In late March of the first year of Song Xing, Zhang Rong, the old general of the Liangshan Army, joined Shi Xiu and others to re-raise the anti-Jin Yi banner in Liangshanbo.

Zhang Jian, the prefect of Jinan, was furious when he heard the news, and immediately gathered 5,000 troops and rushed to Yunzhou, Liangshan, but Zhang Rong led the army to retreat south to Jeju, and Zhang Jian killed Jeju again.

At this time, Liu Tang led an army of 3,000 people to attack Licheng County and captured Zhang Jian's family, Zhang Jian was shocked, and led the army to hurry back to Jinan Mansion, but was ambushed by Shi Xiu with an army of 10,000 on the road, Zhang Jian's army was defeated, more than 2,000 people were killed, nearly half surrendered, and Zhang Jian also died in the chaos.

Tokyo Bianliang City, at this time Bianliang has become the seat of the palace of Liu Yu, the king of Qi, perhaps out of nostalgia for Tokyo, Liu Yu in the capital of Bianliang, and again let people organize the people to repair the outer city wall, but the outer city only left the south city and the east part of the building houses, the north city and the west city are already in ruins, helpless, Liu Yu had to set up the north outer city as a military camp, the west outer city used to grow food and vegetables.

In the past, there were only more than 300,000 people left in the prosperous Tokyo, the commercial prosperity was only in the area of Daxiangguo Temple and Panlou Street, there is a restaurant in the southwest corner of Daxiangguo Temple, called Shilou, it was originally one of the top ten famous restaurants in Tokyo, the original owner was a relative Zhang Chong, who had already fled to Lin'an, and also opened a time building in Lin'an, Bianliang's time building was sold to Liu Yun, a big grain merchant, Liu Yun was killed in the year before last for fornicating with the Song Dynasty, and the family property was also auctioned, this time building has changed hands several times, and now it is not clear who its real owner is.

On this morning, a man who looked like a businessman walked into the building, it was the afternoon break, the building was changed to sell tea, and there were many tea customers sitting upstairs and downstairs.

The merchant walked through the door and said to the man, "Three guests, you want to go to the backyard!" ”

"Guest officer's backyard, please!"

The man enthusiastically led the merchant to the backyard, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, the man whispered: "The shopkeeper is in the account room, you go by yourself!" ”

Maybe no one thought that the real owner of this restaurant was Jing Zhaojun, but a businessman surnamed Wu bought it on behalf of Jing Zhaojun, making this restaurant an intelligence base for Jing Zhaojun in Bianliang.

The merchant came to the account room and knocked on the door, and the door was opened by the shopkeeper, and there was another person inside, about thirty years old, called Li Xiaotian, who was the account office of the restaurant, but also the intelligence head of Jing Zhaojun in Bianliang.

"How's it going, is there any news?" When Li Xiaotian saw the merchant enter the house, he asked with a smile.

The merchant's surname is Su, his name is Su Liang, and he is also an intelligence spy, he is responsible for finding out the news from the palace of the King of Qi, at this time, the shopkeeper has gone out, Su Liang took a chair and sat down, nodded, "Liu Yu decided to send troops, transfer 20,000 troops from Sizhou, and then transfer 10,000 Yun troops from Bianliang, a total of 30,000 troops, commanded by Liu Yi, to Liangshanbo to suppress Zhang Rong's rebellion." ”

"Aren't the golden soldiers in Xuzhou moving?"

"There is no news of Jin Bing, maybe Liu Yu thinks that Jin Bing is not needed to suppress the rebellion."

At present, Liu Yu has a large army of 120,000, of which 60,000 are deployed in the southeast line, Luoyang is deployed 20,000, Bianliang is deployed 30,000, Jinan Mansion is 5,000, Dengzhou is 5,000, and now the 5,000 in Jinan Mansion has been destroyed, Liu Yu has to mobilize heavy troops to suppress, 30,000 people are only against Liu Yu, which is indeed a heavy army.

"Where are the troops now?"

"Half an hour ago, I just sent someone to Sizhou to give an order, it will take six days to go back and forth to Sizhou, two days to integrate, two more days to march, and it is estimated that it will take ten days to arrive in Liangshanbo!"

Li Xiaotian immediately wrote a pigeon letter, tied it to the pigeon's leg and sent it away, and the carrier pigeon flew up, circled twice and flew towards Lin'an City in the south.

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In the Imperial City of Lin'an, Li Yanqing stood in front of the pottery map with his hand, watching the changes in the red flags on the map, red flags, yellow flags, white flags and black flags, which means that the red flags of the four armies are the Song army, the yellow flag is the Qi army of the Central Plains, the white flag is the Hebei Hebei army, and the black flag is naturally the golden soldier.

There are two black flags in the Central Plains and Hebei, one is in Xuzhou, with 20,000 people on the flag, and the other is in the Daimyo's Mansion, with 30,000 people on the flag, and Hebei and the Central Plains are actually in the hands of these 50,000 golden soldiers.

The strategic breaking point that Li Yanqing refers to is Liangshanbo, which actually refers to the Shandong Peninsula, which has only 5,000 troops in the entire Shandong Peninsula, and it will undoubtedly become the best landing point for the Song army to go north along the coastal road, gain a firm foothold in Shandong, and attack Hebei to the north, the Central Plains to the west, and connect with Jianghuai to the south.

