Li Yu's steps softened and fell backwards, and Emperor Zhou E hurriedly supported him and said softly: "Please take care of your majesty's dragon body." ”

"The country is gone, what's the use of the body!!" Li Yu fell on Emperor Zhou E's shoulder and cried bitterly.

Fu Wen picked up the general and said angrily: "Zeng Xiang, your Fenghua army is the elite of the Tang State Naval Army, how can you lose to the northerners on the water!" ”

Zeng Xiang hissed: "It was the right commander Hu Cheng who secretly defected to the Zhou State and defected on the battlefield, coupled with the enemy's excellent long-range weapons, our army was defeated." ”

"That bastard!" Fu Wen's eyes were red, and he looked like he was going to eat people.

"What ranged weapon?" Han Xizai asked.

"There is a repeating crossbow that can shoot dozens of arrows at a time, and a rocket that has twice the range of a bow and arrow, which is so powerful that it can easily ignite our warships!"

"How is the damage of our army?"

"Of the 40,000 sailors, there are only more than 5,000 left." Zeng Xiang said miserably.

"Damn!" Fu Wen roared, extremely angry, hating both Hu Cheng's shameful betrayal and Yang Fang's inability to govern the army.

Song Qiqiu said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, even if the Zhou army crosses the river, our army can defend Jinling." ”

Li Yu still cried in a low voice as if he hadn't heard it.

At this moment, another eunuch hurried into the study, still holding a military newspaper in his hand.

"Your Majesty, there is another military situation ahead." The eunuch said.

Fu Wen snatched the military newspaper, and after looking at it twice, his face changed a little.

"General Fu, what's wrong?" Han Xizai asked urgently.

"Yang Fang reported that Zhao Kuangyin's army had just been defeated by another army, and now it had retreated to Jiangbei." Fu Wen was in a somewhat complicated mood.

"Could it be the Wu State Water Army?" Han Xizai asked quietly.

"It's supposed to be them." Fu Wen looked down in thought.

Li Yu turned around, wiped his tears and asked, "Why did Wu Guo help us?" ”

Wang Kai said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, they are not helping us, Lu Yuan and Zhao Kuangyin are both jackals, they are just fighting for Jinling." ”

Li Yu's face turned pale, and he muttered, "If only my father had killed this thief in the first place." ”

Han Xizai secretly sneered, if there was no Lu Yuan, Zhao Kuangyin might have hit Jinling immediately.

"General Fu, I don't know where the Wu State Navy is now?" He asked.

"They retreated." Fu Wen replied.

There was a sound of footsteps, and another eunuch entered the study to report.

"Your Majesty, the military report of the Changzhou Assassin History has been submitted."

"Could it be that Wu Guo has begun to attack Changzhou?" Li Yu exclaimed in surprise, took the military newspaper and looked at it, with a relaxed expression on his face.

"Your Majesty, what did you say over there in Changzhou?" Fu Wen asked in a deep voice.

"They are reminding me that the Wu State Navy is coming to Hangzhou through Changzhou."

Han Xizai shook his head secretly, the officials from all over the Tang State are becoming more and more careless, the Wu State Navy has returned after a battle, and the military report from Changzhou is only late, it seems that the collapse of the Tang State will be faster than he expected, and he needs to speed up his actions.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks we should move the capital immediately." He entered.

Fu Wen said loudly: "This plan is not working now, the land route is blocked, you have to take the water route to Jiangzhou, and now that the Fenghua army has lost everything, it is possible that the Zhou State, the Ning State Army and the Wu State will block us on the water." ”

"You can let the forbidden army and the Jiangyin army escort you." Han Hee-jae retorted.

"The army is gone, what about Jinling, Changzhou and Xuanzhou? Giving it away? Fu Wen said angrily.

Han Xizai said coldly: "If you don't move the capital quickly, you will lose more than three states in the future, and the country will also perish!" ”

Fu Wen was even more annoyed, and said loudly: "I see that you have taken refuge in the State of Wu or the State of Zhou, and you want to give Jinling to others!" Your Majesty......"

He turned his head to look at the dragon chair, but found that Li Yu had left the imperial study at some point.

……

Yangzhou, Thorn History.

Zhao Kuangyin squatted down and asked the general kneeling in front of him: "The Wu State Navy appeared in the waters of Yangzhou, why didn't you report it immediately, but led the Navy to meet it without authorization?" ”

The general kneeling on the ground is called Xu Kui, who is the deputy envoy of the Wuning Army, Zhao Kuangyin transferred him when he attacked Yangzhou, and after defeating Yangzhou, he has been stationed in the suburbs of Yangzhou.

When Wang Quanbin led the naval army to fight with the Tang naval army, he led his headquarters of 20,000 horses and horses, as a reserve army, to assemble in the water camp, ready to support Wang Quanbin's troops at any time.

