In the second year of Jingkang, he came quietly without realizing it.

In the south of the Yangtze River, spring has returned to the earth.

It is still cold in the north... Although the peach tree in the courtyard is green, its bare branches make people feel a little lonely.

Yu Yin sat on the porch, her fingers unconsciously brushing the strings of the piano.

The dead tree dragon roared and sighed, and it was misty in the courtyard, which always made people feel extremely unreal.

Spring is here!

The Battle of Zhulu Mountain includes two battlefields, Zhulu Mountain and Sanggan River.

The Song army won a great victory in this battle. The killing of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Loushi shocked Wanyan Wu Qimai.

The fourth prince Jin Wushu was ambushed by the Song army in Jiming Mountain and died in the chaos.

When Zhong Shizhong heard that Yu Yin had attacked Jiming Mountain, he was shocked and asked Yu Yin to send an order, ordering Wu Jie and the prince's personal army to withdraw from Jiming Mountain and retreat to Yongxing County. This Yongxing County is Zhulu County, which is later Zhulu County in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. The war has reached this point, and the Jurchens will undoubtedly be defeated. If they occupy Zhulu Mountain again, it will inevitably cause Wanyan Wu Qimai to fight back. After all, this Jiming Mountain is related to the contact between Xijing Datong Prefecture and Zhongjing.

As long as Jiming Mountain is not occupied by the Song army, Xijing will not become an isolated army.

The reason why Zhong Shizhong decided like this was to prevent the Western Liao from becoming bigger... If the Western Liao occupied Xijing Datong, its strength would inevitably increase greatly. A Jurchen had already caused great headaches for the Song Dynasty. If a Western Liao was added... it would be better to leave the Western Liao Prefecture for the Jurchens to let them compete with the Western Liao. Only by maintaining the balance of the situation in the northern Xinjiang.

Chen Gui explained to Yu Yin what Mr. Zhong thoughts, but Yu Yin didn't take it to heart.

When the war with the Jurchens started, it was to let the Western Liao soldiers enter the northern part of the Mobei region. Now, Yelu Yuliyan has already reached the northern part of the Mobei region, so he has fulfilled his original promise. As for how the Western Liao and the Jurchens play next, it is not him who can decide.

However, what really angered Master Zhong was not Yu Yin sneaked into Jiming Mountain without authorization.

Sun Hai killed all the eight thousand gold soldiers captured by the Sanggan River, and the blood stained the Sanggan River red...

After this incident, it shocked the northern border.

According to Yu Yin, Sun Hai and the Jurchens had a deep hatred, so he did this crazy behavior. After killing the Jurchen prisoners, Sun Hai also committed suicide. Since he held military talismans, Gao Chong and others had to obey his orders. Of course, Zhong Shizhong knew the mystery. If it weren't for Yu Yin's order, who could command Gao Chong and He Yuanqing and other arrogant soldiers in the prince's personal army? Even Wu Jie would not be able to mobilize Gao Chong's Beiwei.

However, Sun Hai's head has been sent.

Bloody and blurred.

The Master Zhong Center is very clear that this cannot be the head of the descendant of Laoshi.

In the Battle of Zhulu Mountain, so many people died. God knows where Yu Yin cut off the heads of the Yanyun Han people to count.

Then Sun Hai probably had already escaped without a trace...

But what if you think it is clear?

It is impossible for Master Zhong to turn against Yu Yin because of this incident.

Not to mention that he could not punish Yu Yin, even if he could, his brother would not agree.

Zhong Shizhong had to severely rebuke him and ordered Yu Yin to rectify the prince's personal army, and asked him to withdraw from Weizhou and retreat to Yinchengfang for rest.

I really can't let him go to the front line anymore!

This guy is so brave that he even dares to do something like killing prisoners.

Jiming Mountain is the only way for Jurchens to contact Xijing. If the prince's personal army continues to station in Yongxing, what will happen again?

Therefore, the Zhong Shizhong ordered Yue Fei to lead his troops to replace Yu Yin to guard Yongxing.

At the same time, Niu Gao was stationed in Ding'an, monitored the collapsed ridge coalition forces on the north bank of the Sanggan River, and formed a situation of mutual echoing with Yue Fei.

Pang Wanchun's troops were transferred to Yingzhou, and Pang Wanchun was appointed as the governor of Yingzhou's military commander.

Chen Gui was also transferred from the prince's personal army and served as the garrison of Pingzhou. He was in charge of the three prefectures of Pingzhou, Yingzhou and Luanzhou, and was a barrier to the eastern part of Yanshan Prefecture. In this way, Chen Gui in the east and Yue Fei in the west, and Han Shizhong, who was stationed in Gubei Pavilion in the central part, the defense of Yanshan Prefecture was amazing. Originally, Zhong Shizhong wanted to take Wu Jie away from Yu Yin, but Yu Yin sternly refused.

