In early October, the Hantong Navy arrived near the Guazhou Ferry in the southeast of Yangzhou from the canal. The large ship was heading forward and along the river, and was about to enter the Yangtze River.(Location is east of Nanjing, near Zhenjiang City.)
At this time, the battle in Chizhou took place, and Jinling had mobilized its troops to strengthen the defense in the east.
Liu Cheng, the general of the Southern Tang Kingdom, was ordered to deploy to the east. He gathered the Southern Tang Army Navy in Jingkou (Zhenjiang). After hearing the news, the Zhou army headed south and burst into the canal with large ship-borne reeds and turbulent oil.
It was the sea breeze in the east, and the large ships of the Southern Tang army rushed to the east side of the Zhou army warship and ignited and burned.
Suddenly, the fire soared into the sky, and the turbulent oil (petroleum) burned black smoke, and watering was useless; the fire on the boat was even more amazing, like wildfires all over the mountains, and they were roasted a hundred steps away.
The fire spread to the Zhou army warships in the east wind, and soon a large Zhou army ship on the front ignited a raging fire.
The burnt black ash rushed into the air in the scorching airflow. The entire sky was covered with black dust and fell in the distance, as if a black snow was falling.
The soldiers on the Zhou army's warships no longer care about putting out the fire. The flames raged in the wind and were burned to death when they approached. The soldiers on the deck were in chaos, and many people jumped into the river and drowned.
The soldiers were mostly wearing armor. Compared with the danger of sinking ships and falling into the water in water, arrow attacks from the enemy are more likely to cause death; people wearing iron armor will be drowned immediately if they fall into the water.
It is difficult for those with a small armor to survive. The river water is cold in October, and those who know how to drink water can't last long, not to mention that the clothes are thicker and wet, and they are very heavy.
The people who paddled under the deck were not burned yet, and many people took off their clothes and jumped into the river with wood in their arms.There were shouts everywhere on the river, and it was a mess.
On the south bank of the Yangtze River, a general was laughing. He pointed to the fire in the distance, and laughed so hard that he almost rolled on the ground with his stomach in his arms.
This person is Liu Cheng, and the surrounding soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were also celebrating.
Not far away, there was a burly man who looked at the group of people there coldly. The burly man was Lin Renzhao.
Lin Renzhao was appointed as the Nandu Residence (Nanchang). Before leaving Beijing, he rushed to Jingkou to watch the battle first.
Liu Cheng smiled for a long time and finally found Lin Renzhao watching, so he came forward to say hello: General Lin sees how good my battle today is, can it be called a great victory?After he said that, he didn't take much attention to Lin Renzhao. He still reached out to catch a wisp of black dust, looked up, and stretched out his hand to caress his hair, as if a clean person was shaking dust. The fire was too strong, and the ashes were floating across the river!
Unexpectedly, Lin Renzhao said angrily: Is burning a Zhou army warship called a great victory?
Liu Cheng was immediately very unhappy... They were all colleagues. Even if you don’t want to congratulate me, wouldn’t it be over without saying a word?
Liu Cheng stopped his smile and said coldly: General Lin may not understand. The valley of the canal is not as deep as the river. The two large ships were burned and sunk in the river. The Zhou army warships would not even think about entering the river for a while.
Lin Renzhao said: Why is this difficult? Just clean the river and pull out the larger wreckage. At most, it can only last a few days.Zhou Jun suffered a loss. Next time he broke through the river estuary, he would observe the wind direction, and the fire attack method could be used once.
Liu Cheng was stunned: The entrance of the canal is narrow, and the river is wide.If the enemy ships want to leave the canal, they must line up and line up. I will patrol the river day and night with warships. If they want to leave, they will attack them with their superior warships and block the estuary.The Zhou army could not leave the canal.
Lin Renzhao said: When defending the river, the important thing is to quarry; the Zhou army captured Chizhou in the west, obviously for quarrying, otherwise they would have been bypassed by Hukou (Poyang Lake) and were attacked here on both sides of the place and were attacked by enemies?The water surface of Jingkou is vast, and our army only needs to operate defense in Runzhou, so it is difficult for the enemy to invade from here... General Liu spent all the navy in the east here. How could the Caishi River fight against the Zhou army?
Although the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are very long, there are not many places suitable for large troops to cross the river; for example, most river banks are shallow and ships will be stranded before they dock. The ferry usually has a convex area to the center of the river, which makes it easier for ships to dock in deep water areas.
After thousands of years of operation, these places have mostly become familiar ferries, such as Jingkou and Caishi.
