Chapter 264: The Prologue to the Decisive Battle

The smoke in the direction of the Yuan army's camp is obviously thickened, this phenomenon is already the third day today, what are the Yuan soldiers doing? Cooking is not enough to make three or five days at once, at that time, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that the Yuan army was boiling meat and drying dried meat in large quantities.

Zhao Tianyou immediately convened a meeting and issued a mobilization order to all the soldiers and civilians in Guangzhou, this time the attack of the Yuan army will definitely not be simple, the experience of several failures has caused huge losses, and this time it will be a life-and-death decisive battle with the Boyan army.

The outcome of this battle is significant and far-reaching, if the city of Guangzhou defeats Boyan again, in addition to being able to lift the siege of Guangzhou, it can also completely knock the morale of the Yuan army into the abyss. The next rebellion is probably not only a few port cities along the coast, but also those places where a small number of Yuan troops are stationed, and there is a possibility of rebellion everywhere, and the results of Kublai Khan's southern invasion for several years will surely be wiped out.

This is also why the Yuan army will kill wildly everywhere it goes, the reason is that their number is too small, and the number of people concentrated in several major tribes of Mongolia is only more than one million. They are worried that once others are no longer afraid of them, they will no longer be willing to be ruled and enslaved, and they will rise up to resist, so the practice of killing adult men and leaving women and children is born out of fear in their hearts.

Although they invaded the Song Dynasty in the south for so many years and occupied ninety percent of the territory, they completely benefited from Kublai Khan's national policy of reusing Han officials and reusing the Song army to surrender troops and generals, but they established a premise, that is, the invincible Mongol cavalry.

When this legend and myth were shattered, those Song generals who surrendered to the strength of Meng Yuan would definitely reassess their future, kill the small number of garrisons in the garrison, and then say that submitting to the strong seemed to be the only option.

"General Zhao, how powerful are their 10,000-pound cannons? Will you be able to hit the city? ”

A Guangzhou official mustered up the courage to ask Zhao Tianyou this question that everyone wanted to know.

"Although their cannons weigh 10,000 pounds, they are not terrible, because they can only cast cannons, and they do not know how to make flowering shells, and can only fire shotguns or solid iron bullets. And the most important one, their range is not as far as our Hongyi cannons, and our eighty large-caliber Hongyi cannons have been simply adjusted to deal with their 10,000-pound cannons, so as to ensure that they have no return. ”

Zhao Tianyou smiled slightly, his eyes scanned a room of officials, but he sighed in his heart, no matter when, the greatest courage still comes from faith. At present, Zhao Tianyou's Hong Kong Island and the firearms battalion stationed in Guangzhou have announced to the world with facts that they are the strongest army in the world, but there are still people who have doubts.

It's not that Zhao Tianyou looks down on these people, this is originally a weakness in human nature, and everyone who can't control their own destiny will have a fear from the heart, whether he is an official or a poor person. And by making full use of the power of faith, you can give some people who are originally weak a strong will, even if there is an abbot abyss ahead, they will not hesitate to rush forward, this is faith.

Zhao Tianyou can't do this at the moment, and only some of the people who have faith in him on Hong Kong Island are mostly apprentices of craftsmen living on the island, or soldiers of firearms battalions. Because they personally felt the power brought by Zhao Tianyou, and gave them the concept of new understanding of power, to put it simply, Zhao Tianyou is a god they can trust infinitely.

Ling Zhen obviously felt the recent improvement in the combat power of the cavalry, and it was already necessary to use actual combat to polish or verify the real ability, and very much hoped that there would be a chance to fight this time, and said with a warm face: "Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues. This time we are not only defending, passively waiting for the Yuan soldiers to attack, I hope that this time the cavalry will have the opportunity to go into battle, be able to fight with the Yuan soldiers on the battlefield head-on, and use the blood of the enemy to prove our strength. ”

"Okay, the cavalry must have a chance, the final pursuit task will be handed over to you now, General Ling, listen well, after every cavalry leaves the city, they must bring back a head of the Yuan soldiers. However, I also told you in advance that Boyan will definitely use all his strength in this battle, and Guangzhou City may fall into a life-and-death decisive battle, and we can't make too much preparation in advance.

The room full of civil and military officials were all shocked, this task is light, it is a little difficult to say that it is completed, the combat power of the cavalry is not as good as the Yuan soldiers, and everyone brings back a head, so how many Yuan soldiers have to be killed.

"Obey, I thank General Zhao for all the cavalry, if you can't complete the task, Ling Zhen will definitely come to see you!"

Zhao Tianyou said loudly: "General Ling is really powerful, then I will help the general again, before tonight, Hong Kong Island will finally be equipped with all the missing war knives, and in addition to the longbows of the cavalry, the armor-piercing cone will also be the standard configuration of the cavalry." ”

"Wow!"

"It's a big deal, there aren't a lot of these armor-piercing cones on the city, and they can't be used casually, so they have become the standard configuration of cavalry."

"So envious, so jealous......"

Ling Zhen's big mouth was almost open to the root of his ears, he took two steps forward, fell to the ground on his knees, knelt in front of Zhao Tianyou and said loudly: "The Great Song cavalry thank you General Zhao, these are your hard work, the cavalry has such good equipment, and it will be able to defeat the Yuan soldiers and capture Boyan Xian and the general alive." ”

Boyan also estimated the seriousness of the consequences of defeat in his heart, so he desperately would not let such a thing happen, even if he fought all the more than 200,000 troops at hand. Li Heng has already received an order, although it is said that the strength of the Wuzhou Yuan army has been greatly damaged after several defeats, but fifty or sixty thousand people can still make it up, and Li Heng has personally led them to set off.

There are also 50,000 troops led by Suo Duo outside the East City Gate, in addition to feints to attack the East City to disperse the strength of the Song army, if necessary, they can be transferred to the North City at any time to directly participate in the frontal siege battle.

The logistics support of the Yuan army has been prepared for three consecutive days, whether it is jerky noodles, soju and drinking water, to ensure that every soldier immediately has a full package, enough for them to eat, drink and supply for three days.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Three dull war drums sounded, and the entire Yuan army camp, which stretched for more than ten miles, seemed to suddenly come to life, and every independent 10,000-person camp resounded with the sound of drums to meet the order of the commander of the camp drums.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

More than 200,000 yuan of troops raised their heads and shouted almost at the same time.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

In the first row of the line were all naked Han people, every ten people were tied into a long rope, lined up in a thick phalanx, slowly stepping forward with skinny legs, and there was no expression on their numb faces.

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