"Your Majesty, the Yellow Sea is a great victory!" Ying Xi sent a report on the war.

"Okay, the crisis is over!" Zhao Yu opened the battle report, and Dong Yicheng reported that in this battle, more than 400 enemy warships were destroyed, more than 300 ships were captured, 40,000 enemies were destroyed, and more than 30,000 surrenderers were killed.

"Your Majesty, do you want them to turn to Jiankang to support this operation?" Ying Xi asked again.

"Not necessarily. Minwu grass edict told the right minister to lead the civil and military forces in Beijing, and greeted the triumph of the two armies on behalf of me, and held a prisoner sacrifice ceremony after I returned to Beijing, rewarding meritorious service! Zhao Yu commanded.

"Yes, the subordinates will draft the edict immediately!" Chen Shishi put down the dishes and chopsticks and replied.

"How far are we from Jiankangshang!" Zhao Yu took a sip of soup and asked Ying Xidao.

"Your Majesty, there are still one hundred and fifty miles!" Ying Xi replied.

"It's just past noon now, let's rush to Zhenyang to rest!" Zhao Yu nodded.

"Your Majesty is tired of the boat, it is better to rest in Dantu for the whole night, and then go again tomorrow!" Ying Xi thought about it.

"The sooner they arrive, the more hope they have to live!" Zhao Yu shook his head and said.

"Yes, the subordinates and Commander Tan will go to prepare, and set off immediately after getting off the ship!" Ying Xi didn't say anything more, and Shi Li retreated.

"Sanniang, Concubine Chen still can't eat it!" Zhao Yu ate the leftovers in the bowl in two bites and walked into the inner cabin.

"Alas, Concubine Chen just drank some soup, but she still can't eat the food!" When Li Sanniang saw the emperor coming, she got up to give a salute, and then looked at Wang Yu lying on the couch and sighed.

"Why bother, why don't you stay in Dantu, and then go back to Beijing together when I return!" Zhao Yu walked over and touched Wang Yu's head, which was not hot, and said with a chuckle.

"Official, the concubine is fine, it's just that there was a lot of wind and waves last night, and she was a little seasick, and she will be fine after going ashore!" Hearing the emperor's voice, the sleeping Wang Yu also struggled to sit up and said.

"It's not the official family who is harmful, this time he is pretending to be a good person again!" Li Sanniang glared at the emperor and said angrily.

"Yes, yes, it's all weird, but ...... Alas! Zhao Yu nodded with a smile and sighed again, but is everything really to blame......

Things have to start a few days ago, after Zhao Yu gave the order to attack and harass behind the enemy, the armies took active action. However, after a detachment sent by the First Army guarding Jiankang crossed the river, there was no news, and he immediately ordered all the armies along the coast to actively search for it, and the Secretariat also sent people to inquire about the news, and it was necessary to see people in life and corpses in death. Soon the news came back that after the detachment succeeded in attacking Guabu Town in Jiangbei, it was pursued by the reinforced Yuan army, and they retreated to the river while fighting, and with the increase of enemy troops, they were trapped on the Guabu Mountain by the river.

Guabu town south of the Yangtze River, belongs to Zhenzhou, and Jiankang across the river opposite, is located in the riverside Chushui estuary, it is also because of the water and is born, "step" ancient Yitong City, it also shows that it is inseparable from commercial development. It was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the location of the famous ferry port that runs through the ancient post road in the north and south of China, and the two Huai towns are mostly concentrated along the Huai, along the river and on both sides of the canal, and the town of Guabu is also more prosperous because of the opening up of the artificial canal along the Huai.

Towns occupy an important position in economic development, commodity exchange, and commercial tax collection, and some towns in the Lianghuai region are even much more important than the state towns that govern them, which shows that their commercial busyness is self-evident. After entering the Song Dynasty, the commerce of the two Huai continued to prosper, even after the southern crossing, the strategic position of the two Huai became more important, becoming an important border defense area, making agriculture wither, the population decreased sharply, but the commerce in some areas was still in a prosperous state.

At that time, a large number of troops were stationed in Lianghuai, and the goods and materials of Lianghuai were not enough to supply the needs of the army, so a large number of military supplies needed to be imported from various roads in the south of the Yangtze River; There were casualties in the war, and a large number of recruited troops also had to be transferred from Zhulu to Lianghuai. This increased the flow of people and goods between the two provinces, and the towns that provided services for them sprang up and prospered. Secondly, the salt production of the two Huai is one of the financial resources that the government relies on, and the transportation and marketing of Huai salt must pass through the canal and the Yangtze River, which in turn has led to the development of commodity trade along the canal and the Yangtze River.

