In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 520: Beat the nobles, divide the wealth, the Song Dynasty takes me on the road to wealth
Although he comforted everyone, he himself was quite panicked. Before he went up, he turned around and looked around. There were at least seven or eight ships on the sea that were parked in place and unable to move. There were more than 300 ships on the opposite side, which seemed to be just one big ship. It was a small amount, but he knew that the closer he got, the greater the damage he would suffer.

Two hundred steps.

Bang bang bang, Song Jun came over in the fourth round.

There was a Srivijaya boat in the front row that was hit by five or six shots at once, and then there were explosions on the scene. A moment later, the hull of the boat was blazing with fire, and the people on the boat jumped into the sea one after another.

This scene scared many Srivijaya people to death. The Song army's artillery was too powerful, and the closer they got, the harder they were beaten.

At this time, the formation of Srivijaya's fleet was already in chaos. Many ships were hit by guns, and the ships behind had to go around it. The more chaotic the formation, the easier it was for the Song army to fight.

Their boat speed was also slow. At one hundred and fifty paces, the Song Army attacked again in the fifth round.

At this time, the five ships of the Song Army behind them also caught up and started firing at their backs.

The Song army attacked from the front and back. Pier ordered some of the ships in the rear formation to attack the Song army behind them, but they still couldn't reach the Song army. If they wanted to fight the Song army, they had to get closer.

The Srivijaya fleet in front suffered heavy losses again. After the fifth round of the Song army's attack, at least 20 ships were hit by gunfire.

When the two sides approached thirty steps, the entire right side of the Song army faced them.

Pierre soon learned the fate of Jie Xian.

The distance between the two sides was a hundred steps, and the Song army only needed to shoot flatly from the right angle, and it was extremely accurate.

The hit rate of these things is inherently low, and the Song Army is still moving, making them more difficult to hit and having little lethality.

Many Srivijaya boats are watching him, encouraging him, hoping he can take over.

But he did not give up at this time. The two sides were getting closer and closer. The Song army's ships separated on the two wings and maintained a good angle formation to prevent their own guns from hitting their own people.

Srivijaya chased after him, trying to connect the strings, shooting him with rockets, and hitting him with thunderbolts.

The sea is full of hit-and-missile ships, some are still moving, some have begun to sink, and some are putting out fires everywhere.

This was the first time that a ship hit the Song army, and there was cheers on the ship that hit it.

None of the shells exploded. Chila, Srivijaya, a ship much smaller than the Song army's hull, was torn into pieces by the shells and torn apart on the spot.

The artillery of the Song Army is so powerful, how do you pick up the strings?
You rush forward, and the opponent hits you hard, and more than half of the twenty-odd cannons can hit your hull, guaranteed to tear your ship to pieces on the spot.

More than fifteen of the more than twenty guns on the right side directly hit the opponent's hull.

But Pier's eyes were red and he didn't listen to the advice at all. He looked around and saw that the entire army suffered huge sacrifices and was bombarded by the Song army to within a hundred steps. The sea was full of injured ships, but they remained intact. There are at least two hundred more ships.

The people on the boat wanted to pick up the string from the bow of the Song Army's ship, but they couldn't resist the speed of the Song Army's ship, and the Song Army's ship kept moving.

The ship changed its direction from left to right, and soon approached within fifty steps of a ship on the right side of the Song Army.

The Song army's ships are still stationary. If they move, they will probably be harder to hit.

The boats in front were hit the most, while those behind them gave way.

It was like irritating the other party, and Song Jun didn't pay attention to it.

The cannonballs were fired into the hull of Srivijaya and exploded after entering.

At this time, the Song Army began to withdraw anchor, but the artillery continued.

Chong, rush, rush, catch the string, catch the string.

Finally, thunderbolt cannons and cannons hit the Song army ships.

Bang bang bang, Song Jun was almost close to him and dealt with them.

Dubusa looked like she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

They also have gunpowder on their ships. If it hits their gunpowder magazine, a violent explosion will occur immediately.

The Song army's ships were left alone. There were two layers of cannons inside, which could not be fired at all. The upper layer of cannons also had anti-arrow and rainproof shelters.

"Lord Buddha." Prince Pierre was beaten and called out to Lord Buddha.

The Three Buddha Lords are originally a kingdom that believes in Buddhism, and now they can only count on the Buddha to help them.

"Not good." Dubusa closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look.

Bang bang bang, the huge hull of the Song Army was like a monster, spitting out thick smoke, and the shells flew like meteors, hitting Srivijaya's ship continuously.

I don’t know who commanded the ship. Anyway, it was very powerful. It rushed within a hundred steps against the Song army’s artillery. There were two cannons on the ship.

Then Srivijaya's fleet intervened, and the fleets of both sides staggered. The sound of cannons continued, all from the Song army.

Round six.

The difference in weapons and shipbuilding technology between the two sides was several centuries, and the Song army was completely massacred.

