Just after the Qingming Festival in March, when Zhao Chongyang, the king of Dasheng, was preparing to return to Da Nang with the three princesses, he first received information from the capital Yanqing and others, saying that the imperial court was dispatching troops to prepare for a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Taihang Mountain base area after the Dragon Boat Festival in May, although the specific strength was ominous, it was said that it was no less than 200,000 horses.

On this issue, Zhao Chongyang, Yang Huaiyu and others discussed many times and worked out a complete set of defense plans, believing that at that time, the people of the imperial court would definitely not be pleased.

What's more, after Taihang Mountain accepted the surrender of troops from Liaodong and the surrender of Western Xia, all the veterans over the age of 30 were reduced to local mines and factories to maintain local law and order, and there were still more than 130,000 elite soldiers.

Among them, 5,000 are the elite of the elite, and they are the special combat soldiers trained by Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu for the Taihang Mountain base during this time, Zhao Chongyang asked Luo Yanqing to stay as the commander of the special combat soldiers, and Wang Gui as the deputy commander.

Just two days after receiving the information from the capital, I received information from Shi Bao and others from Huailiang, saying that Wang Qing and Tian Hu officially rebelled and became kings around the Dragon Boat Festival in May. Please advise on what to do.

Zhao Chongyang immediately summoned Yang Huaiyu, Yang Zhi, Wu Yong, Wu Song, Fang Tianjun and others to discuss countermeasures.

Wu Yong proposed that Fang La go to Huaixi to sit in the town, raise the flag and rebel first, and get Xinyang, Xiangyang, Nanyang and nearby prefectures and counties first, and send heavy troops to defend them, fight Wang Qing in the west and Tianhu in the north, and protect the fruits of Huaixi's victory.

As for the Song court, when they came, they would fight, and if they retreated, they would not pursue, and they would not carry out large-scale sieges and land seizures.

Zhao Chongyang said, this is indeed a good way, if you only rely on the self-defense force of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, the total number of people on the surface is less than 10,000, and it is impossible to withstand Wang Qing's several attacks of more than 100,000 horses.

In the end, everyone agreed with Wu Yong's opinion in principle, and decided that Wu Yong, Wu Song, and Yang Yizhong would lead Shi Jin, Ye Hongyan, Shi Zhongyu, Di Lei, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Qiu Qionghu, Wang Da, and Wang Fa to lead 40,000 elite soldiers into Huaixi in batches to stand by.

Zhao Chongyang was going to go to Huaixi in person, but everyone was resolutely opposed, so he had to give up. Now that the princess Fang Baihua has been pregnant for two months, he decided to take Fang Baihua back to the south to raise the baby after he transferred to Shandong.

Zhao Chongyang ordered Dai Zong to rush to Shuibo Liangshan, and asked Fang La to bring 40,000 horses and horses from Shuibo Liangshan into Huaixi in batches, and temporarily hand over the affairs of Liangshan to Ruan Xiaowu and Sun Li to manage. After Fang La arrived, he changed Liu Qiaoling's grandfather Liu Erye to Liangshan as the chief manager.

In mid-March, Zhao Chongyang and others put on makeup and entered Kaifeng Mansion, lived in the Jingshi base of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and exchanged views with Wang Dakuan, Bai Xiaohe, Yan Qing and others, the first cadres of the Northern Branch, and asked Shi En and Li Yun to assist Yan Qing in managing the Self-Defense Forces, special combat troops, and intelligence departments.

Zhao Chongyang, with the cooperation of Wang Dakuan, Yan Qing and others, inspected the underground secret passage, and went to meet the Eight Sages King through the secret passage. He saw that the outer walls of the Eight Princes' Mansion had been raised and reinforced with cement according to his requirements, and a hidden fortress was built at the head of the wall every thirty steps, and as long as five to ten people lived in each dark fort, the entire palace could be protected like an iron bucket......

He entered the inner courtyard of the palace through a secret passage, and the exit was under the bed of Biyun Palace, where Zhao Fujin had originally lived.

After he and Wang Dakuan, Bai Xiaohe, and Yan Qing came out of the secret passage, they called several palace maids left behind in Biyun Palace, and instructed: If the Jin people break through Tokyo in the future, let them go and call Zhao Fujin's sisters and the princesses of the kings here, and one of the three of them will take you into the secret passage, and you can escape safely, so that you can be caught by the Jin people and humiliated. But remember, don't spread the word now.

Several people had already been entrusted by the princess and said that they would do so when the time came......

Subsequently, Zhao Chongyang and the three princesses, under the escort of the repeated escort team led by Yang Zaixing and Hu Sanniang, went to Yuejiazhuang, Xiangzhou, Jeju, Jinan and other places successively to understand the problem of whether they could protect themselves in the event of a war.

It was not until mid-April that Zhao Chongyang and his entourage arrived at Shuibo Liangshan. At this time, Fang Baihua was three months pregnant, and her belly was gradually bulging.

When Mrs. Fang heard that her daughter was coming, she did not follow Fang La to Huaixi. Now that my daughter is really here and is going to be a mother, I am naturally happy.

