On the afternoon of September 24, the battle between the north and south of the Huai River temporarily subsided.

In addition to sending troops to patrol the river embankment, the remaining ships were all retracted to the north bank, and the rest of the soldiers returned to the camp, and the generals gathered in the Chinese army's big tent to discuss the strategy of crossing the river and attacking.

The Shouzhou army on the south bank spent an afternoon cleaning up the boats strung on the barrage iron rods, and all the three ships that had been completely destroyed were scuttled and buried to the bottom of the river, and the remaining 26 boats were urgently repaired according to the extent of the damage, and all of them sailed to the Shouzhou wharf downstream. As for the captured Hou Zhou soldiers, Lin Feng sent people to escort them all to the water village and behind the protective wall to do coolies.

This day is not destined to be a peaceful day. On the 24th of September, Wu Yuezhong and Wu Jiedu made Qian Wenfeng lead a 40,000 army of land and water, divided into three routes, left, center, and right, along the north of Taihu, and rushed to Wuxi, Changzhou, and Southern Tang Dynasty.

From the beginning of the border, Qian Wenfeng, who rode on a tall horse, found many different places. The last time the army came, the guards on the border of the Southern Tang Dynasty had to block it, but this time when they saw the banner of the army, they slipped away directly, leaving them all over the place; In the past, there were not many shadows of boats in the large and small rivers near the avenue, which were famous for the phenomenon of "business travel back and forth, and boats were endless"; There are not many people coming and going on the wide road and the fields on both sides!

Could it be that Nantang is already prepared? Qian Wenfeng, who was puzzled, soon waited for the news sent by the forward army, Wuxi City closed the city gate, the military camp was in the middle under the south city gate, and there were also troops stationed on the small hills on the east and west sides.

Qian Wenfeng, who knew that the news had been leaked, immediately ordered that the Chinese army immediately move slightly to the shore of Taihu Lake on the west side, the infantry army on the right flank quickly moved closer to him, and the army dominated by the naval army on the left flank should always cling to the bank of the Taihu Lake, keep parallel to the Chinese army, and the three armies should advance in unison.

However, Qian Wenfeng's cautious response did not wait for the expected ambush, and marched all the way to the city of Wuxi without danger. Because it was getting late, the forward army pressed the formation, and the three armies began to camp two miles away from the Jiangyin army camp in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The three major battalions of the Jiangyin Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which are distributed in the shape of "product", all the soldiers are wound with arrows and knives out of their sheaths, but they are cold eyes behind the camp, and they have no intention of attacking out of the camp.

Both sides, both of whom had exercised restraint, were at peace, and after nightfall there was a very consistent action: torches were inserted all over the front and back of the camp, and the soldiers on patrol were constantly on patrol.

Just after his death, Qian Wenfeng, who had just fallen asleep, was woken up by a personal guard, who reported that many torches had suddenly been lit on the hills along the northern Taihu Lake, and the sound was loud.

Qian Wenfeng, who was taken aback, hurriedly dressed and left the camp and came to the camp to observe the enemy situation. I saw that on the hill along the lake on the northwest side, the continuous torches were like fire dragons, extending backwards until they were out of sight behind the west city wall of Wuxi, and from time to time there was a faint neat noise with the slight northwest wind.

What article can be done on those low hills? The puzzled Qian Wenfeng turned his head to ask a few lieutenants who came in a hurry, and everyone was confused. Soon, soldiers from the large battalion on the left flank also arrived to report that many small boats with torches had appeared in the north of Taihu, and they seemed to be arranging chains to barrage the lake.

Qian Wenfeng was about to be laughed at angrily, did you see it clearly? Isn't this nonsense? Can you stop the hundred-mile-wide Taihu Lake? Although he felt that these actions in the north were very nonsense, Qian Wenfeng, who had already suffered a loss in the hands of Li Jingda, did not dare to relax, and informed the soldiers of each battalion not to unsaddle their horses and not to remove their armor, and half and half of them should take turns on duty, patrol more, and beware of enemy attacks.

