Seeing that the situation in Linxiang was critical, the navy led by Cheng Huang suddenly appeared, fired artillery and arrows and rushed straight down from the upstream, crashing into the middle of the Yanyun army that was crossing! The rhythm of Yan Yunjun's attack was disrupted, the ships were sunk by the opponent's artillery fire, the bamboo rafts were burning, and the half-built pontoon bridge was torn apart by the artillery fire of the Song army's naval division, and the wreckage floated downstream!

There was a short horn sound in the Yan Yun army, and the Yan Yun army that was attacking retreated one after another.

Seeing that Yan Yunjun had retreated, the soldiers of the Song army couldn't help but shout and cheer excitedly. Cheng Huang stood on the bow of the ship with his sword, looking at Yan Yunjun who was gathering the remnants of the army on the north shore, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering noise in the woods on the north shore! Cheng Huang was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he saw that the water column in the middle of his ship's formation was soaring into the sky, and many warship masts were broken, and the soldiers of the Song Army and the Navy were screaming again and again, and they couldn't figure out what was going on for a while!

Cheng Huang came back to his senses, only to see bursts of white smoke rising from the middle of the woods on the south bank, and then the thunderous roar came again, countless cannonballs rained down, and many warships were damaged, and many sailors and soldiers had a huge impact of the shells into the water, and many sailors and soldiers who fell into the water swam to their own warships, and the whole water surface seemed to have countless dumplings, as if they were boiling.

Cheng Huang exclaimed: "It's not good, the enemy army has artillery in ambush!" Then he turned his head and ordered the officer beside him: "Pass the order, the fleet will turn the hull of the ship sideways and counterattack the enemy's artillery array!" ”

When the Song army received the order, the Jiashi warships immediately crossed and prepared to bombard the artillery position of the Yanyun army on the shore with broadside artillery. In this process, the artillery fire of the Yanyun army continued to attack, constantly causing casualties to the Song army's naval division. The Song gunboat turned its hull sideways, and then returned fire with artillery, and for a moment the thunder and loud sound echoed on the river, and in the surging white smoke, countless cannonballs flew towards the woods on the shore! However, what Cheng Huang and the others didn't expect was that before the flying shells flew to the shore, they fell into the water one after another, stirring up countless water columns, and the scene was spectacular, but it did not cause the slightest damage to the Yanyun artillery array on the shore at all! Cheng Huang suddenly found at this time that the position of his own ship formation was at least two miles away from the opponent's artillery array, and the range of his own artillery could not reach it at all.

At this moment, a huge roar came from the woods, and I saw a rain of bullets flying and falling into the ship's formation!

Cheng Huang was ruthless in his heart, estimating that the number of artillery on the other side was not much, and immediately ordered the fleet to immediately lift anchor and turn to approach the shore. The fleet of sailors immediately lifted anchor, turned the bow of the ship and sailed towards the shore in the face of the artillery fire on the shore, and when it approached the shore 300 paces, it stopped, turned the ship sideways, and lowered the anchor to fix it.

Cheng Huang prepared to order gunboats to bombard the woods. At this moment, an earth-shattering loud noise suddenly sounded from the woods, and the power was more than ten times stronger than before! Cheng Huang and the others suddenly heard such a might, and couldn't help but be shocked, and then they saw a dense number of cannonballs whistling in, the water column in the middle of the ship array was monstrous, and the violent explosion sounded into a piece, and countless fireballs rose into the sky, as if the entire river surface was turned over; Nearly half of the ship's masts were broken, wreckage flew wildly, countless sailors died or fell into the water, and the entire ship array was in chaos! Cheng Huang's mind was also in a mess, and he couldn't figure out what was going on?! How could the scale of Yanyun's artillery array grow more than tenfold in the blink of an eye?! Several Song gunboats hurriedly returned fire with a few cannons, but looking at the scene, it was obviously impossible to cause much damage to the Yanyun army's artillery array.

