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Even the most elite army, after the formation is chaotic, it is difficult to escape defeat, not to mention this rabble that has just been put together and does not know the generals?

Therefore, after the Guangde army and the Gaoyou army were in chaos, the Song army showed defeat in an instant.

And Li Cun seized the fighter plane and decisively sent the Jinwu front army and the Jinwu middle army to attack from the left and right flanks.

The Song army was immediately defeated and retreated, and it was a mess.

At this time, there was no need for the Tiger Army to kill, and the Song Army itself trampled to death and injured hundreds of people.

Seeing this, Li Cun knew that he would definitely not need his killer weapon in this battle, so he ordered Kong Suzi to lead the front army of the personal guard to attack Tan Zhi's Chinese army.

Seeing this, the timid and cowardly Tan Zhi did not resist at all, and fled the battlefield at the first time with his own pro-army and most of the civilian staff of the Liangzhejiang Road Control Envoy Division.

The commanders all ran away, the command system was immediately paralyzed, and the morale of the Song soldiers immediately fell to the bottom, and the battle array was soon completely crushed by the Tiger Ben Army, and the Song soldiers fled out of the battlefield with the competition.

Seeing this, Niu Wei did not care about the pain, and personally led the personal guard horse army to follow closely behind to cover up the killing.

Many soldiers of the Song Army saw that the Tiger Army was too fierce and cruel, and they jumped into the Lian Lake one after another.

According to rough statistics afterwards, no less than 1,000 people drowned in Lianhu Lake alone.

Seeing that the situation was not good, more Song troops hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Then, these soldiers of the Song army who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy were stunned to find that as long as they knelt down, the soldiers of the Tiger Army would not kill them.

More and more Song soldiers discovered this method of saving their lives.

As a result, pieces of Song army soldiers knelt on the ground and begged for mercy......

The guards and horses pursued them until they reached the riverside, and watched Tan Zhi and others row across the river and flee north, so they reined in their horses and collected their troops.

This battle ended with a comprehensive victory for the Tiger Army.

According to post-war statistics, the Tiger Ben army killed more than 7,000 Song troops, captured more than 20,000 Song troops, captured more than 300 intact horses, more than 1,000 wounded and dead horses, more than 50,000 weapons of various types, more than 20,000 sets of armor, and countless other materials.

But what made Zhao Song lose even more was that because Tan Zhi only thought of victory before the war, he didn't expect to lose, and as soon as he was defeated, Tan Zhi escaped directly across the river as soon as possible, ignoring the vast territory of Zhao Song in the south of the Yangtze River.

As a result, the battle situation in Zhao and Song deteriorated further.

In a nutshell.

After defeating Tan Zhi in the battle, Li Cun, who was good at seizing opportunities, immediately sent the remaining more than 1,000 guards to attack Zhenjiang City.

In the third year of Shaosheng, Zhao Ji was named the king of Duan by Song Zhezong as the envoy of the Pingjiang and Zhenjiang military festivals.

In the third year of Zhenghe, the third year of Zhao Ji's ascension to the throne, Zhenjiang was upgraded from a state to a government.

——This is the earliest city in the Liangzhejiang region to be upgraded from a state to a government.

This shows that Zhenjiang has a relatively high status in Zhao Ji's mind.

The reason why Zhenjiang has been valued by Zhao Ji is not only because of Zhao Ji's personal feelings, but also because the geographical location of Zhenjiang is extremely important.

There is the Yangtze River in the north of Zhenjiang, it is a military town in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it can block the soldiers of the southern invasion to go south, and it extends in all directions, and it can go anywhere, and it is a place where soldiers must fight for throughout the ages.

In such a place, if it weren't for Li Cun to meet Tan Zhen, the coach with great ambitions and talents, Li Cun would definitely not have a chance to take Zhenjiang City easily, at least don't think about taking Zhenjiang City intact.

Now......

Because the news of Tan Zhen's defeat had already been transmitted back to Zhenjiang City, the officials and gentry of Zhenjiang were so frightened that they didn't even have time to burn the grain and grass, so they hurriedly abandoned the city and fled.

