After hearing this, Li Yu smiled and said, "I also think they are a group of useless people, and it's not worth worrying." As soon as he finished speaking, a horse came in to report that the Song army had crossed the river. Li Yu was a little anxious, so he sent Zheng Yanhua, the governor of Zhenhai, to lead 10,000 naval troops, and Du Yuhou Du Zhen, led 10,000 infantrymen to resist the Song army, and instructed: "You two armies can only win by land and land. I hope you don't shirk each other!" Zheng and Du retreated with all their words.

Zheng Yanhua led the warships, roared drums along the river, and headed straight towards the floating bridge. When Pan Mei heard that the Southern Tang naval army was attacking, she immediately dispatched more than 5,000 archers and arranged them on the shore. She heard a drum horn, and the arrows suddenly shot like locusts, making the Southern Tang warships like hedgehogs, with broken mounds and falling sails, and falling. She was anxious and had no way to stop at the shore, so she had to retreat.

After a while, the infantry led by Du Zhen also arrived from the shore. Pan Mei did not wait for them to arrange the formation, so she rushed to kill the army. The Song army was brave and fought for the first place, killing the Southern Tang army to pieces and fleeing south. After receiving the defeat, Li Yu hurriedly ordered martial law and recruiting the people as soldiers. Li Yu also ordered that if the people offered money or food, they could get official positions.

However, the people in Jiangnan have always been weak and have not experienced war for a long time. Therefore, when they heard the word "soldier", most people were already frightened. Who would have been willing to join the army? The people would rather hide their money and food in their families in the cellar than to help the country. Therefore, although Li Yu issued many notices, none of them responded.

At this time, the Song army had already captured Bailuzhou and advanced to Xinlin Port. At the same time, they divided their troops to conquer Li Xiong, the commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and his seven sons, were killed one after another. The commander of the Song army, Cao Bin, personally led the army to attack the Qinhuai River. The Qinhuai River was on the south side of Jinling City, and could reach the Jinling City directly from the waterway. The Southern Tang army had tens of thousands of people on land and land, and was waiting for the battle under the city and defended the river.

At that time, the Song army was not ready, so the army stopped moving forward and waited for the ship. Pan Mei furiously said, "I accept the imperial edict and command tens of thousands of brave and combat-ready troops, hoping to win. How could I not dare to cross directly because of the limitation of a shallow water?" So he slapped his horse and jumped into the water and waded over. When the army saw the chief general crossing the river, they naturally followed. Even the infantry without horses also swam to the water to reach the other side. The army in Jiangnan came to fight and was defeated by the Song army.

When Caishiji floating bridge was made, the Southern Tang used more than 20 warships to beat the drums and climb up the water to attack. Pan Mei commanded the army to fight bravely, seized the warships of the Southern Tang army, and captured seven generals of the Southern Tang army, including Zheng Bin, and broke through the water camp fences in the south of the Southern Tang army, and sent a navy to guard it.

Pan Mei submitted a memorial to the court, and Zhao Kuangyin sent envoys to quickly move the warships to prevent changes. Pan Mei received the order to immediately move the troops. That night, the Southern Tang Dynasty came to attack the water camp, but failed. Pan Mei marched into the Southern Tang capital Jinling, the Southern Tang naval army, and the army had a total of 100,000 troops set up a battle under the city. Pan Mei led the troops to attack and defeated the Southern Tang army.

The capital of the Song army, Li Hanqiong, carried reeds into the river with huge boats, took advantage of the wind to ignite the fire, and burned down the southern water village of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Most of the guards in the village were drowned. At this time, Li Yu still adopted the strategies of his subordinate Chen Qiao and his scholar Zhang Shi and others, and stood firm and thought he was fine.

