end song

A spring rain brought great inconvenience to the soldiers who were marching outside.

In a forest by the Han River, a small group of soldiers and horses had to set up tents to shelter from the rain.

In the wet weather, they rarely became more careful in their movements so as not to get wet on the map.

"According to reliable sources, Li Xia set off from Ezhou and returned to his division along the Yangtze River instead of the Han River. He should be here now."

"This is where?"

A dirty finger swipe around on the map. General Liu Guojie, who looks like both a Jurchen and a Han, and dressed like a Mongol, explained: "There are lakes here."

"What lake?"

"Yun Meng Ze."

Several generals scolded a few words one after another.

Yunmengze used to be a big lake, but since the Tang Dynasty, it has become a dotted lake. It is not local people who do not know what each lake is called.

"Damn, sticky and sticky place, I'm dying of tide!"

"I don't know where it is, how to fight?"

"I know there is Mianyang here."

"Has Li Xia captured Mianyang City?"

"No. He didn't attack any of the cities along the way, just rivers, rivers, and lakes. Where can he attack with his little navy? Occupy Ezhou, which Jiangling directly attacked."

"That's it, Song Guo is still asking for peace? Is it really asking for peace?"

"spit!"

Liu Guojie spat on the grass with a mouthful of thick phlegm, and clicked on the map with his dirty fingers.

"Damn, I've already thought about how to fight this battle for the country of Song. God knows it's such a broken situation."

What he said was not a lie.

On his map, Lu Wenhuan, Gundam, Xia Gui, Ma Guangzu, Li Tingzhi... the distribution of the Song army's troops were all marked out. With a few messy lines drawn, he thought Li Xia must die.

It's a pity that Song Guo didn't live up to it.

"So, Song Guo is not stupid. If their army moves and fights Li Xia, we will definitely have to take back Guanlong and Sichuan."

"Not stupid?" Liu Guojie sneered, and had nothing to say about it.

He had to admit that with Song's request for peace, many of Da Yuan's wishful thinking came to naught.

Of course, the people of Song did not dare to continue fighting, but Dayuan did.

Ali Haiya, the general manager of Wanhu, led the army to Xiangyang. There was no reason to retreat so easily. He could go south by pursuing Lu Wenhuan for the crime of attacking the Yuan army.

It's not that the Mongolian army has never conquered places like Jinghu North Road before.

As early as 30 years ago, Wo Kuotai ordered Prince Kuo to go out to attack the land of Jingxiang in the Song Dynasty. The Mongolian army once went down to nine counties and attacked Jiangling all the way.It's just that they were all taken back by Meng Gong later.

After that, Meng Gong proposed the strategy of three layers of fences and built a complete defense system, which made it difficult for the Mongolian army to achieve results in Jinghu.

But now, the "three-layer fence" of the Song Dynasty suddenly broke down.

First of all, Li Xia rebelled, and Sichuan and Sichuan were officially separated from Jinghu, and they could no longer support each other; secondly, Li Xia personally dealt a heavy blow to Song State's Jinghu defense line. Lu Wende died, and Lu Wenhuan could only shrink in the short term. Moreover, Li Xia seized the Lujiazhuang in Xisai Mountain and angered Lu Wenhuan. Lu Wenhuan might not be willing to let the Yuan army go south to attack Li Xia.

Liu Guojie was ordered by Ali Haiya to lead a team of thousands of horses and red troops to go south to inquire about the military situation, and the army was preparing to go south.

"Let's go to Jiangling, hold Li Xia, and wait for the general manager to lead the army to come."

The big ship sailed through the waves, and Li Xia in the cabin was also looking at the map, and asked, "What's the situation in the Jinghu battlefield in Zhao Song now? Knife."

Shi Jun glanced at the information on the table, and he couldn't stop slandering, who made Zhao Song's Jinghu battlefield look like this, but still asked what happened.

"Your Majesty, since we captured Ezhou, Lu Wenhuan has lost support in Xiangyang. Even the contact with Song Ting can only be done by land. In other words, Xiangyang has become an isolated city, and it is difficult to stop the Yuan army."

"So I have returned Ezhou to Song Ting."

This matter is easy to say, but there are too many reasons why Li Xia returned to Ezhou.

In short, none of the other cities on both sides of the Yangtze River have been obtained, and the supply line is extremely long. It is absolutely impossible for him to defend Ezhou; and Ezhou is too important to the Song court, which is a necessary condition for the peace negotiation.If the Song court did not lose support from Xiangyang, Ezhou, the Yuan army would be able to roam around on the plains of Jingxiang at any time, threatening Jiangling.

The problem now is that Song Ting's defense line has not yet recovered, and the Yuan army has already arrived...

"Fortunately, we negotiated peace with Song Ting in time. But it has only been a few days, and Song Ting has not restored the contact between Ezhou and Xiangyang at all. It is not surprising to let the Yuan army go south."

