In Taiyuan City, there are only more than 20,000 residents, and the soldiers are only 3,000 Shengjie troops led by Wang Yu and some van troops. Shengjiejun was originally Tong Guan's pro-army, and it was a very effective team recruited by Tong Guan from the northwest. Before leaving Taiyuan, Tong Guan appointed Wang Yu as the deputy governor of the capital, that is, the deputy marshal, and left a part of the Shengjie army under Wang Yu's command, so that he was responsible for guarding Taiyuan.

Wang Yu, whose name is Zhengchen, was born in a family of generals, and his grandfather and father were both generals of the Western Army. When following Tong Guan to quell the Fangla Rebellion, Wang Yu once served as the commander of the infantry army, and made military achievements, and then followed Tong Guan's Northern Expedition, and then was later promoted to the commander of the Hedong Xuanfu Division, and was stationed in Taiyuan with Tong Guan.

In order to strengthen the city's defense and make up for the lack of troops, Zhang Xiaochun discussed with Wang Yu and ordered that all men over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 in Taiyuan City should be included in the list of defending the city. Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu were determined to fight to the death with the Jin army, and held on to the wall to wait for help.

Zhang Xiaochun said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Although the Jin people are under the city, they are incapable of doing harm, Taiyuan has been a strong feudal domain since ancient times, the city is strong and the food is sufficient, and the soldiers are brave, I don't want to go out of the division, when the Jin people are exhausted and lose their food, they will be arrogant and lazy, and they are waiting for reinforcements nearby, corresponding inside and outside, so that Hu Cai does not return, the upper is the revenge of the imperial court, and the lower is the blood of Baoru, but what? "Everyone is a promise.

After the Jin army captured the counties on the periphery of Taiyuan, it tightly besieged the city of Taiyuan with the "city lock method".

The so-called lock-up method is outside the city, outside the city of arrows and stones, built a fortress around, seriously ill defense, and turned the city into absolute isolation.

Because the news was not clear at this time, Wanyan Zonghan thought that if Taiyuan City was not captured, the Song army in Hedong would take advantage of it to attack, so he did not dare to divide his division to the south. Besides, Wanyan Zongwang went south on the East Road, so he built the Marshal's Mansion as a command center in the old city of Taiyuan and ordered the Jin army to storm Taiyuan.

Since the arrival of the Jin West Route Army in Taiyuan City, it has defeated the reinforcements led by Sun Yi, the defender of Shuozhou, and Sun Yi died under Taiyuan City; In the area of Jiaocheng on the north bank of the Fen River, he successively defeated the 40,000 reinforcements led by Fuzhou Zhizhou Zhekeqiu and Liu Guangshi, the defender of Yanyan Road.

The siege has been several days, and the new rescue soldiers have not arrived for a long time, and the pacification of Hedong Road has made Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, anxious.

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, as well as the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan City, were all looking forward to the imperial court sending the army of the Seed Master Dao to come to the rescue, but unfortunately he never dreamed that the army they had been waiting for had already gone elsewhere.

After the 150,000 troops led by Seed Master Dao and Li Gang came to the bank of the Yellow River, they did not see Li Nan's imperial army, leaving them with only an empty camp.

"General, a letter was found in the tent of the commander of the battalion!"

Zhengxi pacified the envoy and took the letter, only to see that it was written outside: "Seed, Li, two generals, personally enlightened!" ”

After reading the letter left by Li Nan, the cultivator was silent for a moment, and said to Li Gang, the Kyoto defense envoy beside him: "Boji, take a look. ”

Li Gang unfolded the letter, only to see that it read: "Planting generals, Li Shuai is fine." Although Huo defeated the 100,000 army of the second prince of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang, but when he heard that you led hundreds of thousands of people to greet him, he was really ashamed, so he took his leave. After Wangwu parted, I hope that the two of them can rectify the military and political affairs with the Song Lord, kill the six thieves, carry forward the vigor, arrive in the north to the Jin soldiers, sweep the Western Xia in the west, and reappear as soon as possible the demeanor of a great country, deter the world, and become famous all over the world! ”

The imperial expeditionary force led by Li Nan did nothing against Song Guoqiu, and also defeated the 100,000 Eastern Route Army of the Jin State, and there were five evil words in the letter, but there were many things to say in the hearts of the master and Li Gang, so the two couldn't help but look at each other and sigh secretly.

