The Huaixi military mutiny suddenly disrupted the overall plan of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Now, Huaibei has fallen into the hands of Jin Bing.

Half of the Huaixi Army defected, and half was defeated, leaving the entire Huaixi region completely empty of defense.

The ripple effects are far more than that.

Without Huaibei containment, Yang Yizhong, who guarded the city of Haozhou in Huaidong, directly became isolated and helpless.

Now, Yang Yizhong has only two ways to go, either to immediately lead his troops to retreat and abandon Haozhou City, so that he can still retain the tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands.

Either that, it is to defend Haozhou City and fight the last soldier, and finally Haozhou City is still captured, and Huaidong also falls into the hands of Liu Yu.

At the same time, if Huaidong was lost, Yangzhou would bear the brunt of the battle and become the front line of the Song-Jin war.

After Lin Yuan learned the news, he suddenly became worried about Allure Dance.

With the 100,000 soldiers and horses he gifted, Allure Dance is recovering the lost territory in Yangzhou Mansion, almost occupying the land of the four counties, which is about the same size as Lin Yuan's territory.

Once Huaidong is lost, the Jin soldiers will take advantage of the situation to move south, and the territory of Allure Dance may be lost again.

However, things are not without any turnaround.

Lin Yuan felt that if Zhao Gou immediately transferred the Han Shizhong Department of Kangfu and Lu Yihao's Department of Yangzhou Mansion to the north to reinforce Yang Yizhong in Haozhou, and at the same time, ordered Zhang Junbu in Luzhou City to feint to contain Yan Zongwang's 200,000 army, maybe he could protect the Huaidong Theater.

Now, it's up to Zhao Gou to make a decision.

What is surprising is that at this critical moment, Zhao Gou actually only thinks about acting.

On June 29, news came from Lin'an City.

Zhao Gou held a grand ceremony in Lin'an, and in front of the people of the city, staged a drama of Zhang Bangchang's return to power.

Zhang Bangchang returned to power, and from a political point of view, he consolidated Zhao Gou's throne and clarified that Zhao Gou's throne was 'right'.

At the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty also included all the territory of the pseudo-Chu into the territory.

From Kaifeng Mansion and Yingtian Mansion to Yingzhou and Yuncheng in the south.

The huge territory of the Central Plains was all included in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After Lin Yuan knew, he just shook his head.

The pseudo-Chu has been disbanded by Wanyan Zongbi, and now Kaifeng and other Central Plains regions are all under the direct jurisdiction of the Jurchens.

If the Jurchens eat it in their mouths, will they still spit it it out for you?

If you want to recover the territory of the Central Plains, there is only one way, and that is the Northern Expedition.

It is useless to engage in all these political gimmicks.

And what made Lin Yuan even more speechless was still to come.

After Zhang Bangchang returned to power, Zhao Gou pardoned him for all his crimes and reappointed him.

However, Zhang Bangchang died the next day.

The imperial court publicized that Zhang Bangchang was loyal to the Song family, but because he was coerced by Jin Bing to become the emperor, he died of shame and indignation.

Don't be ashamed early or late, but only start to be ashamed after returning to power?

Anyone with a bit of a brain understands what this is all about.

For a time, rumors spread in the market, and the people talked about it below.

The point is that Zhao Gou did this, which was tantamount to cutting off the way of those generals who wanted to rejoin the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Huaidong War became more and more tragic.

Puppet Qi Liu Yu, leading 300,000 puppet Qi troops, frantically attacked Haozhou City.

Haozhou City is in an emergency!

Li Gang, Cheng Min, Zhu Shengfei and others in the main battle faction in the imperial court asked for war one after another.

It's just that the requests of these generals were rejected by Zhao Gou, because the forbidden army is the army guarding Lin'an City, and they can't act rashly.

However, Zhao Gou's approach was to let Yue Fei, who was far away in Jinghu to quell the rebellion, lead the army to support Yang Yizhong in Haozhou City.

Lin Yuan was shocked again.

Zhao Gou overlooked one thing, Wanyan Zongwang defeated Huaibei, and it was bound to surround Luzhou City, and the teleportation array of Luzhou City would be invalid at that time.

