Jigu Ferry is located one hundred and twenty miles east of Heiyangtuo, which is an important ferry port set up by the Jin State in the Yellow River, with a total of only more than 80 ships of all sizes. There were more than 500 sailors and soldiers combined. The official guarding this ferry crossing is called Liu Ming.

Because Jigu Ferry is a Yellow River ferry port close to Heiyang Mountain. Therefore, in recent months, almost every two or three days, troops and grain convoys have crossed the Yellow River from here. Sometimes it takes several days on a row to take a break. Liu Ming remembers that the longest time was six days in a row.

The granary of Heiyang Mountain was burned down by the Song army, and Liu Ming also knew about it. However, he didn't just want the Song army to come to his Jigu ferry. Although Liu Ming was not a general, he also knew that the Song army, which burned down the granary of Heiyang Mountain, would definitely return to the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and would never come east to the Jigu Ferry, let alone cross the Yellow River: wouldn't that go farther and farther?

But what Liu Peng thought was impossible happened. On the evening of May 26, a Song army dressed in white robes appeared at Jigu Ferry as if it had fallen from the sky. Liu Ming and his five hundred soldiers and sailors were surrounded by the Song army before they could understand it, but the Song army did not kill them. Of course, this is also because in front of the Song army's sharp spears, snow-bright sabers and arrows pointed at them, except for a few who were killed by the Song army who still tried to fight back, the others were honestly captured.

Liu Ming's heart was also uneasy, and he didn't know what Song Jun would do with him. At this time, a Song soldier came over and said, "Who among you is the head, come out to see our general." ”

Of course, Liu Ming didn't want to admit that he was the head here, but everyone's eyes were focused on himself, and he couldn't hide if he wanted to. I had to stand up and say, "I am!" ”

Then Song Bing said: "You come with me." ”

Liu Ming followed Song Bing to a Song general with trepidation. This Song general is very young, as if he is only about twenty years old. His helmet had been removed and he held it in his hand. He doesn't look tall, but seems to be a little shorter than himself. In Liu Ming's eyes, this Song general's appearance is ruthless and ordinary, of course, if the standards are relaxed, he may be able to be handsome, but he does not have the majesty of commanding the army as Liu Ming imagined. The only thing that is a little different is that he carries a very long knife behind his back. Maybe it's because the appearance of this Song general is not scary, Liu Ming's heart is not so scared.

It was only when he looked at him that Liu Ming noticed that his eyes were dark and shining.

Yang Yan looked at Liu Ming and didn't ask his name, just said in a harmonious voice: "You don't have to be afraid, as long as you cooperate, we won't kill you, and these people under you." ”

Liu Ming's heart settled down a lot, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the villain must cooperate, must cooperate." Excuse me, my lord, is there anything you want the villain to do? ”

Yang Yan smiled and said, "It's very simple, cross the Yellow River." ”

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"You mean that the Song army crossed the Yellow River with a warp." Su Shi Lie Zhining found the location of Jigu Ferry on the map, and asked lightly without looking at Liu Ming, who was kneeling on the ground.

Liu Ming knelt on the ground, not daring to look up, but it was Dajin's Marshal Zuo who was questioning, and now there is no position of Marshal Du, which is the highest position of Dajin's military attaché. If it weren't for the fact that this Master of the Purple Stone Lie wanted to ask him personally, he would be qualified to speak to this high-ranking and powerful person. Seeing that Su Shi Lie Zhining asked himself, Liu Ming hurriedly replied: "Yes, yesterday at dusk, the villain and the soldiers and sailors guarding the ferry were caught by the Song army and forced the villains to cross the Yellow River. The villains were also forced to do it, so they had to ......"

Su Shi Lie Zhining "snorted", Liu Ming's heart trembled, and he immediately stopped his mouth and didn't dare to say any more, his breathing became a little rougher, and sweat dripped down his forehead. After a long while, Su Shi Lie Zhining said: "What I ask, what do you answer, don't talk too much nonsense, do you understand?"

