Chapter 369: Landing

In a bay near Nanwu City, thousands of Wu people were gathering with all kinds of rudimentary weapons. Among this group of people, the leader was Wu Yi, the commander of the Song Army's naval division, and at this time he was looking anxiously in the direction of the sea, as if he was waiting for something.

The group waited here for almost an hour before they finally saw a ship approaching in the distance. Looking at the sailboat with a tall mast, plus the eye-catching "Song" flag hanging on the bow, Wu Ying finally began to feel relieved.

And when the ship approached, Wu Yi was shocked to find that on the bow of the ship, in addition to the "Song" flag representing nationality, there was also a high "Le" flag, which was a flag representing the general's surname!

Among the high-level generals of the Song Army today, there is only one senior general surnamed Le! Soon, when the ship docked on the shore, a young general walked out of the cabin, it was the current chief of staff of the Song Army, Le Yi!

Seeing Le Yi personally follow the army here, Wu Yi was also extremely surprised. According to his thoughts, this time the Song army sent a large army to assist the Wu army, and a large army should be sent, and at most one general should be sent out. Now that the number two person of the Song Army has appeared directly, it can be seen that the Song Army's high-level attention to Wu Di has also made him overjoyed!

After all, the more Wu Di is valued by the Song army and even the Song State, his hometown will become better, and his position in the Song State will become more stable!

So before Le Yi got off the boat, he immediately stepped forward and said to Le Yi: "Chief of Staff, so our army has not gained a firm foothold here, why did you personally come to this dangerous place?" ”

Le Yi smiled and replied, "General Wu, aren't you also in this dangerous place now?" Where our soldiers can go, we can go! Now the attack on the Chu army in the southern Wu is very important to our army, and it must be controlled by me personally to be at ease. ”

Hearing Le Yi's words, Wu Yi also nodded again and again. Subsequently, he immediately introduced the heroes among the Wu people to Le Yi. Le Yi immediately asked people to take out a stack of official appointment letters of the Song army from behind him, relying on the status of these heroes among the Wu people, as well as the specific troops they could recruit, they were given specific appointment letters.

With these letters of appointment, these Wu heroes were finally relieved, and they immediately commanded their men to help the Song army set up camp at the port and let the army disembark and land.

Due to the characteristics of the Wu people, the rule of the Chu State in the Wu State today is very shallow, and it is a superficial rule. Specifically, apart from being able to control a few specific cities in Wu Land, the Chu State knew almost nothing about the rest of Wu Land!

And the current situation of the Chu army also allowed the Song army to land and fight in Wudi, creating excellent conditions. With the cooperation of local leading forces such as Wudi Haojie Ranger, Nanwu City, Wu Cheng and others did not notice the landing of the Song army at all!

The Song army landed near Nanwu City for several days in a row, and in four days, nearly 40,000 Song troops landed from this place and entered Wu. Most of these armies were mainly infantry, and there were also 2,000 cavalry trained by Le Yi himself and who shone in the Song Civil War!

In addition to transporting troops here, the Song army also had a lot of specific war materials. In addition to the grain and grass that could be used for more than half a month by the 40,000 troops of the Song army, tens of thousands of standard swords, bows and crossbows, and matching crossbow arrows were also transported here.

Because the Wu people are all fighting in their hometowns, plus the eating habits of the Wu people and the Song people, there is still a big gap, so the logistics supply of the Song army and the Wu army is not the same. However, for the standard weapons produced by the Song State, the Song army was not so stingy, and it was completely an extremely generous way to arm the army of the Wu people!

Every Wu person who is recruited by Wu Di Haojie will get a fine iron sword and a standard crossbow; As for the generals in the Wu army, the Song army also equipped them with different armor according to the different official positions they obtained. For generals below the centurion, the Song army equipped them with cowhide armor; And for the generals above the centurion, according to the way of the Song army officers, they were equipped with suppressed plate armor and steel helmets!

Such a generous way of arming made the Wu people extremely excited at once! Because Le Yi had already said when he issued the weapons, all the weapons issued by the Song army would not be taken back, and all of them would be given to the Wu people!

Although Wu was the world's best smelting technology in history, it was also one of the first countries to manufacture iron swords. However, the smelting technology of Wu Di has always been in the stage of handicraft, even if the skilled craftsmen in the Wu people can exert themselves beyond the norm and make extremely sharp swords, it is impossible for them to make a large number of iron tools at the same time in a short period of time!

This also led to the fact that Wu Di's weapons were extremely expensive. Even because some of the weapons created by the Wu people were well-made, other nations also coveted the swords of Wu, so that there were fewer and fewer skilled craftsmen in Wu, and the price of metal in Wudi became more and more expensive.

