Chapter 706: Act
Ye Qing was very satisfied with the achievements of Dong Chao's activities in Jinan Prefecture over the years. Although he was unable to convince Yelu Yuanyi and his son, he was unexpectedly surprised to be able to enter Tai'an City without any effort to fight Wanyan Shoudao and his Dong Chao's fanning flames in the ears of Yelu Yuanyi and his son.
The current military strength is naturally extremely precious to Ye Qing. With the loss of more than 10,000 people in the battle with Wanyan Shoudao, Ye Qing had to recruit soldiers again with Xin Qiji, who was guarding Xuzhou.
When Ye Qing's troops pressure increased sharply, the direct impact was obviously not only Tengzhou, Xuzhou or the entire Shandong route. Similarly, the entire Huainan East route was still the most affected by his lack of troops. After all, it is Ye Qing's real "home nest" now.
But no matter what, for Ye Qing, as long as he holds the Huajia Army of more than 3,000 people, he will have the confidence to continue to deal with the Jin people and fight.
With a smile on his face, he stepped into the hall where Yelu Yuanyi was, saluted each other with Yelu Yuanyi who had stood up to welcome him, and then sat down accordingly.
Yelu Yuanyi obviously agreed with some of his son's plans, so during the conversation, Yelu Yuanyi remained silent and told Ye Qing about the fact that Wanyan Jing had arrived in Dezhou and would go south to Jinan Prefecture soon.
"Two or three days ago, Wanyan Jing was still in Cangzhou. Now he has arrived in Dezhou. I thought he should have arrived at Jinan Prefecture at this time. It seems that it is not so easy to catch up with this hundred miles of distance." Ye Qing said calmly.
Yelu Yuanyi was stunned. Unexpectedly, Ye Qing knew Wanyan Jing's whereabouts very well. This made him more aware that it seemed like he invited Ye Qing into Tai'an Prefecture, which was like a mistake.
"So, Lord Ye doesn't plan to confront Wanyan Jing head-on, and is not going to seize Jinan Prefecture to defend the territory of the Song court north of the Yellow River?" Yelu Yuanyi asked calmly.
Even while speaking, he regarded the territory north of the Yellow River, which had just been occupied by Ye Qing, as the territory of the Song court at this moment.
The ambiguous words and the worried attitude for Ye Qing can easily make people mistakenly think that Yelu Yuanyi has surrendered to Ye Qing at this time, so he said that the north of the Yellow River is the territory of the Song court, and that it is his own people who said this.
"Of course, Jinan Prefecture must be taken, but..." Ye Qing looked at Yelu Yuanyi's gaze that he expected to leave quickly, and smiled and said, "But now I was injured in a battle with Wanyan Shoudao, and the knife wound on this shoulder needs to be seen quickly... Of course, these are secondary."
Ye Qing looked at him and said his injuries. Yelu Yuanyi immediately asked his son Yelu Wangxiang to find the best doctor in Tai'an City, and then turned to look at him and said, "Mr. Ye may as well say it directly, but if Yuan Yi can do it, he will definitely not refuse."
Yelu Yuanyi heard Ye Qing pause just now and immediately thought that this was the time when Ye Qing made the next offer, so he simply did not take the lead and made Ye Qing even more convinced that he was now on the same position as him.
"We have to leave a way out for everything, right?" Ye Qing's cheeks were still slightly pale, with a casual smile. The big mouth cut by a knife on the black fur on his body was clearly visible: "Now I am alone and I am in the hinterland. Jinan Prefecture has heavy troops to guard. Wang Shao of Wei Wanyan Yongji is Wanyan Jing's uncle, and Wanyan Kuang, a capable general of the Jin Dynasty, helps him to defend Jinan Prefecture. Our Song army now has only 30,000 people. In addition to relying on strength, it also requires a little luck. But if the world does not meet the wish, where should my 30,000 army go?"
Yelu Yuanyi listened to Ye Qing's words seriously, and nodded involuntarily, then sighed: "Yes, 30,000 troops are a bit attacking Jinan Prefecture... Haha, I hope Lord Ye should not be surprised. Yuan Yi's words are not to underestimate your army, but this Jinan City is indeed too big. But it is not impossible. Now that Lord Ye can capture Wanyan Shoudao alive, this matter is a head-on attack for the Jin Kingdom. I believe that the morale of the Jinan Defense Army has declined and is sluggish at this time, and Lord Ye's army has just captured Wanyan Shoudao alive. So, the morale is high now. Judging from Yuan Yi, if Lord Ye personally commands this siege battle, at least 70% of the time can be conquered Jinan City."
