After withdrawing from Xinxiang, the Nianhan army headed north and plundered while walking. The Song army along the way was all shackled in the city and did not dare to leave the city to block it. Until the Nianhan army occupied Wei County to the west of Daming Prefecture and threatened Daming Prefecture.

Wang Yan, Yue Fei and Hu Yangeng broke up in Xinxiang City. Wang Yan and Yue Fei both belong to the Hedong Economic and Technical Bureau. Fu Liang, the Economic and Technical Bureau, is now in Shaanxi Province, and Wang Yan and Yue Fei are both going to gather in Shaanxi Province.

After Hu Yangeng collected grain in Weizhou, he led his army back to Xingzhou with Puliu Ru Bosheng. In the current situation, the north side of Hu Yangeng is Yao Youzhong, Wu Ge is Wu Ge, and to the east side is Nangong where Wanyan Yinshu is stationed.

While Wanyan Eliduo is in charge of Zhending, Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Eliduo's two generals Yao Youzhong and Wu Ge were sandwiched in the center.

The Jin Dynasty's Wanyan Dalai, Wanyan Eliduo, Wanyan Nianhan, and Wanyan Silver Skills combined, with a core force of about 100,000 people, and the number of the new affiliated troops is about 150,000 to 100,000. That is, the total force in Hebei is about 250,000 now.

The news was sent from Cangzhou that Zong Ze was in charge of Daming and asked Hu Yangeng to arrange the defenses of Bazhou and Mozhou before going to see him. Zong Ze did not know that Hu Yangeng had arrived in Xiangzhou. Hu Yangeng asked Puliuru Bosheng to continue to station in Xingzhou and left Pang Shannuo to help him. He and Gao Chong and others took a detour from the south to reach Daming.

Hu Yangeng was covered in clothes and went to see Zong Ze. He signed up for himself at the entrance of Daming Left-Secretariat. After a while, an old family member came and led Hu Yangeng to the entrance of a study room. The old family member said, "The ruler is waiting for the general inside."

Hu Yangeng took out a purse and wanted to hand it over to this old man. The old man said sarcastically: "Does the general want to punish me if the ruler?"

Protective eyes and took back their purse, saluted to the study, and said loudly: "I will pay homage to Hu Yangeng."

The study room creaked and opened it, and Zong Ze stood at the door: "Henghai, come in."

Hu Yangeng walked into the study and felt a little proud in his heart: What a great glory this is to welcome the minister.

Zong Ze and Hu Yangeng had met briefly a few times before, but had never had a deep conversation. This time, Zong Ze did not say a word of nonsense, and asked him directly about the situation in Pinglu, Cangzhou and Hejian Prefecture, how many soldiers Hu Yangeng had in his hands, and how the training of the army was.

Most of Hu Yangeng answered truthfully, but only said that his total strength was about 20,000, half of which were in the Red Turban in Xingzhou.

"Shukang, how many troops can you transfer to Daming Mansion?"

Hu Yangeng was surprised. Is Daming Mansion short of soldiers now? "My last general, please ask me, how many troops does Daming Mansion have now?"

Zong Ze sighed: "There are quite a few soldiers in the Daming Mansion, and the defense is still useful. It's a pity that no one dares to take the initiative."

After arriving in Hebei, he immediately increased his efforts to recruit the rebels and pacify the rebels. Now, in the Daming Prefecture, in addition to the imperial guards and the wing army led by Wenda and Li Cheng, there were countless rebels, including Wang Shan with 50,000 troops, Ding Jin with 100,000 troops, and Yang Jin with 30,000 troops. All the loyal and righteous troops were claimed to be 700,000.

Wang Shan was a thief from Hedong. In addition to 50,000 people and hundreds of chariots, he wanted to take advantage of the situation in Hebei to rob, Zong Ze rode his horse to Wang Shan's barracks alone and said to Wang Shan in tears: "The court is in danger. If there are one or two people like a man, how could there be any danger of foreign enemies invasion? Now is the time for you to make meritorious contributions and you cannot lose the opportunity." Wang Shan was moved and shed tears and said, "How dare you not serve the court." So he broke his armor and surrendered.

