Yao Pingzhong was on the march from Jiaxing to Tongxiang when he was ambushed by Shi Bao and Fang Tianding, who had secretly converged. The east-west long battlefield chosen by Fang La's elite was very tricky, and the gold and silver treasures looted by Yao Pingzhong's department along the way filled hundreds of carts, and the troops scattered into long snakes.

Fang Tianding first coerced 30,000 displaced people to attack 3,000 official and military foot soldiers, and after Yao Pingzhong waited for the battle line to stabilize, he sent cavalry to oppress the displaced people, forming a reversal trend. To the north of the battlefield, the small river crossed, and Shi Bao, who had been in ambush for a long time, had already crossed the bridge and directly dispersed the five thousand young and strong people by the river. The officers and troops were attacked from the front and rear, and the elite of the 7,000 square army who were waiting for work took the opportunity to launch a fatal blow, and the officers and troops were defeated and lost. Fortunately, there is Deputy General Yao Pingzhong, who is very clever and uses the scattered treasures to arouse the greed of the homeless people and the elite of Fang La. Benefiting from the infighting on the battlefield of the Fang La army, Yao Pingzhong was able to gather 700 foot soldiers and 200 cavalry after the battle, so as not to wipe out the entire army.

In the battle of "Big Chariot Ambush", Yao Pingzhong's army used 3,000 foot soldiers, 500 cavalry and 5,000 young men to fight against the 7,000 elites and 30,000 homeless people raised by Shi Bao and Fang Tianding. The Fang La army set up an ambush to wait for work and the north and south to attack, almost all the young and strong of Yao Pingzhong's army were killed, captured or escaped, and only 700 of the 3,000 officers and soldiers escaped, nearly half of them were from the Western army, and only more than 200 cavalry remained, more than half of which were lost. On the side of the Fangla army, only half of the 30,000 homeless people remained, and the 7,000 elites lost more than 1,000 in the battle with the elite of the official army and the cavalry team.

Yao Pingzhong's merits and demerits were put aside first, and the result of the collapse of his department undoubtedly added a lot of variables to the plan of the Great Zhou Dynasty. First of all, it greatly enhanced the fighting spirit of the Fang La army, and after the official army and the four-way reinforcements were in place, they fought steadily and steadily, constantly pressing the territory of the Fang La army from all sides, and the Fang La army couldn't help but panic under the repeated defeats. Although it was an ambush, Fang Tianding and Shi Bao actually eliminated Yao Pingzhong, who claimed to be the "strongest of the four roads", in one fell swoop, and their fighting spirit naturally increased greatly.

Then it disrupted the advance and suppression schedule of the Great Zhou official army, and the encirclement plan to advance to the various passes around Hangzhou in the cold winter was postponed. Han Shizhong almost fell down after receiving the battle report of Yao Pingzhong's rout and retreat of 100 miles, and he had already told him not to take the enemy lightly, but he was afraid of something! Han Shizhong hacked Yao Pingzhong's stupid fork to death many times in his heart, it doesn't matter if this defeat occurs, how much more food will the court take, how many more casualties will the soldiers have, and how many hardships will the people in Jiangnan suffer? ! After informing Liu Chengdong to guard the rear road of the Chinese army and monitor the movements of the Deqing and Hangzhou Fangla armies at the same time, Han Shizhong led the Chinese army to the east and approached Yuhang, which was a very ruthless move.

After receiving the news of the defeat, Liu Chengdong immediately mobilized young men and soldiers to strengthen the barracks, and at the same time set up two small barracks in the northwest and east of Huangjiadun to reduce the risk of being surrounded. At the same time, he also sent a report to the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and asked several governors of the political hall for help, food, ordnance, and reinforcements. Liu Chengdong also recruited fishing boats and fishermen everywhere, blocked the surrounding waterways, especially the lakes in the east, he didn't dare to have the slightest contempt for the other party's army, as a general who had just recruited An, he couldn't afford the risk!