You know, according to Yu Yin's idea, he will sooner or later withdraw from the prince's personal army.

And Wu Jie was the most suitable replacement in his mind...

Besides, Wu Jie himself did not want to leave the prince's personal army, so Yu Yin naturally refused Zhong Shizhong.

However, this kind of teacher was unwilling to give up. Seeing that Wu Jie was not going to come, he asked Yu Yin for Wu Lin.

Wu Lin had no objection to this.

Speaking of which, Wu Lin was originally a member of the Northwest Army, and Zhong Shidao, the elder brother of Zhong Shidao, had a very high status in the Northwest Army.

Xiaozhong, the governor of the government, referred to the master of the Zhenghe period.

However, as Zhong Shidao entered the Privy Council, the Battle of Kaifeng became even more famous. He was old, so he became the old Zong Shiluo Gong since he was young. Zhong Shizhong also took the title of Xiaozhong Shiluo Gong because he served as the position of pacification and control commander of Hebei East Road. So after all, in Wu Lin's heart, he felt more belonging to Zhong Shizhong.

He was in a different situation than Wu Jie, and he had never participated in the battle of fame by the prince's personal army.

Later, although he caught up with the Battle of Yanshan, he only captured Lingqiu and killed Wulin Da Alu... Therefore, compared with Wu Jie, Wu Lin had no sense of belonging to the Prince's personal army. In his opinion, it would be better to stay in Yanshan Mansion sooner or later. On the one hand, he could continue to fight with the Jurchens, and on the other hand, he could also serve Zhong Shizhong.

Since Wu Lin did not object, Yu Yin did not stop him.

If you force someone who has no sense of belonging to the Prince's Personal Army, Yu Yin will not feel at ease even if he has great abilities...

In this way, the Zhong Shizhong obtained Wu Lin with satisfaction and ordered Wu Lin to station in Juyongguan.

Yu Yin thought the matter would end like this, but who knew that Zhong Shizhong was getting more and more aggressive and asked Yu Yin for troops.

"Is there no soldiers available in Mr. Zhong's hands?"

Yu Yin heard it at first, and was surprised and puzzled.

There are at least 120,000 soldiers and horses in the East Road of Hebei under Zhong Shizhong. How can I ask him for troops?

Zhong Shizhong smiled and said, "There are now 120,000 soldiers and horses in Yanshan Prefecture, but your prince's personal army is nearly 20,000.

Wang Yuan borrowed me 8,000 soldiers and horses, Huang Qianshan borrowed me 20,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Zongshu... These soldiers and horses will be returned in the future. In this way, my Yanshan Prefecture will only have 50,000 left. If it were placed in the past, it would be enough. But if you conquer Weizhou and get the six counties, you also need to station troops... Have you ever calculated that how many soldiers and horses I have in Jin Prefecture have?

There are 13,000 people in the three prefectures of Pingzhou; there are about 8,000 people in Gubei Pavilion, and 8,000 people in Yongxing County. In this way, I have only 20,000 people in Jinfu, and there are thousands of craftsmen in the firearm battalion. How can these troops be enough? So I would like to ask Xiao Yi to help."

If calculated like this, Yanshan Prefecture is indeed weak in military strength.

Yu Yin frowned and said, "But there are more than 10,000 people coming from all over the world."

“Those people are mostly storms, so how can they be used?

Xiao Yi, don’t think I have other intentions. In fact, doing this is a good thing for you. Your prince’s personal army has made such a great contribution this time, and its troops have reached 20,000. Even if you have the support of the prince, you will inevitably be plotted against by others. Eight thousand... The prince’s personal army is eight thousand and the miscellaneous soldiers are seven thousand. If it exceeds it, it will not be a good thing.

I don’t want much, it’s enough to have eight thousand miscellaneous soldiers with me.”

Eight thousand miscellaneous soldiers?

But this old guy really dares to say...

Eight thousand miscellaneous soldiers, but I paid for one-hand training. How could you just take it away?

"Xiao Yi, you can draw another 3,000 people from the righteousness to your subordinates. This way, it will not attract attention.

I also know that you have put in great efforts to these soldiers and horses. I would like to ask you for eight thousand people in vain... My family has something to do with the collapsed ridge. If you go to the collapsed ridge in the future, I will try my best to cooperate. Haha, do you think this is OK?"

Collapsed ridge?

That is, Mongolia in later generations!

Yu Yin knew that this was just a big cake painted by Master Zhong.

Whether it can succeed is still possible... But Yu Yin really couldn't refuse to say that to Master Zhong.

"Since that's the case, I will follow the words of the Zong Gong."

Yu Yin left Xijin Mansion and was depressed.

