Qiongzhou Prefecture Qiongguan (now Haikou), Song Kaibao five years (972 years) to build the earth city, where Wednesday, one zhang eight feet high, single-sided (inner wall) bricks, the north gate of the city, the south gate each has a tower, in the northwest and southeast corners of the south gate each have a corner tower, the whole city battlement mouth eighty-eight, the south city wall section has six horse faces, the north city wall section four, all invincible floors. In terms of area, it is almost three times the size of Yacheng, which is worthy of state governance. However, because it is a single bread brick, it is not as strong and defensive as Yacheng.

From the date of the completion of this city, its main object of prevention is the indigenous Li Fang, so the focus of the city's defense is in the south. In the hundreds of years of history of the Two Song Dynasty, there are indeed many records of Li Fang's repeated offenses, the most recent of which occurred in the tenth year of Xianchun (1274), which is quite large.

But no matter how powerful Li Fang was and how noisy he was, he never captured Qiongguan. This is very natural, even if the defense of Qiongguan City is not ranked in the cities of the Great Song Dynasty, but there is no special siege equipment, it is impossible to rely on simple wooden guns and bamboo arrows and ants to attack the city.

The south gate can be used to defend against the fang, but what about the north gate?

The north gate of Qiongguan is built on high ground, three miles out of the city, and the terrain slowly settles, and finally extends to a beach mixed with many reefs. This beach is Baishakou, which is now the area of Baishamen Park.

In the autumn of the first year of Xiangxing (1278), Ali Hague sent Ma Chengwang, the former governor of Qiongzhou, to surrender Zhao and Luo, who were the pacification envoys of Qiongzhou at the time. Zhao and Luo refused, and led Xie Ming, Xie Fu, Ran Anguo, and Huang Zhijie to resist the Yuan army at Baishakou for several months, so that the Yuan general Ali Hague's boat division could not land for a long time.

In the end, it was still up to Ma Chengwang to send people to secretly communicate with the old department in the city, launch a mutiny, and hold Zhao and Luo, and Qiong Guan Fang Po. It can be seen that the north of the city occupies a favorable geographical position and has a strong defensive capability.

However, since Ali Hague's defeat in Yacheng, the former governor of Qiongzhou and the current consolation made Long Wenxiang almost three times a day, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, and while recruiting soldiers, he ordered to strengthen the northern city.

Long Wenxiang was really scared!

Following Ali The Hague for more than ten years, conquering all the way, sweeping the north and south, Long Wenxiang admired the wisdom and military ability of this commander thoughtfully, and was almost the undefeated military god in his mind. I never expected that this "god of war" would lead an absolutely superior army to crush a dying dynasty at the end of the road, and it would be defeated - a clean and complete defeat, and the death of no corpse.

The myth is shattered, and the god of war is beheaded.

Long Wenxiang couldn't figure out what was going on when he hit his head. How did you lose? Thirty-five thousand VS five thousand, they were beaten so that they only fled back to three or four hundred, and all the generals of more than 1,000 households, including the commander, were killed, and the whole army was basically wiped out. Such a fiasco record has never been seen since the founding of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

What happened to that cape? He suddenly made a dynasty like a dead snake rise up, swallowing up a huge army in one gulp.

What happened? Gun! Muskets! Beaded muskets!

All the Yuan soldiers who fled back described the same thing in shock, more than 30,000 troops were defeated by this sharp weapon, and even their commander Ali Hague was shot and killed indiscriminately. It was with this sharp killing weapon that the Song army changed the image of a rabbit chased by the prairie wolf into a tiger......

The musket, Long Wenxiang has also heard of it, and knows that this weapon is extraordinary, but he didn't expect it to be so sharp that even the powerful Beiting Army and Mongolian warriors are folded under this weapon! This is no longer an ordinary weapon, but a strategic weapon that can influence a war like the "Xiangyang Cannon".

The Song people have this sharp weapon, how will they fight in the future?

