The enemy ships that were on fire, damaged and leaking lost control, and the enemy soldiers on board either jumped into the river or were still lying on the spot waiting to die, they no longer had any combat effectiveness, and the warships and loyal civilian ships that were sweeping the battlefield did not pay any attention to them, and pursued the enemy ships that were intact and were fleeing, and those ships were the primary targets they wanted to destroy.

In their opinion, as long as the boat escapes back, it is possible that the enemy will again organize a large army to cross the river, and their danger will not be lifted.

For the pursuit of the enemy ships fleeing in the river, the loyal and righteous civilian ships were far more active than the warships of the Jingwu Army, their ships were small, it was very convenient to turn around, and the speed of the ships was much faster than that of the warships.

This is the place where the loyal soldiers and civilians have lived for generations, the enemy will not be driven away, will not be destroyed, they will always live under the threat of the other party, live in the shadow of the enemy, they will be killed and enslaved at any time, or leave their homeland, they will never allow it, even if it is death, they must resist to the end!

The high-morale loyal soldiers drove merchant ships, fishing boats, and cargo ships to desperately chase after the targets they searched, and once they caught up, they first shot with bows and crossbows, and then approached the enemy ships to ram, once the enemy ships began to shake and shake, the enemy soldiers on the ships lost their balance as if they were drunk, and the more they tried to stand firm, the more they shook the ship, and their feet were unstable, either they fell directly into the water or met the arrows with their bodies.

On the water battlefield of five or six miles, hundreds of ships let go in the smoke and flames to pursue the enemy ships that were desperately fleeing, just like hunters chasing the wounded and fleeing hares, and the upstream and downstream fleets formed a situation of encirclement, advancing all the way to the direction of the enemy's estuary, with civilian ships in front and warships behind, which was spectacular.

This hunt lasted for half an hour, until the upstream and downstream fleets met and joined forces, and the enemy ships in the river that had not yet caught fire and had not sunk were wiped out, and there were only a few enemy ships that escaped by chance.

The enemy crossed the river with thousands of boats, and in less than two hours, almost all the troops were wiped out, and there were only 100 ships that fled back to Hanoi, and almost all of them were small boats that were easy to turn around, and they were no longer of great use.

After the warships were cleared, the warships of the elite army led the loyal and righteous ships with high morale to line up outside the enemy's estuary, with more than 200 ships of all sizes, covering the Liangli River.

"Wanyan Liang killed the king and usurped the throne, disloyal and unfilial, rebelled against the minister and fainted the king, the sky is intolerable, and people and gods are angry!"

In the lined formation, suddenly a ship shouted slogans, one after another, and everyone was surprised.

After a while, almost all the ships followed, and thousands of people shouted in unison: "Wanyan Liang usurped the throne, disloyal and unfilial, rebelled against the king, the sky is intolerable, and the people and gods are angry!" ”

Three times in a row, wave after wave, like a mountain of sea, surging towards the enemy camp half a mile away, surging for several miles, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops stationed within two miles of the river bank could hear very clearly.

The sound was mighty, and everyone was shocked.

The enemy troops on the river bank were on guard to prevent the Song army from landing on the shore, and most of the soldiers in the camp stood still, no one dared to move lightly, no one dared to speak, and even all the generals were all blue.

After the demonstration, the Jingwu army did not land and fight under the surging and high-pitched public opinion, but turned around and left, leaving five warships to monitor the enemy, and the rest of the warships went down the river and returned to Taipingdu.

No matter how many there are nearly 200 loyal and righteous civilian ships, they are still civilian ships after all, and no one dares to approach the river bank easily without the cover of the elite military warships.

Most of the loyal and righteous ships left the estuary with the Jingwu warships, and only a few ships remained with the cruising warships.

The smoke and smoke of the fire in the Yangtze River have not completely dissipated, and the ships that are on fire are still burning naturally, and if no one cares, they will continue to burn until they are extinguished or sunk.

Warships and civilian ships passed through the scrapped enemy ships that could be seen everywhere on the river, and after half an hour, they returned safely to Taipingdu.

The news of the victory soon spread among the five or six thousand defenders of Taipingdu, and reached the heavily guarded city of Taiping.

Nervous, Yu Yunwen, who was sitting in Taiping City, learned the news and rushed to the Taipingdu military camp as soon as possible, said hello and thanked Yang Congyi, the Jingwu Army, and the Zhongyi Army, and asked about the results and processes of the battle.

Yang Congyi told him that everything was going according to the pre-war plan, that the north and the south were attacking together, intercepting thousands of enemy ships on a section of the river five or six miles long, that from the beginning to the end of the battle, not a single enemy ship crossed the north-south defense line, and that by the end of the water battle, no more than 100 enemy ships had escaped back to the estuary, and they were all small boats that were easy to turn around and escape. After today's battle, the enemy will not have the strength to cross the river again within a month!

Hearing Yang Congyi's words, Yu Yunwen jumped up excitedly, and asked three times whether the enemy army had really lost the power to cross the river, and the answers he received were all very positive.

Determining that the enemy army could not cross the river, Yu Yunwen's face showed a smile for the first time.

He immediately announced in public that on behalf of the imperial court, he would reward the whole army, in addition to rewarding meritorious deeds, the soldiers and loyal soldiers who participated in the battle would each be rewarded with 1,000 copper coins, and the soldiers and loyal soldiers who adhered to Taipingdu would each be rewarded with 500 copper coins!

