At noon, Li Yanqing led 10,000 troops and 30,000 cavalry to arrive in Wucheng County, Wucheng County guards Wang Dian and Ma Wenchun had received the news that Wu Zhan's army had been completely annihilated, the two were frightened, and sent a pigeon letter to Lin'an at dawn for help, but before they could hear back, Li Yanqing's 40,000 troops came to the city.

"It's actually cavalry!"

Wang Dian saw the overwhelming cavalry, and exclaimed in fright, and the defenders at the head of the city were also trembling, once the city was broken, I am afraid that their lives would not be saved.

At this moment, a cavalryman galloped up, shot a letter into the city more than a hundred paces away, and then rushed back.

A soldier picked up the letter, hurriedly ran to report to Wang Dian, Wang Dian took the letter, immediately startled, is Li Yanqing's ultimatum, half an hour later, the rebel army will attack the city in a big way, once the city is broken, the main general Wang Dian, deputy general Ma Wenchun will be beheaded to show the public, never forgive, if surrendered before the siege, Wang Dian and Ma Wenchun can spare the death penalty, resignation for the people.

Ma Wenchun stepped forward to take a closer look, and immediately said angrily: "This is Li Yanqing's sincerity? If you want us to surrender and expel us to the people, who the hell is willing to surrender, it is better to fight to the death. ”

Wang Dian didn't say anything for a long time, Ma Wenchun was worried that Wang Dian would be tempted, and hurriedly persuaded: "The other party has no siege weapons, although there are many troops, but most of them are cavalry, and they can't attack the city at all, we can completely hold the county and wait for the Emperor Taishang to send troops to rescue. ”

Wang Dian nodded, "You have a point, why don't we divide the division of labor to defend the city, you are responsible for the north city and the west city, and I will guard the south city and the east city." ”

"That's the best!"

Ma Wenchun was overjoyed, turned around and left, at this moment, Wang Dian suddenly pulled out his sword, and stabbed Ma Wenchun's back heart from the face, the long sword pierced through the chest, Ma Wenchun screamed miserably, and immediately fell to the ground.

Wang Dian said coldly in his ear: "Since you want to die, then I will send you to the West Heaven first!" ”

As soon as he drew his long sword, blood spurted out, and Ma Wenchun was killed on the spot.

Wang Dian wiped the long sword on him and shouted: "Open the door and surrender!" ”

The city gate of Wucheng County slowly opened, 10,000 troops marched out of the city gate, put their weapons and armor aside, and the soldiers raised their hands to concentrate on one side, Li Yanqing gave Cao Meng a look, and Cao Meng immediately led more than 1,000 cavalry to guide the troops to the west open space to concentrate.

At this time, the Lord tied up the king's five flowers, knelt on the ground and asked for punishment.

Li Yanqing nodded and said to him: "You betray the Lord for glory, although you deserve to die, but I think you take the initiative to surrender and save the lives of the soldiers, I will spare you and allow you to pack up your belongings and leave." ”

A soldier stepped forward to loosen his tie, and Wang Dian kowtowed and thanked: "Thank you for not killing!" ”

Wang Dian then got up and returned to the city, and went to pack up his things with a few personal soldiers.

In just two days and one night, Li Yanqing completely annihilated 40,000 new forbidden troops, and at the same time reorganized and surrendered the army, obtained 30,000 new troops, plus 30,000 Jingzhao cavalry rushed to help in the battle, Li Yanqing's army jumped to 110,000 people, while Zhao Ji's army quickly dropped to 90,000 people, and the ratio of troops underwent a substantial change.

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Early in the morning, a fleet of 300 seagoing ships is slowly sailing into the mouth of the Yangtze River, this is the seagoing fleet from Mingzhou harbor, Du Chong served as a shipbuilder and then spent three years to build this batch of seagoing ships, the size ranges from 6,000 stone to 3,000 stone, although it is not a super ship of 10,000 stones, but the ships are also very strong, can withstand the wind and waves at sea, and can travel back and forth between the South China Sea and Japan.

The purpose of Zhao Gou's large expenditure on the construction of these ships was to form a fleet of official and merchant ships to conduct overseas trade, make huge profits, and solve the problem of financial constraints.

The original plan was to go to sea for the first time after the canonization ceremony, the materials and personnel were ready, once the canonization was over, it sailed to Japan, but the change was not as planned, a palace coup made the voyage plan aborted, Zhao Ji issued an edict to requisition all 300 new sea ships for military use.

Liu Guangshi's messenger for help gave these ships the first use, and 300 ships sailed to Taizhou to meet the 50,000-strong army across the Yangtze River.

Zhao Ji was finally a little anxious, Li Yanqing fought in Huzhou, annihilated 40,000 troops in one fell swoop, killed Wu Zhan, released Wang Dian, and shook the entire Lin'an Mansion.

Although Li Yanqing did not immediately lead the army south, but reorganized and surrendered the army in Huzhou, this method of leading but not triggering made the army's morale even more unstable.

