The battle of Taihu Lake lasted until the evening, and Dong Yicheng was also anxious to attack desperately, he knew that the little emperor who led the partial division was under the greatest pressure, and only himself could save him at the moment. And he also knows that everything he has been with His Majesty since he joined the Shuaifu Army, and his prosperity is also his glory, and his defeat is also his own decline. He died in battle, and his descendants could be glorious for several generations; The little emperor died in battle, and both the present and the future turned into smoke in a blink of an eye.

Dong Yicheng's department lost more than 30 warships, which seems to be not much, but this is also rare since the formation of the Qiongzhou naval army. He saw that the enemy's Cao army had been compressed to the south of the East Island in the south of Taihu Lake, and the end was the outlet of Taihu Lake leading to the Wujiang River, and the tide had begun to recede at this moment, and the enemy army might escape. Knowing that the time for the final decisive battle had come, he ordered the flagship Tarzan to attack the enemy formation.

At this time, Zhang Xuan's life was not easy, his Cao army had lost more than half, nearly 300 warships were destroyed by the Song army, and more than 500 ships were captured. At the moment, only the Changshu Qianhu Office of the Chinese Army and the Jiangyin Qianhu Office under the command of Zhu Qing were also frightened, he knew that the morale of the whole army was completely lost, and defeat was inevitable. Zhang Xuan looked at Zhu Qing, and the moment their eyes met, they both understood their respective thoughts - run!

However, it seemed that it was too late to run, the Song army had already rushed over by the low tide, and a huge ship in front of it rushed straight into the formation, and the mountain-like hull smashed the ships that could not evade in front of the formation, crushing the past, and hundreds of warships behind followed up, beating them with ballistas, splitting their formation in half. The enemy dragon boat detachment, which had been harassing from behind, launched another assault, followed the collision, and in order to dodge, their own warships rushed onto the shallows in evasion and ran aground on the edge of the lake.

This round of rapid offensive of the Song army made Zhang Xuan, who had retreated from Bensheng, have no intention of fighting again, but his handsome ship was entangled by several enemy warships, and he continued to bombard with artillery fire, and he did not have time to reach the mouth of the river, the mast of the ship broke, the handsome flag fell, and then the helm tower was destroyed. The handsome ship that lost control could only drift with the retreating tide, but fortunately, Zhu Qing arrived with several warships at this time, stopped the pursuing enemy ship, and led it to his seated ship.

Zhang Xuan looked forward, but saw that the retreating tide was wrapped in broken boats and broken boards, mixed with countless floating corpses, all of which poured into the estuary, the lake changed color, and the estuary was blocked. The warships behind him put them on their masts, hoisted their flags, and surrendered. Seeing that the general trend had gone and the road ahead was blocked, he gritted his teeth and commanded a boat to rush into a river and abandon the army......

Hubituo attacked the enemy who retreated into Goose Bay one after another, and took in three commanders and more than a dozen centurions, but they were still unable to break through the enemy's artillery blockade. As large warships equipped with trebuchets were constantly destroyed, the attack became more difficult, and the Batu boats, which were lucky enough to rush through the blockade line, boarded the ships to engage the enemy in close combat, but were often killed by the enemy's guns and knives before they could get on the ship, and the ships were blown up.

At dusk, the Longwan Naval Division had no ability to continue the attack, and reluctantly blocked the enemy in the bay, and then the two armies entered a confrontation and temporarily calmed down. But the Song army on the Western Front suddenly launched an attack and quickly routed the Cao army, which surprised Hubituo. He knew that if the Cao army was defeated and his right flank would lose cover, the enemy would definitely attack him.

Withdrawing to the north, the Song army in Goose Bay can intercept and intercept; To the south there is a bridge to block it, and the water there is shallow, and the boats of a hundred stones cannot pass, and now it is the time of low tide, and the shallows of the lake have been exposed, and there is no hope of retreating south; The only way to access is the waterway between the two, and now that the Cao army has been defeated, this access road has been controlled by the Song army on the western front, which is equivalent to being blocked in the narrow water area northwest of Taihu Lake. Hubituo suddenly found himself in a desperate situation, and he knew that with his current strength, he would not be able to break through to the north, nor would he be able to break through the main force of the enemy's naval army on the western front.

Seeing this, Hubituo's face was gloomy, and the three-way army came violently, but now the most powerful Cao army was defeated first, and the Zhending army, which could fight well, was trapped on the island at the moment, and there was nowhere to do it. Now they are concentrating on the battle to open the passage from the island to the shore of the lake, and the two bridges that are less than a foot wide are not only their way to survive, but also the place of death.

Hubituo saw it well, Zhang Xingzu, who had long felt the crisis, had already begun to fight for himself when the two sides were in a naval battle. But he didn't expect that the Song army suddenly seized the ferry, blocked the north of the bridge, and the troops could not be deployed at all on the narrow bridge, and the other party was guarding the bridge, and a wave of people rushed up and were killed by the Song army's muskets before they could fight, and they were happy to give them a cannon, and they couldn't break through for a long time, and the bridge was full of dead and wounded soldiers, and the blood stained the lake red, rippling with pink waves.