When Liu Guangshi, south of the Qianjiang River, received the news of the defeat, he was in a state of high spirits after capturing Puyang and Keqiao at the same time. After all, the good news was not sent out, and Liu Guangshi took the sketch of the battle of "the big car met in ambush", as uncomfortable as eating a fly. Liu Guangshi is still cultivated, but he just burned the report of the great victory, and then scolded in his heart: "Yao Pingzhong, what a fool!" ”

Keqiao is just a small city, and it was quickly broken by Liu Guangshi's 20,000 "exile army", but there is nothing to say. After all, the officers and armies advanced by land and water, and there were a large number of simple trebuchets, as well as strong bows and crossbows, as well as bed crossbows and other advantageous equipment. Puyang Pass is a dangerous pass on the south bank of the Qianjiang River and the southern hills of Xiaoshan. The army that Liu Guangshi gathered in a hurry actually broke through quickly, which was really shocking.

After the erosion of the two Zhejiang, Liu Guangshi received an order from the imperial court and had a headache for a while, but he quickly found a way to form an "army of displaced people". The elite of the Western Army and the Frontier Army that the court could recruit from the northwest was limited, and it was impossible to reach Jiangnan for a while. It happened that the Great Zhou Dynasty had a tradition of organizing the displaced people into the Xiang Army, so after Liu Guangshi got the permission of the imperial court, he gave full play to his "subjective initiative" and recruited tens of thousands of young and strong people, and together with his family, Liu Guangshi took tens of thousands of people to the battlefield.

Liu Guangshi knew that the Fangla army already had a lot of soldiers who could fight, and directly pulling the displaced people in Wuyang was simply delivering food, so he actively cooperated with the gentry in Shaoxing and other places. Liu Guangshi not only repelled Fangla in Yiwu, but also helped the gentry in the area under his control to eliminate bandits, suppress tenants, annex land, and drive out displaced people. Liu Guangshi can also help them solve other troubles, as long as the price is acceptable, the signboard of "gentry soldiers" is launched, and Liu Guangshi quickly builds a box army that has seen blood.

Not long after, he couldn't resist Han Shizhong's urging, and several governors also urged Liu Guangshi again and again under the surging emotions of the group. Liu Guangshi had no choice but to take a large amount of money and food rewarded by the gentry and the gentry to enter the war in the reluctant eyes of the scholars everywhere. Therefore, Liu Guangshi's delay in going north to conquer before was not completely disobeying Han Shizhong's military orders, nor did he just want to sit on the ground and grab merit. It is also the court that there is Jiangnan, especially the famous Confucian in Liangzhejiang who intercedes for Liu Guangshi, so that he can delay it for so long.

Liu Guangshi led nearly 70,000 people to the north, of which 40,000 were family members of soldiers. In fact, the battle of "big breaking" Puyang Pass was not complicated, and it was mainly to take advantage of the large number of people. Liu Guangshi's 70,000 men, after breaking the Keqiao one day, concentrated his forces to attack Puyang Pass. Because of the large number of people, he was able to build many ladders, covering cars, cave cars, and wooden shields; Because of the large number of people, he had enough manpower to operate large ordnance such as three-sentry cannons and bed crossbows day and night; Because of the large number of people, Liu Guangshi could divide his subordinates into batches and attack day and night.

Liu Guangshi's style of fighting, fighting, and fighting with a lot of people is the weakness of the defenders of Puyang Pass. Xue Dounan, who was guarding here, was going crazy, he was ready to let Liu Guangshi's department shed blood, but he didn't expect Liu Guangshi to come over with tens of thousands of people! The stones whistled in the air non-stop, and the crude arrows made on the spot were endless, and in the cold, Liu Guangshijun also came to a bed crossbow. Looking at Liu Guangshi, who was full of men, women, old and weak, and seemed to be lively, Xue Dounan was puzzled, who is the Wandering Army?!