Liu Cheng said annoyedly: I was ordered to deploy the east defense, but you talked about quarrying with me.Why don’t you go to the court and tell His Majesty what does it mean to tell me?
Liu Cheng's words came to the point. Lin Renzhao was stunned and could not argue. He had no choice but to leave the riverside.
Hearing Liu Cheng rumbling behind him, as if he was talking bad things about him, Lin Renzhao knew that he accidentally offended him, but Lin Renzhao didn't care about this.
...Lin Renzhao rode back to Jiangning City, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Chizhou was occupied for almost a month, and the court did not make any useful arrangements. Not only did he show no signs of regaining Chizhou quickly, and even quarrying did not reinforce defenses; instead, he concentrated all the navy in the eastern part in Jingkou, and he didn't know who came up with the idea.
He thought about it and said that he had been ordered to go to Hongzhou to take office. Now he couldn't see the king anymore, so he remembered someone: Chen Qiao (When Guo Shao asked Liu Renzhan to ask for advice, Liu Renzhan mentioned this person).
This person was the assistant minister of Guangzhengyuan. When the Supreme Emperor passed the throne to the king of the country, he was appointed as the assistant minister and was very reasonable in the court.
The key is that Chen Qiao is not like those other people. Chen Qiao looks down on Lin Renzhao very much. He recommended in front of the king a long time ago: Let Lin Renzhao lead troops outside, and Chen is in charge of the central government. Although our country is small, it is difficult to plan for the Central Plains.
He is generous to Lin Renzhao's praise.
So Lin Renzhao rushed to Chen's mansion, wanting to talk to Chen Qiao about his military insights and discuss Jiang Fang.
Unexpectedly, Chen Qiao directly refused Lin Renzhao's visit and asked someone to knock him away from the gate without hesitation.
Lin Renzhao was confused and hurriedly left the Chen Mansion at a loss. As soon as he walked to a secluded street, someone suddenly said behind him: General Lin, please come on the carriage.
Lin Renzhao looked back and saw that he was a strange scholar.But he was brave and was on the streets of the capital, so he was not afraid at all. He was more respectful than obedient and got on the carriage.The carriage immediately left its original place.
The scholar frowned and said: In broad daylight, you, a foreign general who is about to leave Beijing, ran to the gate of Mr. Chen to visit him. What is the relationship between Mr. Chen and you?Are you not afraid of collusion between inside and outside?
Lin Renzhao wondered: I am a minister with Mr. Chen, and I can’t even meet?
The scholar sighed: Mr. Chen also said that your weakness is that you do not understand worldly principles.Someone had impeached you a while ago and refused to obey the order and returned to Beijing without authorization. Now you are going to Hongzhou, and some people say you want to offer Hongzhou to surrender to the Zhou court.How many people have you offended?
Lin Renzhao cursed: Damn, I will hold a grudge in my heart for a little thing. How can such a villain be Shangguan!
Wen Shi said: You are a surrendered general of Fujian. Many people look down on you. You often speak rudely and have no respect, and no one accepts... Forget it, just.Mr. Chen knew that before you came to the mansion, he guessed that you were going to talk about Jiang Fang.Mr. Chen asked me to give you a message and hurry up and write it down in detail. I will arrive at the alley we met just now tomorrow morning and I will pick it up.
Lin Renzhao said: I don’t have much literary talent...
Just write the meaning clearly, it is not for you to take the top scorer.The scribe said angrily.
After the two of them said a few words, the scholar rushed to drive Lin Renzhao off the carriage.
Lin Renzhao returned to his residence and scratched his head and bit the pen when he picked up the pen. He didn't know how to start writing.He threw away his brush and walked around the yard. He thought clearly.
He believed that in the current situation, the most important thing in defense is quarrying, and the attack is based on the naval army cutting off the enemy's retreat in Chizhou... The navy of the Southern Tang army is the least disadvantageous military force, but the land horse and infantry combat power is not as good as that of the Zhou army.
Some of the navy troops in the east restrained the Zhou army from the Cao Canal. The waterway of the canal was narrow and shallow, so it was not easy for the Zhou army to dispatch troops; some of them followed the river and attacked the Hukou Navy on both sides, cutting off the enemy's passage from Chizhou to break through the river defense.
The defenses in quarrying and other places were strengthened, so that the enemy troops in Chizhou could be trapped in a fortified area...
Lin Renzhao thought about it for a long time and summarized his own opinions: first prevent quarrying, then defend the upstream, and gradually rely on the advantages of the city walls and water on the surface.
