Qiongzhou Mansion, its main jurisdiction is the later Hainan Island, and the Nansha Islands were also subordinate to this Qiongzhou Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.

This place has been the land of China as early as the Han Dynasty, in the first year of Emperor Wu's Yuanfeng, the general of Fubo, Lu Bode, and the general of Lou Chuan, Yang Fu, pacified Nanyue, and set up two counties of Zhuya and Dan'er, which was the beginning of the establishment. At that time, however, China's rule over Hainan Island was limited to the north, and over time it gradually expanded its territory to the entire island.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Liao Yongzhong, the general of Zhengnan, Zhu Liangzu, the deputy general of Zhengnan, and Lu Zhongheng, the commander of Ganzhouwei, led the army to pacify Guangdong. In the same year, the Shengqianning Pacification Division was the capital of Qiongzhou, with jurisdiction over Danzhou, Yazhou, Wanzhou, Qiongshan County, Chengmai County, Lingao County, Ding'an County, Wenchang County, Huitong County, Lehui County, Thanksgiving County, Changhua County, Lingshui County and other three prefectures and ten counties.

In April of the first year of Yongli, the Qing army captured Qiongzhou Mansion without blood. When Li Chengdong is anyway, Qiongzhou Mansion will return to the Ming Court. Subsequently, Li Chengdong was defeated and died, Du Yonghe, Zhang Yue, Li Jianjie and other troops were defeated in Guangzhou and retreated here, until Du Yonghe, Zhang Yue, Wu Wenwen and other departments successively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and this Qiongzhou Mansion fell into the hands of the Qing court again.

On March 26 of the seventh year of Yongli, in Qiongshan County, where the Qiongzhou Prefecture is located, Liu Bolu, the newly appointed Qiongzhou General Soldier, and Peng Sanyi, the deputy envoy of Hainan Province, were gathered together to exchange newly learned news from each other. These two people, one is a deputy general of Nanjiang, experienced in a hundred battles, earlier the Qing court had intended to use him as the general army of Chaozhou, but soon Hao Shangjiu captured Chengxiang, and was sent here after Du Yonghe surrendered to the Qing Dynasty; The other is Chongzhen's thirteen-year jinshi, and the elder is more calligraphy and poetry. Not long ago, I just received a message that the sky has fallen, otherwise these two guys with the wrong donkey's lips and horses' mouths would not have been able to get together frequently in the near future.

"The old thief is here again, this time he really killed the ground in Guangdong. I heard that Ma Xiong, the marshal of the Ding clan on the Wuzhou side, was killed......"

"It seems to be lost in Wuzhou, but I haven't heard what happened to Mr. Ma. The old prince has already sent Xu Shuai to help defend Zhaoqing, as long as Zhaoqing is blocked, the old thief will not be able to get close to Guangzhou. ”

"That's good, that's good, it's all counting on the old prince to turn the tide."

Peng Sanyi only has the old prince still happy, but there is no little prince Geng Jimao, even Liu Bolu did not show the slightest surprise.

Defeated by Chen Kai twice last year, Geng Jimao has already lost all the face of Jingnan Domain. Even, there is news that the little prince has been in poor health since he came back from the war last year, and nine times out of ten he was frightened by the guy surnamed Chen. Now that Li Dingguo is attacking with the might of two famous kings, is it difficult for them to expect Geng Jimao to go out with illness and defeat Li Dingguo?

Xu Erxian was a general under the command of the Pingnan Domain, and it was Huang Taiji who was ordered to go to Shenyang to contact him, so that he had the aftermath of Shang Kexi's surrender to the Qing Dynasty. In the Pingnan Domain, he is the most important in the Shang Ke gratifying weapon, and this time it is much more reliable to have him to help defend Zhaoqing than just watching the Marquis of Zhaoqing defend hard.

"Yesterday, news came from Gaozhou Mansion that the thieves from Lianzhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, Gaozhou Mansion, Luoding Prefecture and Zhaoqing Mansion have all gone down the mountain, and even the thieves from Guangxi have come. The thieves on their side have prepared a lot of warships, and they plan to go to Zhaoqing by water to join the old thieves! ”

This is Peng Sanyi got the news from Wang Gao in Haibei Province, they are all civil officials, and they also have words to sing harmony with each other. However, Liu Bolu's side is not bad, the generals of the Guangdong Green Battalion, except for Zhang Yue, Hao Shangjiu, and the dead Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying, who are from Li Chengdong's old department, are mostly transferred from Nanjiang, such as Su Yangzhi, the deputy general of Nanxiong, who is like this.

