Chapter 391
Early that morning, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Loushi left 30,000 people to guard the Zhending Mansion. Then they led an army of 140,000 toward the Zhongshan Mansion and Hejian Mansion in the east.
When the Jurchens left Hedong, they had an army of 180,000, but after they came out of Taihang Mountain, they only had an army of 160,000. They had 10,000 troops in Jingxing County and Zhending Prefecture, so their total number of troops now reached another 170,000.
As for Zhongshan Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture, there are also garrisons in these two places, but they are Liu Yu's troops.
Historically, the Jurchens established Liu Yu as the son emperor, and Liu Yu established the pseudo-Qi State. The scope of the pseudo-Qi State included Hebei and many places in Shandong. The capital of the pseudo-Qi State was Daming Prefecture, but these are impossible now.
On September 2, the Jurchen army arrived at Zhongshan Prefecture. Wanyan Loushi personally led 50,000 people to guard Zhongshan Prefecture, while Wanyan Zongwang continued to lead the army towards Hejian Prefecture.
On September 5, Wanyan Zongwang led the remaining 90,000 people to Hejian Mansion. After arriving here, Wanyan Zongwang breathed a sigh of relief again.
The three major cities of Zhending Prefecture, Zhongshan Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture are connected into a line, radiating to a radius of thousands of miles. After owning these places, Wanyan Zongwang felt that he still had the ability to turn the tables!
Of course, now he has less than 200,000 troops, so he must contact Liu Yu!
Liu Yu is a local snake in Hebei and Shandong. Only after contacting Liu Yu did his real strength increase greatly.
At that moment, Wanyan Zongwang immediately called the puppet army generals from Hejian Prefecture to him and asked about the situation in Shandong.
"I heard that many Song troops went to Shandong from Yanyun to the south. What is the specific situation in Shandong now? Liu Yu has an army of 300,000 at least. Even if the Song army is powerful, he should be able to resist it, right?" Wanyan Zongwang said.
"You are the second prince, the situation in Shandong is not very good now!" a puppet army general said hesitantly.
"Why is it bad? Shandong's hundreds of thousands of troops are extremely powerful! Tell me, if the situation in Shandong is not good, I will immediately lead the army eastward to help them!" Wanyan Zongwang said.
"The Second Prince, the Song army is extremely powerful. Lord Liu Yu's troops fought against the Song army in Qingzhou and were defeated by the Song army. The 300,000 army suffered heavy casualties, and only more than 100,000 people escaped. Now more than 100,000 people are in Qizhou and Dezhou!" The puppet general led the way.
"What? You only have more than 100,000 people left? The Song army is strong, why do you want to fight them on the plain?" Wanyan Zongwang said angrily.
"The second prince, the Song army had only more than 20,000 people. He occupied Qingzhou at that time! Lord Liu Yu gathered 300,000 troops to capture Qingzhou and capture Zhang Xian alive. Unexpectedly, Qingzhou was actually a trap. The Song army's 100,000 troops were all ambushed there. They rushed over late at night. Lord Liu was not wary, so he failed!" The puppet general said.
"Damn it! Liu Yu is really a waste!" Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth.
The puppet army generals below dared not say much.
Wanyan Zongwang walked around the room, and he felt anxious.
He thought that after occupying Zhending, Zhongshan and Hejian, the three strongest cities in central and northern Hebei would be connected into a line. Moreover, Hejian could contact Shandong and other places to the east, and could be connected with Liu Yu's territory, so that Liu Yu's hundreds of thousands of troops could come toward this place! Who knew that Liu Yu had only one hundred thousand troops left!
Liu Yu was in Qizhou, Dezhou and other places. Qizhou is now the area of Jinan. These two cities were not important military camps in ancient times, and the scale of the city was limited. With the strength of the Song army, it was not impossible to conquer these two places!
"What should I do?" Wanyan Zongwang felt overwhelmed.
After coming to Hebei from Hedong, he realized how corrupt the situation in Hebei and Shandong was!
There were Song Jun from all directions, and he felt weak all over his body!
He thought he occupied the entire Hebei and Shandong, but now he found that there is not much left for him!
"How many troops are Liu Yu's subordinates?" he gritted his teeth.
"Lord Liu Yu still has 160,000 troops under his command." The puppet general led the army.
"160,000 people, plus the 170,000 people in my hands, there are 330,000 troops! In addition, there are many Han people in Dezhou, Qizhou and other places, and they can drive all these Han people to Zhongshan, Hejian and other places! With Zhongshan and Hejian as the center, they can still occupy the north! It seems that I need to go east to rescue Dezhou, Qizhou and other places!" Wanyan Zongwang murmured.
"Your Highness, we need to be wary of the Han people's conspiracies!" a Jurchen general led the way.
