Under the order of Zhao Junsheng, the Qianjun Naval Division left more than 500 ships on the battlefield, and most of the remaining warships went down the river and went straight to Jiankang under the command of Xu Yibao and Wu Xi.

After the landing of the 100,000 horses of the Second Route Army, Chang Kun commanded troops to Wuhu City, as an important military town in the south of the Yangtze River, Wuhu was not only garrisoned by the Shuizhai Water Division, but also 6,000 soldiers and horses, before the cadres surrounded Wuhu, Wuhu garrison Lu Yingji spent a day to make a good deployment of the city defense, and a large number of equipment and materials to defend the city were also moved from the warehouse to the city wall.

Zhao Junsheng did not interfere too much in the siege, and handed it over to Chang Kun to arrange deployment and command.

Chang Kun knew very well the truth that the soldiers were expensive and fast, and if the time spent under Wuhu City was too long, the Liu Song court in Qiantang would be able to dispatch troops in time, although this was irrelevant to the overall situation, but it could cause great trouble to the cadres.

Chang Kun did not hesitate too much, and immediately issued the order to siege the city after the siege equipment was transported from Jiangbei.

Hundreds of trebuchets surrounded Wuhu City for two days without stopping to fire stone bullets and fire oil bombs, flying stone bullets smashed the Wuhu city wall into ruins, and countless fire oil bombs set Wuhu City on fire.

The fire was blazing, and the smoke was billowing and burning for three days and three nights.

This is the embodiment of the strength of a great power, if it were not for the strength of the country, how could hundreds of trebuchets be transported at one time? So many trebuchets need more than 10,000 skilled baggage soldiers to operate, and the carriages and manpower needed to transport them are massive, and the national strength is not strong enough to support this kind of consumption.

Under this fierce offensive, the remaining defenders of Wuhu City simply surrendered, and they no longer had the courage to continue to resist.

After the Wuhu defenders surrendered, the cadres entered the city to take over.

In order to seize time, Chang Kun ordered to leave 20,000 horses to guard the prisoners, organize the people to repair the city walls and build houses in the city, and post notices to pacify the people and restore social order.

He took the remaining 80,000 horses and horses along the Yangtze River to Jiankang.

At this time, the fleet of the Qianjun Naval Division happened to arrive at Quarry Rock and encountered more than 1,500 warships of the main force of Liu Song's Naval Division, and the two sides had the largest water battle since the confrontation between the two countries on the river near Quarry Rock.

This water battle lasted for a day, and the Song army's sailors fought to the end with the cadres in line with the idea of fighting to the death and not retreating, and if they wanted to die, they would pull a back.

From the battle of Tianming to the end of the Song army's active retreat, the entire river was dyed red, and countless corpses floated on the water and flowed downstream with the river.

The warship, which was ignited by rockets fired by both sides, burned all night without extinguishing, and until the next morning, the wreckage of many large warships was still floating on the river.

After a short day of rest and dealing with the wounded and the warship, the Qianjun sailors continued to rush down to Jiankang in an instant.

More than 800 warships of the remnants of the Song army's naval division, which had retreated to Jiankang, quickly met the attack, and the two naval divisions once again fought on the river north of Jiankang.

In order to protect the safety of Jiankang, the Song army and the naval division fought desperately, and when the battle was fought in the afternoon, the Song army lost half of the warships and nearly half of the soldiers.

In order to leave a legacy for Liu Song Shuishi, General Liu Song Shuishi ordered a retreat and retreated along the river to the water village near Wu County.

The already tired Qianjun sailors did not pursue, but forced towards Jiankang City.

Xu Yibao ordered the fleet of sailors to stop on the nearby river near the shore and attack the water village, and captured the water village in only one day, and ordered large warships to use three-bow bed crossbows to fire crossbow arrows with a range of 1,200 steps to attack Jiankang City to implement deterrence.

The defenders of Jiankang City learned that their own naval division had been defeated and retreated, and the water village was captured by the dry army and naval division, and the crossbow arrows had been shot into the city.

Four days later, 80,000 cadres and horses arrived at the foot of Jiankang City to complete the siege.

Due to the rush of time, the stone bombs and fire oil bombs prepared this time were insufficient, and the cadres only threw stone bombs and fire oil bombs into Jiankang City for one morning, but it still made the defenders and the people in the city feel that they were about to be wiped out.

In the afternoon, tens of thousands of officers and men of the cadre army sent a huge siege battle with the cooperation of a large number of bed crossbows, well railings, stone wagons, and siege ladders.

Although the defenders of Jiankang fought hard to resist, their morale was not high, their combat strength was low, and their preparations were insufficient, and the city of Jiankang, which was garrisoned by 5,000 people, was attacked by the cadres and was destroyed in two days.

The remnants of the retreating and fleeing Song Army's naval division encountered the Qingzhou Naval Division of the Qianjun Army at the mouth of the sea, and a major battle broke out between the two sides again, and the Qianjun army completely annihilated the remnants of the Song Army's naval division at the cost of losing more than 300 warships.

At the same time, the First Route Army of the Qianjun Army, under the command of Gao Xu, sent troops from Jiangxia City and Jiangling to cross the river and launched attacks on Xiakou and Baling respectively.

In Yizhou, Zhao Ping, the king of Shu of Qianguo, led the Yizhou soldiers of the Qianguo army to launch an attack on Liu Song's Ningzhou.

For a time, Liu Song was attacked everywhere, and Liu Song's court in Qiantang was the first to receive a report that Wuhu and Jiankang were attacked, and immediately sent troops to reinforce them, but then Wujun, Xiakou, Baling and Ningzhou respectively came with reports of attacks.

