The land has beautiful lakes and mountains, and it is the first state in the southeast.

Renzong, the fourth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, once praised Hangzhou in this way, but at this time, after Hangzhou passed through the war, it was no longer able to meet in the past.

The predecessor of Hangzhou was Qiantang County, which was placed in the Qin Dynasty, and the county was governed at the foot of Wulin Mountain in the north of the Qiantang River. It was not until the ninth year of the opening of the Sui Dynasty that Hangzhou was officially established, and it was moved to the Phoenix Mountain Foothill Plain by the Qiantang River in the south of Hangzhou today, adjacent to the Jiangnan Canal, and became an important city in the Hangjiahu Plain in later generations.

With the opening of the Jiangnan Canal, Hangzhou became the southern terminus, making Hangzhou increasingly the largest state city on both sides of the Qiantang River, which greatly promoted the economic development of Hangzhou. To the Tang Dynasty, Hangzhou gradually became the heart of the silk weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Yueguo took Hangzhou as the capital, made great contributions to the construction of Hangzhou, expanded the scope of Hangzhou city twice, and expanded the city wall of Hangzhou for the first time in the first year of Dashun, expanding the range of 36 li to 50 li in the Sui Dynasty; The second expansion of the urban area was in the third year of Jingfu, and Qian Qin led an army of 200,000 soldiers, which was expanded from 50 li to 70 li.

Wu Yueguo's two expansions of the urban area made Hangzhou City begin to expand from the bank of the Qiantang River in the south of the city to the north to the outside of Wulin Gate, and connect with the wharf at the southern end of the Jiangnan Canal, becoming the center of material distribution and exchange in nearby Zhuzhou counties; Stretching westward, close to the scenic West Lake. After two expansions, the plane of Hangzhou is "north and south, east and west shrinkage", and the shape resembles a waist drum, so people call Hangzhou "waist drum city".

After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Qian Hong, the king of Wuyue, automatically submitted to the unified dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty with the territory of "thirteen states and one army" of the Wuyue Kingdom, which became the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty in a peaceful way, and created a good environment and conditions for the continued development of Hangzhou.

After the construction of the Tang Dynasty, Hangzhou has become a "big county in the south of the Yangtze River", and then after nearly a hundred years of construction of the Wu Yue Kingdom of the Five Dynasties, to the Northern Song Dynasty, it has been known as the "first state in the southeast" of "all things are rich".

The wealth of Hangzhou is known all over the world, and the successive dynasties of Hangzhou and the southeast are the money warehouses and granaries of the original dynasty, but

Hangzhou is located in Hangzhou Bay, the terrain is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and there is a big river on the side, water and land at the same time, a drum flat. Therefore, Hangzhou cannot become a military location.

In the Southern Song Dynasty in later generations, as long as the Jin army and the Yuan army approached Hangzhou, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty had to slip, and the pigtail army crossed the Yangtze River in the Southern Dynasties, and then entered Suzhou and Hangzhou, just like a child.

Hangzhou city southeast to south, surrounded by the Qiantang River, south to southwest there are Qibao Mountain, Phoenix Mountain, Jade Emperor Mountain surrounded outside the city, west is the world-famous West Lake, these places can not develop troops, not conducive to the large corps of combat, but also not conducive to the army stationed, so Lotte Chen soldiers in the northwest, north, east of Hangzhou.

The place where the officers and soldiers were stationed was the same as Fang La's previous estimate, but there was no doubt in his heart.

"Holy Father!" Fang Fei came out of the column and said: "The city wall of Hangzhou is tall and strong, there is a wide moat outside the east city and the north city, there is Phoenix Mountain in the south is not conducive to arranging troops, and there is a West Lake in the west. ”

Walking to the huge map of Hangzhou City hanging on it, Fang La looked at it carefully, nodded and dropped his hand on the area of Yongjinmen and Qiantangmen: "The allocation of troops, increasing the defense of Yongjinmen and Qiantangmen, you can't be careless." ”

Hangzhou city wall is solid, there is a moat outside the east and north city walls, only the city gate in front of the West Lake in the west city, the Qiantang gate is not in danger to defend, at the beginning of Fang Baihua in the Phoenix Mountain point general, in the east and north sides to take a feint attack, the main force to attack is the Yongjin Gate, after the capture of the Yongjin Gate, the two Zhejiang system to make Chen Jian, Lian visit Zhao Yuecai to surrender to self-restraint.

