The Mongol soldier whipped with a leather whip at a group of men whose hands were tied to trees and their backs were exposed. One whip goes down and there is a blood mark, fifteen and ten, fifteen or twenty, and when you have enough twenty lashes, you will let the person go.

After beating dozens of people, the 100 households in prison shouted at them: "You Nanban, if you can't build a boat in five days, you will not be beaten with 20 lashes, but 30 lashes." ”

Zhu Guobao, a thousand households of the Mongolian army, looked at the torture with a cold gaze, and saw that the craftsmen after the torture did not care about the pain and went straight to the nearby shipbuilding site. On the bank of the Huangpi River, there are seven or eight ships that are almost finished, and their appearance is similar to that of the fine ships of the Song army that have been rampant on the river these days, all of them have 20 oars, a small sail on one side, and a ship building at the stern.

Looking at these ships, Zhu Guobao's eyes were full of enthusiasm. Whether it was the boat brought by the rebel fishermen or the captured ship of the Great Song Army, first of all, it could not be compared with the Song Army sailor on the river in terms of speed. It's like the infantry, no matter how hard they try, they will be left behind by the cavalry. The Song army's naval division had already greatly threatened the retreat of the Mongols, and if they were allowed to continue to spread wild, they were afraid that the 100,000 Mongol troops on the south bank of the Yangtze River would not be able to cross the river and return to Jiangbei.

At this moment, a subordinate suddenly hurried to Zhu Guobao and reported loudly: "Qianhu, the Song State Navy is here." ”

It is no longer specifically pointed out which Song State naval army it is, and at this time, there is only that one in the eyes of the Mongolian army. Zhu Guobao asked viciously: "Are they still walking along the heart of the river?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Guobao's subordinates replied loudly.

"Probe!" Zhu Guobao ordered very unhappily. Waiting for his subordinates to leave, Zhu Guobao hurriedly ordered the Mongolian navy to sail. These Song naval forces are cunning like ghosts, although they have won more than 20 battles, they will still chase and kill as much as they can within a safe range. Several times when the navy was about to come within range of the Mongols' bows or trebuchets, the generals of the navy immediately ordered a retreat. This time, Zhu Guobao wanted to see if he had any luck to trap the cunning prey.

It was Zhao Jiaren who commanded the fleet, and after sending Jia Rudao into Ezhou, he took the fleet to inspect the Yangtze River. In the evening, Zhao's fleet would evacuate the area, patrolling only during the day. Although the Mongols will definitely use the night to transport grain and grass, Zhao Jiaren is not in a hurry. He has more than 1,000 people and more than 40 ships, and he simply does not have enough strength to block the entire Yangtze River. If you expect Zhao Jiaren's more than 1,000 people to annihilate the Mongol army, it would be a joke.

As soon as the ship passed Huangpi, it saw that Mongolia suddenly sent dozens of ships out to block Zhao Jiaren's back road. Zhao Jiaren just arrived at the end of the cruise, and he ordered to return to the ship, sinking as many Mongolian ships as he could. Seeing Zhao Jiaren's gang of fierce gods pounce on, the Mongolian boat immediately ran away. Zhao Jiaren didn't particularly chase after him, and finally easily sank more than 20 ships of the other party. In the past few days, there have been Song ships following Zhao Jiaren's fleet to pick up the Mongolian troops who fell into the water. When they went straight to those falling points, they just made way for Zhao Jiaren's fleet, so Zhao Jiaren didn't bother with them. If these scum stand in the way of Zhao Jiaren at a critical moment, Zhao Jiaren has already informed his subordinates that they can open fire on friendly troops.

Seeing the Song army's fleet leaving, Zhu Guobao called those people in the army with strong eyesight and asked, "Have you seen the Song army's weapons clearly this time?" ”

"I can almost see it." The guys hurriedly replied.

One of them brought over a bamboo tube and set it up in front of Zhu Guobao. Take out something and clean the inside of the bamboo tube, then stuff a sack into the bamboo tube, insert a dagger into the hole behind the bamboo tube, stab the sack, and stuff a hemp rope into it. The whole set of actions is done in one go, even if it is not as smooth as Zhao Jiaren's subordinates, it is quite a three-flavored one.

Zhu Guobao nodded, he sent someone to watch carefully every time the Song army's naval division killed the Mongolian army. From his observations, his subordinates imitated very similarly. Turning his head, Zhu Guobao asked the craftsmen around him, "Do you know how to make that kind of utensil?" ”

The craftsman took out an iron ball, "Chino, after fishing out these iron balls, I think I can use copper to cast that kind of utensil." Looking at the smoke, Song Jun must have used gunpowder. Give me five more days and I'll be able to cast. ”

"Okay, I'll give you five days. If you can't get it out after five days, you can eat the whip. Zhu Guobao viciously admonished the craftsman.

The craftsman hurriedly said: "Please also ask Qianhu to give me more copper coins, and you must use copper to cast the cannon." ”

Zhu Guobao snorted, "Find the person back and get the money." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Guobao looked at the Song State Navy on the river. These days, Zhu Guobao paid a huge price just to learn that kind of powerful weapon. The hard work paid off, and five days later he had the same ships that could fight with the Song army.

Cho Jia-in returned to Hanyang, and the ships that followed him returned with prisoners. Song Jun was very happy, and when he brought the prisoners ashore, he punched and kicked, and shouted and scolded angrily. The captives probably felt that their lives were short, and they also scolded as soon as they opened their mouths.

Seeing Song Jun swinging his fist and kicking the group of bound captives with his feet, Zhao Jiaren heard two accents. One is naturally a northern accent and the other is a southern accent. He thought to himself, these people with southern accents should be fishermen in this area. Jia Rudao said that Yuan Jue, who was the deputy envoy along the river, was rampant, forcing the fishermen on the river to rebel. When the Mongol army arrived, they took fishing boats and defected to the Mongols.

Although these people were treasonous, they did not defect to the Mongols for the sake of wealth. Zhao Jiaren opened his mouth and said: "You fight the Mongolian army from the north, I won't say anything. The people of the south are being coerced, so why should they be so vicious. ”

After hearing this, the sergeants immediately stopped beating, and the officer led by the leader ran over and said with a smile: "I disturbed the tranquility of Zhao Tidian, and our brother will take it away and fight again." ”

Zhao Jiaren was very dissatisfied with the perfunctory attitude, and he replied unhappily: "As long as the Mongolian army is withdrawn from Ezhou to Huangpi, I will definitely fight." At that time, we captured thousands of Mongols. Is there enough space for your captives? Separate the people of Jiangnan from the Mongols, and treat the people of Jiangnan better. ”

"Mention, these people defected to the Mongols, they should be killed." The officer actually competed with Zhao Jiaren.

In the 21st century, Zhao would certainly support this attitude. There is absolutely no reason to forgive traitors. But this is not the Southern Song Dynasty, if there were no Mongols to kill them, those fishermen would at most be armed to resist taxes. As a prisoner, Zhao Jiaren has studied the situation in Fujian. There were many such riots in Fujian, and the officials and troops stopped when the local resistance forces surrendered. Far from killing each one.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren ordered: "Pick out the southern people caught this time and send them to our army." I'll interrogate it myself. If their sins are great, We will preside over their beheading. ”

The officer didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to have so many things, but there was no reason to refuse. He turned around and shouted, and then passed on Zhao Jiaren's order. When the fishermen who had defected to Mongolia heard that officials were going to interrogate them, they did not dare to say anything again. Zhao Jiaren didn't say much, and went directly to his residence. If you want to interrogate someone, you still need some preparation.