Cheng Mengxi trembled in fright, knelt in front of Yang Yan again, and said in a trembling voice: "Lord Qincha, you will never dare to serve the false edict of a rebel and thief. ------.--”

Yang Yan said with a smile: "Forced by the general trend, it is understandable that you have to submit to the traitor, but this official is here, if you can take over well and help the official to fight against the rebellion, you can still dismantle the crime." ”

Cheng Mengxi listened to it and hurriedly said: "Thank you, my lord, I don't know if Lord Qincha needs to do anything with his humble duties, please do whatever he wants, and he will do his best to do it for his lords." ”

Yang Yan said with a smile: "You go and prepare the food immediately, wait for the soldiers to wake up, let them have a full meal, and after the official succeeds in the rebellion, he will definitely remember the merits of the labor army in your county." ”

When Cheng Mengxi heard this, Ma said: "Let's do it." "Said that he hurriedly walked out of the lobby, but Ma returned to his job, please ask my lord, what are the tastes of the early soldiers, and do you use wine?"

Yang Yan said with a smile: "People who are soldiers don't need to wait for any wine and food, white flour steamed buns, pickles and sauce beef, as long as you can eat a full stomach." You don't need much wine, two taels per person is enough. ”

Cheng Mengxi agreed and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Zhao Cao said on the side: "My lord, aren't you afraid that he will send a letter to Chengdu Mansion?" ”

Yang Yan said: "The four gates of Jintang County have been blocked by us, how can he go out of the city to deliver the letter?" You should also hurry up and rest for a while, I'm afraid that you won't be able to sleep all night tonight. ”

Cheng Mengxi walked out of the lobby and was blown by the cold wind, and his brain immediately cleared up a lot. Begin to analyze your current situation. Although he received Wu Xi's false edict before, as Yang Yan said, he was forced by the general trend and had to succumb, which is understandable. Anyway, he is not the only one who is edicted, and the court will not blame him too harshly in the future. And if Wu Xi is not in a good situation, he doesn't visit the wind and turns the rudder, sees the situation, and immediately defects, maybe he can still run from time to time, and he will be a blessing in disguise. On the contrary, once Wu Xi becomes a trend, he will naturally be fine if he withstands the edict, and if he can't keep it, he will be a founding hero. It can be said that the left and right are the source.

But now the situation is different, the imperial court's Qincha settled in his own Jintang County, clearly to take Chengdu. In the future, Wu Xi must not know, at that time, will Wu Xi still be able to let himself go? On the contrary, just like now he tries to go to Chengdu to report the news, and lead the people of Chengdu to eliminate Qincha and his party, although Cheng Mengxi is a county, he also knows what Yang Yan is, that is the emperor of the court, the emperor's brother-in-law, and now the hottest person in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is also a princess in the team, if because of his own report, he is killed in this Jintang County, then he is equivalent to cutting himself off from the court, and he can only go to the dark with Wu Xi. Wu Xi has become powerful, but once Wu Xi loses power, not only will he have to accompany him to lose his head, but the whole family will be stabbed together.

After thinking about it, Cheng Mengxi finally understood that now he had no second way to go, and he could only choose between the imperial court and Wu Xi. And now you have to decide which one to choose.

So who should you choose? Although it is March in the spring, Cheng Mengxi's heart is still as cold as winter.

※※Support original ※"Song Xiang" on the said network ※Support version ※※

"Kill, rush."

The tall tower carts leaned against the city wall one by one, the flap was put down, and countless golden soldiers kicked the city wall from the tower cart and fought with the Song army guarding the city wall.

Wanyan Changzhi stationed his horse under the city of Anqing Mansion, looking at the siege battle in front of him. He and Monk Wanyan Chen divided their troops from Luzhou, and Monk Wanyan Chen led 20,000 horses to attack Huangzhou from Gwangju, and he led 30,000 horses to capture Anqing Mansion. Along the road, Tongcheng, Zongyang Town, Wankou and other places were captured, and the troops approached the city of Anqing Mansion.