As for the soldiers' command, Li Yuquan

The ministry handed over to the commander-in-chief Huangfu Jixun. He didn't care at all, but summoned monks and Taoists in the backyard, recited scriptures, and begged for the blessing of the immortals and Buddhas. When the Song army had already rushed to the city, Li Yu heard the sound of cannons and then came out to patrol the city himself. He climbed up to the city and looked around and saw that Song troops were everywhere outside the city. The Song army lined up the camps and flags were everywhere.

Li Yu was frightened and asked the guards, "The Song army has arrived at the city, how can I not report to me?" The guards replied, "Master Huangfu did not allow people to go to the palace to report, so they did not report." Li Yu couldn't help but be furious and immediately summoned Huangfu Jixun and asked him why he wanted to conceal his military information. Huangfu Jixun replied indifferently: "The Song army is too strong and no one can match. Even if the minister reports it day by day, it will shock everyone in the palace. I think that your Majesty has no good solution, so I did not report it."

Li Yu slapped the table and shouted, "According to your opinion, even if the Song army attacked the city, would you have to let him kill and plunder? A useless person like you who traitor the country and mislead the king, so why should he be punished?" So he ordered his subordinates to take him down, hand him over to the Ministry of Justice to convict him, and prepare to execute him. Li Yu also issued an edict to Zhu Lingyun, the Du Yu Marquis, and ordered him to quickly lead the Shangjiang army to come to provide assistance as soon as possible.

Zhu Lingyun led his army to be stationed in Hukou. After receiving the order from Li Yu, he immediately led his subordinates downstream. He had nearly 100,000 subordinates, claiming to be a 150,000 army, preparing to burn the quarry bridge. Cao Bin received the news, so he summoned Wang Ming to the capital of Zhan Shi, and gave him a secret plan and ordered him to go to Caishiji to defend. Wang Ming led the plan and left.

Besides, Zhu Lingyun led the navy, sitting on a warship and hanging a commanding flag, came majestic and starry night. During the pass, he suddenly saw a line of sails in front of him, and there were almost thousands of warships arranged. Zhu Lingyun was unaware of the surprise and immediately ordered the ship to be stopped and temporarily moored at Wankou.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the sound of war drums, and the river surface and the shore echoed each other. At the same time, many enemy ships came from the river, and the torches were raised high, making the river surface look like daytime. There was a handsome flag showing the character "官" on it. Countless infantrymen came on the shore, and there were tens of thousands of torches, and the character "Liu" appeared on the surface of the commander flag.

The Song army came over in two attacks, and the Southern Tang army was panicked and could not tell how many Song soldiers were. Zhu Lingyun was worried about the mistakes in the chaos and felt that he could not divide his troops to resist. So he just ordered the soldiers to set fire and block the ship first. At this time, the north wind suddenly rose, and his own warship happened to stop in the south. The fire turned with the wind, and just burned his own warship.

In an instant, the entire army of Southern Tang dispersed. Zhu Lingyun was also in panic and wanted to turn the bow of the ship to escape, but because of the height of the ship, he was very inconvenient to move. Song soldiers rushed over and jumped onto the big ship. Zhu Lingyun was so scared that he was about to dive into the water and escape. At this moment, a Song general rushed over and shouted, and many strong soldiers stepped forward, knocked him down in the ship, tied him up with ropes, and carried it out like a pig.

This Song general was naturally the Song army's warfare deployment Wang Ming. According to Cao Bin's secret plan, he erected countless long trees on the floating beams, with flags hanging on them, just like the sails of warships, as suspicious soldiers. Then he made an appointment with the general Liu Yu to attack the Southern Tang army at night, causing them to lose their positions. The Song army had only 5,000 naval troops and 5,000 infantry soldiers, but swept away the 100,000 people under Zhu Lingyun's troops in the middle of the night. In Jinling City, Li Yu was staring at the supportive army, and suddenly heard the news of Zhu Lingyun's capture, so he was naturally full of courage. Li Yu had no choice but to send a scholar.

Xu Xuan went to Bianliang to ask Zhao Kuangyin to withdraw his troops.

