Chapter 633: Preparing for the Southern Expedition

Although the "Fire Meteor" was recovered, Sun Hui still immediately discovered the large-scale invasion of the Jiaozhi people, and when he told Jia Nidao the news, Jia Nidao was still a little incredulous, but the arrival of the urgent military report in southern Xinjiang a month later confirmed the accuracy of the news.

After learning the news, all the ministers were surprised, and everyone had no objection to sending troops immediately, but it was difficult to choose who to send the main general.

In the battle of Xiangfan, the Lü army resisted the Yuan army and suffered heavy casualties, but after more than a year of rest and expansion, the strength was generally restored, and Jia Rudao supported the Lü army to expand its strength, so as to move the defense line from the Xiangyang line to the banks of the Huai River, and change the situation of no soldiers to defend there. Under this guiding ideology, Lu Wenhuan took Xiangfan as his base and successively divided his troops to the north. Due to the excessive focus on the north, the Lingnan region, which has always been very stable, has a relatively empty force, and although the defense has been strengthened compared with the Xining period, the total number of troops is only more than 50,000 people, and they are scattered in various large cities, and they cannot form a joint force in a hurry, and they are basically powerless in the face of the influx of Jiaozhi troops. Now most of the troops of the Lu Clan's army are in the north, and it is too late to go south immediately, because the road is too far away.

Although no result was discussed, Jia Rudao still told the little emperor about it, and the little emperor was shocked and angry when he learned about it, and planned to send the Lin'an forbidden army to the south, and he himself drove the expedition himself. It was easy for Jia to persuade the little emperor to give up the idea of driving the expedition in person, and of course he himself would not personally lead the troops to the expedition like last time.

Jia Rudao went to Sun Hui to discuss, hoping that Sun Hui could turn into a fire meteor to retreat from the enemy first like the last time he broke through the fortress line of the Yuan army besieging Xiangfan, and give him some time to transfer troops to the south, but Sun Hui told him a little helplessly that because of the long-term operation of the 108 fire meteors, his "mana" consumption was too great, and it took time to recover, and he could not turn into a fire meteor to attack for the time being.

Hearing Sun Hui's answer, Jia Rudao couldn't help but be a little frustrated, but Sun Hui told him that although he couldn't do it himself, he still let Lin Mo'er take action these days, and he had stopped the Jiaozhi army from attacking the mainland. Sun Hui also told Jia Yidao that now he only needs to hurry up and mobilize troops, horses, food and grass, find suitable generals, and transport troops to the front line to solve the problem by himself.

Hearing this, Jia Rudao breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't ask Sun Hui what method Lin Mo'er used to stop the advance of the Jiaozhi army, but immediately discussed with Sun Hui about the transfer of troops.

In view of the fact that the Lu clan was concentrated in the north and could not move south quickly, Sun Hui suggested that some of the forbidden troops in the capital should be dispatched, and then some troops that had been dismissed for various reasons could be recruited, and the candidate for the leading general, Sun Hui recommended Gundam to Jia Yidao.

As soon as he mentioned this guy who had satirized himself on the battlefield, Jia Rudao became angry, but he also knew that this guy had military talent, and after demoting him, he did not kill him like he did with Xiang Shibi Cao Shixiong, but returned to his hometown. Originally, Gundam was very honest all these years, but his old department has always been very complaining, and somehow Gundam suddenly appeared in Lin'an a few days ago, and was detected by the Imperial City Division, which was to put Gundam in prison on the pretext of that day, in fact, he wanted to scare him and understand his purpose for coming to Lin'an.

Jia Rudao didn't understand why Sun Hui recommended Gundam to himself, Sun Hui saw his doubts, and explained to him that he cherished Gundam's military talent and prestige in the old department, but the old department of Gundam was dissatisfied with the imperial court (in fact, it was dissatisfied with Jia Nidao) It is also a fact, Sun Hui recommended that Gundam lead an army mainly composed of his old department to pacify Jiaozhi, if he wins, he will be promoted, which is equivalent to reactivating the past without blame, and if he loses, he will just use the hands of Jiaozhi people to remove a hidden danger, and it is a favorable thing to the left and right.

Jia seems to understand what Sun Hui meant, but he is worried that once Gundam has military power, after reaching the front line in southern Xinjiang, he will not attack the enemy, but will join forces with the Jiaozhi people to rebel, which will not only make the situation in southern Xinjiang uncontrollable, but even shake the world.

Sun Hui knew that Jia Nidao's worries were not unreasonable, in fact, in the original historical time and space, Gao Da surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty after Jia Nidao's death, and the official was the governor of political affairs, which was very trusted by Kublai Khan. So, of course, he will take the necessary precautions against Gundam. At this time, Ye Chuchu told Jia Rudao that she had a way to prevent it, and as long as Gundam and his subordinates wanted to rebel, they would definitely die, and Jia Rudao was relieved.

"Prime minister, transferred from the cardinal's mansion, the Southern Xinjiang Military Report." The voice of a cronie interrupted Jia Rudao's thoughts.

"Bring it." When Jia Rudao heard that it was the Southern Xinjiang Military Report, his heart couldn't help but tremble, but on the surface, he was silent.

As a good leader, you must not let your inner fear infect your subordinates, even if the other party is a small worker.

The cadre placed the newspaper on the desk in front of Jia Rudao, and then bowed and withdrew. Jia Rudao opened the military newspaper and read it.

The news on the military newspaper can be said to be a mixture of good and bad, the bad news is that the Jiaozhi army "plundered the place", "the people are deeply poisoned", "the dead are tens of thousands", the good news is that the Guangnan army commander Yang Zhaoyun led the army 2000 to take the initiative to attack, bloody battle for three days and nights, beheaded more than 6000 levels, gave the Jiaozhi army a head to drink, so that it did not dare to wantonly plunder, but the Yang army also suffered a lot of casualties, and then surrounded by tens of thousands of Jiaozhi troops, seeing that the whole army was about to be destroyed, "strange storms and rain suddenly fell", "thunder and lightning arrived", the Jiaozhi army was in chaos, and the Yang army took the opportunity to kill out of the encirclement, Retreat to Fengzhou. After the Jiaozhi army, due to the heavy rain for several days, it could not catch up, but retreated to Xiping to take shelter from the rain, and the southern Xinjiang temporarily turned into safety.

Putting down the military report, Jia Rudao let out a sigh of relief.

He now knew what method Sun Hui was using to stop the Jiaozhi army from advancing.

He also understood why Sun Hui suggested that the Song army set off from Lin'an and take the sea route to southern Xinjiang.

Although with the help of this timely and magical storm, Jia Yidao also knew that he had to hurry.

Although the Song army was strong, most of the warships were inland river ships, and there were not many sea ships, and in order to transport troops from the sea route, it was necessary to have a large number of sea ships. Jia Rudao thought of the sea ships that coastal merchants transported goods for overseas trade, so he asked Zhu Guojin to help hire merchant ships, Zhu Guojin agreed, and personally ran to Quanzhou, Jia Rudao gave an order to Quanzhou City, asking them to collect sea ships at the same time, fully assist Zhu Guojin.