Chen Qilin told him that Commander Liu was about to arrive. It was the time of high tide and he would be slower to come out.
Zhao Bingyan waved his hand and said he was tired and would get on the boat to rest first.
After dawn, they were already on the sea road back to Leizhou.
In this raid, Zhao Bingyan first captured the dock outside the city, and then attacked the targets in the city, forcing the Yuan army to only focus on rescue operations from all directions, and could not even send out pursuers.
Liu Shiyong took the monocular telescope given to him by Zhao Bingyan and looked around carefully. The sea surface was clean. He asked Zhao Bingyan to have a good rest and take care of everything.
Zhao Bingyan's continuous use of the Great Shift was very exhausting, and he actually fell asleep on the soft bed.
Leizhou is undergoing a huge change at this moment.
Zhang Shijie lost his military power and was very depressed after knowing that he could no longer control the Queen Mother Yang Shufei. He drank and drank with a group of deputy generals and guards all day long.
This will cause trouble.
Originally, some of the guards believed that Zhao Bingyan had taken away his military power and made the general lose his authority. They also behaved with their tail between their legs. Now he acted like he was being bullied and half-dead, which made all the guards even more angry. They all resigned and defected to the Tatars.
Going to the Tatars was a taboo for Zhang Shijie.
He was originally a Jin man, and he once did things for the Tatars. Now he is the general and privy envoy of the Song Dynasty, and he wants to surrender to the Tatars?
Zhang Shijie sounded the alarm to himself: "Absolutely not."
If that were to happen, he would become a domestic slave with the third surname that is despised by thousands of people.
Zhang Shijie cursed and shouted to stop, but he couldn't control the hands of everyone below. A group of cronies actually forced their way out of Leizhou.
The result can be imagined. With Wang Bao guarding Leizhou City, he will definitely not be able to escape.
After one fierce battle and two fierce battles, Zhang Shijie's escaped guards suffered more than 100 casualties, and another 70 or 80 were captured.
The Queen Mother Yang Shufei was furious and told him to deal with it himself.
Zhang Shijie couldn't bear it.
The personal guard has become a rebel and must be killed according to law.
He couldn't do it, so he was thrown into prison to wait for the king of Han to be punished.
Wen Tianxiang took Lu Xiufu to go have a drink with Zhang Shijie, and said tactfully: "The King of Han has long reminded the general to restrain his subordinates, but something like this happened. Alas."
Zhang Shijie regretted it at this time.
I cried bitterly and reflected that he had harmed everyone. He brought out hundreds of thousands of people from Lin'an, but when he got to Leizhou, there were only less than 30,000 left. The team almost collapsed. The King of Han said it well. He had no ambition to serve the country. Without troops, he could only kill the three armies.
Lu Xiufu quickly persuaded him, saying that both the Queen Mother and the King of Han knew that the general was loyal to the country and had no second intention. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the King of Han to follow Liu Tong to raid Guangzhou Mansion with only two personal guards.
This matter was the news they got from Concubine Yang Shu.
Zhang Shijie also didn't expect that Zhao Bingyan would dare to go to the enemy's lair to get food with Liu Shiyong and others, regardless of his personal safety.
He sighed and said, "I wonder how the King of Han is doing? Whether it is safe or not, it is really a sin."
While the three of them were still talking, the eunuch beside Concubine Yang Shu came to deliver a message: "The King of Han has returned victoriously. Please ask the two prime ministers and the general to come over quickly."
The three of them looked surprised and set off immediately.
As soon as Zhao Bingyan exchanged a few words with Concubine Yang Shu, Zhang Shijie and the others arrived, and they all expressed joyful congratulations.
He said with a smile: "It all depends on the soldiers' lives."
Zhao Bingyan told them that after the grain and grass in Guangzhou Prefecture were robbed by us, it would take a lot of time for the Yuan army to raise funds again.
This gives me a chance to wait for a buffer. I plan to start the transfer plan immediately and transfer all the people who are willing to follow to Qiongzhou.
Wen Tianxiang nodded, thinking that his strategy was appropriate, and the army could continue training in Qiongzhou.
Lu Xiufu was a little reluctant to leave and asked him: "Why are you leaving? The imperial court just sat in Leizhou. The King of Han originally said that he could stay as long as he wanted."
Zhao Bingyan smiled and told him that this is called war, and Leizhou is not stable. He said and acted with caution. At this time, we were all well rested, and we were ready to leave without any further entanglements. It would be too late to leave until the enemy came after us. "
Everyone laughed knowingly.
When Concubine Yang Shu saw Zhao Bingyan saying that he was successfully plundering Guangzhou, he always brought surprises to her, and she fell in love with him. She immediately said: "The Ai family thinks that the king of Han has thought carefully, and the court should leave as soon as possible to prevent the people from suffering."
