Since the southern invasion of the Liao army, the Song army of Jingdong and the two roads has been defending itself in the city, and there has been no action. The water village made the Liao army on the eastern road led by Tiemu Ge fall into a state of being attacked on the back of the enemy.

Jingdong two roads have always been an important place to prevent the north and south to herd horses, originally stationed in a lot of forbidden troops, and later gathered the remnants of the Hebei camp, most of them are regular court officials, not the southeast state and county volunteers can be compared. As far as the naval warships were concerned, most of the ships used by the Baoyi Army were the original ships of the sailors, or they bought merchant ships for temporary modification. As far as Zhao Xingde knew, after the Fourth Battalion used artillery warships in the Battle of Liaodong, the Jingdong Heng Navy soon imitated the installation of iron barrel guns on the naval warships, and bought and hoarded a large number of giant trees from the Liaodong Han Army, which even aroused the vigilance of the Protectorate.

The news that Han Shizhong led his troops to the south along the coast made the generals overjoyed and talked noisily.

"Hou Xianggong is really scheming."

"Jiang is still old and spicy, and if he doesn't send it, it's just a blockbuster."

"General Zhao, should we speed up the march?"

"Will work with the Zhenguo Army and the Heng Navy to drive Liaokou down the river to feed the fish in one fell swoop!"

When the news of Jiangyin's victory spread, the soldiers and civilians on the ship and on the shore cheered loudly. In the past two or three months, the two countries have exchanged troops to change the decline of the fall of Bianliang last year, Yelu Dashi personally recruited troops in Xiangyang, Fangzhou won a great victory, and the Zhenguo army opened up the Xiangyang grain road. At this moment, the open and secret struggle between Chen Dong and Hou Huanyin not long ago seems to have been deliberately forgotten. Everyone had smiles on their faces, shouting and laughing loudly for the defeat of the Liao army again.

For the Song army, which was fighting in Shuzhou, this was undoubtedly great news. Jiangyin. The sailor was established by recruiting the original Song Dynasty sailor after the Liao army invaded south. The grain ships on the river are all patrolled and escorted by the sailors, and now Han Shizhong suddenly joined the southeast battlefield and captured Jiangyin in one fell swoop. The water village made the grain road of the Liao army face the danger of being cut off by the Song State Water Division.

Zhao Xingde looked at this scene, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he secretly thought: "Although Hou Huanyin has consolidated Jingdong Road, Jingdong Road is backed by the sea, the hinterland is not as deep and wide as the southeast, and it is easy to isolate other states and counties, which is a natural disadvantage. If Hou Huanyin is unwilling to succumb to Chen Dong, he will not be able to keep shrinking into Jingdong to protect himself. And it would be much better to send troops to show strength, to go east out of Hebei and compete with the Khitan iron cavalry and the plains, and to use the water division to go south to copy the belly and back of the Liao army on the east road. ”

Among the Liao army on the east road, the capital Yelu Bijie sat in Jiangning Mansion, and 20,000 people followed Tiemuge to attack Shuzhou against the river, and the others were stationed in various parts of Jianghuai, which shows that the Liao army attaches great importance to the management of Jianghuai. The Battle of Jiangyin ruthlessly poked a big hole in the Jianghuai layout of the Liao army, and also proved Yue Fei's assertion that the Liao army was still unstable, which was greatly encouraging.

Today, Zhao Xingde began to understand Yue Fei's idea of wanting a decisive battle with the Liao army. Since the Liao army invaded the south, although it has won consecutive battles. A big stall was opened, but it also left a big flaw. However, after the battle line was expanded, the population of the Khitan and other Hu ethnic groups was not large, and the shortcomings of the original army were gradually obvious. In less than a year, whether it was the surrendered Song army or the forcibly recruited signing army, it was impossible to die for the Liao State. In the final analysis, the limited use of troops by the Liao army has reached the extreme, and in this situation, if there are a few big victories, it may be possible to drive the Liao army out of the Central Plains in a short period of time and rescue the people of the fallen Song Realm. Yue Fei was originally from Xiangzhou, and over the years, he fought in the south and the north, but his parents, wife and children have stayed in their hometown. The Liao army went south too quickly, and the fall of Bianliang was too sudden, and for several months, the news from the north and the south was cut off, so that today, Yue Fei has not received any news from his family. These secrets are unknown to others, but generals like Zhao Xingde know them.

