Chapter Fifty-Four: Looking for Someone North!

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This time, the golden sun that appeared out of thin air made Chen Xiang's image suddenly mysterious and tall! This is definitely the performance of Emperor Song Zhongxing! No one has ever seen such a miraculous celestial phenomenon! Today, it appeared on the body of this little emperor, and that round of golden sun is not a symbol of the Son of Heaven!

In the crowd, some people also eagerly looked at the special scene on Chen Xiang's head in the sky, and they muttered in their mouths: "Bright Flame Golden Body!! Oh my! This is the Golden Body of the Light Flame!! This little emperor is actually the Venerable of my God Sect! This matter must be reported to the sect leader as soon as possible! "These people are actually people who know the secret of the Light Flame Venerable! That must be the followers of the Ming Sect, because only the people of the Ming Sect know this scripture in the world, and the Sun and Moon Divine Sect is the descendant of the Ming Sect!

Standing on the high platform, Chen Xiang widely felt everyone's thoughts, and naturally felt the thoughts and thoughts of these people, but he didn't pay attention to it, but he just communicated and understood the prayers and wishes of his subjects wholeheartedly, and worked hard to guide them, so that their minds were all towards the envoy of the prosperous Emperor Song, and the negative emotions in their hearts became less and less, and the positive energy was more and more, so that the suppression and burden of the last dragon qi on Chen Xiang's body was also reduced a lot. And the dragon energy on Chen Xiang's head became more and more agile and lively.

Then, Chen Xiang took the opportunity to announce that the year name was changed to the first year of ZTE! And begin the Northern Expedition with the oath!

After holding this huge and unprecedented victory oath meeting, Chen Xiang took the newly reorganized 30,000 troops and 6,000 Praetorian Guards, and 60,000 Li Miao slave troops who had undergone simple training and would only distribute equipment during the battle to take the oath of the Northern Expedition. A bridgehead was established and quickly pressed towards the Pearl River Delta.

At this time, Jiangnan was already in chaos, Xiangyang was once again attacked by the Mongols, and Zhang Hongfan's family was slaughtered. The Mongols again occupied the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Li Heng's army also suffered several defeats in a row, and the battle line was compressed a lot, relying on the mountains and hills in the Ganchu generation to maneuver with the Mongolian cavalry. The other Han troops were annihilated or surrendered by the Mongols one after another, and in a year's time, Jiangnan was about to be pacified by the Mongols again. However, the difference is that in the past year, the small court of the Song Dynasty has recovered from the hands of a legendary eight-year-old emperor, and even wants to turn around and bite those Mongols hard!

It is in this case. The Song army took advantage of the fact that the enemy had not yet reacted, and came from the south in one fell swoop and surrounded Wuyang City, and the 60,000 Li and Miao people's death battalion had already surrounded the city wall along the siege equipment that had been prepared for a long time, and even began to fight for some sections of the city wall.

In Wuyang City is occupied by a Han army leader named Cheguan. He used to be a partial general under Zhang Hongfan, with three or four thousand people under him, but even when he was under Zhang Hongfan, he was not very useful, and after Zhang Hongfan's behavior was strange and he announced his rebellion, he was suspicious and specially lagged behind. When Zhang Hongfan and the others arrived in Jiujiang, he turned around and occupied Wuyang City. became his own soil emperor.

In the past year, he has gathered more than 15,000 soldiers, which can be regarded as a strong party, but he didn't expect that he was suddenly attacked by the Song army!

During the Battle of Yashan last year, this car tube also participated in the battle, and those Song troops lacked food and clothing. They don't even have fresh water to drink, and the weak ones are like ants, and they can be pinched to death if they just reach out with one hand. For the sake of his own ambitions, Zhang Hongfan deliberately let go of the Song army and let them go to Qiongzhou Island, where Li Miao was in turmoil. But they didn't expect that a year had passed, and they still dared to brush their beards?

When the frightened car manager saw the simple equipment of Li Miao's slaves, he smiled happily, such a vagrant-like army, even the bandits are not as good, do you still want to take the city? It's just delusional!

He easily commanded the troops to kill the enemies who had been attached to the ants, thinking that this battle would definitely be his final victory!

But he didn't notice at all that a team of better-equipped Song army engineers had already approached the city wall of Wuyangcheng on a special engineering giant oar that had been prepared for a long time, and quickly dug a huge pit under the city wall, and then quickly left this section of the city wall after filling in something.

After a while, there was a loud bang, the car tube felt that his head was clouded, and he couldn't hear any sound, and everyone on the battlefield stopped the movements in their hands, and looked stupidly at the place where the loud noise came from. That big part of the city wall actually fell! And the well-armed Song army was pouring in from the severed wall at the fastest speed!

