Li Bao had already arranged a big mansion to entertain the public's accommodation. They were also arranged together with the female soldiers they had brought. and sent a team of soldiers to guard outside the house, and Yu Gongliang, Bi Zaiyu and others were arranged to rest in the barracks.

Li Bao specially sent Yang Yan to escort the princess. In fact, since picking them up into the city, Yang Yan hasn't said a word to Zhao Qianru, but just glances at each other from time to time when people are not paying attention. Yang Yan saw that she was also dressed in a military uniform, although she was not as heroic as Zhao Yueru, but she also had a charming and heroic spirit, but her face was quite tired and tired. Yang Yan thought that the life she lived in the Lin'an palace was a pampered life, and the life of the two army fronts was probably difficult for her.

It wasn't until Yang Yan sent Zhao Qianru to the room prepared for her that Zhao Qianru blushed slightly and said, "Yang Yan, can you stay for a while?" I have something to say to you. The two female celebrants who accompanied him both pursed their lips and smiled secretly. Knowing that they are the first-married couple, it is natural that they have something to say when they meet on the front line. Then he retreated with interest. He also closed the door so that they could not be disturbed in their speech.

When the female soldiers all withdrew, Yang Yan sighed: "Isn't it good to stay in the capital, the front line is so dangerous, why did you come with it, in case there is any accident, wouldn't it be ......?"

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Qian threw herself into his arms and cried, "I'm so scared, I'm afraid I'll never see you again." ”

Yang Yan's heart trembled, and when he saw her true feelings, he couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart. With both hands, he gently hugged her and said, "What are you afraid of, aren't I fine?" ”

Zhao Qianru said: "Now I know how terrible it is to fight. On the night when the Jin army attacked the camp in Qixian County, I saw that many soldiers had been killed in the battle, and so much blood had been shed. A man who was alive not long ago spoke to you at your side, and in a moment he became dead. I just learned that this is how you have been living on the battlefield. She raised her head and stared at Yang Yan with a pair of wonderful eyes: "At that time, I was eager to see you, as long as I saw you, as long as you were safe." ”

Yang Yan gently wiped away the tears on her face, and said softly: "Don't worry, I don't die so easily, I still have to go back to marry the princess and be a concubine?" It suddenly occurred to me that the tassel must be the same at home at this time.

Zhao Qianru was flushed, shook him a few times with her pink fist, and said coquettishly: "I haven't seen you for a few months, but you have become flamboyant, you learned from your good brothers Cao Xun and Gao Zhen!" "But it's very sweet in my heart.

Yang Yan thought that although the two were already an unmarried couple, they had not announced that they had been alone for a long time, so he said: "Okay, you are tired from the journey, rest early, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

Zhao Qianru nodded lightly, suddenly reached out to hug Yang Yan's neck, and kissed him lightly on the lips before saying, "Okay, you can rest early when you go back." Only then did he leave Yang Yan and walked to the door and opened the door, and the two female soldiers were still guarding outside the door. Zhao Qianru said: "Zhaojing, Wenzhu, you two generations, I will send Yang out of the system." ”

The two female soldiers agreed, and a slightly taller female soldier said, "Commander Yang, come with us." ”

Yang Yan nodded slightly and said, "There are two girls." "These two female soldiers are both ten ** years old, they are both quite beautiful, and the one who just answered is about the same height as herself, with a long body and a jade body, looking forward to Gu Shenfei; The other is slightly shorter, with shaved shoulders and a thin waist. Although he didn't wear a helmet, he was also dressed in a tight suit with arrow sleeves, which looked heroic.

However, Yang Yan felt that the two women were a little familiar, so he couldn't help but ask, "What do you call the two girls?" "Although it is rude to ask a woman's name, in the army, there is nothing to do.

The two female soldiers looked at Yang Yan with strange eyes together, as if Yang Yan was asking very strangely. Yang Yan was also inexplicable, had he really seen these two people? There aren't many women he knows, except for Zhao Yueru and Zhao Qianru's sisters, there seems to be no one else. Could it be that they are female classmates of the Shangwu Academy, and they don't have any impression of themselves.

The tall female soldier said, "The little woman's name is Han Zhaojing." ”

The short female soldier said, "My name is Zhang Wenzhu." ”

"Han Zhaojing, Zhang Wenzhu" These two names are very unfamiliar, Yang Yanqi can't remember when he heard these two names, and he can't ask in detail. Fortunately, at this time, he had arrived at the gate of the mansion. Two female soldiers sent Yang Yan out of the gate, and Yang Yan said, "Thank you both." He turned around and went out.

Just when Cao Xun and Gao Zhen heard the news, they came to the door to wait for him. As soon as he saw Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu sending Yang Yan out, they immediately greeted him.

Cao Xun looked at Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu, who were following Yang Yan, and said, "Huh? The eldest brother recognized his relatives so quickly. ”

Yang Yan was stunned: "Relatives? What relatives? ”

Cao Xun pointed at Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu and said, "That's them." Seeing Yang Yan's expression, "Huh? Big brother, you won't tell me each other, don't you know? ”

Yang Yan was even more confused, he really didn't know. What kind of relatives do these two female soldiers have with themselves? Looking back at Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu, they had already pursed their lips and secretly enjoyed themselves.

Zhang Wenzhu said at this time: "Second Brother Yang, do you really not know us?" I am Zhang Wenmin's sister. Pointing at Han Zhaojing, she said: "She is the daughter of Han Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and she is my cousin, that is, my sister's cousin, do you understand now?" ”

Only then did Yang Yan understand. Zhang Wenmin is the granddaughter of the late king Zhang Jun, that is, the wife of Yang Changpeng. Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong are in-laws, Han Yanzhi married Zhang Jun's daughter, gave birth to the eldest daughter Han Zhaojing, Han Yanzhi's sister married Zhang Jun's son Zhang Zihou and gave birth to Zhang Wenmin and Zhang Wenzhu sisters. Therefore, Han Zhaojing and the Zhang family sisters are cousins, and they are indeed relatives of Yang Yan. Because Yang Yan ranked second in the third generation of the Yang family, Zhang Wenzhu called him the second brother Yang.

