The weather is sunny and cloudless, and the footsteps of spring are approaching.

At this moment, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Jinghu Naval Division of the Song Army, and the Cao Bin Department of the Middle Route Army went east along the river, and ordered Bazuo to make Hao Shourong lead the ships to follow up.

In the southwest, the Song Ma Bu Army, the Song State Water Army, and the (Southern) Han Army set out from Jiangling Prefecture and mobilized soldiers and horses from Fang, Deng, Tang, Shen, Sui, and An Prefectures to attack each other on the land north of the Jiangbei to attack Wuchang and Jiangzhou, threatening the western border of the (Southern) Tang Dynasty.

Such a strategy was to attack the (southern) Tang from both flanks of the waterway, and the battle line was too long, and the situation was more complicated.

In the strategy, the Song Guoshui military first knew that Li Congqing mobilized the Hukou naval division to go to Runzhou and the defense along the Qinhuai River, and now although the Hukou naval army is led by Zhu Lingyun, the Shenwei naval army, but since Zhu Lingyun ruined his appearance in the first battle of Runzhou, his temperament has changed greatly, and Li Congqing because of the first battle of Runzhou is not his command faux pas, but the blind command of his cronies and superintendent army Qicheng, which is not to deprive him of military power, but to let him return to Hukou to train the naval army.

At this moment, the Song army's ships are heading south, and the Song army and the army of (southern) Han Zhi Tingxiao are on the warships, and in the north of the river, the Ma Bu army is also in a hurry to follow up, keeping in line with the Song army's naval division on the river.

The first task of the Song army was to cross the mouth of the lake (Poyang Lake into the estuary), and the Song army took a bold strategic measure at this moment, allowing the other way to harass the (southern) Tang army's military fortress to the west of Chizhou, and after landing on the shore, it raided Chizhou.

Along the river, there are many important towns of the Tang Army, and the mouth of the lake alone makes it difficult for the northern soldiers to break through, and the next important towns are all battleground for soldiers.

If the Central Plains army wants to cross the river, it must now clear the obstacles of the (southern) Tang water army on the river, and it has to fight with the (southern) Tang water army. After crossing the river, he fought to the death with the (southern) Tang army.

Fortunately, however, the (southern) Tang army mistakenly thought that the Song army was just a routine patrol of the river, and did not intercept it, causing Cao Bin's army to pass through the mouth of the lake smoothly.

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In early March, Cao Bin led his army in a surprise attack and occupied Xiakouzhai (present-day Guichixi, Anhui), and then quickly occupied Chizhou.

The news of the fall of Chizhou reached Jiangning Mansion, and Li Congqing ordered the Shenwei Naval Army to wait for Zhu Lingyun to lead 150,000 troops.

Soon after, Zhu Lingyun led 150,000 troops to take a 100-meter-long raft and a large ship that could accommodate dry people out of the lake and marched eastward,...... At that time, the Yangtze River was shallow, the channel was narrow, and the large ships could not run in parallel, and Wang Mingjun, who was stationed at Dushukou (near Anqing), erected ship-shaped wooden piles by the river, so that Zhu Jun did not dare to rush in.

On the 11th, Zhu Lingyun's lone army took a large ship to Wankou (southwest of Anqing, Anhui, and the mouth of the Anhui River), but was intercepted by Liu Yubu, the commander of the Song Xingying camp, and the Song army Wang Mingjun erected many long trees in Shazhou as sails.

In order to break through here, Zhu Lingyun attacked with kerosene, but this time he encountered the wind like Runzhou, the fire burned back, and Zhu's army collapsed without a fight,...... In the melee, Zhu Lingyun was burned to death, Wang Hui, the Marquis of Yu, and others were captured, and tens of thousands of weapons were captured by the Song army.

After that, the Song and Han coalition forces defeated the (southern) Tang army in Tongling (now Anhui), obtained more than 200 warships, and then connected Wuhu, Dangtu and other places.

