Nowadays, even the sea ships made by the Cai family of Longyou are very fast at sea.

More than a month later, more than a dozen large ships, loaded with various weapons and countless supplies, finally arrived at the destination of this trip - Leizhou.

Originally, the base for the training of troops in the southern expedition was one of the three military states of Qiongzhou, Changhua Army, and Jiyang Army, which could be selected on Qiongzhou Island. However, after knowing the specific geographical location of the three military states, Zhao Xu vetoed Cai Dao's opinion.

Even if the weather in these three places is the most similar in Dayue Kingdom, when Zhao Xu vetoed it, he also had his own considerations.

Cai Dao himself said that he had conquered a half-large island of the Wa Kingdom, which made Zhao Xu feel at ease to hand over Qiongzhou to the hands of these generals.

However, on the land border, Yongzhou and Qinzhou are too close to the border, and the sea routes of Lianzhou and Qinzhou are also very easy to be known by the secret agents of the nearby Dayue Kingdom and the Song traitors in the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Cai Dao deliberately chose Leizhou, an area east of the Qiongzhou Strait, where there is a large area of uncultivated land.

After Guo Zhongxiao arrived here, he handed over the matter of recruiting troops on Guangnan West Road to his two nephews, Guo Shuyong and Guo Shudang.

However, Guo Zhongxiao entrusted the matter of conscription on Guangnan East Road to Di'an, and Yang Huaiwen assisted him from the side.

Yang Jizhong assisted Guo Zhongxiao and set out to establish a base for military training and tuntian in Leizhou.

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From the beginning of the pain, scolding Cai Dao's eighteenth generation ancestors, followed by complete obedience, to the end, when he arrived at the destination Leizhou, Pan Xiong's body had recovered his health, although his body was still so two or two pieces of flesh, but anyone who had seen him could see that Pan Xiong is now full of spirit.

On the contrary, Cao Leopard, who was still in good spirits when he got on the boat from Bianliang City, has now become a wilted leopard.

Xie Feibao and Shi Ernai are also a little stronger than others, although they have also made sea ships and gone to sea in the Yuanyou years, but it is the first time to sail thousands of miles on the sea like this time.

On the contrary, You Feixiong, the former second master of Taihang Village, and Du Menghu, the third leader, are like natural sea cavalry, and now, the entire Siguo Island has long been divided equally by the two of them. After Cai Dao's naval ships left, they easily defeated the army sent by the Emperor.

Cai Dao and his entourage were cordially received by Guo Zhongxiao and others.

Guo Zhongxiao, as his name suggests, although he has a lot of doubts about this uncertain battle of the Southern Expedition, he doesn't think that the Taoist priest in front of him can really complete the business that his father has not completed.

Cai Dao could see that although the other party looked polite on the surface, his eyes had already revealed distrust and contempt.

However, Cai Dao also cares about the other party's attitude at all.

Who made him the commander in chief of the three armed forces personally designated by the official family?

This was said in front of Guo Zhongxiao and other heads of the Jiangmen family.

What's more, Cai Dao's expedition this time, except for the land of Leizhou under his feet, the Great Song Dynasty court can be said to have not paid a penny. Whether it is these dozen ships of weapons, or the fragile soldiers in Lingnan who have been recruited, they are all the money paid by Cai Dao and those generals, but their Guo family has never invested a penny.

To be realistic, this team is actually a private army hired by Cai Dao himself, and if Cai Dao can really capture Shenglong City, he must have made a promise to Zhao Xu.

All the property belonging to the royal family in the city will be handed over to Guo Zhongxiao to control and take charge, and Cai Dao will definitely not share a piece of the pie in it.

Moreover, among the generals, the Guo family was the only one who responded to Zhao Xu's relocation order, but moved the entire family to the family of military generals on Jinghu South Road.

Everyone has their own choices, not to mention, it is still a big family.

Regarding the Guo family's choice, even Zhao Xu respected the Guo family's opinion, and made a special decision to grant the country's request.

After everyone greeted each other, Cai Dao asked about the situation, the recruitment work went very smoothly, Guangnan West Road, with the assistance of Lu Huiqing, Guo Shuyong and Guo Shudang only spent half the time, that is, a month and a half to recruit 10,000 relatively strong soldiers.

It's not that the two of them are strong, but Lu Huiqing seems to have expected that Cai Dao would recruit troops again under his rule, and in preparation for a rainy day, he himself recruited an additional 5,000.

The reason why this is the recruitment of this man on Quang Nam West Road.

