It was finally Li Yu's turn. But before sending troops, Zhao Kuangyin must first solve one person: Lin Renzhao, a famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty! As early as the winter of 970, when Pan Mei was attacking the Southern Han Dynasty with all his might, Lin Renzhao secretly gave Li Yu a table: "Your Majesty, the opportunity has come." The Song Dynasty had just destroyed Houshu, and now it is attacking the Southern Han Dynasty. It takes thousands of miles to go back and forth. Tired and tired to death. Now none of them has more than 1,000 defenders in the Huainan states. If you give me tens of thousands of horses, I will cross north from Shouzhou, and I will definitely be able to recapture our lost territory in Huainan. If you are afraid of causing the two countries to fight, when I raise an army, you can declare to the outside world that I have defected. If this happens, it will be in your interest and that of the country. If defeated, you kill my whole clan to show Zhao Kuangyin that you have no two hearts... You think that's good."

This man must be removed! So in the leap February of 972, such an incident happened: one day Zhao Kuangyin took Li Congshan for a walk in the palace and walked into a side hall. During the chat, the emperor seemed to inadvertently point to a portrait on the wall and asked, "Does Aiqing know this person?" Li Congshan hesitated, "It seems to be Jiangnan Lin Renzhao," Zhao Kuangyin nodded again and again, "Yes." It's General Lin! He has surrendered, first send a portrait as a token," said and pointed out, "Aiqing, did you see that empty house?" That's the new home I gave to General Lin," Li Congshan immediately sent this "secret letter" back to Jinling. And his brother Li Yu did not delay, and immediately gave Lin Renzhao a cup of poisonous wine.

In October 973, a petty official named Pan You wrote a letter and compared Li Yu to the first two of "Xia Wei, Shang Xu, and Sun Hao". They can turn into big bricks at any moment to shoot at any of the current emperors. The king of the rue has even become an idiom. But Sun Hao is too sensitive, and he is too good with Li Yu.

Li Yu was furious and imprisoned Pan You and his friend Li Ping. But I didn't expect that Pan You really had a kind of person, and he wanted to die to admonish the king, so he committed suicide in prison. This has had a huge reputational impact on Li Yu. In a fit of rage, Li Ping was also given to death in prison. The reason is that the reason why Pan You committed such a crime was instigated by Li Ping.

In May of the 7th year of Kaibao (974), Li Yu integrated his day and night thoughts about his younger brother Li Congshan in Kaifeng into the sacred and inviolable treasure land in his spiritual world. The gorgeous rhetoric and beautiful writing of "But Ascending the High Text" could not impress Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin not only did not let Li Congshan return to China. In July, he also sent a man named Liang Zhen to the Southern Tang Dynasty to ask Li Yu to come to Kaifeng to participate in the winter festival, but Li Yu refused. History is known as "the emperor's determination to cut it down"

After Zhao Kuangyin was refused, he suddenly made a new request, asking Li Yu to send someone to escort a family surnamed Fan in the Southern Tang Dynasty to Kaifeng, and the whole family must be no one less. Li Yu was confused. But he had just rejected Zhao Kuangyin, and now he should think of a way to please him. And according to the investigation, the surname of this family is extremely ordinary, and the head of the household is now the first person named Fan Ruoshui next to Zhao Kuangyin. Then send it, it's not a pity.

On September 18, under the pretext of "stubbornness". Cao Han, the vanguard of the Song army, went to Jingnan first. On the 21st, Cao Bin, the first general of the Northern Song Dynasty, was the commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and led Li Hanqiong and Tian Qinzuo to lead the Jinghu naval army east along the Yangtze River and directly to Jinling, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. Pan Mei led Liu Yu and Liang Zhen to be the second road, assembled in Hezhou, and stood by the riverside. On October 12, he ordered the navy to enter the Yangtze River along the Bianhe River through the Grand Canal, and then go east to join the Wu Yue army, and detour back to the east to threaten Jinling. On the 23rd, he ordered Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, to lead his army north from Hangzhou, rendezvous with the Kaifeng Naval Division, and besiege Jinling. The imperial court sent Ding Deyu as the vanguard and supervisor of the army, and guided the work of the Wu Yue people at any time. Route 5: Wang Ming pinned down the Southern Tang Army in the direction of Wuchang and Hukou and blocked it from going east to help.

On October 18th, Cao Bin officially launched his army! Go straight to Jinling! Before that, when Cao Bin said goodbye to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin said to him, "The affairs of Jiangnan are in your sole charge." Remember not to kill innocents. The best thing is to surrender a lot. Don't storm the city" At the same time, the first Shang Fang sword since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty was solemnly given to Cao Bin in front of Pan Mei and others, "The deputy general will go down, and those who don't need to die will be killed" Pan Mei and others were immediately shocked, which means that Cao Bin has the right to kill them at any time, first cut and then play!

