The Song army relied on a morale, and Liu Zhen, under the coercion of military orders, advanced to Luzhou almost desperately; after Yan Gao avoided the advance of Liu Zhen's army, he retreated in the first battle, and waited until all the Song troops were introduced into the encirclement, and then ambushed the troops in all directions, annihilating Liu Zhen's 100,000 army in Shouyang. Wan Yan Gao had no worries about the north, turned around and went south, and fought with Xie Qian in Longde Mansion, just one day's work, Sun Yi, Han Quan, and Luo Cheng were all killed, and Xie absconded back to Zezhou.

Wanyan Gao swept through Hedong, Shizhou and other places surrendered without a fight, Wanyan Gao successively collected 40,000 soldiers, and attacked Fenzhou, an important town controlled by the Dingbei Army in the south of Taiyuan. Knowing that officials in Shizhou and other places had reduced their gold, Zhao Kai and Zong Ze and others breathed a sigh of relief, what they were most afraid of was that these places were still the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Dingbei Army could not interfere in obtaining material and military resources, but they consumed vital forces in Taiyuan and the Jin Army.

Zhao Kai ordered Xu Huiyan to be the pacification envoy of Jinning, Shizhou, and Lanzhou, and commanded the Jinning army to go south to recover Shizhou, Lanzhou, and other places; ordered Min to be the pacification envoy of the Hedongnan Road to collect the lost Song army in Luzhou and other places; Zong Ze led the two armies of Sun Ang and Wenda to the south, and concentrated a total of 50,000 horses with Zhang Hao to defend Fenzhou. Zong Ze didn't want to look good, but just used the main force to defend the Bird Mouse Valley and Fenzhou City, the terrain of the Bird Mouse Valley is dangerous, and Fenzhou City has been strengthening its offensive and practicing to defend the city; Zong Ze and Zhang Hao brought in a large number of firearms and divine arms and bows in advance, all of which were arranged in dangerous places.

After Yan Gao wiped out 300,000 Song troops in ten days, leaving a shadow in the hearts of many people, Zhang Hao was still not at ease, and asked Zong Ze: "Zong Shuai, can we really hold it?"

Zong Ze said with a smile: "Is Wanyan Gao going to attack Taiyuan? No, it's because the Jin army needs to repair after continuous battles, and fighting Fenzhou is an opportunity that no one notices. It is better to defeat Fenzhou, if it can't be defeated, once the Jin army is corrected, it can capture Pingyang and other places nearby, completely destroy the army and horses of the Great Song Dynasty in Hedong, and then when the Yellow River freezes, and Wanyan Zongfu and others in Huazhou cross the river south at the same time. It will take time for the Jin army to attack Zezhou, and we only need to hold out for twenty days. ”

Twenty days, for the 50,000 Dingbei Army is really nothing, since the integration into the Dingbei Army, Zong Ze, Seed Master Min and others have been training in the army, all copying the training methods of the Canglang Battalion, even Zhang Hao feels that his army's combat effectiveness has improved a lot. Besides, there are a large number of garrison equipment prepared in Fenzhou City, even if Zong Ze does not reinforce him, Zhang Hao thinks that it will not be a problem for him to defend it for a month.

The siege equipment of the Jin army is indeed relatively simple, almost the ladder does not care about life and death to let the surrendered Song army rush to the city wall, the main force of the Jin army is in the back, and those who retreat are killed; the rolling wood and hot oil on the city head continue to smash into the Jin army besieging the city, and the city wall is full of wailing. Zong Ze said to the soldiers of the Dingbei Army on the tower of the city: "See, this is the fate of the surrendered Jin army, the other party does not take the surrendered army as its own people, but is just a tool to consume our military strength." ”

Zhang Hao's subordinates burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, which made the battle of Fenzhou fall into a stalemate from the beginning, and the main force of the Jin army was exhausted under continuous battles, and the combat effectiveness of the surrendered army could not play a normal level, and the two sides fought hard for ten days, and Fenzhou was still in the hands of the Dingbei Army.

