Chapter 603: Unrivaled Courage
The news of Zhang Hongfan's defeat at Yashan quickly spread throughout Fujian and Guangdong, shocking the southeast.
Li Heng, the left deputy marshal, quickly responded to Zhang Hongfan's defeated soldiers. He learned that the Song army had divine help and felt the pressure of the magic sword, so he retreated to the southern part of Jiangxi.
Only a fool would fight the magic sword head-on. Zhang Hongfan was already scared, and now he retreated to southern Jiangxi, and he was defeated for 300 miles!
While they gathered the army and retreated, they urgently sent the news to Lin'an.
Ashu, the left chancellor of Lin'an, and Fan Wenhu, the governor of Liangzhe, were celebrating the victory of the war to destroy the Song Dynasty. When they learned of the defeat at Yashan, they were furious.
After all, this place was too far away, and they could not sense the spirit of the magic sword running wild behind them, so they dismissed Zhang Hongfan's words as nonsense.
"How dare this pig dog deceive me! The southerners retreated to Yashan, but they were just lingering on. The Khan entrusted this last battle to him, but he was defeated and fled for 300 miles?" Ashu said angrily.
"The Zhao family was pedantic in governing the country and the army. The traitors were in power, they excluded dissidents, appointed mediocre people, and had no rules for rewards and punishments, which led to the disunity between the government and the people. How could such a country be swept away by the iron hoof of our Yuan Dynasty? How could there be divine help? It must be that Zhang Hongfan was evading responsibility and exaggerating!" Fan Wenhu took the opportunity to say.
It turned out that in the war to destroy the Song Dynasty, Boyan was the commander-in-chief, and Ali Haiya and Ashu were the left and right. Boyan broke Lin'an and left, and Zhang Hongfan was just a ten thousand households at first, following Boyan's ass and repeatedly making some contributions. However, because Fan Wenhu and others were in high positions and had the credit for conquering Lin'an, when they finally learned that the exiled government was wandering around Guangdong and Guangdong, Kublai Khan did not send Ashu, Fan Wenhu and other important officials, but promoted Zhang Hongfan and made him the marshal of the Mongolian and Han armies, leading 20,000 infantry and cavalry to eliminate the last remnants of the Song Dynasty.
Give him this last credit for destroying the country, so that Fan Wenhu will not be rewarded for his high merits.
This was indeed a free "merit of destroying a country". The wandering court formed by Wen Tianxiang and others could be destroyed by anyone.
The result was indeed so. Except for Wen Tianxiang's slight improvement in conquering more than a dozen counties in southern Jiangxi, the rest of the anti-Yuan defense line collapsed again and again, without any pressure at all. When the Yashan naval battle came, the Song army was in a desperate situation.
How could it be a defeat? Moreover, the last 200,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song people were almost all dead. Only Zhang Shijie and his 70 personal soldiers turned defeat into victory, which is even more ridiculous!
"I don't care how he evades the blame, I just want to know how he lost! Even if it was 10,000 pigs, they would not be defeated by 70 people!" Ah Shu said angrily.
Fan Wenhu said: "Or Zhang Hongfan raised the enemy and had two hearts."
Ah Shu looked at him and sneered. This sounded quite reasonable. If it wasn't for raising the enemy, how could the 20,000 elite Yuan army lose?
Moreover, the losses of the Yuan army were all caused by the previous naval battle. In the final retreat, not many people died. It was a pure collapse of morale.
But after thinking about it carefully, I couldn't figure it out. Is Zhang Hongfan looking for death? Now the Mongols are in their heyday, and they are invincible in all corners of the world. He is just a picked-up army marshal. He can only manage 20,000 troops, half of which are Mongols. How can he support the enemy? Is he mentally retarded?
Just look at the soldiers led by Zhang Hongfan. They are still the same soldiers as when he was a million households in the past, and they are not given much more.
In Ah Shu's eyes, Zhang Hongfan is nothing. He only needs an order, and Zhang Hongfan's men will tie him up here and wait for his punishment.
The more I think about it, the more strange it is. Looking at the military report, Zhang Hongfan humbly and tearfully told that Zhang Shijie finally sacrificed a magic sword and flattened all the boats. He said it seriously, not like nonsense.
How dare he talk nonsense about such a thing? He lied alone, did more than 10,000 Mongols lie with him?
Ashu's prestige in the army is far beyond Zhang Hongfan's reach. This kind of thing can be revealed with a little investigation. How dare Zhang Hongfan say anything nonsense?
"Report this matter to the Khan and send another 40,000 troops to southern Jiangxi..." Ashu said.
Fan Wenhu hurriedly said: "I will present Zhang Shijie's head to the commander."
Ashu waved his hand and said: "No, I will go in person! You lead 80,000 Han army infantry to the south along the Fuzhou line to intimidate the southerners. Zhang Hongfan said that Zhang Shijie saved a royal family, so he must support the royal family and order all parties to rebel, and the southeast region must surrender and rebel again."
40,000 plus 80,000, this is 120,000 troops, almost all the troops they have now, and the northern kings rebelled, Kublai Khan originally wanted to transfer them to the north.
Fan Wenhu was shocked and said, "Why is the commander making such a fuss?"
"The Song army is in a desperate situation. Why doesn't Zhang Hongfan want the credit of destroying the country for free? Even if he is stupid enough to keep the enemy alive, why not just not fight? Why did he force 200,000 Song soldiers to death and then lose to Zhang Shijie? What about the enemy who kept the enemy alive? Is he killing the enemy to protect himself?" Ah Shu said angrily.
Fan Wenhu didn't dare to say more.