On the 25th, Cao Bin's army crossed the river from Qiyang and broke through Xiakou Village. On October 5, because the defender Ge Yan abandoned the city and fled, Cao Bin successfully took Chizhou. On the 18th, the army came to the first fortress of the Southern Tang Dynasty on the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River has been in the sky since ancient times, Cao Cao, Fu Jian, Chai Rong, how many heroes are here looking at the river and sighing, so Li Yu is still not in a hurry. On the 20th, the 150-volume "History of the Old Five Dynasties" edited by Prime Minister Xue Juzheng was completed, which also indicates that the Great Song Dynasty will not become the sixth generation, but will be the complete end of the five generations of troubled times!

On the 23rd, the Song army attacked the quarry rock head-on. More than 20,000 people in the Southern Tang Dynasty faced the battle and were defeated. More than 1,000 people, including Yang Shu and Sun Zhen, were arrested. In addition, there are more than 300 war horses. Jiangnan did not produce horses, which was given by the Song Dynasty every year, and now it is back in the hands of the Song Dynasty.

The Song army was busy until November 9. It was so busy that Li Yu was very strange. He asked his cronie Zhang Xun, "Can this matter be done?" The ministers have never written the classics of the past dynasties, so this matter will definitely not be "Yu", yes! I also think it's child's play."

What has Song Jun been busy with for more than half a month? Take the pontoon! Can't think of it, right? This is actually the breakthrough point pre-selected by the Song army! But thousands of miles along the Yangtze River, anywhere can be broken through. Why did you choose the dangerous and hard quarry rock? Could it be that this is Cao Bin's personal hobby, and he has an addiction to attacking natural dangers? Or is it Zhao Kuangyin's highest instruction? Determined to break through at the strongest point, from the beginning to make the Southern Tang people completely frightened?

Neither. The reason is only in the person named Fan Ruoshui. He has repeatedly failed in the exam, but his ambition is thousands of miles. took the initiative to write a letter to King Li Yu and put forward various suggestions on national affairs, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him. Mr. Juren, who had no way to serve the country and become an official, was very sad, he threw down his books and decided to send his love to the landscape, which was manifested in rowing and fishing. And he prefers one lot: Quarry Rock. Right here, he kept fishing day and night, and from time to time he threw it into the heart of the river like a fishing net and like a fishing line? Or a buoy tied to a stone, anyway, he was a loner and held on for a long time. After that, the Southern Tang people never saw him again, and no one knew where he went. Until the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly pointed out that he wanted his whole family.

As a result, there was a groundbreaking pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River that had no foundation, but could firmly support the rapid passage of thousands of troops and horses.

It was only at this time that Li Yu felt the danger for the first time, and he wrote to Qian Yu, the lord of Wuyue, "Without me today, how can there be a king tomorrow?" Once Song Tianzi changed places, Wang Yiliang was "concise and to the point, in one sentence." Li Yu was convinced that Qian Yu would withdraw his troops as soon as he saw the letter, and instead joined forces with himself against the Song Dynasty. But on the 14th, the letter was handed over to Kaifeng by Qian Yu intact. Li Yu was puzzled, was it not explained in the letter? Still is... But it didn't take long for him to smile bitterly. He remembered. 4 years ago, he also did such a thing and forwarded the letter from Liu Gang to Zhao Kuangyin. Alas! Retribution...

Zhao Kuangyin received more than this letter from Li Yu to Qian Yu in November. On the 27th, another letter forwarded to him by Sun Quanxing, the assassin of Xiongzhou, was more important. The letter was written by Ye Lucong, the assassin of Zhuozhou in Liao, "There is no suspicion at the beginning of the two dynasties, if you communicate with one envoy, it will show the hearts of the two monarchs." Zhao Kuangyin ordered Sun Quanxing to write a reply, and the two countries of Song and Liao began their first peaceful diplomatic contact. When the Northern Han army attacked Jinju in December, the Liao State did not send troops to assist them.

In December, Jinling City, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was placed under martial law. Li Yu ordered the abolition of the Kaibao year, calling that that year the year the year Jiaxu and the next year the year the year Yihai. At the same time, troops were recruited and rations were stored. Listen to Zhang Xun and Chen Qiao's strategy: strong walls and clear fields. The responsibility of defending the city of Jinling was handed over to Huangfu Jixun. Huangfu Jixun is the son of the famous general Huangfu Hui. Huang Fuhui is Zhao Kuangyin's old opponent. In that year, Chai Rong conquered Huainan, and Zhao Kuangyin captured Huang Fuhui and won a great victory in Chuzhou. Tiger father without dogs? The whole of the Southern Tang Dynasty was looking forward to the performance of the little general Huangfu. And Li Yu hid in ** with his little Zhou Hou Qingqing and me, chanted and discussed with monks and Taoists, created poems that have been passed down to future generations, and he spent his time studying a book "Book of Changes" that is said to be a collection of all the classical essence of China in one volume.

On the 17th day of the first month of the 8th year of Kaibao (975), the prelude to the storming of Jinling began. Li Hanqiong led the vanguard of the Song army to cross the Qinhuai River and burned down the Southern Tang Water Village. Although the water village was lost, there were still more than 100,000 Jiangnan troops. The Song army could not cross the river because there were no large ships. At this time, the first brave general, Pan Mei, took the lead, swam across the river, and defeated the Southern Tang Army. The follow-up troops of the Song army crossed the river along the quarry rock pontoon bridge. In order to recapture the pontoon bridge, the Southern Tang Army went upstream. Pan Mei urgently returned to the army and won a great victory. Capture alive Zheng Bin and 7 others who took the lead in burning the bridge. On February 13, the Song army broke through the outer city of Jinling.

