After the meeting with Kong Zheng, all affairs in Zhongdu continued in an orderly manner.
Under the auspices of the General Affairs Bureau headed by Su Yonglin, the land of Yanyun is normalizing at a very fast speed. The officials sent by Su Yonglin are running as hard as they can on the land of Yanyun.
During this period, a series of incidents also occurred in the Southern Theater Command, and the Liberation Army's Southern Theater Command did not stop advancing.
Zhang Yuejing, as the commander of the Henan Corps and the highest military person in charge of the Nanjing Road Theater, did not forget about it after conquering Kaifeng. He remained calm and nervous.
Following Su Yonglin's order, the Henan Corps continued southward and captured the entire Nanjing Road.
So he ordered Zhou Zhi to attack in the direction of Luoyang and seize Henan Prefecture. If possible, he could act accordingly and advance further to Tongguan to secure the gate to attack Guanzhong.
Then he ordered Chen Qiaoshan to lead the army to attack in the southeast direction and not to let go of the Jin army in that area.
He himself led a large-scale attack to the south, seizing cities and territories along the way, compressing the living space of the Jin army in the south.
This military operation went very smoothly. The Jin armies in various places were defeated like mountains and could not stop the advance of the Liberation Army southward.
Zhang Yuejing entered Ruyang County in Caizhou on the third day of April. Here he received a report from Chen Qiaoshan, saying that he encountered two small-scale resistance in Qiao County in Bozhou and Fuli County in Suzhou. The remaining counties all surrendered, and the local Tan Eat a pot of pulp to welcome the king's master, with a respectful attitude.
Subsequently, Zhang Yuejing began to arrange defense in the border states, count the quantities of various materials left by the Jin army, and register them one by one.
At this point, the Liberation Army completed the expulsion of the Jin forces on Nanjing Road, occupied Nanjing Road, achieved control and rule over Nanjing Road, and began to arrange a series of Liberation Army policies on Nanjing Road to change the current situation of Nanjing Road.
It was April at this time. In April two years ago, the Liberation Army uprising officially began.
In the past two years, the Liberation Army has completed a magnificent transformation, from a local rebel uprising group to a regional power group, and now to the current regional hegemony group, achieving three consecutive jumps in the entire group.
Once upon a time, Zhang Yuejing imagined how excited he would be when such a day really happened, but when it all really happened, he realized that he was not as happy as he imagined.
He didn't feel that these fell from the sky. He only knew that he and the entire Liberation Army had gone through untold hardships to fight for them with one shot and one shot, and it was as it should be.
He wants to make more contributions and obtain greater achievements, but what he has now can no longer satisfy him.
He wants to keep going and keep fighting.
This time, the target obviously turned to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Yuejing later learned that Su Yonglin had surrounded Zhongdu, and the Yanyun attack was going very smoothly. The Jin army was unable to resist the Northern Expedition of the Liberation Army, and was defeated like a mountain. The fall of the Jin Kingdom was imminent.
The Kingdom of Jin is over, who is the enemy?
According to Su Yonglin's instructions, the enemy he needed to face was of course the Southern Song Dynasty.
The reason why Su Yonglin kept him here and formed the Henan Corps was to deal with the Southern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, he began to collect extensive political and military intelligence on the Southern Song Dynasty. In order to know himself and the enemy, he would never slack off in every battle, so he had to be the first to collect a wave of intelligence.
And when the Liberation Army uprooted the foundation of the Jin Army like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves and prepared to launch intelligence operations against the Southern Song Dynasty, what was the Southern Song Dynasty doing?
In the six months from when Wan Yanliang started sending troops to the time when the Liberation Army launched its counterattack, did the Southern Song Dynasty make any unexpected moves?
During these six months, the Southern Song Dynasty did two things.
The first thing is to order the border states to conduct a combat readiness review, to re-engage the long-abandoned military drills, to re-train the army and make it more powerful, and to send people to the north to inquire about the information and the Liberation Army and the The outcome of the duel between Wan Yanliang.
The second thing is the quarrel.
In comparison, the first thing was done smoothly and without any disturbance, but the second thing was more eye-catching. This was also the mainstream of the Southern Song Dynasty court during Wanyan Liang's southern expedition.
The so-called quarrel is of course a quarrel and confrontation between two different factions.
In the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was natural that there was jealousy, no, quarreling, between the two large conceptual groups of the war faction and the peace faction.
