When a large number of people of the Song Dynasty who were trembling with fright and tears on their faces appeared tremblingly in front of the position, Pang Wanchun, the commander of the Third Army of the Zhennan Army who was holding a rifle, was suddenly widened in shock.

"It's really a mercy not to be in charge of the soldiers!" Pang Wanchun sighed as he looked at the Song State musketeers who were hiding behind the people.

Purely from the perspective of combat, the method of the seed division this time is very clever, and it also accurately finds the defects of the Zhennan army.

The Zhennan Army, which is fully equipped with firearms, has super attack power, but in addition to their poor mobility, they also need a lot of ammunition supplies.

In the fierce battle just now, seventy percent of the ammunition of the three thousand Zhennan Army had been consumed, and most of the four grenades that each soldier carried were also thrown, so they were in a dilemma at this time.

If the Zhennan Army poured ammunition on those Song people in cold blood, it would definitely consume a lot of ammunition. If the Zhennan army couldn't bear to attack these innocent people, then the Song army hiding behind them could take the opportunity to kill the Zhennan army blocking the road.

When Li Nan gave the order to attack the Song State in an all-out way, he once told the generals who led the troops very clearly that his purpose was to occupy the territory of the Song State as peacefully as possible, because the people of the Song State would also be the people of Zhennan Kingdom in the future, and they must not hurt the people's hearts.

For this reason, Li Nan also ordered all units to strictly enforce military law, and any Zhennan soldiers who dared to bully the people of the Song State would be severely punished according to law.

The people of the Song Kingdom, who were used as humanoid shields, slowly approached under the pressure of the Song army, and after a fierce battle in Pang Wanchun's heart, he finally gave the order for the whole army to retreat.

The battle of Changsha came to an end, and Liang Guang led the remnants of more than 10,000 musketeers and more than 30,000 Xiang troops to withdraw to Yuezhou City, for fear that the Zhennan army would take advantage of the situation to attack again, and hurriedly withdrew to Ezhou, an important town in the Yangtze River basin in the rear.

In the Zhizhou Mansion of Changsha City, Li Nan looked at Pang Wanchun, who was kneeling in front of him with a thorn strip, and couldn't help laughing.

"Hehehe." Li Nan smiled and asked, "Why is Brother Pang dressed like this?" ”

Pang Wanchun's face was full of shame, and he clenched his fists and said, "Lord Wang! The last general did not intercept the Song army, causing the enemy's main force to flee, so he came here to take the blame! ”

"Hahaha......"

Li Nan laughed and came to Pang Wanchun's face, gently helped him up, and asked with a smile: "Brother Pang, do you think that blocking battle, we won or lost?" ”

"The last general did not intercept the enemy army, so he was naturally defeated."

"Nope! No! No! Li Nan waved his hand and said: "We are not defeated, but victorious, or a big victory!" ”

Li Nan came to the window with his hand, pointed to Changsha City, which was being fully restored at the moment, and said: "He is indeed a qualified general in the planter, but he is not an outstanding politician, he only knows that he used the iron and blood method to take away tens of thousands of Song troops, but he doesn't know that he has lost more things in this way, and it is more important than those tens of thousands of soldiers." ”

"What's that?" Pang Wanchun asked puzzled.

Li Nan solemnly spit out two words: "People's heart!" ”

"Mencius has clouds, has the way of the world, has the people, and has the world. There is a way to win the people, to win their hearts, and to win the people. Since the founding of Zhao Kuangyin, the Song State has been operating continuously for hundreds of years, and has won the hearts of thousands of people in the Central Plains. Although our Zhennan Kingdom has high morale and sharp firearms, we can easily occupy the territory of the Song Kingdom, but if we want to truly win the support of the people of the Song Kingdom, what we need most is the hearts of the people. ”

After Li Nan's explanation, Pang Wanchun probably understood what he meant, and he asked unconfidently: "So, I didn't attack those people, what did I do?" ”

"Hahaha!" Li Nan patted Pang Wanchun's shoulder vigorously and laughed loudly: "Didn't you see the changes in the eyes of those people? Didn't you see that they didn't follow the middle of the seed master to Yuezhou in the end, but returned to Changsha City? Don't you see that the people and merchants in the city have returned to normal life now? All this is thanks to you, and you have no fault but merit in this battle! ”

Things are just like what Li Nan said, people are more dead than people, and goods are more important than goods to be thrown away.

