Chapter 345: There is a change in Qiongzhou
It was found that since His Majesty had hunted whales, he had no interest in fishing, and he had gone to sea more frequently, and more and more warships had been dispatched. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but except for the Queen Mother who taught His Majesty a lesson, the Manchu Dynasty has an extremely tolerant attitude towards His Majesty going to sea, even if it is his sworn enemy Zhang Shijie, he is no longer so hostile. After all, the emperor would hunt one whale after three days at sea, and at most he brought back three at a time, so that the three armies could have a full meal, and Lu Shicheng, who was responsible for monitoring His Majesty's whereabouts, finally ate meat.
Of course, Zhao Yu's whale hunting is by no means just for eating meat, its main purpose is to train the troops, so as to prevent their combat effectiveness from weakening, after all, staying in the port all day to clean up, running training is not as good as actual combat drills. And he found that whaling is indeed a good sport, not only for the various units to get the opportunity to go to sea for training, but also to familiarize themselves with the formation, exercise the courage of the soldiers, and cultivate the ability of coercion between the teams. In addition, it can also gain the admiration of the whole army, after all, except for the camp and the escort army, no army in the DPRK dares to provoke the giant beasts in the sea.
But just as Zhao Yu was playing more and more advanced and getting more and more hilarious, the sky over Qiongzhou was already full of war clouds. After entering September, Ali Hague sent Ma Chengwang, who was the prefect of Qiongzhou, to Qiongzhou to recruit surrender, but was severely reprimanded by Ying Jie and driven out of the city. But this kid was not reconciled, and turned to contact the old ministry and slang people to intend to start an incident and occupy Qiongzhou. He bribed the leaders of the various Tongs, colluded with more than a dozen Tong, large and small, raised thousands of troops to prepare for a night attack on the ordnance supervisor outside the city of Qiongzhou to snatch weapons, and then attacked the capital city to prepare for the landing of the Mongols.
Ma Chengwang thought very well, but forgot that the army stationed in Qiongzhou at this moment was definitely not the defeated remnants of the army at that time, and it could be defeated with a few thousand soldiers, and its conspiracy had already been detected by the spies of the Affairs Bureau. Ying Jieyan showed his iron-blooded side at this moment, mobilized the army to set up an ambush outside the city, and led the rear army to disperse into the mountains with Zhao Mengjin, and arranged a large net. When they came, the ambush was exhausted, and ten thousand arrows were fired, and before they could move, they suffered heavy casualties, and in the blink of an eye, they were crushed. The rear army that entered the mountain also took advantage of the emptiness of each village to take each village lightly, drove all the people in the mountain down the mountain, and burned down its village.
Ying Jieyan ordered that all the dozen or so lords who participated in the rebellion be beheaded, the land was taken into official ownership, and the rest were distributed to the Jiyang Army Tuntian to open mines. Originally, some people were worried that the slang people would take the opportunity to make another incident, but they found that those slang people were frightened by Fu Shuai's series of killings, and they took the initiative to kidnap Ma Chengwang, who was hiding in their house, to Fu Si Yamen. Although Ying Jieyan hated Ma Tiancheng, a traitor, he strictly abided by the practice of the two armies not cutting off the envoys, and ordered someone to break all his hands and feet and let him go back to Leizhou to inform Ali Hague that Qiongzhou is here, and he has the ability to take it himself, so he doesn't have to pretend to be benevolent.
At the same time, the whole army was ordered to fight in full force, lookouts along the strait were to monitor the sea day and night, and the naval forces of each village sent a group of sentinel ships to inspect the strait every two hours, and all the commercial ports except Baisha Port were closed, and three or more merchant ships were allowed to dock only after being inspected, and personnel were not allowed to leave the wharf without authorization, and all transactions were completed in the docks on the island. The chief officers of the various departments in Qiongzhou went to various places to guard, Gao Yingsong went to the Jiyang Army, Cai Wanyi went to the Changhua Army, and Chen Zeweng went to the Wan'an Army.
