。 "Without me today, how can there be a king tomorrow? Once Song Tianzi changed places, Wang Yiliang was clothed. The letter is very short, but about 20 words, which is not at all as gorgeous as Li Yu's usual wording, but it is concise and to the point. This is a secret letter written by Li Yu to the southeast of Shengzhou, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the king of Wuyue, Qian Yu has submitted it to Bianliang, and at the same time transcribed a copy and forwarded it to Zhao Guangyi, the commander of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi is looking at a copy of Li Yu's secret letter at this moment.

Li Yu wrote this letter to Qian Yue, the meaning of rebellion at a glance, Wu Yue Prime Minister Shen Huzi looked at it and thought it was true, thinking that even if Wu Yue did not unite with Tang to deal with Song, he should not send troops to eliminate Tang State, otherwise once Tang State was destroyed, Wu Yue would have no possibility of existing, Qian Yu's king could not do it, and he, the prime minister, had also made it home, Qian Yue was like a stream, and immediately sent him back to his hometown, and then this secret letter fell into the hands of the Zhao brothers.

Zhao Guangyi smiled, he knew that Qian Yu would not dare to betray the Song Dynasty, perhaps, he still held on to the hope of what happened, hoping that his loyalty to the Song and his behavior of helping the Song to crusade against the world could move the Zhao family, and he could open the net and keep his harmless Wu Yue Kingdom, but if the Song State really wanted to annex Wu Yue, he could only take advantage of the situation.

As a monarch, Qian Yu is not as talented as Zhao Kuangyin, and not as talented as Li Yuwen, but he sees people very clearly, and he is also very clear about his own catties, he has already seen that no matter whether he Qian Yu participates in the war or not, the ending of the Tang Kingdom is the same, just a day sooner or later, and the ending of his Wu Yueguo also depends entirely on the intentions of the Zhao official family, whether to resist or not to resist, it is no different for Wu Yueguo, but it is very different for the Qian family, so he made what he thought was the wisest choice.

Zhao Guangyi didn't care about the loyal part of Qian Yu's letter, and glanced at it, focusing on the military intelligence report. Qian Yu dismissed Shen Huzi's prime minister, continued to wave his troops to attack, and now has been connected to Yixing, Jiangyin, surrounded Changzhou, the letter said, Changzhou Tang army based on the city of hard fighting, its reinforcements are galloping in the starry night, Wu Yue army decided to encircle Changzhou, Yi Yi waiting for help, only to defeat the reinforcements, and then conquer Changzhou, and then use this as a stronghold, with the Song army to form a large encirclement of Tang, gradually shrink, forced to Jinling.

Zhao Guangyi saw that his confidence was more urgent, Cao Bin crossed the mouth of the lake, broke Jinling, and is now attacking Wuhu day and night; Qian Yu broke Yixing and Jiangyin, and was besieging Changzhou, but what about himself? The army led by himself is the main force of the Song army, and it is the elite forbidden army brought from Beijing, and now it is still not an inch away, if he waits for Cao Bin and Qian Yu to come to pick him up and cross the river, then how can he save face?

Zhao Guangyi put down Qian Yu's letter, leaned over and looked at the temporary sketch of the quarry rock attack and defense map on the handsome case, and his eyebrows locked.

He wore a military uniform with bright armor. A suit of armor flashed with a cold glow, wearing such a suit of armor, sitting there could only sit upright, it was uncomfortable for a long time, but Zhao Guangyi liked this feeling, how many years had not worn a battle robe, when he put it on again, he had already become a generalissimo in command of the three armies from a small army in the army, he liked this feeling of bleeding and fluttering between his fingers, and a sound of thousands of heads falling to the ground.

But when he pointed to the south of the Yangtze River in high spirits, and rushed to the dust, he was blocked in the quarry, which made him feel a deep sense of frustration, anger accumulated in his chest, looking down at the map for a long time, he slammed the handsome case, Huo Di stood up, and hurried up in the tent.

"It's a thousand years old, it's late at night, so let's go back to the tent and rest first."

