From the fourth year of Shaoxing to the tenth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei organized and launched four Northern Expeditions in the six years, intending to recover his homeland.

In May of the tenth year of Shaoxing, Wanyan Zongbi (that is, the person called "Jin Wushu" in the romance novels of later generations) tore up the peace agreement, and went south in four ways, Wanyan Zongbi personally led the main army to attack Kaifeng, the marshal of the right supervising army Wanyan Sali attacked Shaanxi, Li Cheng, the prefect of Henan of the Jin Kingdom, attacked Xijing Henan Mansion (now Luoyang), and Nie Lixiao attacked the Jingdong Road of the Song Dynasty.

In the face of the menacing Jin army, Yue Fei planned to take this opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Jin army, smash Huanglong, and recover the rivers and mountains.

At this time, Yue Fei was already the envoy of Wusheng and Dingguo Army, and the title of Jin Shaobao, known as "Yue Shaobao", and the troops under his command accounted for four-sevenths of the total strength of the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to Wu Jue's illness and death a year ago, it was decided that his deputy Hu Shijiang would lead Wu Ling (Wu Jue's brother), Yang Zheng and Guo Hao to fight against Wan Yan and Liyu; Jingdong Huai East Road Xuanfu disposed of Han Shizhong against Nie Lixiao of East Road; The most important central battlefield was Yue Fei's "Yuejia Army", Zhang Jun's "Guardian Army in the Camp", and Liu Qi's 20,000 "Bazi Army" against the main force of the Jin Army led by Wanyan Zongbi and Li Chengjun.

Since it was a decisive battle between the Song and Jin countries, how could the loyal and righteous army under the Yuejia army stay out of the matter?

When Yan Zongbi had just invaded the south, Li Bao, the leader of the rebel army attached to Yue's army, led his troops to raid the Jin army camped in Jingdi, Wanting County, on the night of May 24, killing three thousand people and four thousand commanders of the Jin State Sect, capturing 1,000 horses, and killing the Jin army that came to encircle and suppress on June 2, opening a good situation for Yue Fei's fourth northern expedition.

In June of the 10th year of Shaoxing, Liang Xing and Dong Rong received Yue Fei's order to "cross the Yellow River, kill the gold thieves, and occupy the prefectures and counties", and arrived on the south bank of the Yellow River on July 1. On the second day of the first month, Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the loyal army to cross the river and return to the north bank of the Yellow River, converging with Hebei heroes Zhao Yun, Li Jin, Niu Xian, Zhang Yu and others, and recovering Hengqu County in Jiangzhou in one fell swoop.

Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the loyal army and the Jin army to fight from Chenshi to noon, the Jin army was defeated and fled, Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the rank and tail to chase, and the corpses left by the Jin army can be seen everywhere on the ten-mile-long battlefield.

After Gao Taiwei went back, he transferred more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Huaizhou, Mengzhou and Weizhou to turn back and kill the Taihang Loyal and Righteous Army, Liang Xing and others fought with the Jin army again, never fought to the time of You, killed seven or eight out of ten of the Jin army, and Gao Taiwei led the remnants of the army to flee again. Due to the fierce battles for several days, the loyal and righteous army temporarily lived in Yanchuan, Jiyuan County, and received strong support and cooperation from the people of Hebei.

"Although the villain has a vague memory of the war at that time because of his young age, I heard my father mention that at that time, whether it was the loyal army or the regular army of the Song Dynasty, as long as it was a gold striker, the people everywhere the army passed were to take out the best food at home, vacate the best house and do their best to entertain, and even risked their lives to help investigate the military situation and cover the troops. It's a pity, seeing that the victory is imminent, Yue Shuai was recruited back by the twelve gold medals, who would have thought that as soon as the army of the imperial court retreated, what would be left for the loyal army and the people? How will the Golden people treat them? ”

Dong Xiaoyi's face was gloomy, he was not yet thirty years old, but the expression on his face now was like a withered old man who had gone through vicissitudes, and he couldn't see half of his anger.

When Dong Rong went to war with Liang Xing, his family stayed in the fortress of the loyal army at the foot of Taihang Mountain. Liang Xing and Dong Rong set out in mid-June, followed by leap June and July, and good news came from various battlefields.

Maybe there is really a blessing from the gods, just when everyone was celebrating the upcoming final victory, and even ready to welcome the return of the Song emperor and redo the preparations for the people of the Song Dynasty, Dong Xiaoyi's grandfather suddenly went crazy and asked his daughter-in-law to leave the fortress with his three grandchildren. Liang Xiaoyu repeatedly asked why his father-in-law was leaving, but the old man was silent, but urged his daughter-in-law to pack up her things immediately and take the child with her. Later, Liang Xing's wife was even alarmed to persuade him personally, but the old man still did not say anything and was still stubborn to leave.

Liang Xiaoyu couldn't make up her mind, and in the end, under the persuasion of her eldest son Dong Congjia, Liang Xiaoyu finally decided to take the child and leave with Old Man Dong.

Old man Dong took his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren and did not go far, he went around, from a hidden path or into Taihang Mountain, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren did their best to walk on the hidden path, endured mosquito bites, and finally settled down in a cave in the middle of the mountain.

A few old and weak women and children, can not bring much food, on weekdays the grandparents and grandchildren are nested in the cave, by the old man Dong and the eldest grandson to go out to hunt some prey to supplement food.

Liang Xiaoyu sent his eldest son to ask the old man, how long would he stay in the mountains? Dong Rong can't see the children when he comes back, what should he do if he is in a hurry?

Old man Dong replied sullenly: "When is it too peaceful, when will you go out?" Ah Rong knows this place and he will come to us. ”

Knowing that her husband could find her and the children, Liang Xiaoyu was relieved and took the children to settle down in the cave. In order to avoid being discovered, Liang Xiaoyu followed Old Man Dong's instructions to cook on the fire at night, and ate cold food during the day, but fortunately, in July and August, the temperature was high, so it was okay to eat cold food.

In this way, Old Man Dong found temporary peace for his family in the midst of chaos.