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In the valley outside Jurong City, the forest is verdant

In the past few days, Lin Renzhao has been training soldiers and horses outside the barracks, and has stepped up the transfer of many military grains and grass from Runzhou.

Ma Chengjun's side is still detained in the barracks, but Ma Chengjun's side has neither expressed his position nor other intentions to surrender, although he saw the letter written by the lord Li Yu himself, as well as the pair of dragon and phoenix jade pendants, but with these two points alone, he still can't convince himself, maybe this Lin Renzhao has the ambition to be the emperor in his heart, which is a bad thing for the Tang Dynasty.

In this period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, it is not a new thing for military generals to become emperors, and most of them are just a matter of watching the flowers.

When Ma Chengjun thought so, he stayed in the barracks day and night, doing nothing.

On the playground of the barracks, Lin Renzhao said to the soldiers on the playground: "Today, the soldiers and horses of our army have completed the drill, and there are self-prepared ordnance and food, township soldiers from all over the country, and some local town and festival soldiers, among which there are many defense envoys and soldiers sent by the assassin history, and now there are about 70,000 horses in our Runzhou army. In the past few days, after consulting with the generals, I plan to attack the city of Jurong. ”

"Okay."

Lin Renzhao personally led the elite cavalry to accompany him, with the follow-up troops and horses, raised his horses and waved his sword, and entered the preparations for attacking Jurong City.

The men and horses led by Lin Renzhao were endless, and the marching pace in front was neat, and it seemed that the military appearance of this army was very neat.

Jurong has a curved mountain, and the mountain is shaped like the word 'already'. Kei distance from the three Mao Jiangling, with nine curves of Qinhuai, the county is surrounded by mountains and rivers on all sides, like a city. The river is a little narrow, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and lush forests.

There is a river near Jurong, as long as it is crossed, there are also some boats stationed on the river, since the last time Jurong was attacked one after another, Li Congqing sent some soldiers and horses over.

Now that it is the dry season, this river has not become a barrier for Jurong, and Jurong's side did not expect that Lin Renzhao's army would come so quickly.

At the head of Jurong City at the moment, Ma Chengcheng was stubborn, and his eyes were fixed on the dense army of Lin Renzhao not far from the city. There are also a lot of equipment to defend the city above the head of Jurong City, and moats are still being excavated in several places.

Ma Chengxin secretly thought, now that Ma Chengjun has been captured, the Lishui army has temporarily lost its commander, but Ma Chengcheng has also gathered some living troops in the city, plus the troops requisitioned by the imperial court from Jiangyou, there are now fifty or sixty thousand.

The siege began, and everything was as Lin Renzhao expected.

All the siege equipment was used, smoke rose in the air from the other side of the walls, and the city head was swallowed up by a pungent smell, like the smell of burning plastic in the air.

That's right, this is fierce fire oil.

When Lin Renzhao's army used a ladder to climb the tower, Ma Chengcheng immediately ordered his soldiers to pour it with fierce fire oil. The fierce fire oil and water could not be extinguished, and they were only burned alive.

As the besieging party, Lin Renzhao saw that the ladder in front of him was already burning more and more, and the black fierce fire oil poured down at once, swallowing the ladder with fire, and the soldiers on the ladder fell directly from the ladder and died.

"Shoot directly with a rocket, prepare with a catapult, and put on a fire oil tank." Lin Renzhao discovered the loophole and immediately asked people to temporarily abandon the use of the ladder to climb the city entrance and directly throw the oil canister from a distance.

The siege equipment had been prepared, the oil cylinders were ignited, and they took the clay pots, and then flew towards the opposite Jurong city like flying locusts.

When they encountered the fire oil at the head of the city, it burned fluidly, and it burned wherever it flowed, and the soldiers at the head of the city were also swallowed by the oil cylinders, and they tried their best to extinguish the fire, but they were burned to death by the fire in the end.

"Bang-" One by one, the crockpots also mischievously flew into the city from the front of Lin Renzhao's army outside the city with the help of catapults, and those soldiers at the head of the city who had no time to dodge were brought by the splashing flames, and the soldiers on fire were so anxious that they rolled on the ground, and then flew one by one, and some soldiers who had just extinguished the flames of their bodies met their intimate behavior again, and then fell into the arms of death.

The attack on Jurong City, from day to night, has now passed three or four hours.

Lin Renzhao's army went forward one after another, shooting with bows and crossbows, and now the other side has suffered more than half of the casualties, and a battle has come down.

The eastern gate of Jurong has been captured by Lin Renzhao's army.

…… It was already dark, and the smell of coke and oil filled the air.

Jurong City was already on fire, and it was devoured by the fierce fire oil.

A few hours later, Ma Chengcheng swung his sword in desperation and killed himself.

Jurong was also captured by Lin Renzhao's army. As soon as the southeast gate of Jiangning Mansion was opened, Lishui, which was far away in the south, could not stop the army at all.

Ma Chengjun also knew about Ma Chengcheng's self-murder, but now he can't do anything, Ma Chengjun cried bitterly for a moment, Fang raised his head, and cursed Lin Renzhao in his mouth that he couldn't die well.

The next day, the fast horse sent the military report of Jurong in front of him back to Jinling City, Jiangning Prefecture.

In the Zhaoqing Hall of the Imperial Palace, the country is in turmoil and does not think about the government, Li Congqing has been indulging in it since he realized the male sex, and now the country is in danger, the war is disturbing, Li Congqing is more and more indulgent and sensual.

