On the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, a full moon hangs high in the sky, the stars are shining, and the little lights shine brightly, making the city of Jurong more and more tall.

The lights of the ten thousand homes in Jurong City are exceptionally bright, and the water village outside the city is already full of ships at the moment, and Ding Deyu, the capital supervisor, sent many generals of the Song and Wu Yue Kingdoms to guard the intercepted Tang army warships outside the city. However, the soldiers of Wu Yueguo did not have a cold to Ding Deyu, in the most difficult stage of the war in Changzhou, Ding Deyu often overstepped his own scope, and privately promoted Chang, Run and other states to inspect the envoys, who were ruthless, not sympathetic to the soldiers, and insatiable, and Wu Yue people suffered.

However, people always have their own bad problems, and now that they are in wartime, they should use their talents to employ people, and Zhao Kuangyin also took this into account when he appointed him as the capital supervisor of the Eastern Front. The three masters and apprentices of Wuyongzi also acted as the leader of Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, to supervise Ding Deyu, if Ding Deyu made a grudge against the heavens, Zhao Dezhao, who was in Jinling first, would abolish this chess piece.

The soldiers of Wu Yueguo honestly went to the place where the navy was stationed, the moonlight was very soft tonight, the Qinhuai River was rippling, and the silver circle on the water surface was also rippling little by little, on the water and land docks, the surrounding warships were also being repaired one after another, and the bow of the battleship and the cabin were also replaced with some gun carriages, trebuchets, and several red-clothed cannons developed by the Great Song Dynasty Ordnance Supervisor, but because of the long distance, if it was transported from the road, it would take a lot of labor, so it was only ten cars at the beginning. The cabins and other places were repaired and some losses were recovered.

And in the east mountain col of Jurong City, the army that has been dressed and solemn and fully equipped has appeared here, and the general led by him is burly and tall, with extraordinary strength, and his face is a little tired, although so, but the whole person looks majestic, when he saw the tall Jurong City, he said to a general beside him: "Li An, this is Jurong City?" ”

Li Andao, the general on the side: "Returning to Commander Li, this is Jurong, which is now occupied by our Song army." ”

A group of people walked in the wilderness, with the full moon overhead, and Jurong City in the distance has become a place of hope that everyone is looking forward to.

"I hope we come in time, if I wait a few days late, this delay in the fighter plane will hinder the great cause of the reunification of the Song Dynasty, and then I, Li Hanqiong, will be a sinner for the ages." General Li in the mouth of the general is the commander of the cavalry and the left wing of the war Li Hanqiong, Li Hanqiong was originally in the war on the Western Front, along the way from Qichun to attack the Xiakou, kill thousands of Tang troops, capture hundreds of ships, capture Chizhou, Tongling, Dangtu along the river, build a pontoon bridge in Niuzhu to let the army pass, and then under the order of Cao Bin, down the river, from Runzhou, Jingkou and other places, and then with Ding Deyu, Qian Yu army convergence.

"Yes." Li An on the side listened to Li Hanqiong's words, and his spirit was also encouraged.

Li Hanqiong looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally arrived at Jurong.

At this moment, Jurong seems to be extremely peaceful, not at all like in war, tonight the stars are shining, there is a full moon in the sky, and there is no need to light torches along the way.

By the moonlight, the group has approached the suburbs of Jurong City, the suburbs of the field is filled with a smell of grass, at first glance it seems that this is a peaceful land, but a few days ago here is dense with the smoke of war.

Now that the weather is hot, the weeds are growing very fast like crazy, which shows how vigorous the vitality of the weeds is, and has covered some of the ruins on the battlefield, making people mistakenly think that this place has settled down.

Li Hanqiong turned his head and looked at the soldiers who were trekking in the rear army, and he said in a long voice: "Soldiers, there is Jurong City ahead, speed up your feet, we will get there before midnight." ”

After half an hour, Li Hanqiong led his troops to 17,000 sailors, these 17,000 people, although the number does not seem to be much, but most of them are the elite of the Song Division, and they also act as a supernatural sword in the water battle.

The guards guarding the east gate of Jurong have seen the Song army sailor Li Hanqiong coming under the city, and immediately opened the city gate, and then the east gate of Jurong City has put down the drawbridge, and slowly descended with the drawbridge.

Li Hanqiong led some of his generals into the city, and the rest of the naval soldiers went to the location outside the city where the Tang army's warships were stationed.

Later, Ding Deyu knew that Li Hanqiong's troops were coming, and he immediately sent some food and food to reward Li Hanqiong's 17,000 people.

