Now, after the quarrying battle, the sailors led by Cao Bin gradually controlled the water surface of the Yangtze River near the quarrying, and reported that they directly crossed the river to convey the Hezhou Central Army, and Pan Mei and others were pressing the quarrying non-stop.

The Song army of Hezhou had crossed the Yangtze River safely, and after the battle of quarrying, their army defeated the Tang defenders, and then with the cooperation of the Song and Han coalition forces, Xinlinzhai, Bailuzhou and Xinlin Port were captured one after another, and the gate on the west side of Jinling was wide open.

Immediately after that, the report of the Western Front had been transmitted back to Jinling City, one hundred and twenty miles away, through the fast horse.

……

Jinling in April, Zhongshan Longpan, stone tiger. The city was full of catkins, and at this juncture of war, such a scene only added a touch of misery to them.

The sergeant, who had come from the quarry to deliver the proclamation, entered the palace and hurried to the Privy Council.

"Report, our army Zheng Jie's envoy and Du Yuhou were defeated by the Song army in the quarrying area, with countless casualties, and now there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses left...... There is not much left of the military fortress on the west side of Jinling."

"No—"

After the Privy Council received the war report, the ministers of the Privy Council never thought that the Western Front was actually this ending, and now the Western Front is almost a collapsed situation, if the last wall of Gongwei Jinling was broken by the Song and Han armies, then the Tang Dynasty will not be far from extinction.

At this moment, for the Privy Council, the military center of the Tang Dynasty, the ministers in the Privy Council have been caught off guard, Chen Qiao and Zhang Xun, who were in charge of military affairs before, have resigned one after another, and now there are few courtiers of Li Congqing's honor guard.

These ministers only realized how important talent is at these times, but unfortunately there is no good way to do it now.

The Privy Council deliberated and discussed, but did not come to a conclusion, and finally had to hand over this mess to Li Congqing to deal with.

When Li Congqing in the Zhaoqing Hall heard the battle report on the Western Front, he felt that the whole person was feeling bad, and at this moment he was lying on the bed coughing violently, and the palace maid waiting on the side also slapped his chest and back.

"What do you courtiers do, and what do I want you to do? Do you want me to be the king of a dead country? ”

Li Congqing threw away the song, now he is worried every day, living in the fright of the country, now when he learned that the quarrying was attacked by the Song army, his heart became more and more excited, he repeated the old trick again, directly stretched out his foot, kicked over the table in front of him.

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient, your ...... The minister felt that the transfer of troops to reinforce the quarrying could drag on for a while. The newly appointed privy minister of the Privy Council trembled, trembling, but he really didn't dare to look up at Li Congqing.

"Hmph-don't be a fart...... Song State, Han State. Wu Yueguo and Lin Renzhao are all ill-intentioned and want to take away my Tang Dynasty...... They are pressing day by day, and I ...... "The Song army has passed the quarrying, so the chance of Jinling City being breached is greater, Li Congqing naturally understands this truth, but now he can only obey the orders of the Privy Council."

Suddenly, Li Congqing felt that his chest was like a sharp sword, and his ass was like sitting on pins and needles, and he listened to the palace attendants and palace maids in Jinling City, so I don't know who was spreading some remarks unfavorable to the court.

"Poof-" A mouthful of red blood spat out, spilling all over the ground, and just half of his body collapsed again.

"Your Majesty—" The palace maid beside him immediately stepped forward to support Li Congqing's backward body.

At this moment, Li Congqing had already fainted, so he took the opportunity to call the imperial doctor.

The flying feather forces of Changchun Hall have been arranged in this Tang Palace, and Li Congqing's every move and actions in the court were all sent out of the palace through those people.

Outside the palace, Zhao Dezhao already knew all this, all of this was already in his hands for him, and it was only a matter of time before he had to play.

A day and a half later, dark clouds as heavy as lead covered the sky over Jinling, and then several explosions and thunders rolled from the sky, and a storm suddenly hit Jinling City.

Heavy raindrops fell from the sky, accompanied by thunder, as rapid as soldiers, with a bit of killing aura, shaking everyone's hearts.

When the soldiers and civilians of Jinling saw this, they didn't know whether they were happy or sad.

At this time, the whole south began to rain heavily, and the water level of the Yangtze River began to rise little by little, and the army of the Song army and the (southern) Han army were also glad to have crossed the river safely before the rainy season, otherwise this peach blossom flood came, I don't know when to choose to cross the river, not to mention that this year's climate is also a little drier than usual.

However, as soon as the heavy rain comes, I am afraid that the entry into Jinling City will be delayed for some days, but fortunately, the Song army has enough grain and grass, and the nearest place can also be raised from Jiangbei, but this Jinling is close at hand, but it makes the Song army spend a lot more effort.

Nowadays, it is raining everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, and for several days, the water of the Qinhuai River also swells with the rainy season, and a natural barrier suddenly lies between Lin Renzhao's army and the Jinling defenders, for the Jinling defenders, this moment has given Jinling a respite.

The naval army under the command of Jinling can also enter the Qinhuai River at will, naturally forming a barrier on the eastern water.

