Jeju is at the junction of the four rivers. In its area, there is a Sishui River, a Wen River, a Yi River, and there is a canal called the Jeju River. The rivers are dense and crisscrossing, which is not conducive to large-scale march. Moreover, above this neck area is Dongping Road. Dongping is mountainous. Below it, there are two large lakes, one Shanyang Lake and the other Weishan Lake, covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

Yanzhou is in the northeast, like a bottle stopper. After opening the bottle stopper, Jeju, a well-connected water system, will be driven by the Song army.

However, the bottle plug in Yanzhou is not easy to pull out. The convenient place at its junction with Tai'an is like a wellhead, with a length of about 200 miles and a width of dozens of miles.

Yanzhou is a famous city in the world, and it is a big mansion with strong city and sufficient food and supplies. If you want to overcome difficulties, it will be difficult to capture without 20,000 or 30,000 people. Now the Shandong Fufu Department has seven regiment training departments under its jurisdiction, and there are also the same number of mobilized Baojia soldiers as auxiliary. The soldiers are sophisticated and sufficient food, but even if 20,000 or 30,000 people are used, it will be difficult to defeat the city in a short period of time.

Henan and Shandong are located in the four battles in the Central Plains. They have more than 100,000 soldiers in both north and south. They have been relocated in Yanzhou for a long time and will inevitably change.

Shi Xiu explored a path next to Yanzhou, giving the Song army another idea, first cut off the small town around Yanzhou, turn Yanzhou into an isolated city, and then look at the response of the Jin soldiers.

Wu Ge personally led the Qizhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou three regiments to advance to the city of Yanzhou, while the Qingzhou, Zizhou and Mizhou three regiments swept across the Luzhong, went down to Sishui, destroyed Wenshang, and then rushed straight from Wenshang to Jizhou to cut off the retreat of Yanzhou.

Within ten days, ten counties were broken, leaving only Jeju. Before the two big cities of Yanzhou were settled, Yanzhou was in danger. Chai Jin had no choice but to send a messenger to Huainan for help.

When Wanyan Eliduo from Huainan received a letter of help, he was besieging Luzhou. When he saw the letter from Yanzhou, he couldn't help but sigh: "The opportunity has been lost, and it is difficult to obtain in Huainan."

If Jeju - Yanzhou is lost, then the Song army in Shandong and Henan will be connected together, and the Jin soldiers can only go around a large circle from Luoyang to obtain supplies. Wanyan Eliduo thought of this and secretly called luck: "If the Song army deliberately kept the Yanzhou passage and cut it off when my Jin Dynasty was short of food, it would be even more vicious."

Wanyan Eliduo is now in a dilemma, while Qiu Xu, the governor of Luzhou and the pacifier of Huainan West Road, are getting rid of danger.

For two or three months, Liu Guangshi had been in a hurry to go to the east and Huaixi Road Xuanfu Departments, and the content was nothing more than ordering him to burn and accumulate and give up Luzhou. According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, the Huaixi Pacifier should have been fully responsible for the defense of the route; but because under extraordinary circumstances, Liu Guangshi was also the superior above Qiu Xu. Qiu Xu refused to implement Liu Guangshi's wrong military orders.

Finally, Liu Guangshi sent commander Zhang Qi to Luzhou City, trying to hijack Qiu Qing by force and force him to take the lead in running away. Qiu Qing was furious and said, "If you don't have any responsibility for defending the territory, I will die for the country! If the enemy fled before the arrival, what do you rely on?"

Zhang Qi had to leave. Qiu Xu recruited hundreds of defenders in Luzhou and Shouzhou, plus two thousand township soldiers, and defeated the invading enemies several times. At the end of May, Liu Lin increased his troops to attack Luzhou, and Wanyan Wushu (Zong Bi) personally succeeded him. The situation was critical. Qiu Xu Xu thought he could only fulfill his promise of dying for his country.

