Zhao Tai was quite satisfied when he saw everyone prostrate themselves.

The edict of the Southern Song Dynasty recognized Zhao Tai's status as a clan member, allowed him to have the right to know the major military and political affairs in Shandong, and recognized him as the number one person in Shandong.

This made Zhao Tai's identity immediately higher than everyone else, and Li Fen could only accept his fate.

In terms of military strength, Li Fen was not as good as Zhao Tai. In terms of nobility, Zhao Tai was the king of the Song Dynasty. He was a few steps ahead of him and there was no way to compare.

More importantly, Lin'an resumed aid to Zhao Tai, and Zhao Tai had a large amount of money and resources. Li Fen had no choice but to surrender to Zhao Tai if he wanted to get money and food.

Kublai Khan caused great damage to Shandong this time. Zhao Tai was well prepared and the losses were relatively small. Li Fen's hometown Yidu was captured by the Mongolian army and he no longer had much money or food in his hands.

Now if he wants to maintain the army, he must reach out to Zhao Tai, so he naturally has to recognize Zhao Tai.

"Haha~" Zhao Tai laughed and stood up, walked to Wuxian and helped him up, "Brother, you don't have to be like this, you and I, brothers, share the blessings and the hardships! The imperial court now declares me the Prince of Linyi County, and I will serve as the representative.

My elder brother is the Military Guard’s envoy, Lord Hengshang!”

Wu Xian stood up and said, "Thank you so much, Your Majesty. I will serve Your Majesty in the future!"

Zhao Tai helped Li Fen up again and said with a smile: "My brother, there is no need to be polite. I am the king, and my brother should also be the military governor of Ning Haijun and the Duke of Yidu."

After listening to Zhao Tai's words, Li Fen lowered his head and clasped his fists when seeing that Zhao Tai did not suppress him, "I will obey the king's arrangements in everything."

"Good brother!" Zhao Tai took the two men's hands and glanced at everyone, "You will all be rewarded!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Bin and others saluted and responded loudly, and the anger in the festival hall suddenly became lively.

After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, they, a group of defeated soldiers, have been struggling on the verge of death, with no hope of survival in sight.

Now that we have the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty and a backer, everyone seems to finally see hope and a future.

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Tai walked back and sat down, saying happily: "From today on, our three towns will work together as one, and we will definitely achieve something great!"

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Tai was made king and given military and political power to Shandong. However, if Zhao Tai wanted to truly control Shandong, he still had to do it step by step.

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Therefore, the two military leaders, Wu Xian and Li Fen, still need to win over each other and cannot rashly take back their power.

At present, we still need to defeat Mongolia first and create a relatively safe environment before we can rectify the internal situation. Otherwise, the three towns will have their own ideas and will definitely not be able to defeat Mongolia.

At this time, Zhao Tai waved his hand to excuse everyone, and then smiled and said: "The imperial court appeases us, and assistance will be restored later. Since we are ministers of the Song Dynasty, we are loyal to state affairs! Now that Mongolia is ravaging the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers and threatening Lin'an, we and others

How can you just sit back and ignore it! Everyone, it’s time to make your achievements!”

This time the Southern Song Dynasty made Zhao Tai king, it was an opportunity for Zhao Tai.

If he could command the Qi army and help the Southern Song Dynasty rescue the siege, he would naturally gain prestige, further integrate the three towns, and turn Shandong into his world.

Wu Xiandao: "Your Majesty, if we are gathered here, how are we going to fight? Your Majesty, just give the order!"

If the Mongols are not defeated, Shandong will always be in danger. The three towns gathered in Pizhou, and everyone will be mentally prepared to fight the Mongols.

Zhao Tai smoothed his short beard under his chin and was about to speak when military advisor Wang Bin stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Mongolian army has gathered in Jianghuai to threaten Jiangnan. The imperial court has already had a response strategy for this. I think your Majesty

According to Prime Minister Zheng's plan, just send troops to contain the Mongolian army so that it cannot attack Yangzhou with all its strength! By then the Mongolian army will not be able to cross the river to attack Lin'an, Luoyang, and Guanzhong, and will be threatened by the Song army, so they will definitely retreat! The difficulties in the south of the Yangtze River will be solved!"