Liu Bolu also heard the news mentioned by Peng Sanyi. He is a soldier and knows a lot about the geographical situation of Guangdong. If this group of coastal Ming troops wanted to join Li Dingguo, they had to take the Jiulong Pass into the Xijiang River, so that they could bypass Guangzhou, which was heavily defended by the Qing army. But there are also problems, Jiulongkou into the Xijiang River, first through the river between Xinhui County and Shunde County, after entering the Xijiang River, it is not directly to Zhaoqing, but to cross the Sanshui first. Xinhui and Shunde are not mentioned, only that Sanshui is the back road of Zhaoqing, and the only way for Guangzhou to aid Zhaoqing, Shang Kexi will never watch the Ming army pass by, or even take Sanshui County.

In the final analysis, the Ming army on the coast of Guangdong is still second, and the really terrifying thing is the king of Xining of the Ming Dynasty. This is bound to be a thunderous offensive, and they can't help but feel worried about it.

However, those who are worried are worried, and they have no choice but to sit back and watch the success or failure. This is not only because they are a general military officer plus a sub-patrol road, and the soldiers in their hands are only 2,100 people, and they can't even hear a sound in that big battle of tens of thousands of people, and more importantly, this is Qiongzhou, which is too far away from Zhaoqing, and it is simply out of reach.

Strictly guarding the local defense, this is the only thing they can do, and after chatting for a long time, this is estimated to be the longest time Peng Sanyi has chatted with the generals in his life. When there was really nothing to say, Peng Sanyi left on his own. It's just that he walked out of the gate of the town hall with his front feet, and before he got into the sedan chair, he saw a fast horse rushing to the gate like crazy, and the knight rolled the saddle and dismounted, and rushed in with only one word of urgency.

"I'm afraid something happened."

As Peng Sanyi expected, after a while, he was invited back to the headquarters by Liu Bolu, along with the prefect of Qiongzhou Mansion, the magistrate of Qiongshan County, and the Ming army general Wu Wenwen who assisted in guarding here, all of them were invited to the lobby of the general town mansion, and the news that Liu Bolu passed on was even more sensational to the point of unimaginable.

"The day before yesterday, Lingshui County fell. The gang of thieves who beat the county seat, they claimed to be the descendants of Zhang Shijie, the former deputy envoy of the Song Yue Kingdom, who had been recuperating in Australia for hundreds of years, and now they want to kill and rebuild the Great Song Dynasty! ”

As soon as these words came out, the others were fine, and Peng Sanyi squirted out directly with a sip of tea. The three heroes of the late Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, the only military generals, died last to die, near the Hailing Island in the south of Zhaoqing Mansion. The battle of Yashan, 100,000 people threw themselves into the sea and died together, how heroic, some of them survived, fell to rest and recuperate, and persevered for hundreds of years with faith, and now the strength is enough, and if you want to kill back and restore the country, this is an excellent story theme, and it makes people feel excited to think about it.

Literati will always have some romantic feelings, which is understandable. It's just that it was at this juncture, but it always made people feel a little weird. But the problem is, if the righteous army rises up, or the Ming army raids, shouldn't it be under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, is it possible that the emperor and the Ming Dynasty have been in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and it is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty, which has been in the capital for more than 300 years, to attract people's hearts?

"The news was sent from Wanzhou, and none of the defenders and county officials in Lingshui County ran away. It is said that those people look like Han people, under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, headed by the handsome, who speaks in the northern dialect, surnamed Zhang, and claims to be the nineteenth grandson of Zhang Shijie, hereditary Yue Guogong, and is now the deputy envoy of the privy council, and is the leader of the group of thieves......"

The news they got was all heard from the people who had fled in Wanzhou, and it was passed on by word of mouth, gossiping, and the content was quite confusing. Even these, it is still what those remnants of the Great Song Dynasty said when they were in peace, in their words, this time they want to fight back from Qiongzhou, and find another descendant of the Zhao family to inherit the throne and rebuild the Great Song Dynasty!

"Northerners? Didn't the former Song Dynasty rule the river with the tyrannical yuan, shouldn't Zhang Shijie be a southerner? ”

Peng Sanyi glanced at Nazhi County, knowing too well that this was a guy who read dead books. He also did not know exactly where the border between the two sides was, but one thing was certain.

