At noon, the weather became increasingly irritable and dull, and it seemed like there would be some summer rain again. Gong Liu, two young and promising generals from Jingdong, met each other at the moment. Perhaps because it had come to a matter of life and death, both sides were surprisingly frank with each other.

"marshal!"

The two of them sat down at a table across from each other. After Liu Lin brought the fruits that had been hidden in the well, he couldn't wait to greet them. "I heard that you sent an envoy to Yue Fei's tent. What was your intention? What was the result? Marshal, do you think Yue Fei can still tolerate you? Under the current circumstances, even if he agrees to let you go, he is just deceiving you."

"He did promise me, but I was just tricking him. Don't think too much, Prince." Kong Yanzhou took out his sword and cut the melon on the table. The juice flowed out with one cut, but he took a piece of the melon and pushed it to the other party. "I defected that day and killed Zhang Suo directly. I also defended Nanjing for several months. In addition, Zhang Rong hated me to the core. Why would Yue Fei tolerate me? Just because I am from the same hometown? It's just that the current situation has reached a point where it can't get any worse. I'm just trying to cheat..."

"How to cheat?" Liu Lin was not interested, but was just tempted for a moment.

"Think about it, Prince. Regardless of whether it's true or not, since he promised me, I can always take half a day to gather the troops, right? Then I can march forward a few miles in a swagger. If I arrive in front of the camp, Yue Fei still wants to deal with me without fighting..." At this point, Kong Yanzhou took a bite of the crisp melon, and the juice overflowed from the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't stop grinning. "I'll let him know what it means to lose Jingzhou due to carelessness in the book."

Liu Lin suddenly realized that the other party was trying to take advantage of the false surrender to get their troops as close to the other camp as possible and then launch a surprise attack.

How to say it?

The plan was naturally hasty, and it was just a surprise attack with one's life gambled. Under normal circumstances, only a fool would do such a thing, but as Kong Yanzhou said, the situation has now reached a point where it can't get any worse, and one should just risk one's life.

All we can say is that no matter what Kong Yanzhou's character is, he is known as the Little Yue Fei, and it is not false. Apart from anything else, although he is young, he has been in the army for many years like Yue Fei, so he still has at least some military ability.

Back to the present, with this in mind, Liu Lin asked carefully: "What exactly does the Marshal plan to do?"

"I was just about to say this to the prince." Kong Yanzhou put down the half-eaten melon, wiped his mouth, and faced him proudly. "Yue Fei wants the prince. If so, I want to invite the prince to join my army and pretend to be captured by me to deceive Yue Fei. Then we will go to Yue Fei's camp and work together. If it works, we will succeed. If not, we will go our separate ways. How do you think?"

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"What did the prince say?" Kong Yanzhou urged, holding the melon.

"Not so good." Liu Lin came back to his senses and said cautiously. "Yue Fei has no less than 30,000 soldiers, and we only have 30,000. But if we break out, Zhang Rong will definitely raise his entire army to chase us, so we should have gone all out... But now there are 30,000 soldiers, the marshal has 10,000, and I have 20,000. If I go to the marshal's army, then won't the 20,000 Jinan soldiers be vacant?"

"That's right..." Marshal Kong seemed to be thinking. "What is the prince's plan?"

"Just find someone to pretend to be me, tie him up and fool Yue Fei. I will lead 20,000 Jinan soldiers behind the marshal to support him." Liu Lin responded earnestly. "Just wait for the marshal in front to exert his strength, and then I will lead the Jinan army behind to press forward! Maybe we can really escape!"

Kong Yanzhou immediately dropped the melon and slammed the table: "The Crown Prince is worthy of being the Crown Prince. How could he come up with such a good plan? If so, we should not delay any longer and break out today!"

After saying this, the man walked away with a knife in his hand, reaching the extreme.

Liu Lin stared blankly at the man's departing figure until he disappeared. Then he came to his senses... He had wanted to win over this man by promising him the land of Zibo Prefecture, but he didn't have the chance to say it out loud?

But at this point, there was really no time to think about it. The experienced prince of Daqi knew the importance of making a decision, and he immediately prepared.

In the afternoon, when the hottest sun had passed, Kong Yanzhou sent the messenger to Yue Fei again, saying that he had lured Liu Lin into the camp and captured him alive, but he had no control over Liu Lin's 20,000 Jinan soldiers, so he only asked General Yue to open the camp gate and accept him because they were from the same hometown.

Then, he urged the troops to mobilize and gathered the four to five thousand troops who had defended Nanjing in the past to serve as the vanguard. He also told these people that Yue Fei wanted to kill them all because of Zhang Suo, so they should fight hard.

Then, Kong Yanzhou led the vanguard and sent a deputy general to lead the rear army, and headed directly to Yue Fei's camp in the northeast.

On the plain, after two days of probing and pushing and pulling, the two sides were not far apart, so as soon as Kong Yanzhou set out, scouts from Yue Fei's and Zhang Rong's troops saw the situation from afar and went to report. On the other side, Liu Lin's camp was also in a state of excitement, with 20,000 people divided into a strict formation, with the left and right armies sending out at the same time, and the rear army guarding the rear.

For a moment, in the hot summer, these 30,000 Pseudo-Qi soldiers actually seemed to be ready to fight to the death.

As the sun set further in the west, dark clouds gradually gathered. As the entire army of Zhang Rong of Pingyin was dispatched, the narrow plain on the south bank of the Ji River looked increasingly like dark clouds were pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it.

After all, no matter what, this was a battle involving nearly 70,000 to 80,000 troops, and it was destined to be recorded in history. Not to mention other people, even Yue Fei in the camp was independently presiding over a war of this scale for the first time, so he was inevitably a little nervous.

However, when it was evening, after Zhang Rong's pursuit troops came into contact with the Qi army, things began to take a turn for the inexplicable direction - Kong Yanzhou's vanguard troops, which were approaching Yue Fei's camp, became more and more nervous, more and more excited, and even more encouraged. Liu Lin's army in the middle was still in order, and Yue Fei's camp was still quiet and calm, but Liu Lin and Kong Yanzhou's rear troops collapsed at the first battle with Zhang Rong's pursuit troops and fled.

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