Zhao Yu stayed in the wine hall for three days, and only after the wind and rain stopped did he board the boat again and hurriedly returned to Qiongzhou, and when he got home, it was already the end of the month. Due to the storm that swept across the South China Sea these days, the carrier pigeons of the Secretariat could not be released, and the whereabouts of the bureau were difficult to find at sea in the next few days, and it was difficult for the two sides to communicate, so that Zhao Hao did not know anything about the news from the imperial court, so he could not rest and summoned Zheng Huchen overnight.

Looking at the information of the imperial court these days, Zhao Yu was silent for a long time, and the situation was even more serious than he expected. After the Mongol army defeated the Song army led by Wen Tianxiang in Jiangxi, the troops were divided into two routes, one route led by Ta Chu to the south of Da Yuling and entered Guangdong, and the other route was also led by Lost into Fujian. Besieging Quanzhou, Zhang Shijie retreated to Qianwan in Guangzhou to join the imperial court, so that the entire territory of Fujian was controlled by the Mongol army. Then Ta Chu led the army to approach Guangzhou, and to Zhao Yu's surprise, Zhang Zhensun did not resist and led the crowd to surrender.

Previously, the imperial court had been stationed in the shallow bay near the coast of Guangzhou, and when the Mongolian army attacked, it retreated to Xiushan at the mouth of the Pearl River, and Guangzhou was lost, Xiushan was no longer safe, and ****** retreated into the sea again, temporarily anchored in Xiangshan Jingao for refuge. But it was soon detected by the Yuan army. In the middle of the month, the Yuan water division raided Jingao, and the Song army lost the battle in a hurry, and the Yuan army only made a tentative attack, and withdrew after a small victory.

A few days ago, the Yuan generals Hara, Xuanfu Liang Xiongfei, and Wang Tianlu joined forces to besiege Haojingao at the southern end of Xiangshan Island, and Chen Yizhong commanded the naval army to engage in battle. As a result, the Song army was defeated, and a large number of warships and military equipment were taken away, and most of the sergeants drowned in the sea due to strong winds on the way. Chen Yizhong and Zhang Shijie led thousands of officers and soldiers and 800 warships to break out of the siege and urgently protect Duanzong to flee north to Xiushan.

"More than 100,000 troops are gone?" Under the two wars, nearly 1,000 warships and more than 100,000 soldiers were lost, which was equal to twice the total strength of the entire marshal's mansion, and the strength of the imperial court was also lost more than half, which was too shocking and difficult for Zhao Hao to accept for a while.

"According to the spies who reported it, the damaged warships and corpses floating on the surface of the sea after the great war, actually blocked the sea mouth, and the state was extremely miserable!" Zheng Huchen gritted his teeth and said.

"Is Your Majesty well, and how is the palace marshal?" It took a while for Zhao Yu to calm down, and in the memories he remembered in his previous life****** he did evade the pursuit of the Yuan army near Macao, and the little emperor Zhao Yu was also caught in the wind and fell into the water there, and Jiang Wanzai was swept away by the wind and waves and buried in the sea in order to save him. For this reason, when he persuaded him to agree to open Qiongzhou, he also specially told Jiang Wanzai not to stay there for a long time and pay attention to avoiding the storm. What I didn't expect was that there was a big battle between the two armies there, and I had no impression of it, or maybe this history was lost in the long river of history and was not known to future generations.

"Your Highness, although Your Majesty was a little frightened, everything is fine, and the palace marshal has always been by his side, so he should be fine." Zheng Huchen replied.

"That's good!" Zhao Yu nodded with relief, but he was still uneasy in his heart, and asked again, "How many enemy troops are there, and are they retreating now?" ”

"Your Highness, the enemy army is estimated to be about 70,000 people, and there are five or six hundred warships!" His Royal Highness was shocked just now, and he was still worried, after all, it was really heart-wrenching for the imperial court to suffer such a big casualty, and it was also a great relief to see that it had calmed down quickly, and he was also afraid that His Highness would be frightened and become panicked, which would disappoint him too much.