The scene at this time looked a bit tragic. After the Song army's round of fighting, almost all the Srivijaya boats in the front row were hit.

In the narrow sea channel, both sides came and went, cannons roared, and Srivijaya's ships were sunk one by one.

I can still fight.

Boom! There were constant explosions inside the Srivijaya ship, and if you were unlucky, a fire would break out.

After rushing eighty steps, the ship began to fire rockets, and dozens of flaming arrows flew towards the Song army ship.

One hundred steps.

"Retreat, we can't beat him, and it's useless to go up." Dubusa persuaded Prince Pierre again.

The place chosen by Piet happened to be their tomb, because it was too narrow to launch their huge fleet.

More than 300 ships were all on the sea seven or eight miles wide. The formation was dense and difficult to move.

After fifty ships were sunk and stopped by the Song Army, the space at the scene became even smaller.

The sea was littered with burning and stalled ships, making it more difficult for other ships to move.

The two sides fought for nearly an hour. More than 130 ships were hit by Srivijaya, and more than 50 ships were sunk or stopped in place.

Except for two ships of the Song Army that smoked, as if they were set on fire, the rest of the ships were fine, and the ones that were set on fire were quickly extinguished.

At this time, Pierre realized that something was wrong, and quickly ordered a retreat or breakout, and left this narrow sea area as soon as possible.

Many Srivijaya people had long ago not wanted to fight. When he ordered his guards, everyone dispersed in an instant, and all the ships scrambled to escape.

But their ships were not as fast as Song's ships.

The Song army was divided into two columns and followed them on the left and right peripheries, fighting while following and continuing to output.

At this time, Srivijaya was completely in a state of being beaten, and it was not known who was the first to raise the white flag. The Song Army let them go when they saw it.

Then more and more ships hoisted white flags to signify surrender.

After all, Pierre and Dubusa had been in the middle of the fleet when they were hit by a cannon. With the protection or sacrifice of the left and right wings, he escaped all the way from Batam Island to Galang Island.

The sea was much wider here, and they just breathed a sigh of relief when unexpectedly ten more Song warships rushed out from the west of Galang Island.

These warships were relatively small, with at most a dozen or twenty cannons on them, but they were faster. The Song army was originally planning to intercept them on the other side.

Pierre and the others were not interested in fighting and quickly continued running to Palembang. The Song army pursued and fought all the way. From time to time, Srivijaya's warships were sunk or stopped, and many of them surrendered directly.

The two sides chased and fled, struggling for three days and three nights. Because the Song army knew that they must return to Palembang, they chased them all the way.

When they fled to Palembang, there were only more than 50 ships out of the more than 300 that Pier had set out with.

The rest were either sunk or surrendered to the Song army.

Because the Song army wanted to capture their ships, only five ships were pursued.

After the five ships of the Song Army arrived at Palembang, they lined up facing Palembang and fired a wave of artillery shells before leaving.

In July of the twelfth year of Yuanzhen, a battle broke out between Srivijaya and the Song Navy in the sea between Batam Island and Bintan Island. The Srivijaya Navy was defeated and fled all the way. The Song Army chased them to Palembang for three days and nights. Nearby, the Sri Lankan navy fled in all directions, not daring to dock. The Song army got off the boat and fired a round of artillery at Palembang before leaving.

In this battle, the Srivijaya navy was severely defeated. In the end, 52 ships returned, of which only more than 30 were completely undamaged.

Srivijaya's most powerful naval force was almost completely wiped out. In the three-day sea battle, about ninety ships were sunk by the Song army, and nearly two hundred ships surrendered or were captured.

Of course, Srivijaya's boats are relatively small overall, and many small boats can be destroyed by one or two shots from the Song army.

After the war, in early July, the Song Army's fleet escorted the surrendered boats of Sriwijaya and also towed some damaged boats to Posi Port, Borneo Province.

Each ship took turns to go ashore one by one.

After landing, the officers were first selected, and then ordinary Srivijaya sergeants were forced to kill the officers.

After one boat is processed, another boat is processed.

It took several days to complete the process of surrendering ships and troops to Sri Lanka.

A total of hundreds of officers of various types were killed, and more than 12,000 water divisions were attacked.

Srivijaya is a large navy country, and the main force of the army is also the navy. Their population is not large to begin with, and after this battle, their army was basically crippled.

In early August, after a month of reorganization and ship repairs, the Srivijaya Navy was organized into the Song Dynasty Navy and Palembang Navy, divided into one army, two armies and three armies.

Grassroots officers were selected from the original ordinary soldiers and assured all sergeants that after the return of Palembang and the capital of Sriwijaya, Jambi, everyone would be able to receive land and wealth.

For example, the new Dutou officer Zhou Dashan.

He was the first group of Srivijaya people to come ashore, and then the Song army asked them to come out to kill the officers.

