On the 14th day of the 15th month of Chunxi, Ye Qing led the Song army into Yanzhou City, and the army was settled down, and before the hour, the army had just rested for more than an hour, and Ye Qing, who had not rested, received a message from Dong Chao from Tai'an Prefecture: Wan Yanjing has now arrived in Cangzhou, Hejian Prefecture, and if there is no accident, it will arrive in Jinan Mansion in less than three or five days.

was also running all the way, on the way that Ye Qing planned to enter Yanzhou City, Li Heng, who was startled by Ye Qing, looked at Ye Qing, whose lips were white and his face was tired, and frowned: "You are injured, why don't we focus on defense for the time being?" ”

Touching the injured left shoulder, and then looking at Li Heng on the other side, Ye Qing endured the hot pain in his shoulder, and motioned for Li Heng to take the map.

Yanzhou is nearly 500 miles away from Jinan Prefecture, and it has to pass through Tai'an Prefecture in the middle.

Cangzhou is a little farther away from Jinan Mansion, but at this time, a distance of a hundred miles is nothing.

"We must not let Wan Yanjing cross the Yellow River to Jinan Mansion." Ye Qing stared at the map and said: "If Wan Yan Jing arrives in Jinan Mansion, the morale of the entire Jin people will immediately become high, and for us, the morale raised in today's battle will also be destroyed because of Wan Yan Jing's arrival." ”

"Just because he's the golden prince?" Li Heng asked.

The sound of chickens and dogs barking outside one after another indicates that the sky will soon brighten, but fortunately, it is winter, the days are short and the nights are long, which can also make Song Jun rest for a while.

"The influence of the Zhao and Song clans is far from being as great as we think, not to mention, if it is with the arrival of Wan Yan Jing, the Zhao and Song clans in the north will be forgotten by the people in an instant, and their eyes will also be on Wan Yan Jing. Wan Yanjing came with great momentum to build momentum for the two roads in Shandong, hoping to suppress us in terms of morale, so as to relieve the pressure on the defenders of Jinan Prefecture. When Ye Qing spoke, did he gasp because of the pain in his shoulder, or grin in pain.

Looking at Ye Qing's appearance, he scratched his head a little weakly, so if this is the case, don't we only have a few days left? What's more, Jinan Mansion is huge, and it is impossible to ......capture it before Wan Yanjing arrives. ”

"Wan Yan Shoudao was captured by Mo Xiaobao today, Wan Yan Jing still doesn't know about it, the reason why he came all the way is that he saw through my ambition in Jinan Mansion, not Kaifeng Mansion, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed to Jinan Mansion in such a hurry. As for the capture of Jinan Mansion, there is already a foolproof strategy, Li Bao, your old Taishan Lao Liu Tou, the reason why they can advance north on Shandong East Road without any obstacle is precisely because the attention of the Jin people is all on me, so it is easy to attack Jinan Mansion and difficult to defend Jinan Mansion. Ye Qing frowned again at this moment and said, but even Li Heng in front of him couldn't tell at this time whether Ye Qing was frowning because of his shoulder injury, or because of the imminent situation.

kicked Jia She, who was sleeping like a dead pig under the bed, and motioned for him to recruit Tian Lin and Li Zhongfang to come to the Yanzhou Government Office, and Ye Qing's eyes once again seemed to be nailed to the map.

"Even if Jinan is as you say, we can easily take it, but ......." Li Heng pointed to Tai'an Prefecture, which is like the gateway to Jinan Mansion, and continued: "How to get around the past? ”

Ye Qing didn't even bother to raise his head, handed over a secret letter to Li Heng, and motioned for him to read it himself.

Then he bowed his head and said: "Tai'an Prefecture is garrisoned by Yelu Yuanyi's father and son, the Liao general, Wanyan Shoudao fought with me this time, borrowed all the soldiers in Yanzhou, but did not move Yelu Yuanyi's father and son in Tai'an Prefecture, Tian Lin and Li Zhongfang have always believed that this is for the sake of Jinan Mansion, so they did not move." But the truth is ....... ”

"Is Yelu Yuanyi's father and son credible?" Li Heng looked at the secret letter quickly, and then looked up and asked.

