Qian Song

Chapter 70 Zhenjiang!Jiangning Mansion! (Please follow up!)

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Even the most elite army, after the formation is in chaos, it is difficult to escape defeat, let alone this mob that has just been pieced together just now, and the soldiers don't know the generals and the soldiers?
Therefore, after the Guangde Army and the Gaoyou Army became chaotic, the Song Army was defeated in an instant.

And Li Cun seized the opportunity to decisively send Jinwu Front Army and Jinwu Central Army to attack from the left and right wings.

The Song army immediately retreated steadily and fell into chaos.

At this time, there was no need for the Huben army to kill, Song Jun himself trampled to death and injured hundreds of people.

Seeing this, Li Cun knew that he would not be able to use his trump card in this battle, so he ordered Kong Lengzi to lead the front guard army to attack Tan Zhen's central army.

Seeing this, the cowardly and cowardly Tan Zhen did not resist at all, and immediately fled the battlefield with his pro-army and most of the civilian staff of the Liangzhe Road System.

The coaches all ran away, the command system was immediately paralyzed, and the morale of the soldiers of the Song Army immediately fell to the bottom.

Seeing this, Niu Wei, regardless of his pain, personally led the guards and horse troops to follow behind him.

Seeing that the Huben army was too ferocious, many soldiers of the Song army jumped into the lake one after another.

According to rough statistics afterwards, no less than a thousand people were drowned in Lianhu Lake alone.

Seeing that the situation was not good, more soldiers of the Song Army knelt down and begged for mercy.

Then, the soldiers of the Song army who knelt down and begged for mercy were shocked to find that as long as they knelt down, the Huben army would not kill them.

More and more soldiers of the Song Army discovered this life-saving method.

As a result, the soldiers of the Song Army knelt down and begged for mercy...

The personal guard Ma Jun chased them all the way to the river, and saw Tan Zhen and others fleeing across the river by boat, so they reined in their horses and retreated.

This battle ended with a complete victory for the Huben Army.

According to post-war statistics, the Huben army killed more than 7000 Song troops, captured more than 2 Song troops, captured more than 300 intact horses, more than 1000 wounded and dead horses, and more than 5 weapons of various types. Handles, more than 2 sets of various armors, and countless other materials.

But what made Zhao Song even more defeated was that before the war, Tan Zhen only thought of victory but never of defeat. Moreover, after the first defeat, Tan Zhen escaped directly across the river at the first time, and did not know about Zhao Song's vast territory in the south of the Yangtze River. Do not ask.

As a result, Zhao Song's war situation further deteriorated.

in short.

After defeating Tan Zhen in the battle, Li Cun, who was good at seizing opportunities, immediately sent the remaining thousand horse guards to attack Zhenjiang City.

In the third year of Shaosheng, Zhao Ji was named Duan Wang by Song Zhezong as the military governor of Pingjiang and Zhenjiang.

In the third year of Zhenghe, the third year of Zhao Ji's accession to the throne, Zhenjiang was upgraded from a state to a government.

——This is the earliest city in the Liangzhe area that was upgraded from a state to a mansion.

This shows that Zhenjiang has a relatively high status in Zhao Ji's mind.

The reason why Zhenjiang received Zhao Ji's attention was not only Zhao Ji's personal feelings, but also because of the extremely important geographical location of Zhenjiang.

In the north of Zhenjiang, there is a natural danger of the Yangtze River. It is an important military town in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In such a place, if Li Cun hadn't met Tan Zhen, a talented coach with great ambition, Li Cun would definitely have no chance to take Zhenjiang City easily, at least he would not want to take Zhenjiang City intact.

now...

Since the news of Tan Zhen's defeat had already spread back to Zhenjiang City, the officials, gentry and nobles in Zhenjiang were so frightened that they didn't even have time to burn the food and grass, so they quickly abandoned the city and fled. Captured this vital city.

After the news came back, Li Cun quickly sent someone to find Zhao Han'er who was still leading people to clean up the battlefield, and asked him to lead the Jinwu Central Army into Zhenjiang City to guard.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered the horse guards who were still able to move to eat and feed the horses immediately, and then rushed to Jinling City...

And Li Cun also followed closely, leading the front guard army, the rear guard army and the Jinwu front army to Jinling City overnight...

It's not that Li Cun didn't know that the soldiers must have been exhausted after fighting all day, and even if they ran to Jiangning Mansion overnight, Iron Man couldn't stand it.

If you don't take advantage of the Song army's defeat and take Jinling City quickly, it will be difficult for the Huben army to take down Jinling City after some Song general has restrained thousands of Song troops and returned to Jinling City. At least there is no way to save Jinling City.

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Zhenjiang is an important strategic barrier on the east line of Jinling City.

Since ancient times, if the northern army occupied Yangzhou, it would then move south from the north bank of the Yangtze River.

After seizing Zhenjiang, it was equivalent to cutting off the connection between Jinling City and Changzhou, Suzhou, and Zhejiang, and then the Northern Army could sweep across southern Jiangsu, forming a strategic encirclement of Jinling City.

The importance of Zhenjiang to Jinling City is like that of Mengjin to Luoyang, according to Du You of the Tang Dynasty.

If the Northern Army captured Mengjin, Luoyang would have no danger to defend.

The same is true of Zhenjiang to Jinling City.

Therefore, the Six Dynasties (Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen) all regarded Zhenjiang as a first-line military defense center.

The ancients said it very clearly: if Zhenjiang's military defense is a little negligent, Jinling's danger will be greatly increased.

The officials, gentry and nobles in Jinling City soon learned the news of Tan Zhen's defeat and the fall of Zhenjiang City from the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled back to Jinling City.

Just as the officials, gentry and nobles in Jinling City were discussing what to do, the guard Ma Jun killed Jinling City.

Due to the arrival of the guard horse army, many soldiers of the Song Army who originally wanted to flee into Jinling City turned around and ran away in fright.

This largely prevented Jinling City from being able to protect itself.

At noon the next day, the rear guards as the vanguard arrived at the foot of Jinling City.

At night, the former guards and the former Jinwu army also gathered under the city of Jinling.

Another day later, a large number of civilians and engineering battalions also arrived at the Jinling city.

Then the Huben army prepared the siege equipment with great fanfare...

Zheng Dan, the magistrate of Jiangning, saw the large number of Huben troops and the power of a great victory, and the defenders of Jinling City were taken to the battle by Tan Zhen and have not returned. Now they are extremely empty. The city surrendered...

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On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Tan Zhen fled to Yangzhou with a large group of frightened Zhao Song officials, gentry and nobles and senior generals of the Song Army.

After making up his mind for a while, Tan Zhen sent Zhao Lingjuan, who had escaped with him, to restrain the remnants and defeated generals.

Later, Tan Zhen beheaded Zhang Maung and Tian Sheng on the grounds that he had accepted bribes from the Huben army and deliberately ordered his subordinates to mutiny on the battlefield, resulting in the defeat of the Song Dynasty.

However, before that, Tan Zhen first sent his cronies back to Beijing to find Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu with his personal letter, and asked Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu to help him get rid of his crimes and make him perform his crimes...

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(End of this chapter)