One day in February of the third year of Xiande, the spring was cold.

When the Tang ** team heard about it, the northern camp deployed Liu Yanzhen to lead the reinforcements and immediately led the army to reinforce Shouzhou, and when he arrived at a town called Laiyuan 200 miles outside Shouzhou, he asked his men to change hundreds of large warships, and went directly to Zhengyang, wanting to encircle Wei to save Zhao, and put on a posture of attacking the Zhou army's pontoon bridge.

Liu Yanzhen's trick still works very well.

According to the news of the front-line scouts, Liu Yanzhen's troops of the Tang Army marched in the direction of Zhengyang Laiyuan Town.

The former army of Zhou was already under the city of Shouzhou, and Li Gu was very panicked when he heard that Liu Yanzhen led his troops to Zhengyang. If the Tang reinforcements were to reinforce Shouzhou, he would fight a battle in Shouzhou, but the Tang reinforcements went straight to Zhengyang.

He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Zhengyang side he asked people to erect a pontoon bridge, if it was demolished by the Tang State, the army of the Son of Heaven could not come, and his army did not want to return to the north bank of the Huai River.

Li Gu didn't dare to take this risk, he paid special attention to the rear, if they were really surrounded, they could retreat and make plans.

After hearing the news that day, Li Gu hurriedly gathered the generals in the big tent, discussed in a hurry, and then took out the marching map and explored it.

Li Gu said: "Shouzhou, there is Tushan in the northeast, Chuzhou in the southeast, Liu Ren in Shouzhou City is guarding the city, my Great Zhou's army is surrounding Shouzhou, and the reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty began to gradually come up and encircle the Great Zhou." The soldiers of the Great Zhou were not good at water warfare and could not resist the hundred warships of the Tang State. If the pontoon bridge is really cut off, the belly and back will be attacked. However, Zhengyang is the retreat of the army, and once it is broken, the army outside Shouzhou City is isolated and helpless. ”

Among the soldiers, there was opposition to Li Gu's approach. However, Li Gu did not accept it, and he decided to lead the army back to Zhengyang and personally defend the pontoon bridge.

Although the generals are outside, the monarch's orders are not accepted, but the army is the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven after all, and some soldiers have taken the news to Guo Rong, the Son of Heaven, who is heading south.

In mid-February, at this moment, the army of the Son of Heaven Guo Rong had arrived in Yuzhen, and the sergeant in Li Gu's army who delivered the letter had already taken the news to the Son of Heaven.

After Guo Rong, the son of heaven, received the letter, he wanted to take the land of Huainan and unify China, but Li Gu retreated, making claims without his consent. In his anger, the messenger in the army immediately drove his horse to stop Li Gu's approach, but Li Gu's army had already retreated to Zhengyang City by the Huai River.

After the Son of Heaven sent the letter, he did not see Li Gu, and later learned that Li Gu's army had arrived in Zhengyang, so he sent a letter to return to the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven Guo Rong was so angry that he ordered a rapid march, and finally reached Chenzhou on February 26, when he received another messenger's report, and at the same time he immediately sent Li Chongjin to lead his army to the edge of the Chenhuai River.

On March 2, Li Gu knew that the Son of Heaven was dissatisfied with his withdrawal, and Shangjuan defended his retreat, Guo Rong was furious, he knew that Gu was okay in political affairs, but he did not have much foresight in military affairs. At the same time, he also saw the shortcomings of the Zhou army, so he ordered Wang Huan, the general of Shu, to train the navy.

At that time, it was in an era of great development of the shipping industry, and the shipbuilding industry of the Tang State developed rapidly, and even established a solid trade relationship with the Liao State through sea ships.

On the other hand, the Tang State also created a very powerful naval army, controlling the Jianghuai water network and the Yangtze River moat, so it was able to stand on its own in the southeast in the five generations of troubled times.

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Over there, since Li Gu retreated under the city of Shouzhou, Liu Yanzhen of the Tang State was overjoyed, and everyone in the army thought that it was the best policy to directly lead the troops to attack Zhengyang and attack the Zhou army, so Liu Yanzhen's entire marching team plus the army's baggage was hundreds of miles.

