Chapter 181: Counteroffensive Plan
With 20,000 cavalry, Lin Yuan defeated Yan Zongbi's 600,000 army.
It completely shocked the entire Chinese region!
In just three days, the news spread everywhere like wings.
The entire Southern Song Dynasty was boiling.
In Lin'an City, the lockdown is no longer enforced, and the people can finally go out.
After they learned the news of the victory, they directly emptied the streets and took to the streets one after another to celebrate with their crowns.
The entire Lin'an City is shrouded in the joyful atmosphere of the great victory.
The previous panic, fear, nervousness, and depression were all diluted.
Yang Qi, the pacification envoy of Huzhou, commanded 80,000 Huzhou Xiangfu Division infantry, and finally rushed to Lin'an City.
When Yang Qi arrived, Lin Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At least he can implement the next step.
After Yan Zongbi and other generals, after the defeat, he retreated to Pingjiang City.
They also had 80,000 elite gold soldiers in their hands, as well as 200,000 regrouped servants.
They remain a threat.
Only by driving them out of the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty can the knife hanging over Lin Yuan's head fall.
In addition to Wanyan Zongbi, Zhu Yuanzhang also made Lin Yuan suspicious.
Zhu Yuanzhang pursued the Jin soldiers with Zhao Yun, but after the Jin soldiers retreated to Pingjiang City, all the troops retreated to Lin'an City, and only Zhu Yuanzhang's Guanning Iron Cavalry was unwilling to return to Lin'an City.
Not only that, Lin Yuan also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had captured a large number of military supplies and armor through this battle, and also collected 50,000 servants.
Now, the number of troops in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands has reached 60,000.
He was camped outside the city, and no one knew what he wanted to do.
After all, he is a hero, and he has Xu Da, Lan Yu, Zhu Di and other god-of-war generals under his command, as well as Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Ma Xiuying and others, so it is inevitable that he will have other thoughts.
Lin Yuan had already sent someone to summon Zhu Yuanzhang.
This man is extremely ambitious, and he can't let him get out of control so easily.
Lin Yuan summoned Zhu Yuanzhang to come to Ancheng, if he refused to come, it would prove that he was ambitious, even if Lin Yuan knew that Yan Zongbi was watching him from the sidelines, he would beat him up.
Completely extinguished his ambitions.
Now, the forces under Lin Yuan's command have reached their peak.
In addition to the previous 100,000 forbidden troops, he also added Yang Qi's 80,000 elite infantry.
In addition, he captured the largest number of servants, as many as 630,000.
Of the 630,000 servant army, Lin Yuan selected the fourth-order elite from among them, a total of 100,000 people, and mixed them into a 100,000-strong infantry army.
This army, Lin Yuan did not keep it for himself, but gave it all to Allure Dance.
With these 100,000 fourth-order elites, she has the capital to make a comeback, and she will even be able to regain the territory soon and lay a larger territory.
100,000 lord troops, 100,000 forbidden troops, plus 80,000 Huzhou infantry.
No matter how ambitious Zhu Yuanzhang is, he has to weigh it first.
Fortunately, after waiting for a day, Zhu Yuanzhang came to Lin'an City with more than a dozen cavalry.
His move can be regarded as dispelling Lin Yuan's suspicions.
When Zhu Yuanzhang arrived, Lin Yuan convened a military conference and decided to carry out a final counterattack on the Jin soldiers in Pingjiang City.
After discussing for a long time, everyone finally came to a decision.
In this counteroffensive, Lin Yuan personally commanded and formed a three-way army.
Zhu Yuanzhang led the army on the left, Lin Yuan led the army on the middle, and Allure Dance led the army on the right.
In the counteroffensive campaign, Zhu Yuanzhang was the vanguard.
The 60,000 soldiers under his command were all in the first echelon of attack and directly attacked Pingjiang City.
Lin Yuan's mid-lane army followed closely.
His Chinese army was composed of 10,000 white horse volunteers, 20,000 Japanese cavalry, and 20,000 Huzhou elite infantry, totaling 50,000.
The army on the right side of Allure Dance was responsible for attacking Liuzhou.
Pingjiang and Liuzhou are horns of each other.
The link between the two must be severed.
This task will be handed over to Allure Dance, and after she occupies Liuzhou, she will go north to make a detour, form an encirclement of Pingjiang, and cut off the retreat of the Jin soldiers.
The battle plan has been issued, and the three-way army will set off in three days.
It's just that what is unexpected is that not long after the plan was issued, seven or eight lords of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, etc., actually sent envoys to find Lin Yuan.
It turned out that Lin Yuan suddenly broke the golden soldiers, so that they didn't get any benefits.
They sent an envoy this time to seek cooperation.
However, Lin Yuan didn't look down on them at all.
At this stage, the lord soldiers are only the highest fourth-order troops, and they are completely cannon fodder, and in the end, the tough battle has to be fought by the elite forbidden army under Lin Yuan.
And the spoils of war that were beaten down were to be given to these people in part.
Fools know that this is a loss-making business.
Lin Yuan's attitude is very clear, he wants the loot and fights by himself, but he refuses to cooperate!
After these envoys went back in disgrace, they told the lord behind them about Lin Yuan's attitude.
"Humph! Lin Ziyi is too arrogant! ”
"Our eight lords coalition army has 160,000 elite troops, and he Lin Ziyi only used 20,000 cavalry to destroy Yan Zongbi's 600,000 army, we can do the same!"
"Yes, that's right!"
"We don't need to cooperate with Lin Ziyi, we will fight by ourselves!"
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Eight lords, led by the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, led 160,000 fourth-order foot cavalry, and Haohao Tangtang marched towards Pingjiang.
After Lin Yuan knew the news, he just shook his head.
This group of people is looking for death, how can he stop it?
However, it is not to blame them for being so crazy, because the trophies of the golden soldiers are so tempting.
The Jin soldiers went south, swept all the way to the major lords of Yangzhou Prefecture, destroyed the city, the county treasury, the lord's treasury, and looted a large number of gold and silver treasures.
Yangzhou Mansion was originally a rich place, a very ordinary county seat, which was comparable to the state treasury of other prefectures.
It is conceivable that the treasures that Jin Bing has looted in the end.
Lin Yuan heard that the loot he seized in the Jin barracks a few days ago was less than one-third of what the Jin soldiers had looted.
More than half of it is said to be stored in Pingjiang Castle and Liuzhou Castle.
The gold, silver and jewelry seized by Lin Yuan were equivalent to 3.6 million taels of gold according to statistics.
What a concept!
The huge Pu family, who has been in business for generations, has accumulated 4 million taels of gold after 300 years.
In the entire Southern Song Dynasty, there were more than a dozen provincial governments, with an area of hundreds of millions of miles, and the annual tax revenue was only 20 million taels of gold.
Jin soldiers ransacked Yangzhou Mansion, Pingjiang, Liuzhou...... and other states and counties along the way, at least 10 million taels of gold were robbed.
With so many treasures, who doesn't blush?
Even Zhu Yuanzhang must be coveted.
However, after Lin Yuan seized the treasure, he did not choose to swallow it privately, but took out 600,000 taels of gold and rewarded the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops under his command.
On average, each person gets a few taels of gold.
This is a great gift to all soldiers.
The forbidden army of the Song Dynasty paid an average of a few taels of silver per month, and only a few dozen taels were given for those who died in battle.
Now Lin Yuan gave a few hundred taels at once, and even more of them died in battle.
This made the loyalty of the forbidden army to Lin Yuan continue to increase.
600,000 taels were rewarded, and 3 million taels remained, all of which were sealed and stored in the warehouse.