The rainy season is coming, and the city of Hangzhou is misty in the slightest drizzle.

In the rainy season of the past 200 years, the street buildings of Hangzhou always give people a sense of beauty like fine brushwork.

After the city of Hangzhou, which was longed for by the literati and writers of the previous dynasties, changed its owner, the brick walls, tile roofs, green eaves, and stone roads lacked repair. Now the smoke is still hot, the wind and drizzle are full, and all that is left is decadence.

The rain before midsummer brings not only coolness, but also humidity and heat. The hearts of the people of the Yongle Dynasty are moldy in such weather.

The Yongle Dynasty held off more than 100,000 Great Zhou troops in a series of battlefields north of Hangzhou, but the battle situation south of the Qiantang River deteriorated again.

Liu Guangshi led 100,000 people with Wu Press, eager to go to the sea or river to get the convoy supplies, so as to relieve the huge logistical pressure.

After capturing Jinhua City, Liu Guangshi left only a few thousand people to cooperate with the Xiangjun Township soldiers on Jiangnan West Road to guard, and then led most of the people down the river to the important town of Yiwu in the northeast.

Liu Guangshi relied on his large number of troops, while drawing out a part of the troops to take turns to attack the trenches, fortresses, moats and city walls, while destroying mountains and forests, and building a large number of siege equipment.

There is strength in numbers. In just a few days, Liu Guangshi accumulated some large shields, siege ladders, rushing vehicles, and improvised trebuchets, and then used these improvised ordnance...... Prevent the elite of Fangla in the important town of Yiwu from running out.

When Pang Wanchun reacted, Liu Guangshi's conspiracy had turned into a conspiracy.

Dongyang County, less than 30 miles east of Yiwu City, was suddenly surrounded by Liu Guangshi's 30,000 people.

Liu Guangshi gathered the few fine ordnance and weapons in his hand, fought fiercely for three days, and finally broke the city in the rain and mud, and slaughtered the Fang La army and the "thieves and evil people" in the city.

The Fang La army of Dongyang City resisted stubbornly for three days, during which Pang Wanchun rushed out of Yiwu City several times, wanting to rescue Dongyang City, which was a horn of each other. However, Liu Guangshi had already prepared, using improvised equipment and dirt walls to block Pang Wanchun's violent impact.

The earthen wall collapses easily on rainy days, but it is muddy. Pang Wanchun fought back and forth in muddy water, rain and blood for three days, and after Dongyang City was taken by the Great Zhou army, he reluctantly retreated to Yiwu City.

Liu Guangshi immediately led a large army to the east, leaving a small and half combatable army to supervise the 20,000 "army" with average combat strength, and continued to build more equipment. It is necessary to pile up more earthen walls to surround the thorny city of Yiwu, and besiege it without attacking.

On the third day of the fifth month, Liu Guangshi's 10,000 men entered Hulu Town to defend and threaten the Chongren Valley in the northeast. There are Chongren Town and Xinchang County in the Chongren Valley, surrounded by mountains, leading to Mingzhou in the northeast and Tiantai-Linhai-Taizhou in the south.

On the fourth day of the fifth month, the Fujian Road soldiers and horses led by Wang Shixin took Linhai City steadily.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Liu Guangshi's 5,000 vanguard troops marched all the way south and then east, marched 300 miles through mountains and mountains, and finally converged at Linhai City and Fujian Road, where the flames were still not extinguished. Liu Guangshi's vanguard only rested for a day before escorting the first batch of food supplies back.

With the opening of Liu Guangshi and Wang Shixin, the Great Zhou army had an overall advantage on the south bank of the Qiantang River.

Pang Wanchun and Pan Wende didn't have time to discuss, so they made major adjustments.

Pang Wanchun planned to withdraw half of Yiwu's troops and grain and grass to strengthen the defense of the Pujiang-Zhuji-Jiangzao town line.

Pan Wende ordered his troops to loot and burn the towns and villages in the mountains, and drive the people south, bringing more trouble to Wang Shixin, who was known to have a pity for the people. A small number of elite and a large number of miscellaneous troops were also deployed in Tiantai County, and most of the main forces were concentrated in Chongren Town and Xinchang County.

