"Cross the river!"

On the bank of the Longzangpu River in Jinling, Liu Renzhen gave an order, and dozens of shirtless strong men on the shore held machetes and cut off the fixed ship ropes docked on the riverbank.

The river here is rushing, reflecting the long sky. Boats come in size, rowing as main station boats, sub-station boats, horse boats, bow and sword boats, etc.

The main ship weighed more than 2,000 tons, and a large group of ten small ships slowly sailed towards the river, and the largest main battle ship could accommodate 12,000 people.

At the front of the rudder, Li Xiang, who was wearing a golden goose feather armor, stood tall in the middle with a saber at his waist, while Liu Renzhen and Li Yuanzhen were on the left and right.

"Congratulations to my emperor!"

At the back of the ship, Tang Chen, led by Han Xizai and Pan You, knelt on his knees, looking at the Tang ship that was gradually moving away, even if Li Xiang explained that he would go to the Northern Song Dynasty before leaving, he would not have to worry about his life.

Han Xizai still has tears in his eyes, from being suppressed by the DPRK and the central government, to showing his strength, he himself doesn't know how long he has walked this way, he has been thinking about the Northern Expedition from beginning to end, but when it really comes to this day, he only hopes that Li Xiang, who is standing in the boat, can return to Tang safely.

"Your Majesty, if we want to rescue Li Chongjin, why don't we go to the land, but to the water?"

On the main battle ship, Liu Renzhen pinched his beard, his face full of doubts.

"If we rush from Jinling to the north, the movement of our army will inevitably be known to the Song."

Li Xiang knew that he Zhao Kuangyin would definitely personally recruit and sentence Li Chongjin in the future, and when Li Chongjin rebelled, he first sent Shi Shouxin and Wang Xianqi to quell the rebellion.

He also thought that Li Chongjin must be as stupid and incompetent as Li Jun, and he was equally dismissive of this rebellion.

Unexpectedly, when Li Chongjin was helpless on the northern front, he actually withdrew towards the Tang realm, and Zhao Kuangyin, who realized that the situation was wrong, would definitely immediately investigate the movements of the Tang army.

Originally, Li Chongjin was not afraid of opposing the Song Dynasty, and only a few fierce generals were sent to pacify.

But if Li Chongjin can't beat him, he simply stops fighting and runs directly to the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in case Li Yu, who has always been weak, suddenly hardens up and directly absorbs Li Chongjin, then his nature will change.

The worst result that Zhao Kuangyin thought was to abandon the army, and if Li Chongjin's remaining tens of thousands of troops followed him and swore not to surrender, then all these tens of thousands of rebels would be surrounded and killed, but it was best to incorporate them for the use of Song Kuo's army.

After Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty openly proclaimed himself emperor, the Northern Liao, who had been immovable, recently moved the capital south to Xijin Mansion, renamed Nanjing of the Great Liao, and began to station troops in a large area in the Yanyun Han realm, which must have been to take advantage of the internal strife of the Han people to spy on the Central Plains, so he now only moved part of the army north to defend Liao.

Hearing that Li Chongjin sent someone to Jinling to send a surrender document, he reorganized the forbidden army, intending to personally recruit Li Chongjin to quickly quell the chaos.

But when he heard that Jinling still did not move after receiving the surrender letter, the ministers of the Song court ridiculed Li Yu and gave him the courage to call him the emperor, but he was still weak, incompetent, brave and strategic. Zhao Kuangyin also relaxed his vigilance in disbelief and set his sights on Beiliao.

"I see, no wonder my father wanted to send the Beifu army to help His Majesty go north to attack the Song Dynasty, but His Majesty strictly ordered the Beifu army to stand still."

Li Yuanzhen came to his senses at this time, and secretly admired the emperor's strange use of soldiers, which was different from the stupid soldiers who only knew how to fight desperately.

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Song realm, Sizhou waterfront

The riverbank was covered with trapped soldiers, and it was obvious that Wang Xianqi, the general of the black hammer armor who led the troops here, had been arranging troops here for a long time, and he must know that he had received the military order of the Zhao Emperor, so he hurriedly went south from Bianjing.

When Li Chongjin confronted Shi Shouxin for the first time, he had already rushed to Dengzhou.

