Li Yanqing also placed a miniature version of the pottery map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the inner study, only one or five feet long and wide, and placed it in a separate room, and he had been thinking about the Northern Expedition during this time.

For Li Yanqing, the important thing in the Northern Expedition was not how much territory to occupy, but how many golden soldiers to annihilate, and the army was the key.

Since taking the position of regent, Li Yanqing is no longer thinking about retaking the Central Plains and Hebei.

He considered how to destroy the Jin State, and the destruction of the Jin State could refer to the destruction of the Western Xia Kingdom, and the Western Xia State was destroyed and eventually collapsed because the national strength could not support it.

In fact, the Jin State is the same, the core population of the Jurchen tribe is only one million, but it enslaves the Khitan, Xi, Bohai, Goryeo and other ethnic groups to work for him, which is the same as the party enslaving other ethnic groups.

It was precisely because he had a clear goal that Li Yanqing began to move forward step by step, and his first step was the Daimyo's Mansion.

Li Yanqing took a box from the table, and the box contained various information about the plan of the Daimyo's Mansion this time, and Li Yanqing found one of the hand-drawn maps, which was detailed information about the investigation of the Jin Bing Navy.

Of course, the Jin soldiers did not have any naval troops, but they had a large number of ships on the Yellow River, and the information in Li Yanqing's hand was a map of the distribution of warships on the Yellow River.

This is the intelligence chief of the Daimyo Mansion, Wang Yan, who spent 300 taels of silver from a Han official, and it is marked that the Jin soldiers built seven wharves on the Yellow River, large and small, a total of 653 boats, as small as a fishing boat of 100 stones, as large as a ferry boat of 3,000 stones, and the number of ships distributed on the seven wharves is also clearly marked.

Li Yanqing took the hand-drawn map, looked at it on the ceramic map for a while, and used the blue flag to find seven Yellow River wharves, all of which were located on the north bank of the Yellow River, which also showed that Jin Bing did not believe Liu Yu from one side.

At this time, a report from the female guard came from outside the door, "Your Highness, they are here!" ”

"I see, you go find a few companions to help!"

After a while, four female guards came in, and Li Yanqing pointed to the ceramic map and said to them: "Help me move these two maps to the outer study, be careful!" ”

The ceramic map is made up of two parts, and the two guards carry a table and walk cautiously towards the outer study.

There is a conference room in the outer study, and at this time there are already six generals sitting in the room, including Wang Gui, Cao Meng, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoer, several female guards carried the table of the ceramic map in, and the four of them hurriedly stepped forward to help, at this time, Li Yanqing also walked in.

He nodded to the four female guards, the female guards turned around and retreated, and two more maids came in to serve tea, Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Call everyone here before dawn, let's drink some tea first!" ”

Everyone picked up the teacups and drank them, Wang Gui walked to the map and looked at it for a moment and said, "Du Shuai, did the Jin soldiers cross the river?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I just received urgent information, and yesterday the golden soldiers of the Daimyo's Mansion began to move south. ”

"Yesterday I started to go south, so when will I cross the Yellow River?"

Li Yanqing said with a smile: "It won't be so fast, they are cavalry, they have to transport forage, I estimate that they will start crossing the Yellow River in three days." ”

A few people didn't care about drinking tea, and hurriedly walked up to surround the map, and they all realized that the war was finally about to begin.

Li Yanqing walked to the map, picked up a wooden stick and knocked on the Daimyo City, "Now there are only 20,000 Ji troops in the Daimyo City, this is our opportunity, Yan Qing's army should have already started to act, Yan Qing's 10,000 troops should have no problem seizing the Daimyo, but there are not enough troops to defend the Daimyo, which requires reinforcements." ”

Li Yanqing's gaze turned to Niu Gao and Yang Zaixing, "General Niu and General Yang, defending the city is your forte, you two can lead 20,000 troops to the north by boat to support the famous city!" ”

Niu Gao and Yang Zaixing immediately clasped their fists and said: "Obey the order!" ”

Wang Gui was a little anxious, "What about us?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled: "I know that you are in a hurry!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Wang Gui scratched his head and said, "Knowing that I am anxious and still hangs my appetite, can I first say that my task is not good?" ”

"Alright! Let's talk about your task first, it's your turn anyway. ”

Li Yanqing smiled and pointed at Yunzhou with a wooden pole, "30,000 gold soldiers from the south of the Yellow River, it must be to attack Yunzhou, after the fall of the Daimyo's Mansion, the navy will cut off their back road, at this time the Jin soldiers only have one way to go south, go to Xuzhou and join the other 20,000 Jin soldiers, our task is to completely annihilate these 30,000 gold soldiers." ”

"And how many troops are we?"

