When the land war on Zhang San's side was not over, the water war on that side was over, and the water war was simpler than the land war, and for civilian ships without any weapons, encountering heavily armed Ryukyu warships would be equivalent to being slaughtered.

After lighting the two ships that tried to resist and escape, the other ships obediently stopped to the prisoner area according to the command of the Ryukyu warship, and the navy suggested that they should be tied to the Ryukyu directly with the civilian ships, but Zhang San was worried that there would be no change in the middle of the long journey, so it was better to wait for the special transport ship to come over.

It just so happened that these captured civilian ships were all used to sit and sink after the canal was loaded with earth and stones, so that the Great Song Dynasty could not clean up the river before it broke through Yangzhou, and the river could not be cleaned up without new ships, as for Yangzhou, it had not yet reacted from this war, and even if they reacted, their little strength would not be of much use.

The Yangzhou section of the Grand Canal is still relatively wide, but Zhang San doesn't have to sink the boat side by side, only needs to sink irregularly, and other ships naturally don't dare to go around.

After completing the encirclement and suppression of the forbidden army, Zhang San's army began to move north on a large scale and began to camp outside the south gate of Yangzhou.

When the defenders of Yangzhou were attracted by the troops at the south gate, an army of 20,000 people outside the north gate quietly lurked outside the city, waiting for a signal from the city.

How could Zhang San forget the two cheating masters on Liangshan, so this time Yang Tai went to change the guard, which can be described as 'complete procedures'. When they came to the city, the city gate guards were also very happy to see a large number of reinforcements arriving.

Yang Tai didn't talk nonsense and shouted: "Ordered! Order your department to immediately hand over the city defense and go to the west gate to support the defense! ”

The city gate officer took the fuse and saw that the formalities were complete and there was no nonsense, and immediately began to hand over, Yang Tai took over the north gate smoothly, looking at the defenders running towards the west gate, Yang Tai shouted: "Open the door, put the signal to prepare for defense." ”

A string of red lanterns suddenly lit up on the city, and the army outside the city immediately approached the city gate when they saw it, until they entered the city, everyone was still in a dream, such a big city was so easily breached?

Even Zhang Yuanba was muttering dissatisfiedly, Zhang San was afraid that the city gate would not be able to guard him and deliberately transferred him to Yang Tai, if necessary, Zhang Yuanba could be a thousand, but when Zhang Yuanba put on his armor and took a double hammer to prepare to kill, he did find that it was Wang Yin, his own people, who were waiting for him.

Now that he has entered the city, the battle of Yangzhou is over here, when Wang Yin led the troops to run through two blocks, the people on the street reacted, and shouted like killing pigs, the thief army entered the city!

Then the whole Yangzhou suddenly became chaotic, Yang Tai handed over the defense of the city gate to the Yutai battalion, and he took the guard battalion to the Yangzhou Mansion to kill! When the intelligence officers in the city saw that their troops had entered the city without any problems, they also began to shout in the streets.

Anyway, the city was broken, the official army was defeated, the prefect ran away, the general surrendered and other rumors, and they were still setting fire everywhere to create chaos, Yangzhou City originally had less than 20,000 defenders, or saw the war on the west bank of the river and temporarily recruited a group of people.

At this time, as soon as I heard that the city was broken, the shouts of killing were everywhere in the sight, the fire was soaring, and in an instant the people ran away, and the soldiers defending the city also ran half, and when the rest of the people were still hesitating, Wang Yin led the army to the south gate.

There are enemies outside the city and inside the city, so they still defend a fart city and fight a fart battle, these people who didn't run have no place to run, so they simply surrendered, so Zhang San sent two more regiments of soldiers into the city to maintain the continuity, implement a curfew, and send out the supervision team.

So far, the battle of Yangzhou is over, Zhang San successfully occupied Yangzhou, the whole battle of the Ryukyu Army casualties of less than 1,000 people, the total annihilation of the Song Dynasty forbidden army of 90,000, Yangzhou defenders of more than 10,000 people, can be described as an unprecedented victory.

After the battle was completed, the rest was to negotiate, Zhang San believed that the Ryukyu Army would have no problem at all by relying on the strength of the naval division and Jiancheng to defend him for a year and a half, in fact, even if he did not occupy Yangzhou, as long as he wreaked havoc on the canal, he could achieve his goal.

But Zhang San needed a point to attract the attention of the Great Song Dynasty, so that the coastal raids would become less conspicuous, so that Zhang San occupied a city, then according to the inertia of people's thinking, the next step was a large-scale siege and defense battle.

In this way, the Great Song monarchs may have put the shipbuilding matter behind them for the time being, thinking of driving the Ryukyu army from Yangzhou first, so as to give Zhang San more time to further plunder the coast.

For example, there are many shipyards on the Yangtze River down from Yangzhou, in fact, there are also rivers above Yangzhou, but there are mostly river-building ships there, anyway, the army can escape smoothly along the sea route, and Zhang San is not afraid of the large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Song army.

The news of the destruction of Yangzhou City was rushed to Tokyo by 800 miles, Zhao Ji and others knew the news the next night, Zhao Ji did not react at first, thinking that it was just a city, and it was occupied and recaptured.

But Cai Jing and the others are indeed not fools, and it is impossible for someone who can become the prime minister not even to have this brain, so when Cai Jing and Zhao Ji analyzed the power of this, Zhao Ji was also in a hurry, and immediately convened a court meeting to discuss the matter.

The Grand Canal was cut off, it was a major event related to everyone's silver and stomach, this time the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers showed amazing efficiency, discussed overnight, and made a decision on the third day, ordering Tong Guan to return to Beijing, mobilize 100,000 forbidden troops from the capital, and then mobilize 100,000 from other regions to form 200,000 forbidden troops to encircle and suppress the Ryukyu Army again.

After the news came out on the third day, the price of grain in the capital rose by two percent in an instant, and the people in the capital were panicked, and the news of the defeat of the 100,000 forbidden army immediately spread throughout the city, and the whole of Tokyo panicked.

Tong Guan was cleaning up Western Xia in the northwest at this time, and the war was fighting at a critical moment, although the strength of Western Xia had been greatly damaged in the past two years, it was not something that the Song army could pinch as noodles, and there would still be heavy losses if he was not careful, so although Tong Guan wanted to invite credit, he didn't dare to play around.

And Zhang San did inspect the city defense in Yangzhou, the good news is that the city wall is still intact, there is a lot of bad news, the rice grain in the warehouse is fake, the equipment inventory for defending the city is fake, and the reserve of materials for defending the city is also fake.

But fortunately, Zhang San did not count on the discipline of the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty at all, and while the Song army had not yet come, Zhang San decided to occupy the prefectures and counties near Yangzhou, anyway, the soldiers were idle, and Yangzhou could not use so many people to defend.

The first target of the attack was Zhenjiang on the other side of Yangzhou, where there were still 10,000 advance teams of the forbidden army, and Zhang San planned to attack all the cities along the river below Yangzhou, so that his retreat would be safer.