Chapter 961: Yang Zu's Advice

Liang Yangzu saw Zhao Gou's thoughts, changed the topic and said, "King Kang, we must now control Ying Tianfu and drive Zhe Keqiu away." ”

Zhao Gou only felt his eyelids jump, from Yingtianfu to Jinling Mansion was an area controlled by Song Huizong, if he intervened, it would mean a series of conflicts; Zhao Gou was unwilling to cut off his back road from his heart, looking at Zhang Jun's unhappy face, Zhao Gou still shook his head. Xiang Zixu looked stupid on the side, what kind of logic is this, the materials have been transferred to Chuzhou and Xuzhou by Zhang Jun and himself, so that they can be used by Zhao Gou's army;

Zhang Jun dragged Xiang Zixu, signaling that the two of them should go, Liang Yangzu would not say these words for no reason, and it was better not to know some things. Liang Yangzu didn't leave, he saw too thoroughly the young man named Zhao Gou in front of him, and knew that he was not a person without opinions; when no one was there, Liang Yangzu whispered his idea, and used Li Cheng and Sun Qi, who were sheltered under King Kang's tent, to coerce the rout army to attack Huaining Mansion and Yingtianfu, and Liu Guanglie's army followed, even if Bianliang and Runzhou had anything to say, they would also throw Li Cheng and Sun Qi out.

Li Cheng and Sun Qi are nominally the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact they are no different from Liukou, Yang Zhi is limited to his own station, it is difficult to catch the two, and the most likely is that they will not be able to do it; Liang Yangzu has no choice, he is now under the hands of King Kang, and he can't turn back, if King Kang Zhao Gou falls, he Liang Yangzu and even the entire Liang family will be unlucky. Zhao Gou finally nodded with a gloomy face, and Liang Yangzu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Subsequently, starting from Yingtianfu, a large number of routs appeared, looting everywhere, and soon the fireworks and chaos spread from Yingtianfu and Gongzhou all the way to Gyeonggi Road; this time, unlike the thieves posed by Kong Yanzhou, the rampant people all claimed to be the official army and the Qinwang army, and brazenly sought the government and villages to ask for money, grain and grass.

Yang Zhi is not a benevolent and righteous gentleman, when the news of the capture of Kaide Mansion came, Yang Zhi knew that the rout would come, he did not believe in Zhao Gou's ability to control the army at all, and did not intend that Zhao Gou's army would retreat to Chuzhou with strict discipline, ready to gather to give the Jin army a head-on blow. However, Yang Zhi calculated that it was not the territory and the army in Chuzhou, but this batch of defeated soldiers, after all, Kaide Mansion had fought hard for more than a month, and now the defeated troops who rushed out can be said to have experience in fighting with the Jin army, and they have no desire to surrender to the Jin people, which is very in line with the replenishment of the army.

However, Yang Zhi understood that the thieves army under Zhao Gou was likely to take this opportunity to rob, and Yang Zhi secretly ordered Yang Yizhong and Li Yanxian to dispatch a total of 8,000 cavalry. The place Yang Zhi chose to do was Gongzhou, which twice became the Dongfu of Kaifeng under the suggestion of Cai Jing, and governed the five counties of Kaocheng, Taikang, Ningling, and Zhecheng, and was finally assigned to the jurisdiction of Ying Tianfu. Gongzhou came from Yongqiu, which was under the jurisdiction of Bianliang, and other places in Gyeonggi, where the defeated army could rob like locusts, and then leave a place of chicken feathers.

Last time he killed Kong Yanzhou in Yongqiu, this time if there is still a thief army, he will not be careless, according to the informant, Liu Guanglie's army is on its way to Yingtianfu; Nanjing left behind in Yingtianfu only four or five thousand soldiers, after taking office, be cautious, but to protect himself, since Zhao Gou let Liu Guanglie come, it is to replace him, I am afraid that he can only be an ostrich with his head buried in the sand.

Tens of thousands of defeated soldiers and displaced people once again rushed into Gyeonggi Road, and when they saw the appeasement lists posted by the various post stations in various counties, there was no change, except for a few people who went to the post stations to register, most of the defeated soldiers still looted everywhere for various reasons.

However, when the two armies of Chongbin and Yang Jin attacked from the north and south, and Yang Yizhong's 8,000 cavalry appeared, the defeated troops in each county had no resistance and either surrendered or fled; Li Cheng had already dealt with Yang Zhi's army, and knew that the other party would come to the truth, and Kong Yanzhou's fate was in front. Li Cheng had been cautious and fled as soon as he heard the wind. Sun Qi didn't expect to encounter an overwhelming cavalry, the three hundred cavalry under his command were not vulnerable at all, Sun Qi himself was killed by Li Yanxian before the battle, and more than 6,000 people immediately scattered.

What made Yang Yizhong unexpectedly gain was that Liu Guanglie's subordinate Wang De was attached, Wang De was originally a subordinate of Yao Gu of the Western Army, brave and good at fighting, and had the nickname of Wang Yasha; Liu Guanglie asked Wang De to come because he wanted to secretly help Li Cheng fight, but Li Cheng ran too fast, and more than 2,000 people under Liu Guanglie did not react, and under the impact of the cavalry of the Dingbei Army, most of them lost. After Wang De's defeat and learned that the Dingbei Army had tens of thousands of cavalry, he took a hundred of his subordinates to Yongqiu County and went directly to Yang Yizhong, the only condition was to join the cavalry.

The chaos in Gyeonggi quickly subsided, and Yang Zhi took all the nearly 10,000 people captured to Kaifeng, except for the veterans who had been in Puzhou and Kaide Mansion to be incorporated into the army, and the rest of the captives were let Yang Jin and Li Qiong first watch over the Lianzhu Fortress on the bank of the Bianhe River. Liu Guanglie, who was outside Yingtianfu City, was extremely distressed, and the losses of the 2,000 veterans could not be replenished at all; however, the Dingbei army did not admit any accusations at all, and only said that it was the thieves who were killed and the soldiers who were caught.

Liu Guanglie refused to give up, made a fuss about Wang De's defection to the Dingbei Army, and specially issued an official document to send someone to Kaifeng Mansion to submit a letter, and his tone was quite tough, wanting to arrest Wang De. Li Gang and Hu Yin looked at each other, after all, they could get news from all sides, and they knew that there was a small move by King Kang behind this rout, but Yang Zhi was even more ruthless, and secretly sent troops, almost one blow worked, and he didn't even leave a chance for the other party to fight back. Li Gang thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, but he didn't expect to hide from it.

Liang Xun replied very simply, tens of thousands of defeated soldiers have arrived in Kaifeng, and there may be more and more in the future, and Kaifeng Mansion has no time to do this. Later, Zhao Gou's letter was sent to Li Gang, and even issued an official document to Runzhou, wanting to fight this lawsuit; as soon as the imperial historian arrived in Runzhou, Song Huizong laid off half of the people, and the imperial historians were about to vent their anger and immediately asked Zhao Ye to send a document to reprimand him.

When the official document arrived in Bianliang, Yang Zhi did not hesitate to write a letter to refute it, the army that attacked the Great Song Dynasty was a bandit, since it was a bandit and a rout, what was the difference between a general and half of the soldiers, whether it was to kill or use power in himself. Yang Zhi pointed out that if Liu Guanglie had known about this matter in advance, Liu Guanglie would have been the chief evil, and if he had not known, Liu Guanglie would have been lax in administering the army. Yang Zhi is telling everyone that Sun Qi is instructed by someone behind the scenes, at least it has something to do with Liu Guanglie.