"But the army outside the city has set out to Jinan Prefecture. As the saying goes, soldiers are very fast. Ye is afraid of dragging them down, so he had to use Lord Yelu to recover from his treasure land for a while. After his injuries are better, Ye has his own plans. So in the next few days, Ye will disturb him. I hope Lord Yelu won't be surprised." Ye Qing smiled and said in a very unwilling way.
"This...but...it should...it should be...it should be too late to reward Yuan Yi for a while." Yelu Yuanyi was at a loss for a moment. He heard Ye Qing's words at the first time. He wanted to slap the table, but when he thought, could this be designed by Ye Qing deliberately to turn against him?
If he had to force Ye Qing out of the city, then... would he be right after Ye Qing's calculation, which would cause him to be both internal and external troubles, and be attacked by Ye Qing inside and outside, and take down Tai'an Prefecture in one fell swoop!
"No need, let alone when Ye was still outside the city, didn't Lord Yelu have already sent food, grass and other things? Ye thanked Lord Yelu here. If our army can capture Jinan next, Lord Yelu will be my benefactor." Ye Qing's right hand secretly held the edge of the chair tightly to remind him, calming his increasingly dazed consciousness.
Over the past few days, the wound was still inflamed and infected, and the high fever continued to cause him to feel a little unable to hold on at this moment.
Yelu Yuanyi originally wanted to keep Ye Qing for a while, but Ye Qing stood up calmly and smiled casually, saying that there was still military affairs in the army and that he was afraid that these soldiers who had just arrived from the battlefield would disturb the people, and he took Mo Xiaobao, who had been standing at the door, and slowly left.
Looking at Ye Qing's tall but lonely back for some reason, the coldness of Yelu Yuanyi's mouth gradually began to magnify, and she murmured: "I really have to rely on my Tai'an Prefecture and not leave, but... do you think that with you here, I wouldn't have taken advantage of the situation when your army could not capture Jinan City for a long time?"
Ye Qing obviously wouldn't hear Yelu Yuanyi's words behind him. After walking out of the government office, he instantly pressed all his weight on Mo Xiaobao. His consciousness was even more blurred than before, and his whole head was about to explode. He said anxiously: "Go to the inn immediately and find a doctor."
"Sir..." Mo Xiaobao was caught off guard and almost fell to the ground by Ye Qing. He quickly stabilized his body and helped Ye Qing get on the carriage with Zhong Can, who was running over quickly, and then quickly headed to the inn prepared by Yelu Yuanyi.
Tai'an, Pingling and Jinan's three cities are as close as the gateway to the southwest of Jinan, then Pingling is the gateway to the southeast of Jinan.
The two cities are naturally extremely important for Jinan, but when Tai'an Prefecture was occupied by the Song people, Pingling was also attacked overnight by the Song people. As a result, less than ten days after Wanyan Shoudao sent troops, Jinan City fell into a precarious situation.
Wanyan Jing is in Dezhou and now has to leave the army of nearly 30,000 people, and then only leads only 5,000 guards to start quickly towards Jinan Prefecture.
It was not only the Song people who knew his current position, but he also knew Ye Qing's current position. Although the fact that Wanyan Shoudao was defeated and captured alive has not yet reached his ears, after Ye Qing entered Tai'an, Wanyan Yongji, the King of Wei Shao who was guarding Jinan Prefecture, had realized that... Wanyan Shoudao was defeated and defeated Ye Qing, a Song people who had won Lian Zhan and won.
After Pingling was captured, King Shao of Wei had to send people across the Yellow River to meet Wanyan Jing's army. For the Jin army who is now trapped in Jinan Prefecture, with the defeat of Wanyan Shoudao, the entire Jinan Prefecture's defenders had begun to show a low morale situation.
Even though he is now wandering on various city walls every day, the city defense army that can be seen is all distorted and numb, and he may even hear some people secretly discussing, if the Song people once attacked the city, should they rush forward and hold on, or hide behind, and always prepare to abandon the city and escape?
