The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1384 Jinling Besieged
Here it is discussed that Meng Chang must die, and the battle between Song and Tang has begun again. This time, Song Dynasty has made sufficient preparations.

In fact, another thing happened in the middle, that is, Zhao Kuangyin also ordered Li Yu to come to Bianjing once to discuss peace matters in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

But Li Yu refused, and Li Yu refused very manly. Now that Datang is still in victory, I'm still afraid of you, so let's have a face-to-face interview. If you have the ability, come and stand.

Zhao Kuangyin was very angry. This was a sentence he said in front of Manchao Wenwu, which made people feel that Li Yu had fallen into Zhao Kuangyin's trap.

"Jiangnan has fallen into my pocket." Doesn't it mean that Zhao Kuangyin was waiting for such a sentence!

Recalling who Zhao Kuangyin bowed his head to, they are all very strong. Now he has not captured Nantang temporarily. How could he fight with you Li Yu?
Li Yu just gave him an excuse. You are embarrassing Zhao Kuangyin, and if Zhao Kuangyin embarrasses you, you are finished.

So Zhao Kuangyin decided to destroy Tang with all his strength, and the war to destroy Tang expanded again, and the pressure on Southern Tang was even greater.

This time Zhao Kuangyin ordered the horse infantry camp in the southwest to deploy Cao Bin and others to lead the water army to cross the river with [-] troops. At this time, he gave the Song army a surprise, that is, Chen Hongjin directly broke through the Jiangning mansion and took control of the water traffic arteries.

Chen Hongjin took advantage of the fact that Nantang's attention was all on Cao Bin, and directly led his immature navy, and directly took Jiang Ning down.

"That's right, Ji Chuan, this is your first achievement. You took down the Jiangning mansion directly, that's good." Zhao Xu has recovered now, and Chen Hongjin also came to Zhao Xu at this time.

"His Royal Highness, we got your order and we set off quietly. I think it's better to take advantage of Nantang's attention not on us, and give him a surprise attack. Unexpectedly, Jiangning Mansion was really attacked. It's off." Chen Hongjin was quite modest in the face of Zhao Xu's praise.

"Haha, don't be humble. Your sailors are all rookies. It's really good to have achieved such a result. You must be rewarded well." Zhao Xu said without hesitation.

"Ji Chuan, don't refuse. This old man has fought in water battles all his life, and the trainers are not as good as yours for a few months. In the future, this old man must learn from you." Song Yanwo said to Chen Hongjin.

"The old general is polite. I just happened to meet him at the right time. Don't talk about praising the last general, otherwise the last general will really feel ashamed."

This is just a relatively cheerful chat within Da Song, mainly after the big victory.

Afterwards, Zhao Xu issued an order to suspend any military operations and prepare to build a pontoon bridge. Everyone else was surprised. Is this to build a pontoon bridge on the vast river?

However, Zhao Xu didn't explain, just let them do it themselves, it's useful anyway.

Zhao Xu gave the death order and didn't dare to say anything, so he could only work honestly. It took about half a month to prepare what he needed.

At this time, it was reported that the Song army defeated more than [-] soldiers from the Southern Tang army and seized the key pass for quarrying. This battle was commanded by Fan Ruoshui.

And Caishiji is the focus of Fan Ruoshui's visit this time, thinking that she spent a lot of time measuring here, and found that the possibility of erecting a pontoon bridge here is the greatest, and the distance is the shortest.

However, the Southern Tang Dynasty did not respond when they knew that the Song army had captured Caishiji. They did not understand why the Song army would occupy such a place that was not a fortress.

Could it be that Song Jun has been failing recently and wanted to save face? That place is not an important place, and Nantang doesn't care.

Someone mentioned that it might be where the Song army is going to build a pontoon bridge?Li Yu heard the news and thought that the river was cold and the water was urgent, so it was impossible to build a pontoon bridge.

However, he took certain precautions, sending troops to prevent the Song Dynasty from crossing the river, but only sent Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy and Tiande Capital Yuhou Du Zhen, each with [-] water infantry, to guard against the Song Army.

The Song army spent three days erecting the pontoon bridge on the Caishi River. These were not seen in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Thanks to Fan Ruoshui, he was operating these things, and he was also the pontoon bridge erected by the soldiers under his command. It is exactly the same as what he measured, and the pontoon bridge has just been erected.

And it wasn't until this time that the Southern Tang guards against the Song army arrived. It was seen that the vanguard troops of the Song Dynasty had already crossed the pontoon bridge, and there were still a steady stream of soldiers coming behind them.

Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy and Tiandedu Yuhou Duzhen led the Southern Tang Army to counterattack again, trying to go up the river to seize the quarry pontoon bridge, but their number was too small, only 2 people did not work at all, and they were defeated by the Song Army many times .

Zheng Bin, the head of the Shenwei Capital, was captured.Zhao Xu personally led the infantry and cavalry to cross the river from the north of the river by the pontoon bridge, and joined Cao Bin to push Jinling together.

"Order the whole army not to rest, and continue to march according to the previous plan." After a day of rapid march, almost all the soldiers of the Song Army had crossed the river, but he did not stop.

After the main force of the Song army crossed the Yangtze River, it immediately launched a fierce attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty.Lianke Xinlinzhai, Bailuzhou and Xinlin Port in the southwest of Jinling.It's August, and Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is under martial law.

At this time, Cui Yanjin suddenly sent troops from Shu, marched into the southwestern suburbs of Jinling, conquered Lishui, an important town that formed an angle with Jinling, defeated more than [-] soldiers of the Southern Tang Army, and killed its capital commander Li Xiong.

Pan Mei also sent troops from the old place of the Southern Han Dynasty, directly occupied the southeast of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and killed countless enemies.

In December, Cao Bin led an army to attack Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty.Cao Bin sent Li Hanqiong to lead his troops to set fire against the wind, conquered the water village of the Tang army, and wiped out thousands of enemies.

More than 10 soldiers of the Southern Tang Navy lined up to defend against the Qinhuai River, backed by Jiangning City, and fought against the city to save the crisis.In order not to lose her chance, Pan Mei led her troops to cross the Qinhuai River without waiting for the boats to cross the river.

Li Hanqiong, the commander of the battalion and horse army, also led his troops across the Qinhuai River, carried out reeds on large ships, and launched a fire attack on the Southern Tang water village, annihilating tens of thousands of Southern Tang troops.The Song army took advantage of the victory to press down on the city and surrounded Jinling.

So far, the army of the Great Song Dynasty has formed a brand new encirclement circle against the Southern Han Dynasty. The veteran Lin Renzhao was also seriously injured and could not afford to fall ill. It is time for Li Yu to have a headache.

Everyone has arrived at the door, can he not be in a hurry? At this point, he found that Nantang really has no generals to use.

This is what he remembered about the generals who were killed by him back then. It turned out that they really came from the self-destructing Great Wall. Unfortunately, many things were known too late. There was only one Lin Renzhao, but it was useless.

He still doesn't know how long he can last. Is he really going to perish? Now Li Yu doesn't know what to do. He can only turn to Buddhism and hope that the Buddha will give him instructions.

(End of this chapter)