After many years, Li Yanqing returned to his hometown again, but his hometown was already beyond recognition. The small village of the past had long collapsed. Only some foundation rubble showed that it was a village, and there was no one within a radius of dozens of miles. Even Lushan Town had become a ruin. Only the Lushan Academy in the past had a few broken buildings standing on the hills.

The roads in the village no longer exist, and the weeds that were half a person tall were growing everywhere. The personal soldiers had to open up a road, and Li Yanqing came to his old house.

The old house has long been turned into a ruin, and the childhood memories can no longer be found. Li Yanqing walked through the ruins to a grassland behind. The personal soldiers had cleaned up the grassland. This should be his mother's cemetery, but the traces of the cemetery were gone.

Yue Fei pointed to a poplar tree. It was planted by him back then, a mark left by Li Yanqing's mother's cemetery for the future search.

At this time, the poplar tree had turned into a towering tree, and its roots had already reached into the cemetery. Li Yanqing sighed, knelt down in front of the poplar tree, and placed sacrifices and incense burners. Li Yanqing burned the yellow paper of incense candles and kowtowed three times to his mother's undead before he stood up.

"Du Shuai, do you want to build a wall to surround the place and then send troops to garrison?" Cao Meng whispered from the side.

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said, "It's OK, but this matter is left to local officials, so the army will not be cared about."

The army then set off and continued northward. Soon after, they arrived at Tangyin County, close to Tangyin County. Finally, they became a little popular. Within ten miles of the besieged city, there were wheat fields, and there were vendors selling herbal tea in greenhouses on the side of the road. There were several foot shops and catering shops outside the city.

The army did not enter the city, and the county magistrate and other officials went out to visit the regent and the king.

"The lower official Wu Qian greets His Highness the Regent!"

Li Yanqing did not make things difficult for this Tangyin County’s parents. The population of Tangyin County did not decrease, which means that the people in all villages fled to the county town, which means that the county magistrate is still relatively friendly.

"Mr. Wu County, please get up!"

Li Yanqing politely invited him up, which made several officials feel a little relieved. At least His Highness the Regent did not order the soldiers to push him down and behead him.

County Magistrate Wu Qian hurriedly said, "Please go to the city to rest!"

"No need, the army will continue to go north, and you can maintain order for yourself."

"Sir, obey the order!"

Li Yanqing turned around and ordered: "The army continues to go north!"

The 200,000 army continued to march northward. At this time, a personal soldier ran to the magistrate of Wu and said, "His Royal Highness Regent has a private matter and asks the magistrate for help."

Several officials looked at each other, and there were such good things. The magistrate of Wu quickly said, "Just give me orders!"

The two soldiers placed a box of silver in front of the county magistrate, and the personal soldiers said, "The tomb of His Highness the Regent's mother is located in the south of Lushan Town. I will take the county magistrate here. This thousand taels of silver is used to build the tomb, and then invite a person to look at the tomb. The various expenses required in the future will be borne by the Regent. I just ask the county magistrate to protect the cemetery."

The county magistrate repeatedly agreed, "I will definitely do this and will never disappoint His Highness the Regent."

The personal soldier smiled and said, "If the county magistrate has time, we will go and have a look now."

"Okay! I'll take a few yamen runners with me."

Soon, the county magistrate and the county magistrate took more than a dozen yamen runners and tomb-building craftsmen to take two mule carts and followed the personal soldiers towards Lushan Town.

About fifty miles away from Tangyin County, Li Yanqing received an emergency report from the scout. The scout was led by Li Zhen and was active in various parts of Hebei. They had been closely monitoring the Jin soldiers of Daming Prefecture. When Wanyan Zongfu led an army north, the scout rushed to Xiangzhou in the form of a relay express report to report to Li Yanqing.

This news made Li Yanqing realize that there was an internal strife within the Jin army, which was the best fighter opportunity given to him by God. He immediately ordered Cao Meng to lead a 40,000 army to ride north quickly.

At the same time, Wang Gui and Wu Jie of Hejian Prefecture turned around and intercepted the Jin soldiers heading north.

The 40,000 army led by Cao Meng was not all cavalry, including 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 special soldiers. Special soldiers refer to 5,000 heavy armored infantry and 5,000 musketeers. They usually take horses to travel and can also rush for long distances during wartime.

Just after Cao Meng's army headed north, Li Yanqing led the other 160,000 troops to speed up the speed and prepare to intercept some of the Jin soldiers behind.

