As the last straw for Li Yu and his small court in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Yun, an underground ally, is actually quite an ally. From the beginning of the build-up of the Southern Expeditionary Army, he had already begun to make various preparations. When the war in Jiangnan intensified, Li Yun's preparations became more and more sufficient. Especially in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, as the time node of the army agreed with Li Yu is getting closer and closer, Li Yun's preparations are also close to completion, just waiting for the main force of the Southern Expeditionary Army to gather under Jinling City, Wang Kunjun, Xu Shao'an and other Beiping troops in the capital will focus all their attention on how to capture Jinling City, and when the attention to the local situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is reduced, the unexpected, unprepared troops into the king of Beijing Qin, will kill those ministers and thieves, so that the officials will no longer be puppets like wood carvings and clay sculptures.

However, as the time entered the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the punitive artillery bombardment of Jurong by the Southern Expeditionary Army first turned this Jiangnan county into a ruin, showing the real strong side of the Southern Expeditionary Army or the Beiping Army in front of the world. Then, as the last force in the south of the Yangtze River, more than 100,000 troops and horses of the Jiangnan Metropolitan Army were almost wiped out on the Wuhu River, and Jinling's foreign aid was completely cut off.

After all, although this Li Yun is as hot as fire and straightforward, he is not a stupid person. At the beginning, the reason why he promised Li Yu to echo the north and south and copy the back road of the southern expeditionary army was more that he hoped to take the opportunity of the main force of the Beiping army to fall into the south of the Yangtze River to raise troops, and called on those who were interested in the Chai royal family to respond to the Jiedu envoys and assassin Shi Qunqun, take the capital in one fell swoop, expel the Beiping army, and return to the government of the Great Zhou officials, and never thought of confronting the Beiping army with his own strength - in fact, Li Yunda planned a surprise attack at the beginning, raiding the Beiping army in Kaifeng City to stay behind the soldiers and horses, and raiding the Beiping Army ordnance production workshop outside Kaifeng City to cut off the supply of Beiping military firearms. The raid on the quarry rock pontoon bridge cut off the logistical supply of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and made use of surprise and unpreparedness to make up for its disadvantage in strength, and relied on the unstable morale of the Southern Expeditionary Army and the unadaptability of the water and soil to weaken its combat capability, so as to win in danger.

Moreover, the conditions agreed between Li Yun and Li Yu at the beginning were that Jiangnan would use his own strength to drag the southern expeditionary army, so that it could not return to Kaifeng in time, so that his side could gather an alliance, raid the capital, and eliminate the traitor. Otherwise, with the strength of only 50,000 soldiers and horses in his own hands, and he can only bring about 35,000 troops to Kaifeng at most, excluding the people left behind, and the Jiangnan Army cannot hold back the main force of the Southern Expeditionary Army, so that the latter has the spare strength to send men and horses back to help in a short time, then even if he can respond to all calls and gather the soldiers of King Qin from all over the country to take Kaifeng together, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold it at all - Li Yu does not think that in the face of the powerful firearms of the Beiping Army, Kaifeng City can be much more than Jurong City. As a result, when the traitor was not eliminated, he did not harm himself, other Jiedu who were loyal to the Chai family, and many soldiers and generals under his command, and at the same time put the official family and the entire royal family in danger.

Today, although the Southern Expeditionary Army has not yet occupied Jinling, judging from the situation in Jurong County, the capture of Jinling by the Southern Expeditionary Army is by no means an impossible task. On the contrary, the local gentry and ordinary people and even civil and military officials who had just experienced the great changes in Jurong County knew the strength of the Southern Expeditionary Army or the Beiping Army, and no one was willing to work hard for Li Yu and the small court in the south of the Yangtze River. Although it was not clear for a while what the Southern Expeditionary Army had been putting this piece of fat in front of them and not eating it, it was certain that it was not because they couldn't defeat the city. At this time, if you start an incident yourself, on the one hand, it will prompt the Southern Expeditionary Army to kill the killer, take Jinling City as quickly as possible, and turn around to clean up yourself. On the other hand, fearing the strong strength of the Beiping Army just displayed, the vast majority of the Great Zhou's Jiedu envoys and assassins will protect themselves wisely, and watch themselves as "stunned youths" and "eager vanguards" fighting to the death with the Beiping Army with the attitude of watching from the wall, and then pick peaches or show loyalty after the dust settles, thinking that they will strive for the greatest interests.