With the further northward retreat of the Fang La army, Yu Yunwen, who was nailed to the south bank of the Qiantang River and contained tens of thousands of Fang La troops, stopped harassing the camp and devoted all his energy to preparing for the sudden attack of the Fang La army.

In the face of crisis, the power of the Yongle Dynasty operated to the extreme.

The four generalissimos, the eight hussars, the four dragons of Zhejiang, the twelve gods of Jiangnan, and the twenty-four generals of Hangzhou, these famous generals rushed to the front line, stationed important places, or trained troops in Hangzhou.

On the south bank of the Qiantang River, along the Xiaoshan-Keqiao-Shaoxing-Shangyu-Cixi-Mingzhou line, the Fangla army stationed in it became active again because it was supported by Pang Wanchun and Pan Wende, who mobilized men and horses to retreat north, in the south.

Zhai Yuan and other naval generals could not defeat the Xiangzhou naval army, so they had to turn more into less, and set up small fleets to harass and attack the Great Zhou fleet on the Qiantang River and at sea.

Zhang Tao and the others attacked from the city and the barracks, brutally suppressed the rebellion provoked by the Great Zhou spies, cleared some restless people's homes, and then converged with Yu Yunwen's camp.

The silk is coated with tung oil, and the oil coat is protected from the wind and rain. The oil cap covers the hair, and the oil shoes block the mud.

Yu Yunwen was fully covered, and he landed in the rain to a corner of the camp wall. He squinted at the ravines outside the camp, the blocks of horses, the sections of earthen walls and the sections of brick walls, and the long-range weapons blocked by canopies and tarpaulins, and frowned silently.

Zhang Tianlei wore a hat on his head, an oil coat, and leather boots, and walked over with muddy water splashing.

The guards beside Yu Yunwen got out of the way, only to hear Zhang Tianlei clasp his fists and say:

"Lord Yu, today's inspection camp has ended. Only two flaws were found under the mark, and people have been ordered to make changes quickly. ”

"The posture of the army outside the camp should be an imitation of Liu Zhao's tactics, wanting to trap our army here."

Yu Yunwen wiped the rain on his face and beard, looked up at the rain curtain covering the sky, shook his head regretfully, and said:

"Our army has less than nineteen thousand combatable troops left. The previous risky attack was to contain more Fang La troops. Now the defense is barely enough, and in order to complete the task of containing Fang La's army, he can't attack. ”

"The dynasty has no more men to reinforce our troops. In the future, there will not be much to be facing, and this officer can't stand the generals who fought bravely, and the sergeants who desperately killed the enemy. ”

"But the previous military exploits and pensions, as well as the combat exploits of the tens of thousands of Yongle puppet dynasty soldiers, this official will definitely make a case to the court, and will never let the soldiers suffer."

Zhang Tianlei understood what Yu Yunwen meant. He is the military general that Yu Yunwen values the most, and it is certainly better for him to explain it to other generals, and it may cause misunderstanding if the civilian officials say it.

Zhang Tianlei respectfully clenched his fists, and his tone was very sincere, "Lord Yu, please be relieved, the capital colonels and generals in the army know the righteousness, and they will definitely cooperate with the great plan of the country and understand Lord Yu's painstaking efforts." ”

What's more, some time ago, Lord Yu not only forgave the mistakes of many military generals, but also let the court approve the martial arts' military exploits, pensions and rewards. The soldiers have been able to persist until now, thanks to the protection and compassion of Lord Yu. ”

"There's nothing wrong with sticking to the riverside camp and not going to war again. Not only are the soldiers tired, but the wounded soldiers lack medicinal materials, and their morale is much lower......"

Yu Yunwen retracted his gaze into the distance, sighed, pinched his eyebrows and said:

"The wounded soldiers, this officer originally planned to send them to other places for treatment. But at present, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines everywhere, and the official's face is not good, and no one accepts it. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Yunwen shook his head with a wry smile, "Hey, one by one, just take care of a small mess in your hand, and there are a lot of chronic illnesses in the country." ”

Zhang Tianlei lowered his head even lower, he didn't dare to "talk about the government in vain".

