In May of the first year of Shaoxing in 1131 AD, shortly after the new emperor Zhao Tianci ascended the throne, the Jin soldiers united with Liu Yu, the king of Qi, to gather 600,000 land and water troops, and Chen soldiers north of the Yangtze River, preparing to cross the river for a decisive battle with the Southern Song court.

However, the time for "preparation" this time was "slightly" longer, and it was called "coordinating military affairs", in fact, they were all a little afraid, Wanyan Zongbi had just been defeated and returned to the north for a short time, and many people still remembered the fiasco, and this was about to cross the river again, not to mention that the marshal who led the troops did not dare to move lightly, even ordinary soldiers were unwilling.

However, whether they are willing or not is their own business, but the northern expeditionary army in Jiangnan has quietly gathered and is ready to go on the expedition.

What he said was "quietly", that is because Jiangnan and Jiangbei are clearly distinguished, and the people of the Jin State in Jiangbei don't know what Jiangnan is doing, but for the Southern Song Dynasty court in Jiangnan, it is completely different. There are a total of several people and horses in the Jin soldiers, how many people are in each way, where they are stationed, who the lord will be, all these information are also imprinted in the mind of the little emperor Zhao Tianci.

The imperial court's expedition was indeed carried out in secret, there was neither a pledge meeting, nor a pre-war mobilization, as if in silence, all walks of life left and marched north under the leadership of their respective generals.

Among these horses, Yue Fei led a total of 100,000 horses from Chizhou to the Yuejia army under his department, and arrived at Ezhou through Jiangzhou along the way.

Han Shizhong led 100,000 sailors to enter the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal by boat from Lin'an Mansion to the starry night, passing through Xiuzhou and Suzhou along the way, after a slight adjustment in the Taihu Lake area, the soldiers were divided into two routes, one way 50,000 horses led by Liang Hongyu to Changzhou, two days later to Zhenjiangkou to rest, while the other road was led by Han Shizhong himself, from Pingjiang Mansion directly down to the East China Sea, all the way to the north.

And along the Yangtze River, Lu Qinghou and Zhao Yiyan lined up on the riverside with 100,000 reserve troops and hundreds of thousands of shuttles, ready to go down the river to fight at any time.

Wu Jie and Wu Ling each led 20,000 horses to Yuezhou and Junzhou respectively, waiting for the order to cross the river.

After the streamlining and expansion, the eight-color battalion has reached 10,000 people, and they did not set off with the team, but on the tenth day after all the horses left, they left with the little emperor Zhao Tianci on a 200 airship high into the clouds.

At this point, the whole Jiangnan was quiet all of a sudden, and everyone was waiting, waiting for the good news that would make them excited.

The Jin soldiers were mainly stationed in Taizhou, Yangzhou, Taipingzhou, Shuzhou, Qizhou and Huangzhou, across the river from the Southern Song Dynasty army. Yangzhou is close to Zhenjiangkou, as soon as Liang Hongyu's men arrived, the general of the Yangzhou garrison, Ta La, was shocked, he had never seen such a large-scale assembly of the Song army, and immediately sent people to Dingyuan South to the generalissimo Taishi Wanyan Zonghan station to ask for reinforcements.

Wanyan Zonghan of course did not believe that the Southern Song Dynasty court would have such a strong mobilization ability, and when he received the request for border aid, he just laughed at it, and said with a smile that he was frightened by the Song army, but he couldn't ignore it completely, so he sent a military order to Wanyan Zongying, the Luzhou garrison, ordering him to divide 10,000 troops and go to Yangzhou to have a look.

The Luzhou garrison is still some distance away from the Yangtze River, Wanyan Zongying did not take this military order to heart, Zong Han ordered him to divide 10,000 troops to take a look, he thought, since it is "look", there are more than 10,000 horses, there is no need to send so many people, so he only sent a deputy general with 500 people to Yangzhou.

Of course, when he saw these five hundred men, his nose was almost crooked, and he didn't even say a polite word, but walked along the river with the lieutenant, and then sent him back without even giving him a drink.

After listening to the deputy general's report, Wanyan Guoying couldn't sit still, what is Song Guo going to do? It's almost over, do you really want to do it? Although he also has nearly 80,000 horses in his hands, they are his heart's meat, and they cannot be used until the critical moment.

Wanyan Zongying's battle report was also sent to Dingyuan Zonghan's handsome account.

Zong Han didn't dare to pursue his disobedience, because Zong Ying was the prince and still had the name of a prince, if he really talked about the size, he Zong Han would have to kowtow to others!

"Does Song Ting have such strength?" Zong Han still couldn't believe it, "Come on, go and call General Li." ”

Who is General Lee? Li Cheng! Li Cheng, the strong man who was beaten by Yue Fei as the commander of the light pole, defected to Liu Yu, the king of Qi, and because he came from the south this time, he was transferred to the front of the tent by Zong Han, so that he could know the enemy's situation at any time.

Li Cheng read the two battle reports, frowned and said, "Marshal, there are indeed a lot of sailors in the Song army, but it is impossible to be the main force of the Song army by dispatching so many men and horses to guard the mouth of the Zhenjiang River at one time, I am afraid it is a bluff." ”

How could Zong Han know, it was all up to him to listen to what he said, nodded and said, "Then let's wait and see." ”

Who knew that this wait was nearly half a month, and there was no movement on the south bank of the Yangtze River, so Zong Han believed that it was indeed a bluff by Song Bing.

