Speaking of a quick victory, Du You, who has been guarding Lingnan for many years, also deeply agreed, he couldn't do it before, or because of the limited military talent and troops, plus the damn miasma of Lingnan, now Gao Yue led nearly 40,000 soldiers, auxiliaries (20,000 Wu Yi Army, 7,000 Zhen Navy Fleet) and sailors (more than 10,000 Bai Shuilang Fleet) to come here, of course, he can show his strength.

"Then ask Du Gong to personally rush to Rongguan to supervise the battle, in order to nail the main force of Huangdongman near Yulin Prefecture, after I go ashore from Hepu, I will take a long detour to take the lost Yongguan Jinglufu, so that the water and land roads between Xiyuan and Yulin Prefecture can be cut off, and the Xiyuan Huangdongman will be annihilated."

Then Gao Yue asked Du You, from Guangzhou to Lian and Qin, how to recruit handsome chieftains loyal to the imperial court along the way?

Fighting here, Gao Yue knew the importance of the servant army.

Du You introduced: One or two hundred years ago, from Guangzhou to the west, there were two most powerful slang handsomes, one was Feng and Xian in Gaozhou Liangde (now Maoming, Guangdong), and the most famous was Feng Bao and Xian (of course, now Gaozhou and Dianbai are fiercely fighting for the ownership of this couple); There is also a group of Ning clan in Julian and Qin, the most famous of which is the Qinzhou Thorn Shi Ning Fierce Force sealed by the Sui Dynasty.

However, now these two are relatively declining, and they can only be said to be local chieftains, but they no longer have the power that dominated several states and dominated one side at the turn of the Sui and Tang dynasties. The reason for this is that while the Sui and Tang dynasties were confined to Lingnan, they were also tirelessly promoting the "transformation of barbarians" in order to strengthen the rule of the dynasty. On the one hand, Feng, Ning and other slang marshals all clinged to the genealogy of the Central Plains, claiming that they were descendants of the Chinese scholars who had emigrated to express their identification with and attachment to the central government; On the other hand, when the imperial court added the honorary titles of Feng, Xian, Ning and other families to the history of assassination, holding festivals, and even the three divisions of Yitong, it always insisted on sending Han officials to actually govern the local government (yes, it is called autonomy, but the power is still in the hands of Han officials, and the chieftain just has an empty official title), with the intention of cutting the power of the slang handsome clans in Lingnan.

Then Du You said again, for example, Ning Mengli of Qinzhou was the leader of Xixi Dongman, and Emperor Wen of Sui hoped to let him take soldiers and horses to join the court, but Ning Mengli died before he could make the trip, and Emperor Wen of Sui asked his son Ning Changzhen to come, and then Ning Changzhen always followed the Sui Dynasty, conquered Linyi (the regime in southern Vietnam) in the south, and conquered Liaodong in the north. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Ning Changzhen and his fellow clans Ning Daoming and Ning Chun still regarded themselves as the old ministers of the Sui Dynasty, and united with other slang marshals to launch a rebellion, which was later suppressed, and then the Tang Dynasty sent Han officials to govern Lian and Qindi, after which the Ning family could only serve in the field as county commanders, chief bookkeepers, Sima and other official positions, but the Ning family was still quite powerful in Qinzhou, until the Tang Zhongzong period, an earth-shattering event occurred.

There was an official named Wei Xuanzhen, who was deposed to Qinzhou and died soon after.

Only Wei Xuanzhen's wife Cui Shi, four sons and two daughters are left to live together.

However, Ning Chengji of the Ning clan in Qinzhou fell in love with Wei Xuanzhen's daughter and wanted to force the marriage.

Cui's resolutely refused, Ning Chengji actually relied on his own power in Qinzhou to kill Cui's and his four sons Wei Xun, Wei Hao, Wei Dong, and Wei Jun, and the two daughters escaped.

I don't know if Ning Chengji is really unknown or fake:

Wei Xuanzhen is Tang Zhongzong's father-in-law.

