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As soon as Yue Fei's commendation order came out, Cai Yan's attitude was immediately clear, and the dispute that had been fermenting for two days that "the military law of the Jinwu Army was not too strict" finally came to a conclusion.

In order to dispel other people's luck, Cai still set up a special military justice department, with Jiang Xingzu as the director.

After Jiang Xingzu took office, he immediately let out the wind: General Jin Wujun violated military law, and he will be dealt with impartially and will not be tolerated

After seeing these two obvious signals, the officers and men of the Jinwu Army, from Liu Qi and Wang De, were all in a rage and began to demand themselves and their subordinates more severely.

Immediately afterwards, under the command of Song Jiang, the Propaganda Department began to dispatch propaganda in accordance with Cai Zhen's pre-confession of "freezing to death, not demolishing houses, starving to death, and not plundering", and emphasizing that all this was an iron law formulated by General Cai Yi himself.

At the same time, Song Jiang also led the political work cadres of the Political Department to take advantage of the gap to convene the officers and men of the Jinwu Army to carry out political study, and the main content of the study was the three major disciplines and eight points of attention that Cai Yi had recently commented.

Moreover, the military discipline of the Jinwu Army must be respected not only by the officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Army, but also by the officers and soldiers of the Xiang Army who transported grain and grass materials to the Jinwu Army - Cai still has exactly the same requirements for them as the officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Army.

As a result, after the Jin Wu army went south, especially after setting out from Jinling, the places they passed through were absolutely uncommitted.

Moreover, the soldiers of the Jinwu Army, one counts as one, and when they come into contact with anyone they meet, they are all courteous and courteous, fair trading, and will never take advantage of the people in the slightest, and if they can help, the soldiers of the Jinwu Army will definitely immediately reach out to help.

The people in the southeast, after more than 20 years of brutality by the Northern Song Dynasty, and the persecution of the Fang La Yi Army, and then came into contact with generals like Cai Yi and troops like Jin Wujun, not to mention how excited they were.

People rushed to tell each other and spread Cai Zhen's good name, and Jin Wujun soon had a name with the characteristics of the times - Cai Jiajun.

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At the same time that the Jinwu army was heading south to seek the opportunity for a decisive battle, Fang Qifo was also acting.

Fang Qifo first captured Chongde County in one fell swoop with thunderous momentum, and then besieged Xiuzhou in the northeast of Hangzhou, and divided his troops into Huzhou in the northwest of Hangzhou, and cooperated with Lu Xing'er, the leader of the Huzhou rebel army, to occupy Huzhou.

Let's not talk about how Fang Qifo's other troops and Lu Xing'er's troops seized the territory of Huzhou for the time being, let's just say that Fang Qifo personally led an army of 70,000 to capture Xiuzhou.

Actually-

As early as when he learned that Zhang Huiyan, the governor of Muzhou, sent Cai Zun, the commander of the two Zhejiang soldiers and horses, to lead 5,000 officers and soldiers to suppress the failure of the Fangla uprising, Chen Yu already knew that things were not good.

At that time, Chen Yu sent a letter to the Northern Song Dynasty court asking for reinforcements to be sent quickly, and at the same time reminded Zhao Ting, the governor of Hangzhou, to prepare for war early.

But all the letters for help sent by Chen Yu to the Northern Song Dynasty court at that time were suppressed by Wang Hao, and Zhao Ting received Chen Yu's reminder, but he didn't take it seriously, and blamed Chen Yu for being nosy with rats.

It wasn't until Fang La occupied Muzhou and defeated the 3,000 Shezhou soldiers and horses led by Guo Shizhong, the defender of Shezhou, that Zhao Ting realized that it was not good.

But at that time, it was too late for Zhao Ting to take any more measures, and he could only watch as Fang La's righteous army successively took Wuyuan, Jixi, Qimen and other places, and went straight to Hangzhou.

Zhao Ting considered that Hangzhou was unlikely to hold on, so he immediately took his family and trotted away.

Chen Yu is not Zhao Ting, when he realized that Hangzhou might not be able to hold it, he immediately recruited all the soldiers and civilians of Xiuzhou into Xiuzhou City, and then fortified the wall.

