At the end of the first month, when everything was in place for the Southern Expedition, Li Luo said goodbye to Cui Xiuning and boarded the boat in her reluctant gaze.

I don't know when we'll see each other.

I don't know if we can see each other again.

Cui Xiuning hugged Li Zheng in the sea breeze, and saw Li Luo's figure on the deck gradually disappearing, and couldn't help but have tears in her eyes.

"Sister-in-law, go back, it's windy by the sea. Brother Jiren is in heaven, and Lao Jun is blessed, and he will definitely return triumphantly. Li Yuan took Li Zheng and comforted Cui Xiuning.

Cui Xiuning suddenly smiled with tears in her eyes, "Little sister, the year before last, when your brother went to the day, I saw him off at the beach, and you persuaded me the same." Today, your brother Zhengyue, you still persuaded me like this, and you didn't change a word. ”

Li Yuan was a little stunned, "Really don't change a word?" Sister-in-law remembers it so clearly? ”

Cui Xiuning nodded affirmatively: "Not a word." ”

Coincidentally, on the day Li Luo left Haidong, a huge fleet carrying tens of thousands of Jiangbei immigrants came to Haidong.

The second batch of displaced people who were "trafficked" by Pingzhang Sapler in Jiangbei, Henan Province arrived.

Cui Xiuning immediately threw himself into the work of resettling the new immigrants.

Three days later, Liu Tuo, the superintendent of the Tang Navy, and Han Shao, the deputy commander, led a lightly loaded fleet of 5,000 sailors to leave Luoning Port, waving the battle flag of the Song army, making a circle at sea and turning south.

Liu Tuo took Li Luo's forged autograph letter from Chen Yizhong, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and the letter of the Song Dynasty. Even the five thousand sailors wore Song Dynasty armor.

He was accompanied by a spy named Ma Xuanli, who was a waiter of the Ministry of Rites of the small court in Java in the Song Kingdom. The reason why Cui Xiuning sent him was because Ma Xuanli was nearly thirty years old, she was the oldest student, and she was a scholar, and she was the most suitable for pretending to be an official of the Song Dynasty.

Five or six days after the departure of the Tang fleet, the Fujian naval division in Quanzhou, under Li Luo's arrangement, slowly moved south, preparing to go to the coast of Huguang to receive grain and grass materials raised by the Yuan court.

At the same time, the traitor Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan also led a fleet of grain ships by sea and went south with the grain and grass raised in the south of the Yangtze River.

According to the arrangement of the Yuan court, half of the grain and grass were solved by Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and half by Huguang. It was transported by sea, and the Fujian Navy Division was responsible for escorting.

The main force of the Southern Expedition was still assembled at Xuanwei Siming Road, Liangjiang Province, Guangxi, and attacked Annam from Langshan, which was the same route as the instigation of the capital.

There is no way, since ancient Huashan is a road, the southern expedition to Annam must pass through Langshan. As for the sea route, I'm sorry, the Yuan court is now short of ships, and the sailors are weak, so they can't transport 200,000 troops at all.

As for Li Luo, he had already taken hundreds of personal soldiers and guards, as well as the two party women, Yeli Duobu and Wuzang Mei, to Guangxi through the post station.

Why do you bring two party women?

Because the thousands of party cavalry trapped in the city of Anbang may still be alive.

Li Jiao's latest intelligence mentioned that Li Yi, the younger brother of Li Heng, the commander of the party army, was still holding on to Anbang City at least nine days ago. And the Vietnamese army did not want to spend troops to attack the city, but only wanted to trap and starve the thousands of yuan army to death.

Li Jiao said that the party army was killing horses to satisfy hunger, and it should not last long.

With two party women, maybe he can shorten the distance with Li Yi and swallow thousands of party troops.

Li Luo had not yet arrived in Liangjiang Province, Guangxi, and the "Song Army Naval Division" led by Liu Tuo and Han Shao had already arrived in the East China Sea of Annan.

The patrol ship of the Annam Navy Division in the waters of Ha Long Bay saw a fleet of considerable size approaching from a distance, and immediately flew a report to Hu Xun, the commander of the Navy Division, while waving the flag.