……
Chen Qiao polished Lin Renzhao's strategy and presented it to Li Yu.
But this thing is just one of countless memorials, and Li Yu was filled with desks.
Not only that, the Zhou Dynasty also sent envoys to intimidate him, claiming that the three armies of 800,000 were all over the land and water, and the destruction of the Southern Tang Kingdom was only a matter of time!
Among them, it claimed that hundreds of thousands of main troops had passed the canal and arrived at the city of Jiangning a day.
The closest enemy army was indeed the Hantong Navy in Yangzhou. Li Yu also obtained information. The warships in the east of Yangzhou stretched for dozens of miles, covering the entire river surface; and a large number of elite infantry and cavalry soldiers on land entered Huainan.
The heavy troops hoarded at the door of his house were obviously the most panicking place for Li Yu; and it is important that Chizhou and Wuchang report being attacked one after another, but after all, it is a little farther and still thousands of miles away.
At this moment, Liu Cheng made a good news, claiming to defeat the Zhou army in Jingkou.Liu Cheng wrote a letter, using the east wind fire to attack the Zhou army, burning the Zhou army to death, and the destroyed large ships blocked the canal, and the Zhou army was defeated in a panic.
When Li Yu heard the officials shouting good news, he first read Liu Cheng's report.
After winning a game under his nose, Li Yu suddenly felt a little relieved... He remembered that when Liu Cheng was in court, he was respectful and did not mind that the king had ascended the throne for a while, and he complimented and defended himself everywhere. Li Yu suddenly felt that Liu Cheng was a pillar of the country.
The eunuch hurriedly sent an eunuch and went to Runzhou to commend Liu Cheng with a lot of money and imperial edicts, so that he could continue to focus on the east defense deployment.
Then Li Yu discovered Chen Qiao's memorial, which was an important minister. He picked it up and saw that it was a Jiang defense strategy.
It was very clear. After reading it, Li Yu thought it made sense, so he found some time to summon the ministers to observe and discuss it.
At this moment, an official from the Hanlin Academy asked for a meeting and quietly told Li Yu that Chen Qiao sent someone to meet Lin Renzhao in private and explained the details of how they connected and how they whispered and discussed secretly in the carriage.
After saying that, the official reminded: Your Majesty, Chen Qiao is from Hongzhou, the southern capital. Lin Renzhao is working in Hongzhou this time... It's a bit coincidental, but unfortunately he didn't hear what they were discussing secretly.
At this time, the battle in Chizhou took place, and Jinling had mobilized its troops to strengthen the defense in the east.
Liu Cheng, the general of the Southern Tang Kingdom, was ordered to deploy to the east. He gathered the Southern Tang Army Navy in Jingkou (Zhenjiang). After hearing the news, the Zhou army headed south and burst into the canal with large ship-borne reeds and turbulent oil.
It was the sea breeze in the east, and the large ships of the Southern Tang army rushed to the east side of the Zhou army warship and ignited and burned.
Suddenly, the fire soared into the sky, and the turbulent oil (petroleum) burned black smoke, and watering was useless; the fire on the boat was even more amazing, like wildfires all over the mountains, and they were roasted a hundred steps away.
The fire spread to the Zhou army warships in the east wind, and soon a large Zhou army ship on the front ignited a raging fire.
The burnt black ash rushed into the air in the scorching airflow. The entire sky was covered with black dust and fell in the distance, as if a black snow was falling.
The soldiers on the Zhou army's warships no longer care about putting out the fire. The flames raged in the wind and were burned to death when they approached. The soldiers on the deck were in chaos, and many people jumped into the river and drowned.
The soldiers were mostly wearing armor. Compared with the danger of sinking ships and falling into the water in water, arrow attacks from the enemy are more likely to cause death; people wearing iron armor will be drowned immediately if they fall into the water.
It is difficult for those with a small armor to survive. The river water is cold in October, and those who know how to drink water can't last long, not to mention that the clothes are thicker and wet, and they are very heavy.
The people who paddled under the deck were not burned yet, and many people took off their clothes and jumped into the river with wood in their arms.There were shouts everywhere on the river, and it was a mess.
On the south bank of the Yangtze River, a general was laughing. He pointed to the fire in the distance, and laughed so hard that he almost rolled on the ground with his stomach in his arms.
This person is Liu Cheng, and the surrounding soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were also celebrating.
Not far away, there was a burly man who looked at the group of people there coldly. The burly man was Lin Renzhao.
Lin Renzhao was appointed as the Nandu Residence (Nanchang). Before leaving Beijing, he rushed to Jingkou to watch the battle first.
