Thanks to the chess piece of Mo Jun laid by Li Yanqing before, Li Yanqing immediately got Pingjiang Mansion, the base camp of the rebellion against Zhao Ji, and the army was also increasing rapidly.

On the first day, Li Yanqing took 3,000 heavy armored infantry as the core, incorporated the 5,000 Xiang Army of Pingjiang Prefecture, and received 300,000 stone tax grain and one million guan tax money from Pingjiang Prefecture.

Soon, the Changzhou military training enabled Pan Yue to rush to Pingjiang Mansion with 8,000 recruits, so that Li Yanqing's army quickly increased to 16,000 people, and at the same time, Han Shizhong's 30,000 troops also crossed the Yangtze River, joined forces with Cao Sheng's army in Jiangning Prefecture, and quickly rushed to Pingjiang Mansion, Li Yanqing's army will exceed 60,000 in just four days.

At the same time, Cao Meng and Gao Chong led 30,000 cavalry to enter Dengzhou through Wuguan and forcibly break into the Central Plains.

Li Yanqing's military camp was set up in the south of Pingjiang City, covering an area of thousands of acres, he brought thousands of big tents from Chengdu Mansion, all of them were used at this time, and thousands of camp tents were set up successively, and soon, Cao Sheng led the army from Jiangning Mansion to the south, and also brought thousands of big tents, basically solving the problem of military camps.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Yanqing set out to form a 5,000-sailor army, all of whom came from all over the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them were boat operators, and their ability to steer ships and their water skills were very skillful.

It would be a pity if the 60 thousand-stone warships led by him were left in Taihu Lake, and there was a powerful naval army, which would play a great role in promoting the operations in the Jiangnan region.

In fact, Li Yanqing still has a worry, that is, Liu Guangshi, the capital of Chuzhou in Huaibei, has never responded to his call for 'Qingjun'.

The 50,000 troops in Liu Guangshi's hands were all Zong Ze's troops in the past, when Zong Ze died, Zhao Gou, the son of heaven, and the Emperor Taishang competed for the 80,000 troops left by Zong Ze, and finally divided into two, Zhao Gou's 40,000 troops were handed over to Yue Fei, and the 40,000 troops obtained by the Emperor Zhao Ji were handed over to Liu Guangshi.

Liu Guangshi's father, Liu Yanqing, was Gao Yu's confidant and was loyal to Zhao Ji, if Liu Guangshi had not expressed loyalty to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji would never hand over the 40,000 troops to him.

It was precisely with this realization that Li Yanqing had to guard against Liu Guangshi's army going south and attacking him from behind, so it was necessary to establish a naval army to blockade the Yangtze River.

However, Li Yanqing is still patiently waiting for the return of the three heroes of the Ruan family, they came from Lin'an Mansion, it should be these two days.

"Qi Yu Dutong, General Ruan has arrived!" A soldier reported at the door.

Li Yanqing hurriedly said, "Let them come in!"

After a while, Ruan Xiaoer walked into the big tent quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See Dutong for your humble duties!" ”

"Good work, please get up!"

Li Yanqing asked him to get up, looked behind him again, and asked with a smile, "What about your two brothers?" ”

"They're still at the gate of the camp!"

"Why?" Li Yanqing asked puzzled.

"We saved one person on the way, most likely His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Li Yanqing was stunned, "That two-year-old child?" ”

Ruan Xiaoer nodded, "We were drinking tea in the tea shed, and we heard a few secret whistles say that we had found traces of the prince, so we followed and followed, and we rescued a palace maid, she was holding a child in her arms, saying that it was the prince, we didn't dare to confirm it, so we escorted her and the child to Pingjiang Mansion." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, "Take a look!" ”

He took Ruan Xiaoer and walked quickly towards the gate of the barracks, and in the distance, Li Yanqing saw Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu standing at the gate with a young woman holding a very small child in her arms.

Li Yanqing asked again: "Is there only this palace maid?" ”

"Originally, there was an old nun, who was the owner of Baiyun Nunnery, she was injured, and she went back after confirming our identities, this little lady refused to enter the barracks, and she must see Dutong."

Li Yanqing strode out of the barracks, and the palace maid Li Cai'e recognized Li Yanqing, and immediately knelt down and cried, and the child in her arms was scared and cried too.

At this time, Hu Qing'er also rushed out with a few female soldiers, she hurriedly helped Li Cai'e up, comforted her for a long time, Li Cai'e gradually stopped her tears, took out the blood edict and gold medal given to her by the official family from her arms, and handed it to Li Yanqing.