"The Yuankou Sailor is coming! Order, the whole team is ready for battle! Hu Xun ordered.

"No!" The heralds rushed to the deck, waking up the war drums on the flagship, blowing the horns, and sounding the flag.

In a matter of moments, more than 200 Annam warships were set up in battle formation, and the bows, crossbows, stone cannons, and shooting rods and other combat equipment on the ships were all ready.

After a little while, Hu Xun also came to the flagship deck with his whole body draped, and the bow he was holding was actually a three-stone strong bow. Hu Xun saw that the sergeants all looked like they were facing a great enemy, and shouted: "Yuan Kou has so many water divisions left, and he dares to come to my Dayue East China Sea to spread wilderness, hmph, today Yuan Kou will go and never return!" ”

Hu Xun is not only proficient in water warfare, but his personal courage is also extremely good, and he can shoot a three-stone hard bow. Before the conquest of the Champa State, the Annan Naval Division and the Cham Naval Division fought on the sideboard, Hu Xun shot through the armor of the general of the Zhancheng Naval Division with an arrow, broke the armor and shot the enemy general, and the Zhancheng Naval Division was suddenly defeated.

When the Yuankou Sailor attacked, Hu Xun was not only fearless, but also fought like a tiger. Of course, he knew that the Yuankou Naval Division had lost tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the past two years, there was a great shortage of warships, and there was no new ship yet. Today's Yuankou Shui Division's strength may not be stronger than Annan's.

Soon, however, a patrol boat came in front of the sea, followed by a patrol sailor up the ladder to the flagship deck.

The patrol soldier knelt down on one knee and reported: "Yu Jingluo, the person who came is not the Yuan Kou Water Division, but the Song State Water Division!" The leading official said that he would take a small boat to meet Jingluo! ”

What the? Song Guoshui Division?

Hu Xun was stunned for a moment, and felt that when he raised his eyes, he saw a banner that was getting closer and closer, not like the blue wolf battle flag of the Yuan army.

The other sailor got closer, and he could already vaguely see the Song-shaped battle flag on the ship, waving in the wind.

At this time, the opposing naval fleet stopped and waved the flag "friend and foe". As a result, the soldiers of the Annan Navy Division also breathed a sigh of relief.

In front of the fleet, a small boat sailed over this side, and there were only a few people on it, one of whom was dressed in the Great Red Mansion of the Song State and wore a hat on his head, which was completely the dress of the ministers of the Song State.

"Is it really Song Chen?" Hu Xun was very surprised in his heart, and it was also a little complicated. Speaking of which, his ancestors were from the east of Zhejiang in the Song Kingdom, and moved to Annan when the sixth ancestor, although the Hu family has been in Annan for more than 100 years, Hu Xun has long been an Annan person, but for the Song, there is still a little feeling.

What Hu Xun didn't know was that in the original history, his sixth grandson, Hu Jichen, usurped the Chen dynasty and established the Hu Dynasty, but was destroyed by Zhu Di.

"Anyone is allowed to come on board!" Although Hu Xun couldn't distinguish the real from the fake, he still allowed people to come on the boat to meet him.

Soon, Ma Xuanli, a spy who pretended to be a waiter of the Song Dynasty's Ministry of Rites, walked onto Hu Xun's flagship deck in a breezy manner.

"Who's coming? So what's going on? Hu Xun said with a knife.

Although the person who came may really be a Song envoy, it may also be a spy of the Yuan Court, how could he be careless?

"General, Ma Xuanli, a servant in the Lower Song Dynasty Rite Department, was sent by the Great Song Dynasty Imperial Court to deliver a letter of state to your country to discuss the matter of joint resistance to the Yuan." Ma Xuanli said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Hu Xun deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "Da Song? Isn't Da Song dead? Where else did the Great Song come from? Who are you? ”

Ma Xuanli was furious when he heard this, and he lowered his face and shouted: "The general is cautious! Although my Great Song Dynasty lost the Central Plains, it did not lose the country! Now, I am at ease on the big island of Java, and I can't talk about the country! ”

Hu Xun saw that his expression did not seem to be disguised, and immediately believed most of it, and said with a fist: "I see, I don't know how much I have offended." I wonder if Mr. Ma has a seal? ”

Ma Xuanli obviously hesitated for a moment, and then said when the other party was obviously suspicious: "Okay, anyway, the general must be the general of the Yue Kingdom, and it's okay to show you." ”

After the spy finished speaking, he asked his entourage to take out the Song Tingyin letter that had been forged a long time ago, and carefully handed it to Hu Xun.