At the moment of life and death, wolves and sheep can be in the same room, and at this moment, under the crisis of the annihilation of the whole army, Hubituo and Zhang Xingzu have to sit together, although they are a little embarrassed, they can't take care of much. In the current situation, both of them understand that it is impossible to retreat with their whole body, and only a strong man can find a glimmer of life by breaking his wrist.

After some arguments and discussions, the two decided to block the enemy army by the navy, and then the Zhending army carried the navy warships to land on the beach, establish a foothold to cover the navy army ashore and retreat to Wu County, and return to Pingjiang to defend it. This idea is obviously a loss for the Longwan naval army, they not only have to abandon all the warships, but also take on the task of seizing the beachhead, but Hubituo understands that only in this way can they escape with their lives. As for the reason for the defeat, Zhang Xingzu thought about it for him, and it was precisely because of the greed for life and fear of death that the Cao army took the lead in escaping, which led to the defeat of this battle......

After dark, the enemy suddenly launched a landing battle, they were completely desperate to play, the ships carrying the infantry were only in danger of running aground, forced to grab the beach, rushed to the shore, and the two sides directly faced each other to start a close combat. The 1st Marine Brigade's defensive line constructed of small boats was instantly overwhelmed, and after losing more positions, they had to retreat while fighting and reorganize the defensive line. After the enemy captured the bridgehead, the Zhending army, which was trapped on the island, immediately crossed the bridge to increase troops ashore and expand the landing ground.

Zhao Yu did not expect that the two of them were so determined to escape, and hurriedly ordered the warship to set sail to intercept the enemy landing fleet and prevent it from going ashore. However, the enemy ships blocking the mouth of the bay did not retreat, and he did not dare to rashly launch rockets to the shore to reinforce them, so as not to be injured by mistake, so he could only defeat the enemy army in front of him first. When Dong Yicheng found out, he also sent warships to reinforce him, but the enemy set fire to the warships gathered on the waterway to block their passage. He could only order the warships at the mouth of the river to move towards the East Island, fire cannons on the island, and block the Zhending army that boarded the ship and crossed the bridge.

After a chaotic battle, Zhao Hao could only shake his head and smile bitterly, but he didn't expect that the final battle with a handle would be like this, and the enemy Dragon Bay naval army abandoned all the remnants of the warship and the Zhending army to flee ashore. Zheng Yi was also very angry, he led the army to chase and kill thirty miles, the enemy did not dare to enter Wu County, robbed some merchant ships at the ferry, and about 3,000 remnants of the army entered the canal and fled in the direction of Wuxi.

The next day, Zhao Yu ordered all armies to reorganize their ships, clean up the battlefield, and check the results of the battle. In today's battle, the Song army annihilated nearly 20,000 enemies, including more than 8,000 captures, more than 600 warships, and countless armor weapons; The Song army suffered thousands of casualties and lost nearly 100 ships, which is said to be a great victory, but the loss of the first fleet is quite large, but it is also worth it, after this battle, the enemy army of 40,000 households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces was basically annihilated, and the fly in the ointment was to run three enemy leaders.

Zhao Yu originally wanted to lead the army to continue north to seize Wuhu and control Taiping Mansion after this battle, but Dong Yicheng's army now also needs to rest and replenish ammunition, so he can only temporarily press this thought. He decided to let them and the 1st Marine Brigade temporarily stay in Pingjiang to rest and replenish, which is also a choke point and a place of great wealth, which can choke the canal. The First Fleet, on the other hand, could go north to control the mouth of the Yangtze River and south to control the mouth of the Qiantang River.

As for where he went, Zhao Hao hadn't thought about it yet, in short, he didn't want to return to the court. But just as he was pondering, Ni Liang led the army to greet him, and it turned out that after Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie left, they ordered Huaiyong's army to garrison the prefectures and counties of Shaoxing Prefecture, and dispatched the escort army and the fifth division to attack Fuyang, Deqing, Huzhou, Xiuzhou, Chongde, Haiyan and other counties around Hangzhou, isolate Hangzhou, and form a situation of encirclement.

At this time, Lu Xiufu also learned that after the little emperor inspected Zhao Mengjin's army, he decided on a plan to capture Jiankang, so he personally led the escort army and Dong Yicheng's troops to Taihu Lake to annihilate the enemy's Zhending army, Longwan Naval Division and Cao's army belonging to Wanhu Prefecture to transport grain by seaway. Frightened, he hurriedly ordered Ni Liang to capture Huzhou and go to Taihu Lake to escort him back, but when he arrived, the battle was over, so he 'hijacked' the holy car and returned south.

