To the southwest of the Jingkou battlefield, more than 600 miles away, the army of the southern capital has just arrived in Anhuikou.

Although the army was still six hundred miles away, it would not take too long to break through this line of defense and go down the river for hundreds of miles. The defense line occupied by the Zhou army mainly has a number of strongholds: the Anhui mouth in the north of the river, that is, the mouth of the Anhui River, there are water and land strongholds operated by the Zhou army; Chizhou in the south of the Yangtze River has a city and a water village occupied by the Zhou army. Once you have crossed this section, you can travel all the way, first breaking through the quarrying pontoon bridge of the Zhou Kingdom, and then threatening the belly and back of its sailors.

The reinforcements of the south ** are claimed to be 150,000, and they set off from Hukou (Poyang Lake), and the momentum is very huge. The capital of the Southern Tang Kingdom was in the northeast corner of the territory, and a large amount of land in the west and south was far away from the capital; Nandu (Nanchang) is a very important national defense center, where heavy troops are hoarded; Now this force is one of the core forces of the Southern Tang Kingdom.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the flags of swords and guns such as forests are erected in the wind and snow, and the chariots and horses are like dragons, soldiers and horses are innumerable on several parallel avenues, and the chariots and horses are Xiao Xiao, and several long dragons with black pressure are crawling along the river, and there is no end to sight. On the river, thousands of boats are like the black tide swept by a flood.

…… In a spacious cabin, a middle-aged civil servant was sitting in front of the desk. He is Chen Qiao, the assistant governor of the Southern Tang Guoguang Political Academy, with upright facial features, a beard with a flowing chin trimmed, he is a good-looking man, and his movements of reaching out and holding his beard are very elegant.

Chen Qiao stroked his beard, raised his head and sighed "sigh", the sorrow in his eyebrows lingered. In front of it is a carved window propped up from below, and outside the carved window, the turbulent water surface is undulating, and white snowflakes have disappeared on the water. "Boom, boom, ......boom" The sound of water waves was heard continuously, mixed with the sound of the oars rubbing against the wood.

He lowered his head and continued to look at the letter he was holding. Shaking his head and sighing as he watched.

A letter written to him by a friend of Jiang Ningcheng, informing him of some recent events. In particular, the monarch concealed the assassination plan of the minister, and in the name of peace, he planted assassins in the courtesans and assassinated the big tent of the Zhou army!

Chen Qiao was speechless. Although the way of this world depends on force, morality is also very important. This kind of behavior, not only will the world deviate from morality, but even Chen Qiao is very confused: the old man is desperately defending the country, if he is not righteous, then what is it for; Just to get promoted and make a fortune, and keep your own glory and wealth?

And that Liu Cheng, why do you still use him to hold such an important military power? The matter of Huangfu Jixun is not enough to teach a lesson!

This battle is not only about the strength of the generals, but also about the wisdom of internal scheming.

The carved window of the hole was opened, and the cold and wet wind poured in, blowing the paper on the table and blowing on Chen Qiao's face. He shivered, and felt as if the fire in his heart was gradually cooling in the cold wind.

At this moment, a man in a cloth robe and combed his hair in a bun walked out of the open cabin door and said in a deep voice: "My lord, the enemy has been found ahead!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Qiao hurriedly accepted the letter, got up and walked out.

On the deck, Chen Qiao glanced at a field of reeds in the distance. turned his head again and saw Zhu Lingyun standing behind the railing above, covering his forehead with one hand, and looking intently into the distance.

So Chen Qiao also climbed up the stairs and stood beside Zhu Lingyun. Zhu Lingyun looked at it attentively, and he didn't care about Chen Qiao at all.

Chen Qiao didn't care about such subsections, and stood on a high place and looked ahead. The ships were tall, but they weren't in the forefront, and when you looked in the direction, there was a large area of their own warships in front of them.

Farther away, the first thing I saw was a large piece of land in the middle of the river, which was a piece of Jiangxinzhou. The north side of Jiangxinzhou is the Jiajiang River (a waterway separated by the Yangtze River), and there is an estuary on the north bank of the Jiajiang River, which is the estuary of the Anhui River confluence, so this place is called "Anhui Mouth".

The area at the mouth of Anhui is full of reeds...... In the depths of the large reeds, many things like wooden poles stood. As if it were a mast?

What Zhu Lingyun and his generals are paying attention to are those "masts". After a long time, Zhu Lingyun retracted his gaze, turned his head to look at Chen Qiao, and didn't say much; This martial artist didn't look at Chen Qiao too much...... Of course, Chen Qiao can't get used to this guy, but this guy was in the position of the envoy of Zhennan Jiedu before, and the back stage is also very deep, and it is more troublesome to seize his military power for a while, and it involves too much; In order to take care of the overall situation, Chen Qiao had no intention of arguing with him.

"There's a mast over there, and the Zhou people set up an ambush in the reeds?" Zhu Lingyun was timid.

Chen Qiao said: "There are not many sailors of the Zhou army on the river, and now they are attacking Jingkou, where are the sailors who can fight?" There is no waterway between Anhuikou and the hinterland of the Central Plains, and there will be no elite naval army, at most a group of rabble who have temporarily gathered, and they have only made a few broken boats. In my opinion, those masts are simply suspicious soldiers, scaring us and delaying the eastward advance. ”

Even the martial artists did not refute his remarks, and everyone felt that it was quite reasonable.

