For this time Gao Huaiyuan led the Northern Expedition Li Quan, although it was possible under Gao Huaiyuan's strong insistence and the support of Zhao Yun, but some officials in the DPRK and China were not optimistic about Gao Huaiyuan's Northern Expedition, and there were still many people who objected, their reason was very simple, although Li Quan was wrong, but after all, Li Quan was still attached to the Song Dynasty now, so much of a big move, I am afraid that it would divide the hearts of the northern rebels in the Jingdong area, plus Gao Huaiyuan only brought tens of thousands of soldiers and horses this time, But he wants to conquer the entire Jingdong, some people say that Gao Huaiyuan is arrogant, and some people secretly say that Gao Huaiyuan is self-defeating, and some people write to impeach Gao Huaiyuan This is a waste of money and money, a reckless army, and a waste of national strength. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan's Northern Expedition still won the support of Zhen Dexiu and other ministers, so the DPRK and China always have the strength to support Gao Huaiyuan, especially in the official system, which is controlled by Ji Xiancheng, and Ji Xiancheng will never allow anyone to delay Gao Huaiyuan's Northern Expedition.

So under the benefit of Ji Xiancheng, some of the officials in the court, especially people like Liang Chengda, were held hostage by Gao Huaiyuan at this time, and they spared no effort to vigorously impeach those officials who tried to attack Gao Huaiyuan.

And Zheng Qingzhi, who supported these officials behind him, saw that Zhao Yun's attitude was very resolute, so he also stopped talking about the Northern Expedition in the DPRK.

What made Zhao Yun feel relieved was that after Gao Huaiyuan crossed the river and went north, the pre-army convenient reports were passed on one after another, and a good news was sent to the capital like snowflakes, which greatly boosted the morale of the Korean Chinese military officials, and even some officials who were not optimistic about Gao Huaiyuan's Northern Expedition before were secretly surprised, thinking that this matter was too incredible.

Since the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song army in the military operations against the northern Jin State and various forces, such frequent victories are rare, even the Song people themselves feel that their army is really not good, and now after Gao Huaiyuan raised the army, there has not been a defeat, out of Zhenjiang Mansion, it won consecutive battles, and the Li Quanjun who fought fell into the water, so that the hundred officials of the DPRK and China began to be optimistic about the results of the Northern Expedition.

Zhao Yun after receiving the success, is also the dragon's heart of the great joy, he is now Gao Huaiyuan as his own stand-in, Gao Huaiyuan is so capable, it also shows that he has the ability of Bole, some people in the province are always secretly discussing, criticizing Gao Huaiyuan is hugging him, the emperor's thick legs, to be able to rise up, he really hopes that Gao Huaiyuan can succeed in the Northern Expedition this time, so that he will achieve his wisdom, so he received the good news before the army, and he was not stingy, and the holy decrees of encouragement were also issued one after another, Reward those meritorious men in front of the army again and again.

However, this time Zhao Yun also learned to be smart, and when he rewarded the generals and soldiers in the army, he never promoted Gao Huaiyuan again, because he also knew that Gao Huaiyuan's current official was already big enough, if Gao Huaiyuan was promoted every victory, Gao Huaiyuan might soon be promoted, so Gao Huaiyuan was only rewarded with silver money, and some people in the province stood up against it.

Zhao Yun did this in Gao Huaiyuan's interests, and even Ji Xiancheng felt that Gao Huaiyuan's current official was a bit too big, and it was really not appropriate to be promoted in a short period of time, otherwise, it was likely to attract the collective covetousness of the Korean Chinese official group.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan won the battle this time, but he did not get any promotion, but he was rewarded with ten thousand silver coins, after the imperial court's commendation decree was sent to the front of the army, the soldiers in the army had their own rewards, all of them were in a good mood, and their morale was also improved a lot, and what made the soldiers feel convinced was that Gao Huaiyuan didn't care about money at all, and immediately informed his generals that most of the rewards he received would be rewarded to those soldiers who dared to serve their lives before the army, and also took out a large part, It is used to compensate for the dead or wounded soldiers and their families.

In this way, the soldiers had no worries, and they dared to fight in battle, sweeping away the style of greed for life and fear of death and fear of the head and tail in the Song army in the past.

As the saying goes, the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the dead, the soldiers dare to use their lives, then this army will become a brave army, and Gao Huaiyuan so inspired the officers and soldiers in the army, undoubtedly won the hearts of the people in the army, and some people have even begun to compare him with Yue Fei in the early years, praising him as a general who loves soldiers like a son, which is also the reason why the Yue family army dared to face the Jin army when he was tough.

