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Beckoning Yu Daoan to sit down, Cai still glanced at General Lu.

General Lu understood in his heart, and then asked Yu Daoan, "How is the situation on the side of the rebel army now?" ”

Yu Daoan said: "I only know that the South Road of the Song Army rushed from Xinzhou to Quzhou and Wuzhou; The north road is from Shangyu to the south; The middle road is committed from Pujiang to the east. Quzhou and Wuzhou fell one after another. As a result, most of the main forces of the rebel army in the Muzhou and Shezhou areas retreated to the Qingxi base area. And the Song army also copied from the east and west, forming a situation of encirclement. ”

General Lu knew that Cai still didn't care about the situation in Muzhou, so he asked, "What is the situation in Taizhou and Wenzhou?" ”

Yu Daoan said, "Lu Shisang of Taizhou led people to storm Taizhou City several times in the early part of the year, and once captured the two cities of Tiantai and Huangyan in the second half of the year, and they fought very bravely and tenaciously. Most of Wenzhou is under the control of our department, and a small part is under the control of the two brothers, Hu Long and Zhu Liang. ”

Lu Jiang asked again: "What about Yuezhou?" ”

Yu Daoan said: "Mainly under the control of Daochang Qiu. ”

After listening to Yu Daoan's words, Chen Hoop concluded: "Judging from the current situation, in this area that the Metropolitan Governor is responsible for, the main rebel army is the Lu Division, Hu Long, Zhu Liang, and Qiu Rixin, these departments are added together, at most there are more than 200,000, and if the Metropolitan Governor sends troops to suppress it, it should not be difficult to exterminate." ”

After a pause, Chen Hoop said, "However, I don't recommend that the Metropolitan Governor send troops to suppress it, injuring 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 yourself, not to mention that the Metropolitan Governor, you don't need to waste your precious troops for Zhao Song." ”

General Lu answered, "Moreover, we can also recruit the men and horses of their various departments like Brother Yu." ”

Cai still asked, "Is it easy to surrender?" ”

Chen hoop said, "If they are willing to accept the surrender of the Grand Governor, they will surrender, and if they are unwilling to accept the surrender of the Grand Governor, then they can only fight." ”

Lu Jiang said, "I think the possibility of surrender is still very great, after all, we still have some incense with them, and the situation in the Holy Father's place is getting worse and worse, as long as they are not stupid, they will not have a way to live." ”

Chen hoop said, "Yes, the possibility of surrender is still very large, but we must also pay attention to the fact that we can't surrender too quickly, even if we surrender, we must leave some people to continue to develop and grow." ”

General Lu added, "You can't surrender too slowly, otherwise you will give others an excuse to enter the territory of the Metropolitan Governor." ”

Chen hoop bucket said, "How can you fight with the righteous army without food, the metropolitan governor, you can use this as an excuse to ask the states and counties for food, if any state and county do not give it, let the "righteous army" go to besiege the city. ”

Afraid that Cai still wouldn't be able to turn this corner, General Lu gently persuaded, "Governor, you now have hundreds of thousands of people to support, and it is absolutely impossible to have no food, so you can't be rigid at this time!" ”

Cai still understands that Chen Hoop Bucket and Lu Jiang mean to let themselves raise thieves and respect themselves.

Cai is still not so noble, and he is not so brainless, he knows what he wants.

Therefore, not to mention raising thieves with self-respect, if it is really in danger, let Cai still rob it, and Cai will still resolutely take this step.

If you don't even have this determination, then Cai still just goes home and hugs the child, what deer to chase, what Ding to ask, what to talk about saving the country and saving the nation?

Seeing that Chen Hoop and General Lu had taken all the situation into account, Cai still waved his hand and said, "Then the two of you will be responsible for this matter, lack of people and money, or lack of other support, just ask me." ”

Cai still said again, "I don't look at the process, I only look at the results, as long as the two of you can handle this matter well, I will definitely reuse you." ”

Seeing that Cai still knew how to let go, Chen Hoop and Lu Jiang were even happier, and then let go of their hands and feet to operate this matter.

More than ten days later, under the personal persuasion of General Lü, the two brothers Hu Long and Zhu Liang led more than 20,000 soldiers of the Righteous Army to surrender to Cai Yi.

Cai still sent Li Bao to send the men and horses of the two brothers, Hu Long and Zhu Liang, to the city of politics and religion, screening and reorganization.

At the same time, Cai still sent Zhang Qing to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to pretend to be the Fang La rebels of Hu Long and Zhu Liang, and continued to recruit the rebels under the banner of Fang La.

After Zhang Qing got Cai Ying's order, he immediately took people to Lanxi County and other places occupied by the two brothers, Hu Long and Zhu Liang, and then erected the banner of recruiting troops and horses, set up soup kitchens, and recruited people openly.

Because of Cai Ying's order, Zhang Qing recruited people, and greatly relaxed the requirements, men, women, and children, as long as they were individuals.

As a result, Zhang Qingbu's "righteous army" grew very fast, and in just a few days, it grew to more than 100,000.

After that, someone sent Zhang Qingbu's "righteous army" to the beach in batches, and then Li Bao sent it to Taiwan and sent it to Zhencheng.

At the same time, in the name of Cai Zhen, Chen and General Lü demanded grain and materials from the prefectures and counties around the areas occupied by Zhang Qing's "righteous army" under the banner of suppressing bandits.

