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As the Tiger and Lieutenant Army continued to advance on the battlefield, the domestic situation became more and more critical, especially in the southeast. A huge storm swept across Jiangnan and Liangzhe and roared towards Fujian and Guangnan. The anger accumulated in the hearts of the people in the southeast suddenly broke out. They used violence at the beginning of the storm. The bureaucrats were attacked by blood. The government offices in many places turned into ashes in the raging fires. What was particularly terrible is that the bullied people quickly lost their minds in the blood and fires. They began to kill the landlords and merchants, began to plunder the wealth of the government and the landlords and merchants, and even began to capture towns and rebelled. Among them, the White Lotus Sect was more and more rampant.

Southeast officials Zhang Guanyu, Li Jiong, Yan Qing, and Lu Yi were anxious to report to Chang'an, and at the same time, they rushed to Li Hu and begged to call on the army to suppress the enemy. Otherwise, the situation in the southeast will completely lose control in the next few months, and the White Lotus Sect is more likely to take the opportunity to rebel and raise the flag to cause trouble. The old emperor and Tong Guan will also take the opportunity to launch a **, and the entire Southeast will definitely suffer unprecedented heavy damage after Fang La's rebellion.

Li Hu was hesitant. The Northern Expedition was at a deadlock just now and no breakthrough has been made so far. The development of the domestic situation, as Luo Sinan predicted, was indeed unable to withstand the impact of this storm and quickly became a severely affected area, which would seriously affect the process of the Northern Expedition.

The military supplies of the Northern Expedition basically came from the credit loans of the Southeast's giant merchants and wealthy merchants, and the stability of the entire Southeast requires the resolute implementation of reform policies so that the people in the Southeast can see hope. If the Southeast is in chaos, it will definitely bring a fatal blow to China and Turkey. Li Hu carefully weighed the pros and cons, and flatly told Zhang Guanyu, Li Jiong, Yan Qing and Lu Yi, agreeing with their suggestions, calling the army to suppress the local area, siege and kill the White Lotus Sect believers, and doing his best to keep the situation in the Southeast within an acceptable range.

In the letter, Li Hu warned Zhang Guanyu and others that the sudden deterioration of the situation in the southeast is definitely closely related to the fuel caused by the old bureaucrats in the southeast and the Confucians in the southeast. The purpose is to subvert Chang'an's rule over the southeast. For this reason, Li Hu asked them to effectively use the anger and violence of the people in the southeast to brutally crack down on the old bureaucrats in the southeast and the Confucians in the southeast. When necessary, even use force to eradicate them, so as to minimize the huge resistance encountered in the implementation of the policy of change in the southeast. As long as the policy of change is implemented smoothly and the people in the southeast get tangible benefits, the situation in the southeast will inevitably be stabilized.

"Our enemy is not ordinary people, nor landlords and merchants, but old bureaucrats in the southeast and the Confucian scholars who oppose us." Li Hu wrote at the end of the letter, "Before you use the army, the soldiers must clearly know who their enemies are. The swords of the Tiger Lie Army only kill the enemies, and this must be kept in mind, so that they can win the support and trust of the people in the southeast and the landlords and merchants, and stabilize the entire Southeast in the shortest time."

Li Hu wrote another letter to Wu Chitian in Guangnan. Considering the current situation, Li Hu suggested that he temporarily give up the encirclement and suppression of the southeast rebels that had fled to southern Xinjiang, and instead concentrate his efforts to stabilize Guangnan, and at the same time recruit the Southeast Navy to prepare for the vigorous development of maritime trade.

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Wanyan Gao did not respond to Li Hu's invitation to negotiate, because at this time he received an accurate news that a tiger army was crossing the Hulu River north, with its target directly aimed at Zhending Mansion.

Before this, the scouts reported that the Tiger Lie Army was heading north along the Zhanghe River. At that time, the Tiger Lie Army was attacking Anyang and Handan lines. Wanyan Gao, Yang Pu and others had reason to judge that the Tiger Lie Army wanted to encircle the northern part of Handan to prevent the Jin army from retreating north. Now the main force of the Tiger Lie Army has reached the city of Handan, but the Tiger Lie Army did not stop and continued to go north. This is enough to prove that the Tiger Lie Army's mission is to go north to meet the Hedong Tiger Lie Army to attack Zhending Prefecture.

