The Battle of Taihu continued until the evening, and Dong Yicheng was anxious and desperate to attack. He knew that the little emperor who led the partial army was under the greatest pressure, and that the only one who could save him at the moment was himself. He also knew that everything he had been united with His Majesty since he joined the General's Office. He was prosperous and glorious, and he was defeated. He died in battle, and his descendants could have glory for several lifetimes; the little emperor died in battle, and whether it was now or in the future, it turned into smoke and clouds in a blink of an eye.

After a fierce battle, both sides were already trapped in the sky. Dong Yicheng's troops lost more than 30 warships, which seemed not many, but this was one of the rare since the Qiongzhou navy formed an army. He saw that the enemy's Cao army had been compressed to the mouth of the Cave Army south of the eastern island of the southern Taihu Lake. At the end was the outlet from Taihu Lake to Wujiang. At this moment, the tide had begun to recede, and the enemy might escape. He knew that the final decisive battle had arrived and ordered the flagship Taishan to launch an attack on the enemy's formation.

At this time, Zhang Xuan's life was not easy. His Cao army had lost more than half. Nearly 300 warships destroyed by the Song army, and more than 500 ships were captured. At present, only the Changshu Qianhu Institute, which was relatively intact at the central army, and the Qianhu Institute, led by Zhu Qing, were also beaten to death. He knew that the entire army had no morale and defeat was inevitable. Zhang Xuan looked at Zhu Qing. When the two of them had their eyes met, they all understood their respective thoughts - run!

However, it seemed too late to run. The Song army had already rushed over by the ebbing tide. The giant ship that was leading the way rushed into the formation. The mountain-like hull knocked away the ships that could not be avoided in the formation and crushed them. Hundreds of warships behind followed and attacked them with crossbows, slashing their formation in half. The enemy dragon ship team that had been harassing behind launched another attack and followed them. In order to avoid, their warships rushed to the shallows while dodging and stranded on the lakeside.

The rapid offensive of the Song army made Zhang Xuan, who was determined to retreat, fight again without intention, but his commander ship was entangled by several enemy warships and kept bombarding with artillery fire. He had no time to reach the estuary. The mast broke, the commander flag fell, and the rudder tower was destroyed. The commander ship that had lost control could only float with the retreating tide. Fortunately, Zhu Qing led several warships to arrive at this time, blocking the chasing enemy ship and leading it to his ship.

Zhang Xuan looked forward, but saw the retreating tide wrapped around the broken boat board, mixed with countless floating corpses, all rushing to the estuary of the river. The lake water changed color and the estuary of the river was blocked. The warships behind him were placed on the masts, hung flags, and surrendered. Seeing that the situation was hopeless and the road ahead was blocked, he gritted his teeth and directed the ship to rush into a river and abandoned his army...

Hubi Tou attacked the enemy who retreated into Ewan one after another, and brought in three thousand-captains and more than a dozen centuries, but still could not break through the enemy's artillery blockade line. As large warships equipped with stone throwers were continuously destroyed, the attack became more difficult. The Badu ship, who luckily rushed through the blockade line, boarded the ship and fought in close combat with the enemy, but was often shot by the opponent before getting on the ship, killed by a knife, and the ship was blown up.

At dusk, the Longwan Navy no longer had the ability to continue attacking and barely blocked the enemy in the lake and bay. Then the two armies entered a confrontation and returned to peace for the time being. However, the Song navy on the western front suddenly launched an attack and quickly defeated the Cao army, which shocked Hubidao. He knew that the Cao army had failed and his right wing would lose cover, and the enemy would definitely attack him.

When evacuating north, the Song army in Ewan was able to intercept the attack in half; there were ferries to the south, and the water was shallow, and even a hundred stone boat could not pass through. Now it was the time of low tide, and the shallows by the lake had been exposed, and there was no hope of retreating south; the only way was the two waterways. Now that the Cao army was defeated, this access road had been controlled by the Song army on the Western Front, which was blocked in the narrow waters northwest of Taihu Lake. Hubituo suddenly found himself in a desperate situation. He knew that with his current strength, he could not break north and could not break through the main force of the enemy's western front.

Seeing this call, he looked gloomy and the three armies came in a fierce manner. However, the most powerful Cao army was defeated first. The Zhending Army, who was able to conquer and fight, was trapped on an isolated island and had no place to use it. He was currently concentrating on opening the passage from the island to the lakeshore. The two bridges that were less than 100 feet wide were not only their way to survive and also their deathbed.