"Zhang Shijie is not only a northerner, but also a cousin with that Zhang Hongfan."

The prefix of the big traitor was almost unspoken, and even Peng Sanyi felt how awkward it was to chat like this. However, the prefect and the prefect hurriedly praised a few words like "erudite and knowledgeable", and this paragraph was barely torn apart.

"What a fucking hell, a rogue who can kill the prince is enough to choke, why is there such a moth, how can this be reported to the court?!"

After explaining, Liu Bolu inevitably scolded. At this moment, everyone present all looked dumbfounded, whether they were really shocked and speechless, or pretended to be shocked to avoid making judgments, probably only they themselves knew. However, as the highest civil and military in Qiongzhou Mansion, Liu Bolu is inevitable, and Peng Sanyi has no way to unload the responsibility on others.

"Wait, what is Australia?"

"It's called the state, and it's probably a place like Qiongzhou and Gaozhou. Where is it, I really haven't heard of this handsome, but the thief came from the sea, so he should be on the other side of the South Seas. ”

Hearing such speculation, Peng Sanyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately said to Liu Bolu: "That shouldn't be big, otherwise why not call it a province, well, no, why not call it a road?" ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, and Liu Bolu, who was still struggling with this new thing, immediately realized that the territory was not large, so the scale of this Song army should not be so big. After all, raising soldiers depends on food, and food can only be grown if you have land.

"It doesn't matter if he is true or not, the thieves occupy the county, we are official soldiers, and if we don't fight once, we can't always say it."

At this point, Liu Bolu read a Wu Wenwen, and planned to speak about it, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he only sent Wu Wenwen to bring the sailor over, and he was afraid that he might not be able to do his best. If those thieves collude with the Li people on the island, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to calm down.

"In this battle, Ben Shuai personally led the troops, Wu Shuai took the sailors, let's go hand in hand by land and water, and strive to solve these guys in a battle!"

The Qing army in Qiongzhou Town quickly mobilized, leaving 500 soldiers to assist in the defense, Liu Bolu took the 1,500 green battalion soldiers, requisitioned 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, and carried the soldiers south with the Qing army's sea ships and sea ships requisitioned from the port, and Wu Wenwen's sailors were responsible for escorting them.

Since ancient times, the sinicization of Hainan Island has started from the northern part of Hainan Island, which is separated from the Leizhou Peninsula by the Qiongzhou Strait. The Han Chinese and the Central Dynasty gradually took control of the plains in the north, and then followed the coastline southward, wrapping the Li Tusi in the mountainous areas of south-central the island.

Because of this, the county seat of Qiongshan, where the government of Qiongzhou is located, is naturally on the northern coast of Hainan Island, south of the Qiongzhou Strait. And Nalingshui County, established in the sixth year of the Sui Dynasty, is 720 years later than the beginning of the Han Dynasty began to develop Hainan Island, and its geographical location is also located in the southeast of Hainan Island, is the southernmost county in China, even if you count the state-level administrative unit of Yazhou, it is also the second southern.

Don't look at Qiongzhou is just an island, but its area is more than three times that of Chaozhou Mansion. From Qiongshan to Lingshui, a distance of 400 miles, if it weren't for the ships carrying the army south, Liu Bolu estimated that he would not have to think about going to Lingshui, and would go directly to Wanzhou or Lehui County between the two to fight a decisive battle with this Song army.

Sitting on the boat, Liu Bolu still couldn't help but be worried, because this Song army came by boat, and their fleet was likely to be larger than the Qing army, and if they went north by water, it was estimated that they would not be able to meet the two sides in Huitong County, because it was already too late when he received the news.

The sailor went all the way south, and when he arrived in Lehui County, there was no police in Lehui County, and then went south to Wanzhou, and when he arrived in Wanzhou, he was not attacked by the Song army. This is a good thing, but it is not a good thing, Liu Bolu always felt that something might be wrong here, so he asked Wu Wenwen's sailors and the ships of the Qing army to stay in Wanzhou for the time being, in order to make sure everything.

When you arrive in Wanzhou, you have to change to the land route, which is a strategy that has been set earlier. Because between Wanzhou and Lingshui, the Wuzhi Mountain in the middle of the island extends a section and plunges directly into the coastline. With the natural barrier of this Niuling, floating in the sea, and crossing the Niuling will go straight to the county seat of Lingshui, which is extremely dangerous for Liu Bolu, who does not understand the actual situation of this Song army at all, especially for Liu Bolu, who is more inclined to have a large number of sea ships for migration.

