"Knock, knock, knock, knock" With the earth-shattering war drums, countless Song troops pushed more than 20 siege tower carts to rush to the city wall of Chenzhou.

Bi Zaiyu wore a bronze mask and held a large axe, standing on top of a tower car. Looking at the city wall of Chenzhou getting closer and closer. Just when he was less than a zhang away from the city wall, Bi Zai met the pile of flaps and jumped onto the city wall of Chenzhou. With a round of the big axe in his hand, five or six golden soldiers were defeated, and a gap immediately appeared in the city.

At this time, the tower car had leaned against the city wall, and the Song army stepped on the city wall of Chenzhou one by one from the gap opened by Bi Zaiyu. On the city wall, he engaged in a white-knuckle fight with the golden soldiers. The Song army and the Jin army staggered back and forth, and the sword light and sword shadow on the city wall, and the blood and light splashed.

Bi Zai encountered a big axe, on the city wall to rush to kill, as if into no man's land, the gap was opened one by one, more and more Song troops stepped on the city wall, although the Jin army tried its best to resist, but the Song army stepped on the city wall too many people, and Bi Zai encountered such a fierce general to lead, so he was unable to resist, and retreated.

Bi Zaiyu led a group of Song troops along the city wall to attack the main building of Chenzhou City, and the officials of the Jin State guarding Chenzhou had already run away. This elbow had already been killed by the Song soldiers under the city, opened the city gate, and Yu Gongliang and Yang Changpeng, who had been waiting outside the city, immediately commanded the Song army to enter the city.

Bi Zaiyu watched the Song army's brigade enter Chenzhou from the city tower, and couldn't help laughing, shouting to the city: "General Bi of the Great Song Dynasty is here, the Central Plains is pregnant, and you will not be bullied by the Jin people from now on." The words did not stop, and the big axe in his hand was rounded, only to hear the sound of "click", and the flag of the Jin Kingdom on the city tower was cut down.

Since the Song army occupied Xuzhou, Shao Hongyuan on the West Road also defeated Bai Yanjing, captured Nanyang, and then successively recovered Dengzhou and Tangzhou, and sent troops to attack Bai Luowan.

Li Xianzhong led 100,000 troops west into the Central Plains, pointing directly at Bianliang, Li Bao led 30,000 naval troops, Wei Sheng led 30,000 troops, and advanced by sea and land to attack Shandong. Yu Gongliang's side selection of the front army followed Li Xianzhong's army to attack Bianliang, while Yang Yan's selection of the front army was assigned to Wei Sheng's subordinates, Xin Qiji was originally a Shandong rebel army, familiar with the geography of Shandong, and was also assigned to Wei Sheng's subordinates as a marching senator.

On 25 March, Li Xianzhong's Central Route Army set out from Xuzhou, and along the way, successively changed Mengcheng, Yingzhou, Xiangcheng, Qiaoxian and other places, and successively recovered Shouzhou, Yingzhou, Haozhou, and Chenzhou.

Wei Sheng and Li Bao's Eastern Route Army advanced by land and water, successively conquering Juzhou, Yizhou and other places, and the army approached Yanzhou.

And Yu Yunwen, the Xuanfu envoy in Sichuan Zazhen, also gathered the three imperial garrisons of Xingzhou, Xingyuanfu and Jinzhou on the Sichuan Road, with a total of 80,000 troops. Troops were dispatched from Xingyuan Mansion to Dasanguan, and Qinzhou, Gongzhou, Longzhou, Fengxiang and other places were recovered in succession. The soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an, and there was a momentum to recover the roads of Shaanxi in one fell swoop. Wu Xi, the son of Wu Ting, the son of Wu Ting, commanded the Song army, fought bravely, made many achievements, and became a new general star of the Great Song Dynasty.

In less than two months, the Great Song Dynasty sent troops on the four routes, each of which had different degrees of victory, the Jin Kingdom was defeated and retreated, and large areas of land in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Central Plains, Shandong and other places were occupied by the Song army. For a time, the situation of the Song Army's Northern Expedition was very good.

"On April 20, Hebei, Huaixi, and Zhaofu envoy Li Xianzhong conquered Chenzhou City, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and captured 420 people, and by April 22, Chenzhou was completely occupied by our army......

With a "snap", Zhao Tuan slapped the dragon book case, interrupting the good news read by Hu Quan, the secretary of the Ministry of War. The whole person also stood up excitedly, and walked back and forth on the Golden Palace, "Okay, after recovering Chenzhou, the next step is to recover Tokyo, it seems that this Northern Expedition of my Great Song Dynasty will be a complete victory." ”

The Northern Expedition began, went smoothly far beyond Zhao Tuan's expectations, although in Xuzhou and the Jin army fought a vicious battle, but then the Song army made like a bamboo, the good news was frequent, almost every few days will receive the front line of good news, either siege occupy, or a big victory over the Jin army. Let Zhao Tuan Longxin be happy, now even Chenzhou has been recovered, Chenzhou is not 300 miles away from Tokyo Bianliang, if Tokyo can be recovered, then this Northern Expedition will be perfect. At this time, Zhao Tuan suddenly had a bold idea in his heart.

