Liangshanbo, Juyi Hall.

Song Jiang was ordered by Zhang Shuye to return to Liangshan and collect the heroes of the green forest for the imperial court for several years, and over the years, Zhang Shuye seemed to have forgotten him and never gave him an order.

"Perhaps, I will continue to be a mountain king in Liangshan like this."

He was distracted, and Gongsun Sheng said on the side: "Big leader, do you think we are standing up our own banner, or are we helping the Song Dynasty to destroy Jin?" ”

Gongsun Sheng took the members of the Longhu Mountain Sect to Liangshan, partnered with Song Jiang, and became the second leader of the mountain.

Since the Jin soldiers invaded Shandong, Song Jiang and Gongsun Shengde's minds have been active, and the mountains and rivers are broken, and they may not be able to do the hegemony of the volcano king Yang Gon. Of course, it was Yang Gon in "The Romance of the Hu Family", who was persuaded by Huyanzan to vote for the Song Dynasty by relying on one party's forces.

They were discussing with Wu Yong, and suddenly a very shrewd young man came in, in his twenties, medium build, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, walking like a fly, walking in the wind, and the wind blew wherever he went.

"Brother Shixiu, you're back, what's the news?"

Shi Xiu smiled: "I grabbed my tongue and asked my brother to interrogate." ”

Shi Xiu's biggest feature is that he was born in the market, he can't show it at all when he is rooted in the crowd, he pretends to be like something, and often confuses the real with the fake, so that Jin Bing can't distinguish the real from the fake.

After Shi Xiu went down the mountain, he dressed up as a merchant and walked towards Yuncheng, and suddenly walked into the wheat field as he walked, took off the merchant's clothes, changed into the uniform of a golden soldier, and swaggered onto the main road. At this time, two fast horses came from the direction of Yuncheng, and when they were about to reach Shi Xiu's side, Shi Xiu suddenly made a move, threw out two flying knives, and the two golden soldiers went to the western sky. Shi Xiu dragged the corpse of the golden soldier into the wheat field, searched his whole body, and found that the golden soldier was a herald, with a wax pill on his body and a token.

He mounted his horse and went to the gate of the city, and the men who guarded the gate asked him what he was doing, but he did not look back. Flashed the token and replied viciously; "Bastard, I'm all mixed with the Jurchens, don't you know?" After that, the horses flew into the city like arrows off the string.

The gatekeeper said enviously: "I don't know if I offered my daughter-in-law to Lord Jin, such a spirit is mixed into a Jurchen." ”

Shi Xiu came to the signing room of the yamen in the city, and saw that there was only one officer in the signing room, so he broke in, and before the officer could react, knocked him unconscious, and then tied the fat officer with a strong knot, gagged his mouth with a towel, put it in a sack, and placed it horizontally on the horse.

Shi Xiu looked around and there was no one around, swaggering and leading the horse out of the courtyard, beating the horse and galloping straight to the city gate. It was already dark when he went out of the city gate, and the short sentry saw that he was still the herald from a distance, and without suspicion, he opened the gate and let him out of the city.

Song Jiang learned from this fat officer that Yuncheng had no troops to garrison, so he said, "Shi Sanlang, can I wait to capture Yuncheng?" ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "It is a safe way to go down the mountain to seize the county seat first and erect a banner to support the Song Dynasty and destroy the Jin." ”

Everyone discussed and stopped, and Song Jiang said: "San Lang, you still need to go back to Yuncheng, the head of Lei Dutou in the city is my old acquaintance, I am waiting in Liangshan, thanks to him for reporting the news." ”

Shi Xiu thought to herself, it turns out that you already have eyeliner in Yuncheng, but you don't say it. But quietly receive the order.

Lei Hengli should cooperate with the outside and help Liangshan seize Yuncheng, and erect the banner of supporting the Song Dynasty to destroy Jin.

The Song and Jin sides occupied some major towns in Shandong, while the small towns and suburbs were left to Baojia and local heroes.

Since the Hujia army entered Shandong, Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou and others ended their captivity in Shandong and went south along the canal.

Li Cheng went south to Huaixi to conquer the city. Although he has suffered several setbacks, his ambition to be alone has not been curtailed in the slightest. Someone asked Li Cheng:

"When will the world be decided?"

