On October 25, Zhao Yan arrived at Jinan Mansion with a group of ministers, and on the same day, the Fourth Route Northern Expeditionary Army arrived at Fangshan, Daxing, Tongzhou, Shunyi and other places, and advanced the entire front to within 50 miles of Yanjing City.

On October 30, Yang Congyi confirmed that the deployment of the armies from all walks of life had been completed as planned, so he rushed from Hejian Mansion to Jinan Mansion to face the Sheng, report the situation of the Northern Expedition in person, and analyze the battle situation.

In fact, the battle report from the front has been reported to Bianjing and the emperor's camp, and the battle situation in Pingzhou, Laizhou, Zhuozhou, Xiongzhou, Bazhou, Xianghe, Tongzhou and other places, Zhao Yan and a group of courtiers are relatively clear, it is precisely because of the absolute superiority of the Northern Expedition army that they will set off from Bianjing in advance and rush to Jinan Mansion in 20 days.

Zhao Yan and his ministers were worried that the Northern Expedition would end before they reached the front line, so they not only accelerated the march, but also urgently summoned Yang Congyi back to Jinan Mansion to meet the saint.

Yang Congyi had expected this.

Since Zhao Yan decided to take the imperial expedition in person, he intended to seize Yanjing as soon as possible and end the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, but no matter how early he was, he would not rush to attack Yanjing City before Zhao Yan and the ministers arrived, because Yanjing City was not so easy to capture, and if he did not make sufficient preparations, he would not only return in vain, but might even suffer a big defeat.

It will take time for the food and materials to arrive at the northern battlefield, and it will take time for the follow-up troops to be gathered, so before Zhao Yan urgently summoned Yang Congyi to Jinan Mansion to face the saint, Yang Congyi only commanded the armies from all walks of life to move towards Yanjing City to further reduce the encirclement, and had no intention of attacking.

After arriving at Jinan Mansion, Yang Congyi immediately entered the camp to meet Emperor Zhao Yan, presented the progress and deployment of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the movements of the Jin Army, and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the Song and Jin armies in the Yanjing area, as well as the current problems encountered by the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Zhao Yan learned that the Northern Expeditionary Army still needed half a month to prepare before attacking Yanjing, and he was a little relieved.

In fact, it is no big deal to summon Yang Congyi back to Jinan Mansion, but it is just a little selfishness of Zhao Yan, Yang Congyi understands, and other ministers naturally understand, but no one says it.

But this incident inevitably affected the morale of the front-line soldiers.

The war is imminent, the generalissimo of the front line who presided over the Northern Expedition was recalled by the emperor, which is definitely a bad omen, and all roads can not help but be frightened, so they strictly ordered all departments to stick to the camp and not go out of the camp lightly, when will the marshal return, when will the army act!

Yang Congyi's deployment of various armies before leaving Hejian Mansion has quietly changed as he left the front line and returned to Jinan Mansion.

Originally, Yang Congyi asked their various departments to cooperate with each other to prevent the Jin army from concentrating forces to attack secretly, because they had less than 40,000 troops on each road, and if the Jin army concentrated their forces to attack one of the roads, once the rescue was not available, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The four battalions of Fangshan, Daxing, Tongzhou, and Shunyi were all more than 50 miles away from each other, and there were more horses among the Jin army, so they were fully capable of concentrating superior forces, and severely damaged one of the Song troops before the other roads had time to rescue, and then retreated.

In order to crack the sneak attack of the Jin army's concentrated superior forces, the four-way Northern Expeditionary Army must send an army to approach forward, and while putting pressure on the direction of Yanjing City, the four-route Northern Expeditionary Army can also keep in touch with each other.

But as Yang Congyi left the front line and was recalled to Jinan Mansion, the Northern Expeditionary Army of all walks of life had their own thoughts, and no one obeyed anyone.

In the face of such a huge feat as the capture of Yanjing City, no one wants to be a foil for others.

Whoever can take Yanjing, who can be crowned the king and worship the prime minister, this is a legend that has been passed down for nearly two hundred years, and now Yanjing City is fifty miles away, who is not moved!

Yang Congyi was left in Jinan Mansion, which he did not expect.

One, two, three......

Zhao Yan did not immediately set off north to Hejian Mansion, because the vast majority of the ministers in the camp thought that Hejian Mansion was too close to Yanjing and Zhending Mansion on the front line, and it was too dangerous for the emperor to come to Hejian Mansion, and they strongly opposed it, but Zhao Yan did not refuse, nor did he insist.

Yang Congyi, who returned to Jinan Mansion from Hejian Mansion, was very embarrassed, and the 70,000 troops who went north with the imperial camp were an indispensable main force of the Northern Expedition, and the emperor stayed in Jinan Mansion, so it was impossible for this army to leave with Yang Congyi.

What Zhao Yan and the accompanying ministers of civil and military affairs were thinking, Yang Congyi knew very well, it was nothing more than worrying that he would be overpowered, thinking that after Yang Congyi personally led the troops to recover Yanjing, no one could match his reputation in the government and the opposition, and no one could suppress him, which was not conducive to the stability of the regime and the Great Song Dynasty.

How did the Great Song Dynasty come about, everyone knows, since the "cup of wine released the military power", all dynasties have tried their best to suppress the warriors, whether it is the military generals who fought on the battlefield, or the civil ministers and eunuchs who led the army to fight, once they have been in power for too long, they will try all kinds of ways to strip them from the army.

Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that after the Jingkang Rebellion, who will have a good end for Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Liu Kuang, Zhang Jun and others who protected half of the Great Song Dynasty?

Yue Fei was too famous, unruly, and was unjustly killed by Zhao Gou and Qin Hui.

