Just a few days after reviewing the Guards, the prelude to the southern expedition of the Tang Dynasty finally opened, all the troops of the Guards canceled Hugh, the barracks were closed, waiting for the time for the army to go south, and the entire Bianjing City also fell into a strange state, everyone knew that this year would definitely go south to launch a unified war, but when it really happened, I felt a little incredible, how long did Li Jing rise, about ten years, and now it has swept the world, south to Guangnan Road, east to the sea, west to the desert, north to the grassland, are the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and now he is going to march south, the army is sweeping, and no one in the world is an opponent.

After Li Jing sacrificed to the Taimiao, he led an army of 150,000 to the south to conquer the Great Song Dynasty, with Liang Zhong staying in Beijing, Li Daniu as the vanguard, Li Fu and Yelu Dashi followed the army, and he and Li Dingbei, the king of Qin, led the Chinese army to the south of the Yangtze River.

When the army advanced, Li Jing prepared a huge carriage and took Li Dingbei to sit on it, while dealing with state affairs, while commanding the army to fight, this all-out war, in addition to Li Jing's 150,000 army, there is also a kind of division of the middle road army and Li Qiao's west road army, vast, overwhelming, the army alone is naturally no problem, but this kind of national unity war, more or unified command, In order to use a relatively small number of troops, the maximum results can be obtained.

Although on the surface, Li Jing only mobilized an army of 500,000 troops, but in fact, he used more than that, requisitioning and dispatching people to carry grain, grass, equipment, etc., even if the grain and grass in other places have been prepared, the East Route Army mainly took the canal, which saved a lot of manpower and material resources, but it also needed manpower.

In addition to these, there are also secret guards, in order to maintain the joint operation of the three armies, the secret guards dispatched most of the men and horses, used to transmit intelligence, it can be said that the entire north and south of the river, the Tang Dynasty except for the war in the northwest and northern grasslands, other energy is focused on Jiangnan, ready to kill Jiangnan with one blow. It can also be seen that Li Jing attaches great importance to this southern expedition.

The first person to receive the order from the news of Li Jing's southern expedition was Wu Jue and Han Shizhong, the two of them looked across the river from Jiangdu and Jiankang, although the loss of Jiankang had little to do with the two of them, but the two of them were holding back a fire in their hearts, thinking that the Tang army was invincible, when was driven out of the city by others, carefully calculated, one was in Xiangyang, Han Shizhong retreated without a fight, kept his men and horses, but lost Xiangyang; The second time was when I was in Jiankang, I lost countless losses, and finally I also lost Jiankang.

Now that Li Jing finally led the army south, the two suddenly had infinite courage and decided to raise troops to find trouble with Yue Fei and pick up their lost reputation. Therefore, as soon as Li Jing's order arrived, the two raised an army of 150,000 people on land and water, known as 200,000 people, and raised troops to kill directly to Jiankang City.

Han Shizhong first led the sailor to defeat the Jiankang sailor, killed the general of the Jiankang sailor, Lei Hu, and annihilated 10,000 elite soldiers and horses, and the Yangtze River was immediately unimpeded. Han Shizhong also ordered the big ship to cross the river, ordered the soldiers to cut down trees, and built a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River to facilitate the passage of the army. Because the Jiankang Sailor had been eliminated, although Fu Xuan was very dissatisfied in his heart, in the face of this situation, he could only endure the anger in his heart and watch the enemy easily cross the Yangtze River through the pontoon bridge and reach the south bank.

Fu Xuan's 20,000 army faced more than 100,000 troops, and he could only watch the army go up to the riverbank, and then surrounded the entire Jiankang City in this way, and it was difficult for even birds to fly through.

"Datang came with all his strength this time. Li Jing hasn't been killed yet, Wu Jue and Han Shizhong around him have already been killed, how long can we resist the hundreds of thousands of troops? Deputy General Xu Qing said with some concern.

"Even if you can't resist it, you have to hold on for a while, even if it's ten days, you must stick to it, what's the matter, Brother Xu is scared?" A smile appeared at the corner of Fu Xuan's mouth, but this smile was very reluctant.

"It's just that the general didn't let us defend Jiankang City, which is probably a great luck in misfortune." Xu Qing sighed slightly.

Fu Xuan frowned when he heard this, it is naturally a good thing that there is no need to defend Jiankang City, but in the same way, if the soldiers have this thought, it will cause the army to be depressed, unable to give full play to the original combat effectiveness of the Yue family's army, demoralized, and frustrated, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold on for even ten days, which will violate the order that Yue Fei gave him at the beginning.

Although the city of Hangzhou is very strong, can it withstand Li Jing's hundreds of thousands of troops? It is rumored that Li Jing also used artillery to go south, that thing is very powerful, even if it is a strong city wall, under the attack of this thing, it will turn into powder, a city wall of several zhang, I am afraid that a dozen iron bullets can make a hole in the city wall.

"The morale of the army is low, I'm afraid I can't hold on for even ten days, what can you do?" Fu Xuan thought about it and asked. No matter what, Fu Xuan decided to stick to it for ten days to get more opportunities for Yue Fei to prepare.

Xu Qing only then understood the possible impact of what he had just said, he glanced around, and found that the soldiers in the army were indeed demoralized, at least compared to the previous Yuejia army. This is not Yue Fei's headquarters soldiers, but the Shengjie Army, the young man who was recruited not long ago, although he is barely well-trained, he can't be compared with the back and the forward. Once their words get out, I'm afraid these people won't even have the heart to resist.

"Li Jing and the general are enemies of life and death, the Yue family army has killed countless Tang Dynasty troops, Li Jing is very angry, all the Yue family army will not leave a living mouth." Xu Qing gritted his teeth and said.

Victory won't solve anything, but if this matter involves their own lives, then these soldiers will desperately resist, even if they have some thoughts of surrender before, I am afraid that they will disappear without a trace. What's more, Li Jing and Yue Fei are indeed enemies, Li Jing can't accommodate Yue Fei, Yue Fei won't surrender to Li Jing, and Yue's army doesn't know how much blood of the Tang army is stained in their hands, and Datang really won't need such a person to surrender.

"That's all I can say for now." Fu Xuan nodded, as long as it can cheer up the army's morale, even if it is exaggerated, it is nothing, as for whether it will offend Li Jing, Fu Xuan did not think about it, at least, he has not considered surrender now.

Sure enough, with the emergence of rumors, the morale of the Yue family's army, which had already fallen, suddenly rose a lot, and many soldiers had a fierce light flashing in their eyes, some of these people were ready to take the opportunity to submit to Li Jing, but they didn't expect Li Jing to give such an order, not to ask for prisoners, it was related to everyone's lives, even if it was desperate, they had to resist.

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