The first thing to be captured in this Great Zhou was Shouzhou, an important town in the Southern Tang Dynasty. wWW.VoDtw.coM Shouzhou is a city located on the Huaihe River Basin, and its location is extremely important.

Shouzhou also has a great history of origin.

During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was in order to destroy Chen's military needs, and in the eighth year of Kaihuang (588), he placed Huainan Xingtai Province in Shouchun.

In the second year, Nanchen was pacified, so Yang Jian ordered the withdrawal of Huainan Province and the establishment of the Shouzhou Governor's Mansion to govern Shouchun.

Tang Wude changed to Shouzhou in three years, and the state administration was located in Shouchun, with two counties of Shouchun and Anfeng at the beginning, and later increased the jurisdiction of Huoqiu, Huoshan and Shengtang (now Lu'an). It belongs to Huainan Road.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Wu State took Shouxian as the loyal army, and the Southern Tang Dynasty took Shouzhou as the Qinghuai army, and the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty directly surrounded Shouzhou.

At this time, stationed in Shouzhou was the famous general Liu Renzhen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was the envoy of the Qinghuai Army, and led his troops to garrison Shouzhou.

Liu Renzhen, a native of Pengcheng, was a famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was promoted to the Wuchang Festival envoy many times.

Later, he was reappointed as the envoy of the Qinghuai Army Festival and guarded Shouzhou.

Since Li Gu was appointed to deploy the Huainan marching army and camp, he actively led the army to march and ordered people to build a pontoon bridge over the Huai River.

The army of the Great Zhou Dynasty smoothly crossed the Huai River from the Zhengyang River, and directly besieged the city of Shouzhou, which has the meaning of catching turtles in the urn.

On that day, thousands of Tang troops from Shouzhou came out of the city to attack the Zhou army, but they were defeated by Wang Yanchao, the envoy of the Zhongwu Army, and at the same time killed and captured more than 2,000 Southern Tang soldiers.

Within a few days, the vanguard army was under the command of Bai Yanyu, and at one time defeated the troops of several thousand people in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the town of Yamaguchi. （）

I don't know if Nantang's strength is too weak, or Da Zhou's strength is too strong, for a while, Chai Rong received good news.

Chai Rong couldn't sit still, the Southern Tang Dynasty was so vulnerable, it seemed that I must take the imperial conquest in person, so as to get back the fourteen Jiangbei states of the Southern Tang Dynasty as soon as possible.

At this time, Zhao Xu, who had almost recovered from his injuries, proposed to Chai Rong that he wanted to train the navy, but Chai Rong did not agree.

Now the military situation of the Great Zhou is in full swing, where is the water army still used, look at how my Great Zhou broke the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Xu Chai Rong didn't have the heart to listen to him at all, so he asked to go with Chai Rong, but this Chai Rong agreed.

On February 19, the third year of Zhou Xiande, Chai Rong issued an edict to personally conquer Huainan, wanting to take the 14 Jiangbei states of the Tang State in one fell swoop.

The pro-conquest is not just to go, his base camp must be stable, otherwise Chai Rong must be stable.

So Chai Rong appointed Xiang Xun, the envoy of the Southern Yuan of Xuanhui and the envoy of Zhen'an Jiedu, to serve as the guard in Tokyo, and asked Wang Pu, a scholar of the Duanming Palace, to assist Xiang Xun in his work.

When Xiang Xun was in the four states of Qinfeng and Qinfeng, he made great contributions to the trust of Emperor Chai Rong, and this time he did not expect to be appointed as the left-behind guard of Bianliang in Tokyo.

Now that there are arrangements for political affairs, it is also necessary to make good arrangements for the military, and Chai Rong's confidant Han Tongquan serves as the inspection and guard department, responsible for patrolling and inspecting inside and outside Daliang City.

At the same time, he also ordered the guards to command the envoys, and the Guide Jie Du envoy Li Chongjin is currently leading the army to Zhengyang.

Bai Chongzan, the envoy of Heyang Jiedu, led 3,000 soldiers and horses to camp on Yingshang.

Li Gu heard that Chai Rong was going to conquer in person and was rushing to Shouzhou, so he wanted to take Shouzhou when Chi Rong felt here, so that he could show his face in front of the emperor.

He didn't expect that no matter what, he didn't think that no matter how he called for war, Liu Renzhen would hang up the battle exemption card.

The angry Li Gu old blood could almost vomit three liters, and at this time there was even more surprising news that the reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty came.

The reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty came as soon as they came, and there was no reinforcement in the war, but the reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty went straight to Zhengyang.

Now Li Gu is really panicked, Zhengyang has a pontoon bridge built by Da Zhou, in case it is demolished by Nantang, Chai Rong can't come, and he and others can't go back, this is really a lonely army. What to do.

In fact, Liu Yanzhen, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Shenwu Army, immediately led the army to reinforce Shouzhou after he was appointed to deploy the camp capital in the north.

When he arrived at a town called Laiyuan, two hundred miles outside Shouzhou, he did not order his soldiers to advance directly to Shouzhou again.

He asked his subordinates to change hundreds of large warships and went directly to Zhengyang, he wanted to surround Wei to save Zhao.

Sure enough, his trick still worked very well, and Li Gu was also very panicked when he heard that Liu Yanzhen led his troops to Zhengyang.

So he hurriedly hurried his subordinates to discuss countermeasures, that was his own way out, once it was cut off, he and the others were really isolated in Shouzhou.

In fact, this can't be blamed on him, just look at the map, Shouzhou is located in the Huai River Basin, there is Tushan in his northeast, and Chuzhou in the southeast.

This city is all from the Southern Tang Dynasty, and there are still a lot of garrisons, and the reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty are also constantly coming.

In other words, the current situation is that the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty is surrounding Shouzhou, and the reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty began to gradually come up and encircle the Great Zhou.

In other words, the army of the Great Zhou is now in a state of being flanked from both sides, provided that the defenders of Shouzhou go out of the city.

Li Gu didn't dare to take this risk, so he paid extra attention to his rear, if he was really surrounded, they could retreat and make plans again.

When he consulted with the generals, he thought that the soldiers of the Great Zhou were not good at water warfare and could not resist the hundred warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

If the pontoon bridge was really cut off, it was possible that he would be attacked on his back, and it was he who decided to lead his army back and defend the pontoon bridge himself.

His proposal was approved by the generals for a while, nonsense, everyone can also see that if you stay here, you may be surrounded by the Southern Tang Dynasty, and you don't know how to die when the time comes.

Now his lord will say that he will return to Zhengyang to stick to the pontoon bridge, who else is unwilling, who is not willing to be a fool.

The army of the Great Zhou is very heroic, but there are also people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, is this human nature, who is not afraid of death?

So it was very smooth for everyone to return to Zhengyang, and everyone raised their hands in favor, and no one opposed reads;.

Li Gu ordered the army to return to Zhengyang, in fact, Li Gu's starting point was good, to hold the pontoon bridge in Zhengyang, but did Chai Rong allow him to do this?

Chai Rong was bent on taking the land of Huainan and preparing for his unification of China, and now that you have actually retreated, he will definitely not agree.

Chai Rong led the brigade at this time to rush to Yuzhen, and also got information that Liu Yanzhen led the battleship to Zhengyang.

But Chai Rong is an emperor on horseback, will he be afraid of war? The answer is no, so he didn't take Liu Yanzhen in his eyes at all.

At this time, Zhao Xu, who was with him, reminded him:

"Your Majesty, what I'm worried about is that Lord Li will retreat to the pontoon bridge in Zhengyang because my Great Zhou army is not as good as the Southern Tang Dynasty, and our early efforts will be in vain at that time."

Chai Rong also understood after such a reminder, and immediately sent a messenger to stop Li Gu.

It's not easy to besiege Shouzhou, how can you retreat so easily.

But the messenger was still a step late after all, Li Gu had already led the army back to Zhengyang, and it seemed that Li Gu had not yet understood Chai Rong's intentions.

Chai Rong was furious, so he ordered a rapid march again, and finally arrived at Chenzhou on February 26.

At the same time, he immediately sent Li Chongjin to lead his army to the edge of the Chenhuai River. Li Gu also knew that Chai Rong was dissatisfied with his withdrawal and return to defense, so he wrote a letter to defend himself.

The chapter was thrown away by Chai Rong. But Chai Rong also saw the inadequacy of the Zhou army's navy, so he ordered the training of the navy.

It was Wang Huan, the general of Houshu, who was in charge of related matters, and at the same time he also wanted to replace Li Gu, Li Gu was okay in political affairs, but he didn't have much foresight in military affairs.

This is not conducive to the great cause of reunification, so it is better to send some military-minded people to replace him.

Chai Rong immediately sent someone to Zhengyang Bridge, where is there no room for mistakes.

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