Zhao Bingyan went back and asked Zhu Jingyi to pack his luggage and prepare to travel. The girl pestered him to go with him and would stay with the King of Han for the rest of his life.
He knew what this woman was thinking, she just wanted to monitor his every move.
Zhao Bingyan went to the storage room and took out two transceivers and instruction manuals, taught her how to use them, and asked her to find someone to practice with her godfather, and then he could stay with her and become the first telegraph operator of the new army.
Zhu Jingyi was stunned when she saw the telegraph signal flashing.
He knocked on the girl's head and said, "Why are you so dazed? Practice."
The next day, Zhao Bingyan set off with the guards.
In Qinghua Prefecture in the south, General Zhang Shijie was commanding the Song Dynasty Guards in the final encirclement and suppression of the Annan rebels.
After King Zhaowu came to Thanh Hoa in disguise, he immediately raised a team to rebel and rebuild the Annan Kingdom. The team once grew to more than 20,000 people, and he immediately wore a yellow robe and proclaimed himself emperor.
However, his relief army was composed of rabble-rousers who had fled from various places and trapped people around Thanh Hoa. They had no fighting ability. When Liu Dali came up and beat them up, they immediately abandoned all the towns and fled to the mountains and forests.
Only then did the people see that rebellion was no fun.
After the land equalization order was completed in the north, King Zhaowu no longer received foreign aid and relied entirely on the support of local wealthy families and cronies. His food and supplies soon ran out, and he couldn't even raise the steel to make swords and spears.
At this time, Zhang Shijie came to Qinghua, and his first attack was on the surrounding landlords and wealthy families. It was these rich and prominent people who secretly supported King Zhaowu's Qianliang rebellion.
Zhang Shijie then completely distributed the land to the people and posted notices to encourage the people who blindly followed King Zhaowu to go home.
As long as he comes back to farm, the court will forget about it and distribute the land to him as usual.
The lethality of this move is great.
Those soldiers of the Jingnan Army who were still sleeping in the mountains were immediately shaken in morale after learning about it. Many of them threw away their weapons and took off their military uniforms and secretly went home. King Zhaowu's originally small remaining soldiers immediately shrunk significantly.
Unwilling to be reconciled, this guy came down from the mountain to attack people's settlements, forcibly captured their husbands, and massacred the soldiers who escaped home, arousing strong resistance from the people.
Zhang Shijie seized the opportunity and ordered people from all walks of life to attack, set up an ambush on the road leading to the village settlement, and sent a special force in makeup to raid King Zhaowu's residence in a multi-pronged approach.
That guy couldn't stand being treated like this by Zhang Shijie.
This guy was a prince who had no worries about food and clothing. How could he withstand living in the open for a long time? He saw that the men and horses around him were all sallow and thin, and there were fewer and fewer of them. The camp that was set up at noon was attacked at night. He was furious and doubted his There are spies among the guards, and if they don't like them, they will behead them with a knife.
After such a show of manipulation, some of the guards actually came down from the mountain to surrender and report the whereabouts of King Zhaowu.
No, Liu Dali personally led the team to surround the camp that King Zhaowu had just set up in Motu Mountain. The army conducted a net-like investigation to shrink the encirclement step by step.
When King Zhaowu was informed that he was surrounded, he had no way to escape. With a desperate struggle, the two sides fought from morning to afternoon. The Guards attacked hilltop after hilltop, blocking King Zhaowu and his last hard-core bodyguards at Sheshen Cliff. .
This guy was actually afraid of death and refused to jump off the cliff. He suddenly dropped his weapons and raised his hands in surrender.
He asked Liu Dali to keep him safe and enjoy the same treatment as his brother Emperor Xiao Chen, and at least be a counselor on Shenglong Road, because he was also an emperor like his brother.
Liu Dali was also drunk when he saw such a hypocritical emperor, and said to his subordinates: "There are no prisoners here, and there are no living people."
The brothers understood immediately and fired one after another, beating all the backbone members of the rebellion into sieves.
After Zhang Shijie confirmed that King Zhaowu was eliminated, he asked Liu Dali to preside over Qingxiang and restore order in Qinghua. He returned north to Thanglong with satisfaction.
At Zhenyi Pass, Zhao Bingyan replenished weapons and ammunition for the troops and discussed matters with the generals. The soldiers all knew that Zhuge's artifacts were hard-won, and they had to rely on themselves to completely defeat the Yuan army.
Zhang Qi happily introduced him to Yue Ting, a descendant of the Yue family, and his sister Yue Ting. The two sisters brought five thousand rebels to join the Guards, and some of them were incorporated into Liu Dali's Sixth Brigade to march south to Thanh Hoa.
Zhao Bingyan was very happy to see the descendants of the Yue family and asked Yue Ting to train hard. In the future, he would let him lead an army alone and attack Huanglong.
All the generals were overjoyed and shouted for great kindness.
He asked Chen Qilin about Dali.
