Bianjing City is less than 400 miles away from Liangshan Shuibo Xicheng, and it takes half a day to change horses without changing people on the way for 800 miles.

It was less than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the 20,000 cavalry of the Liangshan Army wanted to drive straight into Bianjing City, and the news of entering the city to question the Zichen Palace had already arrived.

Bianjing City has always been unable to hide secrets, and as early as dawn that day, the secret agents arranged by Lin Chong in the city had already received orders from General Lu.

Under some operation, less than half an hour after Zhao Ji received the news, this amazing news spread rapidly in Bianjing City.

For more than 100 years, Bianjing City has always been singing and dancing, rich and prosperous to the extreme, people's lives are also leisurely and happy to the extreme, this news spread, Bianjing City was suddenly the whole city shook!

But this is not over, and then more terrifying news came from Hebei Road.

The 40,000 main forces of the Liangshan Army, which was originally trapped in the land of Hedong, had already rushed out of Hedong at this time, and Xu Jing, the envoy of the Taiyuan Jiedu of Shangdang, and Wang Huan, the envoy of the Hebei Jiedu of Henan, had already surrendered to the Liangshan Army.

At this time, Lin Chong had led 25,000 cavalry to go first, had swept through Cizhou, through Xiangzhou, Lin Chong led 2,000 light cavalry all the way to Junzhou, at any time from the Liyangjin Yellow River pontoon bridge to cross the Yellow River (the lower reaches of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty were much more northerly than now, and flowed through the current Jun County, Henan. Bianjing City is actually far away from the Yellow River), and it reaches the city of Bianliang!

You must know that once you cross the Yellow River from Liyangjin, you will only be two hundred miles away from Bianliang City.

As soon as the news came, Bianliang was suddenly shaken, and the people were panicked, from the official Zhao Ji to the peddlers' pawns, all of them panicked, panicked, and nervous.

Everyone's first reaction was to scold and scold.

Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu made Xu Jing, Henan and Hebei Jiedu made Wang Huan both of them receive the great favor of the imperial court, and the first emperor promoted them Zhao'an from a bandit all the way to such a high position as the Jiedu envoy, such a great grace of heaven and earth should not be broken to repay the king?

But they actually surrendered, it was extremely shameless, it seems that the ancestral system of the imperial court is really not wrong, and the warriors are really rebellious at every turn, without any loyalty at all, and they can't believe it at all!

Furthermore, didn't He Guan and Taiwei lead the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Han Tianlin, the supervisor of Tangzhou, Wang Yi, the supervisor of Dengzhou, and Zhou Xin, the supervisor of Songzhou, across the Yellow River to intercept the main force of the Liangshan Army?

There are also forbidden troops stationed in the prefectures and counties along Hedong Road and Hebei Road, what do they eat? Unexpectedly, Lin Chong fought all the way to the edge of the Yellow River!

After scolding, the second reaction was naturally to send troops to fight quickly, and how could he not burn the flames of war to Bianjing City.

At this time, the Hongnong Festival of the Ten Sections made Wang Wende, the Zhongshan Anping Festival made Zhang Kai, the Jiangxia Lingling Festival made Yang Wen, the Yunzhong Yanmen Festival made Han Cunbao, the Longxi Hanyang Festival made Li Congji, and the Qinghe Tianshui Festival made Jing Zhong still on the road because of the long distance, and the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near;

He Guan is also on the north bank of the Yellow River in Weizhou, and there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses, I am afraid that it will be difficult to intercept Lin Chong or return to Bianliang City in time for a while.

Daojun Emperor Zhao Ji naturally thought the same, but when he recruited the remaining few lieutenants, Su Yuanjing, Yang Jian, Chen Zongshan, and Duan Chang discussed the matter of sending troops.

Only then did it be found that most of the soldiers and horses in the battalions of the Metropolitan Gate Control Army were empty, and more than 200,000 Capital Gate Control Army had become private servants, and several military camps had also become the private residences of the Gao family.

Only then did Zhao Ji know that it turned out that every year Jin Mingchi performed martial arts to compete for those tall and mighty soldiers, and the neat and good-looking guns and sticks were all deceptive tricks; It turned out that hundreds of thousands of of the guards had become Gao Yu's private servants, helping him run various industries.

Shocked and incredulous, Zhao Ji could only scold a few words of Gao Yu's mistakes, and immediately dispatched 20,000 people from the already small number of imperial soldiers and horses, together with other garrisons in Gyeonggi, to Huaxian on the other side of Liyangjin.

If Lin Chong has not crossed the pontoon bridge and hurried to hold the pontoon bridge, if he has crossed the pontoon bridge and joined Gao Yu's soldiers and horses in Pucheng, he must not let the soldiers and horses of Liangshan be killed under Bianjing City!

Subsequently, Bianliang City, which had been in Chengping for more than 100 years, was also urgently mobilized, and the city gates that had not been closed for more than 100 years also creaked and closed; The Bianhe Wharf, the Zhengdian Wine Shop, the Tea Shop and the Tile House, the Gambling House, the Oil Extraction Workshop, the Silverware Shop, the Textile and Embroidery Workshop, and the forbidden soldiers of each construction team were also called by their generals to return to their respective teams, and they came to the barracks for the first time in many years to gather.

