On the day of the great riots in Mingyueji and even Xunyang and Shiyan, Fang La's army captured Mingzhou Port and seized dozens of merchant ships, hundreds of fishing boats, as well as a large number of silk, tea, porcelain, lacquerware, and overseas treasures.

The officers and troops in Jiangnan were caught off guard. All of a sudden, Fang Lajun had an unstoppable situation.

The news of Fang La's large-scale army has spread for half a week, and everyone thinks that Fang La's personal expedition to Mingzhou Port.

However, the Fangla banner of Mingzhou Port is not fake, and the Fangla pro-army stationed in Mingzhou Port is not fake, but there is only one "shadow" Fangla in Mingzhou Port.

Huangjiadun, Tangqi Ancient Town, and Zhouquan Town are the key nodes of the blockade line north of Hangzhou, and the three nodes form an iron chain to tightly control the power of the Yongle Dynasty in the south. Because of Yao Pingzhong's defeat, these three nodes were once in danger, but the barely combatable officers and troops and sufficient ordnance to defend the city finally got through the difficulties.

Ten miles south of Tangqi Ancient Town, Hongjiazhuang.

Wu Fu received a secret letter, opened it, was shocked, and hurriedly ran to the back account.

"See the Holy Father!" Wu Fu saluted Fang La, who was dressed as a soldier in front of him, and said in amazement: "Isn't the Holy Father in Mingzhou?" Why all of a sudden? ”

Fang La held his hands weakly, let Wu Fu stand up, and smiled heartily, "If you can't do it here, how can you break the deadlock and break the plan of the Great Zhou Army to attack me in the spring?" ”

Wu Fu was puzzled, "Liu Chengdong in the west can't hold out, barely maintaining supplies. The ancient town of syrup guarding the canal is guarding the canal, and our army cannot cut off the other party's supplies. Han Shizhong's Chinese army in the east has no known combat strength, but it has a deep ditch and a high base, and it never rushes to attack. ”

"The subordinates dare to ask the Holy Father how to break the enemy?"

After capturing Keqiao, Fang La left a stand-in in the army and rushed to the north of Hangzhou to prepare to implement the plan to break the enemy.

Fang Laping retreated left and right, and laid out the plan and the plan.

Shi Bao, a rough man, was stunned when he heard it: This is the sound of the south hitting the north and the sound of the east hitting the west in the mouth of the Great Zhou sour rotten literati?

That night, Ying Ming, who was confronting Liu Chengdong's army in Huangjiadun, and Shi Bao, who was monitoring Han Shizhong's camp thirty miles to the east, also received the news that the Holy Father had secretly arrived and prepared for a big battle according to the plan.

Liu Chengdong of Huangjiadun, Liu Zhen of Tangqi Ancient Town, and Han Shizhong of Zhouquan Town saw that Fang Lajun's abnormality and no longer harassed the camp, and immediately sent scouts to report the news. The three of them didn't know about the movements of the Fang La army in the other two places, but they didn't think much about it: Huangjiadun and Tangqi Ancient Town were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Chinese army in Zhouquan Town couldn't defend it, so could the Fang La army still go to the sky?

In the blink of an eye, it was the afternoon of the next day.

Shi Bao suddenly gathered the main force, and regardless of Yao Pingzhong in the east, he launched a fierce attack on Han Shizhong's Chinese army camp!

Han Shizhong saw that the Fang La army that came to attack had many armored soldiers, so he did not dare to be careless, so he first shot with a strong bow and a crossbow, and then shot it with three sentry cannons and five sentry cannons to shoot large stones. After the Fang La army reached the fence, they met with short knives and spears.

Seeing that the Fang La army had broken through the first camp wall at one point, Han Shizhong frowned and said: "The Fang La army is more than ever, there are so many soldiers to fight. Then a commander sent someone to report that Fang La's army also appeared in the north of the camp!

After the Fang La army attacked from all sides, Fang Tianding took a thousand troops to blend in with the Fang La army at the west gate, and then detoured back to the north of Deqing from the mountains, and then turned east.

Xiaoxing stayed overnight, killing people when he saw them, Fang Tianding finally rushed to the battlefield with a thousand elites.

Wu Fu, who confronted the official army in Tangqi Ancient Town, also sent a main force to besiege Han Shizhong with Fang Tianding and Shi Bao.

The Chinese army is surrounded!

There were constantly heralds entering and leaving Han Shizhong's tent. Inside the big tent, Han Shizhong paced back and forth, constantly analyzing all kinds of intelligence, and several commanders and more battalion commanders quarreled.

