Since the Liao army invaded the south, the Song army from Jingdong and the two routes of Jingdong have been protecting themselves and have not made any moves. At this time, they have emerged as a surprise attack and have captured Jiangyin Water Village in one fell swoop, causing the Liao army from the east led by Tiemuge to be attacked from both sides.

The two routes of Jingdong have always been important places to prevent horse grazing from the north and south. They originally had many imperial guards stationed, but later they collected the remnants of the Hebei camp, mostly regular court official troops, not comparable to the Yi soldiers in the southeast prefectures and counties. Just as naval warships, the Baoyi army used mostly ships of original water bandits or bought merchant ships for temporary transformation. As far as Zhao Xingde knew, after the Fourth Battalion used artillery warships in the Battle of Liaodong, the Jingdong Heng Navy quickly imitated the addition of iron barrel cannons on the naval warships, and bought and hoarded shipbuilding large amounts of giant trees from the Liaodong Han army. The scale even aroused the vigilance of the Guguo Mansion.

The news that Han Shizhong led his troops to the south along the coast made the generals happy and talked noisy.

"Mr. Hou is indeed a scheming man."

"Ginger is still spicy, if you don't get it, you'll make a splash."

"General Zhao, should we speed up our march?"

"Huihe Zhenguo Army and Henghai Army drove the Liao gangs down the river to feed the fish in one fell swoop!"

News of the Jiangyin victory spread, and the soldiers and the soldiers on the ship and on the shore cheered loudly. In the past two or three months, the two countries have changed the decline of the fall of Bianliang last year. Yelu Dashi personally led the army to fight in Xiangyang and Fangzhou. Zhenguo's army opened up the grain route of Xiangyang. Now, tens of thousands of Liao troops on the eastern route were blocked by Zhenguo's army in Shuzhou. Now Jiangyin victory is again reported. At this moment, the open and secret struggle between Chen Dong and Hou Huanyin not long ago seemed to have been intentionally forgotten. Everyone had smiles on their faces, shouting loudly and smiling to defeat the Liao army again.

For the Song army fighting fiercely in Shuzhou, this is undoubtedly great news. Jiangyin. The navy was established by the Liao army invaded the south and surrendered the original Song Dynasty navy. The grain ships on the river were all protected by the navy's patrol. Now Han Shizhong suddenly joined the southeast battlefield and captured Jiangyin. The water camp in one fell swoop, causing the Liao army's grain route to be cut off by the Song navy.

Zhao Xingde looked at this scene and his lips raised slightly, thinking to himself: "Although Hou Huanyin has consolidated his Jingdong Road, the two Jingdong Roads are backed by the sea, and their hinterland is not as deep as the southeast, and it is easy to isolate other prefectures and counties. This is a natural disadvantage. If Hou Huanyin is unwilling to be under Chen Dong, he cannot always hide in Jingdong Roads and protect himself. He wants to send troops to show his strength, and fight with the Khitan Iron Cavalry in the east and fight with the plains, and it will be much better to use the navy to go south to copy the Liao army's back and forth."

Among the Liao army on the east route, the commander Yelu Bijie was in charge of Jiangning Prefecture. 20,000 people followed Tiemuge against the river to attack Shuzhou, while others were divided into troops to garrison all over the Jianghuai area, which shows the Liao army's emphasis on operating the Jianghuai area. The Battle of Jiangyin made a big hole in the Jianghuai layout of the Liao army, which also proved Yue Fei's statement that the Liao army still had a stable foothold, which was greatly inspiring.

