Chapter 89 – Taking over Hong Kong Island

Wang Daofu, the squire of the military department, was lying on the bed in the mansion, and a doctor who was over the age of sixteen was taking his pulse.

"Lord Wang, there is a way for qi and blood stasis to be blocked, no matter how heavy the state affairs are, you have to take care of your body, I will prescribe a few pairs of medicines for the adults to take first, and then come to visit the adults in three or five days!"

"Thank you, Mrs. Huang, for your hard work!"

The city of Guangzhou had been captured by the Yuan army earlier, but the marshal of the Yuan army, Lu Shikui, who was guarding Guangzhou, led the army to withdraw from Guangzhou and go to Shaozhou to ask for grain because the army was not paid, and there was no grain and grass to feed the horses in the city. Wang Daofu and Ling Zhen attacked Guangzhou in two ways under the leadership of Zhang Zhensun, and killed the Yuan general Liang Xiongfei with an arrow at Liuyuan Bridge, recovering Guangzhou again.

However, the Yuan army in the north was eyeing each other, and the Yuan soldiers on the Guangnan West Road went south by boat from Wuzhou and gathered 30,000 troops in the west, so that the city of Guangzhou was attacked on both sides. Guangzhou, which has already entered two battles, has not yet been completely repaired in the dilapidated city wall, and there are many civilians who have fled with dead and wounded, and if the Yuan army comes to attack again, it will be difficult for the troops in their hands to hold it.

The grain and grass in the city are sufficient, but Wang Daofu can't bear the suffering, and he has been bedridden for half a month without being sick, and he has eaten a few herbs, and his spirit has improved slightly recently. Wenzhou and Fuzhou fell in turn, Zhang Shijie led the army to besiege Quanzhou, and could not defeat the enemy for a long time, and the middle road was also beaten by the Yuan soldiers all the way to Guangzhou, seeing that the Song Dynasty was about to be completely lost.

Integrity, backbone, and loyalty are the sources of strength that support Wang Daofu, and he would rather fight to the point of being a soldier than surrender in discouragement. But he is not a fool, the weakness of the military is irreparable with human life, when the siege of the Song army is brave, can repel or even defeat the Yuan soldiers, but the cavalry is too small to complete the pursuit and annihilation.

It is precisely for this reason that the Yuan soldiers will quickly give up when they encounter a crisis for the captured city, and the prerequisite is to protect the living force of the soldiers, and there will never be a situation where they will not retreat after being besieged and fighting to the death.

In this recapture of Guangzhou City, in addition to shooting Liang Xiongfei to death, the Yuan soldiers injured no more than 500 soldiers, and the rest fled by seizing the road, which is in strong contrast with the Song army guarding Guangzhou with more than 8,000 casualties.

Zhang Zhensun gathered all the Southern Song Dynasty defeated troops in Guangzhou, and had been appointed by Song Duanzong as the envoy of Guangdong and the pacification envoy of Jingluo, and ruled the military and political power of Guangdong. Wang Daofu was appointed as the acting squire of the military department, the transfer judge, and the capital commander Ling Zhen under the leadership of Zhang Zhensun reorganized the stragglers from all walks of life, gathered in the area of Panyu, Guangzhou, and prepared to welcome Zhang Shijie to escort Emperor Duanzong to the south to choose the capital.

Wang Daofu is worried, with the increase in the number of routs, after the military situation in various places is summarized, a very obvious result is obtained, there are not many places under the control of the Song Dynasty. If Guangzhou can no longer be defended, the Yuan soldiers will have to drive Emperor Duanzong into the sea, how can these loyal ministers and righteous men of the Great Song Dynasty sleep peacefully.

Five warships circled around Hong Kong Island for half a circle, sailed along the sea into the inner harbor, and saw many shuttle boats with a length of feet in the Dapu Sea, and pearl divers dressed in short clothes on the boats went into the water from time to time to go pearling.

Seeing the heavily armed warship sailing into the inner harbor, the shuttle boat was not afraid, and even some pearl divers took the initiative to row over and look up at the soldiers on the tall warship.

"Haha, hey, you're all blushing? Who wants to go down? ”

Zhao Tianyou's half a month has been busy dividing military ranks and levels, readjusting the distribution of troops, and Du Hu and Du Hu have always been dizzy, and now that they have finally arrived at Hong Kong, they simply let go of their subordinates and relax.

Unexpectedly, 800 years ago, this was a famous pearl producing area, Dapuhai is a government-run pearl field, and all the pearls collected are owned by the imperial court and directly collected by the state treasury. Panyu County has stationed 40 soldiers in this regiment, responsible for defending against smugglers and small pirates who often haunt the vicinity, but now there is a serious shortage of soldiers, and only a dozen people are left, and Chen Guang, the head of the capital, is in charge.

The large warship that fell from the sky, the thousands of soldiers who were fully armed, and the more than a hundred horses that came down from the ship, especially the big black horse that acted as a herding dog, stunned the people on the entire Dapuhai pier.

Du Hu came out to Chen Guang and announced, this island is under our control, what should you do, we pay the wages for pearl diving, but the pearls are also confiscated by the army. What can Chen Guang say, he can only pat his chest to show his loyalty, and secretly send someone to Panyu County to report that he will complete his duties.

Zhao Tianyou circled the island for a long time, except for the fact that Dapuhai can dives pearls here and has some popularity, the whole is an undeveloped desert island. There used to be fishing villages in the location of Kowloon Tong, but with the popularity of pearl diving, fishermen also came to pearl diving, and those small villages were abandoned.

The location of Shenzhen on the other side of the river is also a barren, without the support of economic and trade activities, the current value of Hong Kong is those produced pearls, and Zhao Tianyou feels a sense of accomplishment to be able to witness the very pristine Hong Kong Island.

More than 2,000 people worked together, and within a few days, the military buildings on the Dapu harbor were connected together, and the soldiers who were nervous all the way were completely relaxed. In the eyes of hundreds of young pearl divers, the young men are full of spirit and chest height.

The new-type modern sergeant establishment has already taken shape, and the military structure with the squad as the most basic level has been quickly completed. All the soldiers gathered for the first time, based on the 800 Gan soldiers, the pirates and sailors who joined one after another, and even all the craftsmen, masters, apprentices, etc., were all listed as militarized management.

A squad is six to ten people, a platoon is three squads, and a company is three platoons, and it doesn't take any brains to completely copy it, and Zhao Tianyou and Du Hu's brains are spent on the selection of grassroots officers. Under the excited gaze of Meng Shuirou, Meng Hao and more than ten other Mengjiazhai soldiers established a special operations company, with Meng Shuirou as the first company commander, mainly selecting excellent longbowmen from grassroots soldiers to join the special operations company for centralized training.

After careful selection, Meng Shuirou gathered more than 120 people, all of whom could open two stone bows more than three times in a row, and the two of them could also launch quickly. This is the first professional long-range attack force in Zhao Tianyou's hands, and there are many new skills and weapons in the future, so they have to be taught to learn one by one, and now they can master the firing of assault rockets and thunderbolts.

After the military investigation of Guangzhou and Panyu was completed, because Wang Daofu was sick and bedridden, the people sent out failed to hand over the letter to him, and the current identity of Zhao Tianyou's troops, the defenders of Panyu in Guangzhou were still confused.

However, Zhao Tianyou had a large amount of silver in his hand, which was the hard currency in the troubled times, and he soon started doing business with commercial banks in Guangzhou, Panyu, Huizhou and other places. Saltpeter, sulfur, refined iron, coal and other materials were sent to Hong Kong Island one by one, which quickly attracted the attention of Zhang Zhensun.