When Yang Zhi heard this, he understood what Zhao Kai meant, this time he raised the level of the Five Protectors, just to distinguish his own troops, and Zhao Kai's plan to check and balance himself has not decreased, but it is just a different way. Zhao Kai's other action was to send Cao Qianli to Chang'an, in the name of assisting Zhao Duofu in dealing with the workshop matters, Yang Zhi knew that Zhao Kai's purpose was to have a conflict between Cao Qianli and himself, so as not to collude with the two.

Yang Zhi believed that the Cao family brothers were no less wise than themselves, and the two of them could also see this, except for a few henchmen, the rest of the people Yang Zhi didn't even say hello. Anyway, Zhao Duofu had already tried all the ways, and when Lu Tianshan couldn't stand it, he could still push everything to Qinzhou, after all, the Shaanxi transfer envoy was Liang Xun.

At the same time that Zhai Xing went out with all his strength and fought fiercely with the signing army in Yanshi, Li Gang also began to advance eastward, but after several battles, Zhai Xing was always subject to the gap in strength, and finally lost the first line of Yanshi and retreated to Luoyang. Although Wang Yan attacked Mengzhou twice, he had to withdraw his troops, after all, far away from Taihang Mountain, the defects of the Bazi Army were undoubtedly exposed, as long as the Jin cavalry arrived, they had to retreat, so as not to be bitten by the opponent.

Wanyan Zongwang took advantage of the cavalry and finally seized the opportunity to defeat Zhang Jun. Under the urging of Hangzhou again and again, Zhao Kai had to throw the pot to Yang Zhi, asking Yang Zhi to decide the front-line war on his own, including reinforcements to Luoyang. Yang Zhi naturally did not rush to dispatch, but with an order, he could mobilize troops and grain and grass equipment.

Fortunately, Yang Zhiliu Liu Qi, Wang Bian, and Zhu Wu stayed in Shaanxi to guard the various roads, so that Yang Yizhong led the army to Qinzhou, and took the Qijing original road and Qinfeng Road to aid Tongguan, Liang Xing finished resting, and replenished 10,000 people from the Tuntian camp. Wang Shan's cavalry was the first to be dispatched, but was limited by Yang Zhi to within fifty miles east of Tongguan, mainly to meet the refugees and rout troops who had fled to Guanzhong. Yang Zhi knows the virtue of those Western troops, as long as they get rid of the rout, they will be robbers, and there will be many incidents if no one is pressed.

Both Shuozhou and Xingzhou began to water the city, using the thickness of the ice city to block the opponent's attack. Yang Zhi also sent someone to Luoyang to tell Zhai Xing about this method, but Zhai Xing refused to do so, and only asked Yang Zhi to send troops, and Yang Zhi could only send letters to Zhao Gou and Hangzhou, but Zhao Gou also refused to do so. Ice and snow sealed the city, even if he couldn't get out, Zhao Gou didn't want Zhai Xing and Luoyang's army to enter a desperate situation.

Yang Zhi will not take risks, the opportunity is lost like this, and by the time Yang Yizhong's 30,000 troops arrived at Tongguan, Luoyang had already been lost. Knowing that there were less than 100,000 signed troops attacking separately in Luoyang and other places, Yang Zhi decided to use the cavalry to break through, although Luoyang did not recover all at once, but still eliminated more than 50,000 signing troops, and Wanyan Zongwang had to send 20,000 cavalry to reinforce.

Yang Zhi's Qu Duan, Liu Qi and others were not there, but Xu Wen, Liang Xing, Yang Zhongwu and others shined and defeated Wanyan Zongwang's 20,000-strong army by encirclement and suppression. Xu Wen slaughtered all the way, captured Luoyang like Yang Zaixing, and signed an army of 17,000 people to surrender.

