"How's the battle going?" Yang Congyi asked unhurriedly.

"There were many enemy troops who landed on the shore, and they rushed to the camp when they came ashore, and some of them were prepared to prevent fire, and after the bow and crossbow were suppressed, they began to engage in short-handed combat. At night, the vision was not clear, and it was not known whether there were follow-up enemy ship reinforcements in the river. The guards replied.

"Continue to investigate, and report as soon as there is an update on the battle situation."

The guards were ordered to retreat and continue to collect information on the battle situation.

The camp tent of the Chinese army was not too far from the camp of the various armies, but there was no sound of swords and soldiers intersecting in the camp tent.

"Lord Yang, do you want to go out and have a look?" Zhao Wei silently picked up the volume of "The Art of War".

"It's useless to go out, the two armies are already fighting, and it's too dark for it to discern the enemy's situation, and blind command will only disrupt your own battlefield and will not help you win the battle. Your Highness and I are still waiting for the results in the camp! Yang Congyi smiled, and by the way, he gave the other party relief.

"It's fine." Zhao Wei said and opened the first part of "The Art of War" and looked at it seriously.

Yang Congyi also stopped talking, picked up another book of military "Three Strategies" casually, and read it carefully.

There was silence in the tent.

About a quarter of an hour later, the faint sound of swords and soldiers intersecting outside the camp.

With little rest, the guards came: "Report!" Seven or eight enemy ships landed at the ferry, and the soldiers of the Jingwu Army and the Yangwu Army were engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy army! ”

"Keep looking!"

Yang Congyi waved his hand, and the guards retreated.

"It doesn't matter, there are 3,000 elites at the ferry, and the enemy's seven or eight ships are only seven or eight hundred people at most, and they can't break through the defense line on the river bank." Yang Congyi smiled slightly and told Zhao Wei not to worry.

The two continued to read, and the faint sound of swords in their ears seemed to gradually weaken.

After a long time, the guards came again: "Report! The enemy troops who landed on the right flank have been stopped by the various divisions, and no one has broken through the garrisons of the various armies! ”

"Good!"

The guards retreated, Yang Congyi faced a smile, glanced at Zhao Wei, and then continued to read.

A moment later, another guard reported: "Report! The enemy forces on the left have been blocked in the established positions and are annihilating the enemy forces! ”

"Good! Go ahead! ”

Hearing that the two front armies on the left and right sides of the ferry were blocking the enemy troops crossing the river, Yang Congyi's hanging heart suddenly relaxed, and his mood relaxed a lot, and when he raised his eyes to look at Zhao Wei, he saw that the worry between his eyebrows had also faded a little.

"Report! The enemy forces that broke through the defense line of the river bank have all been driven back to the river bank and are being pursued and annihilated! ”

"Report! The remnants of the enemy on the right have fled back to the riverbank, and the various divisions are pursuing and clearing! ”

"Report! Most of the enemy forces on the left were annihilated, and some of the enemy troops fled back to the ships, and the various units were pursuing and destroying them! ”

The battle situation of the various departments was as expected, Yang Congyi made up his mind, put down the military book in his hand, and couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness, it seems that we are going to win this battle." ”

Zhao Wei's brows also relaxed: "Isn't this all expected by Lord Yang?" ”

"Although it was expected, it was possible that the vision was not clear at night, and there was still a possibility of accidents. However, now it seems that the execution of the orders by the various departments of the former army has not been discounted, and when this battle is over, it must be rewarded. Yang Congyi said with a smile.

"I'm a consolation envoy, I'll think about the reward!" Hearing that this battle was about to be won, Zhao Wei suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and his words were a little more energetic.

"Okay, then I will thank Your Highness on behalf of the former soldiers!" Yang Congyi raised his hand.

"Before, you said that if you win this battle, the enemy army will retreat north within three or five days, is there any basis?"

To be honest, Zhao Wei couldn't believe that the enemy army with four or five hundred thousand troops would retreat on his own, but now he saw with his own eyes that Yang Congyi did not leave the camp half a step, but the enemy army was defeated and retreated at night, and his confidence in him suddenly increased greatly, so he began to really consider retreating from the enemy.

"I can't say that I can rely on reliable evidence, but I guess based on three defeats of the enemy. Hezhou was defeated, and the enemy lost almost all of his ships and lost the ability to cross the river. The defeat of Guazhoudu destroyed their confidence in concentrating warships to besiege the Great Song warships and then crossing the river, and they did not dare to concentrate on crossing the river from then on. Today's defeat crushed the enemy's attempt to cross the river in a scattered manner. If we cannot cross the river from Guazhou, the river will be wider and the enemy will not be able to cross the river, not to mention that Taizhou and other Huaidong areas are still in our hands. If you can't cross the river, you will definitely not be willing, but the generals and soldiers he brought are not wood that can't think, crossing the river means death, so will they be willing to die in batches? After hearing that Yan Liang killed a lot of opposing generals and ministers in order to lead the army south, and also killed a large number of royal relatives, and made countless enemies, if the soldiers he brought were unwilling to cross the river to die, with his temperament, he would definitely kill, but even if he killed more people, the enemy army also knew that they could not successfully cross the river, so hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in order to save their lives, they would take extreme measures, and it was very likely to bomb the camp to coerce the owner to retreat. Therefore, the retreat of the enemy army is inevitable, and it does not really matter whether the time is three or five days. Yang Congyi explained carefully.

Zhao Wei listened to it in his ears, and couldn't help nodding lightly: "The reputation of the gold lord is really bad, moody and arrogant, with the reputation of indiscriminate killing, if the general does not obey his orders before the battle, it is indeed possible to be condemned or even executed." It seems that if the enemy does not dare to cross the river, the camp will quickly retreat. ”

Yang Congyi smiled silently, if no one intervened, Wan Yan Liang would be killed by the rebels in the near future, and then the enemy army would retreat after peace, but Wan Yan Liang's killing was not conducive to his recovery of Yanjing, and he had to find a way to save his life.

