When Yang Yan sent troops from Jiankang, he ordered Li Gongzuo to lead 300 warships to go to sea from the mouth of the Yangtze River, go around to the shore of Lin'an Sea, and take Lin'an directly. At the beginning, the Jiankang army always held on to the Guangde army without fighting, in fact, it was waiting for Li Gongzuo's naval army to sneak attack Lin'an.

Because at this time, almost all the men and horses guarding Lin'an were taken out by Zhao Kai and Zong Tianxuan to attack Jiankang, and Lin'an's garrison was very empty, so after Li Gongzuo led his army to the shore, he did not receive much resistance, and almost effortlessly occupied Lin'an Mansion. And because the Jiankang army came too suddenly, there was no defense in Lin'an City, and almost none of Zhao Kai's family members, officials, and entourage left in Lin'an escaped, and all of them were captured. Only the disciples of the Heavenly Machine Palace who stayed in Lin'an escaped.

As soon as this news was transferred to the battlefield, it immediately became the last straw that crushed the camel's camel, and the army's morale was immediately shattered, and the whole army was defeated and fled. And the loss of Lin'an means that Zhao Kai no longer has the capital to compete with Zhao Chen, and even Zong Tianxuan is in ashes, and he can no longer have a little fighting spirit. Everyone had to follow Liu Bao's advice, protect Zhao Kai, get down from the command platform, and flee south.

At this time, Shao Hongyuan had already evacuated the battlefield with the rear army and fled eastward. The Lin'an army was immediately defeated and fled in all directions. Seeing this, Yang Yan immediately divided all the 23,000 cavalry of the Jiankang Army into ten teams and pursued the defeated army separately. All the infantry troops stayed behind to clear the battlefield.

The Lin'an army was originally dominated by infantry, but this time it suffered from these defeated soldiers, and two legs could run over four legs. The defeated troops on all sides were caught up by the cavalry of the Jiankang army. However, the pursuit of the Jiankang army was not to cover up the rear of the defeated army, but to use the speed of the war horse to go around to the front of the defeated army, block the route of the defeated army's escape, and then drive the defeated army back, and kept shouting: "Go back, go back, don't escape, go back and surrender, those who surrender can avoid death." ”

After killing a few defeated soldiers who were disobedient and insisted on escaping, the other defeated troops immediately became honest and obediently returned to the battlefield, threw down their weapons, disarmed their armor, and sat down in separate piles under the arrangement of the Jiankang Army and became prisoners.

Because Yang Yan knew that the current opponent was not the Jin army, but the Great Song Dynasty's own soldiers, fighting each other was just their own master, but in the final analysis, they were all their own people, so there was no need to kill them all, and they could be captured as much as possible, leaving a way for these defeated troops to survive.

In this way, the 20,000 cavalry of the Jiankang Army ran back and forth on the battlefield, galloping vertically and horizontally, driving the defeated army of the Lin'an Army like a flock of sheep, and surrendering to the center of the battlefield. For the new cavalry, it is also a rare opportunity to practice the division of the package and the encirclement and annihilation. Although a small number of defeated troops fled the battlefield, most of them were driven back to the center of the battlefield and surrendered.

In this battle, the Lin'an army dispatched a total of more than 110,000 horses, and about 15,000 people were killed, except for the more than 20,000 horses and horses taken by Shao Hongyuan and the thousands of horses taken away by Zhao Kai, the number of captured soldiers was as many as 60,000 or 70,000. It is not uncommon for more than half of the army to be captured. However, it can be regarded as a big victory, and it has avoided too many kills, so the ending is not bad.

At this time, Yang Yan returned to the high platform behind the Jiankang Army, came to Zhao Chen, and said, "Your Majesty, our army has defeated the rebels with a great victory, and Your Majesty can be fortunate to be in Lin'an." ”

The Guangde army was only more than 120 miles away from Lin'an Mansion, and two days later, Zhao Chen followed Yang Yan's army into Lin'an. Li Gongzuo was already ready to greet Lin'an, in fact, he was also looking forward to the arrival of the imperial army's army in Lin'an.

It turned out that after Li Gongzuo captured Lin'an, he found that the situation in Lin'an City was very bad. In order to ensure that there is no shortage of military food, when Zhao Kai sent out his troops, he took away all the surplus food in the city. In order to compete for food, robberies and fights on the streets have occurred frequently, and public order is extremely chaotic, and some people rob the streets in broad daylight.

And Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe and others, who Zhao Kai stayed behind in Lin'an, only knew how to embezzle money and didn't care about the lives of the people in the city. Some grain was transferred from other places, but the price was artificially inflated, and one stone of rice was bought for more than a dozen yuan. Ordinary people could not afford to buy food, and even starved to death began to appear in the streets and alleys.

After Li Gongzuo was stationed in Lin'an, he immediately strictly forbade all kinds of robbery and robbery, and once he was caught, he would never be taken lightly. Then he opened a porridge shed in Lin'an City to provide two meals of porridge and rice a day, so as not to stabilize the order in Lin'an City. It's just that Li Gongzuo didn't carry much food with the army, and he had to supply the needs of the army, so it couldn't last for a few days. Fortunately, at this time, the emperor and Yang Yan led the army to Lin'an.