Yang Zhi captured Lingzhou, and actually received a military order from Zhao Kai asking him to be in charge of reinforcing Bianliang, and Zhang Shen succeeded Yang Yizhong as the Jingyuan Road Envoy in charge of the Southern Route Army; Xu Wen said dissatisfiedly: "Yang Shuai, the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, and the king of Yun does not want us to get merit, and wants Zhang Shen and others to pick peaches." ”

After Yang Zhi captured Luoyang, he took the initiative to write a letter hoping that Hangzhou would send someone to take Luoyang. Yue Fei wondered, "Senior brother, why do you have to retreat so bravely. ”

Yang Zhi shook his head and smiled: "I am a concubine, I should enjoy the glory and wealth, in the future, there will be you and Han Shizhong, Zhang Suo, Liu Qi and others in the army, it is difficult for Jin Guo to have your opponents, and your biggest resistance at this time comes from behind." If I were in the court, I would be able to reduce the resistance for you to some extent, Li Gang is a loyal and upright person, but some things can not be solved by relying on loyalty. ”

During the Zhongxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Wushu was repeatedly defeated by Yue Fei and others, and almost lost Henan, but Jin Wushu made a move and reached an agreement with the main peace faction within the Southern Song Dynasty, which should have allowed Yue Fei and others to miss the opportunity in the golden period because of Zhao Gou's obstruction, and Yue Fei himself died in the Wind Wave Pavilion.

Yang Zhi didn't want to have this result for himself, and he didn't want Yue Fei to have this result, so he took the initiative to ask to change his role when he had no reward. If Jin Wushu did this again, Yang Zhi didn't care about embarrassing Jin Wushu, Qin Hui or anyone at all. Over the years, Yang Zhi has regarded himself as a Song man and the Central Plains as his hometown.

Yue Fei smiled: "Senior brother is really so confident?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "Han Shizhong and Liu Qi are afraid that they can reach my level, Pengju, you will definitely be able to surpass me in the future, I hope you can go straight to Huanglong Mansion, but sometimes, you can't be in a hurry, there are always victories and defeats, but time is on our side, not on the Jin country's side, with the age of you, me and King Yun, twenty years is enough." ”

Yang Zhi resigned so much, obviously to reassure everyone, Song Huizong rarely asked Zhao Kai to elect a successor within a month, and asked Yang Zhi to recommend him if he didn't. In order to appease Yang Zhi, Song Huizong decided to give Yang Zhi a satisfactory official position, and could even come to Hangzhou to take up a post, so he specially sent Ma Shen to inquire.

When the prime ministers heard the news, they were ready to compete for positions in the positions of privy envoy and lieutenant, Yang Zhi is now comparable to Li Jing and Di Qing, and his prestige in the army exceeds that of the master Dao, so that several selected opponents Zhang Jun and Zhe Keyan Alexander. The prime ministers thought they had no last resort, but they didn't expect Shen Chong to come back and say that the two positions proposed by Yang Zhi, the first was Shangshu Youcheng, which made everyone feel like they were punching out.

Shang Shu Youcheng is in charge of the Ministry of War, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Industry, not a small official, but not a particularly big official; in the history of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no military future to do this position, but Yang Zhi is different, as a leader of the Guanzhong School, he was born as a Jinshi, created a new calculation method, and also did a party Zhizhou, the level of Gewu is unmatched, such a person is not qualified to serve as Shangshu Youcheng, Li Gang has no confidence.

And Yang Shi, Zhou Dunyi and others in Taixue are also unbearable, Song Huizong is happy with Yang Zhi's choice, Li Gang and these people are not agreeable, Shen Chong said that Yang Zhi also said that he can't be a scholar and a right man, that is, Wang Anshi's first official position in Beijing, participating in political affairs. In November of the thirteenth year of Tang Zhenguan, Tang Taizong took Liu Xun as the squire of the Yellow Gate and participated in the governor's affairs, and the governor's official name was officially the prime minister; in the Song Dynasty, he set up Zhongshu Men, and the governor's political affairs became a permanent official position, and as the deputy prime minister, its fundamental purpose was to weaken the power of the prime minister and increase the imperial power.