How to capture Hangzhou City forty days ago, Fang Laxin knows best, and naturally he has to use this to prevent Lotte from using the methods he has used.

At the moment of the great enemy, he ordered the generals of the righteous army to act separately and garrison the city wall, always guarding against the siege of Hangzhou Mansion launched by the official army.

All the drawbridges in the moat have been hung up, the city gate is even tighter and has been heavily bolted, and even the sandbags behind the city gate are also prevented from the official army breaking through the city gate, and the smell of preparation for war is strong, and the air of the whole Hangzhou city seems to be solidified, and the air is filled with the tense atmosphere before the war.

Soon, the rebels in Hangzhou began to be surprised, and the imperial army was stationed outside Hangzhou for several days, and there was no expected attack on the city.

What's going on? Mo said that it was a group of righteous soldiers, and it was a group of righteous army generals who also felt inexplicable, and they wanted to go out of the city to attack the official army, remembering that they had been defeated in successive battles before, and the imperial army was crushing their own side, and the generals of the righteous army immediately put down this idea.

The people in Hangzhou are even more trembling, a month and a half ago the righteous army attacked Hangzhou to burn and loot, and a month and a half later the imperial court officials and troops made a comeback, and the hard days came again.

The officials and soldiers of the imperial court did not move, and Fang La was also very surprised, but Fang La was confident that even if he could not break through the blockade of the Qiantang River officials and navy, the soldiers he sent to Muzhou and Shezhou for help would definitely move the rebels from the two states, and the rebels who received the order at the same time would do everything possible to cross the Qiantang River, send the letter of request for help to the hands of the rebels under his command in the south, and lead the rebels to counterattack towards Hangzhou.

Although the city's grain and grass are only enough for half a month's consumption, as long as the reinforcements can arrive, it will be easy to solve the problem of the officers and troops with superior troops, Fang La thought in his heart.

"Report ......"

When Fang La's heart was worried, a soldier came to report.

"Say!" Fang La gestured.

The soldier said: "Yu Shenggong, although the imperial court officials and soldiers did not launch an attack today, they sent troops to dig the place where the drawbridge on the other side of the moat fell, and the defenders of our army in the city shot the officers and soldiers back with a rain of arrows, and then the officers and soldiers continued to dig with shields, and the bamboo car gate, the north earth gate, the south earth gate, and the Changshan gate are all like this......

"Report ......" Before the soldier finished speaking, another soldier came to report.

"Say!"

The second soldier who came in to report said: "The official army in the north of the city sent more than 10,000 men and began to dig a ditch, intending to connect Yuhangmen with the West Lake. ”

"What are the officers and soldiers going to do?" Regarding the actions of the imperial court officials and soldiers, Fang La was puzzled.

When Fang Laxin hesitated, the military advisor Monk Wang said: "Holy Father, that Lotte has always used soldiers to be cunning and cunning, and the poor monk thought that the official army was digging a ditch this time was fake, but in fact, it was a secret ambush to lead our army out of the city to attack, so as to achieve the goal of destroying the living force of our army." ”

Prime Minister Fang Fei also said: "Holy Prince, I think what the military division said is very reasonable, the official army is only encircling Hangzhou on both sides, if it is the idea of consuming our army's grain and grass, in addition to the east and north, Chen should be in the Phoenix Mountain, Fangjiayu area, Hangzhou to form a three-sided attack, to consume our army's grain and grass to lead our army out of the city for a decisive battle, this time digging ditches is just to cover people's eyes." ”

At this time, General Lu said: "Holy Father, the last general does not agree with what the military division and the prime minister said, and the last general thinks that the official army is not in a hurry to attack the city, and also digs the suspension bridge of our army's city gate, and digs the ditch from the West Lake to the moat, which is intended to besiege our army, so that our army will run out of grain and grass and defeat itself without a fight!" ”

Fang La nodded involuntarily, Lu Jiang said this is exactly what he is worried about, the army is cut off from food, it is equivalent to losing its combat effectiveness.

