Shandong Province, Yidu Province.

Yidu Mansion stayed behind and Yan Huhe was irritable, and there was turmoil everywhere in the territory under the jurisdiction of Yidu Mansion, with as few as 100 people and as many as thousands of people, plundering everywhere, and none of them were stable, but the imperial court ordered 30,000 troops from Yidu Mansion to go north to exterminate Yan Yong together.

Last year, the army went south to attack the Song State, and it had already drawn nearly 50,000 pro-Zhuang and troops from Yidu Prefecture, and even this year's spring ploughing was greatly affected, so that the autumn harvest was seriously reduced, but the imperial court ignored the people's feelings, and continued to levy taxes, which made the people complain, one person shouted anti-taxation, and hundreds of thousands of people responded.

Yidu Mansion is in chaos like this, and the imperial court has also ordered the transfer of 30,000 pro-Zhuang and troops three times and twice, and they must be sent to Jinan Mansion within half a month, where to find someone? Do you want to arrest the people who rebel?

"My lord, the rebels have captured Laiyang, robbed the county seat, killed the officials, and are gathering in Dengzhou!" It is an official report.

"What? How many of them are there? How dare you attack the county seat? "After staying behind, Yan Huhe was shocked, attacking the county seat is not a trivial matter, then they are not rebels, but rebels!

"Five or six hundred, supposedly." The subordinate replied.

"How can five or six hundred people take the county seat? Isn't there a garrison in the county? Wanyan Huhe was angry.

"There are only one or two hundred people in the county, and half of them have turned around and joined the rebels, that is, the cities they opened, the officials they killed, and the granaries they robbed." The subordinate officer was very helpless.

Wanyan Huhe was silent, the court went on like this, and it was strange if the place was not chaotic, but others spoke softly, even if they wrote a book, no one listened, and if they didn't get it right, they had to be punished, but I heard that he had killed a lot of magistrates who didn't listen to the orders of the court, and he wanted to live for two more years.

"My lord, should we send troops to exterminate the rebellious people first, and then send troops to Jinan Mansion when they are stable?" The subordinate officer asked.

"It's too late, right?" Wanyan Huhe was very conflicted in his heart.

"It's definitely too late, the imperial court wants Yidu Mansion to transfer troops and 30,000 people, we are not enough to fight half of the people, anyway, it's too late, it's better to send troops to exterminate the rebellious people in Dengzhou first, and when the time comes, the court will investigate it, and we have a good explanation, we can't say that we are also wrong to calm the chaos!" The subordinate officer analyzed.

After thinking about it, he felt reasonable, and now it is definitely not enough to directly transfer troops to Jinan, if he is pulled to quell the chaos, delay time, and lose troops, and the court also said in the past, even if he is investigated, he will not lose his official position, at most he will be demoted a few levels, and he will have the opportunity to be promoted in the future.

As soon as he thought of this, Wanyan Huhe immediately clapped his hands and said: "Okay, our troops are divided into two routes, send 10,000 people to Jinan Mansion, send 2,000 people to Dengzhou to quell the chaos, and declare that 15,000 troops will quell the chaos!" ”

"Yes." The subordinate officer agreed, but then said with a little worry: "My lord, if you send two thousand people to Dengzhou, there will not be many people left in Yidu Mansion, in case the one or two thousand chaotic troops from the direction of Mizhou run over, we will be in danger." ”

"Mizhou and Yidu Mansion are separated by four or five hundred miles, how can they come here so easily, they don't eat or drink all the way? After all, it's just a chaotic people, if they stutter, they won't run around, and there is a lot of food in the granary in Mizhou, enough for them to eat for a year and a half. Besides, no one cares about them, and they will go back to COFCO themselves. Even if someone really comes, there will not be a few thousand, and it would be good to have three or five hundred people. ”

When it came to the chaotic people, Wanyan Huhe didn't care too much, if it weren't for the imperial court's dispatch order to be too urgent, why would he let the chaotic people go unattended, and would have sent troops to exterminate them all on the spot.

"It's that the lower officials are too worried." Saying this, the doubts in the hearts of the subordinate officials did not disappear.

The rebellious people can gather five or six hundred people to seize Laiyang, why can't they gather to attack the capital? Everyone knows that Yidu Mansion is the capital of Shandong East Road, and there is a lot of food and wealth gathered, so why don't the rioters come to rob it? Thick walls?

There is no high city that cannot be climbed, and there is no thick wall that cannot be broken!

That's what Luo Cong thought.

Eight thousand people and one hundred ships gathered on Daqin Island, waiting for an order, they were about to show their edge!

Shen Jin, Luo Cong, and Yao Chang gathered in a room to discuss major matters.