On the one hand, it is because that place has experienced the Nong Zhigao rebellion and the attack of the Great Yue Kingdom in the Renzong Dynasty and the Shenzong Dynasty, after the fire, the people of Guangnan West Road not only suffered great losses in their property, but also countless innocent people died tragically in the war, especially the sudden attack of the Great Yue Kingdom, which not only slaughtered the city of Yongzhou, but also captured tens of thousands of people near Yongzhou to the Great Yue Kingdom.

On the other hand, Lu Huiqing also needs to leave more soldiers to guard important checkpoints to prevent the border generals of the Great Yue Kingdom from invading the Song-Yue border again. Speaking of which, the pressure on his side is actually even greater than that of Cai Dao.

After all, at sea, the Cai family's current warships are really not afraid of anyone. Even the Weizhou Island battleship that Cai Dao was riding on was already shocking in Guo Zhongxiao's opinion. But this battleship died of obsolete products produced ten years ago.

This is still much larger than the most advanced warships of the Great Song Kingdom.

And Dean also completed the task super quickly, recruiting 25,000 strong in two months, what Cai Dao didn't expect was that Dean was able to do this, and he didn't give full play to his strength at all. As soon as the people of Guangnan East Road heard that Cai Dao, a fortune boy, was recruiting soldiers here instead of the emperor, people who signed up flocked to it.

As a result, if Dean hadn't deliberately set standards and restrictions, he would have brought back more strength.

After a month to a month and a half of training, Cai Dao couldn't see the 35,000 strong and specific combat capabilities for a while, but he rode a horse to inspect the newly opened land, but he was very satisfied.

It seems that the fat man of money did a good job in the early stage. In the coastal areas of Leizhou, if rice can be cultivated, of course, rice is still grown, but if it is indeed inland, arable land that is not suitable for planting rice, Cai Dao sent a large number of people to build pastures, because he wants these farmers who have just left their crops to survive on the battlefield.

It is also necessary for these farmers to eat meat, even pork, first.

As the generals and Wenchen families moved to Lingnan one after another, they basically chose Guangnan East Road, and only the Zhe family unexpectedly chose Leizhou. This is, of course, from Cai Dao's suggestion.

In terms of relationship, Cai Dao actually has the closest relationship with the Zhe family. Except for Uncle Cao Guo and Cao Hu, the rest of the Cao family is relatively alienated from Cai Dao, and the Di family is even more alienated from Cai Dao, except for Di An, and others, including Di Yong, have adopted the same attitude as the Cao family.

The reason is that although Cai Dao is a monk, he is still from a family of Wenchen, and he is the son of Cai Bian and the nephew of Cai Jing. In the perception of the military attachés, at a critical moment, Cai Dao will definitely choose the camp of his uncle and father.

The reason for turning the entire Leizhou into a solid offensive base for the destruction of the Great Yue Kingdom was not that Cai Dao lacked food and supplies, as well as meat, but that Cai Dao did not want to easily expose the islands he had really occupied.

Since Yizhou Island failed to explore the island during the Three Kingdoms period, no emperor has ever made great efforts to really explore this island. However, once the true geographical location of this island is exposed, it will inevitably arouse Zhao Xu's suspicions, and he will even send troops to seize it from Cai Dao, because it is too close to the Huaxia mainland.

Doing so is a huge good news for the Zhejia, so the money, materials and manpower invested by the Zhejia here have always been in the first place. Zhe Kexing even sent his son Zhe Ke here.

After Cai Dao arrives, he will not be stupid enough to touch the specific military training.

However, he still instructed Dean to choose another batch from these 30,000 people, about 5,000 people, as long as they were to train them to fight with the Dayue people in the jungle area in the future.

In this time and space, there is naturally no special warfare elite who are proficient in jungle warfare in later generations, but it is not without such experts. For example, here in Lingnan, the hunters who make a living from hunting, as well as the people of the ethnic minorities who are really accustomed to living in the mountains, all belong to this category of people, and there must be masters among them.

Cai Dao plans to use a lot of money to recruit some and let them train the selected elites.

In the eighth year of Yuanyou, it was also the first year of Shaosheng, in January, the Empress Dowager Gao Tao died, and because of the heavy rain, Cai Dao hid in Baiyun Temple for more than half a year, and then entered Beijing in mid-August, and after that, because of miscellaneous things, together with the three months of the ordnance superintendent, plus Cai Dao was cold at sea for more than a month. Pinch your fingers, and it looks like the New Year is approaching.

For the rest, Cai Dao has been pondering alone, when should he start attacking?