"The Yuan army has no navy." Li Xia mused.

"I can't say there are none, but there really aren't many." Shi Jun seemed to reveal his memory, and said, "But don't take it lightly. Back then, Wuliang Hetai had no navy, and he still defeated Zhang Shi."

Fang Yankai stepped forward, pointed to Jiangling on the map, and said: "If the Yuan army captures Jiangling City and Jiangling Wharf from land, it will be difficult for our navy to attack Jiangling against the current."

"At least this boat full of spoils won't be taken away."

"If Your Majesty blocks the Yuan army on the Yangtze River and cannot return to Chongqing, it may not be without danger."

The two of them spoke to each other, and roughly outlined the current situation in Jiangling.

Li Xia walked to the window, looked at the rolling Yangtze River, and said, "It's useless to be anxious, the boat can't go any faster."

Shi Jun and Fang Yankai looked at each other, but they didn't expect to get such an answer.

But after thinking about it, they could only respond: "Your Majesty's words are true."

Not long after, Fang Yankai withdrew first, but Shi Jun did not leave.

Li Xia glanced at him and said, "Shi Qing has something to say?"

"I... have something to report."

"Jiangling war?"

"It's not about Jiangling, it's about fame. This forced the Zhao family to recognize His Majesty's emperor title, which can silence the mouths of the people in the world, and no one will call His Majesty a traitor. But there are still some people who have Thinking about it, I'm afraid His Majesty can't help it. After all, the Zhao family has enjoyed the country for 300 years, and it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people..."

Li Xia listened to Shi Jun talking there, and finally asked, "What's Shi Qing's opinion?"

"Zhao Zhen is not a matter of Emperor Song Lizong's blood, why doesn't your majesty use it?"

Li Xia pointed to the Yangtze River and said: "Ezhou has been breached, and the credentials have been exchanged. Why is this little conspiracy? Will it change what those people think?"

Shi Jun nodded, agreeing with this point, but after a little hesitation, he said, "However, it also depends on who said it from."

"Concubine Ning?" Li Xia waved her hand, smiled inadvertently, and said, "No, if she is asked to speak out, it will only cause countless infamy. This matter... Shi Qing just pretended not to know."

Shi Jun froze for a moment, wondering if Li Xia was making a pun.

Pretending not to know?

However, Shi Jun and Li Yong were in-laws after all, and he was Li Xia's superior, so he dared to say some things.

"I dare to ask Your Majesty if there is still a spoil in the cabin?"

Li Xia shook her head.

"His Majesty."

"It's not a trophy." Li Xia shook his head again and said, "Back off."

With a flat tone, Shi Jun, who used to be a Shangguan, felt a little panic, saluted, and retreated.

Shi Jun occasionally felt that the emperor was a little unreasonable.

In the cabin, Li Xia was the only one left alone.

After a while, there was a slight sigh.

Li Xia is a firm, self-disciplined person who rarely sighs, but recently he also feels that being an emperor is difficult.

Much harder than a fencing champion.

Of course, he never showed this embarrassment in front of others, it was almost his own secret.

After the fleet learned that there were Yuan troops coming in and out ahead, they changed the phalanx when they were marching.

Ships carrying baggage and people were moved to the rear of the fleet.

Brothers Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui led the sailors and soldiers onto the warship to clear the way ahead.

They worried that the Yuan army would capture Jiangling before the navy arrived, so they urged the boatmen to row.

But if it is said that going down the river is "returning a thousand miles of rivers and tombs in one day", sailing against the current does not mean getting up quickly.

We can only hope that the Jingxiang water network is densely covered, and the advance of the Yuan army is not so fast.

On the eighth day of February, Xiangyang.

The detailed information after the peace talks was delivered to Lu Wenhuan at this time.

"The rebels... The Tang army has returned to Ezhou and released the three generals. The court ordered the generals to quickly restore the defense line of the Han River... the knife."

Lu Wenhuan let out a long breath of relief, and immediately began to dispatch troops.

He was clearly prepared, and immediately sent someone to notify the defenders in Yicheng, Qianjiang, Jingmen and other places to change their defense strategy.

After a series of orders, a school general stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "General, didn't you just let Ali Haiya go south to Jiangling a few days ago? If this is the case, won't the Yuan army be blocked inside? Dao."

"So? Isn't it good to block the Yuan army?"

"How about negotiating peace with Xintang, and Qiyuanmeng's quarrel?"

"Afraid of provocation?" Lu Wenhuan sighed: "If Ali Haiya can defeat Li Xia, it will be too late to rob Sichuan and Shu; if he can't, he asked for it."

In this way, he felt that the court's strategy was correct.

Just after the peace talks, the two powerful countries immediately fought.In the future, it will become more and more violent as the court officials expected.

However, yes, yes, Lu Wenhuan still unconsciously revealed a sense of powerlessness, as if he had lost his heart.

"Let them go."