Li Jingda, the king of Qi, marched quickly, Han Lingkun and he fought near Yangzhou, and there was a big battle, Han Lingkun couldn't resist Li Jingda, and was forced to retreat, and he lost Taizhou. Chai Rong was shocked and immediately sent Zhao Kuangyin to support Han Lingkun. Zhao Kuangyin is in a dilemma. Now that my father is seriously ill, and my father's illness is related to me, how can I walk away? At this time, Zhao Pu, who had been silent, stood up: "General, please hand over Lingzun to me, you can go with confidence." Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to follow Zhao Pu's advice, and he rushed to the front line with his troops.

Since then, Zhao Pu has really served Zhao Hongyin wholeheartedly, Zhao Pu serves the bait day and night, and Zhao Hongyin treats him with clan affection. Knowing that the battle situation had changed, Zhao Pu escorted Zhao Hongyin back to Kaifeng. It's a pity that Zhao Hongyin, who has been busy all his life, still failed to return to Kaifeng alive. died halfway, although Song Shizhong strongly praised Zhao Kuangyin for his loyalty and fierceness in battle. But Zhao Kuangyin almost watched his father leave him, which also became the biggest hidden pain in Zhao Kuangyin's heart. Zhao Hongyin is dead, and Zhao Kuangyin regards Zhao Pu as his own brother because of this, of course, these are all later words.

**Although it was not possible to relieve the siege of Shouzhou, it has been working hard to reinforce it. Li Jingda, the king of Qi, the son of the lord of Tang, gathered the main force of the forbidden army and prepared to recover Yangzhou. Han Lingkun, the Zhou general who had previously conquered and garrisoned Yangzhou, did not have many troops, so he asked to abandon Yangzhou. Zhou Shizong did not allow it, and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead 2,000 guards to supervise the battle. Zhao Kuangyin Pegasus rushed to Liuhe and ordered, "Yangzhou soldiers dare to have Liuhe, cut off their feet!" While Zhao Kuangyin intercepted the defeated soldiers, he also sent someone to tell Han Lingkun and said to Han Lingkun: "General Han, you must not retreat, if you retreat, even if I let you go, do you think Your Majesty will let you go?" I'm in Liuhe, and when necessary, I will join forces with you to resist Li Jingda together. Han Lingkun had no choice but to continue to hold on, and waited for an opportunity to go out of the city to join forces with Zhao Kuangyin. Originally, Zhao Kuangyin thought that he was Han Lingkun's strong backing, and at most he plundered Han Lingkun's array, but as a result, Zhao Kuangyin bore the brunt of it and became the first shield in the Jiangbei region of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Let's talk about Li Jingda, Li Jingda is not simple, he is famous in the Southern **, often leads the title of marshal to go out to fight, and is the first military strongman in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but the specific ability remains to be verified. Li Jing sent Li Jingda, this is already Li Jing's last move to win in defeat, it turns out that this Li Jingda is by no means as weak as later generations say, after Li Jingda crossed the Yangtze River, he did not directly fight with Han Lingkun, but after capturing Taizhou, he sent a small number of troops to contain Han Lingkun, and he led the main force to bypass Han Lingkun and go straight to Shouzhou City. If Li Jingda can directly defeat Chai Rong, then Nantang will definitely have a chance to turn defeat into victory. However, Li Jingda made the second biggest mistake in his life (the first big mistake has not been made, we will talk about his first big mistake later), Li Jingda chose to bypass Han Lingkun in Liuhe, and Zhao Kuangyin also chose to complete the mission given to him by Chai Rong in Liuhe, at this moment, the fate of the two military strongmen was as if they were predestined.

In this way, Zhao Kuangyin, who was extremely lucky, arrived at Liuhe earlier than Li Jingda. But he immediately found that the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was like a dark cloud, just like Zhao Kuangyin rushed over, and Li Jingda actually brought an army of 20,000 people, and they were all elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty. What to do? He Zhao Kuangyin only has 2,000 soldiers in his hands, I believe that if Zhao Kuangyin chooses to retreat now, no one will blame him, even Chai Rong, because the contrast between men and horses is too great, and now it has reached ten to one. And Zhao Kuangyin didn't have the slightest preparation before this, he only came to supervise the battle on the battlefield, not to fight. For the sake of speed, there is no preparation. Out of the big blade, Zhao Kuangyin almost didn't bring anything, I just came to catch deserters, not to deal with the enemy, even the most basic arrows didn't bring it, this Zhao Kuangyin attacked when the situation was completely different. But if Zhao Kuangyin chooses to retreat, Li Jingda's sudden surprise army will completely change the situation in Jiangbei, you must know that except for him Zhao Kuangyin, no one in Hou Zhou knows that Li Jingda has led the army here, if this army is unexpectedly killed under Shouzhou City, if Chai Rong is defeated by him, then Hou Zhou will face a rout on the whole front. Faced with the test of life and death, Zhao Kuangyin issued a series of dazzling orders. Now immediately set up camp, stop Li Jingda, and then gather all the troops, erect the banner of my Zhao Kuangyin, let the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty know who is blocking them, and then Zhao Kuangyin went out of the battle, showed off his might in front of Li Jingda, and scolded Li Jingda, but, unlike the last time, Zhao Kuangyin did not take the initiative to attack. His idea is not to defeat Li Jingda, but how long can it be delayed, he has already sent messengers separately, one to Han Lingkun, asking him to do everything possible to get rid of the entanglement of the southern ** team and rush to the aid of Zhao Kuangyin. Another letter was sent to Chai Rong under the city of Shouzhou, asking him to send reinforcements as soon as possible. And the damn Li Jingda really fell for it.

