Speaking of quick battles and decisive decisiveness, Du You, who had been guarding Lingnan for many years, also deeply agreed. He was unable to do what he wanted before, because of his limited military talent and military strength, and the damn miasma in Lingnan. Now Gao Yue leads warriors, auxiliary soldiers (20,000 Wuyi's army, 7,000 Zhenhai fleet) and sailors (more than 10,000 Baishuilang fleet) and nearly 40,000 sailors (more than 10,000 Baishuilang fleet) and nearly 40,000 come here. Of course, he can show off his strength.

"Immediately ask Du Gong to rush to Rongguan to supervise the war, and strive to nail the main force of the Huangdongman to death near Yulinzhou. After I got ashore from Hepu, I will drive forward and take the fallen Yongguan Jingluo Mansion. In this way, I can cut off the land and water between Xiyuan and Yulinzhou and kill the Huangdongman in Xiyuan."

Then Gao Yue asked Du You, how should we recruit chiefs loyal to the court along the way from Guangzhou to Lian and Qin?

When fighting here, Gao Yue knew the importance of the minion army.

Du You introduced: A hundred or two hundred years ago, when we headed west from Guangzhou Prefecture, there were two most powerful Lishangs. One was the Feng family and Xian family of Liangde, Gaozhou (now Maoming, Guangdong). The most famous were Feng Bao and Qiao State's wife Xian (of course, Gaozhou and Dianbai are now fiercely competing for the ownership of the couple); the other was the Ning family of Julian, Qinshi, the most famous one was Ning Mengli, the governor of Qinzhou, who was named by the Sui Dynasty.

However, these two branches are relatively in decline now, and they can only be said to be local wealthy chiefs, but they have no power to dominate several states and dominate the country at the juncture of the Sui and Tang dynasties. The reason is that while the Sui and Tang dynasties were conquering Lingnan, they were also tirelessly promoting the "transformation of barbarians" in order to strengthen the dynasty rule. On the one hand, Feng and Ning and other Li Zhengshu followed the genealogy of the Central Plains, saying that they were descendants of the Chinese gentry, expressing their identification and submission to the central government; on the other hand, when the imperial court added governors to Feng, Xian and Ning families, and even the honorary titles of Yitong and the Three Divisions, they always insisted on sending Han officials to the local government (yes, that is, it is called autonomy, but the power is still in the hands of Han officials, and the chief general only had an official title), intending to deprive the power of the Li Zhengshu's tribes in Lingnan.

Then Du You said that for example, Ning Mengli in Qinzhou was the leader of the Xixidong barbarians. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he wanted to let him bring his troops to the court to attend the court for a visit. However, Ning Mengli died before he could succeed. Emperor Wen of Sui asked his son Ning Changzhen to come. Later, Ning Changzhen always followed the Sui Dynasty, conquered Linyi (the southern regime of Vietnam) in the south, and attacked Liaodong in the north. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Ning Changzhen and his fellow tribe Ning Daoming, Ning Chun still regarded himself as an old minister of the Sui Dynasty, and joined forces with other li commanders to launch a rebellion. He was later suppressed. The Tang Dynasty sent Han officials to govern Lian and Qin land. After that, the Ning family could only serve as county magistrates, chief clerks, Sima and other officials in other places. However, the Ning family was quite powerful in Qinzhou. Until the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, a shocking event occurred.

An official named Wei Xuanzhen was demoted to Qinzhou and died soon after.

Only Wei Xuanzhen's wife Cui, and four sons and two daughters were left to spend their days together.

However, Ning Chengji of the Ning family in Qinzhou fell in love with Wei Xuanzhen's daughter and wanted to force her to get married.

Cui refused to do it. Ning Chengji actually relied on his own power in Qinzhou to kill Cui and his four sons Wei Xun, Wei Hao, Wei Dong and Wei Li, and his two daughters escaped by chance.

I don’t know if Ning Chengji is real or fake:

Wei Xuanzhen was the father-in-law of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang.

