Li Yunze obviously accelerated his marching speed.
Naturally, the state capitals along the way were attacked whenever possible, and attacked whenever possible.
The defenders were wiped out and various supplies were harvested. Then the gentry were wiped out and the landlords and wealthy merchants were attacked.
After that, the land is allocated, the land title is given, and then the people are hired.
Those who are willing to follow are naturally very loyal. Those who are unwilling to follow will definitely think clearly after experiencing the revenge of the Mongolian army.
He went south from Jiangling Mansion, bypassed Dongting Lake and entered Jingxiang, and successfully captured Tanzhou.
This siege did not involve Li Yunze, neither infantry fighting vehicles nor C4.
Relying entirely on the soldiers and horses that were gradually trained to attack the city, they actually fell in one battle.
By this time, Li Yunze no longer needed to give special instructions.
The soldiers and civilians, who gradually became accustomed to it, quickly dealt with the Mongolian army, collected supplies, and at the same time began to arrest the gentry, wealthy merchants and landlords.
The entire process was done very skillfully, and it was obvious that he had rich experience.
At the same time, the Mongolian army chasing them all the way from Lizhou Road also arrived on the other side of the Xiangjiang River.
Li Yunze did not leave quickly because there were many civilians in the army.
The pursuing Mongolian army did not pursue them very fast. In addition to the impact of previous defeats, the most important thing was to recover lost ground along the way and looting at the same time.
On the one hand, I don’t dare to fight, and on the other hand, I don’t want to fight.
They went all the way down and faced each other across the Xiangjiang River.
But today Li Yunze decided to take action.
The reason is simple. The leader of this Mongolian army is too cruel, and Li Yunze wants to kill him.
This man's name is Zhu Guobao, General Dingyuan. He is also a famous traitor general under Kublai Khan.
Last year when we were on the Fujian Road, we defeated the Song army and beheaded all the prisoners.
This time he was chasing Li Yunze. Along the way, he kept killing the people who had taken Li Yunze's land deed. He was extremely murderous.
Although he is murderous, he is very cautious.
After learning in detail the reasons for his previous defeats, Zhu Guobao not only set up a tight and long defense line along the river, but also occupied the terrain and set up dispersed camps, absolutely not allowing Li Yunze to fight another battle to drive away the defeated troops.
Even his main camp was set up several miles away from the shore.
From a cautious perspective, we have indeed done a good job.
However, he still underestimated Li Yunze's ability.
On this day, Li Yunze climbed to the top of a hill facing Zhu Guobao's main camp.
The top of the mountain is not high, only about a hundred meters, and it is a branch of Yuelu Mountain.
The advantage here is that the height and angle are suitable, making it easy to observe Zhu Guobao's main business.
Through high-powered telescopes, it was confirmed that Zhu Guobao was indeed in the main camp. Li Yunze took out the measuring equipment and started surveying and mapping.
Height angle distance, calculated by advanced computers, soon appeared on tablet computers.
Then, Li Yunze took out the mortar.
The distance is too far and the sniper rifle is not suitable.
As for mortars, that's just fine.
After adjusting the secret position, Li Yunze looked towards the shore at the foot of the mountain.
Hundreds of boats, carrying soldiers from across the country, beat drums and shouted as they sailed toward the other side.
The reaction from the other side was quick, and ships immediately sailed out to fight.
After the news reached the main camp, Zhu Guobao also climbed onto the towering viewing platform and looked towards the river.
Through laser ranging, various data are determined for the last time, and then the density is adjusted based on the data given by the analysis software.
After doing this, Li Yunze opened a metal ammunition box with exquisite workmanship.
There is only one cannonball in the whole box, and its price is almost as high as that of a cannon.
The name of this artillery shell is called a terminally sensitive shell.
At this time, the surface of the river was filled with gunpowder smoke and flames shot into the sky.
After training along the way, Li Yunze finally began to equip his men with firecrackers.
As early as the late Ming Dynasty, he ordered a large number of steel pipes and accessories from Laiyang Metal. After being used in many worlds, he still has a lot of surplus.
As for the processing of incoming materials, all are sent to the world of Dream of Red Mansions, and the craftsmen are hired to complete the work together.
Judging from Li Yunze's customer feedback, the quality of Laiyang Metal is indeed very good, definitely not worse than that of Rheinmetall.
The Ming army could use it with simple training because the Ming army had already popularized firearms.
Although the Song Army invented the musket, it was still essentially a cold-weapon army that required longer training and familiarity.
Now, it is time for the Fire Gun to make its official debut in this era.
The river was filled with gunpowder smoke and the sound of killings was loud.
Relying on intensive and precise gunfire, the intruder fleet clearly had an advantage.
There are more intruder ships heading to the other side of the shore. On the one hand, they are suppressing the Mongolian fleet. On the other hand, they are waiting for the Mongolian army to be in chaos, so they can approach the shore and kill them.
As for why the Mongolian army was in chaos, of course it was because they suddenly lost their leader.
Zhu Guobao, who was on the viewing platform, saw the critical situation on the river and prepared to go down to supervise the battle in person.
He had just started here when he was shocked to hear a shrill sound like a whistle coming from the sky.
Subconsciously, I looked up and saw a small black dot falling rapidly from the sky.
When he was still more than ten meters away from Zhu Guobao, the warhead sensing device of the terminally sensitive bomb was activated, and it instantly exploded and sprayed countless shrapnel towards Zhu Guobao.
