In the midst of heavy snowfall, the New Year is ushered in.

The first edict of the new year issued by the imperial court was to change the name of the era to "Beiding".

At the same time, Zhao Gou changed the era name to "Shoukang" in Lin'an, and Wanyan Liang changed the era name to "Daxing" in Datong Mansion.

With the change of the era name, the general trend of the world is also brewing.

Because the Jin Kingdom was divided into two, the two imperial courts, one in Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion and the other in Xijing Datong Mansion, could not be unified, and the two courts coexisted, so the government and the opposition called the Wanyan Liang court in Datong Mansion as Xijin, and called the Wanyan Yong court in Liaoyang Mansion as Dongjin.

There was no confrontation and war between Bianjing and Lin'an in the Great Song Dynasty, so the Great Song Dynasty still maintained basic unity in the eyes of other countries and ordinary people.

The previous series of changes greatly damaged the vitality of Xijin and Beiting Bianjing of the Great Song Dynasty and lost the ability to continue the war.

Therefore, from the first year of Beiding, a certain tacit understanding was reached between Bianjing and Xijin, and in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hangu Pass, Hebei, Shandong and other places, the two armies maintained a delicate balance, did not take the initiative to provoke contradictions, and even if there was occasional friction, it was quickly calmed down through dialogue.

At the same time, in the first year of Beiding, the Bianjing court made official contact with Dongjin Wanyan Yong, and sent envoys to cross the sea.

Bianjing promised to maintain neutrality between Dongjin and Xijin, and the quid pro quo was that Dongjin would give Bianjing a thousand high-class horses every year, and Wanyan Yong wanted to take advantage of Wanyanliang's weakness and destroy him in the north in one fell swoop, fearing that the Great Song Dynasty would be inclined to Wanyanliang and help Wanyanliang, so he had to agree to Bianjing's proposal, and in May of the first year of Beiding, the two countries formally established friendly relations between the Great Song Dynasty and Dongjin.

In June of the same year, Bianjing signed a neutrality agreement with Xijin Wanyan Liang on the same terms.

In August, Wanyan Liang gathered the Xijin army, including the troops of many tribes in the western part of the Mongolian steppe, totaling more than 100,000 people, and rushed for thousands of miles, first capturing Qingzhou, and then fighting with Wanyan Yong in Linhuang Mansion in Beijing.

The two sides fought for more than ten days, each with its own victory and defeat, and countless casualties.

In the end, Wan Yan Liang paid a great price and drove Wan Yan Yong out of Linhuang Mansion in one fell swoop, recaptured Beijing, and the west of Linhuang Mansion was brought under Wan Yan Liang's rule.

In the battle of Linhuang Mansion, the Mongol tribes must charge forward in each battle, each department suffered heavy casualties, after the battle, each department lost more than half, and the battle ended with the inability to fight again, and the need to replenish the war horse to recuperate as an excuse, retreated to the depths of the grassland, and only the troops stationed in Linhuang Mansion were finished.

As soon as the grassland tribes withdrew, although Wan Yanliang still had 60,000 or 70,000 troops in Linhuang Mansion, he did not dare to start a big war immediately, first, the army needed to rest after the war, and second, the recaptured nearly 1,000 miles of land needed to consolidate his rule.

So Wan Yan Liang and Wan Yan Yong entered a period of recuperation after the Battle of Linhuang Mansion, and at the same time prepared for the next war non-stop.

In November, Wan Yan Yong, who had retreated to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, gradually eased the morale of the army after a few months of rest.

In the middle of the winter month, after a heavy snowfall, Wan Yanyong suddenly led the army to attack from Dadingfu and Yanjing, attacking Linhuangfu on the east road and Fengshengzhou on the west road.

Wan Yan Liang made a mistake in his estimation, thinking that Wan Yan Yong would not be able to start another war before the spring of the next year, and he was defenseless in the heavy snow, and when Wan Yan Yong's army appeared, he could only rush to fight.

The two sides fought with Yongzhou in the south of Linhuang Mansion for three days, and Wanyan Liang lost his troops and returned to Linhuang Mansion in defeat.