"The lives of Henan and Hebei, the pain of the separation of parents, wives and children, he probably feels more." Zhao Xingde sighed with empathy in his heart, "I hope to expel the northern captives as soon as possible, the Ji people have their own natural appearance." ”

The news of Jiangyin's victory made Ezhou City as lively as a festival again. The literati and scholars wrote poems to praise him, and the people in the market also talked about it. A wave of joy and optimism even spread from the people to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the staff gathered around and talked happily about Han Shizhong's capture of Jiangyin. News of the water village. It is said that the rebel general Kong Yanzhou entangled tens of thousands of people, and as a result, he was defeated in successive battles, so that the whole army was annihilated, and he fell to the point of escaping with a ship's plank. Of course, these are all false rumors.

Correspondingly, Hou Huanyin's reputation has also risen. He was the pacification envoy of Jingdong Road, and according to the imperial court system, Han Shizhong was his subordinate. This strategic decision is indispensable, and the Prime Minister's Mansion has not yet decided, and the counties near and far have written to ask for a heavy reward for Hou Huanyin and Han Shizhong, and at the same time reward the meritorious soldiers. At the beginning, Hou Huanyin vigorously bought the hearts of the people in order to compete for the position of prime minister, which was fully manifested at this time. If the Prime Minister's Mansion does not reward him, he will be stingy.

"It seems that I underestimated Lord Jingdong Hou in the past." Chen Dong's eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze fell on the map of the marching mountains and rivers. Putting aside other ideas, he said to himself, "If it is beneficial to the country, it is always good to have more heroic people." ”

Although the significance of Jiangyin's victory is not trivial. However, the reward of the Henghai Navy will be comparable to the battles of Fangzhou and Shuzhou. This is the initial plan of the military department, so as not to favor one over the other. But the most critical thing at the moment is Shuzhou. How to consolidate the victory, it is best to eat this Liao army and achieve an unprecedented victory. And the key to the battle of Shuzhou is to coordinate the generals. Zhao Xingde can take care of the overall situation, but if he thinks that the Henghai Navy will obey the dispatch of the Zhenguo Army, it is obviously a nerd's idea. Therefore, Chen Dong wanted to follow the ancestral system of the generals of this dynasty from the middle court, and let the military department make a strategy, and the privy envoy Yue Fei would take charge of the Zhenguo army, the Henghai Navy, and the Baoyi army to attack together. Let Zhao Xingde coordinate the second general of Yue and Han. However, he was still very hesitant and felt unsure. The Baoyi Army is the weakest of the three Song armies, does Zhao Xingde have this ability?

"Brother Tiemu's tens of thousands of hedgehogs gathered in the east of Shuzhou, and all the grain and grass were transported on the river. Now Jiangyin. The naval division was destroyed, General Han would take advantage of the situation to block the waterway, and the Liao army's grain route would be changed to land, and the difficulty would be different. ”

Cao Liangshi, the secretary of the military department, was bloodshot in his eyes, and the responsibility of formulating the strategy suddenly fell on him, and the pressure was as heavy as Mount Tai, but he still stood up and endured it. After repeated defeats in Hebei and Henan, a large number of forbidden troops trained by the imperial court all year round no longer existed, and most of the remaining camping troops were in the hands of traitors. At present, the three Song Dynasty armies gathered in the upper and lower reaches of Shuzhou are the hope of the southeastern half of the county. Ezhou couldn't afford to lose, so Cao Liangshi tried his best to discuss a serious strategy with the staff of the Ministry of War.

