When he woke up the next day, it was already three days of the day, and Zhao Mingding got up busily to see the selected dead soldiers.

According to the principle of one out of a hundred, a total of 1,200 dead soldiers were selected, which means that the actual number of the Song army was about 120,000, and the remaining 80,000 or so were civilian personnel and palace maids. Therefore, according to the number of people, the Song number is the majority, according to the actual strength, the Song army and the Yuan army are equal, and the Song army lacks supplies and supplements, and its combat effectiveness declines, while the Yuan army has sufficient supplies and supplements, in this sense, the Yuan army has won. And what Zhao Mingding and the four have to do is to reverse this situation and turn defeat into victory.

Most of the dead soldiers were in their thirties, and they all looked quite capable and clever. Zhao Mingding divided the 1,200 people into four groups, each group of 300 people, and each group was divided into three groups, each group of 100 people, each with a team leader, a group leader, and a person elected by everyone as the team leader and group leader.

Since it is a night attack, the emphasis is on two words: fast and ruthless. Therefore, each person was equipped with a saber (also called a machete), a hard bow, a hundred arrows, a bundle of thatch, and a fire. The reason why everyone is not equipped with spears is that it is not convenient to carry them on their bodies for sneak attacks, and they can be taken directly from the enemy after the battle.

Zhao Mingding's combat method was: Riding the night tide to land on the shore, the four groups were divided into two teams, two groups and one team, covering each other, outflanking the enemy's camp from the left and right, setting fire to the Chinese army, and when the enemy panicked, shooting the enemy general with a hard bow to let him mess up. When Lu Xiufu's team saw that the enemy camp was on fire, they went ashore and rushed to kill. When the enemy's frontal warships saw the battle on land, they would definitely send troops to rescue, so He Caishan led his troops to block the way of the enemy's reinforcements and block the road to fight, Zhang Bao and Huang Li waited for the enemy's naval division to go out to rescue the land battalion, and then took advantage of the weakness to attack the frontal enemy's naval division and attacked it with fire. Everything started with a fire in the enemy camp on land. Zhang Shijie sat in the Chinese army to meet the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and closely watched the enemy naval division at the mouth of the sea.

Everything was arranged, the soldiers participating in the battle entered a state of rest, and in order not to attract the attention of the enemy, the soldiers on patrol and standing guard remained the same, but they were replaced by civilian personnel who did not participate in the battle.

At midnight, Zhao Mingding led the 1,200 dead soldiers to the shore in small boats.

At that time, the sky was dark, and there was not a single light in sight, except for the lights of the barracks on the ship and on the shore. The sound of the waves crashing against the shore could be heard far away, making the night seem even quieter. The cool breeze from the sea mixed with water vapor blows in the face, which makes people feel refreshed and refreshed.

Zhao Mingding divided everyone into a hundred small boats according to the plan, drifted towards the shore with the tide, solved the patrol sentry with a hard bow, quietly lurked into the enemy's camp, found the enemy's warehouse where weapons and grain were stacked, and started from the warehouse, and set fire all the way, but saw that the smoke was filled, the fire was soaring to the sky, and the enemy camp was red, and it was as bright as day. As soon as the enemy army saw the fire, they immediately became chaotic, and the hard bow brought by Zhao Mingding was specially aimed at the enemy generals who gathered soldiers at this time, one arrow at a time, and quickly shot down a piece. Because there was no one to lead, those Yuan troops became headless flies, running around, and just became a live target for archery practice, but seeing that the arrows were like flying locusts, there were corpses of the Yuan army everywhere.

However, the Yuan army was not a vegetarian, and quickly calmed down and counterattacked, but under the rain of arrows like locusts, it was difficult to move an inch, and soon retreated, ran towards the camp gate, trampled on each other, and killed countless people. But as soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, he saw a large group of men and horses coming, but it was Lu Xiufu who arrived.

"Zhang Hongfan is here, come and get his name!" As soon as Zhao Mingding arrived at the gate of the camp outside the enemy from the inner camp, he heard a broken drink, and a general rode a high-headed horse and brandished a horse lance and rushed towards Zhao Mingding.