Xue Dounan's elite combat power is very small, and he can't close the wall without the elite watching, otherwise it will collapse quickly, and he can only watch the elite soldiers continue to die and be injured. Xue Dounan watched his elite continue to fall in the alternate impact of the officers and soldiers, and realized that if he continued to fight like this, he would only give away his head in vain, and the effect of the training could not be achieved, so he had to abandon the pass and retreat.

Xue Dounan planned to use the large number of hills south of Xiaoshan Pass to harass the official army, forcing Liu Guangshi to attack from the east avenue to relieve the pressure on Xiaoshan Pass. He believed that with the back and forth harassment of his elites, he could achieve the goal of blocking the official army all the way and reducing the pressure on Xiaoshanguan. There were no big loopholes in the plan, but he didn't expect Fang Tianding and Shi Bao to really make big news, so Xue Dounan quickly regretted it.

Liu Guangshijun had just broken through Puyang Pass, and the deputy general and several henchmen came to celebrate, but found that the main general's face was blue and uncertain, so he cautiously asked what was wrong. Liu Guangshi did not say much, but ordered the pursuing troops to withdraw, and urgently ordered a large number of improvised trebuchets, bed crossbows, and rolling wooden stones to be arranged in the crippled Puyang Pass, and at the same time galloped away as fast horses, strictly ordering the Keqiao defenders to be on guard.

Xue Dounan, who scattered his troops among the hills and was ready to harass them by different routes, soon received the battle report of Fang Tianding's great victory over the official army, and the bitterness in his heart was overflowing, how good it would be if he held on for one more day! Unwilling, Xue Dounan tried to attack Puyang Pass, and in front of the rocks and arrows in the sky, he cursed in his heart, but he could only retreat and continue to carry out the plan of interspersing harassment between the hills. The defenders of Xiaoshan Pass, who also received the news, also tried to attack Keqiao in the southeast, and ran into a bloody encounter in front of the small town of Keqiao, which was jointly defended by land and water.

While Liu Guangshi was arranging defense, he scolded Yao Pingzhong in his heart for not being a thing, and almost caused him to retreat. Liu Guangshi divided the army into three parts, and 10,000 people reinforced Fuyang southwest of Hangzhou, so as not to prevent Fang La from attacking the mountains on the Jiangnan West Road and causing even greater chaos. The remaining less than 60,000 people were divided into two parts by him, guarding Puyang Pass and Keqiao Town respectively.

Liu Guang has a lot of people in the world, and the consumption of money and food is also amazing. On the one hand, he begged for money and food from the wealthy families who returned to his hometown and occupied land, and on the other hand, he applied for reinforcements from the imperial court, and also sent his subordinates to take some "private work" to supplement military supplies, and if he had the opportunity, he would also annex the fields. The military salary issued by the imperial court is limited, not enough to feed Liu Guangshi's army, who asked him to build an "army" of 70,000 people in order to ensure safety. Inevitably, Liu Guangshi's soldiers began to have constant friction with the surrounding villagers, big families and squires.

On the eve of the winter solstice, near Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, the battle situation of encirclement and suppression of Fangla calmed down. To the west of Hangzhou, the towns leading to the deep mountains could not hold out, and the court had only ordered the local village soldiers and archers to stick to the locality; In Huangjiadun, north of Hangzhou and southeast of Deqing, Liu Chengdong could not hold out, and he was still training the fleet in the lake in the east, and the pressure was the greatest.

Han Shizhong divided the Chinese army, controlled the canal, and maintained a strategy with Liu Chengdong to resist the northern invasion of the Fang La army. The main force was led by Han Shizhong and pressed to Yuhang in the middle of Hangzhou and Tongxiang, forcing Fang Tianding and Shi Bao to divide troops to protect the back road, but there was no spare strength to provoke a big war; In Tongxiang, Fang Tianding and Shi Bao were amazed by Han Shizhong's ruthless and decisive decision, and decisively stopped their plan to continue to attack the city and plunder the land to the north and disturb the essence of Taihu Lake. After some discussion, the two decided that Shi Bao would stick to Tongxiang to gain time, and Fang Tianding would coerce a large number of young people to attack the rich towns near the Qianjiang River that had not been affected by the war. At the same time, large quantities of money, grain, gold, silver and other materials were continuously sent to Hangzhou.

