The New Year is approaching, and the city of Yangzhou is filled with joy.

Even if this place is close to the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, the streets and alleys are full of lights, ordinary people, all kinds of merchants, everyone is smiling, happy, and calm, and there is no fear of the war next door.

The Manichaean characters who entered Yangzhou in the north of Runzhou [Zhenjiang] sighed in their hearts when they saw it. Compared with the stormy Manichaean realm, Yangzhou is really a different world.

The reasons are without going into detail, and anyone knows why. But it is precisely because of this that people are even more embarrassed.

How many years has Liangshanbo only been rising?

can do this foundation, teach Song Jun not to face it. How long has their Manichaeism been operating in Jiangnan, but it is so bleak that they are not heartbroken.

At such a time, Chai Jinhu went straight down to Yangzhou from Yidu, showed Guo Yong and Yang Zhi the documents granted by Lu Qian, and quickly mobilized a batch of money, grain, and armor, loaded a whole five boats, formed a pile, and went up the Shuojiang River towards Jinling City.

Gai is because Fang Jinzhi has just given birth to Lu Qian's third son, this is the husband's family to the Yue family to report the good news, and it is also a New Year's gift from Lu Qian to the Yue family, so as to teach the Manichaean students to return a piece of blood, and fight with the Song army again in the coming year.

Whether it was the joy brought by Chai Jin or the gifts he brought, they all made Fang Lale happy.

After one night, the next morning, waiting for Fang La to ascend to the palace in Jinling City. There are golden gourd warriors inside, and there are two classes of pro-nobles and ministers on the outside, and Fang Xiang, Fang Tianding and others have all rushed to Jinling in recent days.

At that moment, there was Zuo Prime Minister Lou Min who came out of the class to play: "The minister has talked to that Chai Jin, according to his words, what King Lu wants in the coming year is the land of Guanzhong and Guanxi." When the war between our army and the Song army started again, it was really difficult for them to do one or two more helps. ”

Fang La was not surprised, at this time, if Lu Qian did not attack Guanzhong and Guanxi while the iron was hot and dominate the north, he would be worthy of his great reputation. And the land of Guanxi in the Guanzhong is not easy to take, the Western Army has more than 100,000 people left there, if the Liangshan Army can really seize where, it is not inferior to stabbing Zhao Song fiercely. And if the Western Army knew that its hometown was not protected, its morale would inevitably be greatly frustrated. How can you not rejoice in your heart when you think like this?

said: "There is a saying in the North, iron needs to be hard. Fangla's establishment of the country relied on the strength of our generation. Today, I have been fighting with the Western Army for a long time, and it is also our southern army as the mainstay, and the power of Liangshan is only a foil.

Today, our army held on to Jinling, and the Song army fought hard for a long time, so that the morale was low, the fighting spirit fell, and the army had to retreat. It can be seen that his generation is not a god general who will win the battle and attack the victory.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, our army should also be good to prepare for war, if the Liangshan army breaks the Guanzhong Guanxi in the coming year, it will be the hometown of the Western Army, and the hometown will be related, and the smell of it must be the shock of the army, and our army will take this opportunity to turn defeat into victory......"

It must be said that Ren Fangla's ambition is still great.

When the Manichaean scholars heard this, they all praised the Father's insight. It just so happened that the eunuch Pu Wenying was in the court, and the general playoff was: "Recently, the ministers watched the dry elephant at night, and there were countless gangxing, which entered the Wu land and divided the field, and half of the mixture was without light, and it was a big disaster." However, he saw that the emperor star was bright, and he was shining on Wu Yuedi. It can be seen that there is no major problem with the Holy Father. When I went to Jinling, I saw a wisp of five-colored heavenly breath, from Stone City. And today, looking at the holy face of the Son of Heaven, holding the posture of the dragon and phoenix, and standing up for the face of the sky, it is in response to this gas. I am very lucky! ”

In this way, Fang La successfully held a great court meeting.

Whether it is self-deception or spiritual victory, as long as it can inspire the fighting spirit of civil and military ministers and make everyone not lose their sharpness, it will be Fang La's success.

