Bianjing, the capital of Nanjin State, the subjects are in panic all day long.

Two years ago, after the southward invasion of the Song Dynasty and the setback to the north bank of the Yangtze River, Wanyan Liang was trapped in the situation of Wanyan Yong in the north and the Song in the south between the north and the south.

For Wan Yanliang, although the south is good, but the north is his foundation, he has lived between the white mountains and black water since he was a child, and after he became an adult, he stayed in Yanjing for a few years, and moved the capital to Yanjing within a few years after ascending the throne, so Yanjing and the north are his inseparable places, his hometown, and the place where his rule is the most stable, and the south is the place he dreams of conquering, and he can't conquer it now, and it will be the same if he conquers it a few years later.

If the north is completely lost and is collected by Wanyan Yong, it will be difficult to recapture it after a long time.

Most of the courtiers came from the north, when they moved the capital from Yanjing to Bianjing, many people did not dare to oppose it on the surface, but few people brought their relatives to Bianjing, one is that they have no confidence in the southern invasion, and the other is to take a wait-and-see attitude towards whether the capital can be moved.

Now Yanjing is attached to Yan Yong, the courtiers from the north in Bianjing City are very worried about their relatives in the north, due to the chaos of the situation, the contact between the two places is interrupted, someone ran back to Yanjing without permission, and never returned to Bianjing, Wan Yanliang was angry and killed all the courtiers who contacted Yanjing privately, and no one dared to send anyone back to Yanjing to find relatives.

But their concern and longing for their relatives will not be alleviated or disappeared because of Wan Yanliang's killing, since they can't contact the north privately, so they unanimously suggest that they go back to the north and recapture Yanjing!

It was an eventful season, and people were needed to fight, raise food, grass, and military supplies, and handle political affairs.

So Wan Yan Liang listened to the advice of the crown prince Wan Yan Guangying, and no longer killed the ministers at will, and discussed with the courtiers to recapture Yanjing and exterminate Liaoyang Wan Yan Yong!

Fighting on the two fronts of the north and the south, both sides want to take care of it, and they will definitely lose, the minister knows it, and Wan Yanliang also understands it.

Two years ago, when he had just withdrawn his troops from Yangzhou and returned to Bianjing, Wan Yan Liang still had the ambition to first suppress the Song State with frequent attacks and maintain the stability of the border situation, and then quickly led the army north to destroy Yan Yong. But before the army left, Yanjing had already been attached to Wanyan Yong, and the situation in the north changed dramatically in an instant, which is equivalent to saying that the previous Shangjing Huining Mansion and Yanjing, the two capital cities of the Jin Kingdom were in the hands of Wanyan Yong, and the other party's power increased greatly, and if you want to exterminate it, it will not be a month or two, a war is feasible.

After that, Wan Yan Liang had a clear understanding of the situation in front of him, Wan Yan Yong must be destroyed first, only by recapturing the north, the army can have war horses to replenish, and the army can recruit Jurchen warriors and warriors from all walks of life in the grassland who can fight, otherwise when Wan Yan Yong continues to sit big and completely unify the north, he will be sandwiched between Wan Yan Yong and the Song State, and he will perish.

For Wan Yan Liang, the threat of Song was far less than that of Wan Yan Yong.

The Song army is weak, the vast majority of the army is vulnerable, even if the Song people gather hundreds of thousands of troops to go north, it is impossible to easily break through the defense line outside Bianjing, let alone break through Bianjing, not to mention that as long as they lose a battle, they will hesitate, and the court situation will be chaotic, so there is no need to worry at all.

Even if the Song people are lucky enough to come to the vicinity of Bianjing, they don't have the ability to capture Bianjing, and if they take a step back, even if the Song people have the ability to attack the city, they will have time to evacuate Bianjing and retreat to the north, anyway, as long as they slow down, they can get Bianjing back at any time.

Therefore, for more than a year, Wan Yanliang has been focusing his military efforts on Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion in the north, gathering troops and waiting for the opportunity to recapture Yanjing, while the south is mainly based on city defense, as long as the Song army does not move, they will not take the initiative to attack and provoke a war.

It's just that Liaoyang rebelled and Yan Yong was very cunning, mobilized northern soldiers and horses, sent heavy troops to garrison Yanjing, defended the city to the death, rarely went out of the city, unless the city was attacked, it was difficult to destroy his army, and the army in Yanjing City did not dare to wave the army east into Liaoyang, so they could only confront each other and stalemate.

Wan Yan Liang also understood that the stalemate was more beneficial to Wan Yan Yong, but he had no good way, because the armies of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion were not enough to capture Yanjing City in one fell swoop, once the attack failed, the soldiers lost too much, the army was scattered, and Wan Yan Yong took the opportunity to go south, and the situation would be even more unfavorable to him.

Therefore, even if it is a stalemate, it can only be stalemate first.

The only possible variable is to negotiate peace with the Song State, and the two countries will temporarily withdraw their troops, so that the other side can transfer all their troops to Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion to recover Yanjing while keeping Bianjing, and then enter Liaoyang in the east to destroy Yan Yong.

However, according to Wan Yanliang's report in Lin'an, the main battle faction in the Song Dynasty advocated the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the recovery of Bianjing, and had been actively preparing for the Northern Expedition, and it was impossible to negotiate peace in the short term.

Subsequently, Wan Yanliang came up with a plan, since the Song State wanted to make a northern expedition, let them go on a northern expedition, as long as the Song army lost the Northern Expedition, they could promote peace with war, once the main battle faction regained power in the Song court, the two countries could not only stop the army and make peace, but even recover the city land occupied by the Song army.