At this time, on the west side of the northern military camp, a group of people were watching the lively "night drill" on the hill on the west side of the camp wall, and Zhao Renze, the envoy of the Changzhou regimental training, respectfully asked Li Jingda, the king of Hubei and Jiangyin, who was smiling with a sinister face: "Your Royal Highness the king of Hubei, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, it seems that letting the soldiers of the Changtuan training be shouting and turning around like this can only be used to disturb the enemy, right?" ”

Li Jingda shook his head with a smile and explained: "If you think so, I'm afraid that Qian Wenfeng that old boy will also think so." That's right! This time I went to Shouzhou, and I learned a truth from Lin Xiaozi: to fight a war is to never let the other party not figure out what you are going to do, and then surprise at the critical moment and win in one fell swoop. Lin Feng's subjugation of the Chu State and the pacification of Qingyuan are all simple and effective war strategies, and I am also ready to play with Qian Wenfeng in Wuxi City! ”

"Playing?" Zhao Renze couldn't help but murmur in a low voice.

Li Jingda shook his head with a smile, punched Zhao Renze, and said: "Old Zhao, you are serious enough to do things and loyal enough, but you are usually too upright!" Ancient and modern, what is not playing? It's just that some people are playing with women and power, and some people are playing politics and war. ”

According to history, Zhao Renze himself was alone, when Zhou Shizong Chai Zong led his troops south to Jianghuai, Wu Yue took the opportunity to attack Changzhou, and he was captured after his defeat. But Zhao Renze saw that Qian Hongyu, the king of Wuyue, did not kneel, but reprimanded angrily: "I, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongxing Tang Dynasty, was the first to marry your father, and once swore good neighborliness and friendship to heaven and earth, but you see profit and forget righteousness today, what face will you have in the future to be listed in the temple of King Wu Yuexian?!" Qian Hongyu, who was completely enraged, directly slashed it with a knife, and the wound went from the corner of his mouth to his ear, and blood flowed all over the ground. However, Wu Yue's prime minister Yuan Dezhao admired Zhao Renze's loyalty very much, and found good medicine to apply the sores to him personally. After Zhao Renze recovered, he didn't know what happened.

Now, because of the sudden appearance of Lin Feng's butterfly, the battle between Hou Zhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty started in advance, and the battle situation is completely different from history, I am afraid that it is unlikely that this scene will appear again.

Zhao Renze opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, just looked at Li Jingda, who had become much more cheerful since he came back from Shouzhou.

"When chatting with Xiaolinzi in Shouzhou, he had a sentence that touched me a lot, he said, fighting, it's like playing chess, it seems that the bystanders are always wiser than the chessmen, but in fact, it's just because the bystanders are clear, so the leader of an army must be able to go deep into every chess game at any time, and must be able to get out of the entire chess game at any time, so as to see high, far, and clearly!" Li Jingda said a little mysteriously, "If Lao Zhao can jump out of the corner of Shouzhou and look at the overall situation of the whole world, you will find that our Changzhou battle is just an extremely inconspicuous corner of a huge chess game." But if we move well, it can be a good move that affects the whole game! On the surface, this great war that swept the world was the siege of our Tang Dynasty by the Zhou State, Wu Yue, and the Southern Han Dynasty, but from an optimistic point of view, didn't this war give us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve the three countries in one fell swoop? ! ”

Zhao Renze's face was stunned, but his brows, which had been frowning slightly, slowly smoothed out and listened quietly.

Li Jingda grabbed Zhao Renze and said in a low voice: "How difficult can it be for our 30,000 people to treat them with 40,000 and the geographical advantage?!" Don't worry, this time I brought back some top-secret weapons from Shouzhou, and I will definitely make Qian Wenfeng plant a bigger heel! ”

"Could it be that kind of particularly powerful earth-shattering thunder?" Zhao Renze couldn't help but say in surprise.

Li Jingda stretched out his hand and made a "shhhhhhhhh ”

Zhao Renze couldn't help but clench his fists, and his whole expression relaxed a lot.

Li Jingda turned around and roared: "Okay, the play is over, let the monkeys rest for a while before continuing!" Let's all go back to sleep! ”

With Li Jingda's order, all the torches in the Southern Tang military camp were extinguished, and the Wu Yue military camp, who observed this vision, immediately became more nervous and sent more people to patrol the front and back of the military camp.