Jeju is located at the junction of four rivers, and there is a Surabaya, a Bunsu, and a Yisu in its territory, as well as a canal called the Jeju River. The river is dense and staggered, which is not conducive to large-scale marching. And, on the top of this neck area, it is Dongping Road. Dongping is mountainous. Under it, there are two large lakes, one Shanyang Lake and one Weishan Lake, covering an area of hundreds of miles.

Yanju is like a cork in its northeast, and after the cork is opened, Jeju, a water system extending in all directions, will be driven by the Song army.

However, the cork in Yanzhou is not easy to pull, and the place where it meets Tai'an is like a wellhead, with a length of about 200 miles and a width of dozens of miles.

Yanzhou is a famous city in the world, it is a big mansion, the city is strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, if you want to attack the fortification, it is difficult to take it without 20,000 or 30,000 people. At present, the Shandong Pacification Division has seven regimental training divisions under its jurisdiction, and the same number of mobilized armor guards are the auxiliary, and the soldiers are well fed, but even if 20,000 or 30,000 people are mobilized, it will be difficult to conquer the city in a short period of time.

And Henan and Shandong, located in the Central Plains of the four wars, both north and south, there are more than 100,000 gold soldiers. After a long delay in Yanzhou, it is inevitable that things will change.

Shi Xiu discovered a small road on the edge of Yanzhou, and gave Song Jun another way of thinking, first cut off the small cities around Yanzhou, turn Yanzhou into a lonely city, and then see how Jin Bing responded.

Wu Geqin led the three regiments of Qizhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou to train the division, and forced the city of Yanzhou, while the three regiments of Qingzhou, Zizhou, and Mizhou swept through Luzhong, went to Surabaya, destroyed Wenshang, and went straight to Jeju from Wenshang to cut off Yanzhou's back road.

Within ten days, ten counties were broken in a row, and only the two big cities of Jeju and Yanzhou remained, and Yanzhou was in danger. Chai Jin had no choice but to send a messenger to Huainan for help.

When Huainan's Wanyan Liduo received the distress letter, he was besieging Luzhou, and when he saw the letter from Yanzhou, he couldn't help but sigh with his forehead: "The opportunity has been lost, and Huainan is difficult to take." ”

If Jeju-Yanzhou were lost, then the Song armies of Shandong and Henan would be connected, and the Jin soldiers would have to make a big circle from Luoyang to get supplies. Wanyan Liduo thought of this, and secretly called it a fluke: "If the Song army deliberately keeps the passage of Yanzhou, and then cuts it off when my Dajin is short of food, it will be even more vicious." ”

Wanyan Liduo is now in a dilemma, and the governor of Luzhou and the pacification of Huainan West Road are getting rid of the danger.

In the past two or three months, Liu Guangshi's Jiangdong and Huaixi Road Xuanfu Division's urgent messages have been endless, and their content is nothing more than ordering him to burn the accumulation and abandon Luzhou. According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, the Huaixi pacification envoy was supposed to be fully responsible for the defense of the road; But because in the extraordinary situation, above the hatred, there is Liu Guangshi as the superior. Qiu Yi refused to carry out Liu Guangshi's erroneous military orders.

In the end, Liu Guangshi sent Zhang Qi to lead thousands of soldiers to Luzhou City, trying to hijack Qiu Yi by force and coerce him to take the lead in escaping. The hatred was furious, and said: "If the generation does not keep the responsibility of the land, I should die for the country!" Kou fled before he arrived, how can people rely on him! ”

Zhang Qi had no choice but to leave. Qiu Yi recruited hundreds of defenders from Luzhou and Shouzhou, plus 2,000 township soldiers, and repelled the invading enemy several times. At the end of May, Liu Lin increased his troops to attack Luzhou, and Wanyan Wushu (Zong Bi) personally succeeded him, and the situation was critical. The hatred thought that he could only fulfill his promise of martyrdom.