Liu Ming hurriedly said: "The villain understands, the villain understands." Wiping the sweat on his head, he suddenly found that he was not very afraid when he faced Song Jun, but he was facing this Lord Ying Shilie, but his heart was furious.

Su Shi Lie Zhining said: "After you crossed the Yellow River with the Song army, do you still remember that they went in that direction."

This time, Liu Ming replied simply: "It's to the north, to the middle."

Su Shi Lie Zhining's eyes suddenly stared at Liu Ming, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "How do you know that Song Jun is going to the central capital." ”

Liu Ming was shocked again, he didn't know where he answered wrongly, and he provoked this Master of Su Shilie to be angry, and hurriedly said: "Because the commander of the Song army is on the villain's boat, the villain on the boat heard him and the Song general looking at the map together, saying that from here to there, where the uncle can reach Zhongdu, how many days will it take, etc., after getting off the boat, Song Junqian is going in the direction of Zhongdu, and this villain guesses......"

Before he finished his words, Lun Shi Lie Zhining slapped the table, and with a "bang", Liu Ming was startled again, and he quickly shut up. I only heard Su Shi Lie Zhining shouting: "Send the order down, let all the people and horses immediately find the nearest ferry, cross Huangzhi, catch up with the Central Capital, and be sure to catch up with the Song army." ”

Since Sushi Lie Zhining was ordered to pursue the Song army, he divided his troops into five routes, led by five people, including Ah Thorn, Pu Luxu, Sun Jing, Han Liyuan, and Qingshannu, with 15,000 to 20,000 men on each road, and blocked the road of the Song army to the south. Who knew that the next day he got the news that the Song army crossed the Yellow River and killed in the direction of Zhongdu. ”

"What's wrong with Song Jun? Is it really not fatal? He actually crossed the Yellow River and wanted to attack Zhongdu. But if you know that your return path is all cut off, then you will inevitably make a desperate bet, and I will do the same if I had changed. He knew that in the first year of Wei Yuanjing of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Wei of the Shu Han Dynasty and Wei Wei were warned, and Wei deceived the king to surrender, and was recognized by Jiang Wei. If Yang Yan is also like Wang Guan, he will burn all the way into the Central Capital, so what's the matter?

The elite men and horses of the Jin State were concentrated on the south bank of the Yellow River to fight against the Song army. Left behind in the central capital, Hebei's only some reserve armies, and it was impossible to stop the Song army, which came and went like the wind. However, Dajin's clan, ministers, nobles, and the families of most of the soldiers who went out on the expedition were all in Zhongdu, and if the Song army was allowed to enter Zhongdu and kill, burn, rob, and plunder in Zhongdu, this consequence was not something that Su Shi Lie Zhining, who was ordered to pursue the Song army, could bear.

"Therefore, it is necessary to catch up with this Song army before it reaches Zhongdu." Su Shi Lie Zhining wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and a thought suddenly came to him: "Do you want to send someone to report to the city gates in Zhongdu and along the road, and tell them to close the city gate and defend it strictly?" ”

Of course, Su Shi Lie Zhining knew that this could keep the Song army out of the city, because the Song army was all cavalry, and they would definitely not bring siege equipment, and it was impossible to do it now. Just close the city gate, it is difficult for the Song army to attack the city, and they can only kill and burn outside the city, so the losses are limited. However, in this way, it will definitely make the entire Hebei and Central Capital deserted and unpeaceful. Especially those clan ministers in Zhongdu, they will definitely resent themselves, even if they can eliminate the Song army in the end, some reproach is indispensable.

So what if you don't report it? Of course, it will not cause panic, but once he does not catch up with the Song army and let the Song army enter the central capital, his own guilt will be great, even if he is not given death, he is only afraid of ending up with dismissal for the people.

