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March 27.

The gathered 500,000 Song troops marched south.

The Song army was divided into two armies, left and right.

The left army is in charge of Liu Yanqing, Liu Zhen and Yang Keshi will be in the front army, Wang Jian will be in the left army, Ma Gongzhi and Liu Guangguo will be in the right army, Cookie and Wang Yu will be in the rear, and Huang Di and Liu Guangshi will be in the front army.

The army on this road went through Haozhou, Sizhou, Suzhou, and drove into Xuanhua Town, Changlu Town, and Guabu Town.

The right army was in charge of Xin Xingzong, Wang Yu would be the front army, Wang Yuan would be the left army, Ji Jing and Zhe Kecun would be the right army, Yang Wei would be the middle army, Jiao Anjie would be the rear army, and Zhao Ming and Yao Pingzhong would choose the front army.

This road army along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal south, Chuzhou to Gaoyou Army and then directly to Yangzhou, waiting for the opportunity to fight with the Tiger Ben Army in Yangzhou, after repelling the Tiger Army, into the Yangtze Town area.

In addition, the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, which was commanded by generals such as Guo Zhongxun and He Guan, was also divided into two routes, left and right, and generals Guo Zhongxun and He Guan controlled the south.

It should be noted that many future famous generals were also mixed in this 500,000 army and followed south together.

The two most famous of them are Han Shizhong under Xin Xingzong and Wu Jue under Liu Zhen.

In addition, there are a large number of outstanding generals in the Song and Song dynasties, such as Qu Duan, Wu Lan, Yang Zheng, Guo Hao, Wang De, Zhang Zongyan, Yao Zhong, Yao Youzhong, Tian Sheng, Li Shiyan, Guan Shigu, etc.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the Song army that went south this time, it can definitely be said that there will be a star-studded one.

The two armies of the Song army marched south in a horn-like manner, aiding each other and taking care of each other, not giving the Tiger Ben army any chance to sneak attack.

After the army on the right arrived at the Gaoyou army, Xin Xingzong, in accordance with Tong Guan's previous order, directly took Wang Yu, Zhao Ming, and Yao Pingzhong as the vanguard, and the army pointed directly at Yangzhou, preparing for a decisive battle with the Tiger Ben army in Yangzhou.

But to Xin Xingzong and the others, what made Xin Xingzong and others extremely disappointed was that the day before they arrived, the Tiger Ben Army had already evacuated Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is the headquarters planned by Tong Guan, not the place where the right-wing army is stationed.

Therefore, Xin Xingzong let the right-hand army rest in Yangzhou for a day, and then ordered the right-hand army to march into the area of Yangzi Town.

At about the same time, Liu Yanqing also led the army on the left to Xuanhua Town, Changlu Town, and Guabu Town.

Since Li Cun had led the Ma Army to secretly cross the river from the Baidu Bridge in the area of Quarry Rock in Dangtu County, as soon as Liu Yanqing arrived in Xuanhua Town, he immediately sent his son Liu Guangshi to occupy the Baidu Bridge.

But before Liu Guangshi led his troops to Baiduqiao Town, he heard from the locals that the Huben army had already burned down Baiduqiao with a fire.

This pontoon bridge, which was built in the early Song Dynasty, disappeared into the long river of history.

From then on, if the people of Jiangbei want to go to Jiangnan, or if they want to go to Jiangbei, they can only take a boat and take the waterway.

And it is not difficult to see from the resolute attitude of the Tiger Ben Army that the Tiger Ben Army is ready to rely on the Yangtze River to fight a decisive battle with the Song Army.

After Liu Yanqing and Xin Xingzong arrived at the front line, they explored through various means and found that the defense line of the Tiger Ben Army was arranged without the slightest loophole, and the Yangtze River was full of warships of the Tiger Ben Army, and it was impossible for them to sneak across the river to the south.

At the beginning of April, Tong Guan came to Yangzhou and hung up the signs of the Xuanfu Division on Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other roads, and the army that went south to suppress the uprising was officially launched.

Tong Guan sat in Yangzhou, planning to use political, diplomatic, military and other means to coordinate and command, hoping to suppress the uprising led by Fang La and Li Cun in one fell swoop and recover the Liangzhejiang region.

