The sun was setting, and when the people and horses in the Zhennan Army camp were churning and summoning and summoning, the Zhennan Army Navy Company and Battalion stationed on the west side of the camp against the river were calm. At this time, a young general rode a white horse and galloped, and after getting off the horse, he went straight to the handsome tent, but the big tent was not as calm as outside, and the commander of the Zhennan Navy made Zhu Lingyun and all the generals of the Navy Army covered their stomachs, all of them looked serious and nervous, and they seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

Zhu Lingyun, a native of Shucheng, Luzhou, Southern Tang Dynasty (now Shucheng, Anhui), is the grandson of Zhu Yanshou, the assassin of Luzhou in the late Tang Dynasty, and now he has inherited the outstanding military quality of his ancestors.

With his proud achievements and shrewdness, Zhu Lingyun has been on the rise over the years, and he served as the Marquis of the Divine Guard for only half a year last year, and was quickly promoted to the commander of the first army, but this time he was withdrawn from the forbidden army and transferred to the command of Song Qiqiu's Zhennan Army, serving as the commander of the Zhennan Navy with nearly 500 warships.

Most of the generals transferred from abroad often choose to be loyal to the local festival or get closer, in order to live a stable life or even go further, Zhu Lingyun has been in the army for a long time, knows the rules, and naturally there is no lack of goodwill to the Song family, but his thoughts are diametrically opposite, especially this time when he heard about the rebellion of the Zhennan army, Zhu Lingyun's heart was even more angry, because the ancestral training of the old Zhu family was there, and the loyalty of the Zhu family was always only the Tang Emperor of Jinling.

In history, Zhu Lingyun was indeed completely worthy of his loyal Li Tang, at the last moment when the Song army besieged the capital Jinling and the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in front of the general trend that all the Jiedu envoys in Jiangbei surrendered one after another, at that time, as the most powerful naval army in charge of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhu Lingyun did not pay attention to Zhao Kuangyin's promise of heavy gold and thick lords, and when the general trend of the Southern Tang Dynasty had gone, he resolutely ordered all the soldiers and horses, and took 150,000 soldiers and horses and 1,000 warships along the Jiangdong to enter the king.

Unexpectedly, the loyal ministers and good generals could not resist the crushing of the wheel of history after all, and the Zhao and Song naval armies, which were cobbled together by the Jingnan surrender army, logically speaking, could not compare their combat strength with the experienced Southern Tang naval army, and in the face of a full 150,000 powerful naval army, the Song army was powerless at first, and many soldiers jumped into the river one after another, and were burned to death and drowned a lot.

Just when Zhu Lingyun was about to use his hole cards and ordered to dump Menghuo oil on the river, preparing to wipe out all the Song army, he suddenly turned the direction of the wind, and the original southeast wind inexplicably reversed the direction, and the northwest wind blew in an instant, and the terrible smoke and fire were swallowed up by the Southern Tang Navy instead.

In the end, the 150,000 Zhennan Water Army was annihilated in Anhui (now Huaining County, Anhui Province, West 15 Li), Zhu Lingyunning died and did not surrender, and the father and son all burned and martyred, carrying the last hope of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the destruction of this support army, also became the last straw that overwhelmed the Empress Li, and one month later, the Empress Li surrendered and the Southern Tang Dynasty perished.

Back to the present, in the big tent of the Zhennan Army, Zhu Lingyun, who had already been restless, saw the return of his eldest son, quickly got up to meet him, and asked in a low voice, "Is it confirmed?" ”

Seeing that the young Zhu Bosong's sweaty face was full of sadness, he then arched his hand and said directly: "Father, I don't know if this is bad news or good news, Song Majie was indeed defeated in the valley, and even Jiang Kai and Tian Wenfeng were killed, it is said that they were unlucky, and they happened to bump into the personal cavalry of Li Yuan, the generalissimo of the counterinsurgency soldiers...... However, at the moment, Wang Shi seems to have no signs of continuing the attack, and Song Majie is gathering all the soldiers and horses, intending to fight Wang Shi to the death, and the herald is estimated to be here in a while. ”

Hearing this, a naval general was immediately furious: "If it weren't for the freezing of the rivers and the stranding of all the warships, how could we stay here?" Grandma's, why should he be dragged into our water army if he wants to be sent to death? ”

Zhu Lingyun frowned and was silent, his heart suddenly moved, and he turned around and waved his hand: "All the generals will come with Ben Shuai." ”

Everyone quickly galloped out, and went west to camp hundreds of steps to the riverbank, and a large river with a width of thirty or forty zhang lay in front of them, and the flowing water was surging in the past, and the white waves were surging, and the momentum was very majestic, and the water was very turbulent. Now the surface of the river was stiff and frozen, not to mention the sound of rushing water, only cold silence.

"Father, the last general came to inspect every day, and now in this hellish weather, the river has no signs of thawing at all, you see, our warships are all frozen in and can't move...... Zhu Bosong frowned.

Everyone in the entourage was worried, they could naturally deduce why Zhu Lingyun led them to the shore, but they couldn't board their own warship when they encountered such a desperate situation and in the cold season, and it seemed that they were really going to be tied up on the warship that Song Majie sent to death.

Zhu Lingyun frowned, in the past, in such a weather, even if the river was close to freezing, it would not freeze for so long, because the current was strong enough. It is extremely dangerous to forcibly swim across the ice, the thickness of the ice is difficult to observe carefully, once the large group of people trample and swarm, causing the river to crack, even if everyone has good water quality, even if the icy river water is not much after the people get into the water, I am afraid that not many people can go ashore.

Zhu Lingyun rode his horse up and down the river bank for hundreds of steps, and suddenly he noticed a forest growing on a raised hill above a river embankment, so he galloped over and entered the woods, and found that it was a dense forest, and the ground in the woods was very dry, and the grass grew yellow.

Out of the woods to look around, nearly two or three miles to the left are in the field of vision, backed by the frozen river, if you leave the Zhennan Army camp, it is a good place to settle in this forest. Camping in the forest can also block some cold winds, and some fortifications can be built around this forest. Although this was by no means able to resist the attack of the Zhennan Army, which was close at hand, at least there was some geographical advantage.

"It's getting dark, and there is no hope of crossing the river, but we must not follow Song Maha to fight against Wang Shi! Tonight, the big guys will have to camp by the river. Order the whole army to camp in the woods, Bosong, you yourself take two thousand men and set up fortifications outside the forest as soon as possible, in case there is a battle tonight. The rest of the people cut down trees to make fires, cook rice and boil water, eat and drink enough to nourish their spirits. Zhu Lingyun gave the order.

"The last general obeys!" Zhu Posong did not hesitate to give the order, and then said in amazement: "Father, although we have no less than 10,000 people, Song Majie has 90,000 steps in his hands......

Zhu Lingyun did not say anything to soothe his worried eldest son, but said solemnly to the generals: "Wait for the order to obey, this handsome man knows it." We would rather die than fall into the name of rebellion, lest our descendants be disgraced! ”

"Yes!"