Xu Qing and Niu Gao led their troops to Luzhou in time, which made Qiu Xu overjoyed. The Yue family army hurriedly finished lunch, leaving some people to guard the city, some people camped in the south of the city, and the others emerged from the city to meet the enemy. Niu Gao ordered the troops to spread the "Yue" flag and the "Jingzhong Yue Fei" flag to show the enemy. Five thousand enemy cavalry were shocked. They did not expect that the Yue family army would appear here.

The Song cavalry, less than 2,000, launched a formation, attacked the enemy with a small number of troops, and fought against each other for three rounds, and was invincible. However, the Jin and Qi coalition forces also retreated one after another and did not disintegrate. Suddenly, Xu Qing fell off his horse, and the enemy cavalry rushed forward, trying to capture or kill him alive.

Niu Gao had a sharp eye and a horse. He arrived first, helped Xu Qing on his horse and killed several enemies in a row. He took off his head and shouted loudly: "I, Niu Gao, have you ever defeated Wu Shu, and you can come and die!"

Niu Gao ran straight into the enemy formation. The knights of the Yue family army formed an unstoppable iron stream, rushing the enemy into pieces and defeating the army. The battle was from Shen to You, killing a group of enemy generals, capturing more than 80 enemy troops alive, and capturing more than 80 war horses. Xu Qing and Niu Gao led their troops to chase for more than 30 Song Li before they withdrew their troops back to the city.

Qiu Xu praised the bravery and good at fighting in the Yue family. He wrote a letter to thank Yue Fei, which specially commended Niu Gao's contributions. However, Yue Fei believed in Xu Qing and listed Xu Qing as a great merit among the 546 meritorious officers and soldiers who reported to the court.

The day after Xu Qing and Niu Gao's army made contributions, Yue Fei personally led the army to Luzhou and defeated the enemy again.

The Jin soldiers and the Taxi Army were neither able to cross the river nor defeated Luzhou. The supply road leading to Hebei along the canal was cut off by the Song army, so they could only kill horses for food. The Han Taxi Army was extremely angry, and some even delivered anonymous letters to the Song army, saying that everyone was driven to such an extent that if they crossed the river, they would definitely capture the chiefs alive and offer them to the Southern Dynasty. Even the Jurchen army complained.

So Wanyan Eliduo and Wanyan Wushu never dared to stay any longer and hurriedly withdrew their troops. After receiving the order from the Jin army, Liu Lin immediately abandoned all the supplies, traveled day and night, and fled for more than 200 miles in one breath.

The Jin soldiers in Huainan retreated, and the Jin soldiers near Yanzhou and Jizhou could not hold on, so they had to surrender to Wu Ge, and Chai Jin fled in a costume. In this way, the Song army of Bianliang took advantage of the situation and headed south to Xuzhou, directly bordering the sphere of influence of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, Yue Fei has submitted a statement to Bianliang. What should we do?" In the palace of Emperor Kant Zhao Gou, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan, Qin Hui, Han Xiaozhou and other important officials discussed the sudden change.

Bianliang had already issued an order to declare Zhao Gou a rebellion. It was only because of the Jin people on the way that Zhao Gou could pretend that he had not received the imperial edict. The powerful people led by Han Xiaozhou who fled from the north and bought property in Jiangnan were sloppy in order to protect the industries he occupied in Jiangnan, and also pretended not to know about the imperial edict of Bianliang.

However, the Jin soldiers in Huainan had retreated, and there was no longer any barrier between Bianliang and Hangzhou. If the Bianliang court sent a substitute envoy to capture Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou would not have confidence that the ministers around him would rebel with him.

What should I do?

In addition to the barrier of distance, the countermeasures Zhao Gou could take were nothing more than civil and military strategies.

Relying on the way of civil servants, everyone quotes the classics and fights the rule of law. The throne was arranged according to the Taoist emperor Zhao Ji, and argued that Zhao Gou was the orthodox heir to the throne, and the pseudo-emperor of Bianliang was the pseudo-emperor.

Relying on military officers means blocking the road, either holding on to the open fire, or lying to disobey the orders, and launching troops to resist the orders.
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