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When Fang Baihua and Chen Jingu arrived at the temple, there were already many people here.

These people, one counts as one, and all of them have heavy faces.

Only Fang La's face was not like this.

Although Fang La tried his best to control his own emotions, those who were familiar with Fang La could still see that Fang La's face was full of embarrassment and chagrin, and even regret!

In fact, Fang La also has reasons to be embarrassed, annoyed, and regretful.

Not long ago, Chen Hoop Bucket proposed a bold offensive plan of "crossing the river with a long drive";

After the rebel army conquered Hangzhou, General Lü put forward the suggestion of "directly taking Jinling and establishing the foundation first", advocating that Jinling should be seized first, which was not heavily guarded, and the Yangtze River should be held at bay, and then take advantage of the situation to seize the southeastern prefectures and counties.

Later, Chen Hoop and General Lü repeatedly urged Fang La to take Jinling, which was not heavily guarded, believing that this was an important move in establishing the southeast base area.

However, Fang La was too optimistic that the Beizong Dynasty, which had reached the extreme, would not be able to send heavy troops soon, and the rebel army could calmly seize Jiangnan.

Therefore, under Fang La's arbitrariness, most of the main forces of the rebel army only cared about capturing the two Zhejiang counties, and in the north of the independent blockade, only one division of Fang Qifo was dispatched.

In this way, it not only lost the opportunity to seize Jinling in order to achieve greater development, but also dispersed its forces, so that the rebel army was in a passive situation from the beginning in the face of the Song army's large-scale counterattack, and the key was that the Song army could cross the Yangtze River without any pressure.

It can be said that Fang La has a great responsibility that cannot be shirked to cause today's passive situation.

Such a big mistake cannot be completely shirked.

Therefore, after the people were complete, Fang La first commented, "It was my fault that I lost Jinling, and I blindly followed the analysis of Zhao Song by a few people, so I made a wrong decision......

As soon as Fang La's words came out, Bao Kang's face suddenly became not very good-looking.

That's right.

It was the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty that Bao Kang analyzed for Fang La, and it was because of Bao Kang's analysis that Fang La formulated the strategic policy of Fang La's rebel army, and even the reason why Fang La dared to ascend to the top and lead the uprising also had a lot to do with Bao Kang's analysis of the Northern Song Dynasty.

It's just—

It has been two or three years since Bao Kang left the Northern Song Dynasty, and he didn't know that during this period, the Northern Song Dynasty was planning to go north to recover Yanyun, so he transferred the Western Army stationed in the northwest to the Beijing Daimyo's Mansion, and even prepared to go to the front line, not to mention that Cai was still a variable in the past two or three years.

But then again, you can't blame Bao Kang for this.

After all, current events can't be static, they're always changing.

In order to grasp the current situation, it is necessary for colleges and universities and accurate intelligence systems to continuously collect intelligence, and then a large number of staff officers analyze and summarize information, instead of blindly making decisions based on the insight of just one or two people.

This is one of the reasons why Cai still develops the intelligence system and staff system regardless of the cost.

After throwing the pot to Bao Kang, Fang La criticized himself a few words without pain, and then said to the person sent by the Seven Buddhas on the other side, "You tell everyone about the situation of the Song army in Jinling." ”

The man said, "The one who came to the aid was the Central Forbidden Army of Zhao and Song, that army was called the "Jinwu Army", and the leader of the army was surnamed Cai, named Cai Ying, and the strength was about 350,000. ”

The man said so vaguely that Fang Baihua and the others couldn't help but look at each other.

Chen Hoop Bucket frowned even more, and said, "Whether it's 30,000 or 50,000, the difference between the two is not ordinary." ”

The man said, "This news was brought back by the people of Jinling who went south, they didn't know how many people came, one or two can only say one-sided, I don't know the general situation, my marshal asked more than 100 people, only to roughly determine that the Jinwu army came from the waterway, and some came by horseback by land, a total of four batches of Jinling, the first two batches were about the first day of the first year of Jinling, they arrived at Jinling City, and did not let any people go south, the third group arrived on the night of the second day of the first month, As soon as they arrived in Jinling, they occupied all the main roads of Jinling, and the fourth group arrived on the seventh day of the first month, and it is said that there were more than 100 large ships of 5,000 materials alone. ”

Zheng Mowang said, "A big ship of 5,000 materials can carry five or six hundred people, if these more than 100 big ships are all used to transport troops and horses, thirty or fifty thousand horses, it is not an exaggeration." ”

General Lu said, "It is impossible for these more than 100 big ships to be loaded with soldiers, at least half of them should be loaded with grain and grass materials, so calculated, just the soldiers transported by these more than 100 big ships are at most 30,000." ”

Huo Chengfu said, "Plus the three groups of people who arrived first, it is still 3 to 50,000, so there should be no problem with the news of the Marshal of the North Road." ”

Bao Kang didn't care about the business because Fang La threw the pot to him, he calmly analyzed, "The law of Zhao Song's dispatch of troops is that a forbidden army soldier should be dispatched, and two non-commissioned officers should be equipped to escort grain and grass materials, therefore, the main force to help may be more than 10,000, considering that Zhao Song's troops have always been divided into front, rear, left, right, and middle five armies, combined into a one-man team, it can be inferred from this that Zhao Song is likely to dispatch five generals, this Cai is still not one of the five generals, or the commander of this box. ”

Fang Baihua analyzed matter-of-factly, "Most of our army has not received drills, therefore, its overall quality is worse than the Song army's box army, conservative estimates, a Song army's one box soldier can be about our two soldiers, and a Song army's forbidden army can be about four to five of our soldiers, so, to annihilate the Song army in Jinling, we must send at least 100,000 troops, in case of accidents, I think we should send 200,000 troops to defeat the Song army in Jinling with Mount Tai overwhelming, and then seize Jinling, Then take Jinling as the base point and stick to the Yangtze River natural risk. ”

"Two hundred thousand troops?"

