The magnificent Song army camp that seemed to the Southern Tang soldiers at the head of the city was actually in chaos like a hornet's nest now. In the past month, Tian Qinzuo, the supervisor of the left wing of the camp, was ordered to mobilize warships to go down the river as a cover, and Cao Bin personally commanded 50,000 troops along the north bank of the Yangtze River day and night, tossing all the way down, no less than seven or eight thousand soldiers who fell ill, and rested for only three days after arriving, and the five thousand elites took advantage of the night to cross the quarrying and sneak attack the camp in the south of the city. Fortunately, the detailed information was extremely accurate, and the commanders of the Divine Guard Army, along with the main generals, were not in the main camp, and the Southern Tang soldiers who were attacked by the sneak attack barely organized a meaningful counterattack. In the second half of the night, when Huangfu Jixun led the army to rush back to the camp, he was ambushed by the cavalry led by Dong Zunzhi, the commander of the Xiaowu Army, and under repeated charges, the elite of the Divine Guard Army who had no time to line up finally collapsed, and only more than 100 people fled into the city with Huangfu Jixun.

After Zhao Kuangyin released the military power with a cup of wine, the disadvantages of the generals have begun to show some appearance, after a night of fighting, the east and west banzhi, the palace in front of the dragon straight, the dragon jie army, the Xiaoxiong army, the crane control army, the Hujie army, the Xiongwei army, the forbidden army of all departments have been in chaos, and the commanders have not yet gathered the whole army, let alone find their own main general. If there is an elite army like Heiyundu at this time to counterattack the Song army camp, I am afraid that the Song army will be driven down the Yangtze River immediately, because Cao Bin also does not care about the fatigue of the soldiers, on the one hand, he strictly ordered all departments not to rest in the camp, but divided into dozens of teams to go back and forth at the gates of the camp, creating the illusion that the Song army crossing the river is numerous, on the other hand, let the army still in Jiangbei cross the Yangtze River as soon as possible, strengthen the strength of Jiangnan, and at the same time let Bazuo make Hao Shourong quickly build a pontoon bridge to facilitate the logistics supply of the army crossing the river.

And outside Cao Bin's tent, there was even more noise at the moment, and the generals of the various departments did not care about rectifying the chaotic subordinates, so they came to the commander's camp first to listen to the orders.

"Lao Tian, I heard that you did a good job yesterday, and the three hundred horsemen scattered the five thousand army. A rough general, Cai Huaizhong, the commander of the eastern and western classes, patted Tian Shaobin, the deputy commander of Xiaowu, on the shoulder, and the armor on both of them trembled.

"Everywhere, it's all Cao Dashuai's clever calculations, and Master Dong is in a good direction. The person who was praised looked quite humble, and even looked at the general who patted him on the shoulder with some flattery, "Lord Cai led five hundred warriors as the vanguard to break through the enemy's camp, and this battle should be the first merit." ”

"In terms of meritorious deeds and rewards, all the adults have been deployed to punish them, do you dare to rap this Taiyuan general?" A grim-faced veteran was waiting for a sullen breath, and as soon as he slapped the sword on his body, he shouted to the military general surnamed Tian, who seemed to be quite afraid of him, and had to bow his head and stop making a sound when he was reprimanded like this.

"Okay, Qin Zuo, Shao Bin is a member of my Xiaowu Army, for your brother's sake, don't worry about him. "The commander of the Xiaowu Army, the veteran Dong Zunzhi, patted the shoulder of Tian Qinzuo, the supervisor of the left wing of the camp, and glared at Tian Shaobin, he was too uninteresting, others praised you, and you really regarded yourself as a character.

At this moment, Wang Yu, the capital supervisor of the right army, opened the curtain and walked out, looked around the left and right, and the generals who were originally clamoring suddenly whispered a lot, and Wang Yu said: "Rank general, General Cao, please enter the account." ”

Cao Bin was dressed in golden chain mail, covered with a big red tiger stripe cloak and sat in a handsome position, although he had just won a big battle, he did not raise his eyebrows. Although the generals were temporarily controlled by him, in fact, there were still several people whose status was similar to him, so they didn't take him very seriously, and they were still talking to each other after entering the account, Cao Bin was not easy to attack, so he had to cough dryly twice, and asked the army transfer envoy standing beside him: "Shen Lun, how many days can the military rations be edible now?"

Shen Lun was born as a civilian official, and bowed down and said: "Qiyu has deployed adults, due to the haste of this military march, and to avoid the eyes and ears of Jiangnan, there is only half a month of grain and grass left in the army." However, if the Yangtze River waterway is unblocked, the grain and grass from Jinghu Lake should also arrive after half a month. ”

Waterway, Cao Bin was a little troubled when he heard it, Pan Mei led an army of 50,000 troops to be dragged to death in Shaanxi by the Chizhou battalion of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in order to ask for the speed of the soldiers, and got Wang Yu's secret report, he dared to skip the various military fortresses fortified along the river in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and directly raided Jinling. Although it defeated the main force of the Divine Guard Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop, it left a large number of hidden dangers on the waterway for transporting grain. Thinking of this, Cao Bin raised his head and asked, "General Tian, is it possible for our army's sailors to ensure that the grain route is unblocked?"