For a time, the strength of the Song army rose sharply, and the prestige of the Song and Han coalition forces also intimidated the world, Li Congqing was too busy to take care of himself, and the west side received the threat of Lin Renzhao and the threat of the Song State and Wu Yueguo alliance army, and the Shenwei Water Army on the west side was defeated by the Song army, and the important military towns on both sides of the Yangtze River in the (south) Tang Dynasty also fell.

The (southern) Tang Dynasty's river defense from Hukou to Chizhou had all been defeated by the Song and Han coalition forces, and Cao Bin and others quickly occupied the important towns in the upper reaches of the (Southern) Tang Water Army. Now, for them, the ultimate goal is to quarry at an important ferry port downstream.

Crossing the river from quarrying, this is the narrowest place, and it is also an excellent place to attack Jiangning Mansion from the west, just with the Song State and Wu Yue coalition forces in Yangzhou-Runzhou-Changzhou on the east side, and the east and west are flanked.

At this moment, on the quarrying side, the wind and waves in the early morning have already blown, and the waves are also violently undulating, and the boats are also rising and falling violently with the waves, and the people on the boat suddenly feel a jolt.

Fan Ruoshui looked at the river and saw that the river was full of wreckage of damaged ships and the charred floating corpses of some soldiers of the Song, Han and Tang dynasties.

He looked at the river, a sour vomit, all the remaining food residues in the stomach juice spit out, Fan Ruoshui and the officials of the Ministry of Water and others had already completed the measurement of the data, and at this moment they planned to give all these data to them.

In the distance, a warship of the Song Kingdom came and sailed quickly in the sun, "Mr. Fan, look, it's the ship of the Song Army." ”

"They're finally here." Fan Ruoshui and the rest of the people cheered all the way when they saw the Song army's naval flag fluttering above the bones of the Song warship.

An official of Taichang Temple at the bow of the boat said respectfully: "Mr. Fan, Your Majesty specially ordered me to entertain Mr., I heard that Mr. has made the situation of the river near the quarrying clear, this is Your Majesty's secret order, the world is a family, how can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch." ”

At this moment the boat approached, and a small boat was lowered from the big boat and placed on the river.

Fan Ruoshui and other officials of the Ministry of Water had all boarded the boat at this moment, and the soldiers at the bow of the boat were also packing up and pulling the rope to transport the boat onto the big boat.

Fan Ruoshui and others boarded the bow of the ship.

At this moment, Cao Bin came forward and said: "Now there are 20,000 (southern) Tang defenders in quarrying, and the people who lead the troops are Yang Shu, the deputy commander of the Ma Bu Army, and Sun Zhen, the supervisor of the soldiers and horses, and other more than 1,000 people, and the current task of my Song and Han army is to seize the key pass, clear the defenders in this area of quarrying, and so on, when the Shuzhou Jiedu envoy on the north bank will lead the water army of Anhui to join our army, and our army will lay a pontoon bridge in quarrying, and then the Song army on the north bank will cross the river from here. ”

Fan Ruoshui immediately said: "There is a key here, that is, while sweeping away the quarrying defenders, while laying a pontoon bridge on the river, now the test for us is also extremely big, if it is delayed for another month, the peach blossom flood in the upstream is coming, if the pontoon bridge is to be laid again, I am afraid it will have to wait for a long time, it is a quarrying battle, it is quite critical, we must fight steadily, and quickly eliminate the Tang army of quarrying." ”

Then Cao Bin ordered Hao Shourong to lead the soldiers and craftsmen to build a pontoon bridge across the river on the quarry rock to ensure that the follow-up troops crossed the river.

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At the same time, since the Caoqu arrived in the southeast of Yangzhou, the Beijing Navy Division is now sailing on the river between Yangzhou and Runzhou.

At this moment, a few days have passed in the battle of Chizhou, and although Li Congqing received the crushing defeat of the Song and Han armies in attacking the military towns near Hukou to Chizhou, now the Song and Han armies are approaching the vicinity of quarrying.

