Zhenjiang Mansion, close to Jiankang, north of the Yangtze River, is the most important garrison of the Song army in the south of the Yangtze River in addition to Jiankang.

Xu Xian took Yue Lin and Xin Qijian to Zhenjiang Mansion on this day and inspected the defense of the riverside.

"Do you think that if the Tartars break through Yangzhou City and go all the way south, can we resist the Tartars' army based on this line of Zhenjiang?"

Xu Xian looked at the river at this time and couldn't help but ask the two of them.

"Prime Minister Xu, why are you asking like this?"

"Could it be that it is true that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intends to give up Yangzhou and let Liu Qi retreat to Zhenjiang as rumored in the past few days?"

Yue Lin said suddenly at this time.

"If you give up Yangzhou at such a time, doesn't that mean you have to let the Tartar sailors go south?"

"If the Tartar sailor goes south to the Yangtze River, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Xin Qiji also showed a worried expression.

"Of course I know the consequences are serious!"

"But do you know the news that the Jin Guoshui Division has begun to move south from Haizhou and is preparing to make a detour to attack Lin'an?"

"If we concentrate the water division on the canal at this time, then Lin'an will probably be in danger!"

"And now that the Tartar army is close to encircling Yangzhou on three sides, if we want to protect Yangzhou, we have to cross this river far away, and the supply cost is too difficult!"

"So when I got this news from His Royal Highness, I discussed it with His Royal Highness and Taishi Zhao Kangbo, and the three of us finally decided that in order to keep the capital Lin'an, I could only give up Yangzhou for the time being!"

Xu Xian explained to the two.

"If we want to give up Yangzhou, then we can't give up easily!"

"I wonder if Prime Minister Xu and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can make proper arrangements?"

Xin Qiji asked.

"I have asked Liu Qi to set up an ambush along the way on the way back from the army, and it is not easy for the Tartars to easily take all the places in Jiangbei, including Yangzhou!"

"Now I can only hope that Ye Shilang will bring back good news from the Tartars as soon as possible!"

Xu Xian certainly had expectations for Ye Yiwen's trip to Jinguo.

"Is it Xin Zhangshu ahead?"

"Is it Xin Zhangshu?"

At this moment, suddenly a fishing boat rowed over from the center of the river, only to hear someone on the boat asking loudly.

"Xin Zhangshu?"

"Are you calling Brother Xin?"

Xu Xian looked curious at this time.

"Prime Minister Xu, it did come to me!"

Xin Qiji hurriedly responded to Xu Xian.

"I'm here... I'm here! ”

Then he loudly responded to the people on the boat in the river.

"I really don't hide it from you, Prime Minister!"

"My true identity is like today's Pingjun Festival envoy Geng Jing's book!"

"On that day, I disguised myself as a soldier, and I wanted to cross the river to meet Emperor Zhao Gou, hoping that he could support our Tianping Army's anti-gold cause!"

"I didn't expect to meet you, Prime Minister Xu Cheng, and later learned that Emperor Zhao Gou has now handed over all the rights to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"So I wanted you to introduce me to the crown prince to talk to him alone, but it turned out later that the crown prince didn't have a good impression of me!"

"And I found that Prime Minister Xu is not only wise and decisive, but also ambitious, and has the ambition to recover the Central Plains, so I am willing to stay here to assist Prime Minister Xu Cheng!"

Xin Qiji began to explain to Xu Xian.

Of course, Xu Xian also knew some of Xin Qiji's deeds, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

Xu Xian naturally absolutely recognized Xin Qiji's character, and of course he didn't care about it.

"Brother Xin, you don't have to be too mustard, I Xu Xian won't care about this little thing!"

"After all, aren't you telling me the truth now?"

Of course, Xu Xian didn't want Xin Qiji to think about it too much.

At this time, the fishing boat finally came to the shore, and a one-armed man stepped out of the fishing boat.

"Brother Chen!"

"You...... Why are you like this! ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Xin Qiji ran to the one-armed man with great concern.

"Xin Zhangshu!"

"Geng Dashuai is dead!"

"Geng Dashuai was killed!"

As the one-armed man spoke, tears began to flow down his face.

"What?"

"Geng Dashuai was killed?"

"What the hell is going on?"

"Tell me quickly!"

"Who killed Geng Dashuai?"

"Who the hell is it?"

As soon as Xin Qiji heard the news, the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he grabbed the one-armed man and shook excitedly.

Geng Dashuai?

Could this person talking about Geng Dashuai be Geng Jing?

Geng Jing is now the biggest rebel force in the rear of the Tartars, what do I still expect Geng Jing to disrupt Yan Liang's rear?

How could it just die?

Thinking of this, Xu Xian glanced at Xin Qiji, who was still excited next to him, and knew that at this time, he must first stabilize Xin Qiji's emotions, and let this person tell what the reason is the most important thing.

"Brother Xin, don't get excited!"

"Don't get excited!"

"Let this brother rest for a while, and wait for him to tell the truth!"

So Xu Xian hurriedly came over to comfort Xin Qiji.

Xin Qiji temporarily stabilized his emotions at this time, and then the man named Chen Ding began to speak.

It turned out that after the Shandong uprising, Geng Jing quickly occupied several state capitals in Shandong.

And Xin Qiji saw that after Geng Jing's uprising was successful, he also followed the incident, quickly accumulated more than 2,000 people, and took refuge in Geng Jing.

At the same time, another general named Zhang Anguo and Jia Rui also defected to Geng Jing with his rebel subordinates, which made Geng Jing's troops stronger and stronger.

So Geng Jing took these people to attack the city and plunder the land, and for a time Wan Yanliang had no choice but to divide his troops to encircle and suppress.

At this time, in order to gain the recognition and support of the Southern Song court, Geng Jing sent the head secretary Xin Qijian to contact the emperor Zhao Gou.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Xin Qiji left, the next day, Geng Jing had an accident.

It turned out that Geng Jing's most trusted subordinate Zhang Anguo was originally a soldier under Han Shizhong's account, and he experienced Yue Fei's unjust death and Han Shizhong was forced to abandon his armor and follow the literature, and later he was dissatisfied with the mediocrity of the Southern Song Dynasty court, so he fled to the Jin State.

Therefore, Zhang Anguo did not agree to return to the Song family with Geng Jing and Xin Qiji in the future, after all, Zhang Anguo knew that of course Yue Fei and Han Shizhong would end.

Seeing that Geng Jing and Xin Qiji insisted on taking refuge in the Song family, Zhang Anguo naturally began to be dissatisfied.

At this time, the general of the Jin Army, who happened to encircle and suppress the righteous army, issued a recruitment order in order to help Wan Yanliang stabilize the situation in the rear.

Zhang Anguo knew in his heart that Geng Jing would have to defect to the Southern Song Dynasty sooner or later, and he definitely didn't want to go back to the Southern Song Dynasty, so after weighing it, Zhang Anguo chose to secretly accept the order of the servant to be loyal and righteous.

In order to make a military order for the servants to be loyal and righteous, Zhang Anguo made a special appointment with Geng Jing on the grounds that he had a major matter to discuss with Geng Jing alone, and made an appointment with Geng Jing alone, and poisoned Geng Jing.