Although Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was deposed as King of Luling by Wu Zetian and Wei Xuanzhen was exiled, he was a royal relative after all. You should know that an important excuse for Emperor Zhongzong to abolish him was that Emperor Zhongzong wanted his father-in-law to be the attendant, and he also said, "Even if I give the whole world to my father-in-law, what's wrong?"

Ning Chengji openly killed the wife of the father-in-law, killed a son, and seized a daughter, which shows how lawless it is.

Twenty-four years later, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang restored his throne... His wife was also Empress Wei...

Guangzhou Governor Zhou Rengui led a total of 20,000 troops to Qinzhou and killed Ning's family to avenge Empress Wei's mother's loss. Although Ning Chengji fled into the sea, he was still pursued by Zhou Rengui and beheaded and sacrificed blood to Cui's tomb.

However, the defeat of the Ning family indirectly led to the Tang Dynasty losing control over Xiyuan.

Originally, Xiyuan was within the control of the Ning clan. Later, during the Tianbao period, the Huangdong Man of Xiyuan (the Huang family mentioned by the Tang Dynasty) rose when the Ning clan was in a slump, and joined forces with Wei, Zhou, Nong clans, and occupied more than ten prefectures in Xiyuan, and invaded Qinzhou. Later, the Huang clan family dominated and drove away Wei and Zhou clans, not only seizing Xiyuan, but also began to threaten Guiguan to the north and even Hunan.

This is really about eliminating one enemy and giving birth to another enemy.

In this way, Gao Yue grasped the situation in Lingnan, and then he asked Du You to borrow Pingbo Army fleet with him and act as a guide to cross the mouth of Yazhou Gorge.

Du You agreed of course.

Ten days later, on the towering hills on both sides of the bay, on rows of "dry rails" after getting the alarm, the people jumped down one after another. They carried bows and arrows and sharp axes, and all rushed to the rocks near the sea, looking into the distance:

The ships that were originally gathered in the Longmen River in Qinzhou were already setting off like frightened deer, heading towards the Annan waters, as if they were hiding from some beasts.

The rising sun on the sea is gorgeous and brilliant, and has not yet fully risen. It is like a golden umbrella cover, slowly raised by an unknown giant hand, illuminating a large area of ​​sea waves and clouds on all sides. Then, there are many terrifying black spots. Are they sun spots? No, it is countless large and small sea boats, sailing together, dragging out millions of white wanderings, coming from the vast Pearl Mother Sea to the Longmen River, and directly forcing the Qinzhou City.

It is about sixty miles from Longmen River Bay to Zhoucheng.

The Huangdong Man has repeatedly in chaos during the Tianbao period. The Tang family was in Qin and Lian, and the governance of the area has been in name only. This place has become a paradise for the Lijian tribes.

But there are always "old people in the capital" who predicted that one day, sooner or later, there will be heroes like General Fu Bo, like the Central Plains, who will come on a big ship and walk on a wave and return to this area.

Now this prophecy seems to have come true...

In the evening, this huge fleet, guided by the Pingbo Army light ships from Lingnan, had arrived at the city of Qinzhou.

On the light ship of Pingbo Army, there was a Yu Hou named Zhang Zhou. He drove the boat fast and steady, especially favored by Gao Yue.

Accompanying Zhang Zhou was a sea swan ship of Zhenhaijun. On it were Zhang Xi and Zhang Baogao, who were not showing any weakness and followed closely.

Under the beautiful sunset, on the coastal land of Qinzhou, smaller sea boats rolled up sails and rushed up directly. Larger flat-bottomed boats and towering boats were successively anchored. The soldiers took small boats and tied them to big rocks or giant trees to prevent them from being blown away by the sea breeze after nightfall. At the intersection of the coast, Wuyi soldiers carrying cloth bags, quilts, weapons and flags came from all directions to wade through the water.

Yesterday, their fleet stayed in Hepukou, Lianzhou, and today they rushed directly to Longmen River in Qinzhou.

The slang officials around fled one after another, observing the situation of Gao Yue's army, and then making plans for success or failure.
Chapter completed!