Mu Chenglin was stunned for a moment, glanced at Zhao Tianyou with incredible eyes, and then smiled with relief: "Sect Leader Zhao must have never been in contact with officialdom!" No wonder there is such an idea. I think of the hundreds of years of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court has always emphasized literature and light military strength, and the military strength has been weak, and it has lost nine times out of ten, hey...... It is also cheaper to simply cut the land and pay reparations than to fight. ”

Zhao Tianyou shook his head slowly and said: "Hey, it's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty is rich and strong, but it's a pity that there is no courage outside the country and no plan at home, and it connives. The thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Chinese clan are actually lost in the hands of their own people, which is really a great sorrow. ”

"Zhao Jiaotou, admire and admire, these two sentences are absolutely amazing, and they can be said thoroughly in a few words. However, if others listen to this, they will definitely exchange the head of the sect leader for silver, and the head of the sect of Zhao must not be heard casually in the future. Mu Chenglin nodded again and again, admiring from the bottom of his heart.

"Haha, thank you Mr. Mu, I treat Mr. as a real hero, and I naturally have no scruples when I speak."

The distance between the two is shortened, and the speech is more direct and thorough, Zhao Tianyou is in urgent need of information about current affairs and national conditions, and he is very respectful to ask for advice between words, Mu Chenglin also speaks, and the two of them talk about wine and joy from noon to evening.

According to the battle situation that Mu Chenglin said, coupled with the memory in Zhao Tianyou's mind, although there are some deviations, it will not be too long before Lin'an falls. But what he didn't expect was that when he and Mu Chenglin were drinking and chatting about state affairs and remembering the world, Zhao Rujian, the governor of Changzhou, abandoned the city and fled, appeased Dai Zhitai and opened the city gate, leading the Yuan army into the city to surrender!

The Boyan three-way army went south, and Changzhou was originally a very important line of defense in Lin'an, but I didn't expect to take Changzhou without a single injury. For a while, his confidence was greatly increased, and he did not rectify the city, leaving a thousand yuan soldiers to defend the city, and the army went all the way south to Lin'an.

Contrary to Boyan's expectations, there was a city guard general named Yao Ting, who was also loved by his subordinates for managing the army in peacetime. When Dai Zhitai opened the city gate to surrender to the Yuan soldiers, Yao Jiangjun was not stationed in Changzhou, but was guarding filial piety in the countryside because of his mother's funeral.

After Yao heard that Changzhou had surrendered, he immediately sent someone to contact Chen Shao, a comrade in the city, who raised troops after the soldiers defending the city celebrated their achievements, killed the 1,000 yuan soldiers defending the city, and set up the banner of the Great Song Dynasty at the head of the city.

Changzhou's gains and losses angered Boyan, put aside the strategic purpose of attacking Lin'an, and sent his soldiers and horses Marshal Shudu to lead an army of 200,000 to turn around and attack Changzhou City.

Yao heard that he had made a great contribution to the capture of the city, and was appointed as the governor of Changzhou after playing Lin'an, and after learning the news that Boyan had transferred heavy troops to attack Changzhou, he hurriedly sent people to Lin'an for help. When Dai Zhitai opened the city and surrendered to the Yuan, most of the Song troops defending the city did not stay, and Zhizhou abandoned the city and fled to defend the city to surrender, and a few soldiers could be expected to stay.

As a result, although Yao Ting recaptured Changzhou, he only had more than 3,000 remnants of the army, and relying on this strength to resist the main army of Boyan that turned around to attack was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. While gathering the fleeing soldiers to return, he also organized the young and strong people in the city to participate in the task of defending the city and resisting the Yuan.

The letter for help was sent to Lin'an again and again, but there were no soldiers to send on the Lin'an side, and Changzhou City repelled the attacks of the Yuan soldiers again and again, but the personnel and materials in the city could not be effectively replenished, and the destruction of the city was almost doomed.