After Li Yanqing read the blood edict, his heart was happy again, but at the same time very heavy, he hurriedly asked a female soldier to pick up the child and led everyone into the camp.

In the big tent, Li Yanqing stared at the blood edict on the table, and Zhao Gou said in the edict that if he encountered an accident, he could set up a prince to inherit the unification, and begged Li Yanqing to protect his son sooner or later, which was actually a testament, making his son the emperor, and entrusting Li Yanqing, but it was written in blood, which was even more shocking.

After a long time, Li Yanqing sighed lowly, put away the blood edict, and asked Hu Qing'er, who had been standing behind him for a while, "Are they all settled?" ”

"After settling in, the child can't leave the palace maid for the time being, so I will arrange them in a big tent and let two female soldiers protect them."

"Thank you!"

Hu Qing'er slowly stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Husband plans to set up a young prince?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "This is God's arrangement, and I must conform to God's will." ”

"Then in the future, we will move back to Lin'an Mansion?"

"Perhaps!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "It's too early to talk about this matter, go and find me the three heroes of the Ruan family." ”

Hu Qing'er said with a smile: "They are more anxious than Fujun, and they have already gone to train the navy." ”

Li Yanqing laughed, "These three guys are also conscious, let's go!" Let's see. ”

Li Yanqing left the big tent and rode towards the naval barracks.

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Since Emperor Taishang Zhao Ji established himself as the regent, there are not many state capitals that respond to and support him, only ten state capitals near Lin'an Mansion, including Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou, Ningguo Mansion, Guangdejun, Yanzhou, Huizhou, Wuzhou, Huiji, Qingyuan, Taizhou, etc., and the distant state capitals have all remained silent without exception, neither expressing support for him as regent, nor supporting Li Yanqing's Qingjun side.

This pattern made Zhao Ji very annoyed, although at present, only Jiangning Mansion, Pingzhou Mansion, Yangzhou, Runzhou, Changzhou and Ezhou two prefectures openly support Li Yanqing, but Zhao Ji is very clear that the Northwest Fifth Road plus Bashu Third Road and Hedong Road must support Li Yanqing, and after calculation, Li Yanqing has received the support of most states and counties.

Now they have no other way to go except to quickly exterminate Li Yanqing.

In the Zhizheng Hall, Zhao Ji presided over a meeting of the Zhizheng Hall, and just yesterday, Zhao Ji dismissed Vice Minister Zheng Wangzhi from the position, just because Zheng Wangzhi was promoted by Li Yanqing, Zhao Ji doubted his loyalty to himself.

The new vice minister who replaced Zheng Wangzhi was Xu Churen, who was removed from office for offending Li Yanqing, and Zhao Ji reactivated him, Xu Churen was flattered, he actively expressed his loyalty, and even hated Li Yanqing more than Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan.

"Everyone knows the current situation, Cao Sheng openly supported Li Yanqing, Pan Yue also betrayed the imperial court, the reason why Li Yanqing dared to rebel was to get the army of the two, let's talk about it, how to deal with the current situation?"

At this time, Wang Boyan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to say a few words!" ”

Wang Boyan is a privy envoy and has a good understanding of the military intelligence in various places, so Zhao Ji nodded, "Wang Xianggong, please speak!" ”

"Your Majesty, although Li Yanqing's Northwest Army is strong, after all, the road is far away, it will take at least a month and a half to come from the northwest, and it can be said that it is not easy to constantly replenish grain and grass on the road, and the army on the Jingxiang Road is busy suppressing bandits, in fact, it is neutral, in this way, Li Yanqing only has a maximum of 50,000 troops in his hands, while we have 180,000 troops!"

"Wait!"

Zhao Ji suddenly heard that something was wrong, "Where did the other 50,000 troops come from?" ”

They only have 100,000 recruited new troops in their hands, plus 30,000 defenders, a total of 130,000 people, where are the 50,000 troops?

But Zhao Ji was just stunned for a moment, and then understood, "You mean Liu Guangshi's 50,000 troops?" ”

Wang Boyan nodded, "Liu Guangshi's army was won by His Majesty with a lot of energy, no matter what, he should obey His Majesty's command." ”

Zhao Ji's heart suddenly became a little relaxed, in this way, they have 180,000 troops in their hands, nearly four times as much as Li Yanqing, Zhao Ji made up his mind that Li Yanqing must be exterminated in the shortest possible time, and Li Yanqing's banner cannot be continued to be raised.