Li Bing hurriedly said: "Let Yang Zhi decide for himself, whether to send troops or stick to Luoyang, after all, for Bianliang and Bailu Mountain, Yang Zhi's troops are at a disadvantage and cannot be risked." As for Luoyang, Yang Zhi can be temporarily placed in charge, and after the war is over, the imperial court will arrange officials to take over. ”

The war was completely over, and several ministers around Li Bing laughed, according to current estimates, no matter how great Yang Zhi's ability is, Hangzhou is not short of money and food, and it is almost impossible to want the Jin army to admit defeat without a year or two. According to Li Bing's statement, if Yang Zhi was asked to arrange officials in the past two years, after two years, there would be absolutely nothing to do with King Kang; Qian Gai obviously understood this truth and refuted it: "If Yang Zhi is timid, he will hand over Dong Xian, Liu Zhengyan, Zhang Xi, Hu Songnian and other troops to King Kang, and order Zhai Xing to be the general and rush to the aid of Bianliang." ”

Li Hui sighed, he understood Qian Gai's thoughts, but now is not the time to talk about this, Zhai Xing don't talk about reinforcing Bianliang, even if he gives him tens of thousands of horses, it is estimated that he will lose all his lives in one or two battles. Once these troops in Luoyang are lost, there are not enough troops, even Yang Zhi will not be able to return to the sky; no matter from that point of view, it is more appropriate for Yang Zhi to be in charge of the war now than Zhai Xing.

Li Hui thought about it and said: "By all means, Zhai Xing took the initiative to give up Luoyang, which means that he is not an opponent of the Jin army; King Kang is in Yingchang Mansion, and it is not suitable to go to Luoyang; it is better to hand over the reinforcements from Runzhou to King Kang, once Yang Zhi advances eastward, King Kang and Yang Zhi can reinforce Bianliang from two directions." ”

Even Li Huidu's attitude, no one said anything else; at the same time that Qian Gai sent 3,000 people, the imperial court appointed Yang Zhi as the pacification envoy of Henan. However, Yang Zhi and Zhao Kai also gave enough face to Bianliang's side, Yang Zhi was agreed by Zhao Kai, with Dong Xian as the governor of Yuzhou, Zhang Xi as the governor of Shangzhou, Xu Wen as the governor of Henan, Liu Zhengyan as the defense envoy of Xiongzhou, Hu Tanglao as the deputy envoy of Henan transfer, and Hu Songnian as the prefect of Zhengzhou.

Of the nearly 40,000 soldiers who were captured this time, Yang Zhi still released all the people who wanted to go home except for 16,000 people selected by each department to replenish their troops. Of the more than 7,000 war horses captured, Yang Zhi gave Zhang Xi and Liu Zhengyan 2,000 each, and asked them to expand the cavalry; these two troops showed sufficient combat effectiveness, and Yang Zhi did not limit them at all, but did not allow them to expand their men and horses at will to reduce their combat effectiveness, which made the two very happy.

Especially Liu Zhengyan, if it wasn't for Yang Zhi's suggestion, he would not have been able to serve as the commander of the army, and he would not have followed Li Gang to Huaixi later; not to mention that in Liu Zhengyan's mind, no matter how you look at Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, has a greater chance of taking over the throne than several younger brothers, so Liu Zhengyan is in Luoyang, and Yang Zhi is very close, and the two often drink tea together and talk about military affairs.

Zhang Xi still has some thoughts, but he knows that Yang Zhi is the commander appointed by Song Huizong, and now there are things that can't bypass Yang Zhi's boss, Zhang Xi received Zhai Xing's letter, and after discussing with Dong Xian, the two came to find Yang Zhi together. Yang Zhi did not rush into Luoyang, but urged Hu Tanglao and Hu Songnian to transport grain and grass; on the Bianliang side, Wanyan Zongwang did not rush to send troops to fight for Luoyang, but transferred 100,000 troops on the front line of Yangzhou to reinforce Bianliang. The silence of the two made Zhao Gou and Zhai Xing miserable.