With the momentum of defeating the elite of the official army all the way, the Fang La water army, which had not been trained for a long time, was ready to move, and the Great Zhou water army was afraid that the back road would be cut off by the Fang La army on land, so it had to retreat to Hangzhou Bay. Liu Guangshi, who was south of the Qianjiang River, was unable to continue the offensive by splitting up the defense. The battle situation in the south of the Yangtze River has calmed down, and the territory occupied by the Fang La army has shrunk a lot, but it has not been completely surrounded, and the main force of the Fang La army has not been damaged, and the combat power has increased a lot.

Fang La, who had a preliminary understanding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, ordered all the places under his control to transport the looted materials, especially money and grain, back to Hangzhou as soon as possible. In order to break the deadlock, Fang La began to train troops, strengthen city defenses, regulate places, and prepare for the next big war. The news of Fang La's victory over Yao Pingzhong injected a boost to the "Shunmin" under Fang La's rule, giving Fang La's army more energy to carry out their plans without worrying about possible resistance.

Yao Pingzhong, who retreated to Jiaxing, wanted to continue to flee north, but was stopped by the deputy general and the surviving gentry in Jiaxing, and saw that Fang Tianding and Shi Bao did not chase him, so he was shocked for a while. Han Shizhong strictly ordered him to stick to Jiaxing and prevent the Fangla army from eroding along the Yangtze River, and Shi Bao also held on to Tongxiang under the threat of Han Shizhong's cutting off the back road, so he completely relieved himself and began to train the troops.

Yao Pingzhong only has less than 700 old foundations left, and in order to expand the army as soon as possible, he is ashamed of it, he first ...... led the troops to the vicinity of Jiaxing and looted. The towns that had survived at the hands of Fang Lajun and the official army had finally not escaped, and the firelight and the cries of women continued for nearly a month, and Yao Pingzhong stopped at the cannibalistic eyes of some of the officials and gentry, who had already recruited four thousand young men from among the homeless people.

Then there is the question of how to protect yourself. Yao Pingzhong's defeat made the plan of the official army to encircle Fang La a big setback, Yao Pingzhong, who was not completely annihilated, did not worry about being beheaded or thrown to the end, after all, someone would protect him, but he still wanted to lead the troops to shame! is still a deputy general, and wrote a tear-jerking and sincere report for Yao Pingzhong.

In this letter of petition, Yao Pingzhong first thanked the court princes for their care and trust in him, and then expressed extreme remorse for the defeat and the act of holding back, without the slightest intention of excusing himself. The last is the main event, and the report written by the adjutant general really writes down the whole process of being ambushed, fierce battles, and finally defeated, without the slightest concealment, which is a tragic battle.

30,000 displaced people with bad conscience pounced, the terrain was unfavorable, Shibao rebels made a plan from behind to defeat Qingzhuang, and the elite of 7,000 square meters took advantage of the exhaustion of the official army to pick up cheap...... With the plot of 3,000 foot soldiers fighting to the death and cavalry rushing back and forth. There is also Yao Pingzhong's desperate efforts to fight to the death with Shi Bao to save the war. and the picture of Yao Pingzhong and the deputy general provoking the enemy's civil strife and leading the remnants to fight a bloody road...... The image of an enemy who was ambushed by ten times the enemy, but shouted a fierce battle, fought to the death, and fought his way out of the encirclement.

People who don't know the whole truth, after reading Yao Pingzhong's recital, may feel that Yao Pingzhong is not only without fault, but also has merit. In fact, Yao Pingzhong's troops did their best, and in the final resistance, they also killed nearly 1,000 square elites. Yao Pingzhong's killing on the other side of the river can indeed be regarded as "fighting his way out of the encirclement", as for how the court rewards and punishes, it depends on how the old foxes in the political hall weigh it.