Liangshanbo, Juyi Hall.

Song Jiang, under the order of Zhang Shuye, returned to Liangshan and gathered the heroes of the Green Forest for the court for several years. Over the years, Zhang Shuye seemed to have forgotten him and never gave him an order.

"Maybe, I will continue to be a mountain king in Liangshan like this."

He was distracted, and Gongsun Sheng said, "Big Leader, do you think we should stand up for our own flags, or support the Song and destroy the Jin Dynasty?"

Gongsun Sheng led the Longhu Mountain Sect's sect to Liangshan and worked with Song Jiang to become the second leader on the mountain.

Since the Jin army invaded Shandong, Song Jiang and Gongsun Shengde's minds have become alive. The mountains and rivers are broken, so it may not be impossible to do the hegemony of the volcanic king Yang Gun. Of course, it was Yang Gun in "The Romance of Hu Family Generals", who was persuaded by Hu Yanzan to surrender to the King of Song by relying on one force.

They were discussing with Wu Yong, and suddenly a very smart young man came in. He was in his twenties, with a medium figure, with a tiger back and a bear waist, walking like flying, his steps were windy, and the wind would blow wherever he walked.

"Brother Shi Xiu, you are back, but what news is there?"

Shi Xiu smiled and said, "I grabbed my tongue and asked my brother to interrogate it."

Shi Xiu's biggest feature is that he was born in the market and could not show it in the crowd. He pretended to be like anything, and often used the fake to make the Jin soldiers unable to tell the truth.

After Shi Xiu went down the mountain, he dressed up as a businessman and walked towards Yuncheng. As he walked, he suddenly walked into the wheat field, took off his businessman's clothes, changed into the Jin soldiers' uniform, and walked onto the road with great swaying. At this time, two fast horses came from Yuncheng. When he was about to reach Shi Xiu's side, Shi Xiu suddenly took action and threw out two flying knives. The two Jin soldiers went to the west. Shi Xiu dragged the Jin soldiers' bodies into the wheat field, searched them all, and found that the Jin soldiers were a messenger with a wax ball and a token.

He rode his horse to the city gate. The guards of the gate asked him what he was doing, but he didn't look back. He lit the token and replied viciously, "Bastard, I've gotten into the Jurchens, don't you know?" After that, a horse was wearing a belly, and the horse flew into the city like an arrow off the string.

The gatekeeper said enviously: "I don't know if he gave his wife to Lord Jin. He was so arrogant that he became a Jurchen."

Shi Xiu came to the signing room of the city yamen. When he saw that there was only one officer in the signing room, he broke in. Before the officer reacted, he knocked him out, tied the fat officer tightly, stuffed his mouth with a towel, put it in a sack, and placed it horizontally on the horse.

Shi Xiu looked around and no one was around. He swaggered and led his horse out of the yard, galloping and rushing straight to the city gate. When he left the city gate, it was already dark. The short sentryman looked like this commander from afar. Without doubt, he opened the city gate and let him out of the city.

Song Jiang learned from the fat officer that Yuncheng had no troops to defend, so he said, "Shi Sanlang, can we seize Yuncheng?"

Gongsun Shengdao: "It is a safe way to take down the mountain and seize a county town first and raise the banner of supporting Song and destroying Jin."

Everyone discussed and stopped, Song Jiang said, "Sanlang, you still need to go back to Yuncheng. Lei Dutou in the city is my old acquaintance. We are waiting in Liangshan, thanks to him to inform us."

Shi Xiu thought to himself, it turns out that you had a long time in Yuncheng, but you didn't say it out loud. But you took the order without hesitation.

Lei Heng cooperated with the inside and outside, helped Liangshan to seize Yuncheng, and raised the banner of supporting Song and destroying Jin.

The Song and Jin sides occupied some major towns in Shandong, and the small towns and suburbs were left to Baojia and local tyrants.

Since the Hu family army entered Shandong, Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou and others ended their plunder in Shandong and headed south along the canal.

Li Cheng went south to Huaixi to conquer the city and seize the territory. Although he was frustrated several times, he said that his ambition of being alone and widowed was not restrained at all. Someone asked Li Cheng:

"When will the world be settled?"

