The third large-scale invasion of the Great Song Dynasty by the Jin army did not achieve the expected results, and it was very difficult to continue advancing as far as Chang'an in the west and Gaomi in the east. Zong Han sent cavalry to burn and loot in the Central Plains, and there were traces of Jin cavalry in the north of the Han River Basin and the northwest of the Huai River Valley, but because Zong Ze was in the way, Zong Han could not successfully join the Eastern Route Army as well as the second southern invasion, nor could he mobilize the army to directly attack Zhao Gou's whereabouts. Even in Hebei and Hedong, which had been included in the "sphere of influence" by the Jin lords, the Jin people had not yet been able to achieve real rule: when the Jin soldiers came to Zhongshan and the prefectures and counties south of Zhending, they either closed their doors to defend the city or swept away, and the fleeing people waited for the Jin soldiers to retreat and then make a comeback, and those who surrendered looked at the situation and fell to the Great Song Dynasty at any time like grass on the wall, and it was difficult for the Jin soldiers to obtain stable tax revenue through normal administrative means in this area; Not to mention Hedong, Longde Mansion has become an anti-Jin iron force, and Cao Guangbi's attack on the Fen River Valley has made the entire Hedong unstable, and the Jin army has reached the south of Taiyuan Mansion, even if it stays in the city, it lacks a sense of security.

In the confrontation with the Jin people, some heroes gradually emerged in the fight, and the Jin people found that these reckless rebels were sometimes more difficult to deal with than the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty in the late Northern Song Dynasty, although they may not have undergone formal training, but after the violent instinct and bloodthirsty wildness of the peasants were released, they became indistinguishable from the barbarians outside the country on the battlefield.

What the Jin people crave most now is not to win the battle after encountering resistance, but to raise their hands and surrender without resistance. After all, the Jurchen population was too small, and every resistance of the Central Plains rebel army would more or less reduce the number and control of the Jurchen native soldiers, and increase the proportion of Khitan, Bohai, and Han'er soldiers in the army, a situation that some Jurchen leaders did not want to see. The Jurchens hope that the southern resistance army will "collapse from the wind" as it did during the first and second southern invasions, otherwise they will continue to fight tough battles like now, and even if they win every battle, the Jurchens will not be able to stand it!

In Shaanxi, Lou Room was unable to continue to expand the results of the war due to the lack of follow-up troops, and could only plunder the places west and south of Chang'an but could not rule, and the Western Route Army in Shaanxi desperately hoped that Zong Han and the Eastern Route Army could understand the war in the east as soon as possible and put more troops into the Shaanxi battlefield.

However, the expectations of Lou Mu and other generals in Shaanxi could not be met in the short term, and it was already quite difficult for Zong Han to balance with Zong Ze with part of the military strength of the Western Route Army, not to mention that he had to suppress the loyal army led by Cao Guangbi.

In order to protect the peninsula from the invasion of the Jin soldiers, Wang Shizhong and Chen Zhenghui mobilized a total of more than 150,000 people to fight against Zongfu, coupled with the advantages of local warfare, so that it was difficult for the East Route Army of the Jin Army to push the front to the area of glue.

In this situation in the Central Plains, people of insight from the Song, Jin, and Han dynasties all saw a little clue to a greater or lesser extent, but after seeing this situation, each person took different measures due to their different positions.

In the Han Dynasty, Yang Yingqi was quite satisfied with the situation in front of him, what he wanted was such a chess game, at this time, if the strength of the Central Plains showed signs of being defeated by the Jin, he was also ready to invest more forces to maintain the balance between the north and the south, on the contrary, if the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty regime was good, he would consider taking back part of the strength and letting Zhao Gou bear the pressure of the Jin army alone. But Yang Yingqi also has a great difficulty, not only because the future trend of the Central Plains war situation may not be as he wishes, but also because different voices began to appear within the Han Ministry. After the Shandong Peninsula was fully mobilized into the war, some generals of the main army of the Han Dynasty reacted very much, they did not support Yang Yingqi to manipulate the subordinate forces of the Han Ministry to enter the war, on the contrary, they thought that a full-scale war should be launched!

"Don't they know that the eldest brother is still under house arrest?" Yang Yingqi was a little scared, and now he had to face two great pressures at the same time: on the one hand, the Jin people were impatient with the increasingly excessive behavior of the Han Ministry, and the reprimands sent by Huining and Yanjing to Jinmen were getting more and more severe; At the same time, the Han military felt that the Jinmen privy had retreated too much, thinking that the Han did not need to be so forbearant with the Jurchens, but needed to fight another tough battle to shut up Wu Qimai and Zong Han! Yang Yingqi, who pursued internal and external balance at the same time, was caught in the middle, although it was not too difficult to move an inch, but Chen Zhenghui and others knew that the political space of the Seven Generals was running out.

In the Great Song Dynasty, even a person like Zong Ze can't get a glimpse of Yang Yingqi's calculations, in his opinion, the Jin people have done their best to fight to this extent, if Zhao Gou can do his best to the forces of Jiangnan and Lianghu, then it may not be impossible to overwhelm the Jin people in one fell swoop. But Zhao Gou didn't think so, first, he was afraid of being beaten by the Jin people, and he had an almost habitual fear of the Jin army; Second, it may not be beneficial for him to defeat the Jin people. Therefore, after seeing that the war situation in the Central Plains was stabilized, Zhao Gou's first reaction was not to increase his troops and restore the country, but to take the opportunity to sue for peace, hoping to exchange the price of abandoning the northwest for his stealing peace in the south, and it was also convenient for him to concentrate on consolidating his rule in the southeast.