When Zhao Tai heard what he said, he immediately knew Wang Bin's plan.

Now the Mongolian army is gathered in Jianghuai. Although the three towns have gathered their troops in one place, they are still no match for the Mongolian army in terms of strength.

If Zhao Tai could defeat Kublai Khan, he would not have dared to fight a decisive battle when Kublai Khan attacked Shandong.

Therefore, Wang Bin obviously did not want Zhao Tai to lead the Qi troops in a decisive battle with Mongolia at Jianghuai.

The first one is likely to be defeated, and the second is that even if it is defeated, it will definitely be a miserable victory.

If the Qi army's losses were too great, it would be difficult to guarantee that Lin'an would not have any thoughts about the Qi army after the Mongols retreated.

When Lin'an sees that the Qi army's strength is compromised, it is hard to say whether Lin'an will fulfill its promise, whether it will cut off aid and take the opportunity to recruit the Qi army.

Zhao Tai listened to Wang Bin's words and noticed his thoughts. He couldn't help but feel that Lin'an was like Principal Chiang during the Anti-Japanese War, and he was a local warlord who wanted to fight against Mongolia but had to guard against the Southern Song Dynasty taking action against him.

Zhao Tai pondered for a while, then smiled and said: "Since the imperial court has already had a strategy, we will act according to the imperial court's strategy. Send troops south to contain the Mongolian army from crossing the river."

Zhao Tai thought about it carefully and found that Zheng Qingzhi's strategy was indeed feasible.

Now as long as the Southern Song Dynasty defends the river, Mongolia will have to retreat sooner or later.

However, after the Mongolian army captured Guazhou, it was indeed a question whether the Southern Song Dynasty could defend the river. The Qi army had to put pressure on the Mongolian army so that the Mongolian army could not cross the river.

Wang Bin saw that Zhao Tai had adopted the suggestion, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty! The Lianghuai system has envoy Zhao Fan, who is trapped in Chuzhou. I think that when going south this time, we should first relieve the siege of Chuzhou. If Chuzhou is sieged, we can fight with the city

Tens of thousands of Song troops are united in one place, and when they encounter the main force of the Mongolian army, they will be able to fight!"

The Song army's field combat ability was low. After the Mongolian army broke through the Huaihe River, Zhao Fan faced the Mongolian army with tens of thousands of troops raging across the two Huaihe Rivers. He could only guard Chuzhou City and did not dare to go out to fight.

Now that Zhao Tai has assembled an army of 100,000, he needs to leave some to defend Shandong. The remaining troops are indeed at a disadvantage against Kublai Khan.

If the Qi army wanted to pose a threat to the Mongolian army, it could only rescue the Song army trapped in various cities.

"Okay!" Zhao Tai nodded, "According to the wishes of the military advisor, we will first relieve the siege of Chuzhou."

At that moment, Zhao Tai discussed specific strategies with the generals. When everything was ready, Zhao Tai immediately set out to sacrifice the flag outside Pizhou City.

On the third day of March, Zhao Tailing's generals Tang Liang and Chang Yu led the water camp to patrol the Yellow River and monitor the Mongolian army in the direction of Kaifeng.

Wokuotai is in Kaifeng, and you can enter Shandong across the Yellow River, but Zhao Tai is not worried about this.

After Kublai Khan ravaged Shandong, most of the soldiers and civilians in the three towns moved to the Yimeng Mountains and the coast.

Now that the war is not over, Zhao Tai does not allow the people to return to the city, but continues to survive in the mountains.

Therefore, even if Wokuotai invades Shandong again and retakes the prefectures and counties, it will not cause much loss to Zhao Tai.

After arranging for the men and horses to stay behind, Zhao Tai led the main force of the three towns, with 80,000 horse and infantry troops, known as 200,000, down the east bank of the Yellow River and headed straight for the north bank of the Huaihe River.

The Mongolian troops who stayed in Huaibei, seeing the strength of the Qi army, took the initiative to abandon Huaibei and withdrew to the south bank one after another.
Chapter completed!