Because the imperial army was all renovating ships in Yangzhou, and there was no combat capability for a while, the rebels of the dynasty crossed the river in the middle of the night to 'condole'!

At the beginning, it suffered a lot of losses, and the dynasty took advantage of the cover of night to send thirty or forty arsonist ships, which quickly rushed into the canal with the help of the southeast wind, and burned six or seven transport ships that had been transformed!

Tong Guan, who had eaten a trench and grew wise, immediately arranged the flamboyant artillery team on both sides of the canal, and the larger siege artillery was placed by the river. Han Shizhong deliberately put them into the canal, and then they were bombarded by a large number of artillery, and seventy or eighty boats were damaged!

Although these ships were small boats, they were enough for the rebels to feel distressed for a while. In the next three months, the two sides have won and lost.

Finally, in August, Tong Guan gathered fifty large ships equipped with nine-pound guns. The fleet launched a large-scale hot-weapon water battle with the dynasty's rebels on the Yangtze River!

The battle lasted from early morning to late afternoon, with injuries on both sides. The ships of the Tongguan army had artillery, but there were few of them. And the dynasty has more ships, although the combination of bed crossbow and bomb cannot give Tong Guan's warship a fatal blow, but it is superior to the huge number! More than 200 warships fired bed crossbows, and even the strongest ships were injured and sank!

Because of the ups and downs of the river and the shaking of the boats, the hit rate of both sides was not high. On the contrary, because of the increase in the range of firepower on both sides, there was no longer a gang jumping operation.

After the army returned to port, six of the fifty warships were lost, and the rest were basically wounded! Although the losses were not small, the results were very gratifying.

Because of the powerful performance of the artillery, if the hit warship is not damaged, it will soon sink due to flooding! Under such a powerful fire attack, at least 30 or more warships of the rebels will be sunk! And the injured are even more.

There will be no big war on either side for the foreseeable period of time in the future.

When you were fighting to the death on the front line, the court in Bianjing was also noisy. The reason is very simple, the envoy of the Jin State came to urge the Great Song Dynasty to fulfill the 'Sea Alliance' signed by the Song and Jin!

According to the agreement, the Jin State took the Dading Mansion in Liaozhongjing, and the Song Dynasty took the Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, Liao. Now Dajin has occupied Shangjing in Daliao, but the army of the Great Song Dynasty has not moved at all!

Such a result can make Ambassador Jin Guo angry enough, and he scolded Song Ting over and over again in the hall as a 'pig teammate'. Zhao Ji's face was ugly, and Cai Jing, Li Gang and others said that the Great Song Dynasty was unwilling to fulfill the covenant, but it was really because the army was dragged by the rebellion in the south and could not leave.

Although these are objective facts, Ambassador Jin Guo does not think so, he firmly believes that Song Ting is deliberately shirking. It's just a 'small rebellion', how can it be that hundreds of thousands of troops are mired in the quagmire!

The ministers in the hall were speechless when they were scolded, how can this be explained? Do you mean that the rebels are strong in combat, or is it the scum of their own army?

The final result was naturally unhappy, and the envoy of the Jin State deeply despised the Great Song monarch and left after brushing his sleeves. And Zhao Ji, who had an ugly face, also sent a fierce reprimand to Tong Guan, asking him to calm the war in the south as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, things did not develop according to his wishes, and the ship is still under repair, and it will take at least a month to launch the next offensive.

Pang Wanchun and the three protectors who had gone down the canal earlier gathered their troops in Yuezhou, and first concentrated their superior forces to defeat Qiu Rixin in one fell swoop. With the blessing of 'Divine Thunder', not only did he kill and wound more than half of his army, but he even captured Qiu Rixin in the later pursuit!

The army with the might of the great victory went south along the Qiantang River, the well-trained and well-fed rebel army attacked the city all the way, although Chen Shiv, Yu Dao'an, Huo Chengfu and other rebels resisted the army, but they were unwilling to go all out under mutual suspicion, and most of their troops were peasants who had just put down their hoes, and the number of people scared people, and it was okay to fight a tailwind battle, and in the face of the army equipped with 'Shenlei', it even collapsed directly after a round of bombing!

In just three months, the army, the dynasty, completed the unification of the Liangzhejiang Road and the Jiangnan East Road, and almost all the anointed land of the Great Song Dynasty was mastered by the dynasty!

Then, Zhang Yang and the dynasty acted in a few more big scenes! The two sides first fought several times in the Yangtze River, and each other won and lost. Then finally, in Zhao Ji's expectation, he captured Dantu County in Runzhou! The army finally had a bridgehead in Jiangnan.

It's October by this time! It took half a year, and countless money and grain were spent only to recover Yangzhou and Dantu. Zhao Ji, whose patience was almost exhausted, finally couldn't help but use his ultimate mystery - Zhao'an after hearing that the envoy of the Jin Kingdom would come to the Great Song Dynasty next month!

Although Cai Jing strongly objected, the huge financial burden and the double pressure of losing the tax-heavy land in Jiangnan still made most officials agree to the Zhao'an policy.

The general policy has been decided, but who to send to be in charge of recruiting security has become a difficult problem. The bigwigs are wise to protect themselves and are unwilling to take risks. And the grade that is willing to go is not enough, and it seems that the court does not pay enough attention to it.

Zhao Ji thought about it and decided to let Cai Jing's son Cai You take on the important task of being in charge of Zhao'an. Cai You has a deep personal relationship with Zhao Ji, and such an important task is entrusted to him, which shows Zhao Ji's trust in him.

Cai You set off slowly with the will of the imperial court, and the government's eight-hundred-mile expedited took the lead in spreading the news to Tong Guan on the front line.

Zhang Yang, who got the news, laughed at the sky, and at this time, he couldn't wait to kiss Zhao Ji's old face a few times, this is simply a divine assist! With the territory currently occupied by the dynasty, if he wants to recruit him, he must at least be a high-ranking envoy of the Liangzhejiang Road! And this is already a feudal official.

When he saw that the person in charge of recruiting was Cai You, his eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle. According to historical development, this cargo will become the deputy of Tong Guan's Northern Expedition!

This thing in history is a second ancestor, it's okay to engage in some conspiracy and political struggle, if you really want him to command the army to fight, I'm afraid it will only be the end of a thousand troops who are incompetent and exhausted!

The Northern Expedition is about his future, and Zhang Yang doesn't want such a bastard to command him. The little head started to move, and suddenly it was taken to heart, and the flamboyant smile in the big tent gradually became obscene...

Cai You, who had just arrived in Sizhou, felt a chill down his spine inexplicably, and couldn't help but shiver. Wrapped tightly in the luxurious fur clothes on his body, he muttered: "Why do you suddenly feel a malicious attack?" ”

Because the official family wanted to recruit the An Dynasty, the two sides of the Dantu turned from confrontation to confrontation. However, neither side relaxed their vigilance because of this, and quietly waited for the arrival of Ambassador Zhao'an.