Liu Cheng smiled for a long time and finally found Lin Renzhao watching, so he came forward to say hello: General Lin sees how good my battle today is, can it be called a great victory?After he said that, he didn't take much attention to Lin Renzhao. He still reached out to catch a wisp of black dust, looked up, and stretched out his hand to caress his hair, as if a clean person was shaking dust. The fire was too strong, and the ashes were floating across the river!
Unexpectedly, Lin Renzhao said angrily: Is burning a Zhou army warship called a great victory?
Liu Cheng was immediately very unhappy... They were all colleagues. Even if you don’t want to congratulate me, wouldn’t it be over without saying a word?
Liu Cheng stopped his smile and said coldly: General Lin may not understand. The valley of the canal is not as deep as the river. The two large ships were burned and sunk in the river. The Zhou army warships would not even think about entering the river for a while.
Lin Renzhao said: Why is this difficult? Just clean the river and pull out the larger wreckage. At most, it can only last a few days.Zhou Jun suffered a loss. Next time he broke through the river estuary, he would observe the wind direction, and the fire attack method could be used once.
Liu Cheng was stunned: The entrance of the canal is narrow, and the river is wide.If the enemy ships want to leave the canal, they must line up and line up. I will patrol the river day and night with warships. If they want to leave, they will attack them with their superior warships and block the estuary.The Zhou army could not leave the canal.
Lin Renzhao said: When defending the river, the important thing is to quarry; the Zhou army captured Chizhou in the west, obviously for quarrying, otherwise they would have been bypassed by Hukou (Poyang Lake) and were attacked here on both sides of the place and were attacked by enemies?The water surface of Jingkou is vast, and our army only needs to operate defense in Runzhou, so it is difficult for the enemy to invade from here... General Liu spent all the navy in the east here. How could the Caishi River fight against the Zhou army?
Although the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are very long, there are not many places suitable for large troops to cross the river; for example, most river banks are shallow and ships will be stranded before they dock. The ferry usually has a convex area to the center of the river, which makes it easier for ships to dock in deep water areas.
After thousands of years of operation, these places have mostly become familiar ferries, such as Jingkou and Caishi.
Liu Cheng said annoyedly: I was ordered to deploy the east defense, but you talked about quarrying with me.Why don’t you go to the court and tell His Majesty what does it mean to tell me?
Liu Cheng's words came to the point. Lin Renzhao was stunned and could not argue. He had no choice but to leave the riverside.
Hearing Liu Cheng rumbling behind him, as if he was talking bad things about him, Lin Renzhao knew that he accidentally offended him, but Lin Renzhao didn't care about this.
...Lin Renzhao rode back to Jiangning City, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Chizhou was occupied for almost a month, and the court did not make any useful arrangements. Not only did he show no signs of regaining Chizhou quickly, and even quarrying did not reinforce defenses; instead, he concentrated all the navy in the eastern part in Jingkou, and he didn't know who came up with the idea.
He thought about it and said that he had been ordered to go to Hongzhou to take office. Now he couldn't see the king anymore, so he remembered someone: Chen Qiao (When Guo Shao asked Liu Renzhan to ask for advice, Liu Renzhan mentioned this person).
This person was the assistant minister of Guangzhengyuan. When the Supreme Emperor passed the throne to the king of the country, he was appointed as the assistant minister and was very reasonable in the court.
The key is that Chen Qiao is not like those other people. Chen Qiao looks down on Lin Renzhao very much. He recommended in front of the king a long time ago: Let Lin Renzhao lead troops outside, and Chen is in charge of the central government. Although our country is small, it is difficult to plan for the Central Plains.
He is generous to Lin Renzhao's praise.
So Lin Renzhao rushed to Chen's mansion, wanting to talk to Chen Qiao about his military insights and discuss Jiang Fang.
Unexpectedly, Chen Qiao directly refused Lin Renzhao's visit and asked someone to knock him away from the gate without hesitation.
Lin Renzhao was confused and hurriedly left the Chen Mansion at a loss. As soon as he walked to a secluded street, someone suddenly said behind him: General Lin, please come on the carriage.
Lin Renzhao looked back and saw that he was a strange scholar.But he was brave and was on the streets of the capital, so he was not afraid at all. He was more respectful than obedient and got on the carriage.The carriage immediately left its original place.
The scholar frowned and said: In broad daylight, you, a foreign general who is about to leave Beijing, ran to the gate of Mr. Chen to visit him. What is the relationship between Mr. Chen and you?Are you not afraid of collusion between inside and outside?