By land, there is a gap between Niuling and Wuzhi Mountain, and the official road and the 223 National Highway in later generations are passed through here. Liu Bolu disembarked at Wanzhou, and even if he organized a large army to go south by land, the military quartermaster of the army would be transported by Wanzhou.

All the way to the southwest, along the Sun River slowly, and then at the corner of the Sun River to separate from it, along the trend between the mountains and continue to the southwest, the gap between Wuzhi Mountain and Niuling is getting narrower and narrower, until it crosses the narrowest section between the Boundary Ridge and the Great Jianling, and the front Tanma also brings back the military intelligence of the Song army in the south of the Lingmen.

"That's right."

The Song army deployed here to contain the Qing army's cavalry, and then defeated it in a battle, and finally used this narrow opening to achieve greater gains. From this point of view, Peng Sanyi's statement that the Song army did not have many cavalry in history is still valid!

"Dashuai, the thieves on the opposite side are under the banner of the Song Army. The weapons are not bad, but they are not armored, and they are wearing red uniforms......"

Before coming, Peng Sanyi said that the Great Song Dynasty is Huode, which is the same as the Ming Dynasty, so the color should also be red. Seeing that this was the case, Liu Bolu also had to praise the power of knowledge in his heart.

As for the matter of armor, he guessed it in advance - Qiongzhou is already so hot, and Nanyang is estimated to be even hotter, so Liu Bolu can be an unpredictable prophet, purely due to years of experience. However, this place is really hot, and the Qing army can't put on armor, so there is no advantage in this regard.

"Give the order to go down and rest here for a while."

According to the regulations of the Qing court, the geographical environment of each province was different, so the proportion of cavalry in each department of the green battalion was also different. For example, in the north, seven steps and three rides can gallop vertically and horizontally; For example, in Zhejiang, the water network is vertical and horizontal, and the rest of the water camp is enough; And Guangdong, with eight cavalry and two cavalry, has a total of 2,000 soldiers in his Qiongzhou Town, that is, the scale of 400 cavalry, leaving 100 in Qiongshan, and there are 300 cavalry at this moment.

The cavalry of the Qing army was dispatched, but soon he got the news that the Song army also had cavalry, about 100 horses, which was far inferior to the Qing army in terms of number, but the infantry behind the cavalry of the Song army was slowly pressing up, getting closer and closer to their resting place, with the cooperation of the infantry, the cavalry of the Qing army had to retreat step by step, but was pressed back.

"Looks like these thieves still have two brushes."

Looking up at the sky, there was no cloud, and if it weren't for the mountain shade that blocked a lot of sunlight, I was afraid that it would be a little hotter. In another hour it will be noon, and it will be very uncomfortable to fight a field battle of thousands of men. Liu Bolu looked at the soldiers under his command in a blink of an eye, and estimated that he had finished resting, so he asked all the soldiers to get up and line up and prepare for battle.

"The thieves hurriedly came from Lingshui County, and our army has already rested for a while, so it can be regarded as waiting for work."

This account, Liu Bolu is a general, and he is the most clear. After the formation was completed here, the Song army over there also pressed up, and they carried out the final rest and formation at a distance of two or three hundred meters. If there is a firearm with a larger caliber, it is estimated that it can be bombarded to the handsome banner of the Song army.

It came in a hurry, the Qing army did not carry large-caliber firearms, and the army was nothing more than some tiger squat cannons and small Franc machines. Seeing that the Song army chose to line up at such a distance, it is estimated that there is a lack of firearms, and even a lack of sufficient understanding of firearms. Recalling Peng Sanyi's description, it seems that in the pre-Song Dynasty, and even in the Tyrannical Yuan era, trebuchets were still being used, and firearms were very simple.

"It seems that the thieves really don't have any firearms."

Everything was within Liu Bolu's expectations, and he couldn't help but smile lightly at this moment, which meant a lot more. Unexpectedly, just as he was about to send troops to scold the battle, he saw the banner of the thief "Zhang Shaozhong" fall to the ground with a bang. In the next second, another big banner was quickly erected, but the words "The right squire of the Ming Military Department and the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui, the commander of military affairs and the management of food and salary".

"Damn, it's Chen Kai!"