The soldiers of the Song Army were sloppy in military discipline, bullying men and women on weekdays, robbing the people's property, and raping ** women endlessly, and the officials and troops of the Song State, who had been corrupted to the extreme, did such a bad thing this time, and it can be said that they have completely lost the hearts of the people of Changsha.

Since the founding of the Zhennan Army, it has always adhered to the three disciplines and eight points of attention that Li Nan borrowed from later generations of China.

On weekdays, the soldiers not only acted in strict accordance with the rules, but also did not commit any offence to the people in the occupied areas, and even helped them when they were in trouble.

In this way, although the common people could not immediately accept the rule of Zhennan due to their inherent thinking, at least the number of things such as rebellion and flight was greatly reduced, and in time they would definitely be able to win the hearts and support of the people.

In January 1124, the war against the Song State of Zhennan gradually subsided, and the Song State, whose army was extremely corrupt, could not resist the attack of Zhennan State at all, and once again lost Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road, the capital of the four roads in the south.

Of the four major legions of Zhennan Kingdom, except for the third army led by Leonidas, which was resisted by the Song army led by the seed division, the other three roads can be said to be overwhelming, and they easily occupied all the state capitals.

After the news of the successive defeats was transmitted back to Tokyo City, Cai Jing, the Duke of Lu Guo, who secretly instigated Huizong Zhao Ji to attack Zhennan, was once again demoted and lost his holy family, and Wang Huang, the prime minister who had dealt with Li Nan, was ordered by the Holy Order to come to Changsha City to sue for peace with a large number of gold jewels and two emperors.

After seeing the gift list sent by Wang Hao and the names of the two emperors, Li Nan couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Li Nan was just to get the approval of the people of the Song Kingdom, so he married the Shunde Emperor Ji to obtain the title of concubine, but he never expected that Song Huizong thought that he had some preference for the emperor, and this time he took the initiative to send a pair.

In fact, even if the Song State did not come to sue for peace, the Zhennan Army would not continue to move north, because after occupying a large area of Song territory, the defects of the insufficient troops of the Zhennan State were exposed again.

Attacking the cities of the Song Kingdom and occupying these places are definitely two different things with very different difficulties.

If Li Nan only attacked and did not occupy it, he could even use his current forces to drive straight into Tokyo and defeat Tokyo, the capital of the Song Kingdom, but if he wanted to occupy all the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it would be a fool's dream at present.

The administrative area of the Song State was divided into three levels: road, state capital, and county, for example, in addition to the capital Jiangling, Jinghu North Road also had the state capitals of Hubei, An, Fu, Ding, Li, Xia, Yue, Gui, Chen, Yuan, and Cheng, and each state capital also governed a different number of counties.

In this way, there are more than ten state capitals along the way of the Song Kingdom, hundreds of county towns and countless villages below, and if you want to completely control these places, the southern country of the town needs a large number of soldiers to garrison, and also needs corresponding officials to carry out normal operations.

In recent years, although the people in Zhennan have lived a good life, food and clothing have no worries, the population has grown rapidly, and various schools have blossomed everywhere, but this emerging country is too shallow after all, and the territory currently occupied has reached the limit of Zhennan.

For this most serious problem in front of him, although Li Nan discussed with hundreds of civil and military officials several times, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there was a lack of sufficient population base and educated and managerial talents, and there was no good solution to this lack of hardware.