Yang Jin claimed to be a hornless cow, with 30,000 troops, traversing between the two rivers, robbing and looting, and became a disaster. Zongze sent people to teach him loyalty and righteousness, grant him official positions, and surrender all his subordinates.

In terms of quantity, Daming Mansion does not lack 20,000 people who have been reported to Hu Yangeng, but Daming now lacks generals who can form a formation to fight.

"Wenda, Li Chengsu is called brave, why don't my husband do it?"

Zong Ze sighed: "Li Cheng only knew that he was respectful to his own troops. When he fought with the Jin people, he waved his flag and shouted perfunctorily. I wanted to kill him, but it was blocked by Zhang Yiqian. As for Wenda, I was the governor of Cizhou last year, and Wenda's position was still above me." These two people did not obey the orders, and Zongze did not move.

After Wanyan Nianhan and Wanyan Yinshu approached Daming, Zong Ze commanded the Jin soldiers to fight several battles. The Song army gathered in the Daming area, and the Jin soldiers tentatively attacked Daming several times, but were all repelled.

But the problem is that Wenda, Li Cheng, and Wang Yuan, who were formally organized, did not obey Zong Ze's orders. When the Jin soldiers approached, the three commanders defended the city and returned to Cheng. They asked them to take the initiative to attack, so they pretended to lead the troops out of the city and then "fight hard with the Jin people and returned."

Just two days before Hu Yangeng arrived, the Jin soldiers provoked at Daming City. Wen Da led his army to attack, and the Jin soldiers retreated. Wen Da pretended to pursue, but the main force returned halfway. Only Suo Chao, a commander of the Daming Imperial Army, pursued sincerely. After chasing the Jin people, friendly troops did not follow. Suo Chao relied on his bravery to break back alone.

Zongze sent generals Li Jingliang, Yan Zhongli, and Guo Junmin led troops to fight and met Jin soldiers. The two sides fought. Yan Zhongli died in battle. Guo Junmin surrendered and Li Jingliang fled. Zongze captured Li Jingliang and said to him: "If you cannot win, you can forgive your crimes; if you run away privately, you will ignore the main general." He was beheaded to warn the soldiers.

Soon Guo Junmin came to surrender Zong Ze with a letter. Zong Ze scolded Guo Junmin and said, "You died in battle because of your defeat. You are still a loyal and righteous ghost. Now you are holding a letter for the Jin people to lure surrender. What are your faces to see me?" He was beheaded. General Zhang Zhi and others fought with the Jin soldiers and were also killed in battle.

After these generals died, Zong Ze found that he had no one to use, so he found Hu Yangeng's head.

Hu Yangeng thought intimately whether Zong Ze was destined to be restrained in this way. In another time and space, although he stayed behind for Kaifeng, he did not value Zhao Gou. Zhao Gou threw him in Kaifeng to clean up the mess and went to Jinling by himself. Zong Ze asked for money or food, and the memorial to ask Zhao Gou to return to Beijing was even more muddy.

In this time and space, Bianliang generally supports Zong Ze in charge of the overall situation in Hebei, and even the military commander and military commander do not obey orders. What should Zong Ze do?

"Your Majesty will arrive at Daming at the end of the summoning moment, can you tell me?"

"I want to use your troops as the main force and give you another 20,000 people to go to Wei County to attack Nianhan."

How can that work? Hu Yangeng thought that in Xinxiang, ten thousand red scarves, with the help of the trenches, they formed a population with Nianhan. It was still Yue Fei's outbreak that disrupted the flags of the Jin army, and forced Nianhan away. In the end, the loss of troops was greater than that of Nianhan.

Now I have brought my old capital with me. With 20,000 friendly troops with no foundation and ulterior motives, I will attack the front and attack the Jin soldiers. Isn’t that a situation of defeat? Not to mention anything else, what should I do if the friendly troops run away when they are lined up?

"I thought that the front-on-front attack at this time is definitely not the best way."

Zong Ze showed dissatisfaction: "Shukang, if you are afraid of fighting, I will kill you, and there is no one to tell you."

Hu Yangeng thought, those who can kill you have no foundation, otherwise you wouldn’t have any attention, so I’d better take this topic aside. “Don’t worry, Hu Kang has a plan to offer to my husband, please don’t laugh.”

"But it's okay."