Throughout the year, Liu Yanzhen has no talent for leading soldiers, is insatiable and very brutal. This time he led the army to the battle, but he bribed the high-ranking officials in the capital, and boasted in front of Li Jing that Liu Yanzhen was a good ruler of the people and a master of the battlefield. Li Jingping likes to talk the most, and Liu Yanzhen was put on the front line. His generals, Xian Shilang and others are also a group of brave and unscrupulous people.

Liu Yanzhen stretched the battle line too long, and the grain and grass could not be helped, but there were still people in the Tang Kingdom who saw the situation clearly, namely Liu Renzhen and Chizhou Assassin Zhang Quanyue, they knew Liu Yanzhen's temper, so they tried to persuade each other tactfully, but Liu Yanzhen did not accept it at all.

Liu Renzhen concluded that the Tang Dynasty would be defeated in this battle, and immediately strengthened the defense of the city wall.

At this time, the secret letter from the south of Kaifeng City has entered Shouzhou City at this moment, but the city defense of Shouzhou is very strict, and the secret agents of Changchun Hall are waiting for the secret agents of Shouzhou City outside the city, and then knock him out and enter Shouzhou City.

At night, a cold arrow was fired into Liu Rengen's room. At this time, Liu Renzhen was in the house looking at the public situation in front of him and the office. He was all about the city defense, how to defend the city, and not let the Zhou army capture Shouzhou City. A few days ago, he teamed up with Zhang Quanyue, the assassin of Chizhou, to persuade Liu Yanzhen, but it didn't work.

Liu Renzhen was depressed in his heart, but the current emperor of the Tang Kingdom favored the traitorous ministers and mistook the Tang Kingdom, he was really dizzy.

Just thinking about it, suddenly a dark arrow shot into the room, Liu Renzhen's heart suddenly tightened, he thought it was sent by Zhou Guo to assassinate, and hurriedly pulled out the sword from the shelf and held it in his hand. But when I saw that the other party did not do anything, it was just an arrow nailed to a pillar, and there was a letter on the arrow.

After he passed, he began to pull out the arrow from the pillar, took down the secret letter sealed with wax, and then unfolded it, the letter read: Shouhui Xian brother, since a farewell has been more than 30 years now, the pseudo-Tang Xu Shun served my father and son, and then Xu Shun usurped my country, killed my brother, falsely accused the foolish brother of making weapons privately, and was imprisoned in Hezhou, and Zhou Hongzuo, the son of Zhou Ben, killed my brother in quarrying with a trick...... Now...... Blood debts and blood repayment, but also look forward to the virtuous brothers, recognize the world, good birds choose trees to perch. Foolish Brother Zhilongshu, a certain day in February of the third year of Xiande.

Liu Renzhen's heart seemed to be about to suffocate at this time, he looked at the cashier, and it was still the five handwritten characters of "Foolish Brother Zhilongshu", which was too familiar. This...... How is this possible, his thoughts went back to more than thirty years ago, when the eldest brother married the daughter of King Wu, and the Liu family became a relative of the emperor, and when the bad news was transmitted back to Jiangnan, his sister-in-law had cried,......

Later, I heard that he was killed by Zhou Hongzuo, the son of Zhou Ben, in quarrying, and he also cried bitterly, and later the Tang Kingdom was established and posthumously named the King of Linchuan Ling......

Immediately, he estimated that the spies outside had not left, so he said, "The brothers outside have come in, and I have something to know." ”

The secret agent had been secretly staring at Liu Renzhen in the house, so he said outside: "I don't know, can you answer the doubts in your heart?" Am I welcome here? ”

Then he pushed the door in, dressed in black, and entered with a black veil mask, but the momentum of the battlefield on his body had not faded.

Liu Renzhen hurriedly said: "I don't know what to call my brother?" Where are those who believe now? ”

The man in black said: "Everyone in the world thinks that the Lord is dead, and he pretended to serve the first king, and then the pseudo-Tang Xu Shun usurped the Yang family's country, don't brothers know all this?" ”

"You are?"