The earth-shattering roar came again, and this time, Chenghuang's ship was also damaged, being hit by several flowering shells in a row, and in the surging fire, the huge ship was torn apart! Cheng Huang fell into the water, because he was wearing a suit of armor, so although he was proficient in water, the whole person was involuntarily pulled into the water. Cheng Huang saw many of his soldiers and many artillery pieces sinking under the water, so he hurriedly held his breath, took off his armor, threw away his blades, and drilled his hands and feet out of the water. As soon as his head came out of the water, he couldn't help but take a big breath. Immediately, I saw that the original huge sailors had been bombarded and scattered, most of the warships were sinking crookedly, and a small number of warships were almost injured although they had not yet sunk, and they were rushing through the wreckage in a panic, and a burning warship had no time to avoid the wreckage of the warship in front of it, and slammed into it, and the warship tilted when it landed, and the sailors on it fell into the water with a scream.

Cheng Huang stared blankly at the scene in front of him, only feeling as if it was a terrible nightmare, why was the fleet of sailors who were still imposing just now wiped out in an instant?!

The ferocious artillery fire of the Yanyun army on the shore kept bombarding, and the warships of the Song army, which had been lucky enough to escape the catastrophe, also sank into the water one by one. At this time, where did the remaining Song army warships still have the heart to fight, and they fled one after another. Cheng Huang was rescued from a wounded ballista warship and fled downstream. There were dozens of other ballista warships running away, and as for the artillery warships, they had all been destroyed by Yan Yun's artillery positions at this time!

Yanyun's artillery fire continued to chase the Song army, the water column was monstrous, the river was boiling, and one after another warships were hit and sunk. In the end, only five broken ballista warships staggered out of the range of Yanyun's artillery, and fled in a hurry downstream, like lost dogs, and nothing else could be taken care of. The soldiers of the Song army guarding Linxiang were shocked and inexplicable when they saw such a scene, and they were at a loss.

The defender Pan Hong thought that since Yan Yunjun had destroyed his own naval division, he would definitely force the river again, so he immediately ordered the whole army to be ready for battle, and at the same time ordered the prefect to drive all the prime-aged people in the city to the city wall to help defend the city. There was a shouting and commotion in the city, and finally more than 100,000 people went up to the city wall, and Pan Hong finally had a little sense of security! However, contrary to Pan Hong's expectations, after destroying his own water division, Yan Yunjun actually stayed still and did not attack again! Pan Hong didn't dare to slack off, and strictly ordered the soldiers and people to stay on the city wall and not leave! The soldiers and the people shrank at the head of the city, shivering by the river wind, frightened and attacked by the cold, and couldn't help but feel resentful of Pan Hong.

His gaze turned to the Yanyun Army camp. The Yanyun camp is still located opposite Chengling Pass, but because the first part of the Song army is in Fangtai Mountain, and the main force is opposite Linxiang, the Song army thinks that there are not many troops in the Yanyun army camp. However, Yang Peng was not on the other side of Linxiang at the moment, but in the big camp opposite Chengling Pass.

Yang Peng received an urgent report from Deng Yi, the commander of the artillery team, and after reading it, he smiled slightly and muttered: "It's all in my calculations, and there are no accidents!" "It turned out that the action of Deng Yi's artillery team ambushing the enemy's naval fleet was all planned by Yang Peng. Yang Peng felt that the biggest obstacle to the army crossing the river was the Song army's sailors, so he planned to destroy the Song army's sailors. In fact, attacking Linxiang was just a cover, so that transferring the Song army's naval division and then annihilating it was Yang Peng's real intention. On this stretch of the river that stretches for hundreds of miles, only this section of the river is narrow enough for artillery to reach the Song warships on the shore, so Yang Peng chose to set a trap here.

At the beginning, the artillery team only bombarded with one-tenth of the artillery and solid shells, which was also Yang Peng's strategy, which was to attract the Song army's naval divisions so that the artillery could exert its maximum power. Generally speaking, if the enemy finds that the opponent's strength is not as good as his own, he must want to fight back instead of fleeing, and this is indeed the case, that Cheng Huang was suddenly attacked by artillery fire from the shore, although he was startled, but then he found that the opponent's strength was far inferior to his own, so he did not think of escaping, but led the naval army to counterattack, and the result completely fell into Yang Peng's calculations. When the Song Army's naval division approached close enough, at this time, Yanyun's three artillery teams opened fire with 450 cannons, and it was as if the sky had fallen, and the Song Army's naval division lost a small half in an instant, and the entire fleet almost lost its combat capability before it understood what was going on!

Yang Peng called Li Tian, Wan Chun, and Qiu Xia and gave the order to attack.

