At this time, Chai Zongxun and his son of Later Zhou had moved to Fangzhou. Soon after, Chai Zongxun died of illness. Zhao Kuangyin mourned him for a simple dress and stopped him for ten days. He was posthumously named Emperor Gong of Zhou and buried him on the left side of the Qingling of Zhou Shizong, named Shunling. The funeral was settled, and Zhao Pu, and his friend had all kinds of doubts, so he had to move the minister, so the Southern Expedition was temporarily put on hold.

It turned out that after Zhao Kuangyin pacified Lingnan, he went privately in his spare time. One night, he walked to Zhao Pu's house and happened to meet Qian Chu, the King of Wu Yue, who wrote to Zhao Pu, and gave Zhao Pu ten bottles of seafood, which he placed in the corridor. Zhao Pu suddenly heard that Zhao Kuangyin was coming, so he hurried out to welcome him, so he had no time to store the seafood. When Zhao Kuangyin came in, he was already looking at it. Zhao Kuangyin immediately asked what it was?

Zhao Pu did not dare to deceive and reported truthfully. Zhao Kuangyin said, "The things in the sea must be very good, so you might as well try it!" Zhao Pu could not violate the order, so he took the bottle, opened the seal, and looked in. It was not seafood, but brilliant gold. Zhao Pu himself was also shocked and hurriedly said, "Report to Your Majesty, I don't know what's going on."

Zhao Kuangyin sighed and said, "You might as well accept it. His purpose should be to think that national affairs are all dominated by you, the scholar, so he gave them very generously." After that, Zhao Kuangyin left. Zhao Pu hurriedly gave it away and regretted it for several days. Later, he felt relieved when he saw that Zhao Kuangyin treated him as usual.

Unexpectedly, the waves started again and again. Zhao Pu once sent his relatives to the company to eat in Qinzhou and Longzhou, buy huge trees, make large ships, and transported them to his home in the capital. His relatives took the opportunity to make extra money and transport them to the capital to make huge profits. Zhao Pu, the envoy of the three officials, found that the big trees in Qin and Long had been prohibited from being sold privately. Zhao Pu secretly sent people to purchase them, which was already against the imperial edict, and selling for profit was even more illegal, so he reported the details to Zhao Kuangyin.

After Zhao Kuangyin learned about it, he was furious and said, "Is he still so greedy?" So he ordered the Hanlin scholars to draft an edict, and he would expel Zhao Pu away the day. Fortunately, the former prime minister Wang Pu worked hard to rescue him, so he did not issue the edict. Later, because Hanlin scholars Lu Duosun and Zhao Pu made up the heir, they often talked about Zhao Pu's shortcomings when they reported to Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin was even more dissatisfied with Zhao Pu, so he became more and more alienated from Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu knew himself well, so he asked to remove himself from power. Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to transfer Zhao Pu out of the capital, and ordered him to serve as the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang.

Lu Duosun was promoted to political affairs in the daytime. Lu Duosun's father Lu Yi, who had served as a young emperor, had retired and returned home at that time. After hearing Lu Duosun's attack on Zhao Pu, he couldn't help but sigh: "Zhao Pu is a founding father. You are a kid who has no knowledge and slander your ancestors at will. I am afraid that you will not be able to avoid disaster in the future. I will die early, so I won't see it with my own eyes, which is still a lucky person!" Lu Duosun died of illness soon. Lu Duosun resigned and appointed him by the imperial edict. He entered the court to take matters and was trusted by Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin also appointed his younger brother Zhao Guangyi as King of Jin, Zhao Guangmei was also the chief minister, and his son Zhao Dezhao was in charge of Pingzhang. After he was worried about external affairs, Zhao Kuangyin thought about foreign affairs and ordered the king of Jiangnan Li Yu to the court. Although Li Yu received many edicts, he was worried that he would be detained after entering Beijing and seize his land. Therefore, he refused to enter Beijing on the pretext of being sick and secretly prepared for battle.

In the first month of the seventh year of Kaibao, Li Yu, the lord of Jiangnan, sent Changzhou governor Lu Zhaofu to pay tribute to Bianjing and submitted a memorial to ask his younger brother Li.