So to report or not to report? Su Shi Lie Zhining thought about it again and again, and finally decided not to report it, this must be in the territory of Dajin, and it is impossible for the Song army to pass unimpeded. There will always be one way to reach the Song army to catch up with the Song army.

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Longxi Mountain is located on Hebei West Road, fifty miles west of Xiangzhou. It is about 120 miles away from the Ligu ferry. The mountains are quite large and stretch for dozens of miles. The black stone village is in the Longxi Mountain, the big boss is called Du Feng, and it is also quite famous in the green forest area of Hebei. There are seven or eight hundred brothers under his command, and they are very righteous, and although they also do some business of robbing homes, killing people, and setting fires, they do not kill innocents indiscriminately. The Jin army of Xiangzhou besieged it several times, but finally returned in vain because the mountain was too large. Later, I recruited again, but Du Feng thought that I and the dignified Han people, how could I be an official of the Jin Kingdom, wouldn't it be an insult to the ancestors and refused. They were only active in the mountains and nearby counties, and did not go to Xiangzhou to scratch, so the government did not pay attention to them later.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), Wan Xiansheng was entrusted by Yue Fei to contact the Hebei Righteous Army when he went to Heishi Village. However, the big boss at that time was Du Feng's master Xin Tianxiong. At that time, Xin Tianxiong happily promised that if Yue Fei's army crossed the Yellow River, he would definitely send troops to respond and return to the Great Song Dynasty. It's a pity that when Fuyue Fei Luojiu failed to cross the Yellow River.

However, although Du Feng did not want to be an official of the Jin State, he did not have the ambition of Xin Tianxiong back then, he just wanted to be the king of the mountain for the rest of his life, so he did not openly conflict with the Jin State.

However, when Wan Xiansheng came to Heishi Village, Du Feng was still very polite to Wan Xiansheng. There is no shortage of etiquette in the rivers and lakes.

Wan Xiansheng proposed to ask Du Feng to meet Yang Yan's Song army, and emphasized that there was no need for Heishizhai to come out and go against the Jin State, but just give full play to their advantages of being familiar with the terrain to help the Song army provide clues and arrange traps. Du Feng immediately agreed. Bi Jing, like Wan Xiansheng, is a top master in the rivers and lakes, and anyone is willing to make friends. Especially in this way, help Wan Xiansheng a big favor, if there is any big thing that Heishizhai is uneven in the future, you can ask Wan Xiansheng to come forward to help. What's more, he didn't have to go out directly to confront the Jin soldiers head-on, so he didn't lose the trouble of annoying the Jin people. Without harming his own interests, Du Feng was still very willing to help Song Jun and Jin Ren go against each other.

Therefore, Yang Yan crossed the Yellow River and immediately rushed to Longshu Mountain, connected with Du Feng, and with the help of Du Feng, made arrangements.

After crossing the Yellow River, Pu Huxu immediately discovered the whereabouts of the Song army. After all, thousands of people walked by, how could they not leave a trace? Genju Pulu judged that the time that the Song army had passed would never exceed six hours.

Pu Luxu immediately gave the order to pursue the Song army at full speed. He had 18,000 men under him, all of whom were cavalry, but there was no Iron Float. The general situation of the Song army is clear: there are about six or seven thousand people, but there are about 10,000 war horses. Although some of them are armored cavalry, their own men and horses are about three times that of the Song army, and once they fight, they still have a great chance of winning. What's more, the general order of Lord Sushi Lie is not to defeat or destroy the Song army, as long as the Song army is delayed, to destroy the Song army, you can wait for the Qihe troops to arrive and start together.

"As long as whoever catches up with the Song army first, he will be promoted to three levels, and he will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars." In the face of such a huge temptation, Huang Luxu kept urging the soldiers to speed up their advance, even at the cost of rushing overnight. When he walked to Longxi Mountain, there was only one mountain road between the two mountains, and although Pu Luxu knew that this was a place where robbers haunted, he didn't care, "That robber didn't have long eyes, and dared to attack the officers and soldiers?"