Chapter 241: Patchwork of bad news

It didn't take long for Ni Liang to come back, in addition to the two large boxes of papers, there were also two clerks from the bureau. He knew that His Highness must be in a hurry if he didn't sleep at night, and he couldn't help with this kind of thing, so he invited the scribe who was in charge of sorting out the information to be exchanged. Zhao Hao was very pleased to see him grow so far.

"All this information has been sent back from various places this month?" Zhao Yu pointed to two large boxes that were three feet square and said.

"Your Highness, exactly, this is all important, the rest has not been brought, if there is a need, we will go back and get it!" A scribe bowed and bowed.

"You first bring me the news about the imperial court!" The ones that can be presented to Zhao Yu's desk every day are all screened and edited, and they can be half an inch thick, but one of these pieces of information needs several copies, or even more than a dozen pieces of information to corroborate each other, which shows that the work of the bureau has gradually been on the right track, and so much money has been sprinkled with effect.

"Yes, Your Highness. These are the developments of the imperial court since the beginning of the lunar month. The scribe quickly took out the boxes His Highness needed and presented them, some of them sorted and some of them unfinished.

"Okay, you go down and rest for the time being, and summon again if necessary." Zhao Yu looked at the one-foot-tall scroll, frowned and said, it is estimated that these things will not be finished at dawn.

Zhao Yu simply flipped through and found that some of these documents had been sorted out, and some had not yet been sorted out. The content is even more complicated, including about the dynamics of the imperial court, changes in the army, and personal information about officials. And several key people who are taken care of are more detailed, such as whether he has attended the court meeting in the past few days, who he has met, and what he has said; Even what you eat every day, whether you are happy or sad, and what your physical condition is, are all collected. These things seem to be headless things, but when you analyze them together, you can find what you need.

I don't know how much time it will take to find what I need, and he knows that most of the things that can cause a serious reaction are the results of the court discussion, or some extraordinary move by which bigwig. So he focused his search on these two areas. There were so many things that he couldn't put the six-foot-long bookcase open, so he simply opened the stall on the ground.

Fortunately, everyone knows His Highness's problems, the floor of the study is not only paved with wooden floors, but also blankets in some places, so that he can sit and lie down at any time, and if some toys are put on it, it will be like the current children's room. Seeing His Royal Highness sitting for a while, lying on his stomach for a while, and crawling around on the ground from time to time, Wang De hurriedly asked people to add a few candlesticks to the house, dry the tea, and put snacks everywhere to facilitate him to eat and drink.

"Nothing has changed, huh?" Zhao Yu looked at it for a while and didn't find anything abnormal, turned over and lay down on his head, crossed his legs. He couldn't figure out what had stimulated Ying Jieyan to take a sudden action.

"Could it be that the spies of the bureau didn't detect it, but the old man learned something through his own channels?" Zhao Hao thought about this may not be nothing, although the bureau has widely spread eyeliner in the imperial court, there are not many that can go deep into the core, and it is difficult to obtain detailed information like the small court meeting or the queen mother to summon the minister alone. But the old man may have access to secrets that are not known to outsiders, so he takes action.

"That's not right!" Zhao Yu suddenly thought that his 'retreat' was only five or six days, and Qiongzhou was not far from Jingao, and it was not close to it. However, not all of the contact points of the Secretariat have carrier pigeons, which require several rounds to reach, and the use of carrier pigeons will also be affected by the weather. Therefore, the information will lag for a few days, or even ten days, and it will not be fresh. But I checked it in the order of arrival date, so what I saw was 'old news'.

slapped himself twice, Zhao Yu turned over and crawled to a pile of unsorted papers with his ass pouted, obviously these had just been received. And these scrolls are even more messy, even the writing paper is large and small, the length is different, the font is also varied, some are delicate, some are messy, but they all have one characteristic - the characters are small, and it is difficult to look at.

On the sixth day of December, Liu Shen attacked Jingao again. It's fighting again! Zhao Yu pulled out a small note two fingers wide from the pile of papers, and he read softly.

"The thief Liu Shen chased after the cross gate, and the two armies fought fiercely and blocked the enemy at Geya.

"The privy deputy envoy Zhang is arrayed in the southeast of the island and fights against the thieves."

"The thief entered from the north and south waterways, and wanted to take the royal boat."

"On December 13, the thieves surrounded Jingao again, and the two armies fought again."

"December 17, defeated, break through to the south." ……

Zhao Yu picked up a small pile of information about the battle situation from the pieces of paper he found, and these notes often contained only a few words, and some repeated each other, obviously from different intelligence officers, but all pointed to the recent battle. And he also pieced together the whole picture of the battle from these fragments of information.

After two battles in November, the soldiers were exhausted by hunger and cold, and it took more than ten days for them to regroup. After the incident, the Song army was busy cutting wood on the mountains of Dahengqin, repairing damaged ships, and building a temporary palace for the emperor. After staying for more than ten days, Yuan General Liu Shen led a large navy to chase to the cross gate east of Dahengqin. In order to protect the safety of the emperor and the empress dowager, the Song army transferred them from Dahengqin to Xiaohengqin, and the privy deputy envoy Zhang Shijie ordered the infantry army to hold the heights of Hengqin, Jiuao, Taipa and A-Ma Shan, and personally commanded the warships to line up southeast of Shizimen, and met the Yuan navy in the sea around Jiu'ao and Taipa.

This was the first time that the Song army and the Yuan navy clashed head-on at sea since the coastal southward migration. At the critical moment of life and death, the Song army fought back and repeatedly repelled the enemy ships that advanced into Xiaohengqin with dense stone cannons and strong bows and crossbows to resist the advance of the Yuan army. The warships of the Yuan army repeatedly attacked the imperial ships anchored on the shore of the waterway between the large and small Hengqin islands from the north and south of Coloane Island to the west, but they were blocked by the forbidden army in front of the palace of the Song army, which occupied a favorable location. After several days of fierce fighting, the Song army took advantage of the windwind to release fire boats and burned all the enemy ships that had invaded the waterway. And because the Yuan army did not have the cooperation of infantry and cavalry, it was never able to break through Xiaohengqin and had no choice but to retreat and rest.

At the end of the battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the Song army finally achieved a rare victory. But after a few days, Liu Shen reorganized his team to attack Xiaohengqin, and the Song army, which had not yet slowed down, was defeated and turned to the south ocean to escape. Liu Shen also led the army into Nanyang and pursued closely, and the news from the Secretariat was cut off, and I don't know what happened...... (To be continued.) )