Hu Xun hadn't seen Song Tingyin's letter, but it didn't feel like a fake, so he believed it immediately.

"It turned out that it was really the Great Song Dynasty Ma Shilang, who was a little bit rude to Hu Xun in the next Da Yue Water Division, and he was rude before. Please don't mind. Hu Xun's attitude suddenly became much kinder.

"It doesn't matter, Hu Jingluo is also in military affairs, which is exactly where the truth lies, and I dare to blame it in Xia'an! It's just that I also asked Hu Jingluo to send someone to the capital of your country to meet the lord of your country. Ma Xuanli said.

He looks suave, but with the characteristic reserve of a civilian official, and with a look of alienation and contempt for military generals.

It is completely typical of the civil official style of the Song Dynasty.

Hu Xundao: "Dare to ask Ma Shilang, came to the country to submit the credentials, in order to bring so many sailors?" ”

Ma Xuanli pointed to the east and said, "Where is that?" ”

Hu Xundao: "East? Well, it's Qiongzhou! (Hainan)"

Ma Xuanli said with a smile: "Hu Jingluo asked the official why he brought so many sailors, and now the official has told you." After Ma Xuanli finished speaking, he stroked his beard and smiled.

Hu Xun thought about it again, and suddenly understood.

Hit Qiongzhou!

This Song army sailor actually came to fight Yuan Ting Qiongzhou!

"Are you going to attack Qiongzhou?" Hu Xun couldn't help but ask.

Ma Xuanli didn't hear Hu Xun's question, but said a little impatiently: "Okay, Hu Jingluo, can I enter Beijing to see the lord of your country?" ”

Hu Xun's doubts almost disappeared, and he smiled: "Naturally, you can." The marshal will send someone to send the horse squire into Beijing. It's just that your sailor needs to withdraw thirty miles. No one is allowed to approach without an order from our army. ”

Ma Xuanli nodded: "This is the best, Hu Jing is slightly cautious, his actions are decent, and he is really a good general of the Yue country!" ”

Therefore, this spy also ordered to issue a flag, ordering the "Great Song Water Division" to withdraw thirty miles, so as not to let the Yue Guo Water Division misunderstand.

When the "Great Song Water Division" retreated and distanced himself, Hu Xun was not verbose and sent a warship to escort Ma Xuanli from Halong Bay into the Baiteng River and west into Beijing.

Liu Tuo and Han Shao, who were on the flagship of the "Great Song Water Division" in the distance, were also relieved to see that Ma Xuanli was finally sent away by the other party. That's half the battle.

What are these 5,000 sailors here for? Where is it as simple as hitting Qiongzhou!

Thinking about what was going to happen next, Liu Tuo and Han Shao were a little excited.

Every time you make a move, you have a layout of thousands of miles, and it is really interlocking, which is amazing and breathtaking.

This is a stroke of genius that kills four birds with one stone.

They didn't know that without the support of the intelligence system, Li Luo's plan would not have been able to be implemented. Within the Tang Kingdom, they did not know much about the Special Investigation Bureau, and even many people did not know about the existence of the Special Investigation Bureau.

The external name of the special investigation bureau is the name of the Letters and Visits Department, the Tonggui Supervision Office, and so on, and it never acts openly in the name of the special inspection bureau.

Two days later, Ma Xuanli, who abandoned the ship and changed horses, finally came to the ancient rite city of Tianchangfu, and after checking the seal letter and the national letter, he was brought into Renshou Palace without many twists and turns to meet Chen Huang, the emperor of Annan.

"Ma Xuanli, the waiter of the Great Song Rite Department, has seen the king!" Ma Xuanli saluted.

When the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs of Annan saw that he not only did not kneel, but also addressed him as "Great King" instead of His Majesty, he was immediately very dissatisfied.