In the early hours of the morning, it was really the darkest time between heaven and earth, the soldiers of the Song army guarding the Chengling Pass were in a dreamland, and the sentries were also dozing off with spears, and there was silence between heaven and earth, and there was not even the sound of insects.

One of the patrolmen yawned loudly and subconsciously turned to look at the river. In the darkness, nothing could be seen, but there seemed to be some movement. The patrolman's heart moved, and he quickly picked up his bow and arrow, lit a rocket, and shot it towards the river. The rocket streaked across the dark night sky and landed far away towards the river. Under the faint light of the rockets, the patrolmen saw countless boats covering the river, heading towards this direction! The patrol was so frightened that his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly threw away his longbow, and ran towards the gong with a rolling belt, while shouting in great terror: "The enemy is coming!" The enemy is coming! "Dangdangdang...... the sound of the gong violently broke the silent night, and it looked so poignant and harsh!

The soldiers of the Song army woke up and rushed to the city. General Meng Yong ordered the crossbowmen to fire rockets at the river. The crossbowmen immediately shot a rain of arrows towards the river, only to see that countless rafts carrying countless soldiers of the Yanyun Army had already approached the shore! Meng Yong and all the soldiers of the Song Army couldn't help but be shocked when they saw this scene! Meng Yong hurriedly ordered the artillery to fire, the artillery roared, and there was a huge sound of water on the river, and the flash of light allowed the Song soldiers to see the Yanyun army on the river!

The officers and men of the Yanyun army braved the artillery fire to rush forward, landed on the shore, and climbed the city wall with the hook of the lock, and a Yanyun officer first boarded the city wall, wielding a knife and slashing several Song army soldiers in a row, and was unstoppable, and the Song army soldiers were taken by his might and retreated. Immediately, there were more and more soldiers of the Yanyun Army who climbed the city wall, and they were fierce and fierce! The soldiers of the Song Army didn't expect Yan Yunjun to be so brave, and they felt that they couldn't resist it in an instant!

Meng Yong saw that the Yanyun army was brave and sharp, and his own soldiers were frightened and difficult to resist, so he was not in a hurry, and scolded: "Why has the Yanyun army attacked the city, and those bastards of the navy army have not yet appeared?" "Meng Yong didn't know the news that their navy had been wiped out at this moment. An adjutant general next to him hurriedly said: "General, we can't hold it, let's escape!" Meng Yong saw that his soldiers were defeated and retreated under the onslaught of the wolf-like Yan Yun army, and knew that this city could no longer be defended, so he immediately ordered: "Everyone run for their lives!" Immediately, he led several generals and dozens of soldiers with his cronies and fled in a hurry from the south gate. At this moment, the Song army on the city pass was already defeated.

Yan Yun's army occupied Chengling Pass in one fell swoop, and then built a pontoon bridge, and the Seventh Army crossed the Yangtze River under the leadership of Yang Peng. Immediately, Yang Peng left 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Chengling Pass, and divided the main force into three routes, one led by Pang Wanchun, along the river, to support Shi Liancheng's main force to attack Cao Yong, one led by Li Tian to go east along the river, raid Linxiang, and the last road was led by him to attack Yuezhou.

When the distribution was finished, each man led his troops away.

That Meng Yong led the remnants of the defeated army to rush back to Yuezhou. Wang Zhuo, the prefect of Yuezhou, saw Meng Yong's very embarrassed and frightened appearance, his heart jumped, and a bad premonition rose in his heart, and sure enough, he heard Meng Yong say in a hurry: "Lord Wang, it's not good, Yan Yunjun has broken through the Chengling Pass!" ”

Although Wang Zhuo had already expected it, when he heard such news with his own ears, he couldn't help but be startled, his face turned white, and he hurriedly said, "How is this possible?" Didn't the navy stop the enemy? ”

Meng Yong said indignantly: "I don't know where all the bastards like the navy army died!" From the time the Yanyun Army launched an attack to the loss of Chengling Pass, the people of the water army never appeared! I wonder if those bastards are all dead! "Hehe, those bastards are not dead, but the situation is not too much.

Wang Zhuo was flustered and at a loss, and said: "Chengling Pass has been captured, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the Yan Yun army will come to attack my Yuezhou!" How is it good? How's that good? Wang Zhuo was flustered like an ant on a hot pot, and he was already six gods without a master.

