Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

At the beginning of October, Han Tong navy arrived in Yangzhou near Dongxuzhoudu from the canal. The big ship was in front and headed south along the Henan to enter the Yangtze River. [(The location is east of Nanjing, near Zhenjiang City.)

At this time, the battle of Chizhou took place for a month, and Jinling had mobilized the army to strengthen the defense in the east. General Liu Cheng of the Southern Tang Dynasty was ordered to deploy to the east. He gathered the navy of the Southern Tang Army in Jingkou (Zhenjiang). Upon hearing the news, Zhou Shi went south and burst into the canal with a large ship-borne reed violent fire oil.

At the time when the east sea breeze was blowing fiercely, the Southern Tang Army's large ship rushed to the east side of the Zhou Army warship and set fire|to burn. Suddenly, the fire went to the sky. The fierce oil (petroleum) burned black and smoked, and watering was of no avail. The fire was even more alarming when the ship's reeds ignited. Like wildfires in the mountains, they were burned a hundred steps away. The fire spread to Zhou's warship in the east wind, and soon a big Zhou's ship ignited a raging fire.

The burnt black ash rushed into the air in the scorching air current, and the whole sky was covered with black dust, falling in the distance, like a black snow.

The soldiers on the Zhou army warship had no attention to fighting the fire. The flames raged in the wind, and they were burned to death when they approached. The soldiers on the deck were in a mess, and many people drowned by jumping into the river. Soldiers are almost all dressed in armor. Compared with the dangers of shipwrecks and falling into the water in water battles, arrow attacks from enemy forces are more likely to kill people; a person wearing iron armor falls into the water and is immediately drowned. It is also difficult for people with little armour to survive. In October, the river water is cold, and people who know the water won't last long. Besides, the clothes are thick and heavy when wet.

The people paddling the waterwheel under the deck have not been burnt for the time being. Many people stripped naked and jumped into the river holding the wood. There were shouts on the river, a mess.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, a military commander was laughing "haha". He pointed to the far-off flames, smiling so much that he almost rolled on the ground while holding his belly. This person is Liu Cheng, and all the soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty are celebrating. Not far away, there was a burly man who looked at the group of people over there coldly. The burly man was Lin Renzhao.

Lin Renzhao was appointed to stay in the southern capital (Nanchang). Before leaving Beijing, he rushed to Jingkou to watch the battle.

Liu Cheng laughed for a long time, and finally found Lin Renzhao who was on the sidelines, and he came up to say hello: "General Lin observes how I am fighting today, can it be called a great victory?" He didn't pay much attention to Liu Renzhan, he reached out and caught it. A wisp of black dust, raised his head and glanced, stretched out his hand to stroke the hair bun, as if a person who loves to clean is shaking the dust, "The fire is too strong, and the soot is drifting across the river!"

Unexpectedly, Lin Renzhao said angrily: "Is it called a great victory if a Zhou army warship is burned?"

Liu Cheng was immediately unhappy... They are all colleagues. Even if you don't want to congratulate you, wouldn't it be over if you didn't say anything? Liu Cheng stopped his smile and said coldly: "General Lin may not understand, the valley of the Caoqu is not as deep as the big river, and the two large ships burnt and sank in the river, and the Zhou army warship didn't even think about entering the river for a while. "

Lin Renzhao said, "What's so difficult? You can clean the river and pull the larger debris out. It can hold off for a few days at most. Zhou Jun has suffered. The next time he breaks through the estuary, he must observe the wind direction. Use it once."

Liu Cheng was stunned: "The mouth of the canal is narrow, and the river is wide. If the enemy ship wants to leave the canal, it must line up long. I patrol the river day and night with warships, and if I want to come out, I use the superior warships to attack. Block the estuary. Zhou Jun can't leave the canal."

Lin Renzhao said: "The important thing for the defense of the rivers and the rivers is quarrying; the Zhou army attacked Chizhou to the west, obviously they came for quarrying, otherwise they bypassed the lake mouth (Poyang Lake) to this place. Our army only needs to operate defense in Runzhou land and water, and it is difficult for the enemy to enter the invasion from this place... General Liu consumes all the eastern navy here, how can the Quarry River fight against the Zhou army?"

Although the lower Yangtze River is very long, there are not many places suitable for the army to cross the river; for example, most of the river banks are shallow, and ships must run aground before they dock. The ferry usually has a section protruding toward the center of the river, which is convenient for ships to dock in deep waters. . After thousands of years of operation, most of these places have become familiar ferry crossings, such as Jingkou and Quarry.

Liu Cheng said annoyed: "I was ordered to deploy the east defense, but you were talking to me about quarrying. How about you go inside and talk to your Majesty, what do you mean by telling me?"

Liu Cheng's words came to the point, Lin Renzhao was stunned, unable to argue, and had no choice but to leave the river. Hearing Liu Cheng grunting behind him, as if he was speaking badly about him, Lin Renzhao knew that he had accidentally offended him, but Lin Renzhao didn't care about these things.

... Lin Renzhao returned to Jiangning City on horseback. The more he thought about it, the more he felt bad. Chizhou has been occupied for almost a month. The imperial court has not made any useful deployments. Not only has there been no sign of regaining Chizhou quickly, nor has quarried reinforcements for defense; The navy in the east are all concentrated in Jingkou, and I don't know who made the idea.

He thought from side to side, he had been ordered to go to Hongzhou to take up his post, and now he could not see the king, he thought of someone: Chen Qiao (when Guo Shao asked Liu Renzhan for inquiries, Liu Renzhan mentioned this person) . This person is the assistant minister of Guangzhengyuan. When the Emperor Tai passed the upper rank to the lord Li Yu, the assistant minister appointed by the court was very talkative.