Zhao Kuangyin refused to allow Congshan to return to his country. Li Yu is naturally friendly to his brothers. Since Li Congshan was detained in the Northern Dynasties, he missed him so much that the New Year banquets would no longer be held.

In September, Zhao Kuangyin sent Cao Bin and others to lead troops to conquer Jiangnan. Zhao Kuangyin wanted to conquer Jiangnan, but he went out to Wuming, so he sent the commander Hao Li Mu to inform the lord of Jiangnan to enter the Bianjing. The king of Jiangnan Li Yu could no longer refuse, so he wanted to go with the envoy. His subordinate Chen Qiao said: "I was ordered by Yuanzong as well as your majesty to be sent to the end of his life. If you go today, you will definitely be detained. How can you be worthy of the country? Even if you die, you will have no face to see Yuanzong in the nine springs!"

Zhang Wei, the Neishisans, also advised Li Yu, the king of Jiangnan, not to go to court. At that time, Chen Qiao and Zhang Wei were in charge of the secrets. Li Yu, the king of Jiangnan, listened to their words very much, and claimed to be sick again, but he could not give up. He said, "I respectfully serve the great country in hopes of getting help. I force me to go there today, and I only die." Li Mu said, "Whether to enter the court or not, the king can decide whether to enter the court. However, the court's armor and military strength are sharp and abundant, it is probably difficult to resist. We should think carefully and not leave regrets."

The king of Jiangnan, Li Yu, refused to obey his words and sent an envoy to request the enthronement, but Zhao Kuangyin refused to allow it. Zhao Kuangyin ordered Liang Jiong to go on an envoy again and persuade Li Yu to go to the court. Li Huang refused to answer and still refused to enter the capital. After Liang Jiong returned to the capital, Zhao Kuangyin appointed Cao Bin as the deployment of the southwest road camp, Pan Mei as the chief supervisor, and Cao Han as the vanguard, leading a 100,000 army to attack the south.

Since Wang Quanbin attacked Shu and killed many surrendered soldiers, Zhao Kuangyin was very resentful. This time, Cao Bin and others entered the palace to say goodbye. Zhao Kuangyin warned Cao Bin and said, "All matters in Jiangnan should be appointed. You must not plunder the people. You must strive to expand your prestige and make them surrender on their own. Don't be irritated and eager to attack." He also told them, "When capturing Jiankang City, be cautious and not killing innocent people. If the enemy traps beasts and fight, Li Yu's family will not be harmed."

Zhao Kuangyin gave the sword to Cao Bin and said, "If you are under the deputy general, you can behead them on the spot if you don't obey the orders. Pan Mei and others panic when they heard this. Cao Bin set out from Jingnan and the warships flowed eastward from the Yangtze River. The garrison troops along the Southern Tang River said that this was the border patrol troops sent by the Song Dynasty as usual every year. The Song army passed by. They just closed their own bases and offered cattle wine to pick the Song army. They soon felt that the Song army was different from the past patrols. The garrison of Chizhou Ge Yan abandoned the city and fled. Cao Bin entered Chizhou and defeated the Jiangnan army in Tongling, so he entered Caishiji.

At that time, Fan Ruoshui, a native of Chizhou, Jiangnan, failed the Jinshi. When he returned here, he often fished on Caishiji River. He took a small boat with a silk rope tied to the south bank, then quickly rowed the boat to the north bank, and returned more than ten times to measure the width and narrowness of the river. Therefore, he went to Beijing to write a letter to tell me how to capture Jiangnan and ask for a floating bridge to allow troops to cross the river.

Zhao Kuangyin believed it, so he sent an envoy to Jinghu to build thousands of yellow and black dragon boats. He also loaded huge bamboo steles with large ships.

From Jingzhou to the river, some people say that the Yangtze River is wide and deep, and since ancient times, there has been no floating bridge to cross the river. Zhao Kuangyin refused to listen.

Fan Ruoshui was promoted to the right Zanshan doctor. When the troops headed south, Fan Ruoshui was guided. Soon after conquering Chizhou, he was appointed as the governor.

November.

Fan Ruoshui requested to test the pontoon bridge.