Just when Wan Yan Liang signaled his courtiers and secretly contacted the main battle faction of the Song State to plan the peace between the two countries, the Emperor of the Song State issued an edict and launched the Northern Expedition.

I heard that the Song army gathered 80,000 troops from Xuzhou to the north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jeju, and they were overjoyed.

The Song army knew that it would not be able to take the heavily garrisoned Guidevo, so they wanted to start with Jeju, where the army was weak, and then marched westward.

After Yan Liang guessed Zhang Jun's intentions, he immediately ordered a part of his troops to withdraw from Jeju City and retreat to some towns in the north, luring the Song army to capture Jeju City, and use it as a base to continue to attack the city.

After the Song army really captured the city of Jeju, the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the city, the military resources and ordnance in the rear were delivered, and then turned to the direction of Bianjing to attack, Wan Yanliang immediately ordered the elite army that had already been deployed in Xingren Mansion in advance to go out, preparing to repel the Song army in one fell swoop and thwart the Song army's attempt to make the Northern Expedition.

A few days later, the battle report from Jeju was as Yan Liang had envisioned, and the Jin army first drove the Song army back to Jeju City from Jiaxiang at a very small cost, and then took advantage of the night battle to capture Jeju City, killed tens of thousands of enemies, drove the Song army back to Xuzhou City, and captured all the grain and grass.

After learning of the defeat of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song State, Wan Yanliang immediately instructed the courtiers to prepare to propose peace with the Song State, and at the same time, sent people to contact the Song Dynasty to seize the power of the court as soon as possible.

Once the main battle faction of the Song State regained power, the defenders of Jeju, Guide, Xuzhou, and Ruzhou could attack on all fronts, and force peace with heavy troops.

Just when Wan Yanliang heard that the Song court ordered Zhang Jun, the commander of the Northern Expedition of the Song army, to withdraw from Xuyi, prepare for the defense of Jianghuai, and the Song lord and faction to return to the court, he was complacent and stepped up the planning of the Jin and Song Dynasty peace, thinking that Haizhou, Yizhou, Xuzhou, Suzhou, Bozhou, Chenzhou, Caizhou, Yingzhou, Tangzhou, Dengzhou and other places occupied by the Song army could be quickly sent back by the Song State, and a not very good news was transmitted back to Bianjing.

Heunginfu, which is only more than 200 miles away from Bianjing, took advantage of the fact that the garrison was marching east into Jeju, and the army was empty, and suddenly declared a rebellion and no longer obeyed the orders of the Jin court!

This is dangerous news, Xingren Mansion is too close to Bianjing, if the rebellion spreads, Bianjing will also be unstable, after all, it has only been two years since the capital was moved, and the people's hearts are not stable.

Therefore, Wan Yanliang ordered the blockade of the roads from Xingrenfu to Bianjing City and block the news, while dispatching troops stationed in Lanyang County to suppress the rebels in Xingrenfu.

After the rebels of Xingrenfu seized the city, they trumpeted that the converts would be exempted from taxes for three years, and in a short period of time, tens of thousands of people joined the rebels.

In addition, there were also 40,000 or 50,000 people in the city, and with the help of the people, the Lanyang army attacked several times, failed to successfully suppress the rebellion, and failed to recapture Xingren Mansion in the shortest possible time.

When Yan Liang was about to order the Jeju Jin army to come back to help, suppress the rebellion together, and recapture Heungin Mansion, he heard a piece of news that was enough to keep him awake.

Forty or fifty thousand Song troops suddenly appeared in Jiaxiang and Juye, and the 15,000 elite Jin troops who returned to the aid of Xingren Mansion were besieged by the Song army in ambush under Juye City, and almost all the troops were wiped out, and only a few hundred people fled back to Jeju City!

50,000 Song troops entered Heungin Province, this news was unexpected by everyone, Guideokfu was not lost, there were 50,000 troops garrisoned, and Jeju also had 50,000 troops, where did they come to Juye and Jiaxiang? Is it from heaven?

Wan Yanliang's doubts were quickly resolved from the battle report of Guide Mansion.

In the war report of Guide Mansion, it was said that the Song army garrisoned in Suzhou, Bozhou, and Chenzhou suddenly launched an attack on Xiayi and Zhecheng, and the attack was very fierce, not like a small fight, as if they were going to continue the Northern Expedition and capture Guide Mansion!

Seeing the battle report of Guide Mansion, Wan Yan Liang understood where the Song army of Juye and Jiaxiang came from, and it must be Yang Congyi's army that has been stationed in Suzhou and Bozhou, there is no doubt that they must have deceived the defenders of Guide Mansion, and from the edge of the place, the lone army went north and attacked Juye and Jiaxiang by surprise.

Thinking of the rebels of Xingren Mansion again, Wan Yanliang suddenly figured out why they rebelled at this time, it must be related to Yang Congyi, the lone army went north, if there is no city to station, it is looking for death, but if Xingren Mansion is taken in advance and the city is held, it will protect itself.

Thinking about the relationship between the rebellion of Xingrenfu and Yang Congyi's quietly leading the army north, Wan Yanliang immediately ordered the defenders of Lanyang to hold on to the city, and they were not allowed to attack out of the city without an order!

At the same time, an order was given to the Jeju Jin army, telling them to avoid Yang Congyi's army as much as possible, not to fight hard, to save the army, and wait for the order!

However, it is a pity that before Wan Yanliang's order was conveyed to Jeju City, the Jeju defenders had already marched north and were wiped out by the Shandong Loyal Army led by Yao Chang on Dayozawa.

After Yang Congyi's army entered Xingren Mansion, he immediately divided his troops to attack Guide Mansion, which was expected by Wan Yanliang.