Erliduo knew that if he continued talking, there would be a rift between the brothers, so he could only grit his teeth and said seriously: "Are you still going to go south immediately? Don't care about Ma Kuo and the Eight Character Army?"
"good."
"How are you going to fight?"
"Third brother won't cross the river, so don't worry about it."
"I just need to hold Nianhan back for you so that the reinforcements from the Western Route Army can be dispatched in time?"
"good."
"Do you need me to press down on that part of your body?"
"No need, this old bird dare not break his promise! If he dares to play tricks on me, I will make him know how powerful I am."
Erliduo nodded slowly, then stood up and sighed: "You go ahead, I will slowly gather troops and horses to support you."
Wanyan Wushu finally convinced his brother, but he stood up without saying a word, enduring the severe pain from his wound on a rainy day, and almost limped into the rain without even opening an umbrella or calling for help.
Erlido looked at his brother's back and frowned slightly. He always felt that his brother was gradually losing control, but it was not simply because of his age and promotion to power, but he couldn't explain the reason clearly.
In early August, the autumn harvest on the south bank of the Yellow River was gradually completed, but there was still no news from the Jin people. Even the main force of the Eight Character Army in the northern Taihang Mountains had not reported any information about a large-scale battle.
In a trance, the entire Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River, which was on high alert, was about to become a joke.
At this time, the commanders of various war zones who had already obtained the "right to self-determination" clearly issued by Nanyang also had other ideas.
On the eighth day of the eighth month, Zhang Jun, the governor of Huaidong, launched a tentative attack on Yizhou and won the first battle. Or it could be said that the local bandits in Yizhou chose to surrender. But no matter what, the vital Yishui Passage fell into the hands of Zhang Boying, who immediately rode back to report the victory.
On August 12, Zhang Suo, the governor of the two routes of Jingdong in Nanjing and Shangqiu, ordered his pacification envoys Yue Fei and Zhang Rong, and Kong Yanzhou, a native of Jingdong and a soldier of the Song army who occupied the Yanzhou area after the rebellion last year, to advance northward together, trying to defeat Liu Yu and occupy Jinan Prefecture before the arrival of the Jin army.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16, Yue Fei was ordered to lead his troops into battle.
However, on August 18, before Yue Fei had even left the territory of Dongping Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Zhang Rong in the north, he ran into countless defeated troops of Zhang Rong's army.
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