The spring of Jiaxi's third year is very different from previous years.

The great war between Song and Mongolia began to burn from Layue, from Huainan East Road to Jingxiang, and then from Jingxiang to the Sichuan Basin, on a battle line that stretched for thousands of miles, the Song and Mongolian armies fought continuously, hundreds of people were displaced, and countless lands were soaked in blood.

In fact, before Meng Heng received Zhao Yun's edict on the right to dispose of it, the entire Jinghu Army had already begun to move.

On the west road, Meng Heng ordered the Zaoyang Army stationed on the front line of Dengzhou to command Zhang Jun to lead 100,000 troops to march westward, all the way to the city and villages, straight into the original Jingzhaofu Road, and prepared to go straight into Guanzhong to capture Jingzhaofu (Xi'an). At the same time, the Ningwu army stationed in Tangzhou commanded Jiao Jintong and the 100,000 troops of the front army of the Ningwu army also marched westward and stationed in Dengzhou, following Zhang Jun's Zaoyang army, echoing each other from afar.

On the east road, Meng Heng ordered the Ningwu army stationed on the front line of Yingzhou to command He Shun to unify the 100,000 troops of the Ningwu army to go east and attack many cities along the north bank of the Huai River.

At the same time, Meng Heng ordered the Ningwu army to command Liu Quan to sit in Xiangyang City, recruit new soldiers on a large scale, reorganize the Xinyang Army, and step up the construction of the fort city defense on the front line of Xiangyang City.

As for Meng Hui, he personally commanded the 300,000 troops of the left, middle and right parts of the Ningwu Army to sit in Caizhou, and ordered the Ningwu Army on the left to go north to Xuzhou to test Shi Tianze's reality.

The real strength of the Ningwu Army built by Meng Heng can be said to have been really exposed until this Songmeng War, just the Ningwu Army, with five divisions in the front, back, left and right, and middle, with as many as 500,000 people. If you add the Zaoyang Army, the Suizhou Army and the Xinyang Army, which has been almost completely wiped out and is now being rebuilt, there are 800,000 troops in Jinghu alone.

No one has calculated how many soldiers and horses there are in Huainan and Sichuan, and how many armies there are, I am afraid that even Shi Songzhi, the privy envoy, himself can't figure out how many troops are available in the Great Song Dynasty now, not to mention how many soldiers and horses there are in Sichuan, Huainan and Jinghu.

The Jinghu Army advanced in three ways, and Shi Tianze, who was cowering in Xuzhou, closed the city and did not come out, looking like he was strictly guarded; Sichuan's Subutai only sent the deputy general Du Liang to command 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, with a total of 100,000 Tubo and Western Xia servant soldiers from Fengxiang Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion to guard against Zhang Jun on the front line of Jingzhao Mansion in Guanzhong.

Bal Xue drew 50,000 Western Xia servants from several nearby cities such as Haizhou (near Lianyungang in later generations) and sent a deputy general and 10,000 Mongolian elite cavalry to the west, deploying defenses between Sizhou and Yingzhou, competing with Jiaojin's Ningwu army, and like the Jingzhaofu line, there were many small battles, and Bald Xue had no intention of retreating.

Whether it is Subutai or Bald Snow, it seems that they have eaten the scales and are determined to win or lose with the Great Song Dynasty in Sichuan or Huainan.

As for Shi Tianze, the Ningwu army was under the city of Xuzhou, and Shi Tianze had always been strictly guarded, and he didn't have any intention of going out of the city to fight.

The battlefield that stretches for thousands of miles, everything seems to be the same, Subutai burned and looted in Sichuan, Xingyuan Mansion was broken on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Xingyuan prefect Yang Xing and tens of thousands of Sichuan soldiers stationed in Xingyuan Mansion and the city were all killed, and only 12 out of 10 people in the entire Xingyuan Mansion could escape even by hundreds of thousands of people.

Most of Sichuan is full of gunsmoke and corpses.

In the end, Zhao Rongrui personally commanded troops from Chengdu Prefecture to Lizhou, and then formed a defensive line along Lizhou, Bazhou and Dazhou to block the peak of the troops in Subutai.

On the Huainan battlefield, Bal Xue and Zhao Kui were in a stalemate, a small battle in three days, a big battle in five days, Bald Xue couldn't cross the Huai River, and Zhao Kui couldn't fight Sizhou City either.

All the changes, just like no changes, Subutai and Bal Xue seemed to see through Meng Hui's posture of being strong and middle-class, knowing that Meng Hui did not dare to send troops to launch a big war when he couldn't figure out the reality of the Mongols along the road in Xuzhou, and they were not moved at all. What to do.

The urgent documents from all over the country, the documents asking for money and food floated to Lin'an like snowflakes, and fell on Zhao Yun's desk, just over a month, Zhao Yun felt that his hair was much whiter.

Just when Zhao Yun and the old ministers in the court counted how many more white threads on their heads every day, Jia Yidao's fleet arrived in Guangzhou without panic.

In the third year of Jiaxi, at the beginning of March, perhaps the land south of the Yangtze River was still steep in spring, but all parts of Lingnan were already in the season when the grass grew and the warbler flew and the grass was green.

Port of Guangzhou.

Perhaps knowing that Jia Nidao, a big celebrity in front of the emperor, was coming, the wharf was obviously deliberately repaired, and the people who came to greet Jia Nidao were not only Yu Ci, Zhou Tan, Xie Xing, Zhao Yanyu, Qin Shou and other people from the Yamen of the Municipal Bureau General Department who came to Guangdong to play the front station, that is, the big and small officials of Guangzhou Prefecture.

Ding Daquan, the prefect of Guangzhou, followed Jia Nidao, and the other prefects of Guangdong Road, such as Yingde, Zhaoqing, Deqing, Qingyuan and other prefecture officials, did not dare to leave without permission because there was no call from Jia Nidao, and no one came. Of course, or these prefects themselves don't want to come.

On the dock, Yu Ci and the others saw that Jia Rudao had finally arrived safely, but they were also a little apprehensive while excited.

Before, although it was said that Jia Nidao was the pacification envoy of Guangdong, but Jia Nidao did not arrive for a day, and those of them who came to Jia Nidao first to stand in front always felt that there was a little bit of misnomery, not to mention that the Yamen, the general director of the city, was not in the administrative system of the Great Song Dynasty, and they could not meddle in any specific affairs.

Not to mention the entire Guangdong Road, just Guangzhou Mansion, they have also suffered countless blank eyes in the past eight or nine months, and it may be an exaggeration to make things difficult everywhere, but perfunctory things are common.

Now the Yamen of the General Department of the City Ship, not to mention the establishment of various functions in the entire Guangdong Road, just in Guangzhou to prepare for the establishment of the General Office, but also exhausted the strength of the boss, only vaguely there are three points of weather, the rest of the prefectures, even the prefect of the vacant Jingjiang Mansion, there is no progress, the officials of the City Department stationed in the prefectures, has been in the many yamen of the prefectures.

Compared with Yang Du and Chen Tong stationed in Fujian, the only consolation is that at least he has not been directly imprisoned.

Jia Rudao handed over such a heavy burden to them, but he did not achieve anything for such a long time, and for Yu Ci, a group of people who were ambitious and intended to do something at the beginning, it was comforting to say that they had not been hit.

At this time, Yu Ci and their proud sons of heaven only knew how difficult it must be to do something like Jia Yidao.

Fortunately, Jia Rudao didn't mention any official business at all, and after greeting everyone one by one, with a wave of his hand, the group went straight to Guangzhou City.

(End of chapter)