Lin Chenglin has lived on Dongshan Island for more than half a month, waiting for the gunpowder workshop to make more thunderstorms, ready to take them to Pingjiang and hand them over to Wen Tianxiang. When they were fine, the two drank and chatted, and slowly Zhao Tianyou learned more about the situation from his mouth.

At present, the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty are in chaos, and the war ahead is so fierce, but Quanzhou under the jurisdiction of Pu Shougeng is still singing at night. As the most developed port in terms of economy and trade, it can even be said that the business proportion of Quanzhou Port can reach 30% of the total economic output of the country, which is definitely the largest economic backing of the royal family of the Song Dynasty.

The edicts are all asking for money and food, Pu Shougeng has already put a bunch on the desk, and the letters entrusted to the ministers of various ministries have been thrown into the corner, and he is too lazy to look at them. The money and grain taxes that should be paid to Lin'an have all been transported away, and even next year's silver, the imperial court has already advanced it, and if you want to ask for it again, it depends on Pu Shougeng's mood.

In fact, he has not yet made up his mind in his heart, as a descendant of the Great Food Country, he is not concerned about the future of the Great Song Dynasty, he thinks about himself first, and then thousands of clansmen in Quanzhou. As long as Quanzhou Port can be handed over to him to manage, then more than a thousand large and small ships under his name can continue to make money, and if those thousands of people can live a prosperous life, he really doesn't care who the emperor is in the world.

Although the Mongol iron cavalry was brave and invincible, and could sweep thousands of miles to kill all directions, they could not do business, and they were amateurs in managing ports. Therefore, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, used the Song Dynasty generals on a large scale, whether it was a civil official or a military general, as long as he had the ability to surrender, he could almost be reused, and there were several precedents in the first place, and there were more people who surrendered in the Song army.

Pu Shougeng saw Zhu Qing last time, although he did not explain his attitude, but there was already a gap in his heart, and he was not as positive as before about the money, food, and military salaries sent to the north. The army's money and food are the lifeblood of the war, and the slightest difference may be lost by a thousand miles, and Pu Shougeng's ambiguous mentality has caused great trouble for the Song army on the northern battlefield.

The outer city of Changzhou has been broken by the Yuan army several times, but under the desperate struggle of the soldiers and civilians in the city, it has been taken back from the Yuan army several times. The soldiers and civilians in the city know very well that if the outer city is lost, it is equivalent to losing the opportunity to communicate with Lin'an for help, and then it will really be a dead city, so the real battle is to fight for control of the outer city.

October 26 happened to be the day when Mu Chenglin and Zhao Tianyou said goodbye to each other, took 2,500 thunderbolts to the sky, and took a fast boat to the north. Emperor Deyou ordered Zhang Quan, the general of the Huai Army, to lead more than 3,000 soldiers of the Huai Army to the south to reinforce Quanzhou.

Wen Tianxiang learned that Zhang Quansuo led the Huai army of only more than 3,000 people, and did not sleep all night in Pingjiang Prefecture, and on the second day, he was promoted to general in Pingjiang Mansion, and sent his generals Yin Yu, Ma Shilong, Zhu Hua and others to lead the Guang army and the Jiangxi army with more than 3,000 people, and cooperated with Zhang Quan to join forces to support the siege of Changzhou.

The officials of Pingjiang Prefecture cooperated with the generals who stayed behind to send reinforcements out of the city three miles away, and when they parted, Wen Tianxiang raised a glass and wept to see off his subordinates. When Ma Shilong and the others led the army to leave, Wen Tianxiang knelt down in Sanli Pavilion and sent this almost mortal team to the Changzhou battlefield.

Boyan was besieged for a long time, and the Song Dynasty sent reinforcements of only more than 3,000 people led by Zhang Quan, which was almost useless, and it was purely an act of sending people to death. It can be seen that Emperor Deyou was in a hurry at that time and was unable to effectively manage the resources of various state capitals.

Three days later, one of the most tragic battles of the Song and Yuan wars was about to unfold in Wumu, southeast of Changzhou.