"The southern country, the emperor's residence in Henan is completely determined to be in the Book of Heaven; how to invade the enemy, you will see the defeat!"

When the Emperor Li Gande of the Great Yue Kingdom, who was personally expeditioning, loudly read out the four "divine poems" (according to Li Changjie, a deceased hero, Li Changjie, after the Battle of Ruyue River, the banner of the Li Dynasty of the Great Yue Dynasty had already fluttered high on the small Qinzhou city.

Just two days before Li Gande personally led 50,000 elite troops to occupy the empty Qinzhou City, Li Chongde broke the Yongzhou City, which had no defenders. In addition, the Pingxiangsi, Shangshi Xizhou (the state affiliated to Yongzhou only had the name of a state, but was actually just a small piece of land occupied by local officials), Xiashi Xizhou, Jiangzhou, Simingzhou, Taipingzhai, Guwanzhai and other series of cities belonging to Yongzhou. The flags of the Dayue Kingdom were flying everywhere along the entire Zuoshui coast!

The start of this Northern Expedition in Daqing (Dayue Nian) seems to be smoother than the Northern Expedition in Taining more than 30 years ago.

The Song army is still vulnerable!

Not that it is still the same, but it is even more vulnerable!

It seems that the war with the Khitans in the north has exhausted the vitality of the Song State. The entire country has become exhausted, and the south is even more empty.

Perhaps the targets that this war can seize are not only Yongzhou, Qinzhou and Lianzhou, but also to Guangzhou and Guizhou, and turn the Guangnan West and East Roads of Song State into the territory of the Great Yue State.

The Dayue that won the Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong is the real Dayue! It is the real mountains and rivers of the Southern Emperor! The territory of Zhao Tuo, the Wudi Emperor of Nanyue, included the current Guangnan West Road and Guangnan East Road.

The Emperor Li Gande of the Great Yue Kingdom, who was covered with armor, had already climbed the city wall of Qinzhou at this time and looked east. A group of civil and military officials from the Great Yue Kingdom were accompanied by a group of civil and military officials, each of whom was full of joy.

To be honest, the current war is not what they want, but forced out by the tyrant monarchs and treacherous ministers of the Song Dynasty!

Before the war began, the monarchs and ministers of the Dayue Kingdom were still a little scared of the Dayue Kingdom.

Because the navy of the Song Dynasty has been too high-profile in recent years. The Song Dynasty's Sea Road Maritime Maritime Control Department, the Nanyang Protectorate and the Youzhou Army can be seen everywhere on the southern seas. These warships are all huge and strong, very fast, and have powerful military equipment, which makes the navy of the southern countries breathless. Even the Dayue Kingdom, which has always attached great importance to the navy, has no financial resources to build a warship that can be compared with them.

The navy is the most expensive military! In the Middle Ages, it was impossible for a country without the support of huge maritime interests to build a navy with the ground.

The army of the Great Yue Kingdom can still see, the navy... even if it sells the palace of Shenglong Mansion, it doesn't have money to build it.

Dayue is a country with a long coastline, and the capital Shenglong Prefecture is still on the bank of the Hong River with extremely strong navigation capabilities. The warships of the Song State can rush to the doorstep of Emperor Dayue’s house without any trouble!

Therefore, from a strategic perspective, the Song Dynasty today has an overwhelming advantage over the Greatest!

Even if the Dayue master can be invincible in the south, there is no advantage. Because there is more than 2,000 miles to go from Shenglong Mansion to Guangzhou, and at the speed of 50 miles a day, it will have to go for 40 days!

Although it takes more than 6,000 miles to go south from Haizhou to Shenglong, a sailboat traveling at a speed of 5 knots can travel 37 miles in one hour! More than 6,000 miles can only take more than 100 hours, and you can arrive in more than ten days!

In other words, the strong soldiers in the north of Song State could only reach the capital of Dayue by sea in half a month! If the Song Dynasty had such a terrible maritime power at the beginning of its founding, Dayue would not have been able to establish a country independently...

Moreover, if the Song people could quickly transport tens of thousands of elite troops from the north to the south, they would be able to transport the rice produced on both sides of the Red River to the north!

The banks of the Honghe River are thousands of miles in a radius, and there are fertile paddy fields everywhere. They are used to sow rice, and there is no problem ripening three times a year. If the Central Plains dynasty could solve the problem of grain transportation through sea transportation, the imperial court would not give up anyway. Jiaozhi was not a wild place! As early as the Han Dynasty, the population of Jiaozhi was much larger than that of Guangdong.

If Jiaozhi's food could be transported to Haizhou and supplied to the Central Plains, how could the Song Dynasty court give up its conquest against Jiaozhi during the Taizong Dynasty? If the strong soldiers from the north of the Song Dynasty went south with the wind in winter, they would be at Shenglong in 15 days. With the strength of the Li Dynasty, how could they defeat the powerful Song army?

So when Ji Yi and Mi Youren came in murderous intent and returned with food loads, Emperor Li Gande of the Great Yue knew that the Great Yue Kingdom was already in danger of survival.

They blackmailed 2 million stones of rice at a time!

Faced with such a danger of survival, is there any other way out in the Great Yue Kingdom besides rising up and fighting?

If you are trapped in Shenglong and wait for the Song army to come in waves, it will be a dead end!