For a while, without the participation of these soldiers who served as private soldiers, many shops and workshops could not go on, which greatly affected the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the officials and people in Bianjing, but they couldn't care so much about it in extraordinary times.

And everybody just gathered together, or sighed, or discussed, or frightened, or angry, or yelled...... All of a sudden, the people of the entire Bianliang City were panicked, worried, and extremely nervous.

Time was pushed back a little, and at the same time that Zhao Ji received two pieces of information, Gao Yu finally knew that Lin Chong had subdued Xu Jing and Wang Huan's 20,000 soldiers and horses and rushed out of Hedong; With 25,000 cavalry, he had arrived at Tangyin, Xiangzhou, and Lin Chong personally led 2,000 cavalry to rush forward and kill all the way to the news of Liyang Ferry in Junzhou.

On the other side, the 20,000 cavalry troops under the Lu General Department were also divided into two legions, one in front and one behind the other all the way to the rapid march, only three hours, the 10,000 cavalry of the front army had already broken through more than 100 miles, directly from Yunzhou through the adjacent Puzhou, and was about to arrive at the boundary of Kaide Province, and their target was also the south bank of Liyang Ferry!

As soon as he received these two news, Gao Yu was stunned: "...... What do the defenders of Puzhou do to eat when they return to Cizhou and Xiangzhou on Hebei Road? Just let this group of anti-thieves cross the border, and only now has the news come! ”

Yingzhou Runan Jiedu made Mei Zhan stupid when he heard Gao Yu, and he blamed the states and counties along the way, isn't it ridiculous?

I heard Mei Zhan sigh slightly and said: "Tai Lieutenant, you don't know, there are not many soldiers and horses in the prefectures and counties along the way, and they have not been trained for a long time, and the armament is lax, these soldiers and horses are still insufficient to defend the city, where do you still have the courage to go out of the city to intercept and fight?"

Besides, the Liangshan rebels are all cavalry, and most of the Hebei Road and Jingxi Road are open areas of Pingchuan, and the soldiers and horses of the prefectures and counties along the way will gallop by, and when they gather troops and horses, the Liangshan army has already run away, even if you want to intercept the Liangshan rebels, you can take a detour!

It's useless to talk about it now, so think about how to deal with it next!

The intention of the Liangshan army is already obvious, that is, the two lines of troops and horses will converge in Baima County, Huazhou, or kill towards Bianjing, or kill us, and it is impossible for us to intercept them halfway now. Whether to return to Bianjing immediately, or rush to Huazhou Baima immediately, and ask the Taiwei to make a decision as soon as possible! ”

Huazhou Baima County is the opposite bank of Liyangjin, the later Huaxian County, and it is also the place where Guan Yu Xuwen is ugly in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In fact, Mei Zhan's intention was to immediately order the army to Baima County, because in his mind, even if the 45,000 cavalry of the Liangshan Army converged in Baima County and killed under Bianjing City, it would not hurt at all.

The Liangshan army did not bring siege equipment, the city of Bianliang was high and deep, and the army of two or three hundred thousand in the city could easily be attacked?

The 90,000 troops on their side only need to slowly follow behind the Liangshan army, and the head of the Liangshan army in Bianjing City will be bloody, and then the back road of the Liangshan army will be blocked from behind, and it will be surrounded, and it will be done!

However, if you are in a hurry to rush all the way west to Bianjing, you will undoubtedly give the flank of the army to the Liangshan cavalry who are also marching all the way to the west in the north, in case these 20,000 cavalry suddenly turn around and go south, and surprise the 90,000 army from the side or rear, wouldn't it be dangerous?

On the contrary, it was safer to go to the northwest direction, always facing the Liangshan army head-on, ready to engage and meet the battle at any time.

Mei Zhan's considerations are naturally conservative and cautious, but Gao Yu considers more.

Because he knows better than anyone else that seventy percent of the two or three hundred thousand troops in Bianjing City are already unbearable for a battle, and there are only less than 100,000 imperial soldiers and horses who can fight, and their combat strength is far inferior to that of the Liangshan army.

I really don't know where this Lin Chong conjured up these 20,000 cavalry with such superb riding skills, fierce and sharp, like a tiger and a wolf!

Once the royal battalion soldiers and horses engage in battle, I am afraid that it will be difficult to please them.

At that time, if the soldiers and horses of the imperial camp are also about to collapse at the touch of a button, won't everyone in the world know that the Dumen Forbidden Army is completely vulnerable to a battle?

The policy of the imperial court for more than 100 years of strong cadres and weak branches has become a joke in the eyes of all border troops. When the time comes, will these soldiers and horses still obey and respect the center of the imperial court as before?

