Zhang Hongfan led an army of 150,000 and moved to the south of Jiangxi Road, attacking cities and counties along the way, and scattering and exterminating many spontaneous anti-Yuan rebels. At that time, there were two directions to choose from, to the northeast to the south of Fujian to destroy the isolated city of Zhangzhou Wen Tianxiang, or to the southwest to Guangdong to attack Meizhou and Chaozhou, the two state capitals that were still under the control of the Song Dynasty.

At the time of choosing, Zhang Hongfan gave up Fujian, concentrated his forces on Guangdong, and prepared to take Meizhou and Chaozhou first, and then find another fighter to continue to attack Panyu and Guangzhou by land. After several days of siege and continuous feints, the defenders of Meizhou did not hold out to the end, and a small force of troops in Nancheng broke through at night, but fell into the pocket that Zhang Hongfan had already arranged.

Because there were many soldiers in Chaozhou and a local naval division with more than 200 boats, Xu Sineng, the general of the Meizhou rangers, originally wanted to break through the siege and defect to Chaozhou, and asked Zhang Yongliang, the governor of Jinglu who was stationed in Chaozhou, to send troops to support, trying to flank Zhang Hongfan's Yuan soldiers on both sides.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hongfan was a feint, the real army did not show its strength, Xu Sineng was captured and surrendered, and led a team of Yuan soldiers to deceive the south gate of Meizhou, and the Yuan and brigade then swarmed up and attacked Meizhou.

The defenders in the city have not surrendered, and each of them has used the entrenched terrain to confront the Yuan soldiers, Zhang Hong has not been injured in the city for nine days, and more than 8,000 dead and wounded soldiers after entering the city for three days. After Zhang Hongfan was furious, he led his troops to surround the resisting Song army in Xiushui Hutong, and the charcoal fire of the whole city could only burn thousands of resisting Song troops and the people in the entire Hutong into black charcoal.

The fire burned for three days and three nights, when the wounded soldiers were devoured by the flames, the screams of the call sign resounded throughout the night sky, Zhang Hongfan, who was on the periphery of the fire, ordered his subordinates to cut the beef and mutton and barbecue and drink wine, and watched the tragic situation of the Song army in the fire. The tragic incident of the burning of Meizhou spread everywhere, and it was said that Zhang Hongfan was a murderer and a big devil who was cruel and cannibalistic.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Xiangxing, Zhang Hongfan fully occupied Meizhou, and after rectifying military affairs, he listened to Xu Sineng's plan, let some of the Han soldiers change their clothes, and lurked near Chaozhou scatteredly, waiting for the opportunity to enter Chaozhou City to do internal response.

Because half of the army led by Zhang Hongfan were Han soldiers, they were more concerned about the New Year's festival, so on the grounds of celebrating the New Year in the station, they released the news that they would no longer use swords and soldiers before the year, confusing Zhang Yongliang in Chaozhou.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather in Guangzhou was fine, and the number of people in the city gradually increased.

Zhao Tianyou had told Zhang Zhensun before that he would never stop him when he left, that is, the husband and wife would fly separately when the disaster came, but if I defeated Yuan Bing here, you want to come back, but it is not so easy.

Every household that fled the city of Guangzhou before the war was to be removed from the city by arranging for the lizheng, government officials, and other people in charge of the residents' household registration on the streets, and all the property in the city was confiscated if there were some surrendered soldiers. For some wealthy merchants, who have begun to flee their businesses with their families and take them with them, and now want to return to the city to do business, they will be allowed to open their businesses only after they have been levied heavy taxes.

After the household registration is removed, the original property needs to be re-signed, but if you do not pay the money to become a new naturalization, there is no way to change the new deed, and of course, there is no way to live in it. For the people who stayed to defend the city of Guangzhou with their lives, if they were treated as a treatment for fleeing during the war and returning after the war, then if there were Yuan soldiers attacking the city, who could sacrifice their lives to go to the city to meet the enemy?

Although some officials were very dissatisfied, Zhao Tianyou's prestige was unmatched, and Zhang Zhensun did not dare to refute what he said, so this policy was implemented with an iron hand.

Originally thought that involving so many people, there would definitely be a lot of trouble, and even if it was too powerful, there would be trouble, Ling Zhen specially sent several squads of city guards to patrol day and night for fear of any accidents.

The result is very gratifying, except for the beginning of some powerful big families, instigating some idlers to go to the government to petition, after being dispersed, there was no more opposition, and most of the departments obediently handed over the silver.

This is a very considerable income, and the government didn't know what to do with it after receiving it, and it was easily solved by Zhao Tianyou's words.

"Fighting a war is a duty for our soldiers, and there is a reward for winning a battle, not to mention that these ordinary people sacrifice their lives to meet the enemy, all the civilians who participate in the war, every family has a share, and no family is allowed to be left behind, and they must have a good year!"

Zhao Tianyou mainly wanted to convey a message through this matter, and all those who were wholeheartedly in the same boat with Guangzhou City could not be wronged. And those who run away from the wind will have to pay a corresponding price if they want to come back and enjoy the fruits, which is fair. To put it mildly, it is to follow the eldest brother, there is wine and meat to eat, if you don't follow me, you have to be careful that I will spank the drops!

The New Year is approaching, but the military situation in various places is not optimistic, and there are already a few places left in Guangdong and Qiongzhou, which are about to be eaten by the Yuan soldiers. Meizhou has already lost, Chaozhou is also in danger, as long as Zhang Hongfan's army moves, Chaozhou may not be able to resist for even three days.

Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu heard the news of Guangzhou's victory in Zhanjiang, and immediately came to the spirit. More than 200,000 sailors and more than 4,000 ships have been beaten so far, and only half of them have been beaten, and those who have been beaten have lost their morale at all.

Zhang Zhensun was able to recover the city of Guangzhou, and he had already made a great contribution, and was made a great official equivalent to the governor of Guangzhou. But when he was fleeing at sea, Zhang Shijie didn't believe that Zhang Zhensun could hold on to Guangzhou for a long time, otherwise why would he flee to Leizhou, Zhanjiang, or Dingdu in Qiongzhou, if not, he would flee to Nanyang.

The two armies of Lu Shikui and Li Heng are eyeing each other, and Zhang Hongfan's army has been transferred from Jiangxi to Guangdong, so isn't Guangzhou City another dead land! But after the news came, these two key figures who decided the direction of the Great Song Dynasty court fell greatly.

Lu Shikui was seriously injured and his life and death are unknown, more than half of the 100,000 troops organized by Li Heng have suffered casualties, the corpses of the Yuan soldiers outside the city of Guangzhou are piled up, and tens of thousands of war horses have been captured by the Song army, and the first cavalry brigade of 10,000 people of the Song army is being trained as soon as possible.

Whichever of these news is taken out, it is worth asking His Royal Highness to be rewarded by Emperor You, and it is unbelievable that it has come all at once. Zhang Shijie landed in a small boat from the new school and rushed to Guangzhou by land on a fast horse to confirm the truth of the content conveyed by the letter and newspaper.

This year was really scared, the way of escaping was tormented, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu did not dare to decide to lead their troops ashore to garrison a city, they were afraid that they would leave the ship and never have a chance to come up!

What they didn't know was that a large number of Zhu Qing's warships had gathered from scratch and were looking for Zhang Shijie's traces at sea!