"Hou Ye rest assured, the Qiantang River still has the Fuchun River, and the small and large ships of the tributary water-dividing river are either requisitioned for official use or burned cleanly, as long as the lowly duty has a breath, the thieves will not be allowed to cross the river."

The official army camp tent, the commanders of Hangzhou, Xiu, and Yuezhou, Yang You, Cheng Yin, Xiang Ziqiao, and the commander of the Mingzhou Navy Sun Fangyan stood in front of Lotte and swore an oath.

Looking at Lotte, Yang You, Cheng Yin, Sun Fangyan's eyes are full of awe, not only because the three of them have shares in Lotte's Hua company, Lotte is the boss behind the company, but also the ability to respect Lotte, in just a few years, Lotte from a small county can become a member of the three products, but also as the emperor's son-in-law to lead the army, this grace is a few people in the world can meet.

Qiantang River is only the name of a section of the river from Hangzhou to Haiyan County, in the north of Chun'an to Hangzhou this section of the river is called Fuchun River, swimming is from the confluence of the Lanjiang River and the Xin'an River to become the flow of the Fuchun River, in the Tonglu section of the Fuchun River, there are two tributary rivers of the Fenshui River and the Luzhu River flowing from the northwest to the southeast into the Fuchun River.

Zhejiang's hilly and mountainous terrain is not conducive to the assembly of large-scale troops, and the Qiantang River divides northern Zhejiang into two, which greatly restricts the rapid mobility of the army.

Different from the plains of Suzhou and Hangzhou water towns, the geographical features of the south and southwest of Hangzhou are extremely inconvenient to transport grain and grass or march, not to mention that there is the entire Qiantang River as an obstacle, and it is really extremely difficult for the rebels in the south of the Qiantang River to return to Hangzhou.

With the Qiantang River and the mountains and mountains in southern Zhejiang obstructing it, and blocking the connection between Fangla and the rebel army in southern Zhejiang, Lotte knew that the capture of Hangzhou was just around the corner.

After staying for a long time, there was still no movement in Hangzhou City, and Lotte Xin was also slightly anxious, and asked: "Huang An, besieging Hangzhou for half a month, how much grain and grass do you estimate is left in the chaotic army city?" ”

Huang Kanjian was not sure, so he had to say: "Let a few carrier pigeons go to the city and contact the lurking brothers." ”

"Forget it!" Lotte shook his head and said with a smile: "Even if there is food in the city, the lack of meat is also certain, a few pigeons have entered the city, I am afraid that it will immediately attract a group of rebels with bows and arrows to chase and kill, and the lurking brothers will not be exposed!" ”

"Master Hou!" Huang Kanzhen was busy patting the horse.

Since the Emperor Maode, it is rare to hear the sound of officials patting their ass, and now that the hand is in power again, Lotte has regained its original feeling, but it will feel tired of listening to it for a long time.

It's important to do business, Lotte and Huang Kanjian said: "Ben Hou will explain a matter to you again!" ”

"Master Hou, please command!" Huang Kan said.

In the eyes of Huang Kanjian, Le Hou Ye is a victorious general, Pinghai bandits wiped out Western Xia, and now Hangzhou City is about to be conquered, and Lotte not only has money to make but also has a future to run, how not to agree loudly and happily.

"Send someone to cross the river, take Le's book and try to contact the leader of the rebel army in southern and western Zhejiang, and if you can fight for the return to the imperial court, you will win it!" Lotte said slowly, and then snorted again: "That Fang La does not accept the imperial court's recruitment, and Ben Hou doesn't believe that he can't win those generals under him." ”

"Yes, I will send someone to do it!" Lotte's voice fell, Huang Kanzhen hurriedly replied, and said with a smile: "Hou Ye is benevolent and righteous, as the saying goes, saving people's lives is better than creating a seven-level floating slaughter, Hou Ye set this plan to save how many brothers in our army and the people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang from being poisoned by soldiers, Hou Ye's move is very good, he has not taught how many people to make how many levels of floating slaughter, but step by step lotus flowers are born Buddha!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, what about the Buddha, the people saved by the Buddha are as many people as we Le Hou Ye saved with one sentence?"

"Buddha? However, in the temple raised a group of free from evil labor, idle bald donkeys, these bald donkeys do not do anything to produce, often hook up with the women around the temple into adultery, corrupt customs, kill still do not understand the hatred, how can the wood carving clay sculpture of the Buddha and our Le Hou Ye look. ”

……

After Huang Kanzhen's voice fell, Yang You, Cheng Yin, Xiang Ziqiao, Sun Fangyan and others hurriedly followed.

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Surrounded by officials and soldiers, Hangzhou City is increasingly short of grain and grass, and morale is becoming more and more depressed.

Not only is the morale low, because the city is short of grain, for half a month, the city grain shop rice and grain have been sold out, even if the price is thousands of dollars a liter, there is no rice to buy, some people are starving to death on the streets, and the city has begun to starve.

The shortage of food and grass is Fang Laxin's worry, but what is more worrying is the attitude of the righteous army in southern Zhejiang towards himself, for a long time I have not seen the righteous army in southern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang, Fang Laxin is more and more unconfident, as the leader of the Manichaean sect to lead the Manichaean people to rise up, although there are many followers, but he does not have many practical constraints on the people under his command, and only relies on the name of the sect leader to maintain the subordinate relationship, and even to a certain extent, his own sect leader is only symbolic of the meaning of the leader.

In fact, Fang La's worries are not superfluous, there are many people who have stood on their own mountains under the leadership of the uprisers of previous dynasties, such as Li Mi under Zhai Rang in the early Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Wen under Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty are all its leaders.