After the news came back, Li Cun hurriedly sent someone to find Zhao Han'er, who was still leading people to clean up the battlefield, and asked him to lead the Jinwu Chinese army into Zhenjiang City to defend it.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered the horse army that could still move, eat and feed the horses immediately, and then rush to Jinling City......

And Li Cun also followed, and personally led the front army of the personal guard, the rear army of the personal guard and the front army of Jinwu to Jinling City overnight......

Li Cun didn't know that the soldiers must have been exhausted after a whole day of fighting, and if they ran to Jiangning Mansion overnight, the iron man couldn't stand it.

But the soldiers are fast, if they don't take advantage of the defeat of the Song army, quickly take Jinling City, and wait for which Song general has converged thousands of Song troops to return to Jinling City, and the Tiger Ben Army wants to knock down Jinling City, but it will be difficult, at least there is no way to protect Jinling City.

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Zhenjiang is an important strategic barrier on the eastern line of Jinling City.

Since ancient times, if the northern army occupies Yangzhou, it will next move south from the north bank of the Yangtze River.

After capturing Zhenjiang, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Jinling City and Changzhou, Suzhou, and Zhejiang, and then the northern army can sweep through southern Jiangsu, and then form a strategic encirclement of Jinling City.

The importance of Zhenjiang to Jinling City, according to the Tang dynasty Du You, is like Mengjin to Luoyang.

If the northern army captures Mengjin, Luoyang will be in no danger to defend.

The same is true for Zhenjiang and Jinling City.

Therefore, the Six Dynasties (Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen) all regarded Zhenjiang as a front-line military defense town, equivalent to the gate of the treasury.

The door of the vault is open, and it won't be long before all the gold will be removed.

The ancients made it very clear: If there is a slight negligence in the military defense of Zhenjiang, the danger of Nanjing will be greater.

For example, in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Su Jun was in turmoil, and the important minister Xi Jian sat in Zhenjiang, and at the same time rejected the idea of giving up Zhenjiang and crossing the river to Yangzhou. Because Xi Jian knew that once Zhenjiang was abandoned, Wu County, Huiji County and other places where the imperial court had money and grain to the east of Zhenjiang would not be able to hold on. Hold Zhenjiang, even if the national capital falls, the Eastern Jin Dynasty still has a chance to make a comeback. Once Wu County and Huiji County are lost, the gods will come out, and they will not be able to save the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The officials and gentry in Jinling City soon learned the news of Tan Zhi's defeat and the loss of Zhenjiang City from the remnants of the defeated generals who fled back to Jinling City.

Just when the officials and gentry in Jinling City were discussing what to do, the guards and horse soldiers were killed under Jinling City.

Due to the arrival of the personal guard Ma Army, many Song soldiers who originally wanted to escape into Jinling City were so frightened that they turned around and ran.

To a large extent, this prevented Jinling City from having the ability to protect itself.

At noon the next day, the rear army of the guard, which was the vanguard, came to the city of Jinling.

In the evening, the front army of the guards and the front army of Jingo also assembled under the city of Jinling.

After another day, a large number of people and engineering battalions also came to Jinling City one after another.

Then the Tiger Ben army prepared siege equipment with great fanfare......

Zheng Dan, the prefect of Jiangning, saw that the Tiger Ben army was numerous, and the threat of a great victory, and the defenders of Jinling City were taken to the battle by Tan Zhi and did not return to the extremely empty, so in order to save the people in the city from being ruined, he led the people to surrender the city......

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On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Tan Zhi fled to Yangzhou with a large group of frightened Zhao and Song officials, gentry and nobles, and high-ranking generals of the Song army.

After making up his mind a little, Tan Zhi sent Zhao Lingji, who fled back with him, to rein in the remnants of the defeated army.

Later, Tan Zhi deliberately ordered his subordinates to mutiny on the battlefield and caused the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty on the grounds of accepting bribes from the Tiger Army, beheading Zhang Maung and Tian Sheng for questioning, and dealt with the generals who fled back from the two of them, and then wrote a chapter for Zhao Ji.

However, before that, Tan Zhi first sent his cronies back to Beijing with his handwritten letter to find Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao, and asked Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao to help him exonerate him and make him guilty......

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