Boyan ordered him to continue to attack Guangzhou with his whole army, and also to divide a fast force with men and horses, mainly light cavalry, to break into the Yangjiang and Maoming areas, and cooperate with Zhang Hongfan and Zhu Qing's sea warships to encircle Zhang Shijie, who might dock.

"Humph! Okay, you Zhang Hongfan, the action is one step ahead of Li, can you take this credit! ”

Li Heng slapped the military order on the table, closed his eyes with his hand on the military order, and let out a deep breath, soothing his anxious mood. Now he is very easy to get angry and lose his temper, especially when it comes to military affairs, once it comes to Guangzhou, Li Heng, who is known for his calmness, is like a hairy boy, and he will be angry at all.

"That day Song obeyed the order! Order you to conquer the vanguard officer of Guangzhou, order 8,000 cavalry, and send the troops by land to Guangzhou early tomorrow morning, and ask you to rush to the city of Guangzhou within ten days! ”

"Respect General Li Shuai! Within 10 days, you will reach the city of Guangzhou! ”

That day, Song came out to receive the order, but in fact, his mind was a mess, and he didn't know what Li Shuai's order meant, but he didn't dare to question it in front of the Chinese army's tent.

"Xie Guoyong listened to the order, named you as the waterway inspector, ordered 1,000 troops and 20 fast boats, and inspected all the way along the Xijiang River to ensure that the troop transport warships were unimpeded!"

"Respect General Li Shuai!"

"Agudamu listened to the order and ordered you to lead 10,000 light cavalry to tour along both sides of the Xijiang River to defeat the Song Dynasty township army that came around, and focus on preventing the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty army in Zhaoqing Mansion."

"Respect General Li Shuai!"

Li Heng arranged it in an orderly manner this time, paying special attention to the protection of the smooth waterway, but the arrangement seemed to be a bit excessive, because the Song army in Zhaoqing and Foshan had been wiped out, and it was very difficult to organize a team of hundreds of people, so why should more than 10,000 cavalry be sent to protect it.

There is also the pioneer officer who explored the way, Na Risong, a distance of 500 miles, as long as there is no large-scale Song army on the road, the light cavalry will arrive in Guangzhou in as little as three days or as many as five days, why did he give a military order to arrive in ten days.

Seeing that everyone accepted the military order in a daze, each went to reorganize their own teams, and prepared to set off according to the accepted task, the anger in Li Heng's heart gradually dissipated. In Li Heng's heart, his status is higher than Zhang Hongfan, and he is also very competitive with the army to fight in the north and south, and he has not tasted a defeat for many years, and has repeatedly defeated the Song army, and was awarded the post of marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies by Kublai Khan.

What is he Zhang Hongfan, as a Hanmin born but after the surrender of the Jin State, although he is also a famous civil and military all-round general with outstanding military achievements, he is also a pariahs who are inferior to him in Li Heng's heart. And after he Li Heng is a member of the Western Xia royal family, how can his identity be comparable to Zhang Hongfan and his ilk, but now he is in power is Zuo Prime Minister Boyan, Zhang Hongfan has been following him for many years, and he is Boyan's confidant and favorite general, he can only suppress him from military merits.

However, Li Heng suffered heavy losses in Guangzhou, and Zhang Hongfan took Meizhou lightly to bombard Chaozhou, in the eyes of Boyan, it is important to say which is more important, although Li Heng is the marshal of the Mongolian Han army, but he still has to listen to his generals' arrangements. All right! Since you asked me to cooperate with Zhang Hongfan, then I have to march cautiously and arrange it carefully and carefully, maybe it will take longer.

Due to the huge movement of the military dispatch in the direction of Wuzhou, almost half of Wuzhou was about to be turned over, and soon scouts sent the news back to Guangzhou.