Later, Wu Yong found Cai Ying and suggested to Cai Ying, "The general's ambition is not in a bandit, nor in the southeast of a district, but in the world, in this way, you should not be greedy for small profits, lose your reputation, and leave a stain for the future king of the world." ”

Wu Yong said again, "With Chen Jiyi and Lu Jiyi's strategy, although they can also get some food and materials, but most of the food and materials are in the hands of the big families, not in the hands of the Zhao and Song courts. ”

Cai still listened and said, "Then it's up to you?" ”

Wu shook his feather fan and said, "Buy and scare together, both pronged." ”

Wu Yong said again, "The general has dozens of boats of copper and iron money in his hands, although this is also money, but as far as the general who has a military ticket is concerned, these copper and iron money are chicken ribs, and the general has to send people to take care of these chicken ribs, and these chicken ribs also account for dozens of big ships, so it is better to use them to buy grain and waste them." ”

Cai still fought all the way and captured countless things, especially in the surprise attack on Hangzhou City, Cai still captured hundreds of ships of gold, silver, treasures and materials.

Among the hundreds of ships of gold, silver, treasures, and materials, there were dozens of boats of copper and iron money, and Zhang Wei hurriedly estimated that there were tens of millions of dollars.

The people of the Jinwu army did not use copper and iron coins that were both bulky and did not retain their value—the people of the Jinwu army used military tickets, and at most they used gold and silver in places that did not recognize military tickets.

Therefore, as Wu Yong said, this copper and iron coin is really chicken ribs for Cai Ying, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Therefore, it is indeed appropriate to use these copper and iron coins to buy grain.

Therefore, Cai still adopted Wu Yong's suggestion, and on the one hand sent Zhang Qing to besiege the city with the "Righteous Army", and on the other hand, he sent people to use copper and iron money to buy grain and materials from the prefectures and counties under the attack of the "Righteous Army".

On the one hand, there is the siege of the "righteous army" of Wuyang.

On the one hand, Cai still uses real money to buy food and supplies for the soldiers who have no food to eat and defend them.

In this case, all the counties and counties finally chose to sell as much grain and materials as possible to Cai Zhen, even those wealthy nobles also tried their best to sell food and materials to Cai Zhen, lest Cai still leave them alone because of lack of food and materials, so that the city where they were located was broken by the rebels, and at that time, they would have nothing.

As a result, Cai's biggest fear, that is, the lack of food, did not really happen.

At the end of April, the main force of the Song army on the west road led by Liu Zhen took the lead in launching an offensive against Jianmenling (also known as Jianmen Mountain), the gateway to the Gangyuan.

The terrain of Jianmen Ridge is steep inside and gentle outside, and once it breaks through the mountain pass, it cannot be defended.

However, Fang La only focused on the main road in the north of Lingnan, and ignored the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan - he only sent a small force to defend it.

This made the cunning Liu Zhen drill Confucius and sent people to seize the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan.

When Fang La heard the news, he immediately led his troops to reinforce Lingnan, trying his best to beat back the Song army of Liu Zhen's department.

However, Fang La missed the fighter plane after all.

By the time he led people to the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan, the Song army had already driven straight down.

The breakthrough of the Lingnan Pass made the Fangla rebel army more and more passive.

In order to defend the gateway of the Gangyuan, the military advisor Wang Gong Lao Buddha and thousands of soldiers of the Fangla Righteous Army stained every inch of land here red with their own blood.

But after several bloody battles, Jianmenling finally fell into the hands of the Song army.

In the early morning of two days later, the main forces of the Song army converged and launched a comprehensive general attack on Bangyuan and Xiangtong.

Fang Laqin led 200,000 soldiers of the rebel army to resist the enemy, and regarded the mountains, rivers, villages, and cottages in this area of Fangyuan 40 miles as the forward position to resist the enemy.

The sound of killing shook the sky, and the struggle continued.

In the evening, most of the positions of Bangyuan and Xiangtong were occupied by the Song army.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Fang La led some of his soldiers to hide in an inaccessible cave in the source of the cave, preparing to break through in the morning.

In the early morning of the next day, the Song army closed the encirclement and began to search the mountains, so that Fang La lost the fighter plane to break through the siege.

Two days later, Han Shizhong, the barnyard general of the Song army, discovered Fang La's whereabouts and raided the cave with all his might.

After several battles, dozens of heads and brains such as Fang La, Fang Fei, Fang La's wife Qiu, and his second son Fang Hao were all captured by the soldiers led by Han Shizhong.

It's a pity!

Before Han Shizhong and the others could cover up this monstrous achievement, they intercepted the entrance of the cave and robbed Fang La and his party, so that Han Shizhong's brothers almost didn't jump up and fight with Xin Xingzong.

At this time, in the area of Bangyuan and Xiangtong, there were still many rebel troops resisting in danger.

But—

The news that Fang La's gang was defeated and that Fang La and other leaders were all captured alive came out quickly.

After learning the news, Lu Shisang and Qiu Rixin, who had always refused to accept Cai Ying's surrender, finally began to actively contact Chen Hoop and Lu Jiang.

Soon after, Lü Shisang and Qiu Rixin led the crowd to surrender.

Cai still sent the Fang La Righteous Army of Lü Shisang and Qiu Ri Xinbu to the city of politics and religion, screening and reorganization according to the previous method, and at the same time sent Mu Heng and Hu Yanxuan to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to pretend to be the Fang La Righteous Army of Lu Shisang and Qiu Ri New Department to continue to recruit troops and buy horses, and to buy grain from the prefectures and counties threatened by the original Lu Shisang and Qiu Ri New Department Fang La Righteous Army.

At the beginning of May, Cai finally returned to his hometown of Chiling, Cixiaoli, Xianyou County, Xinghua Army.

Cai still found the bones of "his" ancestors, buried them thickly, and then declared that he would keep filial piety for three months and close his door.

The day after announcing filial piety, Cai still asked Lu Jiang to disguise himself as his own to keep filial piety on his behalf, and he secretly went to Taiwan......

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