Wang Jien spoke slowly, lifted the pot from the tandoor, and poured him a cup of hot tea.

Zhao Guangyi stood up suddenly, gently touched the brass of the sword at his waist with his thumb and swallowed it, pondered for a moment, and after returning to the handsome case, he instructed the two vanguard generals standing upright in the tent: "Yesterday, our army had successfully crossed the river, but unfortunately the support was weak, and the landing sergeant was difficult to defeat the counterattack of the Tang people. Early tomorrow morning, the three armies will rest for a quarter of an hour after dinner, and then attack the defenders on the opposite bank again. ”

The two generals clasped their fists and saluted: "Obey the order!" The two of them moved, and the leaves on their bodies were stunned, which increased the killing spirit in the tent. Zhao Guangyi turned his eyes and said to the general on the left: "Wu Xufei, tomorrow you will concentrate on the large and small fishing boats you have collected, and personally lead the army to attack Quarry Rock." ”

"Order!"

"Yang Haiqing, you make the bamboo and wood felling to carry the sergeant to help, once Wu Xufei succeeds, you immediately go ashore to help, even if the whole army dies in battle, you must hold the beachhead, and sail the raft back as soon as possible to carry my follow-up army across the river."

"Order!"

"Secretary Chang, you draft a war letter, and send a small school to the other side tomorrow morning."

Clerk Chang Hui, grabbed the brush, spread out the paper, only to listen to Zhao Guangyi murderously said: "Tell Yang Shui and Sun Zhen, although they won a small victory, but a temporary gain or loss, it will be difficult to defeat the majesty of my heavenly soldiers, those who know the times, quickly accept the surrender, this king to protect their glory and wealth, like a bright future, if you don't know how to resist to the end, this king crosses the river, will slaughter the defenders, he blocks my army for a day, this king will slaughter a city, the sea of blood kills, he two of them bear it, detailed wording, you think about it." ”

Zhao Guangyi said, shook the battle armor, and shouted: "Return the account!" ”

Zhao Guangyi strode out of the Chinese military tent, and then went to his own dormitory, Wang Jien glanced at the two generals, picked up the cup of tea on the handsome table, took a sip of light, and chased Zhao Guangyi with small steps.

After entering Zhao Guangyi's bedroom, Wang Jien persuaded with a smile: "Chitose, Chitose, why are you in a hurry, as soon as Cao Bin's sailor arrives, the water and land will be one, and the quarry rock must be in the prince's pocket." ”

Zhao Guangyi said: "Cao Bin sent someone to send the news, the Hukou defenders came back to their senses, and sent a small fleet to harass from behind, along the way, the Tang army continued to cast rockets, driving piles in the river to block the boat, the Wuhu defenders swore to resist stubbornly, how many days does it take him to reach the quarry?" This king has waited so long. ”

Zhao Guangyi said while having his own soldiers unwind his armor for him, and then waved his hand to Wang Jien and said, "Please sit down." ”

Wang Jien sat down with a smile, and said: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, Chitose is eager to make meritorious contributions, and Tei is also anxious, I am afraid that Yang Shu and Sun Zhen will receive the war book of Chitose, and they will strengthen their determination to fight to the death, which will be self-defeating." ”

Zhao Guangyi sneered obediently: "Nanren have always been cowardly, aren't they afraid? ”

Wang Jien hesitated: "But...... If Yang Shui Sun Zhen really doesn't fall, will Chitose really want to slaughter the city all the way? ”

Zhao Guangyi sneered: "What about slaughtering the city? ”

Wang Jien hesitated for a moment, leaned forward slightly, and said, "Chitose has forgotten about Wang Quanbin?" ”

Zhao Guangyi was slightly stunned, and then suddenly laughed: "Wang Quanbin is Wang Quanbin, and this king is this king, how can it be compared?" ”

Wang Quanbin, a famous general in the early Song Dynasty, made great achievements in battle, and used soldiers like gods, compared with Cao Bin and Pan Mei. When the Song Dynasty destroyed the Shu Kingdom, he was the commander of the three armies, and Cao Bin was also under his account at that time. However, the general was too murderous, and after occupying Chengdu, he connived at his subordinates to burn, kill, plunder, and rape women, and abused prisoners of war, which finally provoked a popular uprising.

