Since October, the Song army's garrison on Jinghu South Road has stormed Wuchang, an important town in the western part of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the past, the Song army invaded Jinghu, and the Southern Tang Dynasty also lost Ezhou, and only in Wuchang preserved the existence of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Ezhou. The southeast of Wuchang is the Yangtze River, and the northwest is Baoan Lake and Fanxi, which is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In February, Wuchang was a little unsupportable. In the middle of March, the victory of Runzhou was transmitted to Jiangzhou, and Li Congqian, the Duke of Hubei in Jiangzhou, that is, Li Congyi's younger brother, was a little unable to hold back and wanted to behave.

On 18 March, more than 10,000 Jiangzhou troops and more than 500 large and small warships sailed against the tide to support Wuchang. However, before the Jiangzhou army reached Wuchang, it was resolutely blocked by the Jinghu naval army of the Song army near Xishui.

The Jiangzhou army was against the wind and water, and the ship formation was huge and inconvenient, so it could not break through during the day, and was harassed by the Song army's small boats and arson boats at night. The generals were exhausted and held out for 26 days, and then the Jiangzhou army gave up rescuing Wuchang and went back. But it was not easy to retreat in front of the enemy. The Jinghu naval army of the Song army pursued and fought fiercely, and the more than 500 ships of the Jiangzhou army did not form a formation, but they barely survived, and retreated to Jiangzhou while fighting.

On the same day, Wang Ming led more than 100 large and medium-sized warships to go upstream, passing through the lake, and Zhu Lingyun's Hukou sailors actually closed the village and guarded it.

In the early morning of March 27, after a day and a night of defeat, the Jiangzhou army came to the vicinity of Fuchi Town (the junction of Xingzhou and Jiangzhou), and encountered the main force of Wang Ming's army advancing westward. Under the blow of the Jinghu Naval Division of the Song Army, the Jiangzhou Army that fled east was not in order, the queue was not neat, and the morale fell to the bottom.

More than 500 warships of the Jiangzhou army, under the attack of the Song army in front and back, panicked, and more than ten warships in the front battle with Wang Mingjun, either sunk or captured, and the follow-up warships actually abandoned the battle and turned around. The Jiangzhou army at the tail did not know what was happening in front of them, and continued to flee eastward under the fierce pursuit of the Jinghu Naval Division, and more than 500 boats were crowded together, but they were beaten at both ends.

The Jiangzhou military capital Yu Hou Cui Jingqing ordered the whole army to take refuge in Fushui, and then fled into Wanghu. More than 500 ships of the Jiangzhou army scrambled to escape, but in winter, the water was shallow, and the soldiers did not know the hydrological situation of the lake, so many large ships ran aground in the escape, and only small and medium-sized warships scattered and fled.

On 28 March, Wang Ming ordered more than 1,000 Song troops to attack Yangxin County in the upper reaches of Wanghu, and it took only half a day to break into the city wall, completely blocking the retreat of the Jiangzhou army in Wanghu. By the end of March, more than 10,000 Jiangzhou troops had been captured, and Wang Ming had captured 500 Tang warships in one fell swoop.

In late March, the Jiangzhou army suffered a crushing defeat in Fushui. At the same time, outside Lishui City, after several days of confrontation between the Tiande army and the Song army, a decisive battle was also fought on March 24, and the victory and defeat were divided, the Tiande army was completely annihilated, and Lishui City was captured by the Song army Tian Qinzuo.

In order to confuse the Tiande army, Tian Qinzuo slowly marched south with the main force, and then marched with more than 1,000 pioneers. From March 18, the vanguard of the Song army fought with the scouts of the Naïve army. By the 20th, the vanguard of the Song army and the 3,000 men of the Tiande army fought near the Lishui River and the Ergan River valley, and they won and lost each other. After the vanguard of the Song army increased to 3,000 people, it reluctantly drove the Tiande army away from the north bank of the Ergan River.

In the next two days, the vanguard of the Song army tried to cross the Ergan River several times, but they were all repelled by the advance of the Tiande army. Feeling that the Song soldiers were nothing more than that, Du Zhen strengthened the determination of the Song army to fight.

On the 23rd, the main force of Tian Qinzuo's department crossed the river with a three-way attack on the Ergan River, driving the Tiande Army forward from the north bank of the Yigan River.

On the morning of the 24th, the main force of the Song soldiers crossed the river in a big way and fought with the main force of the Tiande army on the south bank of the Yigan River.