Today, Zhao Xingde began to understand Yue Fei's idea of ​​fighting the Liao army. Since the Liao army invaded the south, although they have won consecutive battles and opened a big stall, they have also left big flaws. However, after the front line was widened, the Hu people such as the Khitan were not large, and the shortcomings of being short of troops gradually became obvious. In just less than a year, no matter whether it was the surrendered Song army or the forced conscript army, it was impossible to devote one's life to the Liao Kingdom. After all, the limited use of the Liao army has been

After reaching the extreme, in this situation, if there were several big victories, it might be possible to expel the Liao army from the Central Plains in a short time and rescue all the people in the Song Dynasty. Yue Fei was originally from Xiangzhou, but over the years, he had been fighting south and north, but his parents, wife and children had been staying in his hometown. The Liao army went south too fast and Bianliang fell too suddenly. For several months, the news of the north and south were isolated, so that Yue Fei had not received any news from his family. Others knew about these secret things, but generals like Zhao Xingde knew about them.

"He may have more feelings about the pain of separation of parents, wife and children." Zhao Xingde sighed with empathy, "I hope to expel the Northern Territory as soon as possible, and the auspicious people will have their own heavenly appearance."

The news of the Jiangyin victory made Ezhou City as lively as a festival. Literary and scholars wrote poems to praise it, and the people in the market also talked about it. A joyful and optimistic mood even spread from the people to the Prime Minister's Mansion. The staff gathered together and talked happily about the news of Han Shizhong's capture of Jiangyin and the water village. It is said that the rebel general Kong Yanzhou gathered tens of thousands of people, but suffered consecutive defeats, and the entire army was wiped out, and he fell to the point of escaping with a boat board. Of course, these are all rumors.

Correspondingly, Hou Huanyin's reputation also rose. As the pacifier of Jingdong Road, according to the court system, Han Shizhong was his subordinate. This kind of decisive decisive achievements were indispensable. Before the Prime Minister's Office had made a decision, the scholars from nearby prefectures and counties sent letters to ask for the reward of Hou Huanyin and Han Shizhong to reward the meritorious soldiers at the same time. At the beginning, Hou Huanyin's advantage of vigorously winning over the position of prime minister was fully revealed at this time. If the Prime Minister's Office did not give a generous reward, it would appear stingy.

"It seems that I underestimated Lord Jingdong Hou in the past." Chen Dong's eyes narrowed slightly, his eyes fell on the map of the marching mountains and rivers. He abandoned other ideas and said to himself, "If it is beneficial to the country, it is always good to have more heroes."

Although the significance of the Jiangyin victory is quite significant. The rewards of the Henghai Army will be equivalent to those of the Battle of Fangzhou and Shuzhou. This is the preliminary plan of the Ministry of War to avoid favoring one and the other. But the most important thing at the moment is Shuzhou. How to consolidate the victory is best to eat this Liao army and achieve an unprecedented victory. The key to the battle of Shuzhou is to coordinate the generals. Zhao Xingde can take the overall situation into consideration, but if he thinks that the Henghai Army will obey the order of the Jiedushi of Zhenguo Army, it is obviously a nerd's idea. Therefore, Chen Dong wanted to follow the ancestral system of the dynasty generals from Zhongyu, and let the Ministry of War make a strategy, and the Privy Councilor Yue Fei will take charge of the Zhenguo Army, Henghai Army, and Baoyi Army to attack together. Zhao Xingde will coordinate the two generals of Yue and Han in the middle. However, he was still very hesitant and felt unsure. Baoyi Army is the weakest among the three Song troops. Does Zhao Xingde have this ability?

"Temuge's tens of thousands of hedgehogs gathered in the east of Shuzhou, and all the food and grass were transported on the river. Now that Jiangyin's navy is destroyed, General Han will take advantage of the opportunity to block the waterway, and the Liao army's grainway will be changed from land to land, so the difficulty will be different."

Cao Liangshi, the Minister of War, had bloodshot eyes, and the responsibility for formulating strategies suddenly fell on him. The pressure was as heavy as Mount Tai, so he still took it with his strength. He was defeated in Hebei and Henan repeatedly, and a large number of imperial guards trained by the court for many years no longer existed, and the remaining large troops were mostly in the hands of the treacherous party. At present, the three Song dynasties gathered in the upstream and downstream of Shuzhou are the hope of the southeast half of the prefectures and counties. Ezhou could not afford to lose, so Cao Liangshi worked hard to discuss a steadfast plan with the staff of the Ministry of War.

