Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Chen agreed to Wu Jie's request!

Indeed, Jiangnan does not need so many troops to be stationed now! On the contrary, it is going north to fight, and now we need soldiers and horses! Moreover, after the end of the Northern War, the army will go northward, go straight to Huanglong, completely eliminate Jurchen, and even clear out the grassland. All these require soldiers and horses!

Wu Jie's navy was only used to rehabilitate the south of the Yangtze River, and it was really overkill.

In the next few days, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Liu Guangshi, Li Qiong and others led an army of more than 100,000 to attack the remnant Dongting Lake Rebels.

Almost effortlessly, the remnants of Dongting Lake's rebels were wiped out.

In fact, most of the Dongting Lake Rebels had no intention of fighting again after hearing the news that Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo had been killed.

Over the years, they have lived enough of this kind of fearful life, with Zhao Chen's holy purpose, as long as they surrender, all their sins will be forgotten, so no one is willing to resist.

By July 15th, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Dongting Lake were either wiped out or surrendered, and the war here was basically over.

So far, the chaos of Dongting Lake is settled!

At noon, the red sun was roasting the earth, and the weather became extremely hot again.

Zhao Chen had already arrived in Dongting Lake from Miluo County at this moment. He sat on a big boat with Wu Yan, Wu Lin and others.

The waves were sparkling and very dazzling, but the three of them were discussing a strategy to pacify the Huaihe River.

"Leave 20,000 soldiers and horses in Dongting Lake, Wu Lin, you will lead an army of 30,000 troops northward, enough to calm the Huaihe River!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, I also want to follow you northward." Wu Lin said.

"This can't work, Jiangnan must have a general guard at any rate." Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.

He can understand Wu Lin's thoughts, Wu Lin also wants to make contributions, but Jiangnan is so important that there must be no turmoil, so it is a certain thing to send a large army and generals to garrison! Wu Jie and Wu Lin are all famous generals in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since Wu Jie followed him to the north, then Wu Lin must stay.

"Just let Wu Gong stay here." Wu Lin said.

Wu Gong is Wu Jie's eldest son, only fifteen years younger than Wu Jie. He also followed Wu Jie in the army early, and is now a general in the army.

"He can't, he is too young to handle major issues." Wu Jie said without hesitation.

Wu Gong is actually a famous player in history! In the original Southern Song history, the Wu family guarded Sichuan and Shu for three generations. Until the Mongols finally called, the Wu family perished with the demise of Sichuan and Shu! Three generations of the Wu family came out in large numbers, and they are a famous family of famous generals in history. However, as Wu Jie said, Wu Gong's age is still too young now, only twenty years old, not enough to guard such an important place in the south of the Yangtze River.

"I got it." Wu Lin was rather unhappy in his heart.

"Ping down the Lianghuai, mainly to pacify the six counties of Xiangyang! As long as the six counties of Xiangyang are calmed down, the Lianghuai will be naturally stable, and the remaining thieves can only hide in the mountains. At that time, they can be purged slowly." Wu Jie said.

"I understand." Wu Lin nodded.

He felt quite disapproving. There were about 100,000 bandits in the Huaihe River, but they were divided into countless groups. These bandits also occupied several cities. However, they would not develop the economy. They would only burn, kill and loot. The local people treated these bandits. Detested. These bandits did not have any organization, and they were fighting like the Dongting Lake Rebels. Under the leadership of the leader, the young men rushed forward. In Wu Lin's view, such a mob is vulnerable, and he is confident that he will level the two Huaihe Rivers within a few months. Originally in history, Yue Fei led an army of 30,000 to completely eliminate the Lianghuai bandits within two months. The strength of the Lianghuai bandits was indeed too weak.

"After the suppression of the Lianghuai, there were also bandits in Henan and other places, and you have to eliminate the bandits in these places! In addition, if the Zhongyuan Nuzhen is completely defeated, some remnants may go south, and you will also be responsible for destroying these! Also, there are also Jiangnan. Some pirates, these are also under your control! In short, your tasks are also very heavy! If you can handle these, the credit will not be under the suppression of the Central Plains! After all, there is no problem with the elimination of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Central Plains. It's a foregone conclusion. Instead, you led 50,000 troops to garrison Jiangnan and let the people of Jiangnan live and work in peace and contentment. This is a great contribution." Zhao Chen laughed.

"I will understand at the end." Wu Lin said.

"Wu Jie, let's return to Lin'an in the afternoon. After we arrive in Lin'an, we will go to the sea and head north along the sea route! Originally, I wanted to take Liu Guangshi, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others back to the north from land. Now Liu Guangshi, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others have also been handed over to Wu Lin to deal with it!" Zhao Chen said.

"Good!" Wu Jie agreed.

In the afternoon of that day, Wu Jie led an army of fifty thousand aboard a large ship, took the large ship to the north of Dongting Lake, and then entered the Yangtze River from there.

Wang Shu went north with Zhao Chen! During his three months in Jiangnan, he has established a branch of the Propaganda Department here, and has also dispatched capable personnel to manage it! Now the Central Plains war is about to start. Once the Central Plains is conquered, the task of the Propaganda Department will be even more onerous, so he will also bring the remaining elites of the Propaganda Department into the Central Plains, ready to put into work at any time.

Kang An originally led the 10,000 Yuying and followed Zhao Chen to the south and into the south of the Yangtze River. Now that he left 5,000 people under the command of Wang De, he returned to the north with Zhao Chen with the remaining 5,000 people.