Only then did Liu Song Junchen know that the cadres had quietly launched an all-out attack.

In order to maintain the notice of the country, this time Liu Song Junchen abandoned his previous prejudices very rarely, and it was rare to work together and unanimously with the outside world.

The major families in the south of the Yangtze River have taken action, a large number of talents and materials have been sent to the front line, and many families have taken out private soldiers to make up armies to go to various places for reinforcements.

Qiantang, Imperial Palace.

Liu Yu sat on the throne and could not hide his anxiety, the offensive of the cadre army was rapid, in less than half a month, Ningzhou had lost most of it; Zhang Yong's army in Xiangzhou had been beaten back to the south of Xiangshui; The remnants of Xiakou's defeated army have retreated to Linchuan County; The Second Army of the Cadre Army and the Third Route Army had already reached Wuxing near Taihu Lake.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how should I deal with it now? Let's not talk about the Yizhou soldiers and Jingxiang troops of the Qianjun army, they are still a little far away from Qiantang and can't fight here for the time being, but the second and third roads of the Qianjun army have already joined forces in Wuxing, if Xiao Daocheng can't stop them, they can come to Qiantang City in an instant, what should I do? ”

The confidant minister Ruan Dianfu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, for the sake of Your Majesty's safety, the minister suggested that on the one hand, send someone to ask for peace with Qianguo, and on the other hand, move the capital to Guangzhou. ”

Minister Cai Xingzong stood up and strongly objected: "Your Majesty, the minister has different opinions, this time the Qianguo sent troops is obviously different from the past, in the past they were just a small fight, and they retreated after getting a little benefit, and this time they attacked at the same time in four ways, the water and land armies used five or six hundred thousand troops, the naval division warships have thousands, and the people have used hundreds of thousands of people, this is not a small fight, they are clearly going to destroy our Song State, if our country does not devote the strength of the country to resist, there will be a danger of destroying the country!" At this time, the request for peace is whimsical, and it is impossible for the Qianguo countries to agree to our request for peace, because they are afraid that if they negotiate with us on the one hand, but on the other hand, they will not withdraw their troops, and our country will gain more than it loses! ”

"Your Majesty, we can no longer have illusions, the situation has reached this point, we can only fight to the death with Qianguo!"

Fight to the death? Liu Yu trembled, if it was the heyday of Liu Songguo, he would still have the courage to fight to the death with Qianguo, but at this time, the Song State had just experienced the suppression of the rebellions of the kings in various places, and he was extremely weak, and he didn't even have a handsome man who could be a commander, how could he fight to the death with Qianguo?

At this time, Wang Daolong, another confidant of Liu Yu, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although what Lord Cai said is not unreasonable, but it took more than half a year for our army to quell the rebellion of the kings in various places, and how much the loss of combat power is, it is already weak, and at this time it is impossible to defeat the cadres at all, if you don't delay the time, I am afraid that the cadres will be broken by each of them, and how can we fight if we know that we can't win?" Isn't this forcing the soldiers to die? If the generals and soldiers are forced by the imperial court, I am afraid that things will develop in a worse direction! ”

Liu Yu hurriedly asked, "So······ Does Wang Qing have any suggestions? ”

Wang Daolong said: "Your Majesty, the minister has sent an envoy to Qianguo, to Chang'an to see the emperor of Qianguo Zhao Junsheng, this person is a person with a big mind and instrument, judging from the current situation of my Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that I will not be able to stop the attack of the Qianjun, rather than waiting for the death of the country, let tens of millions of Li people wail in the war, Your Majesty might as well take the initiative to surrender, for the heavenly people to seek a way of life, with Zhao Junsheng's strength, will treat Your Majesty well, even if there is no treatment of a king with a different surname, you can also get the title of a duke, and the rest of your life can be at ease!" ”

Liu Xiuren, the king of Jian'an, stood up and pointed at Wang Daolong and was furious: "Zhuzi, An dares to deceive Your Majesty above the court and coax Your Majesty to surrender to the Qianguo, you are the minister of the Song State!" Have you been rebelled against by the thieves of the country? Your Majesty, please order a thorough investigation of Wang Daolong! ”

Wang Daolong immediately bowed down to Liu Yu and cried: "Your Majesty, everything the minister does is for the sake of Your Majesty, and the minister's loyalty to Your Majesty can be seen by the sun and the moon!" ”

Liu Yu saw that Wang Daolong was sincere and sincere, and he couldn't bear it, so he waved his hand to Liu Xiuren and said: "Twelfth brother, Wang Qing is sincere and has always been loyal to me, he will not betray me!" ”

After speaking, he looked at Prime Minister Yuan Cang and asked, "Yuan Qing, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Prime Minister Yuan Cang stood up and saluted and said: "If Your Majesty thinks that our army of the Great Song Dynasty can still resist the attack of the cadre army, Your Majesty suggests that Your Majesty agree to Ruan Dianfu's suggestion, send an envoy to meet the Emperor Zhao Junsheng of the Qianguo, and move the capital to Guangzhou at the same time. ”

Liu Yu didn't have much confidence in whether the army could stop the cadre army, he looked at the general Liu Mian and asked, "General Liu, do you think our army can resist the attack of the cadre army?" ”

Liu Mian's face was embarrassed, he hesitated for a moment, stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty······ Minister······ If Your Majesty has an order, the ministers and the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely do their best to protect Your Majesty's safety! ”