The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 334 Leizhou War ([-])

During the march, two days passed quickly.

Leizhou really started the war first.

Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were on the sea, marching hastily, and were always on their way. They might not be particularly familiar with the situation in the interior.

They may know about the defeat of Boyan and Ye Su'er, but they may not know that Dali has dispatched troops and is approaching Leizhou.

Therefore, after the two men hurried to the offshore of Leizhou, hundreds of large ships straddled the sea, and after a short rest, they launched an attack on Leizhou.

Only ten miles to the west of Haikang County, Leizhou Bay.The naval battleships of the Yuan Army have no end in sight at sea.

Looking around, the sea is full of Yuan army flags.

On the beach, the remaining 2 soldiers of the Leizhou Army stood along the coastline.The military flag is flying, and thunderbolt cars and grenades are also ready.

Zhang Jue, Zhao Da, Zhao Hu, and Liu Hongyi marched overnight, and finally led the army back to Haikang County before Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng arrived in Leizhou.

Liu Hongyi was seriously injured and was sent home to recuperate at this time.The Leizhou Army is under the command of Zhang Jue.

In Haikang and Suixi Counties, the streets are extremely lively.

Agents from the Social Security Department put up notices everywhere, recruiting militiamen.It is obviously impossible to want Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng with less than [-] soldiers.

Lu Xiufu, Minister of State, and Su Liuyi, Deputy Commander of the Army, have full powers to supervise the recruitment of militia.

The government offices of Haikang and Suixi counties were extremely busy.

It was too late to train the militiamen, but they had to be given military uniforms and weapons.Furthermore, registering them is a trivial matter.

In the past, conscription in the Song Dynasty was only voluntary by the people. They joined the army if they wanted to, and those who had only one son in their families were not even allowed to join the army.But now, the catchers and petty officials of various yamen knock on the door from door to door, asking the young and strong in their families to join the militia and fight against the Yuan together.

Fortunately, in the past two years or so, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty has won the hearts of the people, so there are not a few people who responded to the call of the court.

The barracks where the militiamen were recruited in the two counties were full of voices.All the young men who came to join the army were full of indignation.

They managed to live a stable life in Leizhou, and at this time the Yuan army came to invade again, which undoubtedly made them hate the Yuan army to the core.

At the time of the rise and fall of this country, there are still many young and strong people who are full of enthusiasm.

At sea, the sound of cannons finally resounded.

Along the coast, there were [-] grenade launchers from the Flying Dragon Army, and more than [-] grenade launchers manufactured by the Ministry of Military Industry in recent months, totaling more than a thousand. The naval warship fired.

The sound of cannons continued.

This was indeed a head-on blow to the Yuan army's fleet.

However, the attack distance of the grenade is also limited.For the time being, it can only attack the front of the Yuan army's front line.

Moreover, naval battleships are so huge that it often takes more than ten shells to sink a ship.

The boats were thrown from the large ships of the Yuan army, and countless soldiers who jumped into the sea climbed into the boats and marched towards the coast.

At the end of the boat formation, the sound of drums resounded non-stop.

Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng originally suffered a big defeat in Quzhou, but this time they came here with the idea that if they fail, they will be benevolent.If they were defeated again, the two of them would lose face and go back to Dadu to meet Yuan Emperor Kublai Khan.The mentality of the generals can often affect the soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers of the Yuan army are also very fierce this time.

Braving the huge waves blown up by shells, they shouted loudly and kept approaching the coast.

At the back, the naval battleship of the Yuan Army was also carrying shells, with all sails raised, and headed towards the coast at an extremely fast speed.

Waiting a little closer, the thunderbolt chariot of the Song Army on the shore also launched.

Although the power of the thunderbolt cannon is far inferior to that of the grenadier shell, if there are a few of them, it is still no problem to sink the Yuan army's boat.

Countless soldiers of the Yuan army were bombed and fell into the water amidst the flying sawdust.Some pop up quickly, while others remain silent forever.

In just a few minutes, some naval warships of the Yuan Army had already docked.

The damage caused by the Song army's arrows to the naval warships was almost negligible.

There were soldiers of the Yuan army standing on the bow, and the shield soldiers shot arrows at the soldiers of the Song army from behind.

Arrow feathers flew.

Stones and shells come and go in the air.

In just a short period of time, the scene has become extremely tragic.

Zhao Dongting originally thought that after defeating Boyan and Ye Su'er, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng would retreat.However, he wasted too long in Tengzhou. By the time the Yuan army was defeated, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were not far from Leizhou.Not to mention that it would take time to send a message from Tengzhou to Dadu, even if Kublai Khan received the news of Tengzhou's defeat, it was obviously too late to order Zhang Hongfan and the two to retreat.