At this moment, Wang Dong stumbled in, and said in great horror: "Oh no, my lord, Yan Yunjun, Yan Yunjun has arrived in the city!" Wang Zhuo and Meng Yong were shocked, and Wang Zhuo exclaimed: "Why is it so fast?!" Meng Yong couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Several people hurriedly ascended to the city gate tower, and sure enough, they saw that Yan Yunjun had already approached the city. Wang Dong, who was standing beside Wang Zhuo, suddenly had a shocked face, and couldn't help but shout: "It's King Yan!" Wang Zhuo and Meng Yong were startled, and Wang Zhuo hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" King Yan is here in person?! Wang Dong pointed to the majestic and heroic general standing under the royal banner and said: "That general Yan Yun is Yan Wang himself!" The subordinates have seen King Yan a few times, and there will definitely be no mistake! Wang Zhuo frowned, revealing a thoughtful look.

Woo...... Woo...... Yan Yun's horn suddenly sounded loudly. Meng Yong's face changed, and he exclaimed, "The Yanyun Army is ready to attack!" Wang Zhuo and Wang Dong were taken aback. Meng Yong hurriedly said: "My lord, we can't resist it, it's still too late, let's run away quickly!" Wang Dong nodded vigorously. Wang Zhuo frowned and said: "The Yangtze River moat has fallen, I am afraid that half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River will fall into the hands of Yan Yun sooner or later, Yan Yun's domination of the world is already the trend of the times, where can we escape?" Wang Dong and Meng Yong couldn't help frowning, panicked in their hearts.

Wang Zhuo glanced at the two of them and said, "For today's plan, it can only be that those who know the times are Junjie!" The two couldn't help but be stunned. Yang Peng raised the iron horse lance, and Yan Yunjun shouted, one after another, like a rolling wave, thrilling! The fighting spirit of the Yanyun soldiers is rapidly rising, and they are eager to fight!

At this moment, the gate of Yuezhou City suddenly opened, and many people poured out.

Seeing this scene, Yang Peng immediately raised his left hand. Soldier Yan Yun immediately stopped shouting. Yang Peng looked out of the city gate, and saw a few people dressed in official robes and general's armor leading thousands of officials and soldiers to rush out with the people's army, and then threw away their weapons and knelt beside the official road. Immediately, the few people dressed in official robes and the general's family left and everyone came to meet them. After a while, Yang Peng saw the appearance of the three people clearly, two of them had never seen it, but the other Yang Peng was no stranger, it was the Wang Dong who had come to fake surrender before. Recognizing this person, Yang Peng immediately guessed the identity of another person in official robes, that person must be Wang Zhuo, the prefect of Yuezhou, as for the last general in armor, eight or nine times out of ten was the Song general Meng Yong who fled from the defeat of Chengling Pass.

The three of them came to Yang Pengma and knelt down. Wang Zhuo held up the official and civilian collection with both hands, and said loudly: "Wang Zhuo, the criminal minister, the officers and soldiers of the people of the handsome city, come to surrender to King Yan!" Immediately bowed to the ground, Wang Dong and Meng Yong hurriedly bowed down. At this moment, the three of them were terrified, and they really didn't know what the other party would do with them.

Yang Peng said: "Wang Zhuo, you also surrendered once before, do you remember?" ”

Wang Zhuo's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said, "The sinner remembers." At that time, the criminal minister was entrusted by Marshal Wu Cao to play a trick against King Yan! However, King Yan saw that the trick of the criminal minister could not hide it from King Yan at all, and not only did he fail to do so, but because of this, King Yan captured Fangtai Mountain in one fell swoop! The criminal did not dare to beg for the forgiveness of King Yan, but only hoped that King Yan would spare the soldiers and civilians in the city for the sake of his clan! ”

Yang Peng smiled: "You are quite good at talking!" "Don't you dare!" Yang Peng said: "What you did before is not a crime, each is his master, so you don't need to call yourself a sinner!" Wang Zhuo couldn't hear Yang Peng's intentions, and couldn't help but answer in his heart.

Yang Peng glanced at the three of them and said, "All three of you should get up." The three of them answered, stood up, bowed their heads, and the big stone in their hearts still did not put down, because King Yan had not yet said what to do with them.