Xie Qian and the others were a little relieved when they heard the news, and Wan Yan Gao continued to fight at this speed, and within a month or two, the battle of Taiyuan could not be over, Xie Qian ignored Zong Ze's request for the caravan to send the news that the Jin army would definitely go south, and wrote to the imperial court that he was determined to hold Hedong; Li Gang was deprived of his command, and the DPRK directly ordered the deployment of defenses, Xie Qian guarded Zezhou on the eastern front, and ordered Liu Rui and Lin Jiren, the prefect of Pingyang Mansion, to mobilize men and horses to hold Pingyang Mansion and stabilize the east and west lines of Hedong. Fan Qiong, who had just crossed the Yellow River, simply stationed troops on the banks of the Yellow River and transferred the boats of the Yellow River Gang to act together.

This is exactly what Yan Gao designed, he did not do his best in Fenzhou to let the cavalry repair, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the opportunity for the Song army to assemble again, which could eliminate the mobile forces of the Song army in Hedong at one time. There were still 20,000 defenders in Pingyang, but when the 20,000 reinforcements mobilized from all over arrived, Wan Yan Gao commanded 40,000 Jin army cavalry to suddenly kill, Liu Rui and Lin Jiren retreated as soon as they engaged, and the entire Song army collapsed.

Pingyang Mansion is the Fen, Xi and other road marshals' mansions, after the Jin army succeeded, they gave up the siege of Fenzhou, divided troops to attack Xizhou and other places, Wan Yan Gao then led a large army to capture the Weisheng army, and then concentrated his forces again to Zezhou. Xie Qian did not ask the imperial court for reinforcements in advance, only the 30,000 troops cobbled together by Zezhou and nearby prefectures and counties were not Wan Yangao's opponents at all, so he could only abandon Zezhou in less than three days, retreat to the south of the Yellow River, and let the Jin people ride south.

Bianliang was shaken, Xie Qian's defeat meant that Hedong was completely lost, and the Jin army and the Song army on the east and west were separated by the Yellow River; Zhan Du and others were anxious that the nearly 400,000 troops lost in Hedong could not be made up for at all, so they thought twice and appointed Zhe Yanzhi to lead 120,000 troops to Xuanfu Deputy Envoy to guard the Yellow River with Li Hui, a member of the Privy Council, and sent Li Ruoshui to Wanyan Gao's camp to negotiate peace.

For the defeated generals, the imperial historians attacked en masse, and none of the prime ministers let go, Xu Han and Lin Jiren resigned due to illness, Liu Rui was demoted to Suinan Zhai Zhizhai, Jiao'an Festival was killed in Bianliang, Yao Gu was degraded to Lingnan Guangzhou, and Xie Qian was degraded to Yazhou. After Li Gang resigned after returning to the court, he was immediately charged with "being the master of the war and spending money on the loss of his teacher," and he first ordered the Jianchang army to be resettled, and then to Kuizhou; when he learned that Liang Yangzu and Yang Weizhong had received Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, Song Qinzong not only did not blame him, but praised Zhao Gou, Liang Yangzu, and Yang Weizhong greatly.

However, the news from Hedong still made Song Qinzong sit on pins and needles, and the Dingbei army took the opportunity to capture Shizhou and Lanzhou, and established Jinning Mansion with the Jinning Army and Lanzhou, and appointed Xu Huiyan as the prefect; Fenzhou Mansion was established with Shizhou and Fenzhou, and Zhang Hao was appointed as the prefect of Fenzhou Prefecture. The seed master Min did not want Luzhou, but recruited Shi Xu, Huang You, moved more than 60,000 people, the Dingbei Army gave the people a concept is that they can defeat the Jin soldiers to keep one side, although the people are not willing to fight to the death, at least value the current stability of Taiyuan, and the Dingbei Army will definitely not have any turmoil before the big defeat.

Taiyuan is now standing, in the south to force Song Qinzong into a desperate situation, the north threatens the Jin army's base camp Youzhou, Yang Shi directly wrote a letter, suggesting that the imperial court should not send officials to the north to pretend, it is better to directly throw the northern army, at least to compete with the Jin State; as a result, Yang Shi was dismissed. If it weren't for Yang Shi being a famous Confucian, Sun Fu and others would have stopped him, Nie Shan would have been ready to put Yang Shi in prison.