On the rough and boundless sea, dozens of large and small ships are breaking through the wind and waves, and they are sailing rapidly. Even in the South China Sea, where maritime trade is endless, such a large fleet is extremely rare.

At the front of the middle of this fleet was an extremely large warship, with more than 20 sails alone, densely arranged from bow to stern. On the inside of the ship's side, the female wall is thick, covered with cowhide, and the smooth leather reflects the sparkling scales of the sea, revealing an indescribable solemnity.

In the middle and rear of the warship, on the platform of the three-house heavy building, a group of sturdy armor soldiers wrapped in white scarves, wearing leather inner armor, carrying bows and arrows, and holding large shields, knives and guns, stood on all sides of the platform against the scorching sun. In the middle of the building, under a huge green grosgrain umbrella, on a thick sour wooden chair, sat an old man about fifty years old.

The old man wore a black barrel-shaped high hat, a tuft of slightly curly chestnut hair exposed from the brim, and a soft and loose white silk robe, which was swept by the sea breeze—this shape alone revealed a strong exotic smell.

The old man's appearance is not similar to that of the Central Plains people: his face is narrow and long, his eyebrows are as thick as a knife, his slender eyes reveal a strange amber color, the bridge of his nose is very high, his nose is hooked like an eagle's beak, his lips are tightly curled into a deep downward arc angle, and a long gray and white hair under his jaw gives people a sense of majesty.

Behind the old man, there stood a young man about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in the same attire, except for a blue hat. The young man's facial features are quite similar to the old man, with two thick mustaches on his lips, and he is talking to the old man, talking elegantly, and under the protection of a group of armor soldiers, he has a unique state.

At this time, the young man was saying to the old man: "Atta (Uyghur father's meaning), this time I and more than 30,000 troops and more than 200 ships crossed the strait, and joined forces with Governor Long, Aka (Uyghur brother), and nearly 10,000 ships under the command of Brother Shi'an, the son of Li Zuocheng, to attack the remnants of the Song Dynasty in the cliff city. The remnants of the Song Dynasty are only thousands of ships, and I will attack them tenfold, and I will be able to take it lightly, take this great achievement of destroying the Song Dynasty, and not let Zhang Shuai specialize in beauty. ”

The old man shook his head, stroked his beard and frowned, and said: "The remnant Song Xingchao fled to the corner of the sea and the sky, the trapped beasts were still fighting, and they defeated Saliman, Ma Chengwang, and Ma Fuji in a row, and even the hundreds of households under my command of the Beiting pro-army Tu Misu were killed...... With your Aka's courage and wisdom, you can only stick to Qiong's control, and repeatedly ask the court for help. Brother Guan, don't be despised ah. ”

The young man hurriedly bent down to give a salute, and said that he was taught.

This old man and young man are none other than Ali Hague, the commander of the Yuan army who was ordered to march south, and his second son, Guan Zhige. Ali Hague is a Vultures (i.e., the later generations of Uyghurs) who believe in the Yijiao religion (this religion is called the Internet Forbidden Language, so it is vague), so he dresses up.

Ali Hague has six sons, Guan only brother Xing two, and his brother lost the courage of The Hague, he has a gentle personality, erudite and talented, and takes the Wenchen route. Ali Hague was originally a cultivator and read the heirloom, and could read through the book of the vultures, and then joined the Mongolian general Bu Pian Ji to take the command, and did not pity Ji to teach his son Hulu not to spend the word Vulture, and recommended it to Kublai Khan, who was the king of the sect at the time, and became the palace guard (cowardly Xue), which can be described as both civil and military.

Therefore, among the six sons, Ali Hague prefers this neutron who is quite good in both appearance and talent, and has always been with him, thinking that he is a staff member and focusing on training. It's just that this son can learn or be able to catch up with himself back then, but the military strategy can't learn his own Yicheng.

The "Zhang Shuai" in the mouth of Brother Guan is Zhang Hongfan, the marshal of the Yuan Dynasty and the Han Army who destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. When attacking Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan army was divided into two routes, one of which was the main general Ali Hague, and Zhang Hongfan was subordinate to Ali Hague's legion. However, in just a few years, Zhang Hongfan came to the top, led the southern expedition to Mongolia and the Han army, defeated the Song army in succession, and finally destroyed the Song in one fell swoop in the Battle of Yushan. is also the main general of the Southern Expedition, and the credit for pouring the sky belongs to Zhang Hongfan, and Brother Guan is inevitably unhappy with his father.

