When Zhao Ziyan, who was confused and became the emperor, convened the civil and military forces of the Southern Song Dynasty to discuss how to resist the Great Liang, some people even directly suggested that the Great Liang should be surrendered, so as to avoid the start of the army and save Zhao Ziyan's life. After all, the prince of Daliang has a precedent of killing Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia state, and once the war starts, after the prince of Daliang wins, he may not kill Zhao Ziyan.

Zhao Ziyan was really a little moved, although he was a direct descendant of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, but he was just an idle clan before, and was even driven to Yingtianfu in Nanjing by the descendants of Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong, and lived on the income of the clan's land.

At the beginning, the emperor allocated a lot of land to the clan in Nanjing and Xijing, but with the large number of births in the clan in Nanjing and Xijing, more and more people had to support these lands, and many imperial families who had no other source of income fell into despair. In the past few years, the royal family could not be promoted, and the royal family with no future could only concentrate on making people behind closed doors, and a large number of royal families were born every year. The imperial families in Tokyo had to marry merchants for money, and the imperial families in Nanjing and Xijing were even less valuable, and there were very few merchants who were willing to pay high prices to marry them.

Zhao Ziyan is one of the royal families who barely survive, so Zhao Ziyan does not have much affection for the Song Dynasty, because he does not enjoy any privileges of the imperial family, but is bound by many rules of the royal family. Many times, he envied the lives of ordinary people even more.

Nanjing announced that it would return to Daliang, and also sent troops to arrest the Nanjing royal family, but Zhao Ziyan was not an important person, and he escaped from the city by luck and went all the way south. It's just that when he fled to Jiangnan, he was exhausted, and it happened that Tong Guan Zhang Bang was looking for the clan that went south. Zhao Ziyan took the initiative to find it, but he didn't expect to become the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.

At first, Zhao Ziyan felt that it was Song Taizu who blessed him and made him the emperor. But soon, he found out that he was just a puppet, and all the political affairs of the court were decided by Tong Guan, and he was afraid of Tong Guan's power, so he could only be his puppet honestly. Later, Tong Guan's pro-army collapsed. Zhao Zisong, who was in the same sect, went south to invite Zong Ze and Jiang You to come out, but Tong Guan was forced by the situation and could only agree to divide part of his rights to Zong Ze and Jiang You. With the efforts of Zong Ze and Jiang You, the Southern Song Dynasty quickly gathered some popular support, and when Zhao Ziyan just felt that Song Taizu was still blessing him, the Western Army returned to the Great Liang, and the news that the Great Liang swept away the Western Xia came one after another. Zhao Ziyan felt that he was sitting on the crater of the volcano, and the volcano below could erupt at any time and burn him to ashes.

Zhao Ziyan also heard that Daliang had sealed Zhao Ji as a duke and had no worries about food and clothing, which was exactly the life he wanted to live before. Born in troubled times, the identity of the royal family is the most likely to bring about the scourge of killing, and it is rare to be able to live the second half of your life without worrying about food and clothing. Therefore, I was particularly moved to hear that some courtiers suggested surrendering.

It's just that Zong Ze, Jiang You and others immediately came forward to refute the surrender faction and demanded that the Southern Song Dynasty resist Daliang with all their might.

Zhao Zisong was also unwilling to let the ancestral foundation be cut off like this, and strongly supported Zong Ze and others.

The only one who can compete with them is Tong Guan, although most of Tong Guan's pro-army is scattered, but before Zhao Zisong went south, he cultivated a lot of henchmen in Jiangnan, if it wasn't for the opportunity of Zong Ze and others to recruit new soldiers. has seized a lot of military power, I'm afraid Tong Guan still covers the sky with one hand.

