Chapter 426: Night Attack

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When the Wu army landed in Fuzhou, the defenders in the city were already very empty, and their leader Wang Yanjun had already boarded the ship and left, and the defenders who had lost their command were scurrying around like headless flies.

Many rebels who had lost their restraint began to take advantage of the opportunity to set fire to the city and loot, and some mobs also joined in, hoping to take advantage of the chaos at the moment.

In the chaos, and it was not known who opened the city gates, in short, the Wu army successfully entered the city without encountering much resistance.

After entering the city, Zhang Kezong immediately ordered to stabilize the order in the city, and anyone who dared to take the opportunity to make trouble, no matter what his identity, would be killed.

Under his forceful measures, the chaos in Fuzhou finally subsided, and many people who took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble were directly killed, and the fire in the city was extinguished.

Then, Zhang Kezong ordered to control the treasury of various places in the city, and register the money and grain stored in the treasury; On the other hand, he sent people to arrest those criminals who participated in the Fuzhou Incident.

According to Yang Wu's order, all Fujian generals who participated in the Fuzhou Revolution that day would be severely punished according to the crime of rebellion.

Therefore, Wang Yanjun did not surrender until the catastrophe came, and the little luck in his heart was just self-comfort, and his fate was already doomed.

After controlling the situation in Fuzhou, Zhang Kezong learned from the secret agent of the Long Sword Capital, who had originally stayed in the city, that Liu Kan and Zhang Zhi had just set off from Fuzhou that morning and were about to go to Lianjiang to deal with Liu Cun, which made Zhang Kezong suddenly see the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

"You say, if Ben will immediately send troops to pursue Zhang Zhi and the others, is it possible to catch up with them before they reach Lianjiang?" Zhang Kezong's eyes flickered, obviously wanting to take the credit for defeating Zhang Zhi alone, and didn't want to share the credit with Liu Cun.

"I'm afraid it's very difficult, Lianjiang is only more than forty miles away from here, and the enemy army set off early in the morning, and now it's night, and the enemy army has marched a day in advance. Even if their marching speed is slow, they will have to walk twenty or thirty miles in a day, and even if our army sets off immediately, by the time our army catches up with them, it will not be far from Lianjiang! Sima Fu said after calculating the time and distance.

"It's not like there's no chance!" He Jingzhu said suddenly.

"Huh? You're saying we still have a chance? Zhang Kezong's expression lit up and he hurriedly asked.

When he was at sea before, if it weren't for He Jingzhu's reminder, he was only afraid that he would let go of Wang Yanjun, a big fish, so he still attached great importance to his words at this time.

"General, in the opinion of the last general, whether our army can catch up with the enemy army depends on what Zhang Zhi and the others think. If they really felt that they still had the possibility of defeating General Liu Cun, then their march would inevitably be very fast in order to achieve the goal of attacking him unprepared. ”

"However, the last general thinks that these two people should not have that kind of confidence, on the contrary, they must be full of hesitation in their hearts, which makes their marching speed inevitably not fast, and even stop and go, this is the chance for our army to catch up with them!" He Jingzhu carefully analyzed to everyone.

Zhang Kezong's face was happy, he had never been very good at this kind of specific planning, so he usually asked the deputy general for advice.

"If this is the case, then our army will immediately send troops in pursuit, and if we can catch up with the enemy army halfway, it will be best; If not, it's a big deal to flank the enemy army with General Liu Cun before and after, and share half of the credit with him! Zhang Kezong finally decided.

Whether it was him, Sima Fu, He Jingzhu and others, they were all confident in achieving victory after catching up with the enemy army.

Although their troops are small, but after breaking through Fuzhou, the enemy's rear road has been cut off, and Zhang Zhi and the others have no way to retreat, how much fighting spirit can they have?

Even if the two of them still want to fight again, the soldiers under him will definitely not want to fight anymore.

In the face of a group of enemy troops who have little fighting spirit, if they still can't achieve victory, then he should hurry home and retire.

In fact, He Jingzhu's estimate was very accurate, Zhang Zhi and the others were not optimistic about the plan to take the initiative to attack Liu Cun, and finally made the decision to send troops under the pressure of Wang Yanjun.

After the troops were dispatched, the army marched slowly, and it took a day to walk more than ten miles in the direction of Lianjiang, and then neither Zhang Zhi nor Liu Kan, nor their subordinates were willing to continue to advance.

The demoralized Fuzhou army, after hastily setting up camp, began to rest in place, and Zhang Zhi and Liu Kan, the two leading generals, began to discuss.

"Lao Zhang, we all joined the army together and fought together on the battlefield, and we have struggled for so many years to get to where we are today, are you willing to give up all this completely, and then go home to retire?"

That night, in the tent of the Chinese army, the dim candlelight kept jumping, which made the atmosphere of the whole camp even more dull.

Among the two, Zhang Zhi was disheartened by the current situation, so he decided to go home to retire.