But early the next morning, when he made this assumption, the Song soldiers' crossing of the river began.

100,000 shuttles filled the entire river, stretching for dozens of miles, and the golden soldiers stationed along the river were attacked by powerful feather arrows at the same time.

Zong Han was shocked when he received the military report, and hurriedly dispatched all the battalions and constellations to the banks of the Yangtze River to support.

What he didn't know was that Wu Jie and Wu Lan brothers received orders almost at the same time, and led people to successfully cross the Yangtze River from Yuezhou and Junzhou, and outflanked them from the left side, while the other group of men and horses was Niu Gao, who quietly entered Jiankang Mansion, and he led 20,000 men and horses to forcibly land on the extremely narrow river west of Jiankang Mansion and went straight to Yangzhou.

There was also a mysterious force, which no one had expected, and directly inserted into the rear of their army.

At this point, Zhao Tianci's carefully planned encirclement has been completed.

That's right, his appetite is amazing, he wants to eat all these 600,000 gold soldiers!

And the day he gave the order to force the crossing of the Yangtze River was when his Imperial Air Force was parachuted.

Zhao Yiyan and Lu Qinghou stood by the river, looking at the thousands of shuttles galloping across the river, and couldn't help but be proud.

"Uncle Guo, I really can't imagine that my Great Song Dynasty is as majestic as it is today, and in the past, it was all for people to run after their butts." Zhao Yiyan's eyes lit up, and his right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the knife at his waist.

Lu Qinghou is very interested in the words "Uncle Guo", since his sister entered the palace and became the mother of the main palace, he strongly felt that this country has his Lu family.

"It's time for the emperor to arrive in Yingzhou at this time, there is a large plain area, which is the most suitable for our air force to land." Lu Qinghou said in an old-fashioned manner.

"Uncle Guo, do you know what I'm thinking now?" Zhao Yiyan squinted at Lu Qinghou, who was pretending.

"What do you want to do with your uncle......" As soon as he said this, he felt that his eyes were dark, and a tall figure pounced on him, and immediately pressed him to the ground, "You stinky boy, calling you Uncle Guo is to lift you, and you are still on the score, see if I don't beat you like an uncle!" Zhao Yiyan said as he swung his fist and smashed it down on Lu Qinghou.

"Brother Zhao, slow down!" Lu Qinghou was afraid that he would come to this move, so he hurriedly begged for mercy, "Brother, it's okay for you to be my own brother, our people are watching, can you save me some face?" ”

Zhao Yiyan kicked him hard and snorted, "See if you dare to pretend in the future?!" ”

"Don't pretend, definitely don't pretend!" Lu Qinghou got up from the ground with a smile and said with a smile.

The soldiers on the left and right had long been surprised by the two of them, and they all looked sideways and pretended not to see.

"Old Lu, do you want to go down and take a turn?" Zhao Yiyan nodded to the river with his chin.

"Afraid of you? Walk! Lu Qinghou turned around, grabbed his saber, and walked towards the riverside.

The two shuttles then joined together and rushed out like arrows from a string.

Arrows flew on the river, and the sound of swishing was endless. Those shuttles had no scruples at all, and even a few of them tried to land near the north bank, which frightened the Jin soldiers stationed there and hurriedly gathered people and horses to rush over, only to dispel the attempts of those "bold" shuttles to land, but even so, the cold arrows that kept shooting from the shuttles still turned the riverside into a no-man's land within a radius of about a mile.

From the beginning of the battle on the river to the present, four or five hours have passed, and the Song soldiers hiding in the flying shuttle have been unscathed, while the Jin soldiers on the riverside have already left seven or eight hundred corpses. Wanyan Zonghan, who hurried to the riverside, was also taken aback when he saw this, when did the Song Kingdom have so many strange things? He looked at Li Cheng beside him, Li Cheng was also confused, he had only heard of it, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, but today he not only saw it with his own eyes, but the entire river surface was full of these things!

Wanyan Zonghan snorted coldly and said, "Order, stop the attack and withdraw out of their range." ”

The golden soldiers retreated like a tide of heavenly sounds, and they had already withdrawn to a place five or six miles away from the river in a short time.

Wanyan Zonghan shook his head, and said in his heart Even if people are standing on the riverside and shooting arrows at you, it is impossible to reach five or six miles away, it can be seen that these soldiers are frightened by others.

However, this trick is also effective, and the shuttle on the river is also very dexterous, seeing that after the Jin soldiers withdrew, they were out of the range of bows and arrows, so they no longer fired arrows, but circled around the river.

Wanyan Zonghan was silent for a long time, sighed and said, "The battle of the Great River can't be done, let's retreat!" ”

When Tara spotted the shuttle jumping all over the river, his hanging heart let go, because this strange thing he had seen before seemed to have no other effect than to harass the morale of the army, let alone go ashore. Therefore, he was wiser than the others, and as soon as he saw the shuttles rushing towards him, he immediately ordered the men to retreat, and there was no unnecessary sacrifice. And the Zhenjiangkou water army, which he had been worried about, seemed to have no movement at all. (To be continued.) )