Lin Renzhao wondered: I am a minister with Mr. Chen, and I can’t even meet?
The scholar sighed: Mr. Chen also said that your weakness is that you do not understand worldly principles.Someone had impeached you a while ago and refused to obey the order and returned to Beijing without authorization. Now you are going to Hongzhou, and some people say you want to offer Hongzhou to surrender to the Zhou court.How many people have you offended?
Lin Renzhao cursed: Damn, I will hold a grudge in my heart for a little thing. How can such a villain be Shangguan!
Wen Shi said: You are a surrendered general of Fujian. Many people look down on you. You often speak rudely and have no respect, and no one accepts... Forget it, just.Mr. Chen knew that before you came to the mansion, he guessed that you were going to talk about Jiang Fang.Mr. Chen asked me to give you a message and hurry up and write it down in detail. I will arrive at the alley we met just now tomorrow morning and I will pick it up.
Lin Renzhao said: I don’t have much literary talent...
Just write the meaning clearly, it is not for you to take the top scorer.The scribe said angrily.
After the two of them said a few words, the scholar rushed to drive Lin Renzhao off the carriage.
Lin Renzhao returned to his residence and scratched his head and bit the pen when he picked up the pen. He didn't know how to start writing.He threw away his brush and walked around the yard. He thought clearly.
He believed that in the current situation, the most important thing in defense is quarrying, and the attack is based on the naval army cutting off the enemy's retreat in Chizhou... The navy of the Southern Tang army is the least disadvantageous military force, but the land horse and infantry combat power is not as good as that of the Zhou army.
Some of the navy troops in the east restrained the Zhou army from the Cao Canal. The waterway of the canal was narrow and shallow, so it was not easy for the Zhou army to dispatch troops; some of them followed the river and attacked the Hukou Navy on both sides, cutting off the enemy's passage from Chizhou to break through the river defense.
The defenses in quarrying and other places were strengthened, so that the enemy troops in Chizhou could be trapped in a fortified area...
Lin Renzhao thought about it for a long time and summarized his own opinions: first prevent quarrying, then defend the upstream, and gradually rely on the advantages of the city walls and water on the surface.
……
Chen Qiao polished Lin Renzhao's strategy and presented it to Li Yu.
But this thing is just one of countless memorials, and Li Yu was filled with desks.
Not only that, the Zhou Dynasty also sent envoys to intimidate him, claiming that the three armies of 800,000 were all over the land and water, and the destruction of the Southern Tang Kingdom was only a matter of time!
Among them, it claimed that hundreds of thousands of main troops had passed the canal and arrived at the city of Jiangning a day.
The closest enemy army was indeed the Hantong Navy in Yangzhou. Li Yu also obtained information. The warships in the east of Yangzhou stretched for dozens of miles, covering the entire river surface; and a large number of elite infantry and cavalry soldiers on land entered Huainan.
The heavy troops hoarded at the door of his house were obviously the most panicking place for Li Yu; and it is important that Chizhou and Wuchang report being attacked one after another, but after all, it is a little farther and still thousands of miles away.
At this moment, Liu Cheng made a good news, claiming to defeat the Zhou army in Jingkou.Liu Cheng wrote a letter, using the east wind fire to attack the Zhou army, burning the Zhou army to death, and the destroyed large ships blocked the canal, and the Zhou army was defeated in a panic.
When Li Yu heard the officials shouting good news, he first read Liu Cheng's report.
After winning a game under his nose, Li Yu suddenly felt a little relieved... He remembered that when Liu Cheng was in court, he was respectful and did not mind that the king had ascended the throne for a while, and he complimented and defended himself everywhere. Li Yu suddenly felt that Liu Cheng was a pillar of the country.
The eunuch hurriedly sent an eunuch and went to Runzhou to commend Liu Cheng with a lot of money and imperial edicts, so that he could continue to focus on the east defense deployment.
Then Li Yu discovered Chen Qiao's memorial, which was an important minister. He picked it up and saw that it was a Jiang defense strategy.
It was very clear. After reading it, Li Yu thought it made sense, so he found some time to summon the ministers to observe and discuss it.
At this moment, an official from the Hanlin Academy asked for a meeting and quietly told Li Yu that Chen Qiao sent someone to meet Lin Renzhao in private and explained the details of how they connected and how they whispered and discussed secretly in the carriage.
After saying that, the official reminded: Your Majesty, Chen Qiao is from Hongzhou, the southern capital. Lin Renzhao is working in Hongzhou this time... It's a bit coincidental, but unfortunately he didn't hear what they were discussing secretly.
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