On July 19 of the first year of Song Longxing, when the monarchs and ministers of Lin'an were fighting and arguing for nearly a month, they were preparing to reactivate the Lord's and faction, and sent envoys north to communicate with the Jin State and plan for peace, when the news that the Suzhou army had captured Xingren Mansion was transmitted back to Lin'an City.

For a while, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the monarchs and ministers were shocked.

The main battle faction Chen Kangbo, Yang Cunzhong, Shi Hao and others, so they won a victory, quickly counterattacked, and regained the dominance of the court within a day.

Originally, Tang Sihui, who was highly recommended by the Lord and the faction, Emperor Zhao Yan had already intended to summon him back to Lin'an to be the prime minister and preside over the peace meeting, but he was suppressed by this sudden news.

Zhao Yan hesitated again.

Can you really win a fight with Jinren?

But if he doesn't fight, he is definitely not reconciled.

The country left by Taizu is now only half of the wall, and it is not easy for the throne to return to Taizu, if you can't make a difference, what face can you enter the Taimiao and pay homage to Taizu!

Zhao Yan has a hundred dissatisfaction with the Jin people in his heart, but the power of the main peace faction in the DPRK is too strong, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, except for a few people, few people really want to fight with the Jin people, that is, they are shouting that they want to go with the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and recover the old land, and how many people are not for fame and fortune?

Within a year of ascending the throne, he had already seen the true face of the Chinese military minister of the DPRK, but for the sake of the stability of the imperial court and the consolidation of the throne, he had to repeatedly compromise.

Originally, he had high hopes for Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition, and even did not hesitate to offend many ministers, bypassing the three provinces and six ministries and the Privy Council to directly issue the Northern Expedition edict, but Zhang Jun replied to him that it was a rout, and the Northern Expedition was prepared for more than a year, and it was declared a failure in less than two months.

Nearly a month after the failure of the Northern Expedition, the Lords and factions repeatedly impeached the main battle factions Zhang Jun, Chen Kangbo, Yang Cunzhong, Shi Hao and others, ostensibly impeaching them, but in fact accusing Zhao Yan of not issuing the Northern Expedition.

But at this extremely dark moment for Zhao Yan, Yang Congyi, who was thousands of miles away, responded to his Northern Expedition strategy with a victory deep behind enemy lines, saving the face he had lost for supporting Zhang Jun's Northern Expedition.

Because after the minister of the main battle faction and Zhao Yan received the battle report sent by Yang Congyi, they soon found that the Northern Expedition did not fail, and the situation was even far better than expected.

The Suzhou army led by Yang Congyi contained the defenders of Guide in Bozhou on the one hand, and seized Xingrenfu in the north, and then exterminated the elite of the 15,000 Jin army supporting Jeju in Juye, blocked the Jeju Jin army to the west of Dayozawa, and trapped the Jeju Jin army with Li Xianzhong's troops in Xuzhou. Bianjing will be restored!

Zhao Yan summoned Chen Kangbo, Yang Cunzhong, Shi Hao and others to the palace that night to discuss the continuation of the Northern Expedition.

The fine discussion lasted until late at night, and it was not over until the fourth watch.

The next day, Zhao Yan issued six edicts in a row.

1. The prefectures and governments of eastern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, Huaidong and Huaixi raised grain and grass and military funds to transport them north to Xuzhou, Suzhou, Bozhou, Chenzhou and other places.

The second edict of Hebei and Jingdong made Li Xianzhong command the soldiers and horses of Haizhou, Yizhou, and Xuzhou, and cooperated with Yang Congyi's Suzhou army to capture Jeju, and then held Jeju.

Zhang Jun, the third edict, consolidated the Jianghuai defense line, transferred 30,000 troops, and went north to Suzhou within half a month, cooperating with the defenders of Bozhou and Suzhou to seize Guidefu.