As soon as he arrived in Anqing, Wanyan Changzhi immediately attacked the city, Anqing's defenders were not much, only more than 4,000 people, and they did not expect the Jin army to suddenly attack Anqing, and immediately panicked, after resisting for a while, finally could not resist the offensive of the Jin army, and the Jin army broke through the city. More than 4,000 troops and horses were killed, nearly 2,000 were killed, and nearly 1,000 were captured. There were still more than 1,000 people left in the Song army, and all of them fled to Qizhou.

After Yan Changzhi captured Anqing, he immediately divided his troops to capture Susong and Wangjiang, so that the entire territory of Anqing Mansion was under the control of the Jin soldiers. After Yan Changzhi did not stop, after a little repair, he immediately led 25,000 men and horses to attack Qizhou.

The men and horses had just arrived in Huangmei, and suddenly there was a report from the horses that the Song army had recaptured Anhui and was preparing to attack Anqing Mansion. After Yan Changzhi received the report, he was also surprised, when did the Song army go around behind him, and he didn't care about attacking Qizhou again, so he hurriedly returned to the army to rescue Anqing Mansion.

But after he arrived at Anqing Mansion, the Song army withdrew early. After Yan Changzhi recaptured Anhui, he continued to pursue the Song army. However, the Song army did not fight with Wanyan Changzhi, and even Wankou gave up and returned to Guichi on the south bank of the Yangtze River by boat. After Yan Changzhi chased to the riverside, he could only look at the surging river, and he couldn't help it. Once on the Yangtze River, the Jin army was far from being the opponent of the Song army.

It turned out that Li Bao sent troops from Jiangzhou and planned to rescue Anqing Mansion. But when he was a step late, he could only let Anqing Mansion be captured by the Jin army. Li Bao knew that the next target of the Jin army was Qizhou, and at this time, he rushed to Qizhou to garrison it. At that moment, he ordered the imperial garrison of Jiangzhou to command Niu Yu to lead 7,000 men and horses, first go to garrison Qizhou, and lead the remaining 6,000 men and horses, together with 5,000 sailors, to go east by boat, land near Anhuikou, capture Wankou in one fell swoop, and then make a big noise to recover Anqing Mansion.

After Yan Changzhi heard about it, he immediately returned to the army to rescue Anqing. Li Bao knew that Wanyan Changzhi was powerful, and when he saw him return to the army, he immediately withdrew his troops at night, and did not even defend the Anhui Pass, and retreated to the south bank of the Yangtze River. After such a delay back and forth, Niu Yi arrived in Qizhou, stepped up the construction of the city wall, and prepared to defend the city. And Wanyan Changzhi was afraid that the Song army would attack Anqing again when he attacked Qizhou, so he had to temporarily garrison Anqing without moving.

On the other end, Monk Wanyan Chen was also in trouble. He led 20,000 horses from Gwangju to attack Hwangju. Qi Fang sent 4,000 troops from the Hanyang Army and stationed them in Macheng to block the Jin army. Wanyan Chen and Liuliu led the army to attack, stormed for three days, and saw that they were about to break through Macheng, when suddenly came a report that Li Xianzhong returned to the Xinyang army to rescue Huangzhou, and sent Shi Junxian to lead 15,000 men and horses to attack Gwangju. Yijing captured the new county.

As soon as Monk Wanyan Chen heard that his back road was cut off by the Song army, although he could capture Macheng on horseback, he did not dare to fight again, and hurriedly returned to the army to recapture Xinxian. At the foot of Mount Muling, they met the Song army led by Shi Jun, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

The Jin army knew that if this battle failed, it would be trapped and killed by the Song army in the Huangzhou area, so under the leadership of the monk Wanyan Chen, the whole army fought to the death. Wanyan Chen monk is the first soldier, leading a thousand iron floating maps, rushing the Song army's Chinese army, the two armies fought fiercely for more than three hours, the Song army finally couldn't hold on, more than 4,000 people were killed, Shi Jun led the Song army to retreat to the victory pass, closed the door and refused to defend, no longer fighting.