Li Yu held the "Book of Changes" in the deep palace and read it for nearly half a year. One day in May, he was so quiet that he suddenly wanted to walk up the city wall. He was stunned by what he saw. He knew that the Song army had come over, and he also knew that there was a pontoon bridge on the quarry rock of the road, and the Yangtze River had been broken. But he didn't know that Jinling City had been besieged by enemy legions, and he didn't know that the outer city of Ludao had been lost, and as far as the eye could see, there was a boundless Song army camp tent!

This is the reality, the Song army has besieged Jinling for nearly half a year, and the master of this great capital, the monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, still doesn't know what to do! Li Yu, who has always been gentle and elegant, finally broke out and roared: "What about Huangfu Jixun? I want him to come to me right away."

Huangfu Jixun soon came. Li Yu pointed out of the city, trembling all over, "What's going on?" What is outside the city" Huangfu Jixun's face did not change, and he replied clearly, "Song Jun" Li Yu almost fainted, and he could barely remember what to ask next: "What am I doing and I don't know what to do?" Why don't you report it," Huangfu Jixun smiled, "Minister, this is all for the good of Your Majesty." That is, the ministers reported it day and night, and the palace was shocked, "Li Yu completely fainted!" Before he fainted, he signaled to quickly cut down this general who was so "considerate" to himself! There were still some small accidents when slashing people. For more than 5 months, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who had been under the command of the little general Huangfu, suddenly swarmed up, drew their knives and slashed indiscriminately, chopping Huangfu Jixun on the spot...

Only later did Li Yu know that in the past five months, the young and promising Huangfu general he chose with superior genes was not only cowardly and fearful of the enemy, but also very shameless. His mantra is "the northern army is strong, who can defeat it", once the Southern Tang army was defeated, he was full of smiles, "I know that it is not victorious", what is even more hateful is that seeing that the situation is bad, some death squads want to take advantage of the night to kill and sneak attack the Song army. The Emperor Fu immediately arrested all these people after knowing the Dao, and then locked them up after all of them were whipped...

Huangfu Jixun was killed, and Li Yu handed over the military power to his close confidant Zhang Xun, and at the same time launched a self-rescue. At this time, in addition to this Jinling City, he only had 100,000 troops far away from Hukou. Li Yu ordered to break through the siege at all costs, and asked Zhu Lingyun at Hukou to quickly rescue Jinling with all the horses. Who is not recorded in the history books? How did you break through the Song Dynasty's military camp that stretched for miles? sent Li Yu's order to Zhu Lingyun. Only recorded Zhu Lingyun's reaction after receiving the letter.

Zhu: "What should I do?" The generals "Now in May, the Yangtze River is in the flood season, which is conducive to the dispatch of warships. Let's rush down "Zhu" no! You're too simple-minded. If we are all out, what will happen to the enemy? Will follow us. If we win, everything is good. But once it fails, the grain road is gone, what should I do then?" Sounds profound, huh? So just sit there and do nothing? Zhu smiled: "You guys are really... The mind is too simple. I'll write a letter to Brother Chai Kezhen, who stayed in Nandu, and ask him to guard the lake mouth for me. Wouldn't we have a way back? You can rest assured that you can attack boldly" So they wrote and waited for the letter, and they were very helpless to receive the news that the old brother Chai suddenly fell seriously ill and couldn't help it... So Zhu Lingyun couldn't do it. He had no choice but to say sorry to His Majesty the Emperor who kept calling for help in Jinling City with a disappointed face! Your Majesty... I can't help it...

On July 12, Zhao Kuangyin sent Li Mu to send Li Yu's younger brother Li Conghan back to China, issued an edict urging Li Yu to surrender, and ordered the generals to delay the attack and wait for him. In September, Wu Yue's army captured Runzhou, the eastern gateway of Jinling, and completed the encirclement with the Song army. And Li Conghan also returned to Jinling to convey Zhao Kuangyin's will. Chen Qiao and Zhang Xun thought that the Song army could not capture Jinling City, so they withdrew their troops overnight, dispelling Li Yu's idea of preparing to surrender. Li Mu turned back to Kaifeng, and Zhao Kuangyin reinstated the generals to enter the army.

In desperation, Li Yu decided to use his killer trick to Zhao Kuangyin - Xu Xuan!

Xu Xuan is full of economy, sharp teeth, and fame, as long as his name is mentioned, the unstoppable Song Dynasty ministers north of the Yangtze River will immediately faint half. The half of the text.

Think about it, everyone is a disciple of Confucius, but everyone has chapters, witty words, and quotations. And the more people, the better. But you're always dumbfounded, and you don't know what to call ... How are you going to live this day? To say that your personal reputation has been discredited, you should take the blame for retirement. To say that the literati of a country are underestimated, it happens that Zhao Kuangyin also attaches great importance to this achievement, which has too great an impact.