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On the head of Kuizhou city, Zhang Qiyan's eyes widened suddenly when he saw the fleet sailing down the river crashing into the Song army's navy covering the river.

"It's reinforcements!"

"The reinforcements are here!"

"Fire the gun!"

Soon, the artillery on the top of the city adjusted its angle, spit out a shell with a "boom", and smashed it far into the river.

There are not many shells left, and at this time they are to welcome reinforcements into the city and deter the Song army.

Although the Song Army sailors deliberately avoided the distance of the Tang Army's artillery, there was still a large ship whose side was grazed by the shells, smashed into powder in an instant, and the hull began to tilt.

So the ships around it quickly moved away from Kuizhou City, and there was chaos.

Zhang Qiyan raised his binoculars to see this scene, then looked at the reinforcements in the distance, suddenly remembered something, turned around and shouted: "Kill them!"

He walked a few steps, raised his hand, and pointed to the hanging basket that had just been put down on the top of the wall.

"Wanzhou is not lost! The dog thief dares to lie to me, kill him!"

Even if some soldiers started to pull the hanging basket, they wanted to pull Yao Di and Hu Huaixiao back to the top of the city and execute them.

Seeing this situation, Hu Huaixiao was so frightened that he lost his mind and panicked.

Yao Di quickly drew his knife out of desperation and cut the rope of the hanging basket.

"what!"

With a muffled sound, the basket hit the rocks below the city, a burst of pain and numbness came from the soles of their feet, and the two screamed in pain.

"go!"

Enduring the feeling that his calf was about to break, Yao Di climbed two steps, staggered and fell into his boat.

"Help me!" Hu Huaixiao shouted.

"Go!" Yao Di shouted.

Hu Huaixiao had no choice but to grit his teeth and get up, and ran to the boat.

The "swish swish" arrows shot down from his side, and he was hit by two arrows and cried out in fright.

Immediately afterwards, there was a "bang", and a boulder rolled from the top of the city hit Hu Huaixiao, smashing his legs into mud.

He fell into the river with his upper body and was caught by a boulder again, unable to move. He was stunned for two breaths and then howled in pain.

The shrill screams did not stop Yao Ti, and he quickly steered the boat towards the center of the river.

"Come on!"

"Oh!"

Some stones were thrown by Tang Jun's cannon carts, smashed into the river, and splashed high.

Yao Di stared at the Song Army navy in front of him.

He knew that with the strength of the Song army, it would be very difficult for the Tang army to reach Kuizhou.

Then, as long as the boat can draw out the firing range of the artillery carts on the head of Kuizhou City, he can escape.

Gradually, he got farther and farther away from Kuizhou City, and closer and closer to the Song Army fleet...

Sudden.

Amidst the loud noise, the boats on the river swayed more violently.

Yao Di widened his eyes and saw a Song army ship sinking slowly.

"Stop!" Yao Di yelled to stop the soldiers rowing desperately, "Don't pass!"

Just stopped paddling here, the boat was rushed downstream by the river, but there was another loud noise, and another artillery hit the downstream.

"go!"

Yao Di fell on the deck, looked up, and saw a broken boat with the flag of the Tang army struggling to squeeze out of the fleet, and then slowly sank in the river.

There was blood on the surface of the river, some people were swept away by the river, and some swam away.

Afterwards, another broken boat squeezed out, but was hooked by two Song Army warships next to it. After a boarding battle, it slowly sank again...

Yao Di stared blankly for a while, and suddenly saw a red sun in the west, outlining the entire river in blood.

The next moment, his body trembled, and when he turned around, he saw a dilapidated warship of the Tang Army finally breaking through the encirclement of the Song Army fleet and heading this way.

Behind it, two more, three...more and more ships appeared.

A flag is waving in the wind.

And there was a short figure under the flag shaking, gradually revealing a few arrows stuck in his body.

With a bang, a warship of the Song army slammed into the warship of the Tang army, and the figure of the Tang general swayed and fell into the river.

"General!"

Yao Di heard the shouts of Tang soldiers.