Ali's army in The Hague was defeated, and the empty army of Qiongguan was like a weak woman who had no power to resist and waited for her to be reincarnated, looking at the south in horror and terrified. Fortunately, something seemed to have happened to the Song People's Xingchao and he failed to catch the fighter in time, and Long Wenxiang finally got a chance to breathe.

While desperately appealing to Jinghu Province and Dadu, he trumpeted the power of the Song people's muskets. This is to save the honor of Ali Hague's defeat, and the second is to attract the attention of most capitals, and send more troops and generals......

At the beginning of April, Long Wenxiang was the first to get the news that Zhao Lieren was the prince and the superintendent of the country, and he was really surprised and delighted.

What is surprising is that this Zhao Mengbei is not an ordinary clan, he has the appearance of the Taizu of the early Song Dynasty, he started with a battle, and his martial arts are outstanding. At the beginning, with only one partial division of the Dragon Bird Army, it repeatedly defeated Ma Chengwang, Ma Fuji, Lost The Hague, Ali Hague and other Yuan army generals. Now that he has established a prince and integrated all the Song troops of the Xing Dynasty, his combat power has soared, and he is afraid that he will be an emperor again.

Happily, if this remnant Song Dynasty is headless, most of the people may only boil the frog in warm water and slowly exterminate it. But now that another monarch is established, it is undoubtedly a call for the Xue Chan Khan in Dadu. Meng Yuanjun's ministers must be stimulated a lot, and they can't pay attention to it if they don't want to.

Long Wenmaung doesn't want anything else now, but just asks the coastal state capitals to quickly lose the soldiers and horses to keep Qiong Guan from losing. Otherwise, even if his official position comes to an end, he may not even be able to keep his head. Unfortunately, until the end of April, not many of the elite soldiers he was looking forward to came, but the inferior soldiers arrived in a boatload.

Subsequently, he received an official letter from Jinghu Province, saying that the coastal state capitals such as Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Huizhou, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Nan'enzhou, Leizhou, Yingdefu, Deqing, etc., under the rule of the prefectures, the people's will fluctuated, and rebellions swarmed, and it was really impossible to draw too many troops. The rest of the soldiers and horses on all roads will not be able to reach Qiongzhou Yunyun in a short time due to the long distance and dangerous road. The implication is that brother, you take it first, and wait until you make up your mind.

What this official document said is not perfunctory or false, in the more than ten years after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty in history, the most uprisings broke out in the Fujian and Guangzhou regions. Gang after gang, wave after wave, one after another. Until the death of Kublai Khan, the uprising did not stop. Even if these uprisings failed in the end, they also left Meng Yuan anxious and exhausted.

The reason why this is so is because the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed here in history, sprinkling countless sparks and burning the plains. And now, instead of being destroyed, the downward dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, and the more you fight, the more courageous you are. The momentum spread, how could many brave heroes in Fujian and Guangxi not respond in all directions? With such a containment in all directions, Meng Yuan can't transfer troops nearby, or even if he does, he doesn't dare to transfer elite troops - you Long Wenxiang is afraid of losing the city and losing his head, and other governors are not afraid?

Long Wenxiang pinched the official document and sighed, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, and step up war preparations. A few days ago, I received a letter from an old friend in Dadu, saying that the imperial court was very likely to send Zhang Hongfan, the general of Zhenguo and the consolation envoy of Jiangdong Province, to come to pacify the remnants of the Song Dynasty, hoping that he could hold on.

"General Zhang Hongfan, the strongest blow to the remnant Song was sent by him, that is the nemesis of the Song people!" Long Wen's appearance was worried and happy, and he only hoped that the reaction of Yacheng would be as slow as possible, and it was best to wait until the Dadu Imperial Court made a decision and sent troops, and then the Song people would ......

However, Long Wenmaung couldn't wait for the "then" he wanted.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, in the Duanyang season, at the north gate of Qiongguan and the mouth of the white sand beach, countless dragon boats appeared.

On the vast sea, thousands of sails are lined up, and hundreds of boats compete for the current, not for boat racing, just for taking people's heads!