As a result, Wang Quanbin was worried that the prisoners would go to the rebels, so he made a stupid move, imitated the killing god Bai Qi, and killed them all, even the old, weak and crippled, which provoked the Shu people to resist to the death, so that the Song State spent more than two years and paid a heavy price to quell the rebellion. Zhao Guanjia was furious and ordered him to return the looted goods, demoted him to the Chongyi Army's festival envoy to stay in the post, and sent it to the locality.

When Wang Jien mentioned Wang Quanbin, he was also kind enough to give Zhao Guangyi a wake-up call, fearing that he would kill too heavily and displease the official family.

Zhao Guangyi disagreed, and laughed: "Wang Quanbin's crime is not that he connived at the soldiers to kidnap people's property and rape people's wives and daughters, nor did he kill tens of thousands of prisoners of war, but because he provoked the rebellion of the Shu people, and the official family annoyed him." The Tang people are cowardly, and when they see my vicious methods, they must be cowardly, and their sharpness is frustrated, who can oppose it? There is no danger of rivers and no benefits of mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, where can it be reversed? Moreover, this king asked the official family for his life, and wanted to build a great cause for the official family to expand the territory, if he did not motivate the soldiers with rich women, how could he be as morale as a rainbow? ”

He smiled and said: "I know all the good intentions, this king knows, I know that I am tired, please go back to rest early, tomorrow morning, this king will raise troops to seize the quarry rock, if this day is dangerous, this credit is naturally indispensable to know that part, haha, all know and please go to sleep with peace of mind." ”

Zhao Guangyi personally sent Wang Jien out of the sleeping tent, said goodbye, looking at Wang Jien's distant back, the corners of Zhao Guangyi's mouth twitched, revealing a hint of indescribable smile: "If you don't give a heavy reward, how can you pacify Jiangnan within three months?" If you don't do something that kills too much and loses the support of the people, how can you dispel the vigilance of the officials? ”

He has been Kaifeng Yin for ten years, and now he has brought down Zhao Pu, he is already under one person in the Song court, above ten thousand people, Lu Duoxun and other three prime ministers have the experience of Zhao Pu, and they dare not disobey him, but his power tentacles can only be expanded among civilian officials, in view of this, he took the risk and forcibly led the troops. It was a temptation that he had mustered up courage to make, and it was not without trepidation in his heart.

He also considered that the eldest brother was afraid that he would be wary of him because of this, and there would be a gain and a loss, which was also a matter of no choice, but he hoped to ensure that his vested power was not damaged to the greatest extent, if he sent troops to Jiangnan, destroyed a country in three months, and had strict military discipline, did not hurt the innocent, and won the hearts of the people of Jiangnan, then his glory would be over. But his hard work is inconvenient to say to anyone, even if Wang Jien has a very close personal relationship with him.

He returned to the tent and slept in a wide coat, lying on the couch tossing and turning, thinking about the chances of attacking the quarry rock again tomorrow, and for a long time he became tired, then he turned off the lights, yawned, and was about to fall asleep, only to hear a rush of footsteps outside the tent, and a person shouted: "Chitose, Chitose, the last general Zhu Yuming, there is something important to report!" ”

Zhao Guangyi sat up in annoyance and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhu Yu Ming said: "Chitose, the patrol guards caught four people sneaking from the other side of the river......

Zhao Guangyi asked anxiously: "But Tang Guo is meticulous?" ”

Zhu Yuming said: "One of the four people claims to be Yang Hao, the left Shaoqing of my Song Guohonglu Temple, and it will be difficult to distinguish its authenticity in the end. ”

"Honglu Temple Zuo Shaoqing Yang ......" Zhao Guangyi was taken aback before he finished reading, and exclaimed: "Yang Hao? You say his name is Yang Hao? ”

"Exactly, that person calls himself Yang Hao."