And Liu Yu was originally the prefect of Jinan, and the Shandong Peninsula was his nest that he would never give up, he would not sit idly by and watch the righteous army of Liangshanbo, and would continue to send troops to exterminate it, I am afraid that before he could react, Liangshanbo would become a huge black hole to wipe out his war resources.

Li Yanqing stretched out his hand and planted the black flag of the Daimyo's Mansion in Liangshanbo, which was what Li Yanqing hoped for, and the black hole in Liangshanbo engulfed the tens of thousands of Jinguo soldiers.

"Your Royal Highness, there is a pigeon letter from Bianliang!" There was a soldier behind him.

Li Yanqing turned around, took the pigeon letter from the soldier's hand, and slowly unfolded it, there was only one sentence on it, '20,000 troops in Sizhou, 10,000 troops in Bianliang, are about to conquer Liangshanbo, and Sizhou dispatched troops to send people in the morning. ’

Li Yanqing nodded, in this way, Han Shizhong and the others only faced 40,000 Qi soldiers, which was also expected by him.

After pondering for a long time, Li Yanqing reached out and took a red flag from Qingzhou and inserted it directly into Liangshanbo.

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In the dark night, 10,000 elite Song troops were marching along the south bank of Jishui, marching to the southwest at a rapid pace, and at the same time sailing fifty thousand stone ships in Jishui, loaded with various strategic materials and a thousand sailors, their marching direction was Liangshanbo.

The 10,000 Song army was commanded by Yan Qing, they landed in Boxing County, Qingzhou, and immediately marched to Liangshanbo, although after the 5,000 Qi army in Jinan Province was completely annihilated, there was no Liu Yu's army in the entire Shandong Peninsula, but the Song army was still very cautious, trying to march at night, so as not to be discovered.

For Li Yanqing, the Shandong Peninsula was already in his pocket, and he was not in a hurry to occupy it, his top priority was to turn the rebel army in Liangshanbo into the eye of the storm and stir up the situation in the entire Central Plains.

Then fish in the troubled waters, and by the time the Jin soldiers realized that the Song army had already sent troops, the Song army had already gained a firm foothold in Hebei.

When the day was about to dawn, 10,000 Song troops arrived in Sucheng County, Zhang Rong and Shi Xiu, Liu Tang and others came to greet Yan Qing's arrival, everyone was an old general of Liangshan, hugged tightly, especially Liu Tang and Yan Qing's relationship was very deep, after Chao Gai's death, he hated Song Jiang extremely much, and completely took refuge in Lu Junyi.

Yan Qing didn't put his boss on the shelf in front of everyone, although he was in charge of the capital, and his level was much higher than everyone else, but he was reckless about the three who had just joined the Song Army, and he might not be able to accept it emotionally, so he had to think about it slowly.

Yan Qing clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Brothers, from now on, the 10,000 troops I led will also become a member of the Liangshan Righteous Army, I hope we can fight side by side and recover our homeland as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Rong had already known in advance about Marshal Du's arrangement to mix 10,000 elite troops into the rebel army, and of course he welcomed such an arrangement, this kind of strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger would definitely deal a heavy blow to Liu Yu's puppet army.

In particular, Yan Qing said that they were fighting side by side, which showed that Yan Qing did not come to annex the righteous army, which was very important to Zhang Rong and others, although they had accepted Li Yanqing's title, but their reckless thinking had not changed, and they still lacked the understanding of the unity of the army in the world, which was also a gradual transformation process, and it could not be achieved overnight.

"Welcome Yan Dutong to fight side by side with us, we will obey Yan Dutong's dispatch, as Yan Dutong just said, everyone will work together to recover their homeland as soon as possible."

Zhang Rong also expressed his attitude in time, he would obey Yan Qing's dispatch, and he would obey Yan Qing's orders.

The people entered the city and came to the state office, which had been temporarily changed to the army of the righteous army.

Yan Qing took out a map and spread it out on the table, and said to everyone: "According to our intelligence, the 30,000 Qi army has set off from Bianliang and is coming to Yunzhou along Jishui, and now it should have just set off, and it will arrive here in two days at the earliest, and Marshal Du asked us to annihilate this army." ”

Zhang Rong hesitated and said, "But we don't know the other party's situation yet. ”

"Knowing yourself and knowing the enemy, Fang will not be defeated in a hundred battles, I have sent scouts to investigate the situation of the enemy army, and the news will come soon, but I suggest that we still divide our troops into two routes, General Zhang Rong led 20,000 troops to withdraw to Jinan Mansion to lengthen the battle line, and I led 10,000 troops to wait for the opportunity to attack and break the enemy army."

After Yan Qing finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Rong, waiting for his statement, Zhang Rong pondered for a moment, and discussed with Shi Xiu and Liu Tang for a while, then he nodded, "I am willing to obey Yan Dutong's arrangement!" ”

Everyone immediately took action, Zhang Rong led the army to move all kinds of grain and military materials from Sucheng County into Liangshanbo, and he immediately led an army of 20,000 to retreat in the direction of Jinan Mansion.

Yan Qing led 10,000 troops to hide in the vast water for 800 miles, patiently waiting for the arrival of fighters.