The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1375 Talking about Lin Renzhao

"My lord, the Song Army is now eyeing the north. You should be paying attention to the government, not playing around here. I implore the lord to return to the palace immediately."

Chen Qiao brought a group of ministers to persuade Li Yu. Li Yu was still enjoying himself when the disaster was imminent, and he was very popular in poetry!

"Yes, I respectfully invite the lord to return to the palace to deal with state affairs." The ministers are all in one mind and want Li Yu to go out to deal with political affairs.

"My lord, we don't ask what you were like before. Now that we are in a critical moment, we ask the lord to put state affairs first and return to the palace."

There are not many people who dare to talk to Li Yu like this. Han Xizai is one of them. He has been at home for a long time. If it weren't for Song Jun's passing the dangerous Yangtze River this time, he would not choose to be an official again. .

"Bold, you dare to talk to the king like this. Han Xizai, you still have the dignity of a minister. You don't take the king seriously. This is treason."

As soon as Feng Yansi heard what Han Xizai said, he immediately jumped out and accused Han Xizai. He came out with Li Yu to recite poems and compose Fu. These ministers and kings are actually talking about him.

Everyone knows what kind of person Feng Yansi is. If you have a grudge, you must avenge it. Don't be caught by him, otherwise it will be really difficult, especially at this time when they still want to talk about themselves, so it's even more impossible. Let them go.

"Yes, Master Han Xizai, you are already at home, how can you still come here? Coming here shows that you are loyal to the country, but you are disrespectful to the king. This is the most unforgivable." Feng Yanlu also came over and helped His brother speaks.

"My lord Feng, my lord Han Xizai is for the sake of the country. What is the intention of the two of you to make trouble? The country has reached this point, and you still want to exclude other people. What are your intentions? We should work together to overcome this situation. National calamity is what it is."

Chen Qiao directly stood up to stop them and tell them not to quarrel anymore. Now they should focus on the major affairs of the country and stop internal struggles.

"Okay, don't talk anymore, I just came out to relax, what are you doing, general and mob, isn't there Lin Renzhao in the north, I have already handed over all the power to him, why don't you worry about it Yes, all you have to do is to prepare all the food and grass you need. I need to personally ask about these trivial matters. You have disappointed me too much. No wonder our Tang Dynasty is not as good as the Song Dynasty. To a large extent, it is not as good as Da Song, how can we compare with Da Song."

According to Li Yu's understanding, these small matters should be completely resolved by the ministers, where they are of no use to him, but these people cannot solve them, so he is very angry.

"Brother Ruoshui, it seems that His Highness attaches great importance to you, otherwise he would not have just let you be a lieutenant general. Don't let His Highness down." Cao Bin took Fan Ruoshui and returned to the barracks directly.

"General, don't worry, if you don't flatten the Southern Tang Dynasty, I, Fan Ruoshui, will never see the Emperor and His Highness again."

If Fan Ruoshui hadn't been of one mind with Da Song, he wouldn't have come to Song directly after someone rescued him from the prison in Southern Tang.

"I believe you. By the way, I heard that you worked under Lin Renzhao for a while. You should know him quite well. You should tell me about Lin Renzhao. Know yourself and your enemy and you will win every battle!"

Cao Bin wanted to know what this Lin Renzhao was. Some information showed that it was not so accurate, but Fan Ruoshui had stayed with Lin Renzhao for a while before, so he should have a more accurate understanding of Lin Renzhao.

"General, I did serve as a counselor under Lin Renzhao. To be honest, Lin Renzhao is indeed No. 1 in the military of the Southern Tang Dynasty. I can't help but admire him."

Lin Renzhao, whose ancestral home was in Fuzhou, was exiled from Fujian and settled in Jianyang, so he became a native of Jianyang.With outstanding military exploits, he was promoted step by step from soldier to Nantang Town Navy Jiedushi.The ruling and opposition parties regard Renzhao as a general of "the life and death of the south of the Yangtze River", and now he is No.1 in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Thinking back to when Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sent people to Fujian to recruit warriors and expand his army, Ren Zhao enlisted in the army from Jianyang.

Lin Renzhao has a strong physique, superb arm strength, brave and good at fighting, and has tiger stripes tattooed all over his body. He is known as "Lin Huzi".After he joined the army, he showed extraordinary courage and talent.

In November of the second year of Zhou Xiande, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong led his army south to Huainan to attack Shouzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Yongde was in charge of attacking Shouzhou.

Shouzhou was surrounded by the army of Hou Zhou, and the guard of Shouzhou asked Li Jing, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, for help.

Li Jing sent two troops to reinforce.There are [-] reinforcements along the way, which are the main force, led by the emperor's younger brother Li Jingda, and the real power is in the hands of the supervising army Chen Jue;
The other reinforcement was a partial division, and this small force was led by Lin Renzhao.Chen Jue was both incompetent and afraid of death. He deliberately found excuses and flinched, which made the situation in Shouzhou even more severe.Renzhao used his troops skillfully. He knew that his strength was limited. If he went straight to Shouzhou for rescue, it would be like moths flying into the flames and bringing himself to perish.

So he chose the Xiacai Floating Bridge as the attack point, which was the only way for the Hou Zhou army to provide supplies. There were not many defenders.

Lin Renzhao's clever military strategy is similar to "surround Wei and save Zhao" in the 36 strategies.If the Hou Zhou army who besieged Shouzhou ran out of food and grass, their positions would be in chaos.The danger of Shouzhou can be solved naturally.

When Lin Renzhao led his army to appear on Xiacai Floating Bridge, Zhou Yongde, who was guarding here, was taken aback.

In the decisive battle between the two armies, Ren Zhao single-handedly entered the enemy's formation, rampaging and extremely brave.Later, Zhou's army fired all arrows, but they were all knocked to the ground by Ren Zhao's left and right swing of his gun. Zhou Yongde was also a fierce general, but Ren Zhao was afraid when he saw the leaping horse and spear in the formation.

In this fierce battle, the Southern Tang army was finally defeated due to being outnumbered.When retreating, Ren Zhao was alone and covered the retreat of his subordinates.Later Zhou's army wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but Zhou Yongde did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and shouted: "Don't chase, we will definitely suffer if there is such a person."

And Zhao Xu also fought against Lin Renzhao in this battle. If Nantang hadn't withdrawn his troops, the outcome would have been unknown!
This is the first time Lin Renzhao appeared in front of Hou Zhou, and he also entered the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin and his son. Who would have thought that this person has become the biggest obstacle for Song to attack the Southern Song Dynasty!
If he had known at the time, Zhao Xu would have killed him if he tried his best, but no one had a hindsight, not even those from Southern Tang knew that Lin Huzi could have achieved such a great achievement back then!

History just likes to joke, resulting in Lin Renzhao and Fan Ruoshui's non-stop talking about it.

(End of this chapter)