Thick smoke came out of the burning warship, and black and red flames burst out of the hull, I don't know what was burning, and there was a crackling sound from the cabin. Broken weapons, bows and arrows were everywhere, and the people who used them had been reduced to cold corpses, with stumps, severed arms and corpses piled up on the deck, stacked with wooden planks that had been dismantled from the field.

Zhang Hongfan was still waiting for his subordinates to count the battle damage, but he already admired the lifeless bodies on the deck very much. Over the years, the Song army has been weak in his impression, and he has seen many people who died bravely in battle, but it is the characteristic of most Song troops to flee in a hurry, and he has never fought a battle like this.

A formed team obviously has the ability and opportunity to escape, but it chooses to fight a decisive battle with the Yuan soldiers who have an absolute advantage. Every soldier knows that once the enemy is defeated in water warfare, he will lose the opportunity to escape, and the end of defeat will be either death or surrender, and there is absolutely no third way.

While keeping the hull undamaged, any ship can get out of this melee alone, as long as it is not in the direction of Goose Island, escaping can save the lives of the entire ship, and the Yuan soldiers will definitely not chase you.

However, these more than 100 Song army warships, regardless of the size of the hull and the number of soldiers on board, all chose to fight and die in this place, which was the first time Zhang Hongfan saw the Song army so decisive. He was also thinking in his heart, why in such an environment, the Song army's combat strength was so heroic, and when they had the advantage in troops, they were defeated by a single charge of cavalry?

If the Song army had always been this heroic combat tradition, the Mongol iron cavalry would be invincible in the world, and it would not be able to defeat the Song army, which was more than ten times their strength, even if they relied on their desperate efforts, they would have to frighten the Yuan soldiers to go around the city and no longer dare to take a step south.

"My lord, 1,400 of our officers and men were killed, 2,500 were wounded, 25 warships were damaged and 17 were sunk!"

Zhang Hongfan's eyebrows raised, and then asked, "How about the loss of the gunboat?" ”

"There are only two minor injuries, which can be repaired slightly, and most of the sunken warships were covering gunboats, which were knocked over by the Song warships."

"Well, pass the order, rest in place today, dispose of the corpses and warships of the Song army, and cremate them as much as possible, and there must be no intentional omissions."

"Yes, General!"

The warships that caught fire in the early days were all lit by the Song army who were desperately working in the bottom warehouse, and they didn't want to leave their warships to the Yuan soldiers in despair. After Zhang Hongfan gave the order, he really sent a large number of manpower to sort out the corpses of the dead Song army, and none of the corpses were deliberately thrown into the sea to feed the fish, and all of them were concentrated on the deck of the warship, and an unparalleled cremation at sea was held. The collective funeral of nearly 20,000 people can be said to be earth-shattering, and the Song army warships that were gathered together did not extinguish the fire that burned all night.

When the pursuit in the South China Sea was in full swing, the day outside the city of Guangzhou was very comfortable, and the task of not attacking the city was simply too easy, and there was no strength to restrain him in the city, and the villages within a radius of dozens of miles outside the city became his playthings.

Zhang Zhensun ordered the people along the road to evacuate in advance, but they were so clean, and many people were not even notified at all, especially the small villages in the middle of the mountains and half the water, who did not know that there was a war outside.

At the beginning, the town had become his big camp, and the tavern on Cross Street had become a big tent for the Chinese army, and now there were four Han girls who had been captured, serving him in the tavern to eat and live, and living like a local emperor.

Every day, seven or eight squads of cavalry were sent to patrol the villages near the city of Guangzhou, and if they encountered ordinary people, they would either be killed or captured for hard labor. In this way, day by day, the day was extremely comfortable, and he gradually relaxed the embankment of the Song army in the city, and always felt that the city was sending troops to fight him, and there was enough time for him to leave.

In the open space next to the tavern that evening, more than a dozen barbecue racks had been set up early, and dozens of fat sheep that had just been slaughtered had been cleaned, wrapped in spices and salt, and were being pickled, and they would be put on the barbecue shelves after a while.

The Mongol cavalry attached great importance to intelligence collection and scouting intelligence, and although Na Risong was careless about the strength of Guangzhou City, he was not negligent in the regular intelligence collation and scout arrangements, and there were dozens of cavalry at any time, patrolling outside the city of Guangzhou.

These scout cavalry were largely unarmoured, armed with a recurve bow and a long and short scimitar, and generally had three types of arrows in their crates for different purposes. One is heavy and narrow, and is used for long-range shots, which can pierce through chain mail, another is large and broad, and is used to kill enemies at close range and cause large wounds, and the last is a signal arrow with gunpowder strapped to it.

They usually work in groups of two or three, and when they encounter a military situation that needs to be reported, they often immediately send back one person to report, while the rest continue to investigate the situation. Only when they encounter an emergency and they are unable to return, they will release signals and arrows to the sky, warning their troops to prepare for battle in advance.

It was late in the sky and the moon was in the sky, and the Mongolian custom of drinking and eating meat could not be changed at any time, the barbecue meeting in the town had begun, and the first round of dozens of fat sheep had entered the stomachs of the soldiers, and at the same time, there was fragrant wine into the stomachs.

That Risong drank a few glasses happily, he held a trembling Han girl in his arms, tears on his panicked face, this is the mountain village girl who was just arrested today, and has been frightened by this scene.

"Haha, little beauty, come and have a drink with me, seeing that it is so lively today, I should do a happy event for you! Ha ha! ”

"I don't want it, I want to go home! Please......"

That day, Song laughed fiercely, and his big mouth full of wine came to the little girl's face, stretched out his big tongue and licked it like a wolf dog.

"It's so tender and fragrant, you will marry me today, and you will be my woman from now on. In the future, you will eat and drink spicy food, and you will enjoy endless glory and wealth, thousands of times stronger than you nesting in that ravine, shouldn't you be happy? Come give me a laugh! ”

The surrounding groups of red-faced middle-level generals of the Yuan soldiers laughed loudly at the girl, and their bloodshot eyes began to aim at the other women kneeling behind Na Risong.

"Haha, General Ben is happy today, these women are back to you tonight, and when you go out hunting tomorrow, you have to look for such goods, understand!" That Risong glanced at the delicate girl in his arms, and opened his mouth to laugh again.

There were more than 1,000 soldiers around the town tavern, and the fat sheep on the barbecue field were taken off the shelves one by one, and they were quickly divided up, and the bags of soju could see the bottom in a while.

When eating, drinking, laughing and laughing were extremely lively, there were several crackling sounds in the distant sky.