Wan Yan Yong led the army to chase closely, caught up with Wan Yan Liang in the south of Linhuang Mansion, the two armies fought for less than half a day, and the rear army of 20,000 people was annihilated, either killed in battle, or surrendered to be a prisoner of Wan Yan Yong.

Wan Yanliang learned that the army was destroyed, and hurriedly withdrew from Linhuang Mansion, leading more than 40,000 remnants of the army to flee to Gyeongju in the northwest.

The soldiers recaptured Linhuang Mansion without blood, and learned that Wan Yan Liang fled in panic, Wan Yan Yong was overjoyed, thinking that the time had come to completely destroy Wan Yan Liang, so he immediately ordered the whole army to pursue while he was victorious.

At the same time, it was ordered that those who captured Yan Liang alive would be rewarded with a thousand gold, and those who finished Yan Liang with a blade would be rewarded with a hundred gold!

However, due to the heavy snow, the march was difficult, Wan Yanyong's 80,000 army stretched for hundreds of miles, and the vanguard troops chased to the city of Gyeongju, and the rear army had just left the city for dozens of miles.

The vanguard troops ran long distances in the heavy snow, and the physical exertion was serious, and they just arrived at the city, and before they could start the attack, they were killed by the Gyeongju defenders who were waiting for work, and after a few hours, the follow-up army arrived, and the vanguard army was 1,000 people, and the losses were exhausted.

Five days later, when nearly 50,000 people from Wan Yan Yong's front army and the Chinese army besieged Gyeongju City and prepared to capture Wan Yan Liang alive, Wan Yan Yong received the news of the rear army's defeat.

It turned out that a day ago, Wan Yan Yong's rear army was suddenly attacked by Wan Yan Liang's army when they were staying overnight on the march, and the whole army was caught off guard, nearly 30,000 troops were almost wiped out, and the food and grass materials escorted by the army were all taken away by Wan Yan Liang.

Moreover, after Yan Liang succeeded in sneaking up on Yan Yonghou's army, he had already gone south to Linhuang Mansion again!

Hearing the news, Wan Yanyong was so angry that he fainted on the spot.

An hour later, Wan Yan Yong ordered the slaughter of Gyeongju City.

A day later, the houses in Gyeongju Fortress were burned down, the city walls were torn down, and Gyeongju Fortress was completely destroyed by Wan Yan Yong.

The back road of Linhuang Mansion was copied, the morale of the whole army was low, and it was expected that there was no hope of retaking Linhuang Mansion, Wan Yanyong had to lead the army to the east, bypassing Linhuang Mansion, intending to return to Dading Mansion and fight again with the whole army.

However, Wan Yan Liang, who had gained the advantage, did not give him this opportunity, and sent several elite cavalry to harass him along the way, which made the morale of Wan Yan Yong's army decline again and again, and the morale of the army gradually dissipated, and the fleeing soldiers continued to appear, several, dozens, dozens, hundreds, and the scale of the fleeing soldiers expanded rapidly.

Originally, Wan Yan Yong just wanted to return to Dading Mansion safely and make plans after resting, but in the ice and snow, in this situation, when he returned to Dading Mansion, it was unknown whether he could still have half of the army.

In desperation, Wan Yanyong had to organize a counterattack to boost morale.

After two days of luring and preparation, Wanyan Yongbu finally found an opportunity a hundred miles east of Yongzhou, surrounded Wanyan Liang's two elite cavalry regiments, blocked any possibility of the other party's escape, and turned them into prey in the trap, and then ordered all the troops to take turns to fight, play with each other, and boost the morale of all armies and units.

After a whole day of teasing and playing, the Wan Yan Liang cavalry unit that was under siege was completely slaughtered, and as the last feather arrow was fired, the two elite cavalry units that were ordered to attack and harass were all wiped out.

After this battle, the morale of Wanyan Yong's army was great, and the generals of all departments asked for their lives, vowing to recapture Yongzhou and Linhuang Mansion!