After he led the prince's personal army to Yinchengfang, he began to rest.

However, the New Year came unknowingly, which made him suddenly feel a little homesick. At this time of the year before yesterday, I was on the way to Hangzhou; at this time last year, I was fighting with the enemy. Three years passed, I also started a family and had two daughters. However, I had never reunited with my family in the New Year, which was a pity.

I don’t know what Sister Jiuer and Jinlian are doing?

When Yu Yin thought of Yan Nu and Yang Jinlian, his thoughts suddenly became confused.

A beautiful figure of Yelu Yuliyan flashed in his mind, and the smiles of Zhao Fujin and Zhao Duofu appeared... Damn, how could I think of these things! Yu Yin frowned, shook his head hard, and stood up with a breath.

Just then, footsteps came from outside the yard.

Rhode hurried into the courtyard and came to Yuyin to bow and salute, "Mr. Lang, a brave man came outside, saying that it was Xiaozhong's order to come."

A brave man?

Yu Yin was stunned and scratched her head and said, "Let me see."

When the two went out, they were just meeting Yang Zaixing, so Yu Yin called Yang Zaixing to walk out of the city together.

After leaving the city, they saw a ragged soldier standing outside the city waiting. The leaders were two strong men, one in his early forties, and the other in his twenty-year-old appearance. They were both sitting on the ground wearing a worn cotton robe. When they saw Yu Yin and others coming, they quickly stood up and turned around and scolded loudly, causing the others to get up too.

"Zhong Xiang of Wuling, Xiaodi, heard that the husband of the man was fighting with the enemy in Yanshan Prefecture, so he led his fellow villagers to come and serve.

I didn't expect that I encountered heavy snow on the way and delayed my journey... When I arrived at Yanshan Prefecture, the war had ended. Xiaozhong's husband cherished our loyalty and righteousness, so he ordered us to come and report to the prince's personal army. Can you ask who is the great official? Can you introduce Yulangjun?"

Zhong Xiang?

Yu Yin was stunned and felt that the name sounded quite familiar.

"You are Yu Yin, can you two fall into your father-in-law's official documents?"

"ah……"

When the two big men heard this, they quickly took the head and bowed, "I don't know that the husband is in front of you. Zhong Xiang (Yang Yao) is rude, so please forgive me."

As he spoke, Zhong Xiang took out a document and handed it to Yu Yin.

Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao...

Yu Yin suddenly shivered, "Are you two from Dongting?"

"Ah? How can you know the origin of me?... Although the little diary does not come from Dongting, Wuling is not far from Dongting."

It was them indeed!

Yu Yin couldn't help but wonder that these two people were famous thieves in history.

Among them, Yang Yao is the most famous. The official army encircled and suppressed several times, but ended up in a crushing defeat. In the end, he was killed by Yue Fei and Niu Gao.

Speaking of Yuezhong, Yang Yao once asked Wang Zuo to lobby Yue Fei, but it was not successful.

But Yu Yin knew that it was just a legend. There was indeed a man named Wang Zuo in history, but a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. He had never attached himself to Yang Yao. He did not make a tough plan to persuade Lu Wenlong to surrender. Thinking of this, Yu Yin couldn't help but squint his eyes and looked at the young man next to Zhong Xiang. This guy was Yang Yao, how could he come to Yanshan to join me?

Ha, this history has become a mess.

He opened the official document and read it at a glance, then he understood the origin of Zhong Xiang.

This kind of teacher is inauthentic. He didn't even tell me that he wanted eight thousand soldiers, but he still made up his mind for me.

Seeing these slim and thin faces and in a mess, Yu Yin was determined to refuse, but he couldn't bear to worry.

"Since it's a kind of consent, stay here.

Zhong Xiangyang Yao, follow me into the city... The rest of the people will be assigned by Dalang, so they will stay in the baggage camp for the time being."

Zhong Xiang brought more than 600 people.

According to him, when he went north from his hometown, more than a thousand people accompanied him.

But from Wuling to Yanshan Prefecture, it was more than a thousand miles away. Along the way, he encountered all kinds of hardships, unacceptable conditions, ice and snow blocked the road, and food and grass were not allowed to continue... So when they arrived at Yanshan Prefecture, there were not even half of them left. And they were all powerless and sick. Yu Yin didn't want it, but the loyalty and righteousness of these people made it difficult for him to refuse.

Rhode agreed and took the people away.

Yu Yin led Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao to enter the city, but Yang Yao whispered in Zhong Xiang's ear. Zhong Xiang seemed to remember something and hurriedly called Yu Yin.

"Mr. I have something to report to you."

"oh?"

"On the way, Xiao Di met a person and found a letter from him... It seemed like a thief envoy, and was about to go to Kaifeng."

This sentence is very clever, and I met someone!