In fact, if we really want to make a detailed division, the concepts of the main war faction and the peace faction are not enough. The main war faction must also distinguish between the active defensive faction and the radical Northern Expedition faction, and the peace faction must also distinguish between the passive defensive faction and the simply gold. The country belongs to my father's faction.
However, before a winner can be determined between the peace faction and the war faction, they can still tolerate the different opinions internally and move outward in unison.
As for the internal debate after defeating the opponent, we can put it back a little. The most important thing now is war and peace.
The dispute between the two factions began when Wan Yanliang asked the Southern Song Dynasty to send troops north to assist in the battle.
When Wan Yanliang officially started his southern expedition and started a war with the Liberation Army, the debate between the two factions entered a heated state, almost escalating from a verbal argument to a physical fight.
The reason is simply that the Jin Kingdom used too much force to conquer the Liberation Army southward, which made the Southern Song Dynasty court lose its sense of security. It felt that such a large-scale army must not only be used to deal with the Liberation Army. These guys must want to conquer Longwang Shu!
Out of great fear for his own safety, Zhao Gou had no choice but to follow the advice of Chen Kangbo and others and recalled Zhang Jun, the most eloquent veteran of the Southern Song Dynasty to Lin'an, from the place of exile.
Zhao Gou planned to have a good chat with him about the current situation and discuss countermeasures. What should he do if Jin Guo's father really came to spank him.
When the matter reached this juncture, it was obvious that Tang Side and others could not bring any sense of security to Zhao Gou. Zhao Gou had reason to suspect that if Wan Yanliang really came, Tang Side and others would surrender faster than him and suddenly become A loyal minister of great wealth.
As the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou might not receive such good treatment.
Chen Kangbo hit on Zhao Gou's concerns and persuaded Zhao Gou with the story of Lu Su persuading Sun Quan, making Zhao Gou realize that once they really fight and lose and surrender, then his treatment will definitely not be better than what they do. It is better for the ministers.
Zhao Gou heard these words in his heart and felt that it was okay for him to accept Wanyan Liang as his father, but it was a bit too much for Wanyan Liang to be his grandfather and him to be his grandson, so he followed Chen Kangbo's suggestion.
As the news spread, the main militant faction gained momentum and everyone felt that a better future was coming.
The Zhuhe faction, on the other hand, felt like they were mourning their heirs. They felt that the end of the world was coming and had to prepare coffins in advance. They preached everywhere that going to war with the Jin Kingdom would be self-destruction.
Tang Situi and Shen Gai were deeply wary and disgusted with this, and they went to Zhao Gou many times to request not to let Zhang Jun come back.
But Zhao Gou, who was persuaded by Chen Kangbo, felt that it was unreliable to place his life and death on these guys who would always say "I am invincible in the world".
For more than ten years, with the signing of the Shaoxing Peace Agreement, the peace faction in the court became very powerful and completely overwhelmed the main war forces.
If the Jin Kingdom does not want to go south, then there is nothing wrong with continuing. But now that the Jin Kingdom's army is moving south, the situation has changed.
As an emperor, he cannot allow the court to be completely controlled by one faction.
The Peace Party was so strong that they always brought another group of people into the court to fight against them. Only in this way could the emperor's safety be guaranteed.
If Wan Yanliang does not go south by then, then everything will continue as usual. If Wan Yan Liang is ready to go south, then he will immediately switch seamlessly to the court led by the main war faction and prepare for a battle out of desperation.
When that time comes, Chen Kangbo is a civil servant with no military background and will not be of much use.
The current leaders of the Privy Council, Wang Lun, Ye Yiwen and Zhou Linzhi, are all civil servants who have become monks on the way. They have no experience in military struggle and cannot be relied on.
The entire imperial court has practiced martial arts and culture for more than ten years. The shining generals in the early years of Shaoxing have all passed away. There are too many people who are not familiar with military affairs and too few people who are familiar with military affairs. Looking at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, there is only one thing that can be expected. Zhang Jun.
Therefore, Zhang Jun is bound to return. Tang Situi and Shen Gai cannot stop him, nor can Qin Hui's resurrection.
Against this background, Zhao Gou carried out a wave of political maneuvers and summoned Zhang Jun, who had been exiled to a remote area, to Lin'an to discuss military and state affairs.
Zhang Jun was overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly arrived in Lin'an on the third day of the first lunar month of the 30th year of Shaoxing.
