As soon as Yang Congyi said this, the generals in the council hall didn't know what to do, they didn't sit or stand, and the pressure was instantly transferred to them.

Do you go with your immediate boss to control Liu Yan and take shortcuts in the civil official group, or stay in the city and work with Yang Congyi, the privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition, to gain fame through the Northern Expedition?

Different choices, different endings, different destinies.

They should have thought about this issue and made a good choice, however, Liu Yan and Yang Congyi did not give them much time to think about it.

Liu Yan has already torn his face with Yang Congyi and stood on his opposite, there is no point in verbal rebuttal, whoever can pull more people away in Gu'an City will be the winner.

"You all think about it, what is the purpose of joining the army, isn't it just to be promoted and rich, and glorify your ancestors? If your life is gone, it's all meaningless. If you go with me today, if you have a bite to eat in the future, you will definitely not be missing, today is a brother, and will always be a brother! If it's a brother, come with me! Liu Yan looked around at the generals and shouted loudly.

Whether to go or stay, after all, a decision has to be made, and Liu Yan will not wait for them for too long.

Soon, a general stood up, raised his hand towards Liu Yan and said, "My lord, the last general will follow your lord!" ”

"Good!" Liu Yan said hello, walked over and raised his hand to pat the general's shoulder.

Then he looked around, his gaze swept over the faces of the others.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as soon as someone takes the lead in breaking the deadlock, the followers behind immediately appear, and they all get up and stand up.

After a while, nearly half of the generals in the conference hall stood up and said that they wanted to go with Liu Yan.

The remaining generals did not know whether they had not thought it through or were determined to stay at the front, and although they were restless, they never got up.

Yang Congyi quietly watched everything happen in the hall, and he didn't stop it.

What should be said, he has already said, what the Northern Expedition needs is troops who can fight and dare to fight, not people who are greedy for life and fear death, who destroy the overall situation, who are unwilling to fight, and who say strange things that affect the stability of the army's morale.

What he can take away will inevitably not be used for the Northern Expedition, and those who stay, no matter what their strength, can at least contribute to the Northern Expedition and do their best for the Northern Expedition.

In addition, Liu Yan led people away to destroy the overall situation of the Northern Expedition, and he could logically drive out some of the people who had been inserted by the civilian official group, and even the emperor might not be on their side.

What is the use of supporting generals who dare not fight and can't fight, they are not worthy of Zhao Yan's ambition, Zhao Yan will not stand with Yang Congyi, who holds heavy troops, and will not stand with generals like Liu Yan who defect to the civilian group.

"Is anyone else going with me? You only get one chance, and once you miss it, you won't have it again. Liu Yan looked at the generals who stood up and the generals who didn't, and looked back at Yang Congyi defiantly.

Liu Yan waited for a while, and when he saw that no one got up, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, go back to Jinan Mansion!" ”

"It's good to go, don't send it." Yang Congyi said lightly, and there was even a hint of relaxation and excitement in his heart.

Liu Yan led the people to leave in stride, the confrontation disappeared, and the atmosphere in the conference hall suddenly lightened.

"Since you are willing to stay, it means that you still want to fight, and you want to establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield through your own efforts, get ahead, and glorify your ancestors, instead of relying on others to enjoy food, which is very good. As long as your courage remains, I will be able to lead you to great achievements. Taking Yanjing is just the first step, and taking the entire sixteen states of Yanyun is also in the plan. There is also a vast and boundless land outside Yanyun, the emperor has great ambitions, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty will eventually be boundless, and you will also have the opportunity to lead the army to expand the territory alone in the future! ”

Yang Congyi stood up and walked into the middle of the chamber, deliberately narrowing the distance between him and the general.

"Now, please tell me clearly, would you like to conquer Yanjing City with me?"

Yang Congyi's words echoed in the conference hall, and some of the generals were still entangled, and some were ready to move.

"The last general is willing to follow the commander and make contributions!" A young general stood up and raised his hand, his tone firm.

"The last general is willing to follow the commander and make contributions!"

"The last general is willing to follow the commander and make contributions!"

......

One person starts, and everyone follows.

In a moment, all the generals expressed their intentions one after another, and they all vowed to follow Yang Congyi to make contributions on the front line.

Yang Congyi felt a little comforted in his heart when half of them could stay, and then ended the discussion and ordered them to go back to appease the soldiers and ensure that they would not affect the morale of the army because of the army leaving the city.

After the generals were ordered to leave, Yang Congyi immediately sent people to distribute the two military orders to the transportation camp and the Chaobaihe camp, ordering them to work together and not leave the camp without permission.

In the afternoon of the same day, Liu Yan led more than 10,000 people to leave Gu'an City and go to Yongqing County, preparing to go south to Jinan Mansion after repairing by road, and there was no need to mention them again.

On the night after they left, Yang Congyi summoned all the generals in Gu'an City, including the Jingwu Forbidden Army, to discuss the counterattack plan in the conference hall, and to unify the northern expedition thinking of the generals, stabilize the morale of the army, and boost morale and confidence.