But he couldn't care less about them.His boat was hit by another boat by the river, and Tang Jun's boats ahead had noticed him.

Yao Di realized that he was wearing the official uniform of the Song Dynasty. Seeing a Tang soldier in front of him raised his crossbow, he quickly jumped into the river.

"Pfft."

Immediately afterwards, a ship ran over his head.

Fortunately, he is very good at water, holding his breath, diving into the river, trying to identify the direction.

Suddenly, Yao Di felt a big nimble fish hit him, turned his head and saw a black shadow swimming up and about to emerge from the water.

But he felt something squeezed out of his chest.

Looking down with difficulty in the water, a dark color is erupting from his body.

At some point, Yao Di was stabbed through...

~~
"Quick! Open the city gate!"

The water gate of Kuizhou City has been opened, and a small boat of the Tang Army sailed into the water gate with difficulty when it was about to sink into the river.

Cheers sounded, and the soldiers who had been waiting for help for a long time cheered endlessly.

Zhang Qiyan jumped onto the small boat from the pier with bare feet, and when he saw that there were still a few sacks in the small cabin, he couldn't help feeling sad and happy.

"Which general is coming to help?"

"I!"

Then I saw a person rushing over from the boat behind, took off the rattan armor on his body, and hugged Zhang Qiyan vigorously.

It was Zhang Gui.

"My eldest brother and I rushed back from Guanzhong. We specially told the soldiers of Sichuan and Shu that the Northern Expedition went well. Please stick to it for the last period of time. Also, Marshal Jiang planned to come to support himself, but we snatched this job."

"Good, good, good..."

Both parties were overjoyed, Zhang Gui slapped Zhang Qiyan hard again, and said, "I knew you would be able to defend!"

"It's almost, if you come later, I won't be able to keep it."

"Haha, you can hold on."

Later, another reinforcement warship entered the city, and some soldiers rushed towards Zhang Gui in a panic.

"General, it's not good! General Zhang Shun fell into the water."

"What did you say?!"

Zhang Gui was anxious, looked around, jumped into a small boat and said he was going to rescue Zhang Shun.

When everyone tried to persuade them, they suddenly heard cheers coming from the water gate.

They turned their heads again, and saw a person holding an oar standing on the boat and entering the water gate. It wasn't Zhang Shun but who was it?

"Brother?!" Zhang Gui was overjoyed and said, "Are you alright?!"

"What's the matter?" Zhang Shun patted the armor on his body, and said loudly: "I'm carrying a whole body of treasures, and there is a response from the city head. Who can do anything to catch me on the water? By the way, General Zhang, there is no one in Wanzhou." Throw, I’m from Wanzhou!”

"That's good. It's ridiculous that Jia Sidao said that 20 troops will attack us in Sichuan and Sichuan, but he can only use this kind of deceptive trick. Is it easy to deceive when I am a three-year-old child?"

~~
"Mr. Pingzhang, reinforcements from the Tang Army have entered Kuizhou City."

"Am I blind? Need you to report me?"

Jia Sidao threw away the binocular in his hand, and went straight back to the cabin.It doesn't matter that as Ping Zhanggong, he has to keep calm in public.

He just wanted to be alone.

"Just put 2000 people into Kuizhou..."

Talking like this in his mouth, he actually couldn't comfort himself anymore, thinking that in this way, the time to capture Kuizhou would be at least another three to five months.

And there are too many variables that may appear in three to five months, such as insufficient food and grass, changes in the court, and Li Xia's return to aid.

Adding up all these situations, the capture of Sichuan and Shu is obviously far away.

admit defeat?
If you are willing to admit defeat, it is better to send someone to contact Li Xia when you are in Lin'an. Why bother to lead an army of 20 to go up the river?

Jia Sidao stood alone by the cabin window and thought for a long time. It was not until late at night that he recruited Liao Yingzhong.

As soon as Liao Yingzhong came in, she said, "Mr. Pingzhang, please see Su Liuyi..."