At the moment of the great enemy, Zong Ze and others could not blindly fight with Tong Guan, so the Southern Song Dynasty was divided into two factions. One faction is headed by Zhao Zisong, Zong Ze, and Jiang You, who can be said to be loyal ministers and good generals of the Song Dynasty, and the other faction is headed by Tong Guan, which can be said to be traitors of the Song Dynasty. But both factions share a common goal. That is to keep the Southern Song Dynasty. Loyal ministers and good generals are for loyalty, and traitors are for keeping their rights. Although the Great Liang forgave their sins, it was impossible to appoint them as officials. This is difficult for people who have tasted power to accept. Therefore, the two factions are working together for a goal.

Tong Guan has led the army for more than ten years, and he is unwilling to give up the power in his hands easily, and he has not spoken out against the proposal of Zong Ze and others to resist the war.

Although Zhao Ziyan wanted to surrender, no one supported him, and if he said it, it would be rejected, so he agreed to the request of the Anti-Japanese War.

No matter in terms of experience or power, the most qualified person in the Southern Song Dynasty to lead the troops to resist the war was undoubtedly Tong Guan, but Tong Guan was unwilling to lead the troops to the front line.

In the end, Zong Ze volunteered to lead his troops to Runzhou to fight against the soldiers and horses of Daliang.

Although Tong Guan was reluctant to lead the troops, he did not skimp on the troops in his hands, and promised to let Zong Ze lead 150,000 troops to Runzhou.

The Southern Song Dynasty only had a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses, and it had to defend the Lü Shibao in the south, and 150,000 soldiers and horses could be said to be all the soldiers and horses that the Southern Song Dynasty could mobilize.

As soon as Zong Ze led his troops to the battle, some soldiers began to flee, and even formed teams disappeared directly.

When 150,000 soldiers arrived in Runzhou, there were less than 100,000.

Zong Ze also knew that the city could not stop the Liang army, so he led his troops to camp at the foot of Beigu Mountain on the Yangtze River, wanting to prevent the Liang army from crossing the river.

Beigu Mountain is located on the bank of the big river, the mountain wall is steep, and the three mountains of Jinshan and Jiaoshan in the big river stand together, control the big river. However, Zong Ze did not send troops to Jinshan and Jiaoshan, and most of the newly trained 10,000 sailors had fled before Zong Ze's troops arrived. Zong Ze had no choice but to gather all the remaining naval forces to the south bank, lest all the naval forces collapse when the Great Liang army arrived.

The river is thousands of miles long, and there are many sections of the river that can be crossed, but Chao Yong still led his troops straight to the section of the river guarded by Zongze.

In less than a month, the army arrived at the Guazhou ferry port on the other side of the Beigu Mountain.

When the army set up camp, Chao Yong summoned the generals to discuss the matter, as well as Li Li, the urging judge in charge of Jiangnan intelligence.

After Li Li went up the mountain, he opened a hotel outside Shuibo to welcome the cottage and inquire about intelligence.

After the establishment of the Great Liang, the four leaders responsible for investigating intelligence also set up an intelligence department to investigate intelligence for the imperial court, and its power also expanded dramatically.

Li Li was born on the bank of the river, and it was not easy to open up the situation in the north, so he simply went south to the river and set up intelligence agencies all over the river.

Everyone came one after another, Chao Yong saw that Li Li had brought a lean offspring, and said with a smile: "Where is this hero?" ”

The lean Hou Sheng hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The villain Wang Dingliu, see the prince." ”

Li Li introduced: "Wang Dingliu is good at going to the water to make a stick, walking and jumping very fast, the people in the rivers and lakes call the living flash woman, and she is a good hand in my Jiangnan Bureau to find out the news." He had just come from the other side of the river and had found out a lot of information, so I brought him to see the prince. ”

It turned out that after Li Li went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he recruited most of the smugglers on the river and people who opened hotels on both sides of the strait.

Because of the high price of official salt, many hotels will buy private salt from some people who sell smuggled salt, and the hotel is a place where it is easy to find out the news from the north and south. Therefore, after Li Li went south, he quickly opened up the situation.

