Behind the flag of this "naked-hearted Liu Yan" is an old general of about sixty years old, surrounded by dozens of cavalrymen who are old and weathered. The veteran's head and beard were gray, his swarthy old face was wrinkled, and he was wearing a white-washed green robe full of stains, and he was not wearing armor.

This person is Liu Yan, the commander of the Yanzhou Battalion, one of the eight battalions of the former Liao State Resentment Army, and he is the same as Guo Yaoshi, Ma Zhi (Zhao Liangsi), and Liu Yanzong, all of whom are Han people of the Liao State. And he was born in a big family, and now he has voted for the Jin State and sealed Liu Yanzong, who has unified the Han army on Nanjing Road, and his ancestors are all Lu Longjiedu of the Tang Dynasty - The Han society under the rule of the Liao State seems to be stuck in the stage of the wealthy society, although there are also imperial examinations, but the imperial examinations of the Liao State are different from the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty, and they are completely monopolized by the family families.

And the society under the rule of the big clans, of course, has to strictly distinguish between the concubines. Liu Yan's ancestors were Shuliu, so he did not stay in Yanjing to develop, but moved to Yanzhou (the area of the West Liaoning Corridor) in the Zhongjing Road of the Liao State, and became a local wealthy family. When Liu Yan was young, he also relied on his background and talent to rely on the Jinshi of Zhongjing Road in Liao State and entered the southern official system of Liao State.

However, his career is not too smooth, he has been an official in Zhongjing Province and Nanjing Province, sometimes a civil official, sometimes a military attaché, and his official luck is always poor. When he reached middle age, he encountered the great era of the rise of the Jurchens and the collapse of the Liao State. Liu Yan, who didn't want to see his hometown ravaged by the Jurchens and wanted to seize a little opportunity in this troubled world, took advantage of the situation, seized the opportunity of the Liao State to organize the resentful army, led a group of children in the clan, scattered all the family wealth, recruited strong men, pulled up a Yanzhou battalion, joined the resentment army, and became one of the eight battalions of the resentment army.

However, this resentful army, which was pinned on by the rulers of the Liao State, not only did not fight well after its establishment, but also rebelled one after another, and Liu Yan was also involved. After several turmoil, Liu Yan and more than 800 cavalry of the Yanzhou battalion led by him finally followed Guo Yaoshi to turn Liao to the Song Dynasty.

And this betrayal became the last betrayal in Liu Yan's life. When the Jin soldiers went south and Guo Yaoshi once again turned his back on Song and surrendered to Jin, Liu Yan, who was stationed in Yanshan Mansion, did not follow, but led more than 800 cavalry under his command and retreated south to Zhending Mansion with all his family members.

Song Huizong was surprised to learn that there were still hundreds of people in the Changsheng army who did not surrender to the Jin State, so he wrote the word "red heart" to Liu Yan. Liu Yan's recognition of the flag has become "naked-hearted Liu Yan".

And this "red-hearted Liu Yan", who is dedicated to following the Great Song Dynasty, recently encountered a bad thing that made him sad - I don't know what Cai Mao, the Hebei Road transfer envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, thinks, and actually thinks that Liu Yan is also from the resentful army, and he has also attached himself to Guo Yaoshi, so he thinks that Liu Guo and the two have a personal relationship, so they want to use this friendship to open up a "road to beg for mercy". And Liu Yan was not allowed to argue, so he and another "diplomatic talent" Ma Kuo, who was also in Zhending, were transferred to the Daimyo Mansion for use with a piece of paper.

This made Liu Yan a little overwhelmed...... The relationship between him and Guo Yaoshi is not very good, although the two are both from the resentful army, but the relationship is not close. Liu Yan's Yanzhou battalion was originally from the Cheng line, while Guo Yaoshi had always wanted to annex Liu Yan's army, and the two sides fought openly and secretly for several years.

And the reason why Liu Yan was reluctant to follow Pharmacist Guo to invest in gold, in addition to recognizing that the Great Song Dynasty was well treated and more lenient, was because the contradiction with Pharmacist Guo was too great.

Now let him go to Pharmacist Guo to match, wouldn't that push him into the fire pit? Pharmacist Guo's old boy is ruthless, maybe he will chop himself up if he gets a Hongmen banquet or something......