Zhao Yu knew that Lu Xiufu was worried about his own safety; The other concerns political implications. When the emperor personally led the troops to recover the old capital, after all, unlike others, this was not only conducive to improving morale and expanding the influence of the dynasty, and the Yuan court always claimed that the Great Song Dynasty had fallen to the country, the emperor was captured, and the king of Wei was dead. After ten years so far, and the spread of news is blocked, coupled with the blockade of such news by the Yuan court, many people no longer know that there is a Song Dynasty. Showing his own underneath can show that the Great Song Dynasty Zhengshuo still exists, and now he is starting to fight and counterattack to restore the country.

After a little consideration, although Zhao Yu was reluctant, he still agreed, after all, he was the emperor, not an ordinary person who could act arbitrarily. But he still insisted on waiting for a day, and then he would do it after getting news from Zhao Mengjin. Yesterday, after Zhao Mengjin and Liu Zhu led the army to break through Jiangyin, the water and land armies went up the river along the river, and before they arrived at Dantu, Runzhou officials sent people to ask for surrender, and it is estimated that they will be able to reach Jiankang City the day after tomorrow.

Zhao Yu didn't say this, because Huzhou has been recovered, he took a boat out of Taihu Lake, and drove directly to Hangzhou along the East Tiaojiang River to the south, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie went ten miles forward to meet and stationed in Qiantang County. At this time, the city of Hangzhou has gathered about 50,000 people with the protection army and five divisions, known as 100,000 troops to surround Hangzhou, first salute and then send troops into the city to surrender, once the talk collapses and begin to attack the city.

Zhao Yu knows that war is not child's play, and Hangzhou must be taken as a reason, and this will also become a turning point for his hard work for many years. However, as a symbol of the Yuan Dynasty's conquest of the Song Dynasty, he estimated that this battle was inevitable, so he must be prepared for the battle, so he convened his ministers to discuss how to attack the city, survey the terrain, and draw detailed maps. Trying to find someone who knows the situation in the city to understand the situation in the city, he quickly enters the role, researching and confirming the information gathered by various parties, which also gives him a better understanding of this familiar and unfamiliar city.

In modern Hangzhou, everyone knows the famous scenic spots such as West Lake, Lingyin Temple, Yue Fei's Tomb and Leifeng Pagoda, but no one will mention that this was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, as early as after Qin unified the six countries, a county was set up at the foot of Lingyin Mountain, called Qiantang, which belonged to Huiji County, and at that time, the modern urban area of Hangzhou was still a river beach infested with the river tide, and the West Lake had not yet been formed.

Han Cheng Qin system, Hangzhou is still called Qian Tang. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the farmland and water conservancy here began to take shape, and a sea pond was built from Baobao Mountain to Wansongling, which cut off part of the water surface from the sea and became an inner lake. During the period of the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the West Lake has been formed, and it is known as "Mingsheng Lake" and "Jinniu Lake". In 589 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui abolished the money and Tang Dynasty to place Hangzhou, and Hangzhou has been a place name since then. After that, Yang Su built the city of Hangzhou, and the city wall is bordered by the Yanqiao River in the east, the West Lake in the west, the Phoenix Mountain in the south, and the Qiantang Gate in the north.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Hangzhou became the capital of Wu Yueguo. The Qian clan of Wuyue Wang had expanded the city of Hangzhou twice, doubling the size of the urban area of Hangzhou. Until the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou, the capital was renamed Lin'an, becoming the political, economic and cultural center of the country and the largest state in the country. At that time, Hangzhou had thirteen dry city gates and five water city gates.

The city walls of the Southern Song Dynasty are also divided into inner and outer cities. The inner city is the imperial city where the emperor lives, because of the limited national strength in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the imperial city can only be built frugally, and the Phoenix Mountain is the commanding height of Hangzhou, which is convenient to control the whole city, and the scenery is beautiful. Therefore, Zhao Gou chose the ruins of the palace of the king of Wuyue to build the imperial city. Shaoxing was built into an imperial city in 28 years, surrounded by nine miles. Because it is located in the hilly area of Phoenix Mountain, where the terrain is undulating, all kinds of buildings in the Forbidden City are built according to the terrain, and the layout appears to be staggered and flexible.

The outer city of the Southern Song Dynasty was the city wall of the capital Lin'an, and the Zhao and Song dynasties expanded the eastern city wall to the east due to the doubling of the population of the capital and the increase in land demand. The city wall of Hangzhou was built at the beginning, with a total of 13 dry city gates and 5 water city gates. The east city tower of the dry city gate has the door, the tide gate, the security gate, the new door, the Chongxin gate, the Dongqing gate, and the Genshan gate; The city tower on the south side has the Jiahui Gate; The city tower on the north side has Yuhang Gate. There are Qianhu Gate, Qingbo Gate, Fengyu Gate, Qiantang Gate in the west, in addition, there are five water gates, which are Baoan, Nanshui, Beishui, Tianzong, Yuhang. The construction of the water gate is not only for the needs of customs defense, but also for the needs of domestic water, water conservancy irrigation and boat transportation in the city, and the river is crossed out of the city through the water gate......