It was also he who first discovered that the Wu navy was coming from the east, and he immediately led the navy to meet the battle, but was defeated by the Wu army.

"Marshal, the last general has sent someone to inform you, the reason why the last general attacked is because he is worried that this naval army will affect the battle ahead." Xu Kui whispered.

"What's the use of you telling me, why don't you inform the front-line troops of the situation as soon as possible?"

Xu Kui was silent.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Get up, this time I will write it down for you in advance, I hope you can make meritorious contributions, understand?" ”

"Thank you, Sir." Xu Kui said gratefully.

After he left, Wang Xianqi said coldly: "Marshal, Xu Kui sent troops without authorization, obviously because you didn't let him participate in this battle and were dissatisfied, and wanted to steal the credit, why didn't you do him?" ”

"He is Zhang Minyue's person, and now I still need to use the power of those jiedu envoys, so bear with me for the time being." Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand and asked, "What about Quan Bin?" He must have returned, right? ”

Zhao Pu smiled: "He's being tortured outside, can you hurry up and take a look?" ”

"Punished? Who punished him? ”

"It's himself, he feels that he can't lead the troops well, and he wants to beat himself with a hundred sticks."

"Bastard, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, a hundred sticks are not killed, take me to take a look."

The three of them walked out of the second hall quickly, and walked through the lobby, only to see a naked man lying on a chair in the courtyard, and two soldiers behind him were holding two thick wooden sticks, constantly hitting him on the back.

Zhao Kuangyin walked over with an arrow, just as a stick was about to fall, he stretched out his hand to block it, and with a bang, the wooden stick hit him on the arm.

The soldier, who had no time to stop, was so frightened that he fell to his knees and kowtowed. "The handsome spare, the marshal spare."

"It's none of your business, go down." Zhao Kuangyin said gently.

Wang Quanbin struggled to get up, looked at Zhao Kuangyin's arm, and exclaimed, "Dashuai, are you okay?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin held him and said with a smile: "What is this, but you, why are you so cheap?" ”

Wang Quanbin covered his face with his hands: "The command of the last general is unfavorable, resulting in the loss of more than half of the 30,000 naval army, and there is no face to see the commander." ”

Zhao Kuangyin sighed, moved a chair and sat down next to him, and said in a deep voice: "I didn't think about this matter, Wu has already taken Suzhou, I should think of the possibility that they might send a navy to intervene." ”

"Marshal, General Wang, don't rush to take responsibility, we should think about the opponent of Wu Guo now, General Wang has fought with them, I don't know how you feel?" Zhao Pu said solemnly.

"That's what Zhao Zhangshu said." Wang Quanbin struggled to get up and said: "The Wu State Naval Army is well-trained, the warships are excellent, the combat power is above the Tang State Naval Army, and the most important thing is the weapon, their repeater crossbow is more powerful than our army's repeater crossbow, and it is ......."

Speaking of this, his face was a little pale.

"And what?"

"They also have a weapon with an extremely long range, even longer than the fire wolf arrows, so that when our army can't attack them, they can attack us first." Wang Quanbin had palpitations.

The Fire Wolf Arrow is a powerful long-range weapon of the Zhou army, similar to a repeater, but it can only fire one arrow at a time, the arrow body is huge, the arrow is coated with grease, and when it is ignited, it can easily ignite the enemy warship.

"How far is the range?" Zhao Kuangyin said in a deep voice.

"More than twice as many fire wolf arrows!"

Zhao Kuangyin stood up abruptly and asked urgently, "Is it sure?" ”

"There can be no mistake, the last general saw with his own eyes a nearby ship being pierced by their weapons at about two hundred zhang (six hundred meters)."

"Breakdown? Could it be that they didn't shoot arrows? Zhao Pu wondered.

Wang Quanbin nodded and said solemnly: "What they shot was such a big solid iron ball. As he spoke, he gestured with his hand to a circle the size of a palm.

"How could this be? Why have I never heard of it before. Zhao Kuangyin looked dazed.

Zhao Pu can understand Zhao Kuangyin's mood, if it wasn't Wang Quanbin who spoke, it is estimated that he would never want to believe it.

Zhao Pu was also hard to believe, but as a strategist, he had to force himself to believe it.

After pondering for a moment, he spoke: "Marshal, if the State of Wu really has this kind of weapon, it is impossible for us to defeat them on the water in a short time, and we must take another plan to cross the river." ”

Zhao Kuangyin bowed slightly, and temporarily put the matter of Wu Guoxin's weapon in his mind: "What you said is right, it seems that you can only use the second plan you proposed at the beginning, starting with Ning Guojun." ”

"Then I'll go and arrange the matter of sending envoys to Ning Guojun." Zhao Pu said.

"Good work."

That night, Zhao Kuangyin's subordinate Dou Yi took a merchant ship and entered Chizhou.