Wang Yue and his 5,000 infantry began to run wild in the winter Jiangnan Water Town......

At least 70 kilometers!

Well, it's actually not too far, at least for Wang Yue, but since he can march on foot like the soldiers, then the soldiers have to follow even if they are tired and vomit blood, and as for Yue Fei and other representatives of the four peoples, they ride horses and even donkeys collected from the people, which is enough to keep up.

The next day.

On the canal south of the Wujiang River.

In the past few days, the Suzhou Canal has been navigable, at most there is occasionally some thin ice on the river, but it does not affect the navigation of the ship at all, so the great painter changed to a boat in Suzhou, after all, he also does not like the bumps on the land, and he also has 30,000 imperial camps accompanying him.

"Official, Chen Yu committed suicide after being defeated three days ago."

On his special boat, Shi Rugang said cautiously.

This was sent urgently from Suzhou, because there is chaos in various places these days, so the news transmission of the government is also slow.

After all, the Zhenjiang Imperial Court is also in chaos.

In fact, after they fled, a large number of northern princes and ministers who followed the southern crossing of Zhenjiang fled south one after another, especially those clan nobles who had no real power. They followed the great painters, the great painters fled south to Hangzhou, of course they also fled south to Hangzhou, and this kind of great escape made a lot of arrangements for the folk gentry in advance, after all, the emperor is not confident, of course they are not confident.

Now look at it, it was the right thing to do.

The great painter snorted coldly, as if this result had been expected by him.

Of course, Shi Rugang didn't dare to tell him that Chen Yu was actually killed by him, and in fact, Chen Yu was still fighting until noon the next day.

The battle on the west bank of the water lasted for two days, relying on the real efforts of Liu Yanqing's father and son, as well as the rewards that were constantly cashed on the spot, coupled with the encouragement of the great painter Yu and his own expedition, Chen Yu led his army to always stick to the formation, and was not defeated until noon the next day. During this period, Yang Zaixing's troops attacked many times, but they were all resisted by the Southern Song Dynasty army, and even organized a group of death squads to try to attack at night at night, although the result was still a failure, but their performance was indeed qualified.

In the final analysis, the Northern Song Army did not have an overwhelming advantage over the Southern Song Army in terms of strength.

The gap in equipment is very small.

In terms of troops, the latter has an absolute advantage.

The former was indeed more well-trained and disciplined, and had a high will to fight, but the latter's bounty was also really effective, and Chen Yu continued to transport the bounty money from Yangzhou to the front line, and then distributed it to the soldiers on the battlefield. The death squad even gave a hundred silver dollars to each person, Chen Yu personally sent it to them, and then they handed it over to their relatives and friends in the army to take home, and finally the three hundred death squads attacked the Changsheng army at night and wiped out the whole army, but this method is really effective.

Of course, the real reason is that Yang Zaixing's command level is insufficient.

He is indeed a fierce general, but the fierce general does not represent the command ability of the large corps, in the final analysis, he is still young, although he has fought a lot with Wang Yue over the years, but he can't learn any military command ability with Wang Dawang, on the contrary, he will be accustomed to brainless rushing, when he raided Liaodong, there were Wu Jue, Han Shizhong and these people as auxiliaries, especially Wu Jue, the command ability to beat Wang Yue, everything was arranged for him, he just had no brains.

Wang Dawang can win without brains, it does not mean that others can do it.

In terms of command ability, he may not be able to catch up with Liu Yanqing.

The latter is indeed a runaway general, but when the runaway general doesn't run away, it is an old fritter who has been on the battlefield for decades after all.

In short, the victorious army on the water shooting battlefield did have the initiative, but it was not easy to quickly break through Chen Yu's formation, and the decisive battle was not decided until noon the next day, but at this time, the news of the great painter's escape was first sent to the front line by Liu Yanqing's house slaves. Immediately after that, the other major generals also learned the news through their own channels, originally they didn't believe it, but at this time, Yang Zaixing temporarily stopped attacking and adjusted his tactics, and they went to Chen Yu angrily one by one to discuss.

In fact, Chen Yu, who also knew about it, tried to hide it for the great painter, but it was useless, and Liu Yanqing and his son took their cavalry to say goodbye that night.

Then the armies collapsed.

Chen Yu, who was full of grief and indignation, finally chose to kill himself.

Yang Zaixing didn't make it difficult for him, he directly used the prepared coffin to load him, and then the Changsheng army slaughtered Xiang Tianchang, Li Guang, Fu Xuan and others continued to retreat to Yangzhou, and then used the strong city wall of Yangzhou to defend it.

The city wall of Yangzhou is stronger than Kaifeng.

Because it's brick-wrapped.

In the case that the capital of the Great Song Dynasty only has the imperial city covered with bricks, Yangzhou City has completed the brick-wrapping.

Yang Zaixing did not attack Yangzhou immediately, but went south directly from Tianchang to attack Zhenzhou.

This is the news that the great painter has received here, and the other people who stayed behind, Lu Haowen and others, have taken the son of the great painter, King Su Zhao Shu, as the prison state......