Li Chengyin replied:

"If you don't ask about the marquis, you will succeed and your bones will wither."

He did not hide his ambitions, and was determined to accomplish his separatist cause on the pile of bones.

The Song court tried to entrap Li Cheng with the official seal of the pacification envoy, which of course could not satisfy him. He pretended to be ordered to paralyze the Song court.

Since the Jin soldiers suddenly attacked Bianliang again, and the Hujia army had no time to pursue him, Li divided his troops into three routes: he commanded Hu Xuantun's troops on the Huaixi Road and invaded Chizhou; Ma Jin, the deputy commander of the "Hua Jacket", led his troops to cross the river, captured Jiangzhou, and then went south to plunder the counties west of Poyang Lake; Li Ben himself led his army to cross the river one after another, using Jiangzhou as a base to attack Hukou County, where Poyang Lake exits. Li Chengjun occupied about 10 state armies in Jianghuai for a while, "tens of thousands of soldiers", claimed to be 300,000, and had the meaning of "sweeping the southeast", which posed a major threat to the Song Dynasty for a while.

For this reason, the Song court specially appointed Zhang Jun to recruit envoys for Jiang and Huai. Zhang Jun was quite cowardly, and said that Li Chengbing was in full swing, and Song Gaozong said:

"Today's generals have not made meritorious contributions."

Zhang Jun finally had to "accept his life in fear". However, at his request, the Song court assigned the Shenwu Front Army, Chen Sigong's Shenwu Rear Army, and Yuejia Army to his command.

After Yue Fei retreated to Jiangyin Army, for the sake of safety, he sent the families of the army back to Yixing County.

After learning the news that the Jin soldiers had attacked Bianliang again, Yue Fei wrote to Wang Boyan, the middle book of Jiangnan, thinking that this was a good time to "rescue Bianliang, make meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and make meritorious contributions in front of the emperor". Yue Fei has never officially recognized the new emperor Zhao Gou, but he has paid great respect to the Zhongshu Province in Jiangnan and has not torn his face, and Zhao Gou has no strength to deal with a local powerhouse like him, so he vaguely dragged down the issue of reputation.

Yue Fei received the order to assemble in Raozhou, Jiangdong Road, and made up his mind that he would reconnoiter north when he had the opportunity to see if he could participate in the battle of Bianliang.

He brought the dependents of the army from Yixing County to Huizhou for resettlement, and ordered Tang Huai to stay behind. The Song army was dominated by infantry, and its mobility was inherently poor. Every time he moves to Tun, he must help the old and the young, drag his wife and children, and make "the soldier is expensive and fast" an empty word. The last aid to Chuzhou and the rescue of Jiangzhou this time can be used as an example of delaying the fighter plane, which is a unique malaise under the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty.

On July 14, the Yuejia military went to Qimen, Huizhou. Getting rid of the burden of his family was able to speed up the march. But when Yue's army arrived in Raozhou Prefecture to govern Poyang County, Zhang Jun's army had already set off. Since Jiangzhou has been captured, the most urgent task at hand is naturally to rescue Hongzhou, the capital of Jiangnan West Road. Between Raozhou and Hongzhou is the vast Poyang Lake, and at least part of Zhang Jun's army of 50,000 marched through the lake.

After Zhang Junjun arrived in Hongzhou, Ma Jinjun also camped in Xishan on the west bank of Zhangshui, and repeatedly challenged the war book. Zhang Jun was afraid of the enemy and did not dare to fight for the whole month. Li Cheng's general Shao You divided his troops and captured the Junzhou and Linjiang armies.

It was not until Yue Fei arrived in Hongzhou in early August that he changed the situation of passive defense. Zhang Jun asked him for advice, and Yue Fei said:

"It's very easy, after the thief is greedy and doesn't worry, if he takes 3,000 cavalry and crosses the rice from the upper class by surprise, he will be broken. Although he is not talented, he is willing to be a pioneer. ”

On the seventh day, Yue Fei wore heavy armor and took the lead in wading across the water on a prancing horse, so the army crossed Zhangshui in turn. The two sides fought a general battle in the area of the famous Taoist temple Yulong Temple. Yue's army first assaulted the right flank of the horse march and defeated the enemy. The horse fled in and escaped, and Yue Fei chased first. There was a small earthen bridge along the way, and when Yue Fei led dozens of horsemen to break through this bridge, it suddenly collapsed. Ma Jin took the opportunity to wave his troops to counterattack, Yue Fei shot an arrow, killed the enemy's vanguard general, and commanded dozens of knights to fight to the death. Zhang Jun hurriedly sent people to repair the earthen bridge, and the army continued to advance, but Ma Jinjun was unable to fight again, so he fled back to Yunzhou.

