The army that attacked Liaoyang City fled, and they were nowhere to be found, and they were not eliminated, and the threat to Liaoyang City always existed, and Wan Yanyong did not dare to be careless.

In order to ensure that Liaoyang City was foolproof, Wan Yanyong ordered the troops around Chenzhou, Gaizhou and Liaoyang Mansion to be gathered and gather 60,000 troops to protect Liaoyang City.

In this way, the Great Song naval army gained a firm foothold in Suzhou, and the troops advanced to Gaizhou again, and the small number of Jin troops left behind were unable to resist at all, so they could only retreat to Chenzhou.

As a result, the Great Song Dynasty Navy quickly rebuilt the defense line from Gaizhou to Suzhou under the personal leadership of Liu Shi, the governor of the capital, and built several forts along the coast to supply the fleet.

After recapturing Gaizhou, the navy did not advance to Liaoyang Prefecture with all its might, and only sent a small force to the north to test the attack, but at the same time, it sent a large number of scouts to lurk in various parts of Liaodong to collect information and prepare for the future attack on Dongjin.

The Great Song Naval Army commanded by Liu Shi was only a part of the entire Great Song Naval Army, less than 30,000 people, of which 10,000 were stationed in Dengzhou, 3,000 were stationed in Mizhou, and the other part of the Great Song Naval Army was in Laizhou, transporting grain and grass supplies for the Northern Expeditionary Army and assisting the infantry army to garrison Laizhou.

It was precisely because of the dispersion of the naval forces that Liu Shi could not lead the naval army to attack Liaoyang Mansion directly according to the previous strategy, so he could only change his strategy, first gain a firm foothold in Suzhou and Gaizhou, and wait for a favorable opportunity.

If Zhao Yan sat well in Bianjing City, waiting for the news of the victory of the Northern Expedition, Liu Shi may have led 60,000 Song Dynasty troops to Liaoyang City at this time, and maybe he had already captured Yan Yong's palace.

Because according to the previous strategy, the Northern Expeditionary Army will not capture Laizhou, but will only stick to Pingzhou, besiege Yanjing City, and lure Liaoyang Mansion to fully support Pingzhou and Yanjing.

But everything was blown up because Zhao Yan insisted on the imperial driving pro-conquest, and it was no longer possible to lead the naval army to capture Liaoyang City, the naval army was originally supposed to be the protagonist of the Northern Expedition, but now it has been reduced to a supporting role, even if he is a little unwilling, Liu Shi has to admit that he can only blame the emperor for the imperial conquest.

Although Zhao Yan's personal expedition caused a certain drag on the entire Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty, the deployment of the entire army became conservative because of his arrival, and the movement of various armies was also restricted to a certain extent.

However, correspondingly, because Zhao Yan personally drove the expedition, the civilian official group did not dare to delay the raising, transportation, and supply of logistics materials, and although the troops were constrained to a certain extent, the supply of grain and grass materials was much more timely than expected.

It is precisely because of the timely supply of grain and grass materials that Yang Congyi, Ming Fu, Yao Chang and others were able to quickly send troops to Yanjing City after the defeat of the Jin army in Tongyun.

During the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, although Yang Congyi commanded an army of 300,000, the logistics supply of grain and grass materials was in the hands of the civilian group.

In terms of raising grain and grass materials, the civil official group is very capable of giving full play to their abilities, if in normal times, Yang Congyi may still have to worry about some people deliberately stumbling, but this time Zhao Yan drove the expedition in person, and he no longer worried about the supply of materials, no matter what he needed, he could send someone to urge the camp, and Zhao Yan basically accepted all the orders and would not refuse.

Of course, there are also some special types of military supplies that are personally purchased by the Privy Council, such as ginger, green onion and other things necessary to ward off the cold in the north, these things need to be uniformly deployed and produced in advance, ginger planting is concentrated in Jeju, the Privy Council signed an agreement with several gentry to plant ginger two years in advance, and green onion white is not conducive to preservation and long-distance transportation, so it is concentrated in Hejian Province nearby.

It was precisely because of the large amount of ginger and green onion that the Northern Expeditionary Army was supplied to all walks of life, that more than 200,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people could withstand the severe cold in the ice and snow, and the non-combat casualties could be kept at a low level.

At that time, the Jin army besieged and captured the transportation camp by various armies, and could hold on day and night in the cold winter of dripping water into ice, in addition to the complete winter clothes, there were bowls of hot ginger, green onion boiled water, without these ginger water to drive away the cold, even if there were cotton clothes and winter clothes, no matter how strong the soldier could not hold on in the ice and snow for several days.

The Northern Expeditionary Army had a well-planned and perfect deployment and a steady supply of materials, while the Jin Army did not, so the Jin Army was defeated and destroyed, and the Northern Expeditionary Army won a great victory.

The soldiers of the former Jin Army who reorganized into the Northern Expeditionary Army had two hot meals a day and a bowl of hot ginger water for two hours, and in less than two days, they forgot their former identities, because the Song people could give them far more than the Jin people.

After the surrender, in order to eat, in order to survive in this cold winter, most of them chose to join the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and those grassroots lieutenants are the same, except for eating this bowl of rice, they have no other ability to survive, not to mention that after they have seen the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, how can they still have the heart to work for the Jurchen official who is about to die.

