In late March of the first year of Song Xing, Zhang Rong, the former general of the Liangshan Army, joined forces with Shi Xiu and others to raise the Anti-Jin Yi Banner again in Liangshanpo.

When the prefect of Jinan was furious, Zhang Jian, immediately summoned 5,000 troops and rushed to Yunzhou, Liangshan with murderous aura. Zhang Rong led his army south to Jeju, and Zhang Jian rushed to Jeju again.

At this time, Liu Tang led an army of 3,000 people to sneak attack Licheng County and captured Zhang Jian's family. Zhang Jian was shocked and led his army to hurried back to Jinan Prefecture, but was ambushed by Shi Xiu on the road. Zhang Jian's army was defeated, with more than 2,000 people killed, nearly half of them surrendered, and Zhang Jian also died in the chaos.

Tokyo Bianliang City. At this time, Bianliang had become the seat of the palace of King Liu Yu of Qi. Perhaps out of nostalgia for Tokyo, after Liu Yu established his capital in Bianliang, he asked the civilians to organize the outer wall to restore the outer wall. However, only some buildings and buildings in the outer city remained in the south city and the east city, and the north city and the west city were already in ruins. Helplessly, Liu Yu had to turn the north city into a military camp and use the west city to grow grain and vegetables.

The once prosperous Tokyo only had a population of more than 300,000. The only places where commercial commerce were prosperous were the area around Daxiangguo Temple and Panlou Street. There was a large restaurant in the southwest corner of Daxiangguo Temple, called Shilou. It was originally one of the top ten famous restaurants in Tokyo. The original owner was Zhang Chong, a relative of the foreigner, who had already fled to Lin'an and opened a Shilou in Lin'an. The Shilou in Bianliang was sold to Liu Yun, a big grain merchant. Liu Yun was killed for an affair with the Song Dynasty two years ago and his family property was auctioned. This Shilou has been sold several times, and now it is unclear who its real owner is.

That morning, a man who looked like a businessman walked into Shilou. It was the afternoon break. Shilou changed to selling tea, and there were many tea guests sitting upstairs and downstairs.

The businessman walked into the gate and said to the guy, "Three guests, want to go to the backyard!"

"Please, please, guest in the backyard!"

The guy enthusiastically walked to the backyard with the merchant. When he saw that there was no one around, the guy whispered: "The shopkeeper is in the account room, you go by yourself!"

Perhaps no one expected that the real owner of this restaurant was the Jingzhao Army. It was just a businessman named Wu bought it on behalf of the Jingzhao Army, making the restaurant an intelligence base for the Jingzhao Army in Bianliang.

The merchant came to the account room and knocked on the door. The shopkeeper opened the door. There was another person inside, about thirty years old, named Li Xiaotian. He was the account room of the restaurant, but he was also the intelligence leader of the Jingzhao Army in Bianliang.

"How is it? Is there any news?" Li Xiaotian asked with a smile when he saw the merchant walking into the house.

The merchant's surname is Su, his name is Su Liang, and he is also an intelligence spy. He is responsible for inquiring about information from the Qi Palace. At this time, the shopkeeper had already gone out. Su Liang took a chair and sat down, nodded, "Liu Yu decided to send troops, transfer 20,000 troops from Sizhou, and then transfer 10,000 Yuncong from Bianliang, a total of 30,000 troops. Liu Yi was commanded by Liangshanpo to suppress Zhang Rong's rebellion."

"Don't the Jin soldiers in Xuzhou move?"

"Without news of the Jin soldiers, perhaps Liu Yu believes that suppressing the rebellion does not require the use of Jin soldiers."

At present, Liu Yu has an army of 120,000, of which 60,000 are deployed on the southeast front line, Luoyang has deployed 20,000, Bianliang has deployed 30,000, Jinan Prefecture has 5,000, Dengzhou has 5,000. Now the 5,000 of Jinan Prefecture has been destroyed, and Liu Yu has had to mobilize heavy troops to suppress it. 30,000 people are just heavy troops against Liu Yu, which is indeed considered a heavy army.

"Where has the troops been transferred now?"

"I just sent someone to Sizhou to pass the order half an hour ago. It will take six days to go back and forth in Sizhou, two days of integration, and two more days of marching. It will probably take ten days to arrive in Liangshanpo!"

Li Xiaotian immediately wrote a pigeon letter, tied it to the pigeon's legs and sent it away. The pigeon flew up and circled twice toward Lin'an City in the south.

In the Imperial City Jianguotang of Lin'an, Li Yanqing stood in front of the pottery map with his hands behind his back, watching the changes in the red flag on the map, the red flag, the yellow flag, the white flag and the black flag, which means that the four armies, the red flag is the Song army, the yellow flag is the Qi army in the Central Plains, the white flag is the Hebei Hebei Army, and the black flag is naturally the Jin soldiers.

There are two black flags in the Central Plains and Hebei. One is in Xuzhou, with 20,000 people marked on the flag and 30,000 people marked on the flag. Hebei and Central Plains are actually in the hands of these 50,000 Jin soldiers.