God has eyes, and he let the remnant Song Xingchao escape to Ata's defense area, and the "Nine Pulls" Zhang Hongfan fell ill after the Battle of Kushan and returned north. This great task of eradicating the remnants of the Song naturally fell on Atta. Although the little emperor of the remnant Song Dynasty was killed in the Battle of Kushan, there are still the Empress Dowager of the Song Dynasty and Zhang Shijie and Wen Tianxiang, who have been against the Celestial Empire.

On this expedition, Brother Guan was full of excitement, and he had no doubt that Ata, who used soldiers like gods, led tens of thousands of Mongolian and Han armies like wolves and tigers to the cliff city, and he would definitely be able to calm the remnants of the Song Dynasty court that even the emperor was gone.

"Yacheng is already in the extreme south, let's see where you can escape this time!" Brother Guan thought fiercely.

Ali Hague was gazing at the vast sea under the bright sun, and this was the second time he had crossed the strait. Last time, it took him three months to pacify Qiongzhou, this time, how long will it take? One month? Half a month?

The remnant Song Dynasty did not put it in the eyes of Ali Hague, and the two brushes of the old rival Zhang Shijie did not need to be taken to heart, the only thing to worry about was that the Song State seemed to have developed a very beneficial new weapon.

From Zhang Qi to Saliman, from Tumisu to Ma Chengwang, they were all hit hard by this weapon. The battle of the 10,000 armies Ma Fuji was completely annihilated, and the specific details have not yet been fully reported in detail, but according to the Qiongzhou Xuanfu envoy Long Wenxiang and his eldest son who lost The Hague, it is very likely that they also suffered a big loss from this new weapon of the Song State, otherwise it would be impossible to wipe out the 2,000 army of Ma Fuji in a short period of time with only a few thousand Song troops.

Before setting out, Ali Hague received information from the Battle of Chikan Beach and the Battle of Jiyang Military City, and the Song army used a long-barreled weapon that could make a loud noise and spew flames. In particular, the military report of the Mongolian army Qianhu Saliman about Chikan Beach is the most detailed"...... Nanban makes the iron long pipe, the pipe spits fireworks, the sound is like firecrackers, dense like rain, the projectile shoots dozens of steps, the hole gold pierces the armor, and the bow and arrow are beyond the reach of the ......"

"Brother Guan, what do you think is the sharp weapon of the Song Kingdom mentioned in the military newspaper of Saliman?" Ali Hague thought to himself, and his mouth naturally asked.

Brother Guan had obviously thought about this question a long time ago, so he replied without hesitation: "When it is a firearm similar to a firearm, it is just that the people of the Song Kingdom seem to have made a breakthrough, turning bamboo into iron tools, filling them with gunpowder, firing projectiles, and the power surges, turning a weapon that disturbs the enemy into a weapon to kill the enemy." ”

The assault guns of the Song Dynasty sound quite awesome, but in fact they are just large fireworks, which are more frightening than injure, and it is impossible to kill the enemy - who has ever seen fireworks kill people?

Ali Hague nodded slightly, agreed with his son's analysis, and said: "Sariman is also a great general, but he was severely injured by the Song army with this firearm and killed more than ten miles...... If our army fights against the Song army with this firearm this time, I am afraid that there will be casualties. ”

Brother Guan turned to his father, pressed his chest as a salute, and his voice was excited: "The remnants of the Song Dynasty are poor, the days are thin, and the weapons are merely unknown, but they are still breathing." Now Atta is coercing my Dayuan to sweep the world, combining the soldiers of the east and west of Guangnan, ten times the enemy, under the thunderous blow, let him turn any armor and sharp weapons into powder! ”

"My son has a point." Ali Hague happily stroked his beard and laughed loudly, "The Song family is going to die, the Great Yuan is going to prosper, this is the general trend of the world, just like the rolling ocean current in front of you, how can it be stopped by a small instrument?" Brother Guan, let the three of us father and son, in the extreme south of the cape, remember the stone, and leave a name in history! ”