The night twilight was low, and the weak darkness covered the land, and only the sparse burning torches lit up the battlefield after the great battle

Most of the Song soldiers were asleep, and only a few veterans were cleaning up the corpses in the village so that the soldiers could sleep peacefully. There were also female soldiers and military doctors who came and went on the battlefield, looking for wounded soldiers for treatment.

A small number of other people with profound skills, such as Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru, Ling Xiang, Zhao Cao, etc., although they were also very tired, their spirits were much stronger than ordinary soldiers, and they were still persevering, so they patrolled back and forth on the battlefield.

Although the sound came and went, the battlefield seemed quiet.

Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru walked around on the battlefield side by side, looking at the miserable situation after the war, Zhao Yueru sighed softly and said, "I didn't think it was when I was fighting, but now it seems that this battle is so tragic." Now that I think about it, I wish the war was over sooner. ”

Yang Yan couldn't help but apologize in his heart, he didn't dare to say that he had experienced a hundred battles, but it could be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, and the tragic situation of this battle was indeed not much, and only the battle of Xunjiang in Pingnan could be compared with it. However, the casualties of the Song army in that battle were not large, and most of the deaths were Manichaean troops. And although the Song army won this battle, it was a tragic victory. I couldn't help but say: "Fortunately, we won this battle, and the sacrifices of these soldiers are not in vain." There will be a month or two at most, and by that time, the war will be over for a while. ”

Zhao Yueru was slightly stunned and said, "Will it be so fast?" ”

Yang Yan said: "Don't underestimate the battle to recover Jiankang this time, I sent Li Gongzuo to attack from the sea, with the current sea strength of the Jin Kingdom, it is impossible for Li Gongzuo to be the opponent." When they wipe out the Jin army's fleet and block the Yangtze River's access to the sea, we can use Jiankang as a base to trap the Jin army in the south of the Yangtze River. Now the emperor of the Jin State, the prime minister, Wanyan Changzhi, and Su Shi Lie Zhining are in Jiangnan, if they all die in Jiangnan, the Jin State will not only be greatly injured, but also the country will inevitably have no leader, resulting in chaos. If you don't get it right, it will fall apart. We are provoking and instigating from it, and we are joining forces to divide the Jin country, so that the various divisions of the Jin country are constantly in dispute, and the war is not endless. And after a period of rest, our Great Song Dynasty can send troops to the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains. If everything goes well, it will only take five years at most to completely defeat the Jin State, recover all the lost territory, and make the Great Song Dynasty strong again. At that time, there will be no more wars, and the people of the world will be able to live and work in peace and contentment. At that time, we will quit our official duties, find a place with beautiful scenery to live in, live together forever, and have a group of sons and daughters. ”

Zhao Yueru was thrilled when she heard what he said, but thinking about Yang Yan's words carefully, it was not unreasonable. But when he heard Yang Yan say it in the end, he couldn't help but blush, and said shamefully: "What nonsense are you talking about?" Who's going to have a bunch of ...... with you"

Yang Yan grinned and said, "Naturally, it won't be for you to live alone, you, Qianru, Tassel, Yan Rui, and the two sisters, even if each person only gives birth to a boy and a girl, there are twelve in total, isn't it a big group?" ”

Zhao Yueru listened to him, thinking that if there was really no war in the future, peace of mind at home with peace of mind, husband and wife, and teasing children, what a beautiful life it would be, and couldn't bear to say: "I hope there is really that day." ”

Yang Yan held her hand and said, "Don't worry, there will definitely be that day." ”

At this time, in the distance of the dark sky, a gray color gradually appeared, and then turned orange and yellow, and a new day was about to begin.

Song Bingzu slept for a day and a night before waking up one after another. At this time, Li Xianzhong had already sent a letter, telling Yang Yan that the Song army had completely occupied Jiankang Mansion, and asked Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru to rush to Jiankang to discuss the next march arrangements with him.

However, although the Jin army has retreated, there are a lot of aftermaths left behind, and leaving the corpses of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in battle on the battlefield alone is a big problem. Because the weather is getting hotter, if you don't clean up and bury it as soon as possible, I'm afraid that a plague will form. As for the others, there are countless others. Cao Xun is now recuperating from his injuries, so Yang Yan asked Zhang Shiyan to temporarily take charge of the whole army for himself, and made Liu Fuwu his deputy, while resting the army, cleaning the battlefield, burying the corpses, treating the wounded, counting casualties, reorganizing the army and other affairs.

After arranging these things, Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru rushed to Jiankang Mansion to meet with Li Xianzhong.

This time to recover Jiankang's warriors, the Song army invested more than 200,000 men and horses, and a total of more than 50,000 troops, but finally took Jiankang Mansion. This means that from then on, the Song army has achieved absolute superiority on the battlefield with its experience, and if there are no major strategic mistakes in the future, a complete victory is just around the corner.