The huge assassination of the history of the mansion has now been fully numbered, and a huge marching sand table has also been placed in the mansion.

"Now that Commander Li has suddenly visited Jurong, the battle of our army can begin." Immediately afterwards, Wu Yongzi and others talked to Li Hanqiong and other generals about the military rulings that had been negotiated.

Although Li Hanqiong had just arrived, his body was a little tired, but for the battle, he was meticulous, and he listened very carefully at the moment, he stopped and walked according to the description of Wu Yongzi and others, standing in front of the simulated sand table, the huge sand table has already shown Jurong, Lishui, Jinling, the mountains and rivers near the hydrology, the county seat and other things, more vivid and specific than the marching map, and it is better to provide offensive and defensive strategies for the officers and soldiers of the two armies.

In this Jiangnan operation, the sand table was very beneficial to the Great Song army, and it also solved a lot of troubles.

Judging from the sand table, at present, the upstream Lishui town has become a corner with the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and now Jurong has been nailed to the place where the Tang army is attacking, Jurong is lost, the river where Jurong is located is connected to the Qinhuai River, and the navy can come out of the waterway and directly lead the army to threaten the downstream Jiangning Mansion and several military towns near Jiangning Mansion.

It's just that things in the world are not so perfect, in the end, Lishui is still in the hands of the Tang army's guards, although the Tang army has no time to take care of Jurong at the moment, because there is Maoshan Mountain, a mountain range that stretches for dozens of miles, if the Tang army wants to recover Jurong, it will take a lot of effort. And Ding Deyu and they only need to hold Jurong, and then let the navy guard the river that connects Jurong with the Qinhuai River, they can take advantage of the river and the mountains to sit back and relax.

However, the current battle situation in the south of the Yangtze River was very favorable to the Great Song Dynasty, and under such conditions, the Song army had to go out of Jurong, first go to the main river of the Qinhuai River along the river, and station troops there, and then one against the Qinhuai River, and the other to defend the confluence of the Qinhuai River and its tributaries connecting Jurong, which was located above a tributary of the Qinhuai River......

Li Hanqiong looked down at the huge sand table, his eyes were always fixed on the sand table, staring at the sand table and asking, "Who is the general guarding Lishui?" How many troops? ”

The generals beside him said: "The people guarding this place are more than 40,000 people from Li Xiong's department, the capital of the Tang army. ”

"Hmm." Li Hanqiong nodded and said, "Li Xiong's commander is not outstanding, this person is a fierce general in defending the city, but it is not enough for attacking the city, and now our army will put pressure on Lishui." However, there is Shijiu Lake on the southwest side of Lishui, this lake is connected to the big river, and the downstream quarrying, Dangtu and other important towns have been controlled by our army, and the water army can also go upstream, and our army besieges Lishui. ”

The generals listened to Li Hanqiong's words and asked: "In this way, our army's chances of winning Lishui will also add one more point." ”

Li An said: "That being said, Lishui can hold the upper reaches of the river, and you can go west out of the river through Shijiu Lake, go down the river from the Qinhuai River to Jiangning Mansion in the north, and attack Jurong from the tributaries of the Qinhuai River. ”

Li Hanqiong shook his head and said: "But at present, the Tang army is under the command of Li Xiong's troops, and it is difficult to protect itself, if the west goes out of the river, it will face the oppression of our Great Song Water Army; If we go down the river, if our Great Song Navy takes advantage of this to attack Lishui, Lishui's insufficient troops will be more likely to be broken by our army. ”

After listening to Li Hanqiong's words, everyone became more and more confident in the victory of the battle.

Wu Yongzi smiled slightly and said, "Commander Li's words are true, and Poor Dao also thinks so. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Li Hanqiong after hearing this, but Li Hanqiong thought secretly for a moment, and soon after, he raised his head and looked at Wu Yongzi and said, "Just listen to the military advisor." ”

Early the next morning, in the Assassin's Mansion, the generals were also talking in detail about the development of the war and drills.

The Song and Wu Yue armies in the city began to have grain, grass, ordnance and other things, and the Great Song sailors led by Li Hanqiong also began to inspect more than 300 large and small warships, but now there are only a few large ships in hand, and the rest are medium and small ships.

On the water surface of the tributaries of the Qinhuai River, there are small and medium-sized combat vehicles and boats, double-vehicle boats and four-vehicle boats, sea loaches (warships that imitate the shape of sea fish), double-wheels, ten-wheels, and anti-sand flat-bottomed are also some.