Three miles away, the drum noise was loud, and a new round of tentative attacks by Fang Lajun's army was just around the corner. Yu Yunwen walked away from the camp wall under the escort of Zhang Tianlei, and said as he walked:

"Since the scholars, officials, and big businessmen on the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River do not give face, the official has to push foreign businessmen again."

"The merchants of Jinghu Road, Sichuan Road and Jianghuai Road have made money, so they will take out some medicinal materials!"

Yu Yunwen also has a temper. Once the seizure starts, the temper is still very big.

Fang Lajun was about to see through the reality of Yu Yunwen's camp.

If he couldn't heal the thousands of wounded soldiers in the camp in time, Yu Yunwen would have a very hard time in the following days, and he might have been driven into the sea.

The war is important, the great plan of the country and the dynasty is important, and Yu Yunwen can't take care of offending the industrial and commercial forces in the south of the Yangtze River again. As for Li Xiang being pitted very badly by him, he didn't care even more.

The time soon came to the eighth day of the fifth month.

Under the all-out attack of the 200,000 Great Zhou Army, in addition to the city of Hangzhou, the details of the Yongle Dynasty were revealed to the world: 200,000 troops!

This number is beyond most people's expectations, but it is not outrageous. Because most of the people who have survived in the occupied area of the Yongle Dynasty until now are young and middle-aged men.

Nearly half of the army of the Yongle Dynasty was miscellaneous soldiers, and the remaining battleable army had less than 50,000 elites, and the elite in armor was close to 35,000 at its peak. As of the eighth day of the fifth month, there were less than 28,000 elite armor in the Fangla army.

The family looks good. But compared to the entire Great Zhou, the Yongle Dynasty was just a thief who robbed a large family.

On the 10th day of May, the Jiangnan front was tightened in an all-round way.

After the Great Zhou army was replenished and replaced, it still maintained the situation of 200,000 troops besieging the Yongle Dynasty.

The soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty died one less than one, and the armor and weapons were damaged one set less. Even if Fang La issued an order to carry out a full mobilization, the strength of Fang La's army would be less than 170,000.

The above situation does not include Hangzhou City. Fang La hid a lot of troops and weapons in Hangzhou City, which needed to be counted separately.

The sound of muffled thunder resounded through the palace of the Yongle Dynasty. The concubine and the maid did not dare to speak, only the heartless children cried there.

Fang La had a hunch that the front line would not be able to hold on. He was just not sure where the series of battlefields north of Hangzhou City would become the first gap.

Fang La put on a brand-new gold and red heavy armor, like a god of war in a thunderstorm.

In order to boost the morale of the army and boost the morale of the army, Fang La and the important ministers of the Yongle Dynasty began to inspect the family background of Hangzhou City used for the decisive battle.

The workshops in Hangzhou have accumulated nearly 10,000 firearms.

Under the threat of knives and guns, nearly 1,000 skilled craftsmen collected by the Yongle Dynasty spent several months repairing thousands of divine arm bows and crossbows, and taught the soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty to use heavy ordnance such as bed crossbows, duplex bed crossbows, three-sentry guns, and five-sentry guns.

Tens of thousands of apprentice craftsmen took turns to work, and finally built more than 7,000 pairs of armor of various types, tens of thousands of knives, guns, axes and forks, and 80,000 throwing guns.

The people in the city, who had firmly surrendered to the Yongle Dynasty and had no way back, were mobilized. They have torn down the roads of their houses to get wood and stones, they have repaired the walls day and night, they have built new fortifications and traps in the city, they have actively participated in the training of defending the city, and they have built millions of arrows......

On May 11, the wind and rain were rapid.

Fang La climbed the northern city wall of Hangzhou. Outside the city was an army of 70,000 rehabilitated wounded soldiers, elite soldiers and recruits, and inside the city were 100,000 young and strong people with various weapons.

The wind passed, the clouds rolled up, and the rain stopped for a while.

"Let them come! Let them come!! Let them come!! Fang La waved his knife and pointed north, shouting three times.

Hundreds of thousands of hands raised weapons, farm tools and sticks, and hysterical shouts and screams echoed in and around the city.