Wang Dingliu was recruited into the Jiangnan Bureau by a person who sold smuggled salt, and after entering the Jiangnan Bureau. Wang Dingliu did not sit in the small hotel in the village, but ran around to find out the news, and soon became a cadre under Li Li.

Chao Yong heard that it was Wang Dingliu, and Wang Dingliu in the Water Margin met by chance when Zhang Shun asked An Daoquan to go to Liangshan together, but when Zhang Shun went to ask An Daoquan before, he didn't meet Wang Dingliu. Chao Yong originally thought that Wang Dingliu might be buried in the rivers and lakes, but he didn't expect to be under Li Li's command again.

"At first glance, he is a good man, and he doesn't want to be in the intelligence bureau anymore, so he can serve in the army."

When Li Li, the urging judge, heard this, he hurriedly said: "There are many fierce generals in the army. I don't have a few competent people in the Jiangnan Bureau, so the prince won't dig into my corner. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Since that's the case, forget it." Everyone has arrived, please tell the six brothers Wang Ding about the situation on the other side. ”

"The prince swept away the Western Xia, and the matter of making spaceships has spread all over Jiangnan, and the prince led his troops south, and the soldiers and civilians in Jiangnan thought of surrendering. Zong Ze led 150,000 troops to resist the prince, and when he arrived in Dajiang, it was less than 100,000. The army was stationed at the foot of the Beigu Mountain. The soldiers are still fleeing, if it weren't for Zong Ze's closed camp later, I'm afraid there would be no soldiers and horses under Beigu Mountain at this time. In the back, Runzhou is Zong Ze's son Zong Ying led the troops to guard, and every five days from Runzhou to Beigushan to operate grain and grass. Most of Runzhou's soldiers and horses also fled. Now there are up to 3,000 men and horses in the city. The Beigushan battalion is heavily defended, and it cannot be mixed in, and the grain and grass transported have not changed, so it is impossible to speculate how many soldiers and horses there are now. However, a few days ago, a large number of soldiers did flee. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Zong Ze really lives up to his reputation. ”

Although Zong Ze's official position is not high, he is quite famous. Everyone only thought that Chao Yong was talking about Zong Ze's name, but they didn't know that Chao Yong was talking about Zong Ze's later prestige.

During the second southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom. Zong Ze advocated the War of Resistance, and the Song Dynasty gave Zong Ze an empty name as the head of the Hebei Volunteer Commander, so he let Zong Ze go to Hebei to resist the Jin soldiers.

Zong Ze was not afraid, and went to Hebei with more than a dozen guards to take up his post, and gathered the Hebei rebels to resist the Jin State, and achieved many victories. Yue Fei made a name for himself under Zong Ze and was promoted to a general of the Song Dynasty.

Xu Guanzhong said: "Zong Ze can also be said to know the soldiers, but the prince's prestige is too strong, and the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers have no intention of resisting." He locked all the soldiers in the camp, and although he reduced the number of deserters, it made the fear in the hearts of those soldiers ferment even more. All we need to do is give them a thunderbolt blow, and we can make those frightened birds collapse, and then we will lead the whole army to a rout. ”

Hu Yanzhuo said with a smile: "If he doesn't close the camp gate, I'm afraid that the prince's army has not crossed the river yet, and there will be no one on the other side." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "When I led the troops to drive directly to Runzhou, I wanted to defeat the Southern Song Dynasty forces in a battle and subdue Jiangnan. Looking at the current situation, this battle is very easy. ”

Li Kui shouted: "The Nanren are too cowardly, I still want to cut off thousands of his heads, but they ran away most of them first." Otherwise, we will kill them today, and the rest of the people in the province will run away again. ”

Li Jun also said: "The navy army is already familiar with the water conditions on both sides of the strait, and they can cross the river at any time. ”

The 10,000 sailors were faster than the Mabu army, and they arrived in the middle of the river a few days earlier and blocked the puppet Song warships on the south bank. If it weren't for Chao Yong's strict order that the navy should not cross the river first, a group of naval generals would have led their troops ashore to attack Zongze Dazhai. Although the navy did not attack Zongze Dazhai, it also investigated the water situation of the river clearly.