Chen Qilin reported: After the Dayuan Dynasty upgraded the Dali Kingdom to the Yunnan Province, Yunnan's economy developed rapidly. Recently, their provincial governor died of illness, and the military and political power was vested in Yunnan Wang Tuohulu. Most of his subordinates were warriors. Taking advantage of the situation and occupying it, Yunnan is in a state of chaos and has no peace.
Zhang Qi said that the Yuan army gathered its forces and went south to fight two battles, both of which were small-scale operations. Each of their soldiers carried seven days of food on their backs to fight. They fought when they won and ran away when they couldn't. They were quite flexible in fighting.
Zhao Bingyan thinks this is a new trend.
It shows that the enemy's general's thinking in commanding operations has changed.
In the past, the Yuan army marched ahead without using food and grass, and always assembled large armies with the intention of annihilating the Song army in one go. Now, they are attacking in small groups, trying to consume us bit by bit like cracking candy.
Zhou Fu said that the Yuan army did not gain anything at all. Our small troops were intercepted and fought to the death, and all of them died. Therefore, they also changed their tactics and adopted a relatively concentrated posture to deal with the Yuan army, strengthened battlefield reconnaissance, and obtained intelligence in a timely manner to adjust their deployment.
Zhao Bingyan nodded and praised them for doing the right thing. When the enemy changes, so will I.
In the evening, he found Chen Qilin and Qian Shipan and told them that they were going to the north for an unannounced visit. He asked Chen Qilin to prepare and join him in makeup to investigate Yunnan Province. He asked Qian Shipan to cooperate and make it look like he was still in Zhenyiguan.
Qian Shipan thought it was too dangerous, so the King of Han must not go.
He said: "I want to leave, who can stop me? Execute."
Early the next morning, he and Chen Qilin disguised themselves as tea merchants, set out with a caravan, and arrived at Hengshan Village two days later.
Here, the official roads were full of cars and horses, and the transportation was busy. There were obviously many Yuan troops coming from Yunnan.
The dilapidated houses in Hengshan Village were all occupied by troops. Zhao Bingyan felt that the enemy was showing signs of attacking Zhenyi Pass from both sides.
It seemed that the enemy was about to attack them.
He crossed Temo Road to the west, entered eastern Yunnan, and then went north to Shimen. The gate guards in various places were plucking their feathers and asking for tolls from the merchants coming and going.
Zhao Bingyan was also drunk and lamented how difficult life was for the ancients.
After all these layers of exploitation, the businessman can still survive, which shows that his method of making a living is really extraordinary.
He asked Chen Qilin to inquire about the news about Lingxiao Mountain's resistance to the Yuan Dynasty, but no one dared to say anything. It seemed that the common people were about to become obedient citizens after being controlled by the Yuan army for twenty years.
Zhao Bingyan decided to continue northward and travel eastward along the Mahu River to Xuzhou.
The Mahu River is the Jinsha River. People in the Song Dynasty called the section from the Jinsha River downstream to Xuzhou the Mahu River because there happened to be a huge barrier lake, Mahu, next to it.
Three days later, Zhao Bingyan came to Xuzhou in Shu.
Xuzhou was known as Yibin in later generations. It was at the confluence of the Mahu River, Chuanjiang River and Yangtze River. Boats shuttled there, commerce was prosperous, and the salt industry was very developed.
This place is very close to Lingxiao Mountain, so it will not be difficult for Chen Qilin to inquire further.
After visiting three teahouses, they learned the basic situation of Shu's resistance to the Yuan Dynasty. The Song army in Diaoyu City had surrendered to the Yuan army, and probably only the rebel army in Lingxiao Mountain was still fighting against the Yuan Dynasty on the four roads of Sichuan.
Zhao Bingyan secretly rejoiced. Sure enough, he remembered correctly. There was indeed an anti-Yuan team fighting on Lingxiao Mountain. He decided to take a trip to have a look.
Chen Qilin was worried that it would be too dangerous for him to go up the mountain alone, so he firmly disagreed.
Zhao Bingyan said that since the king has arrived here, he naturally wants to encourage him. The Song Dynasty officers and soldiers in Diaoyu City have surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. If the rebels in Lingxiao Mountain also surrender to the Yuan Dynasty, then all the anti-Yuan Dynasty flags of the Song Dynasty in Shu will fall.
He must keep this flag.
When the two of them reached the boundary sign at the foot of Lingxiao Mountain, they could no longer walk. Further ahead, the Wang Jiajun stationed in Shu controlled the crossing and strictly inspected the comings and goings of business travelers and strangers.
Early the next morning, Zhao Bingyan performed the Great Shift of the Universe and instantly jumped up the mountain.
Although Lingxiao Mountain towers into the clouds, the top of the mountain is a relatively flat terrain with lush greenery everywhere. All the places that can be opened up for planting on the mountain are planted with crops. Many houses are located among them, and the smoke from the kitchen stoves makes it look like a fairyland on earth.