Originally, Kang An was only responsible for Zhao Chen's safety, but now he has taken over the Intelligence Department and is responsible for reporting important information to Zhao Chen at any time.

The fleet headed north in mighty, breeze, after all, it was autumn, and by dusk, the weather had become cooler.

Zhao Chen and Song Qingyao stood on the bow.

Zhao Chen held Song Qingyao's hand and kneaded it lightly, Song Qingyao glanced at him a little annoyingly.

"I also stayed in Dongting Lake for a long time, now I want to say goodbye, and I feel a little bit unwilling to give up." Song Qingyao said.

"The scenery here is really beautiful, there are a lot of reeds over there...Look, a lot of water birds!" Zhao Chen pointed to the front and said in surprise.

"Well, the products here are also very rich, and there are a lot of fish in the lake! This is a radius of eight hundred miles, and I don't know how many products are produced in a year!" Song Qingyao said.

"Eight Baili Dongting! I'm afraid I won't see these scenes in a thousand years!" Zhao Chen said.

"A thousand years? How do you know you can't see it?" Song Qingyao argued.

"I guess." Zhao Chen laughed.

In fact, there will be Dongting Lake after a thousand years, but the area of ​​Dongting Lake has been reduced by more than half, which is far worse than it is now! In later generations, many lakes and rivers will no longer be found because of ecological destruction! Like the Yellow River, it was originally called the mother river of the Chinese nation. It was called the mother river of the Chinese nation. After the reform and opening up, the ecology was destroyed. Not to mention the flooding of the Yellow River, it is very good to be able to flow continuously. ! Of course, there may also be other factors! For example, Liangshanpo in the Song Dynasty had a huge area and was the largest lake in the north. It was called the "Little Dongting". It had a radius of several hundred miles. The Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty took place there! Later, when the Kingdom of Jin and the Mongols invaded, there were rebels fighting guerrillas and resistance with foreign Tartars, but because of the change of the Yellow River, Liangshanbo had completely disappeared!

Zhao Chen hoped that the Han people would stop taking the old path of ecological destruction, and hope that all these beautiful sceneries can stay!

He secretly vowed that in the future, the people will be urged to care for the ecology, so that the ecology of China will remain the same.

"Husband, several of my juniors were all caught by you! They used to practice martial arts with me and hardly participated in the rebellion. You let them go." After a while, Song Qingyao said suddenly.

"Okay! I'll let them go. They are just little girls. I don't mean to lock them up! After letting them go, there will be someone with you when I leave Jiangnan." Zhao Chen said.

"I don't want to stay in Jiangnan alone." Song Qingyao gritted her silver teeth and said.

"I'm going to the north, I have big things to do! I am the Emperor of Song Dynasty, and I have to go! You are pregnant now, if you follow me all the way, I am afraid that the child will be affected! Besides, the war in the north is likely to be dangerous If it happens, I can't let you go risky! You stay in Lin'an and wait until the Central Plains War is over, or after the birth of your child, you come to the north again, or I send someone to pick you up, or I may return to Jiangnan again by myself." Zhao Chen said. .

"I can't bear you." Song Qingyao said with reddish eyes.

She didn't know what was wrong with her. She didn't meet Zhao Chen before, and although she missed it in her heart, she was not too far away from it. But in the last few days, Tiantian and Zhao Chen have been together, feeling Zhao Chen's tenderness, affection, caring and thoughtfulness. Only a few days later, I was unwilling to be separated from Zhao Chen anyway, and only wanted to be with Zhao Chen.

She used to be just unrequited love, but now she is passionately in love, which is naturally different.

She didn't understand much, but she didn't want Zhao Chen to leave.

"You still only have three or four months. Waiting for a few months, will you follow me on the battlefield with a big belly?" Zhao Chen said.

"Hate," Song Qingyao groaned.

"Well, you stay here! I miss you every day, I will write to you some things that happened in the north, you can also write to me." Zhao Chen said.

"Okay." Song Qingyao nodded gently.

Although she was reluctant, she also knew that Zhao Chen was definitely going north, and she was leaning on Zhao Chen's body. She knew that she could stay with Zhao Chen for more than ten days and wait until Lin'an was the time to truly parte.

"Can you let the master go?" After leaning on like this for a while, Song Qingyao suddenly raised her head.

"Queen?" Zhao Chen frowned slightly, and said, "You can't let her go now! But, don't worry, we will not abuse her. I will imprison her in Lin'an prison, a separate prison! After arriving in Lin'an, you can also visit her, you can talk to her, bring her some books and other things, but you can't let her go! When the world is truly unified, the court will be stable, and the Bailian Sect will have nothing to do with the court. Threatening, I will let her go."

Song Qingyao sighed lightly and nodded.

She knew that this was the best ending for the master.

She grew up with her master and treated her master as a mother. As long as the master can live and be free in the future, she is relieved. As for the master's ambition, she will never help the master realize it.

"I really don't want you to leave!" After a while, she turned around, hugged Zhao Chen tightly, closed her eyes lightly, Zhao Chen reached out and hugged her tightly, and kissed her gently. Then let go.

The ship went north like this, even if it was dark, it didn't stop. After reaching Yueyang, the fleet entered the Yangtze River, and then went all the way south.

On July 25th, the fleet came from the Qiantang River to Lin'an, Hangzhou.

Zhao Chen took Song Qingyao to the palace and placed Song Qingyao in Lin'an Palace.