Affected by the defeat of Hefei, the people of Jiangbei went south one after another, wanting to cross the Yangtze River, and crowded at the mouth of the river.

However, the Jin army in the south of the Yangtze River was like a great enemy, and the water army was floating on the river, but it did not come to meet the people to cross the river.

Li Yue didn't have the time to take care of them, and there were his own foot soldiers in the rear to deal with them.

As pointed out by Bing Feng, Juchao and Hengjiang were all defeated by the wind, but the granaries in the city had already been burned to ashes.

After a short pause, the army headed straight for Liyang.

Opposite Liyang is Jiankang, and the importance of this place can be imagined.

The city was already facing a great enemy, and hundreds of people crowded the gates, but the gates were closed.

More than 20,000 black clouds rode in a line in the northeast, giving this important town a huge sense of oppression.

Some frightened people jumped directly into the water to the south, trampling each other and crying and screaming.

The defenders of the city also looked desperate.

Li Yue looked at the banner of the word "Xie" fluttering at the head of the city, and instantly guessed that the city guard would be Xie Shang, who successively served as General Jianwu, Liyang Taishou, and General Anxi, all of whom supervised the affairs of Yuyang and Yang.

Yin Hao's Northern Expedition is a chicken feather, and he has three points of credit.

But don't look at the repeated defeats of others, the official position is rising all the way, and he has recently been promoted to the general of Zhenxi, Shangshu and servants, and the military governor of Jiangxi and Huainan, and the history of Yuzhou assassination......

Even Yin Hao, who was defeated, was only demoted to a concubine.

A few years ago, struggling to survive on Heiyun Mountain, Li Yue passed through Zhang Yu, and he could be regarded as having a few hands with Xie Shang and knew some details.

"This city can be broken! Set up camp first and rescue the people. Li Yue said left and right.

The soldiers were all excited.

Two light horsemen flew out, like two arms, one from north to south and one from south to north, taking the people of the city into their arms.

The people wept and were driven away from the battlefield by the cavalry.

The city didn't take the opportunity to release arrows, and sat back and watched the black cloud cavalry drive all the people out of the battlefield, which made Li Yue have a good impression of Xie Shang, although this person is incompetent, but he is not brutal, go home and talk about the Tao, how good is it to indulge in the landscape? It's just in such an important position.

On the first day, there was no fighting, and the whole army rested and waited for grain and grass in the rear.

In the past few days, he has been advancing wildly, killing a lot of war horses to satisfy his hunger.

Now that so many people are sheltered, if there is no food and grass to receive it, it will be a great disaster.

Fortunately, in the evening of the same day, Liang Xiao's grain was transported from Hefei, and the grain and grass seized on the battlefield were counted, which was enough for 130,000 stones, enough to support a month.

Li Yue immediately ordered porridge to be boiled and distributed to the hungry people.

The hot porridge was in the stomach, the crying in the camp subsided, and no one resisted.

The next day, the infantry army drove the people to come one after another, and there were a sea of people outside Liyang City, no less than 200,000 people.

There are many people and great strength, Li Yue ordered to choose his youth and strength, and built two large earth mountains in the north of Liyang City, and the soldiers stood on them and could directly shoot the defenders on the city wall.

Then the deep ditch and high fortress were built, and the camp was built.

"Liyang is already a lonely city, you can go down in a few days, why bother so much? The last general is willing to lead an army to break through the city! "Zhang Oyster is eager to fight.

Li Yue smiled: "General Zhang's appetite is too small, and one Xie Shang is satisfied?" I'm waiting for Huan Wen and Jiankang to come to my rescue! ”

Opposite Liyang is Jiankang, and the Jiangdong scholars can't see everything that happens in Hefei, but they can clearly see everything that happens here.

Li Yue wanted to take advantage of this battle to cast a psychological shadow on Jiangdong forever, and he would not dare to mention the Northern Expedition again!

"Oh? The last general understands! Zhang Hao touched the back of his head.

Everyone is angry, Zhang Haosheng is vicious, rude, but very righteous, and has a good popularity in the army.