Zhai Xing was in Yiyang, waiting for Yang Zhi's action to conquer Luoyang, but Yang Zhi's action was too fast, and Zhai Xing did not get the opportunity to send troops at all; at present, Yang Zhi and Wanyan Zongwang were in such a stalemate, Zhai Xing instead became a stumbling block on the flank of the Jin army, so that Wanyan Zongwang had to pay attention to it, and ordered Liu Yu to mobilize troops to attack Yiyang. Zhai Xing hoped that Zhang Xi and Dong Xian would send troops to Yiyang and fight side by side with him, so he wrote a letter to ask for help.

Yang Zhi was deducing the battle situation with Liu Zhengyan and Xu Wen, and when he heard about it, he didn't even read Zhai Xing's letter, and said disdainfully: "Yiyang is a small place, he has tens of thousands of people, and now Peng Xi and other troops are also moving closer to Yiyang, if you go over, just give the Jin army a chance to encircle and annihilate." He didn't even want to stick to Luoyang before, but now what if he is acting like a person in Yiyang? I still say that since he gave up Luoyang, he is not trustworthy. If you want to preserve your strength and let him go south to Yingchang Mansion, if King Kang wants to counterattack, he needs his tens of thousands of troops. ”

Zhang Xi naturally knew that the purpose of Zhai Xing's trip to Yiyang was to compete with the Dingbei army for the territory of Hebei and Henan when Yang Zhi won, and once Zhai Xing went south, he would completely lose the opportunity; if Luoyang was handed over to the Dingbei army by Hangzhou in the future, Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, would lose the possibility of controlling the west and north of Henan Mansion. But Yang Zhi didn't agree to go by himself, he was equivalent to a white-eyed wolf on King Kang's side, Zhang Xi looked at Yang Zhi in embarrassment and said: "Yang Shuai, but General Zhai still has tens of thousands of soldiers under him." ”

Yang Zhi laughed: "Do you understand my intention to release those captives now? If Zhai Xing can really control the army, why can't he hold Luoyang; for example, he broke through the siege and arranged for his henchmen to take 10,000 or 20,000 people to freeze and seal the city? Zhai Xing should only control those troops in name, and once he encounters a crisis, he will fly separately when disaster comes." So he had no choice but to leave with his whole army, but his army didn't have many cavalry, so why didn't the cavalry of the same as Sumire pursue them?"

Yang Zhi's words were absolutely heartbreaking, but Zhang Xi and Dong Xian had no way to refute it, when Dong Xian was trapped in Hebei, Zhai Xing was deterred by 10,000 elite cavalry converted to Xiao Jian, and he did not dare to send troops to reinforce, so Dong Xian had to use the strategy of fake surrender, and he did not return to the Great Song Dynasty until now. And this time Zhai Xing broke through the siege, tens of thousands of people went to the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, and it was so that Xiao Jin did not pursue, if there was no surprise, Dong Xian and others could not convince themselves.

The room suddenly became embarrassed, Yang Zhi pointed to the sand table in front of him and said, "You guys came just in time, give me some ideas, if we and King Kang reinforce Bianliang in two ways, what will Yan Zongwang do?"

Liu Zhengyan explained with a smile: "Now that Yingtianfu is lost, once the 100,000 reinforcements from Yangzhou arrive, it is likely to be arranged in front of Yingchang Mansion, and Wanyan Zongwang will use the main force to hinder our army, and even fight a decisive battle with our army." ”

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "That's right, Wanyan Zongwang's mind is also here, neither I nor Wanyan Zongwang moved, what I am waiting for is an opportunity, my target is Guan Shigu, and Wanyan Zongwang's goal is Zhai Xing." Compared with the Jin army, our advantage is the hundreds of thousands of western troops in Bianliang City, if Wanyan Zongwang and us in a decisive battle west of Zhengzhou, Zhang Jun can send troops to fight with King Kang to sign an army, maybe we can sit and wait for Wanyan Zongwang to withdraw the army. ”