It is three meals and two meals, from eating dry to thin, half a month of grain and grass can only last for a month at most, during which Muzhou, Shezhou and Jiangnan if they come to help, everything is fine, if the aid is not timely, you can only give up Hangzhou City.

Feeling strange in his heart, Fang Lahu asked: "The officers and soldiers do not fight a decisive battle with our army, but adopt the strategy of besieging the city, do they know about our army's food and grass?" ”

Lu Jiangxin is a little disdainful of this, the heart of the road since the incident, the righteous soldiers all the way regardless of the gentry are burned and killed, food and money, the damage to the two Zhejiang is great, after the invasion of Hangzhou, you Fang La is more revenge for the death of his sister Fang Baihua, killing people and setting fire to vent hatred, a fire burned for six days and six nights, the city lost a lot, as long as a little guess knows that the city grain and grass are not much.

Fang Fei thought for a while and replied: "Holy Father, it is said that Lotte once served as a magistrate in Qiantang County, and temporarily served as the Hangzhou government for some time, so there are naturally people close to him in the city, and I think it was these people who reported to Lotte before." ”

Fang La snorted heavily and said: "Go and check carefully, who was very close to Lotte when he was an official in Hangzhou, and even went out of the city at sunrise or his family went out of the city some time ago, and after finding out, he was arrested and tortured." ”

After the order was issued, the chickens and dogs jumped up in Hangzhou, and many people in Qiantang suffered.

……

"What's going on in Muzhou and Shezhou?"

Outside the city of Hangzhou, the official army and the army have a big tent, and Lotte asked Huang Kanjian.

"Master Hou is wise!" Listening to Lotte's question, Huang Kanjian hurriedly said: "Most of the anti-military soldiers who received the severance pay from Hou Ye did not return to the anti-army and returned to their hometowns one after another, and Hou Ye ordered his subordinates, and the subordinates did not dare to forget, and sent many of his brothers to pretend to be rebellious soldiers, go deep into Muzhou and Shezhou, and mixed into the chaotic military camp in the south of the Qiantang River.

In the anti-army barracks, he and the anti-sergeants preached that the Son of Heaven had issued an edict of guilt, and at the same time suspended the operation of Huashigang and the Supply Bureau, and even dismissed Zhu Mian from his official position. ”

I have to admit that Lotte's strategy of attacking the heart and pacifying is very effective, Fang La's command of one million, and the scattered thirty percent of the chaotic soldiers, which means that 300,000 people have deserted.

One hundred and sixty years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, preaching loyalty and patriotism, the world of the Great Song Dynasty is the Zhao family, and it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people like a sprout, only because Zhu Mian oppressed the people in the name of Huashigang, so that the people in the southeast were resentful of the imperial court, and they could not bear to participate in the righteous army after smashing, burning, killing and looting, and they had vented their dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

Lotte smiled: "If you don't move a single soldier, Fang La will also withdraw from Hangzhou City." ”

With waiting, the Fang La of Hangzhou City is looking forward to penetrating, often standing at the head of the city and looking into the distance.

Fang La was not looking at the scenery, and Fang La had no intention of looking at the lakes and mountains, he was climbing high to see if there were any rebels coming to help.

It's a pity that Fang La always stands at the head of the city from sunrise to sunset, still does not see the righteous army come to help, at first Fang La thought that the official army set up troops at the place leading to Hangzhou to stop the righteous army from rushing to help, and blocked the righteous army from rushing back, and then sent scouts to investigate, there are no official troops outside to prevent the righteous army from coming to help, but the tributary of the Qiantang River, the water-dividing river, is controlled by the imperial army, and the soldiers sent cannot pass the news to the Yimuzhou and Shezhou righteous army.

Looking at the less and less grain and grass in the city, Fang La's complexion is also getting more and more pale, three meals and two meals, from dry to thin, although it can last more than half a month, but the morale of the soldiers is not as good as one day, in the long run, not waiting for a month after the food is cut off, the officers and troops can easily attack the city of Hangzhou.

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