Due to Liu Yan's departure with his henchmen and followers, there was a vacancy in the main command positions in the army, and the generals were full of expectations that Yang Congyi would suddenly promote them to their posts, but Yang Congyi never mentioned this matter from beginning to end.

It is clear that he is skeptical about the combat effectiveness of this army in the current situation, and he wants to personally command it.

Sure enough, before the end of the meeting that night, Yang Congyi announced an order: in this operation, he will participate in the battle and personally command, and at the end of this battle, he will select suitable generals from the army to serve as the deputy commander, commander, deputy commander and other military positions of the army.

When the generals received this promise, they couldn't help but rub their hands, and the fire in their hearts suddenly grew, and at the same time, they were a little worried and worried, secretly wondering which people would be their competitors.

They came from the south, and there were not many opportunities to fight in these years, and even if they had been going north for several months, they had not encountered a chance to really fight with the enemy, so they didn't even know how much combat strength they had, let alone others.

It is precisely for this reason that Yang Congyi did not hastily select generals among them to take on big responsibilities, he had to fight a battle, and after tempering, he could see clearly which were the talents that could be created and which were the generals who could be used.

Beginning the next day, the whole army rectified military discipline, and all units began to drill their military formations in the limited space in the city to reshape the morale of the army.

At the same time, Yang Congyi personally sent outposts out of the city to search for news about the Jin Army and the nearby Northern Expeditionary Army, and distributed the news that he had come to Gu'an County to the secret spy department, the transportation camp and the Chaobai River camp lurking in the Yanjing area.

The Jin army defeated the Hedgehog River camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty in one dispatch, obtained a lot of grain and grass materials, and frightened back the Song army of the Haizi Village camp more than 50 miles away through this battle.

In Yanjing City, everyone knows, the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty gathered the four road army to encircle Yanjing City, the four large battalions from the southwest to the northeast direction in an arc setting, blocking the plain area of the east and south of Yanjing City, the major battalions are only more than 50 miles away from Yanjing City, each camp has 30,000 or 40,000 people, if the Song army further advances, the Jin army can only withdraw into Yanjing City, so that although the Jin army has war horses, it will lose all its combat advantages.

This time the Northern Expedition of the Song Army was different from the past, they gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, and they did not break Yanjing's vow to give up, which made people have nightmares when they thought about it.

Therefore, in the early days when the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Pingzhou and Laizhou, and then surrounded Yanjing by the four routes, the entire Yanjing City was full of pessimism, and they thought that even if they held Yanjing City under the strong impact of the Song army, the price they would have to pay would be unbearable.

But everything was different with a bold attack by the Jin army and the defeat of the Song army in the Hedgehog River camp.

After the Battle of the Hedgehog River, the Jin army thought that they had found an effective way to break through the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty to encircle Yanjing City, that is, to concentrate superior forces and attack one of them with the advantage of rapid movement of cavalry.

Just when they took the Song army's Hedgehog River camp, sent the victorious battle report Pegasus back to Yanjing's left-behind mansion, and then planned how to attack the nearby camp of Haizi Village, they found out the news that the thirty or forty thousand Song troops stationed in Haizi Village had retreated in a hurry.

At the beginning, the commander of the Jin army thought that the retreat of the Song army in Haizi Village was a trap deliberately set by the Song army, an empty city plan, and wanted to use it to inflict heavy damage on them.

But they searched for three days in a row, and did not find that there was an ambush of the Song army near Haizi Village, and when they were puzzled, they got the news that they were detected in the direction of Gu'an, fifty miles away, and then they knew that Haizi Village was indeed not a trap ambush set by the Song army, but that the Song army really retreated and ran back to Gu'an City.

The commander of the Jin army, who had always been cautious, concluded that the Song army had abandoned the Haizi Village camp after synthesizing the exact information obtained from several aspects, so he then sent 20,000 soldiers to take the complete Song army camp in Haizi Village as his own, and received all the grain and grass materials in the camp.

Following the Hedgehog River Battalion, the Jin army occupied the second battalion of the Song army, which had left a large amount of supplies, without any effort or a single soldier.

At this point, the menacing four-way Great Song Northern Expeditionary Army, within five days, two of them retreated, discarding countless grain and grass materials, one of which also suffered heavy losses, it can be said that the Song army from the south of Yanjing has been defeated.

Encouraged by this, the morale of the remaining mansion was greatly increased, and the Jin army was surging in battle, and it seemed that one more blow could completely defeat the Song army that had gathered this time, and break the Song army's attempt, and even rely on them to recover Pingzhou and Laizhou, and open up convenient passages with Jinzhou and Liaoyang Mansion.

Inside and outside Yanjing City, from the guards to the officials, from the commanders of the Jin army to the ordinary soldiers, the sense of shame in their hearts caused by the fear of the Song army's encirclement and retreating step by step, as they repelled the two Song armies in a short period of time, they soon turned into a surging battle spirit, from top to bottom, fanatical!