"Beat, beat me to death. Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth and said: "How angry are you with the Southern Tang Water Army? Our Great Zhou Water Army has never won against the Southern Tang Water Division, and today we finally won once, and it was a big victory." Leave not one behind, sink the entire fleet. ”

Zhao Kuangyin was directing the catapult to attack, and the breath that he had been holding back for so many years finally came to an end. It's not that Da Zhou doesn't have a navy, but the strength of the navy is too poor. The confrontation on the water has never won against Nantang, and this time it was finally won, and Zhao Kuangyin's whole body trembled with excitement.

After winning this game, the Southern Tang Navy could no longer be so arrogant. Originally, this was also the strength of most of the Southern Tang Dynasty naval forces, and after they were cleared once, would they still dare to come to the Huai River? As long as the Southern Tang naval forces did not dare to come to the Huai River, they could rest assured that they would boldly besiege Shouzhou, and it was only a matter of time before they captured Shouzhou.

"General Zhao is really powerful, you can even think of such an excellent thing to trap the ship. But this is exhausting me, do you know how much manpower and financial resources I used to catch up with this batch of wooden piles?" Fan Zhen said: "You also know how hard Your Majesty is to cut the door, just give me such a little money, how can you build such a large lineup? If it weren't for Lei Fang to go to the Lei Wang's Mansion to get money, I'm afraid this batch of wooden piles would not be built at all." ”

"The widow is right next to me, can you go behind my back when you say bad things about others? Besides, you didn't ask me for money. Chai Rong also felt very depressed, Fan Qian's estimate was only that, not that he was reluctant to give money, but that Fan Zhen didn't ask for much. Is that appropriate?

"Your Majesty, did you hear what I just said?"

"Nonsense, how could I not hear when I was standing so close?"

"Eh~ Actually, Weichen did it on purpose...... Such a great victory is all due to the wooden stakes built by the ministers, so Your Majesty will definitely give the money to the ministers, right? ”

Chai Rong said depressedly: "Be careful next time you speak, if you say this, I am guilty of bullying the king, and I will punish the nine clans." ”

"Your Majesty is right, and the minister deserves death. But before he died, he still had to settle the money, because it was Lei Hong's money......" Fan Zhen said: "But Your Majesty, can the minister make a small opinion?"

"Speak. ”

"His Majesty's face is not very good-looking every time the minister mentions money, so if he can't win this battle, the minister really doesn't dare to mention the money. The minister just wants to say, Your Majesty don't take money too seriously, now that the Great Zhou is in good weather, the country is peaceful and peaceful, and with the support of Lei Hong and Yandao, the treasury is actually very abundant. ”

"Let's talk about it later, the most important thing now is this big battle, as long as you can win, you can say anything, cough ...... Ahem......" Chai Rong coughed excitedly, in fact, Chai Rong's body did not fully recover, but he still didn't want to miss this good show.

The Great Zhou navy had never won against the Southern Tang Dynasty, and sometimes it was even difficult to escape. Because of this, Chai Rong has always been very jealous of the Southern Tang Naval Army, as long as the Southern Tang Naval Army comes to the Huai River, they must withdraw their troops. If you can't win the battle and get blocked on the way, no matter how many people will die, you will have to die east of the Huai River.

This time it was Zhao Kuangyin's plan, which is worthy of being a person who has followed Zongxin for so many years, and he has more or less learned some of Zongxin's skills. Although this plan was very dangerous, they persevered, and finally allowed Li Jing to send the fleet into the ambush circle that had been set up long ago without any suspicion.

"Your Majesty, we have won this battle. Not to mention that catapults keep throwing boulders, even if they don't do anything, the Southern Tang Navy will be trapped and killed here. Going down the river, it happened to be a tailwind today, and the fleet was too fast, and it was impossible to retreat only by diverting direction with oars. What's more, the stakes have trapped the fleet to death, and the fire downstream can burn all the warships. ”

The fire on the river has been burning more and more, the front row of warships has been completely ignited, plus the flying fire meteors thrown by the catapult, almost every boat of the Southern Tang Navy has been ignited, but some of the fire is big, some of the fire is small. As long as they can't escape, it's superfluous to do anything.

"It is indeed very good, and the widow will be rewarded. Chai Rong said excitedly: "But then again, after the Southern Tang Navy is destroyed, what should we do next?

"Your Majesty, this has already been thought of a long time ago. The siege of Shouzhou used no more than 200,000 troops, divided troops to capture the surrounding cities, completely consolidated the power of our army east of the Huai River, and finally built bridges to facilitate the escort of grain and grass. It won't take a year and a half, and after Shouzhou surrenders, Nantang will have no power to fight back. Our army will be able to drive straight into Jinling and directly capture Jinling. ”

Chai Rong nodded, it is true that it does not need so many troops to besiege Shouzhou, anyway, Shouzhou can't be attacked, as long as there are enough troops so that they don't dare to fight. The surplus forces could be used to capture several other cities, so that no one could transport supplies to Shouzhou.

finally won the game, Chai Rong didn't want to fight a protracted battle with Shouzhou. If you only besiege Shouzhou, it is inevitable that some people will send troops to harass and transport supplies to Shouzhou while the war is fighting, so that it will be endless. Therefore, it is also very crucial to capture several surrounding cities and establish a complete defensive front.

