The land of Lianghuai was the economic lifeline of the Song Dynasty and the source of food.

Once the two Huai were defeated, Zhao Shuo had little hope of turning the tables after Song Huizong usurped the throne.

Fortunately, the occupation of the northwest side also relieved the pressure on the Great Song Dynasty and Huai.

Wanyan Sosuke did not dare to continue south.

It's just that Zhao Shuo hasn't received news from Sticky Han for several days.

Sticky Han must have escaped.

It's just not known where he'll flee to.

All in all, Sticky Han will certainly not be in the northwest of the Song Dynasty.

Because he went from a 150,000-strong army when he went south to now only a few hundred cavalry escorts.

What qualifications does he have to support Yan Fu?

In Zhao Shuo's opinion, there is a high probability that Sticky Han will return to the Five Kingdoms City to bear the guilt of Jing and then be relieved of his title of King of the South.

In addition, Zhao Shuo expected that the court of the Dingjin Kingdom would inevitably trigger a political struggle between the Song Dynasty and peace talks again due to the return of Mu Han to the north.

Therefore, there will inevitably be a chaotic situation in the Five Kingdoms City.

This is all good news for Zhao Shuo.

This series of Song-Jin battles.

What made Zhao Shuo even more pleased was that there was a famous general in the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty.

He is Wu Jue!

Wu Jue was a military general with the most actual combat achievements and the most fierce battles in the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty.

It's just that this man is not good at monopolizing his own fame.

did not meet Bole like Zong Ze and Li Gang like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.

So he was not included in the four generals of ZTE.

But in Zhao Shuo's heart, Wu Jue is the representative of the three young generals of the Great Song Dynasty.

Now Wu Jue has recovered the Taiyuan military town.

Directly locked the idea of Sticky Han returning to his lair.

But Wu Jue only had the 70,000 people that Chen Xinghan gave him at the beginning.

Thirty thousand of them were responsible for transporting grain, grass and ordnance over long distances.

As a result, less than 40,000 soldiers were used in the war.

It is also a very troublesome thing to defend the Taiyuan military town with 40,000 people.

Zhao Shuo didn't want the tragedy of the small race to happen again.

So he still had to methodically aid Taiyuan Military Town.

to help Wu Jue completely hold Taiyuan in the hands of the Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shuo immediately ordered the defenders guarding Luzhou City to go north to support Wu Jue.

At the same time, Zhao Shuo drafted a secret order and asked Li Huai to arrange for someone to be sent to Beijing.

In the evening of the next day, after seeing His Majesty's secret order, Zong Ze immediately wrote a letter and secretly sent it to a place that seemed very inconspicuous at this stage: Fucheng.

Yue Fei had 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.

The 5,000 cavalrymen were all well-equipped tiger and leopard cavalry.

The armed war horses were all Jinren's Western Regions BMWs before.

Most of them can travel 200 miles a day.

In addition, the elite of the Yue family army also replaced the armor captured on the battlefield.

After rendering with paint, it has the color of the Ming light armor of the Song Dynasty.

It is also easier to distinguish friend and foe on the battlefield.

Yue Fei came to inspect the army early this morning.

He is going to do a big job here in Fucheng.

Yue Fei's night sentry had obtained accurate information from the area occupied by the Jin army.

Liu Chengru's troops under Wanyan Zongfu were approaching Gaomi in Shandong.

Starting from the Tai'an Mansion where Wanyan Zongfu is currently stationed, it is necessary to enter Gaomi.

passed through Fucheng, where Yue Fei was stationed.

But Yue Fei did not plan to use troops in Fucheng, but to take the initiative to attack.

Pass through the Hexi Military Town guarded by Li Gang (the Hexi Military Town at this stage, the actual control of the Song Dynasty is only Baoding and Cheng'an County), and go south to intercept Liu Chengru!

Liu Chengru is a general under Wanyan Zongfu.

He was also the most trusted military general in the city of the Five Kingdoms after Song Chen surrendered to the Jin State.

Even if Lu Zhaoyang licks a dog like sticky.

There is also no access to the military jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Jin.

But Liu Chengru can.

One can imagine how transcendent his position is in the minds of the capitulationists.

This time, Yue Fei has prepared a gift package for Liu Chengru to return to the furnace and rebuild!

It is precisely because Yue Fei occupies Fucheng.

And Liu Chengru was worried that if the matter was exposed, he would be squeezed out by the Jin court.

Therefore, Liu Chengru simply reported the good news but not the bad news.

So much so that the entire Jin army thought that the strategic fulcrum of Fucheng was still firmly in the hands of the Jin army.

It's just that Liu Chengru didn't know that Wanyan Zongfu's strategic decision in Hedong of the Great Song Dynasty was precisely because of his deception, and there would be a huge change.

Liu Chengru himself is still in Gaomi City, conniving at his subordinates to rob the local people's homes.

Within the next two days.

Yue Fei led 3,000 cavalrymen equipped with the iron armor and war horses of the Jin Army to cross the Yellow River at night and approach Gaomi.

In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Chengru didn't know that the other Song Dynasty army also followed Yue Fei's rhythm to the boundary of Gaomi City.

There are two Song Dynasty armies, one is Yue Fei, and the other is Niu Gao.

Yue Fei arrived in the north of Gaomi City and sent Zhang Xian to spy on information near Liu Chengru's military town.

The sentinels of Liu Chengru's department had already seen the three hundred vanguard sentinels under Zhang Xian's command.

But they didn't take it seriously, and they didn't inform Liu Chengru.

Because Zhang Xian's 300 people were all dressed in the armor of the Jin Army's iron cavalry.

There is only one unknown detail, that is, after the end of the battle begins, the Yue family army will remove the armband on the left arm, thus revealing the close-fitting white uniform.

In addition, Liu Chengru's army, unlike the armies of Muhan and Jin Wushu, is almost all Jurchen.

Liu Chengru's subordinates can be said to be a ragtag army.

There were Khitans in the Jin army, and there were also a small number of Jurchens.

In addition, the Song Dynasty troops who surrendered to him along the way.

Therefore, they let Zhang Xian's three hundred soldiers easily probe around the barracks.

Even at night, Zhang Xian personally led two cavalrymen to copy a mouthful of half-baked Jin Guo colloquial language and mixed into Gaomi City to eat and drink.

By the way, I investigated the situation in Gaomi City.

At the third watch, Zhang Xian returned to the camp of Yue's army and relayed the information he had spied on to Yue Fei.

To be exact, Liu Chengru's combat troops in Gaomi City were only 8,000 people.

The actual number of commanders was 30,000.

Most of them were soldiers transporting food and grass.

There are also more than a thousand men.

Yue Fei was a little incredulous when he first learned this information.

Because just over half a month ago, when Liu Chengru led the army to attack Fucheng, there were still 20,000 main troops under his command.

Now there are less than eight thousand left.

The main thing is that Wanyan Sosuke took away 10,000 troops.

During this time, Wanyan Zongfu and Song Huizong, the veteran emperor of the Song Dynasty, were handing over many matters related to the surrender of the Song Dynasty.

For the dozen or so cities that Song Huizong gave up, it was necessary for Wanyan Zongfu to send troops to station.

Although he had a large number of soldiers and horses in his headquarters, they became weak when they were scattered into the city.

Therefore, Wanyan Zongfu could only transfer troops from Liu Chengru's side.

And Liu Chengru, who stayed in Gaomi City, is now given another mission by Wanyan Zongfu.