On October 23, more than 45,000 people of the Shandong Righteous Army crossed the Yi River and arrived at the foot of Yinan City, and the county ordered to abandon the city with their families and families, and 86 leaders of the Righteous Army from all walks of life entered the county seat with Yao Chang, the commander of the Left Mansion of the Shandong Righteous Army.

In the county office, the leaders discussed and decided that the more than 3,000 loads of grain in the granary in Yinan City, regardless of whether they came first or later, would be divided equally according to the number of righteous soldiers. At the same time, a ban was agreed, since it was a rebel army, it was not allowed to rob homes and houses, nor was it allowed to trespass into private houses, and if there was a violation, expelled from the Shandong rebels!

After receiving the food, the rebels finally had a full meal.

Yinan is less than 100 miles away from Linyi, and it takes two days to get to Linyi City by going south to the south of Yiyi.

However, Yao Chang still felt that the scale of the rebel army was not large enough, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to take Linyi, so he decided to stay in Yinan for two days and wait for several rebel troops entrenched in the mountainous areas in the west and north of Yinan to come out of the mountains to join the Shandong rebel army.

The news that Yinan was captured by the Shandong Righteous Army soon spread around.

Within two days, not only the rebels in the western mountains, but even several rebels in Yishui County in the north heard the news and asked to join the Shandong rebels and take Linyi together.

Before the Shandong Righteous Army was launched, the scale reached 60,000, and there were more than 200 large and small leaders.

Yao Chang summoned the leaders of all walks of life in the name of the Shandong Righteous Army's control of the left mansion, and after arranging the marching order, more than 60,000 righteous troops set out from Yinan and went south to Linyi along the Yi River.

Because the rebels did not have any baggage except for the basic weapons, and they could not wait to capture Linyi, they marched extremely fast, starting from Yinan on the morning of October 25 and arriving at the city of Linyi at noon on the 26th.

The gate of Linyi City, which was informed of the news in advance, was closed, the suspension bridge was raised, and the entire Linyi City was closed.

The city of Linyi was high, and the righteous army was not allowed to enter the city, so with 60,000 troops, the four gates of the southeast, northwest and northwest were besieged.

The defenders in the city closed their doors, and the righteous army had no siege equipment, let alone the ability to siege the city.

Seeing that the siege of the city could not be achieved, Yao Chang once again gathered the leaders of all walks of life to discuss how to seize Linyi in the name of the control of the left capital of the Shandong Righteous Army.

The leaders had no experience in attacking the city, let alone the ability to attack the city, although there were skilled warriors who claimed to be able to climb over the city wall and enter the city, but the number was too small to assist the rebels to take Linyi City.

Just when everyone was at a loss, in desperation, Yao Chang told everyone that he had a big man in his hand, he was the uncle of the Linyi military commander, and he was still the Jin Guoyi Mansion left behind, if the rebels from all walks of life really had no choice, he would use this person as a hostage to force the other party to withdraw from Linyi City, but if it was done, half of the food and wealth in Linyi City would be disposed of by the Zuofu of the Shandong Righteous Army.

As soon as the leaders heard this, they immediately reached an agreement on the issue of food wealth in the city, and agreed that Yao Chang would take half of the food and wealth in the city.

The issue of wealth distribution was determined, and Yao Chang immediately began to arrange for the withdrawal of the Linyi defenders in exchange for the hostages.

That night, Yao Chang took Wanyan Huhe to the camp and told him bluntly: "Now that more than 60,000 people of our Shandong Righteous Army have come to Linyi City, you should know what to do. Leave your life so far, whether you can survive or not depends on yourself. Write a letter to your nephew, and if he is willing to sacrifice the city, you will be able to live. As long as he leads the army out of the city and surrenders, I can guarantee that you will leave Linyi with him, but if he does not care about your life, then it will be useless for our Shandong Righteous Army to keep you. What to do, I will give you an hour to think clearly, and then give me an answer. ”

"It won't take half an hour, hero, please give me pen and paper, and I'll write to him!" Wanyan Huhe couldn't wait, he had left Yidu with the righteous army for so long, and he had long thought that there would be this one, and he had already thought about it clearly.

Yao Chang was a little surprised, and warned: "If you dare to deceive, secretly communicate with your nephew, and sabotage the rebel army to seize Linyi, no one in your family in Yidu Mansion can guarantee that it will be saved." ”

"Don't worry, I already thought about how to repay me when I was spared. Linyi City is just a city that will be lost sooner or later, and my nephew and I will not lose our lives for it. If my nephew dedicates the city, the hero will keep his promise and let us go back, and some relatives! "Wanyan Huhe looked very lightly.

"As long as the Shandong Righteous Army successfully takes over Linyi City within one day tomorrow, I promise to let you go back. As for the relatives of Yidu Mansion, I can't call the shots, it is the official of the Yamen of Shandong Jiedu, but if it goes well this time, I can help you say good things, and let the eldest brother let your relatives go back to reunite as soon as possible. Yao Chang felt a little surprised, this Yidu Mansion stayed behind and saw it very openly.

"If a good man can help reunite my relatives and relatives, he will be rewarded!" Wanyan Huhe immediately promised.

"In the future, let's talk about it later, do the things in Linyi first, and then you have the fate to think about the future."

A moment later, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were obtained.

"How do you want to write to your nephew?" Before he started writing, Yao Chang asked.

