In the city of Yangzhou in Huainan, the streets were crowded with people, and the people lined the streets to watch the new Han army entering the city.
Hu Quan, the magistrate of Yangzhou, arranged an incense table in the government office and waited for Yang Yizhong.
Because according to the people who contacted him, Yang Yizhong, the pioneer of the Northern Expedition, also brought Yue Fei's edict.
Hu Quan belonged to one of the few main war factions in the civil service system of the former Song Dynasty.
Soon after the Lin'an Mutiny, he learned about it through the Di Bao sent by the new dynasty, and the Xuanfu envoys sent by Yue Fei followed one after another.
However, he did not express his position immediately.
Instead, he left the Xuanfu envoy in the post station in Yangzhou City.
He made excuses for not seeing him but did not drive him away.
Until Zhang Jun was defeated by Yue Fei at the gate of Lin'an City and died in defeat.
Only then did he have the Han court's Xuanfu envoys brought to the government office to listen to the edict and receive orders, expressing his allegiance to the newly established Yuejia dynasty of the Han Dynasty.
Yang Yi read the edict issued by Lieutenant General Yue Fei at once.
The content of the edict was very simple, with only three articles.
One is to confer Hu Quan a new title of Founding Marquis, and the other is to order Hu Quan to transfer elite soldiers from the local soldiers under Yangzhou to military instructors sent by the Han court to train the new national defense army.
The remaining soldiers were also uniformly trained according to the establishment of the Han Empire's internal affairs army.
The third was to mobilize civilian power to cooperate with the National Defense Forces' Northern Expedition.
During the Northern Expedition, Yangzhou, which was the frontier, was exempted from paying taxes to the court.
In fact, this edict was not just for Hu Quan.
All the prefecture and county governors in Huainan who expressed their allegiance to the Han Dynasty would receive edicts written in the same template.
After Hu Quanshan thanked him for thanking him for long live, Yang Yizhong helped him up and said, "Old Hu, you don't know something.
Now the great Han Dynasty is using new etiquette.
In the future, there is no need to set up a table and burn incense when receiving imperial edicts.
There is no need for this complicated set of etiquette."
After the two of them entered the room and exchanged pleasantries, the topic turned to the main topic.
Yang Yizhong cupped his hands and said in salute: "Your Majesty has appointed me as the vanguard of the Northern Expedition.
The King's Army will soon cross the Huai River and go north to regain the Central Plains and China.
But the Holy One has asked me to stabilize the situation on the east and west routes of Huainan first.
I know very well that The situation in Huainan is complicated.
Brother Hu has been in charge in Huainan for many years.
I would like to ask Brother Hu for advice.
I hope you can give me some advice. " Hu Quan pondered for a moment, then brushed off the nonsense and said, "Brother Yang, I don't dare to take this advice seriously.
In fact, the situation in Huainan is not complicated.
There is only one problem to solve, which is Zhang Jun's tribe who is entrenched in Huaixi and continues to respect the Song Dynasty.
Only Those who are half-hearted will not think too much about destroying or subduing him.
At that time, if the officials in these places are reorganized and the army is reorganized, Huainan can be turned into a stable frontier for the Northern Expedition. " In the Luzhou mansion in Huaixi, Zhang Jun, several state regiment envoys and military supervisors were nervously discussing the invasion of the Han army.
There is only one radical difference between Zhang Jun and Zhang Jun, but the former is a civil servant, and he was also a civil servant who often led troops into battle in the anti-Jin war in previous years, but suffered repeated defeats.
He was the magistrate of Luzhou before the Lin'an Mutiny.
After learning about this, he joined Luzhou, Shuzhou, Anqing Army, Wuwei Army and other military towns to coerce the other prefectures and counties in Huaixi to use the banner of King Qin to challenge Yue.
He also appointed himself as the governor of several states in Huaixi.
After Yue Fei killed Zhang Jun and Wang Gui, he knew that it was impossible to defeat Yue Fei to recapture Lin'an and return Zhao Gou to his throne.
