Chapter 707: Take the first step
After a night of wind and rain, the waves gradually subsided, but the sea water was a little turbid, which shows the strength of yesterday's wind and waves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBut a fleet of hundreds of boats, large and small, sailed northeast at a rapid pace, surrounded by nothing but flocks of seabirds and the occasional cetacean that leaped out of the sea, making them a little lonely in the vast sea.
"The righteousness of the country, the beginning of the heavens, the state without Yilun, humanity does not exist. Since ancient times, emperors have ruled the world, all of which are in China to control Yidi, and Yidi to serve China, and have not heard of Yidi living in China and controlling the world. The self shifted towards the north, and the north of the Yuan Dynasty entered China, going against the sky...... The mountains and rivers are cracked, the iron and blood are spilled, and I vow to drive the Tartars and restore my rivers and mountains! On the top of the sheji, Ma Tingluan, who followed the Hu, read the "Asking for Yuan Yuanwen" and said, "Your Majesty's few words are really exciting, and it is hard to suppress yourself!" ”
"What Xiang Zhong said is good, Your Majesty is also indignant and gushing out!" Xu Zongren stroked his beard and said. He is very aware of the little emperor's writing, although he has been taught by no less than ten famous teachers for so many years, but the articles he makes are still unwritten, but they are easy to understand, but they often do not conform to the rhythm, and the poems are even more rare to see, and it is common to slip away. Nowadays, most of the songs in the army are sung by their hands, what training songs, shooting ballads, scouts should know, and so on.
"Hehe, Your Majesty is not impossible, but unwilling. Think about the year when he was weak, he led the whole army to conquer the Yuan and the world. How can it be compared with a few articles, if Your Majesty is devoted to articles, why worry about not being able to write a masterpiece! Wang Yinglin also participated in the banquet, of course, he knew that his literary attainments were not deep, but thinking about his just year of study, he was the heart of the world, how could he force him to think about how to write word by word.
"What Bo Hou said is true, Your Majesty is really a genius in the world!" Xu Zongren interjected, "In the battle of Yashan on the same day, the enemy general Zhang Hongfan waved his army to attack Zhoucheng with the power of the tide, captured more than a dozen boats in a row, and broke a corner of the city. All the generals were shocked and fled one after another. His Majesty, however, was waist-high, but he was not afraid of danger and drove the boat forward, and the boat was on the sea to block the enemy, and on that day he stood on the bow of the ship and waved the flag, calmly and calmly dispatched the troops, and his heroic posture is still often reflected in his dreams. ”
Seeing this, all the troops were inspired, and they bravely stepped forward with the imperial boat, not only repelling the enemy army, but also killing several enemy generals and destroying hundreds of enemy ships. Then take advantage of the low tide, take the lead in rushing into the enemy formation, completely defeat the enemy, the enemy's first Zhang Hong, under the reprimand of His Majesty, ashamed, even swing the sword to kill himself on the sea, recalling the scene of the day still makes my blood surging, passion is irrepressible! ”
"I only hate the scholarly business back then, I was angry with the dynasties, I failed to follow His Majesty on the sea, and I did my best, and I still regret it in my life!" Ma Tingluan sighed when he heard this.
"What Xiang Zhong said is very true, Lin'an City is broken, the young emperor is hunting in the north, I am all lost, but I didn't think about repaying the emperor's favor with death, I am really ashamed to think about it!" Wang Yinglin also sighed with shame.
"Hehe, last night the wind and rain were raging, the boat was bumpy, Zhu Qing thought it was difficult to sleep!"
"Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!" When everyone heard the voice, they looked back and saw that it was the little emperor who had arrived, and hurriedly got up and saluted.
"Crossing the same boat is a century-old fate, you don't have to be formal, just feel free!" Zhao Yu bowed his hand and saluted. Then he asked someone to bring snacks and tea, he found a place to sit down, and picked up a piece of snacks for everyone to use.
"Your Majesty has always been easy to treat people, so let's not be polite!" Xu Zongren also picked up a few snacks and said to everyone with a smile. When they spent a lot of time on this boat with the little emperor in Yashan, they naturally knew His Majesty's temperament better than them, and although many years had passed, it could be seen that his temperament had not changed.
"Okay, then thank you, Your Majesty!" The crowd saluted again.
"As I just said, wouldn't it be troublesome for Xie Lai to live, but life on the ship is already lonely, and life is even more boring!" Zhao Yu said with displeasure on his face.
"Hehe, the ministers are old and forgetful, please don't blame Your Majesty." Ma Tingluan looked at the few people on the side and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Let's use some snacks, last night was stormy, you must have vomited the contents of your stomach, this taste of hunger will not be forgotten!" Zhao Hao said with a wry smile.
"Your Majesty is right, the old man didn't dare to sleep all night, for fear of falling off the bunk and breaking this old bone!" Wang Yinglin took over with a smile.
"Your Majesty must have had a sleepless night?" Ma Tingluan took a sip of tea and asked again.