Yang Peng said: "The three of you can dedicate the city to sincerity, which can be regarded as a great merit, so you will still be in your original position." When the three of them heard this, they were pleasantly surprised, and they quickly knelt down and bowed, "Thank you for the grace of King Yan!" Yang Peng said: "This is not my grace to you, I am just rewarding merit and punishing crimes according to Yan Yun's reward and punishment rules!" "The three of them are only submissive. Yang Peng said: "Okay, let's go to the city!" The three of them responded, stood up, and respectfully led Yang Peng and his Yanyun army into the city first.

As soon as Yang Peng entered the city, he issued an announcement to reassure the people, and the people couldn't help but settle down when they saw that Yan Yunjun had strict military discipline and did not commit any crimes in Minqiu. After settling down, the people couldn't help but compare Yan Yunjun with the Great Song Dynasty official army, only to feel that Yan Yunjun was much better than the Great Song Dynasty official army who made trouble and bullied the people from time to time, and they couldn't help but favor Yan Yun.

Yang Peng set up a temporary camp in the prefect's yamen. Later that day, a military report came from Linxiang that Linxiang had captured, almost all of the Linxiang defenders had surrendered, and the defender Pan Hong had been killed by his officers! Now General Yin Mingde and General Duan Zhixian have led a large army across the river!

It turned out that Li Tian led a group of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared behind Linxiang, and the defenders were greatly frightened, and many people wanted to open the city and surrender. However, the guard general Pan Hong insisted on refusing, so several generals under him secretly united, suddenly launched a mutiny, killed Pan Hong, opened the city gate and surrendered to Yan Yun's army. Immediately, Li Tian ordered the surrendered Song army to build a pontoon bridge and lead the Yanyun army on the opposite bank to cross the river.

Yang Peng put down the military newspaper, glanced at Wang Zhuo and the others with wide eyes and a look of concern, and said: "Linxiang military report, our army has captured Linxiang, and the large army has crossed the river. Wang Zhuo and the others were overjoyed, feeling that in this way, they had nothing to worry about. Wang Zhuo clasped his fists at Yang Peng and bowed: "Congratulations to King Yan, King Yan has leveled the south of the Yangtze River and ruled the world, just around the corner!" Yang Peng said with a smile: "It may not take long to level Jiangnan, but it is far away to dominate the world!" Wang Zhuo and the three of them were stunned for a moment, and then understood King Yan's intentions, King Yan swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, how could he just be satisfied with unifying the Han land, attacking and destroying all countries for a day, that is the ideal of King Yan! Thinking of this, the three of them couldn't help but get excited.

In fact, when the three of them were young, they also had lofty ideals, Wang Zhuo Wang Dong wanted to govern the country and secure the country, and Meng Yong longed to be like Huo Yao and crisscross the grassland, opening up territory for the Central Plains Dynasty, but after entering the officialdom of the Song Kingdom, the ambitions of the three of them slowly disappeared in the atmosphere of lifeless pursuit of fame and fortune, and finally completely forgot the ideals of their youth. Now, with King Yan, I only feel as if I have lifted the dark clouds and seen the blue sky, and those childhood dreams that have long been dusty seem to have the possibility of being realized!

Meng Yong couldn't help but clench his fists and bowed: "If the last general can follow King Yan across the desert, he will be willing even if he is broken!" Wang Zhuo Wang Dong couldn't help but say: "Although we can't cross the battlefield, we are also willing to die for King Yan!" ”

Yang Peng saw that the three of them looked excited and sincere, knowing that what they said was heartfelt, he smiled slightly and said, "You all have a chance, don't worry!" The three of them agreed.

Yang Peng thought about it, stood up, walked to the map hanging on the side of the hall, and everyone gathered around. Yang Peng's eyes glanced at Linxiang, and said to Wang Kai: "Immediately send a herald to order Duan Zhixian and Shi Liancheng, and ask them to leave only the necessary soldiers and horses to guard Linxiang, and the army will immediately divide the troops into two routes, one along the Yangtze River to the east, capture Jiangxia and Wuchang, and then enter Jiangxi, and the other road will be from Tongcheng, through Jiming Mountain, and attack Jiangxi." Wang Kai promised and immediately ran down. Yang Peng said to Wang Zhuo and the others: "You stay in Yuezhou, I'm going to Fangtai Mountain!" ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.