Whether it is an ordinary soldier or a grassroots lieutenant, after surrendering to the Song army, they can have the same opportunity to receive awards for meritorious service as the Song army, they are already grateful to Dai De and satisfied, and the rest of the glory and wealth must be fought for by their own ability.

The commanders of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty and generals at all levels gave everyone equal opportunities, and whoever could be rewarded for their meritorious service and who would be punished was all up to them.

The clear goal, the momentum of coming with victory and leveling the world, filled the Northern Expedition armies of all roads, and all the departments rushed to march twenty, thirty, or even forty miles a day, all hoping to arrive at Yanjing City one day earlier.

It was only a matter of time before the Northern Expeditionary Army seized Yanjing City, and it did not need to risk advancing quickly, nor did it rush to those few days, so during the march, Yang Congyi, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, issued a military order to all armies, and explicitly ordered to march thirty miles a day to ensure that the army did not cause chaos, the soldiers did not fall behind, and the logistics supply could keep up.

On the ninth day of the lunar month, Yao Chang's troops were the first to arrive ten miles north of Yanjing City, camped on the spot, and waited for the commander's order.

At noon on the tenth day of the lunar month, Ming Fu led his troops to arrive ten miles east of Yanjing City, camped there, and went around to investigate the news of the Jin army.

On the afternoon of the tenth day of the lunar month, Yang Congyi led an army of 40,000 to the south of Yanjing City.

With the advance of the Northern Expeditionary Army's three-way army, Yanjing, who learned the news of Wanyan Xi's defeat in Tongyun, had already collected all the Jin troops outside the city into the city and was ready to defend Yanjing.

Therefore, after the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived near Yanjing City, there was not a single Jin soldier outside Yanjing City, and not a single tongue could be caught, because the Jin Army did not leave anyone outside the city at all, and they were ready to hold Yanjing City for six months.

Although the Jin people are ready to stick to Yanjing City for a long time, Yang Congyi will not give them the opportunity to hold on, not only Yang Congyi will not give it, but all the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who arrived in Yanjing City will not give it, because they want to celebrate the New Year in Yanjing City!

On the eleventh day of the lunar month, the three-way army arrived at Yanjing City and camped opposite the three main gates, the Jin army did not want the Northern Expeditionary Army to enter the city, and the Northern Expeditionary Army did not want the other party to go out of the city without permission.

After the camp was settled, the Northern Expedition was thrown into Yanjing City.

Yang Congyi gave the Jin army in the city five days to consider surrendering in the war letter, and warned the Jin army in the war letter that if the five-day time limit is up, the officials and troops in the city still choose to resist stubbornly, and the day the city is broken, they will never surrender!

At the same time, the Northern Expeditionary Army also threw many propaganda documents into the city, warning the people in the city that if anyone assisted the Jin Army in defending the city, on the day of the city's break, exiled to the frontier, and also advised the people that if they could help the Northern Expeditionary Army to seize Yanjing City, the day the city was broken, no matter who they were, they could be rewarded for their merits!

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, as the Fourth Route Army led by Luo Cong arrived in the west of Yanjing City, it also camped three miles away, and the 150,000 Northern Expeditionary Army officially completed the encirclement of Yanjing City on all sides.

After the four large camps were set up, Yang Congyi distributed a drawing to each battalion and ordered each battalion to build a five-zhang high platform with a length and width of 100 zhang one mile away from the gate of Yanjing City according to the requirements of the drawing.

Since Yang Congyi did not require that these high platforms must be permanent fortifications, it was easy to allow each battalion to use mud, ice, snow, and wood as materials to quickly build a stable high platform, which was much less difficult than imagined.

The battalions first built the lowest layer of wood, then filled it with ice, snow or earth, and then built a second layer on top of it until the bottom layer was stable.

Through the battle of the transportation battalion, almost all the soldiers of each battalion have the experience of building walls with ice and snow, coupled with the large amount of snow nearby, the speed of each battalion to build a high platform is surprisingly fast, the high platform grows one zhang a day, and at a glance it gradually level with the wall of Yanjing City not far away.

The construction of the high platform has not yet been completed, and Yang Congyi's five-day consideration time limit for the remaining Dongjin officials and defenders in Yanjing City is approaching.

The Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty pressed the city, and although Yanjing stayed behind and the generals of the defending army were a little worried, they did not take the Song army's warning of attacking the city to heart, because they did not believe that the Song army could survive this winter under the city, let alone break the city.

In the past ten years, whether it is the Xijin army of Zhending Mansion or the Song army, they have tried to capture Yanjing City, but no army has been able to hold out under the city for ten days, and in the end they all came violently and walked away.

Outside the city, the cold wind was howling, and the cold was so cold that no matter how tenacious the army was, it could not stop it.

Therefore, the severe cold that drips into ice is the biggest reliance on the remaining and defending generals in Yanjing to hold on to Yanjing City.

Yang Congyi's war letters and warnings thrown into the city were treated as a joke by the officials left behind in Dongjin.

As a result, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition of the battalions outside the city were busy building high platforms from morning to night in the severe cold, and the red furnace of the house left behind in the city smoked incense and the sound of warm jade.

In this cold winter, they would rather stay at home and wait for the crisis to pass and wait for the warm spring to come.

However, Yanjing City is about to be destroyed, and under the nest, can the gentry and people who stay out of the matter keep their interests?

In troubled times, it is not easy to save a life, and if he still wants to, it can only be delusional.