On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month, a group of men and horses came from the south at a gallop. The Jin army along the way went out to block the attack, but they couldn't kill for a while, and the Jin army was defeated and scattered, and they did not dare to pursue. The men and horses rushed to the southern camp like a flying wind, and shouted loudly, saying that it was the reinforcements invited by Zhang Shuye, the governor of the southern province.

Wang Yu asked them to unarm their weapons and come to the city, and called Hu Yangeng and Liu Ziyu to meet them.

Led by a big man, full of Huaiyin: "We are Qin Shiqin from Xuzhou on the East and West Road, and we met 50,000 reinforcements from the South Road on the way to help, so we came together, and Liu Du sent us to rush to the city first and report to the emperor." ”

Hu Yangeng inquired in detail, and the reinforcements came from the east and south. The reinforcements on the South Road were originally more than 100,000 reinforcements gathered by Zhang Shuye last year, but they were dismissed by order of the imperial court, and later Zhang Shuye and his son only brought 15,000 people into Beijing. But after Zhang Shuye was appointed as a privy councillor, he gave an order to his deputy, Gao Gongchun, to gather 100,000 people again.

Gao Gongchun followed the order, and after two months, he finally gathered 50,000 people and some grain and grass, and then sent Liu Ji, the deputy envoy of Jingxi Road, to command these troops to Qinwang, and Qinwang's army advanced to Chenzhou, and found that Chenzhou had been occupied by Jin soldiers, and then transferred to Yingchang, where it joined the local defender Han Tao Peng Xi.

Qin Shiqin is a strong man near Xuzhou on Jingxi Road, and when he saw the hero post of the government, he recruited one hundred and ten heroic young men to join the army, but the host governor Gao Shengfei responded to the story and did not seriously prepare for reinforcements, Qin Shiqin just received a name and some weapons from Gao Shengfei, and set off to Bianliang by himself. He took a hundred or so people, all the way to avoid the Jin soldiers' brigade, specially attacked the Jin soldiers' food collection team and the lone Jin soldiers, bumped into Yingchang all the way, and only about 20 people remained. Adopted by Liu Ji.

They began yesterday evening, and galloped nearly 100 miles in one day and one night. Since this morning, I haven't eaten anything for five or six hours. Each of them was covered in a thick layer of dust, and the various robes and iron armor of their hair were covered with dust. Even the blood that had just been splashed was covered in layers of new dust. They were all gray from top to bottom, men and horses. But their mental state is exuberant, and as soon as they throw away this layer of dust, they reveal a brilliant face and glowing, shining eyes. Finally, he rushed through the blockade of Jin Bing along the road and arrived at Bianliang.

Hu Yangeng counted the men and horses with him, twenty warriors, one was not a lot, twenty war horses, one was not injured, and he couldn't help but let out a heartfelt admiration.

Qin Shiqin took out a wax pill and handed it to Uncle Zhang. After Uncle Zhang looked at it at night, there was no confidential content, it was nothing more than that the reinforcements from Nandao had arrived, waiting for the instructions of the imperial court.

Everyone is silently calculating in their hearts, Zhang Shuye has appointed a total of four governors to ask for help, Hu Zhiru, the governor of Jiangnan Province, has been captured, Tongguan has been closed by Jin soldiers, and it is difficult for reinforcements from the West Province to come, and Zhu Shengfei, the governor of the host province, is grinding, and it seems that the only reinforcements who really count are Liu Ji, who has 50,000 people.

Soon, the news of the arrival of reinforcements spread throughout the city, Bianliang both soldiers and civilians, all felt relieved, when the Jin soldiers besieged the city for the first time, that is, when the reinforcements arrived, the Jin soldiers could not gnaw Bianliang, and had to take 100,000 taels of gold and then withdraw. Now that reinforcements have arrived, it seems that the siege of Bianliang can be lifted.

Wang Shiyong, Wang Xiaodi, Wang Zongwei and others also gathered together and persuaded Zhao Huan to seize the opportunity to meet and convene. "The reinforcements have arrived, and the Jin people are terrified, so they can follow last year's example and push Jin to negotiate peace."