It's a pity that now the two-front battle is also a little stretched for him, and there is no other way for him to do anything other than let the quarrying and Jinling defenders guard the Qinhuai River-Zhongshan line.

At the suggestion of the ministers of the imperial court, Li Congqing ordered the guard Du Yu to wait for Liu Cheng to lead his army to the west side of the Qinhuai River, attack with Lin Renzhao's army, and strengthen the defense east of Jiangning.

Li Congqing never thought that in just a few months, the situation in Jiangnan would change so much, he felt more and more that he was a little powerless, and after experiencing a joint attack on Jinling by multiple armies, the imperial court soldiers and horses were scattered a lot on both sides because they wanted to defend from east to west, and now they have lost a lot.

Li Congqing also sent officials from the imperial court to negotiate with the Song and Han coalition forces near the quarry, but the other party asked for a sky-high price, either to increase the annual currency or to cede the country, and even more, the Song army wanted to eradicate Li Congqing, a traitorous man, in the name of Li Yu, the lord of the country.

Zhang Xun also proposed to Li Congqing in the past few days: "Your Majesty, please order the old Song master to strengthen the wall." Zhang Xun's point of view can certainly drag Jinling for a while, after all, the front of the Song and Han armies is too long, and the grain and grass are a little poor, but Li Congqing thinks that Zhang Xun is passive resistance, so Li Congqing is angry and plans to kill Zhang Xun to set the record straight.

In the end, Zhang Xun was forced to resign and left Jiangning Mansion with disappointment.

After the two-way attack of the armies on the east and west, Li Congqing's temperament became more and more irritable, and at several emergency court meetings, Li Congqing roared and overturned the table, and the vegetable market in Jinling was also covered with blood.

Li Congqing used wine to drown his sorrows every day, and vented his body through Li Yannian's body, and the death of General Wang a few days ago hit him quite hard.

…… Grumpy, failure, alcoholism, indulgence, etc., made Li Congqing's health deteriorate, and finally the young Li Congqing fell ill.

On this day, Li Congqing lay on the sickbed, and the imperial doctor on his side retreated after diagnosing the pulse, leaving only a few henchmen beside him.

Li Congqing closed his eyes slightly, his body was like a piece of thin paper, unable to support his body, and after chatting casually with a few henchmen on his side.

Now the imminent thing is that the Zhongshan defense line is somewhat weak, and Li Congqing has to ask people to mobilize Ma Bu troops from Lishui and other departments to support Zhongshan-Qinhuai River. After that, Li Congqing fell into a coma.

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Qingyin Pavilion, Qianjin Yixiao Lou and the envoys of the Song State of the Protocol House have received the war reports from Jiangnan one after another, Wang Pu did not expect that the war would start so soon, what makes him happy today is that he received a letter from the King of Wei, and finally as he expected, the disappearance of the King of Wei is one of the fuses at all, and it is also a strategy personally planned by Zhao Dezhao, the King of Wei.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty has united the forces of the world, it has achieved the goal of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are still good things to come.

As for Li Yu in Kaifeng City, as soon as Wang Pu thought of this lord, he unconsciously thought of Zhao Dezhao.

"It is worthy of being the emperor, in vain my Wang Wenbo did not mistake this descendant, Your Majesty is right, how can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch."

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Although Lu Jiang and others resisted stubbornly, in the end, the Song army still captured Lu Jiang, and Lu Jiang was temporarily detained in Runzhou City, waiting to be escorted to Kaifeng.

Then the Song army took Kuang Fu Li Yu as the national policy, and successfully passed through Runzhou, and at this moment Feishu invited Changzhou Wu Yue Guojun to go west and go in the direction of Jiangning Mansion.

The entire Jiangnan was completely shrouded in the atmosphere of war, and the smoke of gunpowder was also in the air.

Ps. Fast-paced chapter.