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Hangzhou.

In the temple of Fangla.

Hearing that Fang Qifo and the Northern Route Army were completely annihilated by Cai Zhen, whose name he had never even heard of before, Fang La was both shocked and terrified!

Fang La couldn't help but ask everyone: "Who is this Cai Ying?" ”

Everyone looked at each other.

In the end, General Lu stood up and said, "Report to the Holy Father, I have inquired about him." ”

After a pause, General Lu said again, "Cai is still the nephew of the traitor Cai Jing, the grandson of Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Shenzong Dynasty, and the only son of Cai Bian, the privy envoy during the Zhenghe period. ”

"Song Jiang? Hubaoyi Song Jiang? Chen asked the hoop bucket.

General Lu replied, "Yes, it's him, two years ago, he gathered 36 people to revolt in Liangshanluo, led the crowd to attack Heshuo, Jingdong Road, and then fought between Qingzhou, Qizhou and Puzhou, and captured more than 10 counties and towns, and there was a lot of movement. ”

Huo Chengfu said, "I think of this person, he is still somewhat famous in the rivers and lakes, and he is a hero." ”

Lu Jiang said, "Later, the Zhao and Song courts sent Cai to suppress Song Jiang, he won several battles, and finally went to the meeting to capture Song Jiangsheng alive, forcing Song Jiang and his gang to accept the Zhao and Song courts. ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little shocked.

Bao Kang said, "In this way, this Cai is still really unusual, no wonder he can defeat the Northern Route Army." ”

Fang La once insisted that the Song army could not pose a threat to them so quickly, and insisted on transferring the main force to the south to seize the territory in the southeast, and also said, "If it is a famous general like Tong Guan and Seed Master Dao, we can be so cautious, what Cai is still, I have never even heard of it, it is not worth us to face the enemy." ”

Now, Song Jun and Cai are still slapping their faces, which makes Fang La's face a little unbearable, especially after Cai Yan's heels were dug out.

Fang Fei saw Fang La's embarrassment, and also knew that Fang La had no steps down now.

Therefore, Fang Fei helped Fang La change the topic and said, "What's the point of talking about this Cai still now, let's quickly discuss how to meet the enemy." ”

When it came to how to meet the enemy, everyone was silent.

Now, the Song army has arrived in Xiuzhou, which is only two or three days away from their base camp of Hangzhou, which can be said to be close at hand.

Therefore, a decisive battle between the two sides could be fought at any time.

Therefore, Fang Fei is right, now we should think about how to meet the enemy, instead of talking about Cai Ying's past.

But how can this enemy be welcomed?

Fang Qifo and the Northern Route Army under his command were almost the most capable of fighting among them.

But even the most capable Northern Route Army was completely annihilated by the Song Army in a battle, how could they fight this battle?

Seeing that no one spoke, Bao Kang could only stand up and analyze, "The Northern Route Army was defeated in a battle because of a field battle with the Song Army." ”

After a pause, Bao Kang continued to analyze, "Our army lacks training, and the armor and horses are not complete, in this case, it is possible to be completely annihilated in a field battle with the well-trained and well-equipped Song army. ”

Bao Kang thought about it and said, "However, there is more than one way to fight, since we are not the opponent of the Song army in the field, let's fight a defensive counterattack." ”

"Defensive counterattack?"

Everyone is thinking about how to defend and counterattack?

Bao Kang said, "The city of Hangzhou is four feet high, and the defense facilities are complete, so we can completely defend the city." ”

Obviously, Bao Kang is not very military savvy.

As soon as his voice fell, Chen Hoop said, "Since ancient times, the lonely city has not been guarded, so although Hangzhou City is strong, we can't just defend Hangzhou City, if we really want to defend Hangzhou, it must be guarded together with the surrounding county towns and dangerous management cards, in addition, there must be reinforcements outside, in addition, there must be sufficient grain and grass." ”

"Grain and grass?"

After Chen Hoop Bucket reminded him of this, Fang Fei's heart suddenly tightened!

They have no food.

No.

It should be said that they once had grain - the southeast is rich in grain, Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Road, and it is also the location of the Creation Bureau, one of the command centers of Huashigang, and a large number of officials, wealthy merchants and landlords gathered in the city of Hangzhou, so a large amount of grain was originally gathered in the city of Hangzhou.

However, after the Fang La Yi army broke through the city of Hangzhou, they did not pay attention to food, they only cared about robbing gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, those valuable things, plus the number of their subordinates was too large, and the consumption was naturally more, as a result, the grain in Hangzhou city was squandered by them, and only enough food was left for them to eat temporarily.

Of course, it is not that the Fangla rebels have no food, but their food is scattered in various cities, and with their organizational ability, they cannot be gathered in a short time.

It can be said that at this time, Fang La's only thinking about the south without considering the disadvantages of the Song army's rapid southward movement had already appeared.

General Lu hesitated for a moment, and proposed, "Let's give up Hangzhou City and retreat to Shezhou, Shezhou is dangerous, and it can be used as the venue for our decisive battle with the Song army, the key is that Shezhou is the hub to the west of Qingxi, Qingxi completely belongs to us, and Qingxi has grain, which can be used as the rear of our decisive battle with the Song army. ”

Fang La didn't even think about it, so he said, "No." ”

Bao Kang also said, "It's really not good, Hangzhou is too meaningful to us, and if Hangzhou is lost, Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Taizhou, including Wuzhou, are all in danger, so the good situation we have achieved before will be gone, which will be a fatal blow to us." "- Hangzhou, both geographically and politically, is the first in the southeast, if lost, the Fangla uprising will definitely suffer a heavy setback.