"The last general, like the grandpa and Li, thought in his heart, wanted to eliminate the Jin thieves as soon as possible, recover the lost land, and welcome the two emperors. But the last general dared to say that it is not a one-day achievement. To eliminate the Jin thieves, one must have ten years of birth and ten years of lessons."

"ten years?"

"War with the Solu in Hebei has caused the destruction of all prefectures and counties in Hebei. All the losses are the land of our Song Dynasty. Even if we repel the Jin thieves in Hebei, we will not be able to harm the Jin thieves. The Jin Kingdom can rest in the north, and every autumn when the horses are tall and fat, they can go south. Therefore, I will eventually want to lead the headquarters and burn the war to the north of the Baigou River."

"North of Baigou River?"

"The Jin Dynasty's Nanjing Daoxijin Prefecture and Xijing Datong Prefecture are the richest areas under its rule. If these two places are corrupt, the Jin thieves will not be able to rest even if they occupy Hebei. However, our Song Dynasty had two fertile lands in the south of the Yangtze River, which could accumulate wealth and teach soldiers. When the south of the Yellow River, we could raise 300,000 elite soldiers, we could plow the courtyard and sweep the caves and hit the Huanglong." At that time, the Song Dynasty used Huanglong Prefecture to refer to the center of the Jin Dynasty, and it was not necessarily true that the capital of the Jin Dynasty was Huanglong Prefecture.

Zong Ze lowered his head and pondered for a while: "What Shukang said is not without reason, but now, it is better to defeat Nianhan first."

Hu Yangeng began to use his risk-benefit analysis method to persuade Zong Ze. If Zong Ze forced Hu Yangeng to fight Nian Han head-on, he would not do anything anyway, so he would just talk nonsense.

"My husband, since Taiyuan, we will fight for the country at the end, and will serve the country generously and die. This matter can be proved by the military and civilians in the world."

"Shu Kang, I will definitely doubt your heart."

"My husband, whenever you fight, you must first seek victory or defeat, so that you can be sure of it. The last general attacks Nianhan, and it is easy to say that he will win. If it is because of the friendly forces escape and lose their troops, then..."

"Escape from the battle and his military law will be used to serve him."

"Can you kill Wang Yuan? He will be distorted without fighting, and the military law should be killed."

Zong Ze remained silent. His military skills were mainly the leaders of the civilian army, the imperial guards who had a backer in the court, or the military heads who had strong control over their strength, Zong Ze could not control them.

In another time and space, many generals from Hebei and Henan ran south in the name of serving the king and protecting the emperor. Li Cheng fled to Huaibei and Wang Yuan fled to Huainan. Zong Ze had no way to do them.

"Even if my husband can marching, the Shukang headquarters will be exhausted by then, it will be useless. Those who dare to fight will be cold-hearted, and those who are afraid to fight will escape."

Hu Yangeng changed the topic: "My husband is in Hebei, and he is not short of the last generals. However, the last general leads the headquarters to advance north. If he wins, he will destroy the hearts of the Jin thieves, and even if he loses, he will not harm the overall situation."

Anyway, if Hu Yangeng's headquarters is put into it, if it wins, it will win a short-term victory in Hebei, and in the north it will be long-term gains. On the other hand, if Hu Yangeng's troops lose all of them in the north, in the eyes of the Song people, Pingzhou was originally a big hit, and if it loses, it will lose, and it will have little impact on morale. But if Hu Yangeng's troops fail in Hebei, it will have an adverse impact on friendly forces.

Zong Ze said: "Shukang, go and rest first, let me think about it."

Zong Ze was not convinced. As the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, the first thing he had is the situation in Hebei. But Hu Yangeng had already expressed his attitude of not leaving. Can he really take Hu Yangeng down? Besides, what Hu Yangeng said makes sense.

Two days later, Zong Ze ordered Wang Yuan's troops to go south and approach Wei County to test the Jin army's actions. At the same time, he gave Hu Yangeng an order to attack from Pingzhou and harass the Jin army's side and rear.

Hu Yangeng understood that Zong Ze was correcting his strategy, but he didn't say it clearly, so he asked himself to go to Lu Long to act on the camera. Hu Yangeng set off that afternoon and rode back to Cangzhou to arrange for the infantry and baggage civilians to take a boat back.
Chapter completed!