Chapter 196: A Friend Comes from Far Away

The three armies that pursued south were all defeated, with nearly 100,000 soldiers killed and wounded, hundreds of warships lost, and the entire Yuan Dynasty's water military power almost collapsed.

In his opinion, the general trend of the entire southern invasion has been decided, only some cities along the coast of Guangdong, as well as Qiongzhou in Hainan, can be called the Great Song Dynasty, and the entire Zhao dynasty is already dying in the wind, and it may be wiped out by a certain general under him at any time.

However, 100,000 anxious fast horses sent information, and the love general Zhang Hongfan was injured and died, the 100,000 army fell apart, and the remnants of his men followed Zhu Qing's fleet back to Quanzhou. Li Heng's army lost more than half of his army, and retreated to Wuzhou in a panic, and all the ships under his command were left in the Battle of Yashan, and lost a large number of war horses and materials, and were unable to launch another expedition.

Li Heng and Zhang Hongfan can be said to be the most important generals of the Yuan army to invade the Song Dynasty in the south, which is also the suggestion of Boyan to listen to the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan, reuse the Han generals to lead the troops to fight, and deliberately blur the national distinction, which can be said to be a very advanced concept at that time.

Guangxi and Yunnan have been temporarily stable, and the Chen dynasty of Annan is fighting Keke, for fear that the Yuan soldiers will find an excuse to start a war, so Zhang Shijie's backup is only Qiongzhou Island, a small and narrow piece of land along the coast of Guangzhou, Guangdong.

In this battle of Yashan, from the strength of the water warships, the destruction and harassment of the coastal ports by the land soldiers, Zhang Shijie and Emperor Song Youdi rarely got supplies and support, and against the elite division of the three routes, in his opinion, it was a mortal situation.

Among the information handed over by Zhang Hongfan's subordinates, there was a detailed description of the Battle of Yashan, focusing on the sudden sound of cannons, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which quickly shattered the high morale of the Yuan army.

Can't dodge and can't resist, I don't know when it will fall on my head, under the deterrence of this kind of big killing weapon, even the iron-clad warriors can't fight with all their might, and it is very clear that it is the cannon of the Song army that determines the direction of this war.

He has already boasted in front of Kublai Khan that the history of the Song Dynasty will be completely ended this year, and the Mongol iron cavalry will be killed until the sea, and taking Qiongzhou does not mean the end of the war. Vigorous attention was paid to the development of the naval army, and the team of the surrendered naval army of Zhu Qing and the Great Song Dynasty should be expanded to at least three times the size, and the goal was naturally to go all the way to the east and conquer all the lands where human beings lived.

After reading these bad news, there is also a war report from Pu Shougeng in Fujian, Dong Wenbing made another military exploit, and after several months of siege and hard fighting, he won the last city in Fujian - Zhangzhou. Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, was escorted by his subordinates to break through and escape after the city was broken, and since then the entire territory of Fujian has been occupied by the Yuan army.

At the same time, Suo Duo and Dong Wenbing jointly asked Boyan to continue to send troops into Fujian to support, because the attack on Zhangzhou was too expensive, and most of the 30,000 yuan troops entering the country had been consumed, and the letter did not mention Pu Shougeng's losses.

Boyan also has 150,000 elite troops in Lin'an, which is a force composed of eighty percent of the Mongolian warriors of the Boyan tribe, with the ability to travel 300 miles a day, and is the real power of Boyan's relatives.

"Ordered Marshal Ah Shu to lead an army of 100,000 to the south, go to Xiangyang to make peace with Ali Hague, and coordinate the troops to Guangzhou to completely exterminate the remnants of the Song Dynasty."

In addition to the 150,000 army led by Ah Shu, the army of the right prime minister Ali Hague in the middle of the road also has 250,000 people, if there are 400,000 troops in one place, it can scare people to death from the momentum.

Boyan means to take down the nail household of Guangzhou first, and then approach Xinhui little by little from the land, isn't we losing the water war, then I'll come up from the land and see where you can go.

And Hong Kong Island began a large-scale conscription, with 100 large warships, the military force that needs to be filled is at least 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the strictness of recruiting people on Hong Kong Island is really not something that can be completed overnight.

Because he finally pulled down his face to openly recruit soldiers, Zhao Tianyou, who returned from Yashan, never went to Guangzhou to meet Zhang Zhensun and Wang Daofu and others, although they all tacitly understood what the other party meant, but before they completely said it, they still needed to take care of a little face problem.

Zhang Zhensun had already said last time that as long as Zhao Tianyou pulled up the banner, he Zhang Zhensun would be the first to join, as for the other generals and officials in Guangzhou, who would dare to say that he was not convinced? But last time, Zhao Tianyou had already politely refused, and within a few days, he began to openly recruit soldiers, and he really hadn't figured out how to explain to Zhang Zhensun.

"General Zhao, Lord Zhang has sent someone to invite you again, this is the fifth time! Do you see how I go back to them? ”

Because of his outstanding performance in Yashan, Sangou successfully asked for a hundred warships with his mouth, and he has successfully ascended to the position, and he is also fat, and the two of them have become the personal followers of General Zhao.

"Okay, tomorrow I'll go to the mansion to visit Master Zhang."

"Okay general, I'll reply to them."

There are a lot of people who sign up for conscription for a few days, but there are not many people who can really meet the standards of Hong Kong Island, and Du Hu is also more supportive of Zhao Tianyou's elite soldier policy, preferring to have empty warships and equipment than to be vague about the standard of military resources.

If you really want to recruit a suitable source of troops as soon as possible, the best place is naturally Guangzhou City, whose influence is more than ten times greater, and even the news can radiate within 100 miles of the vicinity, which is much better than the scale of conscription on Hong Kong Island.

Although everyone in Guangzhou City respects you and regards you as the savior in Guangzhou City, after all, Zhang Zhensun is the highest administrator.

Although the battle of Yashan is in the past, the Yuan army will never stop, and the next definite confrontation will definitely be a more powerful enemy. Zhao Tianyou's thinking has begun to change, and tactically he will definitely not let you attack, but he has discussed with Du Hu and others for a long time, to make full use of the characteristics of the Yuan army's unfamiliar water warfare, and first develop the strength of the South China Sea Fleet.

It costs money to fight a war, and it is the same in any era, and now the economy of Hong Kong Island has improved slightly, and stable and fair trade is guaranteed, and the island's market has developed rapidly, bringing a lot of silver.

But this is just a drizzle of foreign trade, just a little shrimp leaking from the hands of Quanzhou Port, the oil and water are already so big, can Zhao Tianyou not worry about Quanzhou's ability to absorb gold. If the South China Sea Fleet's combat strength becomes large-scale, the goal of the first battle will definitely be Quanzhou, and if all the ports along the coast are captured, there will be sufficient economic and material support, and then it will not be a defense but a counterattack.

Early the next morning, Zhao Tianyou led the two generals and took the ferry to the dock outside Guangzhou.

"Hurry up, General Zhao, there is someone waiting for the general in the palace!

Sangou immediately pulled his face and said, "Didn't the general of my family come, what are you urging?" ”

"It's not me urging it, it's that Lord Wen is in a hurry!"

"Ahh Fast! ”

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