"I don't know, but Yelu Yuanyi chose to stand by this time, at least we can see that this father and son are not loyal to Jin Guo, and it is very likely that they chose Mingzhe to protect their lives, and the two do not help each other. And...... I am afraid that because of his vague attitude, Wanyan Shoudao did not transfer troops from Tai'an Prefecture, of course, it is not ruled out that Wanyan Shoudao felt that his 60,000 army was enough to defeat us, so he did not move the defenders at the gate of Jinan Prefecture. And then there'...... It is possible that Wanyan Shoudao looks down on Yelu Yuanyi's father and son at all, so it is useless. Ye Qing said analytically.

"Mingzhe protects himself, and the two don't help each other, that is, who wins him and submits to whom, vowing to be a wall grass?" Li Heng pondered the attitude of Yelu Yuanyi's father and son in Tai'an Prefecture and asked.

"It can be said that as soon as Wan Yan Jing arrives in Jinan Mansion, Yelu Yuanyi and his son will definitely prove to Wan Yan Jing that their father and son are loyal to the Jin Kingdom, and when the time comes to fight us, their combat power will be at least three points better than usual." Ye Qing said after drawing a simple skull in Tai'an Prefecture with a pen.

"In this way, this person is very difficult to deal with, with a strong soldier in his hand, if we attack, then we will only watch Wan Yan Jing calmly enter Jinan Mansion, and if Tai'an Prefecture is left alone, then once we confront Yan Jing in Jinan Mansion, this is a double-edged sword." Li Heng was a little dumbfounded at the complicated situation at the moment.

"Bomb at regular intervals." Ye Qing looked at the skull he had just drawn and muttered, then continued: "So the person who goes to Tai'an Prefecture today must be someone who can deter Yelu Yuanyi's father and son, so that Tai'an Prefecture, the gateway to Jinan Mansion, will not stab us in the back." ”

"Too dangerous, isn't it?" Li Heng sighed and said in a weak and contradictory tone.

At this time, how could he not hear that Ye Qing was planning to risk his life and go to Tai'an Prefecture to deal with Yelu Yuanyi's father and son.

"No way, except for me, neither you, Tian Lin, nor Li Zhongfang are qualified, and even if I don't have the Zhao Song clan in the north to support me, I will not be put in the eyes of Yelu Yuanyi and his son." Ye Qing smiled bitterly, war is like this, when you think that you have won a battle, you will find that there are more difficulties waiting for you ahead.

But it is this victory after battle that will make every coach addicted, and will make every coach want to challenge these difficulties and dilemmas when facing one after another and one after another, and want to make himself a famous general admired by a generation of people in the world.

This kind of thrill of victory in the sea of corpses and blood is addictive, and the sense of achievement is unstoppable.

As soon as the time came, the Song army, which had rested for only an hour and a half, left Yanzhou City and headed for Tai'an Prefecture under the respectful courtesy of Yanzhou Zhizhou and other officials.

Li Heng, Tian Lin, and Li Zhongfang led an army of less than 20,000 people on the Huainan East Road, and their purpose was to go to Jinan City to meet Li Bao and Lao Liu Tou immediately after Ye Qing entered Tai'an Prefecture without incident, while Ye Qing led the army of planting flowers to garrison Tai'an Prefecture.

Along the way, in addition to the bad news of Wan Yan Jing, there is naturally good news waiting for Ye Qing, as the battle situation and situation on the two roads in Shandong are becoming more and more unfavorable to the Jin people, Nanjing Road, which is close to Shandong East Road, has become extremely strict.

In this way, Yu Yunwen's messenger had already been stationed in Jingzhao Mansion for more than half a month when he delivered the news to Ye Qing.

In half a month, Yu Yunwen was also worried, and now the pressure on him from the imperial court is also increasing, but fortunately, the anger of the imperial court is like the attention of the Jin people, and most of it is on Ye Qing's body, so after the capture of Jingzhao Mansion, Yu Yunwen is more worried about the counterattack of the Jin people against Jingzhao Mansion.

But fortunately, after withstanding several counterattacks by the Jin people, they finally gained a firm foothold in Jingzhao Mansion, and when the relationship between the Xia Kingdom in the west and the Jin people was tense because of the town, Yu Yunwen was able to finally spit out the breath that had been carried out in Jingzhao Mansion.

With the occupation of Jingzhao Mansion by Yu Yunwen, the entire Jingzhao Mansion Road fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, and coupled with Ye Qing's successive battles on the two roads in Shandong, although there are still a large number of gaps left behind him, if Jinan Mansion is taken, the entire territory north of the Yellow River will be left with Nanjing Road and Kaifeng Mansion between Jingzhaofu Road and Shandong East Road.