However, the Song army also paid a great price for the recovery of Jiankang, and it took a while for the men and horses to repair, and after the recovery of Jiankang, it was necessary to appease the people, restore order and a lot of other aftermath things to deal with, so the Song army could no longer carry out large-scale military operations for the time being.

At this time, the emperor of the Jin State arrived at Zhenjiang Mansion after Yan Yong, and while arranging a defensive line in Zhenjiang Mansion, he confronted the Song army while looking for an opportunity to cross the river. At the same time, in order to attract the strength of the Song army and reduce the pressure on the Jin army in Jiangnan, the monk Wanyan Chen in Jiangbei also led the army to launch a fierce attack on Chen Min stationed in Huaidong, and successively captured Haozhou and Chuzhou, and Chen Min was forced to retreat to Luzhou to garrison.

After Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru and Li Xianzhong met and discussed, the two first jointly sent the good news of the recovery of Jiankang Mansion back to the Tianlin Mansion court, so that the emperor and ministers could rest assured. Then, while repairing the men and horses, he ordered people to pacify the people, restore order in the city, and stabilize the rule of the Song army. and divided troops to garrison Dongyang Town, Jurong, Liyang and other places to prevent the Jin army from counterattacking. At the same time, Li Bao was also sent to lead a fleet to patrol the river, and anchored in Jiangzhou along the coast of Zhenjiang Prefecture, and the Jin army was never allowed to cross the Yangtze River. In order to achieve the goal of completely trapping the Jin army in the south of the Yangtze River.

Before the Jin army evacuated Lin'an, it had launched an attack on Gao Zhen, who was stationed in Yanzhou. Gao Zhen followed Yang Yan's instructions, did not fight hard with the Jin army, and when he saw the Jin army attacking, he took the initiative to abandon Yanzhou, Quzhou and other places, and retreated to Huizhou. Of course, the Jin army did not really want to attack the Song army, but to advance as a retreat, and when they saw that the Song army was retreating, they did not pursue, and immediately withdrew their troops from Lin'an.

After learning that the main force of the Jin army had evacuated Lin'an, Yang Yan ordered Zhang Shiyan to lead the army to garrison Ningguo Mansion in Jiankang Mansion and send troops to capture the Guangde army. He also ordered Gao Zhen to immediately lead the army into Yanzhou, and capture Fenshui, Tonglu and other places to prepare for the next step of recovering Lin'an.

Li Xianzhong was preparing to send some men and horses to cross the river to support Chen Min.

However, although Monk Wanyan Chen's offensive looked ferocious, it was actually not difficult to deal with. Because after capturing Jiankang, the Song army completely controlled the Yangtze River, and now it can kick the shore from any point along the Yangtze River on the Huainan East Road, Zhenzhou, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Tongzhou and other places, attack the flank and rear of Monk Yan Chen, and force him to withdraw.

Just when Yang Yan and Li Xianzhong were discussing the best way to attack the shore from there, another piece of good news came. Li Gongzuo led the fleet to the shore in Tongzhou.

After defeating the Jin army's fleet, Li Gongzuo's fleet anchored in the waters of Wenzhou for repairs. Guangdong's replenishment fleet arrived in Wenzhou, bringing a large number of firearms and arrows, so that Li Gongzuo's fleet was fully replenished, and at the same time, a number of warships were added, bringing the total number of warships to more than 450 and completely restoring its combat effectiveness.

At this time, Yang Yan decided to capture Jiankang, and in order to prevent the Jin army from retreating from the sea, he ordered Li Gongzuo and Bi Zaiyu to set out from Wenzhou, go straight up the coast, and launch an attack on the remnants of the Jin army's naval army stationed in Qingyuan Mansion. After defeating the Jin army, he continued to go north, waiting for an opportunity to kick the land in the north and south of the Yangtze River, on the one hand, controlling the sea route, and on the other hand, opening a breakthrough from the rear of the Jin army. Therefore, Li Gongzuo first led more than 350 warships to launch an attack on the Jin army's Qingyuan Mansion Naval Army Dazhai.

Wan Yanyong had no intention of withdrawing his troops from the sea, but when he saw the Song army's fleet attacking, in order to preserve the remaining strength of the navy, he ordered the navy to immediately open and return to the waters of Jinguo.

After Mo Ran Shiqita and Lu Zhongxiong received the order, they were greatly relieved. What they were most afraid of was that Wan Yanyong ordered the navy to face the battle, because at this time, the Jin army's navy only had more than 360 warships left, and it was not the opponent of the Song army at all, and fighting with the Song army was basically a dead end. Therefore, as soon as the two received the order to withdraw the troops, they immediately ordered the large and small warships to be pulled out immediately and return to the Jin Kingdom, for fear that the emperor would change his mind.

So the ships of the Jin army set sail one after another, drew anchors, rocked oars, and fled desperately to the north. It doesn't matter the formation, you can drive as fast as you can, anyway, you can gather again in Haizhou.