So Zhang Jun also wanted to follow the example of Lian Nanfu and Han Jing in Guangdong, and find a son from the Zhao family to be the emperor from the Song family's descendants who were living among the people, so as to maintain the integrity of the Song family.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Yue Fei began the Northern Expedition.
Now Yue Fei's central part of Yangyi is advancing westward and has entered Hezhou.
Most of the counties and towns along the way surrendered without fighting, and the few who resisted collapsed at the first touch.
So he urgently called the generals to discuss countermeasures.
At this time, the generals in the hall were noisily divided into two groups.
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One faction said that the Han army coming was only a few thousand, but Huaixi could have hundreds of thousands of troops if all the troops were gathered together.
Therefore, you can gather heavy troops, intercept them halfway, and annihilate them with one blow.
The other side said that the combat effectiveness of the Han army was immeasurable, and even the Jin soldiers in their heyday could not match it.
Although he has 100,000 troops here, most of them are soldiers who can only be used to enforce security, exterminate small groups of bandits, and garrison the city.
The other half of the troops, except for the frontier troops like the Anqing Army, are also very weak in combat strength.
At that time, the Jin soldiers were able to ride across the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers and search the mountains and seas with only four thousand elite cavalry.
Now how can I stop or even annihilate the Han army, which is more elite than the Jin soldiers, with my 100,000 weak soldiers?
What's more, Yang Yizhong is just a vanguard, and there is the main force of the Han army behind him.
Zhang Jun had no idea for a while during the quarrel between the two sides, but there was one thing he insisted on, that is, he would never surrender to the Han Dynasty.
This was proposed before the meeting, and he asked the generals not to mention it.
Therefore, after expounding a lot of reasons, those who opposed forceful warfare only advocated escape.
"Even if we have reason to flee without fighting, where should we flee?"
Zhang Jun glanced at the main escape party and asked.
The scene suddenly fell silent, and no one answered for a while.
Nowadays, the three sides of Huaixi, southeast and west are areas controlled by the Han State.
Although Yue Fei's control over Jiangxi in the south is weak, the local forces in Jiangxi are not vegetarian.
Recently, part of the main force of the Han Navy has moved to Hukou, and a new Han army of 3,000 people has also entered Hongzhou. stationed.
"Otherwise, let's go north and join the Jin Kingdom.
Then there's no need to run away.
We can just ask the Jin Kingdom to send us reinforcements," a state military supervisor cautiously said.
Zhang Jun placed the teacup he had just picked up heavily on the table and roared: "Nonsense, there is no difference between surrendering to the barbarians of the enemy country and surrendering to the traitors.
They are both acts of treason.
Don't mention this again.
Otherwise, he will be treated as a collaborator and will be killed without mercy."
The hall fell silent again, and one of Zhang Jun's subordinates who had been silent for a long time said: "Sir, we can go up the river to the west and capture the north of Jinghu.
Now Niu Gao in the north of Jinghu has just taken control of Jinghu."
Our foothold in Huzhou is not yet stable.
If we concentrate our elite forces and conquer Ezhou in one go, Based on this, Lian Nanfu and Han Jing of Guangdong and Guangxi can control the overall situation of Hubei.
At that time, we can connect with the areas controlled by Lian and Han, and the revival of the Song Dynasty will be just around the corner.
Even if we can't take Ezhou, he is awesome.
Gao can't stop us, we can continue to march south and join Lian Han Xinli's Song Emperor."
"Do you think the boy supported by Lian Nanfu and Han Jing can represent the Song Dynasty?"
Zhang Jun asked calmly.
The aide did not answer, but Zhang Jun already knew that the question was meaningless.
He slid the lid of the tea cup several times before making up his mind and saying:
"That's all we can do now.
But I'm still not willing to retreat without a fight.
Moreover, this time we march into Hubei, there is no logistical transfer movement, so it is impossible for us to pull away all 100,000 soldiers, and there is no need.
Therefore, I decided to select all the elite soldiers to be transferred, and then gather the rest to intercept the puppet Han army in Wuwei
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