The late autumn breeze in the south of the Yangtze River is already warm, the mountains and forests are still green, Muzhou Qingxi County Bangyuan Cave, there are dozens of people gathered around the entrance of the cave to chat and fart, to prevent idle people from approaching, at this time a group of more than ten people under the leadership of Fang La walked towards the entrance of the cave.

These people are tall and short, fat and thin, the only thing they have in common is that they are all dressed in white clothes and white robes, and between walking, Fang La also explained some things to the people around him, and the people on the side listened carefully and nodded and smiled in response.

When the people gathered at the entrance of the cave saw Fang La coming, they all got up and stood up, and Fang La smiled slightly: "Relax, you don't have to be nervous, you have all worked hard." ”

These people at the entrance of the cave all reflexively shouted, "All for the Holy Sect!" ”

Fang La did not stop at the entrance of the cave, the group walked to the cave, the cave has been transformed, not only dry but also eliminated those potholes and uneven places, every dozens of steps there is an oil lamp lit, walking a few hundred steps into the gradually heard the shouting and killing sound inside.

Fang La and the others walked for a while, turned into a large karst cave, there was a large torch inserted in the cave, and the brazier was still burning in the middle.

Several people came to a cave like a conference room, Fang La first asked everyone to sit down, and then couldn't wait to ask, "How is it?" What does the Ryukyus say? ”

One of the thin black young men said, "Sect Master, when I go to the Ryukyus, they are willing to provide oil bombs, but the ballistas are really not willing to sell, and they are only willing to provide us with oil bombs for bed crossbows." ”

Fang La frowned and asked, "Then go to Quanzhou and find a red-haired fan who can make ballistas?" ”

An old man shook his head and said: "Ryukyu over there is also constantly recruiting, and the people who know a little skill have been recruited by them, and now there are a lot fewer merchant ships in Quanzhou, and they all go to Tamsui City to trade." ”

Fang La sighed and said: "Then you continue to pay attention, you must find a way to get such a talent early, but it is not bad to have a bed crossbow, this is enough for the time being, how is the preparation of weapons and food?" ”

Fang La's uncle Fang Yuan returned: "Now we have prepared one or two thousand weapons, and more than ten thousand stones of food. ”

Fang La frowned and thought about the fact that there were tens of thousands of stone grains in a boatload of people in Ryukyu, and he had worked so hard to save up so long, it was people who were more popular than people, but there was no way, although the situation in the sect had been much better recently.

However, it is necessary to propagate the Holy Religion and to relieve the poor, so the expenses are also very large, and when it is promoted, it is indispensable to send food, medicine, food, clothing, and clothing on the road, so the more you earn, the more you eat.

For example, the 3,000 apologetic pro-soldiers trained in this group of source caves almost completely copied the Ryukyu model training, and the equipment was completely on par with the Ryukyus, and only 1,000 pairs of heavy armor cost 300,000.

Coupled with swords, guns, bows and arrows, etc., almost widened the Manichaean family, these 3,000 people were expanded from the original 1,000 people, although the Manichaean religion has robbed a lot of private salt business from Jiangnan in the past two years, but almost half of it has been spent on raising the army.

Fang La is so difficult to raise 3,000 troops by himself, he is very curious about how Ryukyu has raised nearly 100,000 such troops, and the Great Song Dynasty is said to have more than 1 million forbidden troops, Fang La feels that these should be the money obtained by looting the people, so he is also eager to occupy one or two cities and collect taxes.

Fang La asked, "How is the Ding family on Jiangxi West Road talking?" ”

Fang La's younger brother Fang Maung said angrily: "They don't give us face at all, we sent people to tell them, they asked me to get out of the Poyang Lake area, otherwise the people who see us will kill one by one." According to me, it's better to merge with him, it just so happens that the eldest brother doesn't want a shipyard, and the Ding family has a small shipyard in Poyang Lake. ”

Fang La shook his head and said: "I don't know, but this Ding family has a lot of prestige on the water in the area of Poyang Lake, and its power is not small, and it is closely related to several water bandits, if we can pull the Ding family, then the river from Jiujiang Mansion to Songjiang Mansion will be guaranteed." ”

This is also what Fang La learned from Ryukyu, in the past, Fang La only thought about how to occupy a few states and counties and then coerce more poor people, and he never thought about the way forward.

This war between the Ryukyus and the Great Song Dynasty can be said to have taught him a solid lesson. Not only the tactics and strong combat effectiveness of the Ryukyus, but also the reaction speed of the Great Song also surprised him.

It took less than two months for the Great Song Dynasty to cross the river with 100,000 troops from Hangzhou, and less than a month for Yangzhou to reach the city of Yangzhou with 200,000 troops, so after the uprising was successful, if it could not stop the Song army's counterattack, it might be quickly killed.

This is also the truth that Fang La has not figured out in history, at that time Fang La occupied four big cities, and then thought that he was not good, and then called the emperor to establish the country, and he had not been in a hurry for a few days, as soon as the Great Song army arrived, he immediately knelt in minutes.

Therefore, after Fang La's research, it was found that if you want to block the army of the Great Song Dynasty, you have to rely on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, you have not thought about it before, but there is no such condition, the sailor of the Great Song Dynasty, it also depends on the opponent.

In the face of the Ryukyu Navy, the Great Song Naval Division is indeed not good, but in the face of these rebels, the Great Song Naval Division is still an insurmountable mountain, but now the opportunity has come.

On the surface, the focus of the Ryukyu campaign was Yangzhou, but in fact, the Ryukyus focused more on cleaning up the coastal areas, and the navy participated in the Yangzhou campaign in addition to the final stage, and had been fighting the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty in the early stage, destroying shipyards, and robbing shipwrights.

After the war, not only did the strength of the Great Song Dynasty drop to a limit, but the recovery speed was also greatly delayed, and Fang La also had the intention of relying on ships and the Yangtze River to block the Song army in the north of the river.

The Ding family of Poyang Lake is the largest illegal salt dealer in the Poyang Lake area, and has been engaged in the private salt business for generations, and the entire Poyang Lake, including the Ganjiang River Basin, is their sphere of influence.

At first, the Manichaeans did not take these fishermen seriously, but after a period of collision and friction, neither the Manichaean nor the Ding family took advantage of anything, and the Ding family relied on the operation of several generations to firmly occupy the private salt business in the Poyang Lake area.

However, Fang La's father did not back down because of this, the two sides fought openly and secretly, and the two sides lost more money in this matter than they earned on private salt, Fang La tried to persuade the two sides to reconcile several times but was unsuccessful.

It wasn't until Fang La's father drank and died a month ago that Fang La's succession took a turn for the better, and Fang La, under everyone's pressure, ordered to send someone to reconcile with the Ding family, and began to form a pro-apologetic army, as if he was ready to do a big job.