Zhou Dashan was the first to step forward and was rewarded by the Song people with ten silver coins and a promotion.

Not long after, more than a dozen of them were received in batches by Mao Cheng and Yan Le.

Yan Le gave them Chinese names and asked him: "Where is your hometown?"

"Palembang." Zhou Dashan said honestly, and then added: "We don't want to fight, it's Shangguan who asked us to come."

"Who else is at home?" Yan Le asked again.

Zhou Dashan said that he still has a wife and three children at home. The mother is still alive, but the father is dead.

Yan Le glanced at him and found that the people here were quite capable.

"How many fields do you have at home, and what do you usually do for a living?"

Zhou Dashan said that there is no land in the family, but it is the land owned by the lord. They help plant it and get some food rations every year. His wife is also the maid of the lord's family and helps with the work.

There was usually little money, and only when they went out to fight, the lords would give them a small amount of money or grain to encourage them.

"How many fields and wealth do your lords have?"

"I don't know. I think it has several thousand acres, and its wealth is hundreds of thousands of silver coins."

He said that the lord also did business, collected taxes in the past, and made a lot of money with the members of the royal family. Among the troops dispatched this time, their lord sent out twenty-two ships.

"After Palembang is captured, each of you will be given fifty acres of land. It will be yours forever and can be passed on to your sons and grandsons."

"What? Really?" Zhou Dashan looked unbelievable.

"You must learn Chinese well. You will get more if you learn to speak Chinese in the future. Moreover, the wealth of the lord's family will also be distributed to you. You are the first-class. Each person can get at least one hundred silver coins. Of course, the premise is that your lord, There is indeed so much wealth.”

Zhou Dashan was so excited when he heard the interpreter that he couldn't be proud of himself. He asked again, how much can my brother share?

His younger brother followed him this time and was a corps commander. Yan Le said that the corps commander could get thirty acres and fifty silver coins.

In short, we, the Song Dynasty, are here to help you. We will give you the land and money of the lords. You just need to obey.

Zhou Dashan nodded desperately.

Then when I went back to promote it, the army camp went crazy.

Everyone has land and money. After returning to Palembang, they will be reincarnated as masters.

During the rest period, promotional slogans with Srivijaya written in Chinese characters were posted everywhere in the barracks.

“Conquer the territory, divide the fields, stand up and call the shots, be the master.”

"Beat the nobles, share the wealth, and the Song Dynasty will lead me on the road to wealth."

There are even simpler and cruder ones: "Steal the money from the lords and nobles, divide their fields, and sleep with their women."

With such propaganda by the Song Army, the morale of the surrendering soldiers was high, and they all demanded to fight back to Palembang as soon as possible.

The Song Army trained its descendants for a while, letting them read propaganda slogans every day, and then sent diehards like Zhou Dashan to help spread the propaganda in the camp.

In early September, Meng Zhijing personally led the troops. The Song army dispatched 3,000 troops and 8,000 surrender troops. The Song army gathered more than 400 ships and rushed to Palembang in a mighty manner.

At the same time, the document stating that King Srivijaya was willing to surrender had long been in Zhao Fu's hands, but Zhao Fu tore it up after looking at it for a few times.

Sriwijaya was willing to surrender and pay tribute, and promised to pay a certain amount of tribute every year, but what Zhao Fu wanted was not tribute, but the entire Sriwijaya and Malacca, including the Malay Peninsula.

On the fifth day of September, the warships of the Song Army arrived outside Palembang first, and launched a wave of shelling in front of the surrendering ships. The attack was so violent outside Palembang that even Srivijaya's ships did not dare to come out.

Then the boats with the surrendered soldiers began to land, with eight thousand surrendered soldiers getting on first.

The morale of the surrendered soldiers was like a rainbow, and they all wanted to return to their hometowns to divide the fields and money, and sleep with the lord's women.

Only a small number of soldiers of the Song Army followed the surrendering troops ashore first. After confirming that the surrendering troops were serious and not rebelling, most of the Song Army came ashore.

Palembang, an important port, resisted for a long time before being breached by the surrender troops. The surrender troops poured in like a tide, and then in units of a hundred people, they searched for noble officials and wealthy people.

The Song army had already made arrangements before the war. After entering the city, everyone took their own people with them and found a local official and wealthy family to surround them first.

Then there is killing and robbing.

Local officials and wealthy people who honestly handed over their land and wealth were spared, but those who were dishonest were all killed by surrendering troops.

The Song army did not do these things, and let the surrendered soldiers do it. After they were done, the Song army began to divide the land, money, and women as promised.

On September 10, the Song army pacified Palembang, and Meng Zhijing also entered Palembang City.

The city was stained with blood and ruined everywhere. It was hard to imagine that this was the former capital of Srivijaya, let alone that the soldiers were quite ruthless and killed almost all the wealthy people and officials in the city.

(End of this chapter)