"The Golden Tripod boy is here!" Zhao Mingding shouted, "Dog thief, take your life!" With both hands, he grabbed Fang Tian's halberd in his hand, and with just one move, he passed through his chest and picked Zhang Hongfan off the horse, seeing that he was not alive. Seeing the death of the commander, the Yuan soldiers lost their fighting spirit, and were cut off by the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty like cutting melons, and almost all the Yuan troops on land were annihilated.

Looking back at the sea, but seeing the fire rising in the sea, Zhao Mingding hurriedly ordered some of the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the rest of the people immediately sailed back to the sea to help in case of accidents.

When Zhao Mingding returned to the sea camp with his troops, the battle on the sea had come to an end. He Caishan completely annihilated the enemy's naval division reinforcements, burned 50 warships and captured 70 warships, and Zhang Baoquan annihilated the enemy's naval division, burned 130 enemy warships and captured 190 warships.

The enemy warships blocking the sea entrance saw the scuffle in front of them and also came to support, and were surrounded and annihilated by the warships sent by Zhang Shijie, and captured 100 warships.

The Yuan army had 540 warships, and in addition to the 180 that were burned, the remaining 360 were all owned by the Song army, which greatly enhanced the strength of the naval division.

In this battle, the 100,000 horses of the Yuan army were annihilated, and countless horses, weapons, clothes, and supplies were captured.

In order to preserve combat capability, Zhang Shijie only sent 10,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the rest of the men and horses rested immediately after a full meal.

"This time, our army won a complete victory, relying on the advice of the generals, and regardless of their own safety, they took the lead in charging into battle, which can be sung and cried!" As soon as Zhao Mingding and his entourage boarded the boat where Zhang Shijie lived, they saw Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu greet them and put the four of them in the cabin, "Disturb me late at night, I invite the generals to come over, I want to discuss the next plan with the generals." ”

Zhang Shijie set up a table of banquets, saying that it was for the four of them to celebrate: "The environment is hard, the material is scarce, the sea eats the sea, and there are only some seafood to reward the generals, and I really feel sorry not to go!" ”

"Those who achieve great things are not informal, please don't be too polite to the Taifu and the prime minister!" Zhang Bao replied, "The purpose of our trip is to help the Taifu fight with the prime minister, recover the Song Dynasty, and not come for food and drink." ”

"Zhang Tianshi understands the righteousness and admires it deeply!" Lu Xiufu said, hugged his fists, and Zhang Baobao returned the salute.

Although they are all seafood from the sea, many of them are unseen and uneaten, and the taste is extremely delicious. The rarest thing is that all the seafood is cooked from fresh out of the water, and its taste is pure and delicious, you can imagine: steamed lobster, charcoal-grilled oysters, salmon sashimi, stewed turtle, steamed sea urchin, steamed grouper, charcoal-grilled mussels, braised sea cucumber, braised shark, salt-baked stone snails, steamed abalone......

The four of them were not polite, they put their hands together, opened their bows left and right, and ate with relish. A military attache must have the way of eating a military attaché.

"This chef is not simple, who is the master?" Zhao Mingding asked vaguely with a mouth full of food.

"General Zhao doesn't know that this chef is the emperor's imperial kitchen, and these seafood have just been caught from the sea." Lu Xiufu said, "This time our army won a complete victory, and the emperor was overjoyed, and ordered the imperial kitchen to clean up the banquet and celebrate the achievements of the generals." With that, with a wave of his right hand, he saw six sergeants each carrying a ceremonial plate covered with red silk.

"These are the emperor's rewards, please accept them with a smile!" Zhang Shijie said, ordered the sergeant to uncover the red silk, and saw a set of official uniforms, a silver seal, ten ingots of gold, and ten pearls the thickness of a thumb on each plate.

"This silver seal is the official seal of the generals, and it is engraved with the names of the generals." Taifu Zhang Shijie said, "In today's war, the treasury is empty, and ten ingots of gold and ten pearls are just a little bit of the emperor's heart, and he is determined to reward him." ”

"Thank you for your grace!" The four of them thanked in unison!

"Wait!" Zhang Shijie waved his right hand, pointed to the six costumed beauties who entered the cabin, and said, "These six were originally palace maids who served the emperor, and because of the hard work of the military, the emperor gave three male generals to warm their feet, two each, and they could not be resigned." ”

"This ......" Zhao Mingding, Zhang Bao and He Caishan were speechless for a while, not knowing how to respond.