"How did you fight this battle, and you still suffered such a big loss while defending the island?" Zhao Yu frowned and said, although he knew that the Yuan Water Army could not be underestimated, but he was also shocked in his heart, in the past, water warfare has always been the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and water warfare mostly occurred in inland rivers, and it is understandable that the enemy failed to fight with the cooperation of water and land. But this time it was indeed a serious naval battle, but the Song army had the cooperation of the infantry army, and it was still won by others with less, which shows that the strength of the Yuan Water Army has increased greatly and the tactics are more skillful.

"Your Highness, please see." Zheng Huchen seemed to know that His Royal Highness would ask this question, and immediately turned out a map and said, "There are four mountains in the south of this place, and the sea water runs through them to form a cross, which is called the cross gate, so it is collectively called Macao." Or it is said that the south and north of Macao, and the two mountains are opposite to each other. The four mountains that form the cross mark of the water area are divided into the ring stacked Shek Tong Mountain, Taipa Xiaotan Mountain, Dahengqin Mountain and Xiaohengqin Mountain. The waters between Taipa, Coloane and Da Hengqin and Xiao Hengqin refer to the outer cross gate; The waters between the peninsula, Taipa, Xiaohengqin and the opposite mountain are the inner cross gates, and the battle took place at the outer cross gates. ”

"Well, Chen Xiang must be arrayed in the open sea, fighting against the enemy, but he doesn't know that it is difficult to maneuver while fighting on the back island, while the enemy can attack from three sides. As long as one is breached, it will be difficult for other ships to support each other, so they can only take refuge in the waterway. But the waterway is narrow, and when the handsome ship moves, other warships will follow and compete for the waterway, and so many ships crowded together will collide with each other at every turn, and they will already be defeated without a fight. Zhao Yu looked at the map and pondered for a while before seeing the key.

"Your Highness is really a man of God, as if you have seen it with your own eyes." Zheng Huchen was shocked when he heard this, "Chen Xiang set up a formation on the back island in the shallows of the open sea as His Highness said, but Liu Shen saw the flaw and commanded the warships to storm the Zhongjun Shuai ship, and he had already diverted the division to contain the two wings. The Chinese army could not resist under the enemy's attack, and the two wings could only move forward to get rid of the harassing enemy in order to reinforce the Chinese army, so the formation was in chaos, Chen Xiang saw that the defeat had been born, so he fled to the island first and wanted to use the island's infantry to flank the enemy ships, but the ships followed up and collided with each other, and the whole line collapsed under the enemy's attack, and suffered heavy losses! ”

"Alas, how do scholars know the soldiers, and they will be defeated before they fight!" Zhao Yu sighed when he heard this, Chen Yizhong is now the left minister and the envoy of the Privy Council, and he is in charge of military and politics, but Lu Xiufu, who is a little familiar with military affairs, is excluded by him. Zhang Shijie, who commanded the army, was a layman in the water war, and he completely fought a water war with the tactics of the army, and even then he had to listen to Chen Yizhong's dispatch. A hundred farts are not, a layman commands an insider, and if he doesn't defeat the battle, it's a pity, but it's a pity that tens of thousands of lives have been lost.

"Then how does Your Highness think you can win?" Zheng Huchen looked at His Highness and asked with a distressed look.

"This ...... Let's take a closer look! Zhao Hao hesitated, he was not much better than the two, he had been a generalissimo for so long, he had watched the excitement outside the city of Guangzhou, and he had not yet come to the battle in person. And the strength of the Shuaifu is too different from that of the imperial court, whether it is the warships, the troops, or even the resources that can be mobilized, they are not on the same level, but they are still defeated so badly, will they definitely be able to win if they go into battle? This made him lose a lot of confidence, and his confidence was a lot weaker, but looking at Zheng Huchen's expectant gaze, he could only slap his swollen face and talk to him well, don't be discouraged...... (To be continued.) )