This plan is very serious, and there is no danger, that is, to capture several surrounding cities by military force. The 200,000 army can be divided into four or fifty thousand, and only one of them needs to hold Shouzhou, and the other three armies can completely capture other cities and establish an absolutely solid defensive front.

In fact, Chai Rong also thought about this problem, but before the defeat of the Southern Tang Naval Army, it was superfluous to think about anything. That's why Chai Rong will think about the next thing at this time.

But Fan Quality is different, because these stakes are made by his supervision, and he can guarantee that as long as the Southern Tang Fleet dares to come, it will be annihilated, and Fan Quality is very confident in this. The only problem at that time was how to keep this part of the army east of the Huai River.

Unexpectedly, the most cooperative with them was Li Jing, Li Jing's action of destroying the pontoon bridge made everything seem logical, and they also took this opportunity to successfully stay east of the Huai River and successfully attacked the Southern Tang Naval Army.

"Your Majesty, look over there...... They want to land close to the east coast, probably hoping to fight their way out. We are guarded by 200,000 soldiers here, and if they go ashore in waves, the whole army will be annihilated. Fan said: "But this is also a helpless move, after all, staying on the river is death, going down the river is also death, and there may be a way to survive on the shore, even if it is surrender." ”

"That's right, it's a dead end anyway, and they want to rush out of a way to survive...... It's not bad that we're going to watch a good show right here. This battle was enough to make Nantang collapse, and there was no way to fight back. General Zhao, your method is too good. ”

"Your Majesty Xie praised, do you want to order someone to prepare a table of banquets, and we monarchs and ministers are here to enjoy the battle while drinking. ”

Chai Rong immediately waved his hand and said, "No, don't." The soldiers on the front line are fighting for their lives, so how can we drink and have fun here? Eh~ the location...... It seems that someone is about to break through, and the group of people in front is so brave. ”

"Back to Your Majesty, that person must be Lin Renzhao, the Governor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. This person has strong martial arts and superb military skills, and since this person has been in charge of the naval army, the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang naval army has been greatly improved. The most important thing is that this person's personality is somewhat similar to Liu Renzhen, extremely cautious, and he is the one who is most worried about the ambush of the Southern Tang Dynasty military ministers. Fan said: "If Lin Renzhao had seen the clues, there would not have been such a result." Thanks to the darkness and the fact that Li Jing was in a hurry to pursue, he wanted to trap our army east of the Huai River. Moreover, the current and the direction of the wind are moving too fast in line with the Southern Tang fleet, so we did not find the stakes we hid in the river. ”

"Oh~ It turned out to be him, no wonder he was so brave. General Zhao, who is higher and who is lower than you in terms of martial arts?"

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Well...... Now Huangfu Jixun is not the opponent of the minister, let alone him. Your Majesty, the minister will go and take down Lin Renzhao's head and come back. ”

"No, no, no...... As the saying goes, it's good to open up the net. The other party is a 100,000 water army, and if it is completely wiped out at one time, the killing is too heavy and violates the way of heaven. I'm not Zongxin, he won't even blink an eye when he kills tens of thousands of people with one move. If this person can break through, it doesn't hurt to let him break through. "Although Chai Rong wants to capture the Southern Tang Dynasty, the naval army has been completely defeated at this time, as long as you don't let too many people run back, there is no need to kill them all.

Lin Renzhao is brave and has very good judgment, if they continue to stay in the river and fight back, it will definitely be a dead end. As the Governor of the Navy, how much courage did it take for him to decide so quickly to abandon all the warships and break out of the siege? Like this kind of brave and capable general, Chai Rong wanted to let him live.

But...... Now it is impossible to let the soldiers give way for him to break through, there are still many warships behind that cannot dock, it is impossible to let 100,000 people escape 50,000, if you do this, there will be too much combat power left for Nantang, and it is best to only break through a few thousand people, or even less.

Of course, it is impossible to kill all the remaining people, so let them surrender and recruit them separately and place them in different positions to serve Da Zhou.

"Eh~ Where is Zhang Yongde?"

"The minister is here!"

Zhang Yongde is not very far away, and has been guarding near Chai Rong. Chai Rong is one of the most trusted people, because he is Chai Rong's brother-in-law. Zhang Yongde used to be the son of Zhang Ying, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, because Zhang Ying fled to Bianliang before Liu Chong rebelled and became emperor, so Zhang Yongde did not have any military exploits except for being a horse of the Great Zhou.

Chai Rong certainly hopes that Zhang Yongde will have more power, and Chai Rong certainly wants to be close to Zhang Yongde than Li Chongjin. Although the two are related, they are not related to Chai Rong, and Li Chongjin and Guo Wei are related by blood, so Li Chongjin's threat to Chai Rong is actually very big.

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