And Li Quanjun is even more unbearable than the Song army at this time, and the generals under Li Quan's command are fighting their own ideas at this time, thinking about finding a way back for themselves, where to take into account the feelings of the soldiers under them! In order to cope with the next big war, Li Quan had to forcibly recruit troops in the area of Chuzhou, expand his soldiers, Chuzhou was originally the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the people nearby were not willing to support Li Quan and the Song Dynasty to start a war, so Li Quan's conscription was not easy, as a last resort, Li Quan ordered to forcibly recruit young and strong soldiers, and sent soldiers and horses to the countryside to force strong men, creating a lot of bloody cases, which caused the people in Chuzhou to complain and scold Li Quan.

Just a few days after Huang Yan conquered Renhe Town, the two Song armies attacked from the southwest and outside the city of Chuzhou, making the city of Chuzhou suddenly a battlefield.

Li Quan had already made all kinds of preparations for the imperial guards in Chuzhou City at this time, and the Song army had to slow down its actions after arriving dozens of miles outside Chuzhou City.

Because the vanguard battalions of the two Song armies were blocked by Li Quan's army to varying degrees, so that they could no longer drive straight in, so the Song army turned into a battalion step by step, and began to gradually encroach on Li Quan's stronghold outside the city, as well as the guerrilla army that blocked them along the way, although the speed was a little slower, but the march was very resolute, and the suppressed Li Quanjun had to gradually abandon the stronghold outside the city of Chuzhou and slowly retreated into the city of Chuzhou.

After several days of clearing and suppressing, the two Song armies finally joined forces outside the city of Chuzhou and completed the encirclement of the city of Chuzhou, and at the same time, even the Song army's naval army also entered Hongze Lake at this time and began to cruise on Hongze Lake west of Chuzhou City, blocking Li Quan's water army from returning to Chuzhou City, so that the first large-scale battle between Gao Huaiyuan and Li Quan also kicked off.

Really at this time, Li Quan was a little no longer afraid, speaking of which it was the Song army that came to attack Chuzhou City, but under his preparation, now the number of soldiers and horses in Chuzhou City exceeded the Song army outside the city, and now the Song army is just more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, but he has stationed nearly 60,000 northern troops around Chuzhou City alone, and the strength of the two sides has reached the level of one to two, he doesn't believe that the Song army is really three heads and six arms, and with only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, he can take Chuzhou City, then it is really hell.

Li Quan gathered his subordinates and lashed out at the Song army, cheering up his generals, so that these people would join him and defeat the Song army in one fell swoop, so that the Song army would not dare to covet them in the future.

Li Quan immediately ordered to go out of the city to meet the Song army, and defeated the Song army outside the city, and the Song army in the province was too arrogant and underestimated their northern army.

So Li Quan gathered 20,000 troops, left Chuzhou City, and set up a large array in the south of Chuzhou City, waiting for the arrival of the Song army.

Although Gao Huaiyuan was on the march, he was still carefully paying attention to Li Quan's every move in Chuzhou City, he knew the criticality of this battle, if he could lead the army to conquer Chuzhou City in one fell swoop, even if he could not capture Li Quan, but it would also be a fatal blow to Li Quan's prestige in the Huaidong area, and Li Quan would not be easy to do in Huaidong in the future.

But on the other hand, if he loses this battle, he will lose all his previous achievements, not only will not solve Li Quan, but may make Li Quan take this opportunity to sit in the Chuzhou area even more, and it will be a devastating blow to the plan he planned for the Great Song Dynasty to restore the Central Plains in the north.

Therefore, he informed everyone in the Song army of the criticality of this battle, so that the Song army could pay attention to it and not relax their vigilance because of the victories in the previous battles.

Fortunately, these generals who went to war with the army this time were deeply aware of this, and there was no arrogance of the soldiers, and the military discipline was still in a state of rectification, strictly implementing the orders issued by Gao Huaiyuan.

In order to win the victory of this battle and win the hearts of the local people in Chuzhou, the military discipline of the Song army on the way to attack Chuzhou was very strict, and Gao Huaiyuan even promulgated the military discipline of three prohibitions.

In this way, the Song army strictly abides by this order, and the military discipline is very strict, not only can abide by the military discipline, but also distributed a lot of military rations along the way, and the relief of the people who have been harmed by Li Quanjun's disaster in the places they pass through has greatly won a lot of reputation for the Song army.

The news of the Song army's love for the people spread quickly throughout all the villages and towns around Chuzhou, making the local people look forward to it, hoping that the Song army would quickly drive Li Quanjun away, and they would harm the people here again.

When their troops and horses traveled to a place fifteen miles south of Chuzhou, the front of the hard detective Ma Lai reported, saying that five miles ahead, a large number of northern troops were stationed in Chen, blocking the way of the Song army.