The water transportation here in Xiuzhou is extremely developed, which is convenient for the attacking army to transport grain and grass, and it is also conducive to the rapid arrival of reinforcements to reinforce, which can be said to be a battleground for soldiers.

Chen Yu choked here, unless the Fang La Yi army gave up going south and went north as a whole, and then sent a large army to lock Xiuzhou City, it would be impossible for the Fang La Yi army to bypass here and go north - if the Fang La Yi army did not take Xiuzhou City, it would rush north, and the food and grass supply line of the Fang La Yi army would be exposed to the attack of the Xiuzhou army, which was a fatal loophole that was enough to affect the overall victory or defeat.

Therefore, Fang Qifo personally led an army of 70,000 to attack Xiuzhou City, wanting to break Xiuzhou City in one fell swoop with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai as before, and then occupy Xiuzhou.

But this time, Fang Qifo kicked it on the iron plate.

In the face of Fang Qifo's army of 70,000, Chen Yu was not afraid, and he personally led the Xiuzhou army and civilians to step onto the city wall.

The upper army is attacked, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is to attack the city; The siege of the city is a last resort.

Therefore, Fang Qifo led the army to Xiuzhou City, and did not immediately attack the city, but first sent a nephew of Chen Yu, who had been captured before, to Xiuzhou City to surrender.

Chen Yu's nephew came to Xiuzhou City and shouted to Chen Yu to persuade him to surrender.

Chen Yu stood on the tower and scolded his nephew sharply, and suddenly shot his nephew with an arrow, and shot his nephew in the face with an arrow, killing him on the spot.

Chen Yu then said to the generals: "I will guard this city with the public, and I should be loyal to the country to repay the country." ”

Chen Yu said to his youngest son: "If the city is broken, I will not be able to live and obey the traitors. After I die, if you have to find a way to return to the countryside and sue the court for my death, so that I will die well, then future generations will say that I am a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, and you are a filial son. He is favored by the court, and you can let your uncle be orphaned. Your stepmother has only been married to me for a few months, and I put state affairs first, how can I take care of her? When I die, you will serve her as your own mother. Assuming that you are both unfortunate enough to fall into the enemy, do not turn your back on her. After I die, if you can return to your hometown, then bury my bones in the ancestral camp, so that I can serve my ancestors in Jiuquan after I die, and I will not hate after death! ”

Chen Yu even confessed his last words, infecting a group of soldiers and people defending the city, and everyone performed their duties one after another, preparing to fight to the death with the Fang La Righteous Army of the Fang Qi Buddha Department.

Fang Qifo saw that Chen Yu had even shot his own nephew, so he knew that it was impossible to recruit Chen Yu, so he ordered the siege of the city.

Fang Qifo took the pro-army as the supervising team, and inspired the warriors with heavy rewards, and then the Fang La rebel army attacked the city from three directions at the same time.

Fang Qifo's supervising team, cutting up their own people, is really not soft, at the same time, Fang Qifo took out the heavy reward is really tempting, the key is that the military and civilians in Xiuzhou City together will not exceed 70,000, theoretically speaking, it is impossible to resist their attack.

As a result, the Fang La Yi army of the Fang Qi Buddha Department began to rush towards the Xiuzhou city wall.

On both sides, one holds on, the other attacks, and a battle is three days.

In these three days, Xiuzhou City can be said to be full of dangers.

It's a pity that at the last moment, under Chen Yu's decisive handling, the danger was turned into a disaster.

While admiring Chen Yu, Fang Qi Buddha couldn't help but feel sorry for his own losses - in just three days, the casualties of Fang Qi Buddha's Department were as high as 20,000!

Fang Qifo was a little hesitant, should he avoid the edge for the time being, or should he leave an army to lock Xiuzhou City first, and then try to figure it out later?

At this moment, there was a sudden smoke and dust in the distance.

Fang Qi Buddha was shocked, and thought to himself: "This must be the momentum that can only be achieved by a cavalry of a small scale!" ”

After watching calmly for a while, Fang Qifo roughly judged that the cavalry that came might be an army of two or three thousand people.

Fang Qifo said in a deep voice: "Form a circle formation, ready to meet the enemy." ”

The circle was designed for ring defense - the Golden Drum Banner was deployed in the center, so there were no obvious weaknesses.

