Ma Kuo arranged an attack on Changye in Xiangyuan, followed the Yellow River to the lower reaches, and on the East Hebei Road, the Zhongye Zhaoji Division commanded by Qiu Muling Zhonglian led the two armies of Wei Bo and Chengde to break through to the West Hebei Road.

There is a reason why Qiu Muling Zhonglian intercepted the two armies of Chengde and Wei Bo. As the Daimyo Jin soldiers marched south to attack Bianliang with all their might, there was a rare vacuum in the area from Daimyo to Zhending. As a result, the marching department set the general policy of "seizing the Central Plains and recovering Henan". Henan here refers to the area around Luoyang, Henan Province.

Xiong Dabai commanded Wei Bo's army and arrived in Xingzhou on the Hebei West Road. In the second year of Jianyan, Hu Yangeng once fought in Xingzhou, and left Pang Shannuo lurking in Xingzhou.

"The defenders of Xingzhou are all signed troops, their morale is low, and they don't dare to fight hard with weapons." Pang Shannuo reported.

Wei Bo's army quickly cleared the perimeter and surrounded Longgang, the city of Xingzhou.

On the night of October 3, after the battle began, a soldier of Shi, under the cover of night, carried a damp quilt on his head and sent three blasting boxes under the wall of the north gate. It was the first time they had used this type of blast box blast, and they didn't know how powerful it was. After lighting the fuse, a loud bang was heard, and a large gap was blown open in the city gate, and the castle cherry blossoms were blown away.

The fierce blasting stunned the enemy troops, and an entire regiment of soldiers rushed into the city like a tidal wave and engaged the enemy in street battles. At this time, the troops attacking the other city gates also used ladders to ascend the city one after another, and there were shouts of killing on all sides. Under the flanking attack, the enemy tried to break through to the south gate, but was compressed by the Song army in the city gate hole, so he had to lay down his arms and surrender.

Longgang is the first state city recovered by the Hujia Army on Hebei West Road. After a short break, Wei Bo's army swept southeast, took Handan lightly, and went straight to the Daimyo.

The daimyo is the fief of Wanyan Liduo, and it is also the place where Liu Yu supported Zhao Huan, the marquis of Chongdu. This place has been the place of four wars since ancient times, looking up to Yanji in the north and locking the Yellow River in the south, and it is impossible for the Jin soldiers to abandon it.

The Wanyan tart lazy department stationed in Baoding gathered part of Yanjing's troops and marched south. Among them is the signing army led by Kong Yanzhou.

Kong Yanzhou is a warlord like a wall, Shi Zai, Kong Yanzhou, the word Geoje, Xiangzhou Lin Shuren. Death, no production, avoiding crime, occupying the army. Sitting in prison, it is said that the keeper will untie him and escape through the city at night. He has killed someone, and he has died as a thief. At the beginning of Song Jingkang, he was recruited, and he was under the jurisdiction of soldiers and horses on the East and West Roads of Beijing.

When the Hujia army arrived in Shandong, Kong Yanzhou led his subordinates to rob and kill residents, burn houses, plunder property, and cross the river to the south. The Song people re-recruited him, thinking that they were recruiting envoys along the river. Yanzhou was tyrannical and unrestrained, the Song people would be held by soldiers, and Yanzhou returned to Xiangzhou, from the pseudo-heavy marquis, to the commander of the marching army, and changed to the left head of the battalion.

Wanyan tart lazy took Kong Yanzhou's department as the pioneer and went south to aid the daimyo. Kong Yanzhou was unwilling to consume the strength of his headquarters, so he led the army to grind and grind, and sent people to Handan on the other hand.

"When Bianliang was besieged, Jingdong was disturbed, and Song and Jin were conscripted, Hermes-Epitek should abandon their previous suspicions and rescue each other, thinking that they would protect themselves. Brother Yu led his troops to advance to the daimyo, hoping to tell your garrisons along the way not to misunderstand. ”

"What the hell is this? When Kong Yanzhou wrote this kind of letter, he was not afraid of being discovered by the Jin people? "Qiu Muling Zhonglian is like Yao Youzhong asking for advice. After all, Qiu Muling Zhonglian was only a twenty-five-year-old officer, and he was not good at dealing with such deceit.

