On August 18, Zhao Junsheng personally led a large army out of the White Emperor City of Yong'an and marched to Yiling.

On the way to the march, Zhao Junsheng is actually very worried about whether the logistics can keep up, now Sichuan and Shu are short of food, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, the imperial court should vigorously manage the land of Sichuan and Shu, only need to live two or three years, and when all parts of Sichuan and Shu recover, a large amount of grain and grass will be continuously delivered to the imperial court every year.

But now is a good time to move eastward, if you give up this opportunity, you have to wait until the time to send troops to attack the Southern Dynasty and I don't know what year and month it will take.

Zhao Junsheng didn't want to let go of this opportunity, he was already in his forties, although he was now in the prime of life, and his physical functions could maintain the vitality of a young man while practicing martial arts every day for all these years, but after all, he was old, and the children had grown up, and they needed space and a stage to display their talents, and he couldn't always occupy this position.

On the way to Yiling, Zhao Junsheng thought a lot, if he could defeat Xiao Siyan's 50,000 Song army this time, then he would be able to take advantage of the situation to sweep away Jiangbei and drive all the forces of the Southern Song Dynasty to the south of the Yangtze River.

Only reunification can enable the people of the world to live and work in peace and contentment, and can they devote their minds and energies to vigorously developing the people's livelihood, technology, and culture; if the world cannot be reunified, war will break out at any time, and it is always the people who will suffer from the war.

If he couldn't defeat Xiao Siyan's 50,000 Song army, then he could only give up, retreat to Yong'an, and first govern Sichuan and Shu properly before planning for the future.

Along the way, the Song army gave up several cities and large territories, and the cadres and troops occupied several punishments again without blood along the way, and the army crossed Wushan, crossed Badong, and arrived at Zigui on the way, and once again marched near Yidu County near Yiling City along the north and south banks of the river.

"Newspaper—" A fast horse galloped in.

The knight stopped in front of Zhao Junsheng to report: "Your Majesty, General Yang ordered the villain to report to Your Majesty, and the Song army abandoned Yiling City and retreated all the way south to Yidao and Yiting to garrison!" ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he smiled and said, "Could it be that this Xiao Siyan wants to emulate the story of the Battle of Yiling of the Three Kingdoms?" ”

Dongfang Chen immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this battle should not be careless, although there are lessons to learn from, but this time is different from the past, Your Majesty is not Liu Bei, and this Xiao Si is not Lu Xun!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered: "The order is to let Lu Shuang enter Yiling City, our army will camp on the west bank, send several small forces of soldiers and horses to take down all the Chengchi Township Posts and Ferry Wharf Water Villages along the way of this march, and send officials to take over the local military and political affairs, govern the surrounding people and mountain people, and ensure that our army's grain road is unimpeded, until there is no need to disperse troops to protect the grain road!" ”

"Command!"

Dongfang Chen listened to Zhao Junsheng's order, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty is wise, during the battle of Yiling of the Three Kingdoms, the number of Shu troops was superior, but Liu Bei was eager to fight, and wanted to fight quickly with superior forces, and Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, grasped his thoughts, so he retreated to Yidao and Yaoting, and gave up the hundreds of miles from Wushan to Yiling, Liu Bei had to disperse his forces to build hundreds of camps along the way in order to ensure the safety of the grain road!" Liu Bei repeatedly provoked Lu Xun, Lu Xun never held out in Yidao, the two sides were in a stalemate on the Yidao and Yiting line for half a year, at that time the Shu army had lost its sharpness, and Lu Xun sent a small force to carry out a tentative attack, and found the weaknesses and loopholes in the defense line of Shu County, and carried out a large-scale counterattack, which was able to turn defeat into victory! ”

"Now, I'm afraid that Xiao Siyan also has such a mind, wanting to drag us down!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded, thought about it again, and ordered: "Send a decree to Lu Xuan, ordering him to let the baggage team do their best to transport grain and grass to Yiling City, and hoard all the grain and grass in Yiling City, and it is much faster to transport grain and grass from Yong'an to Yiling by boat!" ”

Dongfang Chen had to remind Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, it is not easy to transport grain and grass from Guanzhong to Yong'an, and then from Yong'an to Yiling has added a lot of travel, the grain supply line is not too long, but this road is not easy to walk, and it can't be transported much at one time, and the loss on the way will be very serious, and the logistics alone will drag us down!" ”

"Also, now that Bashu has become under the rule of my great Qian, Bashu, which has only gone through the famine, still needs a large amount of food relief, and the court should focus on Bashu, the war with the Southern Dynasty, the minister thinks that it can be done slowly, and there is no need to rush for a while!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "Of course I understand what the national teacher said, I don't want to use military force, if we don't solve the 50,000 Song army, I'm afraid that they won't give up, how can the monarchs and ministers of the Song State be willing to give up Sichuan and Shu to us?" ”

"This ······" Dongfang Chen couldn't refute, he also knew that what Zhao Junsheng said was the actual situation, if he retreated at this time, he was afraid that the Song army would attack Yong'an again, and might even attack Jiangzhou through Wuling.

