After hearing the news, the remnants of Li Quan's troops who still insisted on refusing to surrender in many places either chose to surrender to the Song army, or simply left their picks and quit, and their own gangs and went to find their own way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some Li Quanquan, who was still trying to hold the city, simply gave up resistance after the Song army arrived at the city, opened the city gate and surrendered, making the next clean-up operation much easier.

After half a month passed, in Huaidong and even in Jingdong, most of Li Quan's old troops gave up and the Song army as enemies, and surrendered or dispersed, in short, only a few remnants of Li Quan in the city remained, and they still insisted on not surrendering, trying to resist the Song army stubbornly.

The two largest forces are Liu Qingfu in Yancheng and Lu Futong in Xuzhou, both of whom each have 10,000 or 20,000 troops, and they are stationed in Jiancheng to continue to resist stubbornly.

Liu Qingfu said that this guy was the mastermind of the Chuzhou mutiny, and he didn't dare to surrender, for fear that the court would give him a reckoning score, so he was determined to resist to the end, but he couldn't jump for a few days, Liu Dayong was ordered to lead the troops to Yancheng after the end of the war in Chuzhou, and Luo Zhuo, who was originally stationed here, joined forces with the troops and attacked Yancheng repeatedly.

And after Liu Qingfu's generals learned the news that Li Quan had been killed, the army was disheartened, and they had long lost the determination to resist desperately, so under the onslaught of Luo Zhuo and Liu Dayong, the fall of Yancheng was only a matter of time.

Gao Huaiyuan let Luo Zhuo and Liu Dayong take care of the affairs of Yancheng, and he led his troops to march in the direction of Xuzhou again.

Xuzhou has always been a place where soldiers must fight, to the west can directly threaten the Guide Mansion, that is, the Northern Song Dynasty of Nanjing, it can be said that the Southern Song Dynasty to recover the Central Plains must pass, but also a strong city, whether it is offensive or defended, the geographical location here is very important, and Li Quan is also more than a year ago, taking advantage of the gold lord Wanyan Shouxu has just ascended the throne, when the foothold is not stable, Xuzhou will be conquered, expand his territory in the Huaidong area, here was previously the jurisdiction of the Jin State, although Wanyan Shouxu has the intention to recover Xuzhou, how can the Mongols in the north step by step, so that he could not spare his hands to recover Xuzhou, so that now Xuzhou City is still under Li Quan's control.

And Li Quan originally had the intention to manage Xuzhou as his lair, but considering that it was too close to the Jin army, he didn't know when the gold lord would free up his hand and attack Xuzhou, so he later regarded Chuzhou as his core lair, and just sent Lu Futong to garrison in Xuzhou to prevent the Jin army from attacking Xuzhou, and he didn't trust Lu Futong very much at the beginning, he originally wanted Li Fu to garrison Xuzhou at the earliest, but later Li Fu was not angry, and he was defeated in a series of battles when he fought the Flying Tiger Army. provoked the generals under Li Quan's command to look down on Li Fu, and Li Quan was also very dissatisfied with Li Fu, so he was later replaced by Lu Futong as the Xuzhou town guard.

Lu Futong's background is not Li Quan's descendant, the earliest of the year, Lu Futong was a subordinate of Ji Xian who was booby-trapped by Jia She, Jia Shi had known that Huaidong had made an envoy before, and had been pursuing a policy of dividing the righteous army, and had repeatedly wanted to annex the loyal army, and later was opposed by Ji Xian, the leader of the loyal army, so he booby-trapped Ji Xian, but Ji Xian's subordinates still refused to surrender to Jia She, and supported Shi Si as the leader, and later Jia Shi used Li Quan to suppress Shi Si, Shi Si led the crowd to defect to the Mongols, Only then did Li Quan take the opportunity to annex the loyal army originally stationed in Lianshui.

And the leader of the Lianshui Loyal and Righteous Army was Lu Futong at that time, after Lu Futong took refuge in Li Quan, for so many years, he was also conscientious under Li Quan, and rarely disobeyed Li Quan's orders, at first Li Quan also trusted Lu Futong quite a lot, so Li Quan did not hand over such a big thing to others to do in Xuzhou, but let Lu Futong come to guard Xuzhou, which shows Li Quan's trust in Lu Futong.

But what Li Quan didn't expect was that when Li Quan was besieged in Chuzhou this time, Lu Futong actually turned a deaf ear to Li Quan's orders, and did not send reinforcements from beginning to end, but just took the opportunity to drive the original Li Quan's descendants out of Xuzhou City, nominally to let them support Chuzhou, but in essence, it was equivalent to excluding the dissidents in Xuzhou City from Xuzhou City, and Lu Futong has now completely controlled Xuzhou City.

After Gao Huaiyuan dealt with Li Quan's funeral in Pizhou City, he sent someone to Xuzhou to recruit Lu Futong, but Lu Futong's attitude was very ambiguous, he was very polite to the messenger, delicious and good to drink, and then sent out of the city, neither said to surrender, nor said not to surrender, Gao Huaiyuan sent three messengers to Xuzhou, and the result was a situation, so Gao Huaiyuan understood a little, and felt that Lu Futong obviously did not have the sincerity to surrender, and the reason why he did this is probably for two reasons, one is that he wants to use the current Xuzhou City as a weight, In exchange for the imperial court to let him continue to stay in Xuzhou City and become his native emperor of Xuzhou, the other is that Lu Futong may disobey the imperial court and want to support his own troops and confront the imperial court.