Thinking of this, Liu Yan let out a long sigh!

"Liu Zuowu, don't worry too much, when you get to the big name, Xia Guan will explain to Cai Xianggong...... The trip to the Golden Camp can be dealt with with by the lower officials, and there is no need for Zuo Wu to go in person. ”

The one who opened his mouth to comfort Liu Yan was a middle-aged man in his forties, who was burly, with a dark face, a weathered face, and a face full of wind and dust.

This person is another "special envoy for mercy" transferred by Cai Mao from Zhending Mansion, named Ma Kuo. Ma Kuo was also born in the Western Army, was from Xihe Road, and was still a loyal martyr. One of his uncles, two uncles, and two brothers died in successive battles against the Western Xia and the Qing and Tang dynasties. He originally served in the Xihe Army with his father Ma Zheng, but when the Great Song Dynasty and the Jurchens were in the maritime alliance, his father Ma Zheng happened to be the commander of the Dengzhou Soldiers and Horses. So the father and son became diplomats. Because of this, Ma Kuo has been in contact with the high-level of Jinguo many times, and they have a bit of friendship with each other.

At the time of the Song and Jin wars, Ma Kuo happened to be an official in the Zhending Mansion, and he was not reused, but was sitting on the cold bench - he had a bad relationship with Liu Tao of the Zhizhen Ding Mansion, so he was thrown into idleness. After Liu Tao got Cai Mao's documents, he didn't mean to leave Ma Kuo to fight Jin in Zhending Mansion, so he sent him and Liu Yan on the road to the Daimyo's Mansion together.

Liu Yan listened to Ma Kuo's words, and could only sigh, he has also dealt with gold thieves for a long time, of course he knows how difficult it is to beg for mercy from this group of robbers. Robbers are insatiable, and their appetite grows bigger and bigger......

When the two of them were relatively speechless, someone suddenly shouted from the left and right: "Enemy attack, there are cavalry ahead!" ”

Liu Yan and Ma Kuo were both excited, and hurriedly pulled down the reins, stopped the war horse under the crotch, and then stood up on the horse's pedal, and looked forward with their palms on the eyebrow frame.

The place where they were located was not far from the Daimyo Mansion Castle, and they could see the majestic and magnificent outline of the Daimyo Mansion from a distance. Five or six miles in front of them was a large wooded field, through which the official road leading to the Daimyo's Mansion Castle passed. Faintly, the cavalry of the brigade could be seen coming from the other side of the woods along the official road, from south to north.

The cavalry was in a well-organized procession, and all of them were dressed in armor, embroidered (a short garment that covered the outside of the armor, not covering all the armor), spears on their shoulders, and helmets with red hats on their heads. Looking at it from afar, I saw a jumping red tassel and a flickering cold light, rushing forward!

In front of this group of cavalry, there were also people holding a red recognition flag, but because of the distance, it was too far to see what words were tattooed on it.

"Queue, armor!"

Although it was close to the Daimyofu Castle, the Jin army was moving south along the west bank of the Yellow River (at this time the Yellow River flows north into the sea), and it should not be too far from the Daimyo Mansion Castle now. Therefore, the cavalry of the cash people who went out in the city of the Daimyo's Mansion was no exception, Liu Yan did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered his more than 800 cavalry to spread out the formation and put on the armor he carried with him.

Liu Yan's 800 cavalry are all Yanzhou veterans who have followed him for many years, with rich combat experience and psychological quality, so they quickly put on the cavalry armor that only covers their hearts in front and back according to Liu Yan's instructions, and also spread out the formation with 50 cavalry as a group, and waited for the battle.

It didn't take long for the cavalry coming from the south of the woods in front of them to form up with their backs to the trees. The number of them is nearly twice as many as that of Liu Yan's department, and they are still one person and two horses!

At this time, Liu Yan and Ma Kuo finally saw the words on the red recognition flag clearly, which should be "Yun Wang Zhao".

The two of them also saw a burly general in a silver helmet and silver armor under the flag, who was immediately spearheading and murderous.

Both of them were a little stunned when they looked at it, and they both thought of the same question: Who is this surnamed Yun?