Li Yanqing said slowly: "One hundred thousand troops!" ”

"Wang Dutong, this is a hard battle! But we have advanced firearms, sharp hoplites, and powerful crossbows, and we have 30,000 cavalry, and I believe we can defeat the golden soldiers. ”

"Wait!"

Wang Gui suddenly understood a little, "Could it be that Du Shuai also wants to participate in this big battle?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded slowly, "How can I not participate in such a wonderful show?" ”

Wang Gui said half-loudly: "But Du Shuai wants to command the overall battle!" ”

"Commanding the overall operation, it doesn't necessarily have to be in Lin'an, I think Jinan Mansion is more suitable."

Wang Gui smiled bitterly, he thought he was the main general, but he finally found that he was still a deputy general.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, and continued to say to Wang Gui: "When the time comes, we will go north in two ways, Cao Meng and I will lead 30,000 cavalry to the north, and you will lead 70,000 troops to take the waterway, and go north with Niu Gao and them, how to land, how to converge, I will give you a detailed plan later." ”

Wang Gui nodded silently, and at this time, Li Yanqing said to Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoer again: "Your task is very simple, lead the army to block the Yellow River, and do not allow the Jin soldiers of Yanshan Mansion to step into the Central Plains again." ”

"Obey!" Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoer bowed.

Li Yanqing said to everyone: "This is just our first step in the battle plan, and my requirements for this plan are only three words, "Fast, ruthless, and accurate, that is, fast, ruthless, and punctual, understand?" ”

The six of them bowed down together and agreed, "I understand my humble duties!" ”

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Yan Qing got the news earlier than Li Yanqing, he received a pigeon letter from the Daimyo Mansion at noon that day, and he immediately said goodbye to Zhang Rong, Zhang Rong's 20,000 troops would be transferred to Liangshan Bozhong, while Yan Qing and the Ruan brothers led 10,000 troops along Jishui to the north, and at the same time carried various military strategic items loaded with fifty ships.

Two days later, they arrived in Licheng County, where there is an extremely important tributary called the Beiqing River in the north of Licheng County, which connects Jishui with the Yellow River, and only this tributary connects the entire Jishui to the Yellow River, which is of great strategic significance.

They turned into the Beiqing River, walked for another day, and arrived at Yucheng County, the county seat less than twenty miles from the Yellow River.

The Yucheng county commander appointed by the Jin State has run away, and now he is the county lieutenant appointed by Yan Qing before, and when he got the news of the army's transit, the county lieutenant hurriedly rushed to Beiqinghe with a few people.

The soldiers led the county lieutenant to Yan Qing, and the county lieutenant Wang bowed and saluted, "I have some news that I might want to tell General Yan!" ”

"County Lieutenant, please!"

"I got news that a large number of Jin soldiers have gathered in Liaocheng, Bozhou, and there may be signs of crossing the river."

This is the same as Yan Qing and others, Jin Bing crossed the river in Liaocheng, and after they crossed the river, it was Gaotang County, which was about one hundred and fifty miles away from Liaocheng, which was still relatively far away.

"Have the Jin soldiers started crossing the river?" Yan Qing asked again.

"I got the news yesterday, and I don't know if I crossed the river today."

Yan Qing hugged his fists and smiled: "Thank you County Lieutenant Wang for reporting the letter in time, please County Lieutenant Wang also protect yourself, in the future, the Great Song Dynasty will recover the two roads of Jingdong, and County Lieutenant Wang will definitely be reused." ”

County Lieutenant Wang smiled bitterly, if Jin Bing crossed the river, he would have only one way to escape.

"General Yan, take care all the way!"

Lieutenant Wang then took his leave, and the army continued to move north, and soon arrived at the Yellow River, which was originally called Luwang Town, where a golden soldier once stepped on the ice to the south and completely destroyed the town, which is still a ruin.

In front of him was the surging Yellow River, in late May, the Yellow River was still relatively stable, at this time, 50 thousand stone warships sailed into the Yellow River, loaded with supplies and the first batch of 3,000 troops to the opposite bank.

There wasn't much time left for Yan Qing, and it was very likely that the ships of the Jin soldiers transporting grain and grass would enter the Beiqing River from here, and then enter the Jishui, so they had to avoid the ships of the Jin soldiers.

After the first army crossed the river, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi led the remaining 7,000 soldiers to the north and immediately went twenty miles north, waiting to cross the river in the north, so that even if the Jin soldiers' fleet came over, they would not be discovered.