Chapter 209: Garrison Five Stacks

An unaimed shell happened to fly nearly half a mile more, and landed at the feet of the two younger brothers who had just successfully launched a campaign to kill the eldest brother and had not yet had time to ascend to the throne, and directly gave them a ride to accompany Zhu Qing, who died of grievance, so as not to be lonely on the Huangquan Road.

The news that Zhu Qing was killed by a cannonball spread far and wide, and the Yuan soldiers, who had no fighting spirit, suddenly blew up their nests, and there were warships on the periphery and escape routes, which were directly scattered and lost towards the sea.

After the two rounds of stringed artillery salvos, there were about seventy or eighty warships besieged, and the periphery began to raise white flags to surrender, and those who desperately attacked Ling Zhen's team also stopped, and they all seemed to have the intention of surrendering.

The gunboats closed the encirclement and sent two ships closer to begin to raise flags.

"If you surrender immediately, don't kill, if someone resists, let you all die together!"

After Zhao Tianyou arranged the flag to persuade him to surrender, he ordered a fierce salvo again, and before the explosion was finished, the white flag had already begun to fall. As soon as Zhu Qing died, this group of pirates had completely lost their backbone, and when there was no hope of escape and no resistance was powerless, who would fight to the death.

At this time, Ling Zhen's people came in handy, and began to take over the ships one by one, and after disarming the prisoners, they were loaded by small boats and sent to Ho Jing Ao, which was still an uninhabited island, which was later Macau Island.

There were less than 20,000 Yuan soldiers on the eighty warships, and there were only a few thousand of Ling Zhen's men who captured and received them, but the courage of these people had been broken by the dozens of gunboats, and after they were isolated in groups, no one who wanted to make trouble and resist appeared.

Haojing Ao is now a desert island uninhabited, but the forests, beasts, mountain springs and fresh water are abundant, the Song army only needs to control the docks and boats, these people can't turn the sky even if they want to make trouble, as long as they can't leave the island, it's not a dead end.

There should have been a naval battle here, but due to the early exit of one of the protagonists, Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie's fleet did not stop here, and the very famous Battle of Jingao did not take place in this time and space. So Zhao Tianyou decided to use these prisoners of war to repair the simple wharf in Hac Sa Wan, and send troops to live in Ho Jing Ao, so as to satisfy his wish that he had never been to Macao.

A large-scale naval war that should have been tragic passed by in a flash, and it did not cause much sensation, and Zhu Qing, who had been at sea for nearly 20 years, died without knowing or not.

However, his sworn brother Zhang Xuan counted this revenge on Zhao Tianyou, which was the afterword of the Battle of the Canal.

The largest water fleet of the Yuan army collapsed, but in fact, more than half of the people escaped, and were not completely wiped out. But the sin of escaping from the battle is not light, and the three or five warships that can be fortunate enough to get together will be punished when they go back after a meeting and discussion, so the brothers will simply go to find some habitable pirates, and start a new pirate flag to make a living.

When Boyan heard these news, it was a few days later, and the Yuan soldiers he led first defeated the local township army in Huidong, and then passed through Huizhou, where the Song army abandoned, and went all the way to the vicinity of Zengcheng very smoothly.

Dong Wenbing, who opened the road ahead, was already approaching the city of Guangzhou, and 30,000 horses camped at the foot of the Wudi Ridge, more than 30 miles east of the city, and began to cut down nearby trees to build siege equipment. Dong Wenbing is not in a hurry to go up and start fighting, the task of the pioneer officer to repair the bridge and pave the road has been completed, or wait for the arrival of materials such as heavy artillery, and let Boyan take a look at it steadily, and his future career and official fortune may be better.

After Zhao Tianyou finished dealing with Zhu Qing's fleet, he did not have a moment of rest, and immediately transported some of the cannons removed from the ship and a large number of shells to Guangzhou. Due to the problem of coal supply, the output of coking on Hong Kong Island has been limited, and all the links in the back have been limited by steel casting.

Only four cannons could be installed on the eight-gun ship, and after the naval battle, he seized the time to dismantle some of them and transport them to the city of Guangzhou to prepare for the city defense battle, which also made Zhao Tianyou embarrassed.

However, as the Yuan army became more and more dominant in the north, the coal transportation in Shanxi became more and more unstable, especially this high-quality coal, which could be used to refine coke sooner or later, would be controlled by the Yuan army. At that time, if the coal mines in Qingyuan cannot be opened, coking and steelmaking on Hong Kong Island will probably have to stop, and a series of processes will be affected, and the supply of cannons and shells will be more difficult.

"The vanguard of the Yuan soldiers has been stationed at the foot of the Wudi Ridge, Dong Wenbing is calm and does not rush over, otherwise we will be able to extinguish their sharp spirit in Balizhuang." Zhang Zhensun set up an ambush in Balizhuang, and hundreds of mines were buried on the road that Balizhuang had to pass, wanting to fight an ambush mine war against the Yuan soldiers.

The current mines still do not overcome the disadvantages of smoke, and the smoke is too heavy after the fuse is ignited, so the ignition distance should be shortened as much as possible. Moreover, it is difficult for the team that has been bombed once to successfully use it a second time, because as soon as they see the smoke of gunfire, they must have run away, and by the time the mine exploded, the surrounding people had already fled.

However, these are all small means, and there is no need to kill the enemy in vain, and the fight that really determines the outcome is still under the city walls. Although there were some cavalry in the city of Guangzhou, they were not stupid enough to let them out at this time, and used 8,000 and Dong Wenbing's 30,000 to fight in the field, and the Song army could only follow the tactics of sticking to the city wall, unless it was equipped with a large number of cavalry.

"Send people out of the city to tease him, you can't let them fight again when they're ready, give them a little bitterness first."

Zhao Tianyou followed the rudimentary map and kept using the location of Wudian Ridge.

The location of the camp chosen by Dong Wenbing is very good, the terrain is gentle against the mountains and water, which is suitable for the cavalry's charging operation, and the distance from Guangzhou City is not far or close, and it is difficult to ensure the secrecy of large-scale troops in the city, and it is very difficult to sneak attack him.

"There are still few horses that can be used, if we have 50,000 cavalry, we will rush over and kill Wang Gao, and wait for him to be ready to fight us?"

Ling Zhen's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and he has already opened his mouth and closed his mouth to 50,000 cavalry, but he looked at Zhao Tianyou's eyes, and he was clearly saying Please, General Zhao, get me some more horses back.

Zhao Tianyou calculated, the distance from Wudieling to Balizhuang is too long, and he will definitely suffer from horses and archery skills if he fights hard with the Yuan soldiers on the gentle terrain. If a team is sent to lure the enemy, it is likely to be eaten by all the Yuan soldiers within these twenty miles, and such a price is unacceptable at the moment.

"There is another way, send a large number of infantry cavalry, with new rapid-fire sub-cannons, and you will definitely be able to defeat Dong Wenbing." As soon as Ling Zhen talked about the mother and daughter cannon, his face was full of light, this was a big killing weapon that required the cooperation of multiple arms, and they all wanted to see its huge power.

"No! The sub-mother cannon was on flat ground and could not defeat the cavalry. Zhao Tianyou shook his head.

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