Fang La said, "Yes, that's what I mean, so Hangzhou can't lose it." ”

If you can't lose it, you can only keep it.

Wang Gong Lao Buddha said, "Stop going south, transfer all the troops that can be mobilized back, and fight the Song army in Hangzhou." ”

As soon as Wang Gong Lao Buddha said this, Fang La's intestines were about to regret it, and he knew that this was the case, he must have adopted the advice of Chen Hoop and Lu Jiang to go north to occupy Jinling, and even sent a partial division to directly cross the river to Jiangbei for development.

"Who would have thought that the Song army would go south so quickly!"

Fang La glanced at Bao Kang and thought that Bao Kang had mistaken him.

At this time, someone suggested, "Otherwise, let's try to recruit Cai Ying?" If he can surrender to us, then all our problems can be solved. ”

After listening to this person's suggestion, everyone laughed at him for his delusional thinking, but they excavated the tomb of Cai Zhen's ancestor and exposed his bones, there is such a big feud, the key is that the situation of the Song army is very good, how could Cai still be surrendered by them?

Another person proposed, "We have more ships in the southeast, more shipyards, and more people who know water, so if we collect all the ships we can collect, we can evacuate from the waterway in case the situation is not good." ”

Everyone thought it was a good idea, and Fang La was also very tempted by it—they had captured countless seizures in this uprising, and now almost all of them were gathered in Hangzhou, so that they could carry all those things to the ship, and if things went wrong, they could evacuate them directly by boat.

Someone perfected this plan and said, "In this way, the existing ships are not designated enough, we can gather all the shipwrights who can be found, and order them to work overtime to build big ships, if Hangzhou City can't hold it, we won't even leave a straw for Song Jun." ”

Everyone is babbling and supplementing the withdrawal plan little by little, and there is no longer a state of ignorance between them.

Seeing this, Chen Hoop, General Lu and others couldn't help but feel worried about the future of the rebel army......

A few days later, Fang Baihua and Chen 14 withdrew with the Eastern Route Army, and then stationed along the Wukang-Chongde area, which was the first line of defense of the rebel army.

Soon, all the Central Route Army withdrew to Hangzhou City, and the Chuzhou soldiers withdrew to Lin'an-Yuhang-Fuyang to assist in the defense.

Subsequently, Fang Wuxianggong of Taizhou led the Southern Route Army and Lu Shinang led the Taizhou rebel army to retreat in the direction of Hangzhou, and Qiu Rixin and Quzhou in Yuezhou, Zheng Mowang, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang and others in Wuzhou also withdrew in the direction of Hangzhou.

In late February, after many attempts with Fang Baihua and Chen Shishibu, Cai still sent the Tabai Army and the Beiwei Army to pretend to return to Hangzhou from Yanguan to induce Fang Baihua to lead a large army to intercept it.

Although Fang Baihua also suspected that Cai was still luring the snake out of the hole.

But Cai is still attacking.

There was no way, Fang Baihua could only personally lead an army of 50,000 to Yanguan to intercept the White Army and the Beiwei Army.

As a result, Cai was still in ambush.

Although the Fangla rebel army was huge, its equipment and training were almost blank, and it was only with the great momentum and strong organization of the Manichaeans that it was able to organize the offensive.

In this case, after a few faces, the Fang Layi army of the Fang Baihua Department was defeated by the Jinwu army, and then surrounded and annihilated.

As the answer, Chen Shishi, after receiving Fang Baihua's request for help from the front, personally led an army of 20,000 to the rescue.

After a hard battle, Chen Shiv finally took Fang Baihua and more than 10,000 people from his department.

Just when she was about to retreat, Fang Baihua keenly thought that the Jinwu army was luring the enemy, surrounding, and chasing them, and wanted to eat her 50,000 troops in one bite, and Cai Ying might not have many soldiers and horses around him.

It was also a coincidence that one of the 14th Chen soldiers was extremely familiar with the hill where Cai was still located, and he was sure that there was a secret passage behind that hill that could go up the mountain.

Fang Baihua immediately made a decision, and Chen Shiwei returned to the back of the hill, and then led an army with Chen Shiwei to attack Cai Ying's Chinese army tent.

To be honest, this was not what Cai still intended, but it was because Cai Ying's troops were stretched thin, so he only left a part of the pro-guard army to protect himself, and as a result, such a fatal loophole was exposed, and he was caught by Fang Baihua and Chen Shixi.

It's just—

Fang Baihua and Chen Shiv, especially the latter, never thought that Cai Ying's martial arts would be so strong, and he captured Fang Baihua who came to capture the king with one face, and then personally led a group of guards and guards to disperse Fang Baihua and Chen Shixi's men and horses with a countercharge, and rushed into Chen Shiv's Chinese army to capture Chen Shiwei alive.

Subsequently, Cai still demanded the lives of Fang Baihua and Chen Shixi, forcing Fang Baihua and Chen Shixi's men and horses to surrender on their knees.

This battle was fought from morning to evening, and the Jinwu army killed and wounded a total of 10,000 soldiers of the Duo Layi Army, and captured 20,000 soldiers of the Duo Layi Army alive.

A brilliant victory!

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