At the end of the later Yuan Dynasty, he also started with Manichaeism, and finally caused the death of King Xiaoming, who founded the Ming Dynasty in vain, is also this character, how can the righteous army not have a figure like Zhu Yuanzhang, which makes Fang Laxin, who has not seen reinforcements for a long time, more and more worried.

In the Holy Father's Mansion, Fang Feiyu said: "Holy Father, the reinforcements have not been available for a long time, the city is increasingly short of grain and grass, and the imperial court officials and soldiers have not come out to attack, obviously trying to trap our army in Hangzhou City!" ”

"Holy Prince, if the reinforcements are not there, we can't sit still and wait for death, it is better for the last general to lead the troops out of the city to fight to the death with the official army!" General Pang Wanchun said.

"Holy Father!" Monk Wang, the military advisor, waved his hand, looked at Pang Wanchun, and said loudly: "More than 200,000 officers and soldiers outside the city are waiting for work, and the morale of our army is getting lower and lower. ”

Although Pang Wanchun fought bravely, he didn't dare to talk back to Fang La's master, Monk Wang, so he had to say: "What the military advisor said is reasonable, but should I wait to stay in the lonely city like this until I am tired and wait to die?" ”

What Monk Wang said was reasonable, but what Pang Wanchun said was unreasonable, and the generals of the righteous army exchanged their heads one after another.

There was no news from the soldiers sent out for a long time, and the reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, and Fang La's heart became more and more panicked, but Fang La knew that he must not panic, and he panicked, and the morale of the entire righteous army was completely scattered.

Fang La couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he said calmly: "From your point of view, how should you care now?" ”

Monk Wang, the military advisor, thought for a while, and said: "Holy Father, it is not a way to stay in the lonely city for a long time, and the Holy Father may as well lead the army out of the city, collect grain and grass, and collect the army of King Qin......"

"Withdrawing from Hangzhou City, is the blood of many soldiers shed in vain, and is the hard work we have paid in vain?" Without waiting for Monk Wang to finish speaking, Fang La said angrily.

The generals of the righteous army in the Holy Prince's Mansion were silent, since the Qingxi incident, they had never seen Fang La have made such a big fire, and Monk Wang, who is known as the old Buddha of Wang Gong, is Fang La's master, and Fang La's gaffe is unprecedented.

Hearing Fang La's anger, Monk Wang's eyes were gloomy, and he stopped talking.

When the words fell, Fang La immediately felt inappropriate, and hurriedly said: "Military advisor, Fang is the inappropriate remarks of this father, and I hope that the military advisor will not be surprised!" ”

Monk Wang hurriedly said: "The heart of the Holy Father, the poor monk understands!" ”

"What the military advisor said is very reasonable!" At this time, Prime Minister Fang Fei also said: "The Holy Father went out of the city, leaving elite soldiers to garrison the city, and the Holy Father did not worry about the loss of Hangzhou. ”

"The last general will be attached to the proposal of the prime minister and the military advisor." General Lu, who has been silent since the siege of the city by the official army, said.

In Lu Jiang's eyes, Fang Fei and Monk Wang's suggestions were the most reliable, not to mention whether the righteous army could return to Hangzhou for the time being, but this move could really prevent his people from being trapped in Hangzhou. Moreover, the imperial court officials and troops besieged the city, and all the strategies used were to besiege the three queyi, which intended to let the righteous army withdraw from Hangzhou, but did not have the intention of killing them all.

Giving up the bloody battle of Hangzhou is like cutting the meat of Fang La, although it is not to give up Fang Laxin, there is still a reluctance, thinking for a long time before ordering: "According to the words of the prime minister and the military advisor, Fang Qifo led 20,000 horses to garrison Hangzhou, and this duke led most of the troops out of Hangzhou to collect grain and grass from the righteous army, and then turned back to fight to the death with the official army." ”

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Having made up his mind, Hangzhou City could not stay for a long time, and after the 60,000 troops left the city, the remaining grain and grass in the city were enough for the 20,000 soldiers who stayed in the city to eat for a month.

After sunset that night, Fang La led 60,000 soldiers to quietly go out from Yongjinmen and Qingbomen, and went southwest along the Qiantang River.

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Huang Kan said: "Master Hou, I have to report to the Hou, Fang La led his men out of Hangzhou City and headed to the southwest. ”

Fang La withdrew from Hangzhou, as Lotte expected, after Lotte nodded, he then asked: "Is Hangzhou an empty city at this moment?" ”

Huang Kan said: "Back to the Hou Ye, I ordered someone to investigate, and saw that there were still many chaotic sergeants in the city, thinking that Fang La would just withdraw the main force from Hangzhou, leaving a partial division to guard Hangzhou. ”

Lotte instructed: "Take advantage of the night, throw carrier pigeons into the city, and ask the brothers lurking in the city, how many anti-army troops are still stationed in Hangzhou at this time?" How much grain and grass is still in the city, don't say more about Benhou, you understand what Benhou means. ”

"Yes, the lowly spirit understands that he will act on the camera of the brother of the city!" After being instructed, Huang Kanzhen hurriedly went out to do errands.

As soon as Huang Kanjian went out, the sound of the impact of the armor came, and a soldier came to report that a group of generals had come to pay a visit.

Nodding, Lotte motioned for the generals to come in.

"Master Hou, most of the bandits have left, is it time for our army to attack the city?"

"Master Hou, besieging Hangzhou for half a month, when will the city be attacked, the brothers can't wait!"

When the people entered the tent, they heard the sound of a battle call.

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