On April 12, Zhao Lie, the lord of the Song Dynasty, led Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie, Zeng Yuanzi and a number of civil and military ministers to worship their ancestors in Beiqiu, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and swore to go on the expedition.

Zhao Lie, the lord of the Song Dynasty, personally drove the expedition, with Jiang Fenglie, the deputy commander of the Longque Army, Zhang Shijie, the secretary of the Privy Council, as the deputy marshal, and Ma Nanchun as the supervising army. The generals under his command, Shi Yang, Zhang Ba, Long Feiyi, Chang Tai, Shen Pingbo, Wan Zhong, Hu Yanxiao, Hong Siniang, etc., gathered together.

Except for Zhang Shijie, the rest of the generals are the backbone generals of the Dragon Bird Army, although they are not so-called "famous generals", and their command skills are not outstanding, but they are all trustworthy comrades-in-arms and subordinates who fought with Zhao Lie all the way in the bloody and bloody wind. On this basis alone, it is stronger than a famous general.

Speaking of "famous generals", there is one under Zhao Lie's command - Zhang Shijie.

Although this duke bears the title of deputy marshal, this title is as false as his fellow Privy Councillor, and has no command except for one guard. He had only one duty to go north with the army this time, and that was to serve as a military adviser. Zhang Shijie is shorter than naval battles, but he has a good record in land warfare, especially in commanding cavalry operations, because he himself is a general from the Jin State and an authentic northerner, and what he is really good at is commanding cavalry rather than fleets. Sending a pure land general to command a naval battle of hundreds of thousands of people is not only a dereliction of duty on the part of Zhang Shijie, but also a negligence on the part of the dynasty.

Zhao Lie's re-use of Zhang Shijie this time used his experience in land warfare, and he was the experience of commanding the large army to fight. The Imperial War Council had predicted that once the Son of Heaven arrived in the southeast, the Qin Wang army from all directions would gather under the royal banner like a snowball, and hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses would not be a problem. Zhao Lie had never commanded a campaign of more than 100,000 people before, and commanding 100,000 or 20,000 people was a completely different concept from 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of people, while Zhang Shijie was experienced in commanding hundreds of thousands of large battles. In view of the serious losses he caused to Da Song in the past, it is impossible to be handsome again, but it is still no problem to be a consultant, and it can be regarded as exerting his residual heat.

The Dragon Bird Army on this expedition totaled more than 11,000 people, divided into five armies, including Tabai, Xuanfeng, Beiwei, Youyi, and Zhongjun, plus a directly subordinate artillery battalion.

According to the practice of the battle sequence of the Great Song Army, the outpost is the White Army, the main outpost detective, the surprise attack, and the sentry battalion is filled, with a total of 700 people, Shen Pingbo, the left general of the White Army, and the right general Guoya.

The vanguard is the selection of the front army, for the sharp knife in the army, once the white army finds the enemy, the enemy is weak to eat, the enemy is strong to cooperate with the selection of the front army to break it with lightning and bravery. A total of 2,500 people, the left will be Shi Yang, and the right will be Hong Siniang.

Beiwei is the courage of the army, the only cavalry of the Dragon Bird Army, the main front and rear strategy, mobile to respond to the enemy. The least number of men and horses, only 500 horses, although it is a small number, but the cavalry has always been the strongest in the army, and a cavalry of 500 men can easily defeat ten times the infantry - except, of course, the musketeers. This extremely important cavalry commander is not a general of Zhao Lieyan, but Zhang Ba, a subordinate of the former Zhang Shijie. The reason why Zhang Ba is used is very simple, Zhang Ba is a northerner, and he has participated in cavalry battles many times under Zhang Shijie, and his experience in cavalry tactics is that the entire Dragon Bird Army does not think of a second person, and he is naturally the only one who will carry the back.

Then down is the Youyi army, behind the main hall and escorting the grain to wipe the baggage. The Dragonbird Army is a firearms unit with an 80 percent firearms armament rate, and it relies heavily on logistics such as guns and ammunition. Therefore, the number of soldiers and horses is also the largest, with more than 4,500 people. Chang Tai is the left general of Youyi, and Wan Zhong is the right general.

Finally, there is the soul of all hosts - the Chinese army. The commander of the Chinese army is naturally Zhao Lie, and the deputy marshal is Jiang Fenglie. There are more than 2,500 men and horses, of which 300 martial arts teams and 500 artillery battalions are directly under the emperor, and the rest are under the command of Jiang Fenglie.