So at this time, Ye Qing, even if the wound on his shoulder was a little infected and inflamed, he still kept himself awake, and the ice cubes were grinding against his cheeks as if he didn't want money, so that his consciousness would not be too blurred.

With Yu Yunwen taking Jingzhaofu Road, and with the direction of his own march, he pointed directly to Jinan Mansion, so the situation north of the entire Yellow River is very clear in the eyes of the Jin people, that is, all Ye Qing's attention and purpose now is naturally to take Jinan Mansion, and then surround Nanjing Road.

Under the situation of the sudden increase in pressure, Ye Qing had to endure the pain on his shoulder, even if he was sitting in a simple carriage, he still kept staring at the map, guessing where Yan Jing had arrived after his current trip, or his fingers would point to Tai'an Prefecture diagonally upward, and then go straight to the Yellow River behind Jinan Mansion.

After several negotiations under the city of Tai'anzhou, Yelu Yuanyi's father and son at the head of the city finally agreed that Ye Qing led 3,000 people into the city, and as for the others, Yelu Yuanyi's father and son chose to refuse, but they still gave a certain subsidy for the high morale of the Song army.

After more than two days of hurrying, resting while hurrying, the entire Huainan East Road army finally recovered its morale and spirit before the battle of Yanzhou after arriving at the city of Tai'an.

Although the number of people is less than 10,000, the number of war horses has reached an astonishing number of three horses, and there is no heavy infantry army at all, and it has become a completely mixed force of heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

It is precisely because of the image of the Song army that the Song army is a strong soldier and a strong horse, which made Yelu Yuanyi's father and son, after hesitating for a long time, have to open the city gate and let Ye Qing take Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm into Tai'an Prefecture.

When Wanyan Shoudao appeared in front of Yelu Yuanyi's father and son, it still made Yelu Yuanyi feel a trace of embarrassment, coupled with Wanyan Shoudao's scolding of him, Ye Qing was counting on Yelu Yuanyi to draw his sword in anger and kill Wanyan Shoudao.

But although Yelu Yuanyi was scolded by Wanyan Shoudao and trembled all over, his face turned blue, but in the end, he clenched his fist tightly and still didn't stretch it out to the hilt of the knife handed over by Ye Qing.

As a result, Ye Qing also had to secretly beware of Yelu Yuanyi's city government and scheming in his heart, in this case, Yelu Yuanyi still left a way back for himself, unwilling to tear his face with the Jin people, it is enough to imagine how deep and forbearant this person's city government is.

"Since Lord Jerod doesn't want to see this person, then ......." Ye Qing waved his hand, and then motioned for Mo Xiaobao to take Yan Shoudao out of the city directly, and then made a gesture to wipe his neck and kill his mouth.

Looking at Ye Qing's fierce and murderous eyes, Mo Xiaobao nodded with a cruel smile, and then dragged Wan Yan Shoudao, who had been scolding, and walked out of the city.

The life or death of Wanyan Shoudao is not a big deal for Yelu Yuanyi, but it is still very important for Ye Qing, or Li Heng, Tian Lin, and Li Zhongfang, who are about to go to Jinan Mansion.

Just imagine, when the Song army began to attack the city wall of Jinan Mansion, Wanyan Shoudao was tied to the forefront of the five flowers, and when the time came, what would Wanyan Yongji, Wanyan Kuang and others feel about the Weishao King Wanyan Yongji and Wanyan Kuang in the city wall, and what kind of activities would be in the hearts of the Jin soldiers on the city wall.

Of course, the premise of these must be established that Wan Yanjing was not able to enter Jinan City before Li Heng and others.

"Congratulations to Lord Ye for finally raising his eyebrows for your country, but the Jin people should not be underestimated, Lord Ye won just an elderly general, and the Jin people can recruit many generals who are good at fighting, and Lord Ye still needs to be cautious." Yelu Yuanyi asked Ye Qing to go to the Tai'an Prefecture Government Office, and at the door of the government office, I don't know when, there were already five or six elderly men and women standing.

Without waiting for Yelu Yuanyi, who was standing at the door of the government office, to speak and drive away those old men and women, he saw Ye Qing suddenly running towards those old men and women with a solemn expression, and saluted respectfully and solemnly: "The pacification envoy of Huainan East Road, the imperial front of Huainan East Road are all in charge of Ye Qing, I have seen Wen Guogong, Yiguo Gong, Changguo Gong, Ningfu Emperor, Huafu Emperor, and Chunfu Emperor. ”

"Ye Qing, ...... you?" Yelu Yuanyi looked shocked, looked at Ye Qing with a respectful demeanor in disbelief, and then looked at the old men who returned the salute, and was a little stunned for a while, not knowing what was going on at the moment.