After listening to Li Gongzuo's introduction to the situation, Zhao Chen, Yang Yan and others couldn't help but be shocked, and they couldn't imagine that the former capital of the Great Song Dynasty would now fall into such a miserable field. After the people deliberated, they decided to halt the march for the time being, and first took out some of the rations from the army to relieve the people in the city. Then he ordered people to rush to Jiankang immediately to urge the transportation of grain and grass to supplement Lin'an's needs. The work of helping the people was handed over to Zhao Ruyu, and Xin Qiji took over the security in Lin'an City.

The next day, Zhao Ruyu immediately began to handle the relief work vigorously. First of all, the businessmen who hoarded grain and raised the price of grain were strictly investigated, and it was found that Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe and others were behind the scenes.

After Li Gongzuo was stationed in Lin'an, he did not dare to be unduly embarrassed about these officials, but only restricted their actions and did not imprison them. And Zhao Kai's two children and Zhao Wanru also stayed in the palace and didn't have time to escape. Li Gongzuo didn't dare to be rude to them, but he just sent people to guard the palace gate and was not allowed to enter and leave at will, but there was no shortage of daily supplies at all.

Zhao Ruyu didn't care so much, he couldn't help but say, he arrested Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe and others, took out all the food hoarded in their homes, plus a part of the supply from the army, and dispersed it to every household in Lin'an. The people who received the food were all grateful, kneeling in the direction of the palace, chanting: The emperor is shengming.

After having food, people's hearts quickly settled down, plus Xin Qijian patiently persuaded the people, and personally inspected every day, and arrested a group of rogue vagrants, taking advantage of the chaos to rob the criminals, and the order of Lin'an quickly settled down. Zhao Chen had the energy to deal with other things.

※※Support the original ※ "Song Xiang" was first published in 1*7*k※Support genuine※※After Lin'an was captured, Zhao Wanru took Zhao Hong and Zhao Mi with her all the time, and never left for a moment. After Zhao Chen entered Lin'an, Zhao Wanru did not come to see Zhao Chen, but only sent an office to congratulate Zhao Chen, and brought a letter, writing: "Your Majesty is as solid as a rock in order to win the world, but those who rule the world with filial piety do not harm people's relatives; Those who govern the world with benevolence are endlessly worshipped, and they are all relatives of the Zhao family, all in the minds of His Majesty. ”

After reading the letter, Zhao Chen knew that she meant to keep Zhao Kai's pair of children, in fact, Zhao Hong and Zhao Mi were no strangers to Zhao Chen, Zhao Yueru, and Zhao Qianru. But now that he is busy helping the people, he can't care about dealing with Zhao Kai's two children, so he just asked Zhao Qianru to appease Zhao Wanru. Now that the city is gradually settling down, Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru, and Zhao Wanru are invited to discuss this rather difficult issue.

After all, this was an internal matter of the Zhao clan, and Yang Yan was not easy to intervene, so he was silent from the beginning. Zhao Qianru said: "Xiao Chen, in your heart, how do you plan to deal with Hong'er and Xu'er." ”

Zhao Chen was silent for a moment before he said: "I've been thinking about this matter for the past few days, I think the two of them are still young, and they shouldn't be implicated by King Deng anyway, so ...... So I don't want to sin against them. ”

Zhao Qianru nodded, and suddenly said: "If someone conspires against the usurpation in their name in the future, or when they grow up, they will resent you and plot against the usurpation, will you regret today's decision?" ”

Zhao Chen pondered for a long time before he said: "Actually, I also know that the easiest and most trouble-free way is to never suffer in the future, but as long as I think that I have hugged them before and teased them, I really can't give up my heart." I don't know if I'll regret this decision in the future, but I know if I put them ...... now Then I will never be at peace in my heart. ”

Zhao Qianru seemed to be relieved in her heart, in fact, she also knew the truth of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, but if Zhao Chen really did this, although she would not object, she would be disappointed in her heart, and said: "You can decide like this, it's good, it's good, even if you will regret it later, I don't want you to be a ruthless person." ”

Zhao Chen smiled and said, "I know that many people will change after they become emperors, and I only hope that even if I will change, it will become as late as possible." ”

Although Yang Yan has not spoken, he has been excited in his heart, and it seems that his original decision is not wrong.

At this time, Zhao Chen said again: "It's just that they are still young and need someone to raise them, so it doesn't seem appropriate to put them in the palace?" ”

Zhao Qianru said: "Now give them to Twelve Niang to raise, and after Twelve Niang gets married, make other plans." ”

Zhao Chen nodded and said, "That's the best." ”

Eight days later, after the first batch of food and materials from Jiankang Mansion were transported to Lin'an, the five elements and eight works, the buying and selling shops, and the Goolan tile shop also began to operate, and the people who fled to the four townships heard about it, and they also turned back to the city, and Lin'an began to slowly recover its vitality.

During this time, Zhao Kai had fled to Taizhou for refuge. Other local officials who originally belonged to Zhao Kai all sent people to Lin'an Mansion to express their submission to Zhao Chen.

Now only Shao Hongyuan, who fled to Jiaxing Mansion, and Zhao Chen, who fled to Taizhou, are left.