The man in black immediately removed the black veil from his head, and then Liu Renzhen saw that the man was blindfolded in one eye, as if he was blind, but this face was too familiar to him.

He was stunned......

"You, you, you......"

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Not far northwest of Shouzhou City, upstream of the river.

Guo Rong, the Son of Heaven, sent Li Chongjin to attack the south of the Huai River, the army crossed the Huai River, and met Liu Yanzhen's troops on the east side of Zhengyang.

The Zhou army captured more than 300,000 military equipment in this battle.

As Liu Renzhen expected-

The Tang army was defeated, and there was a panic in Jiangnan

Chizhou Assassin Zhang Quanyue returned to Shouzhou with the remnants of Liu Yanzhen,

After Liu Renzhen saw the man in black that day, he had a lot of thoughts in his heart, and temporarily suppressed the emotions in his heart. But now, he wants to report to Li Jing and ask for the appointment of Zhang Quanyu as the commander of the left wing of Ma Bu.

Huang Fuhui and Yao Feng surrendered to Qingliuguan, and Wang Shaoyan, the assassin of Chuzhou, directly abandoned the city and fled.

At this moment, after the Battle of Zhengyang, the Tang army was on the defensive.

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On March 9, Guo Rong, the Son of Heaven, arrived in Yongning Town, and asked his guards to go outside Shouzhou City to appease the local people and return to their homes.

When Guo Rong heard of Li Chongjin's achievements, he immediately arrived in Zhengyang two days later, on March 11, and directly let Li Chongjin replace Li Gu's pre-war position, and Li Gu changed to deal with the relevant matters of the Shouzhou Prefecture. In fact, it is an idle job, because now Shouzhou is still the city of Southern Tang.

Two days later, on March 13, the army of the Son of Heaven arrived at the foot of Shouzhou City, set up camp on the south side of the river, ordered all troops to besiege Shouzhou, and asked the reserve troops to move the pontoon bridge at Zhengyang to the town of Xiacai.

Guo Rong went out of the camp, and left a few henchmen and generals, and went to the side of the river together, looking at Shouzhou City opposite.

In the ancient battlefield, a famous battle took place in that year.

In 383 AD, the Eastern Jin Dynasty fought a war with the Former Qin, which unified the north.

In the past, the former Qin led the general trend of unification in the north and wanted to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and then dominate the world.

The former Qin claimed that 800,000 troops were sent to attack the Jin, and the two sides fought in the water, and finally the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the more than 800,000 former Qin troops with only 80,000 troops under the command of Xie An.

The ending was unexpected, the absolute superiority of the former Qin was defeated by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the former Qin perished, and the northern ethnic groups broke away from the rule of the former Qin and established sixteen small states successively.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty took advantage of this Northern Expedition to advance the border line of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Yellow River, and there was no foreign invasion in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for decades afterward.

Guo Rong was moved, so is he comparing himself to Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty or Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty? However, Xuan is full of confidence, I am not Fu Jian, and Li Jing is more and more not Xie An.

Then he returned to the barracks

On the second day, March 14, due to the lack of troops in the army, Guo Rong, the son of heaven, issued an edict ordering hundreds of thousands of Dingfu in Songzhou, Maozhou, Chenzhou, Yingzhou, Xuzhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Caizhou and other places to attack the city, day and night.

At the same time, by the Huai River, the Tang army was in Pillow Godandan, and the army was stationed at the foot of Tu Mountain. The Tang side believed that Tushan, Chuzhou and Shouzhou formed a cornering trend, and once they attacked the Zhou State at the same time, their own side would be able to destroy the main force of the Zhou army.

According to the news from the other side, Guo Rong saw the situation and ordered the generals of the army to discuss the battle, and there was a tense situation in the army, but the troops in the army were stretched, so who could go to the front line in person and pull out the nails.

Zhao Kuangyin came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to send troops to cut off his worries!" ”

Guo Rong was very satisfied with Zhao Kuangyin's performance, so three days later, on the seventeenth. Guo Rong ordered Zhao Kuangyin to launch an attack on the Tang army in Tushan, and Zhao Kuangyin in the Zhou army set out from the direction of Shouzhou and sent more than 100 cavalry to Tushan in the northeast.