What made King Wei Shao Wanyan Yongji feel helpless was that from when there were no idea that there were image descriptions of the Song army circulating in Jinan City. Ye Qing was described as a god with a bloody mouth, three heads and six arms, and able to attract thunder and rain.
Amid the vivid rumors, people joined Xuzhou and other cities and were captured, and the momentum and power of the Western Region cannons fell like thunder, making the Song army an invincible and invincible heavenly soldiers and generals.
In panic, as Tai'an Prefecture was occupied by Ye Qing and the news of the Zhao Song royal family spread like wildfire in the city, the people in Jinan City also began to shake their hearts at this moment.
The Jin Kingdom, which was cultivated by the Jin people for many years, was facing the danger of collapse at this moment. Some people have even begun to leave Jinan City with their families for a period of time.
Similarly, since there is the first people who want to join the Song people, there will be a second, third, 100, 100, and 100,000 people who want to return to the Song people. So, wine shops, teahouses, inns and other places, carrying children with packages, or wanting to escape the upcoming war, or hoping to become the first people in Jinan to return to the Song realm.
Wanyan Yongji, Wanyan Kuang, and Jinan Prefect Zheng Zan faced the increasingly frightened people in Jinan City, but for a moment, they did not come up with a feasible way to appease and suppress the people's hearts that were about to move.
Although I wanted to use tough measures to warn you all, I was afraid that this would arouse more anger from the people and give the Song people outside the city a greater opportunity to take advantage of.
The three of them discussed and finally let the rumors go. The rumors about the Song army being as powerful as the gods and the Jin people being as weak as ants continued to walk around the streets and alleys, and then they hoped that their Crown Prince Wanyan Jing could arrive at Jinan Prefecture before the Song people attacked the city, so as to appease the extremely panicked hearts of the people and the army during the riots.
This is how people are. They often lack a sense of crisis and often have a great mentality of luck. Only when war is truly at the gate of the city will they feel a sense of urgency and suffocation.
Before this, people always had a lucky mentality, either unconditionally trusting Wanyan Shoudao, hoping that he could repel Ye Qing in one fell swoop, or hoping that the court could make the Song people voluntarily withdraw from the army to negotiate peace with the Song court.
After all, for many years, the two countries had fought and stopped and then started to talk about peace. Due to the habitual cognition of Jin and Song, not many people really believed that Song Ting had the strength to attack the city of Jinan.
Just like one of two people, the honest man is always bullied by the other, and the honest man occasionally resists, but every time he resists, he will be beaten and extorted by the other person, so he can gain great benefits every time.
After repeated this a few times, it became a normal habit, so the other person would look even more contempt and disdainful of the honest man's resistance, and would not believe this honest man at all. One day, he suddenly became strong enough to beat him, and even broke into the house with a tough stubbornness to take away all the interests he had been blackmailed.
Jin Qiang and Song Ruo were like those two people. With the toughness and strength of the Song people, the Jin people, who had always gained all the advantages, obviously did not expect that this time, the cowardly Song people were determined to turn over.
In Pingling City, things such as pacifying the people were pacified. As Chen Cishan comforted the east and west roads along the mountain, the comfort of Shandong East Road naturally fell on Yang Huaizhi's shoulders.
Fortunately, because Ye Qing attracted most or even all the main army of the Jin people, the "water troops" led by Lao Liu and Poli Li San were able to capture Pingling City without consuming much military force.
Similarly, the comforting matters on Shandong East Road are more likely to be dealt with than the turbulent and panic-tight roads in Shandong East Road. This allows Yang Huaizhi to follow Lao Liu like a large army, splashing Li San's butt, and to take care of the comforting policy in everything.
"Ye Qing is injured and cannot go to Jinan City in person and stay in Tai'an Prefecture." Popped Li San is now truly white in his hair and beard, which is exactly the same as Wanyan Shoudao, who was captured alive by Mo Xiaobao.
Old Liu's head still had a dark face, because his hair and beard were not much whiter than Li San, so when the two stood together, it always made people feel that Old Liu's head was at least several years younger than Li San.
