There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 300 Bombardment of Xiangyang City ([-])

The news of the capture of Shunyang was immediately reported to Li Chu.

Li Chu didn't care that it was getting late, so he immediately brought the news to invite Zhu Wu to the county government office.

When he heard that Shunyang had been conquered, and that all Shunyang's water army and ships were under the control of Yang Zhi and Lu Junyi, Zhu Wu was overjoyed, and quickly congratulated Li Chu: "Congratulations, my lord, the Danjiang water army has been captured, and Xiangyang will be taken into the bag. Xiangyang is already in the lord's pocket, not only that, the entire Huguang land will also be attacked by the lord."

"It all depends on the strategy of the military division."

Li Chu was also very excited.

There are rivers and waters everywhere in the Huguang area. The navy here is an important military force. With a strong enough navy, you can easily intersperse the entire Huguang area along the various rivers. Not only Huguang, but also at that time. Going down the Yangtze River, when Pan Yangze arrives, the Jiangnan area will also be under Li Chu's attack.

In the vicinity of Xiangyang, apart from Sweat and Baihe, there is no larger place to train the navy.

In the upper reaches of Xiangyang Sweat, the Danjiang River not far from Xiangyang became the base camp for Wang Qing to train the navy. The only place where sailors can be trained.

Now Shunyang has returned to Li Chu, and all the navy in Shunyang have been captured.

After Yang Zhi made the statistics, he reported some information to Li Chu.

Among the 130 defenders captured by Yang Zhi, there were [-] navy troops, and [-] large and small navy warships.

Liu Min in Rang County did not succeed in lobbying, and in Shunyang Liu Min did not even have a chance to lobby Zhang Yi. Although he had credit for leading the army to break the two cities of Rang County and Shunyang, Liu Min was still not at ease. After all, he was Wang Qing. The surrendered generals are no match for the people on Li Chu's side.

When all the prisoners were imprisoned in the camp outside the city, Liu Min took the initiative to ask Yang Zhi to lobby the navy.

As a general of Nanyang, Liu Min was not directly promoted to this position, but was defeated in battle after battle with Wang Qing.

This Shunyang was fought by Liu Min along with Wang Qing's side Du Po, but Du Po went to Xiangyang, Liu Min went to Nanyang Wancheng, and Wang Qing asked Zhang Yi to take care of Shunyang.Liu Min, the sailor of Wang Qing's component, also participated in the management at the beginning.

The commander of Wang Qing's [-] navy troops was a man named Fang Xing, who had a very good relationship with Liu Min.

Under Liu Min's persuasion, Fang Xing immediately agreed to join the Qilin Army, and at the same time, he also asked all the thirteen thousand naval troops at his disposal to join him.Yang Zhizheng had a headache over this matter, but he didn't expect that Liu Min would surrender the navy as soon as he took action.

The navy has surrendered, and the remaining [-] defenders also surrendered helplessly.

Yang Zhi asked Fang Xing to continue commanding the [-] sailors, Liu Min as the commander of the navy, and Fang Xing as the deputy commander.

It would have been great if Fang Xing was able to save his life. I didn’t expect that not only did he not lose his position, but he would continue to command the more than 3000 sailors. Although the main general was Liu Min, it didn’t affect anything, because Liu Min didn’t understand the navy. Military, Fang Xing also understood the intention of the Qilin Army, and immediately bowed down to Yang Zhi and thanked him.

At dawn the next day, Hun Jianglong Li Jun also came over with his more than 4000 sailors.

Without saying a word, Yang Zhi put the entire Danjiang Navy at Li Jun's disposal. The three heroes of the Yuan family and Fang Xing were temporarily placed under Li Jun. Li Jun had the final say on the Danjiang Navy.

Li Chu took the initiative to ask Mu Hong to invite Li Jun, which was already very satisfying to Li Jun. This proved that the Qilin Army valued him. He did not expect that after arriving in Danjiang, the Qilin Army would value him so much. As soon as he returned, he dispatched all the naval forces here, and immediately bowed three times in the direction of Wancheng.

Fang Xing's [-] sailors have been training in Danjiang for a long time, and Li Jun's [-] sailors have already fought a hundred battles. In addition to the [-] sailors that the three heroes of the Yuan family took away, Shunyang is now Here, Li Jun controls as many as [-] navy troops.

But with so many sailors, this ship is indeed a bit inadequate.

Yang Zhi reported this matter to Li Chu. Li Chu immediately said that he would find a solution to the ship issue. If there are not enough ships at present, he can first collect and buy them from civilian ships in the Danjiang area. All the money for the purchase will be provided by him. come out.

Immediately, Yang Zhi bought a large number of fishing boats in Shunyang to fill Li Jun's navy.

Li Jun also spent a day with the [-] sailors on the alchemy.

At dawn the next day, Yang Zhi was left to garrison Shunyang. Lu Junyi ordered [-] soldiers to go south to Shunyang.

Let Li Jun lead another [-] sailors to go south from Danjiang and enter Hanshui River from Danjiangkou.

The upper source of the Han River is the Dan River.

Qiande is not far below the mouth of the Danjiang River, and the two armies on the water route were dispatched together. After the capture of Shunyang the day before yesterday, news has leaked here. It is estimated that Qiande County has already received the news that Shunyang was destroyed, and is now urgently stationed.

Lu Junyi led the army directly to the gate of Qiande County to confront the Qiande defenders.

At the same time, Li Jun led the water army out of Danjiang from Danjiangkou, entered Hanshui, and arrived in Qiande County in less than half a quarter.

Qiande County is backed by the Han River, and the garrison here is only [-]. When Lu Junyi's [-] troops surrounded the north gate and the east gate, Qiande's garrison brought all [-] troops to garrison at these two gates. Unable to defend the water, the defenders had no idea that this group of people would come from the water.

After all, it is from Ruzhou, where is the ship?
When Li Jun arrived with [-] sailors, the guard of Qiande was immediately frightened, and Li Jun attacked the county without even a chance to escape. At the same time, Lu Junyi broke through Qiande's defense At the north gate, General Gande was killed by the rebel army on the main road of the county.

So far, the five counties of Shunyang, Qiande, Rangxian, Xinye, and Biyang in Li Chu's plan have all fallen into his own territory.

Nanyang was completely occupied by Li Chu.

After capturing Qiande, Li Jun's navy only rested in Qiande for a while, and then set off immediately, going south along the Han River to clean up some of the strongholds of Wang Qing's defenders along the Han River.

On the other side, Li Chu had already arrived in Rang County with a tank in his tank.

Li Chu only stayed in Rang County for a moment, and then continued to go south to Xiangyang.

Lu Junyi also left only 5000 people to garrison Qiande County, and took the remaining 5000 people to Xiangyang.

There are several small towns between Rang County and Xiangyang, so the soldiers in the small towns were directly wiped out.

When it was dawn again, Li Chu also rushed to the other side of the Han River outside Xiangyang City.

At this moment, Lu Junyi's [-] troops had already joined Li Chu, and Li Jun's [-] sailors also penetrated the Han River.

Xiangyang City.

Wang Qing was woken up early in the morning. When he rushed to the city wall of Xiangyang with great reluctance, he couldn't believe it when he saw the navy ships passing by on the river.

Especially on the bows of these ships are the Qilin flags of the Qilin army.

It made him feel like he was still in a dream.

When did the Qilin Army reach the outside of Xiangyang City?

On the other side of the Hanshui River, Li Chu pointed the turret of the tank at Xiangyang City.

(End of this chapter)