In the face of such an unfavorable situation, Li Yun, who was originally full of fighting spirit and hoped to make a difference, couldn't help but hesitate in his heart, and because of this hesitation in his heart, coupled with his son Li Shoujie and some other subordinates and staff who did not approve of his army, they took the opportunity to dissuade him, and delayed the preparations for the uprising, and finally drove away the secret liaison officials sent by Li Yu in the local area, forbade the subsequent waves of envoys sent by the other party to enter the country, and completely gave up his plan. Li Yu and the last life-saving straw of the small court in Jiangnan were also snatched away by Li Yun's hesitation and breach of promise.

Li Yun hesitated because of the change in the situation, and because of his hesitation, Qin Wang Ji, who had been planning for several months, was stillborn, and became the despicable villain who was scolded by Li Yu for not being trustworthy and not keeping his promises. And the "Dark Feather" Luzhou Branch (Luzhou Branch of the Ministry of Intelligence) went up to the hall master and down to the ordinary detectives, but after being attracted by the abnormal movement of the Zhaoyi Army's soldiers and horses, they did not hesitate at all. After receiving the news from the secret agent stationed in Jiedu Mansion that Li Yun had recently been in close contact with the Jiangnan envoy and seemed to have reached a secret agreement with the other party and intended to plot against him, he immediately mobilized all the forces he could mobilize to confirm the news. After being confirmed by multiple information channels, the head of the branch immediately sent a large number of capable agents to go deep into all parts of the Zhaoyi Army to collect the true evidence that Li Yun had secretly communicated with Jiang Nan and Li Yu and colluded with each other with the intention of doing the rebellious thing against the imperial court, and submitted these conclusive evidence to his superior, Liang Ziyue, the director of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, who was in Kaifeng City, as soon as possible.

Because when Li Chongjin rebelled, the first person who wanted to contact and join forces was Li Yun. Therefore, after receiving the report of the "Dark Feather" Luzhou Branch (Luzhou Branch of the Intelligence Department) about Li Yun's collusion with Jiangnan and his intention to rebel, Liang Ziyue was not only not surprised, but felt relieved. After all, although Li Chongjin's plan to contact Li Yun to raise troops together was stranded because Zhai Shouxun, who sent the letter, wanted to go to the imperial court, it was uncertain for a while whether Li Yun would rebel against the imperial court like in his previous life. can put such an uncertain factor that only has Da Zhou in his heart, only Chai Guan's family, and at the same time holds a large army, Liang Ziyue is not very down-to-earth in his heart. Although it is impossible to really shake the foundation of the Beiping Army with Li Yun's strength, as long as there is a rebellion, there will be social turmoil, it will cause the people to suffer, and it will hinder the recuperation of this land that has experienced hundreds of years of war, and this is absolutely unacceptable to the crossing team that wants to create a peaceful and prosperous era and restore the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence has never relaxed its monitoring of the Zhaoyi Army and Li Yun, just waiting for the other party to be unbearable and lonely, and expose his fox tail - this is also the reason why the "Dark Feather" Luzhou Branch (Luzhou Branch of the Ministry of Intelligence) was able to discover Li Yun's abnormal movements in time. Now that he has obtained conclusive evidence that Li Yun colluded with Jiangnan and plotted against him, how can Liang Ziyue not breathe a sigh of relief.

On the 29th day of June in the lunar calendar of the second year of Jianlong, the investigation report on Li Yun's collusion with Jiangnan and his plot was sent to Wang Kunjun, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expeditionary Army in Jinling City.