The so-called hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, this beauty, nine out of ten men are loved, but the beauty who accepted the emperor's reward in front of Huang Li suddenly didn't know how to deal with it.

"What are you doing? Why don't you thank the emperor for his grace? Huang Li smiled.

"Thank you for your grace!" Zhao Mingding, Zhang Bao and He Caishan clasped their hands into fists and thanked them in unison.

"Chromophobia, too!" Lu Xiufu said with a smile, "Three wives and four concubines, this is an ordinary thing, the three generals work for the country, and the emperor gives Meiji as the general's solution, which is a piece of love." ”

"In addition, for General Huang, the emperor has another reward, which is a thousand-year-old ginseng and alpine snow lotus and a number of jade jewelry." After that, he clapped his hands, and immediately a sergeant came up with a ceremonial plate. Huang Li also thanked her.

"What's next?" After three rounds of drinking, Lu Xiufu asked.

"In my opinion, it is best for us to capture Guangzhou in the next step, and then divide our troops to recover the lost territory in Guangdong, based on Guangdong, divide our troops into two routes, advance by sea and land, and recover Fujian and Zhejiang. Recruit troops along the way to enrich the army. Zhang Bao said slowly, "The top priority now is to block the news of this war and take advantage of the enemy's unknown news to seize Guangzhou in a hurry." It is best to set off overnight, advance by land and water, and take the enemy by surprise! ”

"In my opinion, it is better to send part of the team to recover the lost territory in Guangdong after taking Guangzhou, and use Guangdong as the base and rear area of the anti-Yuan resistance, while the brigade will rest, select strong soldiers, form an elite army, strengthen training, and at the same time spread the word to the world, mobilize the military and people of the whole country to jointly resist the Yuan, and reduce the world's levy for ten years, ten to three. If there are soldiers who can get lost and know how to return, they will not be blamed for the past, and those who have meritorious service will be rewarded. Zhao Mingding said, "The Yuan army knows that our army is in Guangzhou and will come to a decisive battle, and our army will release more horses, reconnoiter the enemy's offensive route, ambush at dangerous places, and wait for work at ease, and will be able to surprise and attack it unprepared." ”

"I want to hear about it!" Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu said in unison.

"When I think that when the Tartars attacked my Great Song Dynasty, the army was only 200,000, advancing by land and water, invincible all the way, like entering a no-man's land, what is the reason?" Zhao Mingding said slowly, "Let me ask how many troops I had in the Great Song Dynasty at that time, the whole country?" How many people are there? Why can't you stop this 200,000 Tartars? In the battle of Yingzhou, the Yuan soldiers made a detour, after Ashu led dozens of cavalry halls, thousands of cavalry in Yingzhou pursued, but they were killed and retreated by dozens of cavalry of Asshu, and hundreds of soldiers were broken, what kind of humiliation is this for the soldiers? ”

Zhao Mingding glanced at the audience, but no one spoke.

"Civil officials are greedy for money, military attaches cherish death, training is not effective, and it is difficult to make it difficult to make this kind of result!" Zhao Mingding said in a deep voice, "In addition, the measures are inappropriate, I only know how to stick to it, I don't know how to take the initiative, I am more than calm and not flexible enough, it is strange to be undefeated!" ”

"According to the general's opinion, how should it be arranged?" Zhang Shijie asked.

"With Guangdong as the base and Guangzhou as the base camp, build an arsenal, build strong crossbows, knives and guns, and ensure that the weapons at the front are sufficient." Zhao Mingding talked eloquently and said, "First rest the team, select elite soldiers for intensive training, and form elite cavalry." Our army first waited for the Yuan army to attack, and after breaking the enemy, it took the initiative to attack, concentrated superior forces, and broke each one, with the purpose of annihilating the living forces of the Yuan army. Now the team is almost rested and can set off to attack Guangzhou. ”

"Okay, according to Jin Yu Zhenjun's opinion, let's give the order to set off now!" When Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu heard it, they immediately agreed.

At that time, the moon was dark and the wind was high, the sea and land lights were brilliant, and the crowds were crowded, and the burned enemy ships were somewhat stranded, but the embers were not extinguished, and from time to time some flames were raised, reflecting the nearby sea in red.