In this way, the small court decided on the strategy of moving to Qiongzhou.
Zhang Shijie was embarrassed because his subordinates rebelled, so he kept silent. It was not until the discussion was over that he hesitantly said: "Please let the King of Han judge the troops."
Zhao Bingyan said that he understood. They were all people close to the general and had made great contributions to the court in the past. We would not do anything to kill them all.
He proposed that the soldiers who had killed the Guardsmen in this rebellion should be beheaded and displayed to the public, and everyone else should be given ten guan of money for travel expenses.
Zhang Shijie was stunned, not believing that it was Zhao Bingyan who said it.
Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu also looked at him in surprise, never expecting that the King of Han was so generous.
He said: "We are about to leave Leizhou. We will restore the Song Dynasty without a few or hundreds of such wallflowers. We will not force anyone who is unwilling to follow."
Concubine Yang Shu also figured it out and said loudly: "Shan, the court does not want these people, and is not afraid of them leaking the news. This is what the general and the prime minister should do."
Zhang Shijie quickly thanked the Queen Mother on behalf of his subordinates and the King of Han for not killing him.
Concubine Yang Shu was happy and asked her to leave and have a meal.
This woman hadn't had dinner with Zhao Bingyan for a long time, so she happened to take Wen Tianxiang and the others with her as a cover.
In Huazhou, north of Leizhou, Zhang Hongfan and Ali Hague met three of Zhang Shijie's personal guards. Yesterday, these people hated the Tatars deeply, and today they came to defect to the Tatars.
The personal guard reported in detail how Zhao Bingyan had robbed a large amount of grain and grass from Guangzhou Mansion, and also made Zhang Hongfan well aware of the internal fighting in the Southern Song Dynasty and Zhao Bingyan's plan to go to Annan.
However, whether it was the sworn reports of his personal guards or the sworn statements of officials who had left the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Hongfan was already doubtful.
Because, he found that the strength of the Southern Song Guards had increased dramatically, like a weak force that could not be killed, and should not be underestimated.
Also, the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty had been wandering along the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was reluctant to leave its homeland. Does Zhao Bingyan, a rising star, really want to move the small court to Annan for temporary refuge?
What if the small court deliberately tried to confuse it?
Zhang Hongfan acted extra cautiously after his successive defeats. In particular, there was a Han king Zhao Bingyan in the Song army. This Zhuge Liang's apprentice caused them to lose food, grass and weapons. He had to prepare for the worst and be always on guard against a backhand attack by the Song Guards and a surprise attack on the Jiuzhou River defense line.
Zhao Bingyan was not as hesitant as him. He decided on the transfer strategy and implemented it immediately.
He led Wang Bao and Liu Shiyong's tens of thousands of troops to set out on large ships and fast boats, and quickly crossed the sea to kill Qiongzhou.
I saw the sails of the sea covering the sky and the sun, like a group of auspicious clouds flying straight past. For a moment, Qiongzhou was shaken up and down, and soldiers and horses from the left and right were mobilized to rush to the rescue. The defenders hurriedly carried trebuchets and returned cannons to the city wall for defense.
However, after Zhao Bingyan ordered the Qiongzhou waterway to be blocked, he did not immediately attack the state capital. Instead, he took Wang Bao's clipper to the east and then south to attack Gaolong Bay in Wenchang County under the guidance of Chen Weizhong, the original magistrate of Wenchang County.
This place belongs to the back side of Wenchang County, Qiongzhou Prefecture. Although the wind is strong and the waves are high and the water is shallow, the bay is wide and defenseless.
Under the guidance of the guide selected by Chen Weizhong, Zhao Bingyan's army used fast boats to ferry Wang Bao's new army ashore, and easily advanced to the south gate of Wenchang County. They directly used rocket launchers and armor-piercing shells to destroy the wooden city gate. It was so big that they rushed to capture Wenchang County.
After the army entered Wenchang County, they quickly swept through the surrounding areas and were overwhelming.
The Yuan army and the natives holding bows, arrows, knives and guns were simply the opponents of the Song Dynasty's new army, which held 38 large caps in their hands and carried Type 56 assault rifles on their shoulders.
In this way, the main force of the Song Dynasty army chose to land in Hainan from Wenchang, and the entire Wenchang County was quickly liberated.
At this time, an official named Cen Lin came to defect with three hundred volunteers.
Only then did Zhao Bingyan know that Lu Xiufu had secretly arranged for him to go to the island to prepare a base in case Yashan was defeated and had nowhere to go.
Haha, with these three hundred volunteers as internal responders, the Song army's attack will be greatly facilitated.
After the Song army gained a foothold in Wenchang, it adopted a strategy of defending Qiongzhou Prefecture in the north and encircling the points for reinforcements. The main force sent its troops southward to directly target the Wan'an Army.
