"Okay! OK...Mr. Zhao, your soldiers are good!"

After reading the 30,000 iron-armored elite soldiers who were about to follow him to defend the city in Yangzhou, Zhao Huan smiled and said something like this to Zhao Mingcheng. I wonder if it can be considered a compliment!

Zhao Mingcheng replied with a smile: "The official has been awarded too much. This is not my credit. This soldier is a colleague of the Privy Council, Liangjiang, Lianghuai, Jinghu, Yangtze River, and the colleagues of the coastal general managers and officials are exploring and training... and the two ranks of the unemployed and the two ranks have also put in a lot of effort."

"Oh, there are many people!" Zhao Huan nodded, and the smile on his face remained unchanged.

Zhao Mingcheng didn't think much about it. He was proud now. He never thought that the Zhao official family would suspect him... He was a civil servant! He didn't lead troops to fight at all, and he was just to put them on the shelves. At that time, the official family insisted that he had a famous general and forced him, a good civil servant, to lead the training.

This has really made Zhao Mingcheng suffer. Over the past two years, he has been busy with military affairs, studying military tactics, and studying various instruments and armors day and night.

He was afraid that his talent would be insufficient, so he forced his wife Li Qingzhao to study together. He not only studied ancient books, but also learned skills from Master Zhong who was idle at home, and Master Zhong Shimin learned the art of battle formations and weapons.

Thanks to these two parents-in-law, they learn everything quickly, and now they have reached the level of "military experts"!

Of course, so many new soldiers are not enough to rely on the two "military experts" alone. In addition, there are Nie Shan, Li Gang, He Li, Zhang Shuye, Wang Boyan, Zhang Suo, Li Guang, Lu Zhi, Xue Bi, Li Ruoshui, and Li Ruoxu, a large group of civil officials who are very interested in military affairs, who are studying military science together with Zhao Mingcheng.

Moreover, Zhao Huan trusted the "Scholar Army" that just appeared... The Song Dynasty no longer believed in military generals, so Zhao Huan simply did not use those military leaders! Moreover, he did not believe in eunuchs (most of the eunuchs around Zhao Ji supported Zhao Kai). If he did not believe in civil servants, who else could Zhao Huan's emperor use to lead troops?

Therefore, in the past two years, Zhao Huan has 100% trust in "scholars in commanding soldiers", and can also let the Privy Council let go of the matter!

Basically, everything is correct and everything is requested. And the funds are too much... Anyway, I have money! I don’t need to train soldiers now, so I have to return to Zhao Kai with Zhu Lian!

With the strong support of Zhao Huan, a group of civil servants who were not very knowledgeable were considered to have achieved the conditions for leading troops that no general or even the ministers (civil officials) dared to imagine since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

The new army trained by them may not be very good to pull it out for field battles, but there should be no problem in defending the city and fighting against the city - their armor is hard enough, their guns are long enough, their divine arm bows are good enough, and they are also hard enough to practice!

According to Zhong Shizhong, Zhong Shimin and others, these 100,000 new troops have "beat more than the Western Army"!

At this time, Zhao Huan asked the civil servants who were leading the troops again, "Are my invincible navy ready? In the past two or three years, the navy has spent no less than that of the land army!"

Zhao Huan originally had an invincible navy!

This is not bragging!

Zhao Huan's new army looks pretty good, but no one thinks they can really compete with Zhao Kai and Jurchen troops.

But Zhao Huan's navy can definitely defeat Zhao Kai and the invincible navy of the Jin Dynasty!

The navy of the Southern Song Dynasty was only the "Jiang Army" and the "Navy Army"!

"Official family," Li Gang, who was in charge of the Privy Council together with Zhao Mingcheng, immediately took over the question and replied, "The 20 large boats of the navy's rivers and seas have entered the city and are moored on the Qinhuai River. The official family can board the ship to review at any time."

"Okay!" Zhao Huan nodded with satisfaction, "Li Qing, lead the way, I want to see my invincible navy in the Song Dynasty!"

There are now two officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, including Zhao Mingcheng, the left Privy Council, and Li Gang, the right Privy Council, is in charge of the navy!

The special appointment of a magistrate in charge of the navy is enough to highlight Zhao Huan's importance to the navy!

Because of a specialized in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council, the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty has now become a branch of military level with the army!

In other words, the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty is no longer dependent on the army and is no longer controlled by the local commander. Instead, two naval commanders were established - the Yangtze River commander and the coastal commander. The former is responsible for all the inland water divisions, while the latter is responsible for the navy.

However, the defense zone division of the Navy and the Inland River Navy on the Yangtze River is not at the mouth of the Yangtze River, but at the City of Jinling. The water surface of the Yangtze River east of Jinling is the world of the Navy!

And to the west of Jinling is the territory of the "Jiang Army"!

Therefore, the main warships of the Southern Song Navy must be able to sail into the Yangtze River near Jinling and enter the mouth of the Qinhuai River.

This type of warship is called the river and sea boat!

This kind of river and sea boat is actually not particularly large, both of which are between 1500 and 1800 materials (used materials). If converted into water displacement, it is light loading of 700 tonnes.

The driving of this kind of river and sea ship are two pairs of manpower and water wheels located on both sides and three to four hard sails.

Because the hull is relatively wide and the area of ​​the hard sail is relatively small, the speed of this large river and sea boat is not fast, but it is relatively stable and not easy to overturn.