It is not only the number of people who fight in the war, but more importantly, it is necessary to have resourcefulness, Zhao Kuangyin has become an excellent general after several years of training.

Big and small have gone through several battles, and each time it was a vicious battle.

Tu Mountain, also known as when Tu Mountain, commonly known as East Mountain, is the location of the ancient Tu Mountain country, it is said that it was originally a mountain, Dayu controlled the water to split the mountain into two, let the Huai River water divert, become from south to north.

Zhao Kuangyin led the troops here, stopped advancing, and looked at Tu Shan in front of him.

After some investigation, he thought that Tushan was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Seeing the situation, he decided to set up an ambush in a place called Vortex in the southwest of Tushan Mountain, and won the victory with odds.

When the Tang army saw the Great Zhou army with 100 people, they came to their camp, and immediately sent 100 people to meet the battle, but they were beaten by the Zhou army.

The hundred-strong cavalry of the Zhou State defeated some of the Tang troops.

And the Tang army could not send more soldiers to besiege the Zhou army, because the Zhou army immediately attacked, came and went freely, and ran immediately.

Zhao Kuangyin pretended to be repulsed and set up an ambush on the road that the Tang army was pursuing. Zhao Kuangyin and the others were running, and they also looked back at the movements of the Tang army, if the Tang army was not chasing, they would immediately turn around and continue to harass the Tang army.

After a day and night of harassment by the army sent by Zhao Kuangyin, the Tang army was also annoyed by the harassment, and the capital prisoner in Tushan was He Yanxi, who couldn't sit still.

He Yanxi, a martial artist, is an anxious man, he is sleeping in the camp tent, but this night he was harassed by the Zhou army led by Zhao Kuangyin, he immediately walked out of the camp gate in a hurry, put on his battle armor, stepped on the war horse, and must kill all these Zhou troops.

Immediately, he took more than 10,000 men and horses and led the troops to attack, and when Zhou Jun saw this, he immediately ran away, followed by the Tang ** team, without a trace of relaxation.

He Yanxi led more than 10,000 Tang soldiers to chase after him, and also killed several Zhou troops.

At this time, Zhou Jun was also out of breath when he was chasing, but they showed a victorious smile, and there was a vortex in front of them, so they kicked the horse's belly a few times.

However, Zhao Kuangyin's troops, who had been waiting for a long time, attacked the Tang army, and the Tang army was defeated at the mouth of the vortex, and He Yanxi, the capital of the Tang army, and others were killed, and more than 50 warships were captured by the Later Zhou army.

He Yanxi, the war horse under his crotch, ran forward quickly with a roar.

The Tang ** team has entered the ambush circle set up by Zhao Kuangyin at the mouth of the vortex at this moment. He Yanxi sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered the troops to stop the pursuit.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in front of us, and then there was a commotion in the back.

The way back was surrounded by the army of Zhou, and it was impossible to retreat, all of which were blocked by rocks and rolling logs.

He Yanxi also understood at this time, he was still fooled after all, and it was impossible for him to surrender, only a battle.

Zhao Kuangyin's banner suddenly came in front, and then Zhao Kuangyin's hand waved, and thousands of archers pulled the bows and arrows in their hands desperately.

Ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and arrows like flying locusts came towards the Tang army. After a round of arrow rain, the Tang ** team has lost nearly 2,000 people.

Soon after, the capital prisoner He Yanxi and others were killed in battle, and more than 50 warships were captured by Zhao Kuangyin's army.

Carrying the momentum of victory, Zhao Kuangyin's army took the opportunity to occupy this place. Then the army returned to Guo Rong's army.