Li Chengyin's poem answer:

"Don't ask whether you are a marquis, your success will be done by one general and his bones will be undone."

He did not hide his ambitions and was determined to achieve his separatist cause on the pile of bones.

The Song court tried to win over Li Cheng with the title of the sanctioned envoy, which certainly did not satisfy him. He pretended to be ordered to paralyze the Song court.

Since the Jin army suddenly attacked Bianliang again and the Hu family army had no time to pursue him, Li Cheng divided his troops into three groups: the commander Hu Xuan stationed troops in Huaixi Road and invaded Chizhou; the deputy commander Ma Jin led his troops to cross the river, captured Jiangzhou, and then went south to plunder prefectures and counties west of Poyang Lake; Li Chengren led his troops to cross the river, use Jiangzhou as a base to attack Hukou County at the exit of Poyang Lake. Li Cheng's army occupied about ten prefectures in Jianghuai for a time, with "ten thousand troops in a row" and claimed to be 300,000, which "swept the southeast", which posed a major threat to the Song Dynasty.

For this reason, the Song court specially appointed Zhang Jun as Jiang and Huai to recruit the envoy. Zhang Jun was quite timid and said something about Li Cheng's army's popularity. Emperor Gaozong of Song said:

"You have never made any contribution today."

Zhang Jun finally had to "receive his mission". However, at his request, the Song court generals of the Shenwu Front Army, Chen Sigong's Shenwu Back Army, Yue Family Army and others were all assigned to him to command.

After Yue Fei retreated to the Jiangyin Army, he sent the army's family back to Yixing County for safety reasons.

After learning that the Jin soldiers had attacked Bianliang again, Yue Fei wrote to Jiangnan's Secretariat Wang Boyan, believing that this was a good time to "rescue Bianliang, make meritorious service in the court, and make meritorious service in front of the emperor." Yue Fei never formally recognized the new emperor Zhao Gou, but he respected the Secretariat of Jiangnan and did not break up. Zhao Gou had no strength to deal with local powerful factions like him, and just dragged down the issue of status in a vague way.

After receiving the order to gather in Raozhou on Jiangdong Road, Yue Fei made up his mind and went north to investigate if he had the opportunity to see if he could participate in the Bianliang war.

He brought his subordinates from Yixing County to Huizhou and ordered Tang Huai to remain in charge. The Song army was mainly infantry and had poor mobility. Every time he moved to the camp, he had to support the elderly and the young, and drag his wife and children, making "soldiers are of great speed" empty talk. The last time he aided Chuzhou and rescued Jiangzhou this time, they could be used as an example of delaying the opportunity for war. This was a unique problem under the Song Dynasty recruitment system.

On July 14, the Yue family army arrived at Qimen, Huizhou. Because they got rid of the burden of their family members, they were able to speed up the marching. However, when the Yue family army arrived at Poyang County, Raozhou Prefecture, Zhang Jun's army had already set off. Since Jiangzhou was captured, the most urgent task in front of him was naturally to rescue Hongzhou, the capital of Jiangnan West Road. The vast Poyang Lake was blocked between Raozhou and Hongzhou. At least part of Zhang Jun's 50,000 troops were traveling through the lake.

After Zhang Jun's army arrived in Hongzhou, Ma Zhengjun also joined the camp on the west mountain on the west bank of Zhangshui, and repeatedly challenged him. Zhang Jun was afraid of the enemy and did not dare to fight all month. Li Cheng's general Shao You divided his troops to capture Yunzhou and Linjiang Army.

It was not until Yue Fei arrived in Hongzhou in early August that the situation of passive defense changed. Zhang Jun asked him for advice, and Yue Fei said:

"It's very easy. If the thief is greedy and does not worry about it, if he uses three thousand cavalry and grows rice from the upper reaches, he will be defeated. Even if he is not talented, he is willing to be the pioneer to act."

