Chapter 172: Raising Troops
Jinling City, the sun is shining brightly, and it is also a rare day, and this day is the day when Li Congqing ascends the throne.
Inside and outside the palace hall, there was a sound of bells and music, very festive, today Li Congqing has changed into an apricot-colored five-clawed dragon robe under the service of the palace maid.
In a corner of the hall, a palace lady dressed in pink clothes is squatting down, adding ambergris to the smoker, and in an instant, the spices from the East China Sea have been lit in the hall, and a faint incense curls up, like green smoke, filling the entire palace.
Li Congqing suddenly sniffed, and then smelled the incense on the dragon robe, all of which made him extremely addicted, and he seemed to see himself sitting on the dragon throne in his eyes, and the audience was full of civil and military ministers. Li Congqing thought about it, smiled proudly again, and touched the palace maid's hand restlessly.
"Prison Country." The palace maid said embarrassedly.
"It's time to call Your Majesty." Li Congqing said with a smile.
At this moment, an attendant hurriedly ran into the hall, and the male duck said loudly: "Your Majesty, it's time to be promoted, the ministers are waiting for you." ”
At this moment, the palace maid had already helped Li Congqing change into a dragon robe, and helped him put on the dragon crown neatly, and tidied up a corner of the robe.
Li Congqing walked out of the hall and strode towards the enthronement hall.
In the main hall, hundreds of officials were looking forward to it, and Li Congqing was late.
"The auspicious time has arrived." The officials presiding over the ceremonies have begun to preside over the enthronement ceremony, and Li Congqing and the hundred officials are following suit, and the ceremony is proceeding according to the steps.
…… When the ceremony was held for most of the time, a demonic wind suddenly rose in the sky where the sun was shining, and the flag was blown by the wind, and it sounded loudly.
However, the enthronement ceremony had to be continued, and the people of Jinling City and others also knew that today was the time for Li Congqing to hold the enthronement ceremony, and Jinling also sent fast horses to spread the news to various places.
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It's just that every other day, far away in the south of Runzhou City, within a radius of ten miles, there are gathered soldiers recruited by Lin Renzhao, and at this moment there are many military tents outside Runzhou City, and the top of the military tents is next to each other, looking like a dense ant colony from a distance.
And within ten miles, the horse's hooves stepped over, resounded through the four fields, rolled up the rolling dust, and the rising sand and dust made people seem to have encountered the dust in the northwest desert, the Runzhou city in the distance was full of flags, and hundreds of forest flags fluttered in the air along the northwest wind.
Lin Renzhao rode a tall horse, hurried to the playground, today is the oath meeting, according to the Jinling detective, Li Congqing pretended to bury the lord of the country Li Yu, to do the name of the throne, Lin Renzhao will not wait for Li Congqing to sit on the throne as he wished, a few days ago he has told Li Congqing about the rebellion to the world, and he is the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses to rise to the king's division, crusade against Li Congqing, Kuang Fu Sheji welcomed back Li Yu.
According to the time, Lin Renzhao estimated that the enthronement ceremony was being held in Jinling at this moment, and sure enough, Li Congqing couldn't wait to hold the enthronement in Jinling City yesterday, and the news of Li Congqing's enthronement also reached Runzhou at this moment.
When the opportunity came, Lin Renzhao sneered, the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, he was holding a letter in his hand at the moment, today he wanted to announce a good thing, a major event that had been prepared for a long time.
Lin Renzhao looked around, the soldiers had an urgent and anxious look on their faces, they were eager to make contributions and fight on the battlefield.
Lin Renzhao stepped onto the platform, solemnly took out a letter from his chest, slowly unfolded it, and said in a loud voice: "My soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, this is a letter written by the lord of the country, and today the marshal will announce it again, now Li Congqing in Jinling City is a rebel, and the lord of the country is not dead, behind all this is Li Congqing's rebellion." Then Lin Renzhao read the book again and showed it to the soldiers in person.
Lin Renzhao looked up, his eyes were full of desire, that sincere gaze, a face of grief and indignation, he looked at the soldiers on the battlefield, and said loudly: "Kuang Fu Datang, get rid of the evil spirits." ”
The soldiers, though illiterate, saw the words on the letter, and a murderous momentum ignited in their chests.
"Kuang Fu Datang and eliminate evil spirits."
"Kuang Fu Datang and eliminate evil spirits."
The soldiers in the audience were excited, waving the weapons in their hands and shouting: "Kuang Fu Datang, eliminate the evil spirits." ”
Lin Renzhao looked at the soldiers in all directions, clenched his fists, and said, "Kuang Fu Datang and eliminate the evil spirits." ”
After speaking, Lin Renzhao took a long sword, and the long sword quickly grazed the palm of his left hand, and a stream of red blood flowed down the long sword and fell to the ground.
When the soldiers saw their commander like this, their eyes kept staring at Lin Renzhao.
