With Wen Tianxiang's insistence, Li You still did not retreat. He took the Zhe family army in Shizhen Prefectures as an example, saying that this was an extraordinary period. Quanzhou and Zhangzhou could be regarded as border areas like Prefectures. They had to hand over the military power to one person before they could deal with the current situation. He also said that after the territory of the Song Dynasty expanded again, civil servants would be arranged for these two places to handle daily political affairs again. Wen Tianxiang could only accept it.

Li You not only gave Mrs. Xu and Chen Diaoyan two empty titles, but also promised them to transfer knives, guns and firearms from Liu Qiu to them, and arranged for the rebel generals to go to Liu Qiu to study. The two of them deeply felt Li You's attention, and they guaranteed their loyalty to the Song Dynasty and were willing to fight to the death to resist the Mongolian and Yuan army for the Song Dynasty.

"My true master, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are still liberated now. Should we attack Fuzhou next?" After discussing this matter, Zhang Shijie, who came from Quanzhou, couldn't wait to start aiming at the next target. In his opinion, as long as he took Fuzhou, plus today's Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, Fujian Road would almost be all returned to the control of the Song Dynasty.

"The army of Suodu has been defeated. I believe the defenders in Fuzhou have already been prepared to stick to it. Fuzhou is no smaller than a small city like Zhangzhou, and it is difficult to capture for a while. If it is delayed for a long time, I believe that the Mongolian and Yuan troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will have to reinforce. At that time, we may not be able to get a chance to go under both sides." Li You did not agree with Zhang Shijie's idea.

"What should we do next?" Zhang Shijie habitually wanted to refute, but when he thought that since the Battle of Yashan, which battle did not develop as Li You expected, he had to swallow his words and asked modestly. Tianxiang, Zheng He, Mrs. Xu, Chen Diaoyan and others also looked at Li You together.

"You think what are the advantages of our Song Dynasty and Mongolian Yuan today?" Li You asked without answering a question. At this time, he had already made plans in his mind, but he still hoped to listen to the other people's thoughts first.

"The Mongolian Yuan army is strong, and Kublai Khan has no less than one million troops. In addition, he has occupied more than 90% of the land in the world, so he can obtain a steady stream of finance and taxation; but now our Song Dynasty only has two palaces and Liuqiu, and only more than 50,000 troops and taxation, and there is almost no finance and taxation." Thinking of the current severity of the situation, the joy of regaining Quanzhou has weakened a lot.

"The people of the tyrannical world dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. If our army began to fight the north, the people would definitely eat pots of slurry wherever they went. "When they saw that the people were a little depressed, Wen Tianxiang quickly rose up to boost morale. "Although the Mongolian Yuan occupied 90% of the world, the people's hearts were in the Song Dynasty but not in the Yuan Dynasty. At present, the rebels in various places are constantly in rebellion. As long as my Song Dynasty can continue to recover prefectures and counties as before, the number of rebels in the Mongolian Yuan territory will only increase and increase, and the world will sooner or later return to my Song Dynasty."

"What Wen Xianggong said is very true." Although he did not agree with Wen Tianxiang's words, there were some truths. The notice of the Mongol Yuan was indeed not stable. They just temporarily relied on force to suppress the people. As long as Li You and the others could really continue to weaken the Mongol Yuan's troops, his rule would continue to loosen until it collapsed.

"The Mongol cavalry is unparalleled in the world, but General Zheng's firearm battalion is enough to resist them." After seeing the power of the firearm, Mrs. Xu became more convinced that this was the hope of the Song Dynasty to defeat the Mongol. "As long as I established a new army dominated by firearms, the royal army will sooner or later defeat the Mongol cavalry."

New weapons will indeed bring advantages on the battlefield. Didn’t Zhu Yuanzhang defeat the Mongolian Yuan and restore Shenzhou with such an army? As long as the manufacturing method of firearms does not fall into the hands of the Mongolian Yuan, the Song Dynasty will continue to train new troops, and it is not impossible to eventually drive the Mongolian Yuan back to the desert. Li You nodded and expressed support for Mrs. Xu’s opinion, “It only takes time to build firearms, and we can’t wait for the new army to be trained before attacking the Mongolian Yuan, right?”

"Now we have a better place than the Mongolian Yuan." Zheng He spoke after Li You's eyes thrown over. He stood up and pointed to the map on the wall and said, "The Mongolian Yuanguang has a mainland, and the Mongolian cavalry is unparalleled. If we want to fight them on land, we may not be able to get much more to go now."

Zheng He just defeated the Suodu army at the city of Quanzhou, so no one would suspect that he was timid when he said this. Zhang Shijie, Wen Tianxiang, Yang Liangjie and others nodded repeatedly. As of now, the Song army in the land war is indeed weaker than the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry.

Then Zheng He pointed his finger at the sea, "In contrast, the Navy, the elite Mongols and Yuan navy were buried one after another in Japan and Yashan. There was no more navy on the sea that could cause us some trouble. We can take a boat to attack coastal prefectures and counties. If we encounter hard bones, we will force them away for the time being, and they will not be able to chase them to the sea. If we encounter Quanzhou, Zhangzhou will launch a large-scale attack, and the prefectures and counties will be handed over to the local rebels for a while. In the long run, the Mongols and the thousands of miles of sea boundary will never be peaceful, and the Mongols and cavalry will be exhausted to pursue us."

"This plan is very wonderful!" Zhang Shijie couldn't help but praise him before Zheng He finished speaking. This was the weakness of attacking the Mongolian Yuan with the strengths of the Song Dynasty. The Song army had great hope of winning. "We harassed the coastal areas, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou will be much safer. Mrs. Xu and General Chen can take the opportunity to attack the surrounding prefectures and counties. This way, it will be possible to see how Kublai Khan resisted it. Of course, the final victory depends on the new army."

Didn’t the Eight-Nation Alliance deal with the Qing Dynasty like this? The Ming Dynasty suffered a lot of losses at the hands of Japanese pirates, but Li You thought about more than that, he had bigger plans.

"As Zhang Shumi said, our Song Dynasty has the advantage of the navy, and we should attack the coastal counties and counties of the Mongolian Yuan with long attacks and short attacks. There are not many Mongolian Yuan troops left in Fujian now, and Quanzhou and Zhangzhou will not be in danger for the time being. We will go out to sea again and continue to harass important coastal areas, so as to share some pressure for the two of you. What's more important is to tell the people all over the world that our Song Dynasty is still here, and our Song Dynasty still has the strength to cause heavy damage to the Mongolian Yuan. I expect that those good men who are unwilling to become slaves of barbarians will respond."

"What the king said is very true." The ministers were so excited by his words that they all agreed to the plan to attack coastal prefectures and counties from sea to land, and regarded it as the magic weapon for the Song Dynasty to defeat the enemy.

"Then now tell me that we should attack the city next." After that, Li You walked to the front of the map and pointed his hand at a big city in the north of Quanzhou.

"You are in Lin'an!" The ministers stood up all the time. Lin'an and Bianliang had completely different positions in the hearts of the officials and citizens of the Song Dynasty. Seeing that Li You set his target here, they were excited again. (To be continued.)
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