In this case, Zhao Ji urgently needed Liu Guangshi to lead an army to attack from the north and attack Li Yanqing's back, forcing Li Yanqing to have to return to defend Pingjiang Mansion.

The Yangtze River estuary in the Song Dynasty was still very different from today, Chongming Island was not fully formed, there were only three small islands, one of which appeared on the small town, called Chongming Town, and the residents on it were all fishing for a living.

As soon as 300 seagoing ships sailed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, a warship fleet appeared in front of them, lined up on the Yangtze River, blocking the way of the seagoing fleet.

At this time, there were a series of explosions on the river, the water waves were monstrous, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the huge explosion sound was terrifying, which was a strong threat of war, and if the ships did not dock, they would be directly sunk.

The 300 ships did not have much troops, and each ship consisted of only about 20 sailors and two or three escort soldiers, and under the strong threat of the enemy's warships, the ships had to compromise with each other, and turned their bows and sailed to the south shore.

At this time, there were 30,000 elite soldiers assembled on the south bank, commanded by Cao Sheng, and at the same time as the 300 ships left the port of Mingzhou, the intelligence scout in Mingzhou urgently sent a pigeon message to Pingjiang Prefecture, coupled with Liu Guangshi's hint, Li Yanqing judged that these 300 ships must have rushed to the Yangtze River to receive Liu Guangshi's army to cross the river.

He immediately made a careful plan, Cao Sheng led 30,000 people to the north again, and Nguyen Thi Sanxiong was responsible for intercepting these 300 sea ships.

In the afternoon of the same day, 30,000 elite soldiers boarded ships at Taicang Port on the south bank, and 300 seagoing ships immediately turned around in the Yangtze River and sailed towards the south in a mighty manner.

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Three days later, the grain ships from Pingjiang Mansion arrived in Jiaxing Province, and with sufficient logistical support, Li Yanqing led 40,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry to Lin'an Province.

The situation is not optimistic, Zhao Ji transferred the 20,000 troops of Shaoxing Mansion to Lin'an Mansion, except for the 20,000 troops to defend the capital, the remaining 70,000 troops were all deployed on the first line of the Huantang River - Canal, under the unified command of the general, Wang Miaofu of Huiji County, ready to fight to the death with Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing's army was stationed in Linping Town, confronting the new forbidden army twenty miles away, Li Yanqing was not in a hurry to attack, he was still patiently waiting for news from Cao Sheng.

At this time, the situation was extremely strange, and the states and counties that had publicly expressed their support for the ruling power of Emperor Zhao Ji were silent or anti-water, and Han Du, the prefect of Ningguo Prefecture, issued a letter to the world, publicly accusing Emperor Zhao Ji of launching a palace coup d'état and calling for the return of power to the Son of Heaven.

Immediately, Qingyuan Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou, Huizhou and other state capitals responded one after another, openly asking the Emperor Taishang to return to power to the Son of Heaven.

Lin'an City is full of tension, teams of soldiers patrol the streets and alleys, everywhere to arrest passers-by suspected of being Li Yanqing's spies, martial law has been imposed in the city, ordinary people are asked to stay at home, a carriage slowly drives through the street, the carriage is followed by four cavalry guards on both sides, and at the top of the carriage is planted an apricot yellow pennant, which is called a pass flag, and there is a number on it, allowing soldiers to allow vehicles with such flags to cross the city.

The number of this flag is B-8, and although it is not a top person, it is also an important person.

The owner of this carriage is Qin Hui, who is currently the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the secretary of Shangshu Zuocheng, and has real power in his hands, but due to the influence of Li Yanqing, the states of the world did not respond to support the regent of the Emperor Taishang, so that Shangshu Province was in a state of idling, and Qin Hui was also in name only.

The carriage entered the imperial city, and the imperial city was as deserted, and basically there was no shadow of the official, which made Qin Hui sigh secretly, since Li Yanqing annihilated 40,000 troops in Huzhou, the situation was reversed, so that the states that supported the emperor turned back, and the officials in the DPRK and China also found various reasons to ask for leave, and the entire court affairs were at a standstill.

Although Qin Hui didn't know what to discuss with himself, he could also guess that there would basically be no other issues other than how to deal with Li Yanqing.

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of the Zhizheng Hall, and Qin Hui got out of the carriage and walked directly towards the gate.

"Qin Shangshu, someone suddenly called him from behind."

Qin Hui turned around, it turned out to be Xiangguo Fan Zongyin, he stopped, and said with a smile: "I thought I was late, but I didn't expect Fan Xianggong to be one step later." ”

Fan Zongyin smiled bitterly and said: "I was unwell today, and I wanted to take a day off, but the emperor didn't allow it, and sent someone to urge me, but I had no choice but to come." ”

Qin Hui smiled faintly, "At this time, don't expect to ask for leave to avoid the problem, I don't want to come, but I don't dare not come." ”