Outside the hall, there was another rapid sound, "Your Majesty, it's not good." ”

Li Congqing yelled: "What's the matter? ”

"Your Majesty, let's go and have a look." Under Li Yannian's service, Li Congqing quickly put on his clothes.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report ahead, Jurong has missed." The sergeant of Kuaima had already arrived in front of Li Congqing, and he knelt down and told Li Congqing the news that Jurong had lost his position and Ma Chengcheng had killed himself.

Li Congqing directly picked up a leg and kicked the sergeant out.

The sudden kick made the sergeant's whole body fly out, and when he got up, the corners of his mouth overflowed with bright blood, he wiped the blood on his lips, quickly crawled over, and said, "Your Majesty." ”

"Hmph—what's the use of raising you? Why don't you go to the Privy Council and enter the palace to discuss military affairs? Li Congqing said the next sentence, and the sergeant crawled out of the palace with a rolling belt.

Jurong's missed military report made the Privy Council already busy.

Li Congqing was also in a hurry, he was very angry, all the tables and chairs in the Zhaoqing Hall were kicked over by him, and even more, Li Yannian, who was lying on the bed, was covered in blue and purple, and he was very miserable.

In the Guangzheng Palace, Zhang Xun, Han Xizai, Gong Shenyi and others changed their official uniforms and hurriedly entered the palace to face the saints.

Li Congqing was late, and he looked angry, but everyone obviously felt that the new emperor in front of them gave them a feeling of murder, Zhang Xun shook his head, Han Xizai looked like he was watching the excitement, and Gong Shenyi and other ministers were silent.

"Ma Chengxin is really not Lin Renzhao's opponent." It's just that the rebels wiped out the Jurong army, and there was a lack of a general to lead the troops on the Lishui side, so he directly summoned a cadre of the Privy Council to enter the palace to discuss countermeasures.

After that, taking the advice of the Privy Council, Li Congqing ordered the mobilization of the Shenwei water army to settle on the side of the Qinhuai River, and then mobilized troops from Lishui to return to the eleven or twelve small towns near Jurong to block the rebels along the Qinhuai River.

During this period, the (southern) Tang navy has also been guarding near Jiangning Mansion, defending against Lin Renzhao's rebels on the one hand, and defending against the southward army of the Song State on the other hand, but there is no movement on the Song side, and there seems to be peace in the Great Song Kingdom on the other side.

The two armies began to fight along the Qinhuai River, and the smoke of gunpowder rose on both sides of the Qinhuai River, but these few times, the two sides did not take much advantage, the two armies drew many times, and the Tang Navy was indeed called powerful.

In recent days, there have been rumors in the city, and it is about the defeat, which is naturally mixed with some things about the lord Li Yu, when Li Congqing heard this, he ordered people to kill all these rumors, and also left a notoriety of a tyrant to the people of Jinling, and the people of Jinling dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

At the other end of the protocol, because he received the news that the Song army was heading south, Cao Bin planned to return to the Song State first, and naturally Wang Pu had been playing a role in finding Zhao Dezhao.

Zhao Dezhao in the city was proceeding according to the original plan, and they were also looking forward to the arrival of various armies.

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Far away in Jurong hundreds of miles away outside the city of Changzhou

Changzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River and the shore of Taihu Lake. Since Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, led the camp in the southeast of Shengzhou to appease the envoys, and Ding Deyu was the capital supervisor of the Wu Yue army, at this moment they have successively captured Jiangyin, Yixing and other places, and are waving their troops towards Changzhou.

At night, the troops of Wu Yueguo's army simply ate some dry food, and before they had time to rest, they suddenly saw a fast horse coming quickly towards the outside of Changzhou City, and the soldiers on horseback got off the horse at this moment, panting and trotting to the big tent of the military camp outside Changzhou City.

After the soldier saw Qian Yu and Ding Deyu, he immediately said: "Tell Your Majesty, Ding Dujian." Jurong reported that Lin Renzhao raided Jurong City, and now he has captured Jurong City. ”

The two were also very curious, and said in unison: "Oh, Jurong is in Lin Renzhao's hands? And Ding Deyu is more of a loss.

Ding Deyu asked the soldier who delivered the letter alone: "Where is the Song army now?" ”

"Back to Dingdujian, according to the report three days ago, the Jingshi Navy has arrived in Chuzhou at this moment since it went south along Bianshui, and it will soon be able to reach the city of Yangzhou."

"Well, big things can be expected." Ding Deyu estimated the days, it seems that the Song State Navy will be able to rush to Yangzhou day and night, and after crossing the Yangtze River, strive to take Runzhou, and then the two armies converge and kill behind Lin Renzhao, "It seems that our army is going to speed up, now Changzhou has not been taken, and the remaining two armies have already gone down to Yixing and Jiangyin first, and after taking Changzhou in the past few days, they will immediately rush to Runzhou and join the Song army." ”

Jiangling Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, at this moment has gathered the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty and the (Southern) Han Dynasty, a total of 780,000 appearances, on this day, after the mist recedes in the early morning, hundreds of large and small warships are magnificently lined up on the river, there are dozens of miles long, and the scene is magnificent.

"This time, the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Han Dynasty united to attack Li Congqing, so as to calm the crooked evil in the world and correct the fundamentals."