Chapter 509 Who will be defeated this time?
Li Quan's wife, Madam Yang, yelled at him angrily: "What are you standing there for? Why don't you quickly tell the Yizhou soldiers to withdraw?"
Are you waiting to be annihilated by the Divine Might Army?
The guy finally woke up and immediately ordered the troops in Yizhou to withdraw.
Madam Yang said angrily: This is a massive invasion by the Shenwei Army. We can't resist it with our strength alone. Hubli didn't send any troops to support us, which clearly shows that he doesn't want Shandong.
We can either surrender the Shenwei Army or withdraw to Hebei and live in disgrace. My lord, it would be better for you to make a decision sooner rather than later to save the people of Shandong from suffering.
Li Quan was lucky enough to think that the Shenwei Army would not attack Shandong immediately. He never expected that the Shenwei Army would attack Shandong as soon as the Yellow River dike was repaired. He immediately made arrangements to stop the attack and secretly sent a messenger to Shangqiu to contact the Shenwei Army and negotiate with Commander Zhao to find the third young master of the Shenwei Army to return to the New Song Dynasty.
However, in Jinan Prefecture, the guy asked his wife to pack up quickly and prepare to cross the river to join Hubili.
This time, Madam Yang firmly disagreed and she wanted to return to the New Song Kingdom.
This old woman has Han blood flowing in her veins, and her Han ancestors and the orthodoxy of the Central Plains are engraved in her heart. She is unwilling to be a slave of a conquered nation anymore, and she wants to return to the New Song Dynasty.
Li Quan sighed and said: "Over the years, my husband and I have kowtowed to the northern barbarians, fought against the Song army, and done many things that harmed the Song Dynasty. It is said that the current new Song Dynasty leader is Zhao Feiyan, the daughter of the former official. It is still unclear whether this woman will let me, Li, go."
Madam Yang said firmly: "What are you afraid of? Things are different now." The traitor Shi from Liangzhe defected to the new Song Dynasty, and Commander Zhao even gave him a post as a Taijian in Taijian Hall, which was an honor only given to the pacification envoys and high officials who had served as the rulers of the country.
Back then, that thief Shi planned many things to assassinate and kill Commander Zhao, but people didn't care at all and just wrote them off.
We surrendered to the grassland empire as a temporary measure out of necessity. When two countries fight, there will be fighting and killing. That's called serving each other. Besides, we didn't really fight.
The couple stayed in the bedroom and continued to whisper.
Haha, Zhao Yulin is still busy in Xuzhou, how could he know what that guy is planning.
It was the hottest time of the year, and he was sweating profusely in his study. He felt hot even when he went out to lie under the yellow poplar tree to enjoy the cool. Wu Yuqi told him cheerfully: The Han army in Shandong was too weak, and General Youliang had already captured Yizhou and marched straight to Jiaozhou.
He said: The army from Liangzhe has been shipped to Banqiao Town by sea, so there is no need to rush. He sent a message to Yang Xingyun and others: We must occupy the place and not leave, and clean up all the remaining Mongolian troops along the way.
Yuqi said that the brothers were all running around happily and busy occupying territory.
Zhao Yulin felt that he should step forward and meet up with Yang Xingyun and the others, otherwise all the military orders he issued would be hindsight.
Wu Yuqi said that she was very busy. The army was advancing rapidly, and establishing her intelligence network became a top priority. She was short of manpower, so she was mobilizing Zhang Qi to bring people to help.
While the two were still talking, another secret report came from Jinan Prefecture.
After seeing Li Quan's secret letter requesting a ceasefire and negotiations, Zhao Yulin smiled, handed it to Wu Yuqi and said: Li Quan is not well-informed. The Haner Army in Yizhou has been annihilated, but he is still requesting to withdraw for negotiations. This is really hindsight.