After Zong Ze saw hundreds of warships in Daliang going south, he strictly ordered the Southern Song Dynasty naval army not to go offshore, and of course, no naval army soldiers dared to go to the river to pick tiger whiskers.

Chao Yong said with a smile: "Don't worry, the army will rest for a day and then cross the river." ”

And after a little more deliberation, they went to recuperate.

"Knock Knock"

The sound of the majestic war drums spread all over the banks of the river, and this year there was a drought and locusts on all roads, and the drought in the south of the Yangtze River was more serious, and the water surface of the river was much narrower. The river is less than two miles wide, and you can vaguely see the situation on the other side of the river.

Zong Ze saw the gathering of soldiers and horses of the Northern Liang of the Yangtze River on the Beigu Mountain, so he set up the soldiers and horses on the riverside, wanting to meet the attack when the Great Liang army came ashore.

"Spaceship, spaceship."

When Zong Ze was looking at Beigu Mountain, he suddenly saw a huge spherical object on the opposite bank slowly rising into the air, and then came south.

Hundreds of warships on the river also crossed the river.

As the spaceship approached, the four-clawed golden dragon painted on it came to life.

The people in Jiangnan also knew that Prince Daliang had made a spaceship, but when they really saw a spaceship the size of a house flying in the air, everyone forgot that the warship behind them was carrying the enemy, and they just looked at the spaceship in the sky in a daze, and many people even knelt on the ground and worshipped.

Zong Ze looked at the situation by the river. hurriedly sent his own soldiers to urge the soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy. He really wanted to shoot the spaceship with a bed crossbow, but the spaceship did not come towards Beigu Mountain, but stayed away from Beigu Mountain and went in the direction of the riverside flat.

The wind on the river was stronger, and Hou Jian drove the spaceship to the south bank first, and shouted with a horn wrapped in copper skin: "Everyone retreats, and those who violate it will be killed." ”

Although there is no advanced equipment, it can still play a good role in amplifying sound after wrapping it in a horn shape with copper skin.

Some of the soldiers who were kneeling on the ground heard the shouts of the people above and immediately retreated.

"Those who trespass will be killed."

Zong Ze's personal soldiers who supervised the formation saw that someone was going to retreat. He drew his sword and cut down the first few who fled.

Under the pressure of Zong Ze's own soldiers, the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers stopped again.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

Hou Jian saw that the soldiers and horses below hesitated, and immediately threw fire thunder down from the spaceship, and the fire thunder exploded on the heads of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers or around them, and the huge explosion immediately spread all over the battlefield.

The people who were injured by the explosion screamed incessantly, and the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers immediately collapsed when they saw the fires and thunders thrown up and down the spaceship.

"Kill"

A recruit had red eyes, so he drew his sword and rushed towards Zong Ze's own soldiers who were blocking the way.

A Jiangnan bureau who had earlier infiltrated the Southern Song Dynasty army shouted: "Kill them." We'll be able to run. ”

Under the clamor of the fine work, the recruits, who were frightened by the spaceship and the fire and thunder, immediately turned their guns and rushed towards the people who prevented them from escaping.

When the girder soldiers and horses docked. The soldiers and horses of the Southern Song Dynasty by the river have been killed together.

Zong Ze saw the situation by the river on Beigu Mountain, and said gloomily: "The Song Dynasty is dead. ”

The family members around him persuaded: "The master has done his best for the Song Dynasty, no matter what he does, he is worthy of the Song Dynasty." ”

Zong Ze naturally knew what his family meant, shook his head and said, "I have eaten Song Lu for thirty years. He was also entrusted by the present to lead the troops to resist the enemy. Now and now, there is only death. Lead me to warhorse. ”

The family looked at Zong Ze with a resolute expression. I didn't dare to say more, so I silently brought the war horse.

