Thanks to the chess piece Mo Jun set up by Li Yanqing before, Li Yanqing immediately obtained the base camp of Pingjiang Prefecture to resist Zhao Ji, and the army was also increasing rapidly.

On the first day, Li Yanqing took the 3,000-armored infantry as the core and acquired the 5,000-flat army of Pingjiang Prefecture, and obtained the 300,000-stone tax grain and one million stagnant tax money from Pingjiang Prefecture.

Soon, Pan Yue, a military training envoy in Changzhou, led 8,000 new soldiers to Pingjiang Prefecture, which quickly increased Li Yanqing's army to 16,000. At the same time, Han Shizhong's 30,000 troops also crossed the Yangtze River, joined forces with Cao Sheng's army in Jiangning Prefecture, and quickly rushed to Pingjiang Prefecture. In just four days, Li Yanqing's army would exceed 60,000 troops.

At the same time, Cao Meng and Gao Chong led 30,000 cavalry to enter Dengzhou through Wuguan and forcibly break into the Central Plains. Liu Yu, the pseudo-Qi king, knew something had happened in the Song Dynasty, so he did not order to stop the Song cavalry, and allowed them to pass through the southern part of the Central Plains and quickly rushed to Huainan.

Li Yanqing's military camp was located in the south of Pingjiang City, covering an area of ​​thousands of acres. He brought thousands of large tents from Chengdu Prefecture, and all of them were used at this time. Thousands of tents were laid out one after another. Soon, Cao Sheng led a large army to the south from Jiangning Prefecture, and would also bring thousands of large tents, which basically solved the problem of the military camp.

That afternoon, Li Yanqing began to form a five thousand naval army. These five thousand naval soldiers came from all over the south of the Yangtze River. Most of them were ship drivers, and their ability and water characteristics were very good.

It would be a pity if the sixty thousand-stone warships he led were left in Taihu Lake without using it. It would be a huge pity that a powerful navy will play a great role in combat in the Jiangnan region.

In fact, Li Yanqing had another concern, that is, Liu Guangshi, the governor of Chuzhou in Huaibei, never responded to his appeal to "clean the monarch".

The 50,000 troops in Liu Guangshi's hands were all from Zong Ze's former team. When Zong Ze died, the emperor Zhao Gou and the Supreme Emperor competed for the 80,000 troops left by Zong Ze, and finally divided into two. The 40,000 troops obtained by Zhao Gou was handed over to Yue Fei, while the 40,000 troops obtained by Emperor Zhao Ji was handed over to Liu Guangshi.

Liu Guangshi's father Liu Yanqing was Gao Qiu's confidant and was loyal to Zhao Ji. If Liu Guangshi had never expressed his loyalty to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji would never hand over the 40,000 troops to him.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Li Yanqing must be wary of Liu Guangshi's army going south and attacking himself from behind, so it is necessary to establish a naval army to block the Yangtze River.

However, Li Yanqing was still patiently waiting for the three Ruan heroes to return to the team. They came from Lin'an Mansion. It should have been these two days.

"Report to the commander, General Ruan's family has arrived!" A personal soldier reported at the door.

Li Yanqing hurriedly said, "Let them come in!"

After a moment, Ruan Xiaoer quickly walked into the big tent and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I am not aware of the governor!"

"Thank you for your hard work, please get up quickly!"

Li Yanqing asked him to get up, looked back again, and asked with a smile: "Where are your two brothers?"

"They are still at the gate of the camp!"

"Why?" Li Yanqing asked in confusion.

"We saved one person on the road, most likely His Royal Highness."

Li Yanqing was stunned, "Is that two-year-old child?"

Ruan Xiaoer nodded, "We were drinking tea in the tea shed. When we heard several secret whistles saying that we had found the prince's traces, we followed us and saved a palace maid. She was holding a child in her arms and said it was the prince. We didn't dare to confirm it, so we escorted her and the child to Pingjiang Mansion."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, "Let's go!"

He took Ruan Xiaoer quickly to the gate of the military camp. From a distance, Li Yanqing saw Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu standing at the gate with a young woman, holding a very young child in his arms.

Li Yanqing asked again: "Is this only palace maid?"

"Originally there was an old nun who was the lord of Baiyun Temple. She was injured and went back after confirming our identity. This little lady refused to enter the military camp and had to meet the governor."

Li Yanqing strode out of the military camp. The palace maid Li Cai'e recognized Li Yanqing and immediately knelt down and cried. The child in her arms was scared and started crying.