On this day, Tong Guan convened a meeting of the generals of all armies in the Xuanfu Division, and all the major generals came to Yangzhou to participate in this pre-war meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Tong Guan said with a heavy face: "This battle is not good for our army. ”

Although Tong Guan arrived in Yangzhou, he gave Zhao Ji a chapter to report the victory, saying that as soon as his army arrived, he recovered Yangzhou, and all the ant thieves were beaten to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Beijing division was worry-free.

But this is just a rhetoric to fool Zhao Ji.

As a veteran coach who has been on the battlefield for a long time, how could Tong Guan take such ridiculous words to these veterans who have also fought all their lives?

In fact, all the people who understand military affairs, including Tong Guan, before going south, what they hope most is that Li Cun will lead the Tiger Ben army to fight a decisive battle with them in Yangzhou, even if it is a difficult siege battle, what they are most afraid of is that Li Cun will retreat to the south of the Yangtze River without fighting, and then rely on the Yangtze River to defend it to the death.

Because this means that this war will be dominated by water warfare.

Although the Western Army can fight well, they have not seen much water since they were born, and it is really difficult for them to fight water battles.

It is no exaggeration to say that now if the officers and men of the Western Army are allowed to get on the ship, most of them will vomit softly, how can they still fight?

Also, you have to have a boat in a water war, right?

I'm sorry, almost all the nearby ships and boatmen, including the materials for shipbuilding, have been taken away by Li Cun.

Now if Tong Guan wants to fight a water war with Li Cun, he has to go to the Lianghuai region to collect ships and find shipwrights to build ships.

Ships are not something that can be built, especially the keel of a big ship that sails in the rivers and seas, and its keel is by no means something that can be built in a short time.

In addition, these 500,000 people consume absolutely astronomical amounts of grain and grass every day.

The key is that a large part of the nearby grain and grass was also taken away by Li Cun, and if the Zhao and Song dynasties wanted to maintain this war, they had to transport grain and grass to Tong Guan from other regions.

Let's put it this way.

This big war seems to have just begun.

In fact, Li Cun has already started to lay out a long time ago.

Be.

The Zhao and Song dynasties came with an army of 500,000, including 150,000 Western troops who could fight well, among which there were many famous generals, and it seemed that they could be destroyed.

But the actual situation is that it is really not Zhao Song's side that has the advantage now.

The key point is that if Tong Guan's opponent is a mediocre talent, it will be fine if they can easily cross the river, but their opponent is still Li Cun, a professional rebel, and they will not be given a chance at all.

Also, consider the time of day.

It's the beginning of April, the weather is moderately hot and cold, and it's hard to see who has the advantage and who has the disadvantage.

But you have to wait for more than two months, and then look at it when the weather is completely hot.

By then, the temperature can reach 40 degrees Celsius when it is high.

In such a high temperature, these northern soldiers of the Western Army must be so hot that they don't want to move, and they still want them to fight?

On the other hand, the Tiger Ben Army, the southern soldiers of Yishui, they have long been accustomed to working in that hot weather, and the impact of high temperature on them is absolutely limited.

Therefore, if this battle is dragged out to two months later, Tong Guan will definitely have even fewer chances of winning.

However, this battle is still because the Tiger Ben army is defending the Yangtze River, and the Song army has no ships, so they can't get up at all.

Finally, let's talk about people.

Zhao Jijunchen in the two Huai, two Zhejiang regions of the tyrannical conquest, and the great development of Huashigang, the people here have already hated the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The landlords and gentry in the Liangzhejiang region (including part of the Lianghuai region), which originally stood on the side of the Zhao and Song dynasties, were swept away by Li Cun.

It can be said that the time, place and people are favorable, all of them are in the Tiger Army, not in the Song Army.

It is no wonder that Tong Guan would say that this battle is not good for our army.

Seeing that no one objected to his judgment of the current situation, Tong Guan looked around and asked, "Then who can teach me how our army can win this battle?" ”

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Brothers, after reading it today, I must come back tomorrow.

There are still two or three days, and it will be almost decided by Thursday.

Everyone, please help me rush this wave again, thank you, and please!!