The only way to survive is to take the initiative and take advantage of the emptiness of military preparations in Guangdong and Guangxi, and grab as much territory as possible.

If Guangzhou and Guizhou can be captured and a real Nandi rule, then the Great Yue Kingdom can resist the Song Dynasty with the territory of Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road and Jiaozhi Road...

The military adventure launched by the two brothers Li Gande and Li Chongde at the moment of survival seems to have a good start.

The defense of the Song Dynasty on Guangxi South Road was weaker than they thought and was simply vulnerable!

A military officer from Dayue received the latest battle report and ran behind Li Gande as if he was flying, and loudly reported: "Your Majesty, the scout came to report that the soldiers and civilians of the Beilu have retreated to Fangcheng on the southwest coast."

The Emperor of Dayue snorted: "What kind of elite soldiers from the north are simply vulnerable!

Issuing an order to speed up the marching speed. I will take over Guangzhou before the truly elite troops of the Northern Captains move south and restore the former territory of Emperor Wu of Nanyue!”

"Your Majesty is wise, and the Great Yue is about to prosper!"

The ministers below immediately cheered.

To the expectations of Zhou Xi, Zhang Chunxiao, Yang Kebi and others, the Emperor of Great Yue was already desperate. His goal was to capture the Guangnan West Road and Guangnan East Road of the Song Dynasty and create a real Nandi dynasty!

After conquering Qinzhou, Li Gande ignored the Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians who hid in Fangcheng. Instead, after garrisoning Qinzhouzhou City with 5,000 troops, he advanced eastward. After only three days, he attacked the empty Lianzhou, and then broke into Huazhou to the east, heading straight to Gaozhou. The attack pointed directly at Guangzhou, the center of the Song Dynasty's rule in Guangnan.

At the same time, Li Chongde, who occupied Yongzhou City, did not stop moving forward, but instead broke through Pennsylvania and Hengzhou, and headed straight for Guizhou, the capital of Guangnan West Road.

Guangzhou is urgent! Guizhou is advanced! Tiannan is shocking!

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Tianjin, Dongshi Port.

The autumn wind rises and the autumn rain falls.

The neat Republican soldiers were boarding the ship silently. The troops were not many on the expedition this time, only six battalions and only 5,000 people.

However, the warships that shipped these 5,000 people were amazing, there were 20 "Truth"-class battleships!

This is also the "truth" class of most of the Great Zhou Navy. The 20 warships have 360 ​​cannons of 2500 jin, 3000 jin or 3600 jin.

In the Middle Ages, this was simply the firepower that could destroy an empire!

And their target was the Dayue Empire of the Southern Emperor Li Gande!

That's right, Wu Haogu was also drooling at the rich Red River Plain.

In fact, it was only 7,000 miles of sea routes to Shenglong from Tianjin. With the "truth level" downwind speed, it was only about 20 days. It was not enough to travel to Liaoyang Prefecture by land, 20 days were not enough...

So in the Age of Discovery, the distance between Tianjin and Shenglong was not very far. Wu Haogu and Li Gande were actually standing on the same stage.

Although Li Gande did not realize this, Wu Haogu knew very well that in the Age of Discovery, the earth had "smalled"!

At this time, Wu Haogu was on the port terminal in Dongshi Port, in a pavilion where he could shelter from the rain, talking to the commander-in-chief of this expedition, Admiral Chen Tianli, the admiral of the Nanyang Fleet of the Great Zhou Navy.

"This is the first battle of the First Marine Brigade... Although the land brigade is full of veterans and has been trained with the ship for nearly a year, the number of people is not large after all, so you must use it with caution."

Of course, the Marine Corps was formed to quickly and for a long time overseas! Because the Zhou army was basically a unity of soldiers and farmers, it was difficult for the troops to conduct long-term battles, otherwise the manor at home would be abandoned.

Therefore, in order to use troops overseas, Wu Haogu issued an order to form a Marine Corps after the end of the Liaodong Campaign.

Currently, there are two brigades of the Marine Corps. The first brigade is a mercenary recruited from veterans of the Republican Army. They are all veterans who have been through battle formations. They are mainly infantry and used to conquer the southern region.

The Second Brigade was a Hu mercenary mainly composed of the yellow-headed Jurchens. It was mainly used for conquests in northern coastal areas.

Both brigades have 5,000 people, and five infantry battalions and one command battalion of the Marine Corps can fight on horseback, so the infantry battalion can be used as horseback infantry or cavalry as long as it is equipped with horses. At the same time, they also mastered the "three battles" such as spears, swords, shields, bows and arrows, which can be regarded as a very elite unit. Although the number of people is only 10,000, it is enough to grab territory for the Dazhou overseas!

Chen Tianli said: "Don't worry, the head of state, the subordinates will definitely not let the land war brigade take risks."

"Okay, that's good!" Wu Haogu smiled, "I'll leave it to you... Remember, it doesn't matter whether you can take down Shenglong Mansion. The key is to occupy an excellent port along the coast of Jiaozhi. We can't share an Anbangkou with the State of Song. The location of the Navy has surveyed, so I won't say much. When you get there, you must occupy favorable terrain, build a solid castle, and make long-term plans. If the Song army wants to enter Shenglong Mansion, you will send people to follow and take advantage of it. Otherwise, by next spring, the navy fleet can return and leave the Marines."

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