Hubituo saw it well. Zhang Xingzu, who had long been feeling the crisis, had already begun to fight for himself during the battle between the naval forces of both sides. But he did not expect that the Song army suddenly seized the ferry and blocked the north of the bridge. The troops could not be deployed on the narrow bridge. The other side was guarding the bridge. One man was the one who was the one who could not open the door. A wave of people rushed forward and was killed by the Song army's musket before they could fight. He was happy and even gave them a shot. After a long time of fighting, he could not break through. The bridge was covered with dead and wounded soldiers, and blood stained the lake with pink waves.

At the critical moment of life and death, both wolves and sheep can be in the same room. At this moment, in the crisis of the annihilation of the entire army, Hubituo and Zhang Xingzu had to sit together. Although they were a little embarrassed, they didn't care much. Under the current circumstances, both of them understood that it was impossible to escape without being able to escape without being able to do so. Only a hero cut off his arm can find a glimmer of hope.

After a lot of disputes and discussions, the two decided that the navy would block the enemy. Then the Zhending army would take the naval warships to land on the beach, establish a foothold to cover the naval army and retreat to Wuxian, and return to Pingjiang to defend. This idea was obviously that the Longwan navy would suffer a loss. They not only had to abandon all the warships, but also had to take on the task of robbing the beachheads, but they could only escape in this way. As for the reason for the defeat, Zhang Xingzu had thought about it for him. It was precisely because of the Cao army's greed for life and fear of death and fled first that the defeat of this battle was the failure of the battle...

After dark that day, the enemy suddenly launched a landing war. They were completely desperate to fight. The warships carrying infantry forces forced the beach without any danger of being stranded and rushed to the shore. Both sides started close combat face to face. The defense line built by the 1st Land War Brigade was instantly washed away. After more positions were lost, they had to fight and retreat and reorganize the defense line. After the enemy seized the bridge, the Zhending Army trapped on the island immediately increased its troops on the shore through the ferry bridge and expanded the landing ground.

Zhao Bing did not expect that the two of them were so determined to escape, so he hurriedly ordered the warships to set sail and intercept the enemy landing fleet and block them from landing. However, the enemy ships blocking the bay entrance did not retreat. He did not dare to fire rockets to the shore to reinforce, in order to prevent accidental injuries, and could only defeat the enemy in front of him first. After Dong Yicheng discovered it, he also sent warships to reinforce, but the enemy ignited the warships gathered on the waterway to block them from passing. He could only order the warships at the river mouth to move to the east island, fire guns on the island, and block the Zhending Army that boarded the ships and crossed the bridge.

After a chaotic battle, Zhao Bing could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Unexpectedly, the battle with his hands was finally fought like this. The enemy Longwan Water Army abandoned all the warships and remnants of warships and fled ashore with the Zhending Army. Zheng Yi was also very angry. He led the army to chase after thirty miles. The enemy did not dare to enter Wuxian and snatched some merchant ships at the ferry. About 3,000 remnants entered the canal and turned to escape in Wuxi.

The next day, Zhao Bing ordered the troops to rectify ships, clean up the battlefield, and check the results. In today's battle, the Song army wiped out nearly 20,000 enemies, including more than 8,000 people, more than 600 warships were captured, and countless weapons were seized; the Song army suffered a thousand casualties and lost nearly 100 warships, which was said to be a great victory, but the losses for the first fleet that was alone were quite large, but it was also worth it. After this battle, the four ten thousand houses of the enemy in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province were basically annihilated. The only shortcoming was that three enemy heads ran away.

Zhao Bing originally wanted to lead his army to continue to go north to capture Wuhu and control Taiping Prefecture after this war, but Dong Yicheng's army now needs to rest and replenish ammunition, so he could only temporarily put this thought. He decided to let them and the First Land Battle Brigade temporarily stationed in Pingjiang to rest and replenish, and it was also a key place for the throat, a place of wealth, and could block the canal. The first fleet could go north to control the Yangtze River Estuary and the Qiantang River Estuary.

As for where he went, Zhao Bing hadn't thought about it yet, but in short, he didn't want to return to the court. But just as he was thinking, Ni Liang led his army to welcome him. It turned out that after he left, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie ordered Huai's brave army to guard the prefectures and counties stationed in Shaoxing Prefecture, and dispatched the guards and the fifth division to attack Fuyang, Deqing, Huzhou, Xiuzhou, Chongde, Haiyan and other counties around Hangzhou, isolated Hangzhou, forming a siege.