Just like the Yongxing military road appeased Dong Zhengfeng and informed the Privy Council Li Hui. A few years ago, he convened a meeting of his subordinates and others, and Liu Fa, the newly appointed envoy of the Shaanxi Sixth Road System, attended, and the three of them were not like Fang La's spiritual encouragement.

The expansion of the Western Army has achieved great results, although it cannot restore its strength to the same as before - everyone knows this, but now Shaanxi also has 200,000 elite soldiers and horses, 100,000 brave soldiers, and the basic strength is still there, and it is by no means Hebei and Gyeonggi.

And this Shaanxi land is the most critical, the terrain is dangerous, and it can be formed to win. If you go east, you can reach the Central Plains, such as the trend of Li Tang in the past. Guarding here, the civil and military people here are all national heroes, and the Great Song Dynasty heroes are also.

But in reality?

200,000 elite soldiers and horses rushed to Jingzhao Mansion [Chang'an] at this moment, but there were not even 50,000. Guy needed money to march this army.

Guanzhong is not Jiangnan? The latter is to quell the rebellion, so it is not natural to take some money by the way. This place in the middle of the pass is Zhao Song's own territory, no matter how shameless Zhao Ji is, he can't ask the soldiers to take money for themselves.

And if you don't have money, you want to call those soldier grandfathers to work hard.

When facing the Jurchen alien race, they can not give money or shoot arrows, which is even more true when facing the Liangshan army of the same culture and species. It is also thanks to Liu Fa's great prestige in the Western Army, so he can bring in so many soldiers and horses.

Dong Zhengfeng, the pacification envoy of Yongxing Military Road, and Li Hui, a fellow privy councilor, can only talk about military affairs on paper, and it is Liu Fa, the god general of the Western Army, who really fights.

The success of this mobilization meeting is also due to the support of Liu Fa, the god of the northwest. It's just that Liu Fa is a mortal after all, he doesn't have a golden finger on his side, and he can't see through the true thoughts of a cadre of generals in front of him.

The latter has dozens of civil and military personnel, which one is not complicated? There are naturally loyal ministers and good generals of the Great Song Dynasty, but there are also traitors and thieves who hooked up with the Liangshan Army early.

Li Mida, the governor of Shaanzhou, who bore the brunt of the war once the war started, was one of the latter.

This person is like a moment, and his number is not hindered, and he is a native of Suzhou, Jiangnan. Deng Chongning three years of Jinshi and first. Summoned by the minister, in addition to the school secretary, moved to supervise the imperial history. Fake too often Shaoqing served as the Khitan He Zhengdan envoy. After returning to China, he moved to Julang, supervised the imperial history in the palace, and then moved to the middle school to study and practice the history of the country.

Earlier, when Zhao Ji moved west to Heluo, he was appointed as the governor of Shaanzhou.

Such a figure should be a supporter of the Great Song Dynasty, but as early as when Zhao Ji moved the capital to Jiangling for the second time, he hooked up with the Liangshan Military Espionage Department with his henchmen. Not for anything else, just because he was disheartened with Zhao Song.

Heluo was the place where the ancestors of the Zhao and Song dynasties buried their bones, but they left without a fight, and they were not worthy of being sons of man. And as early as when he moved west, he and many of his former colleagues from the Imperial Historical Observatory had written to admonish the emperor, blaming Cai Jing, Yang Jian, Liang Shicheng and other traitors, so as to boost the army's hearts and public opinion. It's a pity, a seal is sparse and sinks into the sea. On the contrary, he was sent to the position of a scholar in the middle school, and he knew about the affairs of Shaanzhou.

Li Mi chose Liang Shanjun like this.

After the New Year, the weather is getting warmer. Last year's winter was especially cold, but this cold came and went early.

The soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River have risen again, but the land in the north of the river is still quiet. In February, the branches of the trees on both sides of the street turn a light green to mark the arrival of spring.

And February will pass in a blink of an eye, and during this time, the places north of the Yangtze River are rare and peaceful, although in the eyes of those who care, this is just the calm before the storm.

Lu Qian couldn't have wasted his time in vain.

"Rare peaceful days, I'm afraid there are not many!" Li Mida looked at the official document in his hand, and Liu Fa sent Sun Zhaoyuan, the deputy commander of the army and horses, to lead 10,000 troops into Shaanzhou.