Along the way, he unloaded his heavy armor and ordered the sergeant to quickly outflank the rear of Lee's southward retreat.

As for the speed of the military order to unload the heavy armor and raise the detour of the army, it is because Wang Xianqi bet on a heavy move from the beginning, that is, Li Chongjin and Shi Shouxin will fight for half a month at most, and then they will be beaten to avoid the battle and retreat south, and ask for help from several southern countries.

Let's say that a group of weak rabble in the south just made a situation and did not dare to fight across the river.

Even if he, Wang Xianqi, did not lead the troops to Bao Chao Li to re-enter the back road, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty did not dare to send troops to rescue.

At present, it seems that the southern kingdom is unbreakable according to the alliance of the Song Dynasty. In fact, it is only necessary to fight a quick war with heavy troops, and quickly defeat one country, and the other allies will naturally be in disarray.

Therefore, the troops are just self-preservation, and those sons of the southern country still don't have the courage to win the Central Plains. The troops stationed everywhere just told the Great Song that I had no intention of offending you, but you should not come to beat me.

But if any of the hard thorns take the initiative to send troops into the Song Realm, that is, to be a bird, if Li Chongjin does not resist, the next one is very likely to destroy you, the first bird.

"These stinky hills! In the past, I went to the Southern Han Dynasty with him, Wang and Shi, and we also ate a few pots of hot wine at the same table.

My Great Zhou royal family has fallen, and the two of them are so anxious to besiege me and show their loyalty to Zhao Beast! ”

In the camp of the rebels, Li Chong came in and paced back and forth, irritable, not to mention that Shi Shouxin kept torturing and killing the rebel soldiers on the northern front, and Wang Xianqi on the southern front did not know when he had surrounded the waterway, but anyone who approached the river bank was immediately shot and killed.

"General, Wang Xianqi only gave us three days, and if we don't surrender after three days, we will be surrounded and killed."

Beside him, Zhai Shouxun's face was full of anxiety, and he moved Li Chongjin again with a little tentative surrender.

"If you want to surrender, go out of the Li camp and kneel down to that king! I, Li Chongjin, will self-immolate in the whole family's tent, and I will not surrender the Song army! ”

"General, I'll wait... There's really no going back..."

The deputy general next to him, Zhou Xun, looked depressed, and even the saber on his waist didn't know when to take it off.

Li Chongjin listened to Zhou Xun's decadent voice, and then raised his head and looked around the generals in the camp, and found that these fierce men on the battlefield in the past now had no intention of fighting on their faces, and they all looked like they were bowing their eyebrows and crying.

Only then did it become clear that in the entire military camp, except for himself, who was willing to fight to the death with the Song army, everyone else was willing to kneel to the Song in order to survive. At present, I am afraid that he will not even have the right to order the whole army to charge into battle.

"Hahaha...... You wait or run for your life, or descend to the Song Dynasty, I, Li Chongjin, have nothing else to say.

I will only die on my own sword, and I will die... Out of this tent... Fend for yourself..."

Xu saw the thoughts of the people around him clearly, and looked at the people in the camp impatiently and smiled bitterly, how could he not know that Zhao Kuangyin was the most jealous of the soldiers.

Now that he has embarked on this road, even if he descends to Wang Xianqi, he will be executed by Zhao Kuangyin when he arrives in Bianjing.

Knowing that his life was short, his face was completely devoid of the initial murderous aura, and after leaving the camp, only two soldiers were resolutely following him.

Turning his head to look at the young faces of the two people, he shook his head with some pity, put his left and right hands on the shoulders of the two, and with tears in his eyes, he couldn't hide his sorrow without saying a word.

Turning his head into the tent where his family was housed, he heard the cry of his son, who had just turned three months old, in the tent, and looked up at more than ten members of his family.

Looking down apologetically at the woman holding the child, the woman probably noticed something, and looked at the children around her, big and small, and couldn't hide her sorrow, and wiped the tears on Li Chongjin's face with a soft cry.

......

"Run!"

The battlefield in the rear was in chaos, and the rebels desperately hit the thorny fence of the besiegers as if they were crazy, and everyone in the front row was covered in blood, and the fleeing soldiers in the rear pushed forward.

After the thorn fence fell in one place, the rebels rushed up, as if grasping a life-saving straw, rushed out of the breakthrough and jumped into the Surabaya River, desperately pulling forward to escape.