Someone in the back put down the bamboo shelf, took the black iron box the size of a lunch box, pressed it on the special bamboo shelf, lit the lead on it and let go violently, the bamboo shelf jumped up violently, and the black iron box was fiercely ejected into the defenders' camp, and then there were a few loud bangs, those black iron boxes exploded one after another, ejecting countless iron pieces and flying thorns, and immediately harvested the lives of dozens of people. However, the enemy was prepared, rushed in with all his might, and seized control of this section of the city wall at once! Almost instantly, Wuyang City was broken!

The first thing that began to blow up the city wall was the city-breaking cannon specially instructed by Chen Xiang and carefully crafted by craftsmen.

This kind of city-breaking cannon is extremely powerful, but if you want to blow up the strong city wall, the size and weight are also very large, and you must use it unexpectedly to have a miraculous effect. This is the case this time, the vehicle management has never heard of such a thing, let alone seen it, and once it is used, it has achieved miraculous results.

The other black iron box used to fire after the collapse of the city wall was actually the most earthy type of mortar. The deliberately cast black iron box, which is not particularly reliable, is stuffed with a mess of iron pieces and black powder, with a lead on it, and once it explodes, the iron sheet in it will turn into a throwing knife that takes people's lives, harvesting a piece of human life.

Bamboo is a plant that can be found everywhere, elastic and good, and after special processing, it can even catapult about ten catties of objects out one hundred and fifty steps away, which is quite good.

The siege artillery with concentrated explosion and directional blasting, the black powder iron box and the bamboo catapult became the killer weapon of the Song army's surprising victory.

This is also very simple, since the Song army is inferior to the Mongols in the military skills of riding and archery, but it is far superior to the Mongol army in engineering technology, and the strong bow and crossbow manufactured by everyone is a killing weapon recognized by everyone, and the weapon such as the divine arm crossbow and the bed crossbow is even more shocking!

It's just that the lethality of this weapon is not very strong, the mobility is too poor, and it is very material and time-consuming to manufacture, so it is not as direct and effective as riding and shooting.

In the end, Cheguan still fled from Wuyang City with a rout of three or four hundred people, gathered the rout all the way, went all the way to the north, and after fighting a few other Han army leaders, he finally occupied a small city and settled down temporarily. This hasn't stopped for a few days, and Song Jun actually appeared again! This time, the vehicle management has no plans to fight hard! directly abandoned the city and fled, but cheapened the Song army, and got a small city for nothing! The next few times the same happened, as if as soon as he stopped, the enemy would rush out and pick the fruits of victory!

At this time in the Song Dynasty, Lingnan was not very well developed, it was still a barbaric land, the number of Han people was very small, usually running hundreds of miles and there was not necessarily a village, although the group of people in the car management was small, but it was already a force that could run rampant in the countryside! The Song army drove all these chaotic forces outward, squeezing the space of other Han army leaders and separatist forces, and fought more than a dozen small battles, finally laying the foundation for a strong army.

Under such a battle that was not too intense, after another three months, the Lingnan area became the territory of the Song army! This is the first time that Song Jun has won such a brilliant victory!

After occupying several important passes in Lingnan and deciding that the entire Lingnan land was in their own hands, the Song army stopped its pace and stopped marching north. The Song army is now only less than 50,000 troops, and it still needs to defend three important passes, and the Han army further north usually fights from 100,000 people, which is not enough for the Song army to consume these soldiers!

Chen Xiang didn't want to rush out to make a head bird when the Mongolian army was still very strong, he worked overtime for eighteen hours a day, discussed national politics with Wen Tianxiang, Su Wanghai and Zhang Shijie and others, and finally established the system and system of Lingnan, and the rest only needed to be perfected, and then he was ready to leave here to find the legendary Guo Xiang and Guo Poyu.

Under Chen Xiang's insistence and personal implementation, the new system and new atmosphere of the Song Dynasty court have been formed, and Chen Xiang has occupied a sedan chair into his own cave system, so that he can come back instantly at any time, so he took a master named Huang Ba and Su Huaiyuan, dressed up together, and walked north.

Not long after leaving the city, Chen Xiang found that a group of people were following him from afar, and after probably knowing the identities of those people, Chen Xiang didn't pay much attention to it, but just walked forward.

They hadn't gone far before they seemed to be sure that the person out of the city was the one they were looking for, and after there were no other pedestrians around, they quickly followed.

After a while, the guard Huang Ba had already sensed the person behind him, and reported to Chen Xiangyu: "Your Majesty! A group of people followed! ”

Chen Xiang rode on Xiaobai lightly, swayed forward slowly, and said without caring at all: "Remember to call me Gongzi." Walking outside, it's a very important thing. As for those people, they are friends and foes, so don't worry too much. ”