Boom Boom!

Qiongguan City trembled and trembled in the sound of artillery, and the tall towers, thickened city walls, and long troop transportation roads collapsed in the artillery fire, stirring up smoke and dust in the sky. The sound of cannons, the bombardment of iron balls, and the collapse of countless buildings, from a distance, the entire Qiongguan City seemed to be suffering from a terrible earthquake.

At the wharf in the north of Qiongguan City (now Xiuying Port), countless ships of all sizes fled frantically like ants whose nests had been doused with boiling water. Among them, the largest warship even escaped dozens of miles of sea and rushed far ahead.

On the platform of the warship, Li Heng's face was ashen, and with every bang, his body shook, and the sound of the cannon was like hitting his heart and his soul. It was not the first time he had been defeated since the Southern Crusade, but it was definitely the first time he had fled, and he had fled so badly and so desolately.

Li Heng and Zhang Hongfan led an army of 100,000 to kill, but 100,000 people does not mean that there are really 100,000 soldiers to arrange troops for you to fight on the battlefield. Among these 100,000 people, there are only more than 50,000 real soldiers after removing boatmen, handymen, craftsmen, followers, and real soldiers, and no more than 5,000 elites.

The defeat of Zhang Hongfan Gorge buried more than 10,000 troops, most of whom were soldiers, including thousands of elites. The total number of soldiers in Qiongguan City and the northern and southern battalions guarded by Li Heng is only more than 35,000 people, and even if they are all pulled to the battlefield, there will only be 30,000 troops available at most. And the dragon bird army besieging the city was only 5,000 men and horses.

30,000 against 5,000, and it is mainly defensive, which can be described as an overwhelming advantage. In the past, if he couldn't completely annihilate his opponent, Li Heng would feel ashamed to see people. But now, he was really ashamed to see people - six times the enemy's troops, and with a fortified city, he was beaten to the point of being powerless...... No, not even a chance to fight back.

Let's go out of the city to face the battle, before the array is set up, the artillery of the Song army is roaring, and the death bullets whistling above the head grind out the roads of flesh and blood, and the foot soldiers are too late to hug their heads and run around, who is still stupidly lining up with you? Even if you can't let the axemen supervise the battle, isn't the axeman afraid of death?

Although the Song army only had eight artillery pieces, the bombardment speed was faster than that of the cannons, and a large array of 10,000 people could not be completed without lining up for a long time. Standing and being bombarded by artillery for an hour, there is no army in this world that has such qualities.

Li Heng also used various tactics, such as using thousands of elite cavalry to attack the Dragon Bird Army's artillery array from the flanks. The Dragon Bird Army listed the Wuhan Iron and Steel car formation on both wings, and the musketeers fired wildly behind the car formation, with tongues of fire and projectiles like rain, beating thousands of elite cavalry to the ground. Li Heng also asked the elite infantry to form a formation in the camp first, and then broke through the door and charged, intending to break the Dragon Bird Army's artillery array head-on.

As a result, the tragedy of the Mongolian elite in the canyon was staged again that day, with a tiger roar, blood and rain flying, and the Yuan soldiers rushed and fled faster.

After paying thousands of heavy casualties, Li Heng didn't even know if he had killed or injured a hundred people of the Dragon Bird Army......

When there is no longer a single soldier on the battlefield, the range of the artillery begins to extend to Qiongguan City, and this is when the artillery really exerts its power. In fact, the blow of artillery to the army is more about destroying morale and interfering with the formation, and the damage caused by an iron bullet is not as good as a shotgun from a tiger roar cannon, and it is even worse than a volley of musketeers or a rush of gunmen to kill.

Artillery is a sharp weapon for attacking cities, and it is inherently used to destroy city walls and sweep away all buildings. Qiongguan City is just an inferior military state, it has never been a heavy place for soldiers, the city walls are not high, the thickness is not enough, it is still a single bread brick, even if the defense of nitrate artillery is barely enough, it can't carry artillery at all.