The vehicles and ships in the Tang army basically have two wooden wheel oars, one on each side, one wheel is called a car, and the paddles are trampled on by manpower, driving the oars to rotate, so that the ship is moving, and the forward speed is very fast, but the vehicles and ships of the Great Song Dynasty are more advanced than the vehicles and ships of the Tang Kingdom, and in the Great Song Dock Shipyard, the increase of the oars is generally 4 rounds, 6 wheels, 8 wheels, 20 wheels, 24 wheels and 32 rounds.

The highest kind has not yet been applied to reality for the time being, but this time in the (Southern) Tang, multi-wheeled ships have been put into use in the war.

Because it was a captured Tang Army naval warship, it was also equipped with some slapstick rods to hammer the enemy ship, and at the same time, Li Hanqiong also exclaimed, fortunately, such a ship was not destroyed, otherwise they would have spent a lot of effort to prevent attacks on the water.

Just in case, before preparing for the expedition, Li Hanqiong checked all the ships, such as the rockets, crossbows, catapults, and slapping rods on the ships, and after confirming that they were correct, he began to prepare his strategy for attacking Lishui. This time, they mainly attacked the Tang army's naval army, and secondly, they also helped the Song and Wu Yue coalition forces on land to pull out a potential nail, so that they could fight the Tang army on land with peace of mind, in addition, Li Hanqiong also planned to let the Tang army's Shenwei naval army stationed in the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River be wiped out, so that in the next battle, the Song army could relieve a lot of pressure.

Li Hanqiong carefully recalled in his mind the situation of simulating the battle on the sand table, because it was against the current, which was a bit of a loss, but for Li Hanqiong, his own Song army was the elite, they had experienced the battles from Hukou, Anhuikou, quarrying, Jingkou and other places, and those who survived the battle to the end were the elite of the elite.

Two days later, it was finally time to set off, and this period of time was mostly sunny, and most of them were scorching sun, and the air was very dull, and there were short thundershowers in the afternoon.

Under the arrangement of the commander, the Song and Wu Yue armies were divided into two routes, a large Song naval army led by Li Hanqiong on the water, a total of more than 300 large and small warships, along the bank of the Qinhuai River led the army is Ding Deyu and Qian Yu's Song State, Wu Yue State coalition army, at this moment they set off with the Song State Navy on the water and went up along the shore.

Starting from Jurong to Lishui, there is almost a distance of more than 70 miles, but if you start from Jurong, you have to cross Maoshan Mountain, which takes a lot of time, and not long after, they requisitioned some fishing boats and other small boats nearby, and transported Ding Deyu and Qian Yu's Song and Wu Yue armies to the confluence of the Qinhuai River and the river flowing out from Jurong through the waterway.

This is Jinling, fifty or sixty miles away, because there are heavy guards along the lower reaches of the river, it is to cut off the time, you can see sporadic Tang army ships on the river, but the number and scale are not much, they are only along the river defense, the well water does not interfere with the river water.

After a team of the Song army got off the boat, they followed the same pace and followed the trail in the Maoshan Mountains to the southwest of Lishui.

About two days later, under the leadership of Ding Deyu, Qian Yu and others, the Ma Bujun of Song and Wu Yueguo had come to a place less than 20 miles away from Lishui.

At this time, the front also inquired about the exciting news, the Song State Navy had cleared the remnants of the Tang Army in the prefectures and counties near Dangtu, and at this moment the leading water division had arrived in Shijiu Lake.

The battle in Lishui came so quickly, and the military report came, which was unexpected, which made the Song army and Wu Yuejun very happy.

"I didn't expect that the western side has also begun to step up the offensive against Lishui, and my eastern front will also accelerate the pace and encircle Lishui." At this moment, in the Song and Wu Yue armies, a joy arose in the hearts of all the soldiers

Away from Shijiu Lake on the southwest side of Lishui City, the Tang State guards in Lishui suddenly received an invasion from ten miles to the southwest, which was Shijiu Lake, the (southern) Tang Army's garrison.

This is another naval army of the Song army that went up the river from Dangtu, not Li Hanqiong and them, they are Jinghu water divisions, and they have appeared in Shijiu Lake at this moment.

The guards of Lishui have successively discovered the traces of the Song army's navy, and after a period of time, the Song army's military force is proud of its majesty after all, the east side of Shijiu Lake, all the way into no man's land, Shijiu Lake, the Song army probably has thousands of warships, competing to come.

