In September, the war in the north has lasted for a month. Almost every morning, the people living on both sides of Lin'an Yu Street will wake up with postmen shouting good news and crisp sounds of horse hooves. Then the news will spread to every corner of the city with newspapers. At noon, diners who arrive at restaurants in Beijing and vendors on the street are talking about the war ahead.

When the news of the recovery of Kaifeng, the former capital that had been trapped for more than a hundred years, came to Beijing, it made the government and the country extremely excited. The wine shops in the city were full of all the wines sold out. Until the street lights were lit, the streets were filled with drunkenness and wandering around, shouting that "the humiliation of a hundred years will be washed away once." The street guards and soldiers of the state army who had always cracked down on them were extremely tolerant and did not punish them as they used to be.

Of course, the ones who were drunk were not only the young and energetic Confucian scholars, but also the civil and military officials in the court. It is said that the court meeting the next day was also delayed by an hour because the emperor got drunk last night. The Central Plains immigrants who had passed by the court who had passed by the court south also went out of the city to worship their ancestors, informing our ancestors that our army recaptured Kaifeng again.

The court was very cautious about this. It was not until the army crossed the Yellow River and recovered Fengqiu that the emperor led the Chinese civil and military ministers to worship the temple, sent the ministers to Shaoxing to worship the tomb, and issued an order to inform the whole country to reward the meritorious officers and soldiers. That night, fireworks were released on the shore of West Lake to celebrate the victory. The emperor, the empress dowager, concubines and all the ministers came to Yongkin Gate to watch, and celebrated the victory with the people.

Subsequently, the Lin'an guilds spontaneously organized donation activities to condolence and reward the soldiers in front. The merchants and people in the city participated enthusiastically. In three days, they donated 500,000 stones of grain, and silver and various materials equivalent to 3 million stagnant. At the same time, the recruitment sites in various parts of the Ministry of War were overcrowded, and young scholars and young and strong people enlisted in the army one after another.

Compared with the outside world's fanaticism, with the lesson of winning first and losing twice in the previous dynasty, the court showed a very low-key performance. They knew that the initial victory of the Northern Expedition was due to the success of the battle raid, which caught the Mongols and Yuan off guard, which prevented them from organizing effective resistance, resulting in a collapse of thousands of miles. Once they woke up, it would not be so easy to win so easily.

Now the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties have gradually stabilized their positions from the initial panic, realizing that the Song Dynasty was not just a punitive counterattack, but a war that had been planning for a long time to recover the Central Plains.

Now on the battlefield in Shandong, King Yezheli of Jinan and King Chahan Timur of Jining temporarily put aside their grudges and concentrated the two remaining troops to retreat to Qizhou; King Hedai of Zhendong responded quickly. After learning that the Song army had landed from the sea, he immediately gathered his troops to retreat to Yidu City; King Xiliji of Henan retreated to Zhengzhou and Luoyang after the fall of Kaifeng. In addition to his troops, he also accommodated some defeated troops in Nanyang.

The prefecture of Qizhou was governed by Jinan. It was Jingdong Road in the Song Dynasty. Jinan Prefecture was still established, and it belonged to Shandong East Road. At this time, Xiaoqing River was dug in the north of the city and directly to the sea, making Jinan an important salt transportation distribution center and a military and economic center. It was changed to Jinan Road in the early Yuan Dynasty, which belonged to the "Baili" area of ​​the Yuan Dynasty. It was directly under the Secretariat and led to the four counties and two prefectures.

Jinan Prefecture City was formed in the Song Dynasty. It was built in the earth city. The city wall was more than 5,000 steps in height, more than 4 meter wide. Open the west gate, the south gate, and the east gate were built. There were 4 city towers and 3 arrow towers. The city wall was built with corner towers, enemy platforms, pavilions and other defense facilities. There were more than 3,000 battlements, and the lower part was built with green square stones, about one meter on the ground. It can be called a strong city.

Yidu is also known as Qingzhou, located in the middle of the Shandong Peninsula, located at the northern foot of the Yishan Mountains in the Shandong Mountains and the northern Shandong Plain. The Song Dynasty was the jurisdiction of Jingdong East Road. The Jin Dynasty was the administration of Yidu General Administration of Shandong East Road. The Yuan Dynasty was the administration of Xuanwei Office of Shandong East Road. The main residence was the border between Shandong Zhongshan District and Shandong Plain, the Jiaolai Peninsula.

In history, it has always been a must-fight for military strategists and is mainly used as an administrative and military center. The city has been built for more than a thousand years. It has been rebuilt and renovated in all dynasties. Now the city is more than thirteen miles in circumference, long from east to west and short from north to south, and rectangular. The city is three or five feet high and the trenches are 1 or five feet deep. It is also a strong city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Zhengzhou belonged to Jingji Road during the Song Dynasty. Later, in order to prevent the invasion of the north, Sifu County was established, and Zhengzhou was the Xifu County, which was in an important position. The Jin Dynasty occupied the Central Plains, and Xinzheng County under Zhengzhou was assigned to Junzhou, Mengzhou was assigned to Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou was assigned to Nanjing Road. In the early Yuan Dynasty, Xinzheng County was assigned to Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou belonged to Bianliang Road. It was the "Baili" area of ​​the dynasty and was directly under the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat.

During the Song Dynasty, Zhengzhou was the last line of defense to defend the capital, and naturally the city was strong. The surrounding prefectures and counties also built cities, relying on each other to form a complete defense system.

Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, was seriously damaged due to the melee at the end of the Tang Dynasty. After entering the Song Dynasty, the outer city had become a barren land. After being designated as Xijing, it only had a simple repair and did not restore its original scale. Relatively speaking, the defense facilities were rough and simple, and it was not suitable for long-term adherence.

At this moment, the Mongolian army retreated to several cities, relying on the support to resist the Song army's advance north and waiting for the arrival of reinforcements. Once the enemy reinforcements arrive, the war may be dragged into a protracted war. Therefore, the most important thing for the Song army is to capture these cities before the arrival of the Mongolian and Yuan reinforcements can open the road to Hebei...

The front was already full of fighting, and Zhao Bing was still in Lin'an, feeling uncomfortable, but he could only endure it for the overall situation. Tiemur was still stuck in Shangdu and refused to turn around Dadu. He knew that he should have known his intentions in the face of the current war, but he still had luck in his heart, hoping that the war would not expand.

Zhao Bing made this judgment naturally only his own conjecture, but it was an analysis based on the information sent back by the Bureau of Affairs. Tiemur made such a judgment, one was that he believed in Aldam's predictions; the other was that he was in charge of whether he was in charge of the war as an important basis for judging the intensity of the war, believing that as long as he did not leave the capital, the situation would still be able to recover.

Therefore, Zhao Bing not only did not leave Beijing, but also showed up in public from time to time. At the court meeting, he "cordial" met the envoys of the Mongolian Yuan court, indicating that his "true body" was still in the capital. This gave Tiemur an illusion that he was hesitant when making decisions, and bought time for realizing the first phase of the combat plan.

"Your Majesty, the 12th Army and the 13th Army successfully landed in Dengzhou and Laizhou, and quickly recovered the two states with the cooperation of the armed forces of the affairs bureau. According to the war reports sent back yesterday, in addition to the left-behind troops, the 13th Army turned to Mizhou to clean up the surrounding prefectures and counties; the 12th Army was advancing towards Weizhou, intending to clear the periphery of Qingzhou and create conditions for other troops to encircle and annihilate the enemy fleeing north." While informing the emperor about the latest battle situation, Xu Wunan marked the positions and deployment of both sides on the enemy-wealth situation chart.

"Well, according to the plan, their movements are not slow. I am still a little worried whether they can conquer Yidu on time at the end of the month!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"Although the 12th Army and the 13th Army are newly formed troops and have not yet undergone large-scale actual combat inspections, their performance is still quite excellent, and there are two commanders of Yan Feng and Guan Hong who have been in battle for a long time. I believe that the mission can be completed on time." Xu Wudao.

"Being able to reorganize a ship to successfully land in unfamiliar areas across the sea, which shows that they are well-trained and combat-capable troops. However, Yidu not only has strong city defense, but also has fast escape from Zhendong King, and his troops are not much loss. Moreover, Yidu's people have always been tough and brave, and they have always liked to rebel. This is really a test for the two troops that have not experienced a great war!" Zhao Bing said with some concern.

Xu Wunan and Chen Shishi met and smiled. They knew that what the emperor was talking about was Li Quan and his son.

Li Quan was a Han Chinese under the rule of the Jin Dynasty. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, he responded to the uprising of Yang Aner of the Red Coat Army. He married Yang Miaozhen, the sister of Yang Aner, and occupied Yidu. However, his life was capricious. In the tenth year of Jiading, Emperor Ningzong of Song issued an edict to attack Jin and recruit various rebels. Li Quan and others rely on the Southern Song Dynasty, but a few years later, in order to expand their own power, they publicly surrendered to Mongolia and hostile to Song, and were appointed as the Marshal of the Yidu Provincial Capital of Shandong Province.

Li Quan died, and soon his son Li Yu attacked Yidu Province. He was the most powerful Shihou in the Han area at that time, and he supported the army and respected himself. He used his special position between Mongolia and Song and his special relationship with the Mongolian royal family to cultivate and expand his own power. After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, he still used the excuse to guard against the Southern Song Dynasty, "held the enemy country to seek the court, and to improve the military strategy for himself."

At the beginning of the third year of the Central Commission for Transport, taking advantage of the war between the imperial court and Alibuge, Li Yanjian secretly ordered Li Yanjian, who was appointed as the proton, to return home, and then annihilated the Mongolian garrisons in the three cities of Lian, Hai, and claimed to be rebellious, and offered the city to the Song Dynasty, and led troops to Yidu. At the request of Li Yan, the Song general Xia Gui advanced north from the border of Mongolia and Song, occupied Hao, Teng, Xu, Su, Pi and other prefectures. Another Song army made an appointment to bypass the Shandong Peninsula by sea, landed on the Binzhou beach, and then moved to Cangzhou.

However, the Song army advancing north was immediately blocked by the Mongolian army and Han army, and was forced to retreat southward. The Song army advancing to Binzhou, Cangzhou and other places also had no power to do anything. In this way, the 50,000 and 60,000 troops of Li Fu, who were trapped in Jinan, were completely trapped in a lonely army situation waiting to die, and finally defeated and died.

Zhao Bing knew that Li Quan and his son were helpless in order to survive in Jin, Meng and Song, but his behavior of rebelling and subjugating Wuchang was no different from that of traitors. He had no intention of territorial gangs, but their father and son had been entrenched in Yidu for 30 years and had mixed forces. Although decades of defeat and death have passed, under his long-term influence, it has become the way for the Han people to survive and make a living.
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