In the 31st year of Shaoxing, on the 27th day of the winter month, Xiuzhou Xingying received a battle report: the defenders of Zhenjiang defeated the enemy's night attack, killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured more than 80 enemy ships, and destroyed more than 20 enemy ships.

In the camp, the monarchs of the Great Song Dynasty doubled their confidence in sticking to Zhenjiang.

On the 28th, the Taizhou war report arrived at the camp: on the 26th, the enemy army invaded Taizhou, broke through the city of Taizhou, looted on a large scale, and the people were killed and wounded countless times!

The monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty were panicked, the fugitive faction raised their heads, and Emperor Zhao Gou was ready to evacuate at any time.

On the 29th, the Zhenjiang battle report arrived at the camp: Guazhou crossed the enemy army and the enemy army in Yangzhou fought inward, and most of the enemy troops withdrew from Guazhou and stationed near Yangzhou!

The whole camp was overjoyed, and urgently ordered Yang Cunzhong and Yu Yunwen to find out the details of the enemy army!

On the first day of the lunar month, I received an urgent report from Zhenjiang: the enemy army withdrew from Yangzhou and returned to Jinguo in the north!

On the second day of the lunar month, I received an urgent report from Zhenjiang: Yang Cunzhong and Yu Yunwen personally crossed the river to find out the enemy's situation, in addition to Yangzhou City, there were nearly 10,000 enemy troops, and there were no enemy troops near Guazhoudu!

Hearing this news, the camp shook up and down, and Zhao Gou immediately ordered to speed up the march and rush to Zhenjiang Mansion within five days!

At the same time, the order was issued that the defenders of Jiankang Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion crossed the river to counterattack and recover the lost territory!

On the sixth day of the lunar month, 40,000 soldiers of the Zhenjiang Chinese Army took the lead under the leadership of Shao Hongyuan, the commander of the capital, crossed the river from Guazhou and Zhenzhou, and surrounded Yangzhou City, and the enemy abandoned the city.

The Chinese army made meritorious contributions, pursued closely, chased to the vicinity of Tianchang County, encountered 50,000 enemy ambushes, fought for a day, lost more than 10,000 people, and retreated to Yangzhou City to rest.

At the same time, Li Xianzhong, the commander of Jiankangdu, was ordered to lead the army from Taipingdu and Jianning to the north, advancing on two fronts, recovering Hezhou and Chuzhou in one fell swoop, and then continuing to the north, successively recovering Hanshan County and Zhaoguan, and then joining forces in Zhegao and approaching Luzhou.

After the failure of the Zhenjiang Central Army to pursue the enemy army to the north, it rested for a day, crossed the river to the east with 20,000 people of the rear army, recovered Taizhou, Gaoyou, and Xinghua, and then attacked Baoying together.

After the Zhenjiang Central Army and the Rear Army crossed the river, more than 20,000 people from the Zhenjiang Front Army crossed the river from Zhenzhou under the leadership of Yang Congyi, brought 10 days of rations, marched day and night, and went straight to the Huaihe ferry and Xuyi County.

Finally, on the evening of the seventh day of the lunar month, Gusang caught up with the enemy troops waiting to cross the river in Gusang, south of Xuyi County, and launched an attack on the enemy army in the evening, fighting until dawn, and annihilated nearly 20,000 enemy troops who had not yet had time to cross the Huai River on the Huai River.

The whole army rested for half a day, replenished rations from the booty, distributed war horses, and then immediately crossed the river in pursuit, recovering Hongsi County, Si County and Lingbi within three days, killing more than 10,000 enemy troops, capturing 5,000 or 6,000 war horses, and absorbing more than 4,000 rebels.

Then the whole army approached Suzhou, with the assistance of the local rebels, captured the city of Suzhou in less than half a day, killing more than 6,000 enemies, the enemy's morale was weakened, and they fled to Defu in a hurry.

After taking Suzhou, Yang Congyi overrode public opinion and gave up continuing to pursue north by victory, but chose to consolidate the vested city first, divide the east and west routes, and recover the surrounding areas.