Xu Xuan, whose courtesy name was Dingchen, was from Guangling. He was a master of imperial edicts in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was a Hanlin scholar and a Minister of Personnel. Xu Xuan was very famous in Jiangnan and was famous throughout the court for his extensive talent and knowledge. Once, the Southern Tang Dynasty sent Xu Xuan to Bianliang to pay tribute. According to convention, officials were required to be supervised and accompanied. The ministers in the court were timid because their eloquence was not as good as Xu Xuan. Even the prime minister was difficult to choose a suitable candidate to deal with Xu Xuan, so he asked Zhao Kuangyin for instructions.

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin said, "Let's leave for now, I will choose a suitable person myself." After a while, the eunuch promoted the imperial edict of the Palace Office and asked him to report the list of ten illiterate attendants in the Palace Office. After Zhao Kuangyin finished reading it, he clicked one of the pens and said, "This person is enough." The court was surprised. The prime minister did not dare to ask for instructions again, so he urged the person who was pointed to set off immediately.

The palace servant who was pointed by the imperial pen somehow sent him as an envoy, but he could not get any explanation, so he had to go. At first, Xu Xuan's words were as sharp as clouds, and the onlookers were shocked. The palace servant was even more unable to deal with it, so he had to nodded continuously. Xu Xuan didn't know his depth and insisted on talking to him. They lived together for a few days, but the waiter still refused to answer Xu Xuan. Xu Xuan was exhausted at this time and no longer said anything.

Xu Xuan loves incense and is a master of incense making. Every moonlit night, he sits in the atrium, burns an incense stick, and clears his heart and accompanys the moon. He calls the fragrance he made himself "incense with the moon". The fragrance of the moonlit fragrance is rigorously matched, and pays more attention to the preparation and harmony of incense medicine. Its fragrance is quiet and elegant, with a distant fragrance, and leaves fragrance for a long time; it has the function of clear and upright spirit, nourishes the nature and harmonizes the body and mind.

After receiving the order from Li Yu, Xu Xuan hurried to Bianliang, met Zhao Kuangyin and asked Zhao Kuangyin to withdraw his troops. Zhao Kuangyin said, "I ordered your lord to enter the court, why is your lord disobeying orders?" Xu Xuan replied, "Li Yu is a big deal, just like a son serving his father. He has no fault, but when His Majesty was summoned, he did not come according to the order because he was sick. Think about it, as parents, they all love their son very much and do everything. Should he be punished if he didn't come to see the emperor? Please give your Majesty an extra mercy and give an edict to stop the army!"

Zhao Kuangyin said, "Since your lord serves me like my father, I treat him like my son. The father and son should come from a family. How can there be a reason for the north and south to be divided into two families?" After hearing this, Xu Xuan was not easy to argue for a moment, so he had to kowtow and beg, "Even if Your Majesty doesn't care about Li Yu, he should take care of the creatures in Jiangnan. If the army stays for too long, it will inevitably be burned. This is not the original intention of Your Majesty and the common people."

Zhao Kuangyin said, "I have ordered the commander of the army to not kill anyone. If your lord surrenders quickly, how could the people suffer?" Xu Xuan replied, "Li Yu has paid tribute for many years and there is no rudeness. Why not let His Majesty make a fuss about him and let him live a life of his life." Zhao Kuangyin said, "I don't want to harm Li Yu, but I just want Li Yu to present a publication map and see me in court. I naturally ordered the troops."

Xu Xuan said, "Your Majesty is so obedient like Li Yu, but he is still attacked. Your Majesty is a little merciless." His words made Zhao Kuangyin furious, and he actually drew his sword and shouted, "Don't say too much! Jiangnan has any serious crimes, but the world is a family. How can you allow others to snore on the side of the bed? If you can fight, fight, and surrender. If you can chat, you can see this sword." Xu Xuan had no choice but to leave Jiangnan.
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