"You don't know, Your Majesty is different from us." Wang De said with a bitter face, "I tossed all night, and my heart was eager to vomit, but Your Majesty slept very peacefully, and it was not affected in the slightest!" ”
"Hehe, I'm the opposite of everyone, maybe I'm used to it at sea, and no matter how much I fight, it's hard to bear it, but I often can't sleep well on land!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.
"Your Majesty is a real dragon, with different talents, and the ministers can't learn it!" Xu Zongren waved his hand and smiled, and then grabbed a piece of dim sum and put it in his mouth.
"Hey, Your Majesty is eccentric, but there is no snack for the ministers to eat, fortunately I took a look!" At this time, Jiang Xuan poked his head into take a look, and then complained.
"Where is the snack, the old man is also hungry!" Someone else couldn't wait to push the door and enter the emergency road.
"Chen Laoshangshu, you can sleep and eat, you should be old and strong!" Xu Zongren moved to the side to make room for Chen Zhongwei.
"Hehe, the old man has been in Lin'an for more than ten years, and if you can see Wang Qi and then tree the city, you will be able to have no regrets in this life, and you can retire with peace of mind!" Chen Zhongwei picked up the snack, took a bite, and said vaguely.
"Alas, it's hard at sea, why should Chen Qing rush to retreat, it's not too late for us to return to Tokyo!" Zhao Yu personally poured Chen Zhongwei tea ceremony. This old man is seventy-three years old this year, and when he heard that he was going to capture Jiangdong, he had to go out with Hu, and no one could stop him.
"Okay, the ministers will wait for the day when Bianliang is recovered, but the princes will scold my old man for not dying!" After Chen Zhongwei thanked him, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile.
"As long as we can settle Jiangdong in this battle, it won't take two years to recover Bianliang!" Jiang Xuan found a place to sit down next to his opponent.
"Why did Your Majesty choose to go to sea in this weather, wouldn't it be nice to sail on the sea now that the wind and waves are calm and the sea is swimming!" After greeting and laughing for a while, Ma Tingluan said with a little regret.
"Of course, it's to surprise its unpreparedness!" Jiang Xuan said, "Lin'an is an important town in Jiangdong, and the Yuan army is stationed here with tens of thousands of troops. And Qiongzhou is covered with Meng Yuan's eyeliner, and the news of His Majesty's personal conquest will definitely arouse the enemy's vigilance, and it will be difficult to attack Shaoxing! ”
"Well, Your Majesty is extremely worried, if that demon monk learns that our army has raised troops to attack, he will definitely speed up the destruction of the emperors' tombs and fortify the perimeter!" Xu Zongren nodded.
"Your Majesty, but our army has dispatched tens of thousands of troops this time and traveled thousands of miles, which will not escape the surrounding eyeliner?" Chen Zhong frowned slightly and said.
"Chen Shangshu doesn't know that our fleet is now sailing fifty miles from the coast, and it is the rainy season at this time, and no ship will venture deep into the open sea. And we sent an advance convoy to find that the enemy sentinel ship would sink it in one fell swoop, so how could we let him go back and tell him! Jiang Xuan said while eating.
"Oh, I see, no wonder the storm was so big last night!" Chen Zhongwei nodded. He was also well aware that merchant ships and warships, whether they were on a long voyage, would generally sail along the coast, in order to use the land and islands near the shore as a reference to avoid getting lost; Both are also convenient for docking to shelter from the wind and replenishment, and will never enter the open sea at the risk of capsizing.
"Besides, although our fleet is large, it is not to capture Lin'an, and we will divide our forces beyond the Qiantang River. All the way to Shaoxing, guarding the mausoleum of the first emperor; All the way to the mouth of the Yangtze River, blocking the enemy's Jianghuai naval army, and opening up a road for the rear army. Jiang Xuan explained again.
"Oh, aren't we going to take Lin'an?" Ma Tingluan asked in surprise.
"Of course, we want to recover Lin'an, but all of you Aiqing have been stationed in Lin'an for a long time, and you must also know that Lin'an City is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and accessible by land and water, if it is attacked, it will be very bad, and it will hurt innocent people, so you can only outwit!" Zhao Hao smiled and said, but in his heart he secretly scolded that he was the most unfamiliar with Lin'an in this cabin, and it was the first time he went there.
"Your Majesty's intention is to lure the enemy out of the city, divide and annihilate it, and then take advantage of the weakness to enter!" Ma Tingluan said.
"Yes, exactly!" Zhao Yu said.
After the conquest of Jiangnan, Meng Yuan readjusted the military and political institutions, and the Privy Council was abolished one after another, and ten provinces were set up in the country: Henan, Jiangbei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Liaoyang, and Lingbei. Each province has two members of the Pingzhang, who is also in charge of the military, and the governor of the province is a military horse. The provincial Pingzhang is generally filled by Mongols, and occasionally Semu people are selected, and Han Chinese are not allowed to serve.
