110 marches into Hebei (above)

The Jin Kingdom set up Nanjing Road in the Central Plains, and before Nandu, the Great Song Dynasty set up Jingdong and Jingxi Road. (8 Now that the Central Plains has been recovered, it is naturally divided according to the administrative regions of the Great Song Dynasty in the past.)

In order to reduce Yang Yan's burden, after Zhao Chen returned to Jiankang, he immediately issued an order to appoint Zhang Yan as the envoy of Jingdong Road and the governor of Kaifeng, Yue Lin as the envoy of Jingxi Road and the governor of Henan, and Zhang Xiaoxiang as the envoy of Shanxi Road and Jeju affairs. Began to take over from the army the administration of the recovered areas. At the same time, it is also making preliminary preparations for the next step of moving the capital back to Kaifeng Mansion.

After more than three months of rectification, after a merciless blow to the Jurchen aristocracy, the order in Bianliang City has basically returned to normal, although the military management has not yet ended, soldiers can be seen patrolling back and forth on the street from time to time, and entering and exiting the city gate still needs to go through a strict check, and at the same time, the night ban is also implemented, but during the day, the shops are open for business as usual, and the Goolan tile shop has also reopened, and the Bianhe River has also been successively adding boats, and Bianliang City has almost resumed its former bustle. . .

When Zhang Yan came to Bianliang to take office, he couldn't see at all that just three or four months ago, there was a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people here. Therefore, Yang Yan is also very praised.

And Yang Yan also welcomed the arrival of Zhang Yan, although he and Zhang Yan had not worked together, but in the Northern Expedition to Jinguo, the reconquest of the lost land, the goal of the two is the same, from the current division of labor, one is in charge of the military and the government, the other is in charge of the civil affairs, there is not much conflict, and he can also get out of the trivial affairs of civil affairs, and devote himself to the next stage of the Northern Expedition. . .

So after the two sides passed over, Yang Yan officially handed over the administrative power of Bianliang to Zhang Yan, of course, now Bianliang's administrative officials at all levels, messengers, etc., have not been fully established, so Yang Yan still left only 10,000 troops in Bianliang City to maintain law and order in the city, protect some important places, and the rest were all stationed outside Fengqiu County. However, Yang Yan's marshal mansion is still located in Bianliang City, because now he has settled down here.

The house that Yang Yan found in Bianliang is about the same size as the mansion in Jiankang Mansion, this is the residence of a Jurchen nobleman, and the family was taken away by the Song army to supervise, but even if the war is over, it is estimated that he will not be able to come back... It's not luxurious, but it's well located between the first and second sweetwater lanes in the southeast of the inner city. But it is very good to have such a mansion in the inner city of Bianliang, and there are more than enough things to use in the mansion, so there is basically no need to buy it again. At the same time, because it has not been sealed for a few days, there is not much dust, and it only needs to be swept before it can be reused.

Yang Yan doesn't have many requirements for material life, but now he is also a lot of wives and children, and he also has the responsibility to make his wife and children live more stable and comfortable. What's more, there are two princesses among the wives and concubines, one of whom is the sister of the current emperor, so the necessary extravagance and wealth should still be deserved.

However, Yang Yan doesn't have to worry about cleaning the mansion and arranging the room, because in Jiankang's Yang Mansion, more than half of the family members are with him, and the manpower is very complete... Although Zhao Qianru and Yan Rui still stayed in Jiankang this time, Tassel, Lin Yinzi, Lin Yanhong, Ye Muxue and others are also people who can run a house, so they arrange people, tidy up the room, and buy items Everything is arranged in an orderly manner.

In the afternoon, after Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru finished handling their official duties, they returned to their new home, and their home thought it was a new look. It's like returning to the home of Jiankang Mansion. As soon as the tassels saw that they were back, they hurriedly asked the people to arrange meals, and this farewell was more than half a year, and everyone told each other what happened after parting, talking and laughing, and a harmonious feeling.

I saw wives and concubines laughing and cheering beside me, and children playing naughtily in front of their knees, full of the warm atmosphere of home... Yang Yan couldn't help but feel good about having a home in his heart.

However, the warm life of the family is still short-lived after all, with the determination of the imperial court, after continuing to complete the Northern Expedition, Kaifeng Mansion has become the next Northern Expedition of the rear base, a large number of grain and grass materials, military equipment has also been continuously transported to Kaifeng Mansion, a considerable part of which are gathered in Bianliang City. Every day Yang Yan not only had to make a marching plan to continue the Northern Expedition, but also had to count the materials, arrange the storage, and distribute some of them to the various armies, which was also very busy.

At the same time, the progress of the war in the north also spread to Bianliang, and Yang Yan first received the Mongol army to divide his troops into two ways and launched an attack on the Jin army... The main force led by Temujin, Ma Yijing, broke through the Wusha Fort and the Wuyue Battalion, and was preparing to attack Yehuling. Yang Yan also knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he first ordered Cao Xun to send troops to launch an attack on Jinan Mansion, which also opened the beginning of the second phase of the Song army's Northern Expedition.

