Lu Defu, a member of the Ministry of Rites, realized that the atmosphere was not right when he arrived in Jincheng, from the general sentence Zhu Wu to greet him at the gate of the city, until Yang Zhi, the state government, appeared, although Yang Zhi and Zhu Wu's faces did not change, and they talked and laughed freely, but most of the people who followed them had serious faces, and there was no joy in their eyes as Lu Defu imagined. Lu Defu didn't know what to do, and after reading out Song Huizong's will to give marriage, he handed the holy decree to Yang Zhi and congratulated: "Congratulations, Lord Yang will be able to return to the capital in a few days." ”

Yang Zhi put away the holy decree, invited Lu Defu to sit down, and said calmly: "An hour ago, the Youzhou battle was reported, the Jin army began to advance westward, and Guo Yaoshi's entire army was defeated and had retreated to Youzhou. In my estimation, the war will resume in the clouds in a few days, and with my current official position, I am afraid it will be difficult to leave, will Lord Lu go back first?"

Lu Defu set off on the auspicious day selected by the Ministry of Rites, and the speed of the carriage was slow, so it was long overdue; Lu Defu was not in a hurry because according to the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites, Lu Defu needed to stay in Jincheng, teach and supervise Yang Zhi to follow the requirements of the Ministry of Rites in all his actions, and return to Bianliang with Yang Zhi when the time came. Unexpectedly, when such an incident happened, Youzhou was defeated, Lu Defu was shocked and smiled: "My lord said that I am joking, there is no will of the imperial court, and the lower officials can only advance and retreat with the adults, my lord can rest assured, the lower officials are also from Jinshi, have practiced martial arts since childhood, and have been local petty officials, not people who don't understand anything." ”

Yang Zhi said: "The military situation is urgent, since this is the case, Lord Lu will rest in the post house and assist the official when the time comes." ”

"Wait. Lu Defu instead retreated and asked Yang Zhi and Zhu Wu: "If there is a crisis in the clouds, how will the adults deal with it?"

"I am still the commander of the state governor and the Canglang battalion, and there are rules for defending the land, even if the city of Jincheng is broken, I will take the soldiers to guard in the clouds. Yang Zhi didn't know Lu Defu's intentions, so he told the truth, Lu Defu nodded and said: "My lord, please forgive the official for saying bluntly, this kind of practice is thankless in the court, and it will even offend many people, besides, without the cover of the city, it is a very difficult thing to fight with the Hu cavalry, think twice." ”

Lu Defu can say such a thing, in the final analysis, it is still biased towards Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi smiled indifferently and said: "I can take one."

step, naturally can take countless steps, do it first and then say. ”

In this regard, Yang Zhi has the confidence that Lu Defu could not have, during the Jingkang period in history, although the Song Dynasty lost the northern cities,

However, the resistance of the people has been surging and persisting for more than ten years;

However, the military situation is indeed a mess, the Jin soldiers have killed the Sanhe region, in addition to Guo Yaoshi's 45,000 victorious army after the defeat, the Jin general Pu Amaranth defeated 3,000 Song soldiers in Gubeikou, and then Zhuozhou Zhizhou Han Minyi, Jizhou Zhizhou Liu Yanzong, and the former Dong'an Mansion Supervisor Zhang Dungu successively surrendered to Jin, Zhang Dungu because he had killed the Jin soldiers, and after surrendering, he was cut into pieces by Wanyan Zongfu's personal soldiers, thinking that the warning of the resisters, many states and counties surrendered because they followed without a fight.

However, the war is still far from Yingzhou, and even if Youzhou is surrounded, it is not so easy to break, Yang Zhi still works, and there is no change in Jincheng; on the fourth day of Lu Defu's arrival, Yang Zhi, Lu Defu, and Zhang San went out of the city with 500 horsemen to hunt, originally went to the southwest, turned to the northeast halfway, and joined Kong Yanwei and Han Tao with 4,000 horsemen, and secretly went to Ulzhou.