The Song army pursued after it for a while, and only intercepted twenty or thirty ships that fell behind. However, at this time, there was no longer a golden warship on the sea south of the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Subsequently, Li Gongzuo sent a fleet back to Wenzhou to pick up Bi Zaiyu's men and horses, and sent Bi Zaiyu to the shore of Haimen County, Tongzhou, on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary, and then stopped the fleet on Chongming Island where the Yangtze River went to the sea, blocked the sea route, and sent a fast boat to Jiankang through the Yangtze River to deliver a letter to Yang Yan.

The Song army, which had more than 30,000 men and horses, immediately captured Tongzhou, and then continued to attack Taizhou and Yangzhou. After Monk Yan Chen received the letter, he couldn't help but be surprised, so he had to give up Haozhou and Chuzhou and return to Yangzhou. Chen Min took the opportunity to lead the army to counterattack, and after Yan Chen's back was attacked by the enemy, he only divided his troops to garrison, and he was unable to launch an offensive again, and the war in Jiangbei also entered a state of stalemate.

After Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru and Li Xianzhong received the letter, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. Li Gongzuo's dispatch of troops from the sea was the last link in the battle to recover Jiankangfu, and the Song army achieved the most successful results. At present, the Jin army has only 140,000 or 50,000 horses in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Jin army in the north of the river can only face each other, and the boats cannot communicate with each other. As long as the Song army is repaired, it can continue to march to Zhenjiang Mansion, even if Wu Qi is reborn and his grandson is resurrected, he will not be able to save the fate of the Jin army.

While a few people were immersed in joy, suddenly a guard came in to report that there was a monk outside who called himself Guangyan and asked to see Yang Yan.

Yang Yan was slightly stunned when he heard this, Guangyan was left in Longxing Mansion by him to assist Zhou Xin in the work of collecting intelligence, and now he suddenly rushed to Jiankang Mansion in person, something big must have happened, so Yang Yan didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered someone to invite Guangyan to meet him.

I saw that after Guangyan came in, his face was solemn, and after saluting the three of them, he said: "Yang Tanyue, Lin'an's detailed work sent back a report, this time it is not trivial." As he spoke, he took out a piece of letterhead from his bosom and handed it to Yang Yan.

Yang Yan took it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be surprised. He also handed the letterhead to Zhao Yueru and Li Xianzhong for a look. After reading it, the two couldn't help but change color, obviously stunned by this accident.

It turned out that the news sent back by Lin'an's fine work turned out to be that the Jin army withdrew from Lin'an, but planned to transfer the occupation of Lin'an and the two Zhejiang places to Zhao Kai in order to enhance Zhao Kai's strength, which was enough to compete with Zhao Chen.

It turned out that this was Wanyan Changzhi's last move to deal with Song Jun. Previously, Jin Guo had instigated Zhao Kai to attack Zhao Chen. But firstly, because Zhao Kai's strength was too weak to compete with Zhao Chen, and secondly, the Jin army did not retreat, and the two heirs of the Zhao clan attacked each other, which was too unreasonable in terms of public opinion. Therefore, although Zhao Kai also sent troops to capture several county towns in Fujian, he immediately stopped as soon as he encountered Zhao Chen's troops to block it.

But if Jin Jun really transferred Lin'an and the two Zhejiang places to Zhao Kai, it would be different. On the one hand, Zhao Kai's own strength has been greatly enhanced, and on the other hand, nominally, it is Zhao Kai who has recovered the old capital Lin'an, so that Zhao Kai also has a great anti-gold merit, and he has enough reputation in public opinion to fight against Zhao Chen, and he no longer needs to be so cautious. If you add that Jin Guo instigated and guided it, it would not be difficult for Zhao Chen and Zhao Kai to immediately have a fierce conflict, and it was naturally the Jin army who benefited from it.

Yang Yan never dreamed that the Jin Army would have such a move in the end, and the great situation that the Song Army had achieved with great difficulty after a bloody battle was suddenly reversed.

Although even if Zhao Kai gets Lin'an and Liangzhejiang Road, his strength is still not enough to compete with Zhao Chen, but it is not as insignificant as he was trapped in Fujian County before. From now on, Song and Jin are opposed, and the addition of Zhao Kai has made the situation that was close to clarity suddenly complicated, and it is full of variables. Yang Yan asked himself, with the current strength of the Tianlin Mansion Imperial Court, if he wants to fight against Jin Jun and Zhao Kai at the same time, he is not sure of winning.

Li Xianzhong and Zhao Yueru were also silent, and they could understand the stakes involved. Since this involves the battle for the throne, Li Xianzhong is both a military general and a foreign minister, so it is naturally difficult to express his opinions, so he has to look at Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru, because they are both people who are close to the emperor and are clansmen, so they are suitable to deal with this matter.

Yang Yan thought for a moment, then turned to ask Guangyan, "What does the master think should be done now?" ”

Guangyan smiled faintly and said, "Please send an official document to Tianlin Mansion as soon as possible, ask the emperor to be fortunate to build a healthy house, and let the court make a decision." ”