In fact, there is only one Yellow River separated from the Hebei region on the first line of Kaifeng Mansion, and at this time, the Great Song Dynasty has successively transferred hundreds of warships, and it is not difficult to cross the Yellow River with the naval strength of the Song army, but Yang Yan still thinks that it is better to open the gap from the Shandong line first, mainly because there is still more than a thousand miles from Kaifeng Mansion to Zhongdu, and there is a large pass in the middle. You can really attack the central capital, with the strength of the Song army's naval army, you can do this after the meeting...

However, although the Song army has captured most of Shandong by Jingjing, as long as Jinan Mansion is still in the hands of the Jin army, Shandong cannot be said to be completely safe, so the capture of Jinan Mansion will naturally become a key point of war.

Although Cao Xun did not fully know Yang Yan's intentions, he was also very happy after receiving the order, because in the battle of attacking Kaifeng Mansion, only he had no gain along the way, although he later received some compensation in the battle to recover Shandong, but the credit for recovering Shandong and recovering Kaifeng Mansion was obviously incomparable. Although Cao Xun was also promoted to the festival envoy when it came to rewarding meritorious deeds, he was always a little reluctant in his heart.

And this time the Great Song Dynasty went on another northern expedition, which was aimed at the capital of the Jin Kingdom, which was obviously an excellent opportunity, and it was he who took the lead in launching the attack, compared with the other Song armies, undoubtedly took the lead, and he must not miss this great opportunity again. . .

Therefore, Cao Xun immediately mobilized Liu Fuwu, Zhang Shiyan, and Guo Zhen to garrison the imperial front, with a total of more than 85,000 troops, and attacked from Tai'an Prefecture and Dongping Mansion to launch an attack on Jinan Prefecture, and at the same time ordered Li Gongzuo to lead more than 400 large and small warships, 45,000 naval troops, and 20,000 army troops to attack Binzhou on the coast. Trying to recover the whole territory of Shandong in one fell swoop, and then marching into Hebei, all the way to Zhongdu.

The Jin army guarding Jinan Mansion was Pu Atong, when the Jin army decided to withdraw, Kaifeng Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion were relatively smoothly withdrawn to Hebei, only the Jin army in Shandong was defeated by the Song army when withdrawing, and almost all the troops were wiped out, and even the servants were captured by the Song army, and the enemy was a prisoner of Zhao Chen's Luoyang Mausoleum. . . More importantly, the original plan of the Jin army to take Yanzhou and Tai'an Prefecture as the core, and the original hope of retaining most of the Shandong region was also in vain, and it had to retreat to Jinan Prefecture, making the situation even more critical.

Monk Wanyan Chen was also greatly annoyed, the strength of the Jin army was already insufficient, which made it even worse, so he also transferred the original Shandong commander Shi Dingyue back to defend the Yellow River crossing, and changed to Pu Atong to guard Jinan Mansion, but because the Jin army focused on defending along the Yellow River, the number of troops left in Shandong was less than 50,000, and there were only more than 35,000 horses guarding Jinan Mansion.

Two days later, Cao Xun and Zhang Shiyan led the East Road to capture Licheng County in the northeast of Jinan Prefecture, and Liu Fuwu and Guo Zhen's West Road men and horses also captured Changqing County in the southwest of Jinan Province through Jing, forming a flanking attack on Jinan Province. Although Pu Atong's strength was similar to that of any Song army, he did not dare to go out of the city to meet the Song army, so he could only stay in the city.

On the other front, Li Gongzuo's attack was smoother, and he took Binzhou very smoothly by land and water, and was preparing to continue to the north and launch an attack on Cangzhou.

At the beginning of the war, there was a one-sided situation, on the one hand, because of the disparity in the strength of the two sides, and on the other hand, because of the great difference in the morale of the Song and Jin armies.

After the Song army went through the comprehensive victory of the first stage of the Northern Expedition, all the promotion rewards were in place, and those who died in the battle also had generous sympathy, so the soldiers had no worries and their morale was extremely high. And after the Jin army was completely defeated and retreated, people who don't understand the overall situation can also see that now with the general trend, no matter how much they resist, it is a dying struggle.

Pu Atong had no choice but to complain to Monk Wanyan Chen. But there was nothing that could be done at this time, of course he could see that Yang Yan was doing this to disperse his troops, because the strength of the Jin army was really stretched, once the reinforcements were sent to Jinan, then the defense along the Yellow River would be exposed, and it would be impossible to resist the Song army's crossing of the river.

In fact, at this point, Monk Wanyan Chen also understood that Dajin was finished, and no one could get it back. What he can do is to do his last bit of responsibility, and he is worthy of Wan Yan Changzhi's trust in him. When he was stationed in Kaifeng Mansion, Monk Wanyan Chen had such a grate, and retreating to Hebei only postponed this moment a little, but it is not yet certain that his final battlefield is in the Daimyo's Mansion or in Zhongdu.

At this moment, someone suddenly came to report that it was the emperor's letter. Monk Wanyan Chen was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered someone to present the letter.