The key is that Chen Qiao is not like other people. Chen Qiao is very worthy of Lin Renzhao. He recommended to the lord of the country a long time ago: Let Lin Renzhao take the troops out and Chen will be in charge of the central government. Although our country is small, the Central Plains can hardly plan. . The praise of Lin Renzhao is not stingy.

So Lin Renzhao rushed to Chen Mansion to talk to Chen Qiao about his military views and discuss Jiang Fang.

Unexpectedly, Chen Qiao directly refused Lin Renzhao's visit, and very rudely asked someone to blast him away from the gate. Lin Renzhao was confused and hurriedly left Chen Mansion at a loss. He just walked to a secluded side street, and suddenly someone behind him said, "General Lin, please get in the carriage."

Lin Renzhao looked back and saw that he was a strange scribe. But he was brave and was on the streets of the capital. He was not afraid at all, and he was more respectful than his life, and got into the carriage. The carriage left its place immediately.

The scribe frowned and said: "In broad daylight, you, a foreign general who is about to leave Beijing, ran to Chen Gong's gate to visit. What is the relationship between Chen Gong and you? Isn't it afraid that people will say that internal and external collusion?"

Lin Renzhao wondered: "I and Gong Chen are both ministers, can't even meet?"

The scribe sighed: "Gong Chen also said that your shortcoming is that you don’t understand the world. Some time ago, someone had impeached you and went back to Beijing without restraint. Now you are going to Hongzhou, and some people say you want to offer Hongzhou Surrender Week. The court. How many people did you offend?"

Lin Renzhao scolded: "Mother, you can bear a grudge on a little thing, how can such a villain be an official!"

The scholar said: "You are a surrender of Fujian, and many people look down on you. You often speak rudely and have no respect, and no one accepts... It's nothing more. That's all. Chen Gong knew that before you came to the mansion, he guessed you want Talk about Jiang Fang. Duke Chen asked me to bring you a message, so hurry up and write it down in detail. I will pick it up at the alley where we met earlier tomorrow morning."

Lin Renzhao said: "I don't have much literary talent..."

"It's fine to write clearly, and it's not for you to take the top pick." The scribe said grimly.

After the two said few words, the scribe hurriedly drove Lin Renzhao out of the carriage.

Lin Renzhao returned to his residence, scratching his head and biting the pen shaft when he lifted the pen, not knowing how to write. Throwing away the brush at the moment and strolling around in the yard, what I thought was very clear.

He believes that in the current situation, the most important defense is quarrying, and the offensive is based on the navy cutting off the enemy's retreat in Chizhou...The navy of the Nantang team is the least disadvantaged unit, but the ground horses are not as powerful as the Zhou army. .

In the east, the naval forces contained part of the Zhou army from the canal. The water channel of the canal was narrow and it was not easy for the Zhou army to transfer troops; some of them followed the river and flanked with the Hukou naval forces to cut off the enemy's passage from Chizhou to break through the river. Reinforce the defenses of quarrying and other places, so that the enemy troops of Chizhou are trapped in an enclosed area...

Lin Renzhao pondered for a long time and summed up his own insights: prevent quarrying first, then upstream, relying on the city walls and water superiority to resist.

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Chen Qiao polished and arranged Lin Renzhao's strategy and presented Li Yu.

But this thing is just one of countless memorabilia, Li Yu is full of case slips in front of him. Not only that, the Zhou Dynasty also sent envoys to intimidate him, claiming that the three-way 800,000 army will go down on land and water, and the destruction of Southern Tang will only happen overnight!

Among them, it was claimed that hundreds of thousands of the main force had passed through the canal, and Kerri went down to Jiangning City. The nearest enemy force was indeed the navy of the Hantong Ministry in Yangzhou. Li Yu also got the information. The warships in the east of Yangzhou stretched for dozens of miles, and the ships sheltered the entire river; there were also a large number of land infantry soldiers. Enter Huainan.

The heavy soldiers hoarding at the door of the house were obviously the place that panicked Li Yu the most; while Chizhou and Wuchang reported that they were attacked one after another, it was all important, but after all, it was a little farther away, still thousands of miles away.

At this moment, Liu Cheng made a report, claiming to defeat Zhou Jun at Jingkou. Liu Cheng's letter ~www.readwn.com~ cleverly used the east wind to attack the Zhou division and burned it. Zhou Jun's sailors had no calculations. The sunken ship blocked the canal, and Zhou Jun was defeated in a panic.

When Li Yu heard the official yelling for victory, he first read Liu Cheng's memorial. After winning a game under his nose, Li Yu suddenly felt a little relieved... He also remembered that Liu Cheng had a respectful attitude when he was in court. He didn't think that the lord of the country had not taken the throne soon, and he always flattered and defended himself. Li Yu suddenly felt that Liu Chengshi was the talent of the pillar. The **** hurriedly passed the decree, and went to Runzhou to commend Liu Cheng with a lot of money and imperial decree, so that he could continue to focus on east defense deployment.

Then Li Yu found Chen Qiao's memorial, which was an important minister. He picked it up and looked at Jiang's defense strategy. Among them, it was quite right, and Li Yu felt quite reasonable after reading it. First, find a time to convene the minister to observe and discuss.

At this moment, an official of the Imperial Academy asked for a meeting and quietly told Li Yu that Chen Qiao sent someone to meet Lin Renzhao privately, and explained clearly how they were connected and how they whispered to each other on the carriage.

After the official said, he reminded: "Your Majesty, Chen Qiao is from Hongzhou, the southern capital. Lin Renzhao is going to work in Hongzhou this time...it's a bit of a coincidence, but unfortunately I didn't hear what they had discussed in secret."

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