"Qiongzhou?"

"Jiyang Army?"

When I heard the new suggestions and new locations proposed by Zhao Lie, the hall was shocked - if I had glasses at this time.

Qiongzhou is the Hainan Island in later generations. In the Song Dynasty, it was a wild and contemptuous place dedicated to officials. The famous Su Shi and Su Dongpo were once Qiongguan (Qiongzhou Prefecture City, now Haikou Fucheng). The most familiar place is Su Liuyi.

Su Liuyi first expressed his opposition: "Last autumn and winter, Qiongzhou was still in my hands. Yuan general Ali Hague captured Qiongzhou. Qiongzhou pacifier Zhao Yuluo led Xie Ming, Xie Fu, Ran Anguo, and Huang Zhijie and other righteous men. They resisted the Yuan army in Baishakou for several months, which made Ali Haiya's Zhou army delayed landing. If they could land at Qiong at that time, they would have great potential. It would be hateful that the people of the state and the people of the state did not know their loyalty and righteousness and did not care about the country's kindness, and they even launched a rebellion, entrust Zhao pacifier Xian and the Yuan barbarians, resulting in the five righteous men being broken by the chariots. The barbarian land had no integrity and disregarded their kindness, which was not enough to be the foundation."

Zhang Shijie was not very interested in this royal family boy who was in a quarrel and said lightly: "At present, the entire Qiongzhou area has been in the hands of the Yuan barbarians. Qiongguan City is stationed in a Zhongwanhu Mansion of the Yuan army. It is not easy to seize it. Meng Bei's young man Yingrui, it is good to be enterprising, but you must know the way to know yourself and your opponent."

Wen Tianxiang and Yang Liangjie also believed that this proposal was not advisable, which was completely contrary to their theory of "abandoning the border and leaving the land", and it was already considered as giving face if they didn't sneer.

Only Chen Yizhong heard another meaning: "Meng Bei just talked about Jiyang Army, and it seems that he had heard of it. There are rumors that foreign merchants are a strong city and a large port..."

Yang Liangjie disagreed: "The whole government and three armies in Qiongzhou are all inferior military states, and the government offices still have their dormitories, where can we come from the big port?"

"There is no absolute in the world, and sometimes it is so strange. Jiyang Military City is a strong city and a large port." Zhao Lie spread out a drawing that had been prepared and asked the ministers to come and watch it.

"This is Qiongguan, this is Wan'an Army, this is Changhua Army, this is Jiyang Army (now Sanya, Hainan)." Zhao Lie pointed to a hand-painted Hainan Island map, moving from north to south, talking freely, "After Ali Hague captured Qiongguan, he told him to surrender to the three armies of Wan'an, Changhua and Jiyang. In other words, these three armies surrendered without fighting, and the city was not destroyed - in fact, the Changhua Army City is just a military fort, and the Wan'an Army City is just a small city. They are all built with earth rammed after years of disrepair and collapsed. Only Jiyang Army was wrapped with bricks and tiles, with a total of more than one mile, totaling 242 feet, and a height of one six feet... Opening east, west, and south gates, there is also Ningyuan's "Houhe" flowing around the north of the city, with a river channel of about eight miles long and sufficient water source..."

"How is that possible!" Yang Liangjie was the first to scream, and the other ministers were all surprised. Because the data given by Zhao Lie was so amazing. A lower-class military state located in a corner of the sea and sky, with only a few hundred military and civilian households, and there were mostly Liao people around. How could it be possible to build such a strong city and dig eight miles of rivers? How big is this? In the southern corner of the sea and sky, is it necessary to carry out such a large project?

Zhao Lie did not understand the Song Dynasty or ancient cities, and did not understand why the ministers were so surprised. If he had understood the situation of the Song Dynasty, he would probably be more surprised than the ministers.

Before the Song Dynasty, there were only 31 brick and stone cities in China, accounting for about 4% of the well-known cities. By the Song Dynasty, there were 383 cities with evidence, of which 84 brick and stone cities were 18%. The local prefectures and troops in the Song Dynasty were in a difficult financial position, and many officials opposed the construction of cities. Even before the early Ming Dynasty, even the prefectures and county offices in Hainan were often limited to thatched houses. The construction of cities was extremely expensive and extremely prominent, not to mention the weakest lower-class prefectures like Jiyang that had nothing to do with the anti-Jin and Mongolia.

It should also be pointed out that there are huge differences between single bread bricks and double bread bricks. Many brick cities in the Song Dynasty only had bricks on the walls that faced the enemy outside, but the inner side was still built with slabs. This was naturally unbearable to heavy rain. No matter the Qiongguan, it was just single bread bricks. The Wan'an Army and Changhua Army were even more rammed small cities, while the Jiyang Army was a top-level configuration - double bread bricks.

Among the four prefectures of Qiongzhou, the Jiyang army was the most remote, with the fewest households and the poorest, but the configuration was not under the strong city of Guangnan. Moreover, even the court was not very clear about this situation, so there was a wealthy city that was not stationed, but was all in Nanenzhou (Guangya) and Ningdu (the base chosen by Su Liuyi in history). Isn’t that a strange thing?

