The Battle of Xushan became a turning point in the battle of counterinsurgency, and the rebels entered the defensive stage in an all-round way and gradually went to extinction.

The rebels' army of 250,000 finally collected the remnants of the defeated army and only had more than 80,000 people, and they did not dare to enter Xiuzhou City again, but retreated directly to Hangzhou.

There were only 5,000 people left in Xiuzhou City to hold the city, and as a result, morale was high, and the Song army, which took advantage of the victory, only took an hour to break through Xiuzhou City, and Han Shizhong, the commander of the battalion, went into battle shirtless, single-handedly killed the head of the city, and took the head of the defender Zhu Yan in the chaos army, so that the rebels were leaderless and quickly collapsed.

At the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, after the soldiers and horses on the left side of the Song army were slightly rectified in Xiuzhou, they gathered the box troops from all over Chongde who came to help the war, totaling 150,000 people, to counterattack the rebels in Hangzhou.

In the territory of Hangzhou, more than 80,000 rebels faced the front of 150,000 Song troops, but the rebels were already insufficient in terms of military strength, and were at a disadvantage, coupled with the inferiority of equipment and combat effectiveness, they were even more powerless to stop the advance of the Song army, so they had to fully retreat to Hangzhou City.

However, under the defeat of the army all the way, there are countless burdens of grain and grass discarded, and there is already a shortage of grain and grass, and if 80,000 people are trapped in a city, they will be even more passive.

The strategist Lu Jiang said that "immediately withdraw from Hangzhou", believing that this was "the only feasible plan", but Fang La was unwilling to give up Hangzhou, which was won in a bloody battle.

Tong Guan accepted Yang Keshi's strategy of encircling three queyi, and surrounded the north, east and west sides of Hangzhou, leaving only the south gate vacant. As time passed, Fang La finally took the lead with Fang Baihua, who had just recovered from serious injuries, to evacuate Hangzhou with 60,000 troops to fight the "foreign aid" of the Xiang army, which had come to help the Song army, leaving Fang Qifo to stick to Hangzhou.

Fang La's army achieved certain results in the battle of intercepting and attacking the foreign aid of the Xiang army who came to help the battle, and obtained a large amount of grain and grass baggage supplements, but it could not change the overall situation of the battle of Hangzhou, after all, the main force of the Song army besieging the city was the Western Army, not the local Xiang Army.

Half a month later, the food and grass in the city were cut off, and Fang Qifo was forced to lead 20,000 remnants to open the city and break through from the south gate again.

This time, the Song army had already been prepared for a long time and set up a net at the south gate of Hangzhou.

After a fierce battle, there was not one in the ten rebels, and only more than 1,000 people were left to fight their way out of the encirclement with Fang Qifo, passing through Fuyang and other places, and retreating to Qingxi.

After Fang Qifo's lone army was defeated and fled, Fang La was unwilling to lose Hangzhou, which he had worked so hard to gain, and even led 60,000 troops to counterattack Hangzhou City. Fortunately, there were Manichaeans along the way, and they were able to carry out a strong resistance, so that the Song army that followed did not dare to advance rashly, so that the whole army would not be wiped out under the pursuit of the Bai Qi soldiers, and then retreat into Tonglu City to get a chance to breathe.

Tong Guan's army on the left side, step by step, slowly advanced southward, and finally came to the city of Tonglu.

The battle of Tonglu was Fang La's most outstanding defensive battle, 200,000 Song troops besieged the city on all sides, and it took more than 20 days to break through Tonglu City at the cost of heavy casualties.

Fang La once again led the remnants of the army to defeat more than 30,000 people, retreated to the base area of Muzhou City, and gathered the rebels from Muzhou counties who came to help, totaling more than 100,000 people.

The battle of Muzhou was a battle in which Wang Wenqing, the patriarch of the Shenxiao faction, showed his might, Wang Wenqing collapsed the city wall with divine thunder, and the Song army took the opportunity to enter the city from the gap in the city wall, and the rebels were defeated, retreating while killing, and withdrew more than 80,000 people.