When the battle began, Du Zhen really felt the pressure brought by the Song soldiers. Du Zhen wanted to attack half-crossing, at first only harassed with light soldiers, and after the Song army crossed the river with about 3,000 people, he pressed it vigorously, trying to compress the Song army to the angle between the Rouge River and the Yigan River, and then drive down the river. The Song army crossed the river in three places, although there were only 1,000 people in each place, but with the armor as the front, and then used the crossbow array to shoot the Tiande army's feet, and then repeatedly charged and fought with the Tiande army.

By noon, the Song army had established five river crossing channels, and more than 8,000 people crossed the river, while the main force of the Tiande army turned to the defensive. At this time, Du Zhen wanted to return to Lishui City. However, at this time, the battle situation has been completed, nearly 20,000 people on both sides are gathered in the diamond-shaped angle formed by the Rouge River and the Yigan River, and the battle line stretches for several miles, Du Zhen can only hold down the position and retreat gradually and orderly.

The battle reached dusk, the situation was extremely unfavorable to the Tiande army, and the Song army had completely occupied the confluence of the Rouge River and the Yigan River, but formed a three-sided siege of the Tiande army. At this time, the Song army crossed the river and sent a partial division to develop eastward along the Yigan River, with the intention of threatening Lishui City. At this time, Du Zhen made a seriously wrong decision.

Du Zhen ordered more than 3,000 troops of the original Jiankang army, which was originally stationed in Liyang and now assisted in defending Lishui City, to send more than 1,000 people out of the city to the north to counterattack the Song army advancing eastward, so as to buy time for the gradual withdrawal of the Tiande army to the city.

The Song army divided more than 1,000 people, rushed out of the center of the battlefield, and walked eastward, and more than 600 people from the two battalions of the Tiande Army also clung to it and fought endlessly. Thousands of Jiankang troops dragged out of the northern city, and then went northwest to block the Song army. However, as soon as the battle with the Song army was engaged, a battalion of the Jiankang army was routed, and the rout did not know the direction, so they fled backwards, and the thousands of healthy soldiers were scattered by the rout.

The Song army immediately ignored the Tiande army's entanglement, and drove the rout to seize the northern city.

is also the military capital Yu Hou, Du Zhen is bent on making progress, while Zhang Fengmao of the healthy army is bent on making money. Previously, the Jiankang army marched eastward and fought with the Song army in quarrying, and the reason on the surface was that the main general and deputy capital deployed Yang Shui and could not wait for the Liyang defenders to converge, but in fact, Yang Shui knew the situation of Zhang Fengmao's department, and it was also a burden to carry it.

Du Zhen used the headquarters of Zhang Fengmao of the Health Army to assist in the defense of Lishui City, which was also a good move, but the progress of the war was not good, and Du Zhen felt that the troops were insufficient, so he had the temporary idea of letting the Health Army fight. It's just that the Tiande army has already been defeated, and the healthy army can see it clearly from the city tower, and as soon as they leave the city, the soldiers panic. As a result, the Song army collapsed with just one blow.

If Zhang Fengmao closes the city gate in time, there will be no major incident. But Zhang Fengmao saw that the Song army was divided into two parts, one was entangled with the Tiande army, and the other was only about 300 people in one battalion, and they came after the defeat of their own army. This Zhang Fengmao will be greedy again, thinking that the Song soldiers are just these 300 people, and he will go up to two complete battalions and cover the rout, with more than 1,500 people, can't he eat these 300 people?

It's just that no matter how many sheep there are, they are not the opponents of lions, and the more important thing is that Zhang Fengmao himself is a fat sheep. Zhang Fengmao went out of the north gate to line up, protect the city gate, and drive the rout troops to both sides.

Seeing that the Tang army went out of the city and did not close the city gate, the Song military camp shouted excitedly, and immediately led his troops to Zhang Fengmao's general flag. The healthy army can't resist it, and the Song military camp will take itself as the sharpest, like a giant axe wedged into the rotten wood, one, two, three, three impacts, and the Song military camp will rush to the front of the general flag. Zhang Fengmao didn't realize that the other party was a little brave, and the whole person was stunned for a while, unable to move. The boss did not retreat, and all the guards rushed forward desperately, seeing that they were going to block the offensive of the Song army, but Zhang Fengmao suddenly turned around and fled at this juncture.

All the guards are stunned! Seeing this, the Song general roared, broke up several people with a knife, strode to the front of the general flag, and cut down the Tang army general flag with only one sword, and at this time, the healthy sergeant retreated with Zhang Fengmao to the north gate. Fifteen hundred healthy troops, only hated their father and mother for having a leg, and fled to the city. At this time, if the guards of the north gate want to close the city gate, how can they do it.