"According to the detailed report, the grain and grass of the Liao army were mostly hoarded in the two cities of Jiangning and Hangzhou. In order to rush westward to Jingxiang, Tiemuge's department did not carry much grain and grass, and it had to be transported by water from time to time. Now that General Han has broken Jiangyin. The water village just took advantage of the situation to cut off the grain channel on the water. The roads in the south of the Yangtze River are muddy, and it is even more difficult to transport grain and grass by land. The two generals of Yue and Zhao need to hold Shuzhou steadily, and wait for work at ease, and the general Han sailors cruised on the river, holding each other until July and August, the northern captives are not tolerant of heat and heat, the roads are muddy and not conducive to the cavalry, and the grain and grass in front of the Shuzhou army are exhausted, and the enemy army will collapse without a fight. At that time, the three armies of Zhenguo, Baoyi and Henghai will send troops together, and they can receive all the credits. ”

Cao Liangshi explained the strategy of the military department, Chen Dong pondered for a long time, and after the ministers discussed, they used this strategy to seal, and the flying horse was sent to the Shuzhou army, and handed over to Yue Fei, the privy envoy and the envoy of the Zhenguo army.

The news of Jiangyin's defeat also caused an uproar in the Liao army's imperial camp.

"Are all the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty a waste?" Hearing someone's yin and yang strange qi, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, Tie Tie Ge, also felt that his face was gloomy. Originally, the Liao State had almost completely canceled the Han military camps. It was he who advocated the surrender of the Southern Dynasty troops, as well as the recruitment of the countryside to form the Southern Dynasty soldiers attached to the Liao State, who knew that since Bianliang went south, the troops were extremely unsmooth, and the defeats were one after another, and the performance of the Southern Dynasty soldiers was particularly unbearable. What made Yelu Tiege feel lucky was that Yelu Dashi was not angry with him, but his contempt for the southerners deepened.

"It seems that the training of the Lumen sailor is going to speed up." Yelu Dashi instructed, "Another 10,000 Jurchen battalions will be levied and sent to the Jiangning Naval Division." ”

King Yelu of Jin and Wanyan Zongbi, the king of the Southern Jurchen, agreed in unison. The Jurchen-based sailors set up a village in Lumen Jiajiang, Yeluquan is the deputy capital of the water division, and Wanyan Zongbi is the deputy capital of the water division. For Yan Zongbi and other Jurchen generals, Yelu Dashi has always been with him, and now he is almost tamed. Since the southern expedition, these Jurchen generals and Tiemuge's barbarian cavalry have made great efforts. Therefore, in this southern invasion, there were more than 30,000 people in the Jurchen battalion in the Liao army that attacked Xiangyang alone, and now all of them have been allocated to the sailor battalion. Yelu Dashi did not allow the Jurchens to be cavalry, and the sailors were only useful in the south and south, and the threat to the Khitans was not great.

Yelu Dashi nodded in satisfaction. "Just let these barbarians and the Song people consume each other." A hint of an unfathomable smile appeared on the corner of Yelu Dashi's mouth, and he turned to Yelu Tiege again and comforted, "It hasn't been long since our army passed through Jianghuai, and the people's hearts are not attached, and the foundation is unstable, which is also ordinary. Seeing the look of gratitude in Yelu Tiege's eyes, he nodded, "After capturing Bianliang, even I despised these guerrillas a little. There are also some pride and underestimation of the enemy in the army, and now there are a few small setbacks, just to remind us that the North Courtyard wants to teach the soldiers to cheer up. ”

"The Song army wants to flank Brother Temu, do you want to send reinforcements first, and take advantage of the fact that the Song army has not yet gathered, first break the Shuzhou Zhenguo army, and then attack the Baoyi army and the Heng Navy?" Brother Yelu Tiege offered advice. What he feared the most in his heart was the Heng Navy that had just won, this army came from the sea, and Yang Fan could go to sea at any time, which was really a headache.

Note: The two roads of the Northern Song Dynasty and the East of the East are approximately equivalent to Shandong. Shuzhou, near Anqing.