Bai Feng knew that even if he and Yue Fei had Zhao Gou's support, they still had to think of their own food.
This was because the current Song Dynasty was very poor!
In terms of food, they were indeed very poor!
They were so poor that they could not even supply the military.
After all, Zhao Gou had fled to Lin 'an and did not have much food.
Moreover, most of the money in the national treasury had been squandered by Song Qinzong and Yue Fei.
At this time, the Song Dynasty could not be counted on.
Without food, they could not fight a war.
As long as they had enough food, they would have the ability to fight against the Jin Kingdom.
Although the Jin Kingdom had a lot of soldiers, they had enough food to last them.
The main reason was that they had taken all the food that the Song Dynasty had stockpiled.
Another point was that they had plundered the surrounding areas.
Just the amount of food they had plundered far exceeded the weight of the Yue Army's supplies!
If this continued, the soldiers would starve to death before the northern expedition was successful.
In this week, Bai Feng decided to investigate the Jin Kingdom soldiers.
If Bai Feng guessed correctly, the Jin Kingdom soldiers had expanded a lot during Yue Fei's northern expedition. They now had at least three hundred thousand soldiers.
Now that he had killed one hundred thousand, there were still two hundred thousand soldiers left!
Moreover, these soldiers were definitely stronger than the one hundred thousand soldiers he had just killed.
What Luo Yunyang had to do was to directly attack Wanyan Xin before Wanyan Zongbi could gather the 200,000 soldiers.
Yue Fei agreed with this situation.
Once the Jin Kingdom soldiers gathered, how would they deal with the Jin Kingdom soldiers?
Two hundred thousand soldiers!
The Yue Army only had fifty to sixty thousand soldiers.
As for the rest of the Song Dynasty soldiers, they could not count on them.
These Song Dynasty soldiers did not have much fighting power.
Otherwise, they would not have been beaten to such a state by the Jin Kingdom soldiers.
Moreover, why did the Jin Kingdom attack the Song Dynasty? It was because they had joined forces with the Song Dynasty to attack the Liao Kingdom.
But what was the result?
Although the Liao Kingdom was in chaos internally, they could still defeat the Song Dynasty soldiers easily.
However, the Liao Kingdom's army of a few hundred thousand was defeated by the Jin Kingdom soldiers with only ten thousand soldiers.
Therefore, the Jin Kingdom believed that the Song Dynasty was useless and that they could destroy it with a flick of their finger.
Thus, other than the Yue Army soldiers who had received strict training from Yue Fei, the rest of the Song soldiers were no different from trash.
The number of soldiers under his command and the Yue Clan Army added together was less than a hundred thousand.
Eighty to ninety thousand soldiers were going against over two hundred thousand soldiers. Furthermore, this was a siege. If the Jin Men really gathered together, it would be troublesome.
At this moment, Yue Fei was trying his best to prevent this from happening.
Yue Fei had already dispatched all the generals and soldiers under his command.
There were not many soldiers that could be used. After all, Yue Fei had only gathered the current Yue Army.
In total, there were only sixty thousand people.
These sixty thousand people were already the limit that Yue Fei could gather.
As for the other Song Nation soldiers, Yue Fei could not command them.
No matter how strong they were, they needed to defend the other borders.
It would be troublesome if Wanyan Zongbi sent soldiers to other places to make indirect inquiries.
Therefore, Yue Fei only had so many soldiers.
When Wang Gui, Xu Qing, and Yao Zhen heard Yue Fei's order, they immediately brought all their soldiers and rushed over.
With Zhao Gou's support, they sent the soldiers from the capital camp to defend the borders.
Although they were not very strong, with them around, the Jin Men would not dare to come over.
After all, Wanyan Zongbi was already afraid of Bai Feng and Yue Fei.
How could he know if these soldiers were ordinary Song Nation soldiers or Yue Clan soldiers? Or Bai Feng's northern soldiers?
However, if he discovered that there were not many soldiers inside, he would definitely take action.
Even if he could not defeat Yue Fei, he could defeat the other soldiers.
Yue Fei sent Wang Gui and Xu Qing to look after that person, each leading five thousand soldiers to scout the enemy.
Every day that they could delay the Jin Men, who were rushing over, was a day at a time.
At the very least, they had to delay until the food was ripe and harvested.
With enough supplies, they would have confidence in killing the enemy.
Wang Gui and Xu Qing did not split up. Instead, they rushed to the west.
"Hahahaha! I did not expect that His Majesty would be willing to support the Marshal's northern expedition!"
Xu Qing was in a good mood. He immediately laughed.
He had been guarding the city for a long time and could not stand such boring days.
How could defending the city be as satisfying as going to the battlefield and killing the enemy?
Now that this opportunity had finally arrived, how could Xu Qing not be happy?
Wang Gui also chuckled and said:
"Normally, why would His Majesty agree to the Marshal's request?"
"I heard that His Majesty issued twelve Golden Orders not long ago, forbidding the Marshal from attacking Bianliang City."
"However, I asked the Marshal how he managed to convince His Majesty."
"Since the Marshal did not mention it, I could not guess. However, it seems that it was done by the generals of the northern soldiers who are very close to the Marshal."
Hearing Wang Gui's words, Xu Qing rubbed his chin.
"Speaking of which, it is a little strange. Why are these northern soldiers so brave and fierce?"
"I have seen how they look when they take off their helmets."
"Based on my experience, these soldiers have sufficient experience in killing enemies."
"The sharpness in their eyes alone is not something that ordinary soldiers can possess."
"They are definitely not simple!"
Wang Gui also nodded his head heavily and said, "That's right.
"If not for the fact that they were soldiers, I would have thought that each of them was a general."
"However, this is also good. We have met a powerful ally."
"This time, we must make sure that these Jin soldiers die without a burial ground!"
"When I think of how we had to leave our homes and how our people were tortured by these Jin soldiers, I feel so angry that the roots of my teeth itch!"
At this moment, the scouts at the front hurried over.
"General, we have discovered Jin soldiers ahead!"
Seeing this, the two of them immediately led their armies forward to prepare for battle.
There were at least fifty to sixty thousand Jin soldiers!
Clearly, it was not a wise choice to fight these Jin soldiers head-on.
However, it was still very easy to harass them.
The two of them led ten thousand soldiers, all of whom were mounted archers.
Now that they had the advantage of terrain, it was possible to delay them.
Moreover, this was their goal in the first place.
They could not kill all of the Jin soldiers, but killing a few hundred of them was not a problem.
At the same time, Wang Gui and Xu Qing were not the only ones working together.
Yao Zhen and Yang Zaixing also led ten thousand soldiers to harass the eastern region.
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