The next day, the 40,000 Xia troops attacked separately, looking for suitable wood around, yes, wood, this is also a task given to Zhou Yang by Li Qing, as for why it is too simple to find wood, Lin Feng did this in order to build a raft, for how to attack Jiangning Mansion, in fact, Lin Feng already had a plan in his heart to borrow strength.
At night, Zhou Yang returned to the camp of the Xia army and replied to Li Qing: "Lord Wang, in a reed swing in the Yangtze River, the last general found a batch of river boats. ” "Where are the river boats now, how far away are we now?"
"Lord Yu, the Tibetan boat is ten miles west of the Huaishui River."
Li Qing then said: "Tomorrow, you will take people to transport these river boats to the east bank of Huaishui south of Jiangning Mansion, and bring the timber we have prepared with them, and set up a raft to wait for the order of this king's army." ” "Yes, the last general order" After Zhou Yang received the military order, he then asked Li Qing: "Lord Wang, you really plan to flood Jiangning" "Of course, are you joking when you think this king?"
"But my lord, isn't it a bit too much to do this?"
"Alright, do what you have to do, and don't care about the rest."
Li Qing said angrily.
"Yes, the last will retire" On this day, Lin Feng took the guard battalion to the Yangtze River embankment to inspect, the embankment on the south bank of the Yangtze River was built strongly, if it was to use manpower, it would not be dug up in ten days and half a month, and the Song army could not give Li Qing so much time to prepare, according to the news, the main force of the Jiangnan Navy led by Li Bao will arrive tomorrow, and the main force of the Song army led by Zhao Xu, the Song Emperor of the Song Dynasty, will also arrive the day after tomorrow, so what is left for Li Qing is only one day today.
"How much gunpowder is left in the camp now," Li Qing asked the generals beside him.
"The prince probably still has about a thousand catties."
The general said to Li Qing.
"Send someone to bring all the gunpowder."
"Yes, the last general commands" When Xia Jiang went to carry gunpowder, Li Qing commanded his sergeants to start digging holes under the Yangtze River embankment, these holes are exquisite, a total of three holes were dug, and the city was in the shape of a zigzag between the three holes, so that the gunpowder explosion would form a relative impact force, thus doubling the power of gunpowder; After the gunpowder was filled, it was sealed with stone bricks, and in order to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet, Li Qing deliberately laid a layer of oiled paper all around it to keep out the moisture.
After all this preparation was completed, it was already dark, in order to prevent accidents, Li Qing with a team of soldiers was stationed on the Yangtze River embankment that night, as for the person who lit the fire at that time, Li Qing had already selected, there were not many people, as long as there were a few, as for the escape route was personally designated by Li Qing, when the time came, he only needed to flee east along the embankment, and Li Qing let his thousands of miles of horses out, and all the people left behind were the best war horses in the Xia army, this task can be said to be nine deaths, The slightest carelessness may be the end of the total annihilation.
In order to prevent the elite cavalry under his command from being impacted, Li Qing ordered all the Xia troops to be transferred to the west bank of Huaishui, and the time of the night passed quickly, but Li Qing did not withdraw to the west bank of Huaishui in the early morning of the next day, and the originally planned operation of blowing up the embankment stopped, which was not found by Li Qing's conscience, but Li Qing felt that it was too boring to flood only one Jiangning Mansion, Li Qing decided to play big, Li Qing planned to solve Li Bao's Jiangnan Navy Division and the main army of Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty.
At noon, hundreds of warships were ushered in on the Yangtze River, and the main army of the Jiangnan Naval Division led by Li Bao had arrived; A Xia general pointed to the warship in the distance and said, "Lord Wang, you see that it is the warship of the Jiangnan Navy of the Song Army." ” "This king saw it, and ordered to closely monitor the movements of the warships of the Song army's Jiangnan naval division, and not to act without the king's order."
Li Qing stood on the embankment and ordered.
"Yes, the last general commands" In addition, Li Bao led hundreds of warships of the Jiangnan Navy Division to dock at the wharf north of Jiangning Mansion, and brought 70,000 sailors to go ashore here, and then headed for Jiangning Mansion, after all the sailors and soldiers landed, in order to prevent the warships from being captured or burned by the Xia army, Li Bao ordered all the warships to be transferred to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Jiangning Mansion, Imperial Palace.
Regardless of the tiredness, Li Bao immediately met with the Empress Dowager Zhu, who lived in Funing Palace, and after seeing the Empress Dowager Zhu, Li Bao saluted and said: "The last general Li Bao will meet the Empress Dowager." ” "Aiqing is exempt."
Empress Dowager Zhu said happily; "Aiqing came to King Qin in the starry night, and it was hard work."
"The duty of the last general is not to say bitter."
Li Bao said: "The Empress Dowager will bring 70,000 sailors and soldiers this time, please rest assured that the Empress Dowager will have no worries in Dingbao Jiangning Mansion." ” "Okay, with Aiqing's words, the mourning family will be relieved."
Empress Dowager Zhu said; "Li Bao listened to the order, and the mourning family ordered you to be the general of the Jiangning Mansion garrison to command all the troops in the city to resist the attack of the Xia army."
"The last general will take the order, the Queen Mother Chitose, Chitose, Chitose" Li Bao knelt down and ordered.
In order to prevent accidents in Jiangning Mansion, Li Bao's army has been cowering in the city after entering Jiangning Mansion, and Li Qing has been monitoring all movements in Jiangning Mansion on the embankment, and he did not plan to lead his soldiers to evacuate until it was almost dawn at this time.
Before leaving, Li Qing told the few soldiers who remained: "Brothers, you are real warriors, what you have done will go down in history, if you go back alive, this king will add you to the rank of knight, if you are unlucky, your women, children, and old people, this king will support you."
"We will swear allegiance to the king."
Several people immediately knelt down on one knee and said.
"Remember the time of ignition, after the Song army arrived outside Jiangning Mansion."
Li Qing finally instructed.
"Obey the Prince's Orders" After Jiangning Mansion was surrounded, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty selected 50,000 elites from the army as the vanguard, and drove to Jiangning Mansion before the army.
"Look, the Song army has arrived."
A soldier said.
"Evacuate as soon as the fire is ignited."
The officer ordered.
After everyone got on the horse, the officer personally lit the medicine twist, "呲, 呲, 呲" medicine twist burned rapidly, several people flew along the embankment to the east, after a short time only to hear a loud "boom", the original extremely strong Yangtze River embankment collapsed in an instant, the boiling Yangtze River water rushed out of the gap, the speed of the flood was very fast, those Xia soldiers did not have time to escape and became the first victim to be swallowed by the flood.
Then the flood poured directly into the Jiangning Mansion, the entire Jiangning Mansion became an ocean, the houses in the city were affected by the flood, and some of them have been washed away, the Great Song Palace in the center of the Jiangning Mansion has become the only place that has not been flooded due to the relatively high foundation, but basically the lower part of the palace has also been submerged, many people who survived and were not washed away by the flood climbed to the roof, trees or moved to the city wall, and all the grain, grass, cloth, armament and so on stored in the city were flooded.
More serious outside the city, the 30,000 elite Song troops who entered the city were washed away by the flood on the spot, and all the thousands of miles of fertile fields around Jiangning Mansion became a Ze country, and the rolling torrent made Jiangning Mansion, which was originally fortunate to be saved soon, instantly fall to the bottom again
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