Not long after the sun rose over the eastern horizon, a touch of green had sprouted in the spring wilderness in the south, like a shell of hope, but today there was no gunsmoke on the battlefield of cold weapons, and no one set fires, everything was as if it were quiet.

The sun had already risen, and at this moment, the sound of trumpets was heard in the distance, and several heralds and scouts had already snatched the news back.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, at this moment it is stationed in a Song and Han military camp not far from the quarry.

Scout quick report: "General, the infantry cavalry of the Tang Army and the Divine Guard Water Army suddenly attacked from the quarry army, and the target is coming towards our army. ”

Cao Bin smiled, the enemy army is beyond their strength, he and his subordinates have been waiting for them here for a long time, as long as the other party attacks, they will fall into the siege of their own side.

At this time, the Tang army infantry soldiers who came from quarrying (south) began to reorganize the queue from a long distance, forming a phalanx, approaching the quarrying side, and their target was a Song army camp not far from the quarrying.

However, the land army of the Song and Han coalition also had this intention, and they hoped that the Tang army would attack from the quarrying army, so that when they came, they would be caught off guard.

Cao Bin ordered someone to take out the map of the march and deploy troops, analyzed it carefully, and then ordered the Song and Han troops to attack.

According to the topography of the quarrying, the main mountain of the quarrying is dense with jungle, and there is no road to see, but there is a Taibai building on the top of the mountain, and it is estimated that there is a path to go up.

The Song and Han armies successively pulled out of camp.

Soon after, the Song and Han armies also approached the quarry.

The garrison of the (southern) Tang army was in the quarry rock port, and there were a small number of warships and sailors on the shore.

At this moment, the Song and Han armies were the first Tang army to come out of the quarry.

After an hour, the 4,000 soldiers of the Tang Army's vanguard Ma Bu Army were beaten to the ground, lost their armor, and fled back to the Tang Army camp in a hurry, unable to retreat.

By noon, the infantry of the Song army and the Han army pursued to the quarry army village, and the ambush soldiers on the left flank of the north also rushed over.

The Song and Han armies approached the Tang army camp. It's just that the gate of the military village is closed, and neither the defeated troops of the (Southern) Tang State nor the Song and Han armies are allowed to enter.

In the Tang army camp, the Tang army did not expect the Song and Han coalition forces to approach the enemy camp at this time, and when they saw the Song and Han troops attacking, the Tang army immediately sent out war horses and infantry, and both sides were fighting at this moment.

Not far away, on the quarry bank, another infantry cavalry of the Song army was fighting against an infantry cavalry of the Tang State.

In the wilderness, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly roared, and a large group of cavalry began to move, gradually entering a state of jogging.

There were people everywhere, just as people were fleeing after a flood.

The infantry cavalry of the Song army and the army of Zhi Tingxiao of the Han army, at this moment, were pressed in black, like a tide, surging towards the north side of the (southern) Tang army, and soon approached the corner of the side gate of the enemy camp.

As long as they occupy this place, they can tear a hole from here, and the Song and Han armies can also take the opportunity to attack the military village.

When the Tang soldiers in the military fortress saw this, their flanks began to shoot indiscriminately with bows and arrows.

The neighing of horses echoed in the air, and every now and then a knight fell from his horse.

The Song and Han armies immediately sent soldiers with shields to surround an arc-shaped solid object.

The arrows made a muffled sound on the shield, and Song Han's horse infantry army had slowly moved towards the north side of the military village.

But this bit of damage could not stop the Song horsemen from charging, and the horsemen at the front rushed very fast, and the no-man's land between the two armies was rapidly swallowed up at a visible speed.

The Tang army was a lonely city, and after half an hour, some of the weapons in the military village were already insufficient, and the arrows were almost exhausted.

How could the Song and Han armies have such a tenacious will to fight, and the Tang army is very afraid. The protection of the north side has become a weak point.

The Song and Han armies have already entered the military village, most of the Tang army has surrendered to the Song and Han armies, and the Tang army on the remaining side has fled from the east gate, and that direction is the direction to Jinling City.

This is the order of the boss, and now the priority is the pontoon bridge for quarrying.

After the quarrying defenders were eliminated, the Song and Han armies began to lay pontoon bridges in quarrying.

Most of the Tang defenders near the quarry were wiped out, and now only the defecting rout army and the threat from the Shenwei water army on the Tang water surface remained.

The slow flow of the river is due to the fact that the entire river is very wide, but it is divided into three waterways, resulting in a narrow river surface...... The river is narrow, the river is gentle, and there is a deep-water port.

With all these factors in place, it is difficult to find such a suitable place in the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is no wonder that quarrying always has a war to cross the river.

At this moment, the rear troops, Pan Mei and other hot people rode along the Suoxi River (a river in Yushan District, Ma'anshan City) and continued to go deeper to the north, and they could see the Yangtze River.

The large land on the other side of the Yangtze River is Jiangxinzhou, and when viewed from here, it is easy to mistake the other side of the river for the riverside; According to the terrain that the Song military had mastered first, if you continue to go north, you can see the north end of Jiangxinzhou.

At the beginning, Zhao Kuangyin asked Li Yu to contribute to the map of the nineteen states of the (southern) Tang Dynasty, which was to save the preparatory campaign to capture the Tang State one day.

In the first few months, Fan Ruoshui was also exploring the hydrology and other conditions near the quarrying, and with the assistance of many people such as officials of the Great Song Dynasty Water Department, he was able to quickly complete the mapping of the water system from quarrying to the north bank.