As for why Li Jingda was so easily fooled, it was actually very simple, Li Jingda was not psychologically correct, he came to sneak attack. Now Li Jingda has gone around such a big circle, and suddenly found that there was a Hou Zhou army waiting in front of him, you can bear it. Then what made Li Jingda even more unexpected was that all the things that Zhao Kuangyin did made him unable to figure out the truth. How many people are there in this Zhao Kuangyin? Although Li Jingda couldn't figure out the truth and the truth, he knew what Zhao Kuangyin had done before, so it was not that Zhao Kuangyin had an ambush. So Li Jingda gave full play to the essence of his famous general, began to become cautious, kept thinking, and began to send scouts everywhere to investigate Zhao Kuangyin's reality and the movements of the Zhou army after four weeks, his patience was really impeccable, and he observed Zhao Kuangyin for four whole days.

Four days later, Li Jingda decided that he couldn't wait any longer, and Li Jingda reremembered his ultimate goal, which was to rescue Shouzhou and kill Chai Rong. Li Jingda launched an attack, but at this time, Li Jingda's staff collectively said: "No, general, don't be too reckless, if we light the enemy and attack the ambush, then Nantang will be in danger." So, Li Jingda gave up the attack and began to wait again. The next day, Li Jingda couldn't sit still again, he felt that he should test it first, so he gathered his most elite soldiers and launched an attack on Zhao Kuangyin.

Objectively speaking, Li Jingda really didn't make any mistakes, Li Jingda rode a horse and commanded the elites under his command to advance step by step towards the camp of the Hou Zhou people, but a scene that he never expected appeared. The Hou Zhou people suddenly rushed out of the camp and launched a fierce charge towards Li Jingda's army, Li Jingda was blinded all of a sudden, I just tried to find out, how could Zhao Kuangyin go crazy, how could there be no room for war at the beginning. In this way, it will be easy to collapse on the whole line, this is a taboo for soldiers, doesn't Zhao Kuangyin understand? What Li Jingda didn't expect even more happened, his most elite soldiers were beaten by the Hou Zhou people who were fewer in number and committed a taboo in the military. Of course he didn't know that this was the most fierce attack that Zhao Kuangyin had gambled on all his belongings, and if this battle was not won, Zhao Kuangyin would have to wait for death. Because of what, Zhao Kuangyin has no reinforcements and no rear team. There are only 2,000 people under Zhao Kuangyin's hands, and if he wins, he will win, and if he can't win, it will be over, and Zhao Kuangyin will definitely not have a second chance. In this battle, Zhao Kuangyin personally supervised the formation, as long as he took a step back, Zhao Kuangyin would personally pierce their backs with a sword, and would not kill them, but would use his sword to leave traces on their armor, and those with sword marks would not be spared afterwards.

Li Jingda was suddenly blinded by this blow, and he began to retreat, and at this time, Han Lingkun's army suddenly arrived and joined forces with Zhao Kuangyin. Li Jingda immediately knew that he might have been ambushed, so he could only retreat in a hurry in the midst of the chaos, and more than 10,000 of the 20,000 elite soldiers were beheaded.

Li Jingda, who fled for his life in a hurry, escaped to the river with his soldiers, but saw that his warships were all burned by the troops of the Later Zhou, and the few remaining warships were not enough for all his soldiers to cross the river. And his soldiers began to kill each other in a desperate manner, just to fight for the ship home. In the end, Li Jingda led the army to cross the Yangtze River, but only more than 3,000 people returned, and the rest were all killed.

The reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty were all defeated, and Shouzhou became an isolated city, but Liu Renzhan held on, and Chai Rong also came to the front line to command. When Liu Renzhan saw Chai Rong's umbrella cover, he picked up a strong bow and shot it, only a few steps in front of Chai Rong. Left and right hurriedly asked Chai Rong to retreat, but Chai Rong was not afraid, and actually moved to the middle of Liu Renzhan's shot just now and shouted: "General Liu, you didn't shoot just now, now I'll stand closer, please shoot again!" Liu Renzhan was not polite, and when he shot another arrow, he was only a few steps away! Zhou Shizong laughed and said, "General Liu, please keep shooting, and I will send you the arrows after shooting!" Liu Renzhan was shocked: "Could it be that he is really the true son of heaven?" It seems that this city will be destroyed, and I can only repay the country with death!" Say goodbye, throw your bow on the ground, look up to the sky and howl. Although Liu Renzhan had understood that the general trend of the world no longer belonged to the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was still loyal to his duties, and the Zhou army was never able to conquer Shouzhou.

It has been several months since the sudden attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and in general, the battle situation in the Later Zhou Dynasty is absolutely superior. However, summer was gradually coming, and the Southern Tang Dynasty had begun to organize new reinforcements, and the supplies were gradually not available. The army of the Later Zhou Dynasty began to plunder the people and supply them by themselves, and the southern ** people in various places began to organize their own righteous armies to fight Chai Rong's army everywhere. Chai Rong gradually felt powerless. Can Chai Rong win this battle? We'll talk about that next time.