Although Liu Kan said that he was also hopeless about the current situation, he felt that they still had 20,000 troops in their hands, and if they used this as capital to surrender to the Wu army, they might be able to gain a future in the Wu army.

"It's not a question of reluctance or reluctance, surrender the Wu army now, maybe because you have soldiers in your hands, the Wu army will not embarrass you, but do you expect to stand out in the Wu army? Easier said than done! It's better to retreat from the rapids now and be a rich man! Zhang Zhi said with emotion.

The current Wu Jun is indeed not so easy to mix.

In recent years, many generals of other forces have surrendered to the Wu army, but not many of them can finally be reused to join the forbidden army.

In addition to some of Qian Bi's generals who entered the forbidden army, many generals in Jiangxi were basically incorporated into the box army after surrendering.

Even after the prohibition army was greatly expanded, most of the officers and generals were promoted from young generals, or selected from military cadets, and only a small number of them really came from the van army.

In other words, if they surrendered to Wu now, they would probably be incorporated into the Xiang army.

A few years later, if you are lucky, you will have the opportunity to enter the forbidden army; If you are unlucky, you can only stay in the Xiangjun for the rest of your life.

For Zhang Zhi, who is accustomed to the days of holding power, it is better to let him go to the army to be an idle commander than to go home directly to retire, anyway, he has made a lot of money over the years.

Liu Kan naturally knew the most likely treatment after surrendering to Wu, but he was still a little unwilling, so he wanted to give it a try.

As for attacking Liu Cun according to Wang Yanjun's order, they felt that this would not work at the beginning, so they didn't want to do this kind of thing to send them to death.

"Lao Zhang, you said that if we surrender with only the army, the people of Wu may not value us; But if I wait for a counterattack, take Fuzhou down first, and then use Fuzhou and those few to surrender to the Wu army, this credit is enough, right? Liu Kan suddenly proposed.

"You mean, let's not go to Lianjiang now, just go back to Fuzhou?" Zhang Zhi's heart moved, and he seriously considered the consequences of doing so.

After a while, he still slowly shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not enough!" ”

Liu Kan was puzzled: "Why is this?" ”

Zhang Zhi was about to explain to him, when the guards outside came in and reported: "The two generals of Qiqi, the soldiers who just patrolled caught more than 300 deserters, and many others have already escaped by taking advantage of the night. May I ask the two generals, what should be done with those deserters who are caught? ”

"More than three hundred deserters?" Zhang Zhi frowned.

Of course, he knew that the morale in the army was low now, and there were many people who wanted to be deserters, but he was still surprised to catch so many at once.

There are so many deserters, even in peacetime, they will not kill all of them, at most choose a few to take the lead to kill them to have a deterrent effect.

But at this time, even Zhang Zhi and the others had the idea of surrendering to the enemy army or abandoning their officials and going home, and where did they have the heart to care about those deserters.

"Let those deserters go, and tell them that if they dare to run away again, they will not be spared!" Zhang Zhi replied coldly, and waved his hand to signal the guards to go out.

After the guards left, Liu Kan said softly: "The morale is so low, then Wang Yanjun actually expects our army to defeat Liu Cun, this is a joke!" ”

"Okay, don't talk about Wang Yanjun, let's talk about the previous topic! The reason why the general said that it was inappropriate to give Fuzhou as a gift to Wu Jun was because we had already betrayed King Langya once, and if we betrayed it again, I was afraid that it would be even more disgusting! ”

The meaning of simply leading his army to surrender is completely different from first attacking the old master, and then using the life of the old master as a step to advancement.

Liu Kan listened to it but didn't think so, is there still less of all kinds of betrayals in this era? I didn't see anyone disgusted with it.

He still wanted to continue to persuade, but at this moment, there was a sudden shout of killing outside the camp in front of him.

"Those who descend will not be killed!"

"Those who dare to resist will be killed!"

"Brothers, rush in!"

……

All kinds of voices kept coming, and Liu Kan and the others were shocked and turned pale.

"It's Wu Jun who called!"

"Hurry up and decide to surrender! At this time, even if you want to go home and go into hiding, you need to pass the current level! Liu Kan hurriedly persuaded him.

Now that the enemy has reached the front of the camp, it is much less effective for them to surrender again; If you wait any longer, the effect of surrender will be even worse, and others will not think that they have surrendered voluntarily, but only as if they were forced to surrender.

However, they were obviously too late, their camp was originally built in a hurry, and it was simply impossible to resist the attack of the Wu army.

In the chaos, in the face of the wolf-like Wu army, the Fuzhou soldiers in the camp did not dare to resist at all, and there were voices of kneeling and surrendering everywhere.

In just a few moments, the Wu army broke through half of the camp, and countless Fuzhou soldiers became prisoners of the Wu army without the slightest resistance.

Half an hour later, the entire camp completely fell into the hands of the Wu army, and all the Fuzhou soldiers, including Liu Kan and Zhang Zhi, were captured except for Shaoqiuren, who took advantage of the chaos to desert.