Most of these Wu people who followed the heroes of Wu to join the army were extremely poor people, and the poverty of these people was even poorer than that of the Song people before Dai Yan took charge of Fengyi. Before Dai Yan's crossing, although the Song people in Fengyi were also poor, as long as there was a piece of arable land, there were still one or two metal utensils. Among the Wu people, except for a few wealthy people, as well as heroes and rangers who were rampant in Wu land, there were almost no metal utensils in their hands.

Now they just followed the Song army into battle, and before they killed any of the enemies, they got an iron sword that could be passed down to their families, which made all the Wu soldiers overjoyed. They also began to have a new understanding of the wealth of the Song Kingdom, and they no longer had any doubts about the rewards preached by the Song army!

Even Le Yi, who was the chief of staff of the Song army, could never have imagined that a weapon that was almost worthless to the Song people could have such a big impact on the morale of the Wu army! But as long as it's a good influence, he doesn't care at all.

Five days after the Song army landed around Nanwu City, the Chu army guards in Nanwu City finally realized that something was wrong, and they immediately began to strengthen the city defenses of Nanwu City, and sent envoys to Wucheng and Yunyang to ask for help.

However, it was too late to find out about Song Jun's actions at this time! Nanwu City itself does not belong to the core area of Wu Land, the strength of the Chu army in this place is too weak, plus a large number of heroes of Wu Land gather near here, the entire Nanwu City inside and outside has long been infiltrated into a sieve by the heroes of Wu Land!

When Le Yi wanted to personally lead the army to take Nanwu City, he was immediately stopped by the heroes of Wu Di on the side. A heroic man named Wu Xin stood up and said to Le Yi: "Le Shuai, there is just a Nanwu City, where do you need to do it yourself?" We have lived here for generations, and we are extremely familiar with this inside and outside the city, Le Shuai only needs to wait for me for half a day, and we can dedicate Nanwu City to Le Shuai! ”

Hearing such words, Le Yi also stopped thinking of sending troops, and said to Wu Xin: "Since Wu Zhuangshi has a heart, then I will wait for your good news." ”

Subsequently, Wu Xin walked out of the large camp of the Song-Wu coalition army by the harbor, and together with the familiar heroes, he gathered nearly 3,000 men and horses, and everyone went straight to Nanwu City.

The actions of the Wu people naturally could not be concealed from the Chu people in Nanwu City, and when they saw these Wu people coming to the city with sharp blades in hand, they immediately became a little uncertain, and they didn't know whether they came to Nanwu City at such a time, whether they were friends or enemies?

The Chu army at the head of the city immediately shouted: "Stop, now that Nanwu City has been under martial law, what are you doing here?" ”

Wu Xin and other heroes heard the Chu army's question, and immediately smiled coldly, and then said to them: "Nanwu, it was originally a city of our Wu people, but it was later occupied by the Yue people, and now it is occupied by your Chu people, and now our Wu people want to take back this city." If you are willing to leave the city, we can let you go, but if you are not, you will not regret it! ”

Hearing such arrogant words of the Wu people, the Nanwu guards at the head of the city were furious: "You Wu thieves, think that now that my Chu State is facing a strong enemy, can you fish in troubled waters, it's just a fool's dream!" What you are doing now is no different from rebellion, if you are willing to be captured, I can still ask for your life from Zhuguo, if you don't want to ......"

Wu Xin, who was under the city, heard the words from the city head, and before he could finish speaking, he took out a small flute without paying any attention to his words, and then blew it suddenly. A sharp whistling sound immediately sounded in the air, and this whistling overshadowed the words of the Nanwu guards at the head of the city, and began to spread farther away!

After this roar, the city of Nanwu immediately began to stir up, the merchants who had been doing business in the city, the craftsmen who were doing all kinds of manual work, and many poor peasants, immediately rushed out from all parts of the city, they rushed straight to the four city gates, and launched an attack on the Chu army that controlled the four gates of Nanwu.

Under such a surprise attack, the city gate of Nanwu City was quickly lost, and then the Wu people in the city opened the city gate and put Wu Xin and other Wu heroes outside the city into the city!

Wu Xin then led the army into Nanwu City in this way, and in the entire Nanwu City, in addition to chatting about several Chu generals who imitated the way of the Song cavalry, they ran out of the city on horseback in one step, and the other Chu soldiers in the city had to raise their hands and surrender under the strong attack of the Wu people.

Nanwu City fell into the hands of the Wu people and the Song army.