I only listened to Shen Jindao: "According to Lord Yang's strategic intentions, we must make good use of the empty forces of Shandong East Road for a few months, quickly take down the entire Shandong East Road, and then wait for the opportunity to take Jinan Mansion and Dongping Mansion, and then when the time is right, we will attack with the Suzhou army in the north and south, seize Jeju, connect Bozhou, Suzhou and Yidu and Dengzhou, and the last route will go east to west, one route from south to north, and attack Bianjing from two directions to recover the Central Plains." But the problem now is that we only have 8,000 people, and although the rebel army in Dengzhou, Mizhou and other places is not small, it is scattered and difficult to become a big weapon, and I have already been to Mizhou to contact before. ”

Speaking of the rebel army, Shen Jin recounted: "Last year, after the Jin State Navy was destroyed on Chenjia Island, they left a large amount of supplies, and the Great Song Dynasty Navy only took a little bit of the Great Song Dynasty Navy Ship, and the rest were left to the Righteous Army from all walks of life, but without exception, they robbed all the food, and turned a blind eye to the ordnance and military resources, at that time, the fleet I brought was not large, and only loaded more than ten ships, I originally discussed with them, let them help take care of it for a few days, I came back to find the fleet to transport things away, but they were blind, only caring about their own small profits, snatching food and running, And the Great Song Dynasty army was alone, did not dare to advance, and did not dare to stay in Chenjiadao for a long time, and finally those materials that could not be taken away were burned by a fire, I heard that the fire burned for four days and four nights. If all those supplies were moved back to Daqin Island, it would be enough to build a well-equipped army of 50,000 people, and now I feel angry when I think about it. Therefore, don't count on the rebels, unless we can completely pull them into our ranks, and rely on their cooperation, it is not a long-term solution, I am afraid it will still destroy our great plan. ”

Yao Chang thought for a while and said, "That's okay, I listen to Lord Shen, the attack on Yidu Mansion is still up to our Jingwu army itself, and I won't notify the other righteous armies." ”

"That's how it should be, our 8,000 well-trained elite troops won't be unable to take down an empty city, not to mention that there are people in the city to help." Yao Chang changed his words, and Luo Cong was very excited.

"Don't use the name of the Jingwu Army, we are the righteous army, not the Great Song Dynasty Army, if it reaches the ears of Lin'an or the Jin people, it is not easy to explain, I am afraid it will bring unnecessary trouble to Lord Yang, and our actions in Shandong will also be subject to many restrictions, once the Jin people think that it is the Great Song Dynasty Army, they are likely to mobilize heavy troops to take the lead in destroying us." As soon as he heard the name of Jingwu Jun, Shen Jin hurriedly reminded him.

The spies he sent did not know a time to hear the Jin people's own analysis of the reasons for the withdrawal of troops from the Yangtze River to the north, among which the highest frequency was the Jingwu army led by Lord Yang, the Jin people failed in three water battles, all thanks to the Jingwu army, which also directly led to the failure of crossing the river, and then became the inducement for the Jin people's entire army to retreat northward.

When the Jingwu Army led by Yang Congyi fought with the Jin people in the Yangtze River, Yao Chang and Luo Cong were still far away, and communication was inconvenient, so they didn't hear too much news about the Jingwu Army.

Yang Congyi also mentioned in the letter that after they went north, they could not pretend to be the Great Song army, and it was best to act as a righteous army, which could not only win some material support from the Great Song court, but also not arouse the vigilance of the Jin people.

After a brief discussion between the three of them, they changed the entire army of Qindao to the Shandong Loyal and Righteous Army, this name is very broad, all the righteous troops in Shandong can be called by this name, what they want now is not to rule Shandong, but to take advantage of the chaos to seize Shandong, the more chaotic Shandong is, the more beneficial it will be to them.

Later, the three of them discussed in detail how to seize Yidu Mansion and formulated a comprehensive plan to try to achieve a quick victory and succeed in one fell swoop.

Shen Jin didn't have much say in how to fight, because he was a civilian official, although he presided over the affairs of the Northern Huiyi Base and commanded the Northern Guards, he didn't have much experience in leading troops, let alone fighting in wars, so he could only do logistics at this time. Yang Congyi also explained this in his letter, there is logistics to attack, this is a sentence that Yang Congyi has always emphasized, and he remembers it in his heart.

"I have sent 200 people to guide the rebels from all walks of life to take Laiyang, and now they are approaching Dengzhou, and at the same time, I have also sent dozens of people to spread the news that Dengzhou's city defense is weak and there are many food treasures in the city, calling on all the rebels to go to Dengzhou, break the city to get food, and tide over the famine together. If everything goes well, after ten days, thousands of people will gather under the city of Dengzhou, just with the strength of Dengzhou, it will not last long, if Yidu Mansion still wants to Dengzhou, it must send troops to rescue, then Yidu Mansion will become an empty city, we will directly take a boat from the north of Yidu Mansion to land, and it will not take half a day to take it in one fell swoop. If Yidu Mansion does not rescue Dengzhou, after Dengzhou City is broken, we will guide the rebels from all walks of life to go straight to Yidu Mansion, and after they are in chaos, we will suddenly kill from the north of the city, and we can quickly take Yidu Mansion. Yao Chang pointed to the map and said.

"Shandong's only combat effectiveness army in Linyi, is confronting the Song army stationed in Haizhou, the current entire Shandong army is empty, it is not difficult to take Yidu Mansion, how to ensure that it can still be controlled in our hands after taking it is a problem. How many cities can 8,000 men defend? In addition, if we can't restore order and let the rebels from all walks of life rage, it is meaningless for us to take the whole of Shandong, at most we can only drive the Jin officials away, and a completely chaotic Shandong will not provide much help for the restoration of the Central Plains and the recapture of Bianjing. I thought that after seizing the city, we should immediately absorb the rebels who could absorb it and strengthen our ranks, and at the same time, Lord Shen set out to restore order in the city and restore the rule of the government as soon as possible. Luo Cong changed the topic, he was not worried about not being able to take the city.

"I'll think about the rule." Shen Jin interface.