No one thought that Fang Baihua would attach so much importance to the support army in Jinling.

Although Jinling was lost, Fang La still didn't want to go north, but wanted the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Fang Qifo to resist the footsteps of the Song army going south, and then he continued to seize the territory in the southeast.

Just like Fang La told others, he believes that the larger the territory, the more troops he has, and the greater the strategic maneuver space.

Moreover, Fang La felt that his idea was feasible, as long as Fang Qifo could successfully take Huzhou and Xiuzhou, he could use that line to arrange the defense line, and then block the southbound Song army in the north, and as long as he was given two or three months, he could seize the southeast, and then he could not only get a stable rear, but also rely on this stable rear to fight a decisive battle with the Song army.

In fact, there is another reason why Fang La is so determined to go south instead of north.

The reason for this is to push back the picture.

There is this sentence on the back picture: "Across the Zhejiang River, the traces are in Wuxing." ”

According to the literal interpretation, although he Fang La can be the emperor, the land of Longxing is only in the southeast, only in the land of old Wu.

This is also one of the reasons why Fang La has always opposed going north and has been reluctant to send a large army north to seize only the southeast territory.

Based on this, Fang Ladao said, "Don't over-elevate the combat power of the Song army and underestimate our combat power too low, it's not that we haven't fought with the Song army, which time didn't we beat them to the ground?" ”

General Lu said, "The combat power of the Zhao Song Xiang Army cannot be compared with the Zhao Song Forbidden Army, and the two are not the same. ”

Chen Hoop also said, "There has been no war in the southeast for a hundred years, so the combat power of the Eastern and Southern Song Dynasty armies is limited, and the Song army in the southeast is mostly a box army, not the main forbidden army of the Song army, so the previous wars have no reference value." ”

Chen Hoop then suggested to Fang La: "Holy Prince, I suggest that the Marshal of the East Road lead the men and horses of this road and the Yongkang Army led by Chen and the state army of our department to go north on the same day to join the North Route Army, and then look for fighters to fight a decisive battle with the Song army in Jinling and win, and then use Jinling as the base point to set up a defensive line according to the natural danger of the Yangtze River to prevent most of the Song army from going south." ”

Although Fang La nominally had an army of more than one million, in fact Fang La could control only about 500,000 troops.

The 500,000 or so army controlled by Fang La was divided into four routes by him - that is, the Northern Route Army led by Fang Qifo, the Eastern Route Army led by Fang Baihua, the Southern Route Army led by Fang Wuxianggong, and the Middle Route Army led by Fang La himself.

Fang La's plan all along was to use the Northern Route Army led by Fang Qifo to hold the north, and he personally commanded the Eastern Route Army, the Southern Route Army, the Middle Route Army and the rest of the righteous army to quickly seize the territory in the southeast based on Hangzhou.

Therefore, Chen Hoop's suggestion is contrary to Fang La's plan.

The key is that if the most capable Fang Baihua and his subordinates are sent to the north, not only will it greatly delay the speed of Fang La's seizure of territory, but Fang La's ability to overwhelm the other rebel commanders is not yet graspable, and then he will sit back and watch other rebel leaders seize the territory that should have been occupied by him and then become stronger and bigger, leaving hidden dangers for the future.

Therefore, although it is clear that Chen Hoop Bucket must have no selfish intentions since he took the initiative to lead the Chuzhou army to the north, Fang La still said, "Not all the forbidden armies can fight, only the Northwest Forbidden Army can fight, and the combat power of many central forbidden armies and Hebei forbidden armies is not even as good as the Xiang army, by the way, what Jinwu army in Jinling is not the central forbidden army of Zhao Song, the North Route Army has more than 100,000, as long as Huzhou and Xiuzhou are captured, and then fortified on the front line of Huzhou and Xiuzhou, there must be no problem in blocking them for two or three months, besides, In the face of our million army, most of the 350,000 people did not dare to go south, they should just want to stick to the passage of Jinling first, and slowly wait for the Zhao and Song Dynasty to mobilize people, if this is the case, then it is very unwise for us to go north and fight to the death with the 350,000 Song army, we should seize this precious time, step up the pace to clean up the Song army in the southeast region, completely occupy the southeast, and then go north to fight a decisive battle with the Song army. ”

Without waiting for others to speak again, Fang La said again, "Again, if it is a famous general like Tong Guan and Seed Master Dao, let's be so cautious, what Cai is still, I haven't even heard of it, it's not worth it at all, it's not worth us like a big enemy......"

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