Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"The solitary smoke rises straight, and the distant trees look round..."

Looking at the ancient capital of Jinling, Li Yu was restless and had no interest in writing words. He just recited two lines of the famous Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi.

It was June now, and the two sides of the river were lush and green, which made the Jinling City with a large concave on the city wall in the distance lose a lot of its fierceness.

Some people were restless, and some were calm.

Before the person arrived, a plain voice came first:

"The king can still accommodate some elegance."

Then a middle-aged man in a brocade robe with a sword on his waist and a capable figure stepped out of the cabin, and stood on the side of the ship with a dragon-like and tiger-like step. He also looked back at the Jinling City that was getting farther and farther away in the distance, and the "Song" flag vaguely visible on the top of the city.

Li Yu was not polite to this:

"I am just a prisoner, why does General Cao humiliate me?"

Retracting his gaze, Cao Bin saw Li Yu's calm double pupils and...

"The king is really as the rumors say, with a full forehead and double teeth, noble beyond words."

With a full forehead and exposed and neat teeth, it is no wonder that rumors say that Li Yu is suspected because of his appearance.

Emperor Ku Gao Xin was born with double teeth, and Emperor Shun had double pupils, which can be called the noble appearance of emperors.

Seeing that Cao Bin did not take his words seriously, Li Yu was too lazy to say more, just turned sideways and focused on looking at Jinling City, sighing in his heart that the experience in the past six months was really like a dream.

After the Song army besieged the city, most of the officials in the court...in the city thought it was not a big deal.

First, Jinling was a strong city, and the Song army had few soldiers; second, there was the temporarily appointed Huangfu Jixun who led the army to fight the Song army, and there was also the Hongzhou Jiedushi Zhu Lingyun who led a large army to resist the Song army.

Although the Song army had the help of Qian Chu, who did not understand the lip and tooth cold, it was still a long expedition and could not last long.

Therefore, Jinling held on and fought to the death outside the city, which might not be able to repel the Song army and protect the country.

But... from the end of March, the besieged Song army began to test a new type of military equipment under the city.

At that time, Li Yu, who had nothing to do in Jinling City, climbed up to look far away, and discussed with his ministers but could not guess it.

But soon, you can know the power of this thing without climbing the city wall.

Stones weighing hundreds of pounds and mud balls as big as a person, with the blessing of the military equipment, flew into the air, or hit the city wall, or directly crossed the city wall and caused countless casualties in the city.

After only four days of bombardment, and with the Song army digging at ease without interference from the Southern Tang army, the northern wall of Jinling finally collapsed into what it looks like now.

Under such circumstances, submitting a petition for surrender was the only choice Li Yu could make.

After the fall of Jinling, the morale of the Southern Tang army collapsed.

Huangfu Jixun was defeated, and he surrendered to the Song army after killing his main general.

Zhu Lingyun fought a decisive battle with the Song army, but was surrounded on three sides and died.

As for the "ministers" of the Southern Tang in Jinling, they are now all happy to welcome the king's army, and each of them presented a petition to call him a demon who is a seduce and a troublemaker in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, when Li Yu heard the title of "king" at this time, he felt ironic.

But now Cao Bin has achieved success and is full of vigor and ambition. He turned a blind eye to Li Yu's resistance and even patiently advised:

"You come to Bianjing in the name of the king. You only need to give the emperor a title of honor. You will not lack wealth and honor. The king can be a Marquis of Anle, write books and paintings with your brother, and live in Bianliang forever."

Li Yu sneered at Cao Bin's statement:

"Thirteen years ago, I entered Bianliang and wanted to make peace with Song but failed."

"In just two years, the Shu King who surrendered became the King of Chu in Bianliang."

"Long-lasting joy? Oh, it's better to ask my brother to give me more good wine when I pay my respects to him."

But after the sarcasm, Li Yu sighed to himself. Why didn't he understand what Cao Bin meant?

Even if he hated it now, he still wanted the title of the king. Although surrendering like this might follow in Meng Chang's footsteps, at least there was a chance of survival.

And if he didn't have the title of the king, then the current Song Dynasty's destruction of the Tang Dynasty would become a war to suppress rebellion, and he would be sentenced to death.

Therefore, Li Yu knew better that his words just now exposed his state of mind that he really didn't want to die.

Sure enough, Cao Bin had a blank expression on his face, but there was a smile in his words:

"It seems that the king is still willing to live."

Cao Bin pretended not to hear about Meng Chang's death. Although he guessed in his heart that it was probably because Wang Quanbin, the killer, caused unrest in Sichuan and Shu, that Meng Chang died suddenly, but he would not utter a word about the related guesses.

Just when Cao Bin and Li Yu were talking, another person came out of the cabin and laughed loudly.

"General Cao, are you kidding? If you can live, who would want to die?"

Li Yu, who was originally calm, was furious when he saw the person coming:

"Qian Chu!"

Now the fall of his Li Tang country is inevitable, and the key to this battle is naturally the breach of Jinling City by the flying giant stone machine.

But if you think seriously, if Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, could have a little understanding of the meaning of "lips and teeth are cold" at the beginning of the war, and joined forces with Tang to fight against Song, then why did he come to this?

Even if he didn't ask for a joint force to resist Song, and only needed Qian Chu to be impartial and not send a single soldier, then the Song army wouldn't have been so easy to cross the river.

But Qian Chu chose to help Song destroy Tang with all his strength, so Li Yu didn't have any idea about Song, but instead had a lot of resentment towards Nanyue, and almost wanted to eat it alive.

This expression made Qian Chu stop immediately and laughed:

"Why doesn't the king know the destiny?"

"Now that the Song officials have conquered all the southern areas, they only need to lead the army north to destroy Liu Han and defeat the Khitan. Then all China will return to the Song Dynasty and inherit the destiny of the Tang Dynasty."

"Why does the Lord Li have to imitate the mantis' arm as a chariot?"

Li Yu was furious:

"My Tang Dynasty is destroyed, how can you survive?"

"My mantis arm is like a chariot, what's the difference between you and the King of Yu?"

Faced with the scolding, Qian Chu's attitude was very relaxed:

"I have no intention of surviving when I cross the country."

"ah?"

Facing Li Yu's confused look, Qian Chu also sighed:

"The fortified city of Jinling was destroyed in five days, but my city in Qiantang is far inferior to Jinling."

"And since Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, the world has been in chaos. How many people can survive with soldiers and horses ruling the roost?"

"Now that the Song Dynasty officials are sweeping the north and south, and the world is once again united, Lord Li thinks that even if I help you, what difference will there be in the outcome of this battle?"

Li Yu remained silent. His family knew his own affairs. If the Song army took South Vietnam first, he would definitely send troops to assist, but in the end he would definitely be unable to save South Vietnam from being destroyed.

When the Song Dynasty takes Qiantang, it is inevitable to continue to move south. By then...

"General Cao, tell me, even if I join forces with Lord Li, can't the Song army defeat them one by one?"

Cao Bin pursed his lips and smiled and said nothing. He couldn't say that he didn't know about this flying stone machine at all.

Without this flying stone machine, it might take at least three to five years to defeat the two countries one by one.

Cao Bin's silence made Qian and Li take it as a confident confidence, so Li Yu became even more depressed, while Qian Chu became even more free and easy:

"It is my great fortune to be the Anlehou of the Song Dynasty."