Mrs. Fang was afraid that her daughter would not be able to stand the bumps of the wind and waves, so she said to Zhao Chongyang: "If the king has something to do, he can go back to Da Nang first, leave Baihua here, and after giving birth to a prince or princess in the second half of the year, he will raise it for a period of time and then take a boat back to the king." ”

Seeing that his mother-in-law cherished her daughter so much, Zhao Chongyang had no choice but to agree. It's just that he didn't immediately return to Da Nang, he wanted to wait for the Dragon Boat Festival to see what kind of situation the war between Huaixi, Hebei, the imperial court and the Taihang Mountains would turn out.

Zhao Chongyang estimated that this year, all parts of the north will inevitably be implicated in military disasters, and there will be a shortage of grain. Therefore, a notice was issued that all localities in Shandong and Jiangnan should vigorously store grain, and Shandong would strive to reach 800,000 stones, and Yangzhou, Nanjing, Hanyang, and other places in Jiangnan should strive to reach 1.5 million stones.

In the local area of Dasheng Country, the rice planting area has been expanded year after year, and three crops of rice have been planted, and the surplus grain is expected to reach more than 2 million stones. At that time, it could at least support more than one million stone of grain in the Central Plains. When the time comes, how many lives will be saved when it is transported to Huaixi, Taihang Mountain and other base areas......

When Zhao Chongyang checked everywhere and traveled to the mountains and rivers, Fang La had already been transported to Nanyang City by Dai Zong with the magic of Shenxing, and planned the uprising with Wu Yong, Shi Bao, Wu Song, Bao Daoyi and others.

By mid-April, generals and men from all over Shandong and Jiangnan arrived one after another. With the addition of Huaixi's own men and horses, it was reorganized into 150,000 horses.

Among them, the generals who can stand alone are Shi Bao, Wu Song, Yuan Lang, Bao Daoyi, Yang Yizhong, Li Ying, in addition, Gao Chong and Yue Fei are on their way north.

And some of the next ones will be Shi Xiu, Shi Jin, Hu Sanniang, Si Xingfang, Li Tianrun, Fang Tianding, Wang Shan, Wang Fa, Yan Da, etc.

Li Kui and Chao Gai also wanted to come from Cangzhou, but were stopped by Zhao Chong, asking them to pay attention to the movements of the Jin people at any time and prepare to support Taihang Mountain.

There are more deputy generals, they are Zhang Qing, Sun Erniang, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Gong Wang, Yuan Kai, Duan Da, Duan Er, Sun Li, Gu Dasao, Le He, Kong Ming, Kong Liang, Niu Kaigui, Ma Kaiwu, Chen Kaijiang, Jiang Kaiqi, Fang Tianbing, Fang Tianlin, Fang Zhiguo, Fang Liguo, Fang Xingguo, etc.

All the generals, except for Duan Da and Duan Er, who stayed at the Hanzhong base, and Zhang Qing and his wife, who stayed in Anpeng, all the rest were concentrated in the Huaixi branch of the Nanyang Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

Fang La adopted Wu Yong's strategy, first sent people to control the state officials and county officials of each state and county, as well as the generals of the resident army, announced that this place had been taken over by the generalissimo Fang La, the generalissimo of Huaixi Shuntian, and then drove the army into the city.

Civil officials who are willing to serve as officials under the generalissimo will still do their original official positions, but they must obey the orders issued by the generalissimo and must not disobey the yang and the yin. If you don't want to, you will send it out of the country.

If the generals are willing, those with good skills will be deputy generals, and those with poor skills will be battalion and company commanders, and those who are unwilling will go home.

Among the generals, Li Ying and Sun Li led 10,000 horses to keep Xinyang.

Fang Tianding took Fang Zhiguo and Fang Liguo to guard Xiangyang, with a total of 5,000 people.

Yuan Lang, Fang Xingguo and Yuan Kai, with 10,000 horses guarding Ruzhou.

Shi Jin, Hu Sanniang, and Chen Kaijiang took 5,000 horses to guard Lushan.

Li Tianrun, Fang Tianbing, and Ma Kaigui took 10,000 horses to guard Yuzhou.

Shi Xiu, Niu Kaigui, and Ma Kaiwu led 10,000 horses to guard Xingyang.

Yang Yizhong, Wang Fa, and Lu Fang led 10,000 horses to guard Xuchang.

Wu Song, Kong Ming, and Kong Liang led 10,000 horses to guard Zhenping County.

Qiu Daoyi took 5,000 men and horses to guard the shed with Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, and Yan Da led 3,000 men and horses to Hanzhong to assist Duan 2 and Duan 5 to guard the base and develop business in Hanzhong, but they did not raise the flag and stand in line for the time being.

Shi Bao, Qiu Qionghu, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, and Yue Fei and Gao Chong, who arrived later, stayed at the Nanyang headquarters to wait for the arrangement.

Let Shi Xiu's cousin subordinate Shi Guang and Fang Tianlin lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to assist Duan Taigong in guarding Duanjiazhuang.

The rest of the prefectures and counties were garrisoned by more than a dozen generals.

After the arrangement was completed, on the first day of the fifth month, Fang La issued an order, and all the states and counties of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce in Huaixi changed banners overnight, announcing that all of them would join the command of Fang La, the generalissimo of the Shuntian Initiative.

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