulate combat plans, and demarcate the defense lines of each department. He set up the central army in a temple outside the town, and then summoned the heads of each department to assign tasks.

Songjiang is one of the flood discharge channels of Taihu Lake. It flows eastward into the sea. When it entered the Song Dynasty, the river surface was still more than ten miles wide. Later, the Jurchen invaded the south, the imperial court moved south, and moved the capital to Lin'an. A large number of subjects in the Central Plains moved south with the regime, and the population of Jiangnan increased rapidly. It also shifted China's political, economic and cultural centers to the south, and the productivity of Jiangnan continued to increase.

The rapid growth of population caused the confusion of "small land and many people", so there was another wave of land reclamation in the south of the Yangtze River. Southern Jiangsu was a plain, and people could only ask for fields from wastelands. Songjiang was a big river with many beaches along the line, and the wastelands were also reclaimed into fertile fields. The occupied rivers made the river narrow, and the Songjiang River entered the sea by tides. The river water was originally a regular tide rise and fall. When the tide was high, the mud and sand in the lower reaches were rushed to the upstream by the sea tide, and when the tide was low, the river water rushed into the sea.

When the banks of the Songjiang River narrow and the river water becomes thinner, the sea tide still pushes the mud and sand downstream upwards. The already tiny Wusong River water cannot rush the mud and sand into the sea when the tide is low, and the mud and sand will deposit in the downstream. Over time, the lower reaches of the Wusong River are silted. When the Taihu flood peak arrives, the surging floods cannot flow into the sea along the river, and small rivers will be washed out from the silted places. After the Mongol Yuan invades the south of the Yangtze River, the main roads in the lower reaches of the Songjiang River are blurred, and countless curved rivers have become rivers, forming large areas of floodplain. Whenever the rainy season flood peak comes, it becomes a country of marsh.

It is precisely because the downstream rivers are dense, not only are cavalry difficult to move, but also infantry difficult to deploy. After Zhao Mengjin deployed his main force at Ni Liang's headquarters, he still arranged defenses along both sides of the main road, sending only guards to the west to prevent small enemy troops from smuggling. He found that due to the invasion of sea tides in ancient times, a spike formed on the north bank of Songjiang, and later, as the Songjiang river channel narrowed, it turned into two sand belts.

These two sand belts range from one to two meters above the ground. The terrain is always high in the north and low in the south, becoming natural moisture-proof and flood-proof barriers, which are also preserved because of this. One of them is located on the Fengbangji line, and Ni Liang's troops are based on this; the other sand belt is located in Jiangqiao Town area. Zhao Mengjin decided to build a position using this.
Chapter completed!