Dongfang Chen didn't say anything about this anymore, he reminded: "Your Majesty, we don't have a sailor here, and the Song army has a large number of sailors and warships, once they take a boat to our rear by boat at night, our grain route and retreat route are in danger of being cut off!" ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned: "Can the Song Army sailor sail at night?" They are not afraid of running aground and capsizing, so they will be blocked in the narrow dwelling of the river, unable to enter, and unable to retreat? ”

Dongfang Chen shook his head and said: "This Weichen doesn't know, but we don't understand water warfare, and there must be people in the Southern Dynasty who understand water warfare, it's hard to guarantee that they don't have this talent to be able to sail at night without hitting the rock!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a moment and ordered: "Send people to pull them from the east bank to the west bank with iron chains, and block the channel under the water, I want to see how they sail at night, if they really dare to sail at night, let them block the river and not retreat, then we will all go and catch dead fish, hum!" ”

All the ministers and generals praised one after another: "Your Majesty's plan is very good!" ”

Zhao Junsheng reminded: "Remember, do it secretly, the iron lock must be hidden under the water, and you can't see it when you stand on the boat, so that you can hide it from the Song Army!" ”

"Yes!"

A day later, the army arrived on the other side of Yiling City, and at this time Lu Shuang had led his army into Yiling City and sent a forward to tentatively attack Yiting.

Xiao Siyan built a strong camp in Yaoting, and the vanguard of the cadre army fought outside the barracks, Xiao Siyan saw that the other party was cavalry, and he had no infantry in his hands, so he could only be beaten passively when he went out, and the cadres could fight if they wanted to, and they could run if they wanted to, but he couldn't catch up at all, so he ignored the battle of the cadre army, and he had already made up his mind to wait for the cadres to disperse, lose their spirit, and lack of food and grass before waving his troops to counterattack, so no matter how the vanguard general of the cadre army provoked, he just didn't take the troops out to fight.

After the army arrived on the other side of the river in Yiling City, Zhao Junsheng ordered the army to build a strong camp, sent people to secretly block the river with iron chains at night, and sent officials to govern the towns along the way, control the villagers, and ensure the safety of the grain route.

On this day, Zhao Junsheng sent someone to find Yang Dayan.

"Your Majesty, Yang Dayan was ordered to come to the audience!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "Big eyes, I called you here to give you a task, you take 5,000 people to Yidao City to provoke and fight, if the Song army goes out of the city to meet the battle, no matter how many men and horses they dispatch, you will attack, don't worry, if necessary, I will definitely send you reinforcements to reinforce you!" ”

Yang Dayan clenched his fists and agreed: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Half an hour later, Yang Dayan took 5,000 men and horses to Yidao City to provoke and fight, and insulted Xiao Chengzhi, the guard general in the city, and scolded Xiao Chengzhi so much that he almost vomited blood, and really wanted to lead the troops out to fight Yang Dayan to the end, but Xiao Siyan had a strict order, no matter how provocative the cadres were, he couldn't go out of the city to fight, he could only hold on!

For three days in a row, Yang Dayan kept stimulating Xiao Chengzhi's nerves with fresh vicious words every day, and Xiao Chengzhi really endured it.

Yang Dayan was really out of options, so he had to return to the West Bank camp with 5,000 soldiers and horses to return to Zhao Junsheng.

"Your Majesty, in the past three days, the minister has scolded all the curses he can think of, and Xiao Chengzhi's guy is indeed so angry that he is like thunder, but he just can't come out, the minister really can't help it!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "We don't know when our siege equipment will be transported over, and now we can only talk to Xiao Si like this!" Come on, go and call Lin Jinghui! ”

Soon, Lin Jinghui rushed over, "Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and asked, "I ask you, I have ordered Sima Chuzhi to send troops to attack Xiangyang, is there any news at present?" ”

Lin Jinghui replied: "Your Majesty, there is news, but Your Majesty's order to Sima Chuzhi at that time was to let him send troops to cause military pressure on Xiangyang, not to let him attack Xiangyang City!" Recently, I received news that Sima Chuzhi's army is still north of the Han River! ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "Send someone to Sima Chuzhi to pass the decree and let him storm Fancheng!" Tell him word for word that from now on, his side is the main direction of attack, so he must go all out and not have the idea of retaining his strength! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"In addition, in the next few days, the black-clothed guards will pay close attention to the movement of garrisons in various parts of the southern and northern rivers, and if there is any news, come and report it immediately!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Junsheng was not in a hurry, he knew that he could not solve the problem in a hurry, and the army rested in the camp on the west bank, waiting for the logistics to bring heavy grain and grass and siege equipment.

That night, Zhao Junsheng was sleeping soundly, when suddenly there was a lot of noise on the east side of the river.

"Someone, what's the situation? What happened? ”

A guard who was keeping vigil walked in quickly and hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, it's not clear for the time being!" ”

"Investigate quickly, and then report quickly!"

Before the imperial guards had time to run out, Li Bao walked in quickly to report: "Your Majesty, the Song Army's naval division is dispatched, and it wants to enter our rear through the waterway at night to sneak attack, cut off our army's return route and grain route, and is currently blocked on the river by the iron lock we arranged in advance!" ”

"What, this is really crooked!"

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