() Liu Chunhe actually learned the news of the Han army's large-scale attack, and wanted to take advantage of the ship to take refuge in Kaifeng City.

However, the world was unpredictable, Liu Chunhe had just walked halfway to the road, and was intercepted on the sea by the sailors of the Qiang Han Dynasty.

Liu Chunhe's capture was just a homeopathy for beating rabbits. According to the rules of the Qiang Han Dynasty's sailors, the ships and ships encountered along the way, no matter which country they belonged to, were temporarily detained. After the war is over, it will be gradually released according to the situation.

Li Zhongyi arranged for Gao Qiang, with a hundred guards, to take Zhou Jiamin to Zhang Qianji Silk Village outside the east gate of Runzhou, which actually shows that he has been paying attention to Zhou Jiamin's whereabouts for a long time.

There is no way, after a dignified Xiao Zhou, she is Li Zhongyi's former wife, how can he not attach great importance to it?

Gao Qiang picked up a hundred guards, and after leaving the ship and landing on the shore, Li Zhongyi still held on to the railing and looked into the distance.

Han Xianglan understood in her heart that the man was worried about whether Zhou Jiamin would be able to pick it up safely. If it is something else, Han Xianglan can also make fun or make a mess, and try her best to relieve the man's worries and boredom.

However, because it involved Zhou Jiamin's affairs, Han Xianglan didn't even dare to say half a word of nonsense, so as not to provoke her own body.

I don't know how long it took, Han Xianglan, who was lowering her head, suddenly heard Li Zhongyi's voice.

"What do you think?"

Han Xianglan hurriedly raised her head, squatted down and saluted, and replied with all her brains: "Your Majesty, the concubines are pondering, Gao Qiang has always been cautious and effective in handling affairs, so as not to make mistakes." ”

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile slightly, there are flowers to explain, it is really a great joy in life.

Han Xianglan's shrewdness, Li Zhongyi has long known it. It's just that Han Xianglan has repeatedly made amazing words, but they all fit Li Zhongyi's thoughts, which is extremely rare.

On this expedition from the sea, Li Zhongyi's main purpose was to first break Wu Yue and then destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty.

As long as Wu Yue is broken, the eastern gateway of the Southern Tang Dynasty must be wide open, and the Li family army from the sea can choose the attack location as they like, without worrying about being intercepted by the Southern Tang army.

According to the available intelligence, Wu Yue's Qian family escaped the appearance of misers, and not only did they not want to forge ahead, but repeatedly increased and strengthened the city defenses of Xifu (Hangzhou) in order to resist the attacks of the Great Zhou and the Qiang Han Dynasty.

Previously, when Chai Rong led the army to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, because the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not border Wu Yue, although the Southern Tang Dynasty lost the territory of the 14 states of Jianghuai, Wu Yue was unharmed.

This time, Li Jiajun's plan was to take advantage of Wu Yue's surprise to wipe it out in one fell swoop, so as to open the door for the westward advance into the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Yang Lie led an army of 100,000 and set up an offensive position along the Yangtze River, which was enough to attract Lin Renzhao's attention, which provided Li Zhongyi with good enough and many convenient conditions for attacking from the sea.

As far as the current military strength of the Southern Tang Dynasty is concerned, there is no one else except Lin Renzhao who is truly handsome.

Since it was already late autumn, the northeast wind from Siberia was blowing on the sea, and the whole fleet followed the wind and marched all the way south. The speed of the fleet is also amazingly fast, reaching a high speed of more than 300 miles a day, and within a few days it can reach Hangzhou Bay, the estuary of Wu Yueguo.

To put it bluntly, the land area of Wu Yue is only half of Zhejiang and half of Fujian.

However, due to the unusually fertile land, the rice production of Wu Yue has far exceeded the level of self-sufficiency.

However, due to the political alliance agreement between Wu Yue and the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yue's rice would rather rot in the warehouse than be exported to the previous Great Zhou Dynasty and the current Qiang Han Dynasty.

Who said the ancients were stupid?

The ancestors and middle masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty knew that using the economic offensive of restricting grain exports to weaken the military offensive strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty was really quite the essence of obtaining political and military benefits through economic sanctions.

Li Zhongyi wants to take Wu Yue first this time, and then attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, the purpose is also very clear, to eat the family wealth that Wu Yue has accumulated for decades and eat it in his mouth.

Objectively speaking, to strengthen oneself is to weaken the enemy!

In terms of economic aspects, there is still a long way to go between the fertile land that has been developed by Wuyue and the Southern Tang Dynasty and the real Suhu Lake or Jinghu Lake.

The Jinghu area was not officially developed until the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was praised as the master of Jinghu Lake in the period of Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

At this time, the Jinghu area was still a wild land, and the indigenous people still lived a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming.

The fleet of the army marched southward, thanks to the blessing of God, the sea was calm, and there was no bad scene of monstrous waves.

Today's lord of Wu Yue is surnamed Qian Minghong, he is the ninth son of Qian Yuan of Wu Yue Shizong, the original position of the lord of Wu Yue country, and he has no relationship with half a dime, but the world is really unpredictable.

After Qian Yuan died of illness, he was succeeded as king by his sixth son Qian Hongzuo, who was Wu Yue Chengzong. It's a pity that Qian Hongzuo is a short-lived ghost and died just after he turned twenty.

