On August 18, Leizhou was shocked.

Zhang Hongfan, the marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies, and Li Heng, the deputy marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies, led a large army to suddenly appear in Suixi and surrounded Liu Xiaozhong with nearly 10,000 troops. The front and rear attack, with the momentum of thunder, only took half an hour to defeat the 2,000 Song army. Liu Xiaozhong died in the chaos, and the Song army survived in Leizhou.

At the same time, the Yuan army also dispatched a large number of boat divisions from Qinzhou, Lianzhou and other coastal state capitals to attack the Song army in Leizhou left and right, intending to annihilate the Song army's maritime power in one fell swoop and trap the remaining Song army in Leizhou.

Zhang Hongfan endured Guangzhou for several months, like a dormant poisonous snake, if he didn't make a move, he would be vicious and abnormal, leaving no way for Song Jun to survive.

If there is no accident, with the strength of Zhang Ba's thousands of boat divisions, it will be difficult to escape the combined attack of several times the Yuan army and boat divisions, but the accident happened, in fact, it is not an accident, just like what Zhao Lie worried about when he attacked Luzhou and Leizhou - the typhoon is coming!

July and August are the most frequent typhoons in the South China Sea, and when Zhao Hunt attacked Leizhou last time, it only took a few days to end the fighting, and almost the day after the squad returned to Qiong, the typhoon swept in. Since most of the boat division had returned to port, the casualties were not large, but only a part of the loss of the follow-up supply ships.

Because the Dragon Bird Army had been prepared in advance, it saw the opportunity quickly and escaped, while the Yuan Army was not so lucky.

When the Yuan armies of Qinzhou and Lianzhou raided Leizhou, the two sides exchanged fire, and the periphery of the Song army's Zhou division was broken through, and they were defeated and retreated, losing nearly half of the ships, and they were about to be completely surrounded. Sudden strong winds on the sea, dark clouds surging, turbid waves emptying, the power of heaven and earth is truly terrifying.

Due to the geographical advantage and the strong wind, the Song army immediately returned to Hong Kong urgently, and the loss was not large. And the Yuan army can fall blood mold, where the wind and waves go, the mast is broken, the cable is broken, the big ship tilts, the small boat capsizes, I don't know how many Yuan soldiers fell into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp. In the end, when the Yuan army and the boat division fled back to Qinzhou and Lianzhou like a lost dog, the losses suffered far exceeded the losses of the Song army. At this point, the Yuan Army's Boat Division was no longer able to blockade Leizhou Port, and the plan to trap the Song Army in Leizhou was aborted.

Zhang Hongfan was not defeated by the Song army and was defeated by God.

The base camp of the Song army in Qiongguan only learned the news on the third day after the typhoon, and 100,000 people urgently reported that Zhao Hunt, who was testing the manufacture of muskets and artillery in the "iron house" of the Wan'an Army. Zhao Lie rushed back to Qiongguan as soon as possible, and immediately beat the drum to gather the generals to discuss countermeasures.

Zhao Lie first listened to the intelligence of the martial arts team, and wanted to find out where Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng's tens of thousands of yuan army came from, and why they suddenly appeared without a little warning?

Most of the members of the martial arts team come from the crow organization, and they have a good set of intelligence collection, and they also have their own contacts and ways. In addition, the black crow also belonged to the command of the Dragon Bird Army at this time, and all kinds of resources were used at will, and there were local heroes in Liangguang who secretly supported them, passed on news, probed the enemy, and quickly figured out the situation of the Yuan army.

"Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng did not use a large number of Guangzhou troops, but they did not notice it because of our eyes distributed in Guangzhou." Long Feiyi reported to Zhao Lie and other generals,

Jiang Fenglie was greatly surprised: "If the Guangzhou army is not used, where do their soldiers come from?" ”

"Most of the Yuan troops who attacked my Leizhou belonged to the Annan Xuanwei Division, and there was also a Mongolian elite soldier who was the king of Zhennan."

Su Jingzhan lost his voice: "It turned out to be Annan Xuanwei Division!" ”

The Annan Propaganda Department was established by Meng Yuan at the beginning of the year, with Buyan Temur as the governor and the marshal of the Xuanhui envoy, and the seat of governance was Xuanhua (now Nanning) on Nanning Road. And Zhennan Wang Tuhuan is the eighth son of Kublai Khan, who has long been arranged here by Kublai Khan, gathering troops and grain and grass, preparing to conquer Annam, Zhancheng and other countries after destroying the Southern Song Dynasty.

