Chapter 724: Attacking the Great Song

Just as the national teacher was going crazy, sitting behind his Shoufu desk, issuing a maddening decree to the gentry at a jaw-dropping speed, the Song army north of the Yellow River was also regaining lost ground at a jaw-dropping rate.

On the fourth day of Huaizhou's victory, Zezhou was recovered.

The reason why it is not the third day is mainly because there are too many dead bodies on the Taihang Road, especially the cleaning of the corpse mountain in front of Tianjing Pass takes too much time, as the striker, Liang Xing and Wang Yan spent a whole day to clean up this road, as for Zezhou City did not attack at all, after the news of the annihilation of the Jin army reached Zezhou, the Zhizhou appointed by the Jin Army in the city did not hesitate to kill a few Jin soldiers anyway, and then led his subordinates to Tianjing Pass......

Then he was sent to Bianliang.

Liang Xing took over the defense of Zezhou as the defense envoy of Zezhou, and acted as the governor before the governor arrived.

Only two days later, the forward cavalry led by Wang Yan arrived at his hometown Shangdang, which was the Longde Mansion at this time, and the defenders in the city killed the prefect appointed by the Jin army and went out of the city to welcome the surrender, Wang Yan did not stop and then led the cavalry north to the Weisheng Army, that is, Qin County. On the same day, after a skirmish, Liu Qi's troops recaptured Qinshui from the Jin army, opened the road to Jiangzhou, and Pingyang threatened Wanyan Xiyin from the flank, and the follow-up Zhang Zhongfen's troops were stationed in Yangcheng and Liang Xing together, forming the first line of defense against the southern mountainous areas. They forcibly drove all the people from all over the country into the neighboring cities, cleared all the wild food from the wilderness, and even the wild beasts were hunted in advance, so that no scum was left, and after cleaning up, they all shrank into the city, and happily waited to see how the Jin army starved all over the wilderness.

However, Wang Yan's troops were blocked by a Jin army at Weisheng, and the cavalry of the two sides engaged in a skirmish.

Of course, he still recaptured the Wasion Army.

But this also means that the Jin army has known that the entire army on the southern front has been wiped out, and began to take countermeasures, this should be a cavalry that went south to reconnoitre, but Wang Yan's original task was to reach the Weisheng army, so he did not continue to advance, but divided his troops to Liaozhou and recovered Liaozhou.

The area controlled by the Song and Jin was restored to the boundary line before the second southward march of the Jin army in the first year of Jingkang.

On the same day that Wang Yanguang recovered Liaozhou, the new Hedong Road Xuanfu envoy Zhang Suo arrived in Shangdang, and at the same time, the original completely destroyed Hedong Road administrative system was rebuilt in Longde Mansion, but the Xuanfu envoy was no longer in charge of the army, but Liu Qi was appointed as the envoy to take charge of military affairs, so far Liu Qi, who was only 30 years old, became the youngest member of the Great Song Dynasty. Before him, although there was not no military general, but the most recent is also a kind of teacher, this position itself is rarely established, and this time Yang Feng is completely institutionalized, and later the Great Song Dynasty Xuanfu made the people manage, placed the system to manage the army, transferred the money to manage the money, and put the criminal administration of justice, but added an additional governor, who has the right to inspect the envoys and places, but has no right to interfere in specific affairs, and is responsible for liaison with the commander's office and the cabinet......

In fact, it's a prison army.

But this supervisor is not a eunuch, but a national teacher himself, that is, his cronies, equivalent to Jinyiwei, this cronies are also open, because he not only has a thousand-level musketeer cavalry, but also equipped with a radio station.

Of course, the radio station was also made by the national teacher himself.

After all, this one is still too high-end.

This is Hedong Road.

The east and west roads of Hebei were directly merged into Hebei Road and Zong Ze was the Xuanfu envoy, and he also set up the envoy to become a real feudal town in charge of the army and the people.

The reason why Yang Feng didn't care about Zong Ze's identity and completely gave him both military and political power was mainly because although his military talent was not outstanding, his personal charm and ability to pacify the place were extremely strong. This is almost a miracle in the troubled times at the turn of the two Song Dynasty, and he can also integrate these miscellaneous cards and firmly hold Bianliang under the attack of Sticky Han, such a talent has to be said to be amazing, at this time, there is chaos in Hebei, and there are many bandits and routs, except for one such genius, it is difficult for others to fall.

At least except for Yang Feng himself, his subordinates really couldn't find a suitable one.

Yue Fei can do it.

But Yue Fei's qualifications are not good.

This kind of thing still requires qualifications, and Yue Fei has only been promoted to the commander by surprise until now, and those local officials who have released such an identity are probably a joke.

As for Zong Ze's rebellion......

This is nonsense, will the national teacher be afraid that others will rebel against him? What's more, the core of Zong Ze's subordinates is the 20,000 surrendered Jin army, it is said that these Jin troops are all believers in the national teacher, and all of them are real fanatics, those surrendered troops stationed outside Bianliang City and ready to prepare for the Northern Expedition, three times a day in the military camp in the morning, noon and evening, they do not move to worship the national teacher, it is said that other armies also have this habit, Zong Ze dares to create a national teacher against these people will not hesitate to fight back.

And Zong Ze really lived up to expectations.