Attack, attack can not be overcome; Guard, can't keep.

Li Heng has only one way left - escape!

Well, in Zhao Lie's words, it's - get out!

On the fifth day of the first day of November, amid the rumbling of artillery, the Yuan army of Qiongguan City only held the defense for less than three days, and the whole line broke and fled.

The Dragonbird Army immediately regained Qiongguan. At this point, the entire Qiongzhou returned to the embrace of the Great Song Dynasty again. This time, not to be lost again.

The second southern expedition of the Yuan army ended miserably with the death of the commander Zhang Hongfan, the defeat of the deputy commander Li Heng, and the annihilation of most of the 100,000 troops.

Since the Yuan army invested most of the main army in the southeast in this campaign, all the armies were drawn from the military states in the southeast. Under the fiasco, the strength of the military states shrank suddenly, and they were overstretched, and the local rebels from all walks of life heard the good news, and all of them had high fighting spirits, and they surged one after another, and the southeast half of the wall was full of sparks, almost becoming a prairie fire.

On the eighth day of November, the Song army regained Leizhou.

On the ninth day of the first month, the defenders of Gaozhou, Huazhou, and Lianzhou near Leizhou fled without a fight. The local rebel army Xiang Kun immediately took control of the state city, and immediately sent envoys with the atlas and directory to the court, and the three states were restored.

However, in a few days, the Yuan troops in Qinzhou, Nanenzhou, Shangsizhou, Yulinzhou, Rongzhou, and Deqing Prefecture all fled, revolted, and even the Yuan army's base camp Guangzhou appeared several rebels attacking the city, and Li Heng, the deputy marshal of the Southern Expedition, who was extremely vicious and killed the rebels, only defeated and drove the rebels and did not dare to pursue them deeply.

And Mrs. Chen and Chen Hangyan, the rebels of the southeastern She tribe, who had always been a headache for the Yuan Empire, took advantage of this great victory and gathered nearly 100,000 She soldiers to attack Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Wang Jiweng, the prefect of Fuzhou, and Pu Shougeng, the envoy of Quanzhou City, rushed to the capital one after another.

By December, the entire southeastern war situation of the Yuan Empire was eroded. In the continuous victory, the sharpest knife of the Dragon Bird Army rushed out of the jungle, crossed the strait, and slowly approached the lower abdomen of the Yuan Empire......

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The battle of Limu Mountain Canyon in Qiongzhou was a turning point in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Prior to this, the Yuan army was aggressive, driving all the way, and almost drove the line into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp. finally found a foothold, but as a result, waves of Yuan troops came like raging waves, and they were so overwhelmed that they couldn't breathe up and down.

Under the leadership of Zhao Lie, the Dragon Bird Army fought bravely, fought Ali Hague, annihilated it, and cut off the minions of the Yuan army stretching out to the southeast; Zhang Hongfan in World War II was killed and killed, and he even cut off an arm of the Southeast Yuan Army. Even the behemoth Dayuan Empire, which occupies thousands of miles of the Great Song Dynasty and has millions of soldiers, can't bear it.

From this moment on, the high-level leaders of the Yuan Empire were extremely serious and stared at this resurgence of the resurgence of the small dynasty. The arrogant monarchs and ministers of the Yuan Empire finally regarded the Great Song Dynasty as an equal opponent. The lion fights the rabbit and does his best, when the fierce beast of the Yuan Empire is really serious, the Great Song Dynasty will usher in a more severe challenge.

Is the Great Song Dynasty a rabbit? Maybe it was, but when the owner of the dynasty was replaced by a man named Zhao Lie, the rabbit was transformed into a tiger - a fierce tiger that breathed fire.

Thousands of miles of grassland, the lion is king.

Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, tigers dominate.

Jiangnan and Saibei are the home of the tiger of the Great Song Dynasty. When the lion from the grassland trespasses into the tiger's territory, a battle between the tiger and the lion will surely be bloody!

(End of Volume II)