When the officials of all ranks in Jinguan City of Chengdu learned that the Shenwei Army had successfully marched into Shandong and had captured Banqiao Town in Jiaozhou, they were overjoyed. They nodded and shook their heads, saying "Great good, great good" repeatedly.
The Shenwei Army of the New Song Dynasty made a success as soon as it launched its attack, and the faces of the people of Chengdu were all beaming with joy. They talked about state affairs with a smile on their faces.
There was a group of boatmen drinking Chen Yi Shao Hu Chui at the dock of South City Gate.
A sturdy young man said: Damn, the Shenwei Army is so fierce, they have already entered Shandong. Next they will definitely cross the Yellow River to Zhending Prefecture, and we will get all the land of the Song Dynasty back.
A thin young man on the opposite side said: Oh, war is no joke. I heard that we have been preparing for this war for two years. First, we built the Cunjin Dike on the Yellow River to block the water of the Yellow River, letting the water flow to the northern barbarians and cutting off the passage to the grassland empire before we started the war.
The sturdy young man kicked the skinny boy and said with a laugh, "You really studied in a private school for two years, but you speak in a pretentious tone. It's your turn to show off."
A sturdy old man between them said happily: We have to thank the Shenwei Army. With them, we can sail with confidence and travel freely on the rivers and lakes.
The sturdy young man said proudly that it was natural. Not only were there no enemies, but even robbers were rare. Life was comfortable like this.
Suddenly, we heard the shopkeeper calling for a ship, and everyone gathered around, asking how much cargo there was and how many ships were needed.
Ten days later, the Shenwei Army occupied Weizhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou in Shandong. The navy entered the large and small tributaries of Yianze and compressed the remaining troops of Li Quan in the area of Jezhou near the Yellow River in northwest Shandong. They then set up defenses on the spot and went on the defensive.
Zhao Yulin went north to Shangqiu, and Li Quan urgently sent his trusted messenger Yang Qichang to negotiate the matter of surrender.
After Yang Xingyun received this person, he reported to him: The insider reported that Li Quan was worried about being liquidated by the New Song Dynasty, so he sent his confidants to Shangqiu for peace talks while actively preparing to withdraw to Hebei. The diehard traitors of the grassland empire in Jinan Prefecture have already fled, dragging their families across the river to Daming Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture in Hebei to make a living.
This time, Li Quan sent Yang Qichang to express five demands: first, that his past be forgiven; second, that his army be retained; third, that his subordinates be treated well; fourth, that his son Li Tan be properly settled; and fifth, as Shandong had experienced war and chaos, he hoped that the court would not levy taxes for three years.
Zhao Yulin smiled and replied to the person who came: Let him ask the common people in the market, what terms can the defeated generals negotiate? He only has one thing here, as long as they are willing to surrender, the Shenwei Army will not pursue the past, and everything else will be subject to the orders of the New Song Dynasty court.
Yang Xingyun also thought that Li Quan was too ignorant of the affairs of state. His troops had already been demoralized and had become frightened birds. They fled in all directions as soon as the war broke out. There were occasional stubborn resistance but their weapons and equipment were extremely poor and could not withstand the attack of the Shenwei Army.
If the Shenwei Army had not stopped and narrowed the encirclement by fifty or even a hundred miles, that guy would have been able to just wander around in his Jinan Prefecture.
At this time, the guards brought an urgent report: the navy of the Shenwei Army encountered the navy of the Grassland Empire on the sea north of Penglai, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle.
Yang Xingyun said anxiously that the war was happening at sea and they could not help the navy.
Zhao Yulin asked with a smile: Do we have to ask the infantry to jump into the Bohai Sea and swim to join the battle at sea?
He said: They are all close to Liaodong, it is obvious that Zhou Ping has discovered prey.
Yang Xingyun scratched his head and said: My brother called for a pause, the brothers are itching to do something, they all want to catch the enemy and do something bad like General Zhou did.
