Cao Cheng's rapid peace made everyone unexpected. Yang Yao of Dongting Lake didn't even have time to completely solve the many problems under his command when he found that all three of his allies were gone.
Ma Jin was defeated, Zhang Yong surrendered, and Cao Cheng died directly.
This made Yang Yao feel a little panicked. Of course he knew his current situation. He needed time. Only he could completely stabilize the situation in Dongting Lake and take over all the forces of Zhong Xiang.
Only then did he have the opportunity to continue fighting with the Song Dynasty court to the end.
Under this situation, he placed his only hope on the last force, and he sent people to find Li Cheng.
Liu Yu's general, Li Cheng, a bandit who once roamed the south of the Yangtze River!
"Tell Commander Yang Yao that he can rest assured that Yue Fei and Zhang Jun are simply dreaming about defeating us!
They only have a few soldiers and horses, but this time we are all equipped with the best, and even the King of Qi is behind to delay Mr. Zongze from any reinforcements.
Commander Yang Yao has repeatedly defeated the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty court before, but now he is so powerful that we are lucky to join forces with Commander Yang Yao!
After the successful integration of Commander Yang Yao, he can join forces with the King of Qi to attack the Song Dynasty court and carve up the world! "
Li Cheng was very polite to Huang Cheng, the envoy sent by Yang Yao, and directly put him on the same level as his master Liu Yu.
But after Huang Cheng left, Li Cheng's general Ma Jin couldn't help but complain.
"The general was too polite to that Yang Yao, and he simply gave them face. When we surrendered to him with good intentions, he actually allowed him to refute our face like this, and even dared to attack the envoys we sent.
Now that Yang Yao has finally achieved success, why doesn't General just turn that guy into our vassal..."
Ma Jin saw the look in Li Cheng's eyes when he was halfway through speaking. He immediately knew that this matter was not as simple as he thought, and he did not dare to say anything more.
"Yang Yao is ambitious, and he is unwilling to live under others for a long time.
At that time, we and the Song Dynasty both sent envoys to recruit him to surrender.
Although Prime Minister Zhong was not happy, he just pushed us and the Song Ting envoy out, but Yang Yao directly killed them all and sank them into the river.
From that moment on, a certain family knew that this guy was not someone who was willing to serve under Prime Minister Zhong honestly.
As expected, this guy has now replaced him. Regardless of the process, this is indeed the result.
How could such people surrender to us because they need help?
But it doesn't matter, what we want to do is to destroy Song Ting. As long as Yang Yao continues to be the enemy of Song Ting, then what does it matter whether he is our subordinate?
Whether it is alliance, surrender or surrender, in the final analysis it is just the same goal through different paths.
Even if he surrenders under your pressure, will you treat him sincerely, and will he treat you sincerely?
Don't be stupid! "
Li Cheng's words were the truth. Yang Yao was completely relieved after Huang Cheng reported the whole process. Although Li Cheng didn't give him any benefits, he didn't put forward any conditions.
This is the best result for him now.
Yang Yao quickly gathered Zhong Xiangliu.
Later, he was called the Great Sage Heavenly King, and made Zhong Ziyi, the youngest son of Zhong Xiang, the prince. Huang Cheng was appointed military advisor and Zuopushe, and Yang Qin was appointed military commander. The main camp was set up on Baotai Mountain, with dozens of camps in front and behind, surrounding the entire Dongting Lake into an iron barrel.
After this news reached the ears of Yue Fei and others, it did not cause him to take any action.
Even to Yang Yao, Yue Fei responded with four words, no matter what!
"Order Zhang Xian to take charge of affairs in Guangxi and other places, stabilize the rear, order Zhang Yong to lead troops to join forces, order Wang Gui to be the commander of Shunchang Prefecture, and order Yao Zheng to be the guard general of Moxie Pass.
Cut off roads from various places to Dongting Lake and prevent materials from entering Dongting Lake.
For Yang Yao, everyone only defends but does not attack, waiting for the opportunity! "
Yue Fei's order was issued quickly. Things had reached this point. There was no need for him to fight with Yang Yao here. He directly led the army to join Zhang Jun to attack the invading Li Cheng.
But before that, the imperial court's reward arrived first.
He moved to Yue Fei, a martial arts master, and the defense envoy of Changzhou. He was appointed as Tong, the town governor of Taizhou and the magistrate of Taizhou.
Yue Fei had only nominally controlled the capital before. Although he had done a lot of credit, he had never been able to formally reward him because of attacks on all sides. Now he was asked to take over the land south of the Yangtze River.
The natural thing to do is to respond by giving him an official position first so that it won't be too abrupt in the future.
After Yue Fei thanked him, he gave all the rewards to his soldiers. After his morale was high, he immediately pulled out his maces, roared and led his troops to directly attack Li Cheng's army in Louzizhuang.
The two sides fought in Louzizhuang from day to dusk. This time Yue Fei did not use any strategies or calculations, he just led Zhang Jun to attack head-on.
In this battle, Yue Fei suffered two knife wounds and one arrow wound. Niu Gao had one of his maces broken, Xu Qing's horse was killed, and a knife in his leg almost severed his meridians.
Hundreds of soldiers and horses under his command were lost, and only three hundred survived.
Zhang Jun's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, with thousands of casualties. General Wang De was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and finally managed to save his life.
Yang Yizhong suffered more than ten wounds, and his whole body was covered in blood, much like the ancestors of the two wolves.
But they won!
Yue Fei combined with Zhang Jun's army and defeated Li Cheng's army, capturing 20,000 people and 2,000 horses.