Han Shizhong was transferred back to Lin'an, confiscated his military power, and had to resign and disappear between the mountains and rivers. Wenchen Zhang Jun was the prime minister, led the army to resist the gold, but was dismissed and idle for 20 years, and invited him out of the mountain when the Great Song Dynasty was in danger, and then kicked him away, and died of illness halfway home.

Liu Jian in Shaoxing eleven years, after the Song and Jin peace, was also confiscated military power, idle for nearly 20 years, before the southern invasion of Yan Liang let him reinstate the army again, the result of day and night hard work, serious illness, in the end of Yan Liang failed to cross the river, defeated and retreated to the north, Song Jin negotiated peace again, but was ordered to receive the Jin State peace envoy Tang Si retreat humiliated, died alive in Zhenjiang Mansion, where the marshal was located.

Although Zhang Jun had a good ending, he was named the king of Qinghe County, and he was rich and noble for half his life, but he was also confiscated after the Song Jin Peace Conference in Shaoxing in the eleventh year, and gave him some compensation, since then he has never touched the military power, let alone the real power, and was completely captive, and the expected general into the phase became a bubble, and there is no possibility of being in charge of the military alone, it can be said that Zhao Gou and Qin Hui used him to get rid of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Jian and other garrison generals, he was completely driven out of the power center.

Yang Congyi understands the thoughts and worries of Zhao Yan and the other ministers, if he can, of course he is willing to hang up the seal and leave, leave Bianjing, the land of right and wrong, and enjoy the landscape, but he has his own difficulties, at least not yet, he has to take Yanjing City first!

At this time, only two of the four routes of the army stationed outside Yanjing City can be regarded as an army that can reassure Yang Congyi, or an army that he can trust, and the other two rarely work together, and they don't know much about them, and they have been away from the front line for too long, so I really don't know what they will think.

This Northern Expedition, Yang Congyi has been preparing for many years, and has spent countless efforts, and he will never allow failure, if he fails, not only will he be ruined, but many people who have worked hard with him for many years will also be affected, and even the fate of the Great Song Dynasty will be rewritten.

After staying in Jinan Mansion for five days, Yang Congyi entered the camp to face the saint, planning to resign, first go to the front line to suppress the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, first to ensure that they are undefeated, and then to win, as for the 70,000 troops in Jinan Mansion, it is not impossible to go north later.

After entering the camp, he said a few words of greeting, and without waiting for Yang Congyi to speak, Zhao Yan complained, saying that the accompanying ministers of civil and military affairs were old, and they suddenly left Bianjing and came to Jinan Mansion, and there were many discomforts, plus the weather was cold, many people were unwell, and they complained one after another, and they were unwilling to continue to move forward, hoping to wait until the weather was warm, or they were in better health, before they could continue to go north, the ministers were unwilling to leave Jinan City, although he was the emperor, he could not force them, after all, they were all old ministers who had made great contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, He's having a headache about it.

Yang Congyi's words before he reached his mouth were suppressed back by Zhao Yan's words, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

When the weather is warm, they will get February and March next year at the earliest, when the daylilies will be cold, and it will be even more impossible when they are in good health.

They made it clear that they didn't want to cooperate with Yang Congyi's Northern Expedition and let him unify Yanjing, or they didn't want Yang Congyi to get this great feat that had not been seen in a century.

Shi Hao was here before, he could suppress these old ministers, although he and Yang Congyi were not all the way, they would not be so narrow-minded, in the face of righteousness, no matter what, they would not drag Yang Congyi's hind legs too much, let alone make stumbling blocks dig pits, even if the opposition of other ministers was loud, Shi Hao could also suppress them, so as not to destroy the Northern Expedition.

But now that Shi Hao was left in Bianjing by Zhao Yan, these old ministers are out of Shi Hao's control, and if they want to make trouble, no one can really stop them.

Perhaps, Zhao Yan's decision to drive the expedition in person had the consideration of weakening Shi Hao's influence in the court, and now he came to Jinan Mansion and let these old ministers with the camp not leave, and even used them to contain Yang Congyi, and at the same time, the emperor came to the front line in person, and he could separate Yang Congyi's influence on the army as the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition and his command power in the army.

Now it seems that Zhao Yan's personal expedition is a multi-purpose plan, and there are many plans, I am afraid that he has been planning for a long time.

Yang Congyi quickly remembered the slight abnormality of Shi Hao before leaving Bianjing, and he seemed to be ten years old in an instant, I am afraid that from the moment Zhao Yan announced that he was going to take the royal conquest, he already knew that Zhao Yan wanted to use this to weaken his power and his influence on the ministers, and his state of mind fell into the dust.

Zhao Yan only left the empty shelves of the three provinces, six ministries, and various divisions in Bianjing, and let Shi Hao do it, if he did well, he was the prime minister with high power, and naturally it should be, if he did not do well, or there were mistakes and changes in Bianjing and the localities, as the prime minister and the stay-behind minister, the impeachment of him would be flying all over the sky, and his position as prime minister could only be given up at that time.

When Shi Hao left Bianjing, Zhao Yan was able to get rid of his influence, break free from his shackles, and control the entire court by himself.

Yang Congyi only understood at this time that he still despised Zhao Yan's decision to drive the expedition in person.

The Northern Expedition of the Great Army, Zhao Yan drove the expedition in person, what he wanted was not only to monitor Yang Congyi, restrict, divide, and confiscate his command power over the army, go to the front line, win the hearts of the soldiers and soldiers, win prestige with the eternal exploits of unifying Yanjing, and win the hearts of the subjects of the world, but also use this to rectify the imperial court, weaken and eliminate the power of Shi Hao and other old ministers who advocated moving the capital to Bianjing, and completely control the imperial court in his own hands.