He walked over and pointed at the Yellow River channel on the map, and ordered them to find the weak points at both ends and attack Li Quan's ferry. They only needed to take down one or two of Li Quan's small ferry crossings. Wouldn't that guy be extremely nervous?
Yang Xingyun immediately took the order and left.
Wu Yuqi came back and saw Zhao Yulin enjoying tea in the pavilion and looking at the blue sky. She went over to massage his shoulders and neck. The woman was an expert in martial arts, and she knew the acupuncture points accurately and used moderate strength. Zhao Yulin closed his eyes in great enjoyment.
The couple was enjoying their sweetness when the guard shouted from afar: Chief Steward Zhang is here.
Wu Yuqi stopped immediately.
Zhao Yulin had just sat down when Zhang Qi came in hurriedly.
Seeing his serious expression, Yuqi knew that he had important military information to report, so she immediately dismissed the irrelevant people around her. She asked him why he was so nervous and anxious that he had to come to Shangqiu in person.
Zhang Qi's subordinate was in Kaifeng, focusing on collecting military intelligence of the Mongol Empire. He suddenly came to Shangqiu, and Wu Yuqi thought that he obviously did not come for military intelligence.
After taking a sip of tea, Zhang Qi took out a brocade bag from his personal belongings and handed it to Wu Yuqi, reporting that an intelligence station of the Grassland Empire had been uncovered in Kaifeng City, and a high-level regional spy who had just infiltrated from Zhending Prefecture in Hebei Province had been captured. In order to save his life, this man actually confessed that Dale Li from Shunfeng Office in Jiankang Prefecture was an undercover agent of the Grassland Empire and had had secret contacts with the spies of the Grassland Empire.
Zhao Yulin's heart skipped a beat, and the hand holding the tea bowl became motionless as if he had been acupunctured.
Damn it, this is too much.
Wu Yuqi said: Shunfengsi does not tolerate spies. If the information is true, even if Chief Dai did not work for the Grassland Empire, he is still guilty of concealing the truth and should be punished.
He thought for a long time before saying: Daleli was an old official of the Imperial City Department of the previous dynasty. It was normal for him to have connections with the secret agents of the Mongol Empire.
However, he is certainly guilty of concealing the truth.
Zhao Yulin asked Yuqi to investigate personally. If he had not colluded with foreign countries or done anything disloyal during this period, he would be given a lighter sentence. After all, there were many people from the previous dynasty who defected to our Xin Song Shunfeng Division, so he should take charge of this matter.
Wu Yuqi said there was no time to lose and she would set off right away.
However, Zhao Yulin was worried about Yuqi's safety, so he asked Ke Zhenxie to lead a team of elite guards to protect Yuqi, because if Daleli betrayed him, his methods would be extremely cruel.
Zhang Qi volunteered to follow Sister Yuqi to Jiankang Prefecture to do business, but was stopped by Zhao Yulin, who said that the war in Shandong was tense and he could not leave casually, so he went back to Kaifeng first.
He will not move here for the time being, so let Zhenxie and your sister-in-law go to Jinling to do the work.
However, Zhang Qi still protected Wu Yuqi and set off.
Everyone had left, but Zhao Yulin felt as upset as if his heart was filled with mixed feelings.
It is said that it is easy to conquer a kingdom but difficult to keep it. It is true. Zhao Yulin was copying calligraphy in his study room with a messy mind, but his writing became worse and worse. He tossed and turned in bed and could not fall asleep.
The next day, Shangqiu prefect Yan Luming asked for a meeting. Zhao Yulin called him Lord Yan , but Yan Luming refused. Even when Zhao Yulin called him Little Lord Yan, Yan Luming still said that the third young master was humiliating him.
Yan Luming reported in a low voice: Mrs. Yang, the wife of Li Quan from Jinan Prefecture, has come to Shangqiu and wants to meet the third young master.
Zhao Yulin was immediately shocked. What? Li Quan's wife came to Shangqiu in person?