With Fang Qifo's order, Fang Qifo's personal soldiers immediately dispersed, and then ordered all armies to deploy a circular formation in an orderly manner.

The circle formation on the side of the Seven Buddhas was almost laid out, and the cavalry on that side had already arrived.

When the cavalry got closer, Fang Qifo breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out -

This cavalry is not an army, and there are only a thousand people, that is, two battalions of cavalry.

It's just that there are too many horses in this cavalry, and there are as many as three or four thousand, which caused the misjudgment of the previous Fang Qifo.

When this cavalry arrived at the battlefield, it did not rush into battle, but stopped at a great distance from the battlefield, and then all the cavalry dismounted at the same time.

Those who do not know about cavalry may think that this cavalry is cowardly.

And as long as you know something about cavalry, you will know that the reason why this cavalry made such a move was because they were accumulating strength, accumulating strength for the next big battle.

Really!

After the cavalry dismounted, they began to calmly feed the horses beans and water with eggs, and at the same time, they also took time to eat something for themselves.

Seeing this scene, Fang Qifo knew that it was not good: "This must be an elite cavalry who is extremely good at fighting, and this is a big trouble." ”

Fang Qifo looked at the five thousand cavalry behind him that he had so hard assembled, and was very hesitant to send these five thousand precious cavalry to fight with the one thousand cavalry? Or send these 5,000 precious cavalry to entangle the 1,000 cavalry and then withdraw? Or lure the thousand cavalry into battle and kill them?

On the other side, seeing that the reinforcements had arrived, Chen Yu was also relieved.

Chen Yu was quite calm.

But the soldiers and people behind Chen Yu who had survived several times couldn't hold their breath, and they said excitedly:

"Reinforcements are coming! We are saved! ”

"The court has not abandoned us! Didn't abandon us! ”

"Which army is coming? Will they be able to beat the army of rebels? ”

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After some discussion, no one could recognize which army it was.

A general came to Chen Yu's side and said, "My lord, you are well-informed, can you know which army is coming to help, can you save us Xiuzhou City?" ”

Chen Yu didn't have any, he pointed to a big flag in the cavalry, and said, "What do you see painted on that flag?" ”

"What is it?"

The general looked at it for a moment, then said with some uncertainty: "Is that a bird?" Birds in the red circle? ”

Chen Yu smiled: "That's a crow, a three-legged golden crow." ”

Another interjected: "I see, it's the three-legged golden crow that represents the sun." ”

Chen Yu said: "Yes, it is the three-legged golden crow that represents the sun." ”

Chen Yu then said: "In our Great Song Dynasty, there is only one army that uses the three-legged golden crow as a banner. ”

Everyone asked, "Which army?" ”

Chen Yu said: "Cai is still the Jinwu army led by Cai Ziyin. ”

"Jin Wu Army?"

Obviously, in the south, the Jinwu Army is a relatively unfamiliar army.

But—

Although the southerners were very unfamiliar with the Jinwu Army, some people still said: "Is it the Jinwu Army that wiped out Song Jiang's gang?" ”

Chen Yu nodded and said, "It's that Jinwu army." ”

Someone couldn't help but ask: "Then can this Jinwu army save our Xiuzhou City?" ”

Chen Yu did not speak.

At this time, a fiery war horse ran out of the cavalry of the Jinwu army.

Immediately, the general went straight to the city, and then shouted: "I am Yang Zaixing, the commander of the Jinwu Army's personal guards, and there is an answer on the wall." ”

Chen Yu shouted at the wall: "I am Chen Yu, the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion." ”

Yang Zaixing hugged his fist at Chen Yu and said: "My general asked me to tell Lord Chen, Xiuzhou City is worry-free!" ”

Seeing that Yang Zaixing or Cai behind Yang Zaixing was still so arrogant, Chen Yu pointed to the 50,000 Duo Layi army led by Fang Qifo, and said: "The enemy is already near, don't dare to open the door, General Yang can serve the country loyally!" ”

Yang Zaixing heard the words and said: "But the hated soldiers are few and weak!" ”

After finishing speaking, Yang Zaixing returned to the team and said loudly: "The people in the city underestimate my Jinwu army, what should I do?" ”

Everyone said in unison:

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

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