"Get out of the way! There's a ship ahead! ”

The unarmored soldiers who were digging forward in the water suddenly looked up and saw a huge thing rushing towards the shore, and the routs did not know who drove the boat, so they hurriedly dragged the remnants and kicked them to the left and right.

"There are warships! Hurry up..."

Song Bing, who was standing on a high place, noticed that the situation was different, and hurriedly spoke to the guards under the platform, but before the words were finished, a golden arrow suddenly shot, directly from this person's ears through the entire head, and suddenly lost consciousness and fell from the high platform.

The guards in the audience watched as the man who had just been shouting suddenly fell down, his head pierced by a bow and arrow, and his mouth was not closed, and he looked at himself openly.

Frightened, he fell to the ground and retreated, came back to his senses, and hurriedly got up and cried to Wang Xianqi's camp and ran away.

But I saw that the soldiers on the main battle ship of the Tang Army shouted the general's might! Li Xiang, who was wearing a golden goose feather armor in front of the rudder, put down the golden bow in his hand and drew his saber with a resolute look in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, good archery! Such a long distance can hit the head directly, it is really a heavenly man! ”

On the left, Liu Renzhen saw that Li Xiang, who had never shown his skills on the battlefield, had such accurate archery skills, patted the rudder wooden railing, and praised it bluntly.

But when he saw Li Xiang pulling out his saber seriously without saying a word, he shouted loudly.

"Little ones! Kill me and cut down this group of Song dogs who are in the way! ”

"Kill Song Dog! Kill Song Dog! ”

After the ship docked ashore, the Tang army was like a hunting beast and a tiger, jumping off the ladder of the boat and raising a knife to kill like the Song camp. Even the archers who had just finished releasing arrows at the Song army threw down their bows with anger on their faces, holding long knives that could not be grasped, and Judas shouted to kill Song!

Li Xiang had long expected this meeting, from the beginning of the establishment of the Longxiang Army, he deliberately selected and transferred the soldiers whose hometown was originally registered in the north, and every time he entered the military inspection school, he promised this group of soldiers who were originally from the north that he would personally lead them into the Song Dynasty and return home with them.

From ancient times to the present, the people of the Central Plains regard the return of fallen leaves to their roots as very important, and now this group of red-eyed Tang troops is actually killing the Song people angrily with their desire to return home.

Lee returned to the barracks

"God is going to kill me!"

Li Chongjin heard the sound of fighting outside the camp, thinking that the Song army had come in, although he was unwilling, he did not hesitate, and burned the tent everywhere with a torch in his hand, and the tent instantly ignited a fierce fire, surrounding Li Chongjin's family.

Seeing that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, Li Chongjin resolutely pulled out the saber in his hand, with tears in his eyes, looking at the family guiltily, and then raised his sword against his neck.

"Your Majesty! There was a fire in one battalion, probably Li Chongjin set himself on fire! ”

Li Xiang rode his horse into the rebel camp, and when he heard what Li Yuanzhen beside him said, he suddenly felt a little sad.

I rely on you Li Chongjin is really a thing that doesn't grow, if you can't beat it, I'll set myself on fire! You're fucking dead, Lao Tzu personally went on this trip in vain! If you dare to die, Lao Tzu will drag your corpse out and whip your corpse!

Seeing that he was nearly a hundred steps away from the fire camp, Li Xiang, who was riding a horse, shouted angrily at the fire camp.

"Where is Li Chongjin! Come out and see me! ”

At this time, Li Chongjin in the fire camp was about to kill himself, when he suddenly heard an angry shout, and faintly heard the word "I".

"I? Only the Tang and Song dynasties were the emperors, and Zhao Kuangyin did not come to quell the chaos in Bianjing at all, so it was difficult to succeed! ”

Li Chongjin hurriedly put down the long sword in his hand, lifted the tent cloth, and stared at Li Xiang in front of him wearing gold armor and holding a long knife.

Li Xiang, who was a little anxious patting the war horse, watched a person in the camp tent in a general's costume come out of the tent, and was suddenly overjoyed, raised his hand and shouted ahead.

"Li Qing, don't panic! I can't bear to let you fall victim to a traitor!

Lead the army! You've got your help! ”