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During this period of Li Cun's vigorous development, Fang La was not idle.

No.

To be precise, during the time when Li Cun helped Fang La block the main force of the Song army, Fang La's righteous army completely rose.

Fang La sent Fang Qifo north to seize Xuanzhou, and Fang Qifo took advantage of Li Cun's busy fighting with the Song army to take care of Xuanzhou here, swept the entire Xuanzhou, and pushed his defense line to the borders of Li Cun's Ningjiang Mansion, Guangde Army, Huzhou and Hangzhou.

It can be said that in the north, Fang La threatened most of Li Cun's territory with the state of Xuanzhou alone.

In addition, Fang Qifo was afraid of the instability of the rear, so he sent troops to seize most of Chizhou, pushing its rear to the edge of the Yangtze River, so that he could sit back and watch the Tiger army engage the Song army and wait for an opportunity to move.

At the same time, Fang La and Fang Wuxiang attacked the area south of Muzhou.

Here in Quzhou, with the help of the Manichaean protector King Zheng, Fang Wuxianggong quickly seized the entire territory of Quzhou.

Fang Wuxianggong, Zheng Mowang and other Fang Layi armies who attacked to the south did not stop their footsteps after capturing the entire territory of Quzhou - they merged in one place and continued to go deeper into Chuzhou.

After Huo Chengfu and Chen Hoop left Chuzhou, Hongzai, which was originally in the southern part of Chuzhou, grew rapidly.

Hong Zai first captured Longquan, and then went down to Songyang, according to the city, divided his troops to attack Suichang.

Songyang gentry Zhao Yucai and Deng Ying organized the landlords' armed forces to resist the northward advance of the Hongzai rebel army in Monshan.

Hong Zai personally led more than 100 people to take a boat around the rear of Zhao Yucai, Deng Ying and others, and then all of them tied a silk handkerchief on their heads, and pinned a mirror, from the Longquan Mountains to beat the cymbals and drums, down the river to the south, defeated Zhao Yucai, Deng Ying, and the officials and gentry in the nearby county towns fled in despair.

In one fell swoop, Hong Zai occupied the entire territory of Chuzhou.

Hong Zai robbed and killed the officials and gentry, robbed them of their money and food and distributed them to the poor, and recruited and dared to use them, so that his team expanded rapidly, claiming to have 400,000 to the outside world.

It can be said that in addition to Li Cun and Fang La, Hong Zai has almost developed into the third largest force here in Liangzhejiang.

Fang La learned that Hong Zai had been developing and growing in his name, so he sent Fang Wuxiang Gong and Zheng Demon King to persecute Hong Zai with a large army, and on the other hand, he sent people to recruit Hong Zai.

Although Hong Zai occupies the land of Chuzhou and has a lot of troops under his command, Hong Zai's geographical location is very bad.

——On the left side of Hong Zai is Fang La, above is Chen Miaozhen, Zhu Yan and Wu Bang of Wuzhou, below is Fujian, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is difficult to reach by land by sea in the east, and on the right is the Manichaean protector Lu Shi Nang and the recently rising Yu Daoan (also known as Yu Daweng), who is developing to Wenzhou, it can be said that Hong Zai is completely surrounded.

Hong Zai once sought to unite with Chen Miaozhen, the soul of Wuzhou, and even moved to marry Chen Miaozhen as his wife, so that the two families would become one family.

But Chen Miaozhen can't look down on Hong Zai.

Chen Miaozhen said to the left and right that Hong Zaikong has ambition, but he has no great wisdom, and he will not be a person who can achieve great things, so not only did she not agree to marry Hong Zai, but she was not even willing to unite with Hong Zai.

Hong Jae was completely trapped and died in Chuzhou.

If you choose between Fang La and Li Cun, Hong Zai is actually more willing to defect to Li Cun, because now everyone can see that although Li Cun has not been reformed by Jianyuan, Li Cun's pattern is obviously larger, and he is more like a person who can achieve things.