Zhao Guangyi lifted the quilt with a snort, jumped to the ground in his small clothes, and ran out barefoot: "What about people? ”

"Now the Chinese army is under guard."

Zhao Guangyi pulled his legs and ran, Zhu Yuming was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Chitose, you haven't dressed yet......"

At this time, Zhao Guangyi had already run to the front of the Chinese army......※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ "In the past, Pei Gong saw Li Sheng and greeted him barefoot, but today the King of Jin saw Yang Hao, and he didn't let the ancients, and the lower officials were really moved." ”

As soon as he saw Zhao Guangyi's hair scattered, wearing a small coat, and a pair of bare feet, Yang Hao immediately stepped forward, but was stopped by two junior envoys, so he stopped and arched and said.

Zhao Guangyi fixed his eyes and saw that this person was indeed Yang Hao, who had already died, and was awarded by the imperial court as the founder of the country and the captain of the light car.

Zhao Guangyi was surprised: "Yang Shaoqing has never died? ”

Yang Hao sighed: "This matter ...... It's hard to put into words. ”

Zhao Guangyi saw that there was a monk and two black-clothed warriors standing beside him, and hurriedly said, "Come on, come on, take a seat, let's talk about it in detail." ”

There was a tent for the primary and secondary school to watch the seats, and when the tea was served, Yang Hao pushed the boat down the river and made up a story about how he came back from the dead. He said that he was assassinated that day, and when he entered the cabin, his wife and concubines had all been killed, and he remembered that there were two groups of assassins on the shore at that time, and they did not belong to each other, and he was afraid that Li Yu of the Tang State and the Khitan envoys had the intention to kill him, so he took a token and tied it to the wrist of a dead subordinate, and then dived to escape, found the guards brought by his wife, and then lurked.

Zhao Guangyi was full of doubts when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Lord Yang is worried that the Tang Kingdom and the Khitan, the host and guest, want to be unfavorable to you, and it is understandable that they will fake their death and lurk for safety, but ...... Why didn't you know about Jiao Sicheng for a long time, so that the court also mistakenly thought that you were dead? ”

"This ......" Yang Hao said with a sad and indignant face: "Chitose takes good care of Yang Hao, and he is a confidant, and Yang Hao does not hide it from Chitose." A wife and a concubine all died tragically on the ship, and this revenge was not avenged, and they became men in vain. Therefore, Yang Hao asked the guards in my house to take revenge, burned Yeluwen in the long alley, and avenged the blood of my wife and concubine. Yang Hao made private soldiers and avenged personal revenge, fearing that he would anger the official family and condemn the lower officials, so he wanted to go into hiding, how could he tell Jiao Sicheng. ”

It makes sense to say this, Zhao Guangyi was relieved: "Since you are determined to go into hiding, how can you come to see this king again?" ”

Yang Hao said: "The subordinate has recovered from his injury, he was originally disheartened, and he wanted to go into hiding, but he didn't want the heavenly soldiers to arrive, and the commander of the army was Chitose." Chitose is as kind to the lower officials as a mountain, and he cultivates with all his might, Yang Hao has the heart to repay Chitose, so he took the risk of sneaking to Quarry Rock to explore the military situation, hoping to help Chitose. Fortunately, it was also a thousand years old Hongfu, and when the lower official arrived at Quarry Rock, he actually met this Fan Xiucai. ”

Yang Hao pointed at Fan Ruobing, Fan Ruobing hurriedly got up and saluted, Zhao Guangyi was stunned and said, "This monk is a talent?" ”

Yang Hao said: "Exactly, Fan Xiucai has already had the heart to vote for my Great Song Dynasty, he pretended to be a monk, settled in the quarrying rock, poor years of work, drew a detailed Yangtze River water map, Chitose got this map, the depth of the quarry rock is slow as the palm of his hand, and the pontoon bridge can be built to make the army cross the river. Xiaguan got such important information, so he decided to come to see Chitose and do his best for Chitose. ”

Zhao Guangyi was overjoyed and said: "Lord Yang is really the king's blessed general, you came well, you came well, if this matter is successful, this king will invite the official family for you." ”