In order to confuse the Song army, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng did not use more than 100,000 yuan of troops in Guangzhou, but only led thousands of elite horsemen to detour from Huguang to Xuanhua in the state that the Yuan army normally mobilized troops and horses to go south to the Annan Xuanwei Division, and then asked the Annan Xuanwei Division and the soldiers and horses of Dehuan to launch a surprise attack on the Song army in Leizhou.

Zhao Lie sighed deeply: "What a Zhang Hongfan...... It was our mistake that we made a mistake. ”

Ouyang Guanhou said: "Now is not the time to review, we must come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible to relieve the siege of Leizhou." ”

Shi Yang patted the case: "Then what else is there to discuss, one word - fight!" ”

Shi Yang proposed to immediately mobilize all the boat divisions, transport all the Longque Army stationed in Qiongguan, especially the musket battalion, to Leizhou, assist Zhang Ba, defend the city, and strike hard at the invading Yuan army.

"Don't think that eating Liu Xiaozhong's 2,000 men and horses and crippling Zhang Ba's navy is defeating the Dragon Bird Army, and the real Dragon Bird Army and other troops have not yet made a move!" Just at the military seat, Shi Yang pulled out a knife and stabbed the case, yelling and screaming, and was angry.

No wonder he was so angry, this was the biggest defeat of the Dragon Sparrow Army since its formation, losing more than 3,000 men and ships before and after, and also losing a command-level general.

Since the recovery of Leizhou, the Longque Army has carried out a detailed classification, that is, the three-level troop system of A, B, and C.

The original Baiyi Battalion, the Broken Battalion, the Zhongshun Battalion, the Chijiao Battalion, the Martial Arts Battalion, the Yanling Battalion, the Sea Squad and the old battalions of Zhang Ba and Su Jingzhan were first-class troops. All newly recruited battalions are Class B troops. The regiments of the states, armies, counties, and townships train the township soldiers as C-class (i.e., reserve) troops.

Among them, the first-class troops have the strongest combat effectiveness and the most well-equipped, and even Ali Hague can overturn them, and they are a strong army in the true sense. The second-class troops were the new barracks composed of the newly surrendered and captured new annexed troops and the Han army, which were mostly the standard equipment of the Song army at that time, such as spears, bows, crossbows, and cards, and their combat effectiveness and equipment were not commendable. Such an army could not represent the Dragon Bird Army at all, so it was no wonder that Shi Yang was so angry.

However, Ouyang Guanhou smiled: "Why should I be angry, if Zhang Hongfan thinks that this is the real combat power of the Dragon Bird Army, and has a contempt for it, wouldn't it give me an opportunity to take advantage of?" ”

Shi Yang thinks about it, but he is still haunted by this fiasco.

The generals Su Jingzhan, Chang Tai, Wan Zhong and other generals thought that the enemy army was strong, and Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were all famous generals of the Yuan army. It is best to take advantage of the fact that the Yuan army has not yet cut off the sea passage and withdraw all of Zhang Ba's troops to Qiongzhou as soon as possible. Then lead the Yuan army to cross the sea and fight the enemy in Qiongguan.

Shi Yang was full of confidence in the combat strength of the Dragon Bird Army, and was not afraid of a decisive battle with the Yuan army in Leizhou, and at the same time, he also thought that Leizhou was driven out by the Yuan army just a few days after it was recovered, which was too frustrating.

Chen Bingxuan was also worried: "Leizhou is the first mainland state capital recovered by the Xing Dynasty, which is of great significance. ”

Zhao Lie pondered for a long time, and when he heard that the generals below were still arguing, he knocked hard and shouted: "Although because of the typhoon, the Yuan Army's Boat Division failed to annihilate our Leizhou Navy, and its own vitality was greatly damaged, but there is intelligence that the Yuan Army in Guangzhou has begun to move. Once the more than 100,000 yuan army in Guangzhou is transported, no, as long as it is transported halfway, the Leizhou Zhang Ba Department will not be able to escape the destruction. Therefore, whether to fight or withdraw must be decided as soon as possible. ”

In the midst of the quarrel between "battle" and "withdrawal", an astonishing voice suddenly sounded: "The last general proposes that our army not only give up Leizhou, but also give up Qiongguan!" ”

The quarrel stopped suddenly, and all of them looked at the person who spoke - the deputy capital of the Dragon Bird Army, Jiang Fenglie.