And in fact, after Kublai Khan received the Tengzhou battle report, he had no intention of letting Zhang Hongfan retreat at all.

He is a half-length soldier and has unparalleled military prowess, so he naturally has his pride.

When did the iron cavalry of the Yuan army encounter such a big failure?
The emperor is also a human being. Although Kublai Khan was wise, he was out of anger when he received the battle report.

That day, after he received the battle report, he tore the secret letter to pieces in front of all the ministers, gritted his teeth and said, "If the Song Dynasty is not destroyed, I will not give up!"

Originally there were courtiers who wanted to persuade Kublai Khan to withdraw when they learned that Boyan and Ye Su'er were defeated, but seeing him like this, they didn't dare to speak up.

Therefore, most of the Yuan Dynasty did not let Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng's order to withdraw their troops be conveyed.

In other words, Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng would either win or lose in Leizhou, otherwise, it would be impossible to withdraw their troops.

A few miles behind the coast, more than two hundred hot air balloons suddenly took off into the sky.

Seeing the tension on the front line, Zhang Jue finally used this secret weapon.

Although the Thunderbolt is not as powerful as a cannonball, it is undoubtedly a greater threat to naval battleships when thrown from the sky.

More than two hundred hot air balloons quickly flew to the sea, throwing thunderbolts at the naval battleships of the Yuan Army below.

Amid the successive explosions, in just a short period of time, several naval battleships of the Yuan Army were blown to pieces and sank.

The battle continued like this for nearly half an hour.

It is feared that more than a hundred warships of the Yuan army were damaged, and countless small boats were lost.

A few soldiers ran to the coast, but they didn't succeed, and were quickly beheaded to the ground by the Song army.

However, the Song army also suffered some losses because of the Yuan army's arrows and catapults.Even the thunderbolt car was destroyed a lot.

There are too many naval battleships in the Yuan army, and the range of the catapult is only slightly inferior to that of the grenadier, and it is much longer than that of the thunderbolt chariot, which naturally poses a great threat to the thunderbolt chariot.More importantly, there were also thunderbolt cannons in the Yuan army. Although there were not many of them, they were much more powerful than stones.

Zhang Jue was short of troops, so he could only defend to the death.Losses are also inevitable.

But in the final analysis, this wave of offensive by the Yuan army was repelled by the Song army.

Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng kept receiving news that the warship in front had sunk, and they felt very distressed.

When the sound of the Yuan army's middle army's golden call spread, the Yuan army's naval battleship changed its sails and retreated slowly towards the back.

There are many pieces of wood floating on the sea, as well as corpses.

Some Yuan troops who were still struggling on the water were quickly shot by arrows from the Song army, and their blood soon proliferated in the sea.

The Yuan army still on the shore was even worse, but there were only a few hundred people, and before they had time to run, they were covered by the Song army's arrow array, and they all shot into hedgehogs.

Zhang Jue watched the Yuan army retreat without thinking too much, and immediately ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

But only in the afternoon, the naval warship of the Yuan Army actually sailed to the coast again.

Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were obviously also racing against each other, trying to capture Leizhou before Zhao Dongting came back.

However, they were still repulsed by Zhang Jue in this attack.

It is convenient for the Song army to occupy the coast and have many firearms. Although the Yuan army has 15, it is difficult to storm the coast.

Throughout the day, the sound of cannons hardly stopped.

But at this time, the shortcomings of the weak national power of the Song Dynasty were finally reflected.

The grenade was almost out of shells.

When fighting with Boyan and Ye Suer in Guangxi, the shells were already consumed a lot.Now the shells of the Southern Song Dynasty simply cannot withstand such consumption.

Zhang Jue had no choice but to ask the Feilong soldiers to save shells, but this also caused the Song Army to suffer more damage than in the morning.

And at night, a message that made him even more anxious was sent to his big tent.

A Yuan army landed from the bay more than [-] miles north of Leizhou at night, and was marching towards Leizhou.

Although the scouts also said that Su Liuyi, the deputy commander of the army, had led the militia to stop it, but Zhang Jue was still in a dilemma.

He has less than [-] soldiers in total, and it is impossible to defend the entire Leizhou coastline.

However, Su Liuyi only led the militia, could he stop those Yuan troops who landed?

Zhang Jue was in a dilemma.

Divide troops to rescue, fearing that the Yuan army will take the opportunity to attack the coast again.If he didn't go to rescue him, he was worried that Su Liuyi wouldn't be able to resist, and Leizhou would be at a loss.

The Yuan army was 15, even if it was divided into several groups, it could pose a great threat to the Song army.

In the end, Zhang Jue could only dispatch the Flying Army to go there.

(End of this chapter)