Chapter 412: Yingzhou was attacked
In this way, the government office quickly stabilized.
Zhao Yulin stared at the flying hot air balloons and found that the three balls were all adjusting their directions after a burst of bombardment in front of the government office gate, dropping bombs while flying straight to the east wing in the backyard.
When he saw the balloon flying over his head, he immediately raised his gun and started shooting. With a burst of shots, he actually blew up the thunder bomb in the balloon basket behind him. The entire balloon made a deafening explosion in the air.
The shock wave from the explosion accelerated the two hot air balloons in front and pushed them toward the west. Even Zhao Yulin felt a gust of wind blowing in his face, and debris from the explosion was still flying everywhere.
The balloon on the right side of the Mongolian army kept falling. It was obvious that the hot air balloon cover was damaged by the fragments flying out of the explosion, causing a large amount of air leakage.
The Mongolian soldiers on the balloon panicked and threw all the thunder bombs down in an attempt to reduce their weight and continue flying. Although the explosion made the government office bright red, the explosion point was on the empty dam on the side of the east wing in the atrium of the backyard of the government office, which was of no practical significance.
Seeing the attackers behind, the last hot air balloon slowed down its flight speed and attempted to go back and carry out the bombing. However, the east wind was too strong and it was unable to fly in the opposite direction and ended up spinning in place.
The Mongolian army's balloon had a thicker cloth cover, so in order to increase the lift, the balloon had to be made larger, which would increase the wind resistance, making it very difficult for the soldiers in the basket to fly independently. They came with the east wind, so it was naturally more difficult to fly eastward against the wind.
The guys on the balloon were desperate and threw thunder bombs down randomly.
Zhao Yulin would never allow them to mess around. He fired wildly at the basket under the balloon. Several screams pierced the sky, followed by a loud explosion. After the short-lived fireball flashed by, the only thing left in the sky was the deflated hot air balloon, desperately running westward...
After dawn, everything became clear.
It turned out to be a suicide squad sent by the Mongolian army.
Kousheng Buhua, who lived at the frontline, learned that Zhao Yulin had come to Yingzhou, presumably to meet Meng Gong. He saw that the special warfare elites that Hubili had secretly trained had not been used, so he had the idea of raiding Yingzhou to carry out a decapitation operation, to kill Zhao Qier and his group of Song army generals, or at least to kill a few Song army generals.
Because that's where many military generals gather.
This guy did what he said and immediately made arrangements and started the action.
Look, before Zhao Yulin even entered the city, the Mongolian army's death squad had already sneaked into the city.
They attempted to use hot air balloon bombing to cause panic, and then shoot the generals in the government office when they ran out of the gate. Unexpectedly, these generals received Zhao Yulin's hint and did not go out to die along the route they expected. The hot air balloons also failed to hit the target. The sneak attack was exposed in advance when Meng Gong invited Zhao Yulin for tea and chat, resulting in the failure of the Mongolian army.
Meng Gong was interrogating the prisoners in the hall. Last night, the last hot air balloon escaped from the government office. Because the balloon leaked , it couldn't even fly over the wall of Yingzhou and had no choice but to fall into the city. Meng Gong's soldiers tracked it down and caught it red-handed.
Haha, these people are still wearing the uniforms of the Shenwei Army.
Those Mongolian soldiers who were killed or captured were almost all wearing the uniforms of the Shenwei Army. After interrogation, it was found that they were the special operations team trained by Hubili.
First, they wanted to wear the uniforms of the Shenwei Army to harm the people and destroy the image of the Shenwei Army.
The second is to facilitate escape. For example, those heavenly soldiers all knew that the people supported the Shenwei Army. No one would stop them when they walked in these places wearing the Shenwei Army uniforms, and they could easily get help from the people.
Zhao Yulin exclaimed, "Oh my god, that was a close call. Hubli was so insidious and vicious."
Yu Jie was injured again this time. Last night, he and Meng Gong felt that Zhao Yulin was to blame for the attack in Yingzhou, which happened on their recovered territory. Both of them rushed to the front to command and supervise the battle regardless of everything. This group of well-trained Mongolian death squads were all powerful and had amazing archery skills. Yu Jie was suddenly hit by an arrow in the shoulder again.
Zhao Yulin went to the clinic to visit Yu Jie and asked his military doctor to clean the wound again for Yu Jie. He used homemade alcohol to clean and disinfect it, and then applied the Qingcheng Sect's secret medicine for wounds.
When he returned to the government office, Lao Meng said apologetically that it was his failure to discipline his troops strictly, which frightened his son and made him look bad in front of him.
Zhao Yulin said indifferently that this was a battlefield, it was normal, why did the general say that? We are all soldiers, this is nothing.
Lao Meng said with some worry that even the enemies from Yingzhou dared to launch a surprise attack, so it seemed that the occupied areas must be cleaned up thoroughly.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said: The first thing is to reorganize the army. We now have three armies with different numbers and flags. Even their clothing, shoes and hats are all varied. It is inevitable that the Mongolian army will take advantage of them and cause sabotage.
Lao Meng nodded, supporting his opinion, and told Zhao Yulin that he had already informed Yu Jie and that they would all be incorporated into the Shenwei Army and obey the orders of Commander Zhao.
Zhao Yulin thanked Lao Meng Dayi and told him that the Minister of War Miao Gui was on the way, so let them make the specific plans.
Meng Gong nodded in agreement, saying that he just wanted to complete his mission as soon as possible, retire from the army and return to his hometown.
He said that the new Song Dynasty was just established and the state affairs were heavy, so how could Meng Gong sit idle? He wanted to report to Chengdu and ask the general to serve as deputy director of the Central Council and continue to work for state affairs.