At this point, the attack intention of the Huli Army has been exposed. Zong Fu's judgment is very accurate. The Huli Army did not intend to entangle with the Jin army in Handan and Anyang, but planned to first capture Zhending, and then surround the main force of the Hebei Jin army in the Hutuo River and the southern part of the Hulu River line, trying to wipe out the Hebei Jin army.

Li Hu opened his bloody mouth. The so-called peace talks were just paralyzing and deceiving the Jin army. Wanyan Gao had no intention of dealing with Li Hu anymore. He hurriedly told Zongfu, suggesting that he would concentrate his army to Handan before the Tiger Lieutenant Army conquered Zhending Prefecture, so as not to change the situation in Hebei, resulting in the Jin army in Handan and Anyang being defeated by the Tiger Lieutenant Army. At the same time, he asked Liu Yanzong to lead the army to quickly reach Qinghe to ensure that the road for the Jin army to withdraw from Handan to Jizhou was unobstructed. He also urgently ordered the Jin army in Jizhou, Hejian and Gaoyang to be on full alert. Once Zhending and there was a change in the Zhongshan line, he would block the Tiger Lieutenant Army at all costs and ensure the safe withdrawal of the main army.

Wanyan Gao once again urgently reported to Yanjing, and the supervisor asked Wanyan Jiemu to go south to support Zhending.

Li Hu is very rampant now, and he exposes his intention to attack early, which is clearly a force to retreat northward. If the Jin army retreats, then the subsequent negotiations will be beneficial to Li Hu, and he is very likely to easily recover Hebei; on the contrary, if the Jin army wants to firmly defend Hebei, it must defeat the Hulie Army on Zhending and Zhongshan.

The decisive battlefield suddenly moved from Handan to Zhending, which caught Wanyan Gao off guard. In his letter to Yanjing, he repeatedly explained the changes in the war situation in Hebei, hoping that Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Jiemu and others could fully understand and follow their orders to quickly increase their troops in Hebei.

Wanyan Gao and Yang Pu went south, and their original intention was to strive for peace with Chang'an, but the situation changed too quickly. Now Wanyan Gao not only couldn't negotiate peace with Chang'an, but also had to mobilize troops from Youyan to fight south, which deviated from the Middle Earth strategy of Huanglong Mansion. Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Jiemu and Wanyan Zongjun of Youyan were both commanders of the Jin Dynasty, with high positions and power. When the power struggle in Huanglong Mansion became more and more intense, they could not remain neutral and had to choose among different factions. At present, Wanyan Gao was not sure that these three people were on the same mind as him, so he could not be sure that his orders were implemented without fail. If these three people or one or two of them were against him, they had to wait until Huanglong Mansion made a decision and issued an order before mobilizing troops to the south, then things would be troublesome.

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On the fourth day of the March, Yue Fei and Luo Lan led their troops to the south bank of the Hutuo River and met with Li Jin and Dugu Feng.

Li Jin and Dugu Feng were both old commanders of the Dashan Alliance. In recent years, they were also fighting everywhere in the towns of Daibei and Hedong, and their military achievements were outstanding. When Yue Fei and Luo Lan saw them, they looked respectful and did not dare to be too presumptuous. Especially Yue Fei, they deliberately concealed their arrogance, for fear of arousing the dissatisfaction of the old commanders and affecting the situation of the Northern Expedition.

Li Jin briefly mentioned the recent situation. On February 22, Li Jin and Dugu Feng led his army out of the well and attacked Zhending. Zhending defended Jiang Wanyan Wuta to defend the city. Li Jin lacked enough troops and could not attack the city, so he ordered Dugu Feng to lead the 44th Army of Hulie to station troops at Zhending City to confront the Jin army. He led the 43th and 45th Army of Hulie to attack Pingshan outside Zhending City, Huoluancheng and Haocheng.

"Wanyan Wuta concentrated the army in Zhending City. Pingshan and other four cities had very few garrison troops. Our army defeated the battles and had already taken down the four cities." Li Jin said, "I originally planned to cross the Hutuo River and then take down Lingshou and Wuji on the east and west sides of Zhending City to threaten the Jin army. But the general came to write a letter and ordered me to suspend the attack and wait for the main force to come and meet." He looked up at Yue Fei and Luo Lan, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to come so quickly. How is the war in Handan?"