Seeing that the whole army had changed its previous sluggish atmosphere and suddenly became extremely vigorous, Wan Yanyong was immediately overjoyed.

He understands that whether the army can win a battle or not depends not on whether it can rest well or whether it can eat enough, but whether it has morale or not, and if there is no morale to attack, even if the soldiers eat well and dress warmly, they will collapse at the touch of a button, and as long as the morale is strong, even if they lack food and drink, they can still win the battle!

So Wan Yan Yong immediately adjusted his strategy and ordered the whole army to turn to the west and march westward, attacking Yongzhou City on all fronts!

A day later, Wan Yanyong returned to Yongzhou City.

Wan Yan Liang shrank all his forces to Linhuang Mansion.

After several fierce battles, the two armies relied on Linhuang Mansion and Yongzhou City to form a confrontation again.

After a few months of fighting, Wan Yan Yong and Wan Yan Liang each suffered losses, and they no longer dared to think of destroying each other in one fell swoop, and finally admitted from their hearts that it was not an easy thing to eliminate each other, nor was it an overnight thing.

Just when Wanyan Yong and Wanyan Liang were confronting each other in Linhuang Mansion and Yongzhou, they quietly went west out of Yanjing, attacked an army in Fengshengzhou, and took Fengshengzhou in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of the heavy snow to close the mountains and the inconvenience of news delivery, went straight out of Fengshengzhou, attacked the Mongolian grassland, and then galloped between Datong Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, which were empty, burning, killing and looting, and burned and killed all the large and small tribes that belonged to Wanyan Liang encountered along the way.

A month later, the news reached Datong Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, and when they sent troops to meet the expulsion, the other party was nowhere to be found, disappeared into the vast grassland, I don't know whether it was from Fengshengzhou to Yanjing, or went deeper into the northern grassland.

From the end of the month to February of the next year, Wan Yan Yong and Wan Yan Liang have been facing each other in the city, and no one wants to retreat easily.

In Wan Yan Yong's view, if Wan Yan Liang completely occupies Linhuang Mansion and Yongzhou, then he will plot Dading Mansion, once Dading Mansion can't hold it, as long as Wan Yan Liang's army goes south, he will be able to cut off the passage between Liaoyang Mansion and Yanjing immediately, then Yanjing will surrender without a fight, and Liaoyang Mansion will directly face the attack of the other party.

Therefore, Yongzhou and Linhuang Mansion must not be firmly occupied by Wan Yanliang, even if Linhuang Mansion is now in the hands of the other party, as long as it has not formed a stable rule, it cannot be used by the other party, and he still has a chance to recapture Linhuang Mansion.

Wan Yan Liang is the same as Wan Yan Yong thought.

If you want to take Yanjing, which has thick walls, it is not possible to fight hard with the army, even if tens of thousands of people are killed, it may not be possible to capture Yanjing, but if you take Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion by detour, and cut off the passage between Yanjing and Liaoyang Mansion, the entire Zhending Mansion and the north of Hejian Mansion, including Yanjing City, will not use swords and soldiers, and take the initiative to annex.

Therefore, Wan Yanliang will give up attacking Yanjing from Fengshengzhou, which is less than two hundred miles away from Yanjing, and make a detour to the grassland for thousands of miles to seize Linhuang Mansion.

Now that he has occupied Linhuang Mansion, there is absolutely no reason to give up.

Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion are related to the national fortune of Xijin and Dongjin, and it is about who is orthodox in Wanyan Liang and Wanyanyong, and their fate is also tied to this place.

Therefore, the two sides are on their own feet, and neither is willing to take half a step back, and no one dares to relax their vigilance.

After several fierce battles, after each side lost 30,000 or 40,000 troops, there was no absolute certainty of victory, and neither of them dared to attack easily again, for fear of giving the other side a chance, and regretting it.

However, Wanyan Liang's 40,000 troops were stationed in Linhuang Mansion, and all the grain and grass had to be replenished from Datong Mansion, and Wanyan Yong's army was stationed in Yongzhou, and the grain and grass of nearly 50,000 troops were also replenished from Liaoyang Mansion.