The warships of the Yuan Army's naval division lined up in a long snake formation, opened artillery in turn, and bombarded the port of Kaohsiung, and the smoke from thousands of cannons filled the entire sea, but the results were not ideal, because they did not dare to shoot at close range, and several warships in front tried to break into the port in vain, but they were all sunk by the shore defense artillery. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info81

The Song army built nine forts along the coast of Kaohsiung, covering the sea surface of the port without dead ends, the forts were condescending, the breeches of the bronze guns were rifled, the ballistics were straight, and the initial accuracy was much higher than the smoothbore guns, the cost was that the manufacturing process was complicated, the wear and tear was fast, and the construction cost of the fort itself was also extremely high, the base was made of stones, reinforced with cement fired from shells, and the gun emplacements were also reinforced with iron plates, and the shells of the Yuan army could only smash a pit on it.

The fortress is mighty, the arrogance of the Yuan army was beaten down, Wen Tianxiang, who came to the front line to command the operation, was very pleased, thinking that when he built the fort, he had a dispute with the party patriotic, and the right prime minister had his opinion, thinking that the Song army needed to build an offensive naval division, and the limited financial and material resources should be used for the construction of warships, not the forts on the 6 ground, but the party patriot was very stubborn and insisted that the port must be defended by the forts, and finally the imperial court compromised and reduced the plan of nine forts to three, and the cannons were also reduced from 18 to 12, now that I think about it, I really regret it, if the construction is carried out as planned, then Kaohsiung will be impregnable.

The naval battle lasted for three whole days, and the Yuan army sailors did not get any advantage at all, they tried to board from elsewhere several times, but they were stopped by the Song army sailors, and several transport ships full of soldiers slipped to the shore at night, but they hit the reef, and three thousand men and horses were made fish food.

On the fourth day, Fan Wenhu became agitated, after all, the water division was no better than the 6th division, and he consumed a lot of drinking water, dry food, gunpowder, and ammunition every day.

So the right Cheng Fan Wenhu of the southern province convened the generals to discuss the retreat of the army, Fan sat on the tiger skin chair, wearing a golden helmet, wearing gold armor, this is not a real metal armor, but a paper armor commonly used in the Song Dynasty, tempered with silk cloth and paper, strong and lightweight, coated with gold paint on the surface, shining in the sun, the tiger is majestic, but in Ji Yuqian's eyes, Fan Wenhu is an out-and-out paper tiger.

"If you can't attack for a long time, let's go back to Penghu to replenish grain and straw and then come to crusade against them." Fan Wenhu said.

All the generals nodded yes, most of them were generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, not a bad breed, but there were always some psychological obstacles to attacking the old club.

Ji Yuqian stepped out and said: "My lord, by all means, the Song army is already tired, and if we rush into the port in one go, this battle will be won, if we retreat halfway, our morale will be discharged, and then it will decline, and if it is exhausted, this battle will not be easy to fight." ”

Fan Wenhu squinted his eyes and looked at Ji Yuqian, and said with a smile: "Ben Shuai didn't see that Song Jun was lacking. To be honest, he looked down on this deputy who was born in cloth, but Ji Yuqian was deeply favored by Emperor Kublai Khan, and he was a northerner, slightly higher than himself in status, and the emperor ordered the two of them to work together, not without checking and balancing their own minds, so they were treated politely.

The generals also spoke one after another, supporting Fan Wenhu's decision, their reasons are very good, there is not enough fresh water, there is not much ammunition, the Song army's cannons have a long range and great power, our warships can't do them, anyway, they just don't want to fight hard.

Ji Yuqian's anger is accumulating little by little, he knows Fan Wenhu's routine, he has been pit teammates professionally for decades, and he can pit hundreds of thousands of people on expeditions to Japan without being injured, these 100,000 sailors are handed over to him as blind, and he can lose all the battles he can win, and he wasted eleven years of time, not to accompany people like Fan Wenhu!

He patiently explained that we are difficult, and the Song army is even more difficult, although their cannons are sharp, but continuous fire will lead to explosions, if we do not count the casualties of the onslaught, as long as we rush into the harbor and the Song army close combat, the battery will lose its effect, as long as there are 1,000 elite soldiers ashore, the chance of victory will be eighty percent.

Fan Wenhu didn't like to hear this at all, so he pretended to think about it for a while, but decided to withdraw his troops.

Ji Yuqian endured it.

The Yuan army's sailors returned in vain and retreated to Penghu overnight.

After nightfall, a dark shadow climbed into Fan Wenhu's cockpit from the side of the ship, and sprinkled some colorless and odorless medicinal powder on the teapot of Lord Youcheng......

Fan Wenhu was thirsty when he got up at night, grabbed the teapot and poured two sips, and fell asleep, this sleep did not get up until noon the next day, Lord Ji Yuqian came with the generals to ask for orders, and the soldiers kept blocking the car, and finally it was really unstoppable, Ji Yuqian and others broke in in a hurry, and then Fan Wenhu fell into a deep coma.

The main general lost his command ability, Ji Yuqian took over the water division naturally, and the Yuan army turned around directly before it reached Penghu and pounced on Kaohsiung again.