Yu Yin couldn't help but smile. He could guess the clues in general. It must be that people like Zhong Xiang could not stand it on the road and started a business without any money.

However, he did not say it out loud, but said curiously: "What kind of letter is it?"

Zhong Xiang took out a dirty, wrinkled and blood-stained letter from his arms and carefully handed it to Yu Yin.

Opening the letter, Yu Yin took a look and frowned immediately.

"What kind of text is this?"

He scratched his head and said to Yang Zaixing: "Go to find Rhode and come back after replacing him.

You sent those heroes to the baggage camp for him and asked the yamen to properly place them... This seems to be not a Chinese language."

After a while, Rhodes is back!

He took the letter and looked at it, and said softly: "Mr. Lang, this is Khitan."

"Can Dalang know the Khitanist literature?"

Roder immediately smiled and said with a thrust his chest: "When I was in Taiyuan, I had a lot of dealing with Liao people, Jurchen people and Xixia people. In the past two years, whether it was Khitan or Xixia people, I have understood it well, how could I hide it from my own family?"

"Well, go back to the coach's mansion to speak."

Yu Yin and Rod led Zhong Xiangyang Yao back to the general's mansion.

After returning to the General's Mansion, he called two personal soldiers and asked them to take Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao down to wash and change into clothes.

It won’t be possible if you don’t change it!

The two of them were almost stinking...

It's better outside, but when you enter the hall, it's very obvious.

Then, Yu Yin asked someone to prepare food and drinks, and waited for Zhong Xiang and the others to come back. Taking advantage of this, Rhode read the letter and his face suddenly became a little gloomy.

"Dalang, what is it written on it?"

Rhode whispered: "Mr., the content here is so weird and tight."

"How do you say this?"

"This is said that the grain prices in Linhuangfu soared and the food shortage was tight.

Ask a man named Yu Dugu to buy more food in Kaifeng... and said that it is not appropriate to go to the end, and the matter must be finalized as soon as possible."

Yu Yin asked in confusion: "What's weird about this?"

"But as far as I know, the grain prices in Linhuang Mansion are now very stable."

"oh?"

"There is another sentence here. If the little official refuses to agree, he will talk to the old official."

Yu Yin was still confused and looked at Rhodes in a daze.

Rod whispered: "Your husband can you tell me that the alias of Yelu Yukan is Yu Dugu?"

"ah?"

"There is no problem on the surface...but if you savor it carefully, it will be quite mysterious.

The price of grain in Linhuang Mansion soared. Does it mean that the situation of the thieves is critical? The so-called buying grain is actually to provoke civil strife in the Song Dynasty? The husband should know that the Taishang Taoist lord and the official family are in disagreement, and since the Taishang Taoist lord has been fighting endlessly."

Yu Yin shivered and was stunned.

Rhodes' analysis sounds like that...

The little official refers to Zhao Huan, and the old official refers to Zhao Ji? Zhao Huan will definitely not bow his head easily this time; and the old official...

However, these are all Rhodes' speculation and there is no evidence.

Yu Yin was holding a letter and wandering around the house.

A long time later, he suddenly said to Rod: "Dalang, I want to go back to Kaifeng."

"Then here..."

Yu Yin scratched her head, and she felt extremely distressed.

At this time, Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao came back after washing up, and Yu Yin put the matter aside for the time being.

That night, he held a banquet at the General Administration to entertain Zhong Xiang and the others, and arranged for them to obey the orders under Wu Jie's tent... Yu Yin had something to do, so after drinking, he sent Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao away, and went to bed early. The next morning, he was about to call Rhode to continue discussing the matter, but he didn't expect that someone outside reported it to someone from Xijin Mansion, and Zhong Shizhong asked Yu Yin to go immediately.

Seeing that Master Zhong was urging him to the point of being anxious, Yu Yin had to put the letter aside for the time being, took Gao Chong and He Yuanqing and the others to go straight to Xijin Mansion.

I went through the journey day and night, so I won’t repeat it.

On the third day, after Yu Yin arrived at Xijin Mansion, he realized something was wrong.

The Xijin Mansion was all wearing zither clothes, shrouded in a sad atmosphere.

"Mr. Zhong, what happened?"

After only ten days of this, Master Zhong looked much haggard.

Seeing Yu Yin coming, he led Yu Yin to the room and there was another young man. Yu Yin recognized at a glance that it was Zhong Shidao's eldest grandson, Zhong Yanchong.

Zhong Yanchong wore mourning clothes, and looked sad.

Seeing Yu Yin, he hurriedly bowed and bowed.

"Little Langjun, you are..."

When Zhong Yanchong heard Yu Yin’s questioning, he burst into tears, "Yu Langjun, Weng Weng... Weng Weng, he, he... is leaving!"
Chapter completed!