Yanggu was breached in less than two days, and the theoretically nearest route for the Jin army to come to the rescue was blocked. These things were not known to Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin for the time being... Or rather, they didn't even know that a certain husband had gone to Yanggu, and they were too lazy to know.
For Kong Liu and the other man who set up camp in the wilderness north of Pingyin on the southeast side of the Ji River, they were just fighting hard and seriously, trying their best to paralyze Zhang Rong on the opposite side, waiting for the so-called fatal blow from Li Cheng.
However, suddenly, Li Chenglai came, but he did not come from behind Zhang Rong, but passed by him non-stop from the other side of the Jishui River and never came back.
In fact, at that time, with the military qualities of Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin, they had already begun to be alert. Kong Yanzhou had even ordered the front-line troops to evacuate the front battle area and prepare to gather troops. However, no matter how alert they were, they could not stop Li Cheng from passing by the northwest of Jishui River, and Yue Fei's troops poured out densely from Mount Tai in the east, directly blocking their way.
The situation is such that there is nothing that can be done to change it.
Since there is nothing we can do to change the situation, we have to find our own way to survive.
However, Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin are somewhat different:
Liu Lin was the fake crown prince, and he knew that he would be dead if he fell into the hands of the Song army... Even if the official in Tokyo really did not take him seriously as the rumors said, the civil and military officials of the Zhao Song Dynasty would never spare his life.
Therefore, this man did not hesitate at all. Knowing that the situation was critical, he immediately began to gather his troops, rewarded the soldiers, conferred official titles and made promises, as if he was determined to give it a try.
As for Kong Yanzhou, seeing that the situation was getting very bad, he actually sent an envoy to Yue Fei to try to get a result.
This person's behavior seems to make sense.
First, it is the same old story. Both Marshal Kong and Governor Li were essentially bandits from Hebei who drifted to the east of Beijing and became warlords. And if Li Cheng still had some reasonable ambitions, then Kong Yanzhou acted purely for personal wealth and enjoyment. He could have been lured away by Liu Yu with official titles, treasures and the temptation of dividing Yanzhou. Naturally, he had no burden to leave Qi today in order to survive.
Secondly, although this person and Yue Fei did not have a deep friendship, and in fact one was a scoundrel and the other was an archer in their hometown, so they were not of the same kind at all, but they were from the same hometown after all, so he could always find the right person to pass on the message.
Thirdly, Yue Fei's journey along the Wenshui River and over Mount Tai and the surrounding hills to get here basically cut off his old nest, Yanzhou. Therefore, even if he managed to escape this time, it would be difficult for Kong Yanzhou to keep Yanzhou. This was a little hard to accept for Marshal Kong, who had finally lived a rich and luxurious life for a few days.
However, people's thoughts, world views and values are completely different. When Kong Yanzhou's letter of surrender was handed over, Yue Fei didn't even have the desire to scold him... because to him, Kong Yanzhou was exactly the person who must be eliminated this time!
You must know that it was this fellow villager's betrayal that caused the situation in Jingdong to deteriorate greatly and directly led to Zhang Suo's martyrdom in Nanjing. Then, as a subordinate, Yue Pengju, don't he need to avenge his benefactor?
Moreover, it was this same guy who, when in Yanzhou, lured countless refugees from Hebei in the name of being fellow townsmen, and then forced them to surrender to Qi. Among them, Xu Qing and thousands of Xiangzhou young men came with heavy burdens, but had to escape in a panic. As a result, they died in the city of Changsha before they could successfully clear their reputation. Then, as a boss, shouldn't Yue Pengju erase the regrets of his subordinates before their death?
Not to mention, Yue Fei had been coming back from Mount Tai these days, and he didn't dare to launch a large-scale attack on other places in order to prevent his whereabouts from being disclosed, but he had to take down the key point of Fengfu (now Tai'an) first. After Fengfu was captured, Yue Pengju learned about what his fellow villager had done in Yanzhou... It turned out that after Kong Yanzhou surrendered to Qi, he became the local emperor of Yanzhou, and his speed of degeneration was simply astonishing.
Not to mention anything else, according to the accounts of the surrendered people who had witnessed it with their own eyes from Fengfu, nowadays Marshal Kong needs twenty or thirty young and beautiful maids just to have a meal at his mansion... What are they doing?
Holding the plate, just holding the plate.
Apart from this, the stories of falling in love with beautiful women and forcing their families to be broken up, forcing local officials to collect taxes for more than ten years in advance, and imprisoning local wealthy businessmen in a planned and organized manner to squeeze out oil seem somewhat easy to understand.
Could Yue Fei allow such a person to return to Yanzhou?
"It's not impossible."
In the hastily erected tent, the current Grand Commandant and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Camp, Yue Pengju, listened to the visitor's narration in his hometown dialect and seemed quite calm. "But he turned against Zhang Zhenfu in the past, causing a great defeat. Zhang Zhenfu is now facing us, so it's hard to explain. Moreover, there is a lot of resentment in the court for his surrender to Qi. If he wants to return to Yanzhou this time, he must make great achievements... What if he captures Liu Lin and brings him to see us before talking about Yanzhou?"
The messenger was timid but not surprised. He agreed readily and retreated directly.
When the messenger left, everyone knew something was wrong, but they all held back and kept silent. Only Li Zhang, the Flying Eagle, was a straightforward person, and he asked on the spot: "Does the commander really want to let this man go?"
Yue Fei was equally straightforward. He just sat there and said coldly: "It's just a trick. If we can trick him into starting a civil strife with just one word, wouldn't it save a lot of effort? It will also save some soldiers... Regardless of success or failure, we should still proceed as usual and be prepared. When the time comes, we will attack."
Li Zhang and other straightforward generals all came to their senses, and most of the other generals in the tent also showed the same attitude.
Not to mention how Yue Fei had made up his mind and was planning a general attack, on the other side, Kong Yanzhou received the message in his own tent. Before he took the initiative to do anything, he received an invitation from Liu Lin. This man surprisingly had no grudges and led a hundred or eighty personal guards to the other party's tent in the summer heat.
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