The blood-stained scout captain was carried into the big tent, and his mouth was interrupted, "Fang Lajun didn't know what was crazy, and he was desperate to intercept our scouts." After one night's hard work, the brothers were all dead, and their subordinates were unable to break through the encirclement, so they had to sneak back to the letter, the general ...... Ahem, be careful. ”

Han Shizhong sighed, closed the warrior's eyes, and said in his heart:

"Fang La's army began to intercept the official scouts last night, and then suddenly there was no movement, and today it attacked again. Fang Tianding actually ran a long circle and surrounded the camp with Wu Fu and Shi Bao, what was his intention? ”

Han Shizhong's body was shocked, he took the map and looked at it, pointed to a place, and said in a lost voice: "Destroy it!" ”

The one who led the troops to guard Tangqi Ancient Town was General Liu Zhen, but he was not a mediocre general.

Seeing that the scouts sent to Han to recruit the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties, but they didn't bring back any news, but they found that a total of three Fangla armies were attacking the Chinese army's camp, Liu Zhen frowned, "Wu Fu in the south of Tangqi Ancient Town has transferred most of the thief soldiers, presumably Shibao in the east also participated in the battle, who led the Fangla army in the north, and actually turned into a few hundred miles?" ”

Liu Zhen didn't have time to think about it, because Fang Lajun's true purpose had been revealed: it was the ancient town of Tangqi where he was stationed!

The three armies that attacked Han Shizhong's department, except for the 1,000 advance battalion led by Fang Tiandingsuo in the north, most of them were soldiers with average combat strength under Wu Fu and Shi Bao.

Fang Lajun watched Han Shizhong die with miscellaneous soldiers and strange soldiers led by Fang Tianding, but he gathered most of the elite and went straight to Tangqi Ancient Town. The disadvantage of insufficient numbers of officers and soldiers was finally taken advantage of by the Yongle Dynasty.

Tangqi Ancient Town has always been an important commercial and transportation hub, and has been operated as a fortress for a long time. The city wall is eight meters high and three to five meters thick, and the moat is directly the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Deep ditches and high fortifications, strong defenses.

Looking at Fang La's army slowly arrayed outside the moat, Liu Zhen was surprised: Fang La is really not an ordinary traitor, how long has it been since he had such an army, and he will have two more years to pay it back?

Ying Ming, Wu Fu and Shi Bao gathered 3,000 elites, plus nearly 1,000 Fangla pro-troops who secretly came here, which were all the elite armies of Fangla who attacked Tangqi Ancient Town. However, Fang Lajun's biggest killer feature has not yet appeared.

Liu Zhen put in the worried expressions of the deputy general and the battalion commanders, and laughed loudly, "The Fang La army is only four thousand armor, plus ten thousand miscellaneous soldiers. But our army has 6,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of young and strong, what is there to fear! ”

Liu Zhen drew his sword and shouted, "Fang Lajun under the city treats us as rabbits, and wants to pull out our most critical nail, he will bring disaster to Jiangnan and Jiangnan." Soldiers, kill the enemy with the generals, and there is a great prospect for sealing the wife and shadow! ”

After the first round of siege, it was almost dusk.

The moat has been filled in by the displaced people and people driven by the Fang La army, and the city walls can be seen everywhere with bloodstains, as well as damaged slap poles and other objects. Under the city walls, within a few dozen meters of the moat, corpses were covered with severed limbs, and from time to time there were bed crossbows and iron arrows that had been cut off ropes and were difficult to recover, lying there quietly.

The chill of the drill bones returns to the surface. Under the warm yellow sunset, Liu Zhen frowned and looked at Fang Lajun under the city, "What idea did the thieves fight?" Unexpectedly, it was almost late to launch a temptation, could they be sure that they would besiege the Chinese army recruited by Han for a long time and slowly attack the ancient town of Tangqi? ”

The answer was soon revealed.

Fang La's own banner was erected in the army, and there was an uproar in the city!

The leaders of Fang Lajun's big and small army were called over, and when they came back, they said to their subordinates with a happy face: "It's really the Holy Father." The Holy Father south of the Qiantang River is fake, and the Holy Father secretly came here to give the officials and soldiers a ruthless blow. ”

The morale of the Fang La army was greatly boosted.

Liu Zhen at the head of the city faintly felt that it was not good, but he still didn't think that there would be a possibility of the city being broken, "Hey, what about Fang La's traitor himself, can he still conjure up an army of 100,000?" Ben is ready for a night battle, no matter how many tricks Ren Er has, I am not afraid of ......"

There was a commotion above and below the city. To the east of Tangqi Ancient Town, hundreds of blood-stained Fangla soldiers ran towards the Fangla army's array, shouting:

"Han Shizhong is defeated!"

