Changzhou failed and Li Jing appointed Chai Kehong as the governor of Fenghua. Chai Kehong asked for support to Shouzhou, but died on the way to Shouzhou.

Li Jing sent various troops and horse marshals, and King Li Jingda of Qi led his troops to resist the troops of the Later Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, Chen Jue was appointed as his military supervisor, and Bian Hao, the former Wu'an Jiedushi, responded to him.

Han Xizai, a clerk of the Secretariat, believed that the prince was extremely distrustful and had to lead troops and send military supervisors, and Li Jing did not obey.

Li Jing also sent the Minister of Rites Pan Chengyou to Quanzhou to recruit brave generals in Jianzhou. Pan Chengyou recommended the former Yong'an Jieduan Xu Wenzhen, Jingjiang Jieduan Chen Decheng, and the younger brother of Jianzhou Zheng Yanhua and Lin Renhan.

Li Jing sent Xu Wenzhen as the support envoy of the west camp, and Zheng Yanhua and Lin Renzhao were also appointed as generals.

Ten days later, Lu Mengjun, the General of the Right Guard of Southern Tang, led tens of thousands of troops from Changzhou to Taizhou. Seeing this, the Zhou army immediately retreated. Lu Mengjun reoccupied Taizhou and sent Chen Decheng to garrison here.

Lu Mengjun immediately led his army to attack Yangzhou and set up camp in Shugang. The troops on both sides were very different. Han Lingkun immediately led his troops to retreat. Guo Hao immediately sent Zhang Yongde to provide assistance, and Han Lingkun immediately returned to Yangzhou.

Guo Hao sent Zhao Kuangyin to station in Liuhe again. Zhao Kuangyin spoke, "If any soldier from the Great Zhou dares to escape from Liuhe, I will cut off his legs!"

Han Lingkun then began to plan to defend the city, but since Guo Hao arrived at Shouchun City, he ordered all armies to attack the city day and night, but he still couldn't capture it for a long time.

Heavy rain fell day by day, and the water accumulated in the Zhou army camp reached several feet deep. There were countless losses of engineering equipment and missing soldiers and deaths. The soldiers and food were not transported. Li Deming had no news for a long time, so someone proposed to withdraw the troops.

At this time, a general suggested that Guo Hao go east to Haozhou to supervise the war, and claimed to the Tang garrison in the south of the city that Shouzhou had been captured. Guo Hao adopted this suggestion, followed the Huai River, and arrived in Haozhou at the end of May.

In Yangzhou, Han Lingkun defeated the Tang army in the east of Yangzhou City and captured Lu Mengjun alive. In his early years, when Lu Mengjun deposed Ma Xi'e and changed Ma Xichong, he almost killed the entire family of former Shuzhou governor Yang Zhaoyun, and robbed all his property.

When Han Lingkun entered Yangzhou, Ma Xichong gave the only remaining Yang girl to Han Lingkun, who was very fond of her.

After learning that Lu Mengjun was captured, Yang suddenly burst into tears. Han Lingkun was shocked and asked Yang about the reason.

Yang said that Lu Mengjun killed all her family in Tanzhou. After saying that, he continued to cry, and Han Lingkun immediately killed Lu Mengjun.

King Jingda of the Tang Qi, led 20,000 troops across the Yangtze River from Guabu, camped more than 20 miles away from Liuhe, and no longer moved forward.

All the generals were ready to attack. Zhao Kuangyin stopped them and said that the other party was afraid of us at this time and did not know how many of us were. At this time, the attack would be very passive and would have to wait for them to come over.

A few days later, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to attack Liuhe. Zhao Kuangyin led his army to counterattack and killed more than 5,000 Southern Tang Army soldiers. The remaining tens of thousands of troops wanted to escape the Yangtze River. In order to fight for a ferry, countless people drowned. From then on, the main force of the Tang army was left.

During the battle, some soldiers of the Zhou army were unwilling to work hard. Zhao Kuangyin supervised the battle in the formation. When he found that the soldiers who were not fighting seriously, he cut his fur hat with his sword.

The next day, Zhao Kuangyin beheaded all the soldiers whose skin hats were cut by himself, so all the soldiers of the Zhou army dared not to fight bravely to kill the enemy. Li Jing had previously mobilized all the troops around Yangzhou to try to retake Yangzhou, but failed.

In early June, Han Lingkun reported that he defeated more than 10,000 Tang troops who came from Chuzhou at Wantouyan, captured Qin Jinchong, the governor of Lianzhou, and Zhang Yongde defeated more than 10,000 Tang troops who came from Sizhou at Quxiyan.

In the middle of the year, Xiang Xun was appointed as the governor of Huainan and served as the recruitment envoy along the river. Wokou reported that the new floating bridge had been built.

A few days later, Guo Hao rushed from Haozhou to Wokou. Guo Hao was enterprising and wanted to go to Yangzhou to supervise the battle himself, but was persuaded by the generals. At this time, the war was fully launched and he needed to plan.

Half a year has passed, and the battle in Huainan was extremely smooth. Guo Hao reported the results. Chai Rong was very happy and ordered a general amnesty in the Huainan area to abolish the harsh tuition and labor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. If anything is unfavorable to the people's production operations, it can be reported directly to Guo Hao.

