In August of the third year of Xiangxing, the eyes of the world were focused on a small coastal state city called Leizhou.

Batulu, the most courageous general of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and Zhang Hongfan, the famous general who destroyed the Song Dynasty, led nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses from the most elite Jinghu Province to besiege Leizhou, which had just fallen into the hands of the Song army. At the same time, more than 100,000 boat divisions that had gathered in Guangzhou earlier were mobilized to go south, and they were menacing, and there was a great deal of ending the frame of the dynasty in one fell swoop. Meng Yuan seems to be going to summon the world through this series of violent actions, you are in the wilderness and isolated island, I will slowly clean you up, but you will never be allowed to wash your feet and go ashore, dare to cross the strait, what awaits you is a devastating blow.

After the siege of the city, the Yuan army did not rush to attack, but slowly cleared the perimeter. Luzhou, Danzhou, Xuwen, Guantou Village and other Leizhou affiliated counties were captured one by one, and soon Leizhou became a lonely city by the sea. If it weren't for the fact that the Song army in Leizhou still had some boat divisions, firmly controlled the coastal wharves and maintained an escape route, I was afraid that without the Yuan army attacking, these recruits who had just surrendered would mutiniate and join the enemy.

The situation was so critical, but the Song army in Qiongzhou had not moved, neither sending troops to cross the sea for reinforcements, nor letting the Song army in Leizhou withdraw. According to the information spied by the Yuan army, the reason for this situation was that the opinions of the generals of the Song army in Qiongguan were different from the opinions of the ministers of the Yacheng Xing Dynasty.

The generals of the Song army believed that the enemy army was large and the isolated city was difficult to support, and in order to protect Leizhou, it was necessary to continuously invest troops and grain. The Qiongzhou Strait is separated, which causes great trouble to logistics, and the defeat of Ali in The Hague may not be without this reason. At the beginning of the dynasty, the troops and salaries were insufficient, and if they were desperate to throw themselves into the hard posts of Leizhou and the Yuan army, they were afraid that they would shake the fundamentals. If you win, you will be greatly injured, and if you lose, you will be beaten back to your original shape, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Yacheng, on the other hand, takes more into account the political influence of Leizhou. The Song army's recovery of Leizhou proved that the Xing Dynasty had re-emerged and had the ability to fight back to his hometown. The people of the world, looking south to the king, the Central Plains are fishy, and they must be clarified. If you abandon it without a bloody battle, won't it make the people of insight in the world cold?

On the one hand, there are political factors, and on the other hand, there are military realities, which make it difficult for Qiong to manage the base camp of the Song army. This is the consistent fault of the line, the front line and the rear, the army and the court, disagreeing with each other, restraining each other, delaying the opportunity, resulting in repeated failures.

The Yuan army was secretly happy after finding out the news, and while stepping up the mobilization of the boat division to the south, it continued to shrink its forces, besieged but not attacked, intending to force the Song army in Leizhou to collapse without a fight, and capture Leizhou without blood.

However, only three days later, an explosive news stunned the Yuan army - Qiongguan Song Junzhou Division suddenly crossed the strait, encountered the Yuan army's maritime patrol ships, and exchanged fire in just one hour, sinking thirteen Yuan saberfish ships, capturing two Yuan army thousand warships, and the rest of the warships and swordfish ships saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly retreated. The Song Junzhou Division broke the blockade of the Yuan army and drove straight in.

Then the Song army in Leizhou began to evacuate from the sea in batches, and the Yuan army had strong troops on land, but the combat strength at sea was seriously insufficient, and they could only watch as thousands of Song troops boarded warships and supply ships and left.

The boiled duck flew!

It was only at this time that Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng knew that they were placed together by the Song people. The current Great Song Dynasty may be very different from the Great Song they knew before, and the various shortcomings between the former Great Song generals are no longer seen in this dynasty that has risen again after being forced to the end of the world. If they continue to extrapolate according to their previous mindset, they are afraid that they will suffer even greater losses.

At the end of August, all the Song troops withdrew from Leizhou, and when the last Song ship left the dock, the vanguard of the Yuan army had already entered the west gate of Leizhou.

