Li Gang returned to Runzhou with a letter to report to Song Huizong, although the imperial historians expressed their disbelief that this was a frame-up by Yang Zhi, but Song Huizong, Zhao Ye and others knew that this was the truth, otherwise Liu Guanglie didn't even care about the treasury and younger brother in Xuzhou, and ran to Yingtianfu to do something.

Just two days before and after Sun Qi's incident, the important town of Xuzhou was lost, Xuzhou Zhizhou Wang Fu's father and son died in battle, King Kang's camp lost more than one million taels of silver silk and 100,000 troops for half a year's food, and the military salary and materials were empty, Zhao Gou turned back to Runzhou to ask for supplies, Song Huizong looked at Ma Shen, who was still indignant, and asked: "How will the situation in Chuzhou be handled?"

Ma stretched his mouth and stopped talking, more than one million taels of silver, but not a hundred taels of silver, and the official Shangshu Xie Kejia came out of the officials and said, "Let King Kang prepare for war, how many supplies are needed for him." ”

Together with King Kang's uncle Wei Yuan, Xie Kejia replaced Zhang Bangchang to welcome Zhao Gou, and was also one of Zhao Go's staunchest supporters; Xie Kejia had always looked down on Zhao Kai's actions, believing that if there was no Zhao Kai, there might not have been the defeat of Bianliang. In the imperial history, Cheng Yanqi shook his head and said: "The accounts reported are mixed with water, and what King Kang has hoarded in Xuzhou is not only the materials originally allocated to Chuzhou, but also the materials intercepted by Liu Guanglie and others and sent to Bianliang and Guanzhong. ”

Without hesitation, the Sheikh family said, "That's going to be done at all costs." ”

Zhao Ye sneered: "Just like in Bianliang a few months ago, at all costs, in the end, Guanzhong and Henan were all folded in." If King Kang can't stand it, you have to know the consequences at all costs, that is, the entire north of the Yangtze River will be under the iron cavalry of the Jin army, I think it is necessary to recall King Kang back to Runzhou, and arrange for another general to be responsible. ”

There was immediately a lot of controversy in the main hall, after all, King Kang still had an army of 200,000 in his hands, and Zhao Ye's actions were too fierce in the eyes of most people; the two sides argued for a long time, only to find that Li Gang, Qian Gai, and Fan Zhixu were silent, and Zhang Wei, the head of the household, felt a little strange and asked the three: "What do you think?"

Li Gang knew that Qian Gai and the two treacherous and cunning would not speak first, and said lightly: "King Kang will definitely not be able to resist the Jin army, and if he can hold the front line of Surabaya and Bozhou, he has already done his best, but the ultimate goal of the Jin army is still Bianliang, and whether it can stabilize the battle situation depends on Yang Zhi's ability." ”

Li Gang directly crossed out Chuzhou from King Kang's defense, making Zhang Wei full of black lines, and blurted out, "Why?"

Li Gangxin said: "Regardless of whether the letter issued by Yang Zhi is true or not, it is true that the troops under the command of King Kang, Liu Guanglie and Li Cheng, have arrived in Yingtianfu and Kaifeng Mansion, and these people together have tens of thousands of people, if King Kang is really preparing to fight in Chuzhou, how can he not bet all his troops on it? Xuzhou is even more a joke, the 5,000 gold army is approaching, and the tens of thousands of troops are unable to grab supplies, which can only be one reason, the army has no fighting spirit, and from top to bottom there is no preparation for war at all. ”

Yes, everyone is silent, Liu Qi defeated the 5,000 Jin Army in Weizhou's 10,000 Tuntian Infantry Army, and the tens of thousands of troops in Xuzhou are the original Western Army Forbidden Army, even if they can't beat the 5,000 Jin Army, it's good to hold on for a few days and transport the supplies away. Fan Zhixu suggested: "It's better to transport the materials from Jiangbei and Cao Yun to Sizhou at present, it is better to be able to hold it, if it is really not, it is safe to retreat from the waterway." ”

Song Huizong immediately agreed, and let Zhu Shengfei and Guo Zhongxun start mobilizing the naval army just in case; Yu Shitai had to temporarily hold his depressed breath and wait for the results of the front. Then Wang Yuan was defeated in Muyang, Zhao Gou fled from Chuzhou, more than 100,000 Song troops fought separately, and were broken by the Jin army one by one, Zhao Shujiao, the supervisor of the Dezhou soldiers and horses, Li Kuan, the envoy of the Huaiyang army, and Li Ba, the deputy envoy of Jingdong East Road, were killed successively.