Sure enough, his family knew his own affairs, in the original history, Tong Guan was sent to sit in Taiyuan, but as soon as the Jurchen West Route Army came, Tong Guan turned around and ran;

And the East Route Army is also like this, the main force of the 60,000 miscellaneous patchwork of the East Route Army has not yet arrived, it is only the puppet army Changsheng Army composed of 2,000 Yandi Han people led by Guo Yaoshi (the Changsheng Army was originally a resentful army formed by recruiting the northbound refugees and hungry people, and then surrendered to the Song Dynasty and was ordered to guard Yanjing, and the Jurchens surrendered after a battle with the Jurchens in the south and became the leading party) killed, and as a result, the elite cavalry of the 7,000 capital gate control army led by Liang Fangping, who was stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River, fled in despair.

Guo Yaoshi's 2,000 cavalry rushed behind, and the 7,000 elite cavalry trampled on each other, squeezing down the Yellow River and drowning thousands of people, while only 3 people were injured in Chang Sheng's army.

Then Liang Fangping burned the pontoon bridge without waiting for all the Song troops to cross the river, and continued to flee in embarrassment; The 20,000 forbidden troops of He Guansuo's department, which were stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, were also immediately "defeated", and the wolves ran away suddenly.

In the end, Allah killed, and there was not a single soldier on both sides of the Yellow River to defend, and the golden soldiers found more than ten small boats that could only sit on six or seven people, and crossed the Yellow River in waves, and it took six days to cross all the soldiers and horses.

Afterwards, the Jin officers all sighed: "The Southern Dynasty can be said to be unmanned, if there are one or two thousand people, how can our generation survive!"

Why is this happening? The biggest reason is that don't look at how bluffing you usually are, when it comes to the critical moment, whether it is Tong Guan, Liang Fangping, or the 27,000 elite forbidden troops of Dumen who defend the Yellow River, they all have self-knowledge.

Tong Guan knew that the defenders of Taiyuan could not hold Taiyuan, and the elite of the gate control army under Liang Fangping knew that they were not able to fight, and they had no confidence in themselves.

At this time, Gao Yu was the same, after learning about the strength of the Liangshan Army in many ways, Gao Yu knew that the Dumen Forbidden Army left behind in Bianjing City was not the opponent of the Liangshan Army at all, and it was not even the opponent of the border armies in various places, and once it was fought, it would be defeated!

The Dumen Forbidden Army is strong outside the army, and the truth about the unbearable war will be exposed, and it will be difficult for the imperial court to subdue the Quartet at that time.

In fact, what Gao Yu didn't know was that in the original history, the place of the Northern Song Dynasty would perish, and naturally there were two generations of emperors of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, as well as the reason for the great death of the civil officials of the imperial court.

It was the Dumen Forbidden Army that was completely unbearable for a battle, which made it easy for the Jin soldiers to hit Bianjing City, so that Song Qinzong had no troops available in the end, so he had to pin his hopes on the demon Guo Jing's Liujia Divine Soldiers, which was the most obvious responsibility.

But on the other hand, it is precisely because the Dumen Forbidden Army is completely unbearable to fight, the original illusion of strong and weak branches has been punctured, after the first Kaifeng siege was lifted, Song Qinzong and the central civil officials and doctors of the imperial court were desperate, and they went crazy to drive away and dismiss the Western army and the rebels from all over the country.

The reason is that they are weak-hearted, and these soldiers and horses who came to King Qin will be like Dong Zhuo in the late Han Dynasty, and they will not leave the capital, or even do usurpation, what should they do?

It is because the capital gate forbidden army is too wasteful, and the center of the imperial court does not have the force to suppress the local soldiers and horses, so wouldn't it be dangerous for them to stay around the capital?

Out of distrust of the warriors, he hurried away and dismissed! As a result, as soon as these Qinwang soldiers and horses left, the Jurchens went and returned, and then the Northern Song Dynasty succeeded in killing themselves.

After weighing the pros and cons, in the end, Gao Yu decided that the whole army would immediately start and return to Bianjing.

When Mei Zhan heard this, although he felt that it was better to rush to Huazhou Baima and follow Liangshanjun's buttocks, he didn't raise any objections.

After all, the 200,000 or 300,000 capital forbidden troops in Bianjing City, plus 90,000 on his side, 30,000 on Chen Guan's side, plus nearly 400,000 troops, is the 45,000 cavalry of the other Liangshan Army more than enough?

It's just that when he was leaving, he was a little worried about his old brother, Langya Pengcheng Jiedu, Xiang Yuanzhen.

It turned out that before this, Xiang Yuanzhen said that since the ancient soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, what is the intention of the Liangshan army, what is the combat power, or to fight first, and it will be clear after some testing.

Therefore, Gao Yu asked Xiang Yuanzhen to lead 3,000 cavalry, together with the former Flying Dragon General Yumei, the former Flying Tiger General Bi Sheng, and the 800,000 forbidden army guns and sticks to go to Puzhou to meet the Liangshan army and horses, and fight for a while.

"Captain, did you send someone to inform Xiang Jiedu and tell him to withdraw with his troops?"

Gao Yu thought for a while and said: "It's okay, I'm afraid that General Xiang has already fought with the Liangshan Army at this time, but it's okay this way, what is the combat strength of the left-behind cavalry of the Liangshan Army, we can also have a bottom." ”

Gao Yu's guess was really good, and when he and Mei Zhan decided to drive back to Bianjing, Xiang Yuanzhen took it