Among them, Su Zhongquan was led by the Western Route Army, led 10,000 people to the south to attack Mengcheng and Yingtai, cut off the retreat of the enemy army in Huaixi, and formed a north-south flank attack with the Song army that Huaixi might pursue, and completely wiped out the enemy forces in Luzhou and Shouchun.

The Eastern Route Army, led by Pan Chengquandu, led 10,000 men to the east to attack Suqian, and flanked the enemy troops who might flee with the Zhenjiang Front Army and the Chinese Army.

The remaining nearly 20,000 people rested in Suzhou, recruiting new soldiers and strengthening the fortifications.

Two days later, 10,000 troops were divided again, led by Yuan Huaquan and Xue Wangquan, and led the troops to cross the river to the north, seize Fuli, Linli and Yongcheng, and wait for the opportunity to seize the counties and towns east of Linli to stabilize the defense of Suzhou.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Xue Wang captured Yongcheng and entered Bozhou, Yuan Hua captured Linlian, and then captured Qixian and Xuzhou.

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the Western Route Army sent back the news, they rushed to Yingtai in time to cut off the enemy army retreating north through Shouchun, and Jiankang Li Xianzhong's troops, flanked back and forth, annihilated 30,000 enemy troops, and then took advantage of the victory to seize Yingzhou, and was marching westward, preparing to capture Chenzhou.

On the twentieth day of the twentieth month, the East Road sent back the news that they had captured Suqian, and in Siyang County, they attacked the Zhenjiang Central Army and the Rear Army back and forth, exterminated more than 20,000 enemy troops, and were converging with the Chinese Army and going north to capture Xuzhou.

After learning the news of the Eastern Route Army, Yang Congyi ordered Xue Wang to divide his troops to garrison Linlian, and ordered Yuan Hua to lead an army of 5,000 to the east to approach Xuzhou, and cooperate with the Eastern Route Army and the Zhenjiang Central Army to capture Xuzhou.

In just a few days, Suzhou recruited 5,000 or 6,000 new troops, one of which was sent to Yongcheng and Linli to strengthen the defense, and the other was trained in Suzhou to assist in the defense of Suzhou City.

Due to the division of troops several times, the Suzhou garrison under the personal command of Yang Congyi has not many veterans, most of them are the righteous army and the recruited new army recruited all the way, the organization is scattered, and the combat effectiveness is worrying.

There were no veterans available, so they could only order the new army and the rebel army to strengthen training, and personally patrol the city to strengthen the management of the city's defense.

In addition, it is eagerly awaited that after the results of the East and West Route armies, they will divide their troops to return to reinforcements and consolidate the existing cities.

To this end, Yang Congyi issued orders to the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army.

After the Eastern Route Army seized Xuzhou, it was not allowed to continue northward, if the Zhenjiang Central Army went north, the Eastern Route Army would stay in Xuzhou, and if the Chinese Army stayed in Xuzhou, the Eastern Route Army would retreat to Suzhou.

After ordering the Western Route Army to seize Chenzhou, stop blindly advancing westward, return to the east and Suzhou and Yongcheng garrisons, attack from the east and west, and capture Bozhou.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the Eastern Route Army came with good news that it had captured Xuzhou together with the Zhenjiang Chinese Army, and the Chinese Army took advantage of the victory to go north, and they had been stationed in Xuzhou to consolidate their defenses.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Yuan Hua led the army back to Linlian, and the defense force in the north of Suzhou was strengthened.

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the Western Route Army sent back the good news that it had seized Chenzhou and Yuncheng with Li Xianzhong's troops in Huaixi, and was leading its troops to the east.

Upon learning of the news of the Western Route Army, Yang Congyi ordered Yuan Hua to take over the defense of Yongcheng, and ordered Xue Wang to lead 8,000 troops from Yongcheng and Suzhou to the west, and attack Bozhou City with Su Zhong.

On the 28th of the lunar month, the East Route Army came with news that the Zhenjiang Central Army was blocked from advancing north and was retreating to Xuzhou City.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the whole army of the Eastern Route Army retreated to Suzhou, and on the same day, it was ordered to go west, join forces with Xue Wang, and capture Bozhou from the east.

