The edict was sent out smoothly, and Zhao Yu put the matter down, he didn't care if he could catch Wang Yanwu and punish him, in fact, it was just a pretense to make him, but he deserved to be unlucky and hit the muzzle, otherwise maybe who was unlucky. As for www.biquge.info whether Wen Tianxiang can be redeemed, Zhao Yu knows that the possibility is almost equal to zero, and from the cost point of view, the military expenditure in order to exterminate Wen Tianxiang's Governor's army and the Mongols is more than 10,000 taels of gold. In terms of impact, the value of grabbing Wen Tianxiang is much higher than that of ten thousand taels of gold. Therefore, the significance of this edict is more to show their attitude, so that the scholars can understand that the good old days of being famous as officials by playing are over.

In addition, the current situation is developing rapidly, and it is becoming more and more unfavorable to the DPRK side. In December, Wang Daofu gathered the defeated officers and soldiers to attack Guangzhou again and failed, and Ling Zhen led the army to the rescue, which was also defeated. Ling Zhen fought again in Panyu Tantang and was defeated again. After that, Ling Zhen retreated to Dongpu, collected troops, and continued to fight, but all failed, and the Yuan Dynasty persuaded him to surrender with his official position of Xuanxuan, but Ling Zhen refused to accept it and retreated to his hometown. Under Li Heng's pursuit, Wang Daofu could not gain a foothold in Guangdong, so he could only retreat to Yashan and was appointed as the secretary of the military department.

At this moment, after exterminating Wen Tianxiang's governor's army, Zhang Hongfan led the army to continue southward to the vicinity of Chaozhou, sent scouts to find the whereabouts of the remnant Song dynasty, and ordered Li Heng to solve the 'banditry' in Guangdong as soon as possible, so that the combined army could fight a decisive battle with the remnant Song Dynasty. On the other hand, he sent people to contact Ali Hague in Guangxi, hoping that he could send troops to help prevent the remnants of the Song Dynasty from continuing to escape, and strive to annihilate them in the coastal areas of Guangdong.

Zhao Yu knew that the final decisive moment was coming, and now as long as the sporadic states and counties of the Great Song Dynasty were still resisting, the Xing Dynasty and its subordinate hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were isolated in a corner of the sea, becoming a real lone army, and this island and reef became the last territory of this once the most advanced and rich country in the world, and it really reached the point where there was nowhere to retreat.

To be honest, Zhao Hao thought that the strength of the Xing Dynasty was not without the strength of a battle on the whole. When the Xing Dynasty took refuge in the sea from Fuzhou, it had 170,000 regular troops and 300,000 civilian troops, including more than 10,000 Huai soldiers with the Yingzhou army as the main force. He knew that this number might be an imaginary number, but with what he saw in Quanzhou at the beginning, the water was not too large, after all, when he was in Jiazi Town, the camp was also set up for dozens of miles, and many civilian troops were incorporated from Quanzhou, and nearly a thousand warships were snatched from Pu Shougeng.

Zhao Hao thought that this could be said to be the largest fleet he had ever seen, and it was probably the largest sailing fleet in the history of the world, Zheng He's Western fleet was considered to be extremely large, but the number was only one percent of them, as for the Western fleet, even in the era of sail battleships, there had never been such a scale. I am afraid that they can be compared to the Allied fleet that happened during the Normandy landing during World War II, but they are also divided into batches and for a short time, and the dynasty not only has troops, but also government offices and palaces, which is really a country floating on the sea.

Of course, these troops are not all elite soldiers, and it can be seen from the fact that more than 10,000 Huai soldiers are listed separately. After going to sea in Fuzhou, the Xing Dynasty suffered a lot of losses after several battles, especially in several fierce battles with Liu Shen in Jinzhou, and suffered great damage, Chen Yizhong alone lost more than 800 warships along the way, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians suffered casualties. Zhao Yu secretly counted that after reaching Yashan, the Xing Dynasty still had no less than 100,000 soldiers and civilians, and during this period, there were constantly Qin Wang's volunteers and stragglers from all walks of life to come to meet, although there was no accurate number, but he was sure that the population of 200,000 gathered in the Xing Dynasty was only a little more. However, although there are many people, there are also many idle people, among which the officials, family members and chamberlains, palace maids, etc. of the dynasty are estimated to account for thirty percent.

As long as there are two armies controlled by the Xing Dynasty: one is the Huai Army with the Yingzhou Army as the main force, and they must have suffered losses in the battle, but there are also new recruits who continue to join, and the number is now about 30,000, including more than 10,000 elite soldiers, but they are Zhang Shijie's leader, and it is difficult for others to mobilize; The other is based on the Jiang family's children, plus the defeated forbidden army composed of the palace front forbidden army, they were originally the most effective troops in the Xing Dynasty, but after the bloody battle of Quanzhou, they were greatly injured, and after that, almost every battle was their charge in the front and retreat in the rear with great losses, and the quality inevitably declined, and the number of people after absorbing a part of the civilian army also fluctuated around 20,000 or 30,000. With the death of Jiang Wanzai and the increase in casualties among the Jiang family's children, although Jiang Cheng took over, the morale and combat effectiveness of the forbidden army in front of the palace were no longer what they used to be, and the Jiang clan's control was also weakened.

The main army of the imperial court is like this, and it is not difficult to imagine what the other troops are like. The number of volunteers who came to King Qin from all over the world was the largest, about 80,000, but they were untrained, did not know the battle formation, were loosely disciplined, and did not subordinate each other, so the combat effectiveness can be imagined. Therefore, these people are either used as 'cannon fodder' or as people's husbands, which can only be said to be commendable and embarrassing, and they can only be regarded as soy sauce in battle. And many officials, their families and miscellaneous people are strictly speaking burdens, not only can they not help in the battle, but they also have to divide troops to protect, Zhao Yu is of course included in this list at this time.

However, after several battles, Zhao Hao also realized that naval warfare is different from hand-to-hand land warfare in which knife-to-knife and gun-to-gun hand-to-hand combat, and the important thing is the performance and firepower of the warship, and the importance of personnel quality is not as great as that of land warfare. Although the Qiongzhou naval army has undergone several rounds of training, he did not think that he could gain the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat with the Mongol soldiers, and their victory was mainly due to the superiority of warships and weapons, and when the two armies were on the side, they had already inflicted heavy losses and shocks on the enemy with ballistas and rockets, and strictly speaking, the progress of weapons helped them win the victory.

Although they did not have advanced weapons such as ballistas and rockets, they at least had an advantage in naval battles with their tall hulls. There may be more elite soldiers in the Yuan army, but considering that most of the Yuan troops led by Zhang Hongfan are elite troops transferred from the north, they are not accustomed to water warfare, so the Song army is not at least not inferior in terms of strength. In terms of numbers, the Song army was much stronger than the Yuan army, and they were backed by Yashan Island, and the replenishment of troops was faster and more convenient than that of the Yuan army.

Therefore, Zhao Yu considered that as long as the tactics were properly arranged, even if there were no major mistakes, even if he used his existing strength to fight Zhang Hongfan, he would not be defeated, let alone lead to the annihilation of the whole army. But what he is worried about is that Zhang Shijie still played cards according to the routine in history, and made big tricks again and again, which led the Great Song Dynasty to the road of destruction, and he also went to extinction...... (To be continued.) )