Deng Yuanjue finally arrived, and he arrived very quickly, and all the soldiers in front of him were rushing towards him, most of them were minions with cloth towels and heads. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Countless horses' hooves were killing in the distance, wailing incessantly, and screaming everywhere.

Deng Yuanjue came from a small road next to the official road, and at this time he climbed a small dirt slope with his hands and feet, and the men around him pulled forward and backwards.

There is always a truth in the world, the more worried things will happen, this is the "Murphy's Law" in later generations, and it is also a psychological effect. Deng Yuanjue was not surprised when he looked at this scene under the moonlight in front of him, only regretted.

Because after this war, the rebel army's Northern Expedition strategy will also be completely stopped, and the expectation of fighting all the way to Tokyo has also been shattered. The Northern Expedition, which was originally like a bamboo, has since switched from offensive to defensive.

This kind of strategic obstruction and pause is the reason for Deng Yuanjue's regret.

Deng Yuanjue covered the wound on his collarbone with one hand, his figure was rickety, he was panting, and he shook his head again and again and said: "The Northern Expedition has stopped!" ”

"Sect Master, a temporary victory or defeat is nothing, the two battles before and after have only lost more than 20,000 people and horses, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under the command of the Holy Father, will inevitably make a comeback, this surnamed Zheng is only a few thousand men and horses, and when the Holy Father's army comes, it will be the time when the surname Zheng is destroyed." The man next to him said.

"Rixin, there are some things you haven't thought about, but you don't understand yet. This battle was defeated, Fang Qifo's Northern Expedition will only have 40,000 left, and there is still the land of Guangde in Xuanzhou and Huzhou to defend, and there are only more than 10,000 soldiers who can fight, where is there still the strength of a battle? When the Holy Father is ready, this Jiangning land must already have heavy troops, and if you want to go on the Northern Expedition, it will be a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers. "Deng Yuanjue can be the leader of this Manichaean sect, and he can also be the national teacher of Fangla, this insight is really extraordinary.

This man's name is Rixin, that is, Qiu Rixin, who was the backbone of the Manichaean Northern Song Dynasty, and Qiu Rixin was also a member of the Manichaean general, who fought to the death with the official army in history. Soon after entering Gaochun with Shi Bao's army, Shi Bao led his troops to fight Lishui, and was defeated in a blink of an eye, waiting for Zheng Zhi to come to Gaochun, Qiu Rixin lurked in the Manichaean garrison in Gaochun, until Deng Yuanjue came tonight.

"Sect Master, what about the decisive battle, the Holy Father's hundreds of thousands of horses and horses have a good chance of winning a decisive battle with the imperial court." Qiu Rixin said.

Deng Yuanjue slowly sat down holding his wounds, his ears filled with countless shouts, he shook his head and said, "With the combat strength of today's officers and soldiers, does the decisive battle really have a great chance of winning?" The Holy Father is still fighting his troops, how much time will the imperial court give to the Holy Father to train the soldiers? How much time can you give to build an ordnance with the Holy Father? As soon as today passes, it won't be long before these officers and troops will go south to attack the city. ”

Deng Yuanjue has a very thorough view of the current situation, and the in-depth defense is always like this. Xingxu Fang La expanded too quickly, occupying dozens of states and counties in a few months, and although the money and food obtained were not expensive, the area to defend was too large. Seeing the combat strength of the official army today, Deng Yuanjue understood this truth.

It is impossible to give away the occupied states and counties in vain. But to defend, it is more difficult. In this way, it is difficult to ride a tiger. Once the rebel army switched from offensive to defensive, it would be more advantageous for the officers and troops to fight.

At the time of the Fangla uprising, it swept countless times in a few months, and it seemed that it had gained a huge advantage, but in fact it also buried many hidden dangers. The most important thing is the lack of armament, the history books say that there are millions of thieves, but these million thieves, if they really want to go into battle, the most basic need is a million weapons.

One million weapons, with the productivity of this era, from basically no weapons to equipping everyone, the process is too long, even if there is money, it cannot be achieved overnight, even in a modern fully automatic factory, to produce a hundred pieces of iron is not a huge amount of work. Fang Qifo's Northern Expedition to Xuanzhou, Jiangning and other state capitals has reached 60,000, and these 60,000 weapons are already the limit that Fang La can raise in a short period of time, and it also contains most of the captured weapons.

There are also generals who went south to Liangzhejiang and generals who went west to Huaixi. It is conceivable that the two or three hundred thousand horses in Hangzhou are almost unarmed at this time. This is the main reason why Deng Yuanjue said that Fang La was in a hurry in Hangzhou. Without weapons, what is there to talk about fighting?

