For Fang La, the end of April of the third year of Xuanhe was the darkest period of his life...... At first, it seems that since Deng Yuanjue completely annihilated the Song army of 5,000, there has been no good news, not only was the north pressed and beaten by the Song army's southward corps, but the south also began to suffer from the remnants of the Song army, and the big businessmen who had been cooperating with him before also began to show an uncooperative attitude, and he began to experience blows that he had not experienced since the incident

Fang La is not a very talented person, if it were not for the talents he collected who were also dissatisfied with the tyrannical rule of the Song Dynasty, he would not have been able to become the emperor, so he needed the help of these talents, but after only two months of war, he lost a large number of generals and soldiers and horses, and even lost the most capable junior of his clan, Fang Jie, and the very capable national teacher Deng Yuanjue, as well as the 60,000 elite soldiers and horses under their command, which were the elites carefully selected by themselves!

In Fang La's office, the ministers of civil and military affairs were divided into two rows, their expressions were low and uneasy, Wang Yin and Si Xingfang glanced at each other, looked at Fang La's gloomy face in front of them, and knew that things were going to be a big deal, after all, they would not have thought that Deng Yuanjue would actually be defeated and die, and he died so miserably, he died so tragically, not to mention that he died, only ten people with broken arms came back from 30,000 soldiers and horses, that miserable look, and now almost the entire soldiers in Dantu City know the news of Deng Yuanjue's tragic death.

Originally, I wanted to boost morale, but I didn't expect it to end up like this, the morale was not aroused, but the morale of my side was even lower, in turn, the morale of the Song army must have been greatly improved, and it is estimated that they will even take the initiative to attack, instead of blindly defending, in this way, the future is really hard to say......

Recently, Wang Yin, who was in charge of logistics, obviously found that the attitude of those big merchants who had cooperated very actively in the past had become much colder, not to mention the agreed amount, and also moved on the quality, and even caused the soldiers to have diarrhea after eating some rice grain, which caused the soldiers to be disgusted, but Wang Yin couldn't do anything to those merchants, killing one, no one would cooperate with them, and they would only be completely pushed to the side of the Song army.

The strength shown by the Song army made these shrewd big merchants feel uneasy, they were very afraid that their people would be defeated by the Song army and restore the rule of the Song Dynasty, and then the Song people began to counterattack and count, let them die, they couldn't cry, so now, they have to start preparing for the future, Wang Yin hates these merchants, but there is no way at all, this is an obvious process of exchange of interests, you fail, they will naturally not follow you, they also have families, have children, and want the future.

The grain and grass of the army has begun to be insufficient, more than 200,000 troops, people eat horses and chew, and the area they occupy is not too big, this time the Song army went south, disrupting their plan to conquer the city, originally wanted to take down those famous grain-producing areas in the south of the Yangtze River, but before they had time to do it, the Song army came, and defeated Fang Qifo and Zheng Qing, forcing them to lead the army north to meet the battle, and now the consumption of more than 200,000 troops, without the full support of the merchants, it is difficult for them to solve it themselves.

So what else can be done? Wang Yin calculated a little, these grains and grass are estimated to only support the consumption of 200,000 troops for two months, and then there will be a food shortage, which is still the time to try to reduce the daily consumption of each soldier, this is very fatal, the food is gone, no matter how elite the soldiers and horses can not fight, at that time we can all wait to be cut off by the Song army!

can only fight against the main force of the Song army at the same time, send people to conquer the city, take the important grain production land of the Song army, and even when there is no choice, lead the donkey to quench thirst to do, that is to rob, that is to rob, those big merchants do not give, they can only rob, if they don't give, they can only rob, if they don't give, they will kill, one hundred, I can't live, and you don't want to live!

Wang Yin secretly made such a decision.

At this moment, Fang La spoke: "I have decided, immediately recruit troops to prepare for war, three days later, I will swear to the Northern Expedition, and the whole army will be dispatched to take Runzhou directly, and fight to the death with the Song army!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials all looked at each other, and the outspoken Si Xingfang stood up, and saluted the other party: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this move is inappropriate, our army has just been defeated, the army is unstable, and the morale is low, and the morale of the Song army is high, and the combat power is quite strong. ”

Wang Yin's heart trembled, and he was about to say goodbye to Si Xingfang, but Fang La spoke: "Then why do you think it is the best policy?" ”

Si Xingfang didn't see Fang La's actual thoughts, so he said: "The last general thinks that it is the next policy to send troops to fight a decisive battle with the Song army at this time, and the best policy is to leave a part of the army to stick to the Dantu, and the army will return to the south to repair and recuperate, so that the Dantu army can gain more time, and the army will capture some more state troops in the south, capture some important grain producing areas of the Song court, and obtain more war preparation materials for our army. ”

Wang Yin almost fainted, this kind of thing, Si Xingfang can also say it? That's not what a pig teammate is? That's something to be discussed privately, not openly! The division can only fight, not govern! This is good, not only threw himself out, but also took Wang Yin out!

Sure enough, Fang La's complexion changed a little, looked at Wang Yin, and said, "Wang Qing, is this true?" Is it true that our army already does not have enough food and grass to supply the army for the Northern Expedition? ”

Doesn't Wang Yin know what he should say? He glanced at Si Xingfang hatefully, and said: "Your Majesty, General Si doesn't know the details, our army's grain and grass are indeed not as abundant as before, but eight months of grain and grass support is still enough, and within eight months, there is no problem with our army's grain and grass!" ”

Fang La nodded slightly, and the civil and military ministers also breathed a sigh of relief, only Si Xingfang looked at Wang Yin inexplicably, obviously Wang Yin told him that there were only two months of grain and grass left, why did he lie here? Si Xingfang still wanted to ask, but Fang La planned Si Xingfang's thoughts: "Si Qing, you still answer me, when there is enough grain and grass, can't our army fight to the death with the Song army?" ”

Si Xingfang frowned, and said: "Your Majesty, at this moment, the Song army has experienced several big victories, even if it is indeed weak at the beginning, and after many battles, the strength of the Song army will be greatly improved, not to mention that the main force of the Song army is the Western Army, and the generals are all famous generals of the Western Army, even if the newly arrived reinforcements are forbidden troops, led by those bear and tiger generals, the combat power will be greatly improved, not to mention that the number of the Song army at this time has not fallen behind, with the morale of several big victories, if our army confronts it head-on, it will be very dangerous!" ”

Wang Yin closed his eyes, Si Xingfang still didn't see it, today's Fang La is no longer the Fang La of the past, the past Fang La still has a trace of reason, the current Fang La is only crazy, the crazy fear and crazy desire to survive have made Fang La fall into madness, Shi Bao warned himself in that letter, Wang Yin remembered very clearly, at this time, you still have to go against Fang La, isn't that looking for death?

But although the secretary is straightforward, he also has a strong ability, and the only thing he lacks is political ability, if such a person dies, wouldn't it be a great loss? Wang Yin didn't want to see himself defeated, Si Xingfang's military ability was still okay, if he died at the hands of the crazy Fang La, it was too much to say, although he was a pig teammate politically, but militarily, he was definitely a good helper, even if he was at this point, he couldn't watch Si Xingfang die in vain