Meng Gong stopped being polite and simply said that he would follow his brother's arrangements.
Zhao Yulin thought that it would be better to change the name of the Jiangdong Army here to the Jiangbei Army. They were already standing on the land north of the Yangtze River and had to fight all the way north.
Lao Meng said he didn't care, he would listen to his brother no matter what he did, and then he said he would go and talk to Yu Jie...
Three days later, Miao Gui came to Yingzhou. Zhao Yulin presided over the military reorganization meeting of the Jiangdong Army and announced that Yu Jie would be the commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Army, Cao Youliang and Jiang Hai would be deputies, and the navy would be under the command of Zhou Ping to quickly complete the task of reorganizing the local army.
A major reorganization of the Jiangbei Army was immediately launched.
After asking Miao Gui to take good care of it, Zhao Yulin went south to Luzhou with Meng Gong and lived in Hefei city.
This is considered the nest of Meng Gong's army. He has lived here since he moved here from Jinghu.
However, Zhao Yulin saw that the city was in a dilapidated state, beggars were wandering on the streets, the roads were dirty and messy, and the piled up dirt and garbage gave off a foul smell.
Obviously, Lao Meng lacked money and could not carry out detailed governance. In this light, it is understandable that other counties in Jiangbei were even more chaotic.
The next day, the imperial envoy from Chengdu, the Minister of Personnel Fan Zhong, arrived with the letter and letter . The Central Council of Chengdu had already discussed and decided to appoint Meng Gong as the deputy director of the Central Council, specializing in the restoration and establishment of local government.
Meng Gong was very happy. He and Fan Zhong had known each other for a long time. After listening to Fan Zhong's talk about the prosperity of Chengdu and the great changes in Sichuan and Shu, he was very excited. He even said that he was looking forward to visiting Chengdu and must see the beautiful and rich land of abundance, which should be the heart of the new Song Dynasty.
Seeing that he was laughing like a child, Zhao Yulin told him that they were all deputy directors of the New Song State, and it would only take a word for Meng Gong to go wherever he wanted.
Fan Zhong said that Lord Cao asked him to come to Luzhou, firstly to visit his old friend and deliver the letter of appointment, and secondly to stay here and work with Meng Gong to sort out the affairs of local officials.
The new Song Dynasty implemented drastic reforms to the official system, and this place also had to be reformed in accordance with the new official system. He would listen to Meng Gong on how to do it specifically.
Meng Gong was already grinning from ear to ear, and politely said that he listened to Fan Gong and followed the regulations of the Chengdu court.
Zhao Yulin stopped being polite with them and told them that the army was currently being reorganized and that a Shunfeng office responsible for the reconnaissance had to be established first. Lord Meng was very busy and had to put this matter first.
Lao Meng nodded quickly and said: "Yes, yes, the matter of Shunfeng cannot be delayed. The attack on Yingzhou was a big mistake caused by our poor intelligence. We must handle Shunfeng smoothly."
The three of them were busy with their respective responsibilities.
In Lin'an, Shi's son moved into the palace abandoned by Zhao Bing after he took office as the Pacifier of Liangzhe, and became a separatist little emperor.
When the false emperor Zhao Bing left, he took away half of the officials and 20,000 newly trained imperial guards. The number of soldiers in Liangzhe was reduced by half, and the expenditure was also reduced a lot. The Shenwei Army did not attack Liangzhe, which made Shi's son feel much more relaxed.
On that day, someone from Jiangbei reported: The Shenwei Army rushed to support Meng Gong Yujie, and Jiangbei won a great victory. They have taken advantage of the victory to occupy major cities such as Zhengzhou, Xuzhou and Yingzhou, recovered a large amount of lost territory, and pushed the border forward to the Huai River.
Shi's son drank the finest Longjing tribute tea and listened calmly to the report below: the warships of the Shenwei Army were only on guard and patrol along the coast of the Yangtze River, and the main fleet had all moved north, showing signs of preparing for war in Lianghuai.
His confidant Yang Daquan said sourly: Cao Heizi and Zhao Qier simply don't take Lin'an seriously. They don't come themselves, and they don't even send an envoy. Are they going to leave us out in the cold?
Shi's son asked him with half closed eyes: Why did they come here?
This is already Liangzhe Road. It is no longer the Song Dynasty court. Why would they come here?
Even when the emperor was in charge of the Dragon Court of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yulin never came once.
Yang Daquan then remembered that it was true. Even when the emperor was present, Zhao Yulin had never entered Lin'an once.
Hey, something suddenly occurred to his mind.
Just now I seemed to hear that Shi Xiang no longer called Zhao Qi'er, but called him Zhao Yulin. This was a major change in Shi Xiang's attitude towards Sichuan and Shu, and towards Zhao Qi'er.
All along, Shi's son hated Zhao Yulin to the core and always called him Zhao Qi'er. Why did he change his mind and call him Zhao Yulin today?
For this, we can only ask his son Shi.
This guy told Yang Daquan: If you want to win respect, you must have strength. We also need to speed up the training of troops and shipbuilding.
On the one hand, Shi's son conveyed to the Central Court in Chengdu his intention to not set up defenses and only serve as a pacification envoy and local official in governing Liangzhe . On the other hand, he trained new soldiers and built warships in Hangzhou Bay.
Its purpose is definitely not to deal with the soldiers of the Mongol Empire.
Yang Daquan understood immediately, and said goodbye with the doubt that Shi's son would change his name to Zhao Yulin, and went to supervise the tax collection.