On the same day, the news that the Western Route Army had taken Luyi County was sent back to Suzhou, and after a short rest, it continued eastward.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Su Zhong, Pan Cheng, Xue Wang, and more than 35,000 people from the three armies converged under the city of Bozhou to prepare to attack the city the next day.

On the night of the same day, the righteous soldiers in the city captured Bozhou and stayed behind to defend Yan Shouneng, Bozhou was self-defeating, and surrendered more than 11,000 troops, of which 9,000 Han troops changed their banners and returned to the Song army, and more than 2,000 people collected weapons and armor and guarded them in the barracks.

After occupying Bozhou, Yang Congyi strictly ordered that except for spies, no troops should cross the river to attack Guidefu, and focus on stabilizing the defense, bringing supplies from the rear to the rear, and then trying to advance north.

At the same time, Pan Cheng was ordered to lead the army back to Suzhou and preside over the defense of Suzhou.

So far, the Bozhou garrison with Su Zhong as the principal and Xue Wang as the deputy has reached more than 30,000 people, the Suzhou garrison with Yang Congyi as the principal and Pan Cheng as the deputy has reached more than 25,000 people, the military strength of Yongcheng and Linli and other places in charge of Yuan Hua has also reached more than 7,000 people, and the more than 60,000 people under the command of Yang Congyi have completely controlled the Bozhou and Suzhou regions.

Zhenjiang Mansion camp.

The armies of all walks of life, one after another, arrived at the camp of Zhenjiang Mansion, Zhao Gou, Chen Kangbo, Yang Cunzhong, and the great Song monarchs and ministers were very excited.

But at the same time, there are also discordant voices, such as taking advantage of the victory to make peace.

As soon as these arguments came out, they were strongly criticized by Chen Kangbo, but they were tacitly approved by Zhao Gou.

Standing by the Yangtze River for an afternoon, looking at the surging Yangtze River, Zhao had a lot of ideas.

It was from here that he crossed the river to the south, all the way to the sea by the Jin, and then finally stabilized in Hangzhou, rebuilt the imperial court, more than 30 years, this is the first time to return to Zhenjiang, back to the Yangtze River. However, the difference is that the first time I came to the Yangtze River, I was chased by the Jin people all the way to the south, but this time I was from the south to the north, watching the Jin people flee north in a hurry, compared with the panic in the past, the mood was very different.

It's not easy to win a victory and achieve such a big result, so let's stop here!

The next day, Chen Kangbo once again reported the results to Zhao Gou and the ministers, only to hear him say in an inspiring voice: "The latest battle report summary, from east to west, Dianhai made Li Bao and the righteous army Weisheng seize Haizhou and Donghai County, and the Zhenjiang rear army advanced to Linyi several times, the Zhenjiang army captured Xuzhou, and tried to continue to attack northward, the Zhenjiang front army captured Suqian, Suzhou, Bozhou, Chenzhou, Huaixi Army captured Chenzhou, Yuncheng, Xinyang Army captured Caizhou, Xiangyang armies captured Tangzhou, Dengzhou, from the current point of view, the results of each army are remarkable, Not only to recover the land in Jiangbei, but even to recover hundreds of miles of land north of the Huai River and dozens of state capitals, this is a big victory! The enemy army is being defeated, and it is a good time to wave the army north and recover the Central Plains! ”

Yang Cunzhong said: "Chen Xiang, don't underestimate the enemy, the enemy army retreated this time, but suddenly there was civil strife, their main army did not have much loss, if they rushed forward and suffered defeat, the enemy army went south again, and in an instant they would kill the Yangtze River." It was a fluke that we were able to successfully counterattack this time and recover the land of dozens of states, and we were not ready to march northward in a big way, so I thought that we should take the consolidation of the existing results as the top priority, and bring full preparations, and it is not too late to go north. ”

Yu Yunwen said: "What the king of the county said is reasonable, before the enemy retreats, whether it is the Zhenjiang garrison or the Jiankang garrison, they are all trying their best to hold the Yangtze River defense line, and no army is ready to cross the river to recover the lost territory. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a pity? ”