A strange city like Jiyang Army that emerged suddenly immediately aroused the interest of the ministers. The first thing to do was to confirm the accuracy of the source of Zhao Lie's news.

"I first declare that I have no idea about the situation in Qiongzhou in advance. These materials all come from the military and civilians below. After repeated verification, some of the information comes from the military subordinates who once lived in Qiongzhou. I believe that these things are not necessary and even more impossible. Therefore, the credibility is very high." Zhao Lie clarified the source of the news and relieved the ministers, and further analyzed, "The current generals stationed in Qiong are under the command of Ali Hague, and the general manager of Qiongzhou Long Wenying. Zhongwanhu Wanhu is the eldest son of Ali Hague, Hushu Hague, and the deputy Wanhu is Ma Chengwang. Guanjunwu is the fifth.

More than a thousand, of which one is one thousand "Beiting Army", two thousand Han troops, and two thousand New Affiliated Army. The total strength of Qiongzhou is only 5,000. In addition to the main force stationed in Qiongguan, it must also be stationed in Wan'an, Changhua and Jiyang troops to defend against the eight bands. According to various information, the Jiyang army has no more than a thousand troops, and they are stationed in the Han army and the New Affiliated Army respectively. This is the weak point of the Yuan army. If I avoid the main force of Qiongguan Yuan army, and use thunder to surround Jiyang, launch a surprise attack, and use the deterrence force of the king's army to attack the new Affiliated Army, if I have the intention to make a mistake, I should quickly take this city and think it is the foundation..."

Finally, Zhao Lie reminded again: "I don't know why the Jiyang Army has such a strong city. I would rather regard this as a generous gift from God to me. I hope everyone will calm down and think carefully whether to seize this opportunity - I want to remind everyone here that we have no time. The Yuan army will come at any time. It is better to leave early than to leave late, and it is safe to leave early."

Zhao Lie's new proposal is too tempting. A rare city is in line with Wen Tianxiang and Yang Liangjie's idea of ​​"the holy queen should live in a strong city and a large port", but the location is a bit remote, but the advantage lies in safety.

At the same time, the Jiyang army also met the idea that Zhang Shijie and Su Liuyi wanted to "find a land of victory, build the foundation, garrison troops and accumulate valleys, and use foreign merchants and merchants." It was just to recruit all the righteous men and brave men, and to prepare for war, and the land was limited by the few people in the area, so it was afraid that it was difficult.

The ministers repeatedly discussed and for the sake of solemnity, they also attracted inquiries from the military and civilians below, all as Zhao Lie said. Finally, Chen Yizhong made a decision: "Just as Meng Bei said, this is a generous gift from God to our Song Dynasty - God will not take it, but will suffer the consequences. Don't mistake it yourself."

Zhang Shijie and Su Liuyi found the military families who had been in Jiyang. After repeatedly checking the information about the city, they had to admit that this city is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and is far from the main force of the Yuan army, and has a very high security factor. At present, there is no more suitable place to hold troops than this. The only disadvantage is that recruiting soldiers and horses is difficult to buy. The so-called advantage has one disadvantage. On the one hand, there is one disadvantage. On the other hand, the advantage is greater than the disadvantage or the disadvantage is greater than the advantage. From the current situation, it is obviously the former. The two looked at each other and nodded silently.

Although Yang Liangjie was still dissatisfied with the city's distance from the traditional regime center, he was also moved by Zhao Lie's reminder: "What Meng Bei said is reasonable. No matter what the Jiyang army is, this place cannot be kept for a long time. Things should not be delayed, and it will change."

Wen Tianxiang believed that going south was an act of escape, and said angrily: "When this situation is against the situation, we should strive for progress, how can we be confined to the strong city and indulge in peace?" He still insisted on going north. However, this time, the ministers had almost no support for him. These generals and officials had experienced the battle at Yashan. The painful lessons made them more realistic and sober, and they dared not make a rash move anymore.

So the ministers wrote a letter together, asking the Empress Dowager to issue an order to capture Jiyang Army and establish a foundation for business. Wen Tianxiang wrote a thousand words of comments to prove the political correctness and necessity of going north. He asked the Empress Dowager to be brave and enterprising and strive against the current.

On that day, Empress Dowager Yang issued an order: to order Zhao Mengbei, Jiang Fenglie, and Ma Nanchun to go north to find an opportunity to rescue Ma Nanbao. The entire army turned south and captured the Jiyang army.

Half an hour later, Zhao Lie took a few barrels of gunpowder, more than ten iron ingots and a group of skilled craftsmen from the Song army's weapons supervision boarded the warship and ordered to set off immediately.

Jiang Fenglie asked in surprise: "I am going to ask the Empress Dowager for military weapons and equipment, but why do I need a group of craftsmen?"

Zhao Liexiao asked: "Do your white-clothed guard change your equipment?"

Jiang Fenglie seemed to have thought of something and was surprised: "Brother Zhao..."
Chapter completed!