Just when Liu Qi and other troops quickly recovered all parts of the party, Zong Ze's department also advanced by land and water in Hebei like a bamboo, and the Song army that went down the Yellow River by boat drifted all the way to Hengshui three days after the Huaizhou battle, and a small number of Jin troops and a bunch of puppet troops who originally attacked Shenzhou looked at the mighty and seemingly endless transport ships on the river, and immediately understood that the army of Sticky Han was defeated, and when the Song army began to land, it immediately broke the siege and retreated. The next day, a cavalry of water transport forcibly marched to Zhongshan, and the Jin army besieging Zhongshan also broke the siege and retreated, and Chen Yu, who had been in the city for half a year, cried to welcome the long-lost reinforcements, and then was stunned to find that the reinforcements were actually a group of Khitans.

Fortunately, immediately after Zong Ze's son, Zong Ying, led a follow-up reinforcement army to arrive.

After Zhongshan lifted the siege, Hebei was still under the control of the Jin army, and only Zhending was left, and the Jin army in this area also shrank into Zhending, which was stuck at the Jingcheng crossing, and the Jin army had to hold on, so it was indispensable to fight here, Zong Ze's department continued to arrive in batches, he used cavalry to block the Jin army in the north to reinforce the south, and besieged Zhending with infantry to attack the city, and at the same time recruited those routs and bandits in Hebei, and joined the siege of Zhending. This can be said that the last battle of Hebei Road is estimated to have to fight for a few days, after all, he still has to build the siege equipment first, although the Jin army in Zhending City is actually only a few thousand people, and the rest are all the puppet army they support, but the combat effectiveness of Zong Ze's department is also the bottom of all armies, and even the Jin army cavalry in the city has come out to counterattack.

However, his victory was only a matter of time, and when the counterweight trebuchet was built, those golden armies would not be able to jump.

The battlefield in Guanzhong is the same as Yang Feng guessed.

Wanyan Xiyin did not hesitate to abandon the river and retreat to Pingyang after learning that the whole army of Sticky Han was annihilated, but after the news of the Song army's recovery of the Weisheng army arrived, he abandoned Pingyang and retreated north to Huoyi as soon as possible, and he himself directly withdrew to Taiyuan, taking Huoyi as the front line, and using the strategic passage of Yangliang North and South Pass, that is, the middle of Yindi Pass and Lengquan Pass, the Lingshi of Bird Mouse Valley, as a barrier, and set out a defensive circle from Huoyi in the west to the south pass of the Weisheng Army in the east, and then to Yuci and then to Zhending. Obviously, they are reluctant to Taiyuan, after all, this is already the last piece of rich land they have theoretically seized from the Northern Song Dynasty, and once Taiyuan is gone, then the Song army will definitely go north on the whole line, and then the sixteen states of Youyun will be very dangerous.

At the same time that Yan Xiyin contracted the front, the coalition forces of Liu Guangshi and Zhai Xing unceremoniously recovered all the way, rushing ahead of the other armies in Shaanxi until Pingyang.

So the great work was easy to achieve.

When the other military leaders reacted, they had already entered Pingyang, and there was a skirmish with the Jin army guards.

However, Liu Guangshi immediately got his new position, he and Wang Deshuai led the department to the west to reinforce Longyou, Yang Feng set up a control envoy in Qinfeng, Xihe, Jingyuan, Huanqing four roads, he was the control envoy, and then counterattacked and recaptured the land that was previously occupied by the Western Xia, the latter almost laid down Guyuan to open the road to Guanzhong, but was blocked by Qu Duan in Guyuan, in fact, the Western Xia also captured a small piece of the northwest corner of the Hedong Road.

In other words, Liu Guangshi is really not good at fighting.

But he still has some skills in coordinating the various armies.

And what Yang Feng wants is someone who can coordinate the armies, and these four roads are not impossible to fight, not to mention that Liu Guangshi still has Wang De, Wang De's hometown is Qin Feng Road Tongyuan Army, generally speaking, as long as Liu Guangshi has Wang De by his side, even if he loses the battle, it will not be a real fiasco. What's more, there is Qu Duan there, and there are Wu Jue brothers under Qu Duan, in fact, one Qu Duan is enough, this guy who was killed by the civil official has been promoted to the head of Jingyuan Road because of his merits in guarding the town and Rong Army, Liu Guangshi went with the holy decree, and the original chief Xi Gong was dismissed because Fan Zhi dared not participate when he was the king of Xuqin.

In other words, some of these four roads can be fought, but they need a commander who can accept them to coordinate.

Liu Guangshi is very suitable for this role.

In this way, the deployment of Hebei, Hedong, and Longyou three battlefields are determined, and the rest is the attack on Youzhou or the Great Song Yanshan Road, but this war does not need the national division to recruit in person, the next most important thing for the national division is the internal reform, especially the agricultural census in various places, and the attack on Yanshan Road is fully responsible for the new Yanshan Road system, Han Shizhong is fully responsible, he participated in the last battle of Fuyan, and has been stationed in Hebei before, he is the most suitable for this position.

As for Zhang Jun, he succeeded Liu Guangshi.

The position is Yongxing, and the deputy envoy of the two roads is the envoy, and the envoy is a bargain, but Zhang Jun himself is the commander of the reorganized Sixth Army of the National Defense Army, and they are responsible for attacking Taiyuan from Lingshi and Lishi.

The main reason is that Zhang Jun's status is too low, and his past official position or family background is not the same level as Liu Guangshi.