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In mid-to-late March, in Kaifeng City, in the Liangcheng Inn, Zhao Dezhao was called by his father-in-law today, and he asked Yang Meng: "Father-in-law, I don't know what's going on?" ”

Yang Meng wrote a letter, which read: "Brother Zhilong, I am not talented, if Emperor Zhou is merciful, I should serve." It's just that Shouhui and his father and children are all in the Tang Kingdom. The past is a thing of the past. Shou Hui book. ”

Zhao Dezhao said: "Liu Renzhen is really loyal, but he is too pedantic. However, according to the letter, there is still a chance of success, so it is better to let Zhao'er go to Huainan in person. ”

Yang Meng asked rhetorically: "There are constant wars in Huainan, not to mention that you are young, and you are the only son in the family, and you have the mission of Changchun Hall, how can you go to the danger in person?" ”

"Father-in-law, don't worry, the child let the brothers of Changchun Hall protect me in secret. And my grandfather, father and brother-in-law are all in Huainan at the moment, I'm worried about them! ”

"But what is the way you can go? What can you do? ”

"This father-in-law doesn't have to work hard, I'm seven years old now, I have my intentions when I go to Huainan this time, and my father-in-law can rest assured, I'll tell my father-in-law all my plans later, and my father-in-law will know my plan by the way, so that my father-in-law will send someone with strong martial arts to protect me." After I went to Huainan, I would contact my father-in-law for everything. If my father-in-law doesn't worry about me, I can ask Uncle Nine to accompany me, but I told my parents to go shopping in nearby states and counties. ”

"I'm really convinced of you, this kid, I don't want to stay in Tokyo, I want to go to the front line, doesn't this make my father-in-law worry, alas-so-so, I'm still not at ease, I'll let Lao Jiu go with you, and send a few more people."

"Thank you, father-in-law. The child will take care of himself. ”

After Zhao Dezhao went back, he immediately packed his luggage, but the family claimed that he was going to Luoyang Restaurant. The family is not at ease, how can a child go such a long way.

couldn't resist Zhao Dezhao, so he asked Zhao Xin and a few people in his family who knew martial arts to accompany him.

A few days later, Zhao Dezhao left the capital and went all the way south, and later Zhao Xin knew that his Langjun did not go west, but went south, and he was terrified, but Zhao Dezhao said that there would be a few people who knew martial arts and would protect themselves.

When Zhao Xin heard this, as long as he arrived in Huaishui and met the general's father and son, this matter would be fine, and he could only reluctantly agree.

The carriage was surrounded by protective men.

All the way south

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In the south, Guo Rong appointed Wang Kui, the envoy of Wuping Jiedu and the commander of Zhongshu, as the commander of the camp in the south and attacked Ezhou in the Tang State.

When Wang Kui led his troops through Yuezhou, the Yuezhou regiment trained Pan Shuhei to respectfully provide Wang Kui's troops with property as military salaries, but Wang Kui's subordinates were insatiable, and in turn slandered Pan Shuhei in front of Wang Kui, saying that Pan Shuhei was going to rebel.

Wang Kui was very angry, and Uncle Pan was even more uncomfortable.

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In Jiangning Mansion, Li Jing has been watching the battle situation ahead, and heard that the troops in Hunan will also attack with the Zhou State.

He immediately asked the five ghosts, and the five ghosts proposed to let He Jingzhu, the envoy of Wuchang Jiedu, move all the people into the city and prepare to defend them.

Later, Li Jing's will spread to Wuchang, and He Jingzhu heard the emperor's will and refused to move the people into the city, so he cleaned the entire city into a battle-ready appearance, and said: "If the enemy comes, he will fight to the end with the soldiers and the enemy!" ”

When the news was transmitted back to Jiangning Mansion, Li Jing heard what He Jingzhu had done, and felt that He Jingzhu was very patriotic and praised his behavior.

On the front line of the Huai River, the Zhou army was building a pontoon bridge in Xia Cai Town, preparing to attack the city of Shouzhou, after several days and nights of construction by the Zhou army, on March 23, the pontoon bridge in Xia Cai Town was completed, and Guo Rong heard about it and went to check it himself.

On 25 March, Si Chao, the inspection envoy of Luzhou, Baizhou, Guangzhou, and Huangzhou, said that he had defeated the Tang army of more than 3,000 people in the Tang Dynasty, captured Gao Bi, the Tang capital supervisor, and other generals, and captured more than 40 warships.