He was kidnapped by mutinous soldiers, and of course they had to find a prisoner.

In short, the current Southern Song Dynasty court has not completely collapsed, and Yang Zaixing, who arrived in Zhenzhou, has not found enough boats to cross the Yangtze River, of course, the Southern Song Dynasty will not leave ships in the north of the Yangtze River, as for the imperial camp sailors have already gone south, so although the river air defense is weak, Yang Zaixing can only sigh to the Yangtze River.

In fact, when Fu Xuan and others were still shrinking into Yangzhou, he did not have the ability to continue to move forward alone.

He had to wait for Han Chang, who was besieging Chuzhou.

And Liu Yanqing's father and son also ran to Chuzhou, although they couldn't really stick to Chuzhou, in fact, they fled to the west of Qingliu Guanxi and reconciled with Liu Guangneng, who also retreated, but Yang Zaixing couldn't really ignore them, in short, despite the collapse of the water shooting battlefield, but because Han Changbu did not arrive, Yang Zaixing could only stop the Yangtze River, but with Chen Yu's defeat, Chuzhou couldn't last long.

"Ask Lu Hao for the order, just say that I am safe here, but I can't go back to Zhenjiang for the time being, they do it themselves, don't let the thief army cross the river, and posthumously give Chen Yu a county king!"

The great painter said with a gloomy face.

Anyway, it is impossible for these people to abandon the Yangtze River defense line......

They are not protecting him, giving up the Yangtze River defense line and letting the Changsheng army over, the unlucky is the Jiangnan gentry and not only the great painters, no matter how angry they are, they have to stick to it, the great painter is not stupid, his mind is very good, he dares to run away because he knows very well that those ministers have to pinch their noses and endure it. With Wang Yue's enemy, they will not turn their faces against him, the enemy is current, they still understand the severity, and he will go to Hangzhou first to stabilize and then say, his son's prison will be supervised first, anyway, he has not admitted it.

It's just a holy decree in Hangzhou.

It's definitely not going to work now, and now I have to coax Lu Haowen and the others first, so that they can continue to defend Zhenjiang.

"Official Shengming!"

Shi Rugang hurriedly touted him.

"What should Liu Yanqing do there?"

He then asked.

"Just apply for it, and now they are indispensable in this situation."

Cai You hurriedly said.

The big painter nodded, at this time, he still has to coax Liu Yanqing and his son, in case the ministers on the other side of Zhenjiang are not sensible, they have to let Liu Yanqing and his son cross the river as thugs, as for the problem of escaping from the battle, it is not worth mentioning, the basic operation of the Liu family and his son is only.

Then he stood up and walked out of the cabin, and Cai You and the others hurriedly followed.

"Look at my great country!"

The great painter stood on the deck and looked at the scenery of the water towns on both sides of the strait with some emotion.

Although it is winter at this time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have basically popularized rice and wheat double cropping, and even if wheat is not planted in winter, it is also rapeseed, and it is still a piece of green as far as the eye can see, but the color is darker, and the water network is vertical and horizontal plus a small village, which is still very refreshing to look at.

This is the Suzhou and Hangzhou he dreamed of.

He actually didn't like Zhenjiang.

After all, it is not the real Jiangnan, it can only be said to be a margin, the real Jiangnan is here, as a literary and artistic middle-aged man, he has fled all the way south all these years, and it cannot be said that he is completely timid, and this Jiangnan complex is also part of the reason. As if he had been imprinted in his previous life, what he dreamed of was to set foot on this land, to set foot on this beautiful country depicted in countless poems, and then to pursue his artistic inspiration in this land......

"Stop the boat, I want to paint!"

He said suddenly.

The inspiration just came right away!

"Quick, stop the boat!"

Cai You hurriedly shouted.

The artist's inspiration is like a diabetes collapse.

The boats under their feet quickly stopped, and the countless boats connected to each other on the canal behind them also had to stop one after another, and the imperial soldiers who escorted them looked at the front one by one in confusion, watching their Emperor His Majesty standing on the deck, and the attendants inside carried out the table and placed various pigments on pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. The great painter took a pen in his hand, then stood at the table and looked ahead, where a small village of dozens of families by the canal was in a green place, and the bamboo fence hut was quiet under the blue sky and white clouds.

"What's the name here?"

He asked.

Cai You hurriedly looked at the boatman.

"If you go back to the official's house, this place will be called Shengze."

The latter said tremblingly.

"This name is good, I am a prosperous Song Dynasty, and Guanjiaze is born by the common people."

Cai You said.

"Haha, you've always been so good at talking, for so many years, just count the way you know my mind!"

The great painter said with a smile.

Then he looked at Sheng Ze, who was currently only a small village, picked up the paintbrush and brewed emotions, ready to leave another masterpiece for future generations,

But at this moment, his face suddenly showed a puzzled expression, and instinctively rubbed his eyes to make a probe posture, staring at the bamboo hut with wide eyes, in front of the bamboo fence door of the nearest house, a person was sitting on a bamboo chair, holding a cat in his arms, looking like the years were quiet, but then slowly raised his head and smiled at him, and raised his right hand to make a greeting......

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