The Song army rushed into Lishui City with the rout, and then erected the Song army flag in the north gate tower of Lishui.

Seeing the banner of the Song army erected at the head of Lishui City, the Song soldiers cheered loudly on the battlefield, and the sound shook Lishui City. And the Tiande sergeant looked back, and they were all shocked.

Seeing this, Tian Qinzuo immediately walked out of the general's flag, picked up his customary steel knife, and led his guards to charge towards the flag of the Tiande Army. The Song army moved the flag forward with Tian Qinzuo, which was the signal of the general attack, and the Song soldiers pressed the whole army at the moment, and the Tiande army was defeated and retreated.

Du Zhen's face was expressionless, although he knew that the Song army had not occupied the entire city of Lishui at this time, but at this time, how could the Tiande army have the strength to recapture Lishui? But regret is useless at this point. It was only to draw troops from the Chinese army to the left flank, and at the same time order the right side to speed up the retreat, so that the Tiande army as a whole moved to the southeast. It's just that in this way, Du Zhi's Chinese military department stands out in front of the battle line.

The Tiande army wanted to cross the Rouge River and flee south. Tian Qinzuo had already calculated this, so he ordered the flag to stop, and led his personal guards to cover the flag to the Tiande army.

Arita Qinzuo personally led the charge of the team, and the Song soldiers tore the weak point of the combination of the right flank of the Tiande army and the Chinese army, and quickly pounced on the flag of the Tiande army.

Seeing that the Song soldiers on the left and right were guarding a mighty Song general, holding a knife and cutting over a shield, the knife was embedded in the shield, the Song general abandoned the knife, handed over a knife to the left and right, and the Song general cut the second knife and overturned a shield, and tore a hole in the armor array of Du Zhen's personal guards.

Du Zhen also took the steel knife from the guard's hand, stared at the Song general, and said secretly: "You are the one who is waiting!" "The Tiande army usually cowered in Lishui, Tian Qinzuo didn't think that this Tang army was so difficult to bite, and wanted to behead the Tang army in order to defeat the Tang army. And Du Zhen didn't want to overturn the Song generals and find an opportunity to turn defeat into victory, so he deliberately made the generals rush forward and lead the Song Dynasty to attack.

The two collided head-on, and they were faced with their own knives, which were really splashing with fire, and the two of them cut half a catty to eight taels, and half of their bodies were numb, and they couldn't get back for a while, and the second knife couldn't be used. The two armies rushed against each other, and before they could hit a single blow, they had already staggered.

Tian Qinzuo secretly said that it was a pity, so he went to cut the flag.

Du Zhen may have led the guards and cut out of the Song soldier array diagonally. Du Zhen is also brave, he killed the Song soldiers array, and then looked back, the flag of the Tiande Army had fallen, and there were only three or two guards left around him, and then he looked at the guards looking at him with the wrong eyes, Du Zhen found that he had a few crossbow arrows on his right chest and right shoulder, and the muscles of his body collapsed just now, and he didn't feel it, but then he felt that his entire right hand was out of his hand, and he couldn't even hold the steel knife.

At this time, the Tiande army had collapsed under the heavy pressure of the Song army, and countless defeated troops retreated to the southwest to swim across the Rouge River, and those who could not water fled to the southeast, wanting to escape east by bypassing Lishui. At this time, the Song soldiers pressed the whole line to capture prisoners, and the vanguard troops rushed to Lishui City to consolidate the results. Du Zhen miraculously crossed the Rouge River from behind a large group of Song soldiers.

It's just that after crossing the Rouge River, Du Zhen fell unconscious, and when he fled to Zhangjiagang Town on the shore of Shijiu Lake the next day, Du Zhen's injuries worsened, and he couldn't do it again. Two days later, Du Zhen died because of a crossbow arrow that injured his lungs, choked on water when crossing the Rouge River, and never received good treatment. More than 2,000 soldiers of the Tiande Army were killed in the battle, and more than 2,000 people, including the wounded, were captured.

However, it was not easy for Tian Qinzuo's department to win. If it weren't for the remnants of the healthy army to send their heads, the Song soldiers would certainly be able to win, but they might not be able to annihilate the Tiande army.

The Jiangzhou naval army was completely annihilated in the first battle of Fushui, and the Tiande army was defeated at the battle of Lishui, which swept away the optimism brought by the Tang army's two victories in Changzhou and Runzhou.

At the beginning of April, I heard that the Jiangzhou army was defeated, the defenders of the Tang army in Wuchang killed the main general, surrendered to the Song army, the important town of Wuchang fell, and the situation in Jiangxi became worse and worse.