If Yue Fei wanted reinforcements, he could only start from Xiangyang City, pass through the Central Plains region under the jurisdiction of Wan Yan Zongbi, enter Huaixi, and then bypass Wan Yan Zongbi's army and arrive at Haozhou City.

This level of difficulty is no less than a 25,000-mile long march.

Even if Yue Fei led the army to Haozhou, could Yang Yizhong hold out until then?

However, Yue Fei was extremely loyal, so he could only bite the bullet.

On July 2, Yue Fei hastily transferred back 8,000 heavy horses from Jiangling City, entered the territory of Nanyang, and began to move east.

Along the way, he must also beware of Wanyan Zongbi in Kaifeng, who suddenly led his army south to intercept and kill.

That's why he chose the most elite cavalry unit in the Yue family's army.

As soon as Yue Fei left, Zhong Chu's forces got a respite.

They started working again.

Yang Qi personally led 100,000 sailors to attack the entrance of East Dongting Lake, trying to enter Yunmengze.

It's a pity that Lin Yuan's commander of the water division, Liu Renliang, expected the enemy first, and had already concentrated the four battalions of the water division at the entrance of East Dongting Lake long before him.

A large-scale water war broke out directly between the two sides.

Yang Qi's naval division had an advantage in numbers, and the number of warships was 4 times that of Lin Yuan.

However, Lin Yuan's naval division, the battleships were more advanced, and the rate of firearms equipment was greater.

The two sides fought fiercely, and Lin Yuanshui still had a slight upper hand.

Yang Mi lost part of the fleet and was forced back to Dongting Lake.

If one plan fails, they will use a second plan.

Zhong Ziang, the prince of Zhong Chu, went to Dahong Mountain in person and began to provoke the green forest heroes in Dahong Mountain to become enemies of Lin Yuan.

Dahong Mountain, also known as Green Forest Mountain, starts from Suizhou in the north, connects Yunmengze in the east, borders Yingzhou in the west, and reaches Jiangling in the south, which is a mountain range from northwest to southeast.

Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty in history, was born here.

The term "Green Forest Hero" also originates from this.

This mountain range is long and narrow as a whole, 1,600 miles long and 300 miles wide, and the area is equivalent to 2 Suizhou.

However, because the green forests and mountains are full of high mountains and ancient trees, it is difficult to cultivate and plant, so it is difficult for people to live here.

However, during the war years, many people still fled here.

When Zhuge Liang first conquered Yingzhou, Yingzhou had a population of less than 100,000.

A state with an area equivalent to 30 counties has only 100,000 people, why?

Because a large number of people in Yingzhou, fleeing the war, fled into the green forests and mountains.

There are also a large number of people in the surrounding Gangneung and Qianjiang.

With so many people in so many states and counties, the number of people who have taken refuge in the green forests and mountains is no less than 5 million.

After Zhuge Liang governed Yingzhou, he discovered this problem, so he introduced a series of policies to encourage the people in the green forest and mountains to return to Yingzhou.

After four months of hard work, Yingzhou's population grew from 100,000 to 700,000.

Lin Yuan has long been eyeing the treasure land of Green Forest Mountain.

Historically, this was not only the land of Emperor Guangwu's Longxing, but also a Jiajing Emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

There are countless famous ministers and fierce generals, and there are countless famous scholars.

This is a blessed land.

However, Lin Yuan cares more about the millions of people in the green forest and mountains, as well as a large number of resources.

Many of the trees in the green forests and mountains are thousands of years old, tall and large, whether it is to build warships or various equipment, they are rare.

Moreover, there are abundant mineral deposits in the green forest mountains, not only iron ore, but also copper ore, silver ore, gold ore, tin ore, and rare metal ores like tungsten.

Taking this place is equivalent to adding a natural treasure trove.

However, if you want to take this place, you will have to work hard.

In the Green Forest Mountain, an NPC armed force has been refreshed, the Green Forest Hero.

The heroes of the green forest are more advanced than bandits and water thieves, and their combat power is comparable to that of the regular army, but they are undisciplined, somewhat similar to rangers.

Provoked by Zhong Ziang, the green forest heroes in the Dahong Mountains aimed their spearheads at Lin Yuan and began to attack in all directions, plundering the nearby villages of Suizhou, Yunmengze, and Yingzhou, robbing food and population.

In this case, Lin Yuan must not bear it!