"Interesting! Zhang Hongfan boarded the ship and went to sea to bypass Guangzhou, and Li Heng of Wuzhou came to attack Guangzhou again, I don't know if it was by water or land this time! ”

Ling Zhen said: "The eight thousand cavalry archers and horses have been skilled, coupled with the new powerful equipment, whether it is a waterway or a dry road, we have the strength to compete with the Yuan soldiers, I am willing to lead the troops to attack and meet the enemy and the outside of Guangzhou!" ”

Guangzhou was besieged twice by Yuan soldiers, and there was never a precedent for going out of the city to meet the enemy, and Ling Zhen dared to do this, but also to break this situation of being beaten and beaten, and improve the morale of the Song army.

"The vanguard of the Yuan army is about 10,000 people, and they are already on their way out of the city to Guangzhou, and I have sent scouts to inform the township troops organized by the people everywhere to take refuge, and they cannot kill them with eggs and stones. Let them come over smoothly and leave it to us to deal with, this time we must let them have no return, and leave Li Heng's head in Guangzhou. ”

After Zhang Zhensun finished speaking, he glanced at Zhao Tianyou beside him, and his inquiring eyes motioned for him to express his opinion.

"Lord Zhang, don't look at me, our Second Artillery Corps will fully cooperate with Lord Zhang in the battle, and my men will be under your command, and if there are any tactical arrangements, you only need to explain to the division commander Du Hu, and all firearms can be mobilized."

Zhao Tianyou always felt that the battle in Guangzhou would not be the real core, and the disappeared Zhang Hongfan was what he scrupled, so he arranged in advance for Du Hu to come to Guangzhou to command the troops under the Second Artillery Corps.

Wang Daofu's face changed, and he seemed to feel that Zhao Tianyou's attention was not in Guangzhou, was he afraid that Hong Kong Island would be besieged by the Yuan soldiers?

"Won't General Zhao stay in the city of Guangzhou? Are you worried about the safety of Hong Kong Island? ”

Zhao Tianyou smiled, did not answer directly, and said vaguely: "No, I still run on both sides first, and I will stay where there are more things on either side." Hong Kong Island is surrounded by water, and if you want to attack, you must be a ship, and in my territory, as long as a ship comes, I am not afraid, no matter how many come, I will turn him upside down. ”

Zhao Tianyou: This is really not a big deal, now there are eight standard warships belonging to Hong Kong Island, all of which have been completely transformed into gunboats, organized into four naval aviation groups, and cooperated with the same armed to the teeth of the clipper boats, forming a navy named the South China Sea Fleet.

These four brigades patrol the waters of Hong Kong Island in shifts, and unless they take the entire fleet of Zhang Hongfan or Zhu Qing, the dozens of ships that attack will only provide them with mobile targets.

Each gunboat has twelve Hongyi cannons, which are one size and caliber smaller than the Hongyi cannons equipped on the city, but the later craftsmanship is improved, and the accuracy and power are not inferior to the heavy Hongyi cannons equipped in the first batch.

Because the accuracy of the ruler and the aiming method were improved at the same time, the gunboat was much more powerful at sea than the shore defense artillery and the city defense artillery. On land you can escape on horseback, you can bypass the shore defense guns on the dock, but my gunboat is faster than your ship, where can you escape?

No matter how big or small a ship is, as long as it is hit by three or two flowering shells on the gunboat, it cannot be said to be completely incapacitated, but it is basically impossible to resist or escape. And the enemy's warships can only threaten the gunboats with their eyes and curses, and they have no ability to threaten the gunboats in the slightest, so they can only be beaten and unable to do it.

Zhang Zhensun was a little disappointed in his heart, he thought that Zhao Tianyou would fight bravely in Guangzhou City like last time, and even fight on the front line, so he would be more at ease. Since the execution of Jiang Maotong and Qian Kang was tantamount to sending a signal to the imperial court, Zhang Zhensun wanted to further deepen the relationship with Zhao Tianyou and form a more stable alliance.

"That's fine, let's arrange it like this first, adjust it according to the intelligence at any time, everyone go separately to prepare, don't slack off!"

After Zhang Zhensun finished speaking, he said to Zhao Tianyou, who was about to get up and leave: "General Zhao, please stay, Yuexi has something to ask." ”