In the understanding of Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng, this is a bloodless battle to attack the heart. Although the plan to gather and annihilate the elite of the Song army in Leizhou was not achieved, it was also a great victory to force the Song army out of Leizhou with the coercion of power. However, when their army entered the city, there was a loud sound that shook the mountains, and the Yuan army was not only stained with blood, but also paid a heavy price.

The Yuan army's entire team of Mongolian elite cavalry and a small group of elite Tanma Red Army disappeared into the collapsed city gate hole in the violent explosion......

Even though Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng boasted of being world-famous generals, in the face of such unconventional blasting tactics beyond their understanding, in addition to being stunned, their spines were even more chilling - if they happened to enter the city gate just now, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In fact, the Dragon Bird Army transported 3,000 catties of explosives, and spent four days and three nights hollowing out the Ximen City Foundation, and finally arranged for several daredevils to detonate it manually, and the target was Zhang Hongfan or Li Heng or simply the two of them...... Unfortunately, there were too many uncertain factors in manual detonation, and in the end, for unknown reasons (because all the daredevils died, it was impossible to know the details), the explosives were detonated in advance, and only killed dozens of Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng's leading guards, and Zhang and Li Erjiang escaped.

In this explosion, the Yuan army did not suffer many casualties, but only 100 people, but the consequences were far worse than this. The nearly 10,000 soldiers who were entering Leizhou as victors witnessed such a bloody and tragic scene, and all of them lost their color, and the originally high morale fell to the bottom, and the people were panicked, for fear that there would be another explosion and they would become unlucky ghosts. So there was a large-scale search inside and outside the city, and the slightest movement was tense for a long time, quite like a soldier.

Not only that, the team of Mongolian elite cavalry that died was not Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng's personal guards, but a hundred battle elite soldiers borrowed from Zhennan Wang Tuhuan, and it was not small to kill a team at once. Even with Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng's current official merits and prestige, they have to ask for guilt, and they don't know how to explain to Tuhuan. If you want to pass the current level, perhaps, you can only cross the sea as soon as possible to defeat and completely destroy the remnant Song Dynasty on the opposite side that is avoiding the desert island.

At the end of August, with the arrival of the Yuan Army Boat Division in Guangzhou, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng finally saw hope.

In mid-September, the 100,000 yuan army crossed the sea and came to kill Benqiong. The Song army did not retreat this time, held the city, fought tenaciously, and resisted tens of thousands of troops for more than ten days without retreating.

At this time, there were two opinions in the Yuan army command: one was to take Ali Hague's repeated failures in attacking Qiongguan as an example, thinking that if he only relied on a strong attack, even if he captured Qiongguan, he would lose his troops and lose his generals, and it would take time, so it was better to divide his troops to kill the Wan'an army or even Yacheng, and cut off the back road of the Qiongguan Song army. Once successful, Joan Guan will be self-defeating. Another opinion is that although Yacheng is in the Song Kingdom, but the real ruler of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Lie, who is in charge of Qiong and not in Yacheng, this person is a confidant, and he is the crown prince of the Song State. Besides, even if you break through Yacheng and capture a few ministers and queen mothers, it may not have much effect, but it will thin the troops. With the experience of Ali Hague, no one dares to take the Dragon Bird Army lightly.

In the end, Zhang Hongfan adopted the second opinion, concentrated his forces, and stormed Qiongguan - when he was fighting the Battle of Kushan, he could destroy the 200,000 army of the Song State with 100,000 boat divisions, but he didn't believe that the same 100,000 boat divisions could not destroy the remnants of the Song State with more than 10,000 soldiers!

Sure enough, persistence can always be rewarded, after the Yuan army intensified its efforts to attack Qiongguan for more than ten days, paying thousands of casualties, in mid-October, Qiongguan City was broken.

Due to the blockade of the sea route, Zhao Lie, the superintendent of the Great Song Dynasty, led thousands of remnants of his army and retreated into Chengmai Mountain. The intention was to transfer from Chengmai to Changhua, and join forces with the Changhua army to refuse. However, the Yuan army came first, taking advantage of the faster sea route than the land route, and arrived first and quickly occupied the Changhua army.

Zhao Hunt had no choice but to lead the remnants of the army to retreat into the primitive jungle called "Five Finger Mountain" by later generations - the reckless Cangcang Limu Mountain.