In addition, these large boats in rivers and seas are all warships, so they are relatively sturdy. Moreover, the boat is equipped with quite a few weapons, including crossbows, slings, poles, and bows with horns!

This time, the 30,000 elite soldiers who followed Zhao Huan to Yangzhou will set off from Jinling under the escort of these 20 large boats of rivers and seas.

As for such a large boat, as many as 60 ships have been built. Except for 20 ships deployed near Jinling City, the rest are placed in Mingzhou, Suzhou and Xiuzhou. You can support Yangzhou at any time, or sail north to capture the retreat of the Jin Dynasty, and of course you can also protect Zhao Huan from the water...

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Huaibei, Huaiyang Army, Pizhou City.

The news that Zhao Huan was personally expeditioned was soon sent to the hands of the two princes of the Great Jin Dynasty who were stationed here by the detailed work sent by the Great Jin Dynasty.

However, the two princes of Dajin are completely different. The fourth prince Wushu is still dressed like a Jurchen nobleman. He is bald and white robe (with a sable hat, but he doesn't wear it because he is afraid of heat). He is sitting cross-legged on a bed, drinking iced wine in big mouthfuls.

The fifteenth prince, Wulimei, wore the regular clothes of the prince of the Song Dynasty, sat upright on a ring chair, listening expressionlessly as Wushu's confidant Cai Songnian reported to Zhao Huanyu's personal campaign.

Cai Songnian was the "deception envoy". Because of his contribution to "deception" he was trusted by the two brothers Zong Wang and Zong Bi, and now he is in the name of the military senator.

"The fourth prince and the fifteenth prince, have carefully written a secret report that the naval army on the Southern Song Dynasty is powerful... not only can it traverse the river, but also travel thousands of miles into the sea every day! If Zhao Huan sent a navy army to carry tens of thousands of land troops out of the Yangtze River estuary to fly north, there will be chaos in the prefectures along the coast of Jingdong!"

His worries make sense!

The 60 large boats of rivers and seas alone can carry tens of thousands of new troops of the mainland division and a large number of equipment and supplies to head north. There is no need to fight any landing war... Just go directly to the port and the inland river.

Although the Great Jin Kingdom now has a sea border of thousands of miles, its coastal defense is equal to zero... Even the seaports in Jingdong, Hebei, Liaodong and other places do not have any defense.

If the new army of the Southern Song Dynasty Army landed ashore in those places, then it would not cause a big mess? Although the Jin soldiers dispatched tens of thousands of elite troops to defeat them, the elite troops of the Jin soldiers could not be waiting by the beach... When they came from other places, the Song army would have already left by boat!

"No!" The fifteenth prince Wulimei interrupted, "Zhao Huan is not Zhao Kai, he can't do such a thing... The Gu family probably ordered Huaibei and Huaidong to defend the city and enter Yangzhou City to defend the city. He will never go further from Yangzhou North!

We can take Haizhou and Lianshui first, then cross the Huaihe River to Yangzhou, and surround Yangzhou before he escaped!"

"The Fifteenth Prince," Cai Songnian smiled, "Haizhou is near the sea! The city of Zhou is right by the sea, and the Song people's naval army will arrive at any time. How can we fight?"

"I won't arrive." Wu Limei shook her head, "Zhao Huan will not send one army or another to save Huaibei... Besides, we have a bomb pot, so we throw a few out, which scared Liu Yu to surrender."

Wu Shu smiled and said, "If there are no reinforcements, Haizhou and Lianshui will be easy to take... Wuli Mei, why don't you lead the troops to take Haizhou!"

"Me?" The fifteenth prince Wu Limei's face suddenly changed. Although he was very polite, he was actually timid!

To be honest, Zhao Huan led his troops out of the good Jinling City to Yangzhou to station in Yangzhou, which was much better than he expected. If he were allowed to be an official in the Southern Song Dynasty, he would not dare to stay in Jinling City... How dangerous is Jinling! Just beside the Yangtze River, the enemy crossed the river and could immediately surround Jinling City!

Moreover, in history, Jinling was surrounded by enemies killed from the north, and there was no one who could not be conquered... Zhao Huan actually dared to establish the capital of Jinling, so he must have read less history books.

"Why? I dare not go?" Wu Shu said with a smile, "My sister Wu Li, I will conquer the world for you this time!"

It turned out that the purpose of the Jin soldiers going south to Huaidong was not to eat up the territory of the two Huaihe Rivers, but to support another Song Dynasty. Wasn't it originally a fight between the two Zhaos? Now both Zhaos are so good, so the Great Jin Kingdom should not try hard to disturb it?

At this time, Wuli's sister Zhao Gou was favored by Wanyan Wu Qimai, and she was a filial son of the Great Jin Dynasty, so he was the lord of the "Three Songs".

But how dare Zhao Gou, a girl from Wuli, leads troops to fight in person? That's so scary!

Seeing that Wulimei was about to be cowardly, Wushu's face also calmed down and said in a gloomy tone: "My sister Wuli...the lord of entrepreneurs should lead the way and be an example for the three armies. How many times have your third brother Zhao Kai been in battle over the years? Are you born with the same father as him? Why are you so timid?"

"Fourth Prince, I, I'll go! Isn't it okay for me to go?" Zhao Gou saw Wu Shu getting angry, so he dared not to go? No matter how powerful that Liu Yu is, he can't compete with the Fourth Prince, right? Let's go... It's possible that he will live like this.
Chapter completed!