Wen Tianxiang and others never expected that the Yuan army would kill a horse gun so quickly, and it was menacing, changing the conservative tactics and rushing into the port regardless of the cost, and the twelve guns of the three batteries were all red barrels, and they still couldn't stop the attack of the Yuan army.

As soon as Ji Yuqian had the power in hand, he gave the order to carry it out, and the generals under Fan Wenhu were not afraid of him, but they were deeply afraid of Kublai Khan and the Great Yuan Dynasty behind Ji Yuqian, and under the two choices of cutting off their own heads and sacrificing the lives of their soldiers, they resolutely chose the former, forcing the warships to charge to the death, and killed no less than a dozen disobedient middle-level officers for this purpose.

After paying the price of fifty warships and thousands of lives, the Yuan army finally rushed into the port of Kaohsiung, the soldiers wearing paper armor boarded the 6 in small boats, and the Song army shot it with bows and crossbows, and the paper armor stained with sea water not only did not reduce the strength, but the toughness was more sufficient, and the arrows could not be pierced, they waved their scimitars and the Song army to kill in one place, and the naval battle finally turned into 6 battles.

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Looking at the floating corpses in the harbor, Ji Yuqian deeply realized what it means to achieve success and ten thousand bones, but he didn't have any pity, these people deserved to die, even if they didn't die in Kaohsiung, they would have died in the battle of the expedition to Japan in 1281 AD. The Yuan army successfully landed 6 Kaohsiung, they had a large number of troops, the whole fleet had 100,000 people, excluding sailors and artillery, half of the infantry who could go up to 6, the population of the Southern Song Dynasty was only about 300,000, and the soldiers who could fight were less than 50,000.

But with the arrival of a steady stream of reinforcements and supplies on the other side of the strait, the balance of victory is tilting in favor of the Yuan army, a charred courtyard in the east of Kaohsiung is the forward command post of the Song army, Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie command the battle here, and 6 Hideo escorted the emperor to escape into the mountains, as for Chen Yizhong, he had already slipped his feet, but on the way to escape to the city was sunk by the Yuan army's interception warship, and the whole family lost their stomachs.

The two loyal ministers looked at each other for a long time, their eyes were full of loneliness and sadness, they thought that God blessed that the Great Song Dynasty was able to survive overseas, but they didn't expect that God was actually joking with them.

"Maybe it's providence that shouldn't have driven them away." Wen Tianxiang suddenly had an epiphany, "We have angered the heavens, and we should have this catastrophe." ”

"Why don't you send a boat to Mayi for help." Zhang Shijie said.

Wen Tianxiang smiled sadly: "Even if they are willing to send troops to help, the former wolf and the tiger, the Zhao family's country is finally over, you and I have been blessed by the emperor for many years, how can we hand over orphans and widows to a group of chaotic ministers and thieves, even if it is surrendered, it is more decent than the chaotic palace." ”

Zhang Shijie is also a face-saving person, not to mention that no matter how difficult the current situation is, it is not as desperate as when Yashan was in the mountains, he gritted his teeth and said: "What the prime minister said is extremely true, none of us ask for it, it's a big deal to take the emperor overseas, to Goryeo, to Japan, to occupy the city." ”

The battle continued, on the tenth day of the street fighting, the Southern Song Dynasty was exhausted, and the gunpowder was exhausted, in a fierce battle, Zhang Shijie took the lead, and died on the battlefield with random arrows, the Yuan army shot the letter of persuasion with artillery, and tens of thousands of letters of persuasion fell on the position of the Song army like snowflakes, many people surrendered, and Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured.

6 Hideo saw that the general trend had gone, and took advantage of the night to take Zhao Yu and more than ten servants to escape by boat, and a small boat went south, and the destination was Mayi.

At dawn, 6 Hideo inadvertently looked back at the flow to seek direction, and the stunned warships of the Yuan army chased after him, and urgently ordered the sailors to sail quickly, but their ships were small and weak, far less than the three-masted ships of the Yuan army, and they were about to catch up, 6 Hideo sighed: "The Great Song Dynasty is dead." "Carrying Zhao Yu on his back, he was going to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea.

A sail shadow appeared in front of him, 6 Hideo rubbed his eyes, and vaguely saw the Song banner, it was Ma Yi's reinforcements arriving! He had mixed feelings and tears welled up in his eyes.

It was indeed the reinforcements led by Liu Yanzhi himself, and they only had fifty warships in the whole army, and the Yuan army pursued a fierce naval battle, the hot cannonballs flew by, and after firing hundreds of cannons at each other, the Yuan army's naval division was defeated, and 6 Xiufu climbed onto Liu Yanzhi's warship with Zhao Yu on his back.

6 Hideo put the emperor down and covered his face with his sleeves: "I'm ashamed to see the Taishi." ”

Liu Yanzhi ignored him and helped Zhao Yu up: "It's not good, the emperor was shot!" ”

Zhao Hao's back was red, and he was hit by a bullet in his heart and died.

"Taishi, save the official's family!" 6 Hideo was shocked and fell to his knees.

Liu Yanzhi shook his head: "The gods can't save the official family." ”