"First talk about family affection, then talk about the grace of nurturing, then talk about the way to choose, and finally tell him how to withdraw troops and sacrifice the city." Wanyan Huhe obviously thought very clearly, maybe he had already imagined in advance that the righteous army would let him persuade him to surrender to Linyi, otherwise he would not be so crisp and calm.

"Oh, how do you want him to withdraw his troops and sacrifice the city?" Yao Chang was slightly stunned, he hadn't told him exactly how to do it, had he already figured it out?

Wanyan Huhe replied: "There are more than 30,000 defenders in Linyi City, if all of them go out of the city and surrender, once the Shandong Righteous Army cannot control it, there will be an accident, which may affect the lives of my relatives, so I plan to let my nephew take the army away, go west, and dedicate Linyi City to the Shandong Righteous Army in its entirety." ”

"You have thought it through, but you don't need to worry about this matter, he can only take 10,000 of the 30,000 people in the city at most, and the remaining 20,000 must go out of the city and surrender!" Yao Chang's words are categorical, and there is no room for negotiation.

In the future, they will still fight Jinan and Jeju, how can they let them take all 30,000 troops away, of course, leaving all 30,000 troops behind is indeed a big hidden danger, if it is only 20,000, the 60,000 rebels are still sure to be able to control them.

"If there is a problem with the Linyi army in the future, don't embarrass my relatives." Wanyan Huhe didn't bargain, but he wanted a promise.

"Okay, if something happens to the army in the future, you won't be blamed. Hurry up and write a letter. Yao Chang did not hesitate.

He is not too worried about the surrender of the army, it is only 20,000 people, it is a big deal to absorb some of them and disband a part, it is not a difficult problem to solve, as long as he is not taken away by the Jin people and becomes the enemy who will block his mother from attacking Jinan and Jeju in the future.

That night, Wanyan Huhe wrote the persuasion and handed it to Yao Chang for inspection.

Yao Changzai carefully read it several times, and then asked the officers to check it, and after confirming that there was no code word, he put the letter away.

Early the next morning, Wanyan Huhe's letter of persuasion was sent to the head of Linyi City with a strong bow.

In the city of Linyi, the soldiers who found the letter hurriedly reported the letter.

Two quarters of an hour later, a letter of persuasion with the words "Wan Yan Xi is personally initiating" written on the envelope was sent to Wan Yan Xizheng, the commander of the Linyi army.

After reading the letter in his hand, Wan Yan Xizheng's face turned pale.

Moments later, the letter of surrender was torn up, and the order was given to convene the generals.

After a short time, dozens of commanders gathered in one place.

"More than a month ago, Yidu Mansion was lost, occupied by the chaotic people gathered in various states of Shandong, I heard that Dengzhou, Laizhou, Weizhou, Mizhou are besieged by a large number of chaotic people, Yidu Mansion is lost, it will not be long before all the states and counties will fall, and then the whole Shandong will only be left with Linyi. Now there is not much grain and grass in Linyi, there is a Song army in the front, there are rebellious people in the back, there is no Yidu Mansion to supply grain and grass, there is no other state to support each other, and Linyi will not be able to defend until the end of the year. Now 60,000 rebellious people outside the city are besieging the city, and in a few days, the Song army in Haizhou and Tancheng will also hear the news and move, and once they join forces to attack the city, Linyi will be lost immediately, and we will be trapped and killed in the city. Wan Yanxi's face was heavy.

"So what are we going to do? Before the Song army arrived, break through? A commander asked.

"If I don't want to be buried in Linyi together, I can only break through. We can break through to the west, first to Pyongyi, and then to Jeju, to save ourselves, and only then can we have the capital to recapture Linyi in the future. Wan Yan Xizheng replied.

"The four gates are surrounded by chaotic people, how can we break through? Isn't going out of town exactly what they want? "There was an objection from the commander-in-chief.

"If you want to break through from the west gate, you should first concentrate your forces to attack the enemy outside the north gate and the south gate, and the east gate should also feign an attack, leaving the west gate alone, so as to attract the enemy outside the west gate to divide the troops to support the north gate and the south gate, and after the enemy army outside the west gate is dispersed, we will concentrate our elite forces and break through the enemy's defensive position outside the west gate in one fell swoop. Outside the city are chaotic people, once they divide their troops and leave their positions, they will inevitably be unable to return to help, and it will not be difficult for us to break through with elite troops. Wan Yan Xizheng explained.

"According to my observation, there are no less than 20,000 enemy troops outside each of the four gates, if we attack from the north and south gates at the same time, and the troops are scattered, we will not be able to pose much threat to the enemy army at all, they may not be able to divide their troops from the west gate, and we may not be able to break through the west gate smoothly." Some commanders expressed doubts.

"Therefore, I plan to charge the north and south gates with 10,000 troops each, the enemy army is just a chaotic people, and there will not be much combat effectiveness. It's just that in this way, it is difficult to say how many of these 20,000 people will survive. Wan Yan Xi was sighing.

"There is no immortal in war." The generals don't have much objection to this, and it's normal to make sacrifices when necessary.

"Since there is no objection, half an hour later, the north and south gates will go out of the city to break the enemy, and an hour later, we will break through from the west gate!" Wan Yan Xi is ordering.

"Yes!"

Dozens of commanders in the hall got up, then turned to leave, and went to prepare.