On the seventh day, Yue Fei was wearing heavy armor and took the lead in leaping over the water to cross, so the army passed by Zhangshui in turn. Both sides fought in the area of ​​the famous Taoist Yulongguan. Yue family army first attacked the right wing of the horse and defeated the enemy. The horse fled, and Yue Fei took the lead in chasing. There was a small earth bridge along the way. When Yue Fei led dozens of cavalry to cross the bridge, it suddenly collapsed. Ma Jin took the opportunity to rush his troops to counterattack. Yue Fei shot the enemy's vanguard general to death and commanded dozens of knights to fight bravely. Zhang Jun hurriedly sent people to repair the earth bridge, and the army continued to advance. The horse army was unable to fight again, so he fled back to Yunzhou.

Zhang Jun's army chased to Yunzhou. Ma Jin gathered troops and attempted to go out of the city to counterattack. The army's formation spanned 15 Songli. Yue Fei and Chen Sigong were ordered to attack separately. Yue Fei used Red Luo as a banner, embroidered the white "Yue" character, and personally led 200 horses to lure the enemy. Seeing that Yue Fei had few soldiers, Ma Jin thought it was not worth fearing, so he stormed the army to fight rashly, and was attacked by ambushers deployed by the Song army in advance. After Yue Fei and Chen Sigong fought several times with the enemy, Zhang Jun led troops to reinforce, and Yang Yizhong led troops to cross the Yun River, rushed down from the western mountain, and attacked the enemy. Ma Jin was defeated, and the surrender and captured only reached 8,000 people. After the war, Zhang Jun was afraid of repeated surrenders, so he ordered Chen Sigong to kill them all.

Ma Jin led the remaining defeated generals to flee north to seek Li Cheng's rescue. Yue Fei led his soldiers to march with great force overnight, rushed to Ma Jin, and ambushed in Zhujiashan. When Ma Jin's remaining troops fled here, the ambush troops launched together, and annihilation battle was held in one go, killing the enemy general Zhao Wan. Ma Jin had only more than ten cavalry left and fled in a hurry.

Li Cheng was unwilling to fail, so he left his horse to defend Jiangzhou and personally led his troops to counterattack. He ordered his general Shang Yuan to set up an ambush in Caoshan, Louzizhuang, Fengxin County, Hongzhou. Zhang Jun's army rushed to the top of the mountain from a small road, defeated the ambush, seized the dangerous pass, and completely crushed the enemy's counterattack. This battle allowed Zhang Jun to get the nickname "Zhang Tieshan". In fact, this was mainly due to the struggle of Yue Fei and other troops.

After the battle in Louzizhuang, Li Cheng's fierce generals and soldiers were too damaged and there was no more power to fight back. Zhang Jun and Yue Fei divided their troops into two groups. Zhang Jun regained Jiangzhou in the northeast, and Yue Fei pursued Li Cheng in the northwest. Li Cheng fled to Wuning County, Hongzhou (now Wuning County, Jiangxi). When Xiushui surged, the remnants and defeated generals had no time to cross the river. Yue's army was already like a magical weapon, and the bandits ran around and failed to form a defeat. Therefore, the people of Wuning County were spared from poisoning.

Li Cheng did not dare to stop in Jiangnan for a moment, and hurriedly retreated from Dumu Ferry to Qizhou on Huaixi Road. Yue Fei led his army to advance from Wuning County to Jiangzhou to meet with Zhang Jun. By the end of August, there was no trace of Li Cheng's bandit army in Jiangnan.

Due to lack of military rations, Zhang Jun's army was delayed for more than 40 days in Jiangzhou before it could cross the river and continue to attack Li Cheng. Li Cheng relied on the army of Hu Xuan in Huaixi, claiming to be more than 100,000, and attempted to resist stubbornly. The Song army arrived directly to Huangmei County, Qizhou. Li Cheng's bandits occupied the dangerous mountain on Shizhuangpo and threw wood and stone to block the Song army.

In the end, Zhang Jun's army launched a strong attack, defeated the enemy, and chased Ma Jin, Sun Jian and other leaders. Li Cheng was exhausted and had to flee to the puppet Qi. Zhang Jun's army took advantage of the victory to recover the Huaixi prefectures and counties occupied by Li Cheng's bandit army, recruited Zhao Duan, the rest of the troops, and captured Li Cheng's adviser Li Rong in Taihu County, Shuzhou.

Since then, Li Cheng has to restrain his ambition to be a separatist and find an opportunity to join the Jin people.
Chapter completed!