Of course, the prosperity of Guabu Town is also related to its special military status, which is connected with Qixiadu on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and is also a strategic location, which was a battleground for soldiers in ancient times. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao once led more than 100,000 foot riders to the south, and set up a palace on Guabu Mountain. The mountain is the road, the felt house is set up, and the river threatens Jiankang. It also has a Buddha shrine on the mountain, tastes the god race that year, celebrates the peace with martial arts, and shows off in the Southern Dynasty.

During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhou Shizong Xiande was three years old, Zhao Kuangyin and the Southern Tang soldiers fought between Liuhe Guabu, slashed and killed more than 5,000 Tang soldiers, and the rest fought to cross the river by boat, drowning a lot. In the following year, Zhao Kuangyin used 100,000 soldiers to defeat Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Guabu. In the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Han Shizhong, a famous anti-Jin general, once broke the Jin soldiers in Huang Tiandang with 8,000 people, and later more than 100,000 troops of the Jin Wushu were defeated and retreated from Guabu.

As an important place for river defense, Meng Yuan naturally will not despise it, and after setting up the capital of ten thousand households, he will set up thousands of households to guard here. The assault team sent only used two groups and more than 20 people, and everyone thought at first that they were in a desperate situation, and it was difficult to survive under the encirclement and suppression of a thousand households. But at this moment, one of them actually descended from the mountain cliff and used the dark night to cross the Yangtze River and sneak back to the south bank to ask for help.

Only then did everyone learn that the team retreated to Guabu Mountain after being surrounded and suppressed, this mountain is a lonely mountain, only a small mountain more than ten zhang high, but it is very steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. They preemptively occupied favorable terrain, held the trail up the mountain, and repelled more than a dozen enemy attacks. After paying nearly 100 casualties, the enemy blocked all the passages down the mountain, trying to trap them on the mountain. At present, three people of the assault team have been killed and several wounded, but they still have combat effectiveness, but there is no water on the mountain and they urgently need to be rescued.

After Chen Fenglin, the commander of the First Army, learned about it, he sent troops across the river several times to rescue him, but due to the limited number of troops who smuggled out, he could not break through the blockade of the enemy army, and suffered casualties instead. After the Meng Yuan side found out that the Song army crossed the river to rescue, they also strengthened the defense of the river bank, making the rescue even more difficult. Chen Fenglin thought that in the current situation, it would be difficult to rescue the trapped small troops by relying on small troops, and it was necessary to send a large army to force a large crossing of the river and launch a landing operation in order to succeed.

After receiving Chen Fenglin's urgent report, two voices appeared in the DPRK and China. Zhao Yu insisted on rescuing the soldiers trapped in Jiangbei at any cost; But several governors thought that it was completely unnecessary to use a large army for a dozen people, or even pay more casualties. This may also lead to a major war with Meng Yuan, and it is in line with the strategy of attacking and defending at the beginning, so he does not agree to take rescue actions again.

Zhao Yu was not furious when he heard this, he had said at the beginning of the establishment of the Shuaifu Army that he would never leave a robe brother, and even if he died, he would take them home. Therefore, not only did they not stop the rescue, but they made him determined to go there himself. Everyone was telling the facts, reasoning, and even asking the queen to persuade him, but they couldn't move him.

The most understanding of the emperor is still should be strict, he and several Zai insisted that the little emperor did not hesitate to save more than a dozen people, which seemed to be a bit more than worth the loss, but it can greatly improve morale, enhance cohesion, and then inspire the people, which is really a righteous move. Moreover, attacking Jiangbei can show Meng Yuan that they do not have the ability to force across the river, so as to warn them not to provoke without permission, which is not contrary to the original intention. And now that the little emperor has made up his mind, if he forcibly stops it, it will not be in line with the way of the monarch and the minister, and it may also cause the monarch and the minister to lose harmony.

After persuading everyone, Ying Jieyan made an appointment with the little emperor in three chapters: the time is for ten days, and he must return to Beijing before the palace examination; With the Yangtze River as the boundary, no matter what happens, it will not wait to cross the river; This war was quickly resolved, and it was not possible to decide on its own to expand the scale of the battle and trigger a full-scale conflict between the two countries. Zhao Yu agreed immediately, and vowed never to breach the contract.

In this way, the ministers agreed to the little emperor's departure from Beijing, but Zhao Yu did not affect the imperial examination that was about to start, and the battle of the Yellow Sea was not over. He decided to leave Beijing secretly and be temporarily supervised by the Empress Dowager, but the edict must be signed by more than half of the governors before it can be issued, and he only took the guard battalion out of Beijing, and Ni Liang still stayed in Beijing, guarding Gyeonggi and protecting the imperial city.