Although Tang Zhongzong was deposed as the king of Luling by Wu Zetian at that time, and Wei Xuanzhen was also exiled, after all, he was a relative of the emperor, you must know that Wu Zetian abolished Zhongzong An important excuse is that Zhongzong wants his father-in-law to serve in the middle school, and also preached, "Even if I give the whole world to my father-in-law, why not?" ”

This Ning Chengji openly killed the wife of the father-in-law, killed the son, and took the daughter, which shows the extent of lawlessness.

Twenty-four years later, Tang Zhongzong was restored...... His wife was also reinstated as Empress Wei......

Zhou Renliang, the governor of Guangzhou, led an army of 20,000 and killed him in Qinzhou, killing and plundering the Ning family, in order to avenge the loss of his mother after Wei, although Ning Chengji fled into the sea, he was still pursued by Zhou Renliang and beheaded in front of Cui's tomb.

However, the defeat of the Ning family indirectly led to the Tang Dynasty's loss of control over Xiyuan.

Originally, Xiyuan was also under the control of the Ning family, and then during the Tianbao period, the Huang Dongman (that is, the Huang family as the Tang people said) took advantage of the collapse of the Ning family to rise, and combined with the Wei family, the Zhou family, the Nong family, etc., occupied more than ten states in the Western Yuan, and wantonly invaded the Qinzhou region; Subsequently, the Huang family became the dominant family, and drove Wei and Zhou away, not only separating the Western Plains, but also began to threaten Guiguan and Hunan to the north.

This is really to get rid of one and give birth to one.

In this way, Gao Yue grasped the situation of Lingnan, and then he asked Du You to lend him the fleet of the Pingbo army as a guide to cross the Yazhou Gorge.

Of course, Du You agreed.

Ten days later, on the towering hills on both sides of the bay in Longmen Mountain, Qinzhou, on the rows of "ganlanlou", after receiving the alarm, the slang people jumped down one after another, carrying bows and arrows on their backs and carrying sharp axes, all of them poured up to the rocks near the sea, looking into the distance:

The boats that had originally gathered in the various piers of the Longmen River in Qinzhou to take shelter from the wind had already set off one after another like a frightened herd of deer, heading towards the sea area of Annan, as if they were avoiding some fierce beast.

The morning sun on the sea, gorgeous, brilliant, has not yet fully risen at this moment, just like a golden umbrella cover, slowly lifted up by an unknown giant hand, illuminating a large area of waves and clouds on all sides, and then under this, there are many frightening black spots, is it a sun spot? No, it is countless large and small sea boats, with sails and oars in unison, dragging out thousands of white waves, coming from the mighty Pearl Sea to the Longmen River, directly approaching the city of Qinzhou.

From the bay of the Longmen River, it is about 60 miles of sea road to the state city.

Huangdongman has repeatedly rebelled since the Tianbao years, and the governance of the Tang family in the Qin and Lian areas has existed in name only, and this place has become a paradise for the slang tribes.

But there are always "Du Lao" predicting that sooner or later, there will still be heroes from the Central Plains like General Fubo, who will come on a big ship and regain this area.

Now this prophecy seems to have come true......

In the evening, this huge fleet, guided by the light ships of the Pingbo Army in Lingnan, had arrived at the city of Qinzhou.

On the light ship of the Pingbo Army, there was a Marquis named Zhang Zhou, who drove the boat quickly and steadily, and was especially favored by Gao Yue.

And Zhang Zhou was accompanied by a seabird ship of the town navy, on which stood Zhang Xi and Zhang Baogao, who also showed no weakness and followed closely.

Under the beautiful sunset, on the land near the sea in Qinzhou, the smaller sea boats rolled up their sails and rushed up directly, and the larger flat-bottomed boats and building boats went down one after another, and the soldiers took small boats to pull them with ropes and tied them to big rocks or giant trees to prevent them from being blown away by the sea breeze after nightfall. At the junction of the coasts, the soldiers of the Wuyi Army, carrying cloth bags, quilts, weapons, and flags, waded through the water from all directions.

Yesterday, their fleet was still staying at Hepukou in Lianzhou, and today they went directly to the Longmen River in Qinzhou.

The slang officials around fled one after another, observing the situation of the Gao Yue army, and then making a plan to go against the grain.