The four edicts promoted Yang Congyi to be the envoy of Jingnan and Jingbei, controlled the Huaibei, Jingnan, and Jingbei Northern Song armies and the loyal and righteous armies of all walks of life, held the Xingren Mansion, and seized the Guide Mansion.

The five edicts Yu Yunwen supervised the armies of Xiangyang, Xinyang, Caizhou, Dengzhou, and Tangzhou, waiting for an opportunity to go north, recover more old lands, and form an east-west flank attack on Bianjing with Yang Congyi's troops.

Six edicts of Beijing and Nanjing to the north of the official demotion officials, the past crimes are not prosecuted, still in the original position, if there is an intention, can also be invited to Jiangnan as an official.

The edict was issued, the weather in the DPRK and China changed greatly, and the main peace faction once again died down and hibernated, waiting for the failure of the Northern Expedition, and they took advantage of the situation again.

Although the court is dominated by the main battle faction, most of the local officials in various states and provinces are people who have been installed one after another by the lord and the faction for decades, and it is actually unknown whether the edict issued by Lin'an can be implemented in a timely and undiscounted manner.

The main war faction only has a voice in the Lin'an court, out of the palace, not to mention the world, even in Lin'an City, there are few officials will talk about the war in the north when they get together with colleagues and old friends, after all, Lin'an is thousands of miles away from the north, and they have not seen the war for decades, and they have enjoyed the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River for too long, and the north has nothing to do with them, whether they recover or not, it doesn't matter, as long as the Jin people don't go south to the Yangtze River.

The news of the Northern Expedition army's seizure of Xingren Mansion just reached Lin'an, it was a topic of conversation for many people after tea and dinner, and only a few days later, the Northern Expedition disappeared in Lin'an, and no one seemed to talk about it anymore.

The victory of the Northern Expedition had nothing to do with the people and officials in the south of the Yangtze River, and their lives would not deteriorate or get better, so their attitudes were very different from those of the Jin people when they went south to the Huai River and the Yangtze River.

The Jin people will rob their belongings, burn their houses, destroy their fields, and kill their relatives, if the Song and Jin are peaceful, they will not lose them, nor will they add additional burdens, but the Northern Expedition will increase their burden, if they have been victorious, the war will have to be fought all the time, they will pay more taxes, if the Northern Expedition fails, the Jin people may fight over, or they may sign a peace covenant on this.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition, which was not beneficial to the people of Jiangnan, did not receive the support of the people of Jiangnan, and very few people responded to the recruitment and recruitment of troops in various parts of Jiangnan, and only two places could recruit new troops.

However, for Yang Congyi, there are no people in Jiangnan, he doesn't care too much, as long as they contribute money, food and materials, and the Jianghuai armies will charge into battle and recover the Central Plains, and they will have to rely on them.

On July 25, the imperial court's edict on promotion and reward was delivered to the Xingren Mansion.

Xu Tong was officially named Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, served as the Xuanfu envoy of Jingbei Road, and concurrently served as the prefect of Xingren Mansion, leading the surrounding counties such as Shanxian, Chengwu, Juye, Jiaxiang, Juancheng, Yuncheng and other prefectures and counties that had surrendered or were occupied by the Song army, and the officials of each state and county were promoted and rewarded.

Yuan Hua, Pan Cheng, Chen Chong and other generals have their own rewards.

That night, the generals congratulated the officers and men of the whole army to boost morale.

Four days later, on July 29, Pan Cheng received news from Liangshan that the Jin army crossing Onozawa from Dongping County encountered the Zhongyi Army in Dayozawa, and the boats full of soldiers were scuttled through, and countless people drowned, leaving only a few ships to flee north without a trace.

On the first day of August, Pan Cheng sent the news again that less than 3,000 of the Jeju Jin army had crossed the Onodze and crossed the river from the vicinity of Insan Mountain in the north of Yangsan.

Hearing this news, Yang Congyi made up his mind.