First, he tested the stand at Shipaikou. Later, he moved to Caishiji. After three days, he succeeded, and was not bad in size. Pan Mei took this opportunity to lead the infantry across the river, as if he was on a flat ground. At that time.

River

There was no war in Nan for a long time, and all the veterans had died one after another. All the generals led the troops were newly appointed, and they were self-conceived with fame and had no combat experience. Hearing that the Song Dynasty sent troops to discuss the interests of the war, there were no less than dozens of people every day.

Li Yu appointed Zhenhai Jiedushi, and Zheng Yanhua, the commander of the Pingzhang, led more than 10,000 naval troops, and Du Zhen, the Du Yu Marquis, commanded more than 10,000 infantry to fight the Song army together. Before setting off, Li Yu, the lord of Jiangnan, warned them: "The two armies cooperated with each other and would definitely win." Zheng Yanhua led the warships, roared the drums and went upstream, heading straight to the floating bridge, but was defeated by the army commanded by Pan Mei. After the infantry led by Du Zhen took the battle.

Zheng Yanhua was unable to rescue him and was defeated. So Jinling began martial law and ordered that the Song Dynasty Kaibao reign no longer be used. He recruited the people to join the army, and those who offered money and food would be rewarded with officials.

In February of the eighth year of Kaibao, Cao Bin successively captured Bailuzhou and Xinlin Port in Jiangnan, and sent Tian Qinzha to attack Lishui. Jiangnan army commander Li Xiong said to his sons: "I must die in the national crisis, and you must encourage yourself." The father and son all died in the formation, and Tian Qinzha conquered Lishui in one fell swoop. Cao Bin's army entered the Qinhuai River, and a hundred thousand troops of water and land in Jiangnan were displayed under the city of Jinling.

At that time, the Song army was not yet ready, Pan Mei led the troops to the battlefield first and ordered: "There are tens of thousands of warriors I led, and they will win all the way and attack. How can they be limited to rivers as wide as belts without crossing directly!" So he took the lead in wading through the water. The army immediately crossed the river, and the soldiers in Jiangnan were defeated. Li Hanqiong, the Marquis of the Ma Army, led the troops under his command, loaded reeds with large ships, set fire with the wind and set fire to capture the south water village of Jinling City.

He also conquered the city pass. The defenders rushed to escape, and thousands of people fell into the water and drowned.

At the beginning, Chen Qiao and Zhang Wei planned for Li Yu in the south of the Yangtze River, and ordered the troops stationed in various places to stand firm, which made the Song army tired and return. Li Yu thought that this would be the case, the Northern Army would not be worth worrying. So he led monks and Taoists to recite scriptures and talk about the "Book of Changes". He talked a lot all day long without taking political affairs.

Any military situation is in urgent need.

However, Xu Yuanqing and others obtained it.

It is not allowed to be reported. The Song army entered the city of Jinling for several months, but Li Yu was still unaware of this. At that time.

Both military and political affairs belong to Huangfu Jixun, the commander of the commander of the Shenwei Army. Jixun was usually noble and arrogant, but at first he had no intention of serving the country. He just wanted the monarch to surrender as soon as possible, but he did not dare to say it clearly.

Whenever he talked about war with everyone, Huangfu Jixun said, "The Northern Army is strong. Who can resist it?" Hearing the defeat, he said happily: "I have known that I can't win." If someone recruits death-death men want to attack at night, Jixun must hit the back with a stick and capture and imprison them.

One day, Li Yu went out to patrol the city himself. Seeing the Song army arranged the villages and the clan flags blocked the fields, he realized that he was blinded by his left and right, and began to panic and fear. So he captured Huangfu Jixun and was imprisoned. He killed him and sent an envoy to summon Zhu Lingyun, the Duke of the Shenwei Army, to lead Shangjiang troops to aid.

In October, Liu Cheng, the capital of Jiangnan, presented Runzhou to Zhao Kuangyin. The king of Jiangnan, felt that the situation was critical and hurriedly sent a scholar Xu Xuan to request a temporary suspension of the attack. Xu Xuan did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly went to the capital day and night, and said to Zhao Kuangyin: "Li Yu was not guilty, but Your Majesty was not famous for his army. Li Yu was a big deal, just like a son serving his father, and had no mistakes. Why was he attacked?"

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