Zhao Huan said: "I have sent King Yun of Yue as a hostage, and I have expressed my sincerity when I am Jinren." ”

In the Jin camp, they were also discussing how to deal with the reinforcements of the Song Dynasty. Wan Yan said without saying: "The soldiers of the Song State, most of them were destroyed by my Dajin in Taiyuan, and the rest are in this Bianliang City, and the newly arrived reinforcements are a civilian army, how can they fight." On the other hand, I have been waiting under Bianliang City for two months, and the grain and grass are not continuous, so we have to find a way to force peace. ”

Liu Yanzong said: "The Song State dared not surrender, it was nothing more than relying on the reinforcements to gather and force my Dajin away, and we might as well use the thunder to break the Song State reinforcements and break the thoughts of the Song Dynasty's monarchs and ministers." ”

"The strategy is good, but 50,000 Song soldiers, I'm afraid that 70,000 soldiers and horses need to be dispatched, and the siege force will be insufficient."

"I still need the help of the Minister of State, please ask the Minister of State to take charge of the siege of Bianliang, and the prince Langjun will go south to attack Yingchang."

It is inconvenient to send people to discuss with Sticky Han, and Sticky Han also used the same method in Taiyuan, Wanyan Lou Room besieged the city, and Wanyan Yinke was specially responsible for sending reinforcements, so he naturally knew the truth. He was in charge of the siege, and his subordinates could enter Bianliang City faster to grab the spoils of war, so he immediately agreed.

On February 1 of the first year of Jingkang, Wang Yu learned of the large-scale transfer of the Jin soldiers, and hurriedly went up to the city tower to check, and found that after Yan was leaving the army that did not belong to him, a team of troops drove out of the camp and went south, so he knew that he was going to attack Liu Ji, and hurriedly reported to the Xuanfu Division, and at the same time suggested that the army should be concentrated, and take advantage of the chaos of the deployment of the Jin soldiers to destroy several camps of the Jin soldiers in the south, so as to break the siege of the Jin soldiers, and it would be better to cooperate with the reinforcements in the future.

Originally, this kind of thing could be decided by the Xuanfu Division in one word, but Zhang Shuye remembered what Zhao Huan said, "If you want to fight, you will be lucky to show it first", which means that Zhao Huan has completely deprived Zhang Shuye of his command. Uncle Zhang had no choice but to report to Zhao Huan, and Zhao Huandao summoned all the ministers and nobles into the palace to discuss.

At this time, the low-key club began to show its power, headed by Dazai He Li, Wang Shiyong, the secretary of the ministry, Wang Xiaodi, the right servant of the Zhongshu, Li Hui, the right secretary of the palace, Wang Zongmao, the prefect of Kaifeng, Xu Bingzhe, and Sun Yu, the Zhongshu Sheren, unanimously opposed the sending of troops. The reasons for their repeated repetition are the same as the old three: they cannot use troops during peace talks, the Jin soldiers must fight bravely and wildly, and they must follow the mistakes of Yao Pingzhong in a hasty use of troops (Yao Pingzhong failed to rob the camp when the Jin soldiers besieged the city for the first time, and he was nowhere to be found).

The reasons cited by the low-key clubs are completely unaware of the current changes in the military situation.

In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a strange creature appeared - the unprofitable lord and pie. It is said that if a minister wants to betray the country, ask for peace, or do something else, he must always have some profit. But the ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, from Geng Nanzhong, Nie Chang, Zhang Bangchang, Li Bangyan to Wang Shiyong, Wang Xiaodi, and Wang Zongmiao, they did not get any benefits in the end. Even Zhang Bangchang would definitely not have thought that he could become the puppet emperor of Chu, and this emperor has not brought him any benefits. If they really wanted the people of Kaifeng to avoid military disasters, Wang Shiyong, Wang Xiaodi, and Wang Zongwei had already "searched" the Kaifeng soldiers several times.

But this group of people is so strange, not for fame, not for profit, not for the promotion of democracy, but for the insistence on peace.