Although the Jin army won, it also lost nearly 3,000 soldiers, and the men and horses were also very tired, and the monk Wanyan Chen did not dare to take Huangzhou again, so he could only retreat to the city of Gwangju and renovate. However, Li Xianzhong's army reached the Xinyang army and sent 5,000 men and horses to aid Macheng. Monk Wanyan Chen also had no chance to take advantage of it, so he had to be stationed in Gwangju.

In this way, although the Jin army captured Anqing Mansion, it was not able to capture the three counties of Jiangbei after all, and the two sides temporarily formed a stalemate. However, Yang Woyan, who was stationed in Nanyang, took advantage of Li Xianzhong's withdrawal and led his troops to counterattack, not only recovering Dengzhou, Huyang and other places, but also fighting all the way to Luyan County, less than 50 miles away from Xiangyang Mansion. Fortunately, when Li Xianzhong retreated, he ordered Guo Zhen to lead an army of 20,000 to hold Xiangyang Mansion, so as to block Yang Woyan's continued attack.

At this time, in Jiangnan, the Jin army also divided its troops into two routes and attacked Chizhou and Xinzhou.

The urgency spread to Tianlin Mansion, and immediately caused a wave of uneasiness in the court. Unexpectedly, as soon as Yang Yan left, the Song army would suffer defeat after defeat. Zhao Chen also couldn't sit still, and hurriedly gathered the ruling ministers to discuss countermeasures.

After the ministers arrived, the governor Hong Shixian said: "Your Majesty, now the military situation is urgent, the Jin army is fierce, and Tianlin Mansion is probably not safe, so the ministers think it is better to move the capital to Jingjiang Mansion immediately." ”

Han Yanzhi immediately said unhappily: "Hong Xianggong, what are you talking nonsense, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, although the Jin army has won a small victory, it is still far from Tianlin Mansion, and now it is going to move the capital again, won't it shake the morale of the army?" ”

Zhao Chen also nodded, and said with a straight face: "The imperial court has abandoned the two capitals, and now retreats to Tianlin Mansion, so it is forced to do so, and now I must not retreat, and the proposal to move the capital is not allowed to be mentioned again in the future." ”

At this time, Liang Ke's family was out of the list, and the proposal to move the capital could not be mentioned again, so now the situation is critical, and the minister thinks that Yang Juma can not solve the current predicament, and asks His Majesty to immediately issue an edict to quickly transfer Yang Juma back and preside over military affairs. ”

To tell the truth, Liang Kejia's words really came to Zhao Chen's heart, and he now very much hopes that Yang Yan can come back so that he can feel at ease, so after listening to Liang Kejia's words, he immediately said: "Liang Qing's proposal, what do you think?" ”

Chen Junqing knew the plan of Yang Yan's trip to Sichuan, so he did not advocate that he should return to Yang Yan before there was no result, that would only persuade him to abandon it, but he was suffering from not being able to understand military affairs, if he did not edict Yang Yan back, how should he deal with the current situation? Therefore, there has been no speech.

But Liu Heng immediately came out of the ranks, and now he must not recruit Yang Juma to return to Beijing. ”

Zhao Chen was slightly stunned, why? ”

Liu Heng said: "Yang Juma is now inspecting Sichuan, and I don't know what the situation in central Sichuan is, so I rashly issued an edict to transfer him back, but I am afraid that I will miss a major event." He glanced at Liang Kejia and Hong Shi again, and then said: "And Your Majesty is in a hurry, although our army has suffered a small defeat temporarily, the situation is far from irreparable, and in the opinion of Yichen, the Jin army may not be able to drive in for a long time." ”