Their purpose was Lin Renzhao near Zhongshan.

Zhongshan used to have a big lake (the predecessor of Xuanwu Lake), and Zhongshan Mountain in the east, which was a royal forbidden land, but now a lake and river blocked the way of Lin Renzhao's army, and they had no tools to cross the river in their army.

The lake stretches for dozens of miles, and what Lin Renzhao lacks is the warship, such as today's heavy rain, the river rises, and the lake becomes wider and wider, and this lake is connected with the river, and the Jinling Navy can also be stationed in this lake at any time.

As Lin Renzhao expected, the Privy Council even mobilized the Divine Guard Navy to be stationed in this lake.

At this moment, thousands of sails in the lake are competing, although the sails are retracted, but like a fierce beast, they put on a hideous posture and look at Lin Renzhao's army on the east side of Zhongshan.

With the Great Lake giant ship blocking the way in front and the pursuit of Wu Yueguo and Song troops in the back, it was like a nightmare for Lin Renzhao's army.

On the east side of Zhongshan Mountain, the military village here was left by Yu Yan at the beginning, and now although Yu Yan and Ma Chengjun are in the army, they have not taken refuge in Lin Renzhao, and they still regard Li Congqing as the emperor in their hearts.

At this moment, Lin Renzhao was standing in the big tent of the Chinese army, he opened the door of the military tent, and looked up, the low-lying area on the ground was already full of water, very muddy, and it was difficult to walk, let alone send troops.

Now that Jinling is close at hand, Lin Renzhao has a feeling of helplessness in his heart, and what is even more worrying is that Lin Renzhao heard a report from a secret agent in Jinling City, saying that the quarrying defense line has completely collapsed, and now the distance between the Song army and the Han army and Jinling City is less than one hundred and twenty miles.

On the eastern front, Runzhou and Changzhou successively fell into the hands of the armies of the Song State and the Wu Yue State, although they did not press forward step by step, but what is ridiculous is that the Song State borrowed troops from the world to crusade against Li Congqing under the pretext of helping Li Yu. Lin Renzhao naturally understood the conspiracy in the bones of the Song army, but Jinling has always regarded himself as a traitor, could it be that the ministers of the court and the central government are all blind, calling a rebel an emperor and loyal to the rebellion.

What happened to this person in the Tang Dynasty?

…… At this moment, Lin Renzhao frowned, suddenly felt a palpitation in his chest, his body was a little dizzy, he touched his heart with his left hand, and held the table with his right hand to stabilize his emotions.

At this moment, suddenly a rush of footsteps came, and an official in charge of the army's grain and heavy baggage ran in.

The soldiers guarding the tent blocked his way, "Stop. ”

"The lower officials have something important to tell Lin Shuai, please let me in."

Lin Renzhao turned his head and said in a loud voice, "Let him in." ”

Immediately, the order of the army's grain and grass was counted and hurriedly ran to the Chinese army's big tent.

"Oh no, Lin Shuai, just now the lower officer found that some of the grain and grass in the army have become moldy, except for those that are soaked in water and cannot be eaten, the grain and grass in our army can only last for seven days now, and after seven days, ......" The official said this, he couldn't say any more, he looked up at Lin Renzhao, and then quickly lowered his head.

"Seven days, only seven days?" Lin Renzhao said angrily, "This damn weather, the road is slippery, do our troops have to fold here?" ”

"Lin Shuai, are we ......?"

Lin Renzhao heard this official say half a sentence in vain, and knew his thoughts, recently rumors have spread in the army, saying that he should not have casually embarked on this path of respecting the king and killing thieves in the first place, and now this is God helping Li Congqing, not him Li Yu, "You...... I, Lin Renzhao, am not that kind of person, you don't want to bewitch our army. ”

Before Lin Renzhao finished speaking, he immediately pulled out the sword on the weapon shelf, and the sword body flashed with cold light under the charcoal fire.

The official hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Lin Shuai, the lower officials don't dare, the lower officials have no choice, beg Lin Shuai to be merciful and forgive the lower officials." ”

Lin Renzhao didn't know why recently, since the first battle of Zhongshan, he felt that everything was contrary to common sense, if it was according to his style of play, Jinling would have been attacked and beaten a long time ago, but the fact is that when he led the army to attack the defenders of Jinling, the other party seemed to have already planned the link of his next attack, and he felt that his every move had been understood by the enemy army in advance. Now after a few stops, he has lost a lot of soldiers in his barracks, and for some reason, he secretly feels that there are enemy spies in his army.

If the spy is not removed for a day, Lin Renzhao feels that there is a sharp blade in his heart, which will fall down and hurt himself at any time.

In the past few days, he himself and his own capable henchmen have been in the army to pay attention to everything below.

"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable, you go down and receive twenty military sticks, if you hear your depressing words next time, this commander will definitely behead you."

"Yes, yes, yes." The official wiped his sweat and hurried out of the tent.

Outside the big tent of the Chinese army, it was still raining heavily in the sky, and the surface of the barracks had become a swamp, and the soldiers in the barracks were also sighing, and their morale had reached a low point.