Xu Qing and Niu Gao led their troops to Luzhou in time, which made Qiu Yi overjoyed. Yue's army hurriedly finished lunch, leaving some people to defend the city, some people camped in the south of the city, and the rest urgently went out of the city to meet the enemy. Niu Gao ordered his troops to unfurl the "Yue" flag and the "Jingzhong Yue Fei" flag to show the enemy, and the 5,000 enemy cavalry were greatly stunned, they did not expect that the Yuejia army would appear here.

The Song cavalry, which was less than 2,000, spread out in formation, attacked the crowd with a small number of people, and engaged the enemy in short arms, and fought for three rounds before and after, invincible. However, the combined forces of Jin and Qi also retreated and advanced one after another, and did not collapse. Suddenly, Xu Qing fell from his horse, and enemy horsemen swarmed him up, trying to capture or kill him alive.

Niu Gao's eyes were clear, so he rushed to the horse, helped Xu Qing onto his horse, and killed several enemies in a row. He took off his head and shouted: "I'm Niu Gao, I have tasted the four defeats, but I can come to the death!" ”

Niu Gao danced straight through the enemy formation. The knights of the Yue family's army formed an unstoppable iron current, which swept the enemy army to pieces and collapsed. The battle lasted from Shenshi to Youshi, killing a group of enemy generals, capturing more than 80 enemy soldiers alive and capturing more than 80 war horses. Xu Qing and Niu Gao led the army to chase more than 30 Song li before collecting troops and returning to the city.

Qiu Yi praised the courage and good fighting of the Yue family, and wrote a letter to thank Yue Fei, in which he especially commended Niu Gao's merits. Yue Fei believed in Xu Qing, and among the 546 meritorious officers and soldiers who reported to the imperial court, Xu Qing was listed as a miracle merit.

On the day after Xu Qing and Niu Gao's meritorious service, Yue Fei's army came to Luzhou and once again defeated the enemy.

The Jin soldiers and the signing army were unable to cross the river and were defeated in Luzhou, and the supply road along the canal to Hebei was cut off by the Song army, so they could only kill horses for food. The Han signatories were extremely resentful, and some even sent anonymous letters to the Song army, saying that the people had been driven to such a point that if they crossed the river, they would definitely capture the chieftains alive and sacrifice them to the Southern Dynasty. Even the Jurchen army complained bitterly.

So Wanyan Liduo and Wanyan Wushu didn't dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly withdrew their troops. Liu Lin received the order of the Jin army, immediately abandoned all his baggage, traveled day and night, and fled for more than 200 miles in one go.

The Jin soldiers in Huainan retreated, and the Jin soldiers on the left side of Yanzhou and Jeju could not hold out, so they had to surrender to Wu Ge, and Chai Yan fled in disguise. In this way, the Bianliang Song army took advantage of the situation to move south, reaching Xuzhou, directly bordering the sphere of influence of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, Yue Fei has made a table to Bianliang, what should I do?" In the palace of Emperor Kant Zhao Gou, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan, Qin Hui, Han Xiaoxuan and other important ministers discussed the situation of the mutation.

Bianliang had already issued an edict and declared Zhao Gou to be rebellious, but the road was blocked by the Jin people, so Zhao Gou could pretend that he had not received the holy decree. In order to keep the property they occupied in Jiangnan, the powerful people led by Han Xiaoxuan who fled from the north and bought property in Jiangnan played sloppy and pretended not to know Bianliang's holy decree.

But the Huainan Jin soldiers have retreated, between Bianliang and Hangzhou, there is no Jin soldiers to block, if the Bianliang court sent an envoy to arrest Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou really did not have confidence that the ministers around him would follow him to rebel.

What should I do?

In addition to the barrier of distance, the countermeasures that Zhao Gou can take are nothing more than civil and military.

The way of relying on civil officials is to quote scriptures and fight for the law. The throne was arranged down by Emperor Zhao Ji of Daojun, arguing that Zhao Gou was the legitimate heir to the throne, and Bianliang was the puppet emperor.

Relying on military attachés means blocking the road, or holding the war with open fire, or disobeying the yang and yin, and raising troops to resist the order.

But now, among the three major generals in Jiangbei, Yue Fei, who is the most capable of fighting, has gone to Bianliang to the table.