That night, Li Xianzhong led his troops to fight fiercely with the Jin army who hurried to the north of Jeju for an hour, killing more than 2,000 enemies.

After that, the main force of the Jin army arrived, and the Song army was defeated and chose to retreat to Jeju City.

The enemy army learned that the Song army retreated, only to chase overnight, and now it is blocked to the north of the city, I don't know whether the other party is a conspiracy, or really retreating, it is difficult to decide for a while, do not dare to storm the city, let alone divide the troops to pursue in the south of the city.

In the eyes of the Jin army, the current Song army is divided into two parts, one part in the city, the other part retreats south, if they divide their troops to chase the retreating Song army, the Song army suddenly turns back, and the Song army in Jeju City forms a front and rear flank, or set a trap and ambush on the way to retreat, then rashly chasing in the middle of the night, will be defeated.

The Jin army, which pursued to the city of Jeju, did not dare to continue to approach, let alone attack the city rashly.

The commander of the Jin army thought that no matter whether the Song army really retreated or conspiracy, as long as they withdrew from Jeju City, it would be impossible to return to the city by waiting until dawn, and then the Song army in the city would be lonely, and there would be no other way but to abandon the city, so that he could easily recapture Jeju City.

So he issued an order: the whole army must not take the initiative to attack before dawn, and be careful to guard against a sneak attack by the Song army!

Under the moonlight, from a distance, Jeju City is full of people.

More than two hours later, the darkness cleared and dawn came.

Pegasus, a soldier who approached the city to investigate, reported: "My lord, the city is full of dummies!" ”

"What? Explore and report again! The Jin army commander was shocked.

"My lord, the Song people must have been afraid of us and fled! We'll chase them at once, and maybe we'll be able to catch up with them halfway. "Some generals proposed to hurry up and chase the Song army.

"We can't be greedy for merit, we have limited troops, there are no reinforcements behind, and the supply of food and grass is also a problem, if we are ambushed on the way to pursue, we will be in great trouble. If you take Jeju City, it will be a victory if you can hold it. "The Jin army will not be moved.

When the generals saw this, they could only sigh with hatred.

After a while, the soldier Pegasus who went to investigate reported: "Jeju City is already an empty city, there is no Song army in the city, they retreated in a hurry, and a lot of grain and grass are still in the city!" ”

"My lord, let's chase it!" As soon as he heard the report, some generals asked for orders to pursue again.

The commander in chief of the Kim army had already made up his mind, and ignored the request for pursuit, but ordered: "The whole army is stationed in Jeju City!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, Jeju City returned to the hands of the Kim army.

The chief general of the Jin army immediately sent a small force of cavalry to pursue the retreat of the Song army and probe the enemy.

Half a day later, the cavalry reported: "The Song army can't escape all the way, and countless grains and grass are discarded on the road!" ”

In the evening, the cavalry reported: "The Song army did not enter Teng County, and went straight to Xuzhou!" The defenders of Teng County also retreated, and Teng County has returned to Dajin! ”

Hearing this news, the chief general of the Jin Army was immediately a little annoyed.

Knowing that the Song army had fled, it was time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but now it is too late to chase, Xuzhou City is not as good as Jeju, the Song army has occupied more than a year, and 50,000 people will definitely suffer if they go to fight Xuzhou.

Thinking about it like this, I had to give up.

Fortunately, they had recaptured Jeju and thwarted the momentum of the Song army's Northern Expedition.

Therefore, the chief general of the Jin army sent people back to Bianjing that night to send the news of repelling the Song army from the north and recapturing Jeju and Tengxian back to the imperial court.

It is said that the Song army, which fled all the way from Jeju City, did not eat or drink on the road, traveled day and night, fled 200 miles a day, fled from Jeju City to Teng County, and then fled to the territory of Lanling County, without any stop on the road, until the third day fled back to Xuzhou City.

Tens of thousands of soldiers crowded each other and trampled on the road, killing and wounding nearly 10,000 people, and it was difficult to escape from Xuzhou, not to mention how many people were pushed into the water and drowned because of rushing to cross the river.

Jeju is the seat of Rencheng, and the history of this rout is called "the defeat of Rencheng".

On 15 May, Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan divided their troops into 60,000 Song troops who went north on two routes, and when they returned to Xuzhou City on 22 June, there were only 30,000 remnants, and nearly half of them were killed and wounded.

In the city of Xuzhou, the remnants of the Northern Expedition soldiers and defenders had a decline in morale and no longer had the slightest fighting spirit.

Li Xianzhong, who was extremely angry, counted Shao Hongyuan's eight charges in front of Zhang Jun, the commander of the Northern Expedition, and proposed that Shao Hongyuan be beheaded by military law in front of the generals of the Northern Expedition to thank the countless soldiers who died in the Northern Expedition!

Zhang Jun closed the camp and sat alone for several hours.

Then he ordered Li Xianzhong to take over the defense of Xuzhou and lead an army of 20,000 to block the Jin army here to prevent the Jin army from entering Jianghuai again.

Two days later, he himself took Shao Hongyuan back to Xuyi, south of the Huai River.

Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition, presided over by the new emperor Zhao Yan, was defeated in less than two months before he led his army back to Xuyi.

The news of the failure of the Northern Expedition reached Lin'an, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

The main peace faction raised its head again, and the main battle conservatives led by Yang Cunzhong and Shi Hao also criticized Chen Kangbo and Zhang Jun, accusing them of ignoring the dissuasion of the ministers and rushing to the north when they were not fully prepared, not only burying countless grain and grass to the enemy, but also losing 30,000 Song Dynasty soldiers.

On June 26, Zhao Yan ordered Zhang Jun to be demoted to Jianghuai Xuanfu to supervise the defense line of the two Huai and prevent the Jin people from moving south.