"Han Shizhong has been beheaded, General Fang is chasing the dead to the north, vowing to annihilate the official army!"

"Join forces in one place, conquer Tangqi Ancient Town, and the Great Zhou will die!"

Liu Zhen's thinking was forcibly interrupted. He looked at the Fang La reinforcements rushing from the east in a daze, and his heart turned over: Han Zhao was defeated? How can it be! Han Shizhong was still able to rampage among the tens of thousands of Western Xia elites, how could he be defeated by tens of thousands of Fang La's miscellaneous soldiers?

There was no searchlight in Da Zhou, otherwise Liu Zhen only had to look closely, and he could find that Fang Lajun, who came from the east and was known as the bloody army that broke the official army, had all the blood on his body.

The devil is in the details. Liu Zhen was muttering in his heart, not to mention other officers and generals.

The setting sun reluctantly withdrew its last rays of light, and the sky and the earth were dark.

Hundreds of torches were lit around Fang La's banner, and in the red firelight, Fang La stood in armor. He looked around at the generals and colonels, and stretched out his arm to point, "Han Shizhong has been defeated, provoke a night battle, and take Tangqi!" ”

Most of the soldiers of the Yongle Army were born in extreme poverty, lacked nutrition for a long time, and night blindness was rife. It is impossible to march at night, let alone fight at night.

After the capture of Hangzhou, Fang La's old foundation improved his nutrition, and the miscellaneous soldiers also ate some animal offal. Today's Fangla army, it is not difficult to raise torches to attack the city wall, after all, the city wall can't run.

Fang La's elite and Fang La's miscellaneous soldiers carried the homeless people and crossed the river to attack the city wall.

Liu Zhen is really powerful, he lit the torch early, and greeted him with rolling wood, thunder stones, bed crossbows, and slap rods.

Under the ancient city, screams came and went.

Fang Lajun was first greatly excited by the personal arrival of the Holy Father, and then heard the news of "Han Shizhong's defeat", and his morale was high. The senior generals of the Fang La army played a clever trick and mixed the elite, miscellaneous soldiers and civilians, so although the city was always dying, the Fang La army in the uncertain fire did not lose its fighting spirit.

Liu Zhen was crazy and depressed.

Those who are besieging the city, whether they are elites, miscellaneous soldiers or ordinary people, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city must greet them vigorously. The environment was dim, and the fires were constantly extinguished, and as long as a small group of Phi A's army mixed with the city, the young and strong people on that section of the city wall rushed to flee, and then a great chaos ensued.

The Fangla army under the city was "very daring to fight", regardless of the heavy casualties, taking turns to attack the city, coupled with the news of the defeat of Han Shizhong, who did not know whether it was true or false, the morale of the officers and troops at the head of the city continued to decline.

Liu Zhen held a big knife in both hands, slashed down an elite Fang Lajun who had landed in the city, gasped for a moment, and thought: Fang Lajun is a bad move after all, and he didn't break the city in one fell swoop, as long as the news of Han Zhao's fight over there came, he would definitely take a bad breath!

The house leaked overnight and rained.

On the canal at the northeast end of the ancient town of Tangqi, Fang La, who spent ten months building a fishermen's pirate fleet, attacked the official and military fleet with fireboats. In order to reward the desperate fishermen who worked hard, with a deep hatred for the gentry of the Great Zhou Dynasty and an extreme despair of life, they braved the rain of arrows and threw guns and crashed into them......

Coincidentally, in order to protect the transportation line of heavy grain and grass, the warships of the officers and navy and the ships transporting supplies were moored together. Hundreds of fireships collided with each other, and the Great Zhou fleet could not be evacuated, and most of them were lost in the fire.

Under the walls of the ancient town, the battlefield was silent for a moment. Then, the eyes of Fang La's elites, Fang La's miscellaneous soldiers, and the homeless people turned red and began to gasp.

"The official fleet is over, the officers and soldiers in the city are out of food, and the big guys are rushing!" In the elite of Fang La, a small leader danced excitedly and was about to get the ladder.

"There are many rich people in the city, and there are many young ladies, so they are rushing with Lao Tzu!" Among the miscellaneous soldiers, a homeless man shouted loudly and pushed his men forward.

"We have been reduced to homeless, have we ever had a full meal? It's all about to be eaten, how can the official master of the Great Zhou ever take care of it? Follow the Holy Father, and eat at least two days of full food. Among the homeless people, a middle-aged man with a high prestige said this, then he clenched his iron fork and rushed to the city wall with a shout.