Ye Qing's face was still very pale, which made the cunning and suspicious Yelu Yuanyi, the first time he saw Ye Qing, he knew that Ye Qing was not lightly injured.

The commanders of the first army were all injured, which in Yelu Yuanyi's eyes, it was natural to be able to see that Ye Qing fought with Wanyan Shoudao, although he won because he captured Wanyan Shoudao alive, but I'm afraid the price paid by the Song army is not small, right?

Therefore, for Yelu Yuanyi, it was simply a wise decision not to let the Song army outside the city follow Ye Qing into Tai'an City.

"Oh, this is my Great Song Dynasty when the people left behind the people of His Royal Highness and Princess, when Ye was the commander of the Imperial City Division, it took a lot of hard work to find out their whereabouts, but I have not known their exact whereabouts, at the beginning of spring this year, when Ye learned that he was going to go on the Northern Expedition, he sent a large number of spies to search for them all over the Northland, I don't want to find your Royal Highnesses the Princes and Princesses here today, it is really the blessing of my Great Song Dynasty." Ye Qing is sincere, loyal and loyal, in Yelu Yuanyi's opinion, Ye Qing is definitely the most loyal courtier among the Song courtiers.

And Wen Guogong and others, watching Ye Qing's play, had to cooperate with Ye Qing's pretense, staging a drama that had not seen the courtiers of the Song court for decades, and then took Ye Qing's hand one by one and asked about the Song court now.

When it was learned that Zhao Gou had died in the fourteenth year of Chunxi, Wen Guogong, who was Zhao Gou's half-brother, cried heartbroken on the surface, but in his heart he was all relaxed all of a sudden.

Now that Zhao Gou is dead, their way back to the Song court is naturally a smooth road, as long as Ye Qing nods, then they can set foot on the long-lost territory of the Song court and see the palace city in Lin'an.

The fake scene of reunion after a long absence, because after Ye Qing revealed Zhao Gou's death, Wen Guogong and the others began to cry really "sadly", begging Ye Qing one by one to take them back to Lin'an in their lifetime.

Yelu Yuanyi and his son Yelu Wangxiang obviously couldn't stand the scene in front of them, patted Ye Qing's shoulder comfortingly, and then took the lead in the government office, leaving Ye Qing and Wen Guogong and others to continue to stage the scene of meeting.

Yelu Yuanyi, who entered the government office at this moment, was extremely irritable and uneasy, how could he think that everything at the door of the government office seemed to be planned by Ye Qing a long time ago, and his purpose was to let himself see that now that he had the Zhao Song clan by his side, he seemed to be the master of the entire Shandong Lianglu, and he, a traitor of the Liao State who had reduced gold and was a traitor to Liao, looked like an outsider at this moment.

It seems that it is not those Zhao Song clans and Ye Qing who are now living in his city, but that he Yelu Yuanyi and his son are living in the city of the Song people, this feeling makes him even more irritable and uneasy, and makes him even have a trace of trepidation and fear in his heart, afraid that Ye Qing will take advantage of these Zhao and Song clans, and then toss some moths in Tai'an Prefecture.

Yelu Wangxiang, who seemed to have seen through the reason for his father's worries and irritability, also frowned, thought for a while and said: "Father, don't worry, now Ye Qing has just arrived in Tai'an Prefecture, even outside the city, there are still elite soldiers of the Song people, but as long as you tell Ye Qing the news that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to arrive in Jinan Mansion, presumably he will not be able to stay in Tai'an Prefecture with peace of mind, and he will definitely leave for Jinan Mansion immediately, at the latest tomorrow morning." ”

"Why?" Listening to his son's words, Yelu Yuanyi suddenly brightened, nodded again and again in his heart, but on the surface, he still pretended to be majestic and asked his son what the reason was.

"Now Ye Qing's meaning is like Sima Zhao's heart back then, he just won the battle and captured Yan Shoudao alive, how could a person who finally achieved such a big victory set his sights on Tai'an Prefecture? His purpose is obviously the Jinan Mansion behind him, as long as his father pretends to agree to surrender to him, then he will definitely accept it gladly, so as to give up his vigilance against Tai'an, and go all out to compete with Yan Jing for Jinan Mansion, when the time comes, as long as his father leads his troops out of the city to surround him from behind Ye Qing, how can the Jin people not be grateful for your help? Yelu Wang Xiang analyzed and said.