"The battlefield of Handan has become a deadlock." Yue Fei shook his head, "Zong Fu's judgment of our attack intention was accurate, and he concentrated the main force of the Hebei Jin army to Handan and Anyang line early, forcing us to have to attack the city head-on. In this case, even if Baoshuai and Guishuai joined the battlefield of Handan with a hundred thousand troops, they would not be able to conquer the city in the short term."

Then Yue Fei explained the new attack strategy in detail, "In a few days, Baoshuai and Guishuai will lead the main force to Zhending. We gathered about 200,000 troops to attack Zhending. After taking Zhending, the army immediately advanced east along the Hutuo River and Hulu River, attacking Shenzhou and Hejian lines, and surrounding the main force of the Jin army in Hebei in the area of ​​Jizhou."

Li Jin and Dugu Feng looked at the map carefully and thought of Youyan at the same time.

"The tiger brigade gathers at Zhending City, and the Youyan Jin army will surely go south to support it quickly." Li Jin said, "The most urgent task is to immediately cross the Hutuo River, establish a defensive formation in Mudaogou and Shahe River north of Zhending City, and encircle the Zhen Ding Army first, cut off the connection between Anxi and Zhending, and block the south to support the Jin army."

Yue Fei and Zheng focused on it, "Tomorrow, Wang Shuai (Wang Gui) and Lin Shuai (Lin Chong) will lead four troops across the river to the north, seize Mudaogou and Shahe, and complete the encirclement of Zhending first."

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On the fifth day of the lunar month, the Huli Army crossed the Hutuo River in Wuji and arrived at Mudaogou at dusk.

That night, Lin Chong led his army to continue northward, arrived at Shahe in the early morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, and attacked Xinle City on the north bank of Shahe in the early morning.

The Jin army in Xinle City was defending the city and urgently reported the happiness. Han Qinghe, the general of the Jin army guarding Zhongshan, was shocked when he heard the news. He personally rushed to the front line of Xinle City. Through the Shahe River, Han Qinghe saw the battle flag of the Tiger Lie Army, and the scout's report made him secretly shocked, because the number of the Tiger Lie Army on the other side was actually the Tiger Lie 12 and the Thirteenth Army, which was the number of the Tiger Lie Army in the Central Plains.

A few days ago, Wanyan Gao of Daming Prefecture had called the police and said that a Tiger Lieutenant Army was heading north, and the main force of the Tiger Lieutenant Army in Hedong has not appeared yet. He suspected that the Tiger Lieutenant Army had changed its strategy after the attack on the front line of Handan and Anyang was blocked, and he wanted to fight Zhending. For this reason, he asked Wanyan Wuta and Han Qinghe to be careful and not to lose the city carelessly. Wanyan Wuta and Han Qinghe could only smile bitterly. The number of troops in their hands was limited. If the main force of the Tiger Lieutenant Army really wanted to fight Zhending, there was no other way except to defend it.

Now that the Central Plains Tiger Lieutenant Army has arrived, has the main force of the Hedong Tiger Lieutenant Army also arrived? Is it attacking Zhending City? Han Qinghe Wuxia thought too much. Zhending has been surrounded by the Tiger Lieutenant Army. His troops were not enough to rescue him, so he could only ask Yanjing for help. At the same time, he urgently reported to Daming Mansion and begged Wanyan Gao to return to Youyan immediately. He was also worried that the Youyan army would not go south to support him immediately due to various reasons.

Wanyan Gao received an urgent report from Han Qinghe and was anxious. He was worried that Zhending City could not be defended, and that the main force of the Jin army in Hebei was surrounded by the Tiger Lieutenant Army. After several weighings, he planned to evacuate from Handan on his own initiative.

Wanyan Gao urgently wrote to Handan to seek Zong Fu's opinions.

Although the Tiger Lie Army was in a big way, one did not have the desire to attack the city, the other was insufficient troops. The third was that it deliberately forced the Jin army to retreat north, so it did not surround the two cities of Handan and Anyang, but it was just confronting each other. These two cities still maintained close contact with Daming Prefecture.
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