Yang Hao hesitated: "But...... Under the anger of the lower officials, killing the Khitan envoys without permission may provoke a dispute between the two countries, if I die first, it will be enough, and now I am back alive, how can the court explain to the Khitan? ”

Zhao Guangyi looked up to the sky and laughed: "Just one Yeluwen, if you die, you will die, what can the Khitan people do?" It is good to teach Lord Yang to learn that King Qing, the father of Yeluwen, rebelled in Shangjing and assassinated many Khitan magnates, and now he rebelled and killed the lord of Khitan, you killed the son of King Qing, and the lord of the Khitan country will never blame him, but will be greatly grateful to you, hahaha......"

"Is that so?" Yang Hao really didn't know anything about the rebellion in Shangjing, and he couldn't help but stay there when he heard the news.

At dawn, Zhao Guangyi was full of spring breeze, and the storming of the quarry rock turned into a feint attack on the quarrying rock, and a few broken boats were scattered, taking advantage of the morning fog to beat the drum and march, attacking the Tang army camp, and the craftsmen in the army, with a large number of small boats, rafts, and timber scavenged, began to build the first pontoon bridge in the history of the Yangtze River in the wide upper waters.

Fan Ruobing personally took the water map to point out, where the depth, where the slowness, the length of the piles used, and the width of the water surface were completely based on the water conditions in the quarry rock area that he had measured in general.

Mu Yu and the other two guards, who had made a detour from the upstream waterway, stood behind Yang Hao, looked at the construction scene in full swing on the river, and said in a low voice: "My lord came at a critical juncture, offered a water map, built a pontoon bridge, and has been favored by the King of Jin, what are you going to do next?" ”

Yang Hao said: "I've been thinking, how can I enter Shangjing for the Khitan people and land?" Although Yuluo rushed there first, even though she was somewhat familiar with it, how could she get close to the people in the palace? wants to save Dong'er back, although he knows where she is, but that palace wall is like the abyss of heaven and earth, which is unattainable. But I don't want to fake my death, so it's much easier. If I send an envoy to the Khitan as a Song envoy and enter Shangjing in a grand manner, and the other country is now ruled by the queen, it is not easy for me to meet the close servants and officials that she relies on very much? When I saw Dong'er, I plotted to escape with her, she escaped, I returned to China, I am an envoy of the Song Kingdom, no one can search my car, the Khitan Palace lost people, and I would never have thought that I would hide in my car, so hidden, it is possible to bring her out of the tiger and wolf's den safely. ”

Mu Yu said suspiciously: "That...... How can we return to Luzhou in a grand manner? ”

Yang Hao looked at the river in front of him, was silent for a long time, and said softly: "It's man-made, I also cross the river by feeling the stones, and take a step, look at a step!" ”

The Song people's offensive weakened, Yang Shui on the other side of the bank was not without doubts, and when the morning fog dissipated, people were cruising along the river, and finally they found that the Song people were building a pontoon bridge on the river, so the place was wide, the pontoon bridge was not as good as the opposite bank, and the two banks were steep, it was difficult to gain a foothold, and some arrows were also blown crooked by the strong wind on the water surface, and the Song people could not be prevented from building a bridge, Yang Shui hurriedly ordered people to go to Jinling to spread the news.

Li Yuzheng and a group of monks and Taoists in the palace bell chime to pray to the sky, learned the news can not help but be shocked, immediately convened the ministers to discuss, all the civil and military people can not help laughing when they hear it: "Song people do not know the nature of water, do not know that although the water is soft, but how powerful it is, if it is easy to build a pontoon bridge on the small river stream, the river is surging, it seems harmless, but the water surface of a hundred zhang, thousands of miles of water, its power is incomparable, especially to interrupt the pontoon bridge to be destroyed by a rush, it is difficult to build." ”

His close minister Zhang Xun also said: "In history, I have never heard of such a thing, and the Song people are too whimsical." ”

When Li Yu heard this, he was relieved, and said with a happy smile: "Yes, I also think that Zhao Guangyi is too child's play, this must be the Song people's poor donkey skills, so they made this decision. ”