Most of the 30,000-strong Jin army in Jeju was lost in Dayoknag, and the rest fled north, and there was no Jin army south of Jisu and east of Heunginfu, and Suzhou, Heunginfu, Xuzhou, Jeju, Yizhou, Jinan, Taean and other places were finally completely connected.

If Wan Yan Liang can't exterminate Wan Yan Yong in Liaoyang and gather a large army to go south, with the forces he is currently deploying around Bianjing, I am afraid it will be difficult to enter Jeju and Xuzhou.

Wait for the Song army to recover Jeju and Guide, operate for a year or two, the situation is stable, even if Wan Yan Liang destroys Wan Yan Yong and leads the army south, it will be useless, and the Great Song Dynasty will restore the Central Plains, just around the corner!

On the same day, news came from Jeju that Li Xianzhong led 10,000 troops into Jeju City, and sent the army to Dongping County in the north with the warrants of the Tokyo and Hebei Zhaofu envoys, and contacted the Shandong Righteous Army, hoping to persuade the Righteous Army to come to Jeju and defect to the Song Army to resist the Jin people.

The remnants of the Jin army crossed to the north, Li Xianzhong led the army into Jeju, and Pan Cheng did not need to garrison the army in Jiaxiang and Yangsan.

So Yang Congyi ordered his 16,000 troops to be transferred back to the vicinity of Xingren Mansion, with two battalions each stationed in Liangshan, Jiaxiang, and Yuncheng, and the enemy Jin army attacked and harassed from the north to the south.

After Pan Cheng led the army to Xingren Mansion, plus the recruited marches and righteous soldiers from all over the country who came to defect, the strength of the Song army in Xingren Mansion soon reached more than 60,000 people.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, Yuan Hua was ordered to lead an army of 30,000 to besiege Cao County, and the Jin army stationed in Cao County could not avoid fighting.

On the eighth day of August, the Guide Mansion sent 10,000 troops to aid Cao County, but was defeated by the Song army and retreated back to the German Mansion.

On the ninth day of the eighth month, the news that Su Zhong of Chenzhou led his army to capture Zhecheng County in Guide Prefecture reached Xingren Mansion.

On the tenth day of August, the news that Xue Wang of Bozhou led his army to capture Xiayi County in Guide Province reached Xingren Mansion.

On August 11, Yang Congyi ordered Yuan Hua to divide 20,000 troops to go around Cao County, and approached Guide Mansion, ordered Xue Wang to lead the army into Yucheng, and ordered Chen Chong to lead 3,000 elite troops to attack Chen Gang and Ningling, cut off the connection between Bianjing and Guide Mansion, and directly open up the connection between Su Zhong in Zhecheng and Yuan Hua in Cao County, and attack Ningling together.

On August 13, Chen Chong led the army to attack Minquan, the defenders closed the city, did not attack, but instead attacked Ningling, Ningling closed the city gate, the Song army did not get the results, wandered between Guide Mansion and Ningling, and cut off the news between the two places.

On August 14, Chen rushed into Zhecheng, met with Su Zhong, the capital of Chenzhou, and asked him to divide his troops to the north, capture Ningling, and form a siege on Guide Mansion on all sides.

On August 15, Su Zhong divided 10,000 troops and went north to Ningling.

On the same day, Yuan Hua led an army of 20,000 to arrive at the city of Ningling.

On August 16, 10,000 Song troops in Zhecheng joined Yuan Hua's army under the city of Ningling.

That night, the defenders of Ningling suddenly abandoned the city and fled westward, and Chen Chong led the elite army to chase and kill for twenty miles, killing more than 1,000 enemies, and the Song army recovered Ningling.

On August 17, when he heard that Ningling was lost, he left behind in Defu and led 25,000 Jin troops out of the north of the city overnight, from between Cao County and Ningling, and withdrew to Chengang.

On August 18, Xue Wang broke through Yucheng and led the army directly into Guide City, and the Song army recovered Guide Mansion.