"This..." Wanyan Zongwang was stunned.
"Second Prince, you have an army of 170,000 under your command, and there are ninety-one thousand troops stationed in Hejian Prefecture. We, Lord Liu Yu, also have an army of 160,000. With so many troops, we work together inside and outside, and no conspiracy is useful!" A puppet army general led the way.
"You're right!" Wanyan Zongwang nodded.
"But I still have to investigate the specific situation in Dezhou and Qizhou before I can use troops!" After a while, Wanyan Zongwang said again.
He immediately sent someone to investigate the specific situation in Dezhou and Qizhou, not to mention this.
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Above the sea, waves are surging.
The sea breeze is cold.
The sky is getting darker.
Zhao Chen was standing on the bow of the boat at this moment, and the waves were rushing, and sea water was everywhere on his body.
He looked forward, but there was a look of excitement on his face.
Wu Jie, Wang Shu and Kang An all stood behind him.
"We entered the Bohai Sea last night, and it's time to dock now, right?" Zhao Chen said.
"What Bohai?" Wu Jie was stunned after hearing this.
"I mean Canghai." Zhao Chen said.
Bohai was called Canghai in ancient times, also known as Beihai. Zhao Chen just said something wrong and used words from later generations.
"Yes, it's time to dock! Your Majesty, we dock south of the Yellow River." Wu Jie said.
"The location south of the Yellow River goes to the sea?" Zhao Chen knew that the outlet of the Yellow River in this era was different from that of later generations, but there was no city at that location, so he didn't know where it was in later generations. He only knew that it was located in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
In fact, the mouth of the Yellow River in this era is in Tianjin in later generations.
Tianjin was in the Ming Dynasty, and the government established Tianjin Wei, which was the city of Tianjin in later generations! In the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River surging here and the Yellow River often flooded, so it was impossible to build a city! There were only some small military camps here, but unfortunately those military camps had already been destroyed in the war.
After the Yellow River was diverted in later generations, Liangshanpo, the largest lake in the north, disappeared, and Tianjin was no longer the estuary of the Yellow River, so it could be truly built.
What Zhao Chen didn't know was that the Yellow River could no longer be changed in this era! Historically, in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the reason why the Yellow River was changed was due to man-made reasons! The Jurchens invaded and Zong Ze died of illness. After Du Chong took over Zong Ze's position. Du Yun sent people to open the water of the Yellow River to prevent the Jurchens from going south. As a result, he did not stop the Jurchens, but instead caused floods in the wealthy areas of the two Huai Rivers to suffer more than one million deaths! After that, the flow of the Yellow River changed. Originally, the Yellow River flowed to the Bohai Sea, but it turned into the Yellow Sea.
In this era, the focus of the invasion of the Jurchens was on Guanshan, so no one could dig the Yellow River, so it was naturally difficult for the Yellow River to divert the route.
"Now the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun should be under our control! I just don't know what the situation of Wanyan Zongwang is. Is he in Hedong or Hebei now? If he is in Hebei, Wu Jie, you can lead troops to fight." Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"I hope so!" Wu Jie said.
The sky became darker and darker, but at this moment, cheers suddenly came from the front!
Before, Zhao Chen and Wu Jie had already asked someone to take a boat to investigate the situation in front. Now that the people have returned, they have encountered the big ship in front, and the cheers were from the big ship in front.
"We're docking!" Zhao Chen looked forward and said.
"Not bad, I'm on the dock!" Wu Jie said excitedly.
The two of them are very skilled in martial arts. Although the sky has turned dark and there are only starry lights, they have already seen clearly the situation ahead!
The mainland is right ahead!
Soon, the entire fleet began to cheer.
The fleet headed forward, and finally, large ships slowly stopped!
They did not find a port here, and the ship could no longer continue to move forward and could only stay in the offshore location.
"Leave people on the boat, let's take a boat to go!" Zhao Chen said.
"Okay!" Wu Jie nodded.
Soon, Zhao Chen, Wu Jie and others took a small boat toward the shore, and countless soldiers followed them toward the shore.
These soldiers were former soldiers of the Yangtze River Navy. Although they were naval troops, they had never been on the ship for so much time. At this moment, many people were eager to get ashore!
Finally, Zhao Chen and others arrived on the shore.
More than 50,000 Yangtze River Navy soldiers have arrived on the shore at this moment!
"We need to first figure out where this place is, how far away from Yanjing, how far away from Hebei and Shandong! Also, we need to figure out the situation of Yue Fei, Li Xianzhong and others, and see where they are now!" Wu Jie said.
Zhao Chen nodded.
At that moment, Wu Jie immediately sent someone to go around.
About an hour later, soldiers came and reported that there was a small town several miles away in the south.
Chapter completed!