The heavy rain was pouring, and in the distance where the sight was almost impossible, thunder and lightning were still rolling among the deep dark clouds.

The Great Vietnamese army in the brigade was rolling forward in the muddy roads braved the common thunderstorm in the Lingnan region. The soldiers were extremely tired, falling step by step in the thunderstorm, and barely moving forward with their weapons. The generals rode on the short and thin war horses, stepped on the mud and water, waved the horse whip, and drove away the extremely tired soldiers to accelerate.

The road was full of discarded property, including the clothes of ordinary people, bronzes of various shapes, irons, silk cotton, various spices and teas, exquisite porcelain and lacquerware, and all kinds of miscellaneous things. They were all plunders that the Great Vietnamese army robbed the enemy along the way after the Great Vietnamese army entered the Song Dynasty.

Now, in order to accelerate the advance towards Guangzhou, they are all abandoned under the order of the Emperor Li Gande of the Great Yue Dynasty.

Guangzhou, the former capital of Emperor Wu of Nanyue, is more than 200 miles away! When you arrive in Guangzhou, what kind of good things can’t be grabbed? Who cares about this messy thing?

While ordering the troops to abandon all unnecessary supplies and move forward lightly, Li Gande also issued an order: to attack Guangzhou without sealing the sword for three days! Let his subordinates let them burn, kill, loot, even if they rob Guangzhou into white land...

The inspired Great Vietnamese army marched desperately. Even after they attacked Guangnan West Road, they attacked cities and marches along the way, and they had not rested for more than a month, and now they are gritting their teeth and insisting on marching.

In front is the prosperous and prosperous Guangzhou City!

As long as the Guangzhou City is captured, the Great Yue Kingdom will become a country that is enough to compete with the Song Kingdom...

Li Gande and his civil and military officials were also in a mixed mood of fatigue and excitement at this time.

Although this old emperor, who is almost 50 years old, was riding horses all the way and someone held an umbrella for him to block the rain, his physical strength was overdrawn and approaching the limit. But he still cheered up and held on!

Because the battle was so smooth all the way! I have conquered Yongzhou, Qinzhou, Lianzhou, Huazhou, Gaozhou, and Kangzhou. Now I have entered the territory of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and Guangzhou City is right in front of me!

In more than a month, his army captured six prefecture cities, not including the results achieved by his younger brother Li Chongde on the North Road. I guess Li Chongde should be approaching Guizhou City now? Guangzhou, Guizhou, will soon become the territory of the Great Yue Kingdom!

Li Gande has a feeling of living in a dream these days. Although he has always known that Guangnan West Road and Guangnan East Road in the Song Dynasty were empty and unprepared, and had no defense in the country, he did not expect that it would be so empty!

As long as you work harder, Guangzhou City will be taken down...

Of course, the journey was indeed over the top. He was not without any doubt, so he left 5,000 people in Qinzhou City, 3,000 troops in Lianzhou City, 2,500 elite troops in Huazhou, 2,500 generals in Gaozhou, and 2,000 soldiers in Kangzhou. In addition, Li Chongde also left 5,000 defenders in Yongzhou.

In other words, Li Gande alone left 15,000 people to guard the rear.

In addition, more than 5,000 people were killed, injured or sick during the march.

Now there are less than 30,000 people who are still following Li Gande.

These 30,000 people may not be anything to be placed on the battlefield in the north. The Song Dynasty claimed to have 800,000 imperial guards!

But in Lingnan, you should have made all the way to Guangzhou City?

The three cavalry scouts rushed forward on the muddy road, and then came to Li Gande, then turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the four gates of Zhaoqing Prefecture City in front are closed, but they sent rewarded gentry and merchants, carrying dozens of cows and dozens of carts of fine wine and food, to block the army, and said they were ordered to come and work hard."

"What?" Li Gande was stunned. What's the situation? Zhaoqing Prefecture City is going to surrender? This is great!

"Your Majesty, it must be the Song people from Zhaoqing Prefecture who are afraid of my Great Yue Heavenly Soldiers and are going to surrender to my Great Heavenly Sect!"

"I congratulate you for your Majesty. My general of Dayue can seize Zhaoqing Prefecture without bloodshed!"

"Your Majesty, since Zhaoqing Prefecture surrenders, it means that Guangzhou is an empty city! My Dayue Heavenly Soldier will enter Guangzhou City soon!"

"The Great Yue will prosper, and Your Majesty will be famous in history!"

"Hahaha……"

Li Gande raised his head and laughed. The analysis of the ministers around him was correct. The Song people's city I met before either defended the city or abandoned it, and had not yet met anyone who surrendered. Not to mention officials, even the local tyrants and evil gentry had nothing to surrender.

This shows that Guangzhou, which is so close, must be empty and unprepared, and is not enough to be its own 30,000 army. Therefore, the Song officials, gentry and merchants in Zhaoqing Prefecture have lost confidence and have to surrender to the Dayue Kingdom in order to protect themselves.

Li Gande asked: "Where are those gentry and merchants in the Song Dynasty?"

"Report to Your Majesty, those Song gentry and merchants are now staying in Huanggang Town, less than 20 miles away from Zhaoqing Prefecture to wait for the emperor's destiny."

"Imperial Port Town..." Li Gande nodded and smiled: "The Emperor's Port! A good name. He ordered the three armies to station in Huanggang Town today. He rested for half a day, gave him wine and meat, had a full meal, and went to Zhaoqing Prefecture tomorrow."