"Lord Yang, from the first time you led the troops to Guazhoudu, have you already thought of a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" Zhao Wei suddenly stared at Yang Congyi and asked.

Yang Congyi was slightly stunned, and hurriedly shook his head and said: "Your Highness looks down on me, I am a human, not a ghost." When I first came to Guazhoudu, I was only under the command of a guard army, with only 3,000 people in my hands, and when I left Guazhoudu to support Jiankang, I led less than 5,000 soldiers. There is no prestige in the army, and there is no prestige, how can you dare to retreat from the enemy with just a few thousand people? It's just that he was forced by the situation, and if he really had the ability to see through everything, why would he be occupied by the enemy army in the entire north of the river. ”

After a pause, he continued: "It is not entirely correct to say that I didn't have any ideas before, after the two water battles were won completely, and the enemy ships shrank in Guazhou and did not dare to enter the Yangtze River, then I knew that the enemy was afraid, and I vaguely had some thoughts of retreating from the enemy in my heart. After the enemy troops suddenly dispersed and crossed the river, I guessed that they were in a hurry, and I thought at that time that if we could destroy the enemy troops crossing the river again, the enemy army would definitely retreat. Therefore, after the king of the county asked me to command the 20,000 soldiers of the front army, he deployed overnight, not giving the enemy any chance to cross the river, and even wanted to let them land, and then annihilated them in one fell swoop, completely destroying the enemy's confidence in crossing the river. It's just that I didn't expect them to attack at night, which was a little unexpected, but the various units of the front army had been deployed in advance before the time, so I wasn't worried. ”

"I see." Zhao Wei seemed slightly disappointed.

"Report! The enemy forces on the left have been completely annihilated, and they are clearing the battlefield and checking the results! ”

"Report! All the enemy troops at the ferry were annihilated, and all the enemy ships were captured! ”

"Report! Most of the enemy troops on the right were annihilated, and a small number of enemy troops fled to the island at night, and it was difficult to pursue them with an unclear line of sight, and the garrisons around the island had strengthened their defense! ”

"Report! General Su and General Pan led the fleet back from the river, and the warship was not much damaged! ”

"General Xue sent someone to report that there is no movement of the enemy army in Guazhou for the time being, and no new ships are dispatched!"

When the good news came one after another, Yang Congyi and Zhao Wei couldn't hide their joy on their faces.

"The enemy's night attack is over, and our army has won the battle. Your Highness can rest in peace! Yang Congyi said with a smile.

"Okay, I've been tossing for half a night, and I'm really a little sleepy." Zhao Wei yawned.

"Someone! Take Lord Zhao to rest. ”

Yang Congyi gave an order, and the guards entered the tent and led Zhao Wei to the camp not far away.

After Zhao Wei and the guards outside the tent left, Yang Congyi immediately recruited the guards: "Go to the ferry quickly and give an order to Xue Wang, ordering him to send someone into Guazhoudu to investigate the enemy's situation, and if the enemy army has any abnormal movements, report it immediately!" ”

The guards took the order.

Soon after, the armies sent in a preliminary count of the results of the battle, in which 8,671 enemy troops were annihilated, 31 ships were destroyed, and 72 ships were captured.

While the Zhenjiang Front Army was cleaning up the battlefield and counting the results, Zhenjiang City was still in turmoil.

Fires broke out in all directions inside the city, and an enemy army drove straight through the east gate and rampage through the city, leaving no one to stop them.

The defenders deployed in advance by the marshal were simply vulnerable to the onslaught of the enemy cavalry, and the formation was completely scattered, and when the enemy crossed the defensive line, they could only follow behind the horse's hooves in the hoarse shouts of the generals.

But where are their two legs running fast with four legs?

After the enemy cavalry broke through the first line of defense, they rushed straight to the direction of the marshal's mansion in the north of the city.

"Great Marshal, the enemy army suddenly entered the city from the east gate, and it has broken through the three lines of defense and rushed straight to the Shuai's Mansion!" The colonel of the forbidden army hurried to report.

"Don't panic, place horse-resisting stakes in the street in front of the marshal's mansion, gather crossbowmen, and prepare to cover the enemy with bows and arrows!" Yang Cunzhong was not in a hurry, although the combat strength of the defenders in Zhenjiang City was not high, there was still no big problem in defending the city.

"The enemy army is unstoppable, breaking through the fourth line of defense, less than a hundred zhang away from the Shuaifu!"

"The enemy army has entered the street in front of the Shuaifu!"

"The enemy army scattered the horse stakes, according to the commander's mansion twenty zhang!"

"The archers fled, and the enemy army attacked the Shuai's Mansion!"

"The Forbidden Army of the Guards is attacking! Destroy the invading enemy! ”

Waiting for the enemy army to enter the Shuaifu, Yang Cunzhong gave an order, and the guards inside and outside the Shuaifu went out, and the enemy army who urged the horse to enter the mansion was difficult to move an inch, and had to turn over and dismount.

After about two quarters of an hour, the sound of the sword soldiers faded and the sound of killing disappeared.

"Marshal, the invading enemy forces have all been annihilated, and none of them have escaped!" The colonel was covered in blood, and he didn't know if it was his own or someone else's.

"Is there any room left?" Yang Cunzhong was very calm, but his face was not very good.

"More than a dozen people were captured. Is it interrogated immediately? The general asked.

"Trial! Review now! Yang Cunzhong's face was pale, and when the firelight shone, he saw a murderous face.