However, Nan Tang did not sit idly by, and some people also started his counterattack.

In late July, Li Jixun, the commander of the Later Zhou guards and infantry commander of the Zhangxin Jiedushi, set up a camp in the south of Shouzhou City. He was attacked by Liu Renshan, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Hundreds of soldiers were killed and siege tools were burned.

Zhu Yuan, the deputy chief of the Southern Tang Dynasty's driving department, wrote a memorial to explain the strategy of using troops, and was appointed by Li Jing to recover the prefectures in Jiangbei.

Soon, Zhu Yuan led his army to capture Shuzhou. Guo Lingtu, the governor of Zhou Shuzhou, abandoned the city and fled. In addition, the Tang general Li Ping also captured Qizhou.

Li Jing appointed Zhu Yuan as the envoy of Shuzhou Tengjian and Li Ping as the governor of Qizhou. Not long after, Zhu Yuan captured Hezhou again.

In the past, the Southern Tang Dynasty controlled the tea and salt trade of the people and forced the people's food and silk, which was called "Bozheng". It built military fields in the Huainan area, and the local people were in great suffering.

When the Zhou army came, the local people were competing to use cattle, sheep, wine and meat to work hard, but the Zhou army did not take the local people seriously. The disappointed people built fortresses in the mountains and lakes to defend themselves, using farm tools as weapons and thick paper as armor. They called it the "White Armor Army" at that time.

The Zhou army went to attack, but failed repeatedly. Most of the states of the Southern Tang that had been captured before were taken back.

The various generals of the Tang army requested to occupy favorable terrain to fight the Later Zhou army, but were boycotted by Song Qiqiu.

Song Qiqiu ordered that all generals guard their respective cities and not attack without authorization. The situation in Shouchun began to be out of control by the Tang army.

Li Jingda's troops were stationed in Haozhou, echoing Shouzhou City, but all military and political affairs were controlled by Chen Jue, so Li Jingda could only sign a letter.

There was obviously an army of 50,000 people but no intention of fighting, and the soldiers and commanders in the army were afraid of Chen Jue, and none of them dared to protest.

In September, Zhang Yongde, the commander of the front commander of the Later Zhou Palace, and Zhang Yongde, the governor of Yicheng, stationed troops in Xiacai Town, and Lin Renzhao, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, supported Shouchun City from both sides of the water and land.

Zhang Yongde led his army to block the attack. Lin Renzhao filled the ship with flammable wood and prepared to go down the river to burn the floating bridge. As a result, the wind direction changed drastically and the fireboat was blown back to the Tang army formation, so the Tang army retreated.

Zhang Yongde built an iron net that stretched for more than a thousand feet on the river surface more than ten steps away from the floating bridge, so the Southern Tang army was unable to get close to the floating bridge.

In November, Li Chongjin reported that the Tang army attacked the prosperous Tang Dynasty and was defeated by Wang Yansheng, the commander of the Iron Cavalry, and killed more than 3,000 people in the formation.

In late November, Zhang Yongde reported that he defeated the Tang army again in Xia Cai.

On that day, the Southern Tang naval army launched a large-scale attack. Zhang Yongde asked the soldiers who were good at swimming in the Later Zhou army to tie iron locks on the ships of the Southern Tang army. Then the Later Zhou army launched a large-scale attack. The Southern Tang army's ships could not move and countless people drowned.

After the war, Zhang Yongde untied his gold belt and gave it to the group of soldiers who were good at swimming.

At the end of the month, Zhao Kuangyin was appointed as the governor of Dingguo and also served as the commander of the palace. Zhao Kuangyin also applied to let Zhao Pu, the military judge of Weizhou, serve as his governor.

The counterattack of the Southern Tang stopped the Zhou army from the pace. After fighting for a whole year, even Guo Hao felt very tired.

However, the court did not have the will to retreat, so Guo Hao could only stay on the front line. The Zhou army surrounded Shouchun City for a long time, but it could not be captured, and the food in the city was almost eaten up.

Li Jingda, King of Qi of Tang, sent a support envoy from Haozhou, Xu Wenzhen, the governor of Yong'an Jiefang, Bian Hao, and Zhu Yuan, the northern recruitment envoy, led tens of thousands of troops to the Huai River upstream and to support Shouchun.

This group of Southern Tang troops stationed in Zijin Mountain. More than ten cities and villages were like pearls connected, echoing the defenders in the city.

The Southern Tang army outside the city dug tunnels in the direction of Shouchun City, preparing to transport food to the defenders in Shouchun City, but this tunnel would have to be dug dozens of miles.

When the Tang army was about to reach Shouchun City, Li Chongjin attacked him. The Southern Tang army was defeated, five thousand people were killed, and two military camps were lost.

In February of the fourth year of Xiande, Li Chongjin reported the results of the battle.

Liu Renshan asked Bian Hao to guard Haozhou City and lead his army out of the city to fight the decisive battle with the Later Zhou army. The suggestion was rejected by Li Jingda.
Chapter completed!