Although in the past, the Song envoys did not have to kneel down when they came to Annan to see Emperor Annan, nor did they call His Majesty, but that was before, when the Great Song Dynasty still had half of the country, Annan of course wanted to give three points of face to the northern powers.

But now, the Song State went into exile in the small court and ran to Java, thousands of miles away, and survived, but still fell the donkey and did not fall, which made the monarchs and ministers of Annan unhappy.

But because of this, they are also convinced of Ma Xuanli's identity. From the perspective of the Song court, the Dayue Emperor was just a king, and it was not rude to call the king.

"Ma Shilang is exempt, but you know this!" Chen Huang pointed at Li Jiao and asked.

Li Jiao is also an envoy of Song, and he has been here for almost half a year. Because he provided valuable military information to the Chen Dynasty through the caravan and made great contributions to Annan's annihilation of the Yuan army, he has long been regarded as a real Song envoy.

If this horse squire is really a Song envoy, it is impossible for the two not to know each other.

Ma Xuanli saw Li Jiao and said with a smile: "Li Tiju, don't come to harm." ”

Li Jiao felt a little embarrassed and said, "Xia Guan has seen the squire official. ”

When Annan Junchen saw this scene, he immediately knew that Ma Xuanli was indeed the envoy of the Song Dynasty, and his official position was higher than that of Li Jiao.

At this time, there was no longer the slightest doubt.

"Song has worked hard all the way. I don't know why the Song envoy is here? Emperor Chen Huang asked, although he was disdainful of the Song envoy, he was polite on the surface.

Ma Xuanli took out a letter and said: "Back to the king, this is a handwritten letter from Chen Yizhong and Chen Xiangguo, an important military matter in my dynasty, to the king, please take a look at it." ”

Presenting the letter of "Chen Yizhong" on the left and right, Chen Huang opened it and looked at it, and slowly showed a trace of surprise on his face.

This turned out to be a letter borrowed from the army, and the Song army's naval division was going to attack Mengyuan Qiongzhou (Hainan)!

Chen Yizhong said that now that Japan is dead, Goryeo is half dead, the Great Song Dynasty is in exile overseas, and only Dayue is left in the Chinese states to resist the Mongol Yuan, which is really the mainstay and the pillar of the southern sky. Let's talk to Da Yue first.

Then his tone changed, and he said with a threatening tone, Meng Yuan is powerful, and it is bound to be difficult to support alone, and only joint resistance to Yuan is the best strategy.

Now the Great Song Dynasty wants to recover Qiongzhou, one is the foundation of recovery, and the other is to encourage the people of the Central Plains to fight against the tyrannical Yuan.

But the Great Song Dynasty is now weak, and this time it can only send 5,000 sailors to the north. It is hoped that for the great cause of resisting the Yuan Dynasty, he borrowed 30,000 land divisions to attack the Yuan Dynasty Li Bing Wanhu Mansion on Qiongzhou Island, and then recovered Guangzhou.

After reading it, Chen Huang said to Huangmenlang (eunuch) next to him: "Go and find the letter that Chen Xiangguo wrote to Taizong back then, I want to see it." ”

After Chen Huang finished speaking, he handed the letter to the three dukes, Tongping Zhangshi, privy envoys, and governors and other important ministers for circulation.

After reading it, the important ministers looked at each other, no one agreed with the borrowing of troops, and no one rashly opposed the borrowing of troops.

Speaking of which, many people regret not sending troops to support the Song Dynasty back then. If the two countries had joined forces at that time, they might not have faced the Meng Yuan army alone.

Chen Yizhong advocated that the Song, Vietnam, Japan, and Li countries should resist the Mongolian Yuan. But his idea is nothing more than a dream, there is no possibility of implementation, and there is no time to implement it.

However, Chen Yizhong did write a letter to Chen Taizong a few years ago, when Chen Huang was not the emperor, and the major affairs were all decided by the emperor Chen Taizong at that time. So Chen Yizhong's letter was addressed to his father.

Two quarters of an hour later, Huang Menlang finally found the letter that Chen Yizhong had written to Chen Taizong several years ago in the palace archives.

Chen Huang compared the two letters and found that the tone was similar and the handwriting was similar, which should be right. Chen Huang immediately judged that this was indeed Chen Yizhong's handwritten letter.

