Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

He didn't think about whether it was the water decline caused by extravagant enjoyment, or the decline caused extravagant enjoyment, and he didn't think about making progress.

But when his thoughts returned a bit, Zhang Ji, Liu Cheng and others had already greeted them with wine, and Lu Duoxun immediately started talking with them enthusiastically.

When he came to Jiangnan this time, he made many friends. Among them, Liu Cheng was the confidant of the lord Li Yu, and so was Zhang Ji.

He has been traveling with the army all these years, and has seen many people, and he has a judgment in his heart. Liu Cheng is just a flattering person, but Li Yu thinks he is very talented and insightful, probably just right.

He only thought about these things in his heart.

After saying something, the king over there wanted to see him, and he passed by.

The most important part of this banquet is to see him off, because the government has already sent someone to ask him to return to Daliang at the end of the month.

He knew in his heart that this meant that the officials were preparing to attack Tang, so they would let him go first. Moreover, it was already summer, and when the autumn and winter were dry, it would be a good time for the army to cross the river.

But on the surface, she remained calm and chatted happily with everyone, and even when she came to the king and was treated by the honored guest, he showed a reluctant attitude and said: "Thanks to the hospitality of the king, if it weren't for the king's life, I would I am not willing to leave this land of gold and jade in the south of the Yangtze River, the land of fish and rice."

Everyone was also very touched. Lu Duoxun didn't have much official authority and airs in Jiangnan, so he got along well with them.

Originally, everyone thought that Ludoxun would be difficult to serve.

In the end, Li Yu personally raised the lamp to him, and then said: "I hope that the envoy will explain to the emperor our obedience and intention after returning to Daliang.

As a vassal state, Jiangnan has always looked forward to the leadership of a big country. If there is any order in the future, as long as the emperor expresses it, we will do it with all our heart.

Every year, I don't dare to neglect the yearly money for offerings, and I will definitely present it. If there is any delay, it may be due to road blockage, so I can send envoys to ask questions.

Furthermore, the king of Wuyue has enmity with us, he has always been treacherous, I hope the emperor will not trust them. "

Lu Duoxun nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, I receive a lot of hospitality in your country, I understand the situation here best, and I also know Jiangnan's sincerity, and I will definitely explain it to the officials when I go back.

Please also rest assured, the Lord, I have never sent troops to the court to bully the weak with guns, but with reasons and evidence.

Liu Wei was arrogant and conceited. The Liao Kingdom and the Northern Han Dynasty repeatedly provoked and sent troops on their own initiative.

But like today's Jiangnan, Wuyue, our dynasty has never intended to add troops, the name of the suzerain has been determined, and the king can feel at ease. "

Lu Duoxun comforted him one after another, feeling deeply moved in his heart. After being in Southern Tang for so long, he felt more and more that Li Yu had no ambitions and indecision. That way of killing and cutting decisively, opening up the frontier and expanding the territory.

He wants to have fun in peace, but he is unwilling to be inferior to others; he wants to restore Li's Tang Dynasty, but he doesn't have the ability and courage.

After thinking about it, I can only say that "the heart is higher than the sky, and the will is thinner than the paper". People who are so vacillating generally do not end well.

During the banquet, he comforted Li Yu again and again, and comforted him with various reasons, Qin would never send troops.

In such an atmosphere, it is natural for the host and guest to enjoy themselves.

On the surface, Lu Duoxun chatted happily with everyone, but he was thinking about how to make meritorious service. He had been trying to find a way to get the Tujing (map) of the Tang Dynasty, but it was unreasonable to ask Li Yu directly. will be exposed.

But he really wanted to make this contribution.

After the farewell banquet, he was going back to Daliang tomorrow. In the middle of the night, Lu Duoxun couldn't fall asleep thinking about it. When he was tossing and turning, he suddenly had an idea.

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The next morning, the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty prepared many precious gifts for Lu Duoxun, including a box of gold.

Lu Duoxun refused again and again and accepted, and then Nantang sent soldiers to escort him across the river, and Liu Cheng, the confidant of the king, also came to see him off.

Many officials who got along well with him or wanted to please the Qin State all went outside Jiangning City to see him off.