No matter what the reason is, Gao Huaiyuan can't satisfy Lu Futong's thoughts, so after several failed attempts, seeing that time is pressing, Gao Huaiyuan finally made up his mind to solve Lu Futong by force, a speculator like this, even if he surrenders, sooner or later it will still become a scourge, so let him repeat, it is better to completely solve him, and this guy in the province is entrenched in Huaibei and becomes a scourge.

Gao Huaiyuan gathered nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Song army and the Flying Tiger army this time, and drove out of Pizhou in the direction of Xuzhou, sweeping away all the remnants of Li Quan's omissions along the way, and appeasing the local people who were affected by the war along the way, and trying to win the hearts of the people as much as possible, so that the locals could return to the imperial court.

Although this will affect the speed of the march, Gao Huaiyuan still requires the whole army to strictly abide by military discipline, not to disturb the people and harm the people, to compensate the people they encounter as much as possible, and even to distribute military rations to help refugees.

In this way, the effect is still quite good, this time the Song army made the local people feel that the various armies they had encountered in the past were very different, the soldiers and generals of the imperial court were very polite to them these northerners, and did not regard them as outliers at all, and took care of them everywhere, which made the local people very grateful, the people in this area lived a very hard life, Li Quan controlled this area before, this was the jurisdiction of the Jin State, the Jurchens did not treat them as people, and the officials bullied and exploited them everywhere, making their lives very difficult, In addition, the Jin country is declining day by day, when Jin Xuanzong finished Yan Xun and went to war everywhere, the military consumption was very large, in order to make up for the gap in military spending, the only thing to do was to exploit the people, so that the people everywhere were forced to survive by the officials, which caused the people in various parts of the Jin country to change everywhere.

But then I finally looked forward to Li Quan laying down this area, but I didn't think that Li Quan, this guy, did not know how to sympathize with the suffering of the common people, never attached importance to the development of agriculture and commerce, only knew that the land was grabbed to accumulate wealth, and the life of the common people did not improve at all, so that the common people here also hated Li Quanjun, and now Lu Futong wantonly expanded his troops in Xuzhou, and constantly sent his subordinates to catch Ding Chong's army in the local area, and collected grain and grass, which made the people miserable.

Many ordinary people had run out of food at this time, and could only rely on digging wild vegetables to survive, and when they heard that the Song army was passing by, they were very frightened at first, and they were afraid that the Song army would also be like the Jin army and Li Quanjun, and they would loot them again, and they would hide far away at first.

But later they found out that the Song army had no offense against them, and after discovering them, they took the initiative to condole, and even left food to help them. So it was spread to the hundreds, and soon the benevolence and righteousness of the Song army were spread, and after many ordinary people learned the news, they were looking forward to the arrival of the Song army, hoping to get the relief of the Song army as soon as possible.

In this way, it is impossible for Gao Huaiyuan to go faster, and there are hungry people kneeling on the side of the road to welcome them along the way, and they have to distribute relief while walking, and the road that could have been completed in four or five days was walked for three or four more days, and it was not until the ninth day that they saw the city wall of Xuzhou.

Lu Futong of Xuzhou City had already learned the news that the Song army had sent troops to Xuzhou in advance, and he was panicked, he really planned to support his own troops, use his own soldiers and horses as weights, in exchange for a reward from the imperial court, let him continue to stay in Xuzhou as his town guard, at least give him a thorn in history.

But what I didn't expect was that Song Jun, the envoy of the envoy, actually didn't eat this set, not only did he not seal his official, but he also led the troops to kill Xuzhou, how could Lu Futong not panic this time!

Lu Futong has always been dissatisfied with Li Quan over the years, he used to be the leader of Ji Xian's subordinates, Li Quan cooperated with the court to coerce them, it was really not moral enough, and later although he had no choice but to surrender Li Quan, Lu Futong has never regarded himself as Li Quan's subordinate, and has been looking for an opportunity to become independent.

Now the imperial court sent troops to suppress Li Quan, it was a great opportunity for him, Lu Futong, who had endured for many years, finally turned his face and denied Li Quan, no matter how Li Quan urged him to send troops to support Chuzhou, he just refused to agree, and found various reasons to shirk, and in the end Li Quan still ended up in a defeated and dead end, Lu Futong felt that this breath was finally out.

However, his wishful thinking was really unsatisfactory, although when he was determined to support his army and stand on his own, he began to expand his army in large quantities, and forcibly requisitioned grain and grass around Xuzhou to prepare for war.

But when he knew that the Song army was really going to fight, he was scared again, because he was not stupid, Li Quan used to be more bullish than him, with more than 100,000 troops under his command, and many of them were elite soldiers who had been fighting with him for many years, much stronger than the more than 20,000 rabble he had put together now, but what was the result? fought back and forth, but was beaten by the Song army and finally wiped out outside Pizhou City, and even his head was cut off.

He looked at his strength again, speaking of which he gathered more than 20,000 people, in fact, the real ones who could fight were about four or five thousand people, and the other two or three thousand people were Xinding who were collected a few years ago, and they had just practiced not long ago, and now they can barely discharge an array when they go into battle, and they will not be able to fight as soon as they fight, as for the remaining more than 10,000 people, they have just been forcibly pulled recently, and they are not even equipped with weapons, and many people can only carry wooden sticks as weapons, if such soldiers can defeat the Song army, it is really hell!

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