As soon as Chai Rong and the others arrived at the barracks, they got such good news.

All of a sudden, the whole army was in an uproar, and the generals burst into laughter. When Jiang Mi hurriedly rode his horse to Cui Zixuan, Zhao Kuangyi retracted his gaze, and when he met with Zhao Kuangyin's brothers, Chai Rong asked people to call Cui Xin, he glanced Cui Xin up and down, and in front of the whole army, patted Cui Xin's shoulder and laughed: "Not bad, you people are very good." ”

As soon as Chai Rong's words came out, a smile appeared on Cui Xin's cold and handsome face, and behind Cui Xin, all the families also smiled sincerely.

This is what Chai Rong likes, he is a generous person, as long as he has made a contribution, he will definitely remember it, and he is very willing to express his appreciation in front of everyone. You must know that these superiors are the most important face, since Chai Rong praised someone in public, he will be punished if he wants to settle accounts in the future, and he must have really made a mistake, and he will punish him in public. In such a world, to be able to achieve the four words "reward and punish in public" is tantamount to the hero of the world.

At that moment, Cui Xin respectfully saluted Chai Rong and replied, "It's all because of Your Majesty's destiny." ”

Chai Rong loved to hear this, and he laughed again.

On that side, the news of the defeat of the Southern Tang Dynasty spread back to the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Although it is said that Li Jingjin also destroyed Chai Rong's 30,000 or 40,000 horses before and after, but those 30,000 or 40,000 are not like the 30,000 people destroyed by the Southern Tang Dynasty this time, all of them are the elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and they are also the most rare elites of the navy!

Originally, the elite of the Southern Tang Navy was only 100,000 people, but this time it lost 30,000, and the remaining navy that could take on the heavy task was only about 60,000.

With only 60,000 people, to resist the prestigious Chai Rong, to deal with Cui Zixuan, who borrowed 50,000 sailors from Wu Yue, and to deal with Zhao Kuangyin, who has repeatedly made great contributions on the battlefield, this matter makes people panic just thinking about it.

Emperor Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty panicked to the extreme.

At that moment, he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, pass on Li Jingjin quickly!"

When Father-in-law Yu heard this, he immediately went to the Prince's Mansion.

But after a while, Father-in-law Yu came back alone, and when he saw Li Jing, he reported with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not in the mansion. ”

"Not there?" In the past six months, Li Jing has been deliberately excluding Li Jingjin, and he has not paid attention to his whereabouts, "Did you say that where is he now?"

Father-in-law Yu shook his head and replied respectfully: "According to the crown princess, the crown prince left a month ago, and no one knows where he went. ”

"What?" Li Jing was annoyed, but in a blink of an eye, he knew that at this time, panic was the most useless. So, Li Jing roared: "What are you still doing? Hurry, go find the prince." ”

......

On the bank of the Huai River, a guard walked lightly to Li Jingjin, who was disguised as a fisherman, and whispered a few words.

After the ceremony, the guard asked, "Your Highness, aren't you going back?"

"Go back?" At this time, Li Jingjin had already known that the reason why he was made the crown prince was just Li Jing's power and friendship plan under the coercion of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He sneered and said slowly: "I'm almost hiding my bow, what happens to the front line, and this prince rushes back?"

The guard said uneasily: "I heard that the situation on the front line is very tense right now. ”

"What about being nervous?" Li Jingjin closed his eyes and said coldly: "Some people don't know what they're afraid of until they are beaten really hard." Now the loss is only 30,000 sailors, what is it?"

There are less than 100,000 elites in total, and less than 60,000 remaining, which is not a loss? The guard's eyes widened, he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare.

He didn't know that Li Jingjin was not born and raised in Nantang after all, and his feelings for Nantang were really not as deep as these people imagined. In the past, he regarded himself as the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he committed suicide with all his might. Now that he knew the true purpose of those people, he was quite cold, and he would no longer rush to work hard.

Just then, another guard strode up.

The guard came to Li Jingjin's side and whispered a few words to him.

As soon as the guard retreated, Li Jingjin fell silent, he looked at the mountains and rivers on the other side, and seemed to be a little distracted.

After a while, Li Jingjin jumped onto a fishing boat, waved his hand to order the guards to retreat, and called a fisherman to come on board to support the boat, he squatted in the bow of the boat, and the boat swung away in the fisherman's operation.

The boat roamed freely on the Huai River, and Li Jingjin was like a most ordinary peasant boy, wearing a hat, squatting on the bow of the boat and looking at the Huai River in a daze.

After a while, at the small pier at the end of the reeds on the opposite bank, a pair of beautiful figures appeared.

Seeing the pair of handsome men and beautiful women, a sneer appeared on the corner of Li Jingjin's lips, and in the blink of an eye, the sneer faded away bit by bit, carving a heavy and complicated attachment on his face. Slowly, he pressed down his hat and ordered the fisherman, "Go and pick up the guests." ”

"Yes. ”

As the fishing boat approached, the two men noticed it too, and they turned over and dismounted, shouting in this direction, "Boatman, boatman." ”

The fisherman swung the boat to the pier.

Cui Zixuan asked the guards to lead the horse away, and he himself took the lead and said, "Boat family, are you a citizen around here?"

The fisherman, who was about fifty years old and had a wrinkled face, replied: "If you go back to the guests, the villain is from this neighborhood." ”

Cui Zixuan nodded, he turned around and reached out to take Jiang Mi's hand, and the two got on the fishing boat one after the other. Cui Zixuan looked at both sides of the Huai River, and threw a gold ingot to Li Jingjin, "Boatman, this is the cost of this day, we want to go around the Huai River." ”

"Okay!"