Zhao Huan was tired of listening to the opinions of the Lord and the faction, and knew in his heart that even if he wanted to make peace, he had to rely on reinforcements from outside the city. After listening carefully to Zhang Shuye's suggestion, he asked Wang Yu, Zhe Yanzhi and others for their opinions, and finally Zhao Huan decided to let Zhe Yanzhi rectify the soldiers and horses and rob the camp.

Why don't you give this task to Wang Yu? Because Wang Yu was widely praised by the people for his deeds of defending the city in Taiyuan, Longde, and south of Bianliang, "the merit has been prosperous, and the great achievement of breaking the enemy is not suitable to go out again." ”

When Zhi Yan got the task of robbing the camp, he first remembered the failure of Yao Pingzhong's robbery of the camp last year, so he must "hold on to it". As soon as he held on to it, things were delayed.

On February 2, I saw the dust rising from the head of Bianliang City, and there was a faint sound of killing. In the evening, I saw the Jin soldiers drawing military horses from all sides of the siege of Bianliang.

Hu Yangeng was anxious and asked Uncle Zhang for an order, but Uncle Zhang didn't dare to move. asked Song Jiang if Wu Yong had a way to bypass the emperor's ban, Wu Yong was only clever, but he was not bold, and he didn't dare to speak.

Hu Yangeng went to Wang Yu again to ask for battle: "I only said that the south gate of the Jin soldiers attacked the city." ”

Wang Yu said: "If you want to break the golden camp, you will say that you will escort the messenger out of the city." ”

Hu Yangeng greeted Qiu Muling Zhonglian, Lulu Guleping, Puliu Ru Bosheng and others, and brought up 20,000 Shenwu Southern Army, although he was transferred to Xuanfu Division to bear it, but Qiu Muling Zhonglian and others controlled the army well, and the order was prohibited.

First of all, Lu Zhishen, Yang Kefa and other brave generals fought hard for a while, opened the wall of the Jin barracks, and Lulu Gu Leping led the cavalry to rush in, and walked through the camp wantonly, making the Jin camp a big mess, and then the Song army brigade rushed in. The Jin soldiers in the south were really transferred to attack Liu Ji, and the army that Sticky Han came to change the defense was not yet in place, Hu Yangeng led people to kill in the battle, and Sticky Han did not dare to mobilize the other three Jin soldiers to help, because he was afraid that the Song soldiers would also take advantage of the weakness in the other three sides.

With 50,000 or 60,000 people of the Western Route Army, Sticky Han wanted to surround Bianliang, and the command of the troops was overstretched. From the captives, it was learned that Muhan sent 50,000 people to guard Tongguan, and after deducting the 40,000 Jin soldiers who remained in Hedong, the strength of Muhan was less than 60,000.

Hu Yangeng also saw this, and couldn't help but regret in his heart, if the other three sides could attack at the same time, they might be able to defeat the sticky Han's Western Route Army.

The Shenwu Southern Army completely destroyed the southern encirclement of the Jin soldiers, and Qin Shiqin led his entourage to Yingchang to inquire about the situation. On the one hand, because of the reason for escorting the messenger, he wanted to give an explanation to the official family, and on the other hand, he really needed to understand Liu Ji's situation.

The next morning, I still saw the sound of killing in the direction of Yingchang. Hu Yangeng had to go and ask to see Zhang Shuye again, asking to concentrate his troops and break the lock-up joint camp on the remaining three sides of the Jin soldiers as soon as possible before Yan Yan left and did not return, otherwise Liu Ji's 50,000 reinforcements would not last for a few days, and the blood of these 50,000 people would not be shed in vain.

Uncle Zhang said: "The official family just doesn't allow it." "Zhang Shuye is a civil official of the Song Dynasty after all, although he has a responsible mind, he will never disobey the emperor's will.

Although Zhang Shuye couldn't give an order, Wu Ge, the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the Shenwu Eastern Army, came to find Huyan Geng and wanted to join forces with him to attack the joint camp in the east.

Hu Yangeng asked, "Then what is the reason?" Thou shalt not disobey the will. ”

Wu Ge said: "Reason? You can think while fighting. ”