Zong Ze turned on his horse and shouted to the soldiers on Beigu Mountain: "I am willing to go down the mountain with my dead fighters." ”

After saying that, he beat his horse and went down the mountain.

At this time, Zong Ze was sixty-one years old, and although he was full of gray hair, his waist was still as straight as the steel gun in his hand.

The soldiers on the mountain all followed Zong Ze down the mountain, but after coming down the mountain, most of them fled backwards.

Only a few hundred soldiers trained by Zong Ze himself were still following behind Zong Ze.

Zong Ze looked back at these young faces, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I have been eating Song Lu for thirty years, and I have to be loyal to the Song Dynasty. You've only been in the army for a few months, and now that the tide is over, go and run for your lives. ”

A soldier who threw a pen from Rong immediately shouted: "I am willing to sacrifice my life with the general." ”

"Sacrifice for righteousness."

"Sacrifice for righteousness."

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the soldiers immediately shouted.

After recruiting new soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to control the military power, Zong Ze and others personally trained the troops.

Although Zong Ze was very strict on weekdays, he often practiced with soldiers despite his sixty years of age, so he was quite respected by the soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that he had sent many personal soldiers to restrain the soldiers and horses by the river, there would have been more than these soldiers and horses behind him at this time.

"Kill"

The unbearable in Zong Ze's heart was also dispelled by the roar of the soldiers, although he was already over the age of sixteen at this time, but he was also surging by the bloody roar, and with a loud roar, he rode to the river to kill.

Although Zong Ze was born as a Jinshi, he was both civil and military, especially after Zhao Ji decided to join Jin to destroy Liao, he felt that the world was not far from chaos, and he practiced martial arts diligently. led hundreds of soldiers and horses to the riverside, and there was really some invincible momentum.

The recruits who had just come ashore were rushed by Zong Ze's troops, and many of them retreated into the water again.

Zong Ze did not chase after the soldiers and horses of Daliang, but killed them by the river, wanting to kill a few back and forth at the place where the soldiers and horses of Daliang landed.

He also knew that today's defeat was decided, and the southward movement of the Great Liang soldiers and horses was unstoppable. It's just that the old man is talking about juvenile madness, and he wants to learn from Zhao Zilong to get seven in and seven out.

Chao Yong led his troops south this time, although he was 50,000 veterans and 50,000 recruits, but Chao Yong decided to use veterans to suppress the formation, and the recruits were the vanguard.

This batch of recruits have been training for half a year, and under Wang Jin's supervision, these recruits can be said to be well-trained, and their combat effectiveness in the school field surpasses that of all recruits in the past. Of course, they can't beat the elite veterans in the school field, but what they lack is only combat experience, so Chao Yong also has the intention of training troops when he goes south this time, otherwise after the world is unified, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for actual combat.

Chao Yong couldn't help but shake his head on the river as he watched the recruits who had just come ashore being killed by Zong Ze and retreating into the water.

Li Kui shouted: "These recruits are useless, and the enemy has not yet chased them, so they are so frightened that they retreat into the water." Prince, let them come ashore, and I will kill the old horseman. ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said, "Since I said that this is a military training, I have to let the recruits solve the battle." Pass my order, and those who retreat without permission will be beheaded. ”

"The prince has an order, and those who retreat without permission will be beheaded."

"The prince has an order, and those who retreat without permission will be beheaded."

The heralds on the clipper ship reached the riverside like arrows, shouting loudly.

The generals on the front line rushed to the shore with new recruits.

The prince led the troops, was invincible, and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, but also made the 150,000 army collapse without a fight. This is a famous battle in the annals of history, but they were blocked by a veteran with hundreds of soldiers and horses on the riverside, although there is a large reason for the unstable foothold, and they were caught off guard, but it will undoubtedly bring shame on this glorious battle. (To be continued......)