After that, Li Cheng had no choice but to lose, but the two of them, regardless of the injuries on their bodies and the fatigue of their subordinates, pursued for a day and night, from Wu Ning to Jiangzhou, killing another 30,000 people in the process.
A hundred thousand troops marched to the south of the Yangtze River, and in the end Yue Fei and Zhang Jun lost more than half of them in a single battle.
After the battle, Zhang Jun collapsed to the ground unable to move for a long time. It was also the first time for Yue Fei to remove his armor on the battlefield, and his whole body felt as if he had been fished out of the water.
For two days and one night, they ate dry food and drank cold water, and kept chasing and killing them. In the end, they didn't know how they persisted until now without collapsing.
Perhaps it was the joy of victory that broke through their fatigue.
Li Cheng didn't expect that he would be defeated, and he didn't even think about how he was defeated.
He clearly made a formation, which was still the formation he was best at. He clearly made all the preparations, including crossbowmen, spearmen, swords, shields, giant axes, and fine cavalry.
But under the charge, he failed.
But Liu Yu, who was behind Li Cheng, could not break through Zongze's defense, even though this old guy was having difficulty standing up now, even though this old guy could no longer charge in battle.
He was still resisted by the soldiers and insisted on being at the front, blocking Liu Yu, the King of Qi, solidly.
In this battle, although Li Cheng conquered the six counties of Han and Xiang in the early stage, he was completely defeated when he advanced to the south of the Yangtze River. The imperial court responded immediately and named the Yue Family Army the Right Deputy Army of Shenwu, appointed Yue Fei as the commander, and stationed in Hongzhou. .
And Yue Fei's own reward was also delivered, as a personal guard doctor and Jianzhou investigation envoy!
After that, Yue Fei attacked again and fought with Wang Xie and Li Cheng in the area of two lakes. Zhao Huan immediately appointed him as Quanzhi Tanzhou, pacification envoy of Quan Jinghu East Road, and general manager of the Mabu Army.
Zhang Jun also became the magistrate of Guangxi and the observer of Jiangnan.
On June 15, Yue Fei, who had defeated Li Cheng, once again led his army from Hongzhou to attack Cao Cheng's remnant general Wang Yuan who was invading the states of Hunan and Guangnan.
Although this person has the same name as Zhao Huanna, the Shandong governor who stayed in Shandong and took root on the puppet Qi side, he is not from the same group. Of course, the ability of this bandit is not as good as that of the Shandong governor.
Yue Fei and Zhang Xian of Guangxi attacked simultaneously from two directions and successively pacified Binzhou, Guiyang, Daozhou, Quanzhou and other places.
Later, he fought with Wang Yuan in Guizhou. After a fierce battle, Wang Yuan was defeated and retreated to Guiling County. At the same time, he stationed himself in Beizangling, Shangwuguan and Penngling to defend against danger.
This time Yue Fei still attacked by force. He, Niu Gao, Dong Xian, and Xu Qing personally led the team.
At this time, the Yue Family Army had already grown in size, and Yue Fei was in charge of the entire army. Later, Zhang Xian and Wang Gui were Yue Fei's assistants.
If Yue Fei is not here, the two of them will have the ability and prestige to take charge of the entire army, which is also authorized by Yue Fei.
In addition to these two special people, there are still four people in the army who are extremely brave and are called the Four King Kongs in the army.
It was Xu Qing, Dong Xian, Niu Gao and the general Han Chang who was known as the master of shooting.
Yang Zaixing is a newly-reigned general who has not yet shown his abilities.
At this time, except for the four kings who were transferred to Hongzhou to assist Zhang Jun in defending Li Cheng, Wang Xie and Han Chang, all four were here. The four of them wore triple armor and fought three levels in a row.
The whole journey was like a broken bamboo, and these three dangerous places were forcibly taken down.
Wang Yuan had no choice but to flee. Yue Fei occupied his stronghold and seized his swords, guns, golden drums, flags and other items. He pursued Wang Yuan in hot pursuit and finally killed Wang Yuan in Guangxi.
When Zhao Huan learned about this, he couldn't help but sigh.
"This place in Guangxi is definitely in conflict with Cao Cheng..."
The Battle of Yue Fei drove away Liu Yu's puppet Qi army, completely wiped out the remnants of Cao Cheng, and returned all the tens of thousands of young people who were coerced by him to their hometowns, where they could plant and produce with peace of mind and live a stable life.
And destroy all records of their having surrendered to the enemy, telling them that they would never give others the opportunity to settle old scores.
Let them no longer cause trouble.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were surrendered. Zhang Yong and his sworn brother Ma Shaoyou led the troops to surrender completely, but the others accompanied Cao Chengshen and died in the battle.
And Yue Fei also relied on this meritorious service to be awarded the title of Doctor of Zhongwei and Military Propaganda Envoy of Wu'an.
This is almost one step closer to being able to sit in the south of the Yangtze River and become an important town.
At this time, Yue Fei finally laid his eyes on the most difficult bone in Jiangnan.
"Everyone, turn your troops around and head to Dongting!"
At the same time, outside the six counties of Hanxiang, Jin Wushu made a comeback and joined forces with Wanyan Talan to attack Chuzhou, an important town located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Huaihe River.
At this time, Zhang Jun's troops were just about to be mobilized, and Li Cheng appeared again at the same time to hold him back.
Du Chong mobilized many soldiers and horses to join in at the same time, and the most fatal thing happened at this time.
Marshal Zongze of Hebei Road died of illness!
