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Hainan Island.

Hainan County City, Li Yan's temporary palace.

Li Yan took a secret report written by Liang Hongyu, saying, "Huizong abdicated his eldest son Zhao Huan, who was the Qinzong. Qinzong changed the reign of Jingkang with "Rijing Sifang" and "Yongkang Zhaomin". Now Huizong fled far away to Zhenjiang Prefecture to seek refuge, leaving Qinzong to guard the city of Bianliang... The Jinxi Road Army was blocked by Taiyuan City, and the 60,000 troops on the east road crossed the Yellow River to face the city of Bianliang..." After reading the secret report, he murmured: "Is there only one year left?"

After all, Li Yan did not study solid history, so he was not very clear about the year number.

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Li Yan knew that the Jingkang shame occurred in the first month of the second year of Jingkang.

Moreover, it is not difficult to analyze from the current intelligence that the Jin army, which has only an army of 60,000, cannot conquer the Song State for the time being.

After all, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. It is actually not difficult for the Song State to gather 200,000 to 300,000 troops to fight.

It can even be said that if Zhao Huan gave enough trust and sufficient policy support to Yu Zhongshen and Good Generals, the State of Song could definitely create hundreds of thousands of troops in a very short period of time.

Let me put it this way, as long as Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his son and the ministers of the State of Song do not commit suicide and dare to give it a try, the current Jin Kingdom cannot destroy the State of Song at all, and even if it is replaced by a water-pooled Liangshan, the result will be the same.

This is not Li Yan's promotion of the State of Song, but the national strength of the State of Song is there.

The State of Song has a population of more than 100 million. The imperial guards, wing troops, and village troops in various places are still hundreds of thousands. As long as there is a monarch who is a little more capable, it will not be destroyed by the current Jin Dynasty or the current water-pooled Liangshan Mountain.

The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty lost its country, including the Southern Song Dynasty, was mainly because the monarchs of the Song Dynasty, namely Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and Zhao Gou, were cowardly, always in a state of unrestrained war, and repeatedly made tricks. Talented people were not valued, not because their national strength was not enough, but also one of the reasons why Li Yan occupied Yan Yun and did not go south.

Li Yan put down his secret report and asked Liang Hongyu: "How is the front line?"

Liang Hongyu said: "The news from Xiao Xuanfu returned that the Eastern Army and the Western Army have both attacked the ancient Fazhou of Beijiang, and they should be able to destroy the Li Dynasty soon."

In addition to opening up the Maritime Silk Road this time, Li Yan went to sea, there was another military purpose, which was to destroy the Li Dynasty.

The so-called Li Dynasty is Vietnam in later generations. It used to be Annan, but now most people call it the Li Dynasty.

This country was originally part of China. It has been China's territory since the Qin Dynasty in the third century BC. During the Tang Dynasty, it was part of the Annan Protectorate. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Wu Quan separated Annan and separated from the Southern Han Dynasty. The Song State was unable to unify it, so it was officially duli and then existed as a vassal state of the Song State.

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Since its establishment, this country has shown great aggression and often disturbed the Song State to seize the territory of Song State and the population of Song State.

After the water-pour Liangshan obtained Hainan Island, Li Yan prepared to build Hainan Island into a bridgehead for the southern line of the Maritime Silk Road on Liangshan. Therefore, in the past two years, under the order of Li Yan, the Ministry of Revenue has successively moved more than one million Han people and more than one million Japanese people to Hainan Island. Li Yan also sent Xiao Jiasui, who is both civil and military, and has experience, to run the place.

It is quite difficult to conquer the sea. Not only is the wind and waves on the sea strong, but it is even more difficult to distinguish the direction. Therefore, the two most difficult points for humans to conquer the sea are to avoid capsizing and distinguish the direction.

The former, the water-moored Liangshan, which has been quite developed in shipbuilding technology, has basically overcome it, especially after the birth of the treasure ship, the general strong winds and waves can no longer destroy the warships of the water-moored Liangshan.

The latter, inspired by Li Yan, Shuibo Liangshan has invented relatively advanced compass, meteoroscopes, sextant instruments and other navigation tools to distinguish directions.

But despite this, for safety reasons, the current navigation of Liangshan is still in the near sea not far from the mainland. This will ensure that there are reference objects to distinguish the direction, and it can also ensure that once there are strong winds and waves, you can dock and hide.

Li Yan built several coastal counties and dozens of ports along the road as transit stations, including Jiaodong County, Shanghai County, Taiwan County, Xiangjiang County, Hainan County, and dozens of ports to ensure the safety of the ships coming and going.

In fact, the Maritime Silk Road is already a very mature route. Some brave Song people even followed this voyage on a few small boats that were not much larger than a sampan to conduct maritime trade.

The purpose of Li Yan's trip was to clear the route and then to attract foreign maritime merchants to the Liangshan trade.

Needless to say, the Eastern Line is a route established by Shuibo Liangshan, which is absolutely safe.

The first stop on the Western Front was Li Chao.

Originally, Li Yan wanted to establish a good relationship with Li Chao to make a win-win situation.

But this is just Li Yan's wishful thinking.

Because of the strong support of Liangshan, Xiao Jiasui, who had strong capabilities, built three big cities, more than a dozen small cities and hundreds of villages on Hainan Island in less than two years, making this remote island prosperous.

This caused the greed of the Li Dynasty people, and at the same time, the Li Dynasty people were also worried that Hainan County would threaten it.

Therefore, not long ago, the Li Dynasty launched an invasion of Hainan County, robbed three counties and more than a dozen villages in Hainan County, and plundered a large amount of food and wealth and more than 100,000 people.

If Li Yan didn't beat Li Chao, then Li Yan wouldn't be Li Yan.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Hainan County, Li Yan asked Xiao Jiasui and others to formulate strategic strategies to attack the Li Dynasty.

Xiao Jiasui has been planning to take revenge for a long time. You know, Hainan County was built by him, and the people in the county were all equivalent to his children. They were attacked by the Li Dynasty and kidnapped by the Li Dynasty for more than 100,000 yuan. How could he not want to take revenge?

Therefore, Xiao Jiasui collected a large amount of information about the Li Dynasty and recruited many people from the Li Dynasty.

After Li Yan learned about these things, he simply appointed Xiao Jiasui as the envoy of Xuanfu, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei as the commanders of the left and right, responsible for commanding troops to attack the Li Dynasty.

This Li Dynasty was really bold and arrogant. He actually assembled an army of 80,000, claiming to be 200,000, and fought a decisive battle with the Liangshan Army.

As a result, the Liangshan Army defeated the Li Dynasty's army without any effort, and then killed more than 30,000 yuan, capturing more than 20,000 yuan. After that, Xiao Jiasui divided the Liangshan Army into two armies, east and west, and headed straight to the capital of the Li Dynasty, Beijiang Gufazhou, to kill.

In fact, there is no suspense in this battle at all. The Li Dynasty's army was too backward. Some of them were not fully equipped, while the Liangshan Army was the most advanced army of this era, no doubt about it.

The east and west armies were as powerful as the city and towns along the road were easily captured by two armies. In just over a dozen days, the two armies successively attacked the capital of the Li Dynasty, Beijiang Gufazhou.

Li Yan believed that it would not take long to hear the news that Li Chao was destroyed.

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Chapter completed!