Since the imperial expeditionary force had already left, Chongshi Dao and Li Gang hurriedly sent people to return to Tokyo City on horseback, asking if they could wave their troops north and go to Taiyuan City to relieve the siege.

The city of Tokyo was not far from Junju, so the messenger hurried up and quickly returned with a reply.

After reading the edict, the seed master sighed: "It seems that in Your Majesty's heart, this son-in-law of his seems to be more terrible than the golden man!" ”

Li Gang also knew that the most important thing to do now was to rescue Taiyuan City, but since Huizong had given the order, although his face was displeased, he still said helplessly: "The order is like this, I can't disobey it, General Zhong, then let's continue to pursue." ”

The two left 10,000 soldiers and horses at the crossing of the Yellow River to prevent the Jin Bing East Route Army from returning and then led the army to continue the pursuit of the imperial expeditionary force that fled to the east.

After Li Nan left that day, he led his army to the east, and when the Song army's three-way army had not yet completed the encirclement, he jumped to Jingdong West Road, and then headed towards Jingdong East Road.

Speaking of which, Li Nan, the capital of these two roads, is really very familiar, and I think that when he was still the head of Yanggu County, he led the soldiers and horses of Sanzhuang to kill bandits everywhere and obtained the first money to buy officials.

One of the important reasons why Li Nan chose to go east was to understand the terrain and environment of Jingdong East Road, and he planned to go around in circles with Song Jun here to delay the time.

Speaking of the people of Jingdong East Road, it has been too difficult to survive these years.

Not to mention the various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that became more and more fierce in the Song Kingdom, first Liangshan and Song Jiang gathered people to rebel and attacked the state capitals and cities everywhere, and then the officials and troops came to clean up.

After Song Jiang and his gang were recruited by the imperial court, because of the Song State's northern expedition to Liao, too many people were mobilized and too many taxes were levied, and natural disasters led to famine for many years, the hungry people and the Xiang army in various state capitals revolted again.

Zhang Wanxian led the victims to openly rebel, the number reached 100,000, and there was a rebellion of 50,000 people led by Zhang Di, and then the people led by Gaotuoshan in Hebei rebelled, known as 300,000, in addition to many rebels of 20,000 or 30,000.

Originally, these rebel rebels and thieves repeatedly plundered various state capitals on Jingdong East Road, but they did not expect that after the Jin soldiers went south, the Song garrison south of the Yellow River fled when they heard the news, and all of them poured into Jingxi and Jingdong Road.

In this era, the rout of the imperial court is even more ruthless than those thieves.

Because ordinary thieves and bandits can also be recruited by the imperial court, but if these deserters are caught, they will inevitably die, so these defeated soldiers who have been occupied by fear and have lost their humanity have repeatedly waved butcher knives at the people of their country.

After Li Nan led the army into Jingdong East Road, what he saw was not the quiet and wealthy Great Song Prefecture Mansion, but a dilapidated place with ten rooms and nine emptiness.

After such a long time, the military rations carried by the Imperial Expeditionary Force have long been exhausted, so they must look for food on the spot, but unfortunately thousands of cavalry have dispersed, but the harvest is not much.

More than 20,000 people eat and drink a day is not a small amount, drinking water is easy to solve, but no war horses and no food is not good.

Looking at the soldiers who were hurrying day and night, and now they were not only tired but also hungry, Li Nan hurriedly ordered the whole army to rest, and at the same time ordered someone to summon the shapeshifter Waer.

After the arrival of Warr, Li Nanhuan pointed around and said: "Our army is currently short of food, and those deserted villages and small towns are estimated to have no food in stock, you hurry up and look for it to see if there are a large number of thieves and bandits nearby." ”