Emperor Li Nan consulted with his courtiers and made some urgent decisions, and soon a large number of messengers galloped out of the city and galloped towards the north.

When the Southern Empire was dispatching troops, at this time, in the Qianqing Palace in Tokyo City of the Song Kingdom in the north, the mood of Zhao Huan of Qinzong was not calm.

Since Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he suddenly found that what he got was not what he expected before.

When he first ascended the throne, he besieged the city with Jin soldiers, and soon after the empire invaded on a large scale, Emperor Taishang was captured, lost a large piece of territory, and took over this mess of Qinzong Zhao Huan, it can be said that he did not sleep a few peacefully during this time.

After the alliance between the Song State and the Jin State was exposed, the government and the opposition were in chaos, and in order to suppress those opposing voices, Zhao Huan, who was originally a cowardly character, was forced to use a hot hand to reluctantly calm down the matter.

At this time, Qin Zong was pacing in the heart of the hall in a disturbed manner, although his face looked quite calm, but his hurried pace had already leaked his emotions.

Several court ministers in the hall who stood with bated breath also bowed their heads in contemplation, considering the current form.

Because of the unfavorable mission, the original Shangshu Zuocheng Li Bangyan has been demoted, and his successor is Tang Ke, the original Chinese scholar.

Seeing Qin Zong's hesitation in his heart, Tang Ke spoke: "Official, now that the imperial army is pressing, as long as you capture the Yingtian Mansion guarded by the Seed Master, then the enemy army will come to Tokyo, so cooperating with the Jin State is the way to break the enemy!" ”

"The minister is against!" As soon as Tang Ke's words fell, Jingdong appeased Li Gang and shouted angrily: "The Jin man is ambitious, how can he let the Jin soldiers enter the city?" ”

"Humph!" Tang Ke sneered: "Master Li is right, as long as you can lead the troops to defeat the imperial army, then naturally you don't need to let the Jin soldiers come to help." ”

This sentence made Li Gang's face red, he had fought with the imperial army, and knew that even if he gave himself another 100,000 troops, he would not be able to defeat the incoming enemy army, so he could only say with grief and indignation: "The minister is willing to lead troops to help the master Dao, and die for the country!" ”

"Hey, hey, hey." Geng Nanzhong, who had been at odds with Li Gang before, said disdainfully: "If the Imperial Army captures Tokyo City, then even if you Li Gang dies, what is the use of the army, the country and the people?" ”

In the palace, Li Gang definitely belongs to a minority, if he didn't have the talent to lead the troops, I am afraid that he would have been eaten alive by other people.

Hearing the disagreement of his confidants and ministers, Zhao Huan, who was upset in his heart, stopped and said unhappily: "Don't make any noise!" ”

After everyone quieted down, Qinzong Zhao Huan hesitated for a moment and finally made a decision.

"Tang Ke, I ordered you, as a special envoy, to contact the Jin people, responsible for leading the Jin soldiers to cross the border, warning the state capitals along the way not to attack the allied soldiers and horses, and also need to provide them with food and grass, urging the Jin people to go to the front line of Yingtianfu as soon as possible."

Qin Zong turned to Li Gang again, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a serious tone: "Li Aiqing, you don't need to rescue the Seed Master, staying here to protect Tokyo City is the most important thing, and my life and death are all up to you!" ”

Hearing that Qinzong had entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility, Li Gang immediately knelt down and said solemnly: "Minister, you must fight to protect Tokyo City and protect the safety of the official's family!" ”

"Good!" Qin Zong looked around at the ministers and said with true feelings: "I know your thoughts, why am I not afraid of luring wolves into the room?" How can you not be afraid of the infamy of taking refuge in Fanbang Waiyi? But now I really can't do anything other than agree to let the golden soldiers come to help! ”

Seeing the tears in the corners of Qinzong's eyes, all the ministers present fell to the ground and shouted: "The official family has suffered!" ”

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The guns roared endlessly, and fierce battles broke out everywhere from Yingtianfu to Shouzhou, Yingchuan, Caizhou, Tangzhou and other places along the way.

The Song State, which had been preparing for a long time, finally attracted 200,000 iron cavalry of the Jin State, and the commanders of these elite cavalry were Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongbi, who had the most experience in fighting in the Jin Kingdom.

The Empire's news transmission was still a step slow, so except for the Fifth Legion of the Sienna Empire Royal Empire, which was still on the Jingnan Road, the other four major legions of the Empire suffered heavy losses in the first wave of cavalry attacks of the Jin people.

More than one-sixth of the Imperial legions were killed, the commander of the Second Legion, Kress, was seriously wounded, and the other legions from Liangshan, the winged tiger Lei Heng, Zhensanshan Huang Xin, and Tianmu general Peng Wei were killed, which can be called the most tragic military defeat since the establishment of the Empire.

The imperial legions, which were constantly retreating, relied on the state capital cities with city walls behind them, and only then did they gradually gain a firm foothold and began a tug-of-war with the coalition forces of the Jin and Song states.

The iron cavalry of the Jin people is extremely mobile, and it can be called a thousand miles in a blink of an eye, and it can easily cut off the logistics supply line of the imperial army, and the imperial legion, which has lost the source of ammunition, is not as strong as the soldiers of the Song State.

In view of this, Spartacus and other leading generals, after urgent deliberations, decided to give priority to ensuring the army's logistical supply lines along the Yangtze River, so they reduced their forces, and the four major armies took Shouzhou, Gwangju, Luzhou and Huangzhou as their bases, and set up a solid and square defensive front that could support each other.

The Imperial Army relied on the East China Sea Fleet cruising in the middle of the Yangtze River to send grain, grass, ammunition and other supplies to Linjiang first, and then Huangzhou under the command of Pang Wanchun's Fourth Army Corps, and then from Huangzhou to other nearby legions, ensuring that the major legions had sustained combat effectiveness.

The Imperial Army, fighting on the plains, is indeed no match for the Jin State Iron Cavalry, but as long as it has a solid support, it will burst out with powerful attack power.

Outside the city where the major legions were stationed, a large number of trenches were dug out, and defensive measures specifically aimed at cavalry such as rejecting horses were installed, and after several attacks and a large number of corpses were lost, the Jin people finally learned to be wise.

They captured a large number of Song civilians from the nearby state capital, and ordered them to remove the horses and fill the ditches with soil.

Every time a foreign invasion, the most unlucky are those ordinary people, although the Song State and the Jin State are allied this time, but the Jin people do not have the slightest scruple about the Song State monarchs and ministers, filled with hundreds of thousands of people near the war zone, and countless Song people died at the hands of the Jin soldiers.

Whether it is the cultivation of the master Dao or the three generals of the Jin State, they are all military geniuses, so after several days of tug-of-war with the imperial army, they have already seen through the only weakness of the imperial army.

More than ten miles southeast of Huangzhou City is the Yangtze River, since the Jin soldiers and iron cavalry came to the Song State, the two countries jointly launched a war against the empire, here has become the busiest place for the empire to transport materials.

Convoys of horse-drawn carts, ox-carts, and donkey carts worked day and night to transport weapons, ammunition, and food supplies unloaded by warships along the river to Huangzhou City, where they were then transshipped elsewhere.

"Enemy attack!" An Imperial patrol cavalry galloped over and let out an exclamation!

In order to prevent the Jin Soldiers Iron Cavalry from coming to cut off the supply lines of the major legions, Pang Wanchun deliberately scattered all the patrols in the legion near Huangzhou, so that he could find out the arrival of the Jin Soldiers army at the first time.