The lord who succeeded Qian Hongzuo was Qian Yuan's seventh son, Qian, who was the Zhongxun king of Wu Yue.

On December 30 of the twelfth year of Tianfu of the Later Han Dynasty (947) (February 12, 948 in the solar calendar), Hu Jinsi, the commander of the internal government, took advantage of the opportunity of Qian to convene a night banquet to launch a coup d'état, put Qian under house arrest, and set up Qian in Nandi.

The territory of Wu Yue is actually not large, only one army and thirteen states. One of the armies, the birthplace of Qian, was promoted to the Yijin Army.

However, although the territory of Wu Yueguo is not large, due to the fertility of the land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the population is quite large. Among them, there are about 550,000 households and more than 110,000 military personnel.

On the whole, Li Zhongyi's total strength in this attack on Wu Yue was only more than 80,000 people, which was indeed a quarter less than that of Wu Yueguo.

According to the information sent by Zuo Ziguang and Li Yanqing, although Wu Yueguo had a large number of troops, Hangzhou was only garrisoned by 50,000 people, and most of the rest of the troops were scattered on the territory of the thirteen states.

According to the battle plan drawn up by the General Staff Department, the key to this campaign was the sudden capture of Hangzhou, that is, the capital of Wu Yueguo, "Xifu".

As long as the 50,000 people of the main force of Wu Yueguo's forbidden army are wiped out in the city of Hangzhou, the resistance of the entire Wu Yue Kingdom will immediately collapse.

In history, Qian had more than 100,000 soldiers, but he surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty without a fight, and Li Zhongyi naturally couldn't forget it.

Li Zhongyi has reason to believe that as long as he takes Hangzhou with lightning speed and controls the money, the entire Wu Yue Kingdom will lose the willpower to resist desperately.

At this moment, Hangzhou, the western capital, was immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Halloween Festival, and the people of Wu Yue Kingdom did not realize that the crusading army of the Qiang Han Dynasty was not far away.

According to the practice of Wu Yueguo, during the birthday of the lord of the country, the whole country rests for ten days. Whether it is a dignitary or an ordinary person, everyone shares the celebration brought by the lord of the country.

During his reign, the taxes of the imperial court were much lower than those of the Great Zhou and the Qiang Han Dynasty, which belonged to a typical area where the country was poor and the people were rich.

However, there must be disadvantages in everything, and Qian inherited his father's and ancestors' philosophy of governing the country in a corner of peace and not wanting to forge ahead, resulting in him sitting on hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but he has never done anything.

Objectively speaking, Qian is not a lustful and money-hungry countryman. In the more than ten years since he has been in charge of the country, the concubines in the palace have not exceeded five together.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty!

It is precisely because Wu Yueguo has a large granary that Suhu is familiar with the world, and he does not cultivate military equipment all year round, so Li Zhongyi set the first battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty as Wu Yueguo.

The relationship between countries has always been in line with the law of the jungle, that is, a strong country must be hegemonic, and a weak country must be bullied, and there has never been an exception since ancient times!

Of course, in view of Qian's good reputation, Li Zhongyi not only had no intention of humiliating him, but would also canonize him with an extremely loud title after winning the Baoyue Kingdom, so that the Qian clan could live a happy life without worrying about food and clothing.

After waking up in the morning, Qian's left eyelid kept jumping, and he vaguely felt that something was out of control.

However, Qian thought about it and never thought clearly, where did the crisis come from?

Seeing that Qian had been a little absent-minded, Empress Liu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why do you think deeply? ”

Qian sighed and said, "My eyelids keep jumping, I'm afraid something bad will happen." ”

Empress Liu smiled slightly and said, "Could it be that the Southern Tang Dynasty wants to attack our country?" "She's actually joking.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is still quite difficult for the Southern Tang Dynasty to protect itself, let alone raise troops to attack Wu Yueguo?

Unexpectedly, Liu's words reminded Qian instead, his eyes widened, and he said in a deep voice: "Could it be that Li Wuyi is here?" ”

The Liu family immediately showed fear on his face, and the strong man is now on the prestige of Li Wuyi, who doesn't know, who doesn't know?

Not to mention anything else, just because Li Wuji relied on the strength of Da Zhou, he easily snatched food from the tiger's mouth and regained the sixteen states of Yanyun, which was enough to make people sleep!

"If Li Wuji wants to attack our country, he can only come from the sea except to cross the river to the south and invade the south. Not good...... Come...... Quickly go to the beach to investigate......" Qian suddenly woke up, if Li Zhongyi wanted to make a move on Wu Yueguo, the probability of him attacking from the sea was obviously much higher than the possibility of crossing the river and attacking.

After all, on land, Wu Yue did not border the Qiang Han Dynasty. Li Zhongyi crossed the river to invade the south, and there were soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty in front, and Qian could soon learn the news and be prepared.

"Your Majesty, Li Wuyi won't cross the Tang Kingdom and attack our country directly, right?" After all, Queen Liu is a woman, and she doesn't understand the principle of using soldiers at all.

Qian sighed for a while, shook his head and said, "Li Wuji has an extremely large number of sailors and horses, if I were him, I would definitely attack from the sea." ”

"Where...... So what to do? Queen Liu was flustered for a while, and blurted out asking for money.

"There are more than 60,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and they are still ready for a battle. The top priority at the moment is to send people to ask for help from Tang as soon as possible. Qian immediately thought of Nantang, who had cold lips and teeth.