At this time, Hu Qing'er and a few female soldiers rushed out. She quickly helped Li Cai'e up and comforted her for a while. Li Cai'e gradually stopped her tears, took out the blood edict and gold medals given to her by the official from her arms, and handed them to Li Yanqing.

After reading the blood edict, Li Yanqing felt happy again, and at the same time he was very heavy. He quickly asked a female soldier to pick up the child and took everyone into the camp.

In the big tent, Li Yanqing stared at the blood edict on the table. The edict said that if he encountered an accident, he could make the crown prince inherit the throne and beg Li Yanqing to protect his son sooner or later. This was actually a will, to make his son the emperor and to entrust the orphan Li Yanqing, but it was written in blood, which was even more shocking.

After a long time, Li Yanqing sighed softly, put away the blood edict, and asked Hu Qing'er who had been standing behind him for a while, "Are they all settled?"

"I've settled it, and the child cannot live without the palace maids for the time being. I will arrange them in a big tent and let two female soldiers protect them."

"Thanks a lot!"

Hu Qing'er slowly walked forward and asked in a low voice: "Husband is planning to become a child's surrogate?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "This is God's arrangement, I must follow God's will."

"In the future, we will move back to Lin'an Mansion?"

"Maybe!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "It's too early to talk about this matter now. Go and find the three Ruan Xiongs for me."

Hu Qing'er smiled and said, "They are more impatient than their husbands and have already gone to train the navy."

Li Yanqing laughed, "These three guys are conscious, let's go! Let's take a look."

Li Yanqing left the tent and rode his horse towards the navy barracks.

Since the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji proclaimed himself the regent, there were not many state prefectures in various places that responded and supported him, only ten state prefectures near Lin'an Prefecture, including Jiaxing Prefecture, Huzhou, Ningguo Prefecture, Guangde Army, Yanzhou, Huizhou, Wuzhou, Kuaiji Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, Taizhou, etc., and the long-distance prefectures remained silent without exception, neither supporting him as the regent nor supporting Li Yanqing's Qingjun.

This pattern made Zhao Ji very annoyed. Although there are only Jiangning Prefecture, Pingzhou Prefecture, Yangzhou, Runzhou, Changzhou and Ezhou Prefecture, Zhao Ji is very clear that the Northwest Five Roads, Bashu Third Road and Hedong Road must support Li Yanqing. In short, Li Yanqing has received support from most prefectures and counties.

Now, except for quickly extermination of Li Yanqing, they have no other way to go.

In the Zhizheng Hall, Zhao Ji presided over the discussion of Zhizheng Hall. Just yesterday, Zhao Ji dismissed Deputy Prime Minister Zheng Wangzhi as the prime minister. Because Zheng Wangzhi was promoted by Li Yanqing, Zhao Ji suspected his loyalty to him.

The new deputy prime minister who replaced Zheng Wangzhi was Xu Churen, who was dismissed from prime minister before for offending Li Yanqing. Zhao Ji re-activated him. Xu Churen was flattered and actively expressed his loyalty, even hated Li Yanqing even more than Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan.

"Everyone knows the current situation. Cao Sheng openly supports Li Yanqing, and Pan Yue also betrayed the court. The reason why Li Yanqing dared to rebel was that he got the army of two people. Let's talk about how to deal with the current situation?"

At this time, Wang Boyan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I want to say a few words!"

Wang Boyan was the Privy Councilor and had a good understanding of military intelligence in various places. Zhao Ji nodded, "Please tell me, Mr. Wang!"

"Your Majesty, although Li Yanqing's Northwest Army is powerful, the journey is long after all. It will take at least one and a half months to come from the northwest. It can be said that it is very difficult to replenish food and grass on the road. The army of Jingxiang and the two routes are busy suppressing bandits, which is actually neutral. In this way, Li Yanqing has only 50,000 troops at most, but we have 180,000 troops!"

"etc!"

Zhao Ji suddenly realized something was wrong, "Where did the 50,000 troops come from?"

They only had 100,000 new troops recruited, plus 30,000 city guards, a total of 130,000 people. Where did the 50,000 troops come?

But Zhao Ji was just stunned and understood, "Are you talking about Liu Guangshi's 50,000 troops?"

Wang Boyan nodded, "Your Majesty spent a lot of energy to win Liu Guangshi's army. In any case, he should obey His Majesty's command."
Chapter completed!