Yang Weizhong and Zhe Yanzhi retreated to Sizhou, fought against the water, relying on the materials transported from the canal and the local rebel army in Sizhou, and held this stronghold that could not be lost; fortunately, the purpose of Wanyan Tart was still Bianliang, and after Chizhan Hui lost the first battle under Sizhou City, Wan Yan Tart Lazy ordered Chizhan Hui to retreat and shrink the defense line, and he commanded 100,000 troops to kill Ben Bianliang. Wanyan Zongfu's 50,000 troops went south at the same time to storm Huazhou, and killed Zhao Shilong, the regimental training envoy of the Dingbei Army in Huazhou, Han Qing couldn't resist it, robbed Hu Yin, the governor of Huazhou, and retreated to the south bank under Zhang Heng's response.

Everyone focused on the battle of Bianliang between Yang Zhi and Wanyan Tart, and now that it was almost summer, the water level of the Bianhe River began to rise, and even if Wanyan Zongfu found the boat, he would suffer heavy losses in front of Zhang Heng's sailors. Song Huizong hurriedly sent Li Gang back to Bianliang to supervise the battle, not to ask Li Gang to command Yang Zhi, but to let Li Gang report the battle situation at any time, Li Gang just arrived in Bianliang, he learned an unbelievable news, Liu Guanglie, Zhe Keqiu escaped from Yingtianfu, and the Jin army appointed Zhe Kecun as the prefect of Yingtianfu.

Li Gang hurriedly rushed to the Left-behind Division, found Yang Zhi, who was arranging the war, and asked worriedly: "Ying Tianfu's news has too much impact on Bianliang's morale, what are you going to do?"

Yang Zhi didn't have any anger, but smiled: "This is not a bad thing, Wanyan Tart's current momentum has risen to the extreme, and he must be eager to kill, otherwise he will live in Chuzhou, Yingtianfu and other places for three or four months to stabilize, and cooperate with Wanyan Zongfu's actions, we will be attacked on our backs." ”

Li Gang frowned and said, "That's a hundred thousand golden troops." ”

Yang Zhi shook his head and said: "After taking a lazy look at Yan Tart, he is far better than us in terms of strength, naturally he can do whatever he likes, if he doesn't enter the army, he won't be laughed at by the world, but if he dares to enter Kaifeng tomorrow, I will let him go and have no return." Liu Qi and Chong Bin's two armies have arrived, I will let Liu Qi feint to attack Huazhou, cooperate with Zhong Bin and Xue Guang to hold Bianliang, I will take the initiative to attack, and defeat Wanyan Tart Lazy first, you just come forward every day to appease the people. ”。

Li Gang knew that Yang Zhi had already made a plan, so he didn't say more, and there were bursts of curfew drums in the city, Li Gang understood that Yang Zhi was going to lock down the city for a battle, and what he could do was probably to appease the people. Finally, Li Gang went, Yang Zhi's mind returned to the map of the case, and Yang Zhi knew in his heart that the success or failure of this battle would determine the fate of Bianliang and even the fate of the Great Song Dynasty. If Wanyan Tart is lazy and can calm down and hold his troops still, take advantage of Tianfu to hold on to it, and wait for follow-up reinforcements, Yang Zhi has no way at all, but Yang Zhi knows that the Jurchens pay attention to force and face, and there are immortal achievements in front of him, and Wanyan Tart is lazy must give it a try.

Lu Yihao walked in and said happily: "The 100,000 people of the Jin army came from Yingtianfu in three ways, and the armies in front have abandoned the city to harass them; Wang Yan is a rare talent, and his army has already run to Taikang County, but why don't you let Wang Yan go directly from Bianliang?"