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Hainan Island.

Hainan County, Li Yan's temporary palace.

Li Yan took a copy of the book handed by Liang Hongyu, "Huizong Chan is located in his eldest son Zhao Huan, is for Qinzong, Qinzong changed the Yuan Jingkang with "Rijing Quartet" and "Yongkang Zhaomin", and now Huizong took refuge in Zhenjiang Mansion and stayed in Qinzong to garrison Bianliang City...... After reading the secret report that the Jinxi Road Army was blocked in Taiyuan City, and the 60,000 troops of the Jindong Road crossed the Yellow River and the soldiers were ...... under the city of Bianliang", he muttered: "Is there only one year left?" ”

After all, Li Yan does not study solid history, so he is not too clear about the era name.

But—

Li Yan knew that the shame of Jingkang occurred in the first month of the second year of Jingkang.

Moreover, it is not difficult to analyze from the current intelligence that the Jin army, which has only 60,000 troops, cannot capture the Song State for the time being.

After all, the emaciated camel is also bigger than the horse, and it is not difficult for the Song Kingdom to gather two or three hundred thousand soldiers who can fight now.

It can even be said that if Zhao Huan gives Yu Zhongchen and good generals enough trust and enough policy support, Song Guo will definitely be able to conjure up hundreds of thousands of troops in a very short time.

Let's put it this way, as long as Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan's father and son, and those ministers of the Song State do not die and dare to give it a go, the current Jin State will not be able to destroy the Song State at all, even if it is replaced by Shuibo Liangshan, the result will be the same.

This is not Li Yan lifting up the Song State, but the national strength of the Song State is there.

The Song State has a population of more than 100 million, and there are still hundreds of thousands of forbidden armies, Xiang armies, and township armies in various places.

The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty lost the country, including the reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was partial to peace, was mainly because the monarchs of the Song Dynasty, that is, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and Zhao Gou, father and son, were cowardly, always fighting and uncertain, and repeatedly made stupid moves.

Li Yan put down the secret report and asked Liang Hongyu: "How is the front line?" ”

Liang Hongyu said: "The news that Xiao Xuanfu came back said that the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army have both reached Beijiang Gufa Prefecture, and they should be able to destroy the Li Dynasty in a few days." ”

Li Yan went to sea this time, in addition to opening up the Maritime Silk Road, he also had a military purpose, that is, to destroy the Li Dynasty.

The so-called Li Dynasty is the Vietnam of later generations, which used to be called Annam, and now most people call it the Li Dynasty.

This country, originally a part of China, since the third century B.C. China's Qin Dynasty has been China's territory, during the Tang Dynasty, it was a part of the Annam Protectorate, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wu Quan divided Annam from the Southern Han Dynasty, and the Song State was unable to unify, so it was officially independent, and then existed as a vassal state of the Song State.

But—

Since the founding of the country, this country has shown extremely strong aggressiveness, often harassing the Song State to seize the territory of the Song State, and also robbing the population of the Song State.

After Shuibo Liangshan won Hainan Island, Li Yan prepared to build Hainan Island into a bridgehead on the southern route of the Shuibo Liangshan Maritime Silk Road, so in the past two years, under Li Yan's order, the household department has moved more than one million Han and more than one million Japanese to Hainan Island, and Li Yan also sent Xiao Jiasui, who is both civil and military, and experienced to run here.

It is not easy to conquer the sea, the sea is not only high and rough, but also difficult to discern the direction, so the two most difficult points for human beings to conquer the sea are to avoid capsizing and identify the direction.

In the former, Shuibo Liangshan, whose shipbuilding technology has been quite developed, has basically been overcome, especially after the birth of the treasure ship, the general wind and waves can no longer destroy the warships of Shuibo Liangshan.

The latter, under the inspiration of Li Yan, Shuibo Liangshan has invented more advanced navigational tools such as compasses, meteorological instruments, and sextants to identify directions.

However, for the sake of safety, the current voyage of Shuibo Liangshan is still carried out in the offshore sea not far from the mainland, which can ensure that there is a reference object to identify the direction, and can also ensure that in the event of strong winds and waves, it can be docked to take refuge.

Li Yan built a number of coastal counties such as Jiaodong County, Shanghai County, Taiwan County, Xiangjiang County, Hainan County and dozens of ports along the road as transit stations to ensure the safety of ships coming and going.

In fact, the Maritime Silk Road was already a very mature route, and some bold Song people even relied on a few small boats not much bigger than a sampan to carry out maritime trade along this voyage.

The purpose of Li Yan's trip was only to dredge this route, and then attract foreign maritime merchants to trade in Shuibo Liangshan.

Needless to say, the eastern route is a route established by Shuibo Liangshan itself, and it is absolutely safe.

The first stop on the western line is Li Chao.

Originally, Li Yan wanted to have a good relationship with Li Chao and achieve a win-win situation.

But this is just Li Yan's wishful thinking.

Because of the strong support of Shuibo Liangshan behind him, Xiao Jiasui, who is very capable, built three big cities and more than a dozen small cities and hundreds of villages on Hainan Island in less than two years, making this remote island prosperous.

This provoked the greed of the Li Dynasty, and at the same time, the Li Dynasty was also worried that Hainan County would become bigger and threaten it.

Therefore, not long ago, the Li Dynasty launched an invasion of Hainan County, robbing three county towns and more than a dozen villages in Hainan County, plundering a large amount of grain and wealth and more than 100,000 people.

If this Li Yan doesn't fight Li Chao, then Li Yan won't be Li Yan.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Hainan County, Li Yan asked Xiao Jiasui and others to formulate a strategic strategy to attack the Li Dynasty.

Xiao Jiasui has been planning revenge for a long time, you know, this Hainan County was built by him, and the people in the county are equivalent to his children, who were attacked by the Li Dynasty and taken away more than 100,000 by the Li Dynasty, how could he not want to take revenge?

Therefore, Xiao Jiasui collected a lot of information about the Li Dynasty and recruited many Li Dynasty people.

After Li Yan learned of these things, he simply appointed Xiao Jiasui as the Xuanfu envoy, and appointed Han Shizhong and Yue Fei as the commanders of the left and right capitals, responsible for commanding the troops to attack the Li Dynasty.

This person of the Li Dynasty was really bold and reckless, and even gathered an army of 80,000, known as 200,000, to fight a head-on battle with the Liangshan army.

As a result, the Liangshan army defeated the Li Dynasty's army without much effort, and then killed and wounded more than 30,000 people, captured more than 20,000, and then Xiao Jiasui divided the Liangshan army into two armies, east and west, and went straight to Beijiang Gufazhou, the capital of the Li Dynasty.

In fact, there was no suspense at all in this battle - the army of the Li Dynasty was too backward, and some of the armor was not complete, while the Liangshan army was the most advanced army of this era, and there was no one.

The east and west armies were all the way like a bamboo, and the towns along the road were easily broken by the two armies, and in only ten days, the two armies successively attacked the capital of the Li Dynasty, Beijiang Gufazhou.

Li Yan believed that it would not be long before the news of the destruction of the Li Dynasty would come.

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