Nearly two thousand people left with a series of yellow dust, but they didn't know when they would be able to return.

Le Wu and Ying Er quietly exposed their heads on the top of the city.

Outside Wuchuan City, weeds spread.

Because Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng led their troops to attack the island of Benzhou before, they stationed in Wuchuan. Therefore, there was no garrison in Wuchuan at this time.

When Zhao Dongting led his army to Wuchuan, the outside of the city was empty. The coastal county town, which should have been quite prosperous, became deserted due to war.

In the entire Guangnan West Road, except for Leizhou and the west-west areas, there are quite a few county towns like this.

Zhao Dongting planned to start developing step by step in Leizhou. Because the war situation was not decided, no officials were sent to Wuchuan.

Looking at the desolation outside Wuchuan City, he suddenly felt like the arrival of the end of the world.

I just don’t remember how many people were left in the entire country after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty?

It seems like it's only tens of millions?

War is a real meat mincing field.

When we arrived in the city, there were ruins and traces of fire everywhere. There were even scattered corpses on the streets that had not been cleaned up.

Zhao Dongting walked out of the chariot, smelled the decadent aura floating in the air, and said to Zhao Dada: "Order the soldiers to bury the bones in the city."

Although Wuchuan was already an empty city, he could not stand such a scene of scattered corpses.

Zhao Da immediately took the Feilong soldiers to start cleaning up the corpses on the street.

Before Zhao and Luo's 20,000 Qiongzhou troops arrived, Zhao Dongting led the Wuding Hall worshippers directly to the government office with a complicated expression.

He didn't know how long it would take to restore vitality to an empty city like Wuchuan.

The Southern Song Dynasty wanted to liberation, obviously it was not just to repel the Yuan army. The country was easy to destroy, but it was extremely difficult to prosper.

This decisive battle between the Yuan and Song dynasties in the south may not take long, but it takes him to redevelop the Southern Song Dynasty, and the time it takes is definitely based on years.

As soon as I arrived at the government office, several fast horses arrived.

He is a soldier of the Huanglong Imperial Guard, and is the leader of the thousand-man commander of the Huanglong Imperial Guard.

After several cavalrymen, they dismounted and informed the guards, they went to the government office to ask for a meeting with Zhao Dongting.

They were soldiers escorting food and grass in the Huanglong Imperial Army.

At this time, the 150,000 troops and horses of the Southern Song Dynasty's imperial guards had already been in place, and the iron barrel defense line arranged by Zhao Dongting had been roughly completed.

The defense line he personally took over, the Tiankui army led by Yue Peng was stationed in Wuzhou, the Tiangang army led by Su Quandang was stationed in Cenxi, and the Tianji army led by Zhang Hongwei was stationed in Gaozhou. The Tianxian army led by Dongheli was stationed in Xinyi between Gaozhou and Cenxi.

Liu Hongyi had ordered the troops transporting food and grass to set off a week ago, so he naturally had to walk in front of Zhao Dongting and others.

After they arrived in Wuchuan, they left more than 20,000 troops of more than a month of food in Wuchuan. Five hundred soldiers guarded him and had already headed north again.

This is the Eastern Route Army of the grain transport force.

The Eastern Route Army was only responsible for the food of more than 60,000 troops along Wuzhou, Cenxi, Xinyi, Gaozhou and Wuchuan.

There is also the Western Route Army, responsible for the grain of the 110,000 troops led by Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Jue. It uses Yulin Prefecture as a transit station and then transports it to Xunjiang and cities along the Yujiang River in eleven routes.

After seeing Zhao Dongting, the commander who was guarding the food and grass fell to the ground, reported the food and grass situation to Zhao Dongting, and handed over the food.

Zhao Dongting signed a handover order to send these Huanglong Imperial Guards guarding the food and grass back to Leizhou, and then waited for Zhao and Luo's arrival in Wuchuan County.

In the evening of that day, Zhao Da and his friends finally cleaned up the corpses in the city.

Although the city of Wuchuan is still deserted, it still looks no longer as miserable as before.

Nearly thirty sea warships docked at the Wai Ferry Crossing in Wuchuan County.

The flags on the warships were hung high, including the Song army flag and the Qiong army flag.

It was Zhao and Luo's Qiongzhou army that arrived.

The 20,000 Qiongzhou troops are the Yongzi Army and the Gangzi Army respectively. Among the 60,000 defenders in Qiongzhou, they are considered elite and are also confidants of Zhao and Luo.

Zhao Dongting received the news and personally led more than a hundred cavalry to the ferry to welcome Zhao and Luo's army into the city.

Although there is a great deal of play, Zhao and Luo are undoubtedly quite moved.

Of course he knew that Zhao Dongting was acting, but it was the emperor's kindness that he wanted to act, right?

He is a minister and Zhao Dongting is the emperor. Even if he doesn't act like he values ​​him, he has nothing to say.

At the ferry, Zhao Dongting took Zhao and Luo's hand into Wuchuan City.

After that, 20,000 Qiongzhou troops disembarked in a mighty manner, and the scene was quite shocking.

After arriving at the government office, Zhao and Luo asked Zhao Dongting, "Your Majesty, I wonder where our Qiongzhou Army is responsible for the defense?"

Before, Zhao Dongting just ordered him to lead 20,000 Qiongzhou troops to Wuchuan, but did not issue specific military orders to him.

Zhao Dongting sat on the head and said, "Please ask Lord Zhao to lead 20,000 Qiongzhou troops to station in the four cities of Wuchuan, Huazhou, Maoming and Xinyi, and interact with each other. Beacon towers are set up 20 miles between each city to beware of the Yuan army's invasion at all times."

He did not intend to arrange the Qiongzhou army to a place too deep, because he was still worried that the Yuan army would attack from the sea.

Wuchuan, Huazhou, Maoming, and Xinyi are not far from the coast, so Qiongzhou troops are stationed here. If the Yuan army really attacks Leizhou, it will be too late to rush to help.

Zhao Yuluo heard this and said with some doubts: "Didn't Xinyi have Tianxian Army stationed?"

Zhao Dongting said: "I must always keep Tianxian Army by my side. The journey from Cenxi to Wuzhou is very long and I have to guard the Yuan army. It is impossible for the Tianxian Army to station in Xinyi for a long time."

Zhao Yuluo nodded gently, "I will accept the order."

Zhao Dongting said again: "Also, if the Yuan army attacks Leizhou by sea when the war begins, the emperor will have to lead the army to rescue him. All the firearms in my army have been distributed among the imperial guards. There are no firearms that can be sent to you. At that time, we can only rely on the wisdom of the emperor."

Zhao Yuluo said: "When the emperor had not invented the firearms, I also killed the heads of the Yuan army."

"Okay! I'll feel relieved."

Zhao Dongting said yes loudly, with a hint of enthusiasm.

The most precious thing in the Southern Song Dynasty today is loyal ministers and generals like Zhao and Luo.

On this night, Zhao and Luo sent two thousand brave soldiers to build beacon towers on the road between Wuchuan and Huazhou City overnight.

The next day, he left five thousand brave soldiers to guard Wuchuan, and led the rest of the soldiers to follow Zhao Dongting to Huazhou City.

It took only more than 70 kilometers from Wuchuan to Huazhou City, and the army did not delay the journey on the road, but only took two days.

Huazhou City is the main prefecture of Huazhou, also known as Lingshui County. It used to be a military county in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was a Xiang army stationed. However, now, naturally, there are no traces of Xiang army again.
Chapter completed!