Lin Renzhao spread out his palm, with a resolute and resolute expression, as if he didn't care about the pain in his palm, the blood on the palm was still flowing, and he said loudly to the soldiers in the audience: "I, Lin Renzhao, today as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, lead the army of King Qin, Xingyi Army, Kuang Tang Sheji, and swear outside Runzhou City. With this palm, heaven and earth can be seen, bow to the best, and die. ”
At this time, a banner leader who was as strong as an ox held a long pole about two feet long, and a white flag was rolled on it.
The whole ceremony was very solemn.
Lin Renzhao took the chess pieces in the hands of the flag leader, and suddenly unfolded them, facing the tens of thousands of soldiers in the audience, and the flag read "Kuang Fu Datang, eliminate evil spirits".
"Kuang Fu Datang, eliminate evil spirits"
When the soldier saw this, his expression became even more excited.
After the pledge meeting, all the troops turned to the west side, and looked at Jinling City with iron eyes.
In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, at the end of the year, at this time, Lin Renzhao of Runzhou finally raised 50,000 troops as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and issued a document to crusade against Li Congqing, the puppet emperor of Jinling.
In the afternoon of the same day, an army assembled in Runzhou and quickly marched towards Jinling City.
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The day after Lin Renzhao announced the start of the army, a winter haze hit quickly, and the haze did not dissipate on the river in the north of Runzhou.
Above the river, on the opposite side is Yangzhou, but the haze is over, it is not very clear, an elite ship-armored army is ambushed in the dense fog on the north side of the river, ready to wait for the opportunity to move.
In this dense fog, no one dared to take the lead in starting a war, and the naval army coming from the mouth of the lake was only a part, and their main task was only defense for the time being, unless Lin Renzhao moved first, so that they could wreak havoc on the river and eliminate it.
The sun has risen, and at this moment it has dispelled the haze of winter, and the thick haze has gradually dissipated, and the killing intent is gradually revealed in the fog.
At the Runzhou ferry, the sailors assembled by Lin Renzhao have been slowly moving along the Yangtze River, the waves are tidal, the water surface is cut open, and the noisy sound of waves disturbs the quiet river surface, which also makes the nearby sailors begin to be alert.
On the side of the Runzhou Navy Army, a Navy general said: "Who are you, why are you blocking our way?" ”
Several warships sailed from the front, and on the keel ship headed by the leader, a general held the mast of the ship, looked at the river, and was answering the answer of the general of Runzhou: "This general is Zhu Lingyun of the Divine Guard, who is under your command?" ”
The general of the Runzhou Army said: "I am General Lin of Runzhou, no, I am under the command of Marshal Lin, the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty, how can I be compared to a small Divine Guard." Today, Marshal Lin led the army, Kuang Fu Sheji, and I ask you, who sent you here? ”
Zhu Lingyun stroked his long beard with his hand and said slowly: "Naturally, it's Your Majesty." ”
The generals on the side of the Runzhou Navy reprimanded angrily: "Nonsense, how is Your Majesty, are you here on the order of the Jinling Puppet Emperor, come here, and order the war envoy to start the warship immediately, and destroy the Divine Guard Army at all costs." ”
Zhu Lingyun said: "If you dare to commit a crime, the general was originally here to stop you, why don't you surrender now, otherwise you will not miss the friendship of your comrades." ”
"Comrade? Hmph, joke, Li Congqingxiu wants to cover up the fact that he usurped the throne, and all the rebellious ministers and thieves in this world must not die well. Marquis Zhu Yu should see the facts clearly and fight against the thieves with my Marshal Lin. ”
"Hmph, that's nonsense."
"The last general will give the general a stick of incense to consider."
…… A stick of incense passed, and the Runzhou army saw that Zhu Lingyun did not move, so he immediately ordered a row of bows and arrows with flames, which had already shot over, and came towards the side of the Hukou Shenwei Army, Zhu Lingyun was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the rudder to swing sideways, and those arrows rained into the armor of the ship, and the Shenwei Army hurried to put out the fire, but fortunately there were no casualties.
"Despicable." Zhu Lingyun was angry and directly ordered an attack, and the stones and other equipment on the ship had already begun to set up a position and aimed the direction at the Runzhou naval army.
"Put." Then Zhu Lingyun gave an order, and immediately shot back.
In an instant, above the river at this moment, bursts of water pillars rose from the river, and the sound of wood breaking continued to come, and the wood broke and collided.
The water splashed, the river rolled rapidly, like boiling, and the two water armies began to fight.
Zhu Lingyun never imagined that the general of the Runzhou Navy would directly order the war, but he relied on the Hukou Navy to be famous in the Tang Dynasty, and thought that the Hukou Navy was the most elite Navy in the world.
When the sun is shining, in the distance of the layers of rivers, one after another boats and turtles run out, rushing against the current.
This army of sailors waiting for the opportunity quickly turned the rudder on the river, and then the formation was lined up, and there was a yellow dragon flag on the white sails, Zhu Lingyun turned his head and saw that these flags were written with the word Song on them, and they were imposing.
"Marquis Yu, that's the naval army of the Song Kingdom."
"Why is the Song State Navy in Runzhou?"
"Marquis Yu, what should we do?"
"If you can't mess with it, you won't mess with it, the top priority is the Runzhou Water Army."