"No hurry." Jia Sidao waved his hands and said, "Today is just a small setback. No one is in trouble. I don't believe that Li Xia and Kublai Khan will have smooth sailing."

"Yes."

"A few things." Jia Sidao ordered: "Send someone to see Boyan and remind him that he can't delay any longer and must attack the main force of the Tang army as soon as possible."

Liao Yingzhong thought for a while, and soon there was a candidate, and asked, "How about letting Huang Gongshao go?"

"Okay. Tell Weng Yinglong to meet Lu Wenhuan and tell him to stop putting on a show for me, and if he doesn't capture Mengjindu, I will personally lead the troops there!"

"Yes."

"Write a letter to Han Zhen and ask him how the situation in Lin'an is..."

Liao Yingzhong responded one by one, and understood that Jia Sidao's intention in making these arrangements was nothing more than delaying Li Xia, stabilizing the court, and gaining more time to capture Sichuan and Shu.

Because the situation has reached such a point that all parties can hardly afford it, so whoever can hold on will win.

~~
On the banks of the Juma River in the far north, Li Xia also stayed up all night, discussing the current situation with Zhang Hongdao.

"At the final stage, it is a question of who can stabilize the chaos. Kublai Khan wants to stabilize the conflict between the Mongols and the Hanchens, Jia Sidao's army is outside to stabilize the court, and we have the strength to spread out." Too open."

"Your Majesty understands what His Majesty means. Kublai Khan put Boyan in Kaifeng and never sent him back to defend Yanjing. What he is waiting for is for Your Majesty to mobilize heavy troops to go north. Our strength is only so much. If Henan is a little weaker, it will be destroyed. If Boyan cuts it off, it will all be lost."

Zhang Hongdao said, thought for a while and gave another example, saying: "Sichuan and Sichuan are the tail, and Hebei is the head. If the war in these two places goes wrong, we can retreat. But Boyan can cut us down."

"The situation looks good, but if you lose, you will lose everything. So you have to be steady, and you can't rush to gather heavy troops in Yanjing." Li Xia said: "Let's turn it around first and cut off Boyan."

"Shandong?"

"Ah."

Zhang Hongdao pondered: "Before the land of Shandong belonged to Dongping Yan and Li Fen. After Li Fen's rebellion, Kublai Khan dispatched most of Shandong's soldiers and horses. Since our Northern Expedition, Shandong has not responded much, because Yan's The power has been cut, and Meng Yuan's new Shandong officials have no strength."

"The Yan family's influence in Shandong should still be there." Li Xia said: "We don't have enough troops, so we can only 'plan the army'."

"Your Majesty is saying? Recruit the Yan family?"

"I wanted to send Wang Xiao there, but he hasn't come back yet."

Zhang Hongdao's wife, Yan Shu, is the daughter of Shandong Shihou Yan Zhongji, and this matter will still fall on him in the end.

He didn't think much of it, and said, "Young son Zhang Xun, you can go to Dongping."

"Okay, I wrote a letter to Yan Zhongji and asked him to take it with me..."

In the final stalemate stage, Li Xia used the safest move, but it was still an offensive move.

~~
Yanjing.

Outside the Daning Palace where Kublai Khan was, the entire Yuan Dynasty had fallen into the uneasiness of the enemy soldiers approaching the city, and only Kublai Khan was still very calm.

Throughout the Central Plains defensive battle, although there were many failures, his overall strategy has not deviated too much.

What I originally wanted was to open the Tang army's battle line and let Boyan cut it off.

Now the situation has finally reached a stalemate, and the price paid is much heavier than expected. In short, the Tang army's front line is stretched and its strength is thin enough.

It just depends on who can open the situation first.

Will Li Xia break Yanjing first?
Thinking of this, Kublai Khan shook his head. His main force hadn't moved at all, and it was impossible for Li Xia to break Yanjing.

Then it depends on whether Jia Sidao occupied Sichuan and Shu first, or Li Xia took Shandong first, or Lu Wenhuan took Mengjindu first, or Boyan counterattacked Zhengzhou and Luoyang first...