His boat didn't set off until after noon, and when it arrived in the middle of the river, Lu Duosun suddenly seemed to remember something, slapped his head and said to Liu Cheng who was sending him across the river: "I almost forgot about the incident, turn back quickly!"

Seeing his posture, the other party even asked the soldiers to turn around, and then went back.

Afterwards, Lu Duoxun hurried back to meet Li Yu, and after apologizing again, he said: "Before, the officials said that they wanted to repair the Tianxia Tujing (map), but now only Jiangnan is missing. I told me to take it back, but I almost forgot it. Hereby Come back and ask the king for it."

He said it as if it was a casual thing, and he just remembered it.

Li Yu didn't doubt that there was him. When he heard that Shi Congyun called for it, he didn't dare to delay at all. He even ordered the people from the Imperial Academy to draw it, and he didn't doubt anything else.

First of all, Lu Duoxun got along very well with the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, like friends.

Secondly, he turned back suddenly when he arrived in the heart of the river, like something he remembered inadvertently, and no one became suspicious.

After waiting for another two days, the officials of the Southern Tang Imperial Academy finished drawing the scriptures and handed them over to Lu Duoxun, who then left and returned to Daliang.

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In June of that year, after Emperor Shi prepared the army, prepared the plan for crossing the river, and prepared the logistics supplies, Lu Duoxun, who had returned from an envoy to the south, brought him great news. Don's map.

This matter can be said to have surprised Emperor Shi the most. After comparing it with the Privy Council and Wu Desi, he was also very pleasantly surprised. The map is so detailed!Just like works of art, the Southern Tang Dynasty is indeed a country with a strong artistic atmosphere. The king took the lead in art, and the officials of the Imperial Academy below were all good at it.

With this map written by the emperors and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, their army attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty will no longer be afraid of getting lost!

Immediately after that, he ordered the people from the Ministry of Industry to reproduce it, and then distributed it to the various armies.

So far, it took two years, the army, logistical supplies, logistical bases, plans to cross the river, enemy intelligence, diplomatic paralysis... none of it was left behind.

Before the start of this great war, Emperor Shi had tried his best to achieve perfection.

And the time unknowingly arrived at the end of summer and early autumn.

During autumn and winter, it is time to send troops...

Chapter 467: The Four-way Army

Everything is ready, which is enough to describe Emperor Shi's preparations for sending troops this time.

Logistics, diplomacy, military strength, maps, plans for crossing the river, marching routes, etc., everything has been properly arranged.

At the beginning of July, Emperor Shi summoned his generals and secretly began to arrange deployment.

Regarding the arrangement of personnel, he is arbitrary, which is the greatest power in the hands of the emperor.

In the previous discussions and discussions, Emperor Shi asked them to open up their views and try their best to accept the opinions of all parties, but once it was time to make a decision, no one was allowed to refute.

Emperor Shi paced back and forth, looked down at the crowd, and spoke clearly, while the secretary in charge of the Imperial Academy next to him recorded his words without missing a word.

This time Emperor Shi did not talk nonsense, looked down at the crowd, spoke seriously, and held the memo that Zhao Shijian had written to him last night in his hand, "After many considerations, I have the following arrangements for this dispatch."

Everyone became solemn immediately, the hall was unusually quiet, everyone looked serious, and no one made a sound.

"This time the troops are divided into four armies, the West Route Army, the Middle Route Army, the East Route Army and the Wuyue Army."

After he finished speaking, the academicians of the Imperial Academy had prepared a huge map and hung it behind him. Many details were supplemented by the map that Lu Duoxun brought back from the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Shi directly drew the marching route on the map with charcoal.

"The east road is a water army, with a total of 3 people, [-] gunboats, [-] warships and warships, with Liu Renshan as the deployment of the east road army, and Si Chao as the commander. The East Route Army Supervisor, Liu Qingchuan, Fu Zhaoyuan, Zhe Yuxun, Meng Xuanzhe listened to it."

"No!" Several people stood up immediately.

The East Route Army is a veteran except for Zhe Yuxun, and Zhe Yuxun is the son of Zhe Dejian. He has been sent to the capital as a hostage for several years. try.