Zhao Yu settled all the rulers, but failed to pass the level of several wives. In view of his past 'bad deeds', they believe that he will never keep any oaths, because before the war he said that the covenant is a piece of waste paper, and whoever keeps it is the biggest fool, and they have not seen anyone be struck by lightning because of this. So to solve the problem of not agreeing to the emperor to go to Jiankang, but how could a few little girls convince the treacherous and cunning emperor, and they could not resist Zhao Hao, and finally came up with a way to send someone to supervise.

Several little girls discussed for a long time, and they wanted to ride a boat and a horse all the way, and only Chen Shu, Li Sanniang and Wang Yu could ride horses. But Chen Shu is now in charge of the harem, so naturally she can't go, Li Sanniang once led the troops to fight, and she should go. But the women were worried that they would listen to the emperor the most, and they would become accomplices at that time, so they sent Wang Yu to supervise together.

So, that night, Zhao Hao led the guard battalion out of the city secretly and left Beijing on the baggage ship of the imperial army. According to his plan, he took a boat along the canal to Dantu, and then rode to Jiankang, which was the fastest and the most time-saving, because the few people who were separated from Jiangbei were in danger, and the earlier they arrived, the more hope they had to be saved.

After getting on the boat, Li Sanniang has been in the army for many years after all, and although she has been in the palace for a while, she did not feel any discomfort, but was a little excited. But Wang Yu can't do it, after all, he is long in the high-ranking family, where has he had this experience, I don't know if it is nervous, or because of some wind and waves, the boat began to get seasick as soon as it arrived in Chongde, and he couldn't get up, and he couldn't eat or drink.

After the boat arrived at Dantu for a day and two nights, Wang Yu still did not get better. But there are still 150 miles to ride a horse in the future, and Zhao Hao estimates that his horseback riding skills will not be too high, which may be the level of being able to control the horse slowly. When Zhao Yu first learned to ride a horse, he didn't know how many layers of skin fell off his buttocks and inner thighs, and he grew calluses to adapt to long-distance horseback marches, and it was difficult to keep up with the team in this state.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready, please get off the ship!" At this time, Tan Fei entered the cabin and said.

"Concubine Chen should stay and raise for a few days, and return to Beijing by boat!" Zhao Yu saw that Wang Yu's condition was really difficult to persevere, and frowned.

"No, the concubine was ordered to accompany the official's family, how could she give up halfway!" Wang Yu reluctantly got up after hearing this, struggling to get out of the cabin and get off the boat.

"I'm going to rush to Zhenyang Town by horse today, I'm afraid that you won't be able to hold on, something happens, let me explain!" Zhao Yu hugged him and frowned.

"Even if the concubine dies on the way, she will also walk with the official family!" Wang Yu shook off the emperor's hand and walked out of the cabin firmly.

"This ......" Zhao Yu didn't expect that even a gentle little girl would be so stubborn on weekdays, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have prepared a car, and you can ask the two ladies to accompany you in the car, and you can also relieve the pain of bumps on the way!" At this time, Tan Fei said.

"Oh, you got the driver on the ship, too?" Zhao Hao asked with some surprise. Because he was in a hurry, he ordered the boats to carry the horses with him, so as not to delay the search for the horses when he arrived at the Dantu, but he did not ask him to prepare the chariot.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates thought that it was not good for the two ladies to show their heads outside, so they took it upon themselves to load the chariot on the ship, so that they could also follow the team and would not delay time." Tan Fei saluted again.

"Well, that's good!" Zhao Yu nodded approvingly. The head of the guard recommended by Ni Liang is still good, he is calm, has vision, and considers the problem thoroughly, but it is more and more in line with his appetite.

When he got off the boat, Zhao Yu saw that it was not a carriage, but four, two of which were his cars and two were used as baggage trucks. Although several cars were built according to the style of the chariot, Zhou Yi still made some improvements to his own car. In addition to the protection of the force, the interior decoration is also painstaking, not only does not look luxurious, but makes people feel comfortable, it is simply a small hotel on wheels, can sit, can sleep, can be used as a place to travel, can also be used as a resting place, and modern RV has a fight.

Send Wang Yu to the car and let Li Sanniang take care of it in the car. Only then did Zhao Yu let go of his heart, took the reins and turned over on the horse. The war horses of the guard battalion are naturally the best horses in a hundred, and the black horses of one color echo their black uniforms. But in order to reduce the trouble, everyone from Zhao Yu and below changed into ordinary forbidden army uniforms, and what they carried with them was only a pannier, which contained sleeping bags and felt mats for camping and a change of clothes. In the saddle bag were dry rations and water bladders and spare ammunition, and in the side pockets were short-barreled cavalry muskets, and in front of the saddle hung a cavalry knife.

Zhao Hao gave an order, and the troops got on their horses, formed a four-way column, clamped the chariot in the middle, and galloped westward......