"Here!"

The "Nan Emperor" was surrounded by replies, and more than ten cavalrymen followed the army marched, running while delivering orders.

The Great Vietnamese army, which was almost exhausted by continuous combat and marching, finally got a rare opportunity to rest and get rewards for wine and meat, which naturally made the three armies cheer.

...

Huanggang Town is right by the Xijiang River, and it was originally a very prosperous town.

Zhaoqing Prefecture was originally named Duanzhou. Zhao Ji's Duan King meant the king of Duanzhou, but it was just a false title. After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, he first changed Duanzhou to Xingqing Army. Later, the year when Zhao Ji was praised as Emperor Genghis, he issued an order to promote Xingqing Army to Zhaoqing Prefecture.

Duanzhou has been the origin of the famous inkstone Duan inkstone since the Tang Dynasty. Huanggang Town originated from a river port on the Xijiang River. It has been a major road for the transportation of Duan inkstone since ancient times. Therefore, there are many merchants operating Duan inkstones, and over the years, they have accumulated considerable wealth. Therefore, the town is full of luxurious brick and tile houses, and there are also many shops along the street. However, most of the merchants and civilians in the town have already left. When Li Gande's army arrived, there were only a few men dressed in a dozen merchants, greeting each other with gifts tremblingly.

These merchants all come from the same family, the Huang family, the richest man in Zhaoqing. The "Huang" in Huanggang Town came with their family! The industries in the town and the large tracts of land around the town are all the industries of the Huang family.

There are so many industries that I can’t bear to give up, so I fell into the water and became a traitor, which is normal... As a businessman! There is no integrity at all!

Li Gande did not mean to look down on traitors because he was also a Han Chinese and was also a businessman... His family was a businessman from Anhai County, Quanzhou. The founding emperor Li Gongyun went to Annan to do business with his father when he was young. When he grew up, he had no son to inherit his father's business. Instead, before he became an official, Li Chao served as the commander in front of the Left Guard Hall, and married the daughter of the founding emperor of the Li Chao as his wife. Later, he usurped the throne and became the emperor and opened the Li Chao world.

So when he saw the patriarch of the Huang family in Zhaoqing, a Huang Decai with a dough face, he looked scared and sweaty. He comforted him a few words and gave him an official position.

After settling down in the spacious Huang family mansion, Li Gande smiled and asked in Chinese (Fujian accent): "How is Zhaoqing Mansion? Are you going to surrender or fight?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, the prefect and officials of Zhaoqing Prefecture have been scared away long ago. There are no soldiers in the city. Knowing that the Dayue Heavenly Soldiers were coming, people were in panic, so they pushed the small bottom to pick them up, just asking the Dayue Heavenly Soldiers to show mercy and not to wash the city. Of course, we will prepare the money, wine and food for the rewards to the Dayue Heavenly Soldiers, and we will never disappoint the Dayue Heavenly Soldiers..."

"Run..." Li Gande took the rice wine that had just been hot and tried poisonous from a eunuch who was accompanying him, and took a big sip, "What's the situation in Guangzhou? How many soldiers are there?"

"Your Majesty, Guangzhou is not as big as Zhaoqing, it is a big place." Huang Decai said, "Although there are not many serious imperial guards, there are warships under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse Division, and many evil merchants who run to the sea, all of which are of force. So they can piece together thousands of people..."

Thousands of people? Haha, I have an army of 30,000, and I am still afraid of thousands of Song people?

Li Gande thought about it and smiled and said, "I don't want to make things difficult for the merchants in Guangzhou. My Li Chao Taizu is also the son of a merchant... So my Li Chao has always treated Chinese merchants preferentially. Huang Qing, you go to Guangzhou and tell Guangzhou's maritime merchants that if they are willing to surrender to the Li Chao, I can award official positions and reduce their taxes."

"Okay, Xiao Di will set out to Guangzhou tonight to pass the imperial edict on His Majesty! Someone will definitely surrender to my Dayue Heavenly Dynasty!" Huang Decai nodded repeatedly, "Then Zhaoqing Mansion..."

Li Gande smiled and said, "I will restrain the soldiers. If my Dayue Heavenly Soldiers do not plunder Zhaoqing Mansion... I will ask the gentry in the city to send me all the money, goods, wine and food tomorrow."

Hearing this, Huang Decai bowed to Li Gande with gratitude and called him the "Emperor of the South Heaven". Li Gande also laughed out loud, so he was so unsatisfied!

Even if Zhaoqing Prefecture is taken down, Guangzhou doesn’t seem difficult to seize. Isn’t he Li Gande the Emperor of Nantian?

This night, the Emperor of Nantian Li Gande slept beautifully in Huanggang Town, dreaming of dominating Nantian. Most of his officers and soldiers in his 30,000 army also fell asleep after enjoying the wine and meat.

After so many days of fighting, they are so tired!

Of course, there were still some Great Vietnamese soldiers distributed around Huanggang Town on this rainy night and were on guard. Although it seemed a bit redundant, Li Gande was strict in his army and would not be unprepared for the enemy in front.

But the storm this night was too heavy, who would have a sneak attack at this time? Moreover, the Song army was vulnerable at all. Even if they came to sneak attack, they would probably die, right?

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