"According to the detailed report, the Liao army's food and grass are mostly stored in Jiangning and Hangzhou. In order to move westward to Jingxiang, Tiemuge's troops did not carry much food and grass, and they always had to be transported by water. Now that General Han has broken Jiangyin and the water village, he took advantage of the opportunity to cut off the food and grass on the water. The roads in Jiangnan are muddy, and it is even more difficult to transport food and grass on land. The two generals Yue and Zhao need to steadily guard Shuzhou and wait for labor. General Han's navy swam on the river. They fought until July and August. The northern barbarians were not withstand the heat, and the muddy roads were not conducive to the cavalry. The food and grass in front of Shuzhou were exhausted, and the enemy would collapse without fighting. At that time, Zhenguo, Baoyi and the three armies of Henghai could send troops together to reap the full results."

Cao Liangshi explained the strategy of the Ministry of War. Chen Dong pondered for a long time. After the ministers discussed, he sent the strategy with seals and horses to the Shuzhou army and handed it over to Yue Fei, the Privy Councilor and the governor of the Zhenguo Army.

The news of Jiangyin's defeat also caused an uproar in the Liao army's imperial camp.

"Are the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty waste?" Someone said sarcastically, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, Tiege, also felt a sense of vain. Originally, the Liao Kingdom had almost completely abolished the Han military camp. It was him who insisted on surrendering the Southern Dynasty and recruiting the rural Jianyong to form the Southern Dynasty soldiers who were dependent on the Liao Kingdom. Unexpectedly, since Bianliang went south, the advancement was extremely unsatisfactory, and the defeats were defeated one after another, and the performance of the Southern Dynasty soldiers was particularly unbearable. What made Yelu Tiege feel lucky was that Yelu Dashi did not take his anger on him, but his contempt for the southern people became deeper.

"It seems that the training of the Lumen Navy is going to be accelerated." Yelu Dashi ordered, "I will recruit another 10,000 Jurchen camps to Jiangning Navy."

King Yelu Kuang of Jin and the Southern Jurchen King Wanyan Zongbi agreed in unison. The navy, dominated by the Jurchens, established a village in Jiajiang, Lumen. Yelu Kuang was the deputy commander of the navy, and Wanyan Zongbi was the deputy commander of the navy. Yelu Dashi had always been with him to the surrendered generals of Wanyan Zongbi and other Jurchens, and now he had almost tamed it. Since the southern expedition, these surrendered generals of the Jurchens and Tiemuge's troops have all made great efforts. Therefore, this time, this time, the southern invasion, and only attacked Xiangyang, the Jurchen camp, had more than 30,000 people, and now they were all transferred to the navy camp. Yelu Dashi did not allow the Jurchens to be cavalry, and the navy was only useful in the south, and the threat to the Khitans was not great.

Yelu Dashi nodded with satisfaction. "It just so happened that these barbarians and the Song people were consumed." A mysterious smile appeared on Yelu Dashi's mouth. He turned to Yelu Tiege again and comforted him, "It has not been long since our army has managed Jianghuai. People are unacceptable and their foundation is unstable, which is also ordinary." Seeing that there was a look of gratitude in Yelu Tiege's eyes, he nodded, "After capturing Bianliang, even I despise these wandering soldiers. The army was also a little proud and underestimated. Nowadays, a few small setbacks are just a reminder to us that the North Court should teach the soldiers to cheer up."

"The Song army wanted to attack Tiemu Ge. Should Yelu Bijie's chief commander send troops to reinforce first, and before the Song army gathered together, they first defeated Shuzhou Zhenguo Army, and then attacked Baoyi Army and Henghai Army?" Yelu Tiege offered advice. What he feared most was the Henghai Army, which had just won. This army came from the sea and could go to sea at any time, which was really a headache.

Note: The two routes of Jingdong, Northern Song Dynasty, were approximately equivalent to Shuzhou, Shandong, and near Anqing.
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