At this time, Wang Gui led an army of 50,000 to Hejian Prefecture, but the 30,000 Wu's rank arrived two days earlier than Wang Gui. There were only more than 8,000 Hebei troops in Hejian County. Under the threat of the 80,000 Song army, the 8,000 Hebei troops opened the city and surrendered, causing the Song army to occupy Hejian Prefecture without bloodshed. The occupation of Hejian Prefecture did not cut off the Jin army's road to the north, and the Jin army could still take a detour.

But the Song army had a major logistics location. The large amount of food and supplies in Hejian County gave the Song army enough logistics support. Then, more scouts were sent to judge the route of the Jin soldiers to the north, and they could basically intercept them.

However, Wang Gui was not interested in this. He went north to Yanshan Prefecture. On the night of taking over Hejian Prefecture, the Song army, who had been resting for a long time, was about to set off.

At this moment, Wu Jie quickly sent someone to call Wang Gui.

"What else does Mr. Wu have to do with me?"

Wang Gui was a little impatient. He was about to whip Ma Bei, but Wu Jie sent someone to call him.

"I know the humble position. Wu Dutong said that there is extremely important military information. He will arrive soon. Please wait for a moment."

"Tell him to come over quickly, I don't have time to wait for him."

At this time, Wujie rode a horse and rushed to the scene, "The King of the Capital, you cannot go north for the time being."

"Why?" Wang Gui asked dissatisfied.

Wu Jieyang Yang had a piece of information in his hand, "The information I just received was that a Jin soldier of about 30,000 people was heading north from Daming Prefecture. Please keep the King of the Capital and intercept it with me."

Wang Gui is a veteran of many battles. Although he really wants to go to Yanshan Mansion, it does not mean that he is a general who is ignorant of priorities. Of course, he knows what it means to go north by the Jin army. He immediately jumped off his war horse, walked forward to take the information, opened it under a torch and took it carefully.

According to information, about a 30,000 cavalry had left Daming Prefecture and headed north, and there were many Khitans and Xi people in the army.

"Is this the Jin soldiers split?" Wang Gui asked in surprise.

Wu Jie nodded, "I don't know the specific details, but it is definitely not a good decision to divide the troops at this time. This gives the Song army a chance to defeat them."

Wang Gui pondered for a moment. It would take about five days for the cavalry to go north to Hejian Prefecture. Now that he has received information, even if he uses a flying pigeon to send a message, it will be at least two or three days. Then the governor must have known about this. He should have ordered his military order to intercept the enemy.

Thinking of this, Wang Gui turned around and ordered: "Cancel the northward journey, all soldiers will return to the military camp immediately."

Wang Gui made a major decision to suspend going to Yanshan Prefecture, and stayed in Hejian Prefecture to intercept 30,000 Jin soldiers to head north.

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In the military camp, Wang Gui unveiled a map and the northward route of the Wu-level scholar Jin soldiers. Although Hebei is a large plain, it is not allowed to run at will. When it is blocked by rivers, it may not be possible to find a bridge to cross the river for hundreds of miles. Moreover, the army also needs food and grass supply, so the Jin soldiers must go to a slightly densely populated area.

Generally speaking, there are two marching roads in Hebei. One is the eastern line, which goes north from Daming Prefecture, passes Hejian Prefecture and Xiongzhou to enter Yanshan Prefecture, and the other is the western line, which goes north from Xiangzhou and Zhaozhou to enter Yanshan Prefecture through Zhending Prefecture.

It is obvious that this Jin army must have gone north on the eastern line, and they may not know the news of the fall of Hejian County.

Wu Jie pointed to the prefectures and counties along the map: "The Guanjian along the way has been plundered by Gao Qingren. By looting the people, the supply of 30,000 people cannot be guaranteed, so the target of the Jin soldiers must be Hejian County."

"What do you mean?"

Wu Jie pointed to Hejian County, "Track the Jin soldiers in the county!"

Wang Gui walked a few steps behind his hands and wanted to trap the Jin soldiers in the county town. First, he had to evacuate the 80,000 people in the city, and then move the food and grass away. It was very large and took at least two days. He had to confuse the Jin soldiers and lead them to their trap. All links must be linked together. If there is any negligence, the Jin soldiers will be seen through.

But then again, the 80,000 Song army really couldn't intercept 30,000 Jin soldiers. If the Jin soldiers wanted to fight to the decisive battle, the Song army would suffer heavy casualties. If the Jin soldiers ignored the Song army and bypassed the Hejian Mansion directly, they would not be able to catch up.

After thinking about it, I could only use the only weakness of Jin soldiers' insufficient supply to lure them into Hejian County. If the plan failed, I could only forcefully intercept it.

Thinking of this, Wang Gui nodded, "Time is tight, let's start making arrangements immediately!" ——

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