After the Cao Mansion was closed for a full month and a half, Li Yanqing finally went out for a walk, but this time he came to the south bank of the Yellow River.

It was the middle of spring, and the air was filled with warmth, and a flock of brightly colored orioles swept overhead and flew into the distant woods, where the winter was long gone, full of greenery, and it was a scene of complete vitality, squirrels running up and down, chirping birds, and fawns following their mother out of the woods, looking at the world with their bright eyes.

Li Yanqing and more than 100 guards rode through the woods, and as soon as their eyes lit up, the mighty Yellow River appeared in front of them.

Li Yanqing urged the horse to gallop and rushed up a small hill, and the sparkling Yellow River was suddenly in full view.

Although Li Yanqing was closed at home, he always paid attention to the movements in Hebei, just two days ago he got a news that the Song Dynasty had escorted three million taels of silver to the Jin soldiers, but the Song and Jin had problems in the delivery of Taiyuan City, and the Jin soldiers asked to postpone the delivery of Taiyuan for a month on the grounds that the southern army had not completely withdrawn.

Li Yanqing had a strong premonition that the Jin soldiers would never return Taiyuan to the Song Dynasty, even if they did not garrison the army, the price paid by the Jin soldiers in Taiyuan City was too great, how could they hand it over easily, and within this month, the Jin soldiers were likely to send troops to tear up the agreement signed by the two sides in the way of war, and the three million taels of silver would naturally not be returned to the Song army.

It was precisely with this strong premonition that Li Yanqing would personally come to the Yellow River to check the intelligence on the other side.

"Dutong, there's a big ship over there!" A soldier pointed to the river and shouted.

Li Yanqing also saw that at least ten thousand-stone ships were heading towards the south bank, his brows were furrowed, the big ships on the south bank were basically burned by Wang Gui, and the ships on the north bank were all requisitioned by the Jin soldiers, if there were ships on the river, it would definitely be the ships of the Jin Kingdom.

"Look at it!"

Li Yanqing urged the war horse, ran down the hill, and led everyone to run in the direction of the dock.

Baima Ferry was once one of the famous four major ferries in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and it is also a strategic place for Hebei to connect with the Central Plains, which belongs to Baima County, there is a small town by the Yellow River, called Baimajin Town, there were originally many buildings in the town, including official ship envoys, tax offices, warehouses, etc., as well as a large number of commercial buildings, restaurants, inns, foot shops, food shops, teahouses, brothels, grocery stores, etc., everything, but now it has been burned down by the Jin soldiers, and all the buildings have been burned to the ground.

At present, the south bank of the Yellow River is garrisoned by the army of Qinwang who came to Qinwang from Jingdong two roads, there are more than 40,000 people in total, but the garrison is relatively scattered, from Zhengzhou in the west, to Yunzhou in the east, the garrison area is as long as 2,000 miles, distributed in more than 20 ferries of all sizes, Baima Ferry is the place with the most garrisons, with 5,000 garrisons.

Li Yanqing unexpectedly met the seed division here, the seed division in the first Jin invasion, defeated by the Jin soldiers in the Daimyo's mansion, he led thousands of remnants of the army to retreat to Yunzhou, in Yunzhou to reintegrate the 40,000 Xiang army of the Jingdong two roads, he was appointed by Zhao Huan as the Henan envoy, led the 40,000 Xiang army to garrison the south bank of the Yellow River.

Hearing that Li Yanqing was coming, the planter personally greeted the camp, "Li Shaobao, we haven't seen each other for a long time!" ”

The seed master walked forward with a big smile, reunited after a long absence, the two hugged tightly, Li Yanqing saw that he was in good spirits and old and strong, so he smiled and said: "The demeanor of the deputy marshal is still the same, congratulations!" ”

The seed master waved his hand, "Don't look at my red face, this is the fire in my heart, I have lost several battles in a row, and I am so aggrieved!" ”

"Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, how can there be a reason to only win and not be defeated?"

"But you kid doesn't seem to have been defeated!"

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Aren't I defeated now?" Failed miserably at Song Jin's negotiating table, and retired at a young age. ”

"Don't mention peace talks, I feel disgusted when I hear these two words!"

The planter patted Li Yanqing on the shoulder, "Follow me to the ferry, or enter the barracks?" ”

"Let's go to the ferry!"

The breeder also turned on his horse and slowly walked towards the ferry a few miles away with Li Yanqing.

"Deputy Marshal, how is the situation of the big marshal now?" Li Yanqing asked with concern, he hadn't heard the news of the Seed Master Dao for a long time.

"My eldest brother fought against the Western Xia with Liu Tao in the Hehuang area, and the Western Xia took advantage of the opportunity of the Jin soldiers to go south and sent troops to invade Lanzhou and Huizhou, and the two sides have fought three fierce battles, winning and losing each other."

