Han Cheng, who was forced to be helpless above the court, was attacked by Wang Huai and other officials, and finally made a military order above the court, willing to let his son Han Yanxuan lead the garrison army on the southwest road of Beijing to the south to quell the rebellion of Ziqi and Luodian.

If he could not suppress the rebellion, could not relieve the worries of the saint, and could not raise the prestige of the imperial court, Han Cheng was willing to be dismissed from the right minister and sent by the Privy Council.

In front of the map of the Great Song Dynasty, the main west of Lizhou Road, the south of Jingnan Road pointed to the north, the east of Huainan East Road, and the three roads of the garrison army went north at the same time, but with the withdrawal of the middle road army of the south of Jingxi Road, it became Yu Yunwen's Lizhou Road and Ye Qing's Huainan East Road The two armies pointed to the east and west, thus missing the Jingnan South Road army, which was regarded as the main force of the middle road at the beginning.

However, this is nothing for Han Cheng, the matter has come to this point, how the Northern Expedition is, is no longer something he has to care about, and now his focus naturally falls on Ziqi and Luodian.

In March of the fifteenth year of Chunxi, Han Yanxuan, who returned to Lin'an Province, went to Jingnan Road, and then began to lead his troops south to quell the rebellion of Ziqi and Luodian.

The rebellion between Ziqi and the two countries had already been released to Jin Ting by Ye Qing, and naturally, he didn't know if this news would make Jin Guo become less cautious when guarding against their Northern Expedition.

In May of the fifteenth year of Chunxi, the rainy weather made the marching speed of the garrison army like a snail.

From the end of March to the end of May, the Fifth Route Army of Huainan East Road has now only captured three cities on Shandong East Road, and strictly speaking, it may not be an exaggeration to say that it has really captured a city.

The two cities of Haizhou and Huaizhou, which were closest to the territory of the Song Dynasty, were successfully captured by the Huaidong Army in the first time without much effort because of the cooperation between Zhao Bingwen of Haizhou and Pengcheng Zhixian and Pengcheng Zhixian.

By the beginning of May, the number of the Huainan East Road army had also increased from 30,000 people, and after the capture of Yizhou, it had become a 50,000-strong army.

According to the understanding of later generations, now he has finally walked out of Jiangsu and captured a city in Shandong.

This made Ye Qing and the army excited, and they also began to stand in front of the huge map and began to discuss how to march next.

All the way to the north, it must be Tai'an Prefecture, which is heavily guarded by the Jin people, and if you want to take this city, you will inevitably be strictly defended by Tai'an Prefecture, and will be attacked by the rest of the Jin people on the left and right.

"Only by taking Xuzhou can we have no worries, and we can directly hit Tengzhou to the west, and then go directly to Tai'an along Pizhou and Jeju, so that Jinan is also in our sight." Xin Qiji said with a frown.

Everything has been going smoothly in the past two months, and even for the entire army, the difficulty of attacking the city of Yizhou is not as difficult as this drizzly march.

Therefore, although the morale of the army is quite high now, if it continues to carry it directly, it will be the iron cavalry of the golden people who are waiting for the battle, and the victory or defeat will be difficult to predict, and it is even very likely that a small defeat may make the confidence that the entire army has just established be shattered in an instant.

Li Zhongfang, Tian Lin, and Xu Fan looked at Ye Qing, who was silent, and then looked at Xin Qiji and said, "If it is to the west, our east is also wide open, not to mention ...... If the defenders of Tengzhou see the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue at this time, it will also be difficult for us to take care of each other. ”

"What about Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun?" Ye Qing raised his head and suddenly changed the topic and asked.

Xu Fan looked at the other people in the military tent, smiled and said: "Rushing in the muddy and heavy rain, now the two commanders are resting in their respective tents, let the last general inform them of our plan in a while." ”

Ye Qing nodded wordlessly, watched the tent door curtain open, and Jia She, who walked in quickly, took the secret letter in his hand, opened it in front of everyone and looked at it, and then folded it and put it in his arms, patted the beast head above the belly of the armor robe, and said with emotion: "Go south to take Xuzhou, take Xuzhou and then go north to Tengzhou." ”

Ye Qing slapped on the map, looked at the direction of Xuzhou and said: "Xuzhou has always been a city that the Jin people attach great importance to, and it is also a big camp used to store grain and grass when the Jin people went south, so it must be a vicious battle if you want to attack the fortifications." Moreover, the Xuzhou guard has always been served by the Jin nobles, and now it is the Jin people named Yan Zheng who are responsible for it, and taking him down will naturally be beneficial to our morale, and similarly, I hope to be able to deter the Jin people. ”

"It's ......." Xin Qiji frowned, his fingers moved eastward along Xuzhou, and after pausing after passing Yizhou, which they had just taken, he continued to move eastward and pointed to the several states facing the sea in the east: "The control system can guarantee that there will be no Jin army here to kill and recapture Yizhou?" ”

"They're still taking care of themselves. Don't worry about the east, if it goes well, I hope we can join them under the city of Jinan after taking Tai'an. Ye Qing said looking forward to a bright future.