When the smoke cleared, the observation tower was completely destroyed.
As for Zhu Guobao, it is already completely mushy.
The sturdy armor on his body had also been beaten into shards.
Li Yunze saw through the telescope that the observation tower was gone, but it was difficult to conclude that Zhu Guobao was dead, since he was never seen again.
Then he pulled out two boxes of ordinary ammunition and blasted them all with one round.
The main camp of the Mongolian army was shrouded in smoke and fire.
The battle on the river has ended. The Mongolian troops who can use bows and crossbows have been defeated by the intruders who use firecrackers.
Many soldiers and horses boarded the shore and began to attack nearby camps.
Because there was no order from the main camp, the scattered nearby camps did not dare to move out. They could only watch helplessly as the invading army marched several camps, burned them all, and then calmly boarded the ship and retreated before dark.
The next day, the Mongolian army on the other side of the Xiangjiang River retreated for dozens of miles and never dared to get too close.
After repairing in Tanzhou for a while, Li Yunze went south again. Hundreds of thousands of people swept through Jinghu South Road and fought back to Guangnan East Road again.
Zhang Hongfan was extremely confused at this time.
He did not receive an order from Dadu and did not dare to retreat easily.
But he couldn't beat Li Yunze, so he could only keep retreating and retreating again.
After the capital of Guangzhou was captured by Li Yunze, Zhang Hongfan, who had no way to retreat, actually followed Song Ting's example and all his troops boarded ships and retreated into Yashan.
What makes him smarter than Song Ting is that he also knows how to control the seaport to leave an escape route for himself.
Before boarding the ship, he sent a messenger to quickly find the reinforcements who had followed Li Yunze all the way, and agreed to attack from both front and rear together.
But since the rare famous general Zhu Guobao was beaten to rubbish and was severely punished by the gunfire, the Mongolian army reinforcements did not dare to come over at all and just hid in Shaozhou Mansion and watched.
"If there is a way to heaven, don't take it. If there is no door to hell, you have to break through it."
Li Yunze, who came to Yashan Mountain again, looked calmly at the dense fleet of ships in the sea below the mountain.
In history, it was Zhang Hongfan who forced more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians to jump into the sea and die for his country. Now it is his turn to embark on this path of no return.
"Huang Lingshen."
"The end will be here."
Li Yunze pointed at the seaport between Yashan and Tangping Mountain on the opposite side, "Seal this place so that no soldiers or ships from the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty can go out to sea."
"yes."
Huang Lingshen first agreed, but then he began to complain about the difficulties: "King Chuang, although the seaport here is not big, it is still several miles wide. Our army is short of ships, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to seal it."
The maritime trade of Daxi is developed, and its maritime power is the strongest in the world.
But even so, they were still defeated by the Mongolian army.
Putting aside many internal and external factors, simply speaking of water combat effectiveness, the Mongolian army is not just as powerful as the traditional impression of cavalry. Thanks to the effectiveness of many famous traitor generals, their water combat power is actually not weak at all, and can be called the world's best.
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This is also the reason why Zhang Hongfan chose to board a ship and go to sea when he did not dare to fight Li Yunze.
"I'll give you some iron chains that are several miles long. Can they seal the seaports on both sides?"
Hearing this, Huang Ling was stunned, and then he saluted and said, "Yes! But we need dead men to drive the boats and fire the Mongolian ships in Haikou."
"There's no need to go to such trouble." Li Yunze was silent for a moment. After a while, he even laughed and sighed, "There's no need to waste the blood and lives of the warriors like this. I will equip you with enough artillery."
Having said this, Li Yunze turned to look at the densely packed ships on the sea below the mountain, "Use cannons and sink them all!"
At this time, the use of artillery was already very proficient, but the promotion level was not as extensive as it was in the Ming Dynasty.
Blocking the seaport with artillery is indeed a good choice.
I just don’t know where so many artillery pieces come from.
After seeing Li Yunze's extraordinary methods, no one would ask questions.
Take Chuang Wang out and use it directly. Talking too much will only annoy people.
It is said that Zhang Hongfan has been waiting for the reinforcements from Shaozhou Prefecture to arrive and cooperate with him to attack from both front and back.
But he waited and waited but couldn't wait for reinforcements to come, which made him feel bad in his heart.
If it hadn't been for the agreement he had made with the reinforcements, he would have just fled into the sea.
He only felt fear in his heart towards that miraculous national master.
He can take human heads a thousand steps away, control wild beasts and run rampant, and use Taoist magic to destroy heaven and earth.
Because he was too fearful, he didn't even dare to fly the flag of his own marshal. He usually hid in ordinary ships and rarely showed up.
On this day, Zhang Hongfan felt unbearable chest tightness on the ship, so he had to endure the irritability in his heart and go out to do some activities on the deck.
"What day is it today?"
The younger brother Zhang Hongyi beside him hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The sixth day of February in the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty."
"Oh." Zhang Hongfan sighed with emotion, "If it hadn't been for that evil spirit, we would have defeated the Song Dynasty on this day last year."
Zhang Hongfan was about to express his emotion when he saw his younger brother's eyes widening and looking behind him in stunned silence.
In doubt, he turned around and looked at the cliff mountain not far away.
Countless lines of white smoke rose up and down the cliff mountain!