But Chen Qiao immediately said again: "If General Zhu is afraid, why don't you send someone to take a look now?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the warriors immediately showed contemptuous ridicule. One of them blurted out: "Wankou is the stronghold of the Zhou people, and there are people all around it, how can you send people over temporarily?" Chen Gong said it lightly. ”

Chen Qiao said in his heart, the army is in your hands, why did you go earlier?

He is still a very open-minded person, and he was not moved by a mockery...... He is self-aware, he was originally a civilian official, and he has never had military experience, and it is normal to not understand the specific rules of these marches and wars, and there is nothing to be ashamed of.

A person next to him spoke: "The water in Anhui is full of reeds, and it is not easy to see the situation clearly." Let's not take the Jiajiang River in the north, how about walking from the waterway in the south? ”

Zhu Lingyun sneered: "In case there is really a large number of ambushes in Anhuikou, let's leave it and drive directly to Chizhou, don't we leave the back to others to fight?" ”

He paced up and down the railing for a long time, and he couldn't see anything in this way. Chen Qiao only saw a patch of reeds and a faintly exposed mast in the reeds, so he couldn't see the flowers at all.

"Drove the ship to the front and ordered the fleet in front to be tighter. I'll take a closer look. Zhu Lingyun ordered.

Chen Qiao didn't say much, he came to supervise the war, but the military general Zhu Lingyun had the final say in the battle, and he didn't want to interfere too much. So the ship picked up speed, passed the ship in front of it, and moved forward. Sailing speed, Chen Qiao stood upstairs and had a feeling of riding the wind and waves, the snow was not falling much, the wind direction was northeast, and the robes on his body were tightly attached to his body.

A group of ships gradually entered the Jiajiang River. Although the Yangtze River is wide, this place is separated by Jiangxinzhou, and the river surface is gradually narrowing.

After a long time, I approached the mouth of Anhui, and I could see that the wooden pole in the reeds was moving slowly, and it really looked like a mast. Chen Qiao also wondered, the Zhou army ambushed a large number of ships on the Anhui River?

At this moment, I suddenly saw large sails rising towards the mast, usually the sails were taller than the hull, and for a moment it was as if countless large ships had suddenly risen from under the water.

Seeing this, Zhu Lingyun's face changed, and he blurted out: "Sure enough, there are ambushes!" ”

Chen Qiao had never fought, but he was a little calmer and reminded: "General Zhu, don't worry, even if there is an ambush, it will be coming at us head-on." General Zhu has 1,000 warships and more than 100,000 troops in his hands, what is there to fear? ”

Zhu Lingyun calmed down a little after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "Beat the drum and prepare for war!" ”

The drums of "Knock ......" were loud in all directions, and many of the crossbowmen here climbed upstairs and lined up beside the generals. Zhu Lingyun ordered again: "Our ship, turn around and go back." ”

Chen Qiao frowned, he didn't intend to interfere in military affairs, but he always felt that something was wrong, so he couldn't help it, and said: "The biggest handsome flag is on this ship, if the general turns around and runs, it will cause turmoil in the hearts of the troops ahead!" Since you find the enemy and are about to run, you shouldn't come here......"

"Lao Tzu has his own measure!" Zhu Lingyun was furious, "You are a civilian official, can you shut up on the battlefield?!" I'm commanding the armies now, and I'm listening to a flock of crows, croaks, croaks, croaks, you can, you come! ”

Chen Qiao's face turned blue and white for a while when he heard this, and even the emperor would not talk to him like this in the court, and he almost didn't spit out a mouthful of blood. Seeing a sail ahead, he gritted his teeth to hold back the seizure.

On this ship, there is a very high flagpole, on which the square Chinese flag is hung, and there are several flags fluttering in the wind on both sides. The hull of the ship has slowly turned around and gradually crossed the river. There was also chaos on their own warships near and far, and many people could be seen running.

At that moment, the reeds toppled over, and the two huge sails in front of them gradually floated out of them. Soon the "real bodies" of the two ships finally appeared in sight.

Suddenly, Chen Qiao's eyes widened!

It wasn't a boat, it was a shoddy raft at best, with sails hanging from the back. I'm afraid that there is really no decent big war ship built here in Anhui, although this raft is simple, it is large enough...... Chen Qiao visually measured that it was at least dozens of zhang wide and dozens of zhang long!

In a big city like Jiangning City, the tall city walls are only two or three zhang high. And those two rafts were at least ten times as long as the city walls! The huge volume suddenly emerged from the reeds, making it seem as if an ancient monster had emerged from under the water.

There was no one on the raft, maybe there was someone behind the sails. The entire raft was filled with reeds, thatch, and firewood, and it looked as if two hills were moving.

It must not be easy for the people of Zhou to gather and make so many burning materials, I am afraid that it has been premeditated for a long time. What do they want to do? At this time, the blind could see that they wanted to burn Nan** with fire...... After the Battle of Chibi on the Yangtze River, when there was a water battle, it was as if there was no other tactic if you didn't want to attack on fire.

But so many burnt materials are piled on it, it's really terrifying, the key is the northeast wind now, and Zhou Jun came over just to have a tailwind! The soldiers on the warship were stunned, and everyone's eyes were looking at the "monster" over there, and the color of horror overflowed on their faces.