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Chapter 275: The situation is very good

The cavalry of the Song army won the first battle, capturing more than 400 Yuan soldiers such as Suo Duo, killing and wounding countless people, and re-establishing the prestige of the cavalry of the Song Dynasty. To say that although the cavalry of the Song Dynasty was small, there were few horses and few riders, but when they fought against Jin and Liao in the past, it was not that they did not fight a hard battle, and the Northern Song Dynasty had the Yang family generals and the Southern Song Dynasty had the Yue family army, and there was a brave cavalry team at that time.

At the same time, the establishment of this cavalry team will also mean that the Song army is passively beaten from time to time, and has since had the ability to take the initiative to attack large-scale operations, but at present, the number and equipment still need to be improved, and it is not the type of troops that dominates the battle in Zhao Tianyou's eyes.

The Yuan army was defeated and returned like a lost dog, Ali Hague was trampled like mud by the chaotic army, Ashu was smashed into meat sauce by iron bullets, and the three giants of the entire Yuan army died two at once, and Boyan was also seriously ill and unable to command the remnants of the army.

I only stayed for a short time in the Qingyuan camp, and I was always afraid that the Song army would go out of the city to pursue, so I loaded everything that could be taken away and dumped everything I couldn't take away in Qingyuan. In addition to the nearly 200,000 killed and wounded in the three battles, the more than 400,000 troops who marched south one after another were only more than 30,000 troops, plus more than 20,000 extraterritorial laborers who had nowhere to go, drove countless horses, cattle and sheep away in a hurry.

It took nearly half a month to clean up the battlefield before and after the Song army, and this time the harvest was quite rich, especially the large number of supplies left by the Qing Yuan soldiers, the most valuable of which was a large number of war horses that were too late to take away, and the number was actually more than 20,000.

This is not the end, in these battles, Meng Yuan was frightened and fled more war horses, most of them were scattered to the surrounding villages, and were caught by the nearby people and sent to the market to sell. After Ling Zhen learned the news, he offered a price, as long as it was Meng Yuan's war horse, as long as it was sent to Guangzhou City, he could get a reward of one hundred taels of silver.

This is a big investment, because these hundreds of thousands of horses are scattered everywhere, and it is not something that can be completed in a day or two if you want to catch them all, and a special horse hunting team has been set up in the townships near Guangzhou.

However, this also needs a large amount of silver to appease the people, and the budget of 20 million taels of silver is an astronomical amount for Guangzhou City, but with Zhao Tianyou, the big money owner, as the backing, Zhang Zhensun and Ling Zhen's waists are not good, and the tone of spending money is much bigger than in the past.

Zhao Tianyou also has the heart to support the development and growth of this cavalry, and in the future it is inevitable to concentrate on the Northern Expedition, and the number of trained cavalry is not enough, and at the same time, the artillery needs to be mobile and flexible transportation, and a large number of new artillery vehicles need a large number of cavalry to protect.

Once the situation reversed, anti-Yuan forces emerged one after another, some of the original Song Dynasty officials organized to kill the Yuan soldiers stationed there, and some of the rebel armies formed in the surrounding townships, killing all the Yuan and Song army generals in one go.

There is a problem that makes Zhao Tianyou laugh, I didn't care about it at the beginning, but now it has developed and it can't be avoided, that is, the anti-Yuan forces everywhere that pull the flag, and those who play the banner of Zhao Tianyou account for eighty percent, only those places where the old generals of the Song Dynasty are in charge, I am embarrassed not to pull the banner of the Great Song Dynasty.

The southeast coast stretches from Wenzhou to the south, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, and all the way through Guangzhou, and all the port cities have imitated the banner of Hong Kong Island, and the army has also claimed to have been under the command of the South China Sea Fleet, which has virtually deducted a big hat for Zhao Tianyou.

Immediately following the inland city close to Guangzhou, Jizhou in Jiangxi Province, Yongzhou, Hunan Province took the lead in the uprising, especially Jizhou is the main birthplace of the Jiangxi army, and it is also the place where Wen Tianxiang lived for a long time, and the heart of resistance to the Yuan is even stronger.

Perhaps it was the great victory of the Song army in Guangzhou that gave the anti-Yuan forces in various places infinite courage and strength, especially in the anti-Yuan battle in Jizhou, the 5,000-garrison Mengyuan cavalry was defeated by more than 10,000 rebel troops mainly composed of rural peasants.

In particular, it should be noted that these more than 10,000 rebel troops did not receive any help from Guangzhou, although they also carried the banner of Wen Tianxiang, but when the war in Guangzhou had just subsided, Guangzhou could not support any inland cities except for the coastal port cities.

Under the leadership of a college teacher in Bailuzhou Academy, they took the Luo family, a highly respected martial arts family, as the main force, and called on the disciples and grandchildren in the nearby townships to raise affairs together, and on a dark and windy night of a month, they raided the Yuan army garrison and burned the barracks.

The fire prevented the Yuan army from getting on the horse to fight, and was killed in a panic, and when it was really a knife and a shot, the righteous army was supported by the surrounding Han army, and after a night of bloody fighting, none of the Yuan soldiers were let go.

Hong Kong Island and Guangzhou have developed rapidly, and a large number of coal mines have been discovered in the mountains of Qingyuan, as well as high-grade iron ore and copper mines, but the energy problem that has been plaguing Zhao Tianyou has been solved.

The captured Yuan army prisoners of war were all put to use, and those Zhu Qing's subordinates did not escape the fate of hard labor, and they were all invested in the construction and development of the Qingyuan mine. At the same time, a large stockyard wharf was set up in Beijiang outside Qingyuan City, and a steady stream of iron ore from coal mines was loaded and shipped along Beijiang to Hong Kong Island.

With the explosive growth of military power, Zhang Zhensun began to appoint officials from some prefectures and counties, and stationed a certain number of troops to garrison them.

At this time, the strength of the Yuan army in Guangxi became the closest threat, and Li Heng led the army to support Boyan to attack Guangzhou, but the rising water of the Xijiang River broke the stone bridge, and their lack of ships delayed the crossing time.

When Li Heng led the army to approach Guangzhou, the first thing he encountered was a deserter who fled from outside Guangzhou, and he caught a few and tortured him, only to know that the general trend had gone and he arrived too late, so he turned around and walked back to Wuzhou.

Because during the prosperous period of the Song Dynasty, the rule over Guangxi and Yunnan was not very strong, and most of the time it was the appointment of a local minority head of the territory to govern in his name.

And Kublai Khan's method is even more so, directly appointing local powerful families as high-ranking officials, taking charge of the affairs of a place, and then symbolically sending some Yuan troops to garrison. Therefore, the folk atmosphere of Guangxi's anti-Yuan is the lowest, and even some tribes don't care at all, who is the emperor and they all live the same.

There is a strong demand for material exchange within a radius of several hundred miles, and there is only one place that can provide safe transactions, and that is to come to Guangzhou, and maybe there is a chance to do business with Hong Kong Island, which means a wealth route as wide as the sea.

At this time, Zhao Tianyou remembered Li Heng again, he was already the closest military town of the Yuan Dynasty to Guangzhou, and the current momentum of Guangzhou's economic and military development was booming, Zhao Tianyou didn't want anyone to disturb him.

So Guangzhou was initiated by Zhang Zhensun and sent to the young emperor stationed in the county seat of Xinxian County, the content of which was to prepare at the right time to raise troops to ask for the approval of the emperor of Wuzhou.

For this relatively formal official document that suddenly came, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu were dumbfounded!