In response to these reactions of the Han Department and the Great Song Dynasty, opinions within the Jin army were also very divided. For example, Zong Han advocates continuing to fight! Attack, attack, strike! He thinks that Daikin is actually on the verge of complete victory! Although Zong Ze is old and spicy, Zong Han can see that this old guy has three major weaknesses. What are these three weaknesses? The first is that Zong Ze's proposition is actually contrary to Zhao Gou as the emperor, so the Southern Song Dynasty regime gave very little support to the Bianliang army, and dragged its hindquarters a lot! The second is that due to the continuous southward movement of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, the world's taxes and goods have also flowed to the southeast, and Bianliang, which has always relied on supplies from all over the world to maintain, is getting worse day by day. The third and more fatal point is that Zong Ze is old, not only old, but also sick! Zong Han believed that once Zong Ze had a good deal, Bianliang would be broken without a fight, and once the Bianliang army was broken, the Shaanxi soldiers, the Zhongwu army and the Dengzhou soldiers would lose their hubs, and the Jin army would be able to calmly break through each of them.

If the situation develops to that point, not only will the Song regime not be in trouble, but even the Han will be helpless! If Yang Yingqi dares to throw the direct troops of the Han Ministry into the battlefield, it will be to push Zhiyan to the death, and the Han Department is likely to fall apart because of this. But if Yang Yingqi doesn't send troops, then he can only sit back and watch Zong Han eat the anti-gold forces in the Central Plains one by one!

So Zong Han thinks that as long as he goes one step further, Daikin will win! And it's a total win!

However, not everyone in the Jin Kingdom can understand Zong Han's boldness, and it can even be said that few people can understand Zong Han's boldness! When Zong Wang was alive, Zong Han was quite jealous of him, but when Zong Wang died, he missed this cousin a little, because he felt that in the military strategy, only Ah Guta and Zong Wang were his confidants in Dajin - for example, before the second invasion of the Song Dynasty, it was also with Zong Wang's approval that the military strategy of Bianliang and then Lianghe could be carried out smoothly. Other people, even veterans like Lou Mu, are a little conservative in front of Zong Han, and Tart Lazy and others are even more in the same bed with Zong Han!

Tart lazy and Wu begging behind him, the interests and power are mainly in the east, and the expansion of Shaanxi is not good for them in the short term, but they feel the trouble of the henchmen of the Han Department more deeply than Zong Han and Zong Fu. Although the Dengzhou soldiers hung the banner of the Great Song Dynasty and the Righteous Army, the ambiguous Zongfu and the tart laziness among them were not completely unaware. In fact, when Liu Kuang, Zhao Li and others fought vigorously on the battlefield in Shandong, the friction between Chen Xian and Liu Yanzong, Ouyang Shi and Tart Lazy in the rear was no less intense than the fight with real knives and guns on Jingdong East Road.

"Dengzhou? That's our Seventh's territory! It's like the relationship between Cangzhou and me. Ouyang Shi said to the lazy secret messenger: "If you can defeat Dengzhou, it's too late for me to be happy!" He also promised that the sailors of the Han Department would never intervene in the battlefield - even if the port of Qingyang turned into rubble!

Regarding Ouyang Shi's statement, both Tart Lazy and Zong Fu were suspicious. At this time, there was also a division of the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army within the Jin Kingdom, and it was not surprising that there were different factional forces within the Han Dynasty. Once the Shandong Peninsula is captured, not only will the Huai River valley lose its barrier, which is conducive to attacking the Song Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty will lose Shandong will also be weakened, and even Yang Yingqi's position within the Han Dynasty may be shaken! However, without the support of Ouyang Shishui, the small Qilu Hills actually dragged the main force of the Jin Army's East Route Army, and the shallow glue actually blocked the horse's hooves of the Jurchens, which was unexpected by the laziness and Zongfu.

The repeated prolongation of the war in Shandong not only made the soldiers of the Jin Army on the East Road lose their sharpness, but even Liu Yanzong, who was in charge of logistics in the rear, died of exhaustion. When the war was fought to the point where there was no hope of victory, a diplomatic strategy that was very different from the current in the Jin State began to surface, and he was lazy to make a suggestion to the gold lord Wu Qimai, thinking that it was difficult to destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, so it was better to change the direction, unite the Southern Song Dynasty regime to put pressure on the Han Ministry, use the contradiction between Ouyang Shi and Yang Yingqi to mess up the Han Ministry, and even help Ouyang Shi to come to power.

Wu Qimai agreed with part of this suggestion, but Jin Guo and the Great Song Dynasty had a common enmity, and it was not easy to unite for a while, and the contradiction between Ouyang Shi and Yang Yingqi may not have intensified to the extent that Ouyang Shi would replace him, so the feasibility of this matter is still worth negotiating. Besides, since Zong Han was pursuing a hardline policy, Wu Qimai could not completely ignore Zong Han's opinion and suddenly reverse the general direction of diplomacy, so he only allowed Tart to secretly start this matter.

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