A man with a board axe in his hand walking in front came up and laughed: "Big brother, we all know each other, so don't bother." ”

Following behind were Gan Qing, Pan Da, Huang Lei, and others who robbed the Dharma Field.

Xiahou came to Xiao Ling'er and said: "The little brother has outstanding marksmanship, he turned out to be a disciple of General Wang Shun, General Wang is full of righteousness, but unfortunately he is now dead, otherwise he can hold a grand event." ”

Li He said to Qu Bingru: "We have known about Treasure Island and your father's affairs, the lord of Qu Island is chivalrous and chivalrous, and when the Jin people are retired, we will definitely seek justice for the lord of Qu Island." ”

Qu Bingru asked, "Uncle Li, why are you here?" ”

Li He said: "After escaping from the court that day, we went all the way to the north, arrived in Nanjing, stayed for a few days, met General Xiahou who was implicated in letting me out of the city, and went to Anfeng Mansion together, I heard that the anti-Jin Yi army in Kaifeng and other places was strong, so we rushed over, and heard on the road that Marshal Yue had gone on a northern expedition, and General Zhang Xian was besieging Caizhou, so we rushed over and wanted to help. ”

Xiao Ling'er said: "Great, let's go back to the camp together." ”

Xiahou looked at Gao Hecheng who was standing on the side: "How could there be such a person in the Yue family's army, if it weren't for the Yuezi flag, I would have been cut into two pieces by me." ”

Gao Hecheng was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat: "You guys...... Who are you, what do you want to do?"

Xiahou Lai sneered: "We are the righteous men of the Great Song Dynasty against Jin, and there is indeed one thing about what we are going to do." ”

Li He took a step forward and said to Gao Hecheng: "We do have something that we need the general's help with, and I hope the general can agree." Li He pointed at the hundreds of soldiers behind him, "These are the Great Song Dynasty anti-Jin righteous soldiers we gathered on the road, because we have been in a hurry, there is no supply, seeing the general escorting grain and grass, we took the liberty to come to ask the general to see that they are all Great Song Dynasty righteous soldiers, and give some rations, we are grateful." ”

Gao Hecheng looked at Li He with disdain on his face: "It turned out that I was asking for food, do you know that this is military rations, and it is a capital crime to deal with it without authorization, so you should go elsewhere and ask for it." ”

Xu Shiguang shook the axe in front of Gao Hecheng: "You don't know what to do, I heard that Marshal Yue loves soldiers like sons, we will come to defect, that is, Yue's army, what's the matter with a little food for us, I think Marshal Yue will be very happy to know that we defected to him, if you are unreasonable, don't blame me for not recognizing people." ”

Li He stepped forward to stop Xu Shiguang and said to Gao Hecheng: "The general's duty is understandable, that is, we are inconvenient to find another place." ”

Xiao Ling'er glanced at Gao Hecheng, then looked at Li He and the hundreds of soldiers he brought, walked up to Gao Hecheng and said: "General Gao, since General Li and the others have come to defect, they are a family, so what's the matter if you give them a little military rations, in this way, if you distribute the military rations to them, you will say that it is my idea when you go back, and the responsibility lies with me, and it has nothing to do with the general." He whispered to Gao Hecheng again: "Look at these people, if we fight, do you think we have a chance of winning? If you are angry with them and rob us of our military rations, it is not a capital crime to go back, so what does it matter if you give them a little." ”

Gao Hecheng looked at Xiao Ling'er: "This is what you said, it is your idea to go back to General Zhang to condemn the crime." He said to Li He and the others: "In this case, you can take it yourself." ”

Li He was overjoyed: "To Xiao Ling'er, the little brother understands the righteousness, Li He believes that you are a brother, today's feelings, Li He will report in the future." ”

Xu Shiguang stepped forward and patted Xiao Ling'er on the shoulder: "Haha, the brother that my eldest brother identifies is my Xu Shiguang's brother." ”

Xu Shiguang turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, you have something to eat, go to the Yue family army after eating." ”

Hundreds of soldiers shouted and rushed over.

Gao Hecheng looked at the face twitching on the side, thinking to see how you kid will deal with him after he goes back, if there is something, I will push it all on you, and see if you dare to do it.

Zhang Xian was discussing with the generals about taking Caizhou in the big tent, and heard that a rebel army came to defect, and he was overjoyed, and personally came out to greet Li He and others, Gao Hecheng was busy reporting to Zhang Xian about Xiao Ling'er's private release of military rations, Zhang Xian asked Li He what was going on, Li He told him what happened, Zhang Xian was furious: "I, Zhang Xian, am good friends with good men in the world, General Li and others have come to vote for me, they are brothers, in our army, how can there be a narrow-minded person like you, almost broke a good thing, and dragged me out and cut it." “

Gao Hecheng was half frightened to death: "I didn't do anything wrong, I am an official of the imperial court, you are just a general, you can't kill me."

Zhang Xian sneered: "In our army, no matter what kind of official you are, if you don't care about the people and don't take care of the soldiers, it's unjust, what's the use of leaving people like you, waiting for me to do a big deal?"

Gao Hecheng looked puzzled when he was dragged out: "What did I do wrong?" you don't dare to kill me, if you kill me, Lord Qin won't let you go......"

