Xu Qing sneaked in overnight, triggering a crisis that was not a crisis... The reason why it was not a crisis was that as long as Yue Fei gave up gathering the people around Pingyin and gathered his troops to fight back, with both the city and the soldiers, let alone Xu Qing, even if Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin came with their entire army, they would probably be beaten to a bloody pulp.

However, Yue Fei was thinking about the situation in Jeju and even Nanjing and Tokyo behind him, and he didn't pay any attention to Kong Yanzhou and Liu Yu at all. In his eyes, Xu Qing's military threat was really not worth mentioning compared with the safety of the people of Pingyin.

At noon, the two sides met on the north bank of the Ji River, ten miles north of the city. Yue Fei simply led only 1,500 soldiers to line up in the wilderness, while Xu Qing led 3,000 soldiers. However, the latter came overnight, so their military appearance was inevitably in disarray.

As soon as the two sides met and stood still, Tang Huai reined in his horse and came behind Yue Fei, whispering a suggestion: "Brother, I know what you mean, but it seems that Xu Qing's troops are exhausted and restless. Why not send troops quickly and defeat the enemy while they are unstable? Then we can make a decision after we capture Xu Qing?"

Yue Fei looked back at his brothers, just shook his head slightly, then pursed his lips and moved forward.

Although Tang Huai was rejected, he did not take it seriously. Instead, he rode forward with his gun in hand and called out from a distance in front of the battle line: "Xu Erlang! My governor asks you to come forward and talk to him!"

After a moment, amid the commotion, Xu Qing indeed rode out alone. Seeing this, Tang Huai felt relieved and reined in his horse to return to the battle formation to control the army, while Yue Fei also rode forward alone.

"Yue Zhenfu."

Xu Qing was about thirty years old. He might have come overnight, so his eyes were bloodshot and he looked extremely tired. When he saw the visitor, he could only try his best to bow from a distance, but his voice was inevitably a little hoarse.

"Brother Xu." Yue Fei flew in front of the other party, crossed his horses and faced each other. He spoke in response, then narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not return the greeting. Instead, he held the iron spear in his hand.

Seeing this, Xu Qing could only sigh, and then continued to bow: "Yue Zhenfu, I led thousands of brothers here from Hebei that day. Yue Zhenfu wrote to me and asked me to go to Jeju, but I thought that Yue Zhenfu had a lot of talents under his command. As the saying goes, it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox, so I accepted Kong Yanzhou's invitation and went to Yanzhou, but I never expected that this day would come... Yue Zhenfu, Kong Yanzhou believed Liu Yu's lies, saying that the Jin people wanted Liu Yu to be the emperor and Liu Lin to be the prince, and Liu Yu and his son promised him a Grand Marshal of the Army, and in turn promised me a Deputy Marshal. But my brother came from Hebei and really didn't want to follow the Jin people. Now he is desperate and comes to surrender, I hope you will accept him!"

After saying this, the man bowed again on his horse, showing his sincerity.

However, when Yue Fei heard this, he just rolled his eyes and looked at the other person, neither saying anything nor nodding.

Just as Xu Qing was about to say something else, Yue Pengju suddenly stabbed a spear towards the opponent's neck. Xu Qing was so frightened that he immediately rolled off his horse to avoid it. When he stood up, he broke out in a cold sweat again... It turned out that Yue Fei's spear blocked an arrow, and the arrow came from behind him.

Not only that, after an arrow was fired, Xu Qing fell off his horse again. In the distance, Xu Qing's troops suddenly became noisy, and then dozens of riders swarmed over. Seeing this, Xu Qing hurriedly wanted to mount his horse, but found that his horse had already been frightened and ran away. He couldn't help but feel cold in his heart... He knew that his actions today had blocked someone's way, and if he couldn't deal with it properly now, let alone taking back the military power, even his life might not be saved.

"Is it the one with the red turban?" At this moment, Yue Fei still did not move, but raised his gun on the horse and pointed it at the dozens of cavalrymen who were about to arrive in front of him.

When Xu Qing heard Yue Fei's question, he suddenly realized it, but he didn't have time to say anything. He could only quickly respond from the ground: "That's the man!"

In a flash, as soon as Xu Qing said the word "yes", Yue Pengju's face turned serious, and he drew his spear and took out his bow. He didn't care that dozens of riders were about to rush to him, but calmly put his arrow on it and shot forward.

Before Xu Qing could understand the situation clearly, Tang Huai led dozens of cavalrymen to rush over from behind him, and some people even offered their horses to him... When he got on the horse again, he was shocked to find that the deputy general with a red headscarf who had plotted against him had fallen off his horse, and the dozens of cavalrymen who were rushing towards him were all panicked and dared not move.

Yue Fei turned around and pursed his lips slightly. How could Xu Qing dare to waste the opportunity again? He rode forward directly, bypassed the dozens of riders who were still confused, shouted to his trusted generals behind him, and galloped straight into the army.

In a moment, the two armies joined together and captured the deputy general's confidant, and a riot that could have caused unexpected consequences was eliminated.

After this incident, Xu Qing was already extremely terrified and grateful to Yue Fei, so his decision became more natural. As for Kong Yanzhou, it was not that he did not send out a pursuit force... In fact, this was also the courage of the deputy general who had evil intentions... But after the pursuit troops heard from afar that Xu Qing had joined Yue Fei and entered Pingyin City, they were intimidated by Yue Fei and Xu Qing's reputation and did not dare to come again.

However, after easily dealing with the matter of Xu Qing's surrender, Yue Pengju led his troops to escort the people in the north of Dongping Prefecture to withdraw southward in an orderly manner. After two days, they arrived at Yunzhou City (the capital of Dongping Prefecture, in fact, the original name of Dongping Prefecture was Yunzhou). He met Zhang Rong who had organized his troops out of Shuibo to support them, but he received the expected bad news - Dingtao, the capital of his Guangji Army, had fallen.

There was no way. Dingtao was the place where General Yang summoned all kinds of heroes to hold a heroic meeting that day, and it was also the place where Yue Fei and Zhang Rong met. However, the city was to the west and north of the Jishui River and Liangshan Lake, which was exactly on the path of the Jin cavalry heading south... and the defending general Fu Xuan only stayed there with about a thousand people because of this expedition.

In fact, on that day the Jin army moved quickly southwest along the north and east sides of the Ji River. Although Yue Fei noticed it at the first time in Pingyin, he was separated from the enemy by the huge Liangshan Lake and even his fast horses could not deliver the message before the enemy. Therefore, the entire army had already anticipated the fall of Dingtao.

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