At this time, Lu Xiufu also learned that the young emperor inspected Zhao Mengjin's army and decided to capture Jiankang, he personally led the guards and Dong Yicheng's troops to Taihu Lake to annihilate the enemy Zhending army, Longwan Navy and the Cao army belonging to the sea route transport grain Wanhu Mansion. In shock, he urgently ordered Ni Liang to capture Huzhou and take him back to Taihu Lake. However, when he arrived, the battle was over, so he "taken" the sage to return to the south.

Zhao Bing knew that Lu Xiufu was worried about his own safety; the other was concerned about political influence. The emperor of the dynasty personally led troops to recover the old capital, which was different from others. This was not only conducive to improving morale and expanding the influence of the dynasty, but also the Yuan court had always claimed that the Song Dynasty had lost its country, the emperor was captured, and King Wei was dead. After ten years, the spread of news was blocked, and with the Yuan court blockade of such news, many people no longer knew that there was Song. Their own exposure shows that the Song Dynasty still exists, and now they have begun to fight back and restore the country.

After a little consideration, Zhao Bing still agreed. After all, he was the emperor and was not an ordinary person who could do whatever he wanted. But he still insisted on waiting for a day and waited until Zhao Mengjin's news. Who knew that people were really careless and there was news before noon. Yesterday, after Zhao Mengjin and Liu Zhu led a large army to break through Jiangyin, the water and land armies followed the river and had not yet arrived at Dantu, Runzhou officials sent people to surrender, and they were expected to arrive at the city of Jiankang in the future.

Zhao Bing said nothing about these things. Since Huzhou had been recovered, he took a boat out of Taihu Lake and drove south along the Dongshao River to Hangzhou. Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie went ten miles forward to welcome the lords and stationed in Qiantang County. At this time, the guards and the fifth division had gathered under the city of Hangzhou, a total of about 50,000 troops, claiming to be a 100,000 army surrounded Hangzhou. He first sent envoys to the city to recruit surrenders. Once the negotiations broke down, he began to attack the city.

Since he came, he was at peace. Zhao Bing knew that war was not a joke, and that Hangzhou had to be taken down, and this would also become a turning point for his hard work for many years. However, as a symbol of the Yuan Dynasty's conquest of the Song Dynasty, he estimated that this battle was inevitable, so he had to be prepared for the battle, so he summoned all ministers to discuss how to attack the city, survey the terrain, and draw detailed pictures. He also tried to find people who knew the situation in the city to understand the situation in the city. He quickly got into the role and studied and confirmed the information collected by all parties, which also gave him a further understanding of this familiar and unfamiliar city.

In modern Hangzhou, you will know the famous attractions such as West Lake, Lingyin Temple, Yue Fei's Tomb and Leifeng Pagoda, etc., but no one will mention that this was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, after the Qin unified the six kingdoms, a county seat was established at the foot of Lingyin Mountain, called Qiantang, and belonged to Kuaiji County. At that time, the modern Hangzhou city was still a river beach that was roamed with the river tide, and the West Lake had not yet been formed.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and Hangzhou was still called Qiantang. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the farmland water conservancy construction here began to take shape, and a seawall was built from Baoshi Mountain to Wansongling, which separated part of the water from the sea and became an inner lake. During the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the West Lake had been formed, and it was known as "Mingsheng Lake" and "Jinniu Lake". In 589 AD, Emperor Wen of Su abolished Qiantang and established Hangzhou, and Hangzhou was established as a place name since then. Since then, Yang Su built Hangzhou City, with the city wall facing the Yanqiao River in the east, West Lake in the west, Fenghuang Mountain in the south, and Qiantangmen in the north.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Hangzhou became the capital of Wuyue Kingdom. The Qian family of Wuyue King expanded Hangzhou City twice, doubled the urban area of ​​Hangzhou. Until the Southern Song Dynasty established its capital in Hangzhou, it was renamed Lin'an, becoming the country's political, economic and cultural center, and the largest state in the country. At that time, Hangzhou had thirteen dry city gates and five water city gates.

The city walls of the Southern Song Dynasty were also divided into inner and outer cities. The inner city was the imperial city where the emperor lived. Due to the limited national strength in the early days of the founding of the country, he could only build the imperial city frugal. In addition, Fenghuang Mountain was the commanding height of Hangzhou City, which facilitated control of the entire city and beautiful scenery. Therefore, Zhao Gou selected the ruins of the Wuyue King Palace to build the imperial city. In the 28th year of Shaoxing, it was built with nine miles around. Because it was located in the hilly area of ​​Fenghuang Mountain with undulating terrain, various buildings in the Forbidden City were built according to the terrain, and the layout seemed staggered and flexible.
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