Ulzhou Zhizhou Zong Ze had already sent Qin Guangbi, Zhang De, and Zong Ying to lead three thousand cavalry to wait, and the army was rapidly advancing along a mountain road, Lu Defu was taken aback and said, "Lord Yang, are you preparing to reinforce Youzhou?"

Yang Zhi sneered: "I'm not so stupid, I won't take my subordinates to make senseless sacrifices, according to the informant, the Jin soldiers have not besieged the city yet, but Youzhou has taken the initiative to cut off relations with the outside, except for Guo Yaoshi's men, no one can come out." What I want to do is to teach the Jin people a lesson, let them know that the Great Song Dynasty is not without people, and give someone a warning. ”

Lu Defu naturally understood that the person Yang Zhi wanted to warn was Guo Yaoshi, and in the case that Guo Yaoshi might betray, Youzhou was the Longtan Tiger's Den, and Yang Zhi was such a smart person that he would not go to find that trouble. Seven thousand five hundred horses rode directly over the mountain, rested behind a hill at the foot of the mountain until dark, the horses picked up the luan bells, wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth, quietly took advantage of the moonlight into the plain, galloped hundreds of miles around the city of Zhuozhou.

Lu Defu found out that Han Tao's 2,000 horsemen had changed into the clothes of Jin Bing, and first left the brigade and went to Zhuozhou, and the rest of the men and horses were divided into four teams, and it was necessary to intercept and kill everywhere. As soon as the sky was bright, it was the time when people were most sleepy, Zhuozhou City was still opened as before, the soldiers guarding the city were handing over, Han Tao's two thousand horsemen came directly to the city under the banner of Jin Bing, and there were soldiers in Han Tao's army who could speak the Jurchen words, and they ran to the city gate and shouted for a while.

Zhuozhou had already surrendered to the Jin State, and in the minds of the defenders, they only sent people to tell them, and did not close the city gates; Han Tao captured the north gate in one fell swoop, and Yang Zhi's army then killed, attacked the city under the banner of Zongze, blocked the four gates and did not allow them to enter and exit, and went out to appease the people, and asked everyone to stay at home.

The rebel general Han Minyi did not have time to escape, he was captured alive by Yang Zhi, beheaded in public, and the rest were detained in the military camp; Han Tao handed Yang Zhi a military order and said: "It's dangerous, let's take a step earlier, the Jin people are ready to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, let Pu Yuan lead 5,000 horsemen to come and attack Ulzhou with Han Minyi." ”

Jin Bing's ruthless hand is to consume Han Minyi's strength, whether Han Minyi surrenders or not, it doesn't matter, Yang Zhirang ordered Kong Yanwei and Qin Guangbi to lead a thousand horsemen each, and ambushed them in two woods ten miles away from the city, and began to arrange crossbow arrows at the head of the city, and took out all the divine arm bows of the original Zhuozhou treasury and arranged them in those alleys and residences in front of the city gate.

At dusk, the horse returned, the Jin army had arrived, the forward was thirty miles northeast, but only more than 2,000 Jin soldiers came, and the remaining 3,000 horsemen were all dressed by the Liao army, which should be the rebels of the Youzhou army or the Pingzhou army. Yang Zhi saw that it was getting late, and ordered Zhang San and Zhang De to lead a thousand cavalry and ambush in the city; the city was empty without a single banner or a single figure, and the archers were ambushed on the city wall.

The speed at which the Jin soldiers came was very fast, in the dust and fog in the sky, the banners were waving, but the formation was a little chaotic, first a company of more than a dozen teams of horses came to watch the situation, and then a thousand cavalry wearing Liao army clothes approached the city; Yang Zhi understood that the Jin soldiers did not see any movement in the city, and could not guess the truth and truth, and did not know whether Han Minyi really surrendered, and he could not make up his mind at present. Yang Zhi ordered the city gate to be opened, the drawbridge lowered, and the Jin soldiers dared to come in.