Xin Qiji, like everyone else, nodded silently, the water army is now an extremely important existence for both the Jin people and the Song court.

However, compared with the two, the Song Dynasty's navy is naturally much stronger than the Jin people's navy.

The drizzle finally stopped, and the moment the sky cleared, the Huainan East Road army started again, which caused the dissatisfaction of Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun.

There are not only doubts about Ye Qing not going north, but going south to take Xuzhou, and similarly, there is also dissatisfaction with Ye Qing not waiting for them to completely rest before they start again.

But fortunately, now it is just a city in the true sense, and in the face of this little credit, Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun still showed great generosity, and truthfully gave everything to the court today.

Of course, Ye Qing's arbitrary southward journey to Xuzhou is naturally in the middle of the performance.

On the other side, Yu Yunwen's soldiers went out of the Great Scattered Pass, not as steady and steady as Ye Qing, but as if they were scattered, they did not take the city of the Jin people as their primary purpose, and they were on the Northern Expedition at the same time as Ye Qing almost at the same time, but they were more like sheep herders chasing each other with the Jin people.

Even in a month's time, Yu Yunwen led the Lizhou Road army, entering and exiting Dasanguan more than ten times.

Sometimes, although they would gallop out of the distance of Dasanguan for several days, every time they encountered the resistance of the Jin, the light cavalry composed of three or five thousand people was always able to escape unharmed from the resistance of the Jin.

Even several times, Yu Yunwen used the cavalry as bait, and then ambushed the infantry cavalry on the two wings, and when the Jin people were pursuing, he caught the Jin people off guard several times, so that he also made the Jin people's teeth itch under the premise of minimal casualties.

In this way, they harassed the defenders of the Jin people on Jingzhaofu Road and Xitai Road one after another, and finally provoked the Jin army of the two roads, so they chased Yu Yunwen all the way south, until Yu Yunwen retreated back to the defense line of Dasanguan again.

It was also because of Yu Yunwen's playful fighting strategy that the imperial court was furious at the first time, and ordered Yu Yunwen to attack immediately, so as to attract the attention of a large number of Jin people, thereby reducing the pressure on Ye Qing's side.

However, when the imperial court just gave an order to Yu Yunwen, he received Ye Qing's strategy of not only pursuing the victory and continuing to go north, but going south to take Xuzhou, so Wang Huai almost jumped up in anger above the court, but let Han Cheng on the side watch a good show.

After all, although Han Yanxuan has not completely confronted Ziqi and Luodian now, from Han Yanxuan's report, it can still be seen that the morale of the army on Han Yanxuan's side is high, as well as the low morale of Ziqi and Luodian, including the edict that he is now holding in his hand to ask for peace.

When Yu Yunwen had been playing with the Jin people in Dasanguan, just when the attention of the Jin people was gritted his teeth like a monkey in Dasanguan, jumping up and down, on the bank of the Yellow River at the junction of Xia and Jin, a cavalry of as many as 5,000 people had already crossed the Yellow River and began to continue to move south along the Yellow River.

Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm finally left Sang Kun, and after Tieyi also withdrew his troops back to Liao after the beginning of spring, he led the increasing number of flower planters in the past two years, and finally embarked on a real journey.

It was also since March, it took two months for Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm to gather these 5,000 people in batches in the territory of the Jin people again.

After all, from the original 1,500 people to the current 5,000 people, this is no longer as easy to hide their whereabouts as when they went to the grassland, so they were able to finally assemble the flower planting army in two months, whether it was Mo Xiaobao or Zhong Silkworm, or Ye Qing, who had now arrived under the city of Xuzhou, they were still extremely satisfied.

Yu Yunwen attracted the attention of the Jin people, and naturally gave Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm the opportunity to go through Xitai Road and go straight to Jingzhaofu Road.

Day and night, all the way as if entering a no-man's land, Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm left the banks of the Yellow River non-stop, and then rode on the border of the Jin and Song dynasties, and began to follow the perennial road of Xia and Song merchants straight to the east.

For them, it was necessary to travel eastward along the Jingzhaofu Road and the Great Song Dynasty, including crossing the Jinren Jingxi Road, and then to be able to join Ye Qing.

And Yu Yunwen only attracted the attention of the Jin army on Jingzhaofu Road and Xitai Road, so when their 5,000 cavalry entered Jingxi Road, they were discovered by the Jin people who were originally attracted by Han Yanxuan.

The cavalry dressed like the barbarians of the grassland, and even Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Silkworm and others were all dressed in sheepskin jackets, which made it difficult for the Jin people to distinguish for a while, whether it was the Song people who descended from the sky here, or the barbarians on the grassland who drank blood, ran over.

(ps: Tremble, Sao Nian, I'll be crazy next, haha, if I can't write it tomorrow, I'll break it, get ready.) ）