But because of Chen Miaozhen's block, Hong Zai just wanted to vote for Li Cun, but he couldn't vote, the key is that Li Cun, who is currently being dragged to northern Zhejiang by the Song army, can't take Hong Zai into account even if he accepts Hong Zai's surrender, and in Hong Zai's opinion, he still has to be eaten by Fang La, who is bound to win the state.

There is no way, Hong Zai can only cast Fang La.

After getting Hongzai's prefecture, Fang La not only harvested a large number of Hongzai's people, but also naturally united with the territory of Lu Shisang in Taizhou, and even with Qiu Rixin in Yuezhou.

In this way, Fang La's territory surrounded the Huben army and Wuzhou from the entire southern Zhejiang region.

Now, Fang La is actively contacting Chen Miaozhen, who he once had a relationship, hoping that Chen Miaozhen can lead the heroes of Wuzhou to serve him.

If Fang La's goal can be achieved, Fang La will complete the siege of Li Cun's hometown of Hangzhou.

At the same time, Fang La has also been attacking the cities and landlords in his territory.

A considerable number of the people in the Fangla rebels were Manichaean followers, and after these militant believers joined the war, the Fangla rebels seemed to become unstoppable.

However, on the other hand, the involvement of religion in the war also makes the war more brutal and bloody.

——The officials of the Fang La Rebellion who captured Zhao and Song were all killed, and it was not an ordinary killing, but they either pulled out their intestines, or cut off their limbs, or put them into oil pots, or shot them with arrows, showing the extreme characteristics of war with religious overtones.

It's just that Fang La's steps are so big that he doesn't have time to attack the landlord forces in his territory one by one.

In this case, Fang Fei and Wang Gong Lao Buddha suggested that Fang La could ask the gentry and nobles in his territory to buy life money - that is, as long as a certain amount of money was paid to Fang La, Fang La would not beat these gentry and nobles, on the contrary, once the people of Fang La's tribe broke through the Zhuangzi of these gentry and nobles, they would torture and kill the whole family of these gentry and nobles.

In order to avoid a bad death, almost all the gentry and nobles in Fangla's territory accepted the blackmail of Fangla's rebels.

This money has now become the most important means for Fang La's rebels to make money.

Relying on this policy, the Fang La Yi Army made a lot of money in a short period of time and became very rich.

In addition, in order to develop rapidly, the Fangla rebels used the name of ghosts and gods to bewitch the ignorant people and make them join the ranks of the rebel army.

Later, it gradually evolved into a situation where the Fangla rebels forced the people of that place to join them as long as they attacked one place, so the Fangla rebels coerced a large number of people who were unwilling to participate in the uprising to join the uprising.

You can say that the methods of the Fang La rebels are somewhat despicable.

But you have to admit that this can really make the Fang La Yi Army grow and grow in the shortest possible time.

Today, Fangla's righteous army has grown to nearly one million, occupying Shezhou, Xuanzhou, Chizhou, Quzhou, Chuzhou, Taizhou, Yuezhou, and most of Muzhou and half of Wenzhou.

This is actually quite normal.

After all, in history, Fang La during this period has been wiped out by the Song army, and the family is being escorted to Bianliang City, Tokyo, waiting for a thousand cuts.

And now, because Li Cun helped Fang La withstand most of the pressure from the Song army, Fang La's righteous army has not been hit by the main force of the Song army until now, and with the help of Manichaeism, Fang La's righteous army can naturally develop wantonly, grow savagely, and even connect the areas controlled by Manichaeism.

It is worth mentioning that, judging from the current situation, there seems to be nothing wrong with Fang La's refusal to go west to attack the Jingxiang region.

You must know that Manichaeism does not have such a deep foundation in the Jingxiang region, and if Fang La went there, it would definitely not have developed and grown so quickly.

Now, Fang La has a million troops, occupying almost the land of Kyushu, and his strength seems to be more than double that of Li Cun, and he has surrounded Li Cun's territory, and he is in the limelight for a while......

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