After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, Feng Chongshi Dao was the pacification envoy of the Xihe Road, Liu Tao was the envoy of the Qinfeng Road, and Fan Zhixu was the envoy of the Sixth Road of Shaanxi, which was regarded as stabilizing the dozens of state capitals on the western border, the problem was that the financial constraints led to a serious shortage of troops, and there were only 60,000 troops on the three western roads, and the Jingzhao army led by Cao Xing was only 80,000, while the Western Xia mobilized 200,000 troops to the south, making the situation in the west very grim.

"What about the situation on Hedong Road?"

The seed master sighed, "After the loss of Taiyuan, Wang Ding died in battle, the Taiyuan defenders retreated south in two ways, one is your old department, Han Shizhong led more than 10,000 troops to withdraw to Jiangzhou, and the other is Yao Gu and Zheyan's troops, led 20,000 people to withdraw to the front line of Shangdang, this time the court ransomed Taiyuan with three million taels of silver, and the court ordered Yao Gu to take over Taiyuan, but the Jin soldiers refused to let go, and Yao Gu's army stayed in Qi County. ”

Yao Gu is Yao Pingzhong's father, and he is also a veteran of the Western Army on the same level as the seed master, and there are five major families in the Northwest Army, one is the Liu family of Yan'an Mansion, represented by Liu Yanqing and Liu Ji; One is the Jingzhao Mansion planter, which is represented by the seed master Tao and the seed master; the other is the Yao family in Taiyuan Prefecture, represented by Yao Gu and Yao Pingzhong's father and son; The fourth is also the Yang family of Taiyuan Prefecture, that is, the famous Yang family general; The fifth is the Song Lin Mansion Folding Family, and the current Hedong Road Xiang Army is the seventh generation of the Folding Family.

Yao Gu had been serving as the envoy of Xihe before and stationed in the Hehuang area, and Li Yanqing did not have much contact, but his son Yao Pingzhong had a lot of dealings with Li Yanqing, after Li Yanqing left Taiyuan, Yao Gu was transferred to Taiyuan and served as the defense envoy of Hedong, cooperating with Wang Ding.

The two of them talked and walked, and soon arrived at the dock, where the planters built a defensive wall about two miles long on the first line of the pier, and the defensive wall was as high as one zhang, and two thousand soldiers were stationed at the defensive wall.

Li Yanqing stood on the high wall and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't find the ten warships, as if they had suddenly disappeared, and he was a little confused.

"I just looked at the hill and found that there were ten big ships in the Yellow River, which should be Jin Bing's warships, did the deputy marshal find it before?"

The planter nodded, "This is they are training soldiers to take boats, for more than a month, they have not stopped, sometimes one, sometimes several, they turned around less than a mile from the south coast, but recently their training has become more frequent, and the number of ships has also increased significantly." ”

"Has the deputy marshal reported this situation to the imperial court?"

"Why didn't I report it, I reported it at the beginning, and by yesterday it had been reported no less than ten times, and the court ignored it at all."

Thinking of this, the planters were also a little annoyed, "The imperial court is too superstitious about peace talks, and it is clear that the Jin soldiers are insincere, that is, they are delaying time, but the imperial court just doesn't wake up, you look at the defense here, I still pay for this wall out of my own pocket, I have been to the Zhizheng Hall several times, and the Zhizheng Tang is a sentence, there is no money, but three million silver was paid to the Jin State, what did you get?" I didn't get the bullshit, and the surrender faction was in charge! ”

The more the seed master spoke, the more angry he became, waving his hand and scolding: "I still support the new emperor to ascend the throne, but this new emperor is even more a fool, soft-eared, listening to slander all day long, counting on negotiations to get Taiyuan back, but where is Taiyuan?" ”

Li Yanqing jumped down from the high wall and said in a deep voice to the seed master: "The Jin soldiers are delaying the delivery of Taiyuan, I suspect that the Jin soldiers are going to have a military operation recently, there are five thousand garrisons here, I suspect that the Jin soldiers do not dare to attack from here, I am more worried about Guandu in Zhengzhou, how many garrisons are there there?" ”

The planter was also secretly surprised, "There are only two thousand garrisons over there!" ”

"The deputy marshal had better remind the garrison over there to strengthen their precautions these days, especially at night."

Breeder China nodded, "I know, I'll send someone to inform you right away, but.... Does Yanqing think that the Jin soldiers are going to attack the capital again? ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Yao Pingzhong is currently recruiting troops in Caizhou, Dong Ping is training troops in Yingchang Mansion, the defenders of the capital are only 20,000 people, and the militia has been disbanded, this is a good opportunity to attack the capital, and the Jin soldiers will never let it go easily." ”

At this moment, the soldiers behind him shouted: "The imperial envoy is here?" ”

Li Yanqing turned around, only to see more than a dozen soldiers escorting a eunuch on horseback rushing to this side, Li Yanqing hurried up to meet him, the eunuch turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward to Li Yanqing and said urgently: "Li Shaobao, please return to the capital quickly, Your Majesty urgently summons you!" ”