The strategic breakthrough point Li Yanqing refers to is Liangshanpo, which actually refers to the Shandong Peninsula. There are only 5,000 troops in the entire Shandong Peninsula. It will undoubtedly become the best landing point for the Song army to go north along the coastal road. It will gain a foothold at half point in Shandong. It can attack Hebei to the north, attack the Central Plains to the west, and connect with the Jianghuai to the south.

Liu Yu was originally the prefect of Jinan, and the Shandong Peninsula was his old nest that he would never give up. He would not sit idly by and watch Liangshanbo's rebel army and would send troops to wipe out it. I am afraid that before he could react, Liangshanbo became a huge black hole to wipe out his war resources.

Li Yanqing stretched out his hand to insert the black flag of Daming Mansion into Liangshanpo. This was what Li Yanqing hoped. The black hole in Liangshanpo swallowed up these tens of thousands of Jin soldiers.

"Report to Your Highness, a pigeon letter has been sent to Bianliang!" A soldier behind him reported.

Li Yanqing turned around, took the pigeon letter from the soldiers, and slowly unfolded it. There was only one sentence on it, "Twenty thousand troops in Sizhou and ten thousand troops in Bianliang, and it is about to conquer Liangshanpo. Sizhou's troops were dispatched to send people to the morning."

Li Yanqing nodded. In this way, Han Shizhong and his friends faced only 40,000 Qi soldiers, which was as expected.

After pondering for a long time, Li Yanqing reached out to take a red flag from Qingzhou and inserted it directly into Liangshanpo.

In the dark night, ten thousand elite Song troops were marching southwest along the south bank of the Ji River. At the same time, fifty thousand-stone ships were sailing in the Ji River, loaded with various strategic materials and a thousand navy troops. Their march was Liangshanpo.

The 10,000 Song troops were commanded by Yan Qing. They landed in Boxing County, Qingzhou and immediately marched towards Liangshanpo. Although the 5,000 Qi troops in Jinan Prefecture were completely wiped out, and Liu Yu's army was no longer in the entire Shandong Peninsula, the Song army was still very cautious and tried to march at night to prevent themselves from being discovered.

For Li Yanqing, the Shandong Peninsula was already a treasure, and he was not in a hurry to occupy it. His top priority was to build the rebel army in Liangshanbo into the eye of the storm and stir up the entire situation in the Central Plains.

Then he fished in the muddy waters, and when the Jin soldiers realized that the Song army had sent troops, the Song army had already gained a foothold in Hebei.

When it was almost dawn, ten thousand Song troops arrived in Xucheng County. Zhang Rong, Shi Xiu, Liu Tang and others came to welcome Yan Qing's arrival. Everyone was an old general of Liangshan, so they hugged each other tightly. In particular, Liu Tang and Yan Qing had a deep relationship. After Chao Gai's death, he hated Song Jiang very much and completely defected to Lu Junyi.

Yan Qing did not act like a boss in front of everyone. Although he was in charge of the capital and was much higher than everyone else, he might not be able to accept these three people emotionally for the past three who had just joined the Song army, so he had to slowly take action.

Yan Qing clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Dear brothers, from now on, the 10,000 troops I led have become a member of the Liangshan Rebel Army. I hope we can fight side by side and recover our home as soon as possible."

Zhang Rong had already known Marshal Du's arrangement in advance and mixed 10,000 elite troops into the rebel army. Of course, he welcomed such an arrangement. This strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger will definitely hit Liu Yu's puppet army heavily.

Especially Yan Qing said that fighting side by side, which shows that Yan Qing did not come to annex the rebel army, which is very important to Zhang Rong and others. Although they have accepted the title of Li Yanqing, their grassroots thoughts have not changed yet and they still lack the understanding of the integration of the world's army. This is also a gradual transformation process and cannot be achieved overnight.

"Welcome to the Yan governor to fight side by side with us. We will obey the Yan governor's dispatch. As Yan governor said just now, everyone works together to recover their homes as soon as possible."

Zhang Rong also expressed his opinion in time that he would obey Yan Qing's dispatch and obey Yan Qing's orders.

Everyone entered the city and came to the prefecture yamen, which had been temporarily changed to the rebel army yamen.

Yan Qing took out a map and spread it on the table, saying to everyone: "According to our intelligence, the 30,000 Qi troops have set out from Bianliang and come to Yunzhou along the Ji River. They should have just set out and will arrive here in the earliest two days. Marshal Du asked us to wipe out this army."

Zhang Rong hesitated and said, "But we are not very clear about the other party's situation."

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will be defeated in every battle. I have sent scouts to investigate the situation of the enemy. News will soon come. However, I suggest that we still divide our troops into two groups. General Zhang Rong led 20,000 people to retreat to Jinan Prefecture to lengthen the front line. I will lead 10,000 troops to attack and defeat the enemy one by one."

After Yan Qing finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Rong and waited for his statement. Zhang Rong pondered for a moment, and discussed with Shi Xiu and Liu Tang for a moment. Then he nodded, "I would like to obey the arrangements of Yan Dutong!"

Everyone immediately took action. Zhang Rong led his army to move various grain and military funds from Xucheng County into Liangshanpo. He then led an army of 20,000 to retreat to the direction of Jinan Prefecture.
Chapter completed!