Ah Shu said, "There must be something strange about this. I want to see what kind of gods can help the Song army!"
He believed that Zhang Hongfan was really defeated, but he was skeptical about the story of the demon sword, so he decided to go there in person.
On the same day, he led his troops south and divided them into two groups, which was bound to make the Song army unable to turn over.
On March 21, when Ah Shu marched to Jizhou, the news that the Song army turned defeat into victory at Yashan had spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River.
The speed of the spread of this news seemed to be deliberately fanned by someone, not the Blue and White Society, but Zhang Hongfan.
For a time, the former Song land was in an uproar.
Hearing that the soldiers and civilians at Yashan had jumped into the sea and died for their country, many anti-Yuan heroes were heartbroken. However, at the last moment, Zhang Shijie had the help of a magic sword and defeated the Mongolian army, shocking the world.
At such a desperate moment, such a miraculous victory occurred. Wasn't it a blessing from heaven?
Suddenly, countless soldiers and civilians who were unwilling to be ruled by the Mongols were excited, and many forces that were still insisting on roaming around to fight against the Yuan Dynasty were greatly encouraged.
Zhang Shijie re-established the banner of the Song Dynasty, established Zhao Mengxu, a member of the royal family, as the emperor, and recruited local warriors in Guangdong and Guangdong.
Unfortunately, during the Battle of Yashan, the Mongolian army had already collected too much grain in the local area. In addition, although Zhang Hongfan gave up Guangdong and Guangdong and retreated to southern Jiangxi, he was cautious and played a trick of clearing the fields and took away all the grain. If he couldn't take it away, he would burn it.
This caused a famine in Guangnan. Although the people were willing to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, they really had no food or grass.
Zhang Hongfan knew that the power of the magic sword was unstoppable, so he retreated three hundred miles, but you can always starve to death, right? Could it be that the ancestors of the Chinese people could give you food?
Without food and weapons, even if there were many people who responded, they would only be a burden.
When Zhang Shijie was in a state of panic, he saw Mo Qiong disappear for a while. When he came back, he opened an empty warehouse and revealed a warehouse full of rice.
"..." Zhang Shijie was surprised and said, "Isn't this an empty warehouse!"
Mo Qiong said, "Open the warehouse and release the grain. This is the grain and grass left by the Mongolian army when they retreated."
Zhang Shijie looked at Mo Qiong and thought, do you think I'm a fool?
Mo Qiong smiled and said, "Don't you understand the official rhetoric? Just tell the people like this, but don't recruit them, it's a burden to these people in vain."
Mo Qiong was riding an armored warhorse, wearing light armor, holding a long spear, and a bow and arrow hanging on the horse's back, just like a young general of the Song army.
Gou Ye was also on the side, not even wearing a helmet, carrying a huge gate halberd. The blade of this thing was originally made of wood, and it was only used for ceremonial purposes in front of the camp gate.
As a result, this guy picked it up, modified it, and used his natal cigarette to refine a pair of fine steel halberd heads.
Zhang Shijie saw this guy melt the weapon into molten iron with a cigarette butt, and once suspected that they were Yin-Yang School, not Mohist School.
There was also Jiang Long, who was also a freak. He was good at playing with needles and thread, but of course he couldn't play with needles and thread on the battlefield, and he was not Dongfang Bubai, so he simply brought two meteor hammers and made a blood drop.
In the end, Che Yun was normal, and like Mo Qiong, he also had a long spear.
"I know you are powerful, but Zhang Hongfan still has 20,000 elite soldiers. You let someone take away the magic sword. How can we, with only 72 people, deal with 20,000 troops?" Zhang Shijie said.
It turned out that Gou Ye gave the magic sword to Adams and asked him to rush to Dadu to talk to Kublai Khan.
After all, to establish a society in this world, the recognition of the four Khanates is inevitable. Kublai Khan will definitely not accept it, but it doesn't matter. Take it slowly, he will accept it.
"Seventy-two people, lightly equipped and fast on horseback, only half a month's rations are needed, and the rest of the rations and grass can be left for these villagers. They want to resist the Yuan Dynasty, so they can stay and deal with the Guangdong-Guangdong area. By the way, they can help you publicize the victory of Yashan. Taking them away will only harm them. We can't protect so many people." Mo Qiong said.
Zhang Shijie's scalp tingled. Just seventy-two people, thousands of miles from here, to Diaoyucheng?
He thought they relied on the magic sword before, but who knew that this group of people gave the magic sword away, so what did they rely on? Just rely on the rotten silver spear in your hand and the fine steel halberd in his hand?
"I'm afraid we can't even get out of Guangdong. If Zhang Hongfan knew that we didn't have the magic sword, he would definitely let us die without a burial place." Zhang Shijie said solemnly.
"Don't worry, my brother has the courage of ten thousand men, literally." Mo Qiong pointed at Gou Ye and said.
Gou Ye grinned and led the way.
They will not use the power of absolute characteristics to deal with ordinary people, but they can use the power they have practiced. In fact, even firearms are fine, but now we need to downplay the influence of the magic sword, and some technological weapons that contemporary people don't understand should not be used.
A battle with the Mongolian army in a way that people of the current era can understand.
Gou Ye, with more than 3,000 kilograms of muscle strength, a nerve reaction beyond the limit of human beings, and 900 muscles that give him more endurance than cattle and horses, he can kill bears with his palms and tear tigers and leopards apart alive.
He has a tougher skin than hippopotamus and rhinoceros. Even if Li Cunxiao is reborn, he can't compare to Gou Ye.
But Zhang Shijie didn't know that Gou Ye and Mo Qiong didn't show much means when they dealt with the magic sword Jiangcheng.
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