Zhang Jun's army pursued to Yunzhou, and Ma Jin gathered his forces in an attempt to go out of the city to counterattack, and his army array stretched for fifteen songs. Yue Fei and Chen Sigong were ordered to attack separately. Yue Fei used the red Luo as a banner, embroidered the white word "Yue", and personally led 200 horse troops to lure the enemy. Seeing that Yue Fei had few soldiers, Ma Jin thought that he was not enough to be afraid, so he rashly waved his army to fight, and was attacked by the ambush soldiers deployed by the Song army first. After Yue Fei and Chen Sigong fought with the enemy, Zhang Jun led troops to reinforce them, and Yang Yizhong led his troops to cross the Yun River, rushed down from the west mountain, and attacked the enemy. The Majun army was defeated, and the surrender and capture alone amounted to 8,000 people. After the war, Zhang Jun was afraid of repeated surrenders, so he ordered Chen Sigong to kill them all.

Ma Jin led the remnants of the defeated army to flee north in search of Li Cheng's rescue. Yue Fei led the soldiers to march in a hurry overnight, rushed to the horse before entering, and ambushed in Zhujiashan. When the remnants of Ma Jin fled to this place, the ambush soldiers launched in unison, and held a battle of annihilation in one go, beheading the enemy general Zhao Wan. Ma Jin only had more than ten horses left, and fled for his life in a hurry.

Li Cheng was unwilling to fail, left his horse to defend Jiangzhou, and personally raised troops to counterattack. He ordered his subordinates to set up an ambush for Shang Yuan in the grass mountain of Louzizhuang in Fengxin County, Hongzhou. Zhang Jun's army rushed to the top of the mountain from the path, defeated the ambush soldiers, seized the dangerous pass, and completely crushed the enemy's counterattack. This battle gave Zhang Jun the nickname "Zhang Tieshan", in fact, this was mainly due to the hard work of Yue Fei and other troops.

After the battle of Louzizhuang, Li Cheng's fierce generals suffered too many sharp losses, and they had no power to fight back. Zhang Jun and Yue Fei divided their troops into two routes, Zhang Jun went northeast to regain Jiangzhou, and Yue flew to the northwest to pursue Li Cheng. Li Cheng fled to Wuning County, Hongzhou (now Wuning County, Jiangxi), when the Xiushui surged, and the remnants of the defeated generals had not had time to cross the river. As a result, the people of Wuning County were spared poison.

Li Cheng did not dare to stop in Jiangnan for a while, and hurriedly retreated from Dumudu to Qizhou on Huaixi Road. Yue Fei led his army eastward from Wuning County to Jiangzhou to join Zhang Jun. By the end of August, there was no trace of Li Cheng's bandit army in Jiangnan.

Due to the lack of military rations, Zhang Jun's army was delayed in Jiangzhou for more than 40 days before he was able to cross the river and continue the crusade against Li Cheng. Li Cheng relied on the command of Hu Xuan's army in Huaixi, known as more than 100,000, and tried to resist stubbornly. The Song army arrived in Huangmei County, Qizhou. Li Cheng's bandits occupied the mountain danger at the stone building slope and threw wood and stones to block the Song army.

In the end, Zhang Jun's army carried out a strong attack, defeated the enemy, and pursued and killed Ma Jin, Sun Jian and other leaders. Li Chengshi was exhausted, so he had to flee to pseudo-Qi. Zhang Jun's army took advantage of the victory to recover the prefectures and counties in Huaixi occupied by Li Cheng's bandit army, appeased the rest of Zhao Duan, and captured Li Cheng's advisor Li Yan in Taihu County, Shuzhou.

Since then, Li Cheng has had to restrain his ambition to cut off the claim and find an opportunity to take refuge in the Jin people.

In the months that Yue Fei had been exterminating Li Cheng, the war in the north had undergone major changes.