Tian Qinzuo believed that he was very old in the army, and he was originally a little dissatisfied with Cao Bin's juniors who were above him, and he did not salute, and raised his head and replied: "We waited for the light troops to attack far away, leaving too many Jiangnan troops along the Yangtze River that were not cleared. He said that he pushed the responsibility of the military grain in case it was robbed, and Cao Bin couldn't either, so he turned his head to Cai Jixun, who was deployed in front of the camp, and said: "The army is hanging alone, and you can't completely count on the rear army to receive food, please ask the soldiers of the front army to collect some grain and grass from the people in Jiangnan nearby." ”

Cai Jixun sneered in his heart, this is a high-sounding statement, isn't it just to let the former army plunder the people of Jiangnan, but this is a fat difference, this time the iron cavalry and the soldiers of the crane control army under his command are veterans of a hundred battles, but they are too oily, if they don't give them some benefits, they won't contribute to the battle, and besides, they can not do their part? So he replied loudly: "Cai Jixun of the former army received the order." ”

Cao Bin nodded, and asked again: "Hao Shourong, how many days will it take for you to supervise the construction of this boat bridge?"

Hao Shourong bowed down and replied: "If the drawings made by Fan Tuiguan are not bad, they will be completed in three days." He made up his mind in his heart, if he didn't succeed, he would put all the responsibility on Fan Ruoshui, who was fine in the south of the Yangtze River, anyway, he came up with the idea of building a boat bridge across the river. Fan Ruoshui, the military magistrate of Shuzhou, hurriedly came out and said: "Report to your lordship, the lower officials have been surveying and mapping in the quarry rock area for many years, and there will be no mistakes." ”

Cao Bin nodded again and said loudly: "God bless the Great Song Dynasty, thanks to the brave generals, last night in one fell swoop to break through the Jiangnan Shenwei Army camp, now it is advisable to make persistent efforts, take advantage of the opportunity to defeat the Tang Dynasty, and defeat Jinling in one fell swoop." After finishing speaking, he looked at the generals below with high spirits, such as Zhao Tinghan, the former commander of the palace, Cai Huaizhong, the commander of the East and West Banzhidu, and Dai Xing, the deputy commander of the Imperial Dragon, who were close to His Majesty's cronies, but the generals who did not have much actual combat experience were very excited, but the former army deployed Cai Jixun, Ma Bujun Duyu Marquis Zhao Zan, The commander of the Xiaowu Army, Dong Zunzhi and other generals who were older than the army, did not react, they knew in their hearts as well as Cao Bin that although they won the battle last night, the physical strength of the Song army was also overdrawn to the limit, and at the moment self-protection was still insufficient, let alone break the city in one fell swoop.

Cao Bin groaned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Tian Shaobin, the deputy commander of Xiaowu, orders you to take five hundred cavalry to the south gate of Jinling to challenge, and be sure to thwart the enemy's spirit." ”

With the sound of clanging iron armor, Tian Shaobin, who had led the cavalry to kill all night, led the order, Cao Bin looked at his back that seemed a little heavy, and thought, only this rootless and bottomless Taiyuan general is used smoothly, and this is no wonder to me, the generals are either the senior generals who have been in the forbidden army since the Zhou Dynasty, or His Majesty's old companions, or his majesty's cronies in the palace. Thinking of this, he said in a deep voice: "The generals will go back and quickly rectify their subordinates, build camps, build war equipment, and we will start attacking the city in three days." ”

After the generals left, Cao Binfang turned around and said to Wang Yu: "This great victory, Brother Secret Power should be the first to take the lead." ”

Wang Yu hurriedly said: "Where is it, if it weren't for Cao Shuai's quick decision and thousands of miles of attack, how could he win this big victory, Cao Shuai is really the reincarnation of today's Wei Gong, and after Jiangnan is pacified, it is just around the corner to get out and enter the prime minister." As he spoke, he raised his teacup and took a sip.

Cao Bin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Secret Quan Xiu wants to make fun of me, there are many scholars in the world, where is the turn of the prime minister to get a rude military man like Lao Cao." I am waiting for the king's affairs, but I just want Your Majesty to reward more land and gold silk, and seek wealth for our descendants. ”

Wang Yu said with a smile: "Cao Shuai is quite a golden mean, like the Jiangnan Cai family, stealing the throne for decades, and he will not be able to become a rich man in the future, not as good as Cao Shuai." They both laughed.