Yelu Yuanyi nodded thoughtfully, and then turned his head to look at the simple topographic map behind him, comparing the distance between Dezhou, Tai'an and Jinan, although the Dezhou where Wan Yan Jing got along was farther away from Jinan Mansion than Ye Qing was in Tai'an, but if Ye Qingzhi was in Jinan Mansion, then he had to set off immediately, so that it would be possible to catch up with Wan Yan Jing before he arrived in Jinan Mansion and capture Jinan Mansion.

And even if he can't capture Jinan Mansion, he has no loss to himself, as long as he has been paying attention to the movements of Jinan Mansion, once Ye Qing is attacking the city, Wan Yan Jing has already entered Jinan Mansion first, then he can lead his troops to go out and stab Ye Qing in the back to ask Wan Yan Jing for credit, right?

"But since Ye Qing has entered the city, I'm afraid it's not so easy to get rid of." Yelu Yuanyi thought about his son's plan, but he had to return to reality, that is, how to send away this plague god now.

"Isn't that easy?" Yelu Wang Xiang smiled mysteriously, looked at the open hall door behind him, there was still no figure of Ye Qing and the others, and continued: "Father, do you still remember that at the beginning of this year, Dong Chao, a businessman from the Song Dynasty who had been going back and forth in Jinan Mansion, Tai'an Prefecture and other places? ”

"Well, so what?" Yelu Yuanyi asked contemplatively.

"Don't hide what my father said, the child is carrying you and this businessman Dong Chao behind his back, and he has come a little closer these days......." Yelu Wangxiang looked at Yelu Yuanyi's appearance of being about to reprimand him again, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "It's not too late for the father to listen to the child before scolding." ”

“…… You said. Yelu Yuanyi's kind expression just now sank suddenly, he had always objected to Yelu Wangxiang getting too close to the Song court businessman, and always felt that Dong Chao did not look like a real businessman, the mysterious appearance, more like a spy of the Song court.

As my father had guessed, this person was by no means a simple businessman, but a small official of the Lin'an Transport Department of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, this Dong Chao is using the power in his hand to travel all over the Song and Jin Dynasties, relying on the transfer of the transfer department to call ...... Shi Miyuan's trust and support for him, so he is so blatantly pretending to be a businessman here to make money for Shi Miyuan. The backstage of this person is extremely tough, and there are a lot of rare things in the Great Song Dynasty in his hands, such as soap, new candles, and even a ......baby named Po Li. ”

Looking at Yelu Wangxiang's face that instantly became very greedy and longing, Yelu Yuanyi couldn't help but snort anymore, and said, "You mean, let that Dong Chao come to contact Ye Qing?" Are you stupid in your brain? If Ye Qing came into contact with Dong Chao, who knew what the relationship between Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan was in the Song Court? If the two are hostile, once Dong Chao's matter is known to Ye Qing...... ”

"Even so, it has nothing to do with us, and it's harmless to us, isn't it?" Yelu Wangxiang retorted.

"Nonsense, think about it with your brain, if the one named Shi Miyuan is not on good terms with Ye Qing, then will this Dong Chao continue to trade in Tai'an and other places? If Dong Chao is recalled by the Song Dynasty, or is punished, think about it, where can you get the things you want? Yelu Yuanyi said angrily, and then waved his hand irritably, signaling Yelu Wangxiang to retreat.

His son's plan was just because he felt that it was too difficult to send Ye Qing away, so he hoped to start with Dong Chao and let Dong Chao pay for this expensive "god-sending" fee.

But Yelu Yuanyi is obviously thinking more long-term, although he is very wary of Dong Chao in his heart, but it doesn't mean that he has a grudge against those new things that Dong Chao sent to the mansion, right?

is the so-called stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, so Yelu Yuanyi doesn't like Dong Chao anymore, but for the various utensils that Dong Chao sent to the house, she absolutely can't put it down and favors it.

Just as Yelu Yuanyi was suspicious of Dong Chao, Dong Chao has found various opportunities to get close to Yelu Yuanyi's father and son since he escorted the Zhao Song clan in the north to Tai'an, but Yelu Yuanyi is too cunning, and Dong Chao does not dare to expose his identity too blatantly, so he will make up such a set.

But after such a long time, he still failed to rebel against Yelu Yuanyi's father and son like he rebelled against Zhao Bingwen and Hao Jinqing.