At this time, the rebels in Quzhou and Wuzhou in the south heard the news and came to help the battle, and the rebels of the three routes converged together, gathered another 200,000 people, and successively blocked the Song army pursuing the victory in the southern suburbs of Muzhou, in Shuidu (now Baisha), and in Qingxi (Hecheng).

At this time, Liu Yanqing's right army, which had captured Wuzhou, Xuanzhou, Huzhou, and Chizhou, and Tong Guan's left army, converged, and the two armies were reunited into a large army of the first road, totaling more than 280,000 people.

Fang La saw that the Song army was converging on the two roads and the number of troops was surging, so he had to take the initiative to abandon Qingxi County and withdraw to the rebels' base area of Gangyuan and Xiangtong.

At the beginning of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the main force of the Western Army of the Song Army led by Wang Yu took the lead in launching an offensive against Jianmen Ridge (also known as Jianmen Mountain), the gateway to Bangyuan.

The terrain of Jianmen Ridge is steep inside and gentle outside, and once it breaks through the mountain pass, it cannot be defended. At that time, Fang La only cared about placing heavy troops on the main road in Lingbei, and ignored the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan, and only sent a small force to defend, which made Wang Yu take advantage of a big loophole.

This is also the most fatal loophole!

Wang Gong Lao Buddha, the military advisor under Fang La, heard the news and personally led an army of 50,000 to reinforce Lingnan, and tried his best to block the Song army back, but the fighter plane missed, and the vanguard of the Song army's Baiqi soldiers had already broken through the mountain pass under the leadership of Yang Keshi, and led the crowd to drive straight in.

The breakthrough of the Lingnan Pass put the rebels completely on the passive.

Jianmen Ridge is broken, which is equivalent to announcing the complete destruction of Fang La, and the unwilling Wang Gong Lao Buddha led the crowd to fight hard, wanting to drive the Bai Gong soldiers out of the mountain pass, but the Bai Qi soldiers are the strongest soldiers in the world, and after several cover-ups, Jianmen Ling finally fell into the hands of the enemy.

In order to defend the gateway of the Gangyuan, the military advisor Wang Gong Lao Buddha and thousands of rebel generals together with the soil, stained every inch of Jianmen Ridge red with their own blood.

Later generations called this mountain "Blood Stained Ridge", and this battle was called "Blood Battle Arrow Gate".

Since the battle of Xushan, the Song army has been pushing all the way and invincible, but in just two months, Fang La has been forced into the gang, and the Lingnan gateway has been broken, forming a trend of catching turtles in the urn.

In just over two months of the war, the rebels suffered nearly 150,000 casualties, and the casualties of innocent people caused by the military disaster far exceeded the direct casualties of the war.

Even the soldiers of the Song army, who won victories along the way, lost 20,000 or 30,000 people.

In the whole land of Liangzhejiang Road, you can see the bones everywhere, and the blood stains the ground red, especially in the Muzhou area, often there are no people for dozens of miles, only the broken walls and ruins, the white bones are exposed in the wild, and the weeds watered by blood grow wildly, and there are barren grasses everywhere, which are extremely desolate, as if they have come to ancient times.

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At night, Tong ran through the big tent of the Chinese army.

The big tent, which is decorated with Shu brocade and tassels, is now brightly lit, spacious and bright.

Outside the tent door, a team of Tongguan Shengjie army pro-soldiers will stand solemnly, and there are military law prohibition cards hanging outside the tent door, and the imperial gift equipment is displayed.

The team of victorious army red tassel iron armor soldiers stood facing each other in pairs, the spears in their hands were raised diagonally, forming a ∧-shaped gun formation, all murderous and majestic.