On the river at this moment

All the materials that could be used to lay pontoon bridges were transported, and the soldiers on the north and south banks began to lay pontoon bridges in the water, and some small boats became part of the pontoon bridges, and the soldiers were busy laying pontoon bridges.

The pontoon bridge is very long, because the river is narrow in some places, the Song army will use ships to erect it, and this pontoon bridge also constitutes a supply line and troop line for the Song army to quarry, which is very important for the Song army.

The pontoon bridges derived from the territory of the Song Kingdom to the quarrying area have all been successfully erected

The bridge is like a behemoth coiling over the river, and the Song army ships patrol the river, with the goal of protecting it

The rationality of the existence of the pontoon bridge prevented the Tang army from suddenly sabotage.

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Tang Jun Zhenhai Jiedu envoy, Tongping Zhangshi Zheng Yanhua, Tiande Du Yu Hou Du Zhen, today is leading the water infantry army of 10,000 each to meet the Song army.

At this moment, on the river, on the bow of a battleship, Zheng Yanhua stood in the wind, his hair trembling violently, blowing towards Song Jun.

On the river in the distance are the pontoon bridges laid by the Song army and the keel warships of the Song army, and the Song army's building ships and oil ships in the distance...... Densely filled the entire surface of the river, but at the moment they did not move.

A soldier on the side, looking ahead, threw down a knife in his hand, threw it into the river, and then turned around and said to Zheng Yanhua: "Zheng Jie, seeing that this river is so turbulent, as long as my Tang Shenwei water army intrudes on the pontoon bridge laid by the Song army on the river, as long as the pontoon bridge is blocked, the Song army on the north bank will not be able to cross the river safely." ”

Zheng Yanhua looked at the knife that fell in the river, looked at the pontoon bridge in front of him, and looked at the direction where the flag was blowing, a plan had already sprouted in Zheng Yanhua's heart.

fire attack, which is the most advantageous.

At this moment, he stroked his beard and smiled, and the soldiers on the side were also happy.

After a while, the Tang army had already begun to give the order to attack.

The Song army and the Han army on the opposite side of the river had already seen the movement of the (southern) Tang army on the opposite side.

The ships of the Don Army also came quickly towards the end of the pontoon bridge. On the east side of the river, with the cooperation of a unit of the Tang Army's Mabu Army on land, the Tang Shenwei Navy mobilized 600 large and small warships this time, intending to directly destroy the pontoon bridge laid by the Song Army with great difficulty.

The first battle had already begun, and when the Song and Han armies saw that the (southern) Tang army was pouring up, they immediately sent troops to block it.

On the river, there were many large and small warships, and the Tang army on the opposite side also sent fifty or sixty warships to demolish the pontoon bridge on the river.

Naturally, the Song army would not let the Tang army succeed.

When the Tang army approached the waters of the Song army, the Song soldiers began to draw their bows and arrows, and rockets flew towards the opposite boat.

On the Tang army's warship, the Tang sergeant raised a shield to block.

After a while, the Tang army made people throw stones, arrows, fire oil and other things.

Eventually, the Tang army was defeated, and the Song army took control of the river from Hezhou to Quarshiji. In the confrontation between the Western Front and the Song and Han coalition forces, due to the lack of strength and lack of coordination between the soldiers sent by Li Congqing to the Western Front, the Zheng and Du armies were defeated by the Song army successively.

Pan Mei led the cavalry from the north of the river to cross the river by the pontoon bridge, and met Cao Bin, and the quarrying was only one hundred and twenty miles away from Jinling, and they took the quarry, and they planned to mobilize troops from the north bank to cross the pontoon bridge and join forces to force Jinling.

The defenders of Quarry Rock have been easily wiped out by Cao Bin and Pan Mei, and at this moment, Cao Bin and others are looking forward to the Yangtze River at the bow of the ship.

The sails on the river are dotted, and bursts of white spray are splashed on the water, roaring in the waves.

The ship has docked and is disembarking near Quarry Rock at the moment.

Cao Bin ordered his soldiers to remove the sails from the ship's side.

One or two days later, Cao Bin and others led their troops to defeat the (southern) Tang army in Xinzhai and captured 30 warships. Du Zhen and Zheng Yanhua's troops met with the Song army, Du Zhen led his troops into battle, and Zheng Yanhua did not save his troops, resulting in the rout of Du Zhen's army. The Song army took advantage of the situation to attack Jinling.

In the first battle of quarrying, the Song and Han coalition forces won.

"Now the quarrying ferry has been captured by our Song army, and our army has built a unique pontoon bridge, and then our army can cross the river."

Immediately afterwards, from the north bank and the state, a steady stream of Song soldiers easily crossed the Yangtze River along the pontoon bridge on the river.

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It was now April, and after the Song and Han coalition forces landed at Quarry, the large army began to attack Xinlinzhai, Bailuzhou and Xinlin Port southwest of Jinling.

Soon after, Xinlinzhai, Bailuzhou and Xinlin Port in the southwest of Jinling were captured one after another.

In the Jinling-Zhongshan-Jurong area, Lin Renzhao led the Runzhou army to storm the southwest side of Zhongshan, and Lin Renzhao's back was still attacked by the Lishui army, an important town that was at a corner with Jinling, and Lin Renzhao was obviously unable to suppress the opponent's attack.

ps. The battle of quarrying, which took place in the seventh year of Kaibao of Taizu of the Northern Song Dynasty (974 AD), was fought against the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty, broke out in the leap October of the seventh year of Kaibao, and ended in November of that year. It ended with the victory of the Song army.