On the stern, Li Jingjin was still squatting there, and Cui Zixuan glanced at Li Jingjin, who was squatting roughly, and his exposed skin was also dark, and then withdrew his gaze.

At the bow of the boat, Cui Zixuan and Jiang Mi stood hand in hand, it was sunny today, the waves on the Huai River were rolling, but it was not dangerous, looking at the lake and mountains, Jiang Mi couldn't help but look at the location of the Southern Tang Army, and sighed lightly.

Cui Zixuan's gentle voice came, "Ah Mi, what are you thinking?"

Jiang Mi shook her head, and she said in a low voice: "Cui Lang, did you say that the Southern Tang Dynasty will send my brother again?"

When he heard Jiang Mi call "brother", Li Jingjin, who was facing away from the two of them, secretly sneered, but the sneer was a little different after all.

When Cui Zixuan heard this, he nodded and said, "Li Jingjin Yu Wei is still there, and the Southern Tang Dynasty will inevitably ask him to preside over the overall situation again." ”

After the boat had traveled for a while, Cui Zixuan turned to the fisherman and said, "Old man, what is this place called?"

The fisherman said, "This place is called Lizigou." ”

"Old man, tell me about the situation in Zigou here. ”

"Okay, what do you want to hear?"

"Anything goes, legends are the best. ”

"Okay. ”

In the light voice of the boatman, the fishing boat gradually sailed away. After a while, Cui Zixuan saw a shallow river connected to the Huai River in front of him, and couldn't help asking, "Old man, what is that river called?"

The old man replied: "That river is called Yangshan River, guest officer, don't look at it now shallow and inconspicuous, in my grandfather's time, Yangshan River is not much smaller than the Huai River." That river, which leads directly to the Great Lake of Bashan......"

The fisherman talked endlessly, and Cui Zixuan also listened carefully.

In fact, the reason why the two of them came to this trip this time was requested by Jiang Mi. As early as when Li Jingjin was first established as the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he ordered the burning of all the geographical records on both sides of the Huai River. And Li Jingjin's plan has played a big role in the confrontation between Hou Zhou and Southern Tang now. If you can't find a geographical chronicle, whether it is Jiang Mi or Cui Xin, you can only rely on your own eyes to observe the geography of the two sides of the strait, but you can ask the local people to inquire about the situation.

Because they wanted to understand the situation on both sides of the Huai River, Jiang Mi and Cui Zixuan spent a whole day in the Huai River.

And Li Jingjin also stayed there for most of the day.

Until the curtain was closed, the two went ashore, and they were far away surrounded by the guards, and Li Jingjin was still squatting motionless at the stern of the boat, but he had turned around at this time and watched the two leave without saying a word.

The fisherman was only found by Li Jingjin temporarily, although he was full of puzzlement, he didn't dare to ask more, just silently propped up the boat and began to sail towards the south shore.

I don't know how long it took, until the figures of the two gradually disappeared into the night, Li Jingjin withdrew his gaze. He fell on the deck tiredly, looking at the starlight in the sky, and for a long time, Li Jingjin sneered. This sneer, I don't know if he is laughing at others, or laughing at himself?

......

Next, Chai Rong carried the power of a great victory, taking advantage of the discouragement of the Southern Tang Army, and came to several strong attacks in a row, and in less than two months, he defeated the Southern Tang Army five times in a row, and annihilated the Southern Tang Army of 10,000 sailors and 50,000 army. By this time, there were only 50,000 elite sailors in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

There are only 50,000 elites left in the navy, and the most terrible thing is that the Southern Tang Army has been hit by a series of defeats, and the army has been weakened and the country is in turmoil.

At the time of the survival of this country, Li Jingjin, the prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was once again ordered to take over the Southern Tang Dynasty Naval Army.

Li Jingjin knew that Guo's father and son were actually very good, so after he took over the Southern Tang Army, he did not drive away the two sons, but let them continue to hold their original positions, but the right to command the armies naturally belonged to Li Jingjin.

Li Jingjin is worthy of being a natural general, and after he took over the Southern Tang Army, the morale of the Southern Tang Army was immediately boosted. In the next few frictions, he and Chai Rong also had their own wins and losses, and when it was postponed until the end of September, the two sides still maintained an evenly matched situation.

......

In the blink of an eye, October has arrived.

In the barracks, the topographic map of the Huai River and the military defense map of the Southern Tang Dynasty presented by Zheng Wen and his wife were placed on the wall day and night for Chai Rong, the Zhao brothers and the sons in law of the family headed by Cui Zixuan to see.

This military defense has always taken more than ten years or even decades of painstaking efforts to build, so even if the matter of the Southern Tang Dynasty military defense map falling into the hands of the Northern Zhou Dynasty has been known to the Southern Tang Dynasty monarchs, they have also made urgent changes. But things in the world have never been seen in small ways, with this primitive military defense map in hand, no matter how the Southern Tang Dynasty changes, it will never deviate from its origins, and the direction of change can be guessed based on the original map. It can be said that as long as there is this defense map of the Southern Tang Dynasty in hand, not to mention now, even in the next few years, when the Southern Tang side fights, it will not be able to occupy a geographical advantage.

Because Chai Rong's step by step, the Southern Tang Army and the Later Zhou Army at this time were all tense, and everyone knew that the battle that would determine life and death was about to take place!