On the other hand, after meeting His Majesty secretly, Ying Jieyan sent a number of spies to the northern coast of the strait to monitor the various ports along the coast and find the enemy's naval garrison. However, in the past month or so, only sporadic warships have been found, and no signs of a large number of warships have been found. On the contrary, it is the information transferred by the secretariat. The enemy's water armies on the north and south roads of Jinghu moved south in batches along Rongshui and Liujiang and assembled in Yulin Prefecture. Now there are more than 500 large and small warships, with no less than 20,000 troops, and they judge that the enemy is preparing for the attack on Qiongzhou......
In the early morning of the seventh day of October, after a night of wind and rain, the sea became a little turbid, and a fleet sailed along the northern edge of Nanshan Island into Leizhou Bay. Here, the fleet had two columns that changed formations, turned into phalanxes and continued to sail along the coastline.
"Dutong is too careful, Lei, Gao, and Hua Prefectures have already been recovered, and there is a large army in Tun, how dare the remnants of the Southern Dynasty provoke!" On a tall building ship, the two generals stood side by side, looking at the huge fleet, which could be described as a forest of masts and sails, and one of them looked at Du Tong's solemn expression and smiled.
"Ali, and don't take it lightly. It was precisely because the Qinzhou Navy was lightly attacked by the enemy, and the warships of the two villages were burned, and General Ali Hague had no choice but to transfer our Jinghu Naval Division to the south to pacify Qiongzhou across the sea. Jinghu Navy Commander Samudan said.
"Hehe, it's still five hundred miles away from Qiongzhou, and even if they learn that our army is coming, it's already too late." Ali, the deputy commander of the Jinghu Water Army, smiled disapprecitatively, and the fat on his face trembled uncontrollably, completely covering his short and thick neck, which made people laugh when they looked at it.
"General Ali, do you know how Jiangdong Xuanwei made Liu Shen defeated?" Samudan said with some displeasure when he saw that the deputy delighted the other party so much.
"Wasn't it defeated at the hands of the remnants of the Southern Dynasty?" As soon as Ali heard it, he knew that there was still something inside, so he immediately changed to a gossip face and asked.
"Then Liu Shen returned seriously injured, and less than 100 of the more than 700 warships under his command escaped, how can he explain to the emperor if he doesn't talk about his opponent." Samudan sneered and said, "As far as I know, there are no less than 20 battles between him and the remnants of the Southern Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasty can't resist the desert and leave, Liu Shen then pursued in Qizhouyang and was ambushed by the Qiongzhou navy, and it is said that he only dispatched fifty warships to annihilate his front army, and the ship of General Hara was hit and sunk, and it sank to the bottom of the sea before he even had time to get off the ship. ”
"Haha, Liu Shen has some military exploits, so he claims to be a victorious general, he is very arrogant, he wears gold and silver every day and messes with his girls, he should have taught him some lessons!" Ali laughed when he heard this, as if he had heard a big joke, and Liu Shen was defeated by the remnants of the class, as if it was exactly what he wanted.
"Although Liu Shen is domineering, he is also a person who knows the soldiers, even if he is a little profligate now, he is not without the power to fight, so it is better for us to be cautious." Seeing his colleagues like this, Samudan could only smile bitterly.
"You don't have to be so careful, I think most of the naval army under our command comes from the Xiangyang army. That Lu Wenhuan is known as the first general of the Southern Dynasty, and the trained naval army looks at the Jiangnan and rarely encounters opponents, and we couldn't defeat them with much effort back then, and it was the general who persuaded them to surrender before they were able to come to Xiangfan. Isn't it that the remnants of the army that Liu Shen gathered are comparable to the defeated generals, and Qiongzhou is just a barbaric land, what powerful role can there be! Ali still doesn't care...... (To be continued.) )