After the grain release, Zhang Xian praised Xiao Ling'er a lot, promoted Xiao Ling'er to the officer, and led ten soldiers.

Zhang Xian besieged Caizhou, quietly preparing for the siege of the city, and calling for war under the city on the other hand, distracting the attention of the golden soldiers defending the city, and in the barracks, let the soldiers make a look of idleness, without showing the form of a big war imminent.

Qu Yanying, the general of the Jin soldiers in the city, saw the appearance of the Yuejia army, thinking that he was just besieging the city and did not dare to attack, and at the same time received information from Yuzhou and Chenzhou that reinforcements would soon come to relieve the siege of Caizhou

Qu Yanying was overjoyed when she heard the news, thinking that the Yuejia army under the city was just a lone army, and thought that when the reinforcements arrived, they would definitely eat you Zhang Xian.

But Qu Yanying's wishful thinking was wrong, he didn't know that Yue Fei's Northern Expedition had been fully prepared, Caizhou was just one of the cities that must be captured, and the other armies of Yue's army had already set off to their respective destinations.

The second army of the Yuejia army, led by Wu Zhen, had already entered Yuzhou, and fought in coordination with Shao Long of Shangzhou and Wu Qi of Shaanzhou, cutting off the direct connection between Jin Wushu and Guanzhong Wanyan Sa Li, and it was impossible for Ben to send troops over.

Qu Yanying even more unexpected was that the leading generals under the city were Zhang Xian and Yao Zheng, the generals of the Yuejia army, although there were not many people and horses this time, but the elite of the Yuejia army, especially the Youyi army led by him, was extremely strong in combat.

Zhang Xian sent people to keep shouting and scolding under the city, Qu Yanying closed the city gate and did not fight, this afternoon, Qu Yanying was directing the soldiers to strengthen the city wall, in case Zhang Xian attacked the city, suddenly the soldiers who were scolding under the city stopped scolding, dropped their weapons and ran back, shouting: "The Jin reinforcements have arrived, run!"

Seeing the voices of people in the northeast, the banner of the Jin soldiers fluttering, the banner of Zhang Xian's battalion falling to the ground, and the soldiers running around, Qu Yanying was overjoyed, thinking that the reinforcements had arrived, and hurriedly shouted: "The reinforcements have arrived, and the whole army has rushed out of the city." ”

Qu Yanying led the whole city of 3,000 soldiers and horses, rushed out of the city, and so rushed into Zhang Xian's camp, did not see a soldier, was waiting to catch up, only to hear a cannon fire on all sides, Yao Zheng in front of a team of soldiers rushed over, Xiahou Lai, Li He on the left, Pan Bao, Zhou Kui and other generals on the right, each led a road of soldiers and horses to Qu Yanying.

Qu Yanying was shocked in his heart, he was in a plan, and he was about to turn around and want to run, when he led the cavalry troops of the Guyi Army and cut off Qu Yanying's retreat.

The four people rushed over together, and the Jin soldiers were scattered, and they were divided into several pieces, and the soldiers of the Yue family rushed forward bravely, and the Jin soldiers cried and screamed until they were killed, and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river.

Most of the 3,000 gold soldiers were killed and 1,000 were captured, and Qu Yanying, under the desperate protection of a group of generals, broke out of the siege and fled north. Zhang Xian did not chase after him, his goal was to take Caizhou as one of the Northern Expedition strongholds.

There were only some old and weak soldiers left in the city, and seeing that the Yue family army was so brave, how could they dare to resist, and opened the city gate early.

Xiao Ling'er was once again impressed by the strong combat power of the Yue family's army, especially the cavalry army's Youyi army, rushing to kill the Jin soldiers as if they were in a no-man's land, Zhang Xian was even more brave and impermanent, leading the Youyi army to rush left and right, and most of the Jin soldiers killed were the credit of the Youyi army.

Hao captured Caizhou effortlessly, and all the generals were impressed by Zhang Xian's way of using troops, and they all admired it.

Zhang Xian said to the generals: "Wanyan Wushu privately tore up the agreement and led the army south, thinking that my Great Song Dynasty was easy to bully, and returned defeated in Shunchang, Marshal Yue took this opportunity to wave the Northern Expedition, which is in accordance with the will of heaven, and it is also Marshal Yue's wish for many years." Caizhou, as an outpost of the golden soldiers, is a must-take city. I expect that the Jin soldiers will be defeated at the beginning, and they will have an unstable foothold, so they set up a small plan and take Caizhou, I think the Jin soldiers will never give up and will definitely fight back, we have to strengthen our defenses and wait for Marshal Yue to arrive. “

Zhang Xian sent troops to strengthen the city defense, pacified the people in the city, and trained soldiers on the other.

He was right, Qu Yanying, who had escaped, returned to Yingchang Mansion in Xuzhou, and gathered troops with the guard general Han Chang to prepare to counterattack Caizhou.

On the one hand, Zhang Xian took measures for the defense of Caizhou City and waited for Yue Fei's main force to arrive, and on the other hand, he discussed with the generals that instead of being attacked by soldiers, why not take the initiative.

So he stayed behind Yao Zheng to defend the city, he was the main general, Dong Xian and Xiahou came as the vanguard, Fu Xuan, Li He, Pan Bao and a cadre of generals, led 3,000 troops, and marched to Xuzhou.

Three days later, they arrived at the city of Xuzhou.