The south of the Song Dynasty was peaceful for one or two hundred years. There was not much need for weapons at all, and the government and yamen did not have much stock. However, the northern part of the Song Dynasty fought countless wars with the Liao a hundred years ago, and now it has also fought with the Western Xia for decades. During this period, countless Jiangnan weapons and armament stocks were also transferred to support the war in the north. Today's rebel army has no other way than to seize a small amount of ordnance from the officials, and now, where to ask Fang La to raise armaments, there is no other way than to manufacture it on a large scale.

This is also an important reason why Tong Guan was able to quickly pacify Fang La in history.

Qiu Rixin seemed to understand the deep meaning of Deng Yuanjue's words, but he didn't bother to think about it, so he just said: "Sect Master, let's go quickly!" ”

"Don't worry, when the official army passes, we will return to Xuanzhou directly from the official road." Deng Yuanjue was naturally very bold, dozens of steps away, countless iron horses galloped, and Deng Yuanjue stayed on this dirt slope and watched it.

The spear in Zheng Zhi's hand was already soaked with blood, and the plasma flowed down the barrel of the gun, and it also soaked Zheng Zhi's armor.

Chasing all the way to the north, Gaochun's low city wall has appeared in front of him, but there are no soldiers and horses in Gaochun City who come out to attack back and forth, and only Zheng Zhi leads the troops to follow and kill all the way.

There were many thieves with a little brighter heads, and when they saw the horse's hooves far away, they burrowed into the woods by the side of the road, and ran away without a trace.

There are also many people whose heads are not so bright, they can hear the sound of fighting behind them, and feel that the official family is still far away, and they are running along the official road all the way, but when they turn around, the horse step is not far away, and then they want to drill into the forest, dozens of feather arrows fly in the sky, and they suddenly shoot down.

There are also honest and honest people who run all the way for thirty or forty miles, and finally they can't run, they collapse to the ground, kneel aside, and raise their hands high. These people may be relatively smart, at least the officers and soldiers passed by with iron hooves, and they really spared a life.

When the army was almost finished, a group of knights came from behind, drove hundreds of captives forward slowly, tied up the newly kneeling surrenderer, and then went along the road. Even if he collapsed, he was punched and kicked and forced to move forward.

For the arrangement of the prisoners, Zheng Zhi had a plan in his heart, and what Cangzhou lacked was manpower.

Jia Yuqing took off the iron armor on his body while running, and only regretted that he did not bring a horse out of the camp, if there was a horse at this time, he would not need to be so embarrassed.

Shi Bao on the side saw that there was a path on the side of the road, and pulled his family Yu Qing into the path, and felt that the path was not safe, and he also drilled into the low forest next to the path, and a waist knife continued to chop the thorns in the forest, and drilled deeper and deeper into the forest, and when he got out of the forest, he saw a village, and the two did not dare to go into the village, so they ran around the edge of the forest, just because the sky gradually brightened, and it was too dangerous to enter the village.

Until now, only Shi Bao and Jia Yuqing are companions, and the two have long been unable to argue about the direction, so they can only escape.

Zheng Zhi has few soldiers, and it is impossible to divide his troops to chase him everywhere.

It wasn't until the sky was bright that Gao Chun could no longer see the thieves on the way to the west, and the horse's steps stopped.

"Brother, Rong Sa's family has been repaired, and I will go to Hangzhou to kill Fang La's house this afternoon today!" Luda still seems to be angry, Zheng Zhi has been assassinated twice, once on the ship by Gao Yu's men, and once in this Gao Chun.

Gao Yu assassinated Zheng Zhi, and Gao Yu was dead. At this time, Fang La assassinated Zheng Zhi again, how could he allow Fang La to live!

Zheng Zhi turned his horse's head and said, "Go back to Jiangning first!" ”

Zheng Zhi didn't say anything about going back to Gaochun, but directly going back to Jiangning. Luda was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Brother, what do you want to do when you go back to Jiangning, just like this, you can kill all the way to Hangzhou, how can you let Fang Lana survive!" ”

"Hangzhou is naturally going to fight, but not at this time, when General Yang Keshi starts together, the two will attack it together." Zheng Zhi said.

"General Yang is a man, he was also extremely brave in fighting against the party when he was in Xihe Lanhuang (Gansu and Ningxia parts, and a small part of Qinghai), and the Sprinkle family also heard of his name. It is naturally good to fight with General Yang on both sides, but the bird's anger in the hearts of the Sprinkler family is really unbearable. After Ruda said this, he was still scolding.

Luda was extremely protective of his thoughts, Zheng Zhi was also moved when he heard it, looked back at Luda and said: "Don't worry, Fang La can't be a big deal, as long as General Yang makes a move, Hangzhou can be solved in a battle." ”

Ruda nodded, still scolding words like "straight mother thief".