Yang Yan was embarrassed, hurriedly apologized to the two, and then hurriedly took Cao Xun and Gao Zhen away.

Han Zhaojing and Zhang Wenzhu turned back and told Zhao Qianru what had happened. Zhao Qianru couldn't help but laugh when she heard it, Yang Yan was really confused sometimes.

The next day, Li Bao and Wei Sheng convened the generals above the command to discuss the rescue of Qi County. Sure enough, all the generals thought that Yang Yan's attack on Heiyang Mountain was a feasible plan. At that moment, Li Bao decided to take a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, he notified the Suzhou Governor's Mansion and gathered all the horses that could be mobilized at present to rescue Qi County; On the other side, Yang Yan led a cavalry army to attack the Jin army granary in Heiyang Mountain.

Li Bao suddenly asked: "Commander Yang, have you thought about it, once you succeed in the sneak attack on Heiyang Mountain, how are you going to send the army back to the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Li Bao did ask the point. The sneak attack on the granary of the Jin army in Heiyang Mountain was based on the intention and the unintentional, and there was a certainty of success with five or six points. But the peace of scattering back to the Great Song Dynasty is the most important thing to build. Because once the sneak attack on Heiyang Mountain succeeds and burns the grain and grass of the Jin army, the Jin army will definitely withdraw from Qixian. But at that time, the expeditionary army will face the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the slightest carelessness will wipe out the entire army.

But how to withdraw troops? Yang Yanzhi really didn't think about it, and thought about it for a while: "At this point, the general doesn't have a very good idea, if the canal really doesn't work, then the whole thing will be divided into zero, and they will flee separately, and they will just resign themselves to fate." However, the matter of burning grain is a necessity and must not be changed. ”

Li Bao nodded and said, "The old man thought about it all night yesterday, and he came up with an idea to try." ”

Yang Yan was stunned, does Li Bao have any plans?

Li Bao said: "Once you succeed in burning grain, the Jin soldiers will definitely focus on blocking your route to the south when they encircle you, but if you don't go south, but turn east and go east, the Jin people will definitely not think of it." Once you can reach the seaside around Dengzhou eastward, the old man can send a navy there to pick you up and return to the Great Song Dynasty by boat. It's not that I, Li Bao, boasted, as long as I led a hundred warships, it was enough to run rampant on the sea, like the Jin country's navy and nothing. Therefore, as long as you step on the warship, even if the Jin people have a million soldiers, they will not be able to help you. ”

Yang Yan listened, looked at the map again, and there were nearly two thousand miles from Heiyang Mountain to Dengzhou. However, as Li Bao said, when the Jin soldiers surrounded the long-range attacking army, they would concentrate their forces and focus on blocking the road to the south, and would never have thought that the long-range attacking army would go east, so although they went around a little farther, they also had a great chance of successfully retreating. As for the sea, whether it is the quality of the warship, the quality of the navy, or the ability of the water war, the Jin army is far inferior to that of the Song army.

Thinking of this, Yang Yan nodded and said, "It's a good plan to make a big deal, and the general can follow the plan." ”

Li Bao said: "Okay, but the old man wants to go to Qixian County to relieve the siege in person, so the old man who will take over the fleet will let the dog Li Gongzuo take the lead, but it is good to ask for a time." ”

Yang Yan thought about it for a while, looked at the map and silently calculated for a while, before he said: "The final general calculates that it will take about five to eight days to attack Heiyang Mountain, and then it will take about fifteen days to estimate the time from Heiyang Mountain to Dengzhou Road." Therefore, from the day of the departure of the army, it will take twenty days to reach the coast of Dengzhou at the earliest, but if the army is not seen after a month, there is no need to wait. ”

Li Bao said: "Well, counting from the day you set out, after twenty days, the navy will definitely arrive, and will wait there for fifteen days, but what do we use as a signal?" ”

Yang Yan thought for a while and said, "If we can escape to the beach in Dengzhou, we will light three piles of firelight." But the fleet was to meet us thirty miles east of the place where the fire was fired. ”

Li Bao was stunned at first and then immediately understood, the two sides could only hold a fire as a signal, but lighting a fire would also expose the whereabouts of the Song army, so Yang Yan decided to set the place of ignition thirty miles east of the place as the place to respond, which was a clever move.

The route to the army was arranged, and the next step was to determine the personnel for the expedition. Yang Yan's Feng Army participated in all of them. In addition, Wei Sheng transferred a part of Haizhou's cavalry, with a total of 7,000 cavalry, more than 10,000 war horses, for mid-way transfer or carrying accompanying supplies, and 20 carts.

Among the generals who accompanied the army, in addition to all the generals of the Xuan Feng Army, Yu Gongliang and Chen Yichao also joined the expedition army. Because Kao Sha also had a tough battle to fight in the rescue of Qi County, he left Bi Zaiyu to listen to Li Bao and Wei Sheng's army. Xin Qiji and Wang Shilong were originally Shandong rebels and were familiar with the geography of Hebei in Shandong, so they also went on the expedition with Yang Yan. Wei Sheng also asked his son Wei Chang to take his two big eagles with two generals Dong Cheng, and Zhu Zhen also joined the expeditionary army. With the eagle as the eyes and ears, the chances of success in this late attack are greater.