These five armies and one battalion, looking at it separately, can be as few as a few hundred or as many as thousands, and they seem to be a little thin in terms of numbers, and do not give people a sense of deterrence and strength, but if they pull out an army at will, they can block ten with one block, and they can attack the city and pull out the village, and the code is solid. It can be said that the Yuan army with a number of less than 100,000, whoever stops will die!

This is where Zhao Lie's confidence lies in daring to challenge the 500,000 yuan army with only 10,000 people.

On April 15, hundreds of ships raced, thousands of sails sailed together, and thousands of troops crossed the sea.

The target is Guangzhou, an important town on Guangnan West Road.

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On the same day that Zhao Hunt drove his own expedition, Chen Bingxuan, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and the privy deputy with a special mission, made a detour by sea and quietly arrived in Annan.

At this time, the city of Zhancheng has been instigated by the Yuan general to appease, called the minister attached, in the first month of the first year of Xingyan, that is, to the eighteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1281) set up the province of Zhancheng, originally Kublai Khan was to worship and instigate the capital for the right of the province, in order to assist his nine sons of the town of the south king to get rid of the Huan, but due to the sudden change in the situation in the southeast, had to recall the instigation, transferred to the south of the south to comfort the deputy marshal, the right of the province of Zhancheng by the Yuan Dynasty to serve as a bachi.

Annan and Zhancheng are the countries of lips and teeth, and the city of Zhancheng is attached, and the next target of Meng Yuan is naturally Annan.

Chen Rixuan, the king of Annam, was worried all day long, and the opinions in the country were also divided into two factions, one was the main battle and the other was the main surrender, and the two factions could not hold each other.

Just as Chen Rixuan was vacillating between the battle and the surrender, the news of the battle of Qiongzhou was long overdue at this time, and the suzerain's victory against the Yuan Dynasty gave Annan a stimulant injection, and the discussion of the main battle prevailed.

At this time, the occupied Champa moved faster - directly raised troops to rebel.

In fact, even if Zhao Hunt was not born out of thin air and led the Xing Dynasty to fight back, according to the normal historical trend, Zhancheng would have rebelled the following year. Although he was soon instigated to take the city of Mucheng and occupy Dazhou, and the king of Zhancheng retreated to the mountains and forests, he opened the curtain of the Battle of Annan and killed countless Mengyuan elite soldiers.

Now, under the butterfly effect of Zhao Hunting, the Champa rebellion is advanced, and the Yuan army's fierce general instigated the capital to be transferred to the southeast to preside over the war, and the situation is extremely favorable to both Champa and Annam.

Despite the turmoil in neighboring Quang Nam and the serious threat to the king of Zhennam, the rebellion against Champa still made him furious, and despite the chaos in Quang Nam, he quickly ordered a rebellion and personally led an army of 30,000 to occupy the city.

In order to have no worries when quelling the Quang Nam Rebellion in the future, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity of pacifying the occupation of the city and solving it with Annam. In his opinion, with tens of thousands of Mongolian and Han elite soldiers, the annihilation of these two small countries is like a backhand. After quickly pacifying, he swept Guangnan with a large army, and then went south to force Qiongzhou, crossed the sea and destroyed the Song Dynasty, which was the pinnacle of his martial arts as the king of Zhennan.

Immediately, under the suggestion of his Zuo Cheng Pengfei, Tuhuan casually found an excuse that was not clever at all - the false Dao Annan expedition to occupy the city.

When the news came, the government and the opposition in Annam were furious, although it was a country, but its country originated in China, from etiquette to language, from culture to customs, all in the same line. What is the excuse to quell the rebellion - who doesn't understand the allusion of the false way? When we are uneducated? You bloody northern barbarians are uneducated!

At this juncture, the Great Song Dynasty envoy Chen Bingxuan came, bringing a great surprise to King Annan.

After several days of secret talks, the two countries quickly reached a consensus to help each other fight against the tyrannical elements.

In mid-April, Chen Bingxuan represented the Song lord and made a bloody alliance with Chen Rixuan, the king of Annam. Subsequently, the king of Annan Xingdao was ordered to guard the pass and refused to allow the Yuan army to borrow the road. Tuhuan ordered the troops to retreat, but Annan did not obey. Tuhuan Nai divided the army into six routes and launched an attack on Annan, and the battle of Annan officially began.

The Battle of Annam began, pinning down most of Meng Yuan's forces in the south, leaving Meng Yuan's powerful army without time for anything else, relieving the Xing Dynasty of possible attacks, and freeing Zhao Lie's hands to go north to Fujian and Guangzhou, and devote all the elite to fight a decisive battle with the Yuan army in the southeast.