Zhao Bingyan talked hard and finally got through everyone's ideological work, and unanimously decided to go west to Leizhou.
When he wanted to lead the troops in person, Chen Qilin, deputy envoy of the Imperial City Department, refused.
Zhao Bingyan asked: "At this time, Deputy Ambassador Chen is still afraid that I will escape?"
Chen Qilin waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Commander Zhao is now the leader we are waiting for. How can we take risks again?"
All the generals disagreed.
He appointed Sun Huchen as the vanguard, Wang Bao and Chen Qilin as deputy generals, and led 6,000 troops to disguise themselves as the Yuan army to outwit Leizhou Prefecture.
Zhao Bingyan assigned all firearms such as rocket launchers, mortars, and Sanba Gaigai to Sun Huchen, and attacked directly if he failed to outmaneuver him.
The three people promised him that after completing the mission, they would immediately lead the troops to change into the uniforms of the Yuan army, and set off on the newly captured Yuan army warship.
Zhao Bingyan was about to visit the wounded soldiers in the village when he saw Chen Qilin returning on a fast boat and shouting at Commander Zhao from afar.
Before the boat got close, Chen Qilin jumped on his boat and whispered in his ear that he had found the Young Emperor and Prime Minister Lu. Both of them were dying.
Zhao Bingyan was stunned immediately.
It turned out that after Sun Huchen and the others untied the row boats, they unexpectedly found Lu Xiufu holding a log stuck between the two boats, and it was the young emperor Zhao Bing who was carrying on his back.
He looked around nervously and asked to be quietly sent to Wu Qingyuan's command ship.
When Wu Qingyuan saw that it was the Young Emperor and Lu Xiufu, he said nervously: "How can a common people's boat be used as a palace for the Young Emperor? It is better to send it to the phoenix boat. The craftsman has seen it and the phoenix boat is in good condition and can be used."
Zhao Bingyan asked him to immediately recruit the remaining palace maids and eunuchs in the village, and let the head of the Taiyuan Hospital on the wounded soldier's ship be guarded carefully by Hou Meng, so as not to leak any information.
Chen Qilin knew the seriousness of this matter and reported to him: "Brother Huchen also told him the same thing."
Zhao Bingyan nodded and told him to go back quickly. The army must seize time to capture Leizhou.
Chen Qilin solemnly handed the jade seal to him and immediately boarded a speedboat to catch up with the team.
He waited in Fengzhou's meeting hall for a long time, and Meng Houshi came out tremblingly to report: "Your Majesty, Commander, the Emperor is hanging with only one breath left. Prime Minister Lu's condition is much better than that of the Emperor."
He just wanted to say "bullshit".
Lu Xiufu is an adult, and the emperor is still a child less than eight years old. It is a miracle that he can survive for so long, and he is lucky to not die.
He said: "The head of the hospital does not need to blame himself. We will do our best and listen to God's will. No matter what the result is, the head of the hospital will be the first to do it."
His name is Meng Houshou and he will live in Fengzhou from now on, specializing in the illness of the Young Emperor and Prime Minister Lu.
After getting off Fengzhou, Zhao Bingyan found Wu Qingyuan and asked him to hurry up and prepare to set off for Leizhou when the tide recedes early tomorrow morning.
The civilian ships quickly began to form.
In this battle, the Song army won a great victory and seized a lot of money. The gold found on the ship of Zhang Hong and Fan Shuai alone was as much as hundreds of kilograms. In addition, the property left behind by officials who abandoned the ship and jumped into the sea in the water village was even more numerous. number.
In accordance with the promise of the military and civilian families, Zhao Bingyan fulfilled the salary of all personnel for three months, and distributed food to each household according to head count. The soldiers and civilians of Shuizhai lived a new life with rare joy.
In the evening, he went to Fengzhou to visit Lu Xiufu again and told him that he had won a great victory and had completely defeated Zhang Hongfan's navy. The army was about to move to Leizhou to rest.
Lu Xiufu leaned weakly on the slump and nodded with a dull expression: "General Zhao Shenwu is my great leader of the Song Dynasty. I am mistaken. I am guilty. I have harmed the emperor."
Zhao Bingyan shook his head and told him: "Prime Minister Lu is not wrong. The people are noble and the king is despised. The Prime Minister sacrifices his life for righteousness and is a hero today. As long as we serve the people wholeheartedly, we will be worthy of heaven and earth."
When the tide receded the next day, Liu Shiyong raised the flag of the Song Dynasty Guards and led the way. Nearly a thousand ships drove out of the cliff and turned to the northwest, densely packed like a moving maritime city.
At this time, Zhang Hongfan, the commander-in-chief of the Yuan Army, had already fled the battlefield and got a broken boat and headed straight to Guangzhou. When he arrived in Guangzhou City, he learned that Li Heng's entire camp was burned down like him. Not only did he lose his warships and soldiers, he was also seriously injured, and half of his face, eyebrows and beard were burned off.
Both of them stayed in Guangzhou to recuperate.