At this moment, Tang Siwei coughed dryly, walked out of the train and said: "Your Majesty, this successive victories is good, but the moon is lacking, and things are opposite, my Great Song Dynasty has sent troops for more than two months, and the soldiers in front must be very tired." Although the Jin Kingdom has failed continuously, Bi Jing's vitality has not been injured, not to mention that the Jin army has always been strong, but the generals in front have a flashing arrow, and the elite soldiers of my Great Song Dynasty will be completely damaged. ”

At this time, Zhao Tuan was on the rise, and when he heard Tang Siwei's words, he was very disappointed, and he couldn't help but be very dissatisfied, and he snorted heavily.

Tang Siwei naturally heard it, but he couldn't stop at this time, so he could only continue to say hard: "My Great Song Dynasty has also recovered a lot of land during this Northern Expedition, according to the minister, it is better to accept it when it is good, if it annoys the Jin State and raises troops to attack my Great Song Dynasty, it will be unfavorable to my Great Song Dynasty in the end!" ”

said that it was finished, Tang Siwei only played the drum in his heart, and he didn't know how Zhao Tuan would react to his disagreeable words. Since Zhao Tuan succeeded to the throne, he was strictly the leader of the Lord and faction in the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty. Since the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, there have been ministers such as Qian Duanli and Liang Kejia who have come to him and asked him to speak out to stop the Northern Expedition. But Tang Siwei knew in his heart that since Zhao Tuan succeeded to the throne, he has always been determined to forge ahead and expedition the Central Plains in the north. This Northern Expedition has been prepared for several years, and it is imperative. How could he stop it? After the Northern Expedition began, he also hoped to wait for the Song army to lose a few battles, so that he could use the topic to play and ask for the Northern Expedition to be stopped. Who knew that the Song army had a smooth journey and was almost undefeated, how could he still take out the words to stop the Northern Expedition from touching Zhao Tuan's counterscales at this time.

In fact, Tang Siwei didn't think of a way, he knew that it was useless for others to speak at this time, only Zhao Gou could influence Zhao Tuan, so he had already found Zhao Gou twice. It's a pity that Zhao Gou seems to be determined not to interfere in the government, and he didn't even see Tang Sihui's face twice. There is nothing to be done about Tang Siwei. The most embarrassing thing for Tang Siwei is that the other ministers of the Lord and faction have already been quite suspicious of Tang Siwei's attitude, in their opinion, since you Tang Siwei is the leader of the Lord and the faction and the prime minister of the dynasty, in charge of the government, you should naturally take the lead in stopping it at this time.

As soon as he thought of this, Tang Siwei couldn't help but hate the root of his teeth: Why don't you come out to stop it, why do you have to be this budding bird. However, Tang Siwei also knew that the more successful the Northern Expedition was, the more disadvantageous he was. Especially today, knowing that Li Xianzhong had recovered Chenzhou with the scriptures, and looking at the imminent recovery of Bianjing, Tang Siwei finally couldn't help it. He knew very well that once Bianjing was really recovered, the Northern Expedition would be an unprecedented success, so that Zhang Jun and Yu Yunwen, who presided over the Northern Expedition, would definitely be commended. Yu Yunwen will definitely be promoted from a fellow privy envoy to a privy envoy, and the reward for Zhang Jun, who is currently a privy envoy, is naturally his position as the prime minister.

It is believed that at this time, many people had made a draft of the scriptures, and they were waiting for the Song army to recover Bianjing, and when they returned to the dynasty in triumph, they immediately wrote to the emperor, asking him to take the initiative to take the initiative to take the lead and make room for Zhang Jun. Therefore, at this time, he didn't care about Zhao Tangao's displeasure, and Tang Siwei even spoke out to stop the Northern Expedition.

Of course, Zhao Tuan was dissatisfied in his heart, but at this time, he still needed Tang Sihui to balance the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was thinking about how to blame Tang Siwei but save him some face. At this time, Chen Junqing, the governor of the council, said: "Tang Xianggong's words are wrong, although Xianggong is in power, the military should be under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the ruling should not interfere. What is the situation ahead, what is the situation of the battle, and what is the morale of the army, we should first listen to the decision of the cardinal. ”

In fact, Chen Junqing also felt that the Northern Expedition went smoothly a little unexpectedly, but he was not very proficient in military affairs, and he didn't know what the situation ahead was, so he wanted to remind the emperor to be careful, but when he heard Tang Si's withdrawal to stop the Northern Expedition, he naturally couldn't say this idea, so he had to propose to listen to the opinion of the Privy Council first, which was also reasonable.

Zhao Tuan's face was a little better, and he nodded and said: "Zhang Jun wrote that now that the morale of our army is booming, we should recover Bianliang in one go." He planned to let Shao Hongyuan suspend the attack on Luoyang first, turn to Xuzhou, and attack with Li Xianzhong in two ways to recover Bianliang. I also think this is a very good discussion, and I want to go to Suzhou to supervise the war and recover Tokyo. ”

These words were immediately like a thunderclap, and the people in the entire political hall Tang Siwei, Chen Junqing, Liang Kejia, Hu Quan, Ye Hao, Yang Yi and others were stunned, "I personally went to Suzhou to supervise the war and recover Tokyo." "That means the emperor is going to take the royal conquest in person. For a while, all the ministers couldn't care about whether it was time to continue the Northern Expedition, but whether the emperor wanted to drive the expedition in person. ”