The surface of Shijiu Lake is almost one-third of the size of Taihu Lake, usually the Tang State Navy is also stationed here, training, since the Song army has captured Wankou, Dangtu, quarrying and other nearby major Tang army strongholds, the Tang Army of Lishui Shijiu Lake has been coiled here, the exit of the lake to the west has been blocked by the Song and Han coalition forces, and the Tang Army is helpless, and Lishui because of the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River, and close to the Shijiu Lake Tang Army Naval Division Station, according to the order of the Privy Council is to defend this place.

Today, this Song army suddenly appeared on the surface of Shijiu Lake, it is difficult to deal with it, the size of the Song army's warships, a large number, and equipped with a lot of newly developed weapons, multi-wheeled vehicles and ships are the results of the development of the Song Dynasty, and the rest of the warships are also the first time to appear, and they are put into the war.

Among these warships, there were building ships, flat-bottomed boats, car ships, gunboats, etc., and the battle of the Song army was also set up on the surface of Shijiu Lake.

The sails on the masts stood out in the sunlight, and the ships gathered around them were hulls wrapped in iron sheets, guarding them to the east.

The Tang Army's naval base on the east side of Shijiu Lake was also exposed to the clairvoyant mirror, and from a distance, the Tang Army's every move was in the eyes of this Song army general.

This general is the original (later) Zhou surrendered to the Shu general (name forgot), Zhou Shizong south of the Huaibei Huainan, he was in the Jianghuai battle, because of the courage of the battle, Zhou Shizong Guo Rong (Chai Rong) was promoted to the sailor Du Yuhou, after the Jiangbei War, and in the teaching boat pool to teach the naval drill.

And beside him is the Jianwu Army Jiedu, the Hujie Army Du Yu Hou, and the front of the palace are all commanding Yang Xin, this time in the south, Zhao Kuangyin appointed Yang Xin as the northern camp of Shengzhou Ma Bu Army Battle Deployment Capital, and then Yang Xin took the clairvoyant mirror from the hands of this general, nodded, and then gestured with a gesture, Tian Yunu on the side was also translating.

The general understood what his boss had said, and he immediately sent the order down.

At this moment, Yang Xin and the others led 20,000 sailors of the Hujie Army to crush everything in the Tang Army on Shijiu Lake.

A few miles away from the Tang army, the Song army ordered the stone thrower to drop stone projectiles, and ordered the crossbowmen to release rockets, fire crossbows and other objects, and in an instant the sky was full of stone projectiles, rockets, and fire crossbows, and the stone projectiles fell on the Tang army's warships in a parabolic manner, and their ships had been blown apart by the power of stone bullets

The arrows piercing through the clouds and the sky and the earth cracked, so that the Tang army could not parry the firepower of the Song army.

The Tang army was unable to move forward, and behind them was the land, while the Song army was pressing forward step by step, and was bound to destroy its own combat power on the water.

At this moment, the Tang army got closer to the Song army's ships, they also threw stone bullets and other objects, and the rest of the Tang army officers and soldiers in the rear drove their boats and leaned towards the shore, they planned to have a face-to-face landing battle.

Song Jun saw that the other party was also throwing stone bombs, so he temporarily took a few steps back from the boat, and the ships wrapped in iron armor on the periphery surrounded all the large and small ships inside.

The Song ships received an attack from the other side on the periphery, but they were unharmed inside.

There was a rough wave on the water, and the boats began to rise and fall with the lake.

Before long, Yang Xin observed through the clairvoyant mirror and found that the opponent's stone bullets had been used up, and after Tian Yunu translated, the rest of the generals ordered all the ships to move forward quickly.

The Tang army on the opposite side found that the Song army had adopted this fateless way, so they immediately released the rocket, but the other party suddenly divided into two columns, and all the hulls were regularly divided into a "eight" figure.

The Tang army didn't know what this thing was, but the Song army was already ordering the shipment of gunpowder and ammunition.

The sky was still clear and blue, with scattered birds flying by.

Under the orders of the envoy of the war, the Song army had already finished loading, and then under the instructions of the chief bannerman, they immediately lit the fuse on the brass pipe.

"Puff puff" a few times, and then landed on the board, hull, bow and stern of the opponent's ship, and on the nearby water.

"Boom-" With a few loud noises, the hull of the Tang Army was exploded, and huge holes appeared, and water poured into the holes quickly, and several warships had already half of their hulls submerged into the lake at this moment, and the officers and men of the Tang Navy on board were also forced to fall into the lake.

The Song army did not stop attacking, the entire river was already billowing with gunsmoke, and the direction was no longer clear around, and the smell of sulfur and oil was mixed, and there were stumps, broken plates, and the smell of blood, which made people sick.