Tong Guan this big tent, the outer tent is divided into four or five light and dark rooms, accommodating thirty or forty people to serve. The floor is covered with velvet blankets, and the furnishings in the house are extremely luxurious, such as palace lamps, incense burners, picture screens, soft collapses, coffee tables, etc., in this wilderness, it is like entering the palace.

In the big tent, the fragrance was thick and silent, Tong Guan was flipping through a book and looking at it, his face was solemn.

"Qi Xuan Shuai, the king asks to see you!" There was a report outside the door.

Tong Guan's face showed a look of disgust, and he shouted in a deep voice: "No, tell him to come back tomorrow!" ”

"Whoa!" There was an answer from outside the door.

Tong Guan threw the scroll in his hand aside, picked up a jade cup on the desk, poured himself a glass of wine, and tasted it slowly, but there was murder in his eyes.

This Wang Weizhong obviously didn't know the current affairs, and he repeatedly asked to see him, but he persevered, which made Tong Guan extremely disgusted, and he had already moved to kill in his heart.

"Qi Xuan Shuai, Zhao Gongzi asks to see!" There was another message from outside the door.

Tong Guan was furious, suddenly rose up, and was about to drop the wine glass and get angry, when he suddenly understood something, and the anger on his face immediately disappeared.

It's not Wang Weizhong, it's Gongzi!

Tong Guan's face changed slightly, and he immediately put down the jade cup gently, straightened his clothes, and then said loudly: "Pass in!" ”

Before the words fell, Zhao Hao was already dressed in armor, strode in, and came high.

After entering the big tent, he didn't speak, but sat down in front of Tong Guan with a big golden knife, picked up a jade cup, slowly poured a glass of wine, and drank it all, and then said to Tong Guan, who was stunned: "Sit!" ”

Tong Guan was stunned, although he was a little unaccustomed to Zhao Hao's commanding attitude towards him, he finally sat down without any temper.

His lifeline is pinched in Zhao Hao's hands, and he can't be hard if he wants to......

"Childe came to visit late at night, I don't know what advice you have?" Tong Guan asked cautiously, completely changing his face compared to before the other soldiers.

Zhao Hao drank two more glasses of wine...... This guy's wine is really good, sweet and sour, with an excellent taste, and then he said to Tong Guan: "Tomorrow the general offensive will be suspended, I want to go to the rebel camp alone to persuade Fang La and the others to surrender!" ”

"What?" Tong Guan's face changed greatly, he almost fell to the ground in shock, and said urgently, "Although Fang La is at the end of his rope, he is still stubbornly resisting, and Gongzi is alone at this time, and he is afraid that he will be taken advantage of by traitors." ”

In fact, sometimes he hopes that Zhao Hao will die, and if he dies, he can live happily and happily alone. The problem is that this guy has immortal arts, Tong Guan is a rat bogeyman after all, and he is now over fifty years old, but he still wants to rely on Zhao Hao's immortal skills to live for a few more years, it is best to live a long life and be merry and happy, and make up for what fell in the first half of his life, so the curse is a curse, and I really don't want Zhao Hao to die.

Zhao Hao said coldly: "The rebels still have 120,000 troops, if they attack forcibly, even if they are annihilated, our army will suffer heavy losses." I want to persuade Fang La and the others to surrender by binding themselves, but the coerced followers do not ask, and let them leave freely after disarming, and the sergeants along the way must not stop them. ”

120,000 rebels, 120,000 living lives, 120,000 Chinese sons and daughters, after all, he couldn't bear to let him die under the knife of his compatriots......

Tong Guan smiled helplessly: "As long as you catch the first evil, you can give it to the housekeeper, and the rest of the rebel soldiers can let them disarm and surrender and leave, I'm afraid that Fang La will not ......surrender."

"I have my own plans, you can act according to the words of my son, and you will be long-winded!"

After Zhao Hao finished speaking, he strode out, leaving Tong Guan alone in the tent, with a helpless look on his face.