Yue Fei pondered for a long time and sighed: "King Kang is disloyal, but I must not be unjust." We must not allow the gold thieves to poison the people. ”

He deployed half of his troops for the defense of the Xianghan area, ordered Xu Qing and Niu Gao to lead more than 2,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and he and Li Shan and other generals led a large army as a follow-up to aid Huaixi.

"Yue Fei turned to Huaixi and wrote a letter requesting a postponement of the recovery of Luoyang?" Huyan. Geng looked at the letter handed to him by Uncle Zhang, and was speechless for a while, alas, why is Yue Pengju so stupid?

The Huainan offensive of the Jin soldiers brought peace to the direct rule of Bianliang, now collectively known as the Northern Six Routes.

Sitting in the Jinluan Palace, he gave the order to carry it out. Although Hu Yangeng is still standing on the Jinluan Hall now, it does not prevent him from having a chair in the political hall and the Privy Council, sitting and giving orders.

At present, the political hall and the Privy Council are each busy with a major event: the political hall will comprehensively protect the six roads in the north, and formally establish a four-level organizational system of road-state-county-yi, and the lower part of the city is divided into three levels: the capital baojia, jia, and bao, with the backbone of the autonomous mobilization system.

The Privy Council reorganized all the Song armies on the six northern routes, in addition to retaining the standing forbidden army of the nine towns, the road had the forbidden army training division, the state had the Xiang Corps training division, the county had a patrol battalion, and the city set up a bow and arrow club.

However, the order just issued by the Privy Council was to be commanded by Wu Ge, the envoy of Dongye, to recover Jeju, Heungin and other places, eliminate the threat to the east of Bianliang, and connect Shandong with the eastern part of Henan.

Wu Ge received the order and smiled: "That marshal is unlucky." ”

The marshal refers to the current occupier of Jeju - Chai Jin, known as the Chai Jin of the Little Whirlwind.

At the beginning, Chai Jin united with Lu Junyi and Zhujiazhuang to make a rebellion on Hebei East Road, and after being extinguished by Hu Yangeng, in view of the fact that he was a state guest of the Great Song Dynasty, Hu Yangeng did not kill him, but deprived him of all his land in Hebei and sent him to Jinan.

Liu Yu of Jinan invested in gold, and there was no clan at hand, so he took Chai Jin, a state guest, and dedicated it to Jin Guo. Liu Yu assisted the Duchy of Song established by Duke Dude, and rewarding state guests like Chai Jin became a way to show the legitimacy of the regime.

In this way, Chai Jin changed from a state guest to a "lord". After the Jin soldiers invaded Shandong, they gave Jeju to Chai Jin.

Chai Jin was coerced by Liu Yu at the beginning, and he was still a little depressed, but after thinking about it: "The old Zhao family took the country from their own hands, but did not give any actual compensation, and Hu Yangeng even took the land of the Chai family in Hebei. ”

So, Chai Jin came to be the lord of Jeju City with peace of mind.

Wu Ge ridiculed Chai Jin's title of marshal, and Zhao Bozhen heard the song and knew Yayi, "Go to Tai'an and take Jeju?" ”

"It's Jeju."

Jeju is located on the border with Taean and is located in the southwest of Taean. To the north is Dongping Province, and to the north is Dongchang Province. Surabaya, Qufu, Yanju, Renseong, Peixian and other places are under the jurisdiction of Jeju Prefecture.

Zhao Bozhen groaned and said: This strategy has two advantages, but also two disadvantages.

What are the benefits?

However, there is no river between Jeju and Taean, which is difficult to cross, which is conducive to the march of our army. This is one of them.

Second, Jeju is very important as a key point for the north-south transfer. Its place is connected to the river and Huai in the south, and the river and Ji in the north. If this place can be taken, then our army can go south to Xuzhou; To the southwest, it can enter Henan; To the northwest, it can echo with the east of the river. If it is closed, it is the lock key, and if it is opened, it is cleared. Offensive and defensible.

It is for the East to have something to do, and it will fight for Jeju. Previously, Wanyan slandered Liduo to commit my Shandong, and he also took Jeju first. Therefore, if our army wants to take advantage of the situation to counterattack now, Jeju will inevitably be contested.

As Hong Ji-hoon analyzed, Jeju's strategic position is very important. If Wu Ge can recover Jeju, then it will be connected with Henan and Shaanxi in the east-west direction, and follow Jishui to the Grand Canal vertically, transforming from a purely passive defense to an offensive and defensible one. Wu Ge's face sank like water, his voice did not move, and asked: What are the disadvantages?

There is no big river between Jeju and Taean, but on the border of the southeast of Jeju, there is a Daeze, Sanyang Lake. If our army wants to enter Jeju, there is only one way to go, and that is Yanju on the banks of the Surabaya River and Renseong on the north side of Shanyang Lake.

Although Shi Xiu heard the information, saying that the Jin soldiers did not have many troops in Yanzhou, but there were also 10,000 people with the signing army.

It is expected that the gold thieves will definitely have heavy troops stationed in these two places, and the precautions will definitely be very strict. Our army has no tricks to offer, and must only be hard-hitting. If we can't attack quickly and fight for a long time, when the gold thieves come back from Huainan and the follow-up reinforcements arrive, then our army is afraid that it will inevitably work in vain, and there will be a situation where the teachers are paid and the divisions are useless.

This is one of the drawbacks. What about the second disadvantage?

Second, Jeju is bordered by Dongpyeong-province to the north, Henan province to the south, and Heungin province to the west. These places are now under the control of the Jin soldiers. Even if our army can win a quick victory, without waiting for the Jin soldiers to react, without waiting for his reinforcements from all over the country to arrive, our army has already captured Jeju very smoothly, but it is easy to fight, and the gold thieves in the south and Huainan are connected in a straight line, and it is possible to fight a decisive battle in Xuzhou.

"Decisive battle in Xu Shou?" Wu Ge pondered for a long time, "Jeju is connected to the canal, which is to affect the whole body, since the Privy Council has an order to attack Jeju, the marching division must have expected the overall situation." ”

Then, Wu Ge changed his words: "But I want to give a reply to the Privy Council to explain our consideration of Xuzhou." ”

The Shandong garrison is not among the nine towns of Fusi, but also participated in the reorganization of the six northern roads, roughly with the Shandong Forbidden Army Training Division (referred to as the box) as the trump card, gathering Jinan, Zizhou, Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, Mizhou six Xiang Corps training division of the backbone, to protect the mobilization of the army to fill, a total of 20,000 main forces, 20,000 auxiliary armor soldiers in Tai'an.

The time slowly came to May, outside the city of Tai'an, the distant mountains are continuous, the barracks are continuous, the flags are like forests, and the cars are like cities.

"Although only two hundred and fifty-six partial vans have been allocated for the forbidden army, it is not easy in such a short time."

Wu Ge, Zhu Tong Suo Chao and others stood on the camp wall, looking to the west, and a team of scouts gradually moved away on the vast and boundless field. Shi Xiu, who led the scout cavalry to set off, stood in front of the garrison army, raised his head, and saw the red sun hanging high; Looking back, see the city standing. Countless axes loom in the middle. He couldn't help but hold his hand, his blood boiled, and he thought in his heart: whether it is a victory or a defeat, it will be seen in a few days!

On the sixth day, the second shipment arrived.

On the seventh day, Zhao Guo arrived, and the third batch of baggage arrived.

On the eighth day, the fourth batch of baggage arrived.

On the 10th, the fifth batch of baggage arrived.

On the night that the fifth batch of baggage arrived, a force of several thousand men quietly drove out of Tai'an.