Two hours later, large boxes of copper coins arrived at the Taipingdu military camp.

The copper coins for rewarding the loyal and righteous army were distributed on the spot, and the copper coins for the Taiping garrison led by Ma Hong were also distributed on the spot, and the copper coins for rewarding the Jingwu army and the Yangwu army were detained by the Shuai Ying, and not a single copper coin was issued.

Gossip soon began to spread in the camp.

Yang Congyi quickly summoned the whole army to prepare the generals and colonels above the generals, and reprimanded loudly: "This is just a small victory, don't be complacent and complacent, there are still nearly 500,000 enemy troops in Hezhou on the other side, eyeing the enemy, they may cross the river at any time, if they come from elsewhere, can they still be stopped?" Jiangbei is the land of the Great Song Dynasty, where the people have multiplied for generations, and now they are occupied, can we drive them away? If not, why should you be rewarded by the imperial court! The war has just begun, and it is far from the time to ask for a reward, and once you lose your guard, defeat will follow! If the enemy army does not withdraw from the land of the Great Song Dynasty, the war will not stop! The elite army and the Yangwu army are not allowed to receive any rewards in their personal names, and the rewards given to us by the imperial court this time, I will record them, but no one can touch this money now, there are many accidents in the war, once there is a problem with logistics supply, this money is our life-saving food! As for the rewards that belong to the soldiers, when the war is over, I promise that they will be distributed in full, and no one will be missed! Now, immediately go back to the camp to explain the benefits to the soldiers, check the roster of the soldiers in the battalion, rest well, and prepare for the next battle! ”

"Yes! My lord! ”

The generals didn't hesitate too much and got up to take the order.

They are on the front line, and now they are fighting, how can they carry hundreds and thousands of copper coins with them?

The reward of the imperial court is kind, but for them, this is far from the time to reward, because they are the elite army, the Yangwu army, and the absolute main force, and if the enemy does not retreat, they will fight one battle after another.

Yu Yunwen wanted to take advantage of a huge victory to boost the morale of the whole army by rewarding the whole army, arouse the fighting spirit of more soldiers and civilians, and join the Taiping River defense together.

In particular, the thousands of loyal and righteous soldiers, after receiving the reward, not to mention how happy they were, they sent money home at the same time, this hearty victory was proclaimed, everyone was proud of participating in this water battle, killing the enemy with their own hands, crashing into the enemy ship, if it was not for the time not permitting, to rush back to Taipingdu, they would almost have to set up a banquet at home to celebrate!

One to ten, ten to hundred, this victory near the quarry island, between the mouths of the people, soon spread to all directions, to the surrounding state capitals, counties, and even the countryside.

This was very different from the previous news that the Great Song army had fled all the way from the Huai River to the Yangtze River, which greatly boosted the morale of the army and the people, strengthened their determination to prepare to resist the enemy's invasion, and strengthened the confidence of the people to resist the enemy.

Wherever the news spread, people were organized in various places to go north to Taiping and Jiankang with self-made weapons to join the army to strengthen the river defense and resist the enemy.

The Jingwu Army and Yangwu Army's reward turmoil subsided that night, and they recuperated from their dreams and prepared for the next more difficult battle.

Yang Congyi wrote a summary report on the battle situation by candlelight, and ordered someone to send Yu Yunwen urgently, in which he also speculated on the possible next movement of the enemy army.

Taiping crossed the riverbank, and many people had no sleep all night.

Early the next morning, Yu Yunwen personally rushed to the riverside camp.

"General Yang, you said that the enemy would give up Hezhou, which had been in business for more than a month, and switch to Yangzhou, is there a reasonable reason?" Yu Yunwen went straight to the point.

"The enemy is collecting ships everywhere in Hezhou, and almost all of the preparations for more than a month have been wiped out in the river, even if they are given another month, they will not be able to find many usable ships, and they will cross the river by two or three hundred small boats, even if we do not stop it, it will take more than half a month for the 500,000 army, so it is impossible to cross the river from Hezhou. Now the enemy army has two roads, one to the west, one to the east, a part of the Jiangbei land in Huaixi is still in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, to the west to fight with the Great Song Dynasty defenders in the area of Wuwei and Anqing, it is time-consuming and laborious, it is difficult to say whether you can find a suitable place to cross the river, and to the east is a horse Pingchuan, the land of Jiangbei is in the hands of the enemy, the rich Zhenzhou, Yangzhou area, can provide a certain supply for the enemy, the most important thing is that Yangzhou is near the largest and most prosperous ferry from south to north, Guazhoudu. If you want to cross the river, it is definitely the best choice besides Taipingdu! In the case that it was no longer possible to cross the river from Hezhou, the enemy forces either immediately withdrew and returned north, or went east to Yangzhou. ”

Yang Congyi gave Yu Yunwen an explanation, as for whether the other party believes it or not, he can't force it to be left and right.

Yu Yunwen did not put forward a rebuttal opinion, the enemy ships were almost completely destroyed, and it was certainly impossible to collect thousands of ships in a short time, so there was no point in staying in Hezhou and not being able to cross the river, and it was possible to find an opportunity to cross the river in Yangzhou.

Yu Yunwen, who no longer had any doubts, immediately returned to the city to write two letters, together with the battle report, and sent them to Zhenjiang and the emperor's camp, requesting the imperial court and Zhenjiang to prepare for the defense of the river as soon as possible.