Zhao Bingyan sailed on the sea for a day. When the sun rose again, he felt very happy when he saw the magnificent sight of the sun rising over the sea. Thinking that he had actually rescued tens of thousands of people, he felt a wonderful sense of accomplishment in his heart.
While he was still admiring the beautiful scenery, Zhang Qi, who was in charge of the rearguard, sent someone to report: General Zhang Shijie's sentinel ship was found. The Queen Mother and the general were behind him, and he ordered the ship to be stopped.
Zhao Bingyan asked the sentry boat to reply to the general: Please follow the Queen Mother and the general and transfer to Leizhou Mansion.
The sentinel ship immediately flew back to Zhang Shijie.
It turned out that Zhang Shijie and the others encountered a typhoon when they rushed out of the cliff mountain. They hurriedly took shelter nearby, so they did not go far.
After the typhoon, he counted the number of people and found that there were no more than a hundred warships and no more than ten thousand people. The most important thing is that Zhang Shijie's personal guards did not receive the young emperor Zhao Bing and the left prime minister Lu Xiufu.
This made the Queen Mother who was gathered together behind her heartbroken. She wanted to jump into the sea several times and commit suicide. Fortunately, the maids and eunuchs on her left and right held her back and saved her from death.
Yesterday, they observed Sun Huchen's make-up of the Yuan army, nearly a hundred large ships with flags flying, and they were nervously hiding in the bay and not daring to show their faces.
I saw the Guards appearing again today and immediately went to investigate.
The sentry boat saw clearly that it was Zhao Bingyan's Song Dynasty Guards, and immediately sent an order to stop the boat and wait for the general. That was because they were worried that Zhao Bingyan's fleet would go west to Leizhou like a sheep in a wolf's den.
Everyone was shocked when Zhang Shijie's sentry boat went back to report.
Zhao Bingyan not only held back the Yuan army, but also saved the water stronghold and defeated the Yuan army. The fine fleet they saw yesterday was actually all Yuan army warships captured by the Guards.
Wen Tianxiang trembled with joy and said, "Great goodness, Commander Zhao is so brave that he actually turned defeat into victory. We will follow."
Zhang Shijie immediately ordered the ship to sail, but he felt very uncomfortable as if he had overturned the five-flavor bottle. He himself, a great general, failed to defeat the Yuan army and escaped.
An inconspicuous young general actually defeated the Yuan army and became the patron saint of the soldiers and people of Shuizhai.
The generals also had mixed feelings in their hearts. Even though they were short of food, their stomachs always felt full.
Zhao Bingyan's fleet had all kinds of ships and was very slow. It took Zhang Shijie and the others only half a day to catch up. Wu Qingyuan, the general manager of the water village, immediately transformed into the logistics manager and enthusiastically delivered fresh water and self-heating meals.
The Song army, which had been hungry for two days, finally had a steaming meal.
When the Queen Mother Yang Shufei learned that Lu Xiufu and the young emperor had been rescued, she cried with joy. After dinner, she was about to board the ship to visit the young emperor.
Everyone came to Fengzhou together, and happened to see the head of the Jian Tai Hospital, Meng Hou, walking out as if he was mourning for his heir.
Zhao Bingyan asked him: "How is the emperor's condition?"
Meng Houshen remained silent for a while and then said: "Please punish the Queen Mother. The Emperor can no longer drink soup. I'm afraid..."
Concubine Yang Shu quickly rushed into the cabin before he finished speaking, and touched her youngest son's sallow face with trembling hands. The young emperor closed his eyes tightly, and the body temperature that reached her hands became colder and colder.
Zhao Bingyan reported carefully from behind. He was worried about unstable morale and did not disclose any information to the outside world. He did not expect that the emperor's condition was so serious.
Wen Tianxiang nodded and said: "Commander Zhao did nothing wrong. The head of the hospital must keep an eye on the emperor's condition."
Looking at her dead son, Yang Shufei covered her face and cried bitterly. She suddenly rushed out of the cabin and jumped into the sea like a madman.
Everyone was stunned immediately.
Zhao Bingyan yelled at the imperial guards: "Why are you so stunned? Save people."
While shouting, he took off his coat and jumped down, followed by guards who followed him.
Zhang Shijie, Wen Tianxiang and the others rushed towards the bottom warehouse.
Zhao Bingyan jumped up on the sea several times but did not see Yang Shufei's figure. He thought that this woman wanted to die.
Finally, a guard noticed that Concubine Yang Shu was floating and shouted that the Queen Mother was here. However, because Concubine Yang was worth a million gold, he did not dare to go up and touch her body.
Zhao Bingyan swam over and did not see Concubine Yang Shu, and scolded the guards for being pedantic. He was trying to save people, but it was useless.
He suddenly dived into the sea and found Concubine Yang Shu floating up in his arms. The woman was already limp.
Zhao Bingyan took Yang Shufei close to Fengzhou, and everyone rushed Yang Shufei into the cabin.
Meng Houshi saw that her belly was bulging and Yang Shufei, who was completely breathless, shook her head and said: "The Queen Mother drank a lot of sea water and suffocated to death. She has already left Hexi."