However, what made Li Yue depressed was that after waiting for a few days, Jiangdong did not send reinforcements, and there were no reinforcements from Misu, as if they had given up Liyang......

There are more and more naval warships on the Yangtze River, but no one dares to cross the river.

In the first battle of Hefei, the 100,000-strong army of Huanwen was wiped out, and less than 20,000 fled back, and Jiangdong was already bold.

Hundreds of thousands of people outside the city drink porridge every day, which is an astronomical number.

Since there were no reinforcements coming, Li Yue ordered the siege of the city.

Xie Shang has been operating Liyang for more than ten years, some of the foundation is there, but there are enemies on all sides, there are no reinforcements outside, and after resisting for four days, the city was first broken by Zhang Oyster, Xie Shang faced the direction of Jianye, and killed himself at the head of the city.

Li Yue looked at the corpse of Xie Shang carried by the soldiers, and sighed, it can be regarded as a decent death, which makes people restrain and return to Jiangdong.

The defenders of the city had long since lost their fighting spirit and surrendered.

Lu Guang led the army straight to the treasury, this time there was no burning of grain, Xie Shang sealed the treasury completely, and there was a lot of food in it, enough for the Black Cloud Army and the people to eat for two months.

Immediately, Li Yue sent troops to attack the cities in Jiangbei, moved the people, and brought back grain.

However, when entering Guangling County, he was met with stubborn resistance from the Jin army in Chushui and returned in vain.

After resting for a day, Gao Yun came to advise: "This battle has been won a great victory, the grain and grass in the rear are difficult to transport, Jiangdong has the advantage of a naval army, it is difficult for our army to cross the river to destroy the Jin, it is useless to stay longer, why doesn't Your Majesty withdraw from the army?" ”

Jiangbei has taken everything that should be taken, and the rest are hard bones, and the beards and Guangling are heavily defended, and it is difficult to capture them in the short term.

"Who says it's not profitable? Jiangdong broke the courage, it is a good time to cross the river! Li Yue had a weird smile on his face, "Order, build boats, use them to cross the river, set up more flags in the north of the river, beat drums and shout every day, and create momentum!" ”

Both sides are like this, and the scholars in Jiankang City should also come and do their best.

War is a continuation of politics, and the greatest interests have not yet arrived, so how can Li Yue easily withdraw from the army?

And sometimes, the political interests far outweigh the battlefield interests.

Li Yue now has no shortage of land, no lack of population, and no shortage of martial arts, but only orthodoxy.

Gao Yun thought for a moment, and instantly understood, "The last general is ordered!" ”

Soon, the Jiangbei drum horn shook the sky, from the Hengjiang River to the Guabu Mountain, the flag waved, tens of thousands of young people shouted on the river bank every day, shouting and shouting, and the sound shook the south bank of the river.

Heiyun rode along the river, kicking up a huge cloud of smoke and dust.

It seems that he is about to cross the river to attack Jiankang at any time.

After a few days, the secret report was sent back to the fine work, and the people of Jiangdong were panicked, and the people moved their families to the south, and the officials and soldiers of the cities along the river were scattered.

Even Jiankang City was in a panic, and successively issued an edict to Huan Wen upstream to enter the King of Jiankang Qin, but Huan Wen only sent a navy to patrol the Yangtze River, and he stayed motionless in the city.

Seeing that the fire was almost over, Li Yue led 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 foot soldiers down the river, and Chen Binggua walked down the mountain to look at the looming Jiankang City in the south.

It is said that Jinling has a royal spirit, but Li Yue did not see the slightest thing, only saw the decadence.

The army stood at the foot of the mountain in black pressure, and the soldiers drove the war horses to the river to drink.

The Jin army and navy are like facing the enemy, densely displayed in the south of the Yangtze River.

Li Yue made people raise the word "beam" and look down on Jiankang City on the south bank.

The Black Cloud soldiers standing under the Great Banner, everyone's expressions were extremely solemn.

"Why are the Jin people too rude? Your Majesty is here, but he didn't come to see him! Zhang Hao was furious.

"Hold on, someone will come." Li Yue said confidently on his horse.

After waiting for an hour, a flat boat swayed in the river and came to the north bank......

(End of chapter)