Similar to Puliu Ru Bosheng and Ma Kuo's partners, in the Central Field Mobilization Division, Qiu Muling Zhonglian was the main envoy, Yao Youzhong was the deputy envoy, and Yao Youzhong advocated command matters.

"Kong Yanzhou is bold and reckless, he is lazy and Kong Yanzhou, but he uses each other, and if he wants to investigate and prosecute him, he will not be charged with this crime, and he will not be investigated and prosecuted, and he will not cause trouble because of this letter."

"What should I do with Kong Yanzhou's letter? Is it to let go of the signing army and focus on the golden army. ”

Yao Youzhong pondered: "No matter what Kong Yanzhou thinks, he passed through Hebei and was safe and sound, which will make the people of Hebei think that we are also secretly in tune with the gold thief." Its southward movement should be postponed by all means, without convenience, but as far as possible from provoking conflict. ”

The Nakano Recruitment Division quickly explored the southward path of the Jin soldiers: "The Jin soldiers are divided into three columns, alternately marching along the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain. In every village, residents must be detained, sentry posts must be set up, and strict security will be put on guard. ”

"Jin Bing is very careful."

Yao Youzhong sighed, but when the Jin soldiers arrived in Zhending, no one resisted all the way, and he became bold after finishing his lazy movements.

"The dog that eats is inseparable from the thatched house, and the enemy's attempt is to go south along the official road at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and it is inconvenient to walk to the west of the mountain; It is very difficult to walk on the sandy ground to the east, so you have to walk against the mountains. ”

"Wanyan Tart was lazy and once served as the commander of the Six Roads Department, and the army under his command was either his personal Meng'an's old foundation, or the Khitan pro-army of the Liao Army, which was more combative. But in his army, the Jurchens, the Khitans, the Bohai people, and the signing army, the treatment of miscellaneous cards and descendants is different, and the reluctance of miscellaneous cards to be transformed into descendants is particularly different, and there are contradictions between various armies, Kong Yanzhou is such a miscellaneous army.

"But Wanyan Tart lazily ignored these weaknesses, on the contrary, he never fought with the Eighth Route Xuanfu Division, and regarded our army as a chaotic people who could only disturb it, thinking that it could leave us on both sides with 50,000 men lightly armed and rapid along the Taihang Mountain, especially the flank attack between Cizhou and Handan, and freely enter Handan and Xingtai, and join the enemy forces under the Daimyo. Therefore, it does not need other corps to directly respond to the front and rear of the neighborhood, and it does not need to bring enough supplies to complete the mission. This is the pride of 'Yoro's arrogance' and the mistake of being alone. ”

Yao Youzhong, the young general of Bianliang who died in another time and space, and the first person among the children of the Yao family who were "very heroic" in the Western Army, has grown up and is enough to take on the responsibility.

Although the three armies of Wei Bo, Pinglu, and Fanyang, which were concentrated in the left and near the daimyo this time, were the oldest, after the expansion of the army, there were quite a lot of recruits who had not been in battle and inexperienced officers. Yao Youzhong used plain language to analyze the enemy's weaknesses, which made the young officers more confident.

On 16 October, the Central Field Mobilization Division issued Operational Order No. 8. It was determined to "concentrate the main forces of Weibo, Pinglu, and Fanyang on the north bank of the Zhanghe River to the south of Zhending, use one part to pinn down the right forces of the first echelon, concentrate superior forces, and annihilate one of the troops on the left side of the Taihang Mountain, and the other part of the patrol battalion combined with the vast number of local armor guards, from Zhending to Anyang, constantly harass, intercept, and starve the enemy troops southward, cut off their contact with the Daimyo, and delay their movements, so as to ensure that our main force successfully completes the task of annihilating the enemy army." "The specific deployment is: to use the Fan Yang Army and the Pinglu Army to carry out an east-west pincer attack on the main force of Wanyan Tart, and divide and encircle and annihilate it. Use Wei Bo's army to monitor the Daimyo's defenders and prevent them from moving north.