"As the central army, the pressure is naturally high, and most of the Jin people's attention will naturally be focused on him. But it's good that Yelu Yuanyi of Tai'an has always been cunning and suspicious. Dong Chao has not been able to surrender for so long. Now Ye Qing stays in Tai'an, which can be regarded as a siege for us tomorrow and is sweeping behind us." Old Liu said after taking a sip of wine.
Every time Ye Qing saw Lao Liu's dark-skinned head, he always felt that Lao Liu's head was just a cigarette pot, but fortunately, he kept his wine bowls, which made up for the shortcomings in this regard.
"Capture Jinan City, Yelu Yuanyi's threat can be eliminated. Even if he eats Xiong Xin and Leopard's courage, he will not dare to do anything to Ye Qing in Tai'anzhou." Popped Li San obviously did not take Yelu Yuanyi's threat to heart. Looking at Lao Liu's head holding a wine bowl with a stewed head, his expression began to become a little serious: "I am worried, if Wanyan Jing arrives tomorrow, how should we deal with it?"
"We and the Jin people have been unable to conquer the Jin people for a long time and continue to fight, and Ye Qing, who is in Tai'an Prefecture, is even more dangerous." Looking at the empty wine bowl, he put down the bowl with a reluctance. Being able to drink such a bowl every day was already a blessing from the law. Old Liu did not dare to ask too much, but today, when he put the wine bowl on the table, the wine bowl was ordered to pour another bowl for his own army.
"You...what do you mean? Are you not afraid of military law?" Old Liu's eyes flashed with joy, but he still asked seriously.
"Dede, don't pretend for me. I don't know what you think of when you have been dealing with you all your life?" Pou Li San said sarcastically: "But this bowl of wine has conditions. If you Liu Fu agree, I, Li Bao, will give you drink."
Old Liu took the wine bowl, looked at the wine that exuded a strong aroma of wine, and sighed, and then slowly said: "Don't worry, even if I, Liu Fu, die tomorrow, will die on the top of Jinan City, the worst... I, died in front of the Jinan City Gate, let you step on my body and attack Jinan City."
Pop Li San looked at Liu Fu quietly, and then signaled his personal army to pour a bowl of wine for him and said, "That's what I say to you, I will be the vanguard of the city tomorrow, and you will be the rear army."
"Why?" Old Liu's tone and expression were extremely calm.
"I, Li Bao, are you okay with you, Liu Fu? Third Aunt, Lan'er, and the best son-in-law Li Heng who is now in Jinan City. If you die, what should they do?" Li San took the initiative to touch the wine bowl in the dazed old Liu head, and then drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp: "I'll go patrol the camp."
Old Liu held the undrinkable wine bowl and looked at the back of Pili San, who seemed to have become a little older, and moved his lips, but in the end he didn't make a sound.
The wine bowl that was originally filled with wine was slowly placed on the table by him, looking at the dark land beneath his feet, and after a long time of stunnedness, he suddenly laughed out loud: "Come here, get the pen and ink."
Whether it was Liu Fu or Li Bao, even Zhao Qier, who was already in Jinan City, was very proud after arriving at Jinan City, but after Ye Qing was injured and Yelu Yuanyi, who had to use his own life to scare Tai'an Prefecture, the pressure on the three people's shoulders increased sharply.
The three of them knew very well that if they wanted Ye Qing to survive this battle, they would have to conquer Jinan City tomorrow, thereby completely eliminating Yelu Yuanyi's threat to Ye Qing.
But they also knew better in their hearts that even though Zhao Qier had lurked into Jinan City for several days, this was Jinan City after all, and the Jin people attached great importance to it. It was the place where the Jin emperor Wanyan Yong made his fortune back then. It would be difficult to win it before the Jin Dynasty crown prince Wanyan Jing arrived at the fastest time... it would be like as if he had reached the sky.
With no choice, Old Liu, who stayed in the military tent, wrote a letter to Liu Lan'er for the first time in his life and wrote a letter to his third aunt for the first time in his life. The training camp's Po Li San was like saying goodbye to his military career, who had been dealing with all his life. Wherever he looked, it seemed that he was the most familiar thing in his life.
Even Zhao Qier, who is now hiding in Jinan City, secretly made up his mind to fight tomorrow, even if he dies, he will throw Li San on the outside of the city, especially Ye Qing in Tai'anzhou, to win a glimmer of hope!
Chapter completed!