Pointing to the map, Emperor Shi began to explain the route and strategic purpose of the march: "The Eastern Route Army went out of Daliang, entered the Huaihe River along the Bian River, went to Sizhou, went east to Chuzhou, and then went south along the Caoqu and Yangzhou to enter the Yangtze River.

Your primary goal is to capture Runzhou, an important town across the river from Yangzhou, and then encircle Jinling to the west, understand. "

"Understood!" Several people said in unison.

Emperor Shi asked Liu Renshan, the head coach of the East Route Army, and Si Chao, the supervisor of the army, to recount the route and purpose of the march, and they both said exactly what they said, so they were relieved to continue.

"The Central Army leads Hujie's third chamber, and Longjie's left chamber, totaling three or five. Li Chuyun is deployed as the Central Army's capital, Pan Mei is the Central Army's supervisor, and Wang Quanbin, Han Baozheng, Jing Si, Chen Chengzhao, and Fan Ruobing are in charge."

"No!" Another group of people who were named stood up.

"The Central Route Army went out of Yingzhou, Chuzhou, and Hezhou, and erected a pontoon bridge at Caishiji in the south of Hezhou. After crossing the river, they occupied Dangtu, Ma'anshan and other important places, cut off the reinforcements from the west, and ensured that they could go east even if the reinforcements were blocked. Siege Jinling."

"promise!"

As usual, let the coach Li Chuyun and the supervisor Pan Mei retell the story, and then Emperor Shi continued to give orders.

"As for Wuyue, I will issue an edict to order Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, to set up an envoy for the camp in the southeast. He will lead tens of thousands of soldiers from Hangzhou to the north to support him. He will also send Li Fang as envoy and Wang Shenqi as the supervisor."

In fact, Emperor Shi of this edict had written to King Wuyue privately before, and King Wuyue replied very simply, "I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse, and I will not hesitate to die."

Then came the arrangement of the main force of the West Route Army. Emperor Shi said in the formation: "As the main force of this attack, the West Route Army will control the first and second compartments of the crane, and the left compartment of iron cavalry, with a total of 5 people.

I ordered Cao Bin to deploy for the capital along the river to lead the West Route Army and at the same time dispatch the other three armies. "

"No!" Everyone fought out one after another.

Cao Bin was extraordinarily solemn. This was his first time in command. Emperor Shi gave him the authority to dispatch the four armies to attack Tang. Faced with such a posture, Cao Bin was very dignified despite being excited.

"The West Route Army went to Jingnan, Jiangling, and fought east along the Yangtze River all the way to Jinling. The important towns of Wuchang, Ezhou, Jiujiang, and Hukou in the west are all within your attack range.

How to direct the overall situation can be decided by the master. "

Afterwards, Emperor Shi directly untied the sword from his waist and handed it to Cao Bin. He knew that although Cao Bin had fought many battles, he was younger, and secondly, it was his first time in command, so he had to mobilize many veterans who had made great contributions. It's not easy being a veteran.

So he said in front of everyone: "This sword is my favorite sword for the Southern and Northern Wars. I entrust it to you today, just like this important task of destroying the Tang Dynasty. Seeing the sword is like seeing me. On the battlefield, the lieutenants of all armies and their subordinates Those who do not need to die can be beheaded immediately, and there is no need to play."

When Cao Bin heard this, he knelt down with a plop, his eyes reddened, "Please don't worry, the officials, I will definitely live up to the grace!"

Emperor Shi nodded, helped him up, and then said: "Zhao Kuangyin is the envoy from Yangzhou, supplying the army on the middle and east routes, while Shen Yilun is the envoy from Jingnan on the west side, supplying the army on the west route."

After the arrangements are made, Luqiu Zhongqing, the privy envoy, will make books for them, and Emperor Shi will personally award tiger charms on the day when the troops are dispatched.

Then he ordered all the generals to go back to order Qi soldiers and prepare to send troops.

Looking at the people who were gearing up, Emperor Shi carefully considered whether there were any flaws in his plan. As for the power given to Cao Bin, he did not give it randomly.

Cao Bin is significantly different from other powerful generals. He is the most disciplined, cautious, and one of the most kind generals in the army, which is significantly different from the generals of the Five Dynasties.