The town defenders in the province, the Wanhu Mansion and the Marshal's Mansion, etc., are all subordinate military governments of the province. In areas far away from the center of the province or in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, a propaganda department was set up to take charge of military and civilian affairs, and the counties were separated. If there is a decree in the province, it will be issued below, and if the county has a request, it will be reached in the province. If there is a border military service, it is also the Marshal's Mansion.
Marshal Xuanwei usually has a fixed military office under the palace, which is in charge of part of the army. The transfer of troops from the provinces is subject to the approval of the Privy Council. The towns and tuntians in the province should also be determined by the provincial officials and the Privy Council through consultation. When a war breaks out in a certain area, the Privy Council will first send an army to suppress it in the province where it is located, and if it does not work, it will send an army to the nearby province to suppress it. In some cases, Privy Councils were established in areas where the fighting was raging, and troops from the provinces were temporarily redeployed and abolished when the fighting subsided.
In the area south of the Yellow River, the Mengyuan and Yuan Dynasty took the Song Realm as the new frontier, and the south of the Yangtze River was the economic center at that time. Then the troops were divided and the town was guarded. In the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan court divided the 370,000 households under the jurisdiction of Jianghuai and Jiangxi provinces into upper, middle and lower three classes, and stationed them in different places, while Hangzhou occupied 40,000 households.
Of course, not all of these four Wanhu offices are stationed in Hangzhou, Zhao Yu thinks that Hangzhou Wanhu Mansion is like a modern military region headquarters, which controls all the garrisons in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the headquarters of the military region is located in Hangzhou. In accordance with the principle of garrisoning 10,000 households in Mengyuan Prefecture, 1,000 households in the prefecture, and 100 households in the county, the 10,000 households to which it belongs are also stationed in various towns.
Therefore, the Yingzhou Wanhu Garrison under the Hangzhou Wanhu Mansion was stationed in the Wuwei Army on Luzhou Road, the Zhending Wanhu Garrison was stationed in Jiangning Mansion on Jining Road, and the Yidu Wanhu Garrison was stationed in Pingjiang on Zhedong Road, and the Navy Army was trained in Longwan, Jiangning Prefecture. In fact, there are only Shangdu Wanhu in Hangzhou, and some of the personnel of Yidu Wanhu, mainly their families, are responsible for providing logistics supplies such as baggage and clothing for Ben Wanhu. In addition, there are 10,000 households stationed in Liujiagang to transport grain by seaway, and they also have the responsibility of maintaining law and order along the coast.
Zhao Yu's plan was to annihilate the four 10,000 households of Mengyuan scattered around one by one, so as to prevent them from gathering together to form a confrontation with each other, and at the same time, to avoid them from holding on to the city and forming a protracted offensive and defensive battle. This requires moving enemy troops out of the city and jumping into their own ambush circles, and there must be a sufficient amount of bait to get the enemy troops out of the garrison. This time, Zhao Yu set off before swearing to send troops, firstly, to hide his strategic intentions and achieve the effect of a surprise attack; second, to protect the imperial tomb and avoid being excavated on a large scale; The third is to act as a bait to mobilize the enemy army in Lin'an out of the city and gather them in the Shaoxing Mausoleum area.
This time, the army led by Zhao Yu was mainly composed of the imperial guards, and the current guards were expanded several times and organized into a personal guard brigade and a guard battalion, which mainly served as guards and travel guards for the palace; There were also three infantry brigades and a cavalry brigade and an artillery regiment; In addition, there is also a guard naval army, equipped with 100 large and small warships, with nearly 30,000 troops.
On this expedition, Zhao Yu left the personal guard brigade to guard the city, and the rest all went out with the army. The First Fleet led by Dong Yicheng will be responsible for covering and transporting the aircraft, and after completing the escort mission, he will go to carry out the task of seizing Liujiagang and controlling the canal, preemptively annihilating the enemy's water forces, controlling the coastal waters of Hangzhou, and creating conditions for the follow-up troops to maneuver on the water.
Therefore, Zhao Hao's lone army will take on the most arduous task this time in the hinterland, not only to firmly attract the most elite Shangdu Wanhu stationed in Hangzhou to Shaoxing, but also to mobilize the Yingzhou Wanhu stationed in Wuwei Army. Although they have a slight advantage in terms of troops, they must know that this is in the enemy-occupied area, and the enemy army can mobilize all forces to besiege them, and he can only hold out until the armies have completed their respective tasks before they have the opportunity to launch a counterattack. But if one of the roads doesn't meet the deadline, he'll be under even more pressure.
At that time, all the generals and several deacons had to undertake this task, but they were all rejected by Zhao Yu, one was that they were not enough, and the Yuan army would not give up coming to Lin'an for the sake of a few imperial tombs; After all, the two are their own 'ancestors', and of course they have to collect the bones themselves as unscrupulous descendants. Otherwise, there is no need to bring the current and former Rite Department Scholars to assist him......