How did he know that this letter was forged by Li Luo at all?

Why was Li Luo able to forge Chen Yizhong's letter?

Because Li Luo has two handwritten letters from Chen Yizhong. One was written by Chen Yizhong to Huang Hua, when Li Luo suppressed Huang Hua, he attacked Huang Hua's camp and found a letter written by Chen Yizhong to Huang Hua.

The other is a letter written by Chen Yizhong to Mrs. Xu. Li Luo "suppressed" Mrs. Xu last year, transferred the tiger away from the mountain, and attacked Mrs. Xu's camp and forced Mrs. Xu to Haidong. This letter also fell into Li Luo's hands.

Li Luo is a thief who engages in cultural relics, and his ability to forge and imitate calligraphy is already very popular, and the letters he forged from Chen Yizhong cannot be distinguished by ordinary people, unless they are literary friends who are very familiar with Chen Yizhong, or calligraphy masters.

Although Chen Huang was convinced of the origin of this letter, he was very hesitant about "Chen Yizhong's" request to borrow troops.

However, as the king of a country, he does not intend to come out and refuse on his own.

"All the secretaries are discussing, how to reply to what Chen Xiangguo said in his letter?" Chen Huang asked the ministers.

Li Wenxiu came out and said: "Your Majesty, although our dynasty defeated Yuan Kou last time, it lost more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it was really 1,000 enemies killed and 800 self-inflicted. And the Yuankou army will definitely make a comeback soon, and I have 30,000 soldiers and horses to borrow from Chao'an? ”

Other ministers also said that they had suffered heavy losses and had no troops to borrow, so they could not help.

Ma Xuanli was suddenly anxious, and his eyes were full of tears, "King, everyone, if you borrow me for 30,000 soldiers and horses, then Qiongzhou can go down with one drum!" And then restore Guangzhou, Lingnan, then the southern people think of Song, and they must be attached to all directions. In this case, how can the Yuan court still have time to attack your country? Isn't that the best of both worlds? ”

Chen Huang smiled bitterly: "Now that my Dayue has not only suffered heavy losses, but also is in danger, Yuan Kou will raise an army to retaliate again in the near future." Self-protection is still difficult, how can there be any surplus soldiers to borrow? In this way, Rong Zhen thought about it for two days, how about replying to your envoy? ”

Ma Xuanli sighed, and had no choice but to arch his hand and say, "In this way, the foreign minister will wait for the king's reply." ”

Li Jiao also showed a sad look on his face, and he stopped talking. Chen Huang saw it in his eyes, although he was sympathetic, he would not be willing to lend 30,000 troops.

This is not to blame the Chen Dynasty monarchs and ministers for being short-sighted and stingy. If you change to any country, I am afraid that it will be difficult to make the decision to borrow troops at this juncture.

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Just when Ma Xuanli arrived at Tianchang Mansion, Li Luo finally arrived at Guangxi Liangjiang Road to comfort Simingzhou.

At this time, it was already February 15, and the inside and outside of Siming City had completely become a huge military city, with 180,000 troops (land divisions) all gathered here.

At a glance, people shouted and neighed, the army was dry, and the ground within a radius of ten miles was full of soldiers and horses, which was simply overwhelming.

As soon as Li Luo's black ponytail Sulu ingot appeared nearby, it immediately caused a tsunami-like sound.

"The general has arrived!"

"The general has arrived, I can send troops later!"

"Sulu ingots are ahead, go and meet the general!"

The generals from various ministries went to meet them one after another.

This is not their face to buy Li Luo at all, but the Sulu ingot of the Yuan army, which represents the majesty of the Mongolian army and cannot be desecrated lightly.

Soon, more than a dozen high-ranking generals came to the Sulu ingot on the hillside together, and bowed down to the big dragon with one knee on their chests.

"The last general will see the general! Say hello to the Great Khan! The generals shouted thunderously.

"Great Khan An!" A young and clear voice came from the big bow with full of anger, "Everyone, be exempt, prepare to raise the account to check the talisman!" ”

"Chirp!!" The generals stood up together, and there was a sonorous sound of iron armor.

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