When he was in Shu, he was famous for his strict discipline and kindness to the people. Later, he went to fight the Southern Han Dynasty as well. Wherever his troops went, he truly did not offend the people, and the military discipline was very strict.

If such a person were to let him be the coach to fight the Emperor of the History of the Liao Kingdom, he would be a little worried. After all, kindness does not command soldiers. When facing a powerful enemy, kindness is likely to become a weakness.

But it is different for Southern Tang. Firstly, the strength of Qin State has a crushing advantage over Southern Tang. Second, he does not want to destroy the production of Southern Tang, nor does he want Southern Tang to become a piece of scorched earth. Jiangnan is the most prosperous place he wants to preserve. .

In this way, Cao Bin is the best candidate, and because of his cautious character, Emperor Shi is not afraid that Cao Bin will use power indiscriminately.

After the personnel arrangements were made, the armies began to prepare.

Emperor Shi began to plan, what kind of excuse would be used to launch this war.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of any good excuse, but war needs an excuse, but if he is well prepared, then the excuse is the least important one.

So after discussing with several prime ministers, Emperor Shi adopted Fan Zhi's proposal.

An imperial edict asked Li Yu to enter the court, and the Mid-Autumn Festival came to Daliang to spend with the emperor.

Everyone knows that this edict is to find fault, but Emperor Shi is indeed seeking fault.

If Li Yu really dared to come to Daliang, then the Southern Tang Dynasty would be liberated peacefully. If he did not dare to come, as a subordinate state, he would not obey the orders of the suzerain state, and Emperor Shi could justifiably send troops.

Such an excuse is very perfunctory, and such an excuse is also very useful, and in the face of absolute strength, the excuse is not so important. Smart people in the world know that there will be this battle sooner or later.

So at the end of July, Emperor Shi's outrageous Zhao Shu was sent across the river with the autumn wind and sent to Jinling.

Chapter 468, West Road Army

When many things in the world are not imminent, many people think that there is still room for delay. Most of them procrastinate if they can, and find reasons to shirk themselves if they can't.

Because inertia and ease are the most neglected by people, and they are the most capable of destroying a person or a country.

When most people in the court of the Southern Tang Dynasty indulged in false peaceful illusions, thinking that they could live in comfort and comfort, a turning point came suddenly.

On the first day of autumn, the emperor sent an envoy with the emperor's oral order to let the lord Li Yu enter the court, as the lord of the country, to attend the ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth.

When the news spread to the south of the Yangtze River, the whole country was shaken. Not to mention the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, even ordinary people knew that it was impossible for their ruler to go to another house to worship, and the whole country fell into panic.

In the court hall, Li Yu was also very frightened. While sending envoys to Daliang, he hurriedly summoned Huangfu Jixun and Chen Qiao's generals to ask for countermeasures.

At this time, the opinions of the court were not unified.

Some people euphemistically suggested that maybe they could go, even in the worst case, considering that the previous rulers of the Southern Han Dynasty and Shu Kingdom lived well in Daliang.

Besides, with Jiangnan's strength, it is difficult to reject Qin. Today's Jiangnan is surrounded by Qin on all sides, and even Wu Yue in the east is just a minion of Qin.

This kind of rhetoric caused controversy in the court, but the fact that the person who said this was not executed immediately showed a lot of trends in the court.

The envoy of Qin State was still in the south of the Yangtze River, but Li Yu was a little wavering.

At this time, a group of officials led by Chen Qiao stood up and tried to persuade Li Yu not to go north, but to immediately strengthen the river defense and prepare to fight the northern army. They also used Liu Wei's fate as an example to illustrate the danger.

Most importantly, Chen Qiao said something straightforward, thinking about Zhou's parents and daughter.

These words really chilled Li Yu, who was still a little vacillating, and he also felt that Shi Congyun was very likely to kill him because of Zhou Xian...

So they summoned the envoys of the Qin State, said that they were sick and refused their request, and asked them to tell the emperor, "I am sick in bed and cannot go north. I have served the dynasty for these years, just hoping to preserve the ancestral temple. I didn't expect this to happen. Now that this is the case, the only way to die is to die." That's all."

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