At the same time, Shao Hongyuan was demoted to Wuyi doctor, and his position in the army did not change.

"The Collapse of Rencheng" is not in Li Xianzhong, so his official position and military position have not changed, in order to reward his loyalty and bravery, he was given money to stimulate the morale of the defenders of Xuzhou.

Just when the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were arguing fiercely about whether to fight or to rise again, Yang Congyi, who was in Bozhou, began his adventurous blow.

On June 23, Yang Cong ordered 3,000 elite soldiers to cross the Vortex River north with two horses and two horses, to the east to Yongcheng County, and then from between Feng County and Dangshan County to Sima Town in the north, bypassing Chengwu County, and attacking Xingren Mansion.

The entire march route from west to east seemed to support Xuzhou and Lanling, but in fact it bypassed Guide Mansion and directly attacked Xingren Mansion in the north.

On June 25, under the guidance of their guides, 3,000 elite troops galloped all the way to Nanluji, 20 miles north of Chengwu County.

This place is less than 80 miles away from Dingtao County, where Xingren Mansion is located, and you can reach the city of Xingren Mansion in one and a half hours.

"Commander Zhang, you lead a battalion of 300 people to the north of Juye, don't enter the city, only intercept the heralds between Jeju and Heungin Mansion around, and ensure that no military information can be exchanged between the two places within half a month!" Chen Chong, the commander of the Jingwu Army, gathered in Nanlu and assigned tasks.

"Order!" Zhang Weilin clenched his fists and took his life.

"Commander Han, you lead the second battalion and the third battalion of 600 people to the north, take Juancheng County first, and after taking it, don't stay too long, quickly march eastward and take Yuncheng County. After taking Yuncheng, you can show the identity of the Song army, call the people in the city to establish a city defense, and then defend the city. During this period, if there is a strong enemy attacking the city, it is really impossible to resist, and the enemy army can be maneuvered, without having to fight, and it will drag on until about the tenth day of the seventh month, and the army will rush to support. Chen Chong continued to deploy.

"Order!" Han Song clenched his fists and received the order.

"The rest of the battalions were divided into two routes, one was led by me to enter the city from the east gate of Xingren Mansion and capture the east gate and the north gate, and the other was led by Wang Hao to enter the city from the south gate and seize the south gate and the west gate. After capturing the four gates, the Song army lurking in the city will cooperate with us to take the state capital Yamen. Capture Xingren Mansion, hold out until about the tenth day of the seventh month, and the army will go north to Juye, and our task will be completed. Do you understand? Chen Chong quickly made arrangements for each battalion in accordance with Yang Congyi's plan.

"Understood!" Wang Hao and other generals and commanders should be in unison.

"Okay, rest for half an hour, and the battalions will go their separate ways!"

Chen Chong gave an order, and the generals dispersed.

Half an hour later, 3,000 elite soldiers dressed in the armor of the Jin Army rode away and acted separately.

After noon that day, under the scorching sun, the Jingwu army rushed to Xingren Mansion.

Then, taking advantage of the lax defense of the city, Chen Chong led more than 1,000 soldiers of the Jingwu Army into the city from the east gate of Xingren Mansion, and killed dozens of Jin army defenders near the city gate in a moment, seized the east city gate, and then divided a battalion of soldiers to go straight to the north city and captured the north city gate in an instant.

At the same time, Wang Hao led a thousand elite soldiers into the city from the south gate and quickly captured the south gate and the west gate.

After the capture of the four gates, the drawbridge was raised, the city gates were closed, and the news inside and outside the city was cut off.

Then Wang Hao led the army straight to the barracks, blocked the camp gate, stabilized the defenders in the camp, and waited for Chen Chong's news.

Chen Chong led the army to rush into the Xingren Mansion and captured Xu Tong, the Xingren Mansion Guard.

"Whose soldiers are you? Want to rebel? Xu Tong angrily reprimanded the Jin Jun in front of him.

"It doesn't matter who we are, I just want to ask Lord Xu, are you Han or Barbarian?" Chen Chong did not smile.

"Although Xu is a Han Chinese, now he is in the Jin Kingdom, and he is also an official of the Jin Kingdom, who are you instructed to act so boldly? Aren't you afraid that the court will cut off your heads? Xu Tong had no intentions.

"It's good that Master Xu knows that he is Han, and we are also Han. Since the Central Plains fell into the hands of the barbarian Jin people, the people have been exploited, humiliated and killed, we are in front of the Jin people, it is really not as good as pigs and dogs, such days, Lord Xu must not have personally experienced it in a high position, but he should have also seen the miserable appearance of the Han people, I don't know how Lord Xu feels about this? Saying this, Chen Chong's eyes were slightly red.

Xu Tong was silent.

"Now the Jin people have tore up the peace talks without authorization, expropriated violently, waved their troops south, and once again invaded the people of Jianghuai, which has lost the hearts of the people in the world! Lord Xu opened his eyes to see, where are Shandong, Hebei, and Huaibei not full of resentment, and where are not the rebels who resist the brutal rule of the Jin people? We are all Han people, and there are not many real Jin people in the entire Xingren Mansion, if Lord Xu wants to be a real Han person again, you will lead our uprising, and the Han people must be ruled by the Han people! The barbarians of the north must rush back to the north! Chen Chong's eyes were red and he looked excited.

He stared at Xu Tong for a while, and when he saw Xu Tong's hesitant expression, he immediately said, "If you are worried about your family members, we can immediately send someone to bring them to